Yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh! Here we go, Ch. 14! Only a few chapters until the end! Wooooooohoooooo!
Chapter 14-White Noise
An hour long hang-out session at Yumi's house, including all five friends, and Yumi finally remembered to remind them: it was June 30th and White Noise Day was on July 2nd.
Odd, he was gulping soda when she said it, lowered the soda can and gagged on the fizzy drink, then swallowed it with great effort. "WHAT!" he screamed.
"AAAAAAAIIIIIIII!" evryone else shrieked. They scrambled to Yumi's computer and looked at the computer calender. They sputtered and stared at the huge 30 June 2005 type on the computer screen, in alarm and horror.
"ALRIGHT!" hollered Jeremie. Everyone turned and gaped, wide-eyed and ashen faced, at Jeremie.
"Here's what we're gonna do!" He held up a fist authoratively. "Aelita, Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, you're all going to Lyoko! I agree with Aelita! Who cares about Helo? If he won't tell us what's wrong, I guess we'll find out what's up ourselves when we go there!"
Everyone cheered. "Aelita," he said. "When is a good time to go?"
"Very early tomorrow morning. I know I'm so close, but we still need as much time as possible."
"Alright. Sneak out of your houses, 5:00 AM, and get to the factory. We have a world to save."
They cheered again.
"What's all the noise up there?" Mrs. Ishiyama called.
"Nothing!" Yumi yelled.
She smiled at the rest of them. "We can do it."
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Yumi was sitting next to the elevator, yawning and listening to music on a portable radio she had brought. The SuperSonics were playing from the CD Yumi had in the CD player. She'd listened to it about three thousand times, with how long she'd been waiting, so she switched it to radio.
"Hello, I'm Glenn!" came a man's voice.
"And I'm Noel!" a woman said.
"And you're listening to..." they said in unison, then voices sang; "103.3 WKFR!"
Then another man said, "Today's best music!"
Then Madonna's song "Hung Up" started playing. Since she was alone, Yumi sang with it tapping her foot in time with it.
"Every little thing that you say I'll do, I'm hung up... I'm hung up on you... waitin' for your call, baby, night and day..."
She quickly stopped tapping and singing as she saw Odd and Ulrich hop from the overhang under the window toward the ceiling of the factory and onto ropes like a couple of Tarzans. They slid down it and jumped off and landed like professional acrobats by Yumi.
"Where were you?" Yumi quipped.
"Places," Odd replied smugly.
Just then Aelita came swooping down beside them, Jeremie close behind. "OK, ready, ladies?" Jeremie asked, standing by the elevator.
Yumi and Aelita smiled, whereas Ulrich and Odd yelled at Jeremie.
"For an Einstein, you sure don't know gender difference, do ya?" Odd retorted.
They all smiled and laughed, stepping into the elevator. The metal box went down to Jeremie's computer room. Little did they know of what would happen.
Aelita stood in the elevator and felt a feeling of anxiety and even fear.
"Guys, I feel kind of..." she started to say, then Odd cut her off.
"Afraid? There's a club for that, and it's called me and you."
"Hey!" Ulrich said. "That's my joke!"
Everyone laughed except for Aelita. "I'm serious," she started to say as the elevator clanged to a stop and the doors started to open. "I- what's that sound?"
Everyone stopped and listened. Over the sound of the elevator doors coming apart, they could hear a faint noise. An unfamiliar noise. A monotonous beep-ish sound, unchanging and constant.
Then the doors opened and the noise was VERY, VERY loud. Aelita screamed and covered her ears as best she could. Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie did the same.
"WHAT IS THAT AWFUL SOUND!" screamed Yumi.
"WHAT?" shouted Jeremie. "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
"THE SOUND! THE SOUND! WHAT IS IT?" she repeated, quite shrilly.
"IT'S WHITE NOISE! SOMETHING IS WRONG!" he answered.
Aelita looked at the virtual map of Lyoko. "OH NO!" she hollered.
"WHAT? WHAT IS IT?" everyone asked.
"LOOK! THE LYOKO MAP! LOOK AT THE ICE REGION!"
"YOU WANT TO BOOK AT THE DICE LEGION? HUH?" Odd yelled.
"NO! I SAID LOOK AT THE ICE REGION! ON THE MAP!"
Everyone looked to where Aelita was referring to. They were so astonished they couldn't even gasp. "WHERE IS THE ICE REGION?" screamed Ulrich.
Indeed, the ice region was gone; there was only a bright white spot in its place.
"I NEED TO GO TO THE SUPERCALCULATOR TO TURN OFF THE WHITE NOISE!" Jeremie told them.
He ran to the elevator and stepped inside. "I'LL BE RIGHT BACK! HANG IN THERE!"
He quickly took his left hand from his ear and pressed the button on the elevator's button pad, leading to the supercalculator room.
He was relieved when the doors closed. When he got to his destination, there was no white noise in there, just a faint thrum of it fromthe computer room. He sighed in relief and went rapidly to the supercalculator. The great machine rose up, its chasse of magnificent shining streaks of gold over black. Steamy gas billowed from it as it rose up from the ground. Jeremie fiddled with it for some time before he heard the white noise stop and his friends cheer.
He rode the elevator back up and when he was back his friends smiled at him and followed him as he went back to his computer. He sat down and started typing furiously.
"I'm looking for why the ice region dissapeared," he said.
For a few moments mystery lingered in the air as evryone watched him run searches.
"Bingo. Just as I suspected."
"What did you find?" Aelita asked.
"White Noise Day scheduled for Earth is tomorrow. White Noise Day scheduled for Lyoko..."
He sighed. "It's today, isn't it?" Yumi said quietly.
"I should have known. Ice region's dissapearance was scheduled for five AM. That already happened. The forest region is scheduled for noon, the mountain region for four PM, and the desert for six PM."
"What about Carthage?"
"For some reason, it's not scheduled until the same time Earth is destroyed. That's probably what the program is going to use to generate White Noise Day."
"What if we destroyed Carthage then? Is it possible?"
"No. Aelita will have to go to Lyoko. Everyone to the scanners."
And they marched to the scanners at his command, knowing it may have been their last chance.
You can just see a fantastic end coming, can't you? Ooooooo, I'm so excited!
Next chapter: Aelita and friends go to Lyoko. After Aelita enters XANA's tower in Carthage, she finds out Irene isn't as far away as she seems... Chapter 15-Meeting with a Ghost