Chi was following Nathaniel all the way to the park. But instead of a relief, the pain just got worse, and worse with every step. She stopped, slightly pulling his sleeve.

"Listen, i don't feel like whatever we're doing is helping..." She closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead. "It hurts even more...Where are we going?"

Nathaniel saw Nil and wanted to hurry, but what Chi said stopped him. "What?" The sound was getting higher, but it wasn't as painful as she was making it look. Perhaps because she was blind and her other senses were enhanced, she was hearing it more acutely, thus making it more painful. But in the silent sone, the sound did suddenly just disappear so perhaps that'll happen for her too. Unless he was wrong, and it wouldn't help at all because perhaps because she could hear better, she would still hear it. But that would imply that that the silent zone wasn't exactly a dead zone. Which made sense as sound moves as a wave and if whatever they were walking towards was the epicenter, then it should be louder, not quieter. Perhaps it wasn't volume then... What could it be?

He looked at Chi's pained face and felt the guilt weigh him down, then he saw movement out of the corner of his eye and saw Bob and Pascale. He took Chi's hand and led her to them, "Hey Pascale, can we borrow your headphones?" He asked, pointing to the ones hanging around her neck. "The sound is really getting to Chi, so I was wondering she could borrow them until we shut down the sound."

"Huh..."
Broken out of her angry stupor, Pascale and Chubs had finally caught up with Nathaniel, Nil, and Chi in the Quiet Zone. Nathaniel seemed to be leading her along as though she couldn't see.
Did something happen to her eyes?
Nathaniel's request broke her thought process. He wanted her earphones for Chi. Was the noise still bothering her? It didn't seem like anyone else could hear it anymore.
Unless...
Quickly, removing her headphones and MP3 player, Pascale handed it to Nathaniel. Although, they had barely met and he was kind of annoying, Pascale felt she could trust him. Besides, this was Chi after all.
"Here...I think I may know whats really going on..."

Dashing into the clearing, Sora skidded to a stop for the second time that day to his memory. He looked at the others with a surprised expression on his face for a moment, leaning slightly against a tree with one hand to steady himself.

"Hello again..." Sora briefly looked up at the sky, then back down at the others. He glanced specifically at those he had not previously met, waving slightly with his free hand.

Sora seemed to be energized as his usual self soon enough, stepping away from the tree after a brief moment of rest from sprinting for such a long period of time, "Any progress so far?"

"Its frequency, " explained Pascale, "Not volume, that's why it suddenly got quiet and not all of us can here it anymore. If the frequency or pitch gets higher the closer we get to the source, then we won't it would be a quiet zone as we got closer. An...eye of the storm...so to speak," she begrudgingly admitted, "That Factory, if it is some kind of crazy machine, it's gotta be in there."

Nil holds up his hand. "I've got a bit of info. So, to begin, we know that this phenomena or whatever it is is happening to a select few people. We can figure out what the connection is later, that's not important right now. Next, whatever is causing it is releasing some kind of light, and that light is rewinding time. I noticed it the second night, but these recent times let me get a better judgement on its position, which kinda solidifies my thoughts that this is some kind of malfunctioning time machine. Last thing, the time it takes to reset and the time we go back are slowly coming closer together, so it's possible we're running out of time to fix this. So if it really is in this Factory, we need to get there ASAP. I also hope one of you is in Tech Club, because otherwise we're gonna have a hell of a time fixing things."

Sora looked a bit apprehensive as he spoke again, "Alright... but I wouldn't take the chance removing the possibility someone is behind this. Whatever happened, mistake or not, could still very well be partly intentional."

Throwing his duffle bag on the ground, Sora swiftly pulled out his wooden staff from where it was sticking out of the opening in the fabric. Zipping the bag back up again with his other hand, he slung it back over his shoulder as he held the practice weapon by the middle grip section.

"That plan sounds fine to me. I'm ready when you all are."

"Thanks." Chi quickly said, accepting the headphones from Pascale, and quickly putting them on. She connected them to her phone, and chose the very first song on the playlist, that she managed to turn on, Green Day-American Idiot. She turned the volume all the way up, which thankfully drown the buzz down. She still couldn't hear anybody, but anything was better than this buzzing sound. Aiko will take her earbud out, if there's a need to, anyway, and let her know what people were talking about later.

Now she was just standing there awkwardly, not being able to hear, or see anybody. "God dammit..." She grit her teeth. "So much for being treated normally..." She felt horrible...

After her brain had a short break, a thought hit her.

"Wait...You guys...really don't hear it right now?" With slow movement she took one headphone out, and frowned when the buzzing started to drill her ear again. "It's still really loud for me...Got only worse since i got here..."

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Chubs shook his head when asked the question.
He pointed toward the factory, and gestured.
So are we going or talking? I'm fine with either, I'll be in the back if you choose to go.

"Alright, you all look ready enough to me at least. Let's go." Sora tossed over his practice staff and caught it with his main hand, balancing it briefly.

Gotta admit, I could really get used to these people. They don't seem half bad really...

Sora started to make his way towards the factory, breaking into a slow jog in hopes the others would simply follow behind.

Everyone poofed into the Factory. There is an elevator, its right there. Everyone's like right in front of it. IDK. Its empty.

Nil inspects the elevator. "Well, since everything else looks pretty empty, wanna go up or down?"

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Sora walked up next to the elevator setup. Hearing what he suspected was a joke from Nil, he chuckled lightly, "I think down sounds pretty good. I'd rather not do some climbing towards the roof unless we have to."

Stepping halfway inside, Sora stomped with a decent amount of force on the platform. Not hearing any creaks or shifts in the structure, he turned towards the others, "Looks pretty stable to me. You all good with this?"

Now all the way on the platform, Sora leaned forward with both hands resting on the top of his staff as he waited for the others to enter the boxed transport. Smiling with a enigmatic zeal, he began to feel a bit more confident with the whole situation despite how he was still horribly confused at that very moment.

Chubs thought for a minute, his face perfectly neutral and calm.
He pointed down.
There is no way to really figure out, but if I'm guessing right,we will get to our destination, if not, time travel will get us back to the bridge.
He stepped into the elevator.

As they were getting closer to the factory, this. Fucking. Buzzing. Got. Even. Worse. At this point, Chi's head was pounding so much, that she almost stopped caring about it...or anything else, really.

Tottering, she made her way inside the elevator, and leaned against the wall, covering her ears, and pretty much squeezing her head.