"Come on guys, get up! It's a XANA attack!"
Ulrich groaned, got up and squinted at Jeremy. "What is it now," he groggily asked.
"My computer just turned off! Come see!"
Ulrich followed Jeremy to his room past all the dorms where people where probably still asleep. As they should be. It was 6:00 am and the next class was at 8. But Jeremy always got up early, but stayed up late working on materialization for Aelita. He was worried about Jeremy. Yesterday he fell asleep during class. A couple weeks ago he was so groggy during gym that Jim took him to the infirmary, but the doctor diagnosed him with, well, drowsiness.
They came to Jeremy's room.
"See! Look," Jeremy pointed to the blank screen of his computer.
Ulrich looked around, and moved to the computer. He plugged it in.
"Uhhh…" Jeremy blushed.
Ulrich turned to leave. "You know Jeremy, you need more sleep."
"But I'm working on something very important!"
"What could be so important that you fall asleep in class?"
"Well, it's-"
"Or get hit with a soccer ball?"
"Hey, that ball was going really fast!"
"2 miles an hour."
"Ulrich, XANA's going to launch an attack!"
Odd suddenly came in the room.
"Carpet tacking? What's that about carpet tacking? I love carpet tacking!"
Ulrich looked back at Odd, rolled his eyes, and turned back to Jeremy.
"Yeah, what about that?"
"Carpet tacking?"
"No Odd! XANA Attacking!"
Jeremy sat on his chair and turned to the computer. He pressed a few buttons and a diagram listing energy output of something came up.
Jeremy turned back to the boys. "I've been working on a new program that reads the output energy of XANA, to know when he's going to attack-"
Odd put up a finger. "Like a pre-shock reader."
Jeremy kept a serious face. "Yeah. And by this diagram, I figure that XANA's launching an attack-"
Odd and Ulrich exclaimed simultaneously, "WHAT!"
"Yumi! It's 7:58, and your gonna be late!"
Yumi Ishiyama got dressed. "Okay! Be right down!"
Thump! Thump! Thump! Down the stairs, grabbed her books and a celery stick and Yumi was on her way. A couple people walked by. Then suddenly,
"Ahhhh! Help me, somebody!" A man in a suit ran by her headlong towards the police station. She looked where he had been running from. All she saw was a couple people looking at the man running away.
Besides that, nothing.
Yumi said one word.
"Huh?"