Reality Redux
By ArchangelUK & Digicowboy

We do not own Digimon - Digital Monsters let alone these groceries here...no officers, Winona Ryder did it! Her there! That one! Yeah...get her!

DC: Mwah ha ha I reign supreme!
AAUK: How can you reign supreme? You threw yourself in a Gate of Destiny!
DC: Good point.
AAUK: And you're out of the bomb shelter now.
DC: *Sweatdrops* Good point. *Runs*

Chapter 11: Identity Crisis Pt I - Traitor's Gate

The winds screamed around him, and there was nothing but the brightest of bright white light. It seemed to ripple with power; an awesome, frightening power he couldn't contemplate but the decision he made was neccessary in the long run. He had to follow his parter - his digimon partner - to whatever plane they were sent, if they were sent into oblivion he would join him. He hoped it wouldn't be oblivion, then again if it was he wouldn't have to pay back that £20 he owed HaloGatomon. So the Traveller accepted his fate and yanked his foot free of his anchor.

The pool of black water showed the gate materialise and the chosen one disappear into it along with Miyotismon. There was a cheer among the Scubamon and among the evil digimon there, the four dark creatures cackled with glee.

"We are victorious!" Dragomon boomed, "The chosen one has been banished to another realm from which he cannot return."

"Without him we are unstoppable." Daemon said, grinning beneath the top of his purply-red robe. "And the traitor Miyotismon has been removed as well." Devimon nodded in agreement but Piedmon did not, he mearly grinned mischeviously.

"You do not agree Piedmon?" Devimon asked, the mega phantom digimon sighed openly.

"You three bit-players never read the script fully do you?" He scolded, "Our nosferatu friend has a much more interesting story arc than you know of yet."

"He does?" Daemon looked confused, he glanced at Daemon who shrugged even he couldn't understand how Piedmon seemed to know all of this.

"Oh yes. The show is not over yet for Miyotismon."

"Oh. How do you know this Piedmon?" The insane clown chuckled as only an insane clown could. He reached down and picked up three Scubamon who happened to be nearby and started to juggle them, they screamed in terror begging for mercy only to have the juggler add a further four to his collection. Dragomon scowled, not liking what Piedmon was doing to his subjects, hurting and terrifying them was after all his job.

"As I said I've read my script fully, but to more pressing matters - the Gatekeeper has returned in ArchangelUK. He has the sword."

"That may be." Devimon noted, "But that does not mean he can use it." Dragomon spun around to the ultimate and fixed him with his red eyes.

"If he can't use it then how did he manage to return to his world along with the remainder of the chosen children?" Devimon baulked,

"Good point." The demon muttered. Piedmon paced up and down agitatedly, still juggling the terrified Scubamon, he suddenly removed one of his blades and sliced into all seven deleting them with very little fuss. He replaced the blade and reached into the slit of his tunic again, his hand removing the gold digiegg.

"If ArchangelUK knows about being the Gatekeeper there's also a very good chance he knows about the importance of the Golden Digieggs. If that is so, then it is important we take action immediately!"

"What do you suggest?"

"We need to buy some time for the master so he can regain his strength before he is discovered. I suggest that we four take a little trip to the Real World and see what it's like."

"Ah, a nice holiday." Dragomon chuckled. "I'll pack my hawaian shirt!" Piedmon raised an eyebrow.

"Yes..." Maybe he wasn't the most demented one after all.

"BEN!" Angelus yelled, at the gate close behind his friend. There was an eerie silence. People in the street were carrying on as if nothing had happened, even ignoring the little band of digimon. Mimi was on her knees tears streaming down her face as fast as they could form in her ruby eyes. Joe, TK and Kari were trying to comfort her. Biyomon, Gomamon and Gabumon were all seeing to Palmon who had hurt herself trying to haul the chosen one back down to the ground.

"Why did he have to do that?" Mimi sobbed, "Why?" She buried her head in Joe's shoulder, her long time friend rubbed her back in small circles trying to calm her with little success. Davis marched over to Angelus and plucked Patamon up off of his shoulder by the ears -

"Hey! Ow! Lemmie go Davis!"

"Davis let him go!" TK was already in motion towards him, Davis didn't see, or didn't care.

"All right pot roast!" The begoggled boy yelled at the orange digimon, "Where did you send him? I know that was a Gate of Destiny so that means you created it. Where did you send Ben and Miyotismon??"

"What? I didn't send them anywhere!"

"Oh so you killed them?"

"Lemmie go - Boom Bubble! PAH!" Davis twisted Patamon round so the ball of compressed air avoided him. In fact it hit Angelus dead centre of the chest, knocking him and Gatomon who was sitting on his shoulder again straight back into the advancing TK. Not that Davis cared. TK groaned as he was pounced upon by his friends, Gatomon and Angelus did get up with some help.

"Leave him alone Davis he didn't open that gate." Ken demanded to little avail.

"It's one of his little specialities." The boy insisted, "A reeeaaal party piece(!)" The position was obviously hurting Patamon now and it was taking Matt, Joe, Tai, Kari and Sora to hold an irate TK down. Wormmon had even used his sticky thread to pin him down but somehow where that attack had successfully stopped rookies, champions and even other humans in the past it now failed. TK was angry, he was in full blown fury-mode, something had to be done and fast even Kari and Matt's begging had no effect.

"Oww! It wasn't me!" Patamon still insisted, Angelus grabbed Davis by the shoulder and he looked around not into the Gatekeeper's eyes but into a pair of decidely feline ones.

"How could it be Patamon, he would have had to digivolve to MagnaAngemon to do that kind of thing!" Gatomon had a glimmer in her eye which Davis noticed and quickly dropped Patamon who was caught by Angelus. Gatomon did not change her stance as the little rookie tried to regain himself.

"Then who did it?" Davis demanded, looking around everyone. "Who here can open gates huh? I don't see anyone else!"

"Well actually, Angelus can..."

"What was that?" Everyone looked towards the source of the voice, it was Yolei.

"Yeah, he opened a gate to the real world with that sword of his, he's this 'Gatekeeper' aparently..." She trailed off, Angelus rolled his eyes.

"Gee, thanks Yolei."

"You? Gates?" Davis blinked, "Traitor!" He screamed and leapt at Angelus, who drew his sword and hit Davis between the eyes with it's hilt. Davis Motomiya crashed to the ground unconcious.

"Oh well." Veemon sighed, "Better that way then have the hell beaten out of him by TK."

"If you'd let me explain what happened in the last week maybe you'll understand." He addressed the motionless form, "You all will understand exactly what we are facing and exactly why me and DC were chosen. Exactly why we are all in very real danger."

Angelus sheaved his sword and moved over to below where the gate had materialised. He raised his hand in the air and closed his eyes tightly trying to concentrate on what he was looking for, but whatever it was after a minute he couldn't find it. "Hmm." He muttered, "Interesting."

"Interesting?" Tai repeated with an exasperated look on his face.

"The gate is not locked, I can open it again."

"You can?"

"But not yet, it takes a lot of energy to be able to open a gate and I've not long opened one from DigiWorld to here. I don't even know where this one goes."

"Which give you plenty of time to explain what's going on." Matt said, they made their way to a small cafe. The owner didn't seem to care about the fact there was a bunch of monsters sitting around talking and a youth with wings who had just ordered a moccha. To him they were just more customers for his beliguered business. Angelus sat down, or tried to, shifting his weight and position to try and accomodate his new appendages.

"Wings..." He sighed, "How am I gonna get in the shower with these things?" Kari whispered something to Sora and they giggled convulsively earning them stares of bemusement, Sora blushed openly earning Angelus a glare from Tai.

"Okaaaayyyy...."

"Maybe you should start at the beginning with this sword of yours for the benefit of us who weren't with you." TK suggested, as he threw the still KO'd Davis into a chair his arms flopping down either side of the two arm rests. He groaned, no one had much sympathy.

"And where did you get that new hairstyle?" AAUK noted his hair had stayed the same, still short and bleached white yet his clothes had originated back to his blue jeans and shirt. He went to speak but was interrupted by the voice of an eight year old girl off to his right.

"Mummy! Look, it's Yue!" The little girl jumped up and down pointing at Angelus who blinked disbeleavingly.

"Yue?"

"The wings! The hair! It is him!" The girl said jumping up and down even more, a boy perhaps a year or so younger than the girl but equally excited broke free from his tired mothers grasp and raced up to AAUK.

"Yue! I just wanted to say I loved you in Cardcaptors!"

".....Cardcaptors?!?!" The boy went to answer but his mother had lost patience and finally dragged him and his sister off with only the expected loud chorus of disapproval. AAUK shook his head in disillusionment,

"Great now I'm gonna be forever mistaken for a cartoon character." He looked up at the digidestined. "No offence."

"You were going to say?" Ken offered an escape route Angelus greatfully accepted.

"It starts before there. It starts when we were falling and you guy got thrown into the real Earth."

"Well, begin from there."

So Angelus did. He told them about the Dark Ocean, what he found there, the temple on what was File Island, the sword, being the Gatekeeper, Gennai stopping him and sending the Digidestined back.

"So I went off to the top of Infinity Mountain to find Gennai, and see what this was all about."

To Be Continued....

What evil scheme does Piedmon have in mind? Wlll Ben and his partner Miyotismon be okay? What did happen with AAUK and Gennai? Find out next time on Digimon - Reality Redux!

AAUK: Don't worry I don't want a chapter off of you yet.
DC: You don't?
AAUK: Yeah, after all I did this in less than an hour. It's the first of two parts, part two of which will be up next week sometimes.
DC: *Gawps* Two parts.
AAUK: It'll put you in good steps for your next chapter number 13.
DC: ...

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