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Hey so, bit of a weird question. Anyone here ever heard of Torchwood, and could maybe point me how to get back to contacting the local branch? That'd be really handy, yeah?

Year and star system coordinates would also be fantastic, but I'm not holdin' my breath waitin'.

[Bites her bottom lip in thought.]

[She doesn't even know which universe this is. Much less how she got here without a dimension cannon or where everyone she was with went. Maybe they're here. But then maybe even saying their name depending on the universe is dangerous. Luckily, she's had 5+ years (give or take for literal dimension rewinds and time in the vortex) of experience in learning how to do codes.]

Here's a fairytale you've probably never heard before.

Once upon a time there was a big bad wolf. She wandered a city of metal filled with metal men. [Too dangerous to even say the world cyberman until she learned more!] She thought she was on a mission to hunt down her lost prince. But she was actually on a mission to find home. Bit like Dorothy from Wizard of Oz if you know it. And one day she met a man who wasn't a prince at all. He was a very brainy professor. There was even another man who started off as a mouse but turned into a lion full of courage, saving worlds he never even knew existed. And a really flirty captain who was probably too pretty for his own good. They weren't off to find a wizard. Just a blue box.

The big bad wolf ran away from home and her pack over and over and over again, but no matter how many times she ran, and how many new friends she made or which universe she fell into, something was always calling her back. 'Pparently you can't escape your family that easily. That or the Big Bad Wolf's mum was seriously terrifying and would fight a werewolf for diamonds and totally win.

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Seriously? Man I thought my world was the only one with luck that bad...

Anyway, the guy's name was and is Xehanort. Long story short, Sora and his friends have thrown monkey wrenches into his plans a couple times now, and while they've stopped the immediate threat, now he's back to his full power, and backed up by several other versions of himself, looking to do even worse than before. But we're working on our own plans right now and it's sort of a 'calm before the storm' type situation.

And they stopped them by taking out the remaining members of Organization XIII-the group that had been putting together the false Kingdom Hearts-, including Xemnas- its leader and Xehanort's Nobody. He'd merged into the unfinished Kingdom Hearts to get extra power, so when he went down, so did it. The Hearts dissipated and went back to where they were supposed to have gone if the Organization hadn't interfered.

If you're looking for more detail than that, though, you're asking the wrong guy; I was kinda... dead at the time, so I've just got second hand information.

[Sighs.] Haven't heard the name, but I guess the multiverse is just full of whackjobs willing to do stupid things for stupid selfish petty reasons.

Nah, that-- [She cut off mid-sentence, a lump in her throat.] You remember being dead?

[She is not going to get used to that. Ever.] What... or who brought you back?

Selfish definitely, but he'd neither petty nor stupid; unfortunately for us he's smart and dreams big. Though you could definitely make the 'petty' argument for Braig, one of his cronies; not sure what he hoped to get out of the whole arrangement, but I doubt it's as broad as Xehanort's goals.

And well, I don't remember being dead, exactly, aside from a few bits that I'm not sure whether they were some kind of dream or not. But I remember dying, yeah. Twice, if you want to get technical; neither time was fun.

The first time was when I was about 14, when I had my heart taken and became a Nobody named Axel. Technically speaking, I died when that happened, and Axel was born. Then I died as Axel, and since my Heartless had also been destroyed, they kind of recombined back into Lea, and I woke up as a complete human being again like I am now. So I guess you could call it a natural process, if anything regarding creatures that were never supposed to exist can be called 'natural'.

[He shrugs.]

I don't claim to know how the process works, just that it does. Though I bet Ienzo or Even could give you a whole lecture on the subject.

What makes you think it's neither?

[Her face remains stoic as he explains the deaths.]

[So weird.]

[She just shakes her head at the end, not commenting.] Are either of them here? In this plane or whatever you call it? Dimension?

[It's just as weird to him, and he lived it. He's learned to just roll with the weirdness.]

Because he's kind of a genius who's been manipulating people since probably before I was even born and arranging a bunch of different contingency plans for himself, up to and including a way to bring himself back if he died. And because he was doing all that so he could cause a war and take over world in the aftermath. So yeah... not the stupid or petty type. I wish he was; might make our job easier.

And no, they're not, unfortunately. But if either of them shows up, I'll point them your way.

Eh, I dunno, kinda is. I've met others who did that too. You can do a lot of evil with just luck and banking on greed and paranoia. The difference is just... good people don't think like that, so it's hard for them to realize others might.

Thanks, yeah? Have you got friend here?

I guess you're gonna just have to trust me n this one. Going into a full explanation of Xehanort and how much he's messed things up where I'm from- or at least as full an explanation as I understand- would probably take all day. Suffice to say, if a scrawny, old, bald guy with gold eyes, dark skin, and a gravely voice shows up, do yourself a favor and steer clear. Guy's bad news. As are all his other selves, but just our luck we don't know all of them yet.

Though thankfully I do have a friend here. One of my best friends in fact; a girl named Xion. And Demyx is here too from back home though he's less a friend and more 'that annoying old housemate who used to steal your food out of the fridge'.

I believe you.

[And laughs at the last part.] I'll keep my eyes open for 'em.

Chances are pretty good they'll both be wearing the same sort of outfit as me, so they should be easy to recognize, at least. And I don't think there's anyone but Demyx who owns a big, blue Sitar.

Should be easy enough to spot, yeah?

Definitely. Well, Demyx more than Xion; she's on the small side, and would be pretty easy to lose in a crowd.

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