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Sorry that this took so long but blame my college god 50 page essays take a long time to write! Well here is chapter 3 and a big thanks to all of you people that have been reading my story!
XANA's final solution
"AELITA!" Shouted Jeremie a very real panic filled his voice as he tried to regain control of the super computer. He pulled out his mobile phone and called Odd.
"Ulrich I need you Odd and Yumi here now!" he shouted down the phone.
"Whoa Einstein what's wrong? Calm down" Odd said trying to calm him down.
"Its Aelita something is very wrong on lyoko get here now" Jeremie said terminating his call to Odd. Then he heard a sound that gave him hope, the sound of a scanner door opening. He ran down to the elevator a last thought of hope in his head 'please be alright Aelita please' he thought as he pressed the button to go to the scanner level. It seemed to take forever for the elevator to get to the scanner level; he waited uneasily as the smoke to clear.
"…Aelita" Jeremie said fearful of what he might find there with him
When the smoke ad fully cleared what he saw worried him even more he saw Aelita…except she was just lying there. So still…lifeless, "Aelita" he shouted as he went to her lying there he felt for a pulse. His heart lifted when he found one he was both relieved to find she was only unconscious. At this moment he heard the sounds of people moving upstairs, he realised that his friends were there he picked Aelita up and carried her to the elevator and up to his friends. 'What have I done…' was the only thought that went through his head when he was moving up to his friends. When he emerged for the elevator with Aelita he was on the verge of tears.
"Oh my god what happened Jeremie?" Yumi questioned a strong hint of concern in her voice
Jeremie felt these worse were the last thing he could take he fell to his knees with Aelita and bust in to tears "Its all my fault I'm so sorry…" was the only thing he could find himself to say over the immense sense of guilt that was building up inside of him.
Yumi kneeled down by his side and tried to comfort a now hysterical Jeremie sobbing over Aelitas unconscious body in front of him "Listen Jeremie what ever happened I'm sure it wasn't your fault but we have a more important task than trying to work out what happened" Yumi started in a careful voice she didn't want to make Jeremie more upset than he was "we need to help Aelita so you need to tell us what happened"
"…ok" Jeremie said as he got himself into a composure that he felt he could speak to his friends with. He managed to get out most of what had happened as he tried to stop himself busting into tears.
"Well what does this virus do?" Ulrich asked Jeremie a little after he had finished speaking.
"…I don't know…" Jeremie said his voice was as quiet as a whisper.
"Hey can we use the scanners to find out what's wrong it?" Odd asked
"Of course yes we can" Jeremie said perking up immediately as he scooped Aelita up again and hurried back down to the scanners. "I'll make it alright again I promise" he said to her as he put her body into the scanner. He then ran back to the lift, up to the computer level; and on to the supercomputer. He ran some tests on her current condition the other could see his new found happiness deteriorate quickly as he read the words on the screen.
"Is it bad?" Ulrich asked.
"She's…" Jeremie started "she's dieing" he said quickly returning to his very upset state from earlier. This caused the room occupants to gasp.
"Is there anything we can do?" Yumi asked
"I…I…Don't…Know" Jeremie just managed to say
Then much to the surprise of everyone Odd got up from where he was sitting and slapped Jeremie across the face causing him to fall to the ground. "There's nothing you can do just moping about it here now is there Jeremie" Odd said with what sounded like anger in his voice. "We need to find out what this is and beat it. If you don't Aelita will die and none of us want that to happen?"
"Odds right" Yumi agreed "we need to work out a way to beat this"
With out saying anything Jeremie sat back down at the super calculator and began to type "Please take Aelita back to the dorms" he said quietly "she will need to rest" he finished before working again ominously at the super calculator. The others left quietly with Aelita.
They managed to avoid most people (it was Saturday so the school was almost deserted) they then proceeded to Aelitas dorm room and layed her on the bed
"There's got to be something we can do" ulrich said breaking a long silence "we can't just sit here looking sorry for her"
"I know….. But what can we do?" said Yumi
Back at the factory
'How could I have been so stupid?' Jeremie thought to himself 'why did I let her go?' just at that time another red exclamation mark crossed his screen 'Why isn't this working!' he typed another series of code into the super calculator. This was soon followed now by the now famous red exclamation mark showing that it had not worked.
"This isn't going to work is it…." Jeremie muttered to himself
He slumped down into his chair and took a big sigh and just layed there. He couldn't help blaming himself for this whole thing 'If only I had just examined it, if only I had listened to her….'. He got up and started to pace the room 'I need to finish do this if I don't……' he stopped frozen on the spot not wanting to think about what failure meant for her.
'Aelita….' He thought still frozen on the spot. She was now the only thing he could concentrate on 'I'll go see her… I have to see her' he thought to himself and with this he ran out of the factory in the direction of the school.
A few moments after he left the factory the supercomputer fired up by itself. The screen brightly illuminated the now empty super calculator room; on its screen the computer was searching all the program files till it found the one it wanted. The screen changed into a now rather familiar red eye-like symbol. Suddenly, one of the scanners sprung in to life and the bottom level of the scanner room was flooded with smoke; the only thing visible was a few blue semi-transparent tentacles edging there way out of the scanner….