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Peaceful Aftermath
Chapter 2
Return
One week later…
"You know, I could really get used to this relaxing business," said Odd with a smile.
Odd, Ulrich, and Jeremy were all in Jeremy's room.
"Odd, quiet for a second. Ulrich, call Yumi, I'll call Aelita."
"What's going on, Einstein?" asked Odd.
Jeremy answered "We're going to celebrate Aelita's birthday today." HE smiled widely.
Odd said "Cool. I was wondering when you were gonna make her birthday be."
A few minutes later Yumi rushed in and closed the door behind her. "Phew, I beat Aelita," she said.
Another minute and Aelita walked in. Everyone shouted "Surprise! Happy birthday Aelita!"
Aelita looked around smiling and took a piece of cake Jeremy offered to her. "Thanks guys," she said smiling.
"Anything for you, princess," said Ulrich with a smirk. With a wink at Jeremy, Jeremy grabbed Aelita's hands.
"Will you go out with me?" he said.
Odd dropped the video game he had playing, along with his jaw.
The room went silent, before Aelita said "Of course Jeremy!" She hugged him tightly.
"Ah, Princess and Einstein, together at last!" said Odd, laughing.
Aelita and Jeremy laughed.
Later, around sunset, after classes had finished, Odd, Ulrich, Aelita, and Jeremy were all sitting around a tree in the park. Yumi had just left with her brother.
Sissy, who had been watching them from the corner, noticed Aelita and Jeremy holding hands. She immediately approached them and said "I wondered when you two would fall in love. How cute."
"Uhm, thanks?" replied Jeremy.
"No problem," said Sissy with a smirk. Then she turned to Ulrich. "Ulrich dear, want to take a walk with me?"
"Sissy," replied Ulrich. "Just because we can be friends, doesn't mean I want to do anything romantic with you. So just stop asking, alright? The answer will always be no."
Odd cracked up laughing while Sissy stormed away. "Good one, Ulrich. After that she'll probably leave us alone forever!"
"Don't count on that, Odd," said Aelita. Everyone laughed.
Sissy was so upset she couldn't stop running. All she wanted to do was to be alone after Ulrich had been so rude to her. Then she found it. The manhole in the ground.
Wanting desperately to be alone, she quickly climbed down into total darkness.
When she reached the bottom, she saw a pale light coming down one of the passages in the sewer.
She followed the passage until she came to another fork. Again she went towards the light. Eventually she found herself standing under a bridge with a ladder next to her. She climber the ladder and stepped up onto the top of the bridge.
"Wow…" Sissy said in awe. She had heard about the abandoned factory, but she had never been close-up to it. She curiously walked slowly towards the entrance.
Inside she stood at the edge of a large drop onto the main factory floor. There were ropes hanging from the ceiling. Intending to slide down one of the ropes, she reached out to grab one, but she had misjudged the distance. She lost her balance and fell to the factory floor.
"Stern! Belpois! You're next!"
Jim was standing next to the running track, pointing to the spots he wanted Jeremy and Ulrich to take.
"Great," muttered Jeremy as he and Ulrich stood up and got into position.
"On three, give me one lap!" shouted Jim.
From the ground still sitting, Odd said "Jim, does that mean on 1,2,3 or on 1,2,3, go?"
"Be quiet Della Robbia!" shouted Jim.
Ulrich laughed along with Odd.
"Quiet, Stern!" said Jim. "One, two, three, go!"
Ulrich and Jeremy took off, Ulrich in the lead.
Sissy finally came back to consciousness. The sun was shining brightly through the windows of the factory. "What's going on?" she said quietly. Then she remembered. She wanted to get out of the factory immediately, but she wasn't about to try climbing the rope after she had fallen. So instead, she went to the elevator in front of her and pressed the down button. She thought there might be another exit deeper in the factory.
The elevator stopped and opened up into a room. Inside the room was a monitor with a keyboard in front of it. "Wow!" exclaimed Sissy. Then she saw a trapdoor with a ladder leading down. She eagerly went down the ladder into a bright room, almost like a freezer.
On the floor was an insignia shaped somewhat like an eye. Sissy walked out onto the center of the insignia. Suddenly it began to glow and Sissy stepped back off of it.
A large gold-glittering object rose out from the insignia. A compartment opened up to reveal a handle. Sissy, dying of curiosity, pulled the handle downwards.
Suddenly, the gold glittering lights became brighter, and the sound of a computer rang through the room.
After a few moments of nothing else happening, Sissy turned and climbed back up the ladder.
She saw that the monitor was now displaying something, and there was holographic display on the hub in front of it.
Sissy sat down in front of the keyboard and looked at the monitor. She started clicking around on the computer until a command prompt appeared. It said "RETURN TO THE PAST?" and underneath a large YES/NO. The yes was blinking. Without knowing what she was doing, she pressed the enter button. A white light came from the projection and Sissy blacked out.
It was sunset after classes. Ulrich, Odd, Aelita, and Jeremy were all sitting around a tree. Jeremy and Aelita holding hands. Sissy watching them from a dark corner.
Immediately they all stood up. Aelita gasped. Ulrich and Odd stared at each other.
"We just… returned to the past…" said Jeremy with a gulp. They all looked at each other and immediately sprinted towards the manhole in the park.
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