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Code Lyoko Secret Files #1 – A Little Problem
Diary of Jeremy Belpois, Kadic High 8th Grade student – September 14, 2006
I don't get much sleep when I'm helping my friends fight off the forces of XANA, but tonight was eerily tranquil, which suited me just fine. In fact, I slept so soundly that I was not awakened by the normally very loud sound of my computer's Lyoko Tower Scan rapidly beeping to warn me that a tower had been activated by XANA. I also never even noticed the strange gases that entered my room through the ventilation shafts, courtesy of the activated tower. If I had known then, I would have dashed out of my room the second I had a chance to think. But, then again, as the saying goes, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, right?
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I awoke to the sunlight piercing though the window on this cool September day, and I noticed two things at once: one was that my bed sheets were feeling heavier than they normally do, and that I was wearing my daytime clothes. Just then, it struck me like a thunderclap that my ceiling was higher than I remembered, and my pillow was higher than it was last night.
Do I dare I look around my room? I thought to myself. At first, I slowly turned my head, and then I whipped it around and saw a most disturbing sight. It was my room, there was no doubt about that, but everything in the room, and even the room itself, had suddenly become much bigger than they were last night, which meant only one thing.
"Okay," I said to myself, "the first thing you do is don't panic. Whatever you do, Jeremy, don't start…oh, who the heck am I kidding?"
I then proceeded to run in a frantic circular motion across the sea of polyester and wool that was once my bed, throwing my arms up in a frenzy, screaming at the top of my now-tiny lungs:
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH! Whatdoidowhatdoidowhatdoido?"
As soon as it started, my panic subsided, and I heard a beeping noise from my computer, so I got up on my bed to a spot where I could see my screen, and it showed a tower activated in the Forest Sector.
"And thus," I said bitterly, "the source of my misfortune has revealed itself."
Fortunately, my cell phone was on my nightstand, so, with little difficulty, I jumped onto it and noticed that my phone, also fortunately, was slightly smaller than me, so I sent a text message to the one I knew would respond the fastest: my girlfriend Aelita.
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"Hey, has anybody seen Einstein today?" Odd asked the others joined with him at the cafeteria table for breakfast.
"No, not me," his dorm mate, Ulrich answered.
"I know he's working hard to help us fight XANA," Yumi commented, "but it's not like him to skip breakfast."
"I know," Aelita added. "He always goes on about breakfast's importance as the first meal of the–"
The sentence was cut short by the vibrating noise of Aelita's cell phone. "Oh, maybe it's him," she said. She then looked at the message, and her yes widened as she said the message aloud for the others to hear:
"It's Jeremy, and he says, 'Come to my room at once. Make sure no one follows you, and lock the door behind you. We have a LITTLE problem.' He wrote 'little' in all capital letters, so it really must be big."
They all nodded, and got up, returned their trays, disposed of their garbage, and left for my dorm room. No sooner had they turned the knob than they hear me, much quieter than they expected, saying,
"Guys? Is that you? Please shut and lock the door."
Yumi did at once, and they turned, but didn't see me yet. With difficulty, before their arrival, I managed to climb up onto my desk next to the computer.
"Jeremy? Where are you?" Ulrich asked.
"Look on the desk, next to the computer." I called back, with a tone of heaviness.
They all blinked, and slowly walked over to the desk, and within three seconds, noticed me, standing on the desk, in front of the screen, now 10 centimeters tall, which would be about four inches for you Americans. I could tell Aelita gave a small gasp.
"What's new with you guys?" I asked, sarcastically.
The others couldn't speak. Aelita was the first to express her shock.
"Jeremy!" she shrieked, rushing over. Before I knew it, she had lifted me off of the desk and was now holding me in her hands, and looking at me with the most worried expression I had ever seen her wear. "Are you all right? What happened to you?"
"I was perfectly normal until I woke up," I yelped, quite shaken, "There is a perfectly explainable, XANA-involved reason for this, and would you please warn me next time before you do that!"
"Oh," Aelita blushed as she set me back down on the desk. "Sorry."
"It's…all right," I cleared my throat. "That was…perfectly normal."
Odd snickered. "Dude, are you blushing?"
"I am not," I said, turning around almost immediately. I quickly turned my head to the screen, which showed the tower scanner, and secure videos of my room from last night, from two different angles.
"I recently installed security cameras in my room for an event like this, one on my computer, and one over the door. As you can see, XANA activated the tower at midnight last night, and soon after this happened, this gas leaked into my room."
The videos showed a large black cloud covering the camera's vision, and when it cleared, I was nowhere to be seen within the camera's range.
"Since I am incapable of operating the supercomputer in my…current state, Aelita will have to take two of you guys to the factory with her."
"What about the other one of us?" Odd asked.
"Well, someone has to make sure nothing bad happens to Jeremy, right?" Aelita answered irritably.
"Well, if one of us has to stay behind to help Jeremy, then I'll volunteer." Ulrich spoke up.
"But Ulrich," Yumi protested, "you're our strongest fighter. We need you."
"Right now, he needs me more," Ulrich motioned to me. "Besides, if you run into William, he might hold back if I'm not there."
"Good idea," Odd commented.
"All right," Aelita decided. "Yumi, Odd, and I will go and you'll stay here with Jeremy until we've deactivated the tower. When all's done, a Return to the Past should get him back to normal."
Once they all turned to leave, Aelita faced me again and said,
"Please don't get into too much trouble, okay?"
"I'll be fine, Aelita," I assured her. "I've been through worse, trust me."
She smiled, and turning to Ulrich and nodding, she left with the others. This left me with just me, myself, and Ulrich, who sat down on the bed. I had never felt more terrible.
"Of all the tricks he's pulled," I growled, "when I get my hands on him, not even Franz Hopper will recognize him when I get done with him!"
"Well," Ulrich put in half heartedly, "at least it can't get any worse, right?"
As if to exemplify Murphy's Law, a voice said,
"Mr. Belpois? Are you here?"
With horror, I realized it was Principal Delmas' voice. Ulrich looked at me in a panic, and I nodded. He jumped into action, lightly grasping me between his index finger and his thumb, and placed me in his jacket's front pocket, shutting and buttoning the flap behind me.
Soon after, I heard Mr. Delmas saying,
"Ah, Mr. Stern. Are you looking for Mr. Belpois too?"
"Uh, yeah," he replied hesitantly, "I didn't see him at breakfast, so I went looking for him. I found his phone, but he's not here."
"Perhaps he's just in the bathroom or something," Mr. Delmas replied. "Tell him I want to speak with him before the end-term exams next Spring. I noticed his grades were steadily declining, which isn't very like him. Yolanda also told me his health has been getting steadily worse as well, so just give him a heads up, all right?"
"Yes, sir," he nodded.
With that, I heard him leave as Ulrich took off his jacket and peered through the now-open flap. "That was close, huh?"
"Too close, if you ask me," I responded, clutching my chest. "One more incident like that, and I may experience my first heart attack."
"Well at least it's over," he added, too late for me to tell him not to jinx it.
As soon as he said that, I felt a huge shaking, and Ulrich noticed Herve Pishón and Nicolas Poliakoff snatch his jacket and make off with it, with me still inside of it!
"Catch us if you can!" Nicolas hollered as he and his partner dashed away.
"Oh, I'll do more than that, you punks!" Ulrich yelled back as he gave chase.
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Aelita, Odd and Yumi soon materialized, or should I say virtualized, on the forest sector after the 3-minute auto-virtualization program was launched. Eerily enough, they were facing the activated tower.
"That was easy!" Odd shouted enthusiastically as he approached the tower, but Yumi held out her arm to stop him.
"It's too easy," she said.
As if on command, seven Hornets, a Tarantula, two Crabs, and a Megatank appeared in front of the tower. Leading the charge was none other than our old friend turned foe, William Dunbar, riding on a Manta, per usual.
"ATTACK!" he called out in his creepy monotone voice that came from him being possessed by XANA. The monsters charged, but Yumi and Aelita took care of the Tarantula, while Odd took out all but one Hornet.
"William, you traitor!" Yumi yelled at the boy that she once called friend. Enraged, William took one swipe of his massive sword and a massive slash of energy instantly de-virtualized Yumi. As she fell out of the scanner, she pounded her fist on the floor.
"Damn it," she moaned.
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"Just a reminder, why are we stealing Ulrich's jacket?" Nicolas asked.
"How should I know?" Herve answered angrily. "Sissi asked for it, so we'll get it."
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Ulrich yelled back, while running to reclaim his jacket, which I held onto for dear life. Luckily, the dweeb duo didn't look where they were going and ran into Jim.
"Pishón, Poliakoff, what are you doing with Stern's jacket?" he barked.
"Uh, nothing," Nicolas shuffled away, but Jim didn't buy it.
"Don't think you lunkheads can fool me," he retorted, "I know a plot from your little boss when I see it. Now give it."
With that, he snatched it up, fortunately without opening any pockets including mine, and gave it back to Ulrich, who just caught up with them. After a stern look from Jim, the two darted away in opposite directions, while Ulrich put his jacket back on and, far enough away from Jim, opened up the flap on the front pocket.
"You all right in there, Jeremy?" he asked me.
"Shaken, but not stirred," I replied, still shaking.
But soon it became very clear to me that I would not find peace in this state of being, for just then, out of nowhere, a large hawk swooped out of the blue, attacked Ulrich, and made its escape. Only when he took a look around him did he realize what happened: the hawk had abducted me, and we were now flying higher into the sky! To make matters worse, I noticed an all too familiar marking in its eyes: The eye of Lyoko, which meant that this bird was controlled by XANA. I knew what that meant: As soon as it got high enough, I would be sent plummeting to my death, whether Ulrich caught me or not!
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After Yumi reentered the computer room, she used the headset to communicate with the others still fighting on Lyoko.
"Can you hear me?" Yumi asked.
"Loud and clear," Odd's voice rang out on the speaker. "You mind loading me up with more arrows? I just ran out!"
"Luckily, I know a program that Jeremy gave me before we left," Yumi replied as she made a few simple keystrokes, and gave Odd his extra ammunition, and gave Aelita little something extra. "Aelita, fire an energy field between the two Megatanks!"
Back on Lyoko, Aelita did as she heard, and when she did, a huge blast ripped off the Megatanks' armor before it destroyed them both immediately after. William growled and flew off, not interested in the fight anymore.
"That was cool!" Odd shouted. "Was that one time only, or can you do it again?"
"No time to find out!" Aelita said, running for the tower. "First we save Jeremy, then ask questions later!"
Soon enough, she fazed though the tower, and ascended to the control platform. Then, she placed her hand on the screen, and the screen read:
AELITA
CODE: LYOKO
With that, the tower was deactivated, and XANA's control over the hawk was broken. Unfortunately, the hawk's talons flew open, and I could do nothing but scream my head off, figuratively speaking, as I fell 305 meters - or 100 feet - to the ground below! Do you know how your life seems to flash before your eyes when you feel like you're about to die? Well, it was like that. I could see my ninth birthday party, my first day of preschool, and finally, a sight of me in a hospital as a baby, with a pair of warm eyes looking at me, but I knew those weren't my mom's or dad's. What was more is that this person had bright pink hair. There was something oddly familiar about this face, but a sea of white soon swallowed that vision as the Return to the Past was initiated, and I was saved.
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Aelita knocked on my door.
"It's all right," I said, "I'm back to normal. You can come in."
She entered and smiled. "That's good to know."
As I saw her, I remembered my vision.
"Aelita," I started, "when that hawk dropped me, I saw something from my past. Something that I thought was very…interesting."
"What was that?" she asked.
"I saw myself in a hospital bassinet as a baby, and I noticed my parents faces, but I noticed another face more than the others."
"Who?"
"I don't know," I said, "but if it's a memory of mine, then there must be a story behind it. But for now, let's get some breakfast."
And with that, we walked together to the cafeteria to join the others.
"Seriously, though," Odd asked me, "can Aelita do that super blast thing again?"
"Huh?" I asked, confused, before blurting, "Oh, that. Yeah, but only once per entry."
Soon after I said that, Ms. Hertz came up to me and said,
"Good morning, Jeremy. I hope you'll be attending my new animal science class. It starts this Wednesday."
"What's your first lesson?" I asked out of curiosity.
"The carrying capability of the noble European hawk," she said, with her head held high.
I fainted on the spot.
"What's wrong with him?" she asked, shocked.
"Oh, let's just say he's had his…experiences with birds." Ulrich grinned.
Everyone else burst into a fit of laughter, much to my semi-conscious annoyance.