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Finally!
Chapter 8
The First Move
#revised version#
Jeremie sighed as he leaned back in his swivel chair. He had done what Aelita had asked; he did go to sleep. But he couldn't help it; he had to finish what he started.After maybe an hour or so of sleep, he got up again and went to his computer. Jeremie finished Aelita's weapon; now he just had to go to the lab and send it to her. It was just finishing downloading onto a CD. He had fallen asleep half-way through, but jolted awake when it made a small 'bing!' to signal that it was done. Now fully awake due to a rush of adrenaline, he excitedly opened the CD-rom drive and took it out. He put it in a case and was about to place it on his desk when he remembered what had happened the last time he had done that. (1)
Smiling, he put it in his backpack instead, along with his laptop. Whistling to himself, he decided to surprise Aelita with the weapon, instead of telling the Lyokian right now. Jeremie changed out of his pajamas before he walked out of his dorm room with his backpack, and then headed for Ulrich's dorm room.
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Rays of sunlight were shining through the large window, lighting up the small room. A little gray dog poked his head through a drawer in a brown dresser. His stomach told him that it was time to eat. He walked toward his master's bed, only to find it empty. Confused, he sniffed around, and then turned toward the other bed. His master's friend was there. The dog walked over there, and proceeded to lick his face.
"Hmm...uh...okay, okay, I'm up." Ulrich opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was Odd's dog, Kiwi, staring at him.
Ulrich sat up while rubbing one of his tired eyes. "Yeah, I guess you're hungry." 'I don't even think I fed Kiwi last night…oops.' He got up while Kiwi jumped down to the floor, and then opened one of the drawers on the dresser. He picked up a can of dog food, opened it and got out Kiwi's dog bowl. As soon as the contents of the can were in the bowl, Kiwi started to eat the food.
Ulrich was putting up the empty can when there was a knock at the door. 'Three guesses who that is.' "Come in."
The door opened and Jeremie walked in with his backpack, closing the door behind him. "Did you just wake up?"
"Yeah. I'd probably still be asleep if it wasn't for Kiwi."
A big smile appeared on Jeremie's face. "Well I've got great news!"
Ulrich looked up, wondering what it could be considering their current situation. "What is it?"
Jeremie beamed. "I finished Aelita's weapon!"
"What? Already?" Ulrich asked, surprised. Then he smiled. "No, let me guess, you stayed up all night finishing it, didn't you? Even though we told you not to?" Jeremie answered by scratching the back of his head sheepishly.
"Well, I was kind of excited."
Ulrich gave a half-hearted laugh. "There's no stopping you sometimes." He quickly changed, before putting on his shoes. "Well, what's done is done I guess. Want to go get a quick breakfast then? I'll ask Yumi to meet us at the cafeteria instead of your room, since it's still only 7:45."
Jeremie nodded. "That's fine with me."
"Okay." Ulrich got his cell phone from on top of his desk, and dialed Yumi's cell number, hoping that she was awake.
Meanwhile, in Lyoko...
Aelita frantically pulled up another blue screen from inside the tower, and tried to contact Jeremie. 'I have to let him know about this!'
"Jeremie! Jeremie!"
The calls went unanswered.
The pink-haired girl was starting to panic. 'He's not in his room, but he must have his laptop!'
(a/n: I don't know if Aelita knows what a laptop is, just play along...)
In the cafeteria...
Jeremie, Ulrich, and Yumi all sat at a table in the cafeteria, silently eating their breakfast. Of course, we can't take quiet times like this for granted...
"Well, hello Ulrich-dear. Why are you still sitting here with these losers?"
The lyoko gang looked up, only to find the person they least of all wanted to have a conversation with at the time. Or any time. Sissi, Herb and Nicholas were standing next to their table, with the two boys holding trays and the girl with her hands defiantly on her hips.
Ulrich glared at Sissi. "Sissi, you're right about one thing; I am in fact sitting. But unlike you, I'm sitting with friends, not losers."
A couple of seconds passed, and then Herb and Nicholas both looked furious. "Are you calling us losers!" Herb shouted.
"Why yes I am," Ulrich said with a smug look.
Herb looked ready to chunk his tray at Ulrich, but Sissi held an arm in front of him. "Wait a second, where's Odd?"
Yumi, Ulrich and Jeremie flinched. They were afraid someone would ask that question...
Jeremie regained his composure first, and looked at Sissi. "He's still in his dorm. Why would you want to know?" Yumi and Ulrich looked at Sissi, their eyes laughing.
Sissi looked beyond mad. "Don't you dare get the wrong idea!" Trying to retain some dignity, she turned around quickly, storming off to a lunch table faaarrrrrrr away. After sending a death glare at Ulrich, Yumi and Jeremie, her lackeys followed her.
Yumi grinned. "Great job you guys."
Ulrich and Jeremie each gave her a small smile, but then Jeremie noticed something. "Uh...guys, I think we should go outside for awhile."
His friends looked at him oddly, before Jeremie nodded toward his laptop.
It was flashing a red light.
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After hastily grabbing their trays and throwing away the leftovers, the three friends rushed outside and gathered under a huge tree away from the cafeteria.
Jeremie opened his backpack and got out his laptop. Opening it up, he turned it on and found him and his friends looking at a very worried Lyokian.
The pink-haired girl went straight to the point. "Jeremie! I found something else about the virus! XANA can control Odd! That's why he gave Odd so many arrows and life points!"
Everybody looked at the pink-haired girl in disbelief. "WHAT? HOW!"
"I'm not sure, but I think the virus' code said something about a word that XANA says and then he can say something, anything, and Odd will do it!"
Ulrich clenched his fists at the thought of what XANA would, and probably make his best friend do. "Damn it, we can't let XANA get away with this! We have to stop him and rescue Odd!"
Yumi got up to her feet. "Then we have to head to the factory right now! We're going to rescue Odd!" she said in determination.
Jeremie and Ulrich nodded, and while Ulrich got up, Jeremie said to Aelita, "We'll be there soon, okay?"
Aelita nodded before logging out.
The blonde-haired boy shut the laptop and put it back in his backpack. "Okay, let's hurry guys."
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Now, after a quick run through the forest and sewers, the three friends were in the factory, with Ulrich and Yumi in the scanner room, and Jeremie where the super computer is.
"Okay, are you two ready?" Jeremie asked through the intercom. A 'yes' was heard from below in the scanner room. "Okay."
"Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Yumi. Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Yumi. Virtualization!"
Ulrich and Yumi felt the familiar sensation of being virtualized, before falling to the cold ground of the ice region in Lyoko.
"We're here Jeremie. Which way is the tower?" Yumi asked.
"It's to your right! You should see it after you go that way for awhile. And I brought the program that has Aelita's weapon, so I'll send it to her while you go there!"
"Right!" Ulrich answered before running off to the right, Yumi right behind him.
Jeremie turned his attention to Aelita's weapon. He got the CD out of his backpack, and put it into the super computer. "Aelita?"
Aelita appeared on the screen. "Jeremie! Where are Ulrich and Yumi?"
"There on their way, and so is your weapon."
"What? Already?"
"Yes, and you should be getting it soon...now!"
Nothing happened for a moment, but then a bright white light appeared around Aelita's wrist. She gasped in surprise while the light slowly morphed into a bracelet-like shape, before leaving an actual bracelet in its place. Aelita looked at the simple form of her hidden weapon, examining it. It had oriental designs of red and gold on it, the color of the bracelet itself being a royal blue, and it fit loosely around her right wrist.
"It's beautiful Jeremie! And all I have to do is think of the bow and arrows, and it'll appear, right?"
Jeremie gave her a proud smile. "That's right!"
Suddenly, Ulrich's voice emitted from the super computer. "Jeremie, are there any monsters at the tower?"
Mentally punching himself for not checking earlier, Jeremie quickly looked at the holomap. His eyes widened at what he saw.
"Well Jeremie?" Yumi asked, worried by her friend's hesitation.
"I... ...don't think that they're monsters..."
"What? What do you mean?"
Jeremie was about to answer when he heard Aelita scream. "AELITA! WHAT HAPPENED!"
Aelita appeared on the screen once more. "Jeremie! Someone's attacking the tower!"
Jeremie checked the holomap again. There were the same two figures that he had seen just a few moments ago.
"What is it Jeremie? What's attacking the tower!" Ulrich asked in an urgent voice.
Jeremie took a hesitant breath before he answered. "It's not 'what'…but 'who.' It's XANA... ...and Odd."
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(1) This was in 'Code: Earth.' Jeremie put the CD that held the program for Aelita's materialization on his desk, where about six other CDs were, and when they went to the factory, he picked up Odd's 'Break-dance' CD instead of Aelita's program, which cause a bunch of trouble. XD
O.O Oh, I'm so mean, giving ya'll a cliffy yet again! But then that's why this story's in 'suspense.' If you didn't notice before, in these revised chapter's, Jeremie's name has been spelled the official way, since Chapter 1! It's 'Jeremie' instead of 'Jeremy!' Yay me! XD And, once again, I'll say that there'll be no vehicles, or new monsters...that would throw the story a bit off course, because this is mostly set in-between Season 1 and Season 2. -.- But I might do one with them...sooner or later...no guarantees...
Well, that concludes another revised chapter!
Ciao for now minna-san!
D.D.Z.