Not much sleeping happened in Sam and Natasha's room. Both were excited about different things. Well, They were both excited to meet with the brains behind Lyoko's previous period of power, Sam was also excited about having someone who would actually understand gender, the way he experienced it. Of course, Sam was not the main reason for the lack of sleep. Natasha was hectic trying to organize everything for the next morning. She had to make sure that every function, or even a slightly complex series of lines, was properly commented, following standard commenting standards. She also felt the need to confer with her roommate, who helped write it, whether something was clear enough. She was afraid of sloppy coding giving the adults a bad impression on them and their ability to code in general; Sam, on the other hand, didn't particularly care. Although he did see the benefit of adding some extra comments to the code, he believed that the code would speak for itself when it comes to their coding capabilities and that slight inconsistencies in the comments were nothing to worry about.

It was around one when Natasha felt that the code was presentable. Sam had fallen asleep a bit earlier, after convincing the other programmer that she was capable of wording the comments by herself. He was no stranger to falling asleep while there was light emitting from the computer, as the other genius would often stay up late playing video games, while Sam liked to get plenty of sleep. The key words being liked to, as, since they turned on the supercomputer that doesn't always happen. He tends to lose track of time when making complex code.

Morning rolled around and Natasha and Sam left campus to walk to the factory, through town, not the sewers. While they were an efficient way to travel, Sam had a particularly strong sense of smell, and would rather not travel through the sewers. The girl was visibly overly excited and bursting with questions, while her companion maintained a calm exterior. A few times the former would walk faster and nervously pester the other about how they should have used the sewers due to a fear of being late. He would always respond by telling her the time, and how long it would take them to reach the factory at their now slightly accelerated pace.

It was nine forty-eight, the same time that Sam had calculated, when they arrived at the factory and they had to wait for the elevator, so Jeremie and Aelita must already be there.

Jeremie was sitting in the chair at the supercomputer, scanning lines of code. He had a laptop open on his lap. Aelita was nowhere to be seen; he didn't seem to notice their entrance. Sam sat down at the base of the holographic Lyoko and took out and started up his laptop. Natasha decided to go right up to him to see exactly what he was doing. The girl's intrusion brought him back to reality.

"Uh, so you two are having some problems with the super scanner program if I'm not mistaken," he asked, looking away from the screens.

"Yeah, we can't figure out why it doesn't work. Our current theory is that there is a connection error that doesn't really fit within the confines of your software," the boy called up from the floor.

"I thought that could be the problem, and after looking at the supercomputer I was sure of it" he pushed up his glasses. "Lyoko has changed to a different part of its network sending it through different access networks, making my localization code unusable. We need to start from scratch finding and localize it,* Lucky for you, we already started working on it. Aelita is in a tower, to help us make a connection."

"Wow, how did you come up with the idea of linking your computer to Lyoko via a person in a tower?" Natasha asked eagerly.

"Well, Aelita was trapped in Lyoko for quite some time and we used that link to communicate," he responded, "I think I located the network," he announced.

"Point me in the right direction and I can hook it up, remote technology is my specialty," Sam requested. Jeremie supplied the information, and the boy's fingers started to fly across his keyboard. Natasha ran over to watch him, pointing out all of the possible errors that he made. In the meantime, Jeremie and Aelita were quietly talking about other changes and how that might affect any of their other codes, letting the kids try to figure it out.

Soon they made a breakthrough as the pink-haired girl appeared on the boy's laptop, this was cause for celebration on everyone's part. "Now I just need to merge Jeremy's code to find the fluctuations of the address," he spoke after the short celebration was done.

"That should be a simple transfer, Aelita, I'm bringing you in", the blond announced.

"Tell me about it, he's already almost done," Natasha told him, as the women entered the room.

"Wow, you really work fast,"

"Matching frequencies is kind of a specialty of mine," he said again, shaking off the compliment; "let's test this out," he announces as he launched it, and images of the towers appeared on the screen. He took a flash drive out of his pocket and put the code on it before handing it to his roommate, who was getting out her laptop to download the program.

"So, the other day you programmed vehicles for the people on Lyoko! How!" Natasha demanded, "and do we design them or if so, what format do you use for the designs?"

"(I don't understand this level computer stuff so insert that here)" He answered, with the girl hanging on every word he said. "I can show you the code I used to make them for my friends if you want," he offered, she immediately took him up on that offer, he started to get up, when Aelita offered to get it for him as she was already standing. She went to a cardboard box full of CDs in the corner of the room and looked through its contents until she found the one labeled "Vehicles."

Natasha's phone buzzed in her pocket, "don't bother," Sam told her, "It's the text I sent to our group asking what everyone wants for their vehicles and that they need to get Rebecca to describe it and or Diana to draw it," he explained, getting up to look at all of Jeremie's codes. They kept going through code after code, with explanations on how they were made, while they thought about how it could be implemented to fit their gaggle of friends, questioning the adults as they saw fit. The original warriors also taught them everything that they knew about the supercomputer, as the more they knew about it the safer the world would be. The student's phones buzzed occasionally as the other new warriors figured out what they wanted in their vehicles. They spent the whole day talking realizations and handmade codes, coded by both the teens and adults. Each had something to say about the others. It was really useful to have another set of eyes on Natasha and Sam's code, Jeremie and Aelita were able to find errors that they had previously overlooked. Sam also further explained what devices he planned on making, to make their lives easier.

Eventually, Sam got a call from his girlfriend, telling them to come to dinner and that she has a description of what everyone wants for their vehicle. This caused that day's meeting of the minds to come to an end.

AN

*I don't know the complexity of the supercomputer, please pretend this makes sense.

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