Reality Redux
By ArchangelUK & Digicowboy

AAUK: YEAH!!!!!!
DC: What? What???
AAUK: Ganon just got his ass whipped! GO ME!
DC: Ya completed Zelda 64?
AAUK: YAY! *waves around Biggoron's Sword*
DC: Well as a prize you can do the disclaimer...
AAUK: We do not own Digimon, however we do own several hammocks that double up as very large hairnets.

Chapter 26 - Together Again... Again

"Crap." Alzari commented noticing as Raine had that his younger self had gone and stomped off in a five star, triple a, triple X language rated rage. Alzari set off at a run, which baring in mind he was technically not touching the floor was quite impressive indeed. Raine his 'dragonet' style Fire Lizard clung onto his neck via its blue scaly tail and was clearly terrified by the sudden rapid movement. He warked a couple of times loudly in Alzari's ear and the young man performed a skid then yelled out for Mimi and the Digimon to follow him - and quickly. Mimi shrugged, got up and sprinted after the older version of her boyfriend with Myotismon and Lillymon in hot pursuit.

"What is it?"

"I forgot something!" Alzari yelled, glad he could not see Mimi's rather angry reaction.

"YOU FORGOT SOMETHING!?" She roared, Alzari winced.

"Sorry. Sorry... but Sora and Angelus are gonna try something very soon and rescue you all, maybe, but if you're not with me, er, him - Ben - you're all gonna get left behind!"

Sora made her way closer through the clinging fog towards the three figures, she could make out voices now - quite similar voices.

"Ben once taught me the phrase 'Zaise o onegai shimasu'."

"That means please give me a legless chair..."

"Hmmm, how about 'Noo tacchi momoiro amedama!'"

"Do not touch pink coloured candy?"

"Shi ne busu hana chikan!"

"Die ugly flower molester??"

"DAMNIT!"

She burst through into a clearing only to find Angelus, someone who looked as Angelus had done originally and a big massive angel. She looked puzzled for a second before Angelus noticed her.

"SORA!" He yelled and ran up to her, hugging her tightly and lifting her up into the air.

"Whoa Angelus! It's good to see you too." She gave him a peck on the cheek and he settled her back down.

"Wh-what are you doing here?"

"I was going to ask you the same thing."

"We brought her here." Gatekeeper announced.

"Excuse me, who are you?"

"Er, well..." Angelus put his hand behind his head and grinned sheepishly, "Lemmie make introductions. Sora, Immortal Soul. Immortal Soul, Sora."

"Your Immortal Soul?"

"You will address us as Gatekeeper." The angel said coldly, drawing looks of concern from the others.

"This other one is my mortal soul."

"Call me Archangel, everybody does!"

"Right..." Sora glanced around at their location. "Then why am I here?"

"We have a plan." Gatekeeper said looking smug but Archangel pointed towards Angelus.

"Or rather YOU have a plan, it wasn't our doing."

"We subconsciously pulled you into this world, because we have a plan to rescue the Chosen Traveller." Announced Gatekeeper to the red haired girl and Archangel immediately noticed Sora's baffled expression.

"He speaks in the plural because (even though he doesn't like it) we three are the same. Angelus is half I and half he." He jerked a thumb at Gatekeeper, "Basically old Immortal Soul here is saying Angelus thought up something subconsciously and pulled you into his mind." He explained. "He's got a plan to save your bro."

"Ben? You can save Ben??" Sora tugged on his arm.

"Huh?" Angelus blinked, "Me? Plan? What what??"

"Yes." Gatekeeper boomed, "It's subconscious, for our conscious to tap into our subconscious we must unconsciously think of the subconscious plan."

"What did he say?"

"I dunno. I'm stumped." Archangel admitted scratching his head and wearing a bamboozled look. Gatekeeper looked on impassively, he did not need to explain anything to these non-immortal spirits, if they did not understand language or the soul hierarchy that was their problem.

"I think he basically said if we fly by the seat of our pants it should work." Angelus said, looking none too confident. Sora's worried brow suddenly became more worried.

"He did?" She looked over at Gatekeeper but he did not even blink, "Well, what's your not-a-plan then?"

"Hmm..." Angelus stroked his chin, "Well just suppose..."

"Damn him!" Ben roared and stomped down the path, yelling at inanimate objects, trash cans, old people, lampposts - anything he deemed to be in his way. "That.... that.... AHHH!!!" Ben picked up a park bench (somehow) and threw it with all his might.

It didn't go far - but that's not the point.

"DAMN YOU AETH! DAMN YOU!" He screamed skywards, and held his head in his hands. "Damn you..." He whispered.

"Jeez get a grip already you idiot." A voice came from behind him, "And get your face out of your hands baka, I need to tell you something."

"Asuka." Ben muttered savagely, "This isn't the time..." Asuka's eyebrow twitched sharply.

"Actually from what I gather it's the ONLY time, so pay attention Idiot Boy and listen up."

"Why?" Ben sighed openly,

"Why what?"

"Why bother?"

"BECAUSE YOU TWIT IT HELPS US ALL LIVE!" Asuka hit him upside the head, "Now LISTEN. This is very important, I need to tell you this so you can tell me this when you come back here as the older you."

"Does that make sense?"

"DUMMKOPF!!!" Asuka whacked him again,

"You know if I wasn't such a gent..." Ben mumbled, "I could stuff you into a Gate of Destiny before you could whine 'Kaaaaaaaaaaaaajiiiiii!'"

"Stuff me in a what?!?"

"Oh get over yourself and just tell me." the Traveller snapped, "I'm not in the mood to be troubled by a psychologically scarred red haired German cartoon character."

"Jeez, freakazoid." She sighed, "Okay here we go..."

"Say that again?" Sora said,

"We're going to use multiple tears and multiple Gate of Destinies... hmm, maybe that should be Destini."

"Never mind the plurals, you want me to open a G.O.D using the staff."

"Several G.O.D's which will go through several worlds until we find an entry into whatever world he is in."

"I thought the Gate was sealed by the Keymaster though."

"Yes but that's a generalisation, dimensional tears happen regardless of gates, this will only be achievable I believe with a) the staff, b) a traveller and c) the Gatekeeper and we have all of those."

"But you're still unconscious."

"If my subconscious can think of this plan it can implement it as well." Angelus smiled at her, "What do you think."

"I'm beginning to think you've been KO'd too much."

"Grrr..."

"But we might as well give it a shot." She shrugged, Gatekeeper floated forwards.

"We risk a lot in this venture, it shall weaken us greatly and the time of final combat is close at hand... closer than you imagine." It was Angelus he was talking to and it was the first real time he'd acknowledged Angelus as an individual as opposed to him, Gatekeeper and Archangel being the same being. Angelus fixed him with a frown.

"You know something." He accused, "Something important I do not and you aren't going to tell me either are you?"

"Yes to the first, no to the second." Gatekeeper said and turned away, Archangel did too. "She must return now..."

And Sora suddenly woke up.

"Yamashita..." The voice boomed, sending the rotund man into a series of convulsions. "I grow weary of you."

"But... I... Am the Keymaster..." He managed through the fitting, saliva dripping down his portly chin. The voice laughed and turned into a slightly higher pitch.

"Men are so easy to control..."

"Who a-a-are y-you?"

"I AM the Keymaster." The now decidedly female voice announced, "I needed you to fulfil the penultimate part of my plan, but now I have almost regained my strength. As soon as my agent returns from his imprisonment I will be whole again and I will destroy the Gatekeeper and his pitiful little band of pocket heroes."

"I am not a-a-a..." Yamashita gurgled, vomiting over the wall and depositing an ominous array of blood, spit and bile across the dingy back street.

"A what?"

"I am not a doll."

"Oh no my little puppet, that's just what you are." The voice laughed as Yamashita collapsed and began to half crawl, half drag himself out of the alley towards the road.

"Please... Help me..." Yamashita called out weakly, clutching his stomach. It felt as though his gut was eating itself, which was close enough. The spirit of the Keymaster had possessed him and using it's, or rather her tools of manipulation exerted her will on the Toei director. She had successfully been sapping her strength much like a vampire bat sucks the blood of other creatures. The Keymaster had taken all that it had needed from him, all that was left now were fragments of Yamashita and the husk that was him. The beast had finished knawing on the bones and was ready to toss the remainder away.

"I sense his approach, pitiful human, and when he arrives it will be the end of you and then your pathetic species. Unification shall occur, and darkness shall prevail, Chaos will always triumph over Order - it is the way of things."

"Sora." Gatomon snapped, "I told you to sleep."

"Angelus... I was in Angelus's mind."

"Of course you were Sora, now go back to sleep."

"No! He has a plan!"

"A plan?"

"Yes!" She picked up the Traveller Staff and Gatekeeper Sword, the latter she deposited in the prone Gatekeeper's lap wrapping his limp hands around the hilt.

"What are you doing now Red?" A sleepy Wolfie muttered, gaining a look of derision from the Traveller.

"Something you could never do..." She said savagely, which woke up the Kiwi good and proper. "...Be useful."

"Oh no..." Cody muttered and hid behind Yolei, who in turn hid behind Ken, who hid behind Davis, who hid behind Kari, who hid behind TK... who having not heard what was going on suddenly found himself with a long cue of people behind him.

"Are we doing a bloody conga or something?" He asked, before noticing the glaring girls. TK noticed there was no one else to hide behind, everyone else had taken cover. "Oh crap..."

"I am useful." Wolfie said in a surprisingly quiet voice, which greatly added to the ominous nature of the statement.

"Sure you are 'Madame Mender'."

"Mender, exactly. So I CAN FIX YOU GOOD!" She raised the chair she had been sitting on over her head and Sora raised her staff. It was at that moment the golden orb atop it seemed to glow and open outwards like some kind of morning flower, petals unwrapping themselves to reveal a core of pure white brilliance. Suddenly Sora could see everything, all the tears in the world, and she looked in one and she saw another world of grass and flowers and the tears that existed there... and emboldened by the blue light suddenly emanating from Angelus's sword into the orb and her and the unmistakable feeling of his mental presence she looked into another. One of war and metal monsters and she could not sense her brother, so she looked into another dimensional rip.

Then another tear into another world... And another... And another... And another... And another... And another... And...

Sora was beginning to shake as was the form of Angelus on the bed, as none of the others knew that this was in fact a plan some were yelling that whatever it was should be stopped.

"They're being attacked!" Davis yelled,

"What are you talking about, he's attacking her!" Tai yelled back, only to be challenged on that statement by a viciously acid tongued Biyomon.

Ben... I can sense him Angelus!

Well, get him back then Sora!

Is Mimi there though? I can't leave them behind.

I can't focus it anymore for you, we've gone through too many tears to lock onto anyone but Ben. We have to hope they are near, it is this or nothing. If we get just Ben, he can perhaps locate them on his own.

Yes, I suppose. Come on Ben, home time...

"Time for you to leave." Archangel announced,

"I know." Angelus nodded. "I can sense myself waking already."

"Farewell." Gatekeeper intoned coldly.

"Yeah. And I DO know some Japanese thank you."

"Of course we do..." Gatekeeper rolled his iris less eyes,

"Sayonara odango atama." Angelus sneered at him and bit his thumb at the Angel before vanishing from the mindscape.

"What did he say?" Gatekeeper glanced at Archangel,

"The literal translation?" Archangel asked and Gatekeeper nodded. "Goodbye dumpling head."

"Shoot..." Alzari said as he felt the nearby opening of a tear into the world he presently occupied. "Come on you move it!"

"We're going as rapidly as possible." Myotismon muttered but Alzari blanked him as usual, his attention totally focused on Mimi. Raine looked at him sternly and squawked (if that was the best term to use) something at him. "I know, he won't be left behind."

"Swark?"

"I know... I know... It is his destiny, that doesn't mean I have to like it."

"Suuuaaaaaar!"

"You don't need to tell me that Raine, I told you I KNOW. I was there remember!"

"Secaw... T'eeeeeeeeak."

"I see them." Alzari noted as his younger self and Asuka came into view sitting on a bench.

"Wow... I can't believe it." Ben shook his head.

"Which bit?"

"The Angels bit, it raises some interesting questions." Ben stroked his chin when he suddenly heard Mimi call his name. "Mimi?"

"BEN!" Mimi called out and carried by Lillymon dropped down next to him, "Alzari says Angelus and Sora are gonna try and rescue us."

"He's what?"

"Who's Angelus?" Asuka asked, only for the two Digimon, Mimi and Ben to promptly disappear from where they were sitting.

Ben, Mimi and the two Digimon spilled out from the orb of light onto the ever-unfortunate Angelus.

"Damn." Angelus groaned,

"Hey Angelus good to see you!" Ben said ruffling the older male's messy white hair.

"Ben! You're back!" Sora launched herself at her brother, smashing the now coma-less Angelus's head back into the wooden bed head.

"Remind me to have a CAT-scan after this adventure." He mumbled, as the other DigiDestined jumped on the bed in celebration and Wolfie just watched as the whole thing collapsed under all the weight.

"You'll get to meet him one day." Alzari said, appearing in front of Asuka and petting Raine with his hand. "Sooner than you may think."

"They... just vanished." Asuka blinked, "Ben didn't even say goodbye, he just... left!"

"Rude I know. I apologise for my younger self and now I must go as well."

"What? Where the hell are you going Idiot Boy Senior!?"

"Home." Alzari sighed, "It has been a while but now my task is completed I must return to Entherial."

"Entheri-what?" But in the blink of an eye he and Raine had disappeared too.

He didn't say goodbye either... Asuka thought, then she roared skyward. "YOU RUDE OLD IGNORANT IGOTISTICAL CHAUVANISTIC TIME TRAVELLING MALE BAKA!!!!!!!" She turned on her heel only to find a piece of paper on the bench she had been sitting.

Gomen nasai Sohryu-san, we will meet again.
In my past and in my future.

Alzari.

To Be Continued....

Sora: Who is the true Keymaster? What questions have arisen to make Ben curious? Who is the agent the Keymaster spoke of and how will the reunited team stop the Unification??? The End of the Three worlds approaches soon in the next chapters of Digimon: Reality Redux!

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