It was 8:30 when Jeremie got back to his room. The second he entered the room, he heard gunfire and what sounded like a warzone with moans and groans. He looked to see Jason laying on the floor, staring straight up, with a controller in his hand.
Jeremie then looked up to see a flat screen TV anchored to the ceiling. There were cords and cables stuck to the wall that led behind Jason's bed, where there was a game console.
Jason paused the game and looked up at Jeremie.
"Morgan is a genius." Was all the twin could say.
"Why do you a TV on the ceiling?"
"Because I couldn't find anywhere else to put it."
"What are you playing?"
"Operation: Z-Day."
"Isn't that the new zombie game?"
"Yeah, you wanna play?"
"Not now, I need to find a cure for Ulrich, and you're the only other person I know who knows about genetics."
"Well, I'm kinda busy. I'm fending off a horde off zombies at the battle of Day 3."
Jeremie thought about it for a minute, it was almost 8:45, and he had all night to work on a cure.
"I guess a break wouldn't hurt."
"Awesome," Jason said, tossing him a controller, "Let's play."
About three hours later, Jeremie thought about what Jason had said when he walked into the room, "What did you mean by saying that Morgan was a genius?"
Jason paused the game, "Oh, she came up with the idea to put the TV on the ceiling."
"How did you get it up there?"
"Don't ask," Jason said, sighing, "Because I don't know how she did it."
"You mean you didn't even see her do it?" Jeremie asked, turning to see Jason.
"Nope, I went to get her a soda," Jason shrugged, "I came back, and she had it set up."
"Why were you hanging out with her, anyway?"
"Apparently, her and Odd had plans, but Odd 'disappeared'."
"So she wanted company and decided to hang out with you?"
"I guess so."
Jeremie thought for a second, then just gave up on the subject. He noticed that he wasn't feeling well. He didn't think anything more about it, and went to bed.
"Well, here we are," Tim said, opening the door to his new apartment, "Home sweet penthouse."
"Holy s***!" Nikolai said, "Is the Agency paying for this?"
"Yep."
Greg and Nikolai looked at each other, then back at Tim.
"We never got anything like this from the Agency."
"Well," Tim said, "I'm an elite, so that means I get better stuff."
"So where do we sleep?"
"There are two rooms on that end of the apartment." Tim said, pointing to the other end of the large living room. The two walked over to them and opened the door, they were huge!
"Nice," Greg said, "No more motels for me."
Jeremie woke up, feeling terrible. He wondered why. Jason was out of bed and gone already.
"Oh my god!" Jeremie shouted, looking at the clock. There was something up with his voice, but he didn't care, he had overslept. He was about to run out the door when he fell over.
"What just..." Jeremie wondered out loud, when he looked at himself. What the hell? He didn't come into contact with Ulrich at all yesterday, why did he...?
She picked herself up and sat on the bed. This would explain a lot. He heard knocking on the door.
"Belpois!" Jim shouted, "Classes started an hour ago! Why aren't you in class?"
Jeremie didn't know what to do. If he didn't answer, Jim would come in and see him, if he did answer, Jim would hear the difference in his voice. He thought for a third option, the only way out was the window, but they were on the second floor. It was worth the risk.
She quietly opened the window and got up on the only clear part of the desk. She started hanging from the window, outside, trying to find a foothold. She found one, not too sturdy, but closed the window, and let go, hoping for bushes. Thank god for shrubbery.
Jim finally unlocked the door, finding the room empty.
"Hm, maybe he left already." Jim left, not noticing that the window was unlatched or that Jeremie's shoes were still in the corner.
Jeremie was hiding in the bushes, trying to keep out of sight. He could go to the factory, but the gym was full of people, and it would be a little awkward for him to be seen running across the campus over to the woods. She slowly crept out of the bushes, and ran towards the woods.
Once there, she hid behind a tree, looking to see if anyone followed her. It was good that she wore pajamas, this would be soooooo awkward if he slept in boxers. She continued running toward the manhole in the clearing.
Once she was at the factory, she called Aelita, and put a filter of her original voice on the call. No need to freak out Aelita in the middle of her class.
Aelita was in her History class when her phone vibrated. She glanced at it, noticed it was Jeremie, and then turned it off. She did not want to get on the teacher's nerves today. Gregory Wolfe was in her class. Apparently, he had a degree in history, so he was correcting the teacher on every point of the crusades.
"I'm telling you," Greg said, "The Slaughter at Acre was because the citizens were fighting back!"
"And I'm telling you that it was civil unrest, that's all."
The funny thing was, they had been talking about the Middle Ages, before someone brought up the Crusades. Greg just sat down, feeling defeated. He looked at Aelita. What were the chances that he would be in the same class as her. He may have been twelve (physically), but he had been enrolled as an eighth grader.
He was wondering how Nik was doing.
Nikolai was sitting in Algebra class. He hated this class. Yumi was sitting in the front, William next to her. Yumi's hand drifted down to her coat, where she pulled out her phone. She turned it off, and put it back, then rose her hand.
"Sir?" She asked, "I'm not feeling well, can I go to the infirmary?"
"Yes Yumi."
He continued his lecture as Yumi left. Nikolai didn't want to be suspicious, so he waited about ten minutes, and then used the same excuse. Amazingly, that worked.
He ran out to where he had seen Yumi go. He found her walking towards the woods.
"If I do recall," Nikolai said, "That is not where the infirmary is."
Yumi turned a little startled to see the boy. She had only seen his virtual form, and that was in the real world. She didn't know that he was actually that young.
"Why are you following me?" Yumi asked, suspicious.
"That's not a good way to start a conversation. I noticed that your phone went off, then you left. There are two possibilities, one: You are gonna be waiting out here for someone; or two: You're going to the factory. It's my job to keep an eye on that place, and that class is horrible."
"It was Jeremie," Yumi explained, "That normally means to come to the factory, but Aelita should be here by now."
"What do you mean?"
"She's normally the first one he calls."
"I'll be right back."
He went, building by building, window by window, until he found where Aelita was. He thought to knock on the window, but instead he waved his arms like an idiot. Aelita saw this, and eyed him strangely. Nik pointed at her, then at Greg, then pointed to the woods. She motioned towards the teacher.
Nik was about to give up when his cellphone beeped. He had set it up to receive alerts, just lke Jeremie's. He noticed how it had singled out one tower in the mountain sector, another in the forest sector, and yet another in the desert sector. He recognized the symbol too. It was OMEGA...
[FLASHBACK]
A thirteen year old Nikolai was on Lyoko. He was zapping a rouge program. Why did they always have to fight? He then saw a haze, not shady like XANA, but pitch black. It took a shape, but no form. The shape created a sword and stabbed the rouge program, deleting it forever.
"What the heck!" Nikolai said, almost not hearing Schaeffer's screams to get the hell out of there. He heard them and started running.
"Professor, what the heck is that thing?"
"It's OMEGA, a virus I made before XANA. You can't defeat it, just exit Lyoko."
"I think I can," Nik said, "I can use the strategy I used before, with Epsilon."
"That may work," Dr. Schaeffer thought out loud, "But you'll have to separate him in a tower so I can split his programming."
"Got it." Nik altered his direction so that he would end up at a tower. The haze was coming up fast.
"Super Sonic." He disappeared and reappeared by the tower. The virus was obviously gullable. It followed him into the tower.
"Alright, here it goes professor." Nik stood there. The virus engulfed him. He then grabbed his knife and stabbed his own hand.
"Lightning!" The pillar of electricity came down and hit him and the virus. He slashed randomly at the black fog. He split into three pieces.
"I'm splitting the programming now."
The fog tried to gather together, but it couldn't. It started to attack Nikolai.
"Professor!"
"I'm bonding it to three programs now."
One by one, the chunks of fog dispersed.
"Done." Schaeffer said.
Nikolai was devirtualized and entered the elevator. He went to the Lab, and was greeted by smiling Aelita. The seven-year old girl just stared at him.
"Hi Nikki!" The little girl said.
Did she forget that he was even here?
"How was Lyoko?" She asked.
"Fine," He replied, "Just another program going crazy again." Then he looked at the professor, "Professor Hopper?"
"Name." The old man said in a frustrated tone.
"Dr. Schaeffer, sorry, I was wondering if you could tell me what I just did in Lyoko."
"That was OMEGA."
"What is OMEGA?" Nik asked.
The man walked over to Aelita and asked her if she wanted to go down to the scanner room and play with Mister Puck. She smiled and ran off to the elevator. Waldo Schaeffer turned towards Nikolai and started to explain.
"OMEGA was my first attempt to create a virus to destroy project Carthage."
"What went wrong?"
"I never specified what Carthage was. It's artificial intelligence saw civilization as corrupt. Through a few glitches, it learned to see civilization as Carthage. I checked on it one day, to see that it had activated a tower on its own and somehow sent a... I don't know what it was, a ghost-like haze into the real world."
"That's impossible."
"Well, it did it, but the haze tried to leave the factory, I sent Timothy into Lyoko to see if the tower could be deactivated. He discovered a way to deactivate the tower, and the haze disappeared. I put the virus into a back up drive on the computer, but it must have found a way out. Now it is in pieces. You cannot let those three programs conjoin. Keep an eye on ZETA, that is where I put the AI program."
"Will do, professor."
"Now, could you go fetch Aelita?"
[PRESENT]
Nikolai snapped back to reality. If OMEGA was loose, then that could mean something horrible was about to happen. XANA was made to be a weaker version of OMEGA, a lot weaker.
Aelita had noticed the look on Nikolai's face and looked concerned, he just stared at her, a look of terror on his face. He saw her raise her hand, then stand up and walk out of the room. A minute later, she came out of the building. She waved for him to follow her.
"That was not quick at all." Yumi said as the two approached her.
"There are three activated towers." Nikolai said.
"Three? At the same time?" Yumi asked.
"Yeah."
"Let's just get to the factory," Aelita said, "Jeremie's tried to call me nine times. Something must be wrong."
They all nodded and started for the factory. When they got there, the elevator stopped, but didn't open. Jeremie put the voice filter for his old voice on again and spoke into the elevator.
"I'll unlock the door," He said, "If you promise not to laugh."
"Okay Jeremie," Aelita said, a little confused, "We won't laugh."
The elevator door opened, and they saw Jeremie. He was the same height, which Aelita thought was kind of funny and Nikolai saw that he was still a shrimp. Jeremie's blonde hair was down to her shoulders, but she was curled up on the chair. This was because she was still in her pajamas and wasn't wearing shoes. It was cold in the Lab.
"Guys," Jeremie said in a higher pitch, less nerdy voice, "I believe the term for Ulrich is patient Zero."
It hit Aelita right there, "How- Wha- Whe- Why- …?" She stuttered as her mind could not produce a single question to ask. She was wide eyed and looked like she could faint.
"Aelita?" Jeremie asked, "Are you okay?"
"I think she's just shocked," Yumi stated, "Like me."
"Prakleenaats," Nik muttered, "OMEGA must have done this..."
"OMEGA?" The three girls asked, almost simultaneously.
"OMEGA is the old version of XANA. Long story short, he was going to destroy civilization as we know it. I split him into three parts, and Hopper put him into three programs."
"ZETA, OMICRON, and KAPPA..." Jeremie finished.
"Yeah," Nikolai confirmed, "I told you ZETA was bad news."
"Well, let's get to work," Yumi said, "It's gonna be a long day."
Yumi and Aelita headed for the scanners, but Nik pulled out his phone.
"What are doing?" Jeremie asked.
"I've gotta report this to the Operator."
"Report what?"
"OMEGA and a possible epidemic."
"What epidemic?"
"I'm guessing you were refraining from contact with... Ulrich?"
"Yeah, because it passes by touch."
"Now you are experiencing symptoms."
"Yeah..."
"So that means it's airborne."
Jeremie was silent as she thought about it. That would mean that they would have to isolate William, XANA, Odd, Lilly, and Ulrich (of course). But then, Jeremie thought about the previous night. They didn't know it was airborne, and they had gone into public! Her and Aelita must have easily infected half the city. William and Yumi were in a full movie theater, and Odd could have been hanging out with Morgan somewhere, infecting more people. Then the infection would have spread exponentially. The entire city must be infected by now!
"Uh, Jeremie?" Yumi asked from the scanner room.
Nikolai was just hanging up and went to the elevator.
"Oh, sorry," Jeremie said, "Uh, transfer Yumi, transfer Aelita, scanner Yumi, scanner Aelita."
A little box popped up, it showed that they were ready to go.
"Virtualization." She said.
"My turn Jeremie," Nikolai said, "Send me to the desert sector."
"Okay, transfer Nikolai, scanner Nikolai... Virtualization."
Nikolai dropped into the wasteland. He saw that OMEGA had brought back a few friends. Two krabs and a tarantula were guarding the way tower.
"This will be interesting." Nikolai said.
"..." There was nothing coming from Jeremie.
"Jeremie?"
"... I'm fine, this virus seems to be getting worse [cough]"
"I can leave if you want, I can use the computer."
"No, we need all the help we can get."
"Okay, can you call Gre-"
"What?"
"Greg!" Nikolai said, freaking out, "He's not immune! He's in class!" This seemed make the monsters aggressive. They turned towards him, and he noticed that there were "Ω" signs on their heads, instead of XANA's emblem.
"Really?" He ran towards one, dagger drawn. He leaped and jammed the dagger into the krab's mark. He then pulled it out, stabbed his hand, jumped back and yelled, "Lightning!" The column of plasma hit the two remaining monsters, obliterating their life points.
"Aelita get down!" Yumi shouted as she saw the mantis try to shoot her. Yumi's fan hit it on the chest, right on its mark. It fell and exploded. Now there were the hornets.
Yumi was about to throw her fans when a laser hit the hornet. It exploded immediately. She looked around and saw Jason appear out of nowhere. He looked at Yumi, then turned to the tower, disappearing again.
"Jeremie," Yumi tried to get the attention of the blonde at the computer, "Is Jason on Lyoko?"
"No, he's not appearing anywhere."
"I haven't seen him at all today," Aelita said, "And he's in my first class of the day."
"Well, I just saw him run towards the tower." Yumi said.
"Lets go." Aelita said, already running towards the tower.
She entered, and saw Jason standing at the edge. There was something different about him, but Aelita couldn't point it out. He stepped over the edge and plunged into the data stream. Aelita wanted to go after him, but she needed to deactivate the tower. She did so, then told Jeremie about what she had seen.
"That would explain why I couldn't get a hold of him." Jeremie said.
"I'm going after him." Aelita announced.
"What? Are you crazy?"
Aelita ignored Jeremie's female voice. God, it was so strange to hear that voice, it was like Jeremie's but it wasn't like it. She jumped into the data stream, concentrating on Jason. She came out in a tower, but it was dark. Every now and then, a strip of code would move along a wall, but it was utterly dark. She exited the tower and looked around. It was Lyoko, but she had never seen this place before. It was like a city, but it was torn up. There didn't seem to be anywhere to fall into the digital sea. It was all solid ground. Then she saw movement. It was slow, and definitely not mechanical.
"Jason?" She asked, cautiously walking toward the figure, "Jason, is that you?"
It looked human, but it turned it's face toward her. It was disturbing. There was no face on the thing, it was just a "Ω" mark. Aelita stepped back slowly, hoping that the thing didn't see her, but it did. It shambled toward her, like it didn't know how to walk. A laser came from behind Aelita and hit the head of the creature. It fell and exploded, but left a green puddle, like the creepers.
"Damn zombie." Came a voice from behind her. She turned to see Jason, but his avatar was different. He was wearing a trench coat, under that was a black and gray camo jumpsuit.
"Jason?"
"Hi Aelita," He greeted her, keeping such a monotonous face that it would put Ulrich to shame, "Why did you follow me?"
"What is this place?" Aelita asked looking around.
"I asked you a question."
"We've been trying to get a hold of you for a while. Yumi and I saw you save us. Why are you on Lyoko?"
Jason was silent for a long time.
"I'm the source of the infection..." He finally said, "When I heard that Ulrich was contagious, I knew that it would only be a matter of time. So I did what I thought was best, and put myself into Lyoko. As for where we are, I got the idea from a video game I played with Jeremie last night."
"Wait, what do you mean that it would only be a matter of time?"
"I've told you about my DNA, that's how Odd became a girl, then Ulrich. I kept Jeremie from looking for a cure because there is none..."
"Jeremie wants to find a cure now..." Aelita muttered.
"Why?"
"Jeremie is a girl now. Your dad says that a new virus called OMEGA changed the old virus so it would spread."
Jason had a scared look on his face, but only for a second. He fell to the virtual ground, laughing. He stood back up.
"I'm sorry, I just imagined Jeremie as a girl, and I couldn't control myself. It's just too funny."
"Shut up Jason!" Jeremie's high pitched voice made their ears hurt, even on Lyoko.
"I'm guessing that you've been listening for a while now?" Jason asked the sky.
"I came in when you were laughing."
"I'm sorry Jeremie, or whatever you want your name to be."
"Where are you guys?" Jeremie asked, "I don't recognize thi- There are a crap load of enemies headed your way!"
"Oh, would you look at that." Jason said.
There was not just a horde of those new creatures, there was an army.
"Odd would hate this..." Aelita said.
"I don't suppose you use a weapon?" Jason asked.
"No."
Jason pulled out his machete and handed it to the pinkete.
"I hope it's easy to use." He said.
"Thanks."
Jason then pulled his guns, but Aelita noticed that they were different. There were small like pistols, but they had grips in the front.
"Machine pistols," He told her, "I thought I should upgrade."
She was going to say something when she saw something disturbing. One of the monsters was approaching Jason from behind, and the bottom half of it's face seemed to split open. These things had mouths! And they had some kind of tentacle thing in there. It looked like something from the scyphozoa, but more tongue-like. The tongue was heading for Jason when he spun around and shot the thing in the head.
"Take that Mutha F*****r!" He shouted, "Sorry, common phrase in American zombie movies."
But Aelita wasn't paying attention, the zombies were running, though awkwardly, towards them.
"Get ready," Jason said, "I'm guessing those tentacles drain life points."
Aelita raised the machete, it was much easier to use than Ulrich's sword. She kept the defensive position though, letting Jason do the fighting. Jason plunged into the crowd.
"Jeremie..." Nikolai said, "I don't think I can keep doing this..." He had deactivated four towers, and for every one he deactivated, OMEGA activated another. Yumi was devirtualized after Aelita didn't exit the tower.
"Just try to hang in there Nik," Jeremie said, "Aelita and Jason need your help, I'll try to set you up on the data stream."
"What?"
"Just go."
Nikolai stepped off of the platform and fell into the data stream, coming out in the dark tower.
"Jeremie, I shouldn't be here."
"Why?" asked the echoing voice.
"This is the Dead Zone," He explained, "I promised the AIs here that I wouldn't return."
"The Dead Zone?
"Yeah, it's a part of the desert sector. It's not on the map, but it's hell."
"What were the AIs you mentioned?"
"They're kind of like a native population. They look like people, but are very creepy looking."
"There are monsters like that, they're attacking Jason and Aelita."
"Those aren't the AIs," Nik corrected, "Those are shamblers (zombies from a book series I read) they're like zombies."
"Well, there are a bunch of them."
"How many?"
"Too many for you or Jason to take out."
Nik was silent for a minute, he was thinking.
"Get them away from the area, don't worry, there will be a dotted red circle, as long as they are past that point, they'll be safe."
"What are you doing?"
Nik ran out of the tower, "Just keep them out of the circle!"
He found Aelita standing at the edge of a horde of shamblers. They were uglier than he remembered. They had pale skin, no hair, no face (except for a mouth), and wore shredded pants and shirts. They looked like messed up zombies.
Aelita was standing in the dumbest position one could in that situation. She was holding Jason's machete like Ulrich would with one sword out. Jason was in the crowd. He had two machine pistols out and was shooting the creatures so quickly, it was like he was using his frenzy technique.
"Jason," Jeremie said, "I'm setting up an Overboard, get Aelita out of there."
"Why?" Jason asked, shooting a zombie coming from behind.
"Your dad is gonna try something crazy and destructive."
"Isn't that Odd's job?" Aelita asked, trying to lighten the mood.
The Over board appeared and Nikolai zapped a shambler with a shock bolt. Jason grabbed Aelita and they got on the vehicle, flying away.
"Just keep going guys," Jeremie said, seeing the circle appear, "Oh god, it's a blast range."
"I'll take that as a sign to speed it up?"
"Drastically." Jeremie said.
Jason put the Overboard into full throttle. They were going faster than Jeremie would have recommended, but this was a dangerous situation.
Nikolai ran towards the center of the horde. Once there, he started his attack. He cut his chest with the knife, taking half his life points. He threw up a shield around him. He then used Super Sonic to shoot into the sky.
"Are they out Jeremie?" He asked the programmer.
"Yeah," She confirmed, "They're out of the blast range."
"Plasma Drop!"
What Aelita and Jason saw would forever change their thoughts on strength. Up to that day, Aelita had thought that a Kolussus was the strongest thing on Lyoko, but the power of Nikolai's attack could have made XANA drool and get a nose bleed... At the same time. Jason's idea was that it would look like a normal explosion. In truth, it was like an H-bomb minus the mushroom cloud. They saw a white streak come from the sky, hit the ground, then a tiny spark. They thought that that was it, but then a gigantic bubble of electricity seemed to explode out of nowhere. It consumed the area they had just escaped. After what seemed like forever, the bubble popped, nearly knocking them off of the Overboard.
Nikolai had dropped from the sky, he saw the horde come up at impossible speeds. His impact destroyed alone destroyed a few surrounding zombies. He saw his hands spark and the entire ground was electrified. He then saw a huge white flash as the power formed the bubble that eliminated the rest of the horde. When the bubble, popped, he looked around. No being in sight. He then saw himself devirtualize, and he collapsed, his wireframe disappearing before he hit the ground. He exited the scanner, then started laughing.
"Haha! I haven't done that in FOREVER!" He walking to the elevator and started drumming on its metal interior.
At the Lab, he saw Jeremie staring at the screens. The blonde girl turned to face him, her mouth open in shock.
"Since when could you do something like that?" She asked.
"Since I first used it on Lyoko."
"When was that?" Yumi asked. She was standing by the elevator.
"Back when there were still Soviets." Nik answered.
Yumi smiled at this, but he was serious.
"Well, that could come in handy later on."
Aelita was the first to snap out of it. She shook Jason and he was back to reality too. It was such a brilliant sight, the explosion. They decided to try to deactivate these towers. They went to the mountain sector and got to the tower without resistance. That was strange. What's more, OMEGA didn't activate any more towers. Jason then escorted Aelita to the ice sector, where she deactivated the tower without resistance once again. They deactivated the last in the forest sector. The virus wasn't putting up a fight at all.
After Aelita and Jason were devirtualized, they went up to the Lab. Jeremie, Nikolai, Yumi, and Aelita surrounded Jason.
"We need an explanation," Jeremie said, "NOW."
"Uhm," Jason started, "Where do I start?"
"You told me that it was your fault with what happened to Odd." Aelita pointed out.
Jason lowered his head, "The computer took a sample of my DNA, and converted it into a virus. It's that simple."
"Which part of your DNA?" Jeremie asked.
"I've already told you," Jason said, getting frustrated, "The part that says that I'm supposed to be a girl!"
Nikolai went pale. Why didn't he know about this?
"What?" Nik asked.
"I found that out last year," Jason explained, "Nobody knew why I had my sister's build. All x-rays showed that my skeleton was even female. They did a chromosome test and it said that I should be female. There is no reason why I'm not female. It makes no sense."
"Why didn't any one tell me?"
"I didn't want you to know," Jason stated, "That simple."
He turned to go, but then Jeremie asked a good question.
"Why were you in Lyoko?"
"I..." The twin tried to form his thoughts into words, "I thought that I could postpone the virus's effects if I kept myself virtualized."
"That's a stupid idea." Yumi said. Aelita shot a glare at her.
"Let's just go," Jason said, "My plans have been ruined for today, I might as well give in."
"Wait," Jeremie said, "What are we gonna do about me?"
"Well," Aelita said, "Yumi might be able to find a way to make you look like you used to."
Yumi sighed, "Come on."
Jeremie left with Yumi. Nikolai was going to go back to school when he noticed that classes were over. He decided to go back to the apartment. Aelita and Jason returned to the dorm building.
Jason opened his door, hoping to just get some sleep, when he heard his game. Odd and Morgan were laying on the floor with game controllers.
"What the hell is going on?" Jason asked.
The two girls looked at him, pausing the game.
"Oh," Odd said, "Hey Jason."
"I hope you don't mind," Morgan said, "Odd said that Ulrich wasn't feeling like himself. He's really sick. So I suggested we come in here."
"How did you get in?" Jason asked, suspiciously.
"Jeremie forgot to lock the door." Odd shrugged.
"Well," He said, "That makes me feel secure."
"I think it's time for us to go, though." Morgan said.
"Can we finish this level?" Odd asked Jason, "Please?"
"Fine, but I join in. Jeremie's... Out tonight."
They all laid on the floor, playing the game. Once the level had finished, the two girls left and Jason was left by himself. He turned the TV off and crawled into bed, not sure of what will happen to him in the morning.
OMEGA was very satisfied with the results. His calculations had been off. The virus was spreading more quickly than anticipated. By now, it was spread around the planet. Within the week, the entire human population will be in disarray. He was very pleased with this. If only the three programs that held him did not get rid of XANA... Maybe he can persuade her to join him.