Nicole pulled her legs up into the chair under her.
"you don't have to stay Nikki, I know you'd rather be helping." Jason laughed. Nicole sighed.
"I'd much rather be here." Jason blushed, or at least it looked like a blush. Hard to tell against his already red face. Just then Nicole's cell phone rang.
"Hello? Uh! Alright. I'll stay here if you don't need me. Call me when you know more. Thanks." she glanced over at Jason.
"well?" he asked.
"that was mom. She said they're down to.. To 40 minutes. But Aelita just launched the scanners. In 5 minutes they'll be you-know-where. See everything's gonna be fine." she forced a smile.
Factory
"virtualization." Jeremy transferred everyone to the desert region where Dylan was waiting.
"about time, I was getting lonely." The blonde smirked for his current position on top of a rock. He slid down onto the ground, joining the others.
"Sorry." Aelita rolled her eyes and hugged him.
"very touching." Sam said dryly.
"can we please hurry?" "Jeremy where's the tower?" Ulrich asked.
"it's the oasis tower. South, south west about a mile." Jeremy answered typing in the coordinates. They nodded and started running in the direction.
"watch out. A swarm of hornets is heading your way." Jeremy warned.
"I'll stay back." Ulrich volunteered, taking out his saber.
"me too." Odd said readying his arm.
Hospital
Nicole glanced at the clock. 'what is taking so long?' she wondered to herself. With all the medications they had him on, it came to no surprise to Nicole that Jason was out cold.
"25 minutes." she muttered to herself. She dry washed her face and let her head rest in her hands. Jason opened one eye and looked at her.
"You're still here." it wasn't a question, or a surprised statement. It was just a statement, plain and simple. Nicole nodded.
"why?" he asked.
"Someone's got to." she joked. He yawned and shook his head.
"how goes things with the others?" she shrugged.
"I'm not really sure. Kinda afraid to call and ask." A doctor walked into the room and gave Nicole a careful look. He the moved his sights over to Jason.
"we'd like to run some more tests. We're still not sure of the cause of your fever." Nicole stood up to excuse herself.
'Don't worry.' Jason mouthed to her. She gave him a weak smile and left silently.
Factory
Jeremy was working furiously on the super computer. He was still working on the anti-virus for Jason, just incase. Ever few minutes he would check everyone's status on Lyoko. "odd you've lost 20 life points, Ulrich you're down by 30." he warned.
"come on Ulrich, step it up." Odd laughed firing on what was now 2 swarms of hornets.
"shut it odd. How are the girls doing?" Ulrich asked.
"Almost to the tower. Another few minutes." Jeremy answered. He dropped down Odd's ID card and brought up Yumi's.
"You're getting closer to the tower." he said to the girls and Dylan.
"thank Jer. Hey what's that?" Yumi asked pointing at something heading their way.
"it's a sandstorm." Sam scowled. Dylan looked confused.
"Xana's trying to stall us." Yumi explained.
"let's hurry." Aelita began to sprint harder. They were a little more than one hundred feet from the where the tower was when the sandstorm caught up with them.
"great." Sam coughed covering her face with her arm.
"Aelita this would be a great time to do that thing you do so well when we cant see." Yumi choked. Aelita shut her eyes. When she opened them, all they could see were two small glowing pink lights.
"I can see it." Aelita said. She made a quick turn and started running towards the tower.
"watch it girls! Mega tanks." Jeremy warned.
Hospital
Nicole was leaning nervously against the wall, biting her thumb nail and staring at another clock. 'hurry' she mentally urged. 'please hurry' The door to Jason's room opened. A doctor rushed out and turned the corner quickly. She felt a lump rise into her throat. On the verge of tears she peeked into the room. Jason in a fever induced sleep. He was sweating and shivering. Nicole bit the inside of her lip. Two doctors pushed past her quickly. One was talking in big doctor terms and the other was putting something into Jason's IV. She wasn't paying attention to either.
Lyoko
"you go! We'll take the tanks!" Yumi threw her fan out into the storm and heard a satisfactory explosion. Sam threw out a few light disks, which missed. They coughed covering their faces.
"Ah!" Yumi was hit from behind and devirtalized. Sam threw another light disk with a yell. The tank exploded. Aelita reached the tower.
Hospital
"quick get a cardiac unit in here!" Jason's heart rate had flat lined. Nicole's eyes threatened hot tears.
"Jason.." she whispered.
"Clear!" there was no response.
"Jason! You promised!" Nicole ran back into the room as nurses tried to hold her back.
"Clear!" still no response.
"Jason Della Robbia! You promised! Please!" she begged.
Lyoko
Aelita
Code… Lyoko
Hospital
The doctors froze, the room disappeared. Time seemed to drag on forever as the last second passed. Nicole dropped to her knees tears streaming down her face.
"JASON!" she screamed. Light engulfed the room.