Hi, I'm Mystic Peyton, and this is my first fanfic. Hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own code Lyoko. Moonscoop, Antefilms, Taffy, France 3, and Canal J do.
Aelita rolled over on her small bed in her dorm room at Kadic Academy. It was four in the morning and no one, not even she nor Jeremie Belpois were awake at this hour. Abruptly, she rolled further over, letting the covers of the bed slip off, as she stood up, eyes still closed, mind still in everlasting sleep.
"Daddy, help me," she mumbled still asleep as she began to clumsily sleep-walk towards her door. One heavy step dragged in front of the other as she barefoot walked down the corridor. She passed doors to her right and left but no one saw and no one heard what Aelita Schaeffer was doing.
Aelita slowly walked down the stairs and found her way outside into the courtyards of the school. "Daddy, Franz Hopper, Lyoko, XANA," she mumbled again turning and walking her way down the street straight past the Ishiyama residence.
Yumi's HouseYumi Ishiyama was not awake at this hour, but her younger brother Hiroki was. Hiroki had just finished level sixty in Ninja Battle video game and sleep-deprived glanced out the window to see a pink-hared figure walk by like a zombie.
"Isn't that Aelita, Yumi's friend?" Hiroki wondered to himself, opening the window and jumping down into the bush beside her. The sleeping Aelita turned towards the sound of Hiroki but kept going down the street.
Hiroki curious as to where this girl might be going at four in the morning, tailed her. Within five minutes the pair found themselves at the old abandoned factory. It was then, as Aelita clumsily slid her way down the ropes connecting the upper platform to the ground, Hiroki realized that the pink-haired girl was sleepwalking.
Hiroki slid down the rope following Aelita to an old freight elevator. He was about to pipe up and wake the sleeping Lyoko Warrior by warning her against the old rusty thing as it opened up and she stepped forward. Hiroki quickly shuffled in as well.
The sleeper opened up a panel in the side of the elevator and punched in a combination. The door opened with a loud twist of clicks and clacks and a cold room appeared with a large dias with an emblem of an eye in the center of it.
"Whoa," said Hiroki thinking he was in some kind of action movie. Aelita stepped forward mumbling, "XANA, Lyoko is not gone," as she slid the lever up. The dias, which in reality was a supercomputer, began to hum with energy, as a beam of light sparked in the room. "Uh…Aelita," mumbled Hiroki a little louder, but still Aelita was in too deep a sleep to hear him.
Aelita found her way over to a metal ladder on the wall and began to climb upward. Hiroki, nervous but still curious nonetheless, followed her wondering where in the hell she was going.
Supercomputer RoomAelita sat down in Jeremie's chair and began to punch in some keys as the monitors lit up. "Aelita," said Hiroki finally mustering the courage to speak loudly, "What are you doing? Why are you messing with this computer? Wake up, you're sleepwalking!" Aelita's eyes snapped open. "H-Hiroki? What are you doing here?"
Hiroki stood forward and replied, "I was going to ask you the same thing, girl."
Aelita glanced around trying to find a way around this obstacle. Since she had been asleep she didn't know how much Hiroki had seen, and she also didn't know how she'd gotten here.
"Hiroki," she started, "This isn't what it looks like." Hiroki quickly retorted, "Well, it looks like a super mega-computer. Are you trying to tell me it isn't?" Aelita bit her lip. Reaching for the controls of the supercomputer, she was about to strike the enter key to launch a return to the past, when Hiroki stopped her.
He grabbed her arm, and twisted it. "I'm not letting you go until you tell me what you're doing here!" he said giving the ultimatum.
"Hiroki," hissed Aelita through her teeth, "This isn't any of your business!"
Ignoring Yumi's annoying brother, Aelita managed in an arm wrestle to hit the enter key on the return to the past program. A white light engulfed the room and then the factory—and then it died making a whirring noise and retracting itself. The red error sign popped up on the screen along with the green plus sign, which greatly confused Aelita.
Hiroki twitched a moment releasing his grasp on Aelita. "Oh my gosh. Crabs attacked my house…Yumi got sent to the hospital because of electric birds attacking her…something called XANA took control of a military satellite…Aelita what is going on?" he mumbled wide-eyed with fear.
Aelita couldn't help but smile, "Well just what you said, Hiroki. And much much more."
Hiroki, being the stupid annoying brother he was yelled, "I'm gonna tell Mom and Dad!" Aelita elbowed him hard, making him fall down.
"Oh, but I'm sorry, Hiroki. I can't let you do that."
"Wanna bet!"
"I've taken on XANA more times than I can ever count. A tiny seventh grade boy? Now that should be a piece of cake," smiled Aelita pulling out a roll of duct tape.
Yumi's HouseYumi's cell phone rang and she groggily rolled over to answer it. "Why would Aelita call me at four in the morning? Surely it's not a XANA attack. He's destroyed."
"Hello?" she answered warily.
"Yumi! Hiroki is in the factory and I don't know how long this duct tape is going to hold him!"
"What? Why's Hiroki in the factory? Wait, why are you in the factory?"
"Not the point. The issue is, we have to get rid of Hiroki."
"Why don't you just do a return to the past?"
"I did," replied Aelita gravely.
A moment of silence ensued.
"I tried to do the return to the past but it didn't work, and worse Hiroki is remembering everything. The time the Crabs were virtualized and attacked your house, the time XANA took control of the satellite, the time Johnny took you to the hospital."
Yumi sat up now. "The only way he could remember is for him to be scanned into the supercomputer…was he scanned?"
"No, I checked. He doesn't have an avatar."
"This is weird. But what's wrong with telling Hiroki? XANA is gone for good."
"I'm just not sure," said Aelita, "So you called Odd, and I'll call Jeremie and we'll get this thing sorted out."
At the FactoryOdd, Ulrich, Jeremie, Aelita, and Yumi were gathered curiously around Hiroki, who had been skillfully duct-taped to the wall. Yumi yanked the tape off of her brother's mouth. "Yumi!" yelled Hiroki, "What is going on?!"
"Hiroki, how did you even get here?" asked Ulrich impatiently. "I followed Aelita," he replied. Jeremie eyed Aelita. "Then why were you coming here?"
Aelita blushed, "I don't know. I was sleep-walking I guess." Hiroki untangled himself and laughed at Aelita. Yumi turned to her brother. "Hiroki can you keep this a secret?"
"Depends, are you willing to do a year of my homework?"
"A week."
"A month."
"Three weeks."
"Deal," said Hiroki gleefully.
"Now go home," said Yumi.
Hiroki scampered off and Jeremie went to examining the return to the past program. "How about we try it again?" suggested Jeremie. The group shrugged and the white light did the same as before. It didn't work.
"I never thought we'd get back on the virtual horse," said Odd.
"We aren't getting back on the 'virtual horse' Odd. And we aren't going back to Lyoko," grunted Jeremie as he tried again and again to return to the past.
"Give it up, Jer, it's broken," muttered Ulrich.
"No!"
Aelita finally spoke, "Jeremie, stop it. Everytime you do that you are adding another cubit to XANA'S power."
"Aelita! XANA is dead. Remember? Your father sacrificed his life to make that possible!"
Aelita shook her head tears trickling down her cheeks. Ulrich not knowing what to say mumbled, "C'mon guys, it's almost time for school. We can figure this out later."
"Yeah," Odd smiled, "And this time we can close the book on our adventures one more time."
But no, the book had only just opened.