Disclaimer: you guys know the drill by now ok?
A/n the chappie name comes from the song I've been listening to on a repeated loop since last night. "Rush" by Ally and Aj. Don't let nobody tell you, your life is over,
Be every color that you are, Into the rush now, You don't have to know how, Know it all before you'll try. Yeah, I'm hooked on it. On with the chappie. Pov change again.
Nikki put on her skates in record time and we took off though the tunnel. As we got about half way, she coughed and lost her balance.
"well that helped." She said. I reached down and helped her to her feet.
"you ok?" I asked. She started skating again.
"fine." she smiled over her shoulder. We finally reached the end of the tunnel and came out under the bridge. I was up the latter first and helped her up behind me. Nikki coughed again.
"are you getting sick?" I asked. She rolled her eyes as we raced to the factory.
"I'm fine dad." she said sarcastically. We slid down the ropes and got into the elevator. Then, I started coughing. Great, get me sick to Nikki. She glanced at me as we made it to the supercalculator.
"Great you guys are here." Jeremy turned around in his chair. He paled.
"uh oh." I glanced at Nick who glanced back at me.
"what?" we asked in unison.
"Xana.. He sent out a virus.." He left his mouth hanging open. Nikki started coughing again. It took me all of three seconds to figure out. The elevator opened behind us. Our parents took one look at us, and then all started talking at once.
"Wait!" Nick yelled over everyone. They all shut up at once.
"So Jeremy, what your saying is that we have this virus Xana sent out? How?" she asked. I tried to fight back another coughing fit. Jeremy nodded. I looked over at everyone else. Mom was on the verge of tears, dad was attempting to comfort her. Yumi was looking away with her fists clenched at her sides, and Ulrich was looking past me at Nicole.
"How do we get rid of it?" I asked. Jeremy turned back to his computer and started typing.
"it's a computer based virus. Much simpler than Dylan's but to a human... Well I have to find an anti-virus. It shouldn't take long." He said. I seen Yumi's eyes snap towards Jeremy.
"to humans it's what?" she asked. Jeremy sighed.
"It's a 4 stage virus. The first step is undetectable. The second, Is what you see. Them coughing. The third is a high fever and the last.. The virus makes their hearts stop." that did it. Mom started crying.
"How long do they have before we have a major problem?" My dad asked.
"24 hours." Jeremy answered. Oh this is great. Just terrific. Nicole put her arm across her ribs and coughed again.
"How did we get this?" I asked, I had to, I mean come on? It's something you got to know.
"Xana probably gave it to you while you were at the bowling alley." Jeremy answered. Go figure.
"Where's Aelita?" Ulrich asked. Sighed.
"Sent her home an hour ago. She hasn't been sleeping." he typed something else into the computer and cursed under his breath.
"Xana's shut down the scanners. I think I can get one online but I need all three to transfer anyone to lyoko." He ran a hand through his hair.
"Here's the plan you guys." he turned back to all of us.
"I have enough anti-virus at this point for one of you. The codes change every time. I don't know how long it will take me to make another one. So who gets this one?" He asked.
"Nikki."
"Jason." we looked at each other.
"You take it." we said in unison. I seen a look of annoyance on Nikki's face.
"you take it, you've been coughing longer." I defended. Jeremy cleared his throat. "before this becomes a screaming match like it normally does..." he reached into his pocket.
"we'll flip a coin, Jason you call it, who wins gets the anti-virus." neither of us protested. He threw the coin up in the air.
"Tails." He caught it and put it against the back of his hand. We crowded around to see the coin... Tails. Dang it. I seen Nikki give a half smile in my direction.
"I'll go with you down there. You won fair and square so no finding away out of this." she pointed her finger at me. I sighed.
"fine." we got into the elevator and went down to the scanners. As the elevator door opened, Nikki and I walked over to the open scanner.
"ok Jeremy." I yelled.
"Ok, Get in the scanner." he said over the intercom. As I went to get in the scanner, I caught Nikki off guard and pushed her in the scanner. The door closed.
"Hey!" I heard Nikki yell from the inside. I coughed but managed to smile. Jeremy loaded the anti-virus, and the scanner doors opened. Nicole fell forward and I caught her, allowing her to catch her balance. When she stood up all the way, she turned around and punched me.
"you are an IDIOT!" she yelled. I laughed. My laughter turned into coughing. I shrugged and she stormed off to the elevator. I followed her. When we reached the supercalculator room Nicole stormed over to her dad and started yelling about what an idiot I am. Ulrich smiled a little in my direction.
"You guys can fight over this later, get back to the dorms. You've missed curfew." My mom said.
"come on Nikki, if Kyle catches us.." She knew what would happen. We'd have detention forever.
"I'm gonna work on getting the scanners up." Jeremy sighed. The others nodded. "give us a call we'll be here in seconds." Yumi said. We went our separate ways. The whole walk back to school Nicole kept glaring at me. Finally, she decided to speak.
"you're an idiot."
"yes, you've told me."
"a huge idiot."
"Nick you've been coughing longer than me, which means I can go longer with out the anti-virus."
"You're an idiot." I sighed. There was no use in fighting with her she was to stubborn. We snuck to the backdoor of the school. Nick took a bobby pin out of her back pocket.
"you carry that with you constantly?" I asked. She just growled at me. With a quick flick of her wrist she got the door open, no problem. She looked around the corner and cautiously walked towards our rooms. As she got to her door, I grabbed her arm.
"don't be mad at me ok?" she narrowed her eyes.
"you won, why did you push me in?"
"because, you needed it more." her face fell.
"I'm an idiot right?" she laughed and hugged me.
"Jer will find another one for me ok? No worries. Now go to bed before we get caught. Don't want detention tomorrow. We have to make Bryan mad." She laughed.
"good night." I smiled as she closed her door. I started coughing again. Ugh. This was miserable. I walked down the hall towards my room. It was kinda empty with out Dylan there. It was almost one. Exhausted from coughing, I finally fell asleep.
A/n this is part one of a possible 5 part chappie. reviews will be at the end of part 5. thanks for waiting so long guys! love you all!