Ok, I'm starting to second guess my pairing again which is sad for me. Anyway, I'm not a fan of two girls being with one guy or any more girls with one guy, but after reading something in a previous chapter I probably will keep it Danny/Rogue/Aelita. I know some will like it to be Danny/Rogue or Danny/Aelita, but the pairing is still questionable. If you want it Danny/Aelita or Danny/Rogue, you can tell me if you do or have it as the three pairing. I do not own anything in this story.
At a warehouse was a guard walking by doing her duty. Kitty came through the ground and tapped the guard on the shoulder. The guard turned around and can spayed in the face with sleeping gas. "North perimeter secure." Kitty said through her communicator.
Walking down another part of the warehouse was another guard who was being watched by Evan. Evan jumped off the roof and ran up to the guard. The guard turned around and got sprayed in the face with sleeping gas. "This guy's catching z's. I mean, South perimeter secure." Evan said a little nervous.
"Ok, let's make it a clean rescue." Scott said. Kurt teleported himself and Scott into the warehouse. They started to fall down since Kurt teleported them in the air. "Jean!"
She caught them with her mind and said, "Sorry, you guys are heavy."
She starts lowering them to a safe area and stopped when Scott yelled, "Storm? Storm!" He yelled to the figure below. They were lowered more. "She's out."
Scott fired his beams twice. "Nice aim." Kurt smirked at Scott. Scott fired again and hit the chains. "Yeah." They yelled and high fived each other.
"Which one of you guys has been putting on weight?" Jean asked them trying to hold on to them.
"It's Nightcrawler. Burgers 7 days a week will do that to a fellow." Scott told her.
"Ah the breakfast of mutants." Kurt said smiling.
"Hey!" A guy said grabbing Jean's shoulder.
She lost her concentration and ended up dropping the guys making them yell in surprise. The guys fell onto the floor barely avoiding the infrared lasers. The two groan and get back onto their feet. "Let's grab her and port out of here."
"Gotcha." Rogue said showing her face catching the two guys off guard. She grabbed Scott's arm then reached up and grabbed his face absorbing his power. Her eyes flowed red and fire out hitting Kurt making him fly back and hit the wall.
Scott watched his teammate fly back from the attack and yelled, "Hold it! Hold it! Stop the simulation!" The simulation shut itself down making the fake Rogue close her eyes and lean back away as everything turned back to the normal in the danger room.
"Scott," the doors opened from outside the Danger Room revealing Kitty, Evan, Logan, Xavier, and Ororo, "You're never to stop a simulation unless you're hurt." Xavier told Scott.
"Trust me, dat hurt." Kurt said getting up.
"Why is Rogue in this mock up?" Scott asked. "She was not part of the briefing."
"Simply the element of surprise. It's part of life so expect in on every exercise. Well we're finished. Now get to school." Charles said leaving with everyone minus Jean, Kurt, and Scott.
Scott looked down at the fake Rogue and balled his hand up. He turned around and walked away saying, "Come on Jean. We got to help Redetzke load for the field trip." Jean looked at Scott worried about him.
Evan and Kitty walked up to Danny's truck and stopped when they noticed Danny wasn't there and neither was the truck. "Hey, wasn't Danny supposed to take us to school today?" Evan asked curiously.
Kitty nodded, "Yeah, like, where is he?"
"He's on a business trip with Aelita." Ororo said walking into the garage. "Tony Stark wants to have a meeting with Aelita. Danny didn't give much detail to go on."
"Wait a minute." Evan said waving his hand. "Danny gets to go to a meeting with Aelita that happens to be with Tony Stark." Evan summarized making his aunt nod in agreement. "How does that happen? Aelita isn't some big shot, is she?"
Ororo chuckled, "No, but she believes this might have to do with who her father is."
"Who's her father?" Kitty asked curiously.
"She never told us who he was, but she did mention something about him being a great scientist." Ororo smiled at the thought of Aelita being the kid of someone famous. "Well, we'll worry about that later. You guys got school to worry about."
"Danny is so lucky, man." Evan muttered before walking to the car his aunt was going to drive.
Aelita sighed as Danny drove them through New York City. 'Why do I get the feeling this is going to be a bad idea?' Aelita thought crossing her arms over her chest. "Danny, why did you agree to come with me?" She asked curiously.
Danny shrugged, "I find it an excuse to see my cousin and get out of school." He glanced at her and raised an eyebrow. "Don't tell me you're having second thoughts with this meeting."
Aelita shook her head. "No, my thoughts are more on what will be happening at the meeting, and most of them are not good." She admitted with a sigh.
Danny looked back at the road and shrugged, "Well, we won't know until we get there, but we shouldn't have much to worry about."
Aelita looked out the window and put her right arm on the handle of the car door. "True, but why would I get a feeling something bad is about to happen?"
"I call it a gut feeling since something bad always happens whether it is minor or major." Danny said with shrug.
"You still need to work on your grammar." Aelita joked making Danny pout. Aelita giggled, "Sorry, I couldn't resist, but you're right. Tony is known for being the most famous for weapons. I doubt this meeting will be any different."
"I wonder how everything for the trip Scott and Jean are going on it going." Danny muttered rolling his eyes. "I bet if this meeting didn't happen; Jean would have found a way for me to go too."
"I thought it would have been a great adventure." Aelita said smiling at the idea of spelunking. "I've always wondered what it would be like in a real cave."
"Didn't your digital world have that though?" Danny asked raising an eyebrow at her.
Aelita giggled, "Maybe, but it will never compare to the real thing."
Danny shrugged as he turned the truck off the freeway and onto one of the roads in the city. "Well, we got other things to worry about, and I'm not talking about our meeting with Tony Stark."
Aelita nodded and looked forward. "I know, but do you think it would be lasting long with guys like Tony Stark around?"
Danny sighed, "I hardly believe it myself."
Jan walked into Tony's lab with her arms crossed and a pout on her face. "Did you seriously need to call me to set up a meeting with a girl we met back in France?" Jan asked rhetorically.
"Jan, I found it necessary to call you since I don't have your cousin's number or the girl's number either." Tony said as he and Hank were looking over the tech used for the scanner. "Plus, it gives me a reason to be near you."
"I dare you to hit on her again." Hank said narrowing his eyebrows at Tony.
Tony put his hands up and smiled, "Easy Hank, I'm only joking, but I'm serious about the phone numbers." He looked back at Janet and asked, "When did they say they'll be here?"
"Danny said they'll be here soon, and they'll be coming in his truck." Jan said smiling happily.
Tony raised an eyebrow and asked, "Why are you smiling that your cousin got a truck?"
"I finally get to drive it." Jan said waving Tony off. "Danny promised I could drive it when he brought it over."
"Jan, you've driven lots of vehicles." Hank said not really seeing her reason. "What's the difference with this one?"
"Danny told me we could go sightseeing around the world as a vacation. We're still working out the details though." She told them shrugging it off like it was nothing.
"You haven't seen the truck yet, have you?" Tony asked raising an eyebrow making her smile nervously. "I should have guessed."
Jan crossed her arms and pouted at them. "Ok, who cares if I haven't seen it?" Jan asked rhetorically as she walked up to the table. "The point is I get to go on a vacation with my favorite cousin that I rarely got to hang out with."
"Jan, you guys are eight years apart by age." Hank pointed out rubbing his forehead with his index finger and thumb. "I'm surprised he's your favorite cousin."
Jan rubbed the back of her neck and asked, "Who would your favorite relative be when half of your family refuses to be around you and the other half prefer to live out west in the middle of the country?"
"I see your point." Tony muttered intertwining his fingers together. "But, why is he your favorite? There has to be a reason why."
Jan sat herself down in the only available seat and looked down at the table in thought. "When I first saw Danny's sister after her birth, I felt so excited to have a cousin to hang out with that wouldn't be living out in the country. Of course Jazz grew up scared of the family and decided to stay away from everyone except her parents." The two men wince at that. "Yeah, she's now studying her way into Psychology. I don't know whether to feel happy or sad for her."
"What about Danny?" Hank asked curiously.
"I don't know how to explain it, but…" she paused then looked up at Hank, "when I saw Danny I just felt connected. I'm the oldest of my cousins, and I got to see four of my cousins as babies. Danny was the only one who actually grabbed my hand instead of pushing it away when I gave it to him."
"I don't get it." Tony said shaking his head slightly in confusion.
"Our family is not happy with Danny's mom or my dad leaving the country life. They preferred to have our family stay in the country away from the real world." Jan said making a disgusting face. "Our grandparents hardly want anything to do with our family especially with me and Danny. They don't ignore us since they know it isn't our fault, but they hate us just as much. I guess that's why Danny and I get along well."
"That makes sense in a way." Tony commented raising an eyebrow. "What exactly do they have against people living in the city?"
Jan opened the door and said, "I wish I knew the reason." She left the lab leaving the two men to themselves.
Danny parked his truck on the top floor of the parking garage and turned his truck off. He and Aelita got out of Danny's truck and looked around the area. "Where's your cousin? I thought she was flying here to pick us up." Aelita wondered making Danny chuckle.
"She didn't tell Tony." He said with a grin. He walked over to the ledge of the parking garage and looked down. "Hm, it looks safe enough for us to change." He walked away from the ledge and asked, "Are you ready?"
Aelita shrugged, "I might as well be."
Danny had his white rings appear around his waist and smirked as they traveled up and down his body. His clothes changed from his usual white shirt with the red logo in the middle to a black and white jumpsuit with the D and P symbol together as one on his chest. His hands became covered with white gloves with green lines running down the middle of his fingers on the back of his gloves, and his shoes were replaced with shite boots with a green D/P symbol on the outside part of both boots Danny's pants turned black with the green stripe going down the side of it, and a green and black hoodie appeared with the hood up on his head. His white hair went in the direction with the wind, and he opened his neon green eyes smirking at his accomplishment of a new hero form.
Aelita made the screen appear in front of her and pressed her avatar icon on it. Her hair darkened a bit from the original pink, and the Lyoko eye symbol went down over both of her eyes colored in pink. Her body became covered in a hot pink jumpsuit with the sleeves on her arms and legs made a dark pink. Light pink rings appear around her wrists and ankles along with a hot pink ring being on the inside of her jumpsuit. A thin white stripe separates the two colors on the front and back going around her legs to keep the colors separate, and some clear armor plates appear on her shoulders and her hips that draped down to act like a short skirt. The sides between the leg and the arm become a light pink with a white circle in the middle of it. A white belt appears around her waist with a pink buckle to hold it in place, and a white breast plate goes around her chest with a pink circle in the center of her chest on the plate. Her wrist watch appears on her right wrist keeping the star shape it had when Jeremy created it. She put her hand on her hip and smirked at her accomplishment of her clothes
Aelita looked over at Danny and asked, "Well, what do you think?"
Danny blinked a couple times and muttered, "You really have outdone yourself."
"I tried to change it from the old design, but I wanted to keep some things." Aelita told him truthfully glancing at the watch on her wrist. "What happened to your X-men uniform?"
"I decided to go with a different look since I'm going to be a hero. What do you think?" Danny asked curiously motioning to his look.
Aelita tapped her chin and grinned, "You look good for a Phantom."
Phantom crossed his arms and smiled, "Thanks Aelita, or should I call you something else?"
Aelita shook her head in amusement. "I'm still working on a name, but I was a guardian when Lyoko was around." She told with a smirk.
"Well, I think someone already has Guardian for a superhero name so…Techguard?" Danny asked curiously making Aelita shake her head at him.
"I was thinking more along the lines of angelic tech, but I want it to sound a bit nicer than that." The two stare at each other in thought before they snapped their fingers at the same time. "That's it! I'll be known as Guardian Angel."
Danny blinked a couple times then sighed, "Uh, I think people will get the wrong idea with that name."
"But it works."
Danny rubbed his neck and smiled nervously, "Yeah, it does work Aelita, but it could go in a wrong way too if you think about it. I actually thought of something that could work. Let's try Tech Angel."
"Tech Angel?" Aelita asked putting her hand on her head at the idea. "If we're going to go with something like that, I might as well be Angelic Tech." She joked making Danny chuckle.
"How about we worry about the name later and get to Tony Stark's place to have the business talk he wanted?" Danny asked pointing out at the city.
Aelita sighed, "Ok, we'll worry about it later, but I still need a good name later." She ran her hand over the star on her watch making pink wings appear on her back. "Let's get going." The two take off into the sky and fly straight to Tony's building where he told them to meet him.
Jan stood in front of the window then widened her eyes when she saw a pink haired girl with pink wings and a white haired guy with a white jumpsuit and a green hoodie. "Oh man, I was supposed to pick them up." She muttered as she recognized them as her cousin and his friend. "I hope Danny can forgive me about forgetting that detail."
"What are you muttering about this time Jan?" Hank asked as he walked into the room.
Jan glanced back at her boyfriend and smiled nervously, "I might have forgotten that I said that I'll meet them at a parking garage and lead them here."
Hank looked out the window and saw the two figures flying straight for the building. "Is that your cousin and Hopper's daughter?" He asked curiously.
Jan nodded, "Yep, that's them."
"When did your cousin dye his hair white?"
Jan chuckled at her boyfriend's question and crossed her arms. "Let's just say he had a lab accident in his parent's lab, and now they proclaim he's dead. Unfortunately, he only gained the abilities of a ghost making him half ghost and half human." She told him knowing most of it to be true only leaving out the part of being a mutant in the whole explanation.
"Wow, how did he even survive it? Something like that should kill anyone." Hank pointed out.
Jan looked away worryingly and sighed, "Yeah, he was really lucky." She walked away from the window with Hank watching her with a confused look.
"Well, when will our guests get here?" Tony asked as he walked into the room with a grin on his face.
"You really want to learn what her father created." Jan said raising an eyebrow putting her hands on her hips.
Tony's grin didn't falter. "Of course, this girl's father created what is believed to be impossible before we even started doing it ourselves. We can create simulations where it feels like we're there, but this tech is able to reconstruct our molecular structure and put it inside a supercomputer."
"Wouldn't a normal computer work as well?" Jan asked curiously.
"No, I ran through the tests and saw how big the power function was for the main supercomputer before I blew the factory up." He put his hands up before one of them spoke. "I know that I shouldn't have done it, but Hydra was still around and was going to scrap the place. I already took the scanners leaving the supercomputer and the main power source to be destroyed."
"Were you able to recreate any of it?" Hank asked curiously.
"I wish I was able to Hank. I got to see everything, but without the proper knowledge I can't recreate any of it. I wasn't able to get any of the information on the supercomputer since Aelita deleted all the information on the machine when Hydra showed up."
"Well, at least she played it safe." Hank commented crossing his arms.
Tony nodded, "Yes, I have most of the info just by studying one of those scanners, but without the specific codes to function it they're practically useless."
"I guess this means the one who has them is her." Hank looked back out the window and took a few steps back. "They're almost here too."
"Well, I guess it matters which area they go through for us to meet them." Jan pointed out before walking back up to the window. She waved her hand at the pair with a sheepish smile on her face. She saw her cousin nod making her nod back.
"Now, all we have to do is wait for them to arrive, and we can start the business meeting." Tony said with a smile.
Danny made him and Aelita go through the window into the room making the others look at them with raised eyebrows. He made himself tangible and asked, "Why do you guys have raised eyebrows?"
"Well, you did just phase through a window holding Mr. Hopper's daughter's hand." Tony pointed out making the pair release each other's hand instantly.
'Here, I thought something was going on between him and Rogue.' Jan thought shrugging the situation off for later. "Anyway, I think you three have some important things to talk about." She told them before grabbing Danny's arm.
"Actually Jan, I would like it if you and your cousin stayed as well." Tony gestured making Jan pout.
Danny glanced at Jan and transformed back to his human form. "Jan, I know you want us to spend some time together, but we can't have all the time to ourselves anyway." He told her reaching up to ruffle her hair.
Jan grabbed his wrist and muttered, "You know I hate it when you do that." She released his wrist and sighed, "Fine, but you owe me lunch Danny."
"I paid for our meal the last three times!"
Jan smirked, "Do you want me to grab the photo album?"
Danny put his hand up and shook his head. "You win Jan, but if you ever show anyone that, I will get you back for that."
"The family rivalry continues." Aelita mutters before making her hero form disappear revealing her civilian clothes and face. She shrugs at the situation and asks, "When can I see the album?"
"Don't you dare start." Danny muttered giving her a warning glance.
"You got to love the drama." Tony said smiling at the scene. He clapped his hands making everyone look at him. "How about we put this behind us for now and continue on with the meeting down in the lab?"
Aelita walked into the lab and stopped when she saw the table full of machine parts all over it. She glanced to the side and saw the two scanners leaning against the wall. "Why are the scanners here?" She asked cautiously.
Tony grinned nervously and scratched the back of his head. "Well, I wanted to get to know everything your father created before his disappearance, and I was only able to get this stuff before Hydra showed up." He started to explain feeling a bit uneasy about it.
Aelita walked up to the table and asked, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
"I wanted to learn whatever I could before I went to you to learn about them even more."
Aelita picked up one of the metal covering of the scanner and asked, "What exactly did you find out?"
"I found out the scanners are able to scan a person's molecular structure and take the structure into the supercomputer your father built back at the factory. I was fascinated to find out about it I decided to see how it worked completely, and I found out it took certain codes your father created for them to work properly."
Aelita smiled, "My father did work pretty hard on this."
"The other thing I found out is that they can return the person back into the scanner after whatever you did was over with, but the reasons for returning were not what I was expecting."
Aelita nodded, "I understand why you weren't expecting it. The virtual world had a virus my father created to stop a weapons program, but the virus turned on us and made my father unable to have a solid form on Lyoko like I did."
"Wait, the form you showed up in was your Lyoko form? Jan asked curiously raising an eyebrow in confusion.
Aelita looked back everyone and nodded, "Yes, over time my power on Lyoko grew since my father made me its guardian, but I deleted it just in case Hydra had caught me and went for my father's work."
"I can understand your reason, but were you able to save any of it?" Hank asked cautiously walking closer to her. "Your father is a great man, and we want to know what happened to him."
Aelita had a tear escape her eye and turned her head away. "He sacrificed himself to destroy the virus. He fell into the digital sea splitting into many tiny particles most likely to be gone forever."
"Digital sea?" Tony asked with his curiosity spiking immensely along with Hank's.
Aelita completely turned around and brought a holographic image of what she remembered seeing. "The digital sea is what we liked to call it when we traveled to other areas to stop the virus. We couldn't take it lightly either since the digital sea is extremely dangerous for anyone to touch physically. A friend of mine fell into it, and we would have never seen her again if we didn't have the program to virtualize her back into the real world."
"This is incredible." Hank said looking at the picture in surprise. "Who would have thought something like this could exist from our technology?"
"No one would, but you're right about it being incredible." Tony said smiling at the sight. "I actually want to see this digital sea in person now."
"Well, it does look nice in person, but my father might not want the digital world to be rebuilt for obvious reasons." Aelita told them. She closed her eyes and sighed, "I would do anything to be able to get him back though."
"Then it's settled." Tony said grinning at the teen. "We'll rebuild the whole machine from scratch and reactivate the virtual world so we can find the bits and pieces of your father that fell into the digital sea."
Aelita smiled and looked at Tony. "Thank you Tony, but this will probably take some time for all of it to be rebuilt." She told him.
Tony smirked, "Kid, you're dealing with one of the genius minds when it comes to technology." He walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulder. "We'll be able to find him and bring him back. You can trust me on that."
"How are you guys to build it though?" Danny asked curiously making everyone look at him. "What, Aelita has the codes and instructions on how the whole thing was built inside her computer, and no one but her can even touch the screen or even use the knowledge without having some way for her to be a part of it. Plus, she's the only one who knows how big it was back where she used to live."
"You got a point there Danny." Tony remarked looking back at Aelita. "Is there a possibility you could be able to give me everything I need to be able to recreate your father's work?"
Aelita looked at Tony's main computer then back at him. "I'll have to make a special type of book for it all to be created. I cannot risk the enemy to get their hands on it." She told him crossing her arms. "The only problem is that there could be some parts we could scrap from the factory or what's left of it."
"Well, it seems we're going on a little trip." Tony said with a smirk growing on his face. "Good thing I made a new jet to test out. This will be a perfect time for it to be completely tested."
"Is it just me, or did it seem like we just volunteered to become test experiments?" Jan asked in distaste.
"Well, at least he isn't doing experiments on us." Danny muttered making Jan shiver a bit.
"Don't ever joke about that." Jan muttered back making him smirk.
"Why not tell them the truth?" Logan asked with a toothpick in his mouth and with his hand on the wood on the fireplace.
"How do expect to tell their principle, whom they are supposed to respect, and their enemy are one in the same?" Charles asked closing his hand putting his fingers together in front of his chest.
"Look if there's anything those kids are used to doing its keeping their cool and keeping their secrets." Logan told his friend removing the toothpick from his teeth.
"I don't know." Charles said not liking the whole idea.
"They'll deal with it trust me. You taught them a lot."
Jean opens the door to the study with Ororo walking right next to her making the men look at them. "Trouble's brewing. There's a blizzard in the mountains." Ororo told them getting both men to turn themselves to the women completely.
"The geology club left up there for their field trip this morning." Jean told the men as the two stopped where the men were talking.
"Jean, I thought you were going with them." Charles pointed out.
"Yeah, so did I, but I found out Darkholme deep sixed me the last minute to make room for her little Rogue." Jean explained.
"Rogue," Charles said closing his eyes with his head turned away before looking back. "You're right trouble is brewing." He turned to Logan. "Call Danny and let him know about the situation and see if he can come back in time."
"You got it Charles." Logan said before grabbing his phone and walking off to call Danny. He put Danny's number up and pressed the call button.
Logan heard the phone ring a couple times before Danny's voice came over the line. "Hey Logan, what's up?" Danny asked curiously.
"We got trouble kid. Scott is trapped on a field trip alone with Rogue, and a blizzard is going on at their location." Logan started to explain.
"Wow, I'm a bit surprised by the situation, but I don't see any reason why you guys need me there." Danny said with complete honest.
"Charles wants you to come back for the mission kid. We need to save Scott before Mystique does something to him."
Danny grimaced, "Logan, I wish I could right now, but…how could I put this nicely? I'm in France with Aelita, Tony, Jan, and my cousin's boyfriend."
"Why are you in France?"
"Aelita will need to explain it for you since we're doing this for her." Danny said trying to play it off cool.
Logan growled, "You guys better get back before midnight, or you guys will be facing some serious time in the Danger Room."
"We'll try to be back by then." Danny hung the phone up and asked, "How long of the flight did it take us to get here?"
"We were only in the air for an hour." Jan told him as Tony landed the jet on the water next to the destroyed factory.
Danny looked at Aelita and said, "Logan wants us back at the Institute before midnight, or we're going through some training."
Aelita's eyes widen slightly then go back to normal. She nods at Danny as the group exit the jet. "Well, you sure knew how to blow a place up." Aelita remarked before she and Danny transformed into their hero counter parts.
"Well, let's hope we can find anything useful." Jan muttered before flying into the wreckage.
Odd Della Robbia walked down the streets then stopped when he heard a jet. He looked up and watched a jet fly over him in a direction he was familiar with. He pulled his phone out and dialed one of his friend's number. He heard it ring a couple times then a click. "Ulrich, I don't have much time, but a jet just went down to the factory." He told his friend quickly.
"Hold on Odd. We'll try to meet you down there." Ulrich said back.
"Yeah, I'm only hoping that those Hydra agents are not around." Odd replied back before hanging up. He ran down the street straight for the factory. After a few minutes he got to the bridge panting heavily. He got behind the closest thing he could hide behind and watched the people get out of the jet. He gasped in surprise when he saw Aelita among the group of people. "Aelita, I thought she was staying in America. Why would she be here?" He wondered getting out of his hiding place.
Danny fazed himself through the debris to see if anything had stayed together under the wreckage. After a few seconds Danny found himself in the room where the super computer's main power source was located. He looked at the computer(A/N this is evolution's design for it) and noticed how big it looked compared to his computer. He raised an eyebrow and pressed the button on his com. link. "Hey Aelita, it seems your supercomputer's main power source is still in one piece." He said.
"That's good then, but how big is it?" Tony replied back.
"It should be big enough to fit in the jet." Aelita told them. "The only problem is that I don't know how everything was connected since I never found the design plans for how everything was built even with everything put inside my power source."
"We'll worry about it later then." Tony told Danny. "See if there is anything else still intact before we go for the main computer."
"I'll see what I can find." Danny replied back before continuing his search.
Odd stood there watching the four removing the debris then asked, "What are they doing?" He took a few steps forward then stopped himself. 'Aelita…'
Aelita stopped clearing some of the debris and turned around to see Odd standing on the bridge watching them. "I'll be right back." She told them before walking onto the bridge a few yards away from Odd before walking closer to him. She stopped a few feet from him and muttered, "Hey Odd, how are things going here?"
Odd grinned, "Things are going well Aelita. There's nothing to worry about."
Aelita crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow. "Do you expect me to believe that Odd?"
Odd scratched the back of his neck and smiled nervously, "Well, Yumi moved back to Japan with her family. Jeremy's family made him go to a school full of smart people making us unable to know anything going on with him."
"What about Ulrich and William?"
Odd sighed, "Ulrich is only staying here since his parents don't know anything about the incident. William convinced his parents to let him stay, and I'm leaving for Canada when the school year is over."
Aelita closed her eyes and sighed, "I should have seen this coming. Now I know why Jeremy and I are having a harder time staying connected with each other. He's been too busy to talk like back then unless it had to do with Lyoko." She opened her eyes and asked, "Should we keep trying Odd, or does this make it official?"
Odd looked down and put his hands in his pockets. "Aelita, your relationship with Jeremy is the best thing that has ever happened to him. Your leaving was the main reason he agreed to go to the school."
"Why would he make that decision in such a short time?" Aelita asked narrowing her eyebrows.
Odd shrugged, "We don't know, and he never told us why either since no one has spoken to him since his departure."
Aelita tapped her chin in thought and asked, "When did he leave?"
"Two weeks after your departure."
Aelita nodded, "I get it Odd." She looked back at the adults moving the last of the debris. "Odd," she looked back at her friend who looked back up at her, "I'm going to bring back Lyoko."
Odd's eyes widen in surprise. "What?" He whispered in surprise.
Aelita nodded, "Yep, with the help of Tony Stark I will be able to rebuild Lyoko from scratch without XANA being around and will use it to start searching for my dad."
Odd looked at her in shock. "Aelita, this is good news! If this works you'll finally be reunited with your father, but how long will it take to bring Lyoko back?"
Aelita shrugged, "Hopefully it should be done by the end of the school year. I also hope to be able to build transportable scanners meaning…"
"I'll get to go back to Lyoko!" Odd cheered happily jumping up and down with a huge grin on his face.
Aelita smiled and turned back to the others pulling the main power source out of the wreckage. "Once we gather what wasn't destroyed from the blast, we can start rebuilding everything else and go from there hopefully making what we need so I can get you guys involved with Lyoko again."
"Well, that's something I like to hear." Ulrich said as he and William walked up to the two.
William nodded and crossed his arms. "Yeah, it would be nice to get involved with Lyoko again."
"What do you want us to do to help get your father back?" Ulrich asked gesturing to the mess of the destroyed factory.
"Well, you guys could give us a hand in the building and find what is left for us to scrap from the factory." Aelita told them.
"Let's do this you guys!" Odd yelled delightfully, before running to the destroyed factory with the others chuckling at his antics.
Ulrich put his hand on Aelita's shoulder and said, "For what it's worth, we'll try to get in contact with Jeremy, Aelita. You can count on it."
"Yeah, you can leave it to us." William said before the two walked over to the factory.
"I know you will." Aelita muttered with a smile on her face.
After everything that could have been scrapped up from the wreckage Danny shook hands with Aelita's friends again while Aelita hugged each of them. The three friends said their goodbyes to the group and watched the jet take off with their friend and the guy they trust to protect her. "Are you sure Jeremy leaving has something to do with that Hydra agency?" William asked giving Ulrich a glance.
Ulrich put his hands in his pockets. "Yumi's family moved back to Japan because of them. Jeremy wouldn't leave the school unless something made him leave. He was offered the scholarship once when we were younger. Why would he be offered it again now we're in high school?"
Odd tapped his chin. "That makes sense Ulrich, but we don't have any proof. How can we prove that Jeremy is working with that agency?" He pointed out as William crossed his arms.
"We can't until Aelita builds back Lyoko. With that we can finally start searching for answers without any worrying about being caught by those men." Ulrich told them.
"Isn't that dangerous?" William asked Ulrich.
Ulrich nodded, "Yes, but we're doing this for Aelita. She's our friend, and we need to find out what is going on."
"You can count us in Ulrich. Aelita is like a sister to me, and I will do anything to help her out." Odd said nodding his head along with them.
"Then it's settled. We figure out what happened with Jeremy when Lyoko is back up and running." The three nod in agreement and went back to the school grounds with determined looks in their eyes.
Tony and Hank unloaded the last of the debris that was on the jet and looked at Danny and Aelita who were getting ready to leave. "Well, everything is unloaded and ready to go." Tony told them as he walked up to the pair. "When will the book be ready for me to start building the machine and the virtual world?"
"I'll try to have done by next week." Aelita told him.
"That's good enough for me."
Danny hugged his cousin and released her with them smirking at each other. "Well, you better take care of yourself Jan." He joked making her chuckle.
"I'll that in mind." Jan told him crossing her arms.
Aelita activated her wings and smiled, "Well, we better get going before we get punished for breaking curfew."
Danny gave the guys a 'see yah' salute then grabbed Aelita's hand. "We'll see you guys later." Danny told them before fazing them through the window and flying off towards his truck.
"Well, your cousin was interesting to be around." Hank told his girlfriend.
Jan pouted, "I still didn't get to see the truck." She turned around and walked away. "I'm going home Hank. You and Tony can go ahead and have fun studying this stuff."
"I'll see you later then." Hank waved goodbye while watching her leave.
"She didn't get her lunch time with him." Tony reminded Hank making Hank groan at the reminder.
"I know she explained the whole connection she has with Danny, but I still don't see the whole picture." Hank told him.
"To be honest I don't either." Tony admitted rubbing the back of his neck. "I guess that's how it works. We can't feel what Jan feels about her situation, and we never will, but she can feel it since it's her life not our lives. I have an artificial heart, and you study Pym particles. We have different interests in everything, and we can't feel everything other people are feeling."
"You didn't have to go into full explanation."
Tony grinned sheepishly, "Sorry, I'm used to doing that with Pepper."
"I'm sure you are." Hank muttered.
Danny pulled into the garage at the Institute and turned the vehicle off with a sigh. "I am so glad that's over." Danny muttered making Aelita giggle.
"Well, you can look at it as a way to help me get closer to finding a way to bring my dad back." She told him making him smile at the thought. She looked out the window and sighed, "Plus, this might be able to help me figure out what really happened to Jeremy."
"What do you mean?" Danny asked looking at her with a raised eyebrow.
Aelita looked at Danny with a serious expression. "My friend, Odd, told me that Jeremy went to school where geniuses would go and that it happened two weeks after I left." She started to explain to Danny. "Jeremy was offered the deal before when he was younger and refused to go, but it wouldn't make sense why he would accept to go to the school now."
"Why would Hydra try to do something like that though?" Danny asked making her narrow her eyebrows a bit. "Hydra seems more of a straightforward type organization when it comes to getting someone to work for them. A school doesn't sound like them especially after their attack at the school."
Aelita nodded, "That makes sense, but why would the school do this now?"
"They might have seen it as an opportunity to get another smart kid into their school, or it's probably connected to that organization your dad use to work for or had some connection with." Danny reasoned making Aelita's eyes widen.
"Carthage…"
"What did you say?" Danny asked raising an eyebrow.
Aelita looked away and sighed, "It's nothing to worry about Danny. We better get inside before Logan punishes us with the Death Room."
Danny shrugged and got out of the truck with Aelita. They walked into the front lobby to find the place empty. "Vell, look who decided to show up." Kurt said as he teleported into the room. "How did da meeting go?"
"Sorry Kurt, but that's private information." Aelita told him with a smile on her face. "Plus, everything we know if confidential information."
"Does that mean da Professor can't know about it?" Kurt asked raising an eyebrow.
The pair nodded at the question. "Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to bed." Danny said with a yawn escaping him.
Danny walked by Kurt and heard, "Da Professor wants everyone to meet in the living room. He said it vas important."
Danny stopped and glanced at Kurt. "I see." He muttered then nodded. "Ok, let's get going then."
The pair followed Kurt into the living room to see everyone else already there and saw a face the pair wouldn't have thought to see. "Ah Daniel, Aelita, it's nice to see you guys made it back from your business meeting. How did it go?" Charles asked curiously.
Aelita glanced at Danny and grinned, "It went well, and I have another meeting with Tony again next week." The two stop a few feet from Ororo looking between everyone as Kurt teleported over to the fireplace putting his right arm on the wood.
Charles nodded, "That's good to hear, and I will like to hear more about it, but I have decided to come clean about who your principle really is." He explained everything about who their principle was and what she was up to. He tried to keep it simple for them to understand and hoped none of them would be angry with him. "I was hoping that keeping this from you would protect you from harm."
"It's the same as lying to us." Jean pointed out to Xavier. "We had a right to know who are principal really was."
Everyone agreed with Jean when she finished. "Yeah, man." Kurt said getting up from his spot on the wall near the fireplace. "What did you dink we were going to do, go after her?" Kurt asked pointing at the wall.
"Man, we know better. She wants to play like nothing's going down, so can we." Evan said holding onto the couch.
"It's like we were playing with fire and didn't even know it." Kitty said.
"Rogue?" Xavier asked her.
She looked at him then at everyone else. "It's...not my place." She said worried.
"Sure it is. You're part of the family now." Kitty said.
"She's right." Danny agreed.
"Yeah girl, tell us what you think." Evan said.
"Hey come on. We might not have ever officially met, but you're one of us." Aelita said crossing her arms with a smile on her face.
"Well...I think...no. I've learned that honesty is very important from people you care about. At least it is to me." She said smiling.
"You're right all of you." Xavier said then turned to Logan. "I must apologize for keeping this secret from you. But please understand, there are many challenges in your future-secrets. Elements of surprise. Some you're ready to deal with, and some you're not. In the future, I will try to do better in knowing which is which."
"Thanks professor." Scott said getting up off the couch. "It's nice to know we all got something to learn."
"Hey, that's what makes us X-men." Danny said with his trademark grin appearing on his face.
Charles chuckled, "That's a good way to put it Daniel, but we still need to be cautious of any future events coming our way."
"We'll make sure we're ready for them or try to make it through whatever will come our way." Danny said crossing his arms with a smirk on his face.
Later that night, Rogue walked through the halls and stopped at what was going to become her new room. She sighed before entering the room to see Aelita sitting at her desk copying words and pictures from her holograms and putting them into the book by copying and pasting. Aelita stopped and looked at Rogue. "Hey Rogue, sorry if this looks weird, but I'm finishing up some stuff for Tony Stark." She told Rogue.
"Ah heard about yah meeting with him." Rogue said as she entered the room closing the door behind her. "How did it all go?"
Aelita went back to work saying, "The meeting went okay. Tony decided to take some of my father's technology and tried to study it. Of course he learned quite a bit of it, but he couldn't get any of the access codes or the correct equipment unless I gave it to him." Aelita turned the page and continued, "Plus, I'm only doing this because he said he'll help me get my father back."
Rogue sat down on her bed and asked, "What happened to yah father?"
Aelita stopped what she was doing and sighed, "I rather not talk about it right now." She glanced back at Rogue and asked, "Did you talk with Danny yet? I'm certain you two will be able to hang out more now, since you guys hung out behind our backs."
Rogue's cheeks started to get a light pink to them making Aelita smirk. "Ah don't know what you are talking about."
"I can hack all types of electronics Rogue. You can't lie to me." Aelita said turning herself around completely. She leaned back in her chair and asked, "Are you happy about being able to hang out with him now?"
Rogue sighed, "Ah am happy Aelita, but Ah'm still not completely sure about anything yet."
Aelita turned back around to her book and said, "Well, you guys look great together anyway."
Rogue leaned back onto her bed and groaned, "Ah could say the same thing about both of you."
Aelita closed the book and made the screen disappear. She got out of her chair and smiled, "I have a boyfriend Rogue. Danny is all yours to catch."
Rogue's eyes widen at the statement, and she got back up on her bed to see Aelita put the book under her bed before getting under the covers. "Ah hope yah right." Rogue muttered before getting ready for bed herself.
Ok, I have decided to keep it the Danny/Rogue/Aelita pairing, but there will be no love sexual moments going on between Rogue and Aelita. I would love to keep this as PG as possible. There will be love between the three, but nothing goes beyond the two women loving the same man. Danny will love them both equally and will treat them fairly once I get them together of course.
Danny's powers will be slightly altered as well. I'm deciding not to give Danny teleportation and telepathy for good reasons. Danny will get cyrokinesis and his ghostly wail. I'm deleting the clones and replacing it weapon adaptability. He will be able to use any weapon without any trouble except for specific weapons like Mjolnir. Anyway, this power will actually be used not as much as his other powers, but Danny barely used his clones when he finally got that power mastered anyway.
Anyway, I also decided to go along with one of my favorite pairings from the Ultimate Marvel universe, Peter/Kitty or Spiderman/Shadowcat. That's right, I decided to go with this pairing as well, and I specifically loved it when it happened. It was random when it happened, but it lasted for so long. I rather not go into detail anyway. I hoped you guys enjoyed the chapter. R&R