(SPOILERS) Union X: Confession / The Missing Ark

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KINGDOM HEARTS Union X has updated with 5 new story quests!

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(Ralph pushes the kart all the way to Diet Cola Mountain.)

Vanellope: Drive into the wall!

Right there, between the two sugar-free lollipops!

Ralph: Are you crazy?!

Vanellope: Just do it!

(Ralph does as she says, but just as they're about to pass through the lollipops, a Wyvern swoops down to attack them.)

Vanellope: Hurry, or they’re gonna catch up to us!

Ralph: Not if we can help it!

(Ralph pushes Vanellope out of harm's way and returns to help Player take down the Wyvern.)

(They defeat the Wyvern. Vaneloppe emerge and the two hurry into the mountain, disappearing from view. Player spots King Candy approaching and hides.)

King Candy: Where'd they go?

Find that glitch. Destroy that kart. She can't be allowed to race.

(Player emerges from their hiding spot once they've left. Chirithy appears.)

Chirithy: I wonder why King Candy is so against Vanellope joining the race?

Plus, the Heartless are here for some reason too.

Looks like this just got more complicated than "Follow Ralph."

(Player nods.)

Chirithy: Let's stick with Ralph and Vanellope for a little while longer and see how things play out.

(Chirithy leaves. Player enters the mountain to find Ralph inspecting the layout.)

Ralph: What’s this?

(He checks out a sign.)

Ralph: "Watch out for falling Mentos?"

Vanellope: Yeah, check it out. Look!

(She throws a rock at a stalactite. A Mentos falls into the pool of Diet Cola and a super hot geyser shoots up into the air, nearly splashing Ralph.)

Vanellope: Oh, you gotta watch out for the splash. That stuff's broiling hot.

Ralph: Yeah, I got that, thank you.

What is this dump?

Vanellope: I think it's some sort of unfinished bonus level. Yeah, it's pretty cool, huh?

I found that secret opening, and now I live here. 

Ralph: By yourself?

Vanellope: Well, yeah. I mean everyone here says I'm just a mistake, and that I wasn't even supposed to exist. What do you expect?

Ralph: Listen, kid... I know it's none of my business, but why do you even stick around this game?

Vanellope: You really don't know anything, do you? Glitches can't leave their games. It's one of the joys of being me.

(Ralph sympathizes with her, and suddenly, he gets an idea. He starts pounding on the ground.)

Vanellope: Hey! What are you doing?!

(The ruckus attracts some Heartless. Player quickly goes to confront them.)

Vanellope: These things again! Stay out of my home!

Ralph: Leave it to me! I'll take out the trash!

(He joins Player in battle.)

Ralph: Come on, lend me a hand.

(Ralph and Player easily deal with the Heartless. Once dispatched, Ralph continues his work pounding on the ground until a race track forms.)

Ralph: If you're still going to be a racer, you have to learn how to drive, and you can't do that without a track.

Vanellope: Whoa.

Ralph: Alright now, let's hustle up. We got some driving to do.

(Player exits the mountain and reconvenes with Chirithy.)

Chirithy: Yeah, we aren't going to be much help with kart lessons. Let's give them some time and come back later.

Ven: But……

Lady Ava really did tell me I was a Union Leader……

Brain: I believe you, Ven. You’re not lying.

Ephemer: Then, did Lady Ava do this on purpose after all?

Brain: No. As awful as this may be, it's likely that Lauriam's little sister Strelitzia is no longer with us... She was supposed to have been a Union Leader, and she was supposed to have been a Dandelion. But, she's not.

If Lady Ava really was the one behind the switch, she wouldn't have just sent Strelitzia into the war without saying anything. The fact that she no longer exists is proof that this was not by Lady Ava's design.

Ephemer: Then who brought Ven in?

Brain: Why were we chosen to be Dandelions?

Ephemer: To connect the light to the future, right?

Brain: And if only the light were to continue on - what would oppose that?

Ephemer: ……Darkness.

Brain: Darkness can hide anywhere...

Even inside someone.

(Lauriam confronts Maleficent.)

Maleficent: I see. So you are all trapped in here too.

Lauriam: You aren’t wanted here.

Maleficent: Typical. In that event, I best be on my way.

Lauriam: This isn't the exit, though.

Maleficent: Hmm, it appears you haven't a single clue about the true nature of this room.

Lauriam: I’m afraid not. This place just isn't my style.

Maleficent: All prisons are made with exits. This "day-tah" cage is no different. That is what this place is, after all.

And so, as per your wishes I will take my leave.

Lauriam: Huh. I didn't realize this place was so important. I thought it was just a simple lab, or a storage room.

Maleficent: It is both, actually. Apparently a particular kind of research was conducted here. But the remains of that research were subsequently abandoned.

Now then, I must bid you farewell.

(He rushes forward with Keyblade in hand. Maleficent guards against his attacks.)

Skuld: Darkness disguised itself as Lady Ava?

Brain: Ventus, when you met with Lady Ava, did anything seem off about her?

Ven: Hm…… I don't know……

Ephemer: What exactly did she say to you?

Ven: That she wanted me to be one of the five Union leaders... And, she gave me a rule book… She said if I went to the final battle ground once everything was over, the other four would be waiting there.

Brain: You did say that when we first met.

What else?

Ven: ……At the very beginning, she summoned me to a dark, abandoned house…

Ephemer: What? Not by the tower?

Ven: ……We started off at the house, and then made our way towards the tower as we talked...

Brain: Can you remember what happened?

Ven: Yeah……

(Ven thinks back to the moment he entered the abandoned house.)

Ven (voiceover): That day, I was summoned by Lady Ava to this abandoned house……

(He warily steps into the house.)

Ven: Lady Ava…… It's me, Ventus.

Lady Avaaa!

(When she doesn’t answer, he ventures forward into the darkness.)

Ven: Maybe I have the wrong place……?

！

(He turns around suddenly.)

Ven: Who's there?

(Strelitzia enters the building. The screen turns dark.)

Ven (voiceover): I think……

(Ven and Ava exit the building, the former with the Union leader rulebook in hand.)

Ven (voiceover): That’s when Lady Ava showed up, and we left the abandoned house together… On the way to the tower, we talked about the things I just mentioned.

(They walk and talk, winding up near the tower as Ven had previously said.)

(Back to present day.)

Brain: You said "I think" just now, why?

Ven: Lady Ava arrived... I don't remember what I was doing until Lady Ava came and we left the building... But, I think we did so as soon as we met up.

Brain: Are you absolutely sure that was Lady Ava?

Ven: Um……

(Ven gets a flashback to when Strelitzia was slayed. A shrouded figure picks up her fallen book.)

Strelitzia's Chirithy: Why……

(Ven clutches his head. Skuld rushes to his side.)

Skuld: What's happening?

Brain: For now, let's get back to the tower. 

(Back to Lauriam. He's lying on the floor unconscious as the room suffers severe damages. The ark pod in the center of the room has been severely damaged and one is missing from the back right.)

 

[NoWay]

Thank you!

 

[ShardofTruth]

Great to see Maleficent in top form again and using the ark to escape.
So was Darkness impersonating Ava and get Ven to kill Strelitzia or is Ava working together with Darkness? Both options don't make 100% sense.

 

[TheGreatEphemera]

Things starting to get real, I wonder what the translations will say...

 

[Ballad of Caius]

Getting back to the "Darkness, Vanitas, Ventus" discussion: in my honest opinion, I think that Vanitas is an amnesiac Darkness that created a new identity based on his connection to Ven and Sora. In a sense, he's a new Apprentice Xehanort: an amnesiac person with two hearts that developed new memories and then realized who he was.

 

[The_Echo]

Here's the gist of the update:

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Maleficent reveals to Lauriam that the machine is the "exit" of the data world, before defeating him and taking one of the pods, destroying another in the process. Five remain.

Meanwhile, Brain and the others try to pull more info out of Ventus. They're convinced that Strelitzia's disappearance isn't Ava's doing, but Ventus remembers meeting with Ava in the empty house, and walking with her to an area near the tower. However, Ven has no memories of the events immediately preceding Ava's arrival. When pressed on the missing moments, Ventus' head starts to hurt and Brain suggests returning to the tower for now.

 

[SweetYetSalty]

Looking forward to seeing these translations as I'm now keeping up with this. I'm still holding out that Skuld is the killer.

 

[kirabook]

Ooof, Laurium, poor guy.
I saw someone elses summary too. Ven had pieces of memories of what happened. It really looks like a setup to make Ven seem more and more like the murderer, but I still think he's not. But, I guess whoever darkness is finds him to be a very useful vessel/pawn.

Gosh, is Ven going to be worried now that he did something bad and freak out? Plus, he's kinda the running away type, I'm surprised he hasn't already.

 

[MATGSY]

Maleficent actually getting a win over a wielder & a future final boss, who'd a thunk it?

Great to see Maleficent in top form again and using the ark to escape.
So was Darkness impersonating Ava and get Ven to kill Strelitzia or is Ava working together with Darkness? Both options don't make 100% sense.

Ava: I need good keyblade wielders to make up the Dandelions, BUT THAT THOT BEEN GETTING CLINGY WITH MY HUSBANDO & MUST DIE!

 

[yuyayuzu]

Nobody here said about ven and skuld relation yet I think. I think ven spends the most time with her and in this scene Skuld is the one comforting him first when he has a headache. I hope in future arc they will have good relationship again but who knows.

 

[kristi-swat]

It's also possible that darkness is the one impersonating as Ava, knocks ventus out, kills Streli and gets the book to give to Ventus
we are told that Ventus is given the book iirc. If he killed her in "darkness" form, he would wake up with book in hand

 

[Zettaflare]

Funny that Maleficent defeating Lauriam came right after a recent thread wondering if she was even still a legitimate threat, lol

 

[Brother Darkness]

Funny that Maleficent defeating Lauriam came right after a recent thread wondering if she was even still a legitimate threat, lol

he got washed

 

[Noivern]

Everyone seems to be automatically assuming Maleficent is the one who knocked Lauriam out when the scene cuts right after and UX has already proved that a looot can happen inbetween scenes.

Boy, Ven sure can hold a lot of amnesia into his tiny head! I believed he was the killer from the very start when he was revealed as a Union Leader, but now the more we get the more I'm inclined to believe it was Skuld instead.

Still, knowing WHO is the killer isn't really important to me as much as knowing WHY. At this point the story is making it seem like the killer might not even have been a bad person, but just a victim of the actual mastermind.

 

[okhi12]

I just checked and there were main story updates planned for both March and April.
Now that the March update has been released in April, will we get another update later this month or just this one?

I was never that interested about the foretellers when all the X stuff started, but I must admit I love the dandelion leaders. Can't wait to know where all of this leads and how it will impact the next games in the 'present' storyline.

 

[Deleted member 252753]

I just checked and there were main story updates planned for both March and April.
Now that the March update has been released in April, will we get another update later this month or just this one?

Yes there is another main story update due 'Late April' according to the schedule Sign put up the other day

 

[SweetYetSalty]

Funny that Maleficent defeating Lauriam came right after a recent thread wondering if she was even still a legitimate threat, lol

The timing of that couldn't have been more perfect lol. Unless Darkness got involved. Just let Maleficent have this win XD

 

[bcsimaoo]

The last scene of Lauriam knocked down might be already in the future (or out of data world). Imagine that during the fight with Maleficent, instead of she getting away, it was Lauriam. The ark shall exist at the other side as well as we seen it in KH1. It would be a nice plot twist of their fight in my opinion...

 

[Hirokey123]

So before I theorized that Ventus being normal was the point of adding him to the Dandelions. I am now convinced my theory was correct and thus will restate it here.

The Dandelions are wielders resistant to darkness, the exceptional ones who wouldn't give into the darkness no matter how great it was. The MoM most likely did this because he knew "Darkness" could possess others and so he was trying to make a world where Darkness couldn't get a foothold, doing it in a very messed up way by using the war and bangles to weed out that special glimmering light that doesn't cave. Meanwhile Darkness had their own plan, replace one of the special wielders with a normal one, an average wielder whose heart it could get a foothold in and use them was their pawn. So with that in mind this is I think the most likely series of events.

They lured Ventus there pretending to be Ava when they found out strelitzia was heading there. When Ventus arrived Darkness entered Ven to take control of him and used him to slay her so he could get her book. Once she vanished darkness released Ventus, took the form of Ava, and appointed him as a dandelion leader. With that Darkness had their pawn in place, whenever it needed it would be able to take control of Ventus and use him to wreck stuff. That being said I think there are some potential things to consider now.

First Maleficent is gone seemingly having used the arc and yet we never saw her learn about the box, which makes me thing the poor girl is being used again and like Xehanort she was told by the box off screen by darkness so she could eventually start searching for it for Darkness like the princesses of heart for Xehanort. However while maleficent is gone so to is darkness and given recent circumstance I can't help but worry that darkness may in fact have jumped ship into Lauriam, he might not be able to control him but it can probably still hide its presence. If Lauriam learns the truth of his sister that might blacken his heart and give darkness a foothold but I'm getting ahead of myself.

5 pods remains and luxu said 5 traveled so that checks out. We know Ventus and Lauriam are two of them, Skuld is heavily implied to be the third, which leaves Brain and Ephemer as seemingly the 4th and 5th...yet we know Elrena also travels. So I will postulate something like this. Ventus is taken hold of by darkness and he travels using the arc to the future. Lauriam and Elrena pursue to get revenge against Darkness for what he did to strelitzia (well she goes because of her crush on Lauriam but whatever) and so that brings us to three. Skuld heads with them with the priority of rescuing Ventus and Brain uses the arc to escape the datascape so he can try and free them from the outside. This leaves Ephemer all alone with Player to watch over the Dandelions so they aren't just left without any leaders.

Ventus+Darkness wind up just before BBS times as do Skuld, Lauriam, and Elrena but all of them lost their memories. So that's why they all wind up in roughly the same place and end up being roughly the same age except Ventus because his growth was stalled by roughly a decade due to Xehanort shenanigans. Brain's is less severe, instead of just time he jumps space and escapes back to the ruined original war world. He can't free the others but he can rebuild society and thus he builds daybreak town into Scala and passes on the myths and keyblade training stuff, and that means as people speculate he ends up being the ancient wielder Eraqus is descended from. As for Ephemer he's remained in that seemingly time locked datascape with the rest of the dandelions and that's why he is there to receive Sora's heart vibes and send the dandelion's power to help aid them.

 

[Zettaflare]

If the pods are how Elrena, Ventus, Laurium, Darkness, and Skuld came to the future that still leaves Luxord and Demyx.

Of course the alternative is that they never came from Daybreak Town to begin with