By ArchangelUK & Digicowboy
AAUK: Woohoo chapter three, God I did this
one quick...less than a day.
DC: Do you mind? It took me a long time to write the second. Oh well, I just
hope you stop us falling to our deaths.
AAUK: Yeah, me too...
DC: Aren't you going to do a funny disclaimer like you do every chapter of every
fic? *waits impatiently*
AAUK: I/we the undersigned do not, have not and never will own Digimon however
we will agree to buy three books at the retail price (at least one per quarter)
following this special 99p each offer... Oh... Drat...
Chapter 3: Terminal Velocity
"You know if what we've said is true..." ArchangelUK began, "There may be a chance we are effecting things in our world as well."
"What do you mean?" Digicowboy asked confused, AAUK scratched his shoulder and stretched a thoughful look upon his face.
"Our theory works in reverse, if the digital world is enslaved by the Real World through the animators and script writers we could be altering things at that level. We could be altering the scripts, changing the storylines, forcing rewrites or something."
"Really Archangel." DC said, wiping a tear of laughter from one eye, "Like that could really happen." It was at that moment that there was a sharp crack and the ground disappeared beneath them, for the briefest moment the pair hovered Looney Tunes style in mid-air. Slack jawed the two fic writers looked at each other and with barely concealed terror DC somehow managed to utter "I hate it when I'm wrong."
Then they fell.
Seeing what had happened, the DigiDestinend rushed into action, however they soon realised that they could do nothing. Their digimon partners no longer had the strength to digivolve to any stage that would enable a swift rescue. They watched helplessly as the chosen two became smaller and smaller, diminishing in size destined only to smash into the rocks below.
"Quick Izzy, do something!" Yolei pleaded, jumping up and down on the spot.
"I'm trying, I'm trying!" The boy genius yelled, hammering away at the laptop computer, his fingers little more than a blur over the keyboard as he tried to execute his plan in time. ArchangelUK and Digicowboy's only chance was that Izzy could be able to upload them back to the real world before they, well, died in the canyon below.
In freefall the pair looked at each other. G-forces were pushing back their features so it looked like their faces had been made of a rather cheap rubber compound. Across that millisecond in time, two different sets of eyes locked and a single thought was shared, and a single phrase, rather appropriate under the circumstances was let rip in unison.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!"
Izzy mumbled unsavoury words and pounded away even more so at the keyboard, before smacking his palm down on the keys. The machine sqealed in protest at the vicious move and began to vibrate, Izzy backed away nervously. Crimson sparks flew from the screen and it exploded with light filling up the sky above before shooting downwards after the falling duo.
They had been falling for fifteen seconds, it was still another fifteen before they hit the rocks below. As the scream emptied his lungs Dc became dimly aware of the rocks becoming rapidly more detailed. He could make out every little pit, crack, crevace and bed... wait a minute, bed?!? An aura of white light surrounded Digicowboy and a wail of static could be heard as he disappeared from sight.
DC landed on the bed with a grunt, the two metre drop from the ceiling which he had bounced off of to the mattress below was more than sufficient to shatter the woodern frame into little more than matchwood. The computer glowed again as the white portal flared depositing another array of forms. They too bounced off of the white ceiling landing in an array of different positions, regretfully though many ricocheted straight downawards onto DC's bed, where also regretfully DC was laying.
"Izzy my boy, perhaps you would be so glad as to tell us all what the heck just happened?" Gennai said looking at the keeper of knowledge's laptop which had finally begun to stop glowing, Izzy bent down to pick it up but as he did so he dropped it, letting out a yelp of surpirse.
"Ow! Hot...hot...hot!" The laptop restarted, going through the BIOS and loaded up Izzy's 'special' version of Windows, all that was different about it now was the faintest of faint smell of smoke. Izzy called up a unpronounceable text file which appeared to be some king of log, he glanced down the file listings. "I managed to start the upload proceedure," He said not looking up, "I managed to get Digicowboy away to safety, but there was some external feedback and then...er," He looked around at the group wide eyed then did a double take at the group, then glanced back down at the file. Izzy scaned through it a few times before eyes shot through with panic, "The program selected some random data and sent that back as well."
"What do you mean random?" Joe asked incredulously, he was answered not by Izzy but by Patamon.
"Er, have you guys seen TK?"
"And Kari...Davis...er, just who IS here?" Joe asked,
"Gomamon."
"Salamon."
"Hawkmon."
"Yolei."
"Sora."
"Tentomon."
"Palmon."
"Is that it?" Yolei demanded, "Where are they? Izzy where are our friends?" She was in full blown ballistic mode, ready to explode at any given moment and the target of her rage was Izzy. "What have you done!?"
"Where's Mimi?" Palmon wailed, Patamon attempted to calm her down with little success.
"Calm down Yolei, if you give Izzy a chance he'll tell us." Sora said trying to soothe the violet haired girl,
"Indeed, at least give the boy a chance to explain first." Hawkmon added patting her hand in reassurance, Yolei scooped him up into a hug squeezing the poor bird as if her life depended on it.
"I'm sorry, but I'm just pleased you're okay and you're here Hawkmon." Hawkmon's reply was muffled Yolei's shoulder and T-shirt, he patted her back trying to pull some of his partner's clothing out of his beak to allow oxygen to reach his lungs. After a few forceful whacks she got the message and dropped Hawkmon to the floor, the digimon rolled his eyes and took some deep breaths.
"When you two have quite finished." Izzy interrupted, "I think I've got a video link with Digicowboy's home - DC? Are you there?"
A rather disgruntled Matt appeared in shot, his hair a mess, like he had been dragged through a hedge backwards, then forwards again before having a small tornado spin dry him. He appeared to have a swelling bruise on his head, and was a bit dizzy, well that was to be expected under the circumstances.
"Izzy? What the hell just happened?"
"Matt, are we pleased to see you."
"Likewise, I'll repeat the question what happened."
"Nevermind that, your okay, thankgoodness."
"Izzy dude, can you answer my blooming question PLEASE."
"What question?" Matt growled slightly, his newly aquired patience being stretched to it's fragile limit.
"God man, do I have to spell it phonetically or something(?) Whaaaaaat theeeee heeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllll juuuust hap-pennnned?"
"We got some interference and the program went a little loopy, it sucked you guys up as well as the chosen two."
"Oh fantastic." Matt tried to straighten his hair, but failed miserably, finding a comb on the side he started to tame the follicals back to their previous positions.
"Who else is there?" Yolei asked pushing infront of Izzy,
"Er..let me see, Digicowboy's pretty out of it he met head on with Davis and Tai, you can imagine how hard the heads of those two are. I think he's concussed, Armadillomon landed on top of him for good measure. Who else...well there's me, Ken, Agumon, Davis - oh I've said him already and Mimi. Not forgetting Jun."
"JUN?" They all gasped in surprise,
"She's the one who landed on top of me and gave me the bruise, she currently hanging on to my ankle pleading for forgiveness for quote damaging your beautiful face unquote. Hey, is Gabumon there?"
"No. We thought he was with you, by our count that means we're missing AAUK, Kari, TK, Gabumon, Cody and Wormmon."
"Kari's missing?" Tai, his hair somehow intact pushed into shot, "Where's my sister!" he bellowed.
"Hey man, my bro's missing too!" Matt yelled, pushing Tai back.
"Guys, there's a perfecty good explaination." Izzy said trying to difuse the simmering brotherly concern eminating from the pair. "They're with AAUK at his house, I'm patching though the link now."
A second window appeared on Izzy's laptop this time with a bruised TK and Kari both sitting on a single chair. The interior of AAUK's bedroom looked much the same as Digicowboy's only less so due to the difference in numbers.
"Hey guys, did ya miss us?"
"TK!" Patamon cheered,
"Alright little buddy."
"Salamon are you okay?"
"I'm okay Kari, in fact I'm feeling a lot better than I... oooh... Salamon digivolve to...Gatomon."
"Woah!" Sora exclaimed,
"Hey, the cat is back!" Gatomon grinned, causing laughter all be it subdued. "Is AAUK there, or was he knocked out by Gabumon(!)" purred the white digimon in an amused tone. TK and Kari looked confused, Kari leaned forward,
"We've got a wimpering Wormmon a concussed Cody and a grumpy Gabumon but there's no ArchangelUK here." Gatomon's cheshire cat grin went into reverse.
"Well, he has to be there." Sora said moving into view,
"Yeah," Tai agreed, "He was uploaded to."
"Guys... I'm not entirely sure we got him in time." Izzy, looking up from Gennai's laptop had a face of stone. "There is records for the Digimon, DigiDestined and DC...but there is no record for the uploading of ArchangelUK."
Relieved his friend was safe, ArchangelUK waited patiently to be saved also. He waited... and still waited... In fact he had waited fourteen seconds before the enevitable dawned upon him, he hadn't been rescued yet - was because he wasn't going to be. His last thought was not the most elloquent or poinient that ArchangelUk would have wanted to 'go out' on. However, as the last second ticked by, one last final thought entered his head.
"Oh... cra-"
"Wait...does that mean..." Gomamon said pointing to the ledge, Izzy sighed and nodded.
"I'm afraid so." The DigiWorld group looked over at the canyon edge and raced to the side, Izzy disconnected the video link. Gennai had given the two groups instructions, TK's group were to somehow meet up with DC's group at Gatwick International Airport in London. How they were going to go about this no one seemed to know, but they needed to get to Japan so an aircraft was a good bet. Digicowboy would be told of his friends death, there was little to no chance he could have possibly survived the fall.
"He could have survived." Patamon said hopefully, peaking over the
ledge and gazing at the sheer drop. Gatomon moved up along side of him and followed
the little digimon's gaze, she placed her hands on her hips and looked dubiously
at her winged friend.
"Well, he could be okay." Patamon insisted, trying to make it sound less resigned and more determined. Gatomon rubbed Patamon's shoulder gently with her paw.
"Yeah, in much the same way I 'could be' a dog."
"Knock it off you two." snapped Joe. "We'll have to check, no matter what we find. Izzy - you, me and our digimon will climb down there. The girls will stay here with the other digimon."
"You'll get no complaint from me." Sora agreed.
"I'm coming too." Insisted Gatomon,
"If she's going then so am I." Patamon announced, blushing slightly when Gatomon turned to give him a questioning look.
"Well, lets go." Joe muttered, the keeper of relaibility leading the small band on their hopeless journey. At the destination lay the fate of a new friend, and his fate was almost certainly death.
To Be Continued....
What will happen next? How will DC's and TK's groups meet up, will they be able to save the Digital World? What's going on at Toei HQ? Is ArchangelUK actually dead? Find out in the next instalment of Digimon - Reality Redux!
DC: *Incredulously* You're dead?
AAUK: *Doesn't move*
DC: What are you going to do? Rise from the grave?
AAUK: Uuurrr.
DC: Hey - are you okay?
Zombie AAUK: Urrrrr? Ugh Urrr...Ugggh gwahhhh! (*What? I don't care...oooh flesh!*)
DC: Hey, get away from me...stop biting my arm! Arrgh! *Digicowboy snatches
the pen back and legs it.*
Zombie AAUK: UURRRRGGGH GWAH GUUUUUURH! (*Hey come back! Do you think I'll get
a part in that new Resident Evil movie?*)
ArchangelUK 0:o)
Digicowboy c):o)
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REDUX TIMEOUT:
Welcome to Reality Redux Timeout, a guide to all the little intrecacies woven into the Reality Redux story. Such as the hidden references, parodies, tributes to, spoofs and odd facts so far
Chapter title is obviously a parody of the phrase 'Life's a bitch' First appearence of the Harbingers, why Devimon being only a champion can be considered equal to the others is only explained in "Better The Devil You Know..." Harbinger: Person or thing that signals the approach of another; forerunner. What really happened to Angelus and how long he was supposedly tortured for has not yet been explained. The first of many periods of unconciousness for Angelus in RR, this was a running joke as AAUK has never been KO'd by anyone IRL. Dragomon is refered to as a mega as in all of AAUK's stories, when in reality he is infact only an Ultimate but quite frankly baring in mind his power that doesn't make sense. Probably the only time you'll ever hear the phrase 'We need Yolei!' is in this chapter. Piedmon is in possession of the DigiEgg of Fate and reference is made to it being 'a key' but no explanation is given to this and how it was taken from Willis until much later.