Me: Hi!!!!! I'm back with a special for Christmas. This chapter will be REALLY interesting for some of you. Oh yeah, the setting for the last two chapters was winter time. As for the poll, I'll take that into account for one of the next chapters, seeing as I have another chapter planned after this one.
Susanne: Jeez! Stop babbling on and let the poor people read the story!
Me: Ok! Well, here
it is! Please enjoy!!
Chapter 3: Video games are bad for your health!
It was Christmas Eve and video games were being sent out to every child/teenager around the world. It was the same game for everyone, but that didn't matter for it was the game that everyone was talking about. Inside the factory though, something strange was happening. A ghost came out of the wiring and took control of the machinery and started adding a special item inside the video game.
On Christmas day, the entire gang was gathered inside Jeremie's room with their presents. Odd was the most excited because he knew that he had gotten the new video game. He had already spotted the present that contained it. (Good ol' Odd!) Susanne sighed while she looked at him. She was afraid to give him his Christmas present because she had gone all out for his present. She had completely handmade his, which she had actually handmade everyone's present, but Odd's present had so much more into it. When it came time to give each other presents, Susanne handed everyone but Odd, their presents.
"Thank you Susanne." They said as they opened their presents to reveal a colored painting of the entire group.
"No problem." She said, then she looked at the present that was labeled, 'To my little sis!' "Huh.. I wonder what he got me this year..." She opened the present and screamed. Inside of the box there was a huge tarantula, that was alive.
"What is it?" Odd asked as he looked over inside of the box. "Oh... It's just a little hairy tarantula." He said calmly, only making Susanne shiver like mad.
"Woah, Susanne, are you ok?" Ulrich asked.
"I... don't.. like... spiders..." She said still shivering like mad.
"Ok, Odd, give me the box. I'll get rid of that thing." Ulrich said. Odd handed the box to Ulrich who got up and went to find Jim.
Odd tried to calm down Susanne. "It's ok... it's gone." He said hugging her slightly. (Aw! Isn't that sweet?) Aelita, Jeremie and Yumi didn't look at all surprised by this. Odd and Susanne had been going out for a week. Susanne stopped shivering and looked at Odd. "Why are you so afraid of spiders?" He asked.
"You really want to know?" She asked. Odd nodded slightly. "Well, I'll tell you when Ulrich gets back then." She said. Soon Ulrich came back reporting that Jim would take it to Mrs. Hertz. "Ok... Here's the story... When I was just a little kid, when I actually staid in one place for quite a while, and when my brother still lived with us, my brother used to pull really mean pranks on me. They were usually normal. Well, one day, he went a little far and poured a whole bunch of spiders on me that weren't poisonous, but bit really hard. I was in the hospital for spider bites for a week. I've been afraid to touch spiders ever since." She finished.
The gang looked very surprised. "Wow, your brother is cruel." Odd said. "Um... I got you a gift." Odd said. "But I want to give you in private."
"Me too..." Susanne said.
"I think we're done exchanging gifts now. I'm going to go get breakfast." Jeremie said. The others agreed and then they left Susanne and Odd alone.
"Um... here." Odd said handing Susanne a small package. Susanne opened it, and inside was a necklace with half of a golden heart.
"I love it!" She exclaimed, immediately putting it on. "Here's your gift." She said giving him a larger package. Odd unwrapped it and he gasped in amazement. What he was holding was a detailed picture of the two of them ice skating.
"Thank you!" He exclaimed. "I'll go put this in my room and we can go down to eat ok?" Susanne nodded. Odd went to his room and set down the picture carefully, but hesitated at the door. There was a present that was bugging him so much because he wanted to open it. He had been planning on opening it later but decided to open it. He unwrapped a game and inserted it into his game-boy. But when he turned on the game, instead of a game on the screen, a XANA sign appeared and a fume came from the game-boy, automatically turning off the game-boy and knocking out Odd.
"Odd??" Susanne asked opening the door. "ODD!!!!" She ran over to the unconscious Odd and looked at the game-boy in his hands. She carefully grabbed it and took out the game. On the game there was a symbol she would never forget. "XANA!" She exclaimed.
Suddenly there was footsteps in the hallway. The rest of the gang was there. "There's an activated tower! And now I know what XANA has in store for us." Jeremie said looking at Odd. Then Jeremie noticed that Susanne was in some sort of trance. "Hey, what are you doing?" He asked.
Susanne didn't answer for a couple of minutes. She soon came out of her trance, but fell over from exhaustion. Ulrich caught her and helped her to sit on a bed. "I just tried to figure out what happened, but Odd's mind is foggy, I can't tell what happened before he passed out." Susanne said worriedly. "We need to get him to the nurse!" She said leaping up and picked up Odd.
Ulrich put his hand on her shoulder. "You should get some rest. I know how much it takes from you to use your power. I've seen you use it before." Susanne shook her head.
"It's my fault. I should have come in here with him, but he said he would be right out..." Susanne said looking at Odd and then to her necklace.
"Then let's go. I'll go with you while the others go to the factory and then we can meet up with them later." Ulrich said. Susanne nodded and the others agreed.
"Hurry up though, I'm not sure what kind of force XANA will bring out this time." Jeremie said.
"Right." Ulrich said. "Come on then." He said walking with Susanne making sure she was ok the whole way. Just before the reached the nurse's office, they were stopped by Sissy.
"Looks like Odd finely passed out from eating too much!" She said laughing.
"Shut up Sissy!" Susanne said darkly.
"Oh.. Defending your boyfriend? And would you look at this, he even gave you a necklace. How cliche'!" Sissy said making Susanne snap.
"You stupid, prissy, over groomed spoiled brat!" Susanne yelled, accidentally triggering her telekinesis power to make Sissy go flying away. Susanne staggered and Ulrich had to hold her shoulder to keep her from falling over.
"What was that?" He asked surprised.
"Um... If my emotions overload, sometimes there will be small burst of energy from my powers, not usually as strong as that one but it still happens." She said sheepishly. "Um... I fine now, you can let go of my shoulder."
"Oh right. Here's the nurse's office." Ulrich said.
Susanne opened the door and saw the nurse taking care of her supplies. "Excuse me?" She said. Yolande turned around and looked at Odd, gesturing toward a bed. Susanne put Odd the bed and sat down in a chair nearby.
"Can you tell me what happened?" Yolande asked.
"Well, he went to put something in his room and when I didn't come back out, I went in and found him like this. I don't really know what happened." Susanne said with her head held down.
"Well, I'll take care of him. You can go." Yolande said.
Susanne sighed and got back up and went over to Ulrich. "I guess we should go help the others..." She said.
"Yeah, come on. The sooner we deactivate the tower, the sooner Odd will be back." Ulrich said trying to cheer Susanne up.
"Yeah." She said smiling. "Come on, let's get to a place where nobody can see us. I have a way to get to the factory faster." Once they found a secluded area Susanne grabbed Ulrich's hands and they were transported to the factory. "That's part of my telekinesis power. I can transport from one place to another." She said. "Well, then let's go." They went down to the lab.
"Hey guys. Go straight to the scanner room. Aelita and Yumi need your help." Jeremie said. With that Ulrich and Susanne went down to the scanner room and stepped into the scanners. "Transfer Ulrich! Transfer Susanne! Scanner Ulrich! Scanner Susanne! Virtualiziation!"
Susanne and Ulrich appeared in the ice sector in the middle a fight with 2 squadrons of Hornets. "Looks like we have to get to work right away." Susanne said, while carefully brushing of her her completely white samurai outfit. She carefully grabbed her ice sword out of her sheath and aimed an ice shot at four (half) of the Hornets. After destroying those Hornets, Aelita and Yumi were able to get away and head toward the tower.
"Triplicate!" Ulrich yelled, splitting into three. "Super Sprint!" All three of the Ulrich's yelled. They managed to destroy the remaining Hornets. All of a sudden, a megatank appeared and hit Susanne who retaliated before she was devirtualized and destroyed the megatank with an ice blast from her sword.
Back on Earth, Susanne stepped out of the scanners exhausted from her trip. She headed up to the lab to see what was going on. "Do you know how Odd is doing?" She asked Jeremie.
Jeremie shook his head. "No, but I do know half of the world has been poisoned by the same video game." Jeremie reported.
"Odd!" Susanne exclaimed. "He must've been the first victim!" Susanne sat down near Jeremie.
"It's ok. Aelita is already in the tower. Everything will be over soon." Jeremie said.
"Tower deactivated." Came Aelita's voice.
"Ok..." Jeremie said typing something into the computer. "Return to the past now!" He exclaimed before a white light covered everything.
Odd and Susanne had just exchanged their presents, and Odd was about to put the picture in his room. "I'm coming in with you." Susanne said.
"Um.. ok..." Odd said obviously confused. Susanne didn't blame him, after all her probably didn't remember what had happened. Odd put the picture in a very safe place before turning back to Susanne. "Hey... want to go ice skating?" He asked.
Susanne smiled. "Sure!" She exclaimed. With that Odd grabbed her hand and they headed for the closest ice skating rink with the rest of the gang.
Me: Well... did you enjoy this Christmas Special?
Susanne: NO!!! You tried to kill my boyfriend!
Odd: Hey, it's ok! It wasn't her, it was XANA!
Susanne: That may be, but she's the one who wrote the story!
Me: Hey! It wasn't even my idea! My friend Metaflare gave me the idea. I love Odd, so I would never really want to hurt him!
Odd: I was right!
Susanne: Right about what?
Odd: Being a ladies man!
Me and Susanne: -falls over-
Susanne: That may be true, but you're my boyfriend! -glomps Odd-
Me: -sweat drop- right... well R&R peoples and I'll see you next chapter. Oh, and please continue on with the poll from the last chappy!!! BYE!!
Susanne and Odd: BYE!!!