"XANA's attacking!" -People talking normally in a conversation
[XANA's attacking!] -Characters talking through phone.
Happy Thanksgiving folks, the chapter is unfinished, but I thought I should give you, the readers, something for the holidays.
Note: Slight AU because I have plans for this fic other than to pair my favorite couple. There is a reference from the show, watch out for it.
When Ulrich got into the wood in an area near the track field, it did not take long for him to find the man hole cover that his acquaintance talked about. He pulled out his mobile phone and call the blonde genius after climbing down.
[Hey Jeremie, I'm in the sewers.] Ulrich told him once he answered. [Which directions do I go?]
[If I remember correctly, just go straight until you find a ladder.] Jeremie said as he added. The blonde genius decided to stop worrying since if he was able to sneak out that one time, then his classmate should be able to as well. [Although, it could take about 25 minutes on foot to get there unless you run, which I highly advised you don't.]
Ulrich chuckled as he hanged up as he took his time and walk in slow pace. While he was walking, he reflected on his day today.
Like always, Sissi asked him out on a date and no doubt she will confront him for not coming. Now does he think about it, she would definitely go to his dorm room first since every one should be in bed by now, which means Sissi might find out about Odd's dog. Meaning she would tell this information to her father or Jim. Either way, Odd and his dog will both get in trouble and Kiwi will be sent back home and if Ulrich is lucky, his roommate might also get sent back.
"Well that's one problem solve." Ulrich commented as he look at the silver lining. Now he thinks back about his lost against her.
Kadic Academy has several martial arts clubs such as karate, jiu jujitsu, kenpo, and pencak silat. Ulrich goes to all the clubs and has a black belt in all of them except for the very last one which he is still trying to hone his skills at. Other than William, who is now gone, there are not that many martial artists who attends Kadic and they could not stand a chance against the male brunette...
except for a new student who just enrolled at the beginning of the school year. If he remembered correctly, the new student is of Japanese descendant and is a year older than him since he does not share any classes with her. Early today, she recently joined the pencak silat club and easily defeated him in many rounds. He left the gymnasium steamed and ignored the handshake from her.
Losing to her made Ulrich feel inferior, but reflecting back, he has been neglecting his training since he was getting bored with his routine and there was never any incentive in beating any other of the martial artist since they all ca not hold a candle to him until the new girl came along.
Despite the horrid odour, Ulrich took a deep breathe. Maybe he should apologise the next he sees her. Not wanting to feel more guilty then he all ready is, Ulrich focused at his current task. Looking ahead, he found the ladder that his classmate mentioned.
When Ulrich climbed up the ladder, he found himself in front of an abandoned factory. With the moon out in the night sky with some dark clouds looming about, it made the deserted building all the more eerie. The young teen found the entrance to be blocked with a sign that has the bold words "KEEP OUT."
Ulrich noticed something about the sign. Walking up to it, the Kadic student brushes a finger along the warning sign. As he expected, a thick layer of dust has encased the entire sign. The dust plus the sign looking like it has seen better days all points to the factory to be very abandoned, meaning the whole building is possibly no longer that important to keep trespassers away.
After looking around to make sure he was the only person there, Ulrich put on a smirk.
"Whoops~"
He clapped his hands to get rid of the dust.
After throwing the blockade into the river, Ulrich went inside the factory. After waving the flashlight around the place, looking around further emphasizes that the whole building is abandoned; all of the glass windows are broken with all the all fragments laying all around the place, rusty metal, graffiti decorating some parts of the walls, and - of course - the lack of any cleanliness.
Now that he was here, he wondered what parts he could find around here, but when he asked that question in his head, he does not even know what to take from this place if there were any.
"Maybe I should call Jeremie." He said to himself as he called Jeremie, whose number he had on speed dial.
The moment he place his phone near his ear, he did not hear the usual ringing sound when a caller is waiting for the other end to pick, but instead he heard a long ring that indicates there is no signal or the signal got lose. He looked at the screen of his phone and sure enough it said no signal
"What?" Going back outside of the building, he tried to call again, but he still has no signal. "What's going on? I was able to call him in the sewers, but not here?"
He tried to get some distance from the factory, but still no bars on the screen. Frustrated, he sighed and put his phone back into his pocket.
"Screw it, I'll just take what I can and bring it back to him." He declared as he went back into his factory. "I'm sure he'll sure make use of anything I bring him."
Jeremie is undoubtedly smart for his age.
When he got back inside, he noticed that he was in an upper level and below him is another floor. Looking around, he noticed what used to be stairs and an elevator; Ulrich guessed that maybe an earthquake is what made the factory abandoned. Looking around some more, he noticed that there is no way down except for some ropes.
Ulrich looked directly down with the flashlight for a while before he started to sweat his vision started to blur.
He shake his head, "Come on, Stern."
Ulrich had a fear of heights, which did not go well with his vertigo. William helped him conquer his fear, but the vertigo still exist so looking down from a certain height still makes him dizzy.
The teen grabbed the rope while balancing his hands with the flashlight; he went down with no problem. Looking around, he finds some scraps of metal that were laying around along with nuts and bolts, but they were all rusty. He may not be a robotic genius, but Ulrich knows for a fact that rusty metal is not good material for anything. He found a door and when he look through the small see-through window, he saw the door lead to the assembly room, but unfortunately he found the door locked and he doubt he could bust through by force since the door is too thick, and well reinforced.
After looking around the lower level for a while, he found nothing that would useful except to lose in a competition. His frustration from earlier started to come back. He turned his attentions to the elevator.
He leaned against the wall of the elevator near the button.
"Alright, you hunk of junk." He threatened an inanimate object, "You better work, and you better take me somewhere that's good."
With nothing much to lose, he pressed the button and door closed down before going down to a lower level.
He had to admit, he was kind of afraid of the elevator. It is, after all, very old, and the cable, that is holding it, could snap at any moment. He took long deep breaths to calm himself down.
After waiting for a considerable amount of time, the elevator door opened up. Ulrich was quite surprised to find another door behind the first one, which slowly opened up when a circular mechanism unlocked itself automatically.
The room was dark, which is understandable since he's probably several floor blew ground level. When he flashed the flashlight around, he was surprised by what he sees.
"What is all this stuff?"
If he was honest with himself without sounding crazy, it feels like he was in a futuristic computer lab.
The whole room is covered in some sort of metal, which be an alloy since there is no area of rust in sight, with wires showing in some areas. There is a medium size dome in the center of the room with a computer monitor near by, and a mechanical chair. The computer, unlike the metal chair, is not connected to the ground, rather it is being suspended a few feet from the ground.
Walking to the front of the computer, Ulrich noticed that the computer consists of four screens, one big main screen, and three smaller screens that are angled towards to the user.
"Hmmmm..." Ulrich hummed as he inspected it. "Probably a control center for the factory."
His assumptions makes sense, but it feels like that there is more to this than he thinks. He shrug that thought to the back of his head. The young teen extends a hand up to the keyboard.
"Looks like it could still work." He thought as he presses a random button, but of course nothing happened. He gave up after a few futile attempts.
Other than being covered in dust, the computer is the only thing in the whole building that seems to be functional and in good condition.
"Maybe its parts can still be used."
The only problem is he has no tools that he can use to dismantle the computer into its individual pieces. He walked back to the elevator door. There has to be at least some tools laying around since the factory that was made to build cars.
To those who are worried, don't worry I won't be cutting Odd off. I find him annoying, but he is still an important character.
