Sorry for the long wait. Allow me to explain at the end of the chapter.


Before the brunette teen pressed the button to have the elevator lift to go back up, a thought occurred to him. Are there any other lower levels? Curious, Ulrich pressed the down button instead.

The elevator door closed and the lift went down again. While going down, Ulrich had to admit, this whole place is very peculiar, even for an abandoned factory. His mind told him to go back, but he felt that he already seen plenty so returning back to the dormitory will be a moot point considering it will be hard to forgot all he had just saw in the previous room. Besides, he will not return to Jeremie empty handed.

The elevator door opened and the room is just as dark as the ones in the upper levels. Flashing the light around, Ulrich saw three cylindrically and identically large machinery in the middle of the room.

"I would ask, but I don't have Jeremie with me." Ulrich commented as he wondered what these cylindrical machinery are for.

Finding nothing else interesting in the room, the brunette went back inside the elevator. Again, he set the elevator to go down even further to see what else is here.

As the elevator went down, Ulrich started to notice how cold it was getting, which was apparent from him starting to shiver.

The way down took longer than the others, whatever kind of room the next one was, it must be big.

When the elevator finally opened, Ulrich was blinded from a bright light that illuminated the entire room. Once his sight recovered, Ulrich looked around the room before slowly stepping inside, his footsteps echoed through the room. Like the other floors, the room was full of circuits and made entirely out of metal of some sorts.

Moments after walking in, a circular section of the room started to move which startled Ulrich as he took a step back in precaution. The floor opened up to reveal more circuits and when it was fully open, an enormous device started to emerge from the floor.

Ulrich watches in awe as the device rose up, easily towering over him before reaching close to the ceiling.

"Where have I seen this before?" He asked no one in particular. Having spending time in Jeremie's room numerous, he sometimes read his friend's computer catalogs out of boredom, and because of it, he can identify almost any kind of machinery. He does not understand how they work exactly, but he can still identify some of them at least. "It must be some kind of supercomputer."

He had no idea how right he was.

Ulrich then notices a compartment of the enormous machine opening up. A lever emerges from it.

He may not know much about computers, but he knew to never mess with anything that he has no knowledge of. However, pulling the lever seemed so enticing. Besides, this entire building along with every machinery left was abandoned for a reason, so nothing was probably going to happen.

That is what he thought.

"Well, what's the worst thing that this thing could do?" He place his hand on the lever.

The answer to his own question? Beyond his wildest imagination.

"Besides, if Jeremie was here, he would do the same thing. Wouldn't he?"

Probably. He most possibly definitely would have.

The lever was pulled down. At first, nothing happened for a moment, and then, a flash occurred, emitted from the machine in front him, blinding him. Instinctively, Ulrich took steps back.

When the flash died down, he opened his eyes slowly in precaution. The room locked the same, but the enormous machine was light up, showing that it was turned on.


Going on a hunch, Ulrich went back to the room with the computer monitor. When he got back, he noticed the room was also light up, and the monitor turned on, apparent from the dim light it was giving off.

Knowing that it was turned, Ulrich sat on the chair. He pressed random buttons before the monitors fully turned. A familiar looking loading screen appeared, which soon disappeared once it reached 100%. More screens appeared in all of the monitors. Random lines of codes appeared, which Ulrich raised an eyebrow at.

"I'm guessing this is Jeremie's written alien language." He joked as he sat back and watched the screens continued with the codes.

Suddenly, another screen appeared, and this one has a person in it, which surprises Ulrich as he sat up straight on the seat to get a good look. From what he can tell, this person is a young female, around his age, and has pink hair. Strangely, she has elf-like ears with a dangling earring on her left, and has rectangular markings under the edge of her eyes. She appears to be sleeping if that is what her closed eyes indicate.

"What the!?" He exclaimed in awe.

His scream seemed to have woken up the girl on the screen.

She blinked a couple of times before looking around, confused as the boy on the other side of the screen.

"Who-who are you? Where am I?"

Ulrich really did not know how to answer that.


Now, what made it difficult for me to write this chapter was writing what Ulrich thought of the supercomputer because when he first saw it, canonically, he made very little to no reaction at all. The same goes with Jeremie.

In all honesty, the prequel episodes, XANA Awakens, could have been done a little better. Not that I blame the show, I just don't have that much imagination on the scene of the supercomputer being turned on, and I believe the writers also had the same predicament as I had, I mean they just have Jeremie turn on the Supercomputer because he was curious and crazy for computers, not the best idea, but I think they just want that scene done with to make the prequel episodes.

A lot of things has happened since I last updated. One: I busy with a job. Two: I'm attending college classes. Lastly, three: the two deaths in my family.

My step-dad (even though he never married my mom) who has been in my life since my early days in middle school, has passed away in October 9. The other death is my pet cat, who is legally my step-dad's pet, and he passed away weeks after my step-dad.