Firstly, everyone remembered everything. No arguing. Also, the Dunbar twins didn't actually go on Lyoko. I own this story, so no arguing. Another thing:I am not a 'dude'. Remember that in your reviews. Also, in this story CLE didn't happen. Also, I do ise the h-word in this chapter(I know that makes me sound like a little kid, but I hate swearing. Alas, I do not own Code Lyoko. If I did, it would be this awesome.
-Sarah
Sarah12345: What does it mean, Tripp?
Tripp_s_on_stix: idk
Sarah12345: huh?
Tripp_s_on_stix: I don't know
Sarah12345: so should I change my screen name?
Tripp_s_on_stix: not until we know for sure. do you want me to call you Rosalie or Sarah or what?
Sarah12345: Rosalie. It seems more familiar.
Tripp_s_on_stix: ok
Sarah12345: have you talked to everybody yet?
Tripp_s_on_stix: no. Im kind of savoring the peace between me n Jake. He was going 2 ask Cindy out last night before we dragged him to Lyoko and now he has another chance.
Sarah12345: why hasn't he asked her out before?
Tripp_s_on_stix: he's a wuss :)
Sarah12345: and is Bradley ok?
Tripp_s_on_stix: yeah he didn't remember anything...about the attack, I mean he has his memory back now...
Sarah12345: yeah I got it
Tripp_s_on_stix: well got to go classes ya know see you later.
Sarah12345: kay
Tripp_s_on_stix has logged off
-Tripp
Tripp felt kind of guilty for ditching Rosalie online, but he did have classes to go to. He was going to apply to Brown, so he was signed up for a bunch of pre college programs. Right now he was headed to a European young academic talent search test.
-Rod
Rod was sneaking into his brother Bradley's room. It might not be a great idea, but he was bored and had a bobby pin. He was actually looking for the science homework from the night before, but he saw something much better on Tripp's bed. Namely, an online conversation he was having with Sarah. Rod grinned.
He signed onto his IM account, fishing_rod, and sent Sarah a message.
fishing_rod: hey sarah.
Sarah12345: who is this?
fishing_rod: me Rod
Sarah12345: hey rod. is Tripp there?
fishing_rod: no just me. why, don't you want to talk to me?
Sarah12345: sure I was just expecting Tripp do you know where he is?
fishing_rod: I don't know.
Sarah12345: oh. okay bye then.
fishing_rod: bye...
-Tripp
Tripp wasn't entirely sure, but it looked like some kind of ghost was coming out of the electrical socket. He frowned to himself and filled in the last bubble on the test sheet and quietly turned it in at the front of the room. He turned to leave the classroom.
And that's when his math teacher jumped in front of him with the Eye of XANA flashing in...well, her eyes. She opened the fight with a roundhouse kick. Everyone looked up from their test booklets.
"Run!" Tripp yelled. Most people just blinked.
One girl stood up. "Didn't you hear him, you morons? Go! Get out through the windows! Mrs. Meyers went crazy!"
Most of the kids scrambled out of their seats at this. People could yell at them, but nobody called them morons. They jumped out the windows. The one girl stayed behind.
"Run!" Tripp yelled at her.
"No, you idiot! Mrs. Meyers is crazy! My mom told me about stuff like this. I'm staying!"
"Fine!"
Mrs. Meyers sent an uppercut into Tripp's jaw. The girl did a spinning kick into her chest.
"Snorri Nicholson. And you are?"
"Tripp Stern." As Tripp shook her hand, he felt something.
-Rosalie
She felt the pulsations in the tower. She tried messaging Tripp, but he didn't pick up. So she messaged Rod.
Sarah12345: rod?
fishing_rod: what?
Sarah12345: XANA can you get everyone 2 the factory
fishing_rod: sure hang on
Sarah12345: ok I'm looking for the tower
fishing_rod: don't get in trouble
Sarah12345: when do I ever?
fishing_rod has logged off
Rosalie sighed as she closed down the chat window. It didn't seem like anyone felt like paying attention to her lately.
She wandered out of the tower and walked around a bit in the mountain sector. After about two hours, she saw some kind of person. She squinted.
"Hello?" She called out uncertainly. "Can you hear me?"
The person just stood there. As Rosalie got closer, she saw that the person was a girl dressed in some kind of purple and black jumpsuit. She opened her mouth when Rosalie was within a yard of her.
"Warning. You are within a virtual world known as Lyoko. This world is contained on a supercomputer that was shut off in 2013. Unless you devirtualize yourself immediately, you will be caught in the path of a virtual explosion that will destroy Lyoko and everything on it. The explosion will begin in 9:59:99." The girl said as she began projecting a timer. Rosalie screamed.
"Sarah! What's wrong? Where are you?" Rod called.
"Rod! This girl-she-she told me-she told me that-that I have to-devirtualize myself-or else-or else I'll be destroyed-in-eight minutes!"
"What? Sarah, slow down!"
"Lyoko, and everything on it, is going to be destroyed in less than ten minutes!"
"Oh man, oh man, oh man! Okay, Jenn, Jake, Michelle and I are here. We're going to come on Lyoko and try to prevent the explosion. Right now-just get into a tower, Sarah."
"OK." For once, Rosalie didn't feel like arguing. She walked into the nearest tower.
She didn't notice the white aura surrounding it.
-Jenn
Jenn was pretty excited about going on Lyoko. She hadn't been there before, and from what Tripp told her, she'd get some cool outfit when she went on. She hopped into the scanner, and watched Jake climb in with his head down. Yet another attempt at romance defeated. Jenn chuckled to herself.
"Virtualization!" Michelle called. With a rush of air, Jenn was on Lyoko.
She examined herself. She was wearing a ninja type outfit decorated with blue flames. Her hair was tied back into two pigtails, and she had a belt full of throwing knives on. She smiled.
-Jake
Was it so hard for these people to wait ten minutes til they interrupted him? Seriously, he was never going to get the chance to ask Cindy out at this rate.
But when he was virtualized on Lyoko, he wasn't thinking about Cindy for once.
He was staring at his outfit, also for the first time.
He was dressed in a dark blue outfit that made him resemble Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. His hair was all spiked up too.
He smiled. Maybe he could wait for Cindy one more day.
-Rosalie
Rosalie was terrified. Lyoko was her home. Her world. For other people, it was just a harmless video game. They could just devirtualize themselves before the explosion.
But Rosalie would be trapped. Trapped like before, and trapped like before that. Trapped here forever, never meeting Tripp in real life, or Rod, or Jenn, or Jake, or anyone else Tripp or Michelle or Bianca talked about. She would be trapped here, waiting for the explosion.
The one that would end everything.
-Jeremie Belpois
(A/N: Weren't expecting this one, were you?)
Jeremie's laptop beeped for the first time in twenty years. He looked at it fearfully.
"Aelita!" He yelled to his wife.
"What, Jeremie?"
"Come here. Quick."
Aelita rushed into the living room.
"What is it, honey?"
Jeremie took a breath. "The laptop." He said quietly. Aelita gasped.
"You-you don't think..."
Jeremie sighed. "Only one way to find out." He took another breath and opened his laptop case. He slid the years-old relic onto their antique table. He opened it carefully, as though a bomb would go off.
Essentially, it would.
Jeremie frowned. "No...that's not possible..."
"Jesus, Jeremie, what's not possible?"
Jeremie looked at his wife. "Someone set off the Disintegrator."
Aelita gasped. "Quick, do a scan for virtual DNA."
Jeremie cracked his knuckles and put his hands on the still familiar keys for the code.
He squinted. "Oh, dear," he sighed.
"What?!" Aelita yelled.
"Aelita-you know those dreams you've been having about that girl?"
"Yes, Jeremie, I'm quite familiar with them! Talk!"
Jeremie polished his glasses, yet another antique. "Aelita...I don't know how to tell you this...but...she's on Lyoko, and the materialization program...well, we only needed it once, and we had no idea that she was..."
"Jeremie, what the hell are you talking about?"
"Aelita...she's going to be decoded entirely...along with everyone else on Lyoko."
"Hang on. Who else is on Lyoko?"
"Um, William and Sissi's twins, and, um...oh crap. Odd's kid! And not the sane one, either!"
"Oh crap. Well, I'm not calling them! Not it!"
Jeremie rolled his eyes at his wife's childishness. "Aelita, we don't have to call anyone. I'll just deactivate the explosion from here!"
"You mean you don't have to call anyone. And ok then. I'm going to go finish my cloning algorithm."
Jeremie sighed again, but smiled as he realized he would be coding on Lyoko again. He stretched his hands and got to work.
-Michelle
Someone was coding Lyoko from an undetermined place, and Michelle had to get them out. One thing Tripp had made explicitly clear was that no one was to know about the supercomputer. Which was why Michelle smiled as she sent in string after string of decay code at the intruder.
This would be such fun.
-Jeremie
Jeremie squinted at the screen. It looked like someone was purposefully blocking him out of the system. He grinned. Nothing like a challenge. He sent in strings of decoy code and started working on the decoding process.
-Michelle
Michelle knew they were decoy strings, she just had to wait for the intruder to slip up.
People in a hurry generally did that.
-Jeremie
He cursed under his breath. He had messed up, and you would have to be an idiot to not see where he was on the mainframe now. He hurried with his typing.
-Michelle
Michelle smiled. They had made a mistake. She sent in decay code and watched as the intruder vanished.
"Michelle!" Sarah's voice squawked over the headphones. "Wy did you do that? He was stopping the explosion!"
"He was? Oh crap!" She went back to the code the intruder had been working on, and quickly picked up on what he was doing.
She glanced at the clock. Ten seconds.
Five seconds.
Two seconds.
One second.
And she was done. She pressed the last button in the code and sighed in relief as the explosion stopped.
-Rosalie
Rosalie walked out of the tower cautiously. Lyoko was still there. She was still there.
"Sarah!" Rod yelled as he tackled her in a bear hug. "You're alive! It's a miracle, I tell ya, a miracle!"
"Rod," Rosalie interrupted.
"What?"
Rosalie's face broke into a grin. "My name's Rosalie."
Rod stared for a minute. Then he laughed.
"Rosalie!" He screamed as he enveloped her in another bear hug. "You're alive! It's a miracle, I tell ya, a miracle!"
Rosalie laughed as Rod pulled her to her feet and danced her around the tower.
But they did have something to celebrate, after all.
-Tripp
"What'd I miss?" He said breathlessly as he ran into the factory. He was met with glares from Rod, Michelle, Jake, and even Jenn.
"What?" He asked, oblivious.
Michelle sighed. "Tripp, Rosalie almost died today. You know how she thinks she's an AI? Well, she's not. You're DNA turns into digital code when you get virtualized."
"Yeah? So?"
Jenn sighed. "Rosalie's an actual human being, bozo. Which means she has actual, human feelings. Which means she feels hurt that you didn't come to her rescue, and sad that you spent that time with some girl."
"That's cold, man," Jake interjected. "I mean, even I don't cheat on girls. But what makes it worse is that it happened in the middle of a crisis!"
Tripp frowned. "I was fighting a XANAfied teacher. I couldn't just leave Snorri there alone!"
Jenn gasped. "Snorri? As in Snorri Nicholson? C'mon, Tripp! You could've at least ditched us for someone on Rosalie's level. But Snorri Nicholson is the biggest brat in school! And you ditched us-some of your best friends-for her?" It was less of a question and more of a death threat.
"I don't know, she seemed nice, and really funny..."
"We're all so glad you had a chance to get to know her!" Michelle spat out scathingly. "While Rosalie was about to die!"
Tripp looked at the ground.
Everyone else filed past hm, and no one gave him a backwards glance.
-Snorri
Snorri smiled. Elisabeth Dunbar had taught her well in the art of getting the guy.
The fact that she had intervened during a crisis was just icing on the cake.
