Roleplay with Em, More 2
[12/16/2012 9:15:45 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "They're coming out great!" Ashleigh exclaimed as she shoved an example in Mitsuki's face.
Jeremie sighed as he printed off another batch. "It would be much better if Ashleigh wouldn't bring some in her mouth."
Ashleigh shrugged and went to get the next batch.
[12/16/2012 9:30:59 PM] Emily: Mitsuki chuckled, as she was watching both of them. "Well, at least that's coming out good." She said, as her stomach grumbled again, as she was sighing. She hated being hungry.
[12/16/2012 9:35:18 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ashleigh heard the noise from Mitsuki's stomach. "Hungry." She read the girl's thoughts and started to search her own bag. "Sorry for intruding your thoughts. That's an accident, but I can't just not help anyone." She took out a small bag of chips. "It's not much, but here you go." Ashleigh gave the bag to Mitsuki.
[12/16/2012 9:36:55 PM] Emily: Tearing the bag open with her teeth, she got some chips into her mouth and munched on it. "But there was something weird that happened. You know the vending machines, right? Well, they were acting strange. They were dispensing the soup that Ulrich had Odd pressed by accident, and only a few drops came out." She said.
[12/16/2012 9:38:15 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Hm..." Jeremie said as he thought.
Ashleigh shook her head at him. Then turned to Mitsuki. "I wouldn't pay that any mind. Maybe it was because of the outage earlier. Then again, you don't know how many times Odd complained at them. Plus they don't work sometimes as it is."
[12/16/2012 9:46:26 PM] Emily: Finishing off the bag of chips and sigh. "I don't know..." Mitsuki said, as she was then stretching. "Pretty sure that X.A.N.A. could be doing this too..." She cracked her knuckles as she was planning to look around the school. "Plus more power outages all over the school is being reported." She opened up her laptop and shown the database of the school.
[12/16/2012 9:50:59 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ashleigh went back to the printing machine and back to Jeremie with more papers. "How many left?"
"This is the last batch." Jeremie pressed print. Ashleigh went off to get them.
[12/16/2012 9:56:05 PM] Emily: Mitsuki sighed, as her stomach growled some more. Her stomach wasn't just satisfied with chips. "Well, I better go scour the school and find some sweet rolls. I hope that at least they have that in the vending machines." She was about to leave when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
[12/16/2012 10:01:05 PM] Emily: In the meanwhile, Yumi was with the others, as she was planning to head to the cafeteria.
[12/16/2012 10:02:18 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: (Whose hand? Didn't know if it was one of my characters or not.)
[12/16/2012 10:04:11 PM] Emily: (It was Jeremie, because they'll probably talk about the incident.)
[12/16/2012 10:04:40 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: (All right. Wasn't for sure.
Aelita: She's dense.
Me: Shush it Maya!)
[12/16/2012 10:06:29 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ashleigh was already gone, with the flyers, as Jeremie set a hand on Mitsuki's shoulder. He turned her around. "Have a moment?" he asked. "There's a few things I need to do and would like you around for them."
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Odd and Ulrich were walking with Yumi to the cafeteria.
[12/16/2012 10:14:05 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then looked at him and nodded. "Sure, I've got some time before lunch." She said, as she was wondering what had been happening. As of late, her powers have been growing so far, and she was getting stronger, if albeit by a bit. But she knew that this was very strange. Why were these things happening? "Where are we going first?"
[12/16/2012 10:17:43 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "My room. I want to check my computer and see if Aelita feels anything on Lyoko." Jeremie walked out of the library, waiting for the girl in tow.
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[12/16/2012 10:18:07 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ashleigh walked up to Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi. "Look, we got the flyers printed!" She held them up.
[12/16/2012 10:21:30 PM] Emily: "Alright, I'm coming along with you. I'm convinced that something's going on. The power's been bonkers around here." Mitsuki said, as she was following along with Jeremie. Maybe they could solve this mystery...
[12/16/2012 10:22:18 PM] Emily: Yumi nodded. "That's good news. We were about to head to the cafeteria, but it's a bit too early to go in there just yet." She said.
[12/16/2012 10:24:16 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie led the way to his room. He opened the door and let Mitsuki sit on his bed. "Just try not to mess up everything. Sorry, you probably won't, but I have to say it everytime because of Odd." He sat at his computer trying to connect to Lyoko and Aelita.
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"I guess we can wait a bit," Ashleigh replied. She shot a glare at Odd after she got a whiff of his thoughts complaining her reply.
[12/16/2012 10:27:23 PM] Emily: "I won't. I just need something to eat is all, lunch's coming real close right now, and I want to eat some delicious food." Mitsuki said, taking off her shoes before entering the room and folding her legs criss-cross. "Besides, I respect other people's belongings. That's why my shoes are at the doorway, so that I can grab them on the way out and not track dirt everywhere."
[12/16/2012 10:28:02 PM] Emily: Yumi then looked at the others, "But anyway, did you notice anything about Mitsuki...?" She asked, as she looking at the others.
[12/16/2012 10:30:14 PM | Edited 10:33:38 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie nodded and kept on trying to connect to Lyoko. As he opened the connection, he looked at the map of the town.
"Hi." Aelita said. It was unusual for him to come on so suddenly. "Is something wrong Jeremie?"
Jeremie ignored her and kept typing on his keyboard.
"You know if you ever have a problem, you can always talk to me about it," the pink elf on Lyoko continued.
Jeremie finally started to answer. "We had a power failure in class this morning and the school electricity system seems to be having problems."
Aelita came on his screen. "And? You think X.A.N.A.'s behind it?"
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Odd and Ulrich nodded no. Ashleigh said, "Maybe one thought or two, but they aren't too odd. So no."
(Now finished. Stupid enter button...)
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[12/16/2012 10:37:37 PM] Emily: "Think? I have a feeling that he is. Power failures all over is not common in the slightest..." Mitsuki said, as she was slightly observing through her laptop, looking at blue prints of the school and marking which areas had electrical issues.
[12/16/2012 10:38:02 PM] Emily: Yumi blinked, "What were you thinking, Ashleigh?" She asked, as she wanted to know what was going on.
[12/16/2012 10:41:11 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Have you noticed anything in Lyoko?" Jeremie asked Aelita. Mitsuki was right and if X.A.N.A. was right, they had to stop it now.
To his dismay, Aelita replied with an answer he didn't want to hear. "No. Everything's quiet here."
"Okay, I'll do a scan. If X.A.N.A.'s activated a tower, we'll find out soon." Jeremie pushed a button and watched the program at work.
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"No, I mean a few thoughts I heard from here." Ashleigh facepalmed. "I can never get what I want to say out correctly.
[12/16/2012 10:47:15 PM] Emily: Mitsuki still was hugging her knees as she was observing what Jeremie was doing. It was pretty impressive that they could connect to Lyoko like that, without porting into the Lyoko system.
[12/16/2012 10:50:16 PM] Emily: "Ohhh, sorry about that." Yumi said, as she folded her arms, wondering what to do.
[12/16/2012 10:55:19 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie got up from the computer as he let the scan run. As a result of this sudden movement, Aelita asked, "Where are you going?"
Instead of being sorrow about the attack, like Aelita thought he would, Jeremie smiled. He replied, "To the cafeteria. They got brussel sprouts today. You know what they are?"
"Yes, but I don't know what they taste like," the Lyoko resident admitted. "Are they good?"
"I think so." Jeremie turned to Mitsuki. "Ready to go eat?"
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Ashleigh shrugged. "It's fine. You know I always do that anyways."
[12/16/2012 10:55:52 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: (And then in the next scene of the show after the "You know what they are?", Ulrich has a funny reaction :D)
[12/16/2012 11:11:09 PM] Emily: Mitsuki nodded, as she was heading to the door and getting her shoes on. "Yeah, I've got a good lunch to eat. It's all prepared in my bento - Japanese word for lunchbox - and it has some nice stuff in it." She said, as she winked.
[12/16/2012 11:12:06 PM] Emily: Yumi then checked her watch. "Let's head to the cafeteria, it's probably open by now."
[12/16/2012 11:19:16 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "See you later Aelita." Jeremie waved to his computer. Then he led the way out for Mitsuki and followed.
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Ulrich, Odd, and Ashleigh nodded and left.
[12/16/2012 11:24:27 PM | Edited 11:24:30 PM] Emily: As Mitsuki headed into the cafeteria, she was seated there, and unwrapping her bento, with it neatly arranged as the Japanese delicacy. "Ahhh, finally. I was starving." She said, as she spilt her chopsticks perfectly and clumped the rice together neatly into spheres and began to eat. "I thought I was gonna faint."
[12/16/2012 11:25:27 PM] Emily: "Hey shouldn't you be going to advertise your band right now? It's the perfect time to." Yumi pointed out with Mitsuki working on chowing down. "Whoa, whoa, not so fast. We still have time. Do you have this much of a bottomless stomach?" She giggled slightly at her eating patterns.
[12/16/2012 11:28:51 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie just gulped down his brussel sprouts quick. Oh, how he loved them. Ulrich on the other hand, didn't like them as much. He pushed his tray away, saying, "Ugh, ack! They're gross!" He tried to wipe his mouth with his hand.
Ashleigh picked up the posters. "I can do it now for both Mitsuki. I would do it for Odd, but..." She looked off to Odd bumping into Jim. "And I'm...Um...Not a big fan of brussell sprouts. See ya." With that, she left to find some tape and put them up.
[12/16/2012 11:34:15 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then sighed. "Well, at least you'll understand this Yumi, since you were raised under Japanese traditions, so you can get the picture. Small breakfast, a small or medium lunch, and then a huge dinner, rinse, lather and repeat. Nothing more to it really." She said, as she was working on her lunch. "I still need help coming up with a band name. I wanted to have something that involves with a gothic theme, but at the same time to be school appropriate. I've already tossed some of the good names away in my mind." Finishing lunch she then opened her bag and then got out a second one, which contained nothing but desserts. "Thanks Ashleigh. Want some Japanese confectioneries? I'm a pro at making them."
[12/16/2012 11:35:01 PM] Emily: Yumi chuckled, "Yeah, but you're eating more than the norm of what Japanese culture dictates. But I guess you might be in major culture shock, so it isn't surprising that you're doing something like this." She said, as she was eating her lunch.
[12/16/2012 11:38:23 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Yes please." Ashleigh held on for a minute so she can get a snack. She looked over at Odd. "Uh...Don't look now but I think Jim's going to audition for Odd's band...Great..."
Jeremie finished his plate as Ulrich looked at him. "How can you eat that stuff?" Ulrich asked. But he quickly shook it off. "Never mind. Want my portion? Odd's not going to eat it."
Though Jeremie wasn't a glutton like Odd, he couldn't say no on brussell sprouts. "Yes." He took Ulrich's tray and started to eat.
[12/16/2012 11:47:44 PM | Edited 11:58:17 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then got a napkin, and then handed Ashleigh a manjū. "Here you go: manjūs are steamed cakes of an surrounded by a flour mixture, available in many shapes such as peaches, rabbits, and matsutake. That's the Japanese word for mushroom. This one is rabbit-shaped." She said, as she was eating a manjū as well, which was peach-shaped.
[12/16/2012 11:50:12 PM | Edited 11:50:33 PM] Emily: "Odd! What are you up to now?" Jim questioned, staring at him to see Odd had the fliers in his arm and was planning to pass them out.
[12/16/2012 11:55:13 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Thank you!" She ate it, mumbled and thought to Mitsuki how much she loved it, and left to put up the posters.
Odd held up a flyer. "We're holding auditions for our group," he replied meekly.
[12/16/2012 11:58:57 PM] Emily: Jim took a flyer and kept on looking, but he didn't stop Odd, so at least he wasn't in trouble.
[12/17/2012 12:00:01 AM] Emily: Mitsuki then munched on some more manjū, as she looked over at the scene. "Well, at least nothing bad happened." She said, as she then offered some manjūs to her friends. "Wanna try guys? I made them myself."
[12/17/2012 12:01:46 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie nodded no. "Nah, I'll probably get full on this."
Ulrich held a hand out. "Please. I don't like bressell sprouts and I've had nothing else to eat."
Odd smiled and walked away as Jim read the flyer. "Hey, if anyone is interested, we need a drummer!" he shouted as he kept passing out flyers to every table in his path.
[12/17/2012 12:06:18 AM] Emily: "Here. I only got the peach and rabbit shaped ones, not the matsutake ones, which are the mushroom shaped ones. But I think you'll enjoy it. They're very sweet." Mitsuki said. "You can pick the shape you want." She then smiled. "Plus I'm a really good cook. So whatever you need I can make the lunch and just bring it here."
[12/17/2012 12:07:10 AM] Emily: Yumi watched her and was a little jealous, but she brushed that off. Mitsuki was just being a good friend was all, and pretty much that was all there to it. But she did notice that Odd intentionally avoided Sissi's table, even though one of the males wanted a flyer. It wasn't a surprise, really.
[12/17/2012 12:10:20 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Odd walked back to the table as Ulrich got one of the snacks Mitsuki was handing out. He ate it in one bite. "This is actually pretty good."
[12/17/2012 12:15:07 AM] Emily: "Thanks, I have younger siblings, so usually when my parents are out, I make a lot of the meals or the snacks. Please have some more, nobody can function on an empty stomach." Mitsuki pointed out, as she was eating her ramen noodles.
[12/17/2012 12:15:31 AM] Emily: Yumi then looked over. "Let's finish eating soon so we can start the auditions in the auditorium. How does that sound with you guys?"
[12/17/2012 12:16:02 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie nodded in reply.
[12/17/2012 12:22:12 AM] Emily: Once they were in the auditorium, Mitsuki was sitting there along with Yumi and the others, in chairs as they were planning to listen through the auditions. "I hope there's gonna be some good performances."
[12/17/2012 12:24:30 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Odd, Ulrich, and Ashleigh were also sitting, listening to the auditions. Jeremie decided to excuse himself to check on X.A.N.A. Ulrich groaned at the current performer and replied, "I sure hope they're coming up."
[12/17/2012 12:29:23 AM] Emily: "But I can't help but think, that was another vending machine that went wrong." Mitsuki muttered, as she was staring at the crowd. She still was working on the name for the band and the way things were going right now, it might not be even formed. It was because of that it wasn't functioning properly. She wishe would have gone with Jeremie to investigate more, but there was nothing she could do about it.
[12/17/2012 12:30:27 AM] Emily: It seemed like Yumi was miserable too, just listening through some of them, and that it wasn't even working out. But she didn't even want to think when Sissi came along, that was if she came along, that she might force herself into Mitsuki's band.
[12/17/2012 12:35:34 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: "It'll be fine Mitsuki," Ashleigh said, reading the girl's thoughts again. "My gosh, I need to work on not intruding thoughts. But I'm sure it's nothing. If it is, Jeremie can call us and we'll be bashing heads again." She pat the girl's back. "It'll all be fine, so cheer up. And for the name, maybe something related to Japan? Probably not. I don't know."
Odd decided to be nice for all the auditionees. "Well, you got a lot of style and it's heavy metal right?" he asked the currently auditionee, who replied that he liked it.
[12/17/2012 12:38:38 AM] Emily: "Umm, sorry Mike, we're looking for something more... uhh... traditional?" Yumi said, as she tried to at least make an imput on what she thought about the music.
[12/17/2012 12:40:54 AM] Emily: Mitsuki narrowed her eyes on Ashleigh. "Yeah, but I can't help but have that nagging feeling in my head. It's becoming a little bit too... concidental." But she stopped at that and then was thinking about it. And then she got an idea and then finally came up with a perfect name! "I finally got the band name idea! YESSSSS! How about Black Diamond?"
[12/17/2012 12:42:29 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Next!" Odd called.
Ashleigh smiled. "See, you got a name. The day is looking up already!"
Ulrich listened to what Ashleigh said and shook his head. He leaned over to Yumi to whisper, "Yeah. If it is, then I'm the king of Scotland..."
"I HEARD THAT!" shouted the brunette girl.
[12/17/2012 12:47:06 AM] Emily: Mitsuki chuckled a bit, hearing the conversation. She then was thinking about what members she would needed and drafted up a basic list. But before anything else could be done for the bands, it seemed that Jeremie rushed in a panic to get to where they were. "Well that's another person elinimated from possibly in a band... Oh hey Jeremie, what's up?" She said, as she was eating a sweet roll.
[12/17/2012 12:54:28 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie was panting hard as he came through the door. He wiped his forehead and walked in. "This is X.A.N.A.'s doing!" he exclaimed as he gestured to some area. "I'm almost sure of it." He sat in the chair ahead of him.
Ashleigh sighed, "I swear if you or Mitsuki are going to say a 'I told you so.'"
[12/17/2012 12:59:35 AM] Emily: "I'm not saying it unless it really happens, but so far it seems that power outages over the school isn't normal, hmmm?" Mitsuki pointed out. "Why would places that normally be functioning perfectly fine all of a sudden not work?"
[12/17/2012 1:04:59 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie kept explaining. "The current's cutting out all around the school and the pylon outside is way over the voltage limit. It could explode!"
"But why would X.A.N.A. do that?" Ulrich asked.
Ashleigh agreed, "If he really wants to destroy people, he should do it in bigger ways right?"
Jeremie looked down and admitted, "Your guess is as good as mine Ulrich."
[12/17/2012 1:11:29 AM | Edited 1:11:34 AM] Emily: But before they continue on the subject, Sissi and her gang entered. "Can it, guys." Mitsuki said, as she was looking over at the others, as they were going to address the latest people that entered the scene.
[12/17/2012 1:13:49 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Oh jeez..." Ashleigh just hid her head away from the group.
(Wait, am I still Sissi? And don't you have school tomorrow/today?"
"Surprise!" Sissi exclaimed as she walked up with her goonies. Just about everyone turned around and looked at them. The daughter of the principal continued, "It's obvious my friends and I aren't very welcome but my father said that the bands were open to everybody right?"
Ashleigh just growled at the loophole Sissi brought up.
"Oh, but don't worry. I don't want to be in a group of deadbeat weirdos. But Nicholas just loves the drums."
Odd smiled and joked, "A drummer eh? What does he play. His mom's pots and pans?"
Ashleigh laughed at the joke.
[12/17/2012 3:52:11 PM] Emily: Mitsuki bit her lip, as she was glad that Sissi didn't want to join the Black Diamonds. At least that she could figure that out for sure. But she chuckled slightly at the joke. "Ahh, but Odd you don't know what potential people might have. I want to see first hand if he can play that well." She said, as she smirked. "We're still "competition" after all."
[12/17/2012 3:59:41 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Fine," sighed Odd. With Mitsuki egging him on and the prinicpal saying anyone can audition, he had no choice. "We'll listen to what he can do."
Jeremie got up. "Okay guys I'm off to the factory. Keep me posted." With that, he left.
Nicholas went on stage and picked up the sticks. He started playing the drums with great skill that surprised Ulrich, Ashleigh, and Odd. Sissi smiled at Nicholas. As he finished, Ashleigh and Ulrich, along with Sissi, applauded for him.
"Ha ha, looks like you found yourself a drummer," commented Sissi as her group left.
Odd didn't look so happy. "Nicholas? The drummer in our band!? I don't care how good he is, the answer is no! Besides, Sissi probably set this up just to give us a hard time!"
[12/17/2012 4:04:34 PM] Emily: "Whether it's true or not, you can't deny him an access to the band." Mitsuki mentioned, as she pointed this obvious fact out, closing one of her eyes. "As a musician, I can tell that was good music. Besides that Naomi chick wasn't good at all."
[12/17/2012 4:05:33 PM] Emily: Yumi looked over at Odd, challenging him with her words, "Maybe for once she was trying to help and you gotta admit that Nicholas can really play the drums." She lectured.
[12/17/2012 4:09:27 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Unfortunately, we all admit that he can," Ashleigh said as she agreed with Yumi. "And no one else also came anywhere close to him."
Ulrich laid back in his seat. "Just like Mitsuki said, better then Naomi that's for sure."
"She's only a beginner, she needs a little more time!" Odd argued back.
"Uh-huh. A couple of years should do it."
Odd stood up. "Well if that's how you feel, then listen up! If you want Nicholas to be your drummer, then you better find yourself another guitarist!"
Ashleigh's eyes widened. She hated group fights, but you could never prevent them. "Oh, come on Odd! Don't go that far!" she pleaded.
[12/17/2012 4:14:23 PM] Emily: "And I say if you don't take him, you'll find yourself another singer!" Yumi retorted just as quickly, with an immediate sour frown on her face.
[12/17/2012 4:15:44 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then felt the urge to go. "At least Black Diamond's a separate group, we shouldn't argue like this, it sounds really stupid. Look how stupid your sounding Odd." She mentioned. "You can't deny Nicholas. Think of what consequences that'll lead to." She grabbed her things and waved. "I'm gonna go and see Jeremie and check up things there. He might need some backup."
[12/17/2012 4:18:36 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ashleigh looked disappointed and just sat back in her seat. "Kill me now?"
"If Sissi's idea was to cause trouble, she's done a great job." Ulrich sat right back up in his seat as he heard a noise.
[12/17/2012 4:23:36 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: (I'll be back. Gotta pick up siblings. Your post.)
[12/17/2012 4:25:48 PM] Emily: As Mitsuki was crawling down the manhole, she was then taking her skateboard and then skating towards the upstairs area, and climbed up, as she was then looking up at Jeremie and then was proceeding to enter the supercomputer area, and smiled for a moment. "Hey Jeremie, how are things going up here?" She said.
[12/17/2012 4:45:43 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Just trying to get Aelita." Jeremie replied. He turned to the computer in his seat. "Aelita. Sorry about the outage. What's new?"
"You were right to be worried. X.A.N.A.'s woken up."
Jeremie was on alert after Aelita's answer. He looked to the screen on his left. "The scan's picked something up. The tower X.A.N.A.'s activated is in the Desert Sector."
Aelita nodded. "I'm on my way."
"Be careful Aelita." Jeremie continued to look at the diagram of the town and the voltage. He told Mitsuki, "We should wait for the others to get here before we do anything else." The diagram beeped and a part glew red as Jeremie gasped.
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Jim finished performing and asked how he did. Odd walked up and tried to let him know gently. "Jim the fact is...Well you see we're a rock band, not a military band."
"Trust me. If we would, I'd be playing clarinet," Ashleigh mumbled underneath her breath.
[12/17/2012 4:49:20 PM] Emily: "I told them, but did they listen? Noooooooo.." Mitsuki said, as she was then looking over at him. "Sure. I'll wait, but I don't think that's gonna wait for us. Hey, isn't that the nuclear plant that scientist was talking about?! Why is the portion of the electricity of the area going bonkers?" She then stared at it and then looked over to Jeremie. "Port me in first, I don't think we can wait for something like that. Call the others. I'll head in."
[12/17/2012 4:51:53 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "All right fine. Go down to the scanners." Jeremie sighed at how many people in their group would like to just go in head first. Oh well, he couldn't help it. As Mitsuki went down, he called Yumi's phone.
[12/17/2012 4:54:47 PM] Emily: "Well, I don't trust X.A.N.A. to stop. If he's building up electricity, I say it's to blow something up!" Mitsuki said, as she was heading to the elevator. "Trust me, Jeremie. I won't be stupid like Odd and botch something critical up. Believe in me, at least a little." She then headed down to the scanners and waited for Jeremie's signal to go in.
[12/17/2012 4:56:24 PM] Emily: In the meanwhile, Yumi's phone rang and she listened to Jeremie's quick speech, "Okay, be right there. We're gonna have to audition you another time." She rushed, as she was hoping to get going, and while he was having his speech, she headed down the pipe along with Ulrich. If what Jeremie said was true...
[12/17/2012 5:00:02 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Okay, you can go in now!" Jeremie said to Mitsuki over the intercom.
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Ulrich, Odd, and Ashleigh raced out behind Yumi as Jim was giving his speech, not wanting to feel his wrath. They all felt the same way as Yumi. Ulrich skid his board against the pipe as Odd on his skateboard and Ashleigh on her scooter took the sidewalk.
[12/17/2012 5:03:22 PM] Emily: "Ready and rarin' to go, Jeremie!" Mitsuki said, as she was entering the cabin, as she was getting used to being in the claustrophobic cabin. She cracked her knuckles as she closed her eyes. "Let's get the show on the road!"
[12/17/2012 5:05:01 PM] Emily: Yumi entered in with the others, as she was being reported about the current situation. "It'll create a short circuit and--" But she noticed that somebody was missing. And she realized that Mitsuki was being transported in. "What is she doing in there!? She can't handle a solo mission on her own..."
[12/17/2012 5:16:50 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "She wanted to go. I tried to tell her not to but she insisted," Jeremie said meekly, showing that he was overpowered.
Ashleigh's eyes widened. "You did WHAT!? JEREMIE BELPOIS-:
But Ulrich held her back, trying to make sure no more problems were created. "There's nothing you can do right now," he scorned Ashleigh."We have a bigger problem at hand to solve."
Jeremie kept explaining, despite the chaos that almost happened. "The pylon can take one-hundred volts. Once it's all accumulated, X.A.N.A. can blow everything up!"
[12/17/2012 5:19:46 PM | Edited 5:21:19 PM] Emily: "Which is WHY I'm going in there. Do you think sitting around and screamin's gonna solve anything? If we want to stop this from happening, we get to the root of the problem. We're the only ones who can do this. Whether you believe me or not, I don't mind in the slightest. But if we don't do something, who will?" Mitsuki said, as she was hearing their screams while in the Desert area. She then made her large and feathery white wings appear, as she took flight into the sky. "At least I'm going to do something! I don't want X.A.N.A. to win, do you guys?" She was slightly miffed that they didn't trust her, but she knew Aelita would trust her.
[12/17/2012 5:21:06 PM] Emily: "Nuclear sabotage, isn't that a little over our heads, don't you think?" Yumi asked, as she wanted to hear the others' opinions. She then was coming up with a theory. "If we fail in Lyoko, the whole region will be wiped out. We've got to warn the authorities!"
[12/17/2012 5:24:53 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Aelita was just walking across the sector, following to where they pulsations were lead as the group kept arguing. She was hoping that she could get to and deactivate the tower before something crazy happened, either by X.A.N.A. or by the group. That wasn't going to happen, but she could try. She ignored the chat and kept walking.
"Are you crazy?" scoffed Jeremie. As if Yumi was looking at him that he was crazy, he answered, "There'll be an inquiry and we'll be questioned. We'll have to tell them everything! And if they discover X.A.N.A., they'll pull all the plugs out."
[12/17/2012 5:27:57 PM] Emily: Yumi seemed to be panicking about this. "And we'll lose Aelita, I know that. But we're talking about a nuclear disaster!" She rebuked as she was trying to gain some ground on the situation. A nuclear disaster. It would be catastrophic if that came to pass. If nothing was changed, then it would most certainly happened. But if they told somebody, at least they wouldn't have to be burdened with being Lyoko Warriors.
[12/17/2012 5:30:04 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then flew close to Aelita but not too close to alarm her and talked back to the others. "I have to agree with Jeremie. And besides, who would believe a bunch of kids? They'll think we've gone insane! Even if I voted, I wouldn't tell anybody about Lyoko because we can't make them believe that Lyoko's a real place and all these occurances are happening 'cause of X.A.N.A. - what good will that do? And what if those morons do something that we'll really regret and unleash X.A.N.A. by accident? Are you even willing to gamble on people's lives if that monster's out of this computer!?" She reasoned.
[12/17/2012 5:32:12 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Aelita wasn't startled at all. She just greeted Mitsuki with a nod. Jeremie looked at Yumi and sighed in defeat. "Okay, let's take a vote. Who's for raising the alarm?"
[12/17/2012 5:33:05 PM] Emily: "For," Yumi said, as she putted in her vote.
[12/17/2012 5:33:57 PM] Emily: Mitsuki nodded at Aelita and furled her wings in. "I'm against. As I keep telling you guys, adults won't believe in us." She said. "It's our duty to stop this, even if you are for raising the alarm, at least we need to try and stop it!"
[12/17/2012 5:38:00 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie raised his hand. "I agree with Mitsuki, I'm against."
Odd answered the same as the first two. "Against."
Aelita appeared on the supercomputer screen just as Ulrich was making his vote. He looked at Aelita with regret. "Sorry Aelita. But I also don't think we can take that big of risk. I vote for. Let's report it."
"I'm really sorry sis, but you know my answer." Ashleigh raised her hand with a bit of a tear in her eye. "I vote for too."
"Well then three votes for and three vote against, it's a tie." Jeremie was in a false sense of security. He thought nothing could change the tie which meant they would keep Aelita. "We don't tell anybody."
[12/17/2012 5:39:54 PM] Emily: Yumi then gave a look that would scare anybody to follow her side. "I think that it means we should tell everybody!" She said, pointing her finger at Jeremie very crossly.
[12/17/2012 5:40:58 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then gave a dead-panned look. "Yumi, are you serious? Even if we tell somebody... even if one person believed us... will that stop X.A.N.A. from destroying a freaking nuclear plant?!" She said, as she was slowly getting infuriated with her. "We're wasting precious time!"
[12/17/2012 5:41:25 PM | Edited 5:43:35 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Aelita tried to speak up. "Don't I have the right to vote?"
Jeremie believed in what she would vote so they would end this ridiculous arguement. "Well sure you do. That way there won't be a tie."
"In that case, I vote for," Aelita replied, proving Jeremie wrong.
"Huh?"
"I don't want thousands of people to die just to save me," she admitted.
[12/17/2012 5:44:05 PM] Emily: "Thank you Aelita," Yumi said.
Jeremie sighed as he printed off another batch. "It would be much better if Ashleigh wouldn't bring some in her mouth."
Ashleigh shrugged and went to get the next batch.
[12/16/2012 9:30:59 PM] Emily: Mitsuki chuckled, as she was watching both of them. "Well, at least that's coming out good." She said, as her stomach grumbled again, as she was sighing. She hated being hungry.
[12/16/2012 9:35:18 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ashleigh heard the noise from Mitsuki's stomach. "Hungry." She read the girl's thoughts and started to search her own bag. "Sorry for intruding your thoughts. That's an accident, but I can't just not help anyone." She took out a small bag of chips. "It's not much, but here you go." Ashleigh gave the bag to Mitsuki.
[12/16/2012 9:36:55 PM] Emily: Tearing the bag open with her teeth, she got some chips into her mouth and munched on it. "But there was something weird that happened. You know the vending machines, right? Well, they were acting strange. They were dispensing the soup that Ulrich had Odd pressed by accident, and only a few drops came out." She said.
[12/16/2012 9:38:15 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Hm..." Jeremie said as he thought.
Ashleigh shook her head at him. Then turned to Mitsuki. "I wouldn't pay that any mind. Maybe it was because of the outage earlier. Then again, you don't know how many times Odd complained at them. Plus they don't work sometimes as it is."
[12/16/2012 9:46:26 PM] Emily: Finishing off the bag of chips and sigh. "I don't know..." Mitsuki said, as she was then stretching. "Pretty sure that X.A.N.A. could be doing this too..." She cracked her knuckles as she was planning to look around the school. "Plus more power outages all over the school is being reported." She opened up her laptop and shown the database of the school.
[12/16/2012 9:50:59 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ashleigh went back to the printing machine and back to Jeremie with more papers. "How many left?"
"This is the last batch." Jeremie pressed print. Ashleigh went off to get them.
[12/16/2012 9:56:05 PM] Emily: Mitsuki sighed, as her stomach growled some more. Her stomach wasn't just satisfied with chips. "Well, I better go scour the school and find some sweet rolls. I hope that at least they have that in the vending machines." She was about to leave when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
[12/16/2012 10:01:05 PM] Emily: In the meanwhile, Yumi was with the others, as she was planning to head to the cafeteria.
[12/16/2012 10:02:18 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: (Whose hand? Didn't know if it was one of my characters or not.)
[12/16/2012 10:04:11 PM] Emily: (It was Jeremie, because they'll probably talk about the incident.)
[12/16/2012 10:04:40 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: (All right. Wasn't for sure.
Aelita: She's dense.
Me: Shush it Maya!)
[12/16/2012 10:06:29 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ashleigh was already gone, with the flyers, as Jeremie set a hand on Mitsuki's shoulder. He turned her around. "Have a moment?" he asked. "There's a few things I need to do and would like you around for them."
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Odd and Ulrich were walking with Yumi to the cafeteria.
[12/16/2012 10:14:05 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then looked at him and nodded. "Sure, I've got some time before lunch." She said, as she was wondering what had been happening. As of late, her powers have been growing so far, and she was getting stronger, if albeit by a bit. But she knew that this was very strange. Why were these things happening? "Where are we going first?"
[12/16/2012 10:17:43 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "My room. I want to check my computer and see if Aelita feels anything on Lyoko." Jeremie walked out of the library, waiting for the girl in tow.
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[12/16/2012 10:18:07 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ashleigh walked up to Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi. "Look, we got the flyers printed!" She held them up.
[12/16/2012 10:21:30 PM] Emily: "Alright, I'm coming along with you. I'm convinced that something's going on. The power's been bonkers around here." Mitsuki said, as she was following along with Jeremie. Maybe they could solve this mystery...
[12/16/2012 10:22:18 PM] Emily: Yumi nodded. "That's good news. We were about to head to the cafeteria, but it's a bit too early to go in there just yet." She said.
[12/16/2012 10:24:16 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie led the way to his room. He opened the door and let Mitsuki sit on his bed. "Just try not to mess up everything. Sorry, you probably won't, but I have to say it everytime because of Odd." He sat at his computer trying to connect to Lyoko and Aelita.
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"I guess we can wait a bit," Ashleigh replied. She shot a glare at Odd after she got a whiff of his thoughts complaining her reply.
[12/16/2012 10:27:23 PM] Emily: "I won't. I just need something to eat is all, lunch's coming real close right now, and I want to eat some delicious food." Mitsuki said, taking off her shoes before entering the room and folding her legs criss-cross. "Besides, I respect other people's belongings. That's why my shoes are at the doorway, so that I can grab them on the way out and not track dirt everywhere."
[12/16/2012 10:28:02 PM] Emily: Yumi then looked at the others, "But anyway, did you notice anything about Mitsuki...?" She asked, as she looking at the others.
[12/16/2012 10:30:14 PM | Edited 10:33:38 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie nodded and kept on trying to connect to Lyoko. As he opened the connection, he looked at the map of the town.
"Hi." Aelita said. It was unusual for him to come on so suddenly. "Is something wrong Jeremie?"
Jeremie ignored her and kept typing on his keyboard.
"You know if you ever have a problem, you can always talk to me about it," the pink elf on Lyoko continued.
Jeremie finally started to answer. "We had a power failure in class this morning and the school electricity system seems to be having problems."
Aelita came on his screen. "And? You think X.A.N.A.'s behind it?"
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Odd and Ulrich nodded no. Ashleigh said, "Maybe one thought or two, but they aren't too odd. So no."
(Now finished. Stupid enter button...)
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[12/16/2012 10:37:37 PM] Emily: "Think? I have a feeling that he is. Power failures all over is not common in the slightest..." Mitsuki said, as she was slightly observing through her laptop, looking at blue prints of the school and marking which areas had electrical issues.
[12/16/2012 10:38:02 PM] Emily: Yumi blinked, "What were you thinking, Ashleigh?" She asked, as she wanted to know what was going on.
[12/16/2012 10:41:11 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Have you noticed anything in Lyoko?" Jeremie asked Aelita. Mitsuki was right and if X.A.N.A. was right, they had to stop it now.
To his dismay, Aelita replied with an answer he didn't want to hear. "No. Everything's quiet here."
"Okay, I'll do a scan. If X.A.N.A.'s activated a tower, we'll find out soon." Jeremie pushed a button and watched the program at work.
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"No, I mean a few thoughts I heard from here." Ashleigh facepalmed. "I can never get what I want to say out correctly.
[12/16/2012 10:47:15 PM] Emily: Mitsuki still was hugging her knees as she was observing what Jeremie was doing. It was pretty impressive that they could connect to Lyoko like that, without porting into the Lyoko system.
[12/16/2012 10:50:16 PM] Emily: "Ohhh, sorry about that." Yumi said, as she folded her arms, wondering what to do.
[12/16/2012 10:55:19 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie got up from the computer as he let the scan run. As a result of this sudden movement, Aelita asked, "Where are you going?"
Instead of being sorrow about the attack, like Aelita thought he would, Jeremie smiled. He replied, "To the cafeteria. They got brussel sprouts today. You know what they are?"
"Yes, but I don't know what they taste like," the Lyoko resident admitted. "Are they good?"
"I think so." Jeremie turned to Mitsuki. "Ready to go eat?"
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Ashleigh shrugged. "It's fine. You know I always do that anyways."
[12/16/2012 10:55:52 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: (And then in the next scene of the show after the "You know what they are?", Ulrich has a funny reaction :D)
[12/16/2012 11:11:09 PM] Emily: Mitsuki nodded, as she was heading to the door and getting her shoes on. "Yeah, I've got a good lunch to eat. It's all prepared in my bento - Japanese word for lunchbox - and it has some nice stuff in it." She said, as she winked.
[12/16/2012 11:12:06 PM] Emily: Yumi then checked her watch. "Let's head to the cafeteria, it's probably open by now."
[12/16/2012 11:19:16 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "See you later Aelita." Jeremie waved to his computer. Then he led the way out for Mitsuki and followed.
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Ulrich, Odd, and Ashleigh nodded and left.
[12/16/2012 11:24:27 PM | Edited 11:24:30 PM] Emily: As Mitsuki headed into the cafeteria, she was seated there, and unwrapping her bento, with it neatly arranged as the Japanese delicacy. "Ahhh, finally. I was starving." She said, as she spilt her chopsticks perfectly and clumped the rice together neatly into spheres and began to eat. "I thought I was gonna faint."
[12/16/2012 11:25:27 PM] Emily: "Hey shouldn't you be going to advertise your band right now? It's the perfect time to." Yumi pointed out with Mitsuki working on chowing down. "Whoa, whoa, not so fast. We still have time. Do you have this much of a bottomless stomach?" She giggled slightly at her eating patterns.
[12/16/2012 11:28:51 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie just gulped down his brussel sprouts quick. Oh, how he loved them. Ulrich on the other hand, didn't like them as much. He pushed his tray away, saying, "Ugh, ack! They're gross!" He tried to wipe his mouth with his hand.
Ashleigh picked up the posters. "I can do it now for both Mitsuki. I would do it for Odd, but..." She looked off to Odd bumping into Jim. "And I'm...Um...Not a big fan of brussell sprouts. See ya." With that, she left to find some tape and put them up.
[12/16/2012 11:34:15 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then sighed. "Well, at least you'll understand this Yumi, since you were raised under Japanese traditions, so you can get the picture. Small breakfast, a small or medium lunch, and then a huge dinner, rinse, lather and repeat. Nothing more to it really." She said, as she was working on her lunch. "I still need help coming up with a band name. I wanted to have something that involves with a gothic theme, but at the same time to be school appropriate. I've already tossed some of the good names away in my mind." Finishing lunch she then opened her bag and then got out a second one, which contained nothing but desserts. "Thanks Ashleigh. Want some Japanese confectioneries? I'm a pro at making them."
[12/16/2012 11:35:01 PM] Emily: Yumi chuckled, "Yeah, but you're eating more than the norm of what Japanese culture dictates. But I guess you might be in major culture shock, so it isn't surprising that you're doing something like this." She said, as she was eating her lunch.
[12/16/2012 11:38:23 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Yes please." Ashleigh held on for a minute so she can get a snack. She looked over at Odd. "Uh...Don't look now but I think Jim's going to audition for Odd's band...Great..."
Jeremie finished his plate as Ulrich looked at him. "How can you eat that stuff?" Ulrich asked. But he quickly shook it off. "Never mind. Want my portion? Odd's not going to eat it."
Though Jeremie wasn't a glutton like Odd, he couldn't say no on brussell sprouts. "Yes." He took Ulrich's tray and started to eat.
[12/16/2012 11:47:44 PM | Edited 11:58:17 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then got a napkin, and then handed Ashleigh a manjū. "Here you go: manjūs are steamed cakes of an surrounded by a flour mixture, available in many shapes such as peaches, rabbits, and matsutake. That's the Japanese word for mushroom. This one is rabbit-shaped." She said, as she was eating a manjū as well, which was peach-shaped.
[12/16/2012 11:50:12 PM | Edited 11:50:33 PM] Emily: "Odd! What are you up to now?" Jim questioned, staring at him to see Odd had the fliers in his arm and was planning to pass them out.
[12/16/2012 11:55:13 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Thank you!" She ate it, mumbled and thought to Mitsuki how much she loved it, and left to put up the posters.
Odd held up a flyer. "We're holding auditions for our group," he replied meekly.
[12/16/2012 11:58:57 PM] Emily: Jim took a flyer and kept on looking, but he didn't stop Odd, so at least he wasn't in trouble.
[12/17/2012 12:00:01 AM] Emily: Mitsuki then munched on some more manjū, as she looked over at the scene. "Well, at least nothing bad happened." She said, as she then offered some manjūs to her friends. "Wanna try guys? I made them myself."
[12/17/2012 12:01:46 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie nodded no. "Nah, I'll probably get full on this."
Ulrich held a hand out. "Please. I don't like bressell sprouts and I've had nothing else to eat."
Odd smiled and walked away as Jim read the flyer. "Hey, if anyone is interested, we need a drummer!" he shouted as he kept passing out flyers to every table in his path.
[12/17/2012 12:06:18 AM] Emily: "Here. I only got the peach and rabbit shaped ones, not the matsutake ones, which are the mushroom shaped ones. But I think you'll enjoy it. They're very sweet." Mitsuki said. "You can pick the shape you want." She then smiled. "Plus I'm a really good cook. So whatever you need I can make the lunch and just bring it here."
[12/17/2012 12:07:10 AM] Emily: Yumi watched her and was a little jealous, but she brushed that off. Mitsuki was just being a good friend was all, and pretty much that was all there to it. But she did notice that Odd intentionally avoided Sissi's table, even though one of the males wanted a flyer. It wasn't a surprise, really.
[12/17/2012 12:10:20 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Odd walked back to the table as Ulrich got one of the snacks Mitsuki was handing out. He ate it in one bite. "This is actually pretty good."
[12/17/2012 12:15:07 AM] Emily: "Thanks, I have younger siblings, so usually when my parents are out, I make a lot of the meals or the snacks. Please have some more, nobody can function on an empty stomach." Mitsuki pointed out, as she was eating her ramen noodles.
[12/17/2012 12:15:31 AM] Emily: Yumi then looked over. "Let's finish eating soon so we can start the auditions in the auditorium. How does that sound with you guys?"
[12/17/2012 12:16:02 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie nodded in reply.
[12/17/2012 12:22:12 AM] Emily: Once they were in the auditorium, Mitsuki was sitting there along with Yumi and the others, in chairs as they were planning to listen through the auditions. "I hope there's gonna be some good performances."
[12/17/2012 12:24:30 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Odd, Ulrich, and Ashleigh were also sitting, listening to the auditions. Jeremie decided to excuse himself to check on X.A.N.A. Ulrich groaned at the current performer and replied, "I sure hope they're coming up."
[12/17/2012 12:29:23 AM] Emily: "But I can't help but think, that was another vending machine that went wrong." Mitsuki muttered, as she was staring at the crowd. She still was working on the name for the band and the way things were going right now, it might not be even formed. It was because of that it wasn't functioning properly. She wishe would have gone with Jeremie to investigate more, but there was nothing she could do about it.
[12/17/2012 12:30:27 AM] Emily: It seemed like Yumi was miserable too, just listening through some of them, and that it wasn't even working out. But she didn't even want to think when Sissi came along, that was if she came along, that she might force herself into Mitsuki's band.
[12/17/2012 12:35:34 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: "It'll be fine Mitsuki," Ashleigh said, reading the girl's thoughts again. "My gosh, I need to work on not intruding thoughts. But I'm sure it's nothing. If it is, Jeremie can call us and we'll be bashing heads again." She pat the girl's back. "It'll all be fine, so cheer up. And for the name, maybe something related to Japan? Probably not. I don't know."
Odd decided to be nice for all the auditionees. "Well, you got a lot of style and it's heavy metal right?" he asked the currently auditionee, who replied that he liked it.
[12/17/2012 12:38:38 AM] Emily: "Umm, sorry Mike, we're looking for something more... uhh... traditional?" Yumi said, as she tried to at least make an imput on what she thought about the music.
[12/17/2012 12:40:54 AM] Emily: Mitsuki narrowed her eyes on Ashleigh. "Yeah, but I can't help but have that nagging feeling in my head. It's becoming a little bit too... concidental." But she stopped at that and then was thinking about it. And then she got an idea and then finally came up with a perfect name! "I finally got the band name idea! YESSSSS! How about Black Diamond?"
[12/17/2012 12:42:29 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Next!" Odd called.
Ashleigh smiled. "See, you got a name. The day is looking up already!"
Ulrich listened to what Ashleigh said and shook his head. He leaned over to Yumi to whisper, "Yeah. If it is, then I'm the king of Scotland..."
"I HEARD THAT!" shouted the brunette girl.
[12/17/2012 12:47:06 AM] Emily: Mitsuki chuckled a bit, hearing the conversation. She then was thinking about what members she would needed and drafted up a basic list. But before anything else could be done for the bands, it seemed that Jeremie rushed in a panic to get to where they were. "Well that's another person elinimated from possibly in a band... Oh hey Jeremie, what's up?" She said, as she was eating a sweet roll.
[12/17/2012 12:54:28 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie was panting hard as he came through the door. He wiped his forehead and walked in. "This is X.A.N.A.'s doing!" he exclaimed as he gestured to some area. "I'm almost sure of it." He sat in the chair ahead of him.
Ashleigh sighed, "I swear if you or Mitsuki are going to say a 'I told you so.'"
[12/17/2012 12:59:35 AM] Emily: "I'm not saying it unless it really happens, but so far it seems that power outages over the school isn't normal, hmmm?" Mitsuki pointed out. "Why would places that normally be functioning perfectly fine all of a sudden not work?"
[12/17/2012 1:04:59 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie kept explaining. "The current's cutting out all around the school and the pylon outside is way over the voltage limit. It could explode!"
"But why would X.A.N.A. do that?" Ulrich asked.
Ashleigh agreed, "If he really wants to destroy people, he should do it in bigger ways right?"
Jeremie looked down and admitted, "Your guess is as good as mine Ulrich."
[12/17/2012 1:11:29 AM | Edited 1:11:34 AM] Emily: But before they continue on the subject, Sissi and her gang entered. "Can it, guys." Mitsuki said, as she was looking over at the others, as they were going to address the latest people that entered the scene.
[12/17/2012 1:13:49 AM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Oh jeez..." Ashleigh just hid her head away from the group.
(Wait, am I still Sissi? And don't you have school tomorrow/today?"
"Surprise!" Sissi exclaimed as she walked up with her goonies. Just about everyone turned around and looked at them. The daughter of the principal continued, "It's obvious my friends and I aren't very welcome but my father said that the bands were open to everybody right?"
Ashleigh just growled at the loophole Sissi brought up.
"Oh, but don't worry. I don't want to be in a group of deadbeat weirdos. But Nicholas just loves the drums."
Odd smiled and joked, "A drummer eh? What does he play. His mom's pots and pans?"
Ashleigh laughed at the joke.
[12/17/2012 3:52:11 PM] Emily: Mitsuki bit her lip, as she was glad that Sissi didn't want to join the Black Diamonds. At least that she could figure that out for sure. But she chuckled slightly at the joke. "Ahh, but Odd you don't know what potential people might have. I want to see first hand if he can play that well." She said, as she smirked. "We're still "competition" after all."
[12/17/2012 3:59:41 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Fine," sighed Odd. With Mitsuki egging him on and the prinicpal saying anyone can audition, he had no choice. "We'll listen to what he can do."
Jeremie got up. "Okay guys I'm off to the factory. Keep me posted." With that, he left.
Nicholas went on stage and picked up the sticks. He started playing the drums with great skill that surprised Ulrich, Ashleigh, and Odd. Sissi smiled at Nicholas. As he finished, Ashleigh and Ulrich, along with Sissi, applauded for him.
"Ha ha, looks like you found yourself a drummer," commented Sissi as her group left.
Odd didn't look so happy. "Nicholas? The drummer in our band!? I don't care how good he is, the answer is no! Besides, Sissi probably set this up just to give us a hard time!"
[12/17/2012 4:04:34 PM] Emily: "Whether it's true or not, you can't deny him an access to the band." Mitsuki mentioned, as she pointed this obvious fact out, closing one of her eyes. "As a musician, I can tell that was good music. Besides that Naomi chick wasn't good at all."
[12/17/2012 4:05:33 PM] Emily: Yumi looked over at Odd, challenging him with her words, "Maybe for once she was trying to help and you gotta admit that Nicholas can really play the drums." She lectured.
[12/17/2012 4:09:27 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Unfortunately, we all admit that he can," Ashleigh said as she agreed with Yumi. "And no one else also came anywhere close to him."
Ulrich laid back in his seat. "Just like Mitsuki said, better then Naomi that's for sure."
"She's only a beginner, she needs a little more time!" Odd argued back.
"Uh-huh. A couple of years should do it."
Odd stood up. "Well if that's how you feel, then listen up! If you want Nicholas to be your drummer, then you better find yourself another guitarist!"
Ashleigh's eyes widened. She hated group fights, but you could never prevent them. "Oh, come on Odd! Don't go that far!" she pleaded.
[12/17/2012 4:14:23 PM] Emily: "And I say if you don't take him, you'll find yourself another singer!" Yumi retorted just as quickly, with an immediate sour frown on her face.
[12/17/2012 4:15:44 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then felt the urge to go. "At least Black Diamond's a separate group, we shouldn't argue like this, it sounds really stupid. Look how stupid your sounding Odd." She mentioned. "You can't deny Nicholas. Think of what consequences that'll lead to." She grabbed her things and waved. "I'm gonna go and see Jeremie and check up things there. He might need some backup."
[12/17/2012 4:18:36 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Ashleigh looked disappointed and just sat back in her seat. "Kill me now?"
"If Sissi's idea was to cause trouble, she's done a great job." Ulrich sat right back up in his seat as he heard a noise.
[12/17/2012 4:23:36 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: (I'll be back. Gotta pick up siblings. Your post.)
[12/17/2012 4:25:48 PM] Emily: As Mitsuki was crawling down the manhole, she was then taking her skateboard and then skating towards the upstairs area, and climbed up, as she was then looking up at Jeremie and then was proceeding to enter the supercomputer area, and smiled for a moment. "Hey Jeremie, how are things going up here?" She said.
[12/17/2012 4:45:43 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Just trying to get Aelita." Jeremie replied. He turned to the computer in his seat. "Aelita. Sorry about the outage. What's new?"
"You were right to be worried. X.A.N.A.'s woken up."
Jeremie was on alert after Aelita's answer. He looked to the screen on his left. "The scan's picked something up. The tower X.A.N.A.'s activated is in the Desert Sector."
Aelita nodded. "I'm on my way."
"Be careful Aelita." Jeremie continued to look at the diagram of the town and the voltage. He told Mitsuki, "We should wait for the others to get here before we do anything else." The diagram beeped and a part glew red as Jeremie gasped.
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Jim finished performing and asked how he did. Odd walked up and tried to let him know gently. "Jim the fact is...Well you see we're a rock band, not a military band."
"Trust me. If we would, I'd be playing clarinet," Ashleigh mumbled underneath her breath.
[12/17/2012 4:49:20 PM] Emily: "I told them, but did they listen? Noooooooo.." Mitsuki said, as she was then looking over at him. "Sure. I'll wait, but I don't think that's gonna wait for us. Hey, isn't that the nuclear plant that scientist was talking about?! Why is the portion of the electricity of the area going bonkers?" She then stared at it and then looked over to Jeremie. "Port me in first, I don't think we can wait for something like that. Call the others. I'll head in."
[12/17/2012 4:51:53 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "All right fine. Go down to the scanners." Jeremie sighed at how many people in their group would like to just go in head first. Oh well, he couldn't help it. As Mitsuki went down, he called Yumi's phone.
[12/17/2012 4:54:47 PM] Emily: "Well, I don't trust X.A.N.A. to stop. If he's building up electricity, I say it's to blow something up!" Mitsuki said, as she was heading to the elevator. "Trust me, Jeremie. I won't be stupid like Odd and botch something critical up. Believe in me, at least a little." She then headed down to the scanners and waited for Jeremie's signal to go in.
[12/17/2012 4:56:24 PM] Emily: In the meanwhile, Yumi's phone rang and she listened to Jeremie's quick speech, "Okay, be right there. We're gonna have to audition you another time." She rushed, as she was hoping to get going, and while he was having his speech, she headed down the pipe along with Ulrich. If what Jeremie said was true...
[12/17/2012 5:00:02 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "Okay, you can go in now!" Jeremie said to Mitsuki over the intercom.
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Ulrich, Odd, and Ashleigh raced out behind Yumi as Jim was giving his speech, not wanting to feel his wrath. They all felt the same way as Yumi. Ulrich skid his board against the pipe as Odd on his skateboard and Ashleigh on her scooter took the sidewalk.
[12/17/2012 5:03:22 PM] Emily: "Ready and rarin' to go, Jeremie!" Mitsuki said, as she was entering the cabin, as she was getting used to being in the claustrophobic cabin. She cracked her knuckles as she closed her eyes. "Let's get the show on the road!"
[12/17/2012 5:05:01 PM] Emily: Yumi entered in with the others, as she was being reported about the current situation. "It'll create a short circuit and--" But she noticed that somebody was missing. And she realized that Mitsuki was being transported in. "What is she doing in there!? She can't handle a solo mission on her own..."
[12/17/2012 5:16:50 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: "She wanted to go. I tried to tell her not to but she insisted," Jeremie said meekly, showing that he was overpowered.
Ashleigh's eyes widened. "You did WHAT!? JEREMIE BELPOIS-:
But Ulrich held her back, trying to make sure no more problems were created. "There's nothing you can do right now," he scorned Ashleigh."We have a bigger problem at hand to solve."
Jeremie kept explaining, despite the chaos that almost happened. "The pylon can take one-hundred volts. Once it's all accumulated, X.A.N.A. can blow everything up!"
[12/17/2012 5:19:46 PM | Edited 5:21:19 PM] Emily: "Which is WHY I'm going in there. Do you think sitting around and screamin's gonna solve anything? If we want to stop this from happening, we get to the root of the problem. We're the only ones who can do this. Whether you believe me or not, I don't mind in the slightest. But if we don't do something, who will?" Mitsuki said, as she was hearing their screams while in the Desert area. She then made her large and feathery white wings appear, as she took flight into the sky. "At least I'm going to do something! I don't want X.A.N.A. to win, do you guys?" She was slightly miffed that they didn't trust her, but she knew Aelita would trust her.
[12/17/2012 5:21:06 PM] Emily: "Nuclear sabotage, isn't that a little over our heads, don't you think?" Yumi asked, as she wanted to hear the others' opinions. She then was coming up with a theory. "If we fail in Lyoko, the whole region will be wiped out. We've got to warn the authorities!"
[12/17/2012 5:24:53 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Aelita was just walking across the sector, following to where they pulsations were lead as the group kept arguing. She was hoping that she could get to and deactivate the tower before something crazy happened, either by X.A.N.A. or by the group. That wasn't going to happen, but she could try. She ignored the chat and kept walking.
"Are you crazy?" scoffed Jeremie. As if Yumi was looking at him that he was crazy, he answered, "There'll be an inquiry and we'll be questioned. We'll have to tell them everything! And if they discover X.A.N.A., they'll pull all the plugs out."
[12/17/2012 5:27:57 PM] Emily: Yumi seemed to be panicking about this. "And we'll lose Aelita, I know that. But we're talking about a nuclear disaster!" She rebuked as she was trying to gain some ground on the situation. A nuclear disaster. It would be catastrophic if that came to pass. If nothing was changed, then it would most certainly happened. But if they told somebody, at least they wouldn't have to be burdened with being Lyoko Warriors.
[12/17/2012 5:30:04 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then flew close to Aelita but not too close to alarm her and talked back to the others. "I have to agree with Jeremie. And besides, who would believe a bunch of kids? They'll think we've gone insane! Even if I voted, I wouldn't tell anybody about Lyoko because we can't make them believe that Lyoko's a real place and all these occurances are happening 'cause of X.A.N.A. - what good will that do? And what if those morons do something that we'll really regret and unleash X.A.N.A. by accident? Are you even willing to gamble on people's lives if that monster's out of this computer!?" She reasoned.
[12/17/2012 5:32:12 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Aelita wasn't startled at all. She just greeted Mitsuki with a nod. Jeremie looked at Yumi and sighed in defeat. "Okay, let's take a vote. Who's for raising the alarm?"
[12/17/2012 5:33:05 PM] Emily: "For," Yumi said, as she putted in her vote.
[12/17/2012 5:33:57 PM] Emily: Mitsuki nodded at Aelita and furled her wings in. "I'm against. As I keep telling you guys, adults won't believe in us." She said. "It's our duty to stop this, even if you are for raising the alarm, at least we need to try and stop it!"
[12/17/2012 5:38:00 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Jeremie raised his hand. "I agree with Mitsuki, I'm against."
Odd answered the same as the first two. "Against."
Aelita appeared on the supercomputer screen just as Ulrich was making his vote. He looked at Aelita with regret. "Sorry Aelita. But I also don't think we can take that big of risk. I vote for. Let's report it."
"I'm really sorry sis, but you know my answer." Ashleigh raised her hand with a bit of a tear in her eye. "I vote for too."
"Well then three votes for and three vote against, it's a tie." Jeremie was in a false sense of security. He thought nothing could change the tie which meant they would keep Aelita. "We don't tell anybody."
[12/17/2012 5:39:54 PM] Emily: Yumi then gave a look that would scare anybody to follow her side. "I think that it means we should tell everybody!" She said, pointing her finger at Jeremie very crossly.
[12/17/2012 5:40:58 PM] Emily: Mitsuki then gave a dead-panned look. "Yumi, are you serious? Even if we tell somebody... even if one person believed us... will that stop X.A.N.A. from destroying a freaking nuclear plant?!" She said, as she was slowly getting infuriated with her. "We're wasting precious time!"
[12/17/2012 5:41:25 PM | Edited 5:43:35 PM] Ashleigh Stingley: Aelita tried to speak up. "Don't I have the right to vote?"
Jeremie believed in what she would vote so they would end this ridiculous arguement. "Well sure you do. That way there won't be a tie."
"In that case, I vote for," Aelita replied, proving Jeremie wrong.
"Huh?"
"I don't want thousands of people to die just to save me," she admitted.
[12/17/2012 5:44:05 PM] Emily: "Thank you Aelita," Yumi said.