Hey guys, thanks for the comments so far! Here's the last part of Frontier, and I'll put the next story up later today (hopefully). Till then, enjoy!
Frontier pt.2
"I've killed her, I've killed her,
I've killed her!" Aelita sobbed over and over, tears raining
down from her eyes.
Jeremie reached out and hugged her to
him.
"Aelita, calm down! It wasn't your fault"
"Yes
it was!" she cried, crying into Jeremie's chest. "I never
should've let her talk me into doing it. Now she's gone
and-"
"Aelita, she's not dead"
"What?"
Aelita and Jeremy went, staring at the screen.
"She's not
dead" Ulrich repeated. "I don't know how to explain this,
but I can hear her in my head. It's like we're connected somehow."
In
a vast white void Yumi drifted. She looked like she was asleep,
floating softly.
Tell Aelita not too worry she
thought.
"She doesn't know where she is, but she says not
too worry. She's ok"
"Oh thank goodness" Aelita
smiled in relief.
"But if she's not here" Jeremie said,
"And she's not in Lyoko, then that means she's trapped between
the two."
"So how are we going to get her out?" Odd
asked.
"It's going to be tricky, but I think if we connect
four towers in different regions together we might be able to get
her. And then there's also her file that has to reset" Jeremie
said, typing up a screen with a bar.
"When it's blue all the
way we can get her back"
"How long is this going to
take?" Aelita asked.
Jeremie did a few quick calculations in
his head. "Probably all afternoon"
"But we've got
to get back to school!"
"I know. We'll have to take
turns coming here and back, otherwise someone might get
suspicious"
"I'll take the first turn" Aelita
said.
"Are you sure?" Jeremie asked, looking at her with
concern.
"Yes. I messed but before, and now I'll make up for
it"
"I'll start heading out to the towers" Ulrich
said, closing his window.
In the tower Ulrich walked to the
edge of the platform and jumped down.
Plunging into the digital
stream below he flew along before heading up and landing on another
platform. He walked out of the tower and into the Forest
Region.
"Hang on Yumi" he thought, and made his way
towards the first tower.
"Ulrich, it's Aelita. How're you
doing?"
"Good so far. I'm about to reach the second
tower now"
"Just be careful. There's some monsters
around there"
"Don't worry, I see them" Ulrich
replied, pulling out his sword.
He hid behind the ice wall in the
Arctic Region as the Blok came closer and closer.
Just as the Blok
was about to turn the corner he jumped out and stabbed it right in
one of it's eyes. With a bang it blew bits as Ulrich rushed past it
and cut the second in half before throwing his sword into the
last.
He ran towards the tower, picking up his sword en
route.
Inside he floated up to the top, accessed the tower program
core and keyed in a few commands.
On Aelita's screen the download
bar filled up another quarter with blue.
"Two down, two to
go. Don't worry Yumi, we're coming for you" Aelita
said.
Suddenly a warning red ! appeared on screen.
Aelita read
the report, gasped and grabbed for her mobile.
Jeremie was
busy with a Math problem when he felt his cell vibrating in his
pocket.
He pulled it out slowly, made sure the teacher couldn't
see him, and answered it.
"Oh Jeremie! Jeremie please! You've
got to get over here now!" Aelita's anxious voice came
through.
"Aelita calm down. What's wrong?"
"It's
Yumi. According to Ulrich she's very frightened. She keeps saying she
feels more and more drained. And the computer says it's deleting her.
It thinks it's a old program. Please, get over here!"
"I'm
on my way, just don't do anything till I get there" Jeremie
said. He put his phone back in his pocket, raised his hand and asked:
"Sir, can I please be excused?"
"Oh Jeremie!
Thank God you're here!" Aelita cried, hugging him
fiercely.
Jeremie felt his face go red. "Uh, Ok, let's see
what's going on" Jeremie said, walking towards the computer with
Aelita still holding tightly unto his arm.
Jeremie read through
the report and called up some screens. He scanned through it all
quickly and said: "This is going to be trouble. Unless we can
add some memory to her file, she'll be deleted before we can get all
the memory."
Ulrich's window popped up on the screen.
"Good
news. I've just secured the third tower. I'm already on my way to the
last one. Yumi's still scared, but she's calmed down a bit."
"Good.
Keep heading to the tower, and I'll fix the file"
"How?"
Aelita asked.
"You'll have to go back and get my laptop. I'll
connected it to the computer and add it's memory. But you've got to
hurry."
"On it" Aelita said, running towards the
elevator.
She sped down the sewer lines, ran up to the dorms and
rushed into Jeremie's room. Grabbing his laptop she rushed back out,
ran down the stairs and right into Jim. "And just what are you
doing?" Jim growled, grabbing her arm.
"You know entry
into the dorms during class is forbidden. Come on, it's off to the
principal for you" Jim said, walking towards the office with
Aelita in tow.
Odd was sleeping in class when he
suddenly jumped up and grabbed his leg.
"Odd, is something
wrong?" Miss Hertz asked.
"Uh, Yeah, I really need to
go" Odd said, grimacing and crossing his legs.
"Oh
right, but just get back quickly" Miss Hertz said, pulling open
the door.
Odd mumbled a thank you as he run out and down the hall
to the boys toilets.
Once inside he pulled out his phone, answered
and put it to his ear.
"Hey Jeremie, what's up? Is it my turn
yet?"
"No. We've got a problem. Yumi's being deleted and
Aelita went to get my laptop when she got caught by Jim. She's stuck
in the principal's office. You've got to get her out."
"Leave
it to me. I'll get her out" Odd said.
He put his phone back
in the pocket and wondered just how he was suppose to do it. Suddenly
an idea came to him. He grinned and walked out of the toilets, well
pleased with himself. "Oh, this is going to be fun!"
Ulrich
was in the Mountain Region, heading towards the last tower they
needed.
He jumped down from a high ledge to a large boulder and
down the the mountain path. He was running around a large mountain
top when a sound made him stop and look around. A laser bolt aiming
for him made him dodge to the left as the two Bloks came down towards
him, climbing the peak like spiders.
"Sorry guys, but I just
don't have the time" Ulrich said and ran, the Bloks in hot
pursuit.
"Say that again" Sissi said. It was the
second break and Odd had pulled her away from her gang and whispered
something about a secret in her ear.
"If you help get Aelita
out of your Dad's office, I'll let you in on our secret that you've
wanted to know so much about"
"Promise?" Sissi
asked, holding out her had.
"Promise" Odd said, grinning
and shaking her hand.
"I just don't understand Aelita. I
would've expected this behavior from your sister, but you..." Mr
Delmas said, sitting behind his table.
"And not just her,
sir. Look, Yumi Ishiyima and Jeremie Belpois are missing as well.
They're suppose to have gone to the nurse, but she hasn't seen either
of them." Jim said, holding out the infirmary register.
"And
now this incident with the laptop from the boys dorms. Well, what do
you have to say for yourself?" Delmas asked, staring over his
glasses at Aelita.
"Well, I, uh, I-" Before Aelita could
continue someone knocked on the door, and Sissi walked in. "Sissi,
please wait outside till I'm finished here" Mr Delmas
said.
"That's why I'm here Daddy. I'm the one Aelita was
going to get the laptop for.
Jeremie said I could use it, but he
was busy so I asked Aelita to go get it.
Sorry Daddy" She
said, looking at him with wide innocent eyes.
"Hmm, well, in
that case your free to go Aelita. Now back to class, and try to stay
out of the dorms"
"Yes Daddy" Sissi said, putting
her arm around the amazed Aelita's and pulling her out.
"You
owe me" Sissi said as they walked outside and met up with
Odd.
"It's about time" Jeremie said as he heard the
elevator opening behind him.
"Oh wow!" He heard somebody
gasp. He turned around and saw Sissi walking in, staring around in
amazement. "Odd, what's she doing here?" He asked, taking
the laptop from him.
"She helped me out, so I had to make it
up to her somehow" Odd said.
"Whatever. Ulrich's got
trouble, so we've got to send you guys in as soon as I've connected
these two together" Jeremie said as he connected wires to
plugs.
He booted up his laptop and did a quick scan on the
supercomputer.
"Uh oh"
"What?" Odd
asked.
"Uh, good news: we've got enough memory to help Yumi
for a bit.
Bad news: we don't have enough available in either to
send anyone in"
Odd thought for a bit, patting his pocket.
"How much do you need?"
"Just a few bytes"
"Will
this do?" Odd asked, bending down and offering Jeremie his Game
Boy.
In Lyoko Ulrich was deflected shot after shot from the
Bloks. He was so preoccupied he didn't notice the one disappearing
over the edge. It crawled and climbed up behind Ulrich. The only
warning Ulrich got was the whine just before the blast of ice hit
him, freezing him solid.
He struggled hard, trying to break out.
The Bloks started to come closer, charging up their lasers. "Sorry
Yumi" he thought, waiting for the blasts.
"Laser
Arrows!" Odd shouted, jumping up unto the one and then up into
the air.
Back flipping in mid air he shot an arrow into the front
Blok before landing and blasting the second to bits. He got up and
stood in front of Ulrich's frozen form.
"Man, you're looking
a little stiff" He said as Ulrich unfroze.
"Thanks Odd"
Ulrich said, sheathing his sword.
"No problem. Now go play
hero" Odd said, grinning.
Ulrich rolled his eyes and grinned,
running towards the tower.
He walked in, flew up and uploaded the
last memory needed.
In the strange white void Yumi floated.
She heard someone call her name, opened her eyes and looked up. She
saw a silhouette form, shaped like Ulrich.
"Yumi!" He
called again, floating towards her.
"Ulrich!" she
shouted back, her heart hammering in her chest.
They floated
closer and closer to each other until they're fingers touched, and a
brilliant white light spread out to envelope them both.
"We've
got her. You can do it" Odd's voice came up from the scanner
room.
"Do what?" Sissi asked.
"Oh, just this"
Jeremie said, typing in the Return Trip program.
Yumi opened
up her eyes and found herself lying in her bed. She glanced over at
her clock. She saw it was still an hour before she had to get up.
A
soft knock came to her door, followed by a head poking in.
"Yumi?"
Aelita asked, her voice slightly worried.
"I'm here"
Yumi said, smiling at her. She got up and walked to her sister,
hugging her to her. "Thanks" she said, holding her sister's
trembling shoulders tightly.
"I was so worried you were gone"
Aelita cried.
"Ssh. I know" Yumi said, holding her
sister to her for a while.
Aelita pulled away, rubbing her eyes.
"I guess I'd better go get ready for school"
She gave
Yumi one more hug before leaving.
Yumi walked back to her bed,
pulled open her desk drawer and pulled out the palmtop. "Hey
Yumi" Ulrich said, popping up on the screen.
"Hey
yourself. You had quite an adventure trying to rescue me" she
said.
"Uh, Ulrich" she started, blushing slightly, "When
we were connected I kinda saw how you felt about me. Uh, you didn't
happen to-"
"Find out how you felt about me? Yeah, I
did" Ulrich said, blushing as well.
The awkward moment lasted
a while before Yumi said: "So, uh, I've gotta get ready for
school now. See you later?"
"See you later" Ulrich
said.
"Love you" He added as the screen in front of him
switched off.
End...
(next up: Guy from My Dreams)
