Ulrich's POV:
BANG! The lab door opened with its usual ear splitting bang. A large monitor display and a keyboard with a giant chair was all that was waiting for us. Man, this place has a feeling of foreboding… I wondered as Jeremie sat down at the chair. "Alright, ready to find out who our mysterious prisoner is?" He asked everyone as Aelita opened up her video chat window on the screen. "Ready Jeremie, I created a firewall to Lyoko in case this is XANA's doing." Aletia said to everyone in the room. "Okay, I'm opening it." Jeremie said as he hit the enter key.
Beware the horror you have reawaken onto this world! XANA's evil knows no bounds! He took my life, freedom, family and broke my heart! I refuse to let that happen to anyone else! Someday, I will break free of this prison XANA forced me in. If you plan to fight him, 00111000101101101001110. 00110101001, help him and you will find 010010011001. Know I am watching to see were your allegiance lies. Until I contact you again, Alice 00101001.
"Well, that is an odd message." I said as the others finished reading the message. "Strange it looks like XANA corrupted parts of the message." Yumi said, pointing to the zeros and ones. "Your right. Maybe XANA is hiding the fact this Alice is either an Ally or Enemy." Jeremie said quizzically at the screen. "Can we un-corrupt it?" Aelita asked from the screen. "Hmmm…. No dice! The corrupt data was deleted by XANA. We will never know what it said" Jeremie said nervously. "So basically, we don't know if Alice is friend or foe?" Odd asked as he began to pace around. "You got it." Jeremie replied as he tyed on the keyboard. "Well at least we know a few things about Alice." Yumi inputted into the conversation. "Yeah, like she is in prison, she knows about Lyoko and XANA, and her notes hints that she maybe against XANA." I began to count th facts off o my fingers as I pointed them out to my friends. "Hey wait a minute! Don't they keep all arrest records digitally now? Is it possible that you could figure out who she is by working backwards from the prison the message came from?" Yumi asked Jeremie the million dollar question. Jeremie leaned back in his chair as he thought about it. "it's possible. But hacking into a government server is going to be risky. I going to have to go slow, or else they may trace me and find out about Lyoko." Jeremie said to the rest of us. There was a glimmer in his eyes, like he wanted to take on the government and break at least a dozen different laws. "Well, how long will that take you?" I asked the happy genius. "Well with Aelita's help… I should be done by tomorrow morning, if I work thru the night." Jeremie told us. Already you could hear how tired he is going to be in his voice. Odd finished pacing and walked over to Jeremie. "Good thing tomorrow is Sunday! There are no classes to worry about!" He said as he slapped Jeremie on the back. Jeremie reached over and put on the earpiece connected to the supercomputer. "Well Aelita, ready to help me break a few international laws?" Jeremie spoke into the earpiece. "Sure!" Aelita smiled at Jeremie. Boy, when she gets here, we will never be able to separate the two of them. They're going to be practically attached at the hip. I thought as Yumi, Odd and I left the lab so they could get to work.
(Will our Heroes find out who this Alice really is? Will Jeremie and Aelita really be attached at the hip? [^_^ We know that one..] Find out this and more, next time I update!)
