It's been awhile, I've been busy. Thankfully I've also been writing. I will eventually finish my stories, but those documents are on formats not accepted by my current laptop, so I need a software update. As soon as I take care of that, and maybe get some internet, (Seriously, I'm not joking when I say I've lived twos year without cable or internet), I'll start publishing again.
Two disclosures, I don't own Code Lyoko, and I haven't finished Evolution yet.
Yumi opened her eyes and saw a fake sky above her. Sitting up she looked around, rubbing her head and saw she was in a mountain sector somewhere. Standing up she felt a little disoriented and nearly fell over.
"What just happened?," Yumi asked and looked at a cliff and remembered she was in a nav skid. It looked like her's clipped the cliff, destroying the skid midair while she was asleep. So far this didn't seem good.
"Jeremie?" Yumi asked aloud, "Jeremie?"
Yumi looked at the sky as if she'd hear his voice. Sighing she looked around and saw no one.
"Ulrich!" Yumi shouted and looked around "Odd! Aelita! Anyone! William! Jeremie, Jeremie!" She shouted nearly in tears now and looked around.
Yumi's nav skid crashed landed, and now she was in the middle of no where. She wasn't even sure if she was in Lyoko, and not one of the replikas. Turning around she saw a tower in the distance and figured it was at least a relatively safe haven.
When Yumi arrived at the tower she saw no security at all so ran straight in and stopped at the monitor. Opening the screen she read some of the data and groaned.
"Should have listened more when Jeremie explained," Yumi said and looked at some of the system diagnostics, "What does that mean, where am I?"
Yumi scrolled through the data and couldn't remember anything of what Jeremie or Aelita taught them.
"How do I give this thing orders?" Yumi asked and groaned, "Orders...command."
Yumi typed in 'CMD' and a black screen appeared with a flashing 'Issue Command'
"Map," Yumi said and typed in 'MAP' and it said 'not a recognized order.'
"Wait, no, 'system architecture'" Yumi typed in 'STM ARC' and a two-dimensional map appeared, pinpointing her position in the mountain sector. She pulled back the map and smiled when she saw it connected to a center section which connected to three other sectors.
Yumi was still in Lyoko. Sighing in relief that she wasn't in the net somewhere on a replika. Thinking, she tried to remember how to find the others. She typed in her name and it zoomed in on her location. She typed in the others names and found they weren't in Lyoko. She typed in skid and saw it docked, but the Nav Skids were gone.
"Where did XANA shoot them out to," Yumi asked, and tried several things but it didn't recognize any of the commands. Yumi slammed her hands on the screen in frustration and looked at the screen. When she slammed her hands she accidentally typed 'JOREMTIY'. She laughed a little, thinking about it how it looked like Jeremie. She fixed the spelling and hit enter, only to watch it zoom to his location in Carthage.
"Jeremie?" Yumi asked and saw his avatar on the screen, "Why are you here?"
It felt like he was suspended. His nav skid was tumbling in the empty nothingness of the net. No one and nothing was near him as he drifted alone. The nav skid was a tiny piece of rubble in a void that never ended.
Ulrich slowly opened his eyes and looked around his surroundings. He saw his controls were not lit up, his yoke didn't move at all, nothing responded. Looking out of his windshield he saw nothing, so much nothing.
"Yumi?" Ulrich asked through the communications, "Odd? Jeremie? William? Aelita? Anyone?"
Ulrich listened and didn't even hear static, "Jeremie?" Nothing was still heard, "Yumi!"
Ulrich breathed in deep and tried to calm himself down.
"You're okay, you're okay. You're just floating in the sea, near nothing, near no one, and the ship doesn't work, and you can't reach anyone," Ulrich said to himself and found he wasn't helping.
"Guys! Anyone!" Ulrich shouted, and heard static, "Guys!"
Ulrich heard someone's voice breaking through the radio. Listening carefully he tried to figure out whose voice it was. If it was a voice at all.
"I'm freaking out a little bit," he heard Odd's voice say.
"Odd? That you?" Ulrich asked.
"Yeah, Ulrich?'"
"It's me buddy," Ulrich answered.
"Anyone else?" Odd asked.
"I haven't heard anything," Ulrich said and looked around, "Your ship work?"
"Yeah, I put it on idle to save some power, I only have the comms on," Odd said and Ulrich looked at his controls. Ulrich realized he as stupid and restarted the ship just to see if it could.
His ship lit up and he smiled as he felt a weight of worry get lifted from his shoulders.
"Ulrich, you see anything near you? Any replikas?" Odd asked and Ulrich checked his scanner, "Nothing?"
Suddenly he felt his nav skid vibrate and a dot popped up on his radar.
"You get that?" Ulrich asked.
"Get what?"
"Something popped up on my radar, like an explosion or something," It happened again, "There, it's behind me." Ulrich pulled the yoke and turned the pod to see what it was. He saw a third go off in the far distance, like a pinprick of light.
"I think it's a depth charge," Ulrich said and pushed forward toward it, 'I'm going to it, it might be Yumi or William setting off flares."
"Set off a missile, if I can hear you, I might be able to see you," Odd said and Ulrich hit some switches and fired a missile, which exploded away from him.
"I got you on radar. Hold your fire, I'm moving to you," Odd said and started to move his ship toward the blast. Within five minutes they found each other and waved through their windows.
"Stay on me," Ulrich said and pushed on toward the charges that went off in front of him. Odd pulled in from behind him and closely followed as they slowly moved forward. Soon they heard another voice.
"Can anyone hear me?" They heard William ask.
"William, was that you setting off bombs?" Urich asked.
"I can't believe that worked. Anyone else with you?"
"I got Odd, you got Yumi and Aelita?" Ulrich asked and William sighed.
"No, I haven't seen her. I got Aelita out in time though."
Soon they tethered all three pods together and tried to come up with a plan. Where was Jeremie? They hadn't heard anything, it made them wonder if something happened in the lab.
"You think the others are okay?" Odd asked and didn't get an immediate response, "Guys?"
"I devirtualize Aelita when XANA flipped the trap, she got out," William said and the three boys sat in their Nav Skids silently.
"Now what?" Ulrich asked.
"I'm not sure about Yumi, so it's up to Jeremie and Aelita to get us out," William said and closed his eyes.
"How do we know they're okay?" Odd asked
"We don't. We've been through worse though," William said and Ulrich shook his head.
"Actually, I think this just took number one."
The Inspector was led down the hallway by Dr. Sentry who walked next to him with her clipboard, going over the patients information and current state. It was a quiet hospital, a majority of the patients voluntary for depression or various phobias. Most wore normal clothing; pants, shirts, and dresses, very few walked around in pajamas and robes, and those were the recent suicide patients.
"If I may ask Inspector, why the visit?" Dr. Sentry asked, and the Inspector looked into the room through the window, then back to Dr. Sentry.
"New information came up in her case," the Inspector answered, looking into the room again, and seeing a girl with electric pink hair sitting on her bed, hugging her knees into her chest, looking through the bars of her window at the trees outside.
"Are you at liberty to discuss it?" Dr. Sentry asked.
"Nothing in detail, but reexamining of the scene indicates she didn't try to kill herself," the Inspector answered.
"Even with that, she's still recovering. She went through a trauma, most likely before the incident. Her memory is in fragments, and those pieces are not coming together in any logical manner," Dr. Sentry said and the Inspectorsighed and rubbed the back of his head.
"Look, your job is to treat her. My job is to find out what happened to her, I'm trying to find a middle ground to accomplish both. If possible, I'd rather keep her here, but if I need her released, I need your cooperation."
"If I can, but I will not release her if I feel it will harm her," Dr. Sentry said and the Inspector nodded.
"Can you get this door open so I can speak with her?"
"She's not high risk, it's not locked," Dr. Sentry said and turned the knob and softly pushed open the door, "I'll be right here."
The Inspector walked into the room and saw the girls eyes turn to him as he came in. Her green eyes followed him as he took the chair from the desk and placed it across from her. He sat down and extended his hand out to her. She looked at his hand for a second before taking it, softly curling her fingers around his.
"Hello Aelita, my name is Alain Beaumont. I'm a Police Inspector," Inspector Beaumont said and she blinked, lowered her legs and let them touch the floor beneath her bed, and lightly smiled.
"Nice to meet you," Aelita said back and he smiled.
"Is it alright if I ask you a few questions?" He asked and she nodded her head, "Before you arrived here, what do you remember?"
"I remember, a flashing white light?" Aelita said, "A rush of wind."
"Anything else?"
"Darkness," she said, swallowing then looking away, "Something chasing me."
"When you first gained consciousness after the incident, you said that same thing. Darkness chasing you. We concluded, it now seems prematurely that darkness chasing you was figurative. Aelita, I need to know if you were alone that night."
"Which night?" Aelita asked.
"The night..."he said then hesitated, trying to think of a more delicate way to say it, "The night you fell."
"I remember falling. It was dark, nighttime," Aelita said, to differentiate between the 'Darkness' and 'Nighttime', "Stars were gorgeous that night, saw them as I was falling. The moon too, full, huge, glistening."
"Was anyone on the roof with you?" Alain asked and Aelita stared at him, blinking, then looked away to think. Alain looked at Dr. Sentry who was at the door, then back to her, "Any of your friends?"
"Friends?" Aelita asked.
"Inspector that's enough," Dr. Sentry said and stepped into the room.
"Was Jeremie there with you?" Alan asked and Aelita reacted.
"No!" Aelita screamed and ran toward the door. Dr. Sentry caught her, and held her with one arm while hitting the alert button on the wall.
"Jeremie! Jeremie! Run! Let me go, I need to help him!," Aelita screamed as three orderlies ran into the room. They grabbed her by her arms and held her still as Dr. Sentry prepped a sedative.
"Help him!" Aelita screamed, tears streaming down her face as she got dragged to her bed kicking and screaming.
"Aelita, look at me," Dr. Sentry said looking her in the eye. Aelita stopped screaming, but kept crying, "Good Aelita, calm down, no one will hurt you here. Are you calm?"
"I'm calm," Aelita mumbled, hiccupping and trembling from tears.
"It's okay, you can leave," Dr. Sentry said to the orderlies who left the room. She looked at Inspector Beaumont and said, "You too, leave."
The Inspector looked at Aelita, clutching her knees, crying uncontrollably and shaking. She curled herself up, trying to push herself further into the corner.
This originally was my attempt at a parody titled "Aelita in Wonderland", but I could never commit to who was who. The furthest I got was Odd as the Cheshire Cat and William as the Knave of Hearts. I tried so many times to start it, but I stopped trying and used the notes for this.
