Ulrich and Odd led everyone into the old factory. Krystal's eyes darted everywhere and she gasped in horror and raced to her father.
"Daddy, this is the place I saw in my nightmare"
As young as Krystal was, she was already very smart and had a very good mind to remember things like these.
Ulrich was speechless. Krystal could not have known about this factory. For a start, she lived in England for the first 3 and half years. And then he and Yumi hadn't mentioned this place at all.
"Jer, I need to talk to you, you guys go ahead"
Apart from Ulrich and Jeremie, everyone went around the factory telling the 2 youngsters of their adventures, knowing full well that they would repeat themselves over and over again as they got older.
Meanwhile, Ulrich told Jeremie everything that had happened recently with Krystal. Jeremie, like Ulrich had been, was speechless.
"Coincidence?" Jeremie asked
Ulrich simply looked at him unbelievably.
"Come on, lets catch up I think I saw them going up to the top floor" Jeremie said changing the subject after giving up on the mystery.
"I'll be there in a sec, Jer"
Jeremie caught up with the others in time to fall as the aged floor gave away.
Ulrich, who was about to catch the lift up heard the screams and knew, in a panic, what had happened.
With no time to spare he grabbed the old mattress that Jim had used to sleep on before the final battle with X.A.N.A and flung it underneath the louder screams.
Everyone but Krystal and Odd fell onto the soft mattress but them two fell hard onto the cold stone floor.
Ulrich ran forward to his daughter;
"Krystal, Krystal, please answer" he pleaded with her in his arms.
Yumi got up from the mattress and joined in with her husbands pleading.
Sam and Twinkle were also trying to get Odd to wake up,
"Daddy, please!"
Odd's eyes flickered open and a brief smile shone before he became once again unconscious.
"He's alive Sam, don't worry, but there could be an internal bleed, ambulance now!" Jeremie ordered as he moved onto Krystal who had awoken once.
Ulrich and Yumi were now in tears but never giving up on making their daughter awake.
Jeremie removed Krystal from Ulrich's arms and lay her down so he could examine her freely.
"She's breathing but very shallow, her pulse is very slow, good thing an ambulance is on its way"
Yumi clung onto Ulrich in fear.
'Not again, please not again. This would be worse, please not again' Ulrich prayed
Odd had awoken after surgery feeling his old self minus grogginess from the Anaesthetic 6 hours after the fall.
Krystal, on the other hand, hadn't.
She had been in surgery twice, both from internal bleeds but to no avail to her waking up.
Yumi had broken her heart when she had overheard the doctors talking about the case. They had called it 'hopeless' and that it was very unlikely she would awake.
However, neither one of them gave up hope, even after the others had to get home when it was after 3am.
Ulrich and Yumi stayed right beside Krystal all the time never giving up hope that she would once again awake.
They had not placed her middle name as Hope for nothing. Ulrich and Yumi hoped and hoped she would awake.
Ulrich had not gone to sleep but had kept watching his daughter for signs of movement. Yumi had reluctantly fallen asleep on Ulrich's shoulder but awoke with a start when Krystal's life machine...