Chapter 4: Suspicions
After we returned to the college, I knew we would have to explain everything. But I would have Jeremy, Odd, Ulrich and Yumi to back me up. I turned around to see that they were gone.
They must've gone to class, I thought.
I shuddered as I saw the principle coming towards me.
"Aelita, "he started, "Mrs. Hertz has told me you went to find Odd, Ulrich and Yumi. Have you found out where they are yet?"
I was about to answer yes, but my human instincts took over. By the way my friends had left, I knew they were planning something. I don't know why, but I answered…
"No sir, I haven't found them yet."
"Very well, "he stated, "I'll let you look a little more, seeing that you seem to know where they are most of the time. But you need to go to your class at 2:00"
"Thank you." I answered, as I looked at the clock. It read 1:30.
I jogged to where I thought my friends would be, and I was right. In Jeremy's room. I still saw the pseudo-Jeremy in the bed. I shuddered as I looked from the real Jeremy to the bed. It was I frightening thought. Especially that if XANA bringing the fake versions to the real world had worked. It would've been chaos.
"We have to take them." Yumi said to Jeremy.
"What? " I confusingly interjected. "Take them to where?"
Jeremy turned around in his chair to face me. "We are going to take them to the factory and virtualize them."
I was mystified. "Why?" I asked.
"Because, "declared Jeremy, "If we virtualize them, it will take their atomic structure and store it in the super calculator, which we can then delete. Then they can't get out."
With all the long words Jeremy was using I expected Odd to say something like he always does, such as, "In English please," or, "Do you come with subtitles?"
But he didn't. He just nodded his head nonchalantly.
"Well let us go." Yumi said.
I still was trying to think how we would get the fake Jeremy, Odd, Ulrich and Yumi out of the college without being noticed. "How do we get them to the factory?" I asked. "And what about the fake Yumi? She's still at her house."
"Don't worry." Ulrich said
"We'll make it." Odd affirmed
"And we brought the fake Yumi with us."
That was strange. I didn't remember them getting fake Yumi.
We went to the factory anyway. But there seemed to be something wrong with Jeremy. I didn't know what was going on. It seemed to be that Ulrich and Odd were weird, too. And Yumi was acting strangely as well. But it was going to get much more bizarre.