Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko

AN: I left a major clue to where Jeremie really came from, so see if you can figure it out.

Jeremie's plan would have to wait though. Jim had cut the power, and plunged the entire school into darkness. Sissi's high-pitched screen could be heard echoing down the corridor, as she probably just understood that without power, none of her electronic devices would work. An amusing image of her room being totaled from a short circuit came back from his distant past. That was shortly after we discovered Lyoko, it was one of our earliest missions. It was then that when he promised Aelita he would find a way to bring her to the real world.

"Aelita ... I wish you were here ..."

She was the only one that Jeremie trusted with his past. Over the corse of two weeks, the entire story was explained. He remembered the sense of lose when he left France and watched the city get smaller, and smaller. That was the first time they shut down Lyoko. Aelita was very nervous, but in the end, she did agree because there would be no one here to fight XANA, since Jeremie was being forced home. Similarly, he remembered the joy as he boarded the plane at JFK, and he knew that he would see her again soon.

A feeling of helplessness and exhaustion gripped him and his body wouldn't let him stay awake. Yawning deeply, Jeremie placed his glasses on his desk which he could just barely reach from his bed, and without bothering to get changed, promptly fell back and let his exhaustion carry him to sleep. However, instead of a dreamless sleep that Jeremie was hoping for, he found himself reliving the time where he stepped into the scanner and Aelita had to save him

"Aelita ,,,"

His dream-self started floating towards the pinked hair girl, moving under an unknown force. They had almost reached each other when everything had started shaking. Jeremie felt the gravity of the situation pull him down and he landed face down in what seamed to be ice. When he stood up, he was looking at what appeared to be the polar region of Lyoko. He couldn't tell for sure, because he had never been there, and the holo-map was just a wire-frame of the area.

"Wow, how did I get here ?"

Looking down at himself, he was wearing his normal cloths, complete with glasses, although he was now in the bright colors that the Lyokoian graphics are like. He could feel no cold, and there was no air to breath, which drove his mind a little crazy until he got used to it.

"So this is Lyoko ?"

A voice in the back of his mind answered his question.

"No, stupid, this is a recreation of Lyoko that your subconscious mind created."

"So that means I can control this reality by thinking ?"

"Well, duh, this is your head !"

"So then why can't I do it !"

"Your the smart one !"

Figuring that arguing with himself was not a good sign, he started to walking around this, taking in everything he saw.

"For a dream, this feels real ..."

Pushing his glasses up on his nose, he looked of a glacier, to see two deactivated towers loaning below. Letting out a long whistle, he watched a mega tank make its way across the ice, and attack a tower.

"Well, that was unexpected ..."

"AHHH !"

"Aelita !"

Doing something incredibly stupid, Jeremie jumped off the side of the glacier, and landed unharmed on the ground and ran in the direction of the tank. He found it, with Aelita pinned against the ice as the tank powered up, unable to avoid the blast. Feeling reckless, he called out.

"Hey, pick on someone your own size !"

The tank wheeled around and turned to face Jeremie.

"Uh ..... damn it, I don't have a weapon !"

As if by magic, something heavy attached itself to his belt. Jeremie detached it, held it in his hands, took aim, and fired. The object turned out to be a heavy rifle, and in a single hit, destroyed the tank.

"Wow, I never knew I was a sharpshooter !"

Jeremie found that the rifle folded, and he clipped it back onto his belt, letting hang down the side of him.

"Aelita, are you ok ?"

"Yes, Jeremie, thanks to you"

She smiled, and kissed him, leaving him totally shocked, and turned a shade of pink that rivaled Aelita's hair. However, Jeremie felt his hair getting ruffled, sand something wet licking his face, as well as a horrible smell.

"Ugh ..."

Jeremie's eye slid back into focus as best they could without glasses. However, he wished they hadn't.

"AHHH !"

Kiwi jumped to the floor as Jeremie sprang straight up. The beaming faces of Odd and Ulrich looked down at him.

"Good boy, Kiwi"

Odd started petting his dog who laded back and became quiet content. Jeremie wished his dream hadn't ended so soon. Jeremie reached his hand out and felt for his glasses, and put them on when he found them. The dark room slid into focus, and, Jeremie could now clearly see his friends. The sky was still dark and it was raining and thundering, but nowhere as bad as it was before. The memory of what had happened last night flashed by in fast forward in his mind, but instead of feeling sad, he felt full of determination.

"Odd filled me in on what happened last night, any idea on what Lyoko is like now ?"

"None, all my attempts to get in contact with the super calculator failed, I don't know the status of anything in the factory."

"Oh ... well, we did look outside, it's not pretty. The pylon on the power tower totally melted and it shorted out every circuit breaker, and electrical device that was still connected. There are down power lines everywhere, they are expecting 2-3 days at the earliest before we get even emergency power from the generators !"

The extent of the dangers brought up a sting of worried which Jeremie pushed down into his mind, trying to ignore the facts.

"What time is it ?"

Odd glanced at his watch.

"9:30, good thing it is the weekend, or else we'd all be really late for school"

"When did you care about being late for school ?"

"I was just commenting, Ulrich"

Odd got up and headed for the door, and Ulrick followed.

"We'll leave you to get ready, just watch out, there's no hot water".

A high pitched scream break the silence. Jeremie felt his eardrums go deaf, and he could have sworn that his glasses were about to shatter from the pitch.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !, COLD !!!!!!!!!!!!"

Odd and Ulrich started cracking up, trying not to fall over.

"Nothing .... haha ... like ... haha ... Sissi to prove ... haha ... a point"

As the two left his room, Jeremie eyed something he didn't notice before. He had three fully charged battery packs for his laptop, not counting the pack in it, which mean he had over 12 hours of battery time before he would have to shutdown.

"If I hurry, I won't even need the last pack"

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AN: Another chapter down -phew-