Kioshie - hey guys!
Burgessa - what are you doing here?
Kioshie - I snuck out for a little while.
Linkmasta - study session with friends
Goth-Odd - don't even mention school
Sombersongwolf - where's Kasi Karra by the way?
Burgessa - Typing away on her computer.
Goth-Odd - is that all she ever does?
Linkmasta - you'ld think so at the rate we get these chapters from her.
voice outside - KIOSHIE!!!!!!!!!!
Kioshie - O.O uhhh gotta go
Sombersongwolf - may want to use the backdoor
Kioshie - thanks. Send me the next chapter
Goth-Odd - kay
Linkmasta - look Kasi Karra spent a whole page on the disclaimer.
Burgessa - just delete it. We all know it already.
Everyone - enjoy!
In the real factory
Ryrin studied the numbers as Xana shifted her gaze from screen to screen at an almost blinding speed. "Are we going to make it in time?" she thought.
Xana remained quiet and emotionless. "There's a 50% chance we won't make it."
Ryrin mentally sighed as she returned her full attention to the programs. "3rd row, column 2, screen 5."
Xana nodded and changed the one to a zero with a few clicks before continuing on in another box.
In the factory in Lyoddstal
Crystal regained conciousness for a minute before passing out again, her transparency was beginning to be more prominent and noticable. Before she passed out she showed the others how to make digital interfaces appear in mid air. The interfaces were similar to those in the Lyoko towers, but were purple in color.
"I love you Odd," she had managed to whisper before blacking out. Odd held onto her body and felt he body against his chest as she lost the strength to stay upright.
"Love you to," he whispered.
Minutes passed and Yumi had created another panel that was used for just the clock. Aelita and Jeremy had begun to unscramble a few of the codes and programs, but there was a lot left to decode and none of it was making sense.
Yumi was next to Ulrich trying to work on a a red flashing box popped up. It had a little picture of a letter on it. "I'm assuming this says incoming message." Yumi called to Aelita across the room.
"Does it say who it's from?" William asked.
"No, but there's 5 symbols underneath it," Ulrich said copying down the symbols.
"Must be from Sadai," Sapphire said.
Jeremy shrugged. "What do we have to loose?"
The others nodded as Yumi walked over to the middle of the room her interface floating in front of her. She sat in the middle of the room and double clicked on the box. The letter opened. Suddenly the power went out and everything plunged into darkness.
The gang didn't have time to react before the power came back on again.
Yumi looked at the letter and saw that it was in english and not in code.
"Dearest prisoners,
Congragulations on being so close to cracking the code, but I can't let the game end like that. 3 days have been deducted from your timer and the code has been rescrambled.
Best of Luck to you all
Sadai."
"She even put little smiles and flashy hearts all over the page," Ulrich said barely able to keep control of his anger.
"That explains the power outage," Aelita said returning to her three interfaces. "Oh well it looks like we're cracking the code again."
"Sorry guys," Yumi said a little depressed that she had ruined everything.
"It's not your fault," Sapphire chimed in.
"Yeah any of us would have fallen for Sadai's trap," William replied.
"Thanks guys," Yumi said as a new box with a letter popped up on her screen. The room was silent. "There's about 9 symbols."
"What do you mean about 9?" Jeremy asked.
Yumi flipped the screen around. the symbols were close together and it was hard to tell where one symbol ended and the next one started.
"What do we have to loose?" Odd asked.
"Another three days off the timer," Ulrich muttered.
"I'm confident the others will get us out before then," Jeremy said waving a hand.
Yumi nodded and opened the letter. "It's all the same symbols." Everyone was quiet for a minute.
"I wonder if Charlotte sent it," Aelita whispered.
"Why would she send a coded letter?" Odd asked.
"And why would Sadai let it through?" Sapphire asked.
"Because Charlotte doesn't know that everything is coded differently and maybe she snuck it through all of Sadai's defenses."
The others nodded at Aelita's logic. "Well then lets crack the code. We know the 9 symbols stand for Charlotte so lets go from there."
Jeremy looked at his screen and scanned through a few screens. "This isn't making sense . . . and it just seems too easy."
~Kaito~
Burgessa had her breathing under control again and was now walking with Kaito through the white blankness of the world.
"Is this all there is?" Burgessa asked.
"Yup," Kaito said.
The pair continued on in silence.
~Simone~
Simone's crying had stopped and she was starting to calm down a little.
"It was just so scary," she whispered. Her entire body was exhausted from all of the screaming and tightening her muscles in preperation for the attack.
"What was?" Charlotte asked.
"There were these big black demons and they were laughing at me and getting read to attack and and," Simone started talking getting more and more hysterical as she talked.
"shhh shhh shh," Charlotte said trying to calm Simone back down. "Their gone now and I won't let anything happen to you okay?" she asked hugging Simone closer.
"Thanks Charlotte," Simone whispered letting a tear of happiness fall.
~Margret~
"Like I'll let you just stick that needle in my arm with out a fight!" Margret screamed. She had bashed down the door with a little luck and a few luckier body slams. The right side of her body was bruised, and the chains around her felt tighter then they were to begin with.
Sadai stood in front of her with a very long needle. "Who said I care about your opinion?" Sadai asked shaking the needle. The liquid in the back was neon purple and seemed to glow brighter when she shook it. Sadai charged Margret holding the needle in front of her like a weapon.
"This is going to be really difficult," Margret muttered to herself as she side stepped and backed up a few paces. The two girls circled each other for a minute.
Sadai lunged again. "The same trick won't work," Margret laughed side stepping out of the way.
"Who said it's the same trick?" Sadai asked. A new needle virtualized in Sadai's other hand and she rammed it into Margret's side.
Margret fell to her knees as she felt the liquid enter her system and begin to burn away at her digital self. She tried to scream, but no noise came out.
Sadai knelt next to Margret's withering body. She put a hand under Margret's chin and tiltied it up so they could look into each other's eyes.
"Soon the process will be complete my little puppet," she laughed releasing Margret's head and letting it fall to the floor. Sadai walked out of the room laughing the whole way out.
Margret remained on the floor curled up as much as she could. She continued her silent screaming as she was forced to endure the pain.
In the real factory
"Margret's loosing life points quickly!" Ryrin exclaimed looking at another screen where the kids Lyoddstal pictures, life points and locations were.
Xana glanced over. "That's not good."
"Where is she?" Ryrin asked.
Xana shrugged. "She disappeared into the alternate dimension along with the majority of the others. I'll have to go find her."
"I want to come to," Ryrin said.
Xana shook her head. "Maybe next time. Right now we need someone like you to man the computer."
Ryrin reluctently nodded as Xana left her body and entered the computer screen.
"And keep an eye on that email we sent to the others," Xana said before disappearing.
Ryrin nodded as she quietly got to finishing the programs. She wasn't nearly as fast at Xana, but she finished them in a timely manner.
In the dark sector
"Lita," Adrian called listening to his voice echo back at him. Adrian took a tenative step forward. "Lita!" he called as he continued to take tenative steps into the darkness.
What felt like hours passed as he continued to walk forward in a straight line. Finally on the distance Adrian caught sight of a dim light on the horizon.
"LIta?" Adrian called running forward. Adrian reached the base of a tower. He looked up at the tower a little discouraged. It wasn't Lita.
Adrian sighed as he walked around the tower. On the ground was Lita's red pendant.
"Lita?!" he exclaimed. He ran over and picked up the pendant. 'Lita?" he whispered.
"Where are you?" he screamed into the darkness.
'She's not coming back," a dark voice said beside him. Adrian spun on his heels to face the dark voice. Xyirean took a step into the faded ring of light cast by the tower. "She's dead and she's never coming back," he said again pointing a finger at Adrian. From behind him 10 hornets appeared and flew at Adrian.
Adrian summoned his ice staff and prepared to fight, but he knew he wouldn't be able to last long. Adrian's specialty was defense, but he wasn't sure he could defend against 10 hornets for an extended period of time.
"I don't believe you," Adrian screamed a few tears falling down his face as he swung his staff and sent snow flakes after a few hornets while summoning a encasement of ice around himself.
