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-The '''Secret Reports''' are a series of pages written by various members of [[Organization XIII]] throughout ''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'', ''[[Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories]]'', and ''[[Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days]]''. The reports mainly focus on [[Roxas]] and [[Xion]]'s movements in Organization XIII. While the authors of the reports are not explicitly mentioned in ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'', they are confirmed within the game's official Ultimania guide. Roxas is the only member not to have written at least one report; instead, he uses his own diary. Each is unlocked by completing all of the Challenge Missions (recieving at  least one sigil) for its corresponding day{{fact}}<!--is there anything else?--> and achieving 100% completion on all missions on that day or range of days. The Secret Reports can be read in Roxas's Diary.
+The '''Secret Reports''' are a series of pages written by various members of [[Organization XIII]] throughout ''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'', ''[[Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories]]'', ''[[Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days]]'', and ''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''. The reports mainly focus on [[Roxas]] and [[Xion]]'s movements in Organization XIII. While the authors of the reports are not explicitly mentioned in ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'', they are confirmed within the game's official Ultimania guide. Roxas is the only member not to have written at least one report; instead, he uses his own diary. Each is unlocked by completing all of the Challenge Missions (recieving at  least one sigil) for its corresponding day{{fact}}<!--is there anything else?--> and achieving 100% completion on all missions on that day or range of days. The Secret Reports can be read in Roxas's Diary.
 '''''Note''': These reports have been sorted by author [[/Reports by author|here]].''
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 :With luck, we can bring Roxas back into our fold, but even if Sora should awaken, as the hero of the Keyblade, he is bound to keep unlocking hearts. If he should come to target us, we need simply subdue him and use his powers ourselves once more. I must become one with [[Kingdom Hearts]]. I will become a higher existence. All of my true ambitions begin there.
+==''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''==
+===Recollections===
+:''Am I alive?''
+:''I awoke in a cell, alone until the researchers came with their tests and their prodding to uncover my identity.''
+:''I had no answer to offer them. Four friends, and a key...that is the sum total of my memory. I could not even recall my name. I was simply called "X" there. My only solace was the time I spent talking with the [[Isa|two]] [[Lea|boys]] who would visit from time to time.''
+:''One day, [[Braig|a man]] came to take me from the prison. I could not see him for the darkness, save that he wore an eyepatch. Even now, years on, I feel no closer to understanding who or what I am.''
+:''May my heart be my guiding key.''
+—Unknown
+===Mark of Mastery Journal===
+:''Some days have passed since I set off on my journey to prepare for the Mark of Mastery examination. Eraqus asked for leave to undertake the same pilgrimage, but apparently I am to be the first to tour the worlds written off in the old fairy tales.''
+:''Until a few short years ago, I'd known only my own world, [[Destiny Islands|a speck of land surrounded by sea]]. But how I'd dreamed of, yearned for the World beyond... And, granted guidance from the future, I left that nest behind. As I treaded the path to my master's side, I came in contact with darkness in many forms. I knew even then, as by instinct: terrifying as its power was, it could be harnessed. Mastered.''
+:''[[Eraqus]] is a blueblood, descended from the very [[Foreteller|first masters]] in the age of fairy tales. But I did not come this far to indulge in adulation. I will be his peer, His equal. And to do that, I must learn to wield the power born from both darkness and light in proper balance.''
+—[[Xehanort]]
+===Experiments of the Heart<br> Notes on Subject X, Excerpt 1===
+:''Subject was found in the central square shortly after dawn. Female, approximately fifteen years old. After seven days' observation, she spoke her first words, but could not provide a name. Subject exhibits signs of profound amnesia, and displays concern for which world this is. Her words suggest that she departed her home world with others, though she cannot recall the names of her erstwhile companions. All efforts to explore those memories have met with a rejection response.''
+:''After his initial experiments on me, [[Ansem the Wise]] ceased his research into the heart, his hand stayed by some fear I cannot fathom. Yet this new subject is like me: devoid of memories. She is the perfect sample upon which to continue my master's work. She, too, could benefit from it; by traversing the heart, we have a direct path into memory. I myself have begun to reclaim my lost past thanks to these very experiments.''
+:''Who is she? Whence has she come? These are questions no scientist could ignore. And the words she muttered, "May your heart be your guiding key"...
+—[[Xehanort]]
+===Experiments of the Heart<br> Notes on Subject X, Excerpt 2===
+:''Subject's memories have not returned, and our conversations remain less than lucid. What fragments can be gleaned evoke a bygone world, like one out of fairy tales. As improbable as it seems, the question may not be where she has come from, but when. If she truly has crossed through time, the prospect of probing her heart is all the more compelling.''
+''My pilot studies used a handful of subjects, but none possessed the fortitude to endure them. Ultimately, all suffered mental collapse. I knew it would be a heavy blow to lose a subject as unique as she.''
+:''Upon discovering the tests I've been conducting, my master demanded that I cease my work immediately and destroy what research I have compiled. Worse still, he ordered the release of my remaining subjects. She is gone.''
+:''Where is Subject X now? Has "wise" Master Ansem hidden her away? Whatever the case, I will not be deterred. I will take her place as the first subject in the grand experiment to come.''
+—[[Xehanort]]
+===Memoirs, Excerpt 1===
+:''The castle was a wonderland to us children. Within its walls, Ansem the Wise conducted his research, and the fruits it bore allowed everyone outside to leave in peace and happiness. That alone was enough to stoke our interest, though not all of the rumors that escaped its walls were so benevolent. By night, the muffled sounds of human wails emerged. There was talk of dangerous human experimentation. [[Lea]] and I couldn't help but hatch a plot to steal inside and sate our curiosity.''
+:''[[Dilan|The]] [[Aeleus|two]] who stood guard at the gates were researchers themselves, though you wouldn't think it to see them, massive and barrel-chested as they were. And slipping past that duo was only the first hurdle. It proved one not easily cleared; we were found and tossed out on our ears, time and again.''
+:''On the day we finally secured our entry, we descended the long spiral stair at the heart of the castle to find [[Chamber of Repose|a dark space below it, lined with cages]]. There wasn't light enough to see if they were inhabited, and we were in no position to call out to any occupants within. Yet we could feel it. A definite presence, there in the black. Terror washed over us, and we immediately regretted coming. But just as we turned to flee, we heard the faintest of voices. The urge to run was nigh overpowering, but someone or something beckoned us on.''
+:''There, framed by a tenuous sliver of light, we found her.''
+—[[Saïx]]
+===Memoirs, Excerpt 2===
+:''It was too dim to make out her features. We spoke to her in hushed whispers. Who was she? Why was she imprisoned here? She had no answers for us. Had no memories at all. She was an enigma, but I knew I wanted to help her.''
+:''And so we continued our infiltrations, most of them stopped short at the castle gates. When we did mange our way inside, we spoke with her. That was all the comfort two children like us could offer. But Lea had other ideas. He was determined to save her. We slipped into the castle that day knowing only that we wanted, with all our hearts, to save her.''
+:''But we did not find her inside on that day or the next, or any of our subsequent visits. Had she been moved? Had we simply imagined her? Lea and I knew there was only one way to be certain. And so we stand before the castle gates today, not as trespassing children but in order to become Ansem the Wise's newest apprentices.''
+—[[Saïx]]
+===On the Replica Program and Reanimation===
+:''Following my erasure and my recompletion as a human, I did not awaken right away. Perhaps the damage was exceptionally grave. Even after waking, I remained in bed, pondering my next course of action.''
+:''In my work on the [[Replica Program]] for the [[Organization XIII|Organization]], I produced some twenty vessels. Most of the early results were failures, not one of them granted a number. The first success to emerge from that early lot was the [[Riku Replica|Riku replica]]. Subsequently, [[Xion]] (No. I) was essentially indistinguishable from a natural human, though she became unstable due to the influence of others. Using those two as my foundation, I worked to construct a number of nigh-perfect replicas, but just as they neared completion, my efforts were cut short. I suspect Xehanort aims to use both the initial lot as well as the unused replicas from my later work.''
+:''I arose today and decided to walk out in the square, my first outing in some time. Yet my stroll was interrupted when a surprising visitor appeared with an unexpected offer. Though younger than me, he'd risen to become [[Xemnas]]'s right-hand. I accepted his terms and became a [[Nobody]] once more—easier to gain access to the old Replica Program that way.''
+:''Whatever it takes to atone.''
+—[[Vexen]]
+===The "Real" Organization===
+:''Xehanort seeks to gather twelve vessels, which—together with his true, actual self—he considers the [[True Organization XIII|"real" Organization XIII]]. Now that he has the numbers he needs, [[Demyx]] and I are being treated as reserves.''
+:''Several others who have served Xemnas in the old Organization have followed the same course as mine, electing to abandon their newly restored humanity and rejoin the "real" Organization as Nobodies. But not Xemnas. Xemnas cannot exist in the present because there is already a Xehanort here: the old man in charge. The old man's humanity prevents his [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness|Heartless]] and Nobody, others vanquished in the past, and [[Young Xehanort|his younger self]] from being denizens of this time.''
+:''To circumvent this, Xehanort is using the prototype replicas I created in the past as containers, plucking his other selves' [[heart]]s from the time they existed. Xehanort ordered me to refine the prototypes, to make them closer still to the real thing. Perfecting my creations so they may house true, flesh-and-blood human suits my own purposes as well. All that remains for my atonement is to devise a way to pass on as many of the vessels as I can to those who truly deserve them.''
+—[[Vexen]]
+===Ansem Code Conspectus, Excerpt 1===
+:''I have poured over the data my master entrusted to [[Riku]]. Here, I offer my preliminary conclusions.''
+:''Within [[Sora]]'s heart are three compartmentalized "boxes," each containing the heart of another. One box holds [[Roxas]]. Another holds [[Xion|a second heart]] that has been with Sora nearly as long. [[Ventus|The third]] has held its heart for much longer. These hearts have melded with Sora's and no longer have voices of their own. Any attempt to mechanically extract them could prove as dire for Sora as what caused him to become a Heartless in the first place.''
+:''First, a vessel for each heart must be readied. Then, a spark of some sort is required to induce its waking. Obviously, the ideal solution is to restore each heart to its own body, but (whatever the case for the two unknown individuals) Roxas possesses no such thing. The same is true for [[Naminé]], who we believe resides in [[Kairi]]'s heart. Still, if alternate bodies can be secured for them, all their hearts require to be awakened is that "spark"—people they cared for and who cared for them, who can show them the way home.''
+:''Complete and perfect digitization of the heart is impossible. We can only hope to partially reconstruct it. Thus, I see no way forward but to extract the hearts we so desperately need from within Sora. Fortunately, the data stored in [[Twilight Town]] contains a near-perfect record of the memories of those who lived there—and for Roxas and Naminé especially, this is crucial.''
+—[[Ienzo]]
+===Ansem Code Conspectus, Excerpt 2===
+—[[Ienzo]]
+===Observations, Excerpt 1===
+—Unknown
+===Observations, Excerpt 2===
+—Unknown
+===Observations, Excerpt 3===
+—Unknown
 ==See also==
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 *[[Xehanort's Report]]
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