Chapter 9: The first step to facing the past.
While all this was happening, Snake was trying to figure out how he had obtained such abilities.
Otacon: Snake, what happened?
Chaos: That was quite a burst of Ether energy.
Shion: Oh, my. That was scary. It was all so sudden. Huh? Where's Allen?
They begin looking around and they soon spot him behind some bushes, cowering. He has his hands over his head and his eyes tightly shut.
Shion: Allen! What are you doing?
Allen: Huh?
He uncovers his head and stands up.
Allen: Oh, I was just… looking for food!
He offers as he climbs out of the bushes and starts walking towards them.
Ziggy: While we were being attacked?
Allen: Ah, yes. I was uh… very hungry.
Snake: Right.
Otacon: Snake, after that… 'thing' you did, I heard you say something. What was it?
Snake: I think I said The Wake Existence. I don't know what that means. It just popped into my head. Mmmm… a new tool for killing…
He says to himself.
Otacon: You alright Snake?
Snake: Yeah, forget about it. Let's just keep going. We're supposed to enter the church, right?
Shion: Ah, yes. I suppose we'll find Nephilim inside. But I still want to know what just happened.
Otacon: Yeah, you just went Dragon Ball Z on that Gnosis thing.
Everyone: Huh?
Otacon: Oh, ah… forget it. But, could it have been due to the fact that we're inside a virtual world?
Snake: Nothing like this ever happened in VR training…
Otacon: Well, I know. But this isn't like what we had back then. Perhaps you were 'given' these 'abilities' as part of the program.
Shion: There's no such thing as that. We are here what we are outside. This means he can do that outside in the real world. Just like if we die here, our bodies outside will die as well.
Otacon: You mean no continues!
MOMO: Mr. Otacon, you're funny! You keep saying the weirdest things.
Otacon: Ah, yeah. Just ignore me, heh heh…
Snake: There's no time to figure this out right now. Let's just clear out the remaining Gnosis and let's go inside.
They look around to see if any more Gnosis where lying around and they find none. They enter the church and surely enough, they find Nephilim, along with Febronia, inside.
Nephilim: Was there a problem?
Snake: It was taken care of.
Febronia: Shion, I am happy to see you again. Are you all… ready?
Shion: Yes.
Snake: Well, Shion. Jr. Have fun.
Nephilim: It is not just them. A part of me will help guide all of you.
Suddenly, Nephilim splits into two, her second copy being translucent.
Otacon: Whoa! There's two!
Nephilim: You will all be separated from each other, but I will be there to guide you.
Nephilim 2: Come Shion.
Says the translucent copy as it heads towards the back door. Shion was nervous. She looks at the rest of the group before finally following the Nephilim 'ghost' through the door. Once they are through, the original Nephilim duplicates again the same way and the 'ghost' calls Jr. This continues until everybody goes through the door with a Nephilim 'ghost', including Snake and Otacon.
They all find themselves in a place resembling Outer Space. It was like the last place they were in the last time they entered the Encephalon.
