Chapter 4

Kelly couldn't sleep that night. She couldn't even tell if her eyes were open or closed half the time she tossed and turned. Her brothers and sister were all very worried about her, struggling to fall asleep, as well. Her mother was even more worried, fearing for her daughter at the thought that she would temporarily be blind.

Tech received the worst shock. He hadn't been so upset about someone he loved since he thought for 10 years that Sophie was dead. He couldn't sleep, and, when he did fall asleep, the Whisperers' words awoke him. Luckily, he couldn't tell what they were saying, so their words couldn't get to him and eventually come true. He eventually gave up. He sat up in bed and looked at the clock. 3:30 in the morning and I haven't even gotten a half hour's worth of actual sleep.

Sophie sat up next to him. "Can't sleep?" Tech shook his head. "Me neither. Kelly's going to be OK."

"Prove it."

Sophie said nothing.

Kelly got up a ways down the hall. She sat up in bed. She couldn't see anything, but, even if she could, she would only have seen darkness, exactly what she was already seeing. She heard a rustle. It had come from the wall behind her. It must have been Sarah, tossing under the covers.

"Are you OK?" Sarah asked, quietly so as not to wake her brothers. She didn't know they were already awake.

Kelly nodded.

"Are you sure about that?" That wasn't Sarah's voice. It was Ryan's. He and Michael had gotten up, too.

"You don't think we're turning into insomniacs, do you?" asked Kelly.

"Well, coyote's are nocturnal," Michael said.

Kelly smiled. "At least, the wild ones can see in the dark."

Michael, Ryan, and Sarah stopped smiling and lied back down.

Kelly did the same. "I don't think I can wait until the 2 weeks are up." She could hear Sarah say something, but she couldn't figure out the words. She was having a vision and couldn't see that either.

"Kelly, are you listening?" asked Sarah.

"Sarah, she's having a vision," Michael said.

"I don't know if you can call it a 'vision' if she can't see it," said Ryan.

Kelly sat up again. "Oh no." She felt around with her foot for the floor and slowly got out of bed. "Something bad is going to happen any minute now."

"Uh, Kelly?" Ryan said, sitting up, too, "The door's not—" Kelly banged into the wall. "Open."

Kelly heard rushing footsteps and felt the door opened. "Dad, is that you?"

"Yeah, are you OK?"

"I'm fine. But, I just had a vision again and—"

She felt the building shake beneath her feet. She heard footsteps.

"What happened, Tech?" It was Ace.

"I don't know. Kelly bumped into the door, we came to see what happened, and now this."

"We"? Kelly's mom must have been there, too.

The building shook again, harder this time, and Kelly heard an electronic female voice: "Warning! Warning! Enemy attack in progress!"

"Who's attacking?" Kelly asked. She heard the others change into their uniforms.

"Don't know," said Benny, "But we're not about to sit here and take it."

Kelly almost changed into her uniform, as well, but she remembered 2 things: Zadavia said she shouldn't be out in the field until her sight came back, and she couldn't see her watch, anyway. She just took her father's hand and allowed him to lead her to the communications room, which the team, sometimes, called the "hero room". She heard the fight go on.

"What now?" Sarah.

"Uh, hit the big, red button!" Tech.

"OK, Kelly, hit the big, red button!" Benny.

"Got it!" Kelly said, looking around, "Which one is that?"

"Ryan, hit the big, red button!" Lucy.

"Uh, there isn't a big, red button." Ryan.

"What? There supposed to be a big, red button!" Tech.

"Whoops." Rev.

"Rev!" Tech and Sarah.

"Well-in-my-defense-I-was-kind-of-wrapped-up-doing-a-bunch-of-other-stuff-when-I-helped-you-program-this-place!" Pause. "And-for-another-thing-I-ALWAYS-forget-the-red-button!"

"How do you forget something so important?" Duck.

"Could we focus on the problem at hand here?" Benny.

Obviously, things weren't going so well. They finally just forgot the stupid, big, red button and moved on to a counterattack. They were able to target the source of the problem. The battle continued, Kelly could hear it, and she could tell that they eventually drove off whoever was attacking. She heard Sarah come up next to her.

"There was some alien ship or something attacking us. We got rid of it."

"Thanks for keeping me positively informed."

"Right."

"Hmm, who was that guy attacking us, anyway?" Ace.

"I don't know." Tech. "But, remember what Zadavia said about someone being out to get the team?"

"Yeah," Kelly jumped in, "But, she also said that it would be whoever attacked me. And I know that something as big as…whatever that was…wasn't in range when the ice melted."

"Then those guys must have been sent after us by whoever did this to Kelly." Nadine.

"She's got a point there." Robert.

"You keep thinking that." Jack. "OW! What was that for?"

"What do you think it was for?" Nadine.

Kelly could tell that Nadine had just scorched Jack's tail feathers. She giggled. Even thought she couldn't see it, it was still funny.

The team split up and went back to bed after a while. Before Kelly got back in bed, she thought of something. She knew what she had to do. "Hey, guys?"

Ryan, Michael, and Sarah stopped pulling back the covers and turned to their sister.

"What time is it?"

Sarah glanced at their clock. "About 5:30."

"Well, it's too late to try and get some sleep after that. How would you like to try something with me?"