Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko

A/N: Thank you everyone for their kind reviews. Anyway, I am going to go and rewrite the second and possibly the first to correct the grammar and tense problems since I tend to write late at night when I'm tired so I make a lot of mistakes. Now without anything else gumming up the pipes, chapter three !

Jeremie looked at the screen with disbelief, just wanting to reject this message and believe that none of that just happened. However "Connection Terminated" glowed brightly on the screen and the the attempt to reconnect had failed.

"No, no .... that .... just didn't happen, No !"

Jeremie banged his hand hard on the desk, sending his normally highly organized CD stack toppling.

"No, no, that didn't happen"

Attempting to reject the truth that burned deeply in the back of his mind, he instantly started every check and test he knew about remote debugging.

"Got to check the trace-route, see where the connection was lost".

Yumi and Odd watched in fear, since they had never seen Jeremie get violent in any way before and it was visible that a growing rage was building up inside. Fear held them in place with a fixed gaze on their faces.

"The connection drops out ... here, so where does that system's power come from"

Jeremie had told them that on one day he had scanned and dissected the campus network, finding every computer, every database, every secret. Thats how they found XANA, Aelita, and Lyoko.

"Power systems are damaged here, and here, but did the damage travel to Lyoko ?"

These questions, questions that only he could answer just showed how determined he was. Although Jeremie never spoke of his past, and the gang never pressed him on what happened, they knew that something traumatic happened to him at a very young age. He was taken from his parents and raised in a foster home in America for nine years. Jeremie once said that he grew up in New York, but then later denied it, not wanting to give anything away of his past. Even as friends, Jeremie always had a certain "distance" from everyone. He didn't make friends easily, and it was the longest time before he truly trusted Odd, Yumi, or even Ulrick. What they did know about his past was scarped together from various bits and pieces that Jeremie let slip over time. They also knew that once he lost his parents, he sunk into computer, closing himself of from reality and discovered a new virtual world called the Internet. Although everyone had noticed a great change in Jeremie since after the discovery of Aelita, no one ever dared mention it incase he slip back to the way he was before.

"All contact with the factory seems to been cut, but is that because the lines are down or that the super calculator been damaged ?"

At last, Yumi did something.

"Jeremie, cool down, until this storm blows over and we can get out their and inspect the damage ourselves, their isn't much we could do."

For a moment, Jeremie looked ready to hit Yumi, but he regained his composure. In a hallow, dead sounding voice, Jeremie solemnly answered.

"Yeah, I guess you are right. If you guys don't mind, I would like to be alone, and someone needs to tell Ulrick"

Odd found that he had regained the ability to move again, and unfroze his feet from the floor.

"I'll ... I'll see you later Jeremie then"

Both Yumi and Odd left quietly without saying anything else and close the door behind him. The sound of thunder reminds Jeremie of the danger that was happening out their. With the odd feeling that he felt like he was giving up, he shutdown his computers, turned off the monitors, and physically removed the plug from the wall. Without the light of the computers anymore, Jeremie's room was plunged into darkness, only illuminated from the crack under his door and the lighting flashes from the window. A feeling of being totally drained came over him and he sat down on his bed, and just listened to the sound of the storm, and strained to hear or see some indication that Aelita was well and fine within Lyoko. It wasn't until Jim's voice broken him out of his trance.

"Now everyone listen up. We are going to cut the power to this building, just to make sure that none of the equipment gets damaged incase of a power surge. Shut down your electronics and come here to get a flashlight."

A shuffle of footsteps and voices echo though Jeremie's door, but it now seemed that nothing mattered, nothing expect getting to Lyoko and repairing the damge.

"If only I was a little faster ... Aelita .... I hope you are ok, please, if there is a God, let her be ok".

Jeremie reached in his desk and pulled out a small flashlight, and checked to make sure it was working. He took a quick look around his room for anything he forgot to shut off, and slowly got up from his desk and made his way to his bed and sat down on the bed, still clearly disturbed over what just happened. Aelita has put her trust, and her life in his hands, and he failed. Angry, and rage started to swell up within him, hatred of XANA pulsed through him. He was angry at himself for not shutting down Lyoko in time, and he was grieving because if that lighting did hit the super calculator, it was likely it was totaled. A single tear ran down his cheek, and fell into his hand. Reaching into his pocket, he removed his wallet, and opened it. Jeremie removed the one picture of him and Aelita that had survived the return trip. They were both so happy, despite the virus, as they were together for the first time ever. Jeremie savored the favor of the memory, until another rumble of thunder snapped him out of his dream.

"What am I doing ... just sitting here, feeling sorry for myself ?"

Deep within the recesses of his mind, images and diagrams came up. Complicated circuit paths drew themselves out, and components of the super calculator surfaced and snapped into place. As if every minor detail that he ever noticed, every little thing he though he forget, came rushing back in a surge of memories.

"Even if the super calculator was hit, the odds of a total data elimation are insanely high. And if the data wasn't erased then .... it could be recovered, but how ? X.A.N.A data storage systems were complex and proprietary. Even when he copied the system software from the calcuator to his laptop, he wasn't able to access the databanks directly. However, there was one way to get the access he needed ...

"That's it, although to do it, I need to do loads of programming. Damn it, I should have thought of that in the first place, I just pray that it hasn't been erased."

The details of Jeremie's plan formed in his mind. Functions, APIs, compilers, each element in creating software started arranging itself. He would be able to do it, he would be able to travel to Lyoko.

AN: Wow, took me long enough to write this, hope you enjoy it. I'll try and have Chapter 4. I've left you on cliffhanger, whtat is Jeremie planning to write, and why does he need to travel to Lyoko. And what happened in his past.. Oh, boy, I can be evil ;. BTW, if anyone notices any grammer errors, or something like that, please don't hesiate to tell me about it so it can be corrected.