Defied Reality - 24. Chapter 24: Defied Reality

Scout knocked on the door. "Come in." Taylor called out and Scout walked in.

"I heard everything last night!" He grinned.

Taylor sat at the table. "Wow...that takes last night and sends it to the gutter."

Trent looked up at Taylor and shook his head. "It was special." He then looked over at Scout. "Please...don't demean it. We have wanted the time to just be together for a long time, you don't know how stressful the past few months have been."

Tears formed in Taylor's eyes. "I hate thinking about it."

Scout frowned. "I'm sorry...I didn't...I just meant..."

"If it got to happen all the time, I think we would find the humor...but it's been a real rarity." Trent said, his attention then shifted to Taylor. "Hey...stop." He reached over and rubbed the top of Taylor's hand.

Scout walked over and sat the shoe box on the table and looked at Taylor. "I didn't mean it...and I didn't know."

Taylor shook his head. "It's okay." He looked at the shoe box. "So we got the translations and the pyramid..."

"And pictures of the outside of the pyramid, and blue prints, the best I could find on Google images anyway, even some real inside pictures, I think." Scout nodded.

"What about guards?" Taylor asked.

"Uh...just freeze anyone you see." Trent said.

"This is like breaking into the white house again." Taylor said.

Scout's eyes widened. "You guys broke into the white house?!"

"Yeah, Obama's a cool dude." Trent said, sarcastically.

"We should go, it says to do it during the lunar eclipse." Taylor stood up. "Is there anything else that we need?"

"Just the shoe box and our powers...money and a taxi cab." Trent stood up and headed for the door.

Taylor grabbed the shoe box and followed Scout as he headed outside with Taylor, taking the key, he handed it off to Scout and followed Trent down to the street where he flagged down a cab.

Scout locked the door and ran off after them, reaching them by the time a cab pulled up and he climbed in after the twins.

"Giza Pyramid." Trent said, surely the driver could understand that, and obviously so as he started driving.

Taylor held onto the shoe box and looked up at the driver and then towards the rear view mirror, wondering if he was glancing back at them, Trent was the only one that could really tell, being directly behind the driver.

The drive was quiet until they saw the pyramids in the distance and noticed a crowd of people out there all around the pyramids. "Seriously?" Taylor took out his cell phone. "It's like three thirty AM here. I thought it would be closed."

"Oh yeah, something else I stumbled on, this place lacks much security and is practically a criminal play ground...mixed with real security and people pretending to be real security. How that happens, don't ask me." Scout said as the taxi driver pulled up at the gate.

"This is as far as I go." The taxi driver said.

"I'm not walking through all that mess." Trent looked at the people. "They are even climbing on it."

"Here!" Taylor flicked his hand and froze the taxi driver. "Push him out...we'll drive to it. Hell...if they can be criminal."

Trent's eyebrows lifted and he got out of the taxi and waved an arm, telekinetically flinging the gate open, he then opened the driver side door and then waved his arm again and sent the man flying out of the drivers seat and off into a patch of grass in the distance. He jumped into the drivers seat and shut the door and drove off towards the pyramid.

"Stick your arm out the window and start freezing them." Scout grinned. "Like a drive by."

Taylor looked up and grinned and leaned across the seat and rolled the window down and stuck his arm out and started freezing people in the general areas they passed. The crowds started to get bigger the closer they got, but all it meant was more people getting frozen, and the largest amount once they arrived at the entrance of the pyramid. "Think they go inside of it too? That would be bad."

"Doubt it, the place is claustrophobic? And at night?" Scout shook his head as Trent parked on the entrance side.

"Thanks for scaring me." Taylor got out along with Trent and Scout and he looked up. "The lunar eclipse is starting."

"Here's something else to scare you." Trent grinned. "You have to climb a little to get to that entrance." He pointed up.

Taylor looked over at where Trent pointed. "What? It can't be on the ground?!"

"Lets just go before..." Scout looked off in the distance. "Your freezing power wears off...you don't have huge range."

"At least all the people around us are frozen...which..." Taylor looked between them. "Is this going to be dangerous to them?"

"Don't have a choice. Not like we can telekinesis all of them across the city." Trent started up the stones.

"We could at least fling them off of it..." Taylor said as Scout followed after Trent with the shoe box and handed him a flash light. "Here."

"My arms tired, I trust the prophecy...and I'm sure they prophecied people standing on it." Trent said, taking the flash light.

"Ugh..." Taylor ran forward and started climbing up the stones to reach the entrance.

Trent turned on the flash light and shined it down a flight of steps and started down them, Scout right behind and Taylor was slowly but surely catching up.

"No kidding...claustrophobic." Trent said, shining the light down the tunnel.

"Okay...if you want a haunted house for Halloween...this is it." Taylor stopped behind Scout. "It's a pit of darkness..."

Scout turned around. "Hold the shoe box." He said, holding his own flash light between his teeth. When Taylor took the shoe box, he grabbed his flash light and shined it on a print out. "From the looks of this...the Kings chambers are closest to the top and...well, slightly off center...but I think it's our best bet." He turned around and handed the paper to Trent.

Trent took it and looked down at it. "Follow me." He said as he started walking, the other two staying close behind.

"I think this is it...top of the tower, so to speak." Trent said as he walked into an empty room with nothing but a sarcophagus inside.

"I think I have my own flash light now." Taylor took the lid off the shoe box and tossed it on the floor and pulled out the crystal pyramid that glowed a bright shade of white with a mixture of blue and purple faintly mixed in, the light was bright enough to illuminate the whole room.

Trent and Scout turned around. "Well that helps." Trent flipped his flash light off and stuck it into the back pocket of his jeans, Scout observed Trent and did the same, after seeing the crystal.

"Someone read the instruction manual." Taylor dropped the shoe box and stuck his hand out, offering up the papers.

"You're littering." Scout chuckled.

Trent grabbed the papers and looked them over.

"Like all those people outside, who probably unfroze, by the way, aren't?" Taylor walked further into the room. "Does this stone box have anything to do with it?"

Scout gasped. "They could be destroying the taxi..."

"Utilize the empty stone box." Trent walked over to it and he looked at the papers. "Place the pyramid in the center of the stone box, step one." Trent looked at Taylor. "Gage made this very...Wal-Mart."

"Ew...someone was probably buried in this at some time and dug up and sold or something. Like a Pharaoh. You know how much their body would sell for? People talk about selling bodies today. They probably did back then." He leaned down and placed the pyramid in the center of the sarcophagus.

"Now what?" Scout walked closer.

"Step two, shoppers..." Trent looked up. "I added that last part." He grinned for a second. "Slice your hands and spill your blood into the stone box, then take hands, one twin at each long side and...Tess at one of the narrow sides." Trent looked up. "He wrote this before..."

Scout nodded. "Of course..." He looked at Taylor.

"Did anyone bring a knife?" Taylor asked.

"Sure." Scout pulled a pocket knife from his pocket and flipped it open. "Do the papers say anything else?"

"Just...hold hands, concentrate all energy and during the peak of the lunar eclipse..." He looked up. "..when the moon is red, it will begin, the world will stop spinning, time will stop...everyone will pause...and by the time this is over, no one will have known anything happened, and December 21st will just be a big laugh to all, except us..." Trent folded the papers and shoved them into his other back pocket.

"Okay..." Scout stepped up to one end of the sarcophagus, and with Taylor on one side and Trent on the other, they were already perfectly aligned as per Gage's instruction. Scout looked down and pressed the blade of the pocket knife against his palm and grimaced in pain as he sliced his palm and then handed it over to Trent and held his hand over the sarcophagus, squeezing his blood into it.

"Satanism." Taylor said, sticking his hand out after Trent finished squeezing his own blood into the sarcophagus. "You do it."

Trent tilted his head to the side and then grabbed Taylor by the wrist and gave a quick slash to his palm, not wasting any time.

"Ouch!" Taylor's cry echoed through the room. He snatched his hand away from Trent.

"Put some blood in the box." Trent reminded him.

"Jack ass." Taylor glared at him and then reached over and squeezed his hand, droplets of blood spilling into the sarcophagus. "There." He pulled his hand back and his eyes widened as their drops of blood began to boil on the stone.

"The eclipse should be at it's peak." Trent said, handing the knife back to Scout.

Scout took the knife, closed it and shoved it into his side pocket and held his hands out to them.

Taylor took Scout's hand and then took Trent's and Trent grabbed onto Scout's other hand.

"Do we have to close our eyes? I want to see." Taylor said.

"Just for a minute, you will know when it starts, you'll feel it." Trent closed his eyes and began to focus his energy, picturing the crystal pyramid in his head.

Scout closed his eyes and then Taylor sighed and closed his, their energy connecting and surrounding within the connected walls that their arms created around and above the crystal pyramid.

The crystal pyramid began to spark with electricity and energy before shooting up and then stopping in the center of their formation and levitated, each of them would feel a shock, causing their eyes to pop open. They watched the pyramid levitate and rotate around before it shot up and slammed through the ceiling of the Kings Chambers, going through the layers until it burst through the top of the pyramid at a high rate of speed, only to suddenly stop, hovering above the top of the pyramid.

The trio closed their eyes tight, trying to avoid falling debris and then looked up through the hole that it created.

Four beams of purple light shot out from the square foundation of the small palm sized crystal and expanded down to the squared top of the pyramid, thereby completing it. A purple ball of energy formed in the middle of these four beams and then suddenly expanded, filling it with purple energy, creating a lighted energy constructed top.

The beams then continued down a second later, going down to the bottom of the actual pyramid it's self before traveling the foundation and connecting, that was when the cracks in the blocks began to light up and the ground shook with a quake as all the rock and stone suddenly burst and flew out for miles with such a strong force, leaving an entire purple energy filled pyramid in it's wake, the energies texture waved and flowed like water.

The three tightly held onto each other as the pyramid shook and quaked and yells were heard when the blocks burst and their hold was broken as they flew back only to be caught and they floated within the pyramid as the rocks and debris slowly past by them and resumed normal speed upon exiting the pyramid. They floated towards the ground.

All the while, the beams continued, one each towards the other two pyramids and they began to outline as the first one did and eventually burst themselves accompanied by two more quakes as the boys crawled towards each other, grabbed hands and stood up again.

Now three hollow purple watery like pyramids made up completely of energy stood in place of the original pyramids and three beams shot out of the top of each of them. The twins and Scout looked up as the beams flew towards the sky that was now suddenly filled with images that swirled and distorted, there were beaches, alternate spaces and universes, or so it appeared, jungles, deserts, canyons, images filled the entire sky as the beams crashed through them and shattered them like pictures, the outer dimensions and alternate realities that existed around Nibiru.

And finally a planet was seen, the planet hidden within all those unseen, but now destroyed, alternate realities. The beams hit the planet and crashed through the middle, connecting with the three stars of Orion's belt and reflecting off, coming back down and crashing through the planet again, destroying it and disintegrating it into nothingness. As the beams traveled back down, they hit the tops of the pyramids again and all three lit up a bright white.

Taylor jumped forward and clung to Trent, burying his face in his chest as the wind became so strong and blew them down, Trent shut his eyes tight, holding onto Taylor with one arm, desperately searching for Scout with his other hand.

The bright flash ended and the pyramid's were gone, it would be the only physical sign that anything had happened as the Earth began to rotate again and everyone unfroze and resumed from where they left off, of course, those at the pyramids were left in sudden shock and wonder. As for the trio? They were no where to be found.

Taylor opened his eyes and found himself surrounded in endless whiteness, he looked around, seeing Trent close beside him and then they saw Scout not to far away.

"That...was insane." Scout opened his eyes and looked up and around in alarm. "Oh my god...we erased everything!" He stumbled and stood up, dizzy as could be. "They tricked us, we erased everything and now this is all there is..."

Trent stood up and shook his head. "No...there has to be something to it." He reached out, taking Taylor's hand and helped him up, then there was a big deep laugh that echoed from all directions.

Scout gasped. "It's God! We're in trouble! This is judgment!"

"Who are you?!" Trent yelled out in question and half in demand.

"I am not God, as I am beyond God, as I am beyond everything and anything that is. I am as high as you can go, as low as you can go, and all around I am the final boundary if anyone manages the feat of escaping the existence of what exists within me." The voice said.

Scout looked at Taylor. "Translation? If you ever asked yourself what is everything inside of? I think..."

"This is it." Trent pointed out before them to show them a large black bubble floating in the middle of the whiteness, it wasn't pure black though, it was filled with stars, it was filled with outer space. "There's the universe. This is what it's inside of..."

Taylor walked over to it. "Okay...wait a minute, so we just destroy a planet from crashing into Earth and...we get thrown out of the world altogether?"

"There's a reason." The voice spoke. "First of all, think of me as the ultimate conscience. Without body, a non physical being, because I existed before the physical existed, but conscience has always existed."

"What does that mean to us?" Scout looked around, the voice still coming from all directions and yet seemingly no direction at all, one might even question if the voice was even an outer sound or if it was speaking to them all inside of their heads.

"I created the Annunaki as my first intelligent species, God was an Annunaki, I made him the most powerful because he was my vessel, I could enter and experience my world through him. However, the more I played him, the more autonomous he became when I let him go, then he became his own, the rest of my race, created their own race, to my surprise. So I went passive and decided to watch my world grow." The voice explained.

Taylor crossed his arms. "You played Sims."

Trent lightly nudged Taylor in the arm.

"Watching God defy his own race, using his higher power, abusing it, taking over a race that he did no work to create, essentially rewriting history, well I planned a crash course, my first active move since human birth. I planned to have Nibiru crash into the Earth and destroy all living. Yet my own race saw the event long before it's occurrence, and so cleverly combined their race with the race they created to combat my plan." The voice paused. "I was beaten, that earns a reward."

"What kind of reward?" Trent asked.

"A wish, one wish, all three must agree upon, it can be anything, but it's final, as once you go back into the world I made, you never come out of it again." The voice said.

Trent looked dead serious, understanding the meaning of this opportunity. "A wish." He looked around. "Okay, guys...don't act silly." He pointed at Taylor. "Don't act silly."

Taylor's eyebrows lifted. "Why do I get the double warning?"

Trent gave Taylor a look.

"Alright...dang." Taylor waved his hands up half way and shook them.

"What's more important than anything? Life...and many lives have been lost in this." Trent said.

"You want to wish everyone back alive?" Scout looked up. "How is that going to be explained? In fact, unless they can pull a Buffy and dig themselves up out of the grave, they will suffocate in their casket, and some were cremated, example, Dallas. Though he could just reappear."

"Defied reality." Trent looked up. "We saved the world, fulfilled our destiny, we can wish for anything, keep the effect, wish away all the cause that it took."

Taylor looked up. "What do you mean?"

Trent looked at Taylor. "I mean, wish away everything that happened since the dream, including the dream, without affecting the effect of everything we did, keep the results, erase the test, good analogy?"

"So...you want to wish that the world is still saved, but erase everything that happened to save it, up to the very event that started it? Which would mean...the world is just saved, there is no cause? Just effect?" Taylor questioned.

"Exactly...no pain, no loss, no hurt, we fulfilled our destiny...keep the game win on your 360 awards and hit reset on the game." Trent looked up. "Voice? That makes sense? Could we do that?"

"I did say anything." The voice replied simply.

Taylor lifted a hand, hesitating, but he wanted to slap Trent across the face. "Do you not realize that would erase us?!"

Trent stared at Taylor. "I realize that...very much." His eyes shifted to Taylor's hand. "And go ahead, if you want. I hate it...but this is the point in the game where you can be selfish...or you can be selfless. If we're truly meant to be...then we will be. You have to have faith in that."

"We will be? Living on two different islands?! Not knowing of each others existence? Really?! How will we be?" Taylor lowered his arm, tears forming in his eyes.

"Taylor..." Trent stepped closer and brought a hand around the back of his neck. "Love finds a way."

Taylor slowly shook his head. "Our bond never even formed until we..." He looked down. "You erase that...and you won't think anything like that of me."

"This just feels right." Trent shook his head. "I'm sorry."

Taylor reached out and yanked Trent's arm, pulling his hand away. "You're not!"

"Is this how you want it to be? This time? Before..." Trent trailed off.

"Just do it...you've made up your mind." Taylor looked away.

Trent looked down and then turned towards Scout. "You?"

"Only downfall...I'll be back in the closet with Dallas over my shoulder...not a big price to pay. Maybe I should be a demon myself this go around."

Trent looked up. "I wish...the results remain, the effect to stay...but all the cause...to have never been, defied reality." He nodded.

"So say you three, so say you all?" The voice spoke.

"Yeah." Scout nodded.

Taylor stared away, a look of pain and hate on his face. "Majority rules, right?" He closed his eyes. "Just do it...I don't want to hurt...or feel...the anticipation of this for another second."

"And it will be done." The voice said and the trio would be blinded by another flash of white.

December 21st 2012

Taylor opened his eyes and found himself laying in his bed, in his room and as far as he could recall, everything had been the usual, the same as life had been before the dream, though his memories did seem rather autonomous until now. He looked over and saw Demetrio laying in bed beside him in a white tank top and black boxers.

He got up and slipped out from the covers, wearing a matching tank top and a pair of long black pajama pants. His eyes narrowed at the morning light shining in through his window as he walked over to the long hanging mirror on his closet door.

He stared at himself, a sudden feeling of familiarity taking over, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

Demetrio sat up. "What are you doing?"

"I have this...weird feeling." Taylor said.

"Like what?" He asked.

Taylor looked at him. "Like...something is missing, like...a part of me, like a gap, an emptiness." He looked at the mirror. "I feel it...when I look at myself, I feel like I should be looking at someone else."

"Like a twin or something?" Demetrio climbed out of the bed and grinned, walking up behind him. "That's...very parent trap."

Taylor's eyes widened just a little. "Even that seems familiar." He looked down. "Like someone said something like that...before." He turned around. "I just...suddenly feel sad...like...heart broken."

Demetrio's eyebrows lifted. "Maybe you just had a bad dream and...you just remember the feelings."

"Maybe." Taylor looked up, tears streaming down his face. "But...I want the feelings to stop."

He stepped closer and hugged Taylor. "Sorry you woke up...feeling like this."

Taylor sighed and closed his eyes, resting his chin on Demetrio's shoulder. "Sorry I'm being incredibly weird."

"Weird is fun." He smiled and pulled back, and then his smile faded. "Sometimes...anyway. Lets...go see if your mom has anything good to eat, yeah?"

Taylor nodded. "Sure." He hinted a smile and followed Demetrio out of his room to head for the kitchen, that seemed to be all that he would remember, feelings.

Trent put on his headset after logging into WoW. "Yeah, bitches, I'm here...be patient." He laughed. "It's weird...I just feel like laughing...I don't know why, like something should be funny to me...and then..." His smile faded. "I feel like crying as if I should be the saddest person in the world." He rolled his mouse around. "Very bipolar of me." His eyes squinted in thought, something about that sounded so familiar, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"You're male PMSing." One of the other players said, laughing.

Trent frowned and then shook his head and laughed. "Shut up." He leaned back. "So, is there much going on?"

"In the morning? Not really, just looking for some chat with my coffee." A female player said.

"Boredom in the morning." Trent nodded. "Well, I don't have the coffee."

"You need the coffee, you're not cool without the coffee."

He laughed. "Who made that rule up?"

"I did." She said. "And it's active when I'm active."

"And when you're not?" Trent asked.

"Then make soda cool for all I care." She quietly laughed. "That's how bored I am, but aren't we all? That's why we're computer drones, we get on here to fix the plague of our lives."

Trent looked off to the side, thoughtfully. "Plague, huh?"

"Yep."

"Kinda feels like I've..." He looked down at his hand and for a second, he saw the cut from where he sliced his palm, he then blinked several times and it was gone. "Woah, I think I do need some coffee. What's your name?"

"Katherine...but just call me Kathy."

"Kathy...I'll keep that in mind, Trent here." He then tugged off the head set and used his other hand to log off, managing to do so without taking his eyes off his palm. He shook his head and stood up, quickly running off towards the kitchen, hoping a caffeine fix will help that episode, it had disturbed him.

Tess was, firstly, alive again, or rather in this altered reality, she never died. In fact, things in Miami were where things really changed the most. One thing, she was back in her old house when she heard a knock on the door. She got up and ran for the door, pulling it open to see Glenn.

Yes, Glenn, once upon a time, he crushed on Avery, which he could still do, since now she never died, due to Jordan never getting free to beat her dead, due to the Condo raid never happening. Well, now in this reality, Glenn and Tess were together.

"Hey!" Tess smiled and wrapped her arms around him. "Come in!" She yanked him in by the hand and closed the door.

"Hey, I just...wanted to come bring your present before we take off, going to see family, ya know?"

Tess smiled. "Yeah, I know." She grinned and leaned up, kissing him softly. "Even better, I know I like presents." She poked him in the chest. "So, what'ya get me, Mister?"

Glenn smiled and reached into his pocket and pulled out a box. "It's old fashioned, but I remember how you talked about always wanting one...so..." He opened it to reveal a charm bracelet.

Tess' eyes widened and she gasped. "Of course! I can't believe you remembered that! I mean...that was like, this past summer, going through storage and all my little girl things where I was telling you all my stories and of all things..." She grabbed the box and smiled.

"You were adorable that day, you just kept rambling like ninety miles a minute and...I couldn't...not love it." Glenn smiled. "Want me to put it on?"

"Yes..." Tess nodded and stuck her arm out while Glenn went and fastened the bracelet around her wrist. She then continued to admire it while Glenn sat the box on the table by the door.

A car horn was heard outside. "That's my parents, getting impatient." Glenn said.

"Well go...and have a good time." She leaned up and kissed him again. "And thank you for my present!"

"You're welcome." Glenn hugged her. "Just sorry you have to play fifth wheel all Christmas...but I will be here for New Years. I told my parents they could drive or I'd get frost bite walking."

"Then you'd get here and thaw out." Tess laughed. "Go, the sooner you get there, the sooner you get back!"

Glenn laughed and then ran out the door.

Tess smiled and looked down at her bracelet. "He's so perfect." She walked off into the living room and then stopped and looked at the couch. For a second, it didn't look like it was supposed to be there. She then looked around the house and it felt like this isn't where she should be living. Her eyes squinted and then she rolled her eyes at the odd feeling.

"I'm going to microwave melty ice cream." She headed off towards the kitchen.

As for everyone else? Everything seemed more fitting and a little more ideal if any of them could even remember in order to compare, Mia was now with Dallas and since their popular group hasn't split in this reality, Tess got along with Mia slightly better, she was still closer to Tina, who coincidentally dated a normal Cole who had never met Liam and in effect never met Kieran.

As for Simon and Kristen, they were together, it seemed they were on the right path in any reality, sadly not all things were so great. Scout was back in the closet with Dallas hovered over him like a bear, secretly crushing on Baily who secretly crushed on him, but kept himself busy at the same time with friends with benefits, Raidyn, who was medicated and healthy, so long as he remained doing so.

A happy end? A sad end? Maybe not an end at all, there was life to be lived. And Tess, Taylor and Trent all seem to have a vague sense of memory or feeling, who knew if anyone else had or would experience the same or if it would fester into more? For now, the world was saved and their lives remade and most seemed to be at peace with that whether they knew it or not.