Pyle:Dandaundunaundnonoaownwo
Tiumi: What are you doing?
Pyle: Humming out 'Coming of the Valykries'
Me: What for?
Pyle:...I dunno. Cause it's so fun!
Me: Sorry, but some of us have a purpose in our lives. I suggest you take that CD you have with 'Coming of the Valkyries' and smash as many times as you can with a hammer.
Tiumi: or sell it on ebay.
Pyle: (eyes light up) Ebay! Ebay! (Prances around the room knocking things over until he finds the door)
Tiumi: He seems a little excited.
Me: Wait'll it really sinks in.
Pyle: I'm off to make a fortune! (Turns to go through the door, but it is closed, so he falls over backwards)
Tiumi: Fine...but...um...the door needs to be opened first.
Pyle: (stands up) I knew that! (Opens door)
Me: Maybe he will make some money for us. Personally I don't think anybody can help Einstein right here.
Pyle: (turns to run forward but runs into the wall instead) Damn, how did that happen? (Stands up again, shuts the door and runs into it)
Tiumi: Oh for...!(Runs forward and kicks Pyle through the door, shattering it and sending wood splinters all over the place) Criminy the pair o' ya. I gotta do everything...!
Me: Ignore them. Finally, we have cranked out the last chapter of Not Real. This one will be long and sad, so to all who read get your hanky ready!
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Takato stood up, drying his eyes. "I'm sorry you guys, I'm sorry! But I can't wait any more. I have to have Jeri with me!"
"Don't be sad, Takatomon, please" murmured Guilmon, ever the sad. He leaned up and nuzzled Takato's hand, trying to calm his tamer down. "Please, Takatomon, calm down. We'll get Jeri back"
Takato looked down at his digimon, another tear dripping off. "Thanks, Guilmon. Thanks a lot" he murmured. "Together, we'll get Jeri back. I know we will!"
There was a moment of silence there, kind of like when you slam a door and the echo resides. It was during that silence that there was a sudden explosion of red. The red of the D-reaper. It flew upwards in massive amounts, stretching toward the skies like a geyser. Small red tables dripped down on them, stinging their skin like hail. Takato looked despairingly upward, then down at his partner.
"Come on. We can take em!" said Takato, holding up his fist. Inside it, a large yellow digivice suddenly appeared, taking shape in his palm. Guilmon nodded, and a bright light encased them. "Biomerge!" was heard, and a miracle happened.
A large white helmet with armor to match appeared. In it's hand was a long, white lance that shined in front of the D-reaper even as agents began pouring in. Gallantmon sliced his lance forward, and a dozen agents were chopped in two.
Unexpectedly, an agent suddenly slammed into him from behind. It was one of the green variety, who seemed to have astounding strength. Gallantmon tried to knock him away, but it was too big.
Two grenades flew through the air, slamming into D-reaper and knocking it away. Gallantmon turned around to see Kazu giving him a thumbs up. "We'll leave the rest to you, chumly! Me and Kenta have some trouble to make"
"Thanks guys!" said Takato, charging forward. He knocked a few more agents away, then burst through the red wall in front of him and straight into hell. Buildings around him were being dissolved one by one. It was like everything in the D-reaper was made of data and was being deleted one by one. Takato looked upwards (almost straight up to be exact) and saw the Chronosphere. "This time, we won't fail!" yelled Takato, taking a running leap up the slope.
In front of him, a red agent leaped upwards to tackle him to the ground. Takato gave a shout and tried to dodge, but he did not have enough time and instead braced himself for the impact.
Before the impact was felt, Beelzebumon suddenly slammed into it from the side before blasting it into oblivion with his guns. "Hurry up and save Jeri, pineapple head!" he shouted, kicking away another agent that had been trying to sneak up behind him. Gallantmon nodded and continued up the slope, holding his lance at the ready this time.
What came next he was not expecting at all. A huge spike suddenly shot up in front of him, nearly slicing him in half. Takato dodged to the side, then continued up again. Another spike flew upwards, this one even bigger then the last. It came so close that he was almost skewered through his stomach.
Before he could save Jeri, he would need to get rid of these spikes first. Takato glanced around, hoping to find something useful he could use to hide himself from the D-reaper. It seemed to find hiim by senseing him movement. Maybe if he didn't move, it would not skewer him.
Behind him, another agent rose up, and pointed its guns at Gallantmon's head.
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"So, how exactly do I send this virus to the D-reaper anyways?" asked Kenta, opening the laptop in his hand.
"How should I know? You're the computer nerd!" said Kazu, cheering on Gardromon who was busy blowing away the D-reaper. "Just type in it's email address and send it"
"Gimme a break. There's no way it's that easy"
"Try it you idiot before we all get killed!" shouted Kazu, dodging a large yellow shot from the agents beside him. Kazu gave a shout and tackled the shocked agent to the ground. Before it could get back up, Kazu took the cable on it and pulled it in half. The D-reaper let out a low humming sound and disappeared.
Kenta's glasses almost dropped off his head when he saw that. Maybe Kazu deserved more credit then he got.
He leaned down and typed a few keys into the computer, and brought up the hotmail screen. "Oh well, it's worth a try" he went to the 'compose' section, then typed in D-reaper@d-reaper.com., then uploaded the file and clicked 'send'. And what do you know. It worked. Kenta raised his hands in the air with triumph as the confirmation email began to appear...
When suddenly a shot flew forward and knocked the laptop off his knees. It went spinning away in a pile of debris. Kenta jumped up and leaped away just as The D-reaper aimed its guns at him...then it abruptly stopped. It shook this way and that for a moment, the drooped to the ground, as though there was a switch on its back marked 'shut down' and someone had pressed it.
Kenta pushed his glasses up, then walked over to the D-reaper and poked it. Suddenly the red masses around them blasted into a brilliant orange, like when the setting sun reflects off of water. It was almost as if the D-reaper was...changing.
Rika walked over to him. "Kenta...did you upload the virus?"
He nodded, then leaped into the air and jumped around, kicking the D-reaper next to him over. "How much time do we have?"
Kenta stopped jumping and looked at them. "I'd say at least a couple of hours until it evolves. In the meantime, let's take out as many of these things as we can!" he said, pulling Marineangemon out of his pocket. Marineangemon immediately set to work vaporizing D-reaper in the vicinity.
Kazu walked up and put his hands behind his head. "I'll be damned! It worked!" he shouted, pulling a D-reaper cable in half. "Good job, Kenta" said Renamon, slicing up another red cable. "One of us should go check on Takato, you guys" offered Kazu.
"I'll do it" Kenta volunteered. "In the meantime, you guys make a trail of D-reaper guts all the way to the Chronosphere, alright?"
"You got it"
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Takato looked around himself. The D-reaper seemed a bit...inactive. The surroundings had changed to. Everywhere he looked now there was a light orange instead of a dark red. All of the agents that were surrounding him seemed to keel over and hang in mid-air.
He walked over to one and poked it with his lance. No response. Well, whatever had happened, it was making his life much easier! Gallantmon turned around and ran up the slope, heedless of the thousands of D-reaper around him.
The only though on his mind was Jeri. He had to save her, to be with her. "Don't worry, Jeri. I'm on my way" he said, kicking another agent out of the way as he went. Up above him, he could see what had been there destroyer last time.
The spikes were not standing erect and sharp like they had before. Now they were bent loosely, and were soft to touch. Takato leaned up and wrenched one from the side, then held up his shield. "Shield of the Just!" he shouted, and a large, red beam burst from the exterior of the shield, smashing through the hard outer shell and into a large hollow room.
Inside the room was a single, white sphere. Inside the sphere was...Jeri. Takato gave a shout and leaped upwards, trying to reach the sphere, just to see Jeri...when a foot suddenly slammed into his head, blowing him out of the sky. Gallantmon crashed to the ground, and the J-reaper stood above him.
"You of the ones who don't evolve are weak. Too weak to exist. These compassionate feelings must be eliminated to ensure the survival of this world" she said, landing on Gallantmon's head. Gallantmon grunted and pushed her off, then held his lance at the ready. Again though, she had the upper hand.
From above she skyrocketed downward until she bashed into Takato's head again, sending him flying to the ground. Rage began to build inside of Takato. He would not come this close and lose Jeri again! J-reaper looked down at him curiously. "Why do humans create things to destroy and never anything useful? The need to defend ourselves is nothing more then an evolutionary step backward"
Gallantmon rose from his knees, and a dark light encased him. "Gallantmon digivolve to...!" they rose into a dark ball in the air, then it suddenly burst apart into a familiar form. "Bileomon!"
J-reaper peered down at it for a moment. She had never seen this form before, but it was an enemy, and all enemies must be destroyed. Leaping upwards, she aimed her feet downwards and prepared to smash him to the ground again.
Bileomon looked up with that single, horrible visor, then held up his right hand. Instead of crashing down on to him, she smashed her leg onto a sharp spike. Deep it went, angering her more. How dare this damn human had scarred her flesh! She wrenched away, at the same time, snapping the blade from Bileomon's hand. With a cry of anger, she tore it from her leg and hurled it at Bileomon.
He held up his left hand, and the flurry of tubes in it encased the blade. When he unclenched them, the blade had disappeared. "Nightshade!" shouted Bileomon. In front of him, hundreds of swords began to simultaneously appear and zip right at J-reaper.
Being the J-reaper did not mean that she was mad, but this insolence was something she could not bare. She lunged forward, heedless of the blades striking her, and aimed her claws at the visor of Bileomon. The only thing she needed was to see blood spurting from it, just to see it feel pain.
Her claws struck out, and before it could dodge, she struck a bashing blow to its head. The visor on it shattered apart, sending pieces of black glass everywhere. Although the J-reaper hadn't put much power behind her punch, Bileomon was reeling like a drunken man. His 'hands' were clutching his head and he stumbled across the floor like he was being attacked.
J-reaper cocked her head to the side and peered at him, a bit curious from his peculiar behavior. Bileomon took his hands off of his head and glared at the J-reaper. She looked back with a shocked expression. His head closely resembled that of...Leomon. Buy it was different. His eyes were a milky white, no trace of pupils in them. The fur around his face had been darkened to almost black.
Bileomon gave a roar and lunged at her, his tubes and claws outstretched. The J-reaper, wounded and afraid, went to her last resort.
The J-reaper sprang up in the air and flew to the Chronosphere, where Jeri was encased inside. She put her hand into it and pulled out a kicking and screaming Jeri. The J-reaper held a hand across her mouth to quiet her, then extended her claws to Jeri's throat. "Touch me and she dies" she said quickly, then swore at herself for giving off a hint of fear in her voice.
Bileomon jumped upward, coming at eye level with her. Jeri was scared stiff. After Bileomon tore J-reaper to shreds, he would probably get a kick out of shredding Jeri to. She would rather be killed by anything but the D-reaper though. With her free leg, she managed to kick one of the blades sticking out of the J-reaper. It tore right through her flesh, making the wound deeper and bloodier.
The J-reaper gave a cry and threw Jeri away, leaning down and holding her shin. That was all Bileomon needed.
He rushed forward and, with his great fist, smashed her right on the head. It cracked open, spraying him with a torrent of red goo. The J-reaper fell to the ground, making no more motion. Bileomon to, fell to the ground. A great white light encased him, and he turned back into a familiar face.
Takato ran straight to the J-reaper, picked up one of the blades in his right hand, then slashes it down across it. With a scream of anger, he wrenched it away and did it again. Slashing and hacking until the J-reaper had become a mass of twisted flesh. Guilmon sat down behind him, making a low moaning sound. Takato took the blade one last time, then bashed it down into the J-reaper.
Jeri sat away, watching Takato mutilate the J-reaper. It was like all of his troubles, all of his problems had centered on the J-reaper and he decided to kill them. He slowly stood up, and turned towards Jeri, sadness evident of his face. "Jeri...I'm so sorry" he said, tears beginning to come down his cheeks.
Before he could walk to her, the J-reaper rose up one last time, just to deliver a parting shot at Takato. It wrenched upwards and hurled one of the blades at him.
Takato turned to dodge but the blade had already slashed right through him. He gave a scream and waited for the pain. But there was none. Guilmon rushed forward and emitted a ball of flame from his mouth, which quickly sent the D-reaper away for a final time.
Takato looked down at himself. Clearly, the blade had sliced right through him. Why wasn't he dead?
Then it hit him. He wasn't in the real world, he was in the digiworld. He was nothing but data here. He wouldn't die, contrary to what the J-reaper had said. He would be deleted. Jeri walked up behind him. "Takato? Are you alright?"
Takato looked at her for a second, then looked down at his hands. A small trace of red began to outline them, and small white particles dropped off. He realized what was happening. "I'm so sorry Jeri! Really, I am"
Jeri shook her head, not able to understand what was happening. "What are you..."
Then she noticed his hands. The way they were disappearing. Takato was being deleted. "Takato..."
He walked towards her. "I guess I should tell you this before I...leave" he could not bring himself to say it.
Jeri ran forward. "Please, Takato! Isn't there some way to stop it?! I don't want you to go!" shouted Jeri, trying to fling her arms around him, as though to hold onto him. Instead of hugging him, she simply passed right through him and fell to the ground.
"I love you, Jeri. Please don't forget that" said Takato solemnly. His arms were almost fully gone now. Jeri stood up, watching him disappear. It wasn't fair! She just had to sit here and watch her best friend disappear right in front of her eyes! "Please, Takato!" tears were beginning to come down her cheeks.
Takato walked up to her and put a hand up to her face, brushing the tear away. "Don't worry, Jeri. I'll always be with you. Even if you go to outer space, or back to the digital world, we'll see each other again" then he burst apart and disappeared.
Jeri tried to chase after the data, as though she could catch it. Maybe if she could catch it, Takato would come back. She reached up and swiped her hand through a handful of data. It passed right through, but she felt something. She felt...Takato.
"Jeri, are you okay?" shouted Rika, running towards them, Kazu and Kenta close behind.
Jeri smiled at them, tears on her face. She walked towards them for a moment, then stopped. For a moment, she thought for sure she had heard Takato's voice talking to her.
But perhaps it just an echo.
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Pyle: Done. (Cracks knuckles)
Me: Good thing you got this chapter down. It only took about, THREE WEEKS?!
Pyle: (cringes) Says the prick who doesn't write anything.
Me: Your asking to get your prick ripped off!
Pyle: You want to get killed? Bring it on. (Snaps finger)
Me: (disappears) Hey, how'd you do that?
Pyle: I'm the author. I can do whatever I want.
Tiumi: Well, we finally finished 'Not Real'!
Pyle: Be sure to head over to Liljeri25's website if you like Jerato, which you undoubtfully do if you read this story.
Tiumi: You go, Jeri-chan!