Litanya: Okay, I have a few hours… I think. I'm supposed to be doing all of the homework that I couldn't do because of the school musical… but I'll do it later. The musical finished last night and so I have more time now! Plus it is school holidays next week and bingo, I have more time to write. Anyway, I'll stop blabbering on now and I'll get on with the fic. Please remember that I obviously do not own Digimon and the only characters that I do own are Entier and 'Master.'

An Old Box

Chapter 5

The room was cooler now that the three of them had left. T.K shook his head, cursing himself for thinking about such a mundane thing. This wasn't the time to notice things like temperatures. Mimi had sat down on the floor and had rolled herself up into a little ball, staring at her crest which hung around her neck. She was fingering the crest and muttering to herself, and T.K could see that her hand was shaking. He checked that Joe was busy looking for bandages before he quickly scooted over to where the pink-loving girl was seated. She didn't even notice his presence.

"Mimi, are you okay?" this comment made Matt look up from where he was to see that the girl was upset about something. He cursed himself for not noticing it before. He usually watched Mimi all of the time, but he had been so caught up in his thoughts on how to escape that he hadn't noticed that she was distressed. Mimi looked up as T.K spoke, her eyes filling with tears as she shook her head, her long hair swinging as she did so.

"I- it's just that I saw Ken's hand…" she trailed off and looked back down at her crest again. Matt and T.K exchanged glances across the room and Matt came over to the pair, his concern reflected in his fast pace.

"What was wrong with Ken's hand?" he asked quietly as he sat on the other side of her, placing his arm around her to comfort the crying girl.

"His hand… it-it had scars all over it, but that wasn't all that bad. His crest… his crest of Kindness had been embedded into his hand…" Matt felt sick and all other activity in the cell stopped at Mimi's words.

"His crest was in his hand?" Kari's voice shook, her thoughts immediately going to her brother. If that had been done to Ken, had it been done to Tai too?

"Yes… and it was the same colour as his eyes. Tai's crest was orange and he has orange eyes. Sora's eyes are now the same red as her crest once was… and I can tell because I know the difference between the shades of different colours," Mimi's voice had almost become detached, as though she wasn't actually thinking of what she was saying. It was almost as if she had only noticed these things unconsciously. Matt instinctively drew Mimi closer to him and she began to cry, burying her head in his shoulder.

"T.K I told you not to move!" Joe scolded loudly, partly to forget about what Mimi had just said and partly because the boy needed to keep still for his ankle to heal.

"My ankle is fine Joe," but even as he said that it began to throb painfully and his face twisted in pain. Joe noticed this time.

"Don't move," the tall boy stood with a pile of bandages in his arms and walked to the trio, "Now T.K, this might hurt a little, but it's for the best." T.K's eyes grew wide, thinking that Joe was going to really hurt his ankle to fix it, but it only hurt a little bit. Joe finished wrapping the ankle and then went back to his bag. The only sounds that could be heard in the room were Mimi's sobs. After a few minutes had gone by, more footsteps echoed down the hallway.

"Do you think that's him again?" Izzy asked tersely, tensing up as if he was frightened to death. 'Master' had scared Izzy more than any other living person had, for reasons that he was unsure of. The door to the cell swung open slowly and a boy around Kari's age stepped into the room. His eyes were completely white, and they looked glazed over, as if the boy wasn't actually controlling them. His hair was spiky and dark brown with stripes of white throughout. He was wearing what looked like a straight jacket and long white pants. He was the servant 'Master' had sent.

"One of you must come with me right now," he rasped in a hoarse voice, "You must come without a struggle or it will be worse for you." None of the digidestined moved. They barely even breathed. "You must come now!" the boy seemed to scan the cell until his eyes landed on T.K. He stalked to where the injured boy lay and grabbed his arm. T.K winced as the hand on his arm tightened, almost cutting off his blood supply. Then the servant boy began to drag him towards the door, taking no heed of the boy's cries of pain.

"T.K!" Matt called as he reached to stop his brother, but T.K was gone before he could grab him. Joe, Izzy and Kari were frozen with fear and T.K himself couldn't seem to stop himself from being pulled away. After a few meters, when the pair was out of the cell, the servant boy stopped dragging T.K along.

"You can get up now," he murmured quietly, his eyes going in all directions as if suspicious about people watching them, "I'll show you the way to the exit. Then you can decide what you want to do." T.K blinked, but rose to his feet, careful to keep his ankle off the ground.

"What?" he asked, staring at the newcomer in a different light. He still couldn't believe that he had been freed.

"Look, follow me and I'll explain," the white-eyed boy led T.K on a path with many twists and turns until T.K was unsure whether they were going the same direction they had started in. They came to a white door with a green "Exit" sign hanging over it. The boy pushed the door open and waited for T.K to go through. Once they were outside, T.K finally could see where they were. It was a huge underground base that was built into the side of a cliff. The door that they had just come through was invisible; at least it was to him anyway.

"Who are you?" he blurted out as he surveyed his surroundings, still unsure of whether this boy could be trusted or not.

"You don't know me and I doubt if you have heard of me either. My name is Davis Motimya, one of the people captured by 'Master.' You are Takeru Takaishi, more commonly known as T.K, are you not?" T.K gaped at him. This was the boy that had been taken from the room screaming after using his 'gift' around one of those blue things. Or at least he was one of the boys taken away.

"You're Yolie's friend… one of the people who had to use their 'gift' whilst one of those blue machines was turned on…" Davis shuddered.

"Please don't bring that up… it was a terrible experience, although I guess living here doesn't exactly make up for it," Davis looked up to the sky, as if he was once again making sure that nothing was there.

"Why are you helping me? And how did you know who I was?" T.K asked, still shocked. He was trying to take everything in, but it wasn't working. It was just too much in the short amount of time he had been in the Digital World.

"Why am I helping you? Do you mean as in why I chose to get you out of the room when I could have chosen someone else?" T.K nodded, and then hesitated.

"Well yes, but also why are you helping us in the first place?"

"I picked you because this is your dream. You are the only one that can save us from this almost real dream state. We are trapped here, prisoners of 'Master' until we die, unless you save us. Have you taken a good look at 'Master?' A really good look?" T.K shook his head, suddenly scared. He didn't know what was going on, but this Davis guy was scaring him.

"What are you saying?"

"This is all a dream. This world is all a dream, but we are real people. 'Master' is not real… he too is a dream, a guy of your own creation. If you don't stop him, then we're all doomed. Just because of this mad dream-world Tai, Sora, Yolie, Ken and I have had all of this crazy stuff done to us and it cannot be reversed. You need to find a way to stop this dream thing so we can get back to the real world," T.K just stared.

"You mean that this is just a dream? Nothing here is real?" Davis bit his lip before shaking his head.

"You didn't listen, did you? We are real… all of us digidestined are real but the world we are in and people like Entier and 'Master' are not. Everything that happens to us here stays in the real world, but in itself this world is not real," Davis struggled to explain, biting his lip yet again.

"So… how do I stop it?" T.K asked after trying to puzzle through Davis's explanation. The other boy sighed.

"Okay, listen carefully, okay? This whole thing started after you were hit by a car. You went into a coma and everyone was worried about you. We just thought it was a normal thing to have happened though, and we didn't dwell too much on why it happened, we just spent our time hoping that you would get better. Then, about a week after you had gone into your coma, something really strange happened. Tai injured himself really badly at soccer… so badly he had to go to hospital. The staff there gave him some penicillin to ease the pain of his injury… without realising that he was allergic to it, and he went into a coma. 5 minutes later we heard that Kari had been attacked on the way to the hospital and…"

"Let me guess, she was in a coma too?" T.K interrupted, his eyes shining with concern. The Kamiyas were his close friends… he didn't want anything to happen to them.

"Yes… now all of us are in comas. First you, then Tai and Kari, then Sora, Matt, Ken, Yolie, Joe, Izzy, Mimi and finally Cody and I. What you have to know is that in your coma you went back into the past. When you were hit by the car, you were fifteen, but at the start of this 'adventure' when Tai disappeared you were eleven and now you're thirteen. Your coma is controlling all of us… this world is your creation. For some reason you let me off so that I'm still not screaming in a little room like Cody is, and I can explain this to you. But you must do something about it. Our lives, especially Tai's at this moment, depend on you. Please, you must figure this out…"

End of Chapter 5

Litanya: Okay, even I must admit that that was a strange twist… very strange. And I added a little bit of Mimato in there… even though I probably had some Jomi elsewhere in this fic. I can't really remember. Anyway, I know that this is another short chapter, but I hope that I will be able to update quicker, at least for the next two weeks. So please bear with me and review!