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Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko
Jeremie looked into the light of his computer screen and was attempting to remotely shutdown X.A.N.A with limited success. The storm was causing connection troubles and even though he was on the same network as the super calculator, he was unable to keep a stable connection.
"Lets see her, perhaps if I slow the data rate ..."
At a command prompt the following letters appeared as jeremie typed them:
"$ rconnect -d 128k -l 192.1.50.1"
"Trying to connect to 192.1.50.1"
Jeremie inhaled, and head his breath, hoping that the remote connection would work:
"Connection to 192.1.50.1 established"
"Starting remote console"
Various windows opened on Jeremie's desktop, displaying the status of the super calculator, connection to Lyoko, a blank Holo-map, the localizer program, and network status.
"Alright one down, one to go"
Jeremie started the localizer program and it's display lit up with all sorta of numbers and images scrolling at an impossible to read rate. The progress bar along the bottom inched towards 100% and the lights for Lyoko's access points came up one at a time.
"Go, go, go ..."
Forked lighting let up Jeremie's room, and the blast of thunder combined with the door slamming open causes Jeremie to toppled backwards in his chair and became one with the floor
"Ow ...."
"Hey Einstein, no time for you to be taking a nap now is it ?"
"Very funny Odd"
Odd, followed by Yumi enter into the darked dorm room and Jeremie props his chair up and returns to work.
"He seems to be extremely busy"
Yumi shifted her position so she could see what Jeremie was up to.
"Uh, Jeremie, what are you doing ?"
"Shutting down X.A.N.A and Lyoko so this storm doesn't damage it, but I'm having trouble localizing Lyoko"
"Well, Lyoko never been easy to find in the first place"
"Yeah but this storm is making it worse, it made connecting to the super calculator almost impossible"
"So, Einstein here has never failed us yet, he won't fail us now"
"Thanks Odd !"
A beeping brought their attention to Jeremie's computer.
"Connection to Lyoko established !"
A windows with the Matrix-like background opened and Aelita face appeared in it as her status card slide out the side of it.
"Hello Jeremie, how are you ?"
"I'm fine Aelita, but I'm worried that you and Lyoko are in danger"
Aelita's expression changed from one of joy to dread.
"In danger ?!"
Odd broken into the conversation and said ...
"You see, we are in the worse storm that has ever hit France, and the lighting could fry the super calculator !"
Just to prove a point, lighting lit up the sky again, followed by a violate blast of thunder could have drowned out Odd's snores.
"I see your point, what do you intend to do ?"
"I want to shutdown Lyoko and XANA until the storm blows over"
"Alright, I'll be waiting when restore me. I'm going to go to a tower to wait for the shutdown"
Aelita's face changed to white and disappeared from the window. Within Lyoko, she took off to the closest tower which was about 100 meters behind her. Jeremine started to type on the keyboard, entering command after command.
"Lets see here, cache settings update, flushing every 2 seconds, good, I should be ready to shutdown as soon as Aelita reaches the tower."
"Hey, Einstein, what are you doing exactly ?"
Jeremie stopped typing for a moment and turned towards Odd.
"You see, Lyoko is always writing information into memory and only once every 2 minutes is that information saved to the databanks. By adjusting the cache, I can make sure that only 2 seconds worth of data at most is lost when the system is shutdown. This also helps shorten the time to power down so it makes sense"
Odd didn't take in a word of this as it was like in total greek but he just nodded and then gave the expression of being total clueless.
"What Jeremie is saying is that he's making sure Lyoko is saving it's data every two seconds so no data will be lost"
"Ah !, Now that makes sense"
"System settings adjusted, starting the shutdown"
Within the tower, the various programs along the walls starting sliding into the base one by one, showing that Jeremie was shutting down the system. A cryptic voice filled the tower.
"System Shutdown In Progress"
Aelita sat down on the floor on the tower, waiting for the darkness that was soon to over all of Lyoko and then the stillness. It was a very scary and creepy experience but Aelita knew that he was shutting the system down for her own safety.
"How much longer, Jeremie ?"
"About 50 seconds, the last of the system is saving itself, and Lyoko is terminating all running processes. Once that happens, I can shut Lyoko itself down and cut the power to XANA"
Outside, the storm was getting worse, the winds were now exceeding 100MPH. Power lines were fighting to stay up, and anything not bolted down was now airborne.
"Jeremie, hurry up, the storm is still getting worse"
"I'm going as fast as I can Odd !"
A blinding flash of lighting strike down and a sound of wires burning was heard. What they all had dreaded had finally happened, the power-lines had been struck."
Aelita was watching Lyoko shut itself down before her, the blue lights that normally lit up the towers were fading away fast, and then something happened. Power spikes were climbing up and down the edges of the towers, destroying everything they touched. Aelita started to fade out to existence as her program was being corrupted. She fell the ground and disappeared. But right before she disappear, she udders her last words.
"Help .. me ... Jeremie"
Within the super calculator room in the factory, various circuits were flying out in all directions. Blue electric sparks was coming from every part of it. Components fused together and became twisted pieces of junk. Computer chips melted and became unusable. Energy flooded the databanks causing extensive damage to the entire system. As it stood now, all XANA was a big pile of junk with a special person remaining in it's memory banks.
On Jeremie's computer screen, two words filled him with horror and dread:
"Connection Terminated"
