|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- YELLOWHAUS--CUP 1--"THE WORLD WILL END IN 45 MINUTES" --------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Yellowhaus  ||  -------> (Cup SRyh001, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "It's time I told you all something about Yellowhaus" Chamomile said, walking to the far side of the meeting table. Sulfur let out a single cynical snicker. "What does it matter now?" Chamomile sat down. "I guess it's back to Hell for me!" the devil girl Lemon said, leaning on her pitchfork. "Me too! Me too!" the mad dog guy Canary yelped out. The huge, furry, yellow beast Buff jumped up and grabbed a bar on the ceiling, swinging. "I don't think you have anything to worry about, Canary. You'll get there one way or another." "How! How!" Canary yelled, swinging his chain around. "There's something you all need to know about Yellowhaus." Chamomile said softly but firmly. "What?" Sulfur asked, fashioning and solidifying a grim reaper figurine out of the mists surrounding his body. "Hey, I know that guy!" Lemon commented brightly. "C'mon everybody." Buff said, still swinging. "So what if it's not us saving the day this time? We can't save the world every time. The Libertine Wave needs some practice anyway!" Chamomile looked up at Buff, a deadly serious look on her face. "The Libertine Wave are all dead." Buff paused in his swinging, then continued, saying only "Oh." "Now how could that have happened?" Sulfur asked. "Look all of you!" Chamomile said loudly, standing up. "I know we're used to this sort of thing, but there's something you have to know! Yellowhaus is a lot more than just our base of operations. It's an ancient... vehicle." "Is that why we never had a Yellowhausmobile?" Lemon asked, smiling broadly. Chamomile looked down, trying to hold in her frustration, a dull, dead feeling covering her whole body. Then she looked up and spoke, the beginnings of tears in her eyes. "I never told any of you because I didn't think it was important. But Yellowhaus has the ability to move between worlds, between universes. And it... and..." The four others were silent. "...it has a... a safety mechanism. Whenever a world is about to... end... it gets ready to transport away, automatically. And... and when we were just coming in, I noticed that... that the worldend autotransport had activated itself." Chamomile was now openly weeping, a sight none of the others had ever seen from their leader. "Yellowhaus will transport away from this world in about 40 minutes." "So what does this mean?" Sulfur asked. "It means," Chamomile said, nodding and looking up, "that the world will end in 45 minutes. Universe O'Riley will finally get his way." "No way!" Canary yelled. "Come on team! Let's go kick his celestial ass! Come on!" "Yeah!" Lemon shrieked. "Let's go teach this guy a lesson he'll never forget!" "I'm ready to cause some major damage!" Buff exclaimed as he jumped down to the floor. Chamomile shot out a spirit-energy shot that exploded against the back wall, narrowly missing Buff. "You don't understand." Chamomile began. "The mechanisms within Yellowhaus are not reacting to a POSSIBLE end of the world. They are detecting a DEFINITE, INALTERABLE end to our world. If we had any chance of stopping O'Riley, the mechanism WOULD NOT HAVE ACTIVATED." "So that's it?" Buff asked. "After everything that's happened, this is the way it ends?" "Where do we get to go! Oh boy!" Lemon asked brightly. "What?" Chamomile asked, taken by surprise. "Where will Yellowhaus take us? To another world like you said?" Lemon asked. "I don't know. As far as I know, we should get to a safe place in another world, but I have no way of knowing where that might be. Kimberly only gave me a rough overview before she... departed." Chamomile said. "Shouldn't we try and save some other folks?" Buff asked. Chamomile turned away. "There's not enough time. All our communications are out, and as you know, our hovercrafts are shot." "But there's a town near here. We could at least save a few people." Buff said. Chamomile turned to face him. "They have no idea what's happening! Why should we ruin the last few minutes of their lives--especially with the injustice of only being able to save a few of them! Besides, there's not even enough time for that!" "We should at least try." Buff said. "Why?" Chamomile shot out. "It's all over! We just happen to be incredibly lucky! It's not our fault. So let's just start getting prepared for what we might encounter in the next world. Or rather, the alternate world we're going to--hopefully not the next world yet." "Yeah!" Lemon said. "What's gonna happen to Hell if the world ends? Isn't Hell part of the world?" "Well Lemon, I'm not sure, but I believe that O'Riley seeks to destroy EVERYTHING, Heaven and Hell included." Chamomile said. "I see." Lemon said, a little shaken. Then she brightened and said "No more Hell! No more Slaverceth! No more responsibilities! Yipee!" "Yeah, yippee! Yippee!" Canary echoed. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----