Even the Purest Light casts A Shadow
Chapter Seven by Bodrj
Disclaimer: I do not own digimon or any associated characters. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this.
"We'll be forever trying to escape this way!" Tai cursed. He slumped to the floor leaving his arms to rest from hurling rocks. "If only we could blast our way out."
"We know that's impossible with our digimon unconscious right now Tai, we have to find some way out of here," Matt answered still digging. "We don't know how long we'll be here before they wake up and how long those rocks above our head are going to stay that way. They could come down at any time." Tai hung his head as he got up.
"It's just, the others just abandoned us. I bet they don't even care what's happened to us," he kept digging for stress relief."
"I bet they don't even know," Sora sighed. In front of her lay six in- training digimon. All breathing but nothing else. She even wondered if they were dream they'd been so hard in the process of protecting their respecting partners. Kari was next to her, everyone else had started digging.
"It should be just a little further," Izzy spoke. "I'm absolutely positive I saw a tunnel here before it caved in."
"Are you sure Izzy?" T.K asked hurling a boulder away. "Even if there was, how do you know that the rest of it hasn't caved?"
"There's a good chance it hasn't There were structures holding the ceiling from collapsing, it's not a natural cave. Something made it."
"That's reassuring," Matt replied. "Hey! I made a break through!" There was a gust of wind from a small hole.
"Careful, if this formation of rock caves in again the ones above us come down, be careful," Izzy almost ordered. He moved over next to Matt. "Take them from the top and work down."
There was a slow scramble to bring the pile down. They were careful not cause another cave in. Just the light taps of rocks being laid down behind them. The hole got bigger gradually, as Matt and Izzy passed the rocks to Tai and T.K behind who laid them down out of the way and softly. There was echo of rock fall somewhere that either seemed very small or very far away.
"Ah!" T.K shouted out. "Dammit, I have dust in my eye," he rubbed them furiously and took a step back. Matt and Izzy stopped. Matt had no idea what he was complaining about. Izzy looked up. A ray of light cracked through. That wasn't there before. His mouth hung open in fear, his throat dried up and he could barely speak.
"Dig," he croaked. Matt and Tai looked at him puzzled. They followed his gaze. "Dig."
"Oh shit," Matt cursed and turned back to the pile. He began raking rocks out of the formation.
"Sora, Kari, get the digimon and get ready to make a run," Tai ordered. He came to their side and picked up Koromon and Tsunomon. T.K had Tokomon in his arms. Sora picked up Yokomon and Motimon. Salamon in the arms of Kari.
Matt and Izzy were now tearing into the pile and rolling the debris away. There was a quake and the four not digging cringed, waiting for the surface above them to collapse. "Guys," Tai started.
"It'll have to do," Matt answered. "Everyone through!"
"You first Kari!" Tai ushered as they started forming a line. Kari bent down and crawled through the gap created. "Sora," she followed suit. Izzy was after.
"You next Tai," he pointed. Tai was reluctant to not be the last but there was no time to argue. He bent over and stepped through. At that moment there was an ear shattering quake and the level above was shaken free. Matt's eyes widened along with his gasp. He jerked backwards and banged his head on the pile behind him before sinking through the tunnel created.
T.K held him from underneath the arms as Matt looked up, dazed. "Thanks T.K," he mentioned sitting back to get his sight back.
"Looks like I have to start looking after you these days," T.K answered. "Where are we?"
"It seems to be a grid of tunnels, and from the looks of it man or mon made, to an accurate detail," Izzy answered. "Their no fluke, they were built for a good reason."
"I don't think this place we're staying is too stable, perhaps we should somewhere else to rest," Sora suggested.
"Good idea, if we take left turns only we won't get lost from this original spot, come on everyone," Tai set out with Koromon. The rest followed silently.
"What are we doing next?" Davis asked, kicking back on a bed. DemiVeemon sat on his stomach whilst the digidestined closed his eyes not caring what the answer was, he just wanted to break the silence. "I'm guessing we carry on activating more Sternenheimats," Gray answered he sat solemnly away from the group.
"Ster-what?" Yolei asked.
"Sternenheimats, they were the crystal points where we erected the firewall point by point, we still have more to activate to in sense quarantine the digital world."
"Now I just want to check this before we dive in," Ken jumped in. "After the firewall is up, we can still get in and out of the digital world."
"Yes, theoretically, anybody with one of these," he held up a digivice. "Can get past the firewall, its unique signature acts as a password."
"See?" Davis said. "It'll be nobody but us."
"I couldn't help but notice the word theoretically in that sentence," Cody spoke. Gray shrugged.
"I will always be here, if something is wrong, I can correct it from here, and if necessary I will deactivate the firewall."
"After all the trouble we'd go through to activate it?" Gray turned to Ken.
"We are still children of this world, chosen by it, to protect it, what use would it be if it was in danger and you could not get through a blockade?"
"Touché," Ken responded. "How many more of these points are there?"
"I believe Davis and I have covered a large area of the digital world, still much is needed to be done, we must now cover the other three domains in order to block off the entire world."
"Are you kidding?" Yolei burst out. "You just told us it took forever to get this far! Now we have three times as much to do?"
"Except now there's more of us," Ken pointed out. "We can cover more ground this way right?" Gray nodded.
"We still need more equipment to accommodate everyone who has now joined us. More D4's are required so that you can go out on your own," Gray explained. "So now we have the chance to rest up here before we set out again."
"How long have we been walking?" Kari asked. Izzy looked at his watch. It told him an hour but he didn't want to say, he pretended he didn't hear. The tunnels got darker as they made a logical progression of left turns. Then they started to descend, going further into the core of the digital world. It got to a point where they could barely see in front of them, at which point Matt revealed a lighter and they used it for a torch. Sora was quite intent to ask where it came from but considering the situation, she was thankful for it.
"Izzy?" He snapped to attention having being asked. He had been trailing away in thought trying to map where they had been. "How long have we been walking?" He swallowed hard. Did he lie? Morale would be affected, but should he hide anything?
"I think maybe half hour to an hour," he answered. The quiet voice of Kari didn't reply. He could see her walking ahead, and somebody next to her, he wondered if it was Tai or T.K but then realized he had bigger things to worry about. The small light ahead faded out.
"Damn! My lighter is out of gas," Matt grunted. "How are we going to see now?"
"Wait there's a light ahead," Tai responded.
"What is it? It may be more trouble," T.K answered. "Do we want to walk into it?" There was silence.
"Ok, here's the plan," Tai started. "Me, Matt and T.K go check it out. If anything happens, Izzy you get the girls out of here."
"Why are you guys always going instead of us?" Sora demanded to know. "I'm going too."
"I'll stay with Kari," T.K added.
"Fine. Matt, Sora and me then, you guys stay here." The three staying behind couldn't even tell if they had gone yet.
Tai didn't know if he was the first to be creeping along the corridor, he couldn't see enough in front of him, all he could do was concentrate on the light ahead. It was just a speck at the moment, but he could tell it was nearer, just around the corner.
"Ah!" Tai screamed as he was attacked from behind. He fell face first into the dirt below him. He spun around on his back and crooked his knees, ready to kick back against whatever it was.
"Sorry," Sora whispered. Tai breathed a sigh of relief. "Who is that?"
"It's me, Tai, where's Matt?"
"Right here," Matt said quite normally. Tai couldn't see, but he knew he was just strolling down the middle of the tunnel compared to his own, crouch and sneak technique.
"Ok, just keep behind me so we know where we all are, and take my hand Sora, Matt you take Sora's, so we don't lose each other." They went on as a train. Each linked to each other. "Its getting brighter, we're almost there, careful now." Tai started as he tiptoed forward. He came to a corner and leant up against the wall. His neck craned as he looked around the corner.
An incredible force grabbed him and shook intensely. "Ah!" The scream deafened all around to hear it.
"Davis! Wake up!" Yolei had him by the shoulders, shaking furiously. "Get up Davis, we're going!"
"Ah! Ok! I'm up! I'm up!" Davis sprung to attention immediately to see the others ready for departure. Veemon looked up at Ken.
"Why doesn't that work when I do it?" Ken raised a hand to whisper a reply.
"Because you're not as scary as Yolei." At that point she twisted her head to glare at the conspirators who stood to military attention at that stare.
"What do you think it is guys?" Tai's neck craned. The source of light was a single pillar, unnatural and yet it seemed to be a part of the very existence of the earth around them. Curved bricks made a perfect rounded shape as it spanned from the ground, to the ceiling above them. Each end rooted firmly in place.
Over that were layers of moss and other plant life lay on it, sucking warmth from the clear white light that emanated from it. All what seemed to be fifty feet.
"Ask Izzy," Matt answered as he awed at it. Tai didn't want to turn away.
"Izzy, what is it?" he asked as if he was right next to him.
"He's back up the tunnel Tai," Matt explained. Tai turned round and cupped his hands.
"HEY IZZY GET DOWN HERE! YOU NEED TO CHECK THIS OUT!" The echo lasted forever.
"Tai, not only does Izzy know where we are," Sora responded. "But so does what ever life is down here." He didn't pay attention much of course.
Izzy snapped up as he heard Tai's voice break through the air of the tunnels with unbelievable force. "I guess you guys should come too," he spoke to pitch black as he got up." He heard the sound of Earth being moved as the other two got up.
"Tai? Do you think that shouting was necessary? Anyone could have heard us. Whoah!" Izzy's neck craned. "I suppose you want me to tell you what it is?"
"That's about it," Matt answered. "You think its one of those places where Davis and that guy started making that wall?"
"Without knowing where exactly we are, I couldn't say yes," Izzy answered. "But I think you hit the nail on the head."
"VOLCANIC STRIKE!" All too familiar words that caused Tai and Matt to split form their centre, dragging Sora and Izzy with them as a tornado of molten hot energy blasted past them before bouncing harmlessly off a force field around the pillar. A Monochromon stood at the cave entrance and charged in on the defenseless digi-destined. "None will stand in the path of Lord Shade!"
"You're working for that creep?!" Tai shouted. The dinosaur digimon prepared to charge him down.
"T.K, what can we do?" Kari asked raising a finger to her mouth and biting it nervously. T.K grew and grimace.
"I don't know if only we had our digimon awake right now," T.K answered as the two watched from the shades. Tai slid across the ground . "Tai! Are you ok?" The elder leader struggled to get up and held his chest.
"You're just going to pick on somebody smaller than you?" He shouted. Then turned to the two younger, hiding for the time being. "Agumon! Agumon wake up I need you!" He was interrupted by a huge tail knocking further down the tunnel. He slumped at the end of his trip. "Agumon!"
The small pink Koromon stirred. "Tai?"
"Koromon! Wake up!" Tai spluttered into a cough. Koromon's eyes snapped open wide.
"I heard you Tai! I'm here!" Tai's digivice glowed.
'Koromon digivolve to Agumon!'
"Pepper Breath!" The small fire ball attack hurtled and bounced off of Monochromon's skin, making him cringe a little before forgetting Tai.
"That's it for you pal!" Tai held his digivice up. Agumon began to glow.
'Agumon digivolve to Greymon!' An equal digmon now stood in the tunnels. Monocromon wasted no time in charging the champion digimon of courage down. Greymon crooked his knnes and grabbed Monochromon by the horn, stopping him in his tracks. Then with a rush of strength, toppled him over.
Greymon was intent on finishing off Monochromon and loomed over to make sure it would end.
"VOLCANIC STRIKE!" The heat blast collided with Greymon, knocking him off of his feet. When Greymon got up, the opposition had turned tail and disappeared, the earthquakes were the only sign of how near his presence was.
"He's gone," T.K confirmed. "Are you ok Tai?" The brown haired boy stood up clutching his chest.
"A couple of bruises, but I think I'll survive," he smiled.
"I think we'll have to move quickly, that Monochromon will undoubtedly alert a more powerful digimon or Shade himself to our presence here," Izzy started.
"No," Tai snapped back. "First we find out what this is, we don't know when we'll find another and I want to know if it's connected to that Shade guy." Izzy conceded.
"Alright, but we're staying too long, and we go if I can't figure it out." Tai nodded in agreement. Izzy inspected the column and wondered around it. From the back there was a machine plugged in through some hole in the column. There was an I/O port and Izzy grabbed his laptop.
"What is it?" Matt asked overlooking. Izzy tapped on.
"Well, the language is very old and basic, but cryptic," he carried on. "I think you were right Matt, this is one of those points. And its called a Sternenheimat."
"What?"
"That's what those points are called, but there's just one thing, its son strange."
"What is it?"
"Well this machine I'm connected too, it's not apart of the program, it was added for some reason," he stopped typing. "It's not boosting the power, but redirecting it."
"You mean somebody is controlling the power these things have?" Sora asked herself. Izzy nodded. "But who would do that?"
Disclaimer: I do not own digimon or any associated characters. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this.
"We'll be forever trying to escape this way!" Tai cursed. He slumped to the floor leaving his arms to rest from hurling rocks. "If only we could blast our way out."
"We know that's impossible with our digimon unconscious right now Tai, we have to find some way out of here," Matt answered still digging. "We don't know how long we'll be here before they wake up and how long those rocks above our head are going to stay that way. They could come down at any time." Tai hung his head as he got up.
"It's just, the others just abandoned us. I bet they don't even care what's happened to us," he kept digging for stress relief."
"I bet they don't even know," Sora sighed. In front of her lay six in- training digimon. All breathing but nothing else. She even wondered if they were dream they'd been so hard in the process of protecting their respecting partners. Kari was next to her, everyone else had started digging.
"It should be just a little further," Izzy spoke. "I'm absolutely positive I saw a tunnel here before it caved in."
"Are you sure Izzy?" T.K asked hurling a boulder away. "Even if there was, how do you know that the rest of it hasn't caved?"
"There's a good chance it hasn't There were structures holding the ceiling from collapsing, it's not a natural cave. Something made it."
"That's reassuring," Matt replied. "Hey! I made a break through!" There was a gust of wind from a small hole.
"Careful, if this formation of rock caves in again the ones above us come down, be careful," Izzy almost ordered. He moved over next to Matt. "Take them from the top and work down."
There was a slow scramble to bring the pile down. They were careful not cause another cave in. Just the light taps of rocks being laid down behind them. The hole got bigger gradually, as Matt and Izzy passed the rocks to Tai and T.K behind who laid them down out of the way and softly. There was echo of rock fall somewhere that either seemed very small or very far away.
"Ah!" T.K shouted out. "Dammit, I have dust in my eye," he rubbed them furiously and took a step back. Matt and Izzy stopped. Matt had no idea what he was complaining about. Izzy looked up. A ray of light cracked through. That wasn't there before. His mouth hung open in fear, his throat dried up and he could barely speak.
"Dig," he croaked. Matt and Tai looked at him puzzled. They followed his gaze. "Dig."
"Oh shit," Matt cursed and turned back to the pile. He began raking rocks out of the formation.
"Sora, Kari, get the digimon and get ready to make a run," Tai ordered. He came to their side and picked up Koromon and Tsunomon. T.K had Tokomon in his arms. Sora picked up Yokomon and Motimon. Salamon in the arms of Kari.
Matt and Izzy were now tearing into the pile and rolling the debris away. There was a quake and the four not digging cringed, waiting for the surface above them to collapse. "Guys," Tai started.
"It'll have to do," Matt answered. "Everyone through!"
"You first Kari!" Tai ushered as they started forming a line. Kari bent down and crawled through the gap created. "Sora," she followed suit. Izzy was after.
"You next Tai," he pointed. Tai was reluctant to not be the last but there was no time to argue. He bent over and stepped through. At that moment there was an ear shattering quake and the level above was shaken free. Matt's eyes widened along with his gasp. He jerked backwards and banged his head on the pile behind him before sinking through the tunnel created.
T.K held him from underneath the arms as Matt looked up, dazed. "Thanks T.K," he mentioned sitting back to get his sight back.
"Looks like I have to start looking after you these days," T.K answered. "Where are we?"
"It seems to be a grid of tunnels, and from the looks of it man or mon made, to an accurate detail," Izzy answered. "Their no fluke, they were built for a good reason."
"I don't think this place we're staying is too stable, perhaps we should somewhere else to rest," Sora suggested.
"Good idea, if we take left turns only we won't get lost from this original spot, come on everyone," Tai set out with Koromon. The rest followed silently.
"What are we doing next?" Davis asked, kicking back on a bed. DemiVeemon sat on his stomach whilst the digidestined closed his eyes not caring what the answer was, he just wanted to break the silence. "I'm guessing we carry on activating more Sternenheimats," Gray answered he sat solemnly away from the group.
"Ster-what?" Yolei asked.
"Sternenheimats, they were the crystal points where we erected the firewall point by point, we still have more to activate to in sense quarantine the digital world."
"Now I just want to check this before we dive in," Ken jumped in. "After the firewall is up, we can still get in and out of the digital world."
"Yes, theoretically, anybody with one of these," he held up a digivice. "Can get past the firewall, its unique signature acts as a password."
"See?" Davis said. "It'll be nobody but us."
"I couldn't help but notice the word theoretically in that sentence," Cody spoke. Gray shrugged.
"I will always be here, if something is wrong, I can correct it from here, and if necessary I will deactivate the firewall."
"After all the trouble we'd go through to activate it?" Gray turned to Ken.
"We are still children of this world, chosen by it, to protect it, what use would it be if it was in danger and you could not get through a blockade?"
"Touché," Ken responded. "How many more of these points are there?"
"I believe Davis and I have covered a large area of the digital world, still much is needed to be done, we must now cover the other three domains in order to block off the entire world."
"Are you kidding?" Yolei burst out. "You just told us it took forever to get this far! Now we have three times as much to do?"
"Except now there's more of us," Ken pointed out. "We can cover more ground this way right?" Gray nodded.
"We still need more equipment to accommodate everyone who has now joined us. More D4's are required so that you can go out on your own," Gray explained. "So now we have the chance to rest up here before we set out again."
"How long have we been walking?" Kari asked. Izzy looked at his watch. It told him an hour but he didn't want to say, he pretended he didn't hear. The tunnels got darker as they made a logical progression of left turns. Then they started to descend, going further into the core of the digital world. It got to a point where they could barely see in front of them, at which point Matt revealed a lighter and they used it for a torch. Sora was quite intent to ask where it came from but considering the situation, she was thankful for it.
"Izzy?" He snapped to attention having being asked. He had been trailing away in thought trying to map where they had been. "How long have we been walking?" He swallowed hard. Did he lie? Morale would be affected, but should he hide anything?
"I think maybe half hour to an hour," he answered. The quiet voice of Kari didn't reply. He could see her walking ahead, and somebody next to her, he wondered if it was Tai or T.K but then realized he had bigger things to worry about. The small light ahead faded out.
"Damn! My lighter is out of gas," Matt grunted. "How are we going to see now?"
"Wait there's a light ahead," Tai responded.
"What is it? It may be more trouble," T.K answered. "Do we want to walk into it?" There was silence.
"Ok, here's the plan," Tai started. "Me, Matt and T.K go check it out. If anything happens, Izzy you get the girls out of here."
"Why are you guys always going instead of us?" Sora demanded to know. "I'm going too."
"I'll stay with Kari," T.K added.
"Fine. Matt, Sora and me then, you guys stay here." The three staying behind couldn't even tell if they had gone yet.
Tai didn't know if he was the first to be creeping along the corridor, he couldn't see enough in front of him, all he could do was concentrate on the light ahead. It was just a speck at the moment, but he could tell it was nearer, just around the corner.
"Ah!" Tai screamed as he was attacked from behind. He fell face first into the dirt below him. He spun around on his back and crooked his knees, ready to kick back against whatever it was.
"Sorry," Sora whispered. Tai breathed a sigh of relief. "Who is that?"
"It's me, Tai, where's Matt?"
"Right here," Matt said quite normally. Tai couldn't see, but he knew he was just strolling down the middle of the tunnel compared to his own, crouch and sneak technique.
"Ok, just keep behind me so we know where we all are, and take my hand Sora, Matt you take Sora's, so we don't lose each other." They went on as a train. Each linked to each other. "Its getting brighter, we're almost there, careful now." Tai started as he tiptoed forward. He came to a corner and leant up against the wall. His neck craned as he looked around the corner.
An incredible force grabbed him and shook intensely. "Ah!" The scream deafened all around to hear it.
"Davis! Wake up!" Yolei had him by the shoulders, shaking furiously. "Get up Davis, we're going!"
"Ah! Ok! I'm up! I'm up!" Davis sprung to attention immediately to see the others ready for departure. Veemon looked up at Ken.
"Why doesn't that work when I do it?" Ken raised a hand to whisper a reply.
"Because you're not as scary as Yolei." At that point she twisted her head to glare at the conspirators who stood to military attention at that stare.
"What do you think it is guys?" Tai's neck craned. The source of light was a single pillar, unnatural and yet it seemed to be a part of the very existence of the earth around them. Curved bricks made a perfect rounded shape as it spanned from the ground, to the ceiling above them. Each end rooted firmly in place.
Over that were layers of moss and other plant life lay on it, sucking warmth from the clear white light that emanated from it. All what seemed to be fifty feet.
"Ask Izzy," Matt answered as he awed at it. Tai didn't want to turn away.
"Izzy, what is it?" he asked as if he was right next to him.
"He's back up the tunnel Tai," Matt explained. Tai turned round and cupped his hands.
"HEY IZZY GET DOWN HERE! YOU NEED TO CHECK THIS OUT!" The echo lasted forever.
"Tai, not only does Izzy know where we are," Sora responded. "But so does what ever life is down here." He didn't pay attention much of course.
Izzy snapped up as he heard Tai's voice break through the air of the tunnels with unbelievable force. "I guess you guys should come too," he spoke to pitch black as he got up." He heard the sound of Earth being moved as the other two got up.
"Tai? Do you think that shouting was necessary? Anyone could have heard us. Whoah!" Izzy's neck craned. "I suppose you want me to tell you what it is?"
"That's about it," Matt answered. "You think its one of those places where Davis and that guy started making that wall?"
"Without knowing where exactly we are, I couldn't say yes," Izzy answered. "But I think you hit the nail on the head."
"VOLCANIC STRIKE!" All too familiar words that caused Tai and Matt to split form their centre, dragging Sora and Izzy with them as a tornado of molten hot energy blasted past them before bouncing harmlessly off a force field around the pillar. A Monochromon stood at the cave entrance and charged in on the defenseless digi-destined. "None will stand in the path of Lord Shade!"
"You're working for that creep?!" Tai shouted. The dinosaur digimon prepared to charge him down.
"T.K, what can we do?" Kari asked raising a finger to her mouth and biting it nervously. T.K grew and grimace.
"I don't know if only we had our digimon awake right now," T.K answered as the two watched from the shades. Tai slid across the ground . "Tai! Are you ok?" The elder leader struggled to get up and held his chest.
"You're just going to pick on somebody smaller than you?" He shouted. Then turned to the two younger, hiding for the time being. "Agumon! Agumon wake up I need you!" He was interrupted by a huge tail knocking further down the tunnel. He slumped at the end of his trip. "Agumon!"
The small pink Koromon stirred. "Tai?"
"Koromon! Wake up!" Tai spluttered into a cough. Koromon's eyes snapped open wide.
"I heard you Tai! I'm here!" Tai's digivice glowed.
'Koromon digivolve to Agumon!'
"Pepper Breath!" The small fire ball attack hurtled and bounced off of Monochromon's skin, making him cringe a little before forgetting Tai.
"That's it for you pal!" Tai held his digivice up. Agumon began to glow.
'Agumon digivolve to Greymon!' An equal digmon now stood in the tunnels. Monocromon wasted no time in charging the champion digimon of courage down. Greymon crooked his knnes and grabbed Monochromon by the horn, stopping him in his tracks. Then with a rush of strength, toppled him over.
Greymon was intent on finishing off Monochromon and loomed over to make sure it would end.
"VOLCANIC STRIKE!" The heat blast collided with Greymon, knocking him off of his feet. When Greymon got up, the opposition had turned tail and disappeared, the earthquakes were the only sign of how near his presence was.
"He's gone," T.K confirmed. "Are you ok Tai?" The brown haired boy stood up clutching his chest.
"A couple of bruises, but I think I'll survive," he smiled.
"I think we'll have to move quickly, that Monochromon will undoubtedly alert a more powerful digimon or Shade himself to our presence here," Izzy started.
"No," Tai snapped back. "First we find out what this is, we don't know when we'll find another and I want to know if it's connected to that Shade guy." Izzy conceded.
"Alright, but we're staying too long, and we go if I can't figure it out." Tai nodded in agreement. Izzy inspected the column and wondered around it. From the back there was a machine plugged in through some hole in the column. There was an I/O port and Izzy grabbed his laptop.
"What is it?" Matt asked overlooking. Izzy tapped on.
"Well, the language is very old and basic, but cryptic," he carried on. "I think you were right Matt, this is one of those points. And its called a Sternenheimat."
"What?"
"That's what those points are called, but there's just one thing, its son strange."
"What is it?"
"Well this machine I'm connected too, it's not apart of the program, it was added for some reason," he stopped typing. "It's not boosting the power, but redirecting it."
"You mean somebody is controlling the power these things have?" Sora asked herself. Izzy nodded. "But who would do that?"