(A/N: this is my first story in a long time, all reviews welcome)
It has been two weeks since the supercomputer has been shut down and X.A.N.A was defeated, but it was a bittersweet victory they had defeated X.A.N.A, but it had caused Aelita's father Franz Schafer to lose his life, this had caused Aelita to spiral into a deep depression.
"Cheer up Aelita, look on the bright side." Odd smiles
"What bright side?" Aelita murmurs
"Well your mother isn't dead, only missing." Odd points out
"Odd, shut up." Ulrich sighs at his friend
"It's fine Ulrich, don't blame him. He is just trying to help." Aelita sighs "Now, if it is okay I need some alone time."
"Sure thing Aelita, you know where to find us if you need anything." Yumi smiles as they leave the room and shut the door behind them
"Hey, you know what we should do?" Odd smiles "We should find her mother!"
"A good thought Odd, but we don't even know who took her mother." Jeremy says adjusting his glasses
"Uh, Jeremy all signs point to the CIA." Ulrich says
"Ulrich, you can't always blame the Americans, they are very nice, when they aren't trying to invade a country for its oil." Odd smiles earning several looks from his friends. "What? Americans are very nice to us Canadians in my experience, especially down around New Orleans during Mardi Gras, though you do need to watch out for coconuts."
"Moving on,' Jeremy sighs. "Without the supercomputer, it will be next to impossible to fine any recent record of Aelita's mother."
"Come on Jeremy, the CIA can be incompetent sometimes." Ulrich says
"For the last time Ulrich the Americans didn't do it, they were too busy dealing with the Russians. I think it was the DSGE." Odd says
"Both of you cut it out!" Yumi says, "Now it's currently Friday afternoon, Jeremy could you access any declassified DSGE files, or CIA files?"
"Yumi I doubt either agency will declassify files that pertain to the project, but I will try." Jeremy sighs as exit the girls' dormitory and began walking along the path. As they walked they failed to notice a man carrying a pile of boxes, until Ulrich fell flat on his butt
"Oh my, terribly sorry!" The man says and puts the boxes down and helps Ulrich up, he was wearing a pair of worn jeans and a purple and gold jacket with a tiger emblem on the shoulders
"Hey, wait a second; are you a fan of L.S.U?" Odd smiles
"Why yes I am, but where are my manners? I am Jack Jaeger but you can just call me Mr. Jack, I'm the new consular here." He smiles
"Hey could you maybe talk to a friend of ours? She has been really depressed for a while." Odd smiles
"Sure, just send her by Room 259, what is her name?"
"Aelita." Odd smiles', hearing the word Aelita, Jack's face goes pale
"W-what is her last name?" He stutters
"Stones, she is my cousin." Odd says slightly concerned
"Oh, alright. Just make sure she gets to my office okay?" Jack says picking up the boxes "Well, I will see you kids later." He walks off to the main building
"Jeremy, did you see his face when we said Aelita?" Yumi says
"Yes, it is interesting, I will see what I can dig up on him, so I must retire to me room now." Jeremy said heading to the boys' dorm, with Odd and Ulrich close behind
"I geuss I have to go get Aelita." Yumi sighs and heads back to Aelita's room and knocks
"Come in." Aelita says
"Hey Aelita, can you come with me please?"
"Sure, I guess." Aelita sighs and gets up from her bed and follows Yumi to Room 259.
"Mr. Jack are you there?" Yumi knocks on the door
"Yes, come in please!" He says
"Aelita, this is Mr. Jack the school's new consular." Yumi smiles as Mr. Jack sees Aelita and his eyes go wide, but he soon shakes his head and they go back to normal
"Ah, Ms. Stones is it?" Mr. Jack smiles and extends his hand
"Yes Aelita Stones." She shakes his hand
"Yumi you can go now." He says
"Alright, well goodnight Aelita." Yumi says as she leaves and closes the door
"Please, take a seat Aelita." He gestures to a couch
"Thank you." Aelita sighs and sits down on the couch
"So, tell me Aelita, is there any family issues going on right now?"
"N-no none at all, it's just that my father is very sick." Aelita says
"Alright, and what about your mother?"
"My mother left when I was only a little girl." Aelita starts to tear up
"Hey, hey no tears please, no tears." Jack says going over and hugs Aelita
"T-thank you." Aelita says as she calms down
"Alright, now what I think you need is to just take a few days of and visit your father for a bit, okay?" He smiles happily
"No, no I cant." Aelita sighs
"Is there any particular reason that you can't?" He sighs
"I just can't." She stands up
"Hold on Aelita, meet me here tomorrow, say 3:00 PM?" He says opening the door for her
"Sure." She smiles and leaves the room, but soon here frantic talking coming from the slightly open door
"Yes, yes I know it's only my first day here, but listen. I found her!" Mr. Jack says into his mobile, "Yes I am positive it is her. How did I find her? It doesn't matter, we found her! Have the rest of the team get here on the double, we start the operation within the month!"
Aelita's eyes go wide and she runs straight to Jeremy's room, and bursts though the door
"Aelita! What's wrong?" Jeremy says standing up from his computer
"Jeremy, they found me!" She hugs him and starts to cry
"Who found you?"
"The men in black! Mr. Jack was telling someone that he finally found her, and her is me!" She cries loudly
"This is not good."