Chapter 2. Reunion.
Della-Robbia address. Aelita was watching the news before she left for work. 7:00 a.m. Odd had already left. Randy was getting ready for school. "Another body was found just outside the town limits early this morning. Local investigators believe it to be the work of the same suspect linked with the series of kidnappings in the past few weeks. Police have issued a warning to all people in the area do not travel alone and keep a phone with you in case you see anything" The anchorman said. "Mom I'm leaving now" Randy called to his mother. "Okay be careful" Aelita called to her son. As Randy left Aelita got up and turned off the television and went upstairs to take a shower and get ready for work. As she left she began thinking of the old days when her and the rest of the Lyoko gang battled XANA.
Across town at the Police Department Brandon left for his patrol runs when he arrived at the station ready to begin his 1st day he as a member of the Special Forces he was already givin a partner to work with. "How are you? I'm mike" The rookie said. "Agent Brandon Special Forces Alpha Team" Brandon said extending his hand to shake Mike's. "Brandon get ready you're taking the rookie here out for his first patrol" The Chief told him. "Sir" Brandon said firmly. "Well shall we?" Brandon said turning to his car. "You know my entire family were police officers" Mike said.
"I took the test 4 times in total and I finally passed" He continued. "Okay" Brandon said starting the engine. As they drove out of the station's parking lot and into the street they were heading towards the same place Aelita was going.
Aelita was walking towards her office building when someone jumped her from behind knocking her to the floor. A man was attacking her mercilessly. A lady in the house over looking the alley where Aelita was being attacked called the cops. "All units in the area of 7th and Montgomery we have received a call from a woman claiming that someone is being attacked in front of her house" A voice came from the radio. "This is car 16 we'll look into it" Brandon said to the radio and then turning the car to head for the scene of the attack. "Can I turn on the siren?" Mike asked eagerly. "Huh? Oh yeah knock yourself out" Brandon said. As the siren sounded the attacker had stabbed Aelita in her arm. He was about to kill her when the patrol car screeched to a stop right in front of him. The doors flew open and Brandon and his partner jumped out their guns aimed at the assailant. "Get on the ground right now" Brandon yelled his gun pointed directly at the man's face. The assailant dropped his blade and got to his knees. "Mike cuff him I'll check the victim" Brandon said walking over to Aelita. Aelita was holding her arm which was in a lot of pain. "Aelita?" Brandon said seeing her face. "Brandon?" Aelita said looking up at Brandon. Mike screamed in pain as Brandon turned the assailant had stabbed Mike in the side and ran off.
"Wait here" Brandon said to Aelita running after the assailant. "Get back here" Brandon yelled chasing the killer down the street. The killer stopped and turned and fired Mike's gun. Brandon jumped to the side right before the trigger was pulled; Brandon then tackled the assailant. Quickly raising his hand up Brandon slammed the but of his handgun into the man's neck knocking him out, after cuffed the assailant and carrying him back to where he left Mike and Aelita. Another patrol car was already there and an two ambulances. Odd drove up and ran over to Aelita.
"Aelita are you okay?" Odd said worrying like crazy. "She'll be fine you idiot" A voice behind him said. When Odd turned he saw Brandon leaning against the side of his patrol car. "What? I thought you were in China" Odd said. "Well that's what you get for thinking isn't it?" Brandon said. "You take care Aelita now all right" Brandon said getting back in his car and driving the attacker to the station. When Brandon got to the station he pulled the man out of the patrol car and walked him inside. "You're lucky your fate isn't in my hands" Brandon said to the killer. "Why?" He asked. "I am a very good friend of the lady you just tried to kill if it was up to me you'd be dead already" Brandon said. Brandon pushed the assailant into a holding cell and walked off. As Brandon got back into his car to finish his rounds his phone began to ring. "Yeah" Brandon said answering his phone. "Brandon is Aelita okay?" Ashley asked. "How'd you... "I saw the news report" Ashley said. "She'll be fine her arm is pretty messed up though" Brandon said. "How about we invite them over for dinner? Its been forever since we've seen them" Ashley asked. "Sounds good to me" Brandon said. As they hung up Brandon began thinking about what they were going to do or say they haven't seen the others in fiteen years.
At Kadic academy Ulrich was training the soccer team to prepare them for their game that was scheduled in 3 days. Ulrich's phone began to ring. "Hello" Ulrich said picking up the phone. "Ulrich how are you?" Brandon said. "Who is this?" Ulrich said. "Its Brandon" Brandon said. "Hey whats up?" Ulrich asked. "Not much just calling to see if you and Yumi would like to join Ashley and me for dinner at our place" Brandon said. "Sure" Ulrich said "I'll check with Yumi". Brandon hung up and dialed another number. Jeremy's phone began to ring he was half asleep. "Hello" He yawned. "You are under arrest" Brandon yelled. "What what I do?" Jeremy yelled. "You haven't called in such a long time" Brandon said. "Who is this" Jeremy asked. "Take a guess braincell" Brandon said. "How did you get my new number?" Jeremy asked. "I'm a cop I can do a lot of things" Brandon said evilly. "Anyway I called to see if you and Karen would like to join me and Ashley for dinner at our place" Brandon said. "Okay" Jeremy said. "Good I already asked Karen, so you have to anyway" Brandon said before hanging up to finish his patrol rounds.
Brandon drove off into the city it was just the way it was when he left. "I've missed this place" Brandon said to himself. In the hospital Odd was sitting next to Aelita waiting for her to wake up. She had fallen asleep after she was placed in the ambulance. Odd's phone rang and he answered in a gloomy voice. "Dad how's mom is she okay" Randy asked. "She's okay champ she's just sleeping right now" Odd said. "As Odd finished talking with Randy and turned his phone off Aelita woke. Her head was in pain and the room was spinning around her. "Aelita how do you feel?" Odd asked her. "Not sure" She said holding her head. "Can I get you anything Aelita?" A voice asked from the door. When Odd and Aelita turned to he door Brandon was standing there. "Why are you here?" Odd asked. "What I can't come to see her?" Brandon said. "Thanks for helping me" Aelita said laying down. "Its my job" Brandon said. "Besides you're a little sister to me" He continued. "Anyway Ashley wanted to know if you would be interested in joining us for dinner" Brandon said. "What do you think Aelita?" Odd asked her. "I don't mind" Aelita said. "Good everything is set we'll see you then 7:30 my place" Brandon said turning then stopping at the door. "That guy got the death penalty for 17 previous murder accounts and the attack on Aelita this morning" Brandon said walking out the door. "Good" "Nothing could be better" Odd said. "Odd could you get me some water" Aelita asked. "Sure" Odd said getting up and walking out of the room.
Brandon was outside the hospital looking at Aelita's window. "Well this has been an interesting day" Brandon said to himself. Brandon entered his car and drove off. Back in Aelita's room Odd returned with a pot of water and poured a cup for Aelita and handed it to her. Aelita took the cup from Odd and drank the water. Her head began to feel better. As Odd and Aelita left the hospital Odd's phone began to ring. "Hello" Odd said answering his phone. "Odd how's Aelita?" Yumi asked. "She's okay now, but her head is still bruised a bit" Odd said. "Can I talk to her?" Yumi asked. "Sure" Odd said handing the phone to Aelita. "Hello" Aelita said holding the phone to her ear. "Aelita how do you feel?" Yumi asked her. "Fine my head just hurts a bit, but I'll live" She said. "Good so have you heard that Brandon and Ashley are back in town?" Yumi asked her. "Brandon was the one who saved me" Aelita told her. "Really he didn't tell Ulrich that" Yumi said. "He already talked to Ulrich?" Aelita asked. "Yeah he's talked to everyone actually" Yumi told her. "Even Jeremy?" Aelita asked. "Yeah" Yumi said in a low voice. "You don't still have a vendetta against him do you?" Yumi asked her. "Not really" Aelita responded smiling. "Good" Yumi said. "Why is that good?" Aelita asked her. "I have a feeling we'll all be seeing each other real soon" Yumi said. "I have to go now say hi to Randy for me" Yumi said hanging up.
Aelita handed the phone back to Odd just as the doctor came in to give the go ahead for Aelita to leave teh hospital. Odd drove her home and helped her in the house. "Mom are you okay?" Randy said running up to his mom. "I'm fine" She said sitting on the couch. Its 7:00 right now I'm going to get ready Odd said going upstairs to get dressed. "Randy get some different clothes on we're going to a friends place for dinner" Odd yelled from upstairs. Randy didn't want to leave his mom, but he didn't want to be in the same clothes he wore to school either. Randy ran upstairs and changed into some casual clothing. When him and his father came down they were wearing the same purple clothes. Aelita walked upstairs to get ready. When she came down she was wearing a pink shirt with pink pants and her hair back in a poytail. "Lets go" She said smiling to Odd and Randy. As they left and drove to Brandon's place they saw Ulrich and Yumi and their two kids walking down the street. "Hey" Odd yelled. They looked at Odd and waved back at him. "What are you guys doing out here?" Odd asked. "We're heading to Brandon's for dinner" Yumi yelled.
"Hop in thats where we're headed" Odd yelled pulling over to let them in. When Ulrich, Yumi, Terry and Toshika entered the car Odd began to drive again. "Hi Randy" Toshika said smiling. "Hey" Randy said lookng at Toshika blushing a bit. He may have inherited his father's sense of humor, but not his nak for talking to girls. When they arrived at Brandon's house Jennifer and Zaoh were sparing with each other in the front yard. "Hey you two" Odd said walking up to the gate. "Hi uncle Odd" They both said running up to him. Ashley drove up to the driveway and got out of her car.
"Hey Ashley" Ulrich said. "So you all made it good" Ashley said looking at her friends back together. As Ashley opened the door a voice from behind Odd said "You're all under arrest" When they turned no one was there. "Did you hear something?" Odd asked. "Yeah" Ulrich said looking around. Brandon jumped Odd from behind and held him in a headlock. "Jen, Zaoh this is called a crab headlock" Brandon said tightening his grip. "Let me go" Odd said trying to get out of the headlock he was in. "Say uncle little boy" Brandon said smiling evilly. "Come on I can't breath" Odd said. "Can't breath can't talk now say it" Brandon said tightening his grip again. "Uncle" Odd said in a low voice. "Good boy" Brandon said releasing Odd. "That was fun" Brandon said to Odd walking up to Ashley and giving her a quick kiss then heading inside. "Are you trying to kill me?" Odd said gasping for breath. "Maybe" Brandon said with a blank expression.
Brandon turned on the stereo and played some rock music he then went up stairs to change out of his uniform and into something that wasn't so hot. When Brandon came back down the doorbell had rang and Brandon hid behind the door. "Come in" He said. When the door opened Brandon slammed his hand on it knocking it back, but someone had stopped it. It was Karen she had stopped the door from hitting her and Jeremy in the face. "Still got your reflexes I see" Brandon said coming out from behind the door. "Still failing to surprise me I see" Karen said. "Now Karen we've been over this, if I wanted to I could get you" Brandon said walking into the kitchen. Brandon grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and unscrewed the cap and poured it into a glass. He then filled the bottle back up with more water and placed it back in the fridge. "Well now how are you all?" Ashley asked. "Fine" Everyone said. Aelita looked at Jeremy and he returned the glance. They all sat down at the table and Ashley and Brandon went into the kitchen. They returned with plates of Chinese food. "Enjoy" Brandon said placing the plates he had in front of Yumi and Ulrich.
"Have you ever eaten Chinese before?" Ashley asked them. "Once" Ulrich said. Karen ate almost nothing but Chinese before she moved to Kadic back when they were in school. Yumi always ate Japanese and Aelita and Jeremy never did eat Chinese before (Odd he'll eat anything we all know that). As Brandon returned he asked if they wanted anything to drink. "I'll have some tea" Ashley said. "I saw that coming" Brandon said revealing a cup of tea from behind his back. "I knew that was coming" Ashley said taking the cup from Brandon. When the others told Brandon what they wanted to drink Brandon walked back into the kitchen and returned with the drinks. After that Brandon walked over to his stereo and turned it off. They all began to eat. After everyone was done Brandon and Zaoh took the dishes into the kitchen and cleaned them. While Ashley showed everyone to the living room where they all sat down and began to talk. "Hey kids why don't you go upstairs and play or something" Brandon said when he entered the living room. The kids all went upstairs and played while their parents talked. "So how has everything been in the past years?" Brandon asked them sitting down next to Ashley.
"Nothing special" Ulrich said. "I've developed a new computer system thats already become the best one out there" Jeremy said. "My company uses that system" Aelita said. "Sales have been rather slow over the past few months" Yumi said. "My classes are getting better eveyday" Karen said smiling. "Well good to see you've all been busy" Brandon said taking a sip of his water. "What about you? What have you two been up to?" Ulrich asked Brandon. "Well I'm a member of the Special Forces Alpha Team" Brandon said sliding his badge across the table. "I opened a dojo a few blocks from Kadic" Ashley said. They all continued to talk about the past six years for the next two hours until they noticed it was 10:57. "Well we have to get going now I'm going to need some sleep for the training routines tomarrow" Ulrich said getting up. As he got up Yumi called to Terry and Toshika telling them to get ready. As they left Odd and Aelita also decided to leave. Karen and Jeremy stayed for another twenty minutes before leaving. After they all left Brandon turned the stereo back on and headed upstairs. When Ashley got back from the shower she layed on the bed and began to think about how much everyone has changed since they left college years ago. Brandon entered the room and turned on the stereo in that room he kept the volume low so that it wouldn't disturb Ashley. He leaned over and kissed her before he turned off the lights. When he turned off the lights. Zaoh was in his room playing Ghost Recon on his PlayStation. Jennifer was talking to one of her friends on her phone. They finally went to bed at 12:24. Ashley fell asleep at 2:30. She was thinking about what she was going to do tomorrow.