Hollow Bastion: Difference between revisions

Hollow Bastion returns as a location in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', with the efforts of Leon, Yuffie, Aerith, Cid, and {{iw|khwiki|Merlin}} (forming the {{iw|khwiki|Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee}}) helping return the town to how it was prior to the events of the previous games. In contrast to its late game appearance in the original ''Kingdom Hearts'', it is the second world visited in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', accessible after Sora meets with {{iw|khwiki|Yen Sid}} at {{iw|khwiki|The Mysterious Tower}}, itself an extension of {{iw|khwiki|Twilight Town}}. The world serves as a hubworld of sorts, with the player frequently needing to make return trips to it for various purposes, and also houses two separate worlds in itself, being {{iw|khwiki|Space Paranoids}} (accessible via Hollow Bastion's computer system) and {{iw|khwiki|100 Acre Wood}} (accessible via an [[khwiki:Old Book|old book]] in Merlin's house)—like the first game, the player can find torn pages scattered across the worlds, and return to Hollow Bastion to put them in the book and continue the story. An additional area in ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'' is the {{iw|khwiki|Cavern of Remembrance}}, which, located in the {{iw|khwiki|Garden of Assemblage}} at the end, contains [[khwiki:Organization XIII's Replica Data|replica data of the members of Organization XIII]] that Sora can fight. Hollow Bastion also serves as an important plot device, with undoubtedly the most important event being {{iw|khwiki|Mickey Mouse}} finally reuniting with Sora, Donald, and Goofy. The three reveal to him that, within Space Paranoids, {{iw|khwiki|Tron}} can access the DTD dataspace with a password. Mickey, realizing that they can find where {{iw|khwiki|Ansem the Wise}} is, gives them the password—the seven Princesses of Heart. The three join Tron and are able to find the data, which, while restoring Tron's functions, gives the {{iw|khwiki|Master Control Program}} access to Hollow Bastion's entire system, with it threatening to self-destruct the town. Tron quickly changes the password to Sora, Donald, and Goofy, which prevents the Master Control Program from accessing the data, but the Master Control Program still threatens to upload a {{iw|khwiki|Hostile Program}} into the real world. After the four defeat the Hostile Program, Sora, Donald, and Goofy leave Space Paranoids and copy the data over, albeit in a very scrambled state. Shortly afterwards, they are alerted by an explosion, and, defying Mickey's order to search for Riku and Kairi, join the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee, the {{iw|khwiki|Gullwings}}, [[Cloud]], [[Tifa]], and even {{iw|khwiki|Stitch}} in [[khwiki:Battle of the 1000 Heartless|fighting off an immense wave of Heartless]]. During the battle, {{iw|khwiki|Saïx}} reveals to Sora {{iw|khwiki|Organization XIII}}'s plan to gather the hearts released by the Heartless by Sora's Keyblade to form a new {{iw|khwiki|Kingdom Hearts}}. Maleficent appears and gives unexpected but brief support, attempting to best Saïx with Heartless of her own and sacrificing herself against his [[khwiki:Nobody|Nobodies]], and ultimately sends Sora, who is now hesitant to fight the Heartless, into a {{iw|khwiki|Corridor of Darkness}} to escape the battle, which contains clues left by Riku that point him to Twilight Town and eventually {{iw|khwiki|The World That Never Was}}. Later, after Sora helps Tron defeat {{iw|khwiki|Sark}} and the Master Control Program, Tron gains access to the main computers of Hollow Bastion, and Ansem the Wise's full data, reminding everyone there of the town's original name: {{iw|khwiki|Radiant Garden}}. Radiant Garden's history is witnessed in ''Birth by Sleep'', where it is fully seen in its original state as a city of light, and revealed to be Kairi's birthplace.