Chapter 3

Coming Home

"I don't know why, but this Adain girl, she reminds me of Jeremy." Ulrich was confused. How did she know so much about the supercomputer? Her story about being from the future was absolutely whacked! HOW COULD SOMEONE BE NEGITIVE SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE YEARS OLD?!? Plus she also said she was 14. That would mean she was NEGITIVE SEVEN THOUSAND NINTEEN YEARS OLD! HAH!

Wait! Why am I thinking these thoughts? She said she could help us bring Jeremy back from Michigan, but how? If she can help him than she deserves to be trusted, but why don't I trust her? Ulrich, so wrapped up in his thoughts, did not notice the little disturbance in the back of his mind, listening to every word.

Adain didn't like doing things like this. It scared her to even think about someone listening to her thoughts. But sometimes it was necessary to understand what to do next. She realized that she had to earn Ulrich's trust before he figured everything out. That kind of information could be fatal to any and all humans and halfhumans and parthumans in any time. Adain, herself, was half Fae, and quarter pixie (meaning she could grow and/or shrink pixie, and do magic and fly faerie) and quarter mortal meaning she was not even safe from what mortals could do with that knowledge. The knowledge of the fact that XANA was controlled by a human from this era.

Aelita lay on the higher platform in a deactivated tower somewhere in the desert, waving her feet in the 'air' around her. She was learning so much about Earth. There was actually a country called turkey, which she understood from Odd was a kind of bird that you ate. She giggled at the irony of all of Earth's aspects.

Wait! What was that?!?

"Jeremy! Something's wrong!" No answer. "Jeremy? Are you there?" She tried to contact him through his laptop.

Jeremy was surfing the web, trying not to be bored to death, when Aelita's face appeared on the monitor.

"Aelita! I've missed you so" his voice trailed off after noticing the concerned look on Aelita's face.

"Jeremy, something's wrong. Terribly so. Someone is on Lyoko and I can't identify if it's Odd, Ulrich, or Yumi. It might just be Adain, but I sense evil purposes."

"Wait! Rewind and stop. Who the hell is Adain?"

"She's the new girl. From the future. She's very sweet but she can get violent when angered."

"And how, pray tell, does she know about Lyoko?" Mr. Clueless is in the building. Confusion is what you get from blocking all contact from the real world when you're wallowing in sorrow.

"She came to help us fix it." Jeremy rolled his eyes at Aelita's cheeriness.

"Every minute we spend getting reacquainted is a minute we loose trying to find that what-ever-it-is that's on Lyoko. I'll launch a scan for any activated towers and call the guys, you go have a look around."

Punching in Yumi and Odd's phone numbers, he listened to the dial tone while entering the data for the search into his laptop (Aelita rigged it so this would work). Yumi picked up first.

"Yumi, it's Jeremy."

You could hear Yumi yelling at Odd and Ulrich and that Adain girl that Jeremy was on the phone. "So what's up?"

"Something's wrong on Lyoko. Aelita doesn't know what it is, but she's looking for the tower right now. Go to the Factory. I'll try to virtualize you from here, but it may be a bumpy ride."

"I can do it." A female voice piped up in the background.

"Adain says she'll virtualize us than wait for you to come back to virtualize her."

"She can use the supercomputer?"

"She's quite a wiz with technology. I'm sure she won't break anything." Jeremy heard snickers as Yumi made sounds of slight pain. Adain had punched her in the shoulder.

"I'll be right there." Jeremy shut down his laptop, opened the door of the fast-moving car, and jumped onto the side of the freeway, taking only his laptop and his house key.