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Jeremy made a show of cracking his fingers as the preliminary scan finished and 'Alvin's' data started to organize itself on the screen in front of him. "Now, lets see just what our new friend has for us." He said in an excited voice.

"How longs that going to take?" Ulrich asked as he looked over shoulder, though he might as well not have, the massive amount of text that flitted across the monitor just gave him a headache, he had no idea how Jeremy managed to stare at it for so long without losing the rest of his eye sight.

"Not long actual, it isn't encrypted, so I just need to do a light scan for significant data patterns and cross reference them with known quantum physical relations." Jeremy said straightening his glasses.

"Um... yeah... you do that." Ulrich said scratching his head as Yumi gave a confused chuckle.

"Is this going to tell us where Al came from?" Odd asked.

"Probably not. I'd have to do a much deeper check for small software changes caused by the venture through the digital ocean in order to get a good idea of his origins, and even then, without anything to compare it to, I would only be speculating." Jeremy said, both answering the question and confusing the hell out of the other kids. "Alright, I've got the feed back, so lets see what we've got."

Jeremy stared as the code quickly spread itself across the screen, falling into silence as he concentrated.

"So, where do you guys think he came from?" Odd asked the other two Lyoko warriors.

"Beats me, maybe he was always somewhere in Lyoko and only now just woke up." Ulrich suggested.

"I think Ulrich might be right. He could be another one of Lyoko's failsafes against XANA, like Aelita." Yumi suggested.

"~It's possible. There are a lot of things about Lyoko that we don't know or understand.~" Aelita said from within the computer's world.

"I guess that would mean that he was created by the same person who created Aelita." Odd said tilting his head. "Would make sense, since it isn't like there are a large number of people capable of making self aware computer programs. Hey, would that make him like Aelita's brother or something?"

"~B...brother?~" Aelita said, her eyes widening.

"No way!" Jeremy shouted startling the others.

"Geez Jeremy, I was just saying. You didn't have to shout our heads off if you disagree." Odd said from him position on the floor after he had been shocked into falling on his butt.

"That isn't what I was taking about!" Jeremy said, his voice still raised as his finger flew along the keyboard. "This data I'm getting its... its..."

"Spit it our Einstein." Ulrich said crossing his arms. "What is it?"

"There are a lot of things dealing with energy convergence rates and the creation of specters, but there is also another code that... its..." Jeremy swallowed. "A formulation for the use of higher quantum starts to condense energy signatures for the creation of fails proteins."

"Um... meaning?" Odd said scratching his head in confusion, but it wasn't Jeremy that replied.

"~Ma...materialization.~" Aelita said, her voice unsteady.

"What!" Yumi shouted though it was clear that all three of the Lyoko warriors were thinking it.

"His data code has a nearly complete materialization code in it. There are a few small holes, probably caused by XANA disrupting his awakening, but it is much farther along than anything I had managed to come up with." Jeremy said his hands stopping above the keyboard. "With this data... we could get Aelita out of the supercomputer by the end of the long weekend."

They were all to shocked to speak. It was like a dream come true for all of them. "~I'm... going to be free.~"


As you've all probably already noticed, this story is a dribble of sorts. The individual parts are not that long so really this point would be the end of the first chapter if I was doing episode lengths.