(After season 4) (Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, and Aelita clothes from season 3)
Chapter 1: The beginning
It had all gone wrong.
After the Lyoko group shut down the supercomputer thus ridding of XANA, it somehow turn back on by some strange force, despite what Jeremy had thought, it was no ordinary XANA attack. This time the supercomputer had possessed a police officer with a gun. While Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, Spidey and his Pokemon, Riley, Blade Wolf, James Heller, Raiden, Dawn and her Pokemon, Madoka, Tyson, Kai, Ray, Max, Kenny, Hilary, Daichi, Mariah, Lee, Kevin Chang, Gary, Rick, Emily, Steven, Eddy, Michael, Tala, Spencer, Bryan, Ian, Crusher, Ming-Ming, Brooklyn, Mystel, Graceland, Juila, Raul, Miguel, Mathilda, Aaron, Claude, Robert, Johnny, Enrique, Oliver, Zeo, King, Queen, Gordon, Ozuma, Joseph, Mariam, Dunga, Kevin Ethan Levin, Gwen Tennyson, Rex Salazer, John Cena, AJ Lee, T-Bone, Razor, Zoe in her Kazemon form, and Aelita were on Lyoko trying to deactivate the tower Jeremy was at the computer providing assistance.
As he sat there speaking into the microphone he never even saw the possessed officer as he was shot in the back of the head. His head fell down on the keyboard and soaked it in blood. The others were under fire from enemies and asked Jeremy to help them but there was no response. Yumi, Raiden, and Odd were quickly devirtualized but Spidey and everyone else managed to keep their life points to defend Aelita.
When Odd, Yumi, and Raiden in his Custom Cyborg body with the Murasama Blade like Spideys appeared back in the scanners they went to look for Jeremy because they thought he must be in trouble. They had no idea how right they were. When they made it up the officer was waiting for them but Raiden told Yumi and Odd to hide as Raiden fights with the possessed officer with the gun. Meanwhile back on Lyoko Ulrich and Spidey and everyone else had defeated all of the enemies but couple of them and had cleared enough of a path for Aelita to make it into the tower safely. Sighing in relief they didn't even put up a fight as the crabs devirtualized them three by one in the trio group to the scanners.
When they got out of the scanners they headed up to see if the others were alright and if they needed any help. They were shocked to see the officer fighting against Raiden as he deflects the bullets with his sword. They saw Odd and Yumi hiding in the elevator.
Riley's bark of fury alerted the officer to his presence. The German Shepherd charged at the possessed man. The gun shot a bullet right at Riley only to him dodge it quickly like he has Quick Attack like Pikachu has but it didn't stop him. He bite right down onto the right arm of the officer and drag him to the ground. Ripping his uniform off of his right arm.
The possessed man quickly kicked Riley off and then pointed the gun right between his eyes on his nose. Riley growled deeply but right before the trigger was pulled, Raiden came behind the officer and Raiden slammed the butt of his sword's handle on the abdomen of the officer that attempted to kill him.
With the handle of the blade still on the officer's back, Raiden squeezed the trigger of the sheath that launched the crimson katana from it in a small fiery explosion, knocking the officer off his feet. The officer turns in mid air and aims the gun at Raiden, but then Raiden snatched the handle of the HF Murasama blade in midair and swung it at the officer still in the air, before the officer pulled the trigger he got slicing through him from the right side of his hip to his left shoulder. The XANA sign left the man's eys and he collapsed with the two halfs of his body to the ground. Spidey runs to the computer.
Raiden, seeing his job is done, he then flung the bloodstains off the blade with a flick of his right hand and sheathed the katana with a resounding CLICK.
Spidey could hear Aelita's voice coming from the earpiece. She was trying to tell Jeremy she had deactivated the tower. Gently picking up the body of Jeremy Spidey put him down on the ground with gentleness, crossed both in his arm over the chest, Spidey and the gang of Spidey quickly did a slatuing like soldiers remembering an dear old friend who was now dead, Spidey turned back to the computer, he pressed the enter key. "Return to the past..." He said collapsing to his knees from the stress of lossing his best friend right before the bright white light covered the earth.
Time had reverted to that morning before the attack and reactivating of the supercomputer. Aelita was standing in her usual spot in front of the vending machines where she and her friends always met. But she was worried as none of her friends were there yet. They were all supposed to have been there already execpt for Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, or Spidey and his gang who would show up a minute later.
She could do nothing but bite her lip and look around expectantly until everyone of the Lyoko gang showed up a minute later they were following Spidey, Pikachu, and Beautifly on his head with Riley and Blade Wolf in his full size again, Raiden not in his custom body but in an black jeans, sneakers, t-shirt says "Ladies Man" on it. "Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, Spidey, Riley, Blade Wolf, James, Raiden, Dawn, Madoka, Tyson, Kai, Ray, Max, Kenny, Hilary, Daichi, Mariah, Lee, Kevin Chang, Gary, Rick, Emily, Steven, Eddy, Michael, Tala, Spencer, Bryan, Ian, Crusher, Ming-Ming, Brooklyn, Mystel, Graceland, Juila, Raul, Miguel, Mathilda, Aaron, Claude, Robert, Johnny, Enrique, Oliver, Zeo, King, Queen, Gordon, Ozuma, Joseph, Mariam, Dunga, Kevin Ethan Levin, Gwen Tennyson, Rex Salazer, John Cena, AJ Lee, Chance, Jake, Zoe, everyone else!" She walked over to them a few feet before they reached the vending machines. "Do you know what happened to Jeremy? The trip back in time should've put him right back here along with the rest of you. Yet I was all alone."
Aelita then got a better looked at Spidey and everyone else while they looked perfectly fine physically she could tell there was something wrong by the looks in their eyes. "Aelita..." John said with his voice was heavy with emotion and nervously pull off his cap and he ran his hand over his buzz cut and then replaced his green usual cap on the head again, a nervous habit of his that he had never been able to shake. "We're sorry..."
"What's wrong everyone?" The pink-haired girl asked worried. "What went wrong? And where's Jeremy?"
At this point Aelita could see actual tear forming in the 18 year old Spidey Parker's eyes. "XANA...he possessed a officer with a gun." Spidey explained. "I-I don't know what happened exactly or everyone else but when we got back he was lying really still. H-He shot him Aelita. I think...we think he's dead."
"No!" Aelita shouted. "That's impossible! All of you must've seen it wrong Spidey! He's not dead! He can't be DEAD!"
"Aelita we saw a hole..." Odd gulped. "We saw a red hole that went through Jeremy's head."
"You're lying!" She screeched covering both ears with her hands. Tears were now running down her face. "All of you are lying to me! Jeremy is alive! He has to be!"
At this point Aelita's screaming and crying was drawing attention from nearby students. The gym teacher and Spidey's fake uncle Jim saw the commotion and jogged over toward them. "Parker! Everyone! Stone! What's going on?"
"Aelita's not feeling well Jim." Yumi quickly answered. "I think we're going to take her to the infimary." Spidey gently grabbed Aelita's wrist and headed toward the nurse's office with everyone else.
Jim was slightly taken back by Yumi's quickly reply and Spidey's action. "Well...okay. But I don't want to hear about any funny business!" He yelled at the group as they hurried off.
Spidey and everyone else of his gang knew now they had no choice but to actually take Aelita to the infirmary as Jim was sure to check later to make sure they had gone. It had been the only idea that Spidey and everyone else could think of and even now they weren't sure what they should do. Spidey didn't know of a way to make Aelita feel better and all he and the gang wanted to do was start crying themselves.
A few minutes later they arrived at the nurse's office. The nurse had only just opened her doors and no one else was inside. She was holding a cup of coffee and yawning when Spidey and everyone else came in pulling Aelita with him and the gang were following them.
"What is it this time Spidey?" She asked. "Not trying to get out of class again are you?" It was then that she noticed Aelita was sobbing.
"It's Aelita." He answered in a hollow voice. "She doesn't feel good. And to be truthfully honest...neither me or the gang." He sat down on the white bed used for sick patients while Riley lay down on the bed with Spidey and Dawn doing the same on Spidey's bed and everyone else on some other beds in the room.
The nurse thought she spotted tears in Spidey and the gang's eyes too before they suddenly turned away. "A-Alright then. All of you may stay."
An hour later Aelita and Spidey and everyone else were still in the nurse's office but Aelita had managed to stop crying. Instead she just sat there cradling her head in her hands making small, indistinguishable sounds. Suddenly the door flew open and Spidey's fake uncle gym teacher Jim rushed inside looking irritated.
He turned to Spidey and the gang and Aelita. "Parker! Stone! Everyone! Where is Jeremy Belpois? He isn't have been to class today. I've already checked his room but none of him was inside. Did he skip and leave campus?"
Gwen Tennyson, who was trying to comfort Aelita, glare at Jim with a fury of rage with the tone from Jim which he back down a bit. Spidey opened his mouth but no words came out. Aelita on the other hand could speak. "He's gone...he's gone!" She kept repeating.
"Gone?" Jim asked. "Gone where?" He leaned in close to Aelita thinking she'd spill any secrets. Spidey and his gang worried what she might tell him in her distressed state so Kevin E. spoke up before that could happen.
"He left...last night." He lied. Jim turned his attention from Aelita and Gwen to Kevin. "He went into the woods late last night. It was a dare, but Aelita and Spidey and everyone else didn't go with them. He said he'd be back in an hour...but he never came back."
"What?!" Jim asked alarmed. "Are you serious?"
Tyson and Kai nodded. "Aelita's been worried over since." Ozuma gulped. "You'll find him won't you Jim?"
"Y'all should've told me or one of the other teachers sooner." Jim gritted his teeth. "Come with me." He told them. "I'll need y'all to tell your story to the principal first."
The gym teacher forced them to come with him to the principal's office. Once there Jim had Spidey and the others repeat their story while Aelita stood there silently. Once Spidey and the gang had finished the principal turned to Aelita. "Is this all true young lady?"
The pink-haired girl turned to Spidey and the gang who gave her a look pleading her to go along with it. She then turned to the principal. "...yes sir. That's what happened."
"Well I understand that your upset but I assure you we will find your friend." The man nodded. He then gave Jim instructions along with some of the other teachers and made some phone calls. Turning back to the group he felt a twinge of pity. "Mr. Parker, why don't you take misses Stone back to her room for today? She seems rather upset."
Spidey and the gang nodded. "Yes sir." Grabbing Aelita by the hand Spidey took her out of the principal's office as quick as he could with his gang, Odd, Yumi, and Ulrich also. When they were outside Aelita pulled her hand away.
"I don't want to go to my room!" She told them. "I need to go to Jeremy's room. He'll be there!" She then made a break for the dormitories.
"Aelita wait!" Both Pikachu and Piplup ran and Beautifly flew after her just as Spidey and the gang ran after her.
She ran into the dorms on the boys' floor and headed for Jeremy's room. Pikachu and Piplup ran after her as Beautifly flew, Spidey and the gang were right behind them when suddenly their path was blocked by Sissy. Spidey and everyone else came to an abrupt halt and barely managed not to crash into her. "Sissy! Get out of the way man!"
"Not so fast everyone!" She crossed her arms over her chest. "The buzz around school is that Jeremy has disappeared and my bet is that y'all know what happened to him. Spill!"
"That's none of your business Sissy, now move already!" They tried to get past her but she spread both her arms out filling the thin hallway and effectively blocking them.
"I'm not giving up that easy. I know you and your little gang are always up to something and this time I went to know what. You're not getting past until you tell me where Jeremy is!" She declared.
Spidey and the gang didn't have the time for this and they were more than a little distraught. Sissy's taunts were only adding anger to that list of emotions. "You want to know where's Jeremy? Well he's DEAD!" James Heller screamed at her.
"D-Dead?" She stuttered out in surprise. By the time she blinked Spidey and everyone else hat sidestepped her and ran after Aelita and the Pokemon.
The pink-haired girl had already reached Jeremy's room along with Pikachu, Piplup, and Beautifly. Spidey and everyone else ran inside and closed the door behind them then turned to see Aelita staring at Jeremy's computer. "He...he's not here."
"Aelita...he's gone."
She suddenly turned to Spidey. "Even his body?"
"If Jeremy died his body wouldn't have returned with us during the return to the past." Spidey explained. "He would've just disappeared."
Aelita wiped a tear from her eye. "How would you even know that?"
"I asked Jeremy about it once." He admitted. "In case the worst situation imaginable happened. But we never imagined it actually would..."
"I-I never even got the chance to say goodbye..." Aelita cried. Suddenly she went over to Jeremy's desk and started pulling open all the drawers. Finding what she was looking for she pulled out a small but sharp blade Jeremy kept. Then she pointed it towards herself.
"AELITA NO!" Spidey pounced on the distressed girl and tried to wrestle the blade out of her hand.
"Let me go Spidey!" She shouted at him. "It's my choice!"
"FREAKIN NO!" Spidey grabbed the blade out of her hand. He toss it to the floor and landed underneath Jeremy's bed. "We can't let you do that Aelita. Jeremy would never forgive us."
Aelita fell to her knees and her small fists pounded the carpeted floor. "You don't understand Spidey! I loved Jeremy! He was my whole world. He brought me back to the real world and did everything he could to take care of me. Without him I'm nothing. I don't want to live when he's dead!"
"But he'd want you to live. I mean you got us to help you." Spidey all but whispered. Still, Aelita heard it. "Jeremy worked tirelessly and did all he could to bring you to the real world and I don't think he'd want you to throw your life away just because he was gone. He'd want you to live. I mean looked at Riley does he want you dead? He's like your best friend besides us." Spidey gestured to Riley who was whimpering and giving her the most sadden puppy eyes ever. Even Pikachu has tears in his eyes even Beautifly.
Aelita turned to look at Riley before back to Spidey and the gang with the most pitful look on her face. "But Spidey...I love him."
Spidey brought her head to rest on his chest and hugged her close. "We know you did Aelita. And he loved you too." And for a while they just stayed like that. Aelita sobbing while Spidey did his best to comfort her and himself. But he knew no words to make her feel better. Even the gang who got into an group with Spidey and Aelita. They could only hold her and wish the pain would stop.
Hours later it was evening and despite their pain all of the Lyoko warriors were hungry after having skipped earlier meals. "We should get something to eat." Ulrich suggested.
Aelita turned away. "I'm not hungry."
Spidey and the gang stood up and stretched just as Blade Wolf shook his body, Pikachu and Beautifly got on Spidey while Piplup was on Dawn's head. "We know, but we have to keep our strength up." Their companion didn't reply but allowed herself to be dragged to the cafeteria by Dawn. On their way there they ran into Jim who in an effort to keep them up to date them that Jeremy had yet to be found but all efforts were being made. Yumi and Madoka thanked him quietly.
Conversation was abuzz in the cafeteria mostly because of the disappearance. Luckily no one approached the group despite them being included in quite a lot of the gossip. Sissy sat at her usual table with Herb and Nicholas. She stared concerned at her love interest Ulrich Stern who is in love with Yumi but they come to their feelings but did not go over to talk to him.
Spidey and everyone were doing their best to eat but Aelita was just staring at her food. Her male companion(Kai) noticed this. "You have to eat something Aelita."
"What difference will it make?" She asked glumly. "We're down without the brains of the computer. In a few day XANA will attack again but there's no way we'll be able to beat him."
"Yeah. You have a point. But don't forget we have some superhero and superhuman with us." Ulrich and Odd gritted their teeth. "But we won't just give in that easily. Not after what XANA did to Jeremy. We'll pay that monster with revenge back if it's the last thing we do." Aelita was curious to observe Spidey clenching his both his gloved fists under the table.
"What are y'all going to do?" She asked.
"You say there we lost the brain to the supercomputer to hold XANA off right?" Aelita nodded at this. "Then I guess we'll need Spidey to do it." The pink-haired girl turned her head to see that Ulrich and the others stared at Spidey who has an smirked on his face.
