Chapter 23: Contact.

Everyone finds themselves in a strange room. They can not see each other, but they can hear the same sounds, as well as each other. They were all nude, but they felt secure. As if they were in a safe place. It was a large room. The ground appeared like large ripples of water. The entire room seemed to have a watery look to it.

Snake: Were the hell am I?

Ziggy: Snake? Where are you? I can't see you.

Snake: I think it's better that way.

He says, as he looks down at his naked body.

Shion: Is everybody in a weird watery place?

MOMO: Yup, I'm here.

Jr: Yup.

Jin: I'm here, sis.

Chaos: What is this place?

Snake: Is this another Encephalon dive?

: It is not.

Snake: Who's there? Who are you? Or did you just hit puberty, Jr?

Jr. Ha ha. Very funny. … I wish…

: I am an existence beyond your plane. You can refer to me as the… Wave Existence.

Shion: The Wave Existence…?

Wave Existence: Yes, that's what I said. I have been trapped within the Zohar for eons, waiting for the day when I can return to the place of my origin, the 4th dimension. You will bring me a step closer.

Snake: I don't know what you want us to do, but why should we help you?

Wave Existence: My intent is the same as yours. I wish for you to stop those who intent on using the infinite energy of my imprisonment. Only then will I have a chance at escape.

Snake: You want us to break you free?

Wave Existence: That task is not for you, but for the contact. In your time, there still remained thousands of years before my release, as I foresaw it. But to me, it is merely and instant, compared to the time I have spent in this prison.

Snake: Were you the one who brought me here? Took me and Otacon 4000 years into the future?

Wave Existence: Yes. You are a necessary factor.

Snake: I didn't want this!

Wave Existence: Was your life so great back then? You found a purpose to live, and you still have it here.

Snake: Perhaps, but I was never given a choice!

Wave Existence: You would have merely perished if left on that world.

Snake: What…!

Wave Existence: After my excavation from the place you knew as Kenya, there were those who sought the power held within my prison, the Zohar. They were your enemies. You know them as…. The Patriots.

Snake: The Patriots! Who were they? Do you know?

Wave Existence: Perhaps a better question for you to ask would be what were they.

Snake: They weren't human?

Wave Existence: There were born from the collective consciousness of humans. The will of those who led the revolution of your country, the United States. The founders, as they were called, sought for a better life. To live in a place with fair treatment and opportunity. This strength of will and resolve spawned the beings you know as the Patriots.

Snake: How is this possible?

Wave Existence: Because of the Zohar.

Snake: What?

Wave Existence: Although it was in stasis, it still emitted energies. These energies had little effect on your world, but were still gathered by these men's consciousness.

Snake: Wasn't the Zohar all the way in Kenya? Where you trapped me and Otacon within you?

Wave Existence: Yes, but that distance is nothing compared the distance that energy can travel. And these men lured it to them, and it manifested into those beings.

Snake: Did they have a physical form?

Wave Existence: They later obtained it by taking over the bodies of new born children. The consciousness' were divided into twelve beings.

Snake: The Wise Men's Committee…

(Note to my MGS fan readers, I wrote all this before MGS3 came out. Now I am revising it almost a year after MGS3 was released, and now I know that the Philosophers originated from different countries and only the US branch became the Patriots, so my Zohar theory isn't possible like it was before MGS3, but I don't want to change it so just forget MGS3 for now, okay:p)

Wave Existence: They lived in their human forms for nearly a century, gaining power secretly. Their organization, the La le lu la lo, had gained substantial power, and continued to maintain it, even after their deaths.

Snake: So that's how they died one hundred years ago… But how is it that they existed during my time?

Wave Existence: Although their physical bodies were long lost, their consciousness' continued to live on. In your time, they moved their consciousness' into a computer mainframe, where they regained full control of the La le lu la lo. And then you know the rest.

Snake: Yeah, they wanted full control of humanity…

Wave Existence: They sought to achieve their goals easier with the Zohar after they discovered the immense power that it held. But they could not control it. Humans began to be taken into the Zohar, just as I was. Humans began disappearing throughout the world without a stop. They became trapped within the Zohar, later to become rejected and became the Gnosis that you now have been fighting.

Shion: What! The Gnosis are… human…?

MOMO: Daddy was right?

Wave Existence: Those who are killed by the Gnosis, also become them. That is the curse that befell them for trying to control the Zohar.

Shion: It can't be…

Snake: What happened with the Patriots?

Wave Existence: They too were absorbed by the Zohar.

Snake: So they become Gnosis too?

Wave Existence: They became more than that. Their will to control lived on. They became the being you now know as… U-DO.

Jr: U-DO! Those… Patriots from Snake's time are U-DO!

Wave Existence: Yes. They sought to control the Gnosis like they controlled the humans, so they gained the power through shear will. But now they are the ones that are being controlled by the humans. How ironic. And the irony will continue when the Gnosis control the humans…

Snake: What?

Wave Existence: That has yet to be seen. You do not need to concern yourself with that.

Snake: …

Wave Existence: There is more you need to know. Put perhaps your own team member should tell you. Chaos, now is the time to decide. Will you trust your friends with the truth?

Chaos: I…

Ziggy: Is there something we need to know?

Jr: You can trust us.

Snake: There's always been something mysterious about you, but I always felt I could trust you. So go ahead and tell us whatever we need to know.

Chaos: I trust you all as well.

Jin: So what is it that we need to know?

Shion: Chaos…?

Chaos: I… work for Wilhelm…

Everyone: What!

Chaos: I am like Virgil. Except he has some recollection of whom he used to be, and so does… Well, I cannot remember anything from my past. Perhaps I was too young when it happened… I don't know.

Snake: What are you talking about, kid?

Chaos: I am one of the elements for creating Bio-Weapon System Deus. I was 'awakened' like Virgil and that other man to fulfill our purpose. I am to act as a catalyst to use the power of the Emulators for putting U-DO into you, Shion, to create Deus.

Shion: So you, too, are a part of it…

Jr: What is Deus, anyway? Is it just a weapon?

Chaos: It is a Gnosis type being with immense power. It supposedly contains the knowledge on the location of Lost Jerusalem and it will provide the means to getting there. All necessary factors have been gathered. They are probably obtaining Abel's consciousness and putting it into that vessel as we speak.

Shion: What?

Chaos: The Y data had the location of Abel's consciousness, as it floated in the realm to which Nephilim belongs to, lost in its immensity. Now that his location is known, Albedo will retrieve him, for he was 'evolved' by U-DO. This gave him the ability to delve into that world, as long as he knows were to look. Once he finds Abel, he will be placed into a cloned body of the boy he used to be. And as you may know, he is to 'guide' U-DO into you, Shion, using the power I provide.

Ziggy: But why does Wilhelm want this so badly?

Chaos: He says that there is something in Lost Jerusalem. Something of great importance. He says it is the place where humans belong, but I'm beginning to believe he only seeks power.

Wave Existence: Indeed. He seeks the power and knowledge of those who imprisoned me in the Zohar, eons ago. They're only remnants known are in Lost Jerusalem… Earth. The place the Zohar ended up in since its birth.

Snake: That was billions of years!

Wave Existence: Still, it is but a small amount of time since my entrapment. But I was left there at the demise of that civilization who created the Zohar, along with all the knowledge that they possessed. That is the knowledge that Wilhelm seeks.

Snake: Their demise?

Wave Existence: They had great power and wisdom. More than any civilization in your realm of existence, but their power got out of control, and they were their own demise. But that is a whole other story.

Jr: But they left the knowledge of that power along side you… uh, the Zohar, right?

Wave Existence: That is correct, written in a type of computer language more advanced than anything if your world, but made to be easily accessible. Wilhelm will easily obtain that power if he reaches Lost Jerusalem.

Shion: We can't let him have it! Such power should remain lost…

Jr: Wilhelm is power hungry. He probably wants to control everything. Chaos, whose side are you on?

Chaos: If I do not continue, the meaning to my existence will be lost. But I no longer believe Wilhelm seeks what is best for humanity. He only seeks power. I will do what I can to stop him. I will no longer be a puppet.

Wave Existence: You have a strong will, and good friends beside you. You will all succeed. But fearsome opponents await you. You will need more strength. This is all I can do while inside my prison. But your will shall be converted into raw power. Now go to the Eldridge and save humanity from the clutches of that man.

Everything becomes white as they leave the Wave Existence.