I'm finding something somewhat disturbing, when I use word count in MS Word it gives me a higher number of words then this program does. I don't know what is happening, as far as I can tell everything is here, but if you suddenly notice that it looks like something obvious is missing then please tell me.
Mysterious Signs Continued
Jeremie:
I was working on finding an antivirus to the virus that X.A.N.A. had put in her. I was not having much luck. This seemed to be just as hard as materializing her. X.A.N.A. had managed to scramble the coding so much that my computer couldn't even read it. Aelita and I were trying to descramble it enough so that we could begin working on an antivirus.
Aelita was in a window facing me, and I was working in a window next to hers. Every now and then she would look over at me, or I would look over at her. Who ever looked would blush slightly and turn back to their work. It was ironic in a way, if she had been on earth with me and we were working on something similar I was almost sure that we would be doing the same thing.
"Aelita, how is it going on your end?" I asked.
"Huh? Oh, the same, it seems that X.A.N.A. really did a good job with this one." She said. "From what I have descrambled the virus appears to be almost like the equivalent of a genetic mutation. I would almost go as far as to say that the virus that infected X.A.N.A. put a little of itself into my coding. The coding that was placed in mine has managed to start mutating my 'DNA'. But that is just from what I have unscrambled."
He had placed some of himself into her… No, that couldn't be. If it was translated into genetics… but I couldn't think about that, it just wouldn't happen. It couldn't…
"Jeremie, you look pale." Aelita said. She thought for a moment and then quickly said, "No, I don't mean it that way… it's very different. More like a mutagen then that…"
I exhaled. Well if Aelita didn't think so, then I would ignore it. It was silly of me to think that way anyway. It was a genetic mutation, not… anyway…
"Wait, you have more data than I do, can you send some of it to me?" I asked.
"Sure," she said smiling. "I'm sending it right no-"
The link ended and Aelita's window disappeared. In its place another window opened. The window had the X.A.N.A. symbol in it, but as suddenly as it appeared it began being replaced slowly by the symbol that had appeared on my computer the last time the link was cut.
This was bad; I didn't know what it meant, but I knew it was bad. Even if what ever this new element was didn't work for X.A.N.A. it still might be a problem. If it was someone or something that was intelligent enough to hack into X.A.N.A. then it could become even more of a threat than X.A.N.A. himself. If on the other hand it was X.A.N.A. then we were still in trouble because he had become more powerful.
I quickly got out my cell phone and called Yumi. The phone rang a few times but no one picked up. I then tried Ulrich and he picked up after the third ring.
"Hello, Jeremie?" Ulrich said.
"Ulrich, we need to get to the factory." I told him.
"Well, we are way ahead of you. Yumi's telepathic sense picked up again and we are following something to the factory."
"What? Yumi's telepathic sense has activated itself again? This might be worse than I had thought."
"Believe me Jeremie, it is. Yumi was screaming in pain because of what ever this is."
"It's that bad… It could do that to Yumi? Is she all right?"
"She is ok now, but you should have seen her. What ever this is it is more of a threat than any of us could have imagined, it might even be worse than X.A.N.A."
"Ok, I'm going to call Odd and we will meet you there." I said to him.
"Don't bother. Yumi has been trying and hasn't been able to get a hold of him."
"Then I'll just meet you there." I said wondering where Odd could be if we couldn't get in touch of him.
I quickly grabbed anything that I though that I might need and made my way out of the dorm. I was in such a hurry that I was running sporadically. I narrowly hit the wall a few times, and when I came to the stares I suddenly remembered the last time that I had run down them. I had been running from Jim, and had tripped on the stares spraining my ankle.
As soon as I was at the bottom of the stares I began running again, and as a result I ran into Jim. He stopped me in my tracks and moved me a few feet in front of him to have a look at me. I knew that I had made a mistake and was about to pay for it. Jim had that 'boy are you going to get it now', better known as the 'what are you up to this time' look on his face.
He opened his mouth to speak, but then something crossed his mind and he said, "You know that you shouldn't run inside the school like that. From now on I expect you to be more careful."
I was shocked. I had really expected him to bust me and ask me what I was up to. I guess the time that we stuck up for him and saved him from the headmaster was still freshly in his mind. I thanked him and moved to the door as quickly as walking would allow. As soon as I was outside I began running again.
By the way, I am making an attempt to deliver quality chapters of no less than five hundred words, so far I have done great... But I could do better, I'll try to make it no less than a thousand, but for now it will be somewhere in between.