(sees how long it's been) Wow! Has it been that long? OK, I think you guys suffered the mothercliffie long enough. So, here comes the solution to the conflict created in Chapter 5. We're coming close to the end, folks.
OddLuvr4251 - Glad you liked it.
Janika - Sorry. Mail me the hospital bill for the heart attack.
Flying Star - What kind of sandwich would you like? Poor Jeremie, indeed!
Anyway, I'm publishing this with the help of our high school art teacher, and I have two reader comments from you loyal fans.
"You really have a way with words. I like your style. It's short, descriptive, and definitely addictive!" – Janika, a member of
"I really am loving this a lot, a nice splice of Garage Kids and Code Lyoko. I like how they weren't sure what would happen when they lost their life points, and I liked the conversation between Aelita and Jeremie." – Flying Star, another member of
Anyway, here's chapter 6.
Garage Kids 2:
Aelita and the Code of Lyoko
The end of a beginning...
Chapter 6
It was getting late in the evening. Jeremie hadn't spoken or smiled since the news story that aired several hours ago. He just sat in his room, lying on his bed. At this point, all the equipment had been moved from the factory, and it lost all of the attention it had received, after the discovery.
Ulrich and Odd passed by his room, thinking about what had happened and how their friend felt about it. They couldn't't help but feel depressed for him.
"Boy, Jeremie looked awful, after we found out," sighed Odd.
Ulrich nodded, grimly, and said, "I hope he gets over it, soon."
Jeremie slumped from his bed and got onto his computer. He figured a little work might get his mind off the loss.
Let's see… science. The desert is easy to understand. Mountains trap the moisture in the air, before it blows into the area. Another fascinating thing about deserts are many the different regions of the desert…
Jeremie stopped. Not only did it mention 'region', but it also said "mountain" and "desert".
Math. If "y" equals 18, then 24y (6) 2,592.
Those were the coordinates Odd and Yumi entered Lyoko by.
He sighed. No matter what he did, the outcome would remind him of the computer… of Lyoko… of Aelita. Would he never see her again?
There was a small blip, signaling the appearance of a new e-mail. He opened it and saw the words, "If you want to do anything you can, in your power, to help Lyoko, download this."
Jeremie raised his eyebrows in curiosity. It couldn't have been a trick, from some virus-making computer geek, because Lyoko was a secret. He double-clicked the file name and a duologue box came up.
What do you want to do with this file?
O Download it
O Open it from its current location
OK Cancel
He selected the download option and clicked OK. The words "Downloading Lyoko Surveillance Program" appeared on the screen and a progress bar crawled across, below.
Soon, the different Lyoko monitoring windows popped up on his screen: the 3D grid map, the region selector, and etcetera. Lyoko still exists, he thought happily. But where's…
A familiar face appeared on the screen. "Miss me?"
"Only a lot!" he cried, through joyous laughter.
Two boarding school roommates, and former Lyokian warriors, woke up around 10:30. It was a Saturday, meaning no school. As they dressed, Odd brought up the subject of Jeremie.
"Think he's over the loss of Lyoko, by now?" he asked.
Their conversation was cut short by rapid knocking at their door. Ulrich answered it, and there was Jeremie, grinning from ear to ear. "Guys, come quick!" he said. "There's something you've got to see!"
As the boys ran across the forest, they saw Yumi coming their way.
"Hi, guys!" she said. "Nice to hear you're over what happened yesterday, Jeremie. What was it that you wanted to show me?"
Jeremie slipped the cover off the manhole.
"Wait a minute," said Ulrich. "This isn't at the factory is it? I mean, with the computer gone, there's nothing left there to see.
"Or, is there?" There was something mysterious about the way Jeremie said that.
Jeremie ran through the factory doors, which had been left open after the Lyoko technology was taken out. His friends followed close behind. Instead of making the usual right, to go over to the side where the equipment was, Jeremie grabbed a rope that trailed down to the lower level, which used to be accessed by a stairway that, apparently, had been knocked down, over the years.
"Well, come on!" Jeremie called up to his friends.
They glanced at each other, unsure, then swung from the ropes down to their friend. When the came down, Jeremie walked a little to the right, then turned to face the general direction they came from. He was now facing a large box with a metal front. It had "CAUTION" tape all over it.
When Jeremie started tearing the tape off, Ulrich raised an eyebrow and said, "Uh, Jeremie, I think it says 'caution' for a reason."
Had Jeremie lost it? It seemed so. He sneered. "Oh, that's what they want you to think."
When all the tape was removed, a red button was revealed on the framework around the box. Jeremie pressed it, and the metal side slid up, revealing it to be the gate to what, now, appeared to be an old maintenance elevator.
"Jeremie, who knows how old this elevator is?" said Yumi. "What if it breaks on us?"
"Oh, don't worry," said Jeremie, as he stepped in. "It won't."
Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd glanced nervously at one another, and then stepped in, after him. When everyone was inside, Jeremie reached over to a set of two, red buttons and pressed the bottom one. The gate lowered to a close. Then, after a pause, the elevator jerked, then started downward.
The three kids gave a yelp of surprise as this happened, but Jeremie just stood still and silent.
Jeremie was keeping something secret from them, and Odd had about enough. He looked him in the eye and said, "OK, Einstein. I'll bite. Where are you taking us and how did you find out about all this?"
Jeremie let loose a broad smile. "Let's just say, I made contact with an old friend, last night," he said. "Someone we thought we lost forever."
The elevator stopped.
"Who?" Yumi asked.
The gate opened, but something was behind it that only Odd noticed.
"Uh, guys?" he said.
"Aelita," Jeremie answered Yumi's question.
"Guys?"
"But, that's impossible!" cried Ulrich. "They took the computer away!"
"GUYS!" Now, Odd had gotten their attention. "Any idea how to get through that?" He pointed to the vault-like door. Jeremie stepped aside and motioned to a number keypad. "You going to crack it, Einstein?"
"Nope," he said. "Aelita already told me the combination." He started punching in numbers.
Red-and-white striped beams, at the top and bottom of the door, slid aside. A metal clap, which held one half of the door to the other, loosened and the door halves slid apart.
Odd shook his head, paying no attention to the opening door… but Ulrich and Yumi, who had noticed, stood gaping at what was in the room behind it. "Come on, Jer," he said. "It's like Ulrich said. The computer is long gone."
Ulrich tapped him on the shoulder and pointed through the opening of the elevator.
"No, Odd," said Jeremie. "It's far from gone."
All four kids were now looking into a strange underground lab. In the center was a computerized orb. Around the orb was the trail for a swivel chair that could be dragged an entire 360 degrees around it. And, above the chair trail hung the trail for a large, tall machine. At the bottom of that machine was a four-flat-screen monitor/keyboard set.
"Guys," he announced proudly. "I present to you the real Super Calculator!"
Well, they found it. Lyoko isn't lost to them after all.
Still, that last chapter was the MOTHER OF ALL CLIFFHANGERS! MWAHAHAHA!!!
625: (rolls his eyes)
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