"What!?" Yumi screamed, her lower jaw falling to the floor.
"Yup, someone went to the factory." Ulrich reminded.
"Are you positive someone was there? That it didn't just look like it?"
"Yumi, the supercomputer was on." Jeremy said in a scary, grave tone. Aelita shuddered.
"Well why are we standing around? Let's go!"
Four teenagers ran off in a frenzy. One little pink-haired girl remained behind, thinking of the mess she made. She sighed, and jogged off to catch up to them.
In the factory, everyone hovered over Jeremy, looking concerned and pretending they knew what was going on. The glare from his glasses made Aelita's eyes hurt. She slowly walked away from the computer and acted uninterested to hide her anxiousness.
Odd finally spoke after what seemed like forever:
"What does all this mean anyway, Einstein?"
Jeremy was silent. Aelita figured he was just too busy to notice Odd talking.
"Drop it, Odd, he's busy. Wait 'till he wakes up, he'll tell us." Ulrich answered.
"Do you have any idea about this, princess?" Odd tried again, ignoring Ulrich.
"Nope." She replied, not even looking up.
Another eternity passed in silence, and everyone jumped when Jeremy finally spoke.
"Someone sent a bug to the supercomputer…" he began.
"Who?" Odd asked innocently.
"I don't know. But the bug… it was sent from…Lyoko."
Aelita's eyes widened in terror.
"From Lyoko? How is that possible? Who would do that?" Yumi interrogated.
"I don't know, but someone went to Lyoko. It had to be someone important, to know how to operate It." he sighed, "This could be really dangerous," he turned to look at Aelita, "for all of us."
The whole group began to discuss something, but Aelita couldn't hear. She was too engulfed by her thoughts that reality began to slip away. She knew she would be busted, and she was terrified. Her heart was beating so fast that she though she was going to have an attack. She started sweating, as she though of the outcomes. If her friends found out, that was it. She didn't know anyone else on Earth. She was done for.
"Aelita! What's the matter?" Odd screamed in terror.
"What's wrong? You look so…pale!" Yumi added in a worried tone.
"I think she's hyperventilating! We'd better get her home." Ulrich joined in.
She wanted to say something like, "I'm okay!" or "Nothing to worry about!" but she couldn't talk. Her whole body was shaking uncontrollably. She was having hysterics. That, or just going insane. At this point, both were highly probable.
Yumi put her hands on Aelita's shoulders and led her out. Odd and Ulrich were on either side of her, trying desperately to calm her down. Jeremy followed behind all of them, silent but worried.
The cold night air made her shiver worse. It didn't help that it looked like rain, or that the wind was picking up. Finally they made it back to the warm dorm rooms. Yumi brought Aelita to her room so the boys wouldn't get into any trouble. She sat her on the bed.
"Aelita, are you okay?" She asked.
"N-n-no…I-I-I'm n-not s-s-sure." She tried to say between fits of shivers.
"What's wrong?"
"I-I d-don't know." Her voice was slowly becoming more stable.
"Want me to get the nurse?"
"N-no. I'm okay."
Yumi gave her a look.
"Really!" She pleaded.
"I'm glad you think that. But what's really wrong? Don't give me any nonsense, I can tell what's a lie and what isn't."
Aelita looked away. Yumi's face grew serious, as did her voice.
"Aelita! Tell me what's wrong! Don't you trust me?" She screamed, making Aelita jump.
"Yes I trust you!" She shouted back to quick. Now what was she going to do?
"So what is it?"
"I'm just…scared."
"Oh, I see what's wrong."
"Y-you do?"
"Don't worry, Aelita. Whoever broke into the lab won't hurt you. It'll all be okay."
Aelita sighed, half of relief and half of frustration. She looked down, and Yumi continued;
"Everything will work out, like always."
"I hope so Yumi."
Yumi said some sort of goodbye, and Aelita just waved back. She was all-alone in that small room-confused and claustrophobic.
As childish as I seemed, right then all she wanted was her father. He always knew what to do, what to say, and he was always so strong. She felt safe near him. She was sobbing hysterically, realizing what she had lost. It was different now-she always had her friends to get her through everything-but she couldn't speak a word of all this.
Who knew memories a decade old, could cause this much trouble in modern times?
