Disclaimer: I own none of this, except the plot… It all belongs to France3 ect ect…
Summary: 10 years later X.A.N.A. is gone, forever destroyed. Aelita is materialized and she and Jeremie are married (thanks much to his wonderful computer skills). The team worked together, saved up enough money and bought the factory. The factory equipment was gutted and sold for scrap. Odd died in the final battle with X.A.N.A. some 4 years ago. Jeremie and Aelita work as "computer technicians." Lyoko was reprogrammed as a whole world (no pitfalls or long jump places with nothing below). Lyoko now operates as the world largest and most advanced military simulation ground with outposts spanning the globe. Lyoko Inc. co-owned by Jeremie Aelita Yumi and Ulrich is one of the most advanced computer companies, selling their products and services to the highest intercontinental bidder. Jeremie and co. are now billionaires. But to the world outside of Lyoko they seldom use their wealth and to their friends are just normal people.
Rating: RGenres: Actionadventure, drama, romance
Warnings: sex, sexual tension, violence, death, tragedy, guilt and more sex. PLEASE no one under 16 should read this. MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY. And any other way you could put that.
Chapter 1: Dreams
Ulrich sat up on his bed; sweat running down his forehead in rivulets. He had awoken from another nightmare about Odd. His guilt from not saving Odd stretched from 4 years ago…
The only thing that stood between them and the tower needed to materialize Aelita were 3 krabs. "Lets go dammit," cried someone from Ulrich's left and odd darted out from behind his tree.
The cries of "Odd wait!" still haunted Ulrich's dreams. "The damn daredevil," Ulrich muttered to himself. As the world around him seemed to slow, the others watched in horror as a krab kicked out at Odd. In slow motion almost as if in a dream Ulrich darted out to try and catch Odd before he flew off the edge. But he wasn't fast enough and odd seemed to drift into the white Lyoko. The world seemed to speed up very suddenly as Ulrich had to dodge the laser from the krab that kicked Odd…
"Ulrich…" came Yumi's soft voice from his doorway. "Ulrich are you okay? I heard you crying out," she explained. He turned to look at her; she was panting, betraying the fact that she had ran from her room to his.
"I'm fine," he grunted. She frowned at this.
"No, Ulrich you're not. You're still blaming yourself for him aren't you? Well you need to stop blaming yourself, none of us blame you Ulrich we've told you this a thousand times at least. We don't blame you," she rambled on into silence. Ulrich motioned for her to sit beside him.
She sat down next to him and her pale nightshirt seemed to glow in the faint moonlight that was screening through the curtains in his room… Ulrich woke with a start. He kept having the same damn dreams. All of them ended in his room with Yumi. Sometimes they got more intimate in his dreams; sometimes he woke up at her appearing in his doorway.
Ulrich closed his eyes, letting his thoughts become dreams, never knowing where one began or the other ended… He must have slept for a while because when he woke again the sun was up over the top of his window; and Yumi was sitting on his bed, watching him closely.
"Morning handsome," she said lightly.
"Morning," he all but grunted. Then, he thought to himself. Wait doesn't Jeremie usually wake me up? Why is Yumi here getting me? Unless… "Yumi?" he said finally. "Where's Jeremie?"
"In the lab, He sent me to get you, he looked pretty anxious, so I took my time in waking you." She said this all very fast as though holding in her breath.
"Alright then, lets go see what the all knowing Jeremie Belpois wants. But do you mind averting your eyes for a second while I get dressed?"
"Not a problem Ulrich." She said this in such a manner that Ulrich very much doubted that she would actually avert her eyes. Regardless, he stood up, rolling his eyes at Yumi's obvious attempts to sneak looks at him while he threw on a pair of dark blue jeans and a black t-shirt.
Ulrich opened the door to the hallway. Well I guess Jeremie deserves more respect than we give him. He did think of this.
By this Ulrich meant buying the factory and starting a business. They built 5 small separate "houses" in which one of them had lived in each house, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom to each. That was of course until Jeremie proposed to Aelita. Ulrich laughed as he remembered how long it took him to build up the nerve to finally pop the question. In the end he looked like he almost fainted as he got down on one knee and all but begged Aelita to marry him. He remembered the look on Odd's face…
At the thought of Odd the laughter died from his face. He still missed Odd, the friend who was always honest, always cheerful; the happy-go-lucky daredevil that was always willing to talk when Ulrich needed to. He remembered Odd's final request; Jeremie had recorded his last words as he fell into the white Lyoko…His last request, for him, Ulrich to take care of Kiwi for him. He had fulfilled this request until, kiwi died, peacefully 2 years ago.
Ulrich was startled when he found himself in the weapons lab. Jeremie and Aelita were sitting at twin computers on a table. Between the computers was an assault rifle that Ulrich was unfamiliar with. Must be a new one, and an important one judging by how fast the two of them were typing. He looked at Jeremie, he hadn't changed much since his school days, he was slightly taller and his shoulders broader. Aelita had matured nicely; her hair was now waist length, a single thick braid that ran down her back. Her face had softened and her hips and bust widened considerably. Their faces were contorted with concentration.
Just then Jeremie turned his head in his direction. His expression was of relief and exasperation. "Where the hell have you been? I sent Yumi up to get you almost an hour ago! Here," He said thrusting the assault rifle into his hands, "test it out, memorize its kick and sounds, we need your feedback to calibrate it in Lyoko. Remember we are the best at this for a reason."
"Your confidence in me is overwhelming, just don't yell at Yumi, for me being late, it was my fault, I wouldn't wake up." He said finally after contemplating the weapon in his hand.
Ulrich walked into the Plexiglas firing range. This was his favorite job aspect. He got to shoot guns. He got to shoot a lot of guns. Every day he found an excuse to empty a few clips downrange. He found it very therapeutic. He loved the thump of the recoil and the sonic thud of the report. It also gave him something to focus on. So Ulrich put on his shooters earmuffs and he saw Yumi walk into the lab and start talking quietly to Aelita. Suddenly Yumi noticed his gaze; turned to him, smiled and gave him a thumbs up
He turned toward the targets, put a fresh clip into the gun and cycled the first round into the chamber. He lined up the sights, turned the selector to semi-automatic and, shot by shot, emptied the first magazine into the ballistic clay backstop. "God damn this thing isn't a rifle, it's a fucking cannon," he said to himself. He reloaded and switched to automatic, he emptied the gun far faster this time but found that it was difficult to hold steady beyond a two or three shot burst.
He put in a dummy magazine and brought the gun back out to Jeremie, who seemed to have just finished programming the gun into Lyoko's databank.
"Ready for round two Ulrich? Get down to the scanner room load into the range."
One of Jeremie's really brilliant ideas fixed the need for them to have a person on the outside to scan them and program their landing co-ordinates. Now a retinal scanner identified you. All you did to change your destination from the default was manipulate a small plasma touch video screen. Then you just went inside the scanner and pressed a small button on the inside to scan yourself.
Ulrich did this and found himself outside the training and programming building. He walked to the weapons range just as Aelita's voice appeared in his head. "Alright Ulrich, you know the drill, start shooting and tell me what differences you feel from the real world gun and this one. But Ulrich felt like he was forgetting something. He wracked his mind but found nothing.
Ulrich ignored this feeling and started shooting, rattling off numbers and percentiles to Aelita as he did. Each time he gave her a number the recoil and sound of the gun changed. Ulrich kept firing, randomly switching firing modes and estimated numbers until the thud of the stock felt just like that of the assault rifle he fired in the real world firing range. He noticed that the ranges on both worlds looked exactly alike.
"Aelita, anytime you fell like bringing me back, it would be nice to get some food in me," he was hungry, having not yet had breakfast. And slightly upset with Jeremie's brisk manner this morning. Must be having a bad day, he mused to himself. Aelita had seemed cold too; not even talking to him in between bursts in his firing. What the hell is going on today? He didn't know but he had a feeling it had to do with whatever he thought he forgot earlier.
"All right Ulrich just give me a moment here," came her reply. Ulrich felt the world dissolve around him as he found himself in the scanner. Yumi was in the room, carrying a bag with what looked like movies inside.
"Hey Yumi. What's up?"
"Not much thought you might like to watch a couple of moves back at your place."
"As long as there's popcorn; I'm starved"
"Sure got it right here. Your place or mine?"
"Mine, its closer," at this she rolled her eyes. Technically her place was only 90 feet farther but he was feeling lazy from being so hungry. They walked up to his room in silence, their footsteps echoing in the hallways. Ulrich opened his door to a chorus of voices shouting.
"SURPRISE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ULRICH!"
A/N: My first fic, sorta(Dont ask if you dont wanna know).Reviews and critique welcome. Flames will roast my marshmallows.