Sorry it took so long to update... being banned from the computer doesn't help any. Please enjoy...
(Odd P.O.V.)
"Well, since you're the only one left, care to explain?" Avery looks at me expectantly. Unfortunately, my I'm-trying-to-eat-please-don't-talk-to-me-right-now act wasn't working.
"Uh…uh…um…" I stutter, racking my brain for anything that could help, like a distraction or something. Anything! "Hey, what classes do you have for tomorrow?" Even an idiot like me can tell I just tried to change the subject.
"Not going to work Odd. You changed the subject. Anyway, I don't have classes until next Monday, there was a problem during my record transfers."
"Oh really? I wonder what happened… maybe Sissi had something to do with it."
"Stop trying to change the subject. Who is XANA?"
Shit. I'm so stupid! I've kept this secret for more than a year, and now I just blew it to some girl I barely know? Nice going Odd!
"Um… oh shit. I'm not going to get out of this easily am I?" I say squirming in my seat. Avery seemed to notice my discomfort.
"Not really. Is this some really big secret? Is everyone else in on this?" She says gently.
She's trying to sweet talk me into telling!
"Yes, everyone else knows. Well actually, not everyone. Just Jeremie, Ulrich, Aelita, Yumi and me."
"Aha! I knew it! You are hiding a secret!" Said a high-pitched, squealing voice in my ear. I turn around to find Sissi smirking at me. "Come on Della-Robbia, tell me what it is."
"Now why would I do that?"
"You seemed ready to tell your new friend here. Who is this anyway?" She looks at Avery. "Wait a minute… you're that new girl! The one who declined the chance of a lifetime! What are you doing here? Come to try and beg to get in my dear Ulrich's gang?" Avery looks stunned.
"N-no. I just kinda…" She says with her head down.
"Cause your wasting your time. I've been trying for over a year to get accepted, and they decided that I was to good for them. So you have no chance!"
"I think that just for that Sissi, we will accept her. Thanks for giving me the idea." I say and stand up. I walk over to Avery's chair and offer my hand. She shakes it gingerly.
"Who gave you the power to decide scrawny? It's Ulrich's group, not yours."
"Ulrich accepts my decisions just as much as I accept his. I official declare Avery Hathawaye to be a part of our group as long as she stays here." I nod my head indicating for her to walk with me. "And just so you know, I'm not scrawny!" Avery stands up and we walk out of the cafeteria.
"…I'm svelte." I say as we walk outside. Avery laughs as soon as we exit.
"Thanks Odd, I owe you one." She says.
"Don't worry. Us 'losers' have to stick together against Sissi. She can be a real pain in the-."
"Still, it was really nice. Thank you." I find myself blushing and looking away.
At least she stopped asking about XANA.
"So Odd, there obviously is a secret if Sissi wants to know… does it have to do with this XANA person?"
Damn.
"Um… sorta."
"Sorta? Either yes or no."
"Okay, XANA has everything to do with it. Can you please not ask about it? I don't want to say anything without the approval of my friends…"
"Um… okay. I guess you have the right to your secret. Can you ask them as soon as you get the chance?"
"I certainly will. You said your school record were having problems during transfer. Does that mean you aren't from this country?"
"Yah, I moved here from a French-speaking community in the United States."
"Oh that's cool. Do you know what classes you have?"
"No. I'm technically not even a registered student at this school yet."
"So when do you start classes?"
"Monday."
"But that's like a week from now! No fair, you get to skip school for the whole week? I wish I was that lucky."
"I'm not lucky, I get to sit around all day for a week and do nothing. Not my idea of lucky."
"Well, still, no school for you."
"Yah, I guess that's pretty good."
"So what do you want to do now? We still have about 2-and-a-half hours before curfew."
"I don't know. But I'm tired. I haven't gotten an adequate amount of sleep for a couple of days…"
"Say no more, I understand. If there's anyone who appreciates getting more sleep around here it's me. I'll take you to your dorm."
"No, it's okay. I can seriously go without sleep. I'll have plenty of time tomorrow-."
"Oh, no little missy. You march off to your dorm room right now." I say in a Texan accent.
"But-."
"And I don wanna hear no buts neither! Do I need to bring out the cattle prod?" I say jokingly, still with a Texan accent.
"Thank you Farmer Brown. And how dare you threaten me with a cattle prod!"
"Okay fine, I withdraw the threat. But you should still go to bed, it's probably been a long day." I start leading her to the dorms.
"Okay, if you are (yawn) sure. If I wasn't so tired, I would be resisting right now…"
"I understand. Seriously, I have some things to do anyway."
"Okay. Goodnight Odd, I'll see you in the morning."
(Avery P.O.V.)
"…I'll see you in the morning." I say to Odd and open my door.
"Just so you know, the showers are down the hall. Breakfast is at seven, and I'll see you there. Goodnight, my lady." He gives me a graceful, possibly over-exaggerated bow, and leaves.
"Okay. Goodnight." I walk inside and shut the door. The bed looks so comfy right now, but I can't. I have things I need to take care of first. I take my laptop out of my bag, I'm glad I have this. This laptop is my pride and joy; I take care of it with the utmost care. The last virus that tried to get into it was annihilated in a matter of hours; I even traced it back to the source and destroyed it. I check for e-mails from my friends who are back in the states. None. I perform the scheduled maintenance on it, virus checks and so forth. While that's going, I decide to open my music player. I get kinda depressed when I can't listen to my music after a while. I play a song and listen contentedly. I lay down on my bed so I can be more comfortable. Big mistake. Before I knew it, my eyes were closing and I was asleep.
I woke up to my laptop beeping loudly at me. I look at the time; it's a little past midnight. I look at the alarm; it looks like a virus trying to penetrate into my computer. And it's giving it a really good try; it's managed to get past eight of my eleven personal firewalls.
Wow. This must be really good. The government couldn't even get past two.
I quickly set up two more backup firewalls and begin my search and destroy mission. As I search, I become more and more amazed. It seems that this virus managed to hack into my computer in the first place by generating an extremely large wireless network area. I trace it back to the source, and get the coordinates. I pull up a map of the area and find that it's coming from an old abandoned building by the river.
How weird. Why would a virus come from an old factory?
I quickly hack into the city's power mainframe and discover something odd. There's very low amounts of power going into the factory, not enough for a computer that is powerful enough to create a virus of this magnitude. I decide that I have to do this the hard way. Usually I can just shut off all power to the building. The computer that created the virus will shut down, ending my problem. This wasn't going to be so easy. I follow the signal back to its source, the antennae of the school. From there, I can tell that the virus followed a long line of electric cables back to the old factory. I follow the same lines and come up to a large computer mainframe. It's definitely the largest I have ever seen, even bigger than some supercomputers I've seen.
This must be one massive computer… but it requires no power! How is that possible? It must have it's own power source.
I search through the computer; it doesn't have much empty space on it. From what I can tell, there are two cells, one is huge, and it takes up most of the space. The other one is big, but not as big as the other is. Both are protected, there is no way to hack into them. A transfer program occupies the rest of the space. It seems to just take information from one location, marked Scanners, and transfer it into another location, marked Lyoko. Both are encrypted so I cannot access them. The program looks like it's not in a cell so it can be accessed quickly, but it's still password protected. I could hack into these, but it would take all night, and I'm still tired. The virus comes from the larger cell, so I put up a massive firewall to prevent it from going anywhere. It might get around it, but it will take it a couple of days. I can find a better solution then. I put my laptop back on the table and lie back down. It's nearly one; I just wasted an hour of sleepy time. I promptly fall asleep, dreaming of Odd…
Merry Christmas to all! If anybody has any ideas for this story, please give them to me! I don't have many left, and they are going to run out soon! R&R please! I'm not going to post the next chappy until i get a couple more!
(Just as a side note, i used my personal inferences about the supercalculater and what happens with it. This may not be true, if it isn't please don't rag on me about it.)