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Author's Note: Sorry about the lack of update…life's caught up with me and everyone I know seems to be turning a year older. It makes me sad that my birthday is so far away… Anyway, I'd like to thank my friend Bighoggi14 for beta-ing this and helping my computer illiterate blonde self. Anyway, thank you to everyone to read and reviewed! I never expected this story to be so popular. So this chapter will probably be long and hopefully funny. Also, everyone thank Bighoggi14 for this quicker than I thought update for his deal! You better keep to it! And also thank aZn DrEaMeR xD for bugging me to update:P
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A.I. Need You
Chapter 2: Competition
He opened his mouth; no words came out. In fact, he couldn't even blink as he tried to take in the scene in front of him…
Jeremie noticed him walk in and quickly ran towards him, nose bleeding and glasses askew as a desperate and scared look appeared on his face.
"Jer…what happened?"
He could barely push out his words as he stared in the blonde genius' room, his eyes the size of saucers and his heart thumping so loud he was sure that people in China could hear its drum-like beat.
Inside the room a pink-haired girl sat on the bed, smiling widely at the two boys. Next to her was another smiling girl. She was oriental with shining ebony hair and brown eyes. Only problem…they were both naked! And their bodies were perfect; curves in all the right places, proportional in every aspect…they were dream girls!
Jeremie contained his nosebleed and shrugged, scared to move or even breathe. He held in the breath begging to leave for the longest time, finally releasing it.
"I…don't know. Their files and CPUs are still running on the computer…but for some reason, they came right out of the computer!"
Ulrich almost fainted, again. "You mean, these are the A.I.s?"
Jeremie nodded, fixing his off center glasses. "I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it myself!"
Ulrich pinched his friend.
"Ow! What was that for!"
Ulrich sighed. "Sorry…I thought I was dreaming…"
"You're supposed to pinch yourself!"
Aelita stood up and walked towards him. Jeremie took the same number of steps back, until he collided with the wall.
"What's wrong Jeremie?" she asked, her angelic voice like a song to his ears. She walked closer to him until there were only centimeters between them.
"Do you not like me?" Her face turned sad and her smile turned into a frown. She turned away but Jeremie grabbed her wrist and turned her towards him.
"I do! But…how…how did this happen?"
"I'm sorry Jeremie…I don't know…" she couldn't stand looking at him so she didn't. Instead, she rested her eyes on the other A.I.
She walked over to the bed, sitting down next to the other girl, who seemed content sitting there, taking everything in.
"Yumi?" asked Ulrich, staring at her with expectant eyes. She looked at him and cocked her head.
"Yes?"
Ulrich beamed. "Does she know who I am?" he asked excitedly to Jeremie, who only pushed his glasses up and sighed.
"I was in the middle of running a scan on her CPU and data files to see what she had learned since I uploaded files into her, but fell asleep at the computer while the scan was still running…I never got to see the results…she might not know anything but her name…"
He stopped talking when they heard footsteps in the hall and the muffled voice of Jim, obviously coming their way.
"Quick Ulrich! We have to hide them!" Jeremie whispered frantically.
Ulrich nodded and looked around, seeing the open closet that was practically empty. He ran into it and motioned both girls in. They jumped from the bed and entered and he closed the doors behind them. Jeremie pulled off his glasses and jumped on his bed, managing to turn over and "act" asleep before his dorm door flew open and a very angry Jim stood looking in.
"Belpois, what's going on in here?"
Jeremie, who was used to acting tired or asleep since he stayed up most of the night talking to Aelita and had had similar incidents, sat up quickly and yawned, scratching his head and stretching.
"What's up Jim?" He coated his voice with tiredness and rubbed his eyes.
He looked around, then sighed. "Go to sleep Belpois!"
Jeremie lied back down and heard his door close, then waited until the sound of Jim walking was out of earshot. Then, he bolted back up and ran to the closet, opening it up quickly.
Ulrich practically ran out of the closet and tripped, falling to the floor.
Yumi watched him and focused.
Distance: 19 inches, Speed: 1 mph, time until impact: 2.534 seconds…
She tried to run towards him, but wasn't fast enough and he fell to the ground roughly.
"Are you okay?" she asked frantically, and Ulrich stood up and nodded.
"I'm fine."
He smiled at her and found himself staring at her beautiful face. Prying his eyes away, he looked to Jeremie instead.
"What are we going to do?"
Jeremie shrugged and sat down at his computer chair. He sighed and rubbed his temples, looking back at the computer screen.
"Did….did we do something wrong?"
Jeremie looked to Aelita and smiled. "Of course not."
Ulrich sat thinking as Jeremie tampered with the computer, trying to discover the source of the problem.
"Hey Jer?"
His friend grunted in reply.
"Do you think you could hack into the school computers from here?"
Jeremie nodded, never once taking his eyes from the screen. "Why?"
"Well, we could say they're new students here…"
Jeremie picked up on the rest and nodded. "That's a good idea. It'll explain things until I can."
He minimized the program and opened another one. He worked for an hour and a half, but finally he turned around in his chair and looked to Ulrich. "There. Ulrich, it's my pleasure to introduce to you our new students, Yumi Ishiyama and Aelita Stones."
Ulrich smiled, but then they confronted another problem. "Jeremie, do you happen to have any girl clothes lying around? Cuz I know I sure don't…"
Jeremie sighed and cursed silently. "It's one thing after another!"
He sat thinking for a moment, then smiled. "Hey Ulrich? Does Odd happen to have any magazines about? You know what I mean."
Ulrich remembered Odd's secret supply under his bed and nodded. "Why?"
"Go get them."
Ulrich trusted him, so he got up and walked to the door, putting his ear on it to make sure Jim wasn't around. He slowly opened it and crept down the hall.
Jeremie sighed but smiled as well. Sure, these girls brought a lot of trouble, but he knew it'd be worth it.
"Jeremie? I'm sorry for all of this," Aelita said quietly.
"Don't be Aelita."
Ulrich returned, carrying a few magazines in his hands. He dropped them on Jeremie's bed and sighed, collapsing as well.
"Why'd you need these?"
Jeremie picked them up, and one by one scanned every page onto the computer. "It's a program they have…"
He typed a few things in and turned to Aelita and Yumi. "Girls, please initiate program two."
Both girls concentrated and their clothes changed, well, clothes appeared on them. Yumi was wearing a black shirt and pants with combat boots while Aelita was wearing a pink dress.
"Jeremie, you're a genius…" Ulrich noted. He was now lying on the bed, eyelids heavy, and his eyes flickered closed. Jeremie put his head on his desk and fell asleep as well.
"They're cold," the girls replied simultaneously, each covering them up with a blanket. Yumi lied down next to Ulrich and closed her eyes while Aelita slept on the floor by Jeremie… this was going to be a long year…
A very long year.
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People wouldn't stop staring. It was getting annoying and embarrassing. Ulrich and Jeremie had walked down to breakfast with Yumi and Aelita and every eye was on them, even the teachers'.
They sat down at their usual table, all the while getting stared at. Jeremie didn't like the eyes on him, but Ulrich shrugged it off.
The popular group walked by and the blonde girl, whose name was Becky, leaned over and whispered to Odd, "Who in their right mind would hang out with those boys?"
She stopped at the table, pushing her hair over her shoulder and smiling her perfect smile. "Hey girls, we were just wondering if you were really dating these guys?"
The girls exchanged glances and Jeremie and Ulrich blushed deeply.
Yumi shrugged. "What do you mean? I'm afraid I don't understand…"
Sissi pushed Becky out of the way and slammed her hand down on the table, making Ulrich's cup topple over, the red juice spilling all over the table.
She glared at Yumi with ice cold eyes. "Listen girl! I don't know who you are or where you came from but listen here! Ulrich is mine so back off!He's mine, it's written all over his cute smiling face!" "
Yumi turned her attention to Ulrich and looked him over. "Yours? I don't see your name on him." She said confused. She was still naïve and new to this world, she had no idea what she was talking about. Of course, Sissi took it as a challenge.
"Well, Ulrich likes me better, don't you Ulrich dear?"
Ulrich looked at her and his smile faded. "Actually, I'm not your Ulrich dear and no, at this moment, I can't stand you."
The look of horror on her face sent him laughing so hard his face went red. Steam looked ready to come out of her ears and she glared at Yumi again.
"Well, I know a way to settle this! We'll have a competition! The winner gets Ulrich."
"But…I don't understand. Ulrich's not a trophy…"
Sissi glared at her again. "Are you scared!"
Yumi stood up and looked her in the eyes. "You're on."
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Murmurs were heard, rumors overflowing, as Yumi and Sissi stepped onto the blacktop. Yumi stood on one side, with Ulrich, Jeremie, and Aelita, while Sissi, and her gang of popular kids. Odd, though, was not with them. He was aloof somewhere, hidden amongst the noisy, and already thick crowd.
Sissi turned to Yumi and smirked. "Okay, we're going to do a series of challenges and the winner gets to have Ulrich as a boyfriend."
Yumi nodded, her competitive side showing through. A random set of girls, named Millie and Tamiya, were chosen to pick the challenges.
"This is going to make a great story!" Millie smiled and Tamiya held the camera up, counting down on her fingers to the beginning of the recording.
When she reached one, Millie put on a professional smile and said: "Hello students of Kadic! Today we have a special show in which new student, Yumi Ishiyama is going against Sissi Delmas. The prize? Ulrich Stern!"
The camera did a close-up of Ulrich, who was trying to make himself invisible from the large number of people around. He noticed the camera nearby and hid behind Jeremie.
Tamiya turned the camera to the blacktop and Millie told of the first challenge on voice-over. "First, we're going to see who knows Ulrich better in a questionnaire!"
He wrinkled his brow. How did they know the answers to the questions? That of course, unknown to Ulrich, had come from his roommate, Odd, who was questioned just moments before the competition and told to report everything he knew on Ulrich.
Ulrich cringed. Yumi had only been alive for a few hours and didn't know anything but her name and his! He looked frantically to Jeremie, who also looked concerned albeit Aelita smiled.
Millie cleared her throat and, still on voice-over, said, "Question 1: what is Ulrich's favorite color?"
Sissi immediately scribbled down an answer, but Yumi chewed on the eraser. She turned to look at Ulrich and his attire and wrote down her answer.
Both girls guessed green, and got it right. (A/N: Hard, no?) The next question was Ulrich's favorite video game.
Yumi didn't know any video games, so she didn't write anything down. Sissi though, through her stalking, knew his favorite game was Lyoko, a PC game. (A/N: thanks Jenn!)
She got it right and took the lead. Ulrich cringed again, praying over and over that things would work out. He looked to Yumi, trying to get her attention so he could sign or lip the answers to her. However, he only gained a few glares from Millie, while Yumi didn't look over at him. She was concentrating, trying to think of anything Ulrich had said in the last few hours that would help her.
"Question 3: What is Ulrich's middle name?"
Neither girl knew, so Sissi just guessed a random name, which turned out to be Adam. Yumi tried her best to tap into her memory files but knew nothing of his middle name. So she wrote down the first name that came to mind…which happened to be Ulrich.
No point was given, since both answers were wrong and the next question came.
"Question 4: What is Ulrich's favorite movie?"
(A/N: I don't know the answer to this one either, so I'm making it up. Hehe.)
Sissi also knew this answer and smirked as she wrote it down. Yumi sighed and looked at Ulrich, then wrote down her answer.
When they flipped their cards, Sissi had written down "Star Wars" while Yumi had one word-"Ulrich."
Sissi was right and, since she had gotten three questions, she was given one point.
"And Sissi gets one point, putting her in the lead!" Millie announced, the camera turning back to her. "And now we move on to Round 2! Since Ulrich loves soccer, we're going to have a one-on-one soccer match! The first to three points wins!"
The girls walked to the soccer field and Ulrich was told to put the soccer ball in the middle of the soccer field. He gave Yumi a pleading look and walked off the field.
"I hate this!" he muttered to Jeremie. Jeremie nodded, glad girls weren't all over him. Aelita tugged on his sleeve and he turned and looked at her.
"What's up Aelita?"
"What happens if Yumi loses?"
Jeremie was taken aback. "I…I dunno…"
The announcement interrupted him, in which Millie told that the soccer game was about to start. A countdown began, and Yumi scanned the field.
Area: 543 feet, distance from goal: 271.5, speed of ball: 21 mph.
When the whistle was blown and Yumi took off down the field, kicking the ball. She didn't know the rules of soccer, but she guessed at it and managed to score a goal. Sissi ran down the field, her flip flops snapping behind her.
She was afraid to kick the ball, because she had just gotten a pedicure. She ran across the field until she was afraid of sweating and smelling bad, so Yumi won right away.
"Isn't this exciting? Each girl has one point each, so the next point will be the winner! The next task is a scavenger hunt. You must find Ulrich…"
He was pulled away by two bully-like boys a few years older than himself and led into the school to be hidden.
Jeremie smiled to himself and Aelita smirked. "She'll find him easily."
Ten minutes passed and the two boys came back so Millie started the task. Yumi closed her eyes and used her tracking program to lock onto his heartbeat and took off in that direction.
Sissi followed after her, determined to win. She stealthily followed behind her all the way to the janitor's closet, eager to jump Yumi and steal Ulrich, making everyone believe she was the winner, since she was the REAL winner. At least, that's what she told herself.
Yumi opened the door and Ulrich jumped up from his sitting position on the floor and saw Yumi walk in.
"I'm so glad it was you that found me!" he said, running over and giving her a hug, causing them both to blush…
Sissi walked over and ruined the moment, pushing the A.I. girl away from Ulrich.
"I told you that Ulrich's mine! So back off!"
Yumi glared at her. "But I won, just like we agreed!"
Sissi sighed. "So!" she pushed Yumi down, and she fell roughly to the ground, landing with a thud on her rear. Sissi grabbed Ulrich's arm and dragged him from the closet, just as Millie and Tamiya ran around the corner.
"Well…" Millie stumbled on her words, and looked upon the scene. "I guess…Does this mean Sissi won?"
"NO!" yelled Aelita, pushing through the crowd of people that had already formed around them. "I know Yumi won!"
"No she didn't! I got here first!" Sissi yelled back, glaring at the pink-haired A.I.
"But Yumi won!" Ulrich retorted, ripping his arm away from Sissi and walking over to help the fallen A.I. up.
"I saw it all." A voice from the crowd suddenly said. The crowd grew silent, minus a few murmurs, and a blonde and purple haired boy emerged from the crowd and walked to Ulrich.
"Hey Odd."
"Hey Ulrich." He turned his attention to the crowd. "And I saw Yumi get here first…she's the real winner. Sissi just wanted everyone to think she won."
Becky walked over to Odd and glared at him, then slapped his cheek. "Shut up now Odd! We're popular! And we get what we want! Now tell everyone Sissi really won or we're through!" she hissed venomously under her breath.
Odd looked back at her. "Okay." He muttered back. He turned back to Millie and the camera. "Yumi is the real winner."
He turned back to Becky. "And we're through."
She huffed at him, blowing out her cheeks in anger, then turned on her heel and stormed away, the clanking of her huge, black heels heard echoing down the long hall.
Sissi glared at Yumi. "This isn't over!" and she took off after Becky.
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"That was an exciting first day…" muttered Jeremie, collapsing on his bed.
Ulrich agreed. "Imagine tomorrow…"
Jeremie shook his head. They had just gotten back from showing the girls to their dorm and explaining some things to them. Ulrich was distraught to leave Yumi alone, but he didn't have a choice.
"Jeremie…since they're A.I.s, they learn on their own, correct?"
He nodded and pushed up his glasses. "Yes, in a way…depending on what happens to them or around them."
"Well…I hope they don't learn to be bitches…"
Jeremie laughed and agreed, and Ulrich stood.
"Well, I guess I better go to my dorm before Jim starts his rounds. I'll see you tomorrow…I've gotta thank Odd anyway…"
Jeremie nodded. "See you tomorrow."
Ulrich walked from his friend's room and down the hall. His hands were jabbed in his pockets and he stared ahead of him, lost in thought.
"I can't wait to see what kind of person she becomes…"
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Yeah, bad place to end I know, but it was so freakishly long so yeah…I hope you all enjoyed. Sorry this chapter was kinda boring…more Y/U, J/A, and Odd goodness to come! More Odd later on! No worries there! And he finally dumped that bitch! Hehe, sorry. Anyway, no, she wasn't the OC I was talking about either.
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