001 ☁ Voice

[heartdive]

Since everyone else kinda looks like they're asking if their friends are here, guess I should too.

[ that's the important part here. everything else? just a day in the life... sort of. ]

Or maybe someone's seen 'em? Riku is kinda tall with green eyes and shorter silver hair. Kairi wears pink, has kinda hair, and purple-ish eyes. [ pause ] Well Axel has red hair too, really. But he's super tall and skinny.

[ or he's just short, but. Sora hums, then just decides to go for it. ]

I dunno really how to describe the others, but I'm looking for Mickey, Donald, and Goofy too.

But yeah. That's all I can think of...

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[happyduckbutt]

I'm not really sure. They've said something about a Unicron behind it, but I don't know why...

[heartdive]

I've heard someone else use that name. Who is the guy...

[happyduckbutt]

Cliffjumper showed...a memory, I think? Of when he'd seen Unicron in his world. I don't know if it's one and the same, but it looked pretty huge. You couldn't even see the whole thing.

[heartdive]

So what... An even bigger robot dude that likes to destroy worlds? Is that what we're supposed to be stopping or whatever?

[happyduckbutt]

I don't think it's that easy, at least from what Prima told me...

[heartdive]

What did he say to you?

[happyduckbutt]

Well, he told me that they- the Firstforged, can't get close to the Lambda or even the Badlands out beyond the wastelands outside of the Haven. Only we can, those brought through the Lambda, but it's dangerous for us because Unicron wants us to work for him.

[heartdive]

So... What are we supposed to do then?

[happyduckbutt]

For now? Just...gather our strength, keep an eye out for things happening.

I'm kind of worried about what the whole deal was with that pillar, though.

[He turns, looking towards the Junk Pile and the stub of what was left of the Pillar's base.]

It appeared a few weeks ago, and right about that time, the Firstforged vanished. It went straight down into the core of Cybertron, so some of us went to investigate, and then try to take care of the problem. We managed, but some weird stuff happened to some of us that went down there.

Thankfully it wasn't permanent, but one of my friends, Thundercracker- he hadn't come back for a while. We found him out in the wastelands, and he'd said something about being attacked by demons. I don't know where he went or what he'd seen...

[heartdive]

[ Sora follows the gaze... pillar? he's a little lost on that sort of thing. but anything shooting down to the core of anything sounds pretty bad.

after listening to Ven go on, he rests his chin on a closed fist in thought. to be honest, he's not sure what to think about what he's heard. a lot of strange things have happened in his journey thusfar. this is just one more thing to add to the ever growing pile.

however... there IS something. ]

Hey, Ven...?

[happyduckbutt]

[He blinks, glancing over his shoulder.]

What is it?

[heartdive]

Can you fill me in on what's been going on?

[happyduckbutt]

[It's a fair request, and probably not a bad thing for anyone new to have some idea of what's been happening, even if Ventus himself isn't too sure.

He nods, turning back towards Sora.]

I'll sure try. Anything specifically...?

[heartdive]

Specifically... I don't know if I can have anything specific.

[ if only because Sora doesn't do specifics. he doesn't know where to start either... ]

Maybe... How long have you been here?

[happyduckbutt]

[He can understand that. After all, Sora's just arrived. The question posed him is a bitter reminder.]

Over a year now...

[heartdive]

At least you have memories of that year!

[ while, you know. Sora is missing at least one. not that he knows Ventus is missing many but! ]

So... Start from when you first got here.

[happyduckbutt]

[That's a strange thing to say, but Ventus nods.]

Okay then. Let's see...

I guess to start with, things had been pretty calm. Sure, it was strange waking up in a place like this where giant metal guys were everywhere, but I guess not entirely new. I mean, for some reason I ended up the size of a mouse when I visited Cinderella's world.

[He laughs a little at that.]

Anyway, I figured I'd treat this as with the other worlds I'd visited- not...that I've gone to many yet, but yeah. It sounded like there was trouble here, and...even if it didn't seem like an easy fix, I wanted to try helping.

Mostly it's just been getting used to things here, meeting whoever else has been brought to this place and doing what I can. I offered to help patrol the wastelands, just in case anything came out from the Badlands. Guess I've kind of been slacking on that lately, but we had a lot of other things to worry about.

[Things hadn't been too bad at the beginning though. Thinking about it now, the changes had been gradual, and not all that wonderful either.]

...seen a lot of friends disappear from here. We can only hope that they've all just been sent home. That's what I'd like to believe, anyway.

The real trouble didn't start until a bunch of new faces started showing up all at once and around the Junk Pile.

[heartdive]

[ size of a mouse, huh? Sora's been plenty of things and hearing that honestly just makes him grin. Ven's been to a few worlds, looks like. Sora doesn't know how many or if he should even be comparing things like that, but it's good to hear that he and Ven had similar ideas when visiting a new place. it makes him feel better on the inside. ]

Bunch of faces? What kind of faces?

[happyduckbutt]

Oh, like...new people. You know how you woke up in the temple? That's how newcomers usually arrive. For some reason it didn't happen for these guys. They didn't have any glyph either. Did you notice that? It should be on your arm.

[heartdive]

Yeah, I noticed that. Asked someone about it too. So...

Why didn't these guys have one? Were they bad guys?

[happyduckbutt]

[He shakes his head.]

No, not at all! They were confused just as anyone first waking up here... Some of those already here knew them from their worlds, too. That's how I met Megatron- he first arrived that way.

The main thing we were concerned with was that one of the earliest things we're told about the glyphs is that it protected us, basically. They keep us from Unicron's influence.

[heartdive]

Right.

[ he remembers hearing that when he first asked about the glyphs... ]

So what happened? They didn't get controlled, did they?

[happyduckbutt]

[Hesitantly, he nods. It's not something he wants to go through again.]

Something like that. At first they were okay, but then they just started acting differently. For some of them, it got to the point that they couldn't stop themselves from attacking others, and there wasn't any way to help them.

[His hands ball up into fists at his sides as he remembers Megatron's request of him. Even if he hadn't been the one to fight him, to have to tell others to essentially put Megatron down felt just as worse.]

...they had to be stopped. By the end of things, all of the Glyphless had been killed, either by friends or by the Firstforged before they could do any serious damage.

When others die here, they come back, usually, after a few days or a week. Not the same with the Glyphless. ...at least, that's what we thought. It was a long time after, but some of them found themselves back here again. They remembered most of what happened when they were here the first time around, and this time, they had glyphs of their own.

[heartdive]

[ Sora knows that look. that stance. he's been there before, in a way. to be unable to help the people that you care for. to turn blade on your friend. to fight them when they are not themselves.

yeah. Sora understands. and its because of this understanding that Sora puts a hand on Ven's shoulder.

nothing he can really say about that. Sora hasn't been able to completely get over that feeling himself. he's pretty sure Ven doesn't need words anyway. ]

[happyduckbutt]

[Ventus lifts his head slightly at that, glancing at the hand that's been set upon his shoulder before he looks towards Sora himself.

It's comforting, although it's also sad to realize that his new friend's possibly been through similar. The nod he offers in his direction is hesitant, but grateful for the gesture.]