Reality Redux
By ArchangelUK & Digicowboy

We do not own Digimon which is a blooming shame guv'nor, as we'd be rich as kings. Now who want's a shoe shine? Only a shilling! Get ya shoeshine 'ere guv'nor!

DC: Archangel?
AAUK: Yeah?
DC: Why are you hiding under your bed?
AAUK: It's them! The stalkers!
DC: Not your stalkers again surely....
AAUK: First eunc, then Wolfie, they just keep coming! Now Phire Phoenix is sitting on the tree in the garden next door trying to to take photo's of me in the shower! She even wants to take on Wolfie in a fight for the best view.
DC: ......!?!??!
AAUK: She scares the hell out of me, read the reviews man!
DC: *reads* Oh I see... HEY! Why aren't I being stalked! No fair! *grumbles*

Chapter 13: Identity Crisis Pt III - The Three

Devimon paced up and down, his long spindly limbs moving witha quiet fluency. "What do you propose we do Piedmon? After all, if you remember the whole point in us being here is that the gate is sealed."
"Yes." Daemon muttered, "By the boy Ichijoji."

"Along with the strength of the others." Dragomon noted.

"Pah." Piedmon sneered, "A mere child. The seals of the DigiDestined can still be unlocked, no, smashed by the Keymaster. They couldn't stop the Gatekeeper from plumetting into this world if you remember, indeed it is possible for someone to travel from their world to here just not for them to return. That is why I asked you to move the gate Daemon."

"A waste of time and energy that was. We should have let him fall to his death, we would have won."

"We didn't know he was the Gatekeeper then and he wouldn't have escaped if someone had kept their big mouth shut about the digivice." Dragomon said, glaring at the demon who growled in reply.

"Enough." Piedmon demanded, "We will go to the Real Earth, there we will stay and cause terror. It will divide the 'chosen fourteen' as it is now and hold them off long enough to allow the Unification to happen."

"I go back to your previous point, the gate is only open one way." Devimon said.

"And I go back to my previous point that the Keymaster can smash those seals, I know what is going on my friends. The gate will be unlocked very soon indeed and then victory!"

"How do you propose to delay the Traveller and Gatekeeper? They will hunt you down as you carry the golden digiegg of fate." Dragomon bubbled, a Scubamon scurrying up to present him with a large offering of food.

"That I doubt they know yet, but I have a plan..."

"What?"

"If they are so fond of their planet I will take one of their own as a hostage. I think I know exactly where to go for one as well."

"Where?" Daemon demanded.

"Oh my dear Daemon, that would be telling." Piedmon's eyes sparkled with mischief. "That would be telling."

All around them was a navy blue mist that seemed to seap round them and even through them. Angelus had a feeling of being very high up, though he couldn't see how he had come to be this high. To tell the truth Angelus couldn't see much past this mist, barely even able to make out the robed form of Gennai. From out of the mist suddenly came a bright light, strong enough for him to think he had surely been blinded by the intensity of it. Thankfully this was not the case as his eyes seamed to adjust after only a few moments, what he then saw took his breath away. Below him was a huge globe of what looked like lines of computer code, of weird symbols of a language unknown to even the Earth's leading linguists. This ball appeared tp be alive, it gave off a feeling of life - not that that made much sense of course.

"What - What is all this."

"What you see is the forces behind the digital world." Gennai said, small lines of code flitted past him joining the mass of data and in turn some fled the grouping.

"It looks a bit like The Matrix." Angelus said in awe, as the code changed colour rapidly moving through the spectrum eventually settling on a summer yellow.

"In a weird way it is."

"Whoa." The irony of the response was lost as the colours changed again to a vibrant purple then a blue, making it hard to see in the mist.

"These are the Digital Matrixies; the inputs and outputs that give birth to Digimon." Gennai 'caught' a piece of the code as it went past and he handed it to Angelus who tentatively took it off of him. The chosen one examined it amazed at what he was holding, the symbols on this code were familiar to him.

"Wait, I know this, these symbols are what appear when the digimon digivolve. On the digivices, on their weapons like Angemon's staff, Omnimon's sword, the Gate of Destiny even Silphimon's visor."

Gennai said nothing, the mass of data swirled and for a second a chink appeared in the coding. Angelus looked down closer at the globe of coding and saw sea beneath it, even the briefest glimpse of land. It wasn't Earth. It was the Digital World.

"This...these...are the powers that originally chose the DigiDestined?"

"Yes." AAUK dropped the code and it sped off to wherever it was going. He looked around for the first time, seeing three more balls similar to the first.

"What's that over there?" He pointed towards a globe which had a rainbow coloured aura around it which shimmered in the middle distance.

"The powers that control the DigiDestined's world."

"And there?" This one was furthest away but appeared to have a pure white aura around it, it was noticibly the most active out of the rest.

"The powers that control your world."

"That's God???"

"If that is your perception then that is what it is."

"Double whoa."

"Indeed." Gennai gestured towards something on the left hand side, another globe.

Angelus turned his head towards the fourth one. "What is that place?" It was smaller than the other three, but none the less the aura around it seemed strongest. It was a dark mix of both the code and the misty aura of the others.

"The Dark World." Angelus narrowed his eyes, Gennai did too. "Some time after the three worlds were created the Darkness realised that the humans, the precursors to the Digimon and even those on the Pseudo-Earth - the home of the chosen children. Despite the different timescales, the Digital World moving fastest, then the Pseudo-Earth and Real Earth with almost equal time. Real time and Pseudo Real Time.(*) They were all choosing the path of Light over that of Darkness.

The Darkness negated on it's agreement and in a bid to create disorder in the Three created the Dark World. It's influence isn't as noticible on your world being furthest from it, however the Digital World is a very different matter. The Dark World is the last bastion of evil and Darkness, no matter what happens the amount of Darkness it holds there will always hold influence. This brings me to my next point; the Darkness has begun to grow in power and influence. What I am showing you is the three as they were, now we will see the three now."

Gennai clicked his fingers and everything to speed up to little more than a blur. Angelus closed his eyes as a servere nausia almost overcame him, when he opened them again everything was movng in real time again. The globes weren't in the same positions, however they were practically ALL in the same position - they were so close to each other they could almost touch.

"The Unification."

The auras that had surrounded them were merging, clashing due to the close proximity. Flares of light and colour were erupting from the three worlds and while the auras sparked against each other the Dark World floated off to the side seemingly growing closer. It wasn't moving though, it was expanding. Expanding towards the three true worlds.

"The Darkness grows stronger?" ArchangelUK asked the robed individual who nodded grimly.

"If it is not stopped the three true world will virtually destroy each other and then be consumed by the Dark World. The Darkness would be all incompassing, all powerful and unchallenged."

"I won't let that happen, many people will die."

"Everything. Everything will die."

"I'll stop it. Me, Ben, Sora, TK, Kari, the Digimon, the rest of the chosen kids...we'll stop it. The Darkness will not win."

"Oh I know you will fight it. It is in your nature - like hope is to TK's and courage is to Tai's." There was a hiatus that seamed to last forever.

"What am I then Gennai? Tell me."

"It will be hard for you to accept."

"It already has been, so there's no point in trying to soften it all."

"You are all of this." He swept his hand round so that it indicated everything around him.

"All of this?"

"And yet none of it at all."

"So I'm not flesh and blood. I'm not digital. I'm not...both and yet not...neither. So what am I?"

"What we are brother, is what we have always been. Eternal."

"The Harbingers are locked in the Dark Ocean Yamashita." The voice echoed in the man's head.

"Should I release them?"

"Keymaster, that is your decision, but I would say the four would delay or weaken the Gatekeeper and his friend the Traveller. It would be easy for you to return the DigiDestined and the Digimon to their respective worlds. You could then lock the gates."

"Then even the Gatekeeper would be able to contact them."

"Precisely."

"Then it would all be mine again."

"Free the Harbingers, they will do the work for us - for you."

"Who are you?"

"I, my lord Keymaster, am whoever you want me to be."

"Dark World - heed my call! Unlock the barriers which stop your march. Harbingers, your time... is now."

To Be Continued....

(*) 'Pseudo Real Time' is an actual computer term refering to a state of time that functions at the exact same speed as actual time but is not real time.

What is Piedmon's plan? Who is the voice communicating with Yamashita and is he truly the Keymaster? Find out next on Digimon - Reality Redux!

AAUK: *From under bed* Have they gone yet?
DC: Um, not exactly.

[Outside]

Phire Phoenix: Gaggh, I can't see anything with these binoculars.
Wolfie: Pah, useless.
EUNC: See anything Wolfie?
Wolfie: Not yet. What's Silver Dreamer doing here? And Kari's Kat???
Kari's Kat: Oh, we're honouroury members. *winks*
Wolfie: I see.... What are you doing Silver Dreamer?
Silver Dreamer: Me, oh I'm hacking into NASA. I'm taking control over the Hubble Space Telescope, that should help us out a bit.
EUNC: Niiiiiiiice!

DC: ....
AAUK: .... *Groans*

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