Chapter 15 Replica
A.N. – Time to explore the first replica on the network! Some events in this chapter near the end are added from an idea a guest reviewer gave me. So, thank you for the ideas and I hope you continue to give some great one for future chapters. On to the chapter!
Guest – 1. Since season 4 is kinda hazy for me I can't exactly tell you when or if it will happen. But if I research an episode that has Aelita and Ulrich on a 1v1, then I'll add it. 2. I think you misread the response. To avoid spoilers, I would say read the chapter. That's all I can say. 3. By the time you read this, episode 74 will be done, but the time I'm writing this it is still in research and I'll see what I can do.
Disclaimer – I do not own Code Lyoko, the idea, or the plot. The plot is owned by the creators and the idea was submitted by Voltronblues123.
It's night at Kadic as odd is playing video games. "Ha ha! Thake that fireball!" William lifts up his head, looking over to him. "And you, you slimy vortex! You'll see! You think you're so smart. Wait til I discombobulate you into the black hole!"
"Odd, some of us have school tomorrow, you know?" William calls out in annoyance.
"Ah! Great, thanks a lot! You just made me miss the bonus ball! I'm dying from sleep deprivation and now you're making me start all over again!" Odd complaining at him.
"Maybe this explains Ulrich's aggressive behavior towards me" William concludes as he puts an arm over his eyes. Odd continues to play his game.
The next morning, Odd is deep asleep, holding his console. William has left to go meet up with Yumi. Aelita decides to wake him with Jeremy. "Hey Odd, wake up will ya!" Aelita yells at him.
Odd blinks his eyes open. "What are you guys dressed like that for?" Odd says, noticing Jeremy and Aelita standing nearby.
"It'll come to you. Think it over Odd" Jeremy teases.
"Hm…oh no, phys ed!" Odd sits up in alarm, slumming back down onto his bed. "Forget about it guys. I can't go. Galactic Battle totally wiped me out…"
"You think Jim will be happy to hear that?" Jeremy questions him.
"Aelita, do me a big favor. Think of a nice legitimate excuse so I can stay here and sleep."
"Me?" Aelita says in confusion. "What am I supposed to tell him?" Before he can respond, he's already fast asleep. "Thanks a lot."
"Della Robbia?" Jim is taking roll outside. "Della Robbia? I don't wanna have to repeat that! DELLA ROBBIA!"
"Mmm, Odd felt sick so he went to the infirmary this morning Jim" Aelita raises a hand.
"Absent then. I guess when you're not feeling well, the only thing to do is head for the infirmary." Aelita smiles, glad it worked. "Delmas."
"Present."
"Debassier?"
"Present."
"Duero?"
"Yeah."
"You say present or here. None of this yeah stuff, okay?" Jim scolds as Nicolas moves from his spot and stops near a girl.
"Yeah, okay."
"Uh, hello Naomi," he rubs the back of his neck. "uh…how would you feel about having a fantastic and breathtaking experience together with me in the moonlight tonight?"
"You gotta be kidding, you dork!" she narrows her eyes and he smiles sheepishly.
"Right! Today, we're going to work on the high jump. For once, I won't go to great lengths to tell you how this kind of sport can take you to great heights. So just watch. Demonstration! Gain momentum!" Jim runs towards a post that he set up earlier. He jumps into the air. "Release and-!" He hits the mattress with his back, causing the class to laugh at him. He pouts at them all.
Yolonda escorts Jim to the infirmary. "I've told you over and over again. If you insist on doing this sort of thing, this is where you'll end up" she scolds and he pouts.
"Yeah, it's an occupational hazard," Jim replies as Yolonda opens the door and Jim sees an empty bed. "I see you've already sent Della Robbia home."
"Odd? But he hasn't been here at all!"
"Oh?"
The door to the room opens as someone steps inside, seeing Odd sleeping. "Well, what kind of lame-o speech did GI Jim bore you with today?" Odd asks tiredly, not even looking up. "That's about the only part I'm sorry I missed. Every time he opens his mouth, he cracks me up…"
Both the principal and Jim are frowning down at him. "Mm, well why don't we share a little laughter in my office, now!" Mr. Delmas demands.
"Uh oh," Odd looks up at him wide-eyed. His vision is a bit blurry, so he rubs his eyes. "On no, please tell me that I'm still sleeping and that this is a nightmare!"
"Uh uh," Jim waves a finger. "You're wide-awake Della Robbia, but you're right about one thing: this is your nightmare!"
"Disappointed, disappointed, that's the only word for it!" Mr. Delmas says to both Odd and Aelita in his office. "Ms. Stones, Odd, I am deeply disappointed in both of you!"
"I agree with that sir!" Jim holds up a finger. "These two took me for some sort of idiot!"
"You shamelessly acted with total indifference to the ethical values that this institution was designed to teach you! You lied, both of you! Therefore, 4 hours of detention."
They both glance towards each other.
"Really? Only 4 sir?" Jim asks, a bit surprised.
"Yes! And that's because I consider myself to be too…"
"Too weak?"
"Mmm," Mr. Delmas gives him a glare. "Magnanimous!"
"Thanks for the lame excuse Aelita" Odd says bitterly.
"Hey, how would I know Jim would pull his back out and go to the infirmary?" Aelita defends.
"If you had taken the time to think of a better excuse, I wouldn't have had 4 hours of detention!" Odd fires back.
"And if you were just a bit less selfish, you'd realize that I got stuck with 4 hours of detention too, and for what?! Because you needed to sleep?! YOU LAZY LOSER!" Aelita shouts at him.
"Uh hi Aelita," Nicolas walks up to her. "Um, how would you feel about having a fantastic and breathtaking experience in the moonlight tonight?"
"Aelita would rather have detention then go out with you!" Odd replies in disgust.
Nicolas glares at him and Aelita smiles. "How nice of you to ask Nicolas. Thanks, I'd really like that!" Aelita cringes a bit at her agreement. She only did it to get a shot at Odd. He just smiles back.
"I'm not hallucinating!" Odd crosses his arms. "You're not gonna go out with that nerd, are you?"
"I'd rather hang out with a nerd than a selfish potato head like you!" Aelita tells him, walking off. Odd just frowns at her.
William eats his food, humming. "Some good fries today."
"Hm!" Odd sits down across from William.
"Did I say something wrong?"
Odd just looks to Aelita, who raises an amused brow. He stuffs his mouth with fries.
"Well, it looks as if we got a bit of a cold war on our hands" Yumi looks between the two.
"Listen, you two. Why don't you kiss and make-up? We've got more important things to worry about" Jeremy tries to get the two to settle the score.
"Like hunting Xana and Ulrich on the web with the skid" William leans in a bit.
"That's right," Jeremy agrees with him. "And especially to check out that sphere you came across on your first trip."
"Great, when do we go?" Yumi whispers to them.
"The longer we wait, the stronger Xana gets, so I say we try tonight. That is, if our two friends are ready to bury the hatchet" Jeremy looks between the two.
"As long as I don't have to talk to that dummy!" Odd points to Aelita.
"Suits me! What would I have to say to a lazy, selfish brat anyway?" Aelita retorts back.
Nicolas approaches the table. "Hey Aelita. Are we still on for tonight?"
"I'm sorry…I mean, I really am, but something just came up," she looks away, to his disappointment. "I've got a…a…a…a big test I have to study for!"
"Yeah well, I guess that figures," Nicolas shrugs a little. "It was too true to be good…I mean…you know what I mean, right?" He walks away dejectedly to sit across from Herb. "Mm…"
Herb is just eating while reading his book. "Uh, listen Herb, how would you feel about having a fantastic, and breathtaking experience in the moonlight tonight?"
"Huh?" He just looks up in confusion.
A fishing line is cast, landing near the water. Nicolas is smiling widely next to a skeptical Herb. "This is your fantastic and breathtaking experience? A dumb fishing trip?" They're actually near the factory as it has the only body of water they're aware of.
"Yeah, you wouldn't believe how fantastic and breathtaking it can be to catch a big, fat Pike!" Nicolas exclaims.
"And you're a clown fish, you know that Nicolas?" Herb retorts back, only to be shushed.
"You'll scare the fish away if you talk too loud," he looks towards the water, Herb sitting down defeatedly. The Lyoko Warriors run across the bridge right over their heads.
"Take your time, why don't you?" Aelita says to Odd.
"Give it a rest huh?" Odd retorts back.
"What's Odd doing out at this hour?" Herb narrows his eyes suspiciously.
"And I thought Aelita had a huge test to study for," Nicolas drops the fishing line, looking towards the entrance. "Hmm. Let's go."
The elevator doors open into the scanner room. Aelita walks out and walks towards a scanner. She is stopped as Odd cuts in and steals it.
"Odd, aren't you overdoing it a little?" Yumi asks from another scanner.
"Thanks Yumi, it's obvious whose side you're on!" Odd says.
Yumi sighs at him.
"Come on Odd," William comments. "There has to be a time for you to grow up."
"Alright now, cool it guys," Jeremy pushes up his glasses. "Let's concentrate on our mission…Transfer William. Transfer Yumi. Transfer Odd. Virtualization."
The three land in the middle of the room, followed by Aelita. She lands next to Odd, but she turns away in anger.
The door opens and they run up to a wall and watch as it opens up to reveal a hallway. They run through and take the elevator up to the skid hanger. When it stops, they run up towards their stations.
"Hurry over to your transporter spots." Jeremy instructs them.
"Doesn't it freak you out to have a real loser at the controls?" Odd comments.
Aelita huffs, crossing her arms and holding her head up high. Odd grunts, looking away.
"Okay, energize."
Jeremy sends them into their stations one-by-one into the skid. Aelita takes hold of the levers. One-by-one they land in their navskids.
"William, mind asking that dorky roommate of yours if he still remembers how to use the skid?" Aelita asks.
"Don't ask me sis. Ask him yourself" William replies.
"Good answer William" Odd smiles happily.
"Odd, you're getting on my nerves too! Either make up with my sister or shut up."
"Yeah, we've had enough" Yumi adds.
"If you guys are all finished, what do you say we take off? Supports away" Jeremy taps a button and the supports holding the ship move away.
"Vertical propulsion operational," Aelita presses the red button, the wings lifting up. The propellers turn upwards and fly the ship out of the hanger. "Ready to dive." The ship dives into the digital sea, the entrance to the network opening up. We're in the network Jeremy."
"Holo web system connected. Aelita, set course for bearing 170 and look out for a hub" Jeremy instructs her.
"Gotcha."
The engines turn on as the ship goes forward.
"I'll enter the coordinates of the sphere you guys saw during your last mission" Jeremy taps enter.
"Hub in sight" Aelita directs the ship towards a platform.
"Are you ready?"
"Roger," The ship stops in front of the hole and moves back to its original position. "Hyper fluid aspiration in three seconds." The ship teleports into the vortex.
Nicolas and Herb arrive inside the factory, seeing the rope. "This place is weird," Herb comments at their surroundings. "Let's get out of here, it gives me the creeps!"
"Don't worry, I'm here" Nicolas grabs a rope and slides down.
"Thanks, glad to hear it" Herb mutters under his breath as he takes the other one. Nicolas lands safely, looking up at his friend. Herb is hovering above the ground.
"What are you doing up there? Come down!" Nicolas urges him.
"I'm scared of heiiights! I get really dizzy when I'm high uuup!" Herb has his eyes squeezed shut.
"Don't worry, you're only 15 meters above the ground" Nicolas replies to him.
"Nicolas, would you shut up?!"
Nicolas silently rolls his eyes, gripping the rope. "Stay where you are, I'll come up and get you." He climbs up to herb.
"Oh no, this is horrible! I don't wanna die now! I never even got to tell Sissi that I'm crazy about her…"
The ship arrives in another area of the network, whooshing inside.
"Retro brake," Aelita declares as the ship comes to an abrupt stop and her turning the lights on. "Lights operational." The ship continues forward to the sphere they saw before. "Okay Jeremy, we're coming to the sphere now."
"Okay Aelita. Check the south pole for an entry portal, like on Lyoko" Jeremy informs her.
"I've got a visual on it" she nods a little as the ship approaches the entrance, but it won't open. "It's shut! What do I do now?"
"Why don't you knock?" Odd suddenly asks. "Maybe it'll open up for you!"
"Rotation." Aelita makes Odd's navskid shake on purpose.
"Hey!"
"Odd?" Yumi asks him.
"Yeah?"
"Shut up, okay?!"
Aelita presses her hand against the key. "Key activated."
A hole in front of the skid lights up, a beam of light connected to the symbol on the lock. Jeremy rubs his chin as something pops up.
"There's an access code to crack, it's gonna take a couple of minutes" Jeremy informs them.
"You can let go now" Nicolas says to Herb, who gets down safely.
"Remember what I said a minute ago about Sissi? Well, I didn't really say it" Herb stammers to him.
"Okay, I'll tell Sissi that you really didn't say you loved her" Nicolas says nonchalantly.
"You know what I mean. I mean, don't tell Sissi what I didn't say!"
"Mm," he turns to the button and Herb blocks his way.
"Hold on…this looks really ancient," he gestures to everything around them. "Think about it: what if the cable snaps or the floorboards give away under our feet or the rusty motor quits with us inside, and we're left here to rot with rats eating away our insides?!"
"Okay, okay, I get the idea," Nicolas steps in before Herb could continue panicking. "We'll look for a staircase. Hmm. You look over there" he points to the left. Herb just sighs at him, walking in the direction.
"Okay, I cracked the code" Jeremy smiles, pressing a button. The beam of light disappears into speckles.
"Way to go Jeremy!" Aelita compliments him.
"The symbol lowers and the door slowly opens. The skid flies inside and then the door closes after them. The skid rises out of the digital sea into a replica of the forest sector. Aelita exclaims the area, everyone else looking up.
"Unbelievable! You guys are on an exact copy of Lyoko, except there's only one sector: the forest!"
"Xana created another Lyoko on the network?" Aelita asks in surprise. "But why?"
"I have no idea," Jeremy leans back in his chair. "But you can bet it's not to save humanity! And knowing our friend Xana, I'm sure he's made lots of other copies exactly like this one."
"So, what do we do?" Aelita wonders curiously. "Check it out?"
"You bet! I want as much data as possible on this new virtual world!"
"Right. Energize" Aelita sends everyone out into the open. One by one, they appear in the replicated sector.
"All this for another forest territory? Well, I guess we're not out of the woods yet!" Odd jokes.
"If we don't want him freaking out or crying, I guess someone should laugh at his joke!" Aelita retorts back.
Herb and Nicolas are in the downstairs area. "Hey, I wonder what Aelita and Odd were doing here?" Nicolas wonders.
"Well, they're not here now, so let's go" Herb turns around, Nicolas holding up his hand.
"Hold on! Check out that light" Nicolas points in the distance…right at the computer lab.
"Okay, what you're gonna do now is work in groups of two. One group goes out exploring while the other watches the skid" Jeremy suggests to everyone.
"Right!" Odd holds up a finger. "I'll work with William! Or Yumi!"
"For once, he's got a good idea" Aelita answers back.
"I've had it with you two!" Yumi steps up to them. "William and I are out of here! Right now! We could use a vacation!"
"You two can fight and blow each other away, but we're done listening!" William declares.
"Here come your vehicles" Jeremy says as he materializes the Overwing and Overbike.
"Thanks Jeremy" Yumi responds.
"Hopefully when we return, your issues will be worked out" William says, speeding away.
Herb steps forward and kicks his foot against something. "Ouch!" Nicolas shushes him, but Jeremy hears them anyway. "Sorry" Herb whispers.
Jeremy steps up to the ladder. "False alarm, I guess…"
He fails to notice monsters heading for the skid.
Odd and Aelita are facing away from each other. Odd glances at Aelita and looks back, arms crossed. Aelita gives him a brief glance.
"Well anyway, you could have thought of a different excuse, you know" Odd says.
"And you could stop thinking about yourself for once!" Aelita answers back.
Suddenly Jeremy warns Odd. "Odd, megatank at 3 o clock!" Odd quickly gets onto his feet, dodging it just in time. The laser hits the skid instead. "Oh no!"
Odd glances up at the ship, seeing the megatank up ahead. "Aelita, watch out!" Odd shouts and she steps away. The second laser hits the skid again. She looks to Odd, silently grateful for the warning before they focus back to the monster.
"William, Yumi, Xana's attacking the skid! We need you back there now!"
"Got it Jeremy. We're on our way" Yumi nods and they turn back around to go back the way they came.
"Odd, Aelita, listen. The skid shield can't hold out for much longer. And without the skid, I can't guarantee you a return ticket to the scanners!"
The megatank opens up, hitting the ship once more. "Jeremy, can you generate more power to the shields?" Aelita wonders, as he's done it before.
"I think so, but I'll need time. To reinforce the skid, I have to reroute a chunk of energy from the supercomputer itself…"
Aelita uses her creativity to but some time. "Isn't taking energy from the supercomputer…kind of risky?"
"We have no choice. It's the only solution I can think of right now." Another megatank approaches as Odd gets behind the wall Aelita created.
"See, when you put your mind to it, you can come up with good ideas! Nice one Aelita" Odd gives her a thumbs up.
The two megatanks start to work to destroy the wall. Jeremy taps enter.
"We won't have enough power to launch a return to the past," despite that, Jeremy is smiling. "But because Xana hasn't attacked anything in the real world, it shouldn't be necessary!"
"What if it's not their voices we're hearing?" Herb whispers to Nicolas as they look at the lab in the distance.
"Well, whose voices do you think they are, then? Ghosts, werewolves, blood thirsty draculas?" Nicolas responds.
Herb crosses his arms, unamused. "I wouldn't laugh at things like that, especially not at nighttime!"
"That's ridiculous! Now let's climb. It's Odd and Aelita, and I wanna catch them red-handed!" Nicolas whispers to him. They start climbing up and Herb steps on Nicolas' hand. "Ow! What's wrong with you?!"
"Mm…" Jeremy looks to where the voice came from. He turns on the security cameras, panning it over to the side. "Huh?! Uh oh." He zooms in to see the boys.
"I'll bet they came here to do some industrial espionage!" Nicolas whispers.
"Odd and Aelita?" Herb answers skeptically. "Industrial spies? In an abandoned factory? What's wrong with you?"
"Well then, maybe they're into witchcraft!"
Jeremy closes his eyes. "I got a huge problem at the factory, Herb and Nicolas are on the verge of discovering the supercomputer, and it's impossible to launch a return to the past."
"Huh?! You can't let those nerds get near the supercomputer!" Odd replies angrily.
"Take care of them Jeremy. We can manage without you" Aelita tells him as the monsters continue attacking.
Jeremy emerges from the elevator, running down the hall. He sprints down the stairs and into the corridor. He opens the door and finally finds the two, who are still climbing.
"I'm not going any further than this, I'm stopping…" Herb says, terrified.
"You're stopping halfway up?" Nicolas stares at him in disbelief.
"You better believe it!" Herb responds as Jeremy drops a crowbar and it hits the floor. "You hear that? They're behind us now!"
"Then just head back down," Nicolas climbs down the ladder. Jeremy runs off, Nicolas turning around just in time to only see blond hair. "Odd, I saw you!" Nicolas chases after him. Herb just walks after them with an annoyed look on his face.
The megatanks continue attacking the walls…
And then Ulrich arrives not to soon after. He growls at the obstacle.
"Uh oh! If Ulrich lays a finger on the skid, we can kiss our hopes of freeing him goodbye!" Odd gestures to his possessed best friend.
"Well, we've barely had time to reinforce it" Aelita states as Ulrich pierces the wall with his sabers. Eventually the wall breaks and a megatank blast hits the ship, knocking it back a bit.
"Sorry good buddy, you came a little too late to wreck everything!" Odd says confidently as he jerks a thumb to the skid. Aelita holds out her hand to fire one of her energy fields. It goes past Ulrich and hits the megatank instead. It explodes and Ulrich super sprints at Odd. Odd is able to hit him with a laser arrow. He tries to fire again, but he's out. "Jeremy, reload me, okay? Oh bummer, I forgot he's not there."
He dodges Ulrich's double slash attack, and he continues toward Odd. The megatank fires its laser again, and Aelita blocks it with two energy fields in her hands. She slides across the ground and backs off before falling off.
Jeremy is hiding behind a wall, listening in. "You go that way, and I'll go this way," Nicolas orders and they walk off in the opposite directions. Both of them are smug that the two are in the area as they walk by. Nicolas is close to discovering Jeremy as he's about to look around the corner. A splash is heard, and he jumps towards it. "Ah ha! I got you!"
Herb lifts his head out of the water. "Help me, will you, you idiot?!"
Nicolas starts to pull him out when he looks over his shoulder to see Jeremy running away. He drops Herb as he looks.
Odd dodges swipes from Ulrich's sabers. Ulrich ten swipes his feet. Ulrich puts his saber to Odd's neck ready to devirtualize him. Aelita fires an orb to distract Ulrich, allowing Odd to escape.
"You want to sacrifice yourself for him? So be it" Ulrich says as he shoots smoke at Aelita knocking her down.
Odd goes behind Ulrich. "Hey! Don't think I'm done yet!" Ulrich prepares to devirtualize Odd, and odd fires an arrow. "Oh shoot, I forgot I'm out." Ulrich laughs at him.
"Odd!" Aelita shouts as she quickly pushes Odd out of the way and gets herself devirtualized. She sighs in the scanner.
"No!" Ulrich says in failure. He turns to Odd, ready to finish him. A fan flies in and hits his hand making him drop one of his sabers. He looks to see Yumi and William arriving. William jumps off the Overbike, which knock into the megatank, pushing it into the digital sea. He comes to a stop next to Odd.
"Back off Stern!" William says drawing his sword.
Jeremy pushes the elevator button. "Come on, move it!" He gets inside and closes it, the boys seeing it lower.
"Looks as if the elevator woks just fine" Nicolas gives Herb a look, crossing his arms.
Jeremy arrives back at the lab to see Aelita sitting in the chair. "Aelita, shut down the elevator!"
"On it" Aelita responds, typing the code.
Nicolas presses the button repeatedly, but it doesn't work for them." Well, no big deal. We'll just wait them out. They'll have to come back this way."
"Herb and Nicolas are here looking for you and Odd, and considering the tension between you two, they want to know what the deal is" Jeremy explains.
"Well, what are we gonna do?" Aelita asks.
"I don't know, but we gotta think of something…quick!"
"3 on 1 Ulrich, be pointless to fight back!" William declares. Ulrich decides to take his advice and give up by returning to the network.
"Guys, we got an emergency here. Herb and Nicolas are still here, and they got their eyes set on Odd and Aelita" Jeremy says.
Odd suddenly has an idea. "William, devirtualize me, I got an idea to help get the two off our backs."
"Hold on, Jeremy, who pilots the skid?" William asks.
"Yumi, you can do it. Don't worry, I'll guide you" Jeremy responds.
"Ok on three. One…two…three!" William strikes Odd and he devirtualizes and he appears in the scanner room, with Aelita waiting for him.
"So, what's your big idea?" Aelita asks.
"Well, what now?" Herb puts his hands into his pockets.
"Be patient, like when you're fishing" Nicolas has his hands behind his head. Herb sighs in frustration, pacing around.
"What?! After all this, you want me to do that?!" Aelita says in disbelief.
"Well yeah, unless you got a better idea" Odd responds.
"Well, we could kill two birds with one stone, if you know what I mean."
A noise stops Herb from pacing and Nicolas slides in front of the elevator with a big smile. The elevator goes upwards. "You'll see. The early work catches the bird, I mean, the fish."
The door opens…and they're both shocked to see Odd and Aelita kissing.
"Hey, you guys enjoying the show?" Odd asks casually.
They silently leave the factory, and Aelita and Odd both laugh.
"So that's why they were hiding in the factory…" Nicolas says.
"They like each other" Herb adds.
William and Yumi enter the lab, seeing the other two. "You look awfully serious," Yumi points out to Jeremy. "Did I scratch the paint on the skid or something?"
"I'm just worried about this Lyoko copy. If there's one out there, it…means there's also another supercomputer infected with Xana somewhere else on Earth. To destroy this new supercomputer, I'm gonna have to figure out some sort of way to materialize you into the real world from the copy!" Jeremy says.
"I'd really like to know what Xana is hiding in our world that he needs these replicas to hide it" William states.
"That time will come and hopefully we find the keys needed to save Ulrich" Yumi adds.
"Speaking of, how did you two deal with the two sets of eyes?"
"I'll tell you later bro!" Aelita says smiling.
"So now you've got eyewitness proof that Aelita's going out with Odd?" Sissi asks skeptically. "That's the dumbest story I ever heard since the one about Mr. Chardin's toupee!"
"No, I tell you, I saw them! It's not a story, it's true! In fact, look Sissi! Here they come!" Herb points to thew two right across from them.
"You dumbbell!" Odd says, acting like he did yesterday.
"Look who's talking, you selfish loser!" Aelita shouts at him and walks off.
Herb cringes towards Sissi, who smacks him right across the face and leaves. Nicolas snickers at him, the two watching near a tree.
"I guess that should put an end to any ridiculous gossip" Aelita says.
"Hopefully it does," Odd replies as he clears his throat. "Uh… Aelita, there's something I want to say."
"What is it Odd?"
"Just to make it official. I want to say that yesterday I know that I was acting like a bit of an idiot. It wasn't right of me to blame you for what happened to us yesterday especially since I told you to lie to Jim. What I'm trying to say Aelita is that I'm sorry for acting like such a big jerk yesterday. I was just being stupid."
"You know I realize now I was just as terrible. I was so mean and nasty to you. I even called you horrible names instead of trying to smooth the situation. You've always been there for me Odd, especially when I needed help with my father. I guess I've been a bit of a brat myself. So Odd, I'm really sorry for being so awful to you. Can you ever forgive me?"
"Do you forgive me princess?" Odd asks with a smile.
"Of course, I do" Aelita responds, also smiling.
"So…friends again?"
"Friends forever."
The two hug each other to show that all tension is gone.
"So, are you sure that little act of ours will get rid of any dumb gossip?"
"Of course, it will. Judging from the way Sissi slapped Herb, I doubt they'll bother saying anything to Milly and Tamiya."
"Well, I don't know. I don't think your heart was in it when you called me a selfish loser."
"What?! Now listen Odd-"
"Chill out. I'm just kidding. Wow, it doesn't take much to wind you up!"
Aelita punches his shoulder, and he runs off.
"I'm gonna get you!"
This whole time William was watching and was happy the group was whole once more instead of divided.
William arrived at his sister's room later and decided to ask what happened.
"So, what did you two to convince them?" William asked.
"We both decided to kill two birds with one stone. So, our first goal was to get rid of them, but also, we used it to make up, so we shared a quick kiss" Aelita responded.
"I don't think Jeremy didn't literally mean it." (from lunch)
"Well, it seemed to suit us, so there."
"So, what about this replica of Xana's?"
"Well, I believe Xana is using it to hide Ulrich on the net, but the real question is, what is he doing on Earth?"
"Hopefully Jeremy finds a way to get us into the real world soon. The longer we wait, the more time Xana has to prepare, and now he knows we're coming for him and Ulrich."
"He will do anything to keep Ulrich under his control. We better stay on our best."
William left Aelita's room but was still concerned about the possibilities Xana could do with these replicas.
A.N. – For starters, the apology was an idea submitted by the guest reviewer and so was Aelita being devirtualized first. How, was my idea. Anyone is welcome to submit ideas for future episodes, just make sure it won't change the central plot too much. I don't want it to span in a completely different direction. Remember, this is a retelling with some different events. The episodes I don't want ideas for are Yumi's duel with Ulrich in episode 76, William in episode 82, or ending for episode 93. I all have special plans for those episodes that I think you will all like. PM with story ideas if you have any! Don't forget to review with questions or comments! I will respond! Stay safe and healthy out there! As always, till next time! See ya! -lyokowarrior97