I Don't think We're Alone Now
Echo/Patchwork/a grimy shape dressed in rags lay there huddling among the rubble in the ruins of the old Rokkaku tower. He was looking at a pool of water a shattered mirror and a pane of glass. All of them stared back him, showing him three different people all with his face.
Who are you? Why are you me? The Window asked. I am Echo, I am you The mirror replied.. I am Patchwork, I am you. The water intoned. You are part of our plan. The Rokkaku's plan. Goji. Koji. Koji. Goji. One is the other. Both are the same. What does that mean? They're the same mind. In two bodies. Just like we're three minds. In one body. WHO ARE YOU, WHY DO I CONSTANTLY SEE THINGS THAT AREN'T REAL!? Oh but they are real…you see. Every night if Rokakku wishes it the city can reset itself. The deaths are gone, the trauma gone and the memories erased. But we remember. And now so do you. Then why…why are you using me? I can understand the recording memories as reviewing all your past failures to see where you went wrong to take over but…
Ah he is smart isn't he Patchwork? That's why we chose him above all else. Yes. Now get up boy, we'll talk as you tag.
NO! I WILL NOT BE A PUPPET I LOATHE THOSE DAMMNED GREEN CIRCLES.
You say that as if you have a say in the matter. It's actually very simple, after accumulating so many failed attempts and erased memories…we decided to use them to attack. We're using people's own recollections against them. It's lovely. Kell and Disk were just a test run. By now that Love Shocker psychopath is reliving the moment her beloved Akina died again and again. Eventually it will warp so she's the one killing that girl. So that hopefully her mind will snap worse than ever before. Disk is getting the same treatment. The memory that he lost his eye causing his eyeball to slowly bleed into blindness was a nice touch.
Of course the GG's were tough…are you fighting us again Boy? He's struggling Patchwork. Silly Boy. Don't you know? You're no rudie. You can't tag. You can't skate. Without us you're worthless and helpless. So don't fight it Boy.
Go…to….hell…
HAHAHAH!! WHERE DO YOU THINK WE CAME FROM!?
Anyways back to the James Bond moment. Yes, of course we are going to kill you, again, as soon as were done with you. Actually, hehehe, WE, wont kill you. Oh that's right. Anyways, we simply dragged up the GG's memories of the Golden Rhinos and their minds simply…reincarnated them. An endless army of undying Rhinos. Existing only in their minds. Of course they can't really HURT the GG's but thinking that your dead or have a broken arm is enough to cause a cardiac arrest or send you into an asylum…Onishima will simply scoop them up along with you.
The marks….heh heh…the marks spread the madness upon a sailing ship with seven mad skating eagles…they cause rudies to remember horrid things and god mad bad sad glad dad I'm gonna be just like youuuu…and the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon….
Yes Boy…you just sing, let us do the work.