Chapter 13: Dark day

Jeremy worked on the virus once again with the bright sunlight flowing through the cracks of the blinds. That was until he heard a knock on his door. "Jeremy, I need to talk to you," Aelita asked a little above a whisper.

"A-a sure, come in," he answered while his eyes never left the screen.

She used her extra card to open the door and walked in holding an envelope in her right hand. "What are you doing, Jeremy?"

"Well I have been working on the Virus once again, it was activated yesterday and I am close to finding out how and where."

"That's good to know," she then looked at the envelope. "I loved the time we spent together yesterday."

"I did too, after the tournament tomorrow I will take you out again but right now I have a lot of work to catch up on," he replied, never looking away from the screen.

"I just had a question to ask you. Did you have any, help, with our time together?"

He stopped typing. "What do you mean, Aelita?"

She moved up to his desk and placed down the envelope. "After the tournament," she said as a tear fell down on the envelope. "Never talk to me again."

She then ran out of the room as he was shocked by her actions. That was until he opened the envelope and his eyes widened.

A little later with our couple at the Hotel Food Court with a more relaxed Yumi as she is eating enough food to make up for yesterday. "Slow down Yumi, you at least want to taste the food."

She stopped. "Ha ha," she replied sarcastically as she continued to eat."

"I am glad to see you are back to normal though, maybe now we can go out on that date that keeps getting out of our reach."

"Yeah, I would really like that," she replied. "Aelita told me she really liked that movie "Garage Kids" (Besides a certain sword master besides Sword Hunter, do you know why I picked that movie?)." Let's go see that."

"Finish up and let's go."

She then cleared up her plate. "By the way, where is Odd? It's not like him to miss breakfast."

"He is still asleep. According to what I got he is exhausted from playing all of those games non-stop yesterday."

"I just can't wait till we get back and see what Odd says to Sam before she tears his head off."

Ulrich chuckled. "Yeah, me either. It's going to be fun watching him try to get out of this one."

"Ouch, that's hot," Sissy said to herself in the afternoon while she drank her hot chocolate and watch Team Sin verse Team Project on the TV above her. "Such a complex game Lyoko is, that's why I never could play it. Maybe if I did I might have been with Ulrich instead."

"You know, it's not good to talk to yourself," Sissy heard behind her as she looked to see Mary smiling at her. "People will get the wrong idea if you do."

"What are you doing here?" Sissy asked as Mary sat down across from her and set her soda on the table.

"Well you can already tell that Jamie is in the tournament, so I have no plans till he beats Team Sin. But let me guess, you did the same thing I did."

"What are you talking about?" Sissy asked.

"Well, I overheard that you liked Ulrich, I bet you convinced your father that you can "supervise" the team just so you could be with him, huh?" she asked with a sinister grin.

She cracked a smile. "Yeah, but it didn't work as well as I hoped."

"Sorry to hear that, but I would never let some other girl get my Jamie," she replied with a red face.

"Why do you like him so much? By the looks of it he doesn't feel the same way about it. I bet you are just going out with him because he is a Lyoko Tournament Champion."

"It's not like that at all!" Mary defended as she looked away. "Ever since he came to my school two years ago I had a crush on him, but he was so shy I rarely ever got any time to talk to him. He was always by himself and by the time class ended he had already left for his next class. I found out he is living in a foster home after I kind of followed him. Then after his Foster Caretaker told him to get more involved in the school he was joined into Team Project and after they won last year's tournament he started to warm up to others and I started to hang out with him, but what about you. What's your story for Ulrich?"

"I just had a crush on him since grade school, but I could always tell he had feelings for Yumi. I was hoping when William came that she would go for him and I would get him."

"WILLIAM! YOU DON'T MEAN WILLIAM DUNBAR DO YOU!" she asked in fright as Sissy nearly fell out of her chair.

"Yeah that's him, why?"

"That kid is psychotic, he is love crazy. He would flood the school with email and posters when he had a crush on a girl confessing his feeling. The school really didn't see is as much as a problem."

"Wait, that doesn't make any sense. Wasn't anything filed on him?"

"I wish. His parents are rich so they just settled with the family and blew it off like it was nothing, which was until one of the girls he liked last was killed."

Sissy looked a bit scared. "I might not like Yumi, but I would never wish for something like that to happen to her. But if you don't mind me asking, who was the girl?"

Mary had a scared look on her face as she looked around the room. "What's the problem Mary?"

"Nothing, but her name was Jasmine Heat."

Sissy seemed to be thinking as she said. "I feel like, I have heard of that name before."

"You have. The leader of Team Project Fredi Heat, it was his younger sister," Mary replied as she wiped a few tears with her napkin. "And also, she was one of my closest friends."

Later in the evening at the food court, Jeremy sat alone with the sun setting as he was moving the mash potatoes across his plate.

That double crossing slime ball. I can't believe I even trusted him, when I get my hands on him I'm going to...

He thought angrily, but before he could think of something else, he saw the two teams walking back into the Hotel and out of no where Mary tackled Jamie to the ground and hugged him tightly.

He walked over to Shadow and said in a dark tone. "I need to have a word with you."

Shadow's team walked up as Shadow just held his hand up. "Don't worry. This is one of my clients."

They understood and walked off as Shadow asked. "I'm a bit ticked right now because Team Project got lucky. So, is something going wrong on cloud nine?"

Jeremy grinded his teeth as he said. "You told Aelita that I hired you to look up everything about her."

"I did no such thing," he replied with a smug look on his face. "I said you hired someone, I never said it was me."

"I never hired you, you offered your services and I denied it, but you still gave me her information."

"Yet you still used it, you have no one to blame but yourself. You should have just tossed it like your first thought."

"Still, why did you have to tell her all of that!"

He grinned. "Because, I told her I would help her anyway possible, and what better way then to tell her what her boyfriend has been up to. Consider it a gift to her for traumatizing her those first few days."

He chuckled at the teen as Jeremy's hand turned into a fist. "Remember the Ceasefire Jeremy. Don't want to get your team Disqualified. Especially since tomorrow we have a rematch."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't you watch the TV, probably staring at the computer screen all day to block out your heart pain," he chuckled. "Tomorrow it is Team Sin verses Team Kiwi, you can get your revenge on me there. That's if you can. Because we won't go as easy as we did before."

He then walked off as Jeremy thought.

Oh I will, but I need to get back to my room. I am very close to getting more information on that Virus.

Now he is working hard on his computer as a loading bar appeared on his screen.

As soon as this thing is done, I will have everything I need to know.

Then the loading bar hit one-hundred as a shocked look came across his face.

No, it can't be! I need to inform the Lyoko Scientists at once. I have to deliver it personality. I can't risk sending it through the internet."

He then pulled out his disk and left his room and as he was heading out the front door. Yumi and Ulrich walked in hand and hand. "Hey Einstein, where are you off to in such a hurry?" Yumi asked.

"Can't talk, got to get to the stadium!" he replied as he ran out the doors.

"Wonder what's gotten into him?" Ulrich asked his girlfriend.

"I don't know, but I had a great time today, I can't believe how fast the time flew right by," Yumi replied.

"Yeah, we had a lot of fun today, to bad we really didn't get to see most of the movie," Ulrich said as they both blushed a deep shade of red.

Just then, Yumi saw Fredi heading towards the elevator. "Be right back," she said as she walked over to Fredi.

"What do you want now?" he asked coldly.

"I just wanted to say, thank you for all you have done for me," she replied.

"Didn't I tell you not to mention it?" he asked as the elevator opened and walked in, but before it closed. Yumi put her hand out to stop it.

"Can you answer me one thing? Why did you help me?"

He put his hand to his forehead. "Will you leave me alone afterwards?"

"Yes."

He groaned. "You remind me a lot of someone I use to know, that's it. Now if you make it past your match tomorrow. Then and only then I would want to see you again. But for now, leave me alone, because I really don't want to have to regret helping you."

She removed her hand and the doors closed in front of her. "What is wrong with him?"

Yumi walked into her room to see her roommate sitting on the bed watching TV. "We are facing Team Sin again tomorrow," Aelita said to her roommate.

"Yeah I heard. We should get up early so we can train before we have to head to the stadium." The one in black suggested as she was taking off her shirt.

"That sounds like a good idea," Aelita replied in a daze.

"Is everything alright Aelita?" Yumi asked as she put on her pajamas and Aelita took a deep breath.

"Well, Jeremy did something I still can't believe he did. But after some thought I figured out the only reason he did it was to make me happy. Maybe I will go talk to him."

"You can't right now, as Ulrich and I were coming in, Jeremy left in a hurry," Yumi said as her roommate asked.

"I see, I will just have to hope he comes back soon... Wait, you two just got back. What did you two do all day?" she asked as her roommate's face turned a deep shade of red.

Jeremy reached the Stadium to see the lights are still on. "Good, it's still open."

He walked in and looked all over. "Hello! Is anyone here?" he called as Anax Hopper replied.

"Yes, you don't need to yell."

Jeremy looked behind to see the Scientist. "Anax, I have important news to tell you. Everyone could be endanger."

"Please walk with me and tell me everything," he replied as they walked down the hall with walls made of glass.

"We don't have much time, remember the virus that hit Lyoko a few days ago. Well, I have been analyzing it and I have found out a lot."

"What do you mean?"

"The virus is actually activated every time a tower is activated and it gets stronger every time it is activated. It is able to function outside of a computer as well. Many people are endanger!"

"Tell me Jeremy, who else have you informed about this?"

"No one, I just got the information and rushed over here."

"Well, I will inform the other Scientist right away, thank you for bringing this up," Anax replied as he secretly poured a bottle of chloroform into a napkin.

"Thanks, I feel relieved now," Jeremy replied as when he turned to leave he caught the reflection from the window of the Scientist's nametag and thought as his eyes widen.

XANA!

But before Jeremy could react; he was grabbed from behind and the napkin pressed tightly to his mouth as a few seconds later, he past out.

"I can't let you interrupt my plans Jeremy, not yet."

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