Look Before You Seek

Chapter 4

"Minnie?!?" Aelita repeated.

"Wait," Ulrich began. "How do you know her?"

"She's my new room mate," She said to Ulrich, and he nodded. "What are you doing here? Why aren't you at dinner?"

"Well," Minnie said, almost in tears. "I wasn't hungry, and I needed to be by myself."

"But... But you had the whole dorm to yourself!" Aelita looked flabbergasted.

"I needed a place," she replied, tears now running freely down her cheeks. "You wouldn't understand." Minnie looked at the ground so that the group wouldn't see her tears.

"We need to find out what she knows," she heard Ulrich tell the others. "What if she goes to the principal?"

"Have you forgotten, we can do a return to the past?" said Jeremie. "Now leave her and call Yumi. We need to get to the factory." The group started to walk away. Minnie quickly dried her eyes.

"Wait!" She cried. "I want to come." The group turned back to her.

"She won't be any help to us in Lyoko," said a scrawny boy with a strange hairstyle.

"Odd!" The other three cried.

"She already knows enough as it is," Jeremie added.

Minnie ran up to them. "I'm still coming," she said.

Wow, she's as stubborn as Yumi, thought Ulrich.

"Jeremie, if we let her come, then a trip to the past might not erase her memory,"
Aelita said warningly. "And what if she gets virtualized?"

"You can't come," Jeremie said to Minnie.

"Well, I am anyway, because your wrong. I can come, you just don't want me to. But I don't really care what you want, because I want answers!" Minnie was now yelling at this stage.

Jeremie turned to Ulrich. "Call Yumi," He said again. "And you," he said, turning to Minnie. "You don't have permission to come."

"What, and you do? I don't really care, I'm coming."

"It's too risky. You could get seriously hurt." Jeremy seemed as though he really didn't want Minnie to come.Just then, Ulrich came back to the group.

"Bad news," He said. "Yumi's not answering her phone. We're going to have to go without her."

"Let me come," Minnie insisted. "Let me come to make up the numbers."

"Can you fight?" Ulrich asked.

"Umm, I don't know."

"Well..." Ulrich said, considering. "Odd didn't know how to fight when he went to Lyoko..."

"Hey," shouted Odd. "I can fight."

"I think we should let her come," Ulrich said. "To... To make up the numbers."

"Okay," said Jeremie. "But I just don't think it's a very good idea."

"Yeah, but if I remember correctly , you thought that using my Kiwi as a guinea pig to test those machines was a good idea," Odd said. "I mean, does Kiwi look like a guinea pig to you?" Odd laughed, obviously thinking that his joke was hilarious.

"Who's Kiwi?" Minnie asked as the group started to walk off again.

"Kiwi is my dog," Odd replied.

"I thought dogs weren't allowed at Kadic," Minnie said.

"They're not," Ulrich said. "But Kiwi could pass off as a giant rat anyway." Aelita giggled slightly at this.

"Hey," Odd cried. "That's not funny."

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