Okay. So I got a litte impatiant and posted before I got 5 more reviews. So enjoy this short chapter.

Kevin Shook Chapter 3: Listen to Odd

There is a loud grinding sound followed by a consistent mechanical hum. The gray house of Portson Drive is brought back to life. The lights in the two upstairs dormer windows flicker back to full power and boar into the darkness of the neighborhood. The rest of the homes remain in the threatening darkness.

Jeremie and Aelita continue standing arm in arm in the newly restored light of the small living room. The large generator in the back yard drones on while powering the rest of the house. Aelita is still sobbing loudly. Jeremie stares straight ahead over her shoulder at the stairwell located directly in front of the entrance door. He still was holding a sobbing Aelita. "It's going to be okay Aelita. It's all going to be fine." He said in softest tone he could manage without letting any hint of fear slip through. Aelita looked up at him.

"You bastard!" Aelita suddenly snapped at him. "Don't you sit here and lie to me!" She was no longer crying. She was staring into his eyes with a tearful anger. "You know damn well that it won't be okay! The only people who can stop XANA are scattered on four different countries!" There was no more tearful anger now, she was just angry.

Jeremie stares into the eyes of his angry wife. She was right. There was no way they could stop XANA this time. The authorities would see this as a terrorist attack and have all continental travel ways inoperable. All flights would be grounded. All boats would be docked. Hell, maybe even space travel would come to a halt for a while. Aelita seemed to have been thinking the same exact thing. Tears begin to well up in her eyes again. "This is all my fault!" she choked out before sobbing uncontrollably.

"Aelita, don't say that. This is no ones fault." Jeremie said in an attempt to comfort his hysterical wife, but with no such luck.

"No Jeremie, it is! This could have all been avoided if I had just listened to Odd!" She threw her head into his chest and began sobbing once more. Another branch hit the house as the wind continues to roar with vengeance outside. Aelita jumped slightly before continuing the sobbing. Something goes off in Jeremie's mind. 'Listened to Odd?' Jeremie placed his hands gently on Aelita's shoulders and brought her up so that their eyes could meet.

"Aelita, what do you mean when you say that you should have listened to Odd?" Jeremie asked her with a firm tone. Aelita looked at him with tear filled eyes. She began to explain what she meant while stammering a few times. "He- he sent me an Email an a few weeks ago. He said- he said that there was some unusual activity at the factory. People were paying lots of attention to it. Carrying boxes and supplies in it, giving it a new coat of blinding white paint. You know, just basically fixing it up." Aelita had gotten herself under control by now.

"Aelita, you need to show me this Email." Jeremie told her with a tone of urgency in his voice yet still keeping a caring face as not to upset Aelita.

They break each other's stares and walk toward the large kitchen doorway and faced a dining room table with the open kitchen to the left of it. They turn to the right and take the narrow carpeted hallway. At the very end of the short hallway is a door on the right-hand wall. Jeremie and Aelita walk into this room. On the far wall left of the entrance in the small bedroom is a wall of computer CPUs. Four shelves stacked on top of each other with six computer CPUs on each shelf. On the wall to the left of this wall is a wall of computer monitors. A computer desk with a large thick shelf on the top. On the top shelf are four computer monitors. On the bottom is a large twenty inch plasma screen placed in the middle with one monitor on each side of it. Aelita walked over to the wall of CPUs and flipped a switch on the metal frame of the shelf. In an instant every CPU had a steady red light next to the power buttons indicating that they are operational. All of the computer monitors flashed on except for the one in the top right corner. Aelita sees this and her eyes begin to fill with tears again. Jeremie tries to comfort her. "Aelita don't worry, that monitor has just run its course. We can get another one out of the attic or-"

Aelita cuts him off. "No Jeremie, you don't understand! That monitor was hooked up to a special CPU where I had Odd's picture as the desktop! It's a dark sign Jeremie and I know it! Odds been hurt! Oh my God, not Odd!" her voice trails off as her words become indistinguishable. Jeremie rushes over to his once again hysterical wife and holds her.

Well, this chapter was supposed to be longer, but I thought it would be best if I gave Odd his own chapter. He deserves it don't you think? Let me know what you think! I need reviews! After the Odd chapter I have no idea where I'm going with this. A few super Odd fans might be a little shaken by the next chapter. I'll try to have it up as soon as possible!