~ In the fake lab ~
Xana opened an interface and stopped falling. She typed faster.
The others continued to fall. After a couple seconds they'd fallen so far that they couldn't be seen and their screams couldn't be heard . . .
~ Kalidascope world ~
Burgessa winced as she tried to shrink back from Charlotte's attack, but she couldn't move.
A second passed and Burgessa looked up to see Charlotte's staff over her head.
Charlotte looked up her eyes hard as she studied the shadow. The shadow orbs had gone through her doing no damage.
"Who are you?" Charlotte asked as the orbs disappeared.
Burgessa saw Charlotte's lips move, but didn't hear anything. Burgessa was about to ask when she felt the ice around her give way.
Burgessa broke free a nd caught Charlotte as she started to pass out.
"Who?" she whispered as her vision went black.
"You okay?" Burgessa called to Kaito.
Kaito nodded. "Yes, but Simone isn't." He laid her on the ground next to him as his shoulder bled a little more.
"Neither is Charlotte," Burgessa said walking over and laying Charlotte next to Simone. "We've got to get out of here soon," she said laying a hand on Kaito's wound. She tore of a length of cloth from her skirt and made a crude makeshift bandage.
"How?" Kaito asked.
"I don't know," Burgessa said as their world began to collapse. /div
"thirty seconds . . . " Sadai's voice echoed through their makeshift world.
"Now I really have no clue what we're going to do," Burgessa called over the sound of their world falling apart.
"I can't hear you," Kaito called unable to even hear his own voice. He saw a piece of the ceiling falling and he jumped up grabbing his club. He hit the boulder with all of his strength shattering it and saving the two passed out girls. Kaito groaned as his shoulder screamed in response.
~ In the Real lab ~
"I'm sorry," Ryrin heard a few voices whisper in her headset as she laid her hand on the plug.
Something happened and electricity shot through her body. Ryin screamed once in pain before falling backwards unconscious.
Ryrin woke up only a few se conds later. "Hurry Ryrin," Xana called to her through the head set. "Hurry . . ."
~ In a tower somewhere ~
"Sorry again," Lita thought. "Found it." Lita smiled as she found the last virus file. She went to delete it, when the file turned purple. The virus disappeared, but a new file was left.
Lita weighed her options. She finally threw up a few firewalls and opened the last file.
"The Silent open the voice activation
The Hidden save the dead
The New destroy the Dark
The Light is banished
And t he Familiar is saved." It read.
"It doesn't make sense," Lita thought. Lita heard something and looked over her shoulder. Her program had stopped working and her brother was dying again.
Lita shook her head as she couldn't believe what was happening.
She opened her mouth, but she couldn't say anything through her tears.
Her subconscious continued to work on other things on other interfaces.
Author's Discussion
Kasi Karra – Time for the final countdown.
Goth-Odd – Final countdown?
Kasi Karra – the last 10 seconds
Linkmasta – really O.O
Kioshie – yay!
Burgessa – let's help Sadai count it down
Sadai – I DON'T NEED HELP
Kasi Karra – yeah yeah just get back in the story and do as I say.
10 . . .
Lita sent the redone program to Ryrin at the main computer. Lita looked back at her brother and the slowing program broke against her will.
9 . . .
Kaito fell to his knees as the pain in his shoulder became unbearable.
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"Kaito!" Burgessa exclaimed running to Kaito's side.
7 . . .
Xana screamed in frustration as she broke the interface. The screen exploded into a thousand fragments.
6 . . .
"Hurry," Xana's voice called to Ryrin through the headset.
5 . . .
The fragments reworked themselves into thousands of screens
4 . . .
Xana scanned them all and fina lly found what she was looking for.
3 . . .
She pulled the DNA sphere out of her pocket and slammed it into the computer screen.
2 . . .
"ADRIAN!" Lita called saying something for the first time in years as her brother's body devirtualized.
1 . . .
The final virus burst from the tower walls and enveloped the last of Adrian's devirtualizing fragments.
Ryrin hit the enter button.
Time froze
"NO!" Sadai screamed as the return to the past covered Lyoddstal.