Chapter 17: We Need to Talk

Chapter 17:
	Disoriented and confused, everyone except for Kyle struggled to get up, the smaller group (consisting of Kyle, Athena, Allison, Hyde, and Bethany) started heading towards the entrance of the building, hoping to meet the others. As the group walked closer to the entrance, they could all see others. Terri ran towards the group and attempted to reunite in a hug, but only Bethany jumped into his arms.
	"So, where were all of you? We heard laughing, then an explosion, we think it was Bethany." Julian, who was concerned for the others, seemed to have bought a new golf club.
	"Oh gosh, this will take a while to explain, but..." Kyle started to tell the group about Aster, Lunarside, and the location of the capsule. Alex seemed pleased to hear the location of the capsule.
	"Oh, I'm starting to get goosebumps just thinking about the capsule. Soon we'll actually find out about the deal with the capsule!" Alex looked down to the machine, he seemed to be writing something on the screen "But, what are we going to do in terms of housing? In other words, how are we going to cram eleven people into a hotel-" Alex was interrupted by Allison.
	"Sorry Kyle, but I can't really deal with this kind of stuff anymore, I already get enough stress at school, I don't need this, so, let's go, the convention is a perfect place for a girl's night out!" Allison commanded Athena and Bethany to come with her, with Hyde and Bingo following.
	"I'm not losing Bethany again today!" Hyde disappeared into the many aisles of the store, with Bingo following him.
	"I guess I'll go too, the other SS's can't live without me, since only I know how to use a fax machine. Also, look, a thing!" SSN pointed to nothing in particular behind the others, surprisingly, they all fell for it, but eventually Kayla turned around to see that SSN disappeared.
	"Well, what should we do now?" Kayla asked.
	"I'm exhausted, maybe we should just rest at the hotel, Becky bought it for us a few days ago, so we still have a night or two." Kyle led the group to the hotel, holding Alex's machine, however, Terri seemed confused.
	"Wait, it's only been three days? It felt like, I don't know, thirteen chapters?" Kyle ignored Terri's strange choice of measuring time and continued walking to the hotel. Eventually, the now smaller group reached their hotel.
	"We're back," a tear was streaming down his face, likely in joy "The Phoenix Suites" the chosen children ran down the hallways of the hotel, laughing and crying at the same time, disturbing the nearby rooms (even the ones labelled "Do Not Disturb" and "The guests in this room are Wizards That will curse the loud ones for a thousand years!" and finally reached room 154, their room.
	"Okay, Alex, where's the key? Or maybe we should address each other by our usernames, so, Musical, where's the  key?" Terri (the author apologizes, and means "MegaBossMan") looked to Musical, who grabbed the shiny, red hotel key from his pocket and preformed the unlocking process on the door, revealing the hotel room, now with many scented candles on the beds. Julian (Rhythm) grabbed a red, gelatin-shaped candle and lit the candle, filling the room with the smell of strawberry jelly.
	"So, how shall we start this conversation?" Kayla (NetWoman) asked.
	"How about school?" Kyle (Meta) shrugged.
	"Perfect idea Meta! On a scale of fabulous to horrendous, how well are we all doing at our schools?" everyone yelled out "horrendous" except for Rhythm, who graduated from college years ago.
	"It's not that I'm not doing well in school, it's just that I don't like most people that go to my school." Musical gave  NetWoman a high-five.
	"I don't know, isn't that kind of attitude a little salty?" Meta asked.
	"Oh honey, you haven't seen salty until you see me at school, in fact, I cause about seventy percent of all drama there!" Musical bit into a muffin candle and almost cried.
	"Well, before Adrian telling us about the capsule and stuff like that, I just moved to that school, our teacher, Ms. Lebonze, she scares me." Meta grabbed a tea bag from the counter and started making tea.
	"Ms. Lebonze also scares me, but it's because she's old and gross now." Musical put the muffin candle in the trash and lit a blue llama candle, which made the room smell like hay.
	"The smell of hay haunts me, since I have Hay Fever." NetWoman looked down.
	"Really, me too! We're just so alike, maybe we're twins!" Musical and NetWoman started jumping in excitement, MegaBossMan laughed.
	"Oh, at first I thought you two were dating when I met you two.' MegaBossMan  lit a potato candle to counter the llama.
	"Oh, we're not dating, speaking of that, I am dating a handsome fellow at my school." Musical looked into the mirror in the room and blew a kiss.
	"Wow Music, you really do have a big ego." Meta sat down and started putting sugar in his tea. Musical got an idea and ran to the desk of the room and pulled out his laptop.
	"Let's talk to Mikey!" Musical started typing in "Mega Man RPG Prototype" on his computer. Rhythm seemed reluctant about Mikey.
	"Uh, should we really talk to Mikey? I wasn't here when you fought him, but he did sound quite the evil genius." Rhythm lit another jelly candle in the room.
	"Don't worry, Mikey was just sad and short then, he's cool and hopefully less short now. It's not like he's still building something to destroy us." Musical entered the chat room and started talking to Mikey, bringing up the chance of video chat.
	"Sure, why not? I'd love to see all of you again, but please not this VEEEEEEERRRRY second" Mikey typed. Musical absolutely ignored his advice and immediately called him, strangely, the phone answered by itself, and showed Mikey working on what looked like an upgraded model of Sunstone.
	"Uh, it's not what it looks like, I swear! Scout's honor, ha, okay, fine, it's exactly what it looks like, I'm sorry, okay?"