Well, there are going to be a few chapters before season 2 begins so I hope you enjoy the chapters I post up. This chapter is going to be the beginning of my new arc so please enjoy it. If you find anything wrong with it, please let me know in the reviews or as a pm so I could fix it to make it better. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy the chapter, and I own nothing.
It has been a week since the incident with Asteroid M. I got reunited with my brother Alex. Danny got two new powers and started to train controlling both powers. The downside is that his Ghost Wail is too powerful for him to use or to control. Rogue decided to move out of Aelita's room after the huge argument at the asteroid. We believe they still want to be roommates, but we don't know where this is going. Danny and Rogue are still together, but their relationship is on thin ice, and it is not pretty.
Dawn stays out in the forest for nearly three hours a day, and I only know that because of Kurt. Kurt is taking his training a bit more seriously which is nice, but nothing else has changed with him. Kitty and Evan are trying to find a way to recreate our little beach vacation. Other than that, everything seems to be fine…for now.
Yumi Ishiyama stood out on the beach looking out at the ocean thinking about what her life use to be. Her haired waved with the wind as it blew. She crossed her arms and muttered, "Why did those evil agents have to come and ruin everything we had?"
"I ask the same question myself sometimes." Someone replied making the girl turn around quickly to see Nick Fury standing a few feet away from her. "Hello Yumi, I see you still miss your friends."
"Who are you?" Yumi asked getting into a defensive position.
"I'm the one who sent Daniel to come to France to save your team." Fury told her making her feel a bit confused. "You are one of the few people on this planet outside of any organization who knows about mutants existing on our planet."
Yumi crossed her arms and glared at Fury. "Why are you here and talking to me about mutants?" She asked him.
"Believe it or not, your mutant friend Aelita has rebuilt Lyoko and the scanners for you and your friends to go back." Nick told her as he pulled a file out of his jacket. He handed the file to her and watched as she opened it up in surprise. "Your friends have been trying to find a way to contact you, but time differences have a way to screw things up."
Yumi flipped through the pages and asked, "Is this why you came to see me?"
"It's one of the reasons, but I did this for another reason." Yumi stopped and looked up at Fury feeling a bit curious. "A couple days ago the scanners were finished and ready to be tested to see if it was possible to go to Lyoko. Aelita plans on testing it today."
"Okay…I'm still not getting why you're here though."
Fury sighed, "A couple weeks after your family left to come back here in Japan Jeremy was offered a scholarship to a smart school."
Yumi blinked a couple times. "Again? I thought that they would have left that alone after he failed the last one on purpose."
"They did." Fury responded making Yumi's eyes widen slightly. "The scholarship was a sham to get Jeremy captured into doing the dirty work in recreating Lyoko or so we thought."
"No…" Yumi dropped the folder and covered her mouth in shock.
"Jeremy is fine for now, but we don't know how much longer we have before Project Carthage is completely reborn."
"What do you need me for?" Yumi asked trying to compose herself.
"What Aelita needs is her team, and you guys are the only people who know anything about Project Carthage. What I need is for Project Carthage to be shut down permanently." Fury told her seriously.
"What do you expect me to do then? I can't leave without telling my parents, and even if I do tell them, they still won't accept me going." Yumi countered knowing how her parents would react to all of this.
"Leave that to us. Right now, my team is picking up your three friends while I came here to retrieve you."
Yumi's eyes widen when she caught the meaning. "Wait, you mean we're leaving now?" She asked him.
"We do have a couple days before Aelita tests out the scanners, but there are some things that need to be cleared up before you guys meet up with her."
'I'm starting to wonder if this was even a good idea, but this is for Jeremy.' She mentally reminded herself as she closed her eyes with a sigh. "Okay, when do we leave?"
"As soon as you pick up the folder you dropped." He told her knowing she forgot about it.
"Hm." Yumi looked down and smiled sheepishly before reaching down to put everything back together like it was before she dropped it.
Odd, Ulrich, and William walked through the halls of the Helicarrier looking around everywhere in surprise. Odd turned his head slightly and saw the lunch room which made him lick his lips. "You can worry about your stomach later Odd Della Robbia. Right now we got other things we need to worry about." Agent Coulson said as he leads the three boys down the hall.
Odd turns his attention back to Coulson and asks, "So why are we here?"
"I'll explain everything once we're in a more appropriate place to talk." Coulson answered as they walked up to a door.
Odd turned around and looked around curiously. "Do you guys have any type of video games on this flying machine thing?"
"Odd!" Ulrich said in a stern voice. "We're on a military base that flies. What do you think?"
"I think they need to do something to pass by the time." Odd answered with a smirk making the two boys groan at the answer.
"Normally, we are not allowed to play video games aboard the Helicarrier." Coulson told them as the door opened for them to enter the room. "But we have caught a couple of them playing games when we thought they were gathering information."
"Are you supposed to even tell us about that?" William asked as they entered the room.
"That's a good question Mr. Dunbar, but we're not here for that." Coulson motioned for them to sit down in the chairs that surrounded the table in the room. The door to the room closed as the three boys sat down. "Now I understand Aelita told you boys everything you needed to know about Project Carthage."
"Project Carthage?" William asked curiously.
"It's what got renamed to Lyoko." Ulrich told him then turned his attention back to Coulson. "Yes, she told us everything going up and kept us up to date."
Coulson nodded, "That's good. This actually makes the situation easier to explain."
"What do you mean?" Ulrich asked raising an eyebrow.
"Has she told you guys that the scanners were complete?"
Odd leaned forward in his seat and said, "Come to think of it. She never said anything about them being finished."
"Why are you telling us instead of Aelita?" William asked feeling a little uneasy.
"Recent events made us have to tell you since Aelita and her friends were fighting a man known as Magneto."
The three boys looked at each other in confusion. "Wait, are you saying that there are bad mutants as well?" Odd asked as they turned their heads back to Coulson.
"We should have seen it coming though. Nothing is ever easy when it comes to life." Ulrich said leaning back in his chair with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Wise words, but yes, Magneto is able to control anything that is metal. He wants to wage war between humans and mutants and to show that his kind is superior to our kind. Luckily, the X-men are mutants who see differently from Magneto's point of view."
"So they stopped whatever plan he had right?" Odd asked raising an eyebrow.
"Correct, the moment the incident happened was when Tony Stark finished building the scanners. She found out recently that they were finished and will go test them out in a couple days." Coulson brought up the new scanners on the screen behind him. "As you can see the scanners are going to stay the same design do to Aelita, but she approved of Tony to upgrading them to be wireless and movable without any problems."
"Wait, are you saying we don't have to go the same place over and over again just to get to Lyoko?" Odd asked feeling excited about the new upgrade.
"Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying, but with Jim's help you guys will be able to get to Lyoko without much problem from the other teachers."
Odd, Ulrich, and William high-five each other as the door to the meeting room opened. "Ah Coulson, I see you were able to gather the others." Nick Fury said as he walked into the room.
"Hello Fury, I was about to finish explaining the new scanners they'll be using getting to the virtual world." Coulson told his boss.
"I'll take it from here Coulson. You did well." Fury said as he grabbed the remote off the counter. Coulson nodded and exited the room with his hands behind his back. "Now, before I finish explaining everything to you guys, I would like you to meet someone."
The three boys turn around in their seats to see Yumi walking into the room. "Hey guys, how's it going?" She asked giving them a smile.
"Yumi!" Odd yelled happily as he got out of his seat jumping for joy.
William got out of his seat and walked up to her with a smile on his face. "Hey, glad to see they convinced you to join us." He said.
"It's kind of hard not to when you learn everything going on in one day." Yumi joked then turned her head to Ulrich.
Ulrich got out of his seat and walked up to her with a neutral expression. "Hey Yumi, I'm glad you're here." He said trying to keep a neutral expression.
Yumi crossed her arms and asked, "Are you going to act like you didn't miss me?"
Ulrich smirked, "Eh, it was worth a shot, but yeah, I missed you…a lot." He rubbed the back of his neck with a small blush appearing on his face.
Yumi blushed lightly and moved her hair behind her ear. "I could say the same."
"I would allow you guys to get reacquainted, but we're pressed for time." Fury said catching their attention. The four teens sat down in their seats and turn their attention to Fury. "Good, our recent scouting team has caught your friend Jeremy being held in a jail cell by a man known as Professor Tyrone."
"Is he working with Hydra?" Ulrich asked.
Fury shook his head. "No, he was someone who worked with Waldo Schaeffer. He was Waldo's partner when they were working on Project Carthage before Waldo betrayed the company taking the entire project with him."
"Which lead to Lyoko's creation." Ulrich summarized crossing his arms.
"Exactly, but since the original Lyoko, as you call it, was erased, Tyrone needed someone with full knowledge on Lyoko." Fury brought up a picture of their friend Jeremy. "He wanted Aelita, but Danny was able to get her to the U.S."
"I don't know what would have happened if he got his hands on Aelita." Yumi said with a relieved sigh.
"It probably would have been worse since Jeremy doesn't have the memory to rebuild Lyoko." Ulrich pointed out.
"Actually, he did, but we found out Aelita erased everything on his computer for his protection." Fury said making the four gasp in surprise. "Aelita wants to test the scanners out in the next couple days, but Jeremy's position has gotten worse these past couple weeks which made us move ahead with the plan."
"What did you want us to do?" William asked curiously.
"Professor Tyrone has almost everything he needs to recreate Project Carthage, but there is only one key component that he's missing, and they are these." He switches the picture on the screen to the white tall towers found on Lyoko.
"The towers?" Odd asked raising an eyebrow.
"That would make sense since it was the only thing X.A.N.A. could use to attack us or anything for that matter in the real world." Yumi said remembering some bad experiences in her younger days.
"Oh, I get it now." Odd muttered.
"Without the towers this virtual world should be useless right?" William asked.
"Yes and no, the virtual world is useless until the towers are created, but with Jeremy under his captivity, we don't know how much longer until it is completely created."
Ulrich gritted his teeth. "We should have seen this coming."
"You're teenagers. I would be surprised if you were prepared for something like this, but with your virtual world completed. You guys will be able to go back and find a way to free your friend."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Odd asked as he got out of his seat. "Let's head over to Lyoko and find a way to free Jeremy!"
"We're over the Atlantic Ocean, Odd." Ulrich reminded Odd who smiled sheepishly. "But I agree with you."
"There's something more you should know. Until your friend Jeremy is freed from Tyrone's custody, you guys will be staying in the U.S." Fury told them making the four look at him with wide eyes. "We explained everything to your parents, and they agreed with us."
"Wait, you told them?" Yumi asked softly.
Fury looked at her and nodded, "Yes, we explained everything to your parents. They were reluctant to let you do this, but they only asked that you came back home safely."
Yumi closed her eyes and sighed, "We didn't want them to know."
"Now that they know, things are going to be different." Ulrich said crossing his arms and glancing at Yumi. "I guess this makes things easier for us though."
"Well, they could have denied us from doing this at all." William pointed out with a shrug. "This just makes our job easier."
"True, but my parents didn't even think that my behavior was even abnormal." Odd said leaning back in his chair putting his hands behind his head. "Either way we get to hang out as our group again."
"Wait, where are we staying?" Ulrich asked turning his attention back to Nick Fury.
"You'll be staying at the Institute for Gifted Children which is where Aelita is staying. Charles is allowing you guys to stay until Jeremy is freed or until school starts." Fury told them.
"I'm guessing we have to go back home when school starts, huh?" William asked.
Fury nodded, "Yes that is one thing we can't avoid happening. Normally, we would be able to push some rules around and allow you guys to attend a school in New York, but things would seem a bit weird if three kids from France and a girl from Japan transferred to school all of a sudden."
"Well, my family lives in Canada, and if we don't free Jeremy before the summer is over then you could do that for me right?" Odd asked as he got out of his chair.
Fury gave Odd a curious look then nodded, "Yes, that would make sense, and I doubt anyone would find it suspicious especially Tyrone. There's only one problem with that plan. I can't send you to the same school as Aelita which means you'll have to live here in the Helicarrier or with Tony Stark."
Odd nodded, "Okay, I'll try to keep my options open." He sat back down and put his elbow on the table. "I just hope X.A.N.A. doesn't come back to life. We would have an even bigger problem on our hands."
"Either way you guys should be arriving at the Institute by the end of the day tonight or tomorrow morning." Fury told them. "Now, we'll leave you guys here to chat up with each other since you probably have a lot to talk about." He turned the screen off and left the room saying, "Don't mess with any of the equipment Della Robbia."
Coulson stood outside the room by the door and turned his head when Fury walked out of the meeting room with the door closing behind him. "Why did you tell them that we can't have them go to the same school as Aelita, sir?" He asked his boss.
Fury motioned his head for Coulson to follow him. "The reason, why I told them that, is because they don't need to be involved any more than they already are. If they go to the same school as Aelita when mutants are revealed to the world, it would cause a huge catastrophe, and they do not need to be involved in any of it."
"What about the things you told Odd Della Robbia?"
The two stop walking as Fury turned around to look at Coulson. "I don't want to involve them as much as I can, but you've seen the boy's grades. That boy has the smallest chance of something great in the future. He knows barely anything with electronics, and he doesn't have the push to study unless he needs to pass." Coulson raised his eyebrows slightly and nodded in agreement. "Despite all of that, I can see him having a good future saving lives. This virtual world has brought something that makes him push himself to protect others. I've seen some of the hidden camera feed. All of them have potential in becoming heroes, but Odd has the biggest chance out of all of them."
"You don't think there is a hidden agenda behind all of this, do you?" Ulrich asked the others a few seconds after the door closed.
"Probably, he wouldn't have told our families if the situation was better than it is." William answered.
Odd got out of his seat and walked up to the front of the table where the screen was. He turned to his friends with a serious grin on his face. "Who cares about that? Right now we have to free Jeremy and save the world. I mean, what was the original purpose for this virtual world project anyway?"
"To be able to intercept radio signals from around the world." Yumi answered making Odd frown. "Yeah, I found that out from the file Fury gave me before coming here."
"You don't think that they want those plans, do you?" William asked not liking where any of this was going.
"They probably do want them, but there is one person stopping them from getting their hands on the plans completely." Ulrich told them.
"Leave it to Aelita and her mutant powers to protect her father's work." Odd said putting his right hand on his hip.
Ulrich nodded, "The way I see it. We're more useful on Lyoko than his agents would be because of our experience and because Aelita wouldn't allow people she doesn't know on Lyoko."
Yumi crossed her arms and put her feet up on the table. "Either way, Fury is right about freeing Jeremy. We'll free Jeremy, destroy this virtual world, and keep an eye on everything connected to Lyoko from here on out."
"That means we're going to move here or have Aelita make a way for us to keep an eye on Lyoko." William said leaning forward on the table.
The four sat or stood quietly thinking about what they should do. Odd sat down on the table and asked, "Would joining this organization be out?"
"What makes you say joining S.H.I.E.L.D. would be any better?" Ulrich asked curiously raising an eyebrow.
"Well, I could keep an eye on Aelita, and I can get some special training fighting bad guys."
"You seriously believe this place has special agents that do secret spy or assassin missions?" William asked shaking his head at Odd's reason.
Odd got up off the table and put his hands in his pockets. "Of course, I mean they wouldn't just have something as big as this just for show right?"
"Can't argue to that logic." Yumi pointed out.
Ulrich rubbed his chin in thought, 'Odd has a point, but joining this group just gives me a bad feeling. Of course we'll probably see Odd rarely at all, but he'll…' His thoughts trail off which made him sigh. "Let's think about this later. Jeremy is our first priority."
"Agreed." Yumi said.
Danny walks down the hall and stops to look at the door to Aelita's room. He turned his head to the door to the bathroom and sighed, "Business first then I'll talk to her."
Inside Aelita's room, Aelita stood in the middle of the room with four holo-screens surrounding her in the dark room. She looked over the design of the scanners carefully and tried to find anything that was wrong with it before she tested them in person. She looked over the construction of the wires connected together and nodded when it matched with the original scanner. She closed her holo-screens and snapped her fingers which turned the lamp in her room on. "I'm starting to get the hang of my powers." She said looking at the lamp with a smile.
Aelita, you turned the television on again. Jean told the girl telepathically/
Aelita winced and snapped her fingers turning off the television and the lights to the bathroom. "AH!" Danny yelled in surprise making Aelita smile sheepishly. "Aelita, you turned the lights off to the bathroom again!"
Aelita walks out of her room turning the lamp off manually. "Sorry Danny, I was just turning off the television." She told him.
Danny came out of the bathroom and asked, "Aelita, what has been going on with your mutant powers lately? It's only been a week since we got back from fighting Magneto."
Aelita rubbed her left arm and replied nervously, "Well, when we got back I turned my lamp on without using my holo-screens."
"You don't think your powers are evolving, do you?" Danny asked curiously.
Aelita shrugged, "That's probably it, but I'm not too sure."
"I think we need to talk with the Professor about this."
"Hm, this is definitely interesting." Charles said as Danny and Aelita sat in different chairs in his study. "It would explain why certain appliances turn on at random moments, but it also might be possible that you already had this ability when your mutant powers came to light."
"Why would I discover it now?" Aelita asked as she glanced down at her hands.
"It might have something to do with your relationship with Rogue." Both teens turn their heads away from Professor Xavier who sighed at their reaction. "You wish she didn't move to another room which could have caused an emotion to trigger it."
Aelita looked down at her hands then asked, "Is it wrong for me to want her back as my roommate?"
Charles sighed and turned his wheelchair around. "That is mainly up to you two."
Aelita got up from the chair and left the room not saying anything to either male in the room. "Are you sure they could go back to being roommates?" Danny asked as he got out the chair.
"I can't make their decisions Daniel, but their friendship can be repaired since the whole thing was a misunderstanding."
"Yeah, about me." Danny muttered before leaving the room.
'Sometimes Daniel, you just have to go with the flow to understand why things happen.' Charles thought as Danny went through the door. 'This is only the beginning of our troubles.' He shook his head as he remembered seeing Danny's evolved form. 'His mental block was strong enough to protect him from getting his mind altered, but a whole new side just showed up. Daniel, what are you going to become?' He looked at the door when he thought that question.
Aelita walked into the living room to see Rogue sitting on the couch reading a book while Kitty and Jean were watching some show on television. Jean turned her head to Aelita and glanced at Rogue then back at Aelita and nodded, "Hey Kitty, could you help me make a snack?"
Kitty looked at Jean in confusion then saw Aelita from the corner of her left eye. "Sure thing Jean, I'm starting to get a bit hungry myself." Kitty replied.
Rogue looked up from her book to see Jean and Kitty leaving the room and sighed when she saw them walk by Aelita. Rogue closed her book and set it down on the couch with a sigh. "What do yah want Aelita?" Rogue asked carefully.
"I want my roommate back." Aelita answered honestly.
Rogue gave Aelita a confused look and crossed her arms. "Ah thought yah didn't want to be roommates anymore after Ah made yah remember all the bad things happening."
Aelita sat down next to Rogue and sighed sadly. "I have to be honest Rogue. I was upset that you kept bothering me about my project, but it isn't the same in the bedroom without my roommate. I miss have you as a roommate."
Rogue looked away sadly and asked, "What about you and Danny?"
Aelita sighed and looked outside. "I don't know what you believe Rogue, but we're just friends. Yeah, we do hang out quite a bit, but I have a boyfriend that I still like more than anything, and he likes you."
"Then why do you guys hang out so much?" Rogue asked turning her head to her friend.
Aelita flinched at the question not knowing why the question actually hurt her heart a bit. She bit her bottom lip and sighed, "I feel safe."
Rogue blinked a couple times at the question. "You feel safe?" Rogue raised an eyebrow in confusion.
Aelita got off the couch and walked over to the window. "The day Danny and I met for the first time, I felt something. I don't know what it is, but I feel like he can protect me from something bad happening."
"You too huh?" Rogue asked catching the pink haired teen off guard. Rogue got off the couch and walked up to her friend who was staring at Rogue in surprise. "The day we met Ah felt the same way, but it was only minor at the time since Ah was confused about everything going on."
"You did mention about being scared and confused when you first discovered your powers." Aelita summarized with a small smile.
Rogue crossed her arms and hummed in agreement with her friend. "After Danny calmed meh down, Ah felt some kind of connection, and being able to touch him is a great bonus." Rogue leaned against the wall on the opposite side of the window and asked, "What has your boyfriend done for yah?"
Aelita walked away from the window with a sigh. "When I was younger my father worked with a company that worked on this project I cannot tell you guys about, but my dad betrayed them and recreated it in another way. My father sent him and me into this project and shut it off with us in it putting us to sleep for 10 years." She sat down on the couch
Rogue's eyes widen at that information. "Wait, does that mean yah're really twenty-six years old?"
"Yep, but I didn't age in any shape or form."
"That's crazy."
Aelita leaned back on the couch and moved her eyebrows a bit showing she agreed with Rogue. "Jeremy was the one who turned the project back on and freed me from the program, and at the time I had amnesia. I gained my memory back over time, and Jeremy did everything he could to free me from being connected to the project."
"Wait, what do yah mean?" Rogue asked confused by that statement.
Aelita sighed, "My father created something along with the project as an artificial intelligence. It went against my father which is why he shut the project off in the first place. The A.I. turned into a virus that linked me with the project to make sure it would not get shut off with him inside."
"It was trying to stay alive."
Aelita closed her eyes and looked down with a small nod. "Yeah, this is the other reason why I don't want to talk about the project since my father died destroying this virus."
"Aelita…" Rogue got off the wall and sat down next to Aelita.
"If you ask me, it would be better if you just let Rogue touch you to see your memories about the project." Logan said making the two to turn their heads to see Logan leaning against the wall watching them. "I'm not one for sentimental, but Rogue seeing your memories would be way better than trying to explain everything while not mentioning your father's project."
Aelita sighed and got up off the couch with an uneasy feeling in her stomach. "I still don't know if she should even know about it." Aelita admitted sadly.
Rogue got off the couch and muttered, "It's your decision Aelita. Ah would like it if yah stopped keeping this a secret from all of us, but…"
Aelita looked at Rogue over her left shoulder and stared at Rogue in her eyes. "I've been holding this in too long." Aelita sighed in defeat and glanced at Logan. "Is there anyone nearby?"
"Jean made sure to give you two privacy, Pinky. No one will show up until you guys leave the living room." Logan answered before leaving the room.
Aelita watched Rogue take off her glove and sighed, "This should only be a couple seconds right?"
"It should." Rogue replied then put her hand on Aelita's forehead. She removed her hand off of Aelita's hand and muttered, "Lyoko…dad…mom…"
Aelita looked away muttering, "You know everything then."
"Ah do now, and Ah get your reason entirely as well." Rogue sighed and put her glove back on. "Now, Ah wish Ah knew nothing about it. It makes me feel even worse for how I acted earlier."
Aelita smiled, "Well, at least I know I got my roommate back."
Rogue smiled in return. "Yah got that right girl."
Dawn opened her eyes and looked at the Institute from the tree she was meditating in. She smiled when she saw two auras become friendly. "They finally rekindled their friendship." She said happily.
"Zey did huh?" Kurt asked hanging upside down next to her by his tail.
Dawn looked at Kurt and asked, "Why are you hanging by your tail next to me?"
"I figured it would be a good exercise for me to strengthen my tail since da rest of me is getting stronger." Kurt told her with a small smile. "Plus, it gives me an excuse to hang out here vid you."
"Charming, but it is interesting why you would choose to flirt with me when you are mostly interested in Kitty."
Kurt raised an eyebrow at the statement and asked, "Is it wrong for me to flirt vid someone I care about?"
Dawn blinked a couple times and asked, "Why would you flirt with me? You usually try to get Kitty's attention."
Kurt looked at the Institute and sighed, "Da incident at Asteroid M is still plaguing my mind, but someone came to mind when I saw Danny walk into zat machine."
Dawn's eyes widen when Kurt turned his head to her with a calm expression. "Did you really think of me?" She asked quietly.
Kurt looked at the Institute again and grabbed the branch Dawn was sitting on. He released the branch he held onto with his tail and swung around the branch into a sitting position next to Dawn. "Ja, I did think of you, but it was because I didn't want da same thing to happen to you if you were forced into da machine."
Dawn blushed lightly in embarrassment. She gave him a small smile and asked, "Is there something else you were hoping to do?"
Kurt shook his head. "Nein, I was worried about you then, but I can't seem to get you off my mind." He gripped the branch with his feet and flung back to get himself hanging on the branch. "It's weird, but I can't find myself hating it."
"I have seen types of aura Kurt, but your aura is not that much different from when we first met." Dawn told him making Kurt groan at that statement. "The only part that is different is that you're more serious then you use to be. What you're feeling could be anything that could have just taken root before it could grow."
"Hm, I guess that's true." Kurt muttered crossing his arms over his chest. "I'm going to go talk with Danny to see if he knows what I'm talking about. I'll be right back."
Dawn watched as Kurt teleported away and sighed sadly. 'Your aura has changed way more than I told you Kurt. I just don't know if I could feel the same way.' She looked up at the Institute as a bird landed on her shoulder. "I wonder what love really feels like."
Danny sat down on the ledge of his balcony and sighed, "I hope Rogue and Aelita patch things up." Kurt appears in Danny's room and chuckles as Danny glances back at him. "Hey Kurt, what do you need?" Danny asked as Kurt walked towards him.
"It's more of a question zan a need." Kurt told his best friend as he got out on the balcony. He put his hands on the railing and asked, "How did you and Rogue find out you guys have feelings for each other?"
Danny blinked a couple times in surprise and asked, "Why are you bringing that up? My relationship with Rogue is a bit rocky right now, and you know that."
Kurt gripped the railing and sighed, "Right, might as well reword what I meant." Danny raised an eyebrow at Kurt's behavior as Kurt jumped onto the railing right next to Danny. "How did you find out you wanted to date Rogue?"
Danny looked out at the view and muttered, "I don't know."
"What do you mean zat you do not know?"
Danny turned around and jumped off the railing onto the balcony. He rubbed the back of his neck and shrugged, "It's exactly what I mean. I have no idea to what drove us together, but it just felt right at the time. Now I'm not so sure if it even feels right anymore."
"Rogue and Aelita…"
"I don't want to talk…"
"Dawn said they settled things between them." Kurt interrupted making Danny look back at Kurt in surprise. "Yeah, I was a bit surprised myself."
Danny sighed in relief and smiled, "Well I better go talk with them."
"What about my question?"
Danny gave Kurt a questioning look with a raised eyebrow and shrugged, "I don't know what to tell you Kurt. I just went with the flow and what felt right. I doubt you would be in the same situation since it did involve some running and events for us to connect."
Kurt smacked his forehead and muttered, "I forgot zat was how it all started."
"I guess what I'm saying is that you just need to be patient. Rogue and I didn't get together until she kissed me, but she made the move because I didn't know what to do." Danny scratched his neck and looked away. "Actually I still don't know what to do."
Kurt gave him a deadpan stare and asked, "Are you saying you have no idea?"
Danny shrugged, "I don't know Kurt. If you have a crush on someone then you should just tell her how you feel. The worst that could happen is being rejected."
Kurt smiled and gave Danny a thumb's up. "Zanks Danny. I'll keep it in mind." Kurt teleported out of Danny's room leaving Danny alone.
Danny stared at the balcony where Kurt was sitting and muttered, "I hope things work better for your relationship then it has for me Kurt. Girls have confused me way more once I started to date Rogue."
Danny heard someone knock on his door and turned his head when he heard, "Danny, can Ah talk to yah?"
"Yeah, you can come in Rogue." Danny replied.
Rogue opened the door and walked into Danny's room. She closed the door behind her and stared at Danny in his eyes. "Ah know about Lyoko." She told him making him widen his eyes in shock. "Ah'm sorry for thinking that yah'll were doing things behind my back."
Danny raised an eyebrow, "Wait, what do you think we were doing?"
Rogue blushes lightly in embarrassment and mutters, "Ah rather not talk about it." She walks up to him and grabs his hands with her bare hands making Danny look down at their hands. "Ah started our relationship by kissing yah, and you stayed faithful to me even when Ah screwed things up."
"You didn't screw things up." Danny told her as he moved his eyes to look straight into her eyes.
"Yes Ah…" She was silenced when Danny put his lips on hers.
Danny moves back a bit and whispers, "I still like you Rogue, and I'm glad that you're my girlfriend even if you did make Aelita cry."
Rogue turned her gaze away and sighed, "Yeah, Ah apologized to her for accusing her."
Danny grabs Rogue's chin making her look at him in the eyes. "As long as she feels better then everything should be better." The two lock their lips together sighing happily that their relationship was rekindled.
Aelita watched the two kiss on her holo-screen with a smile on her face. She closed the holo-screen and looked outside. "I hope Jeremy is doing alright." Aelita mutters turning her head to her desk looking at the picture of her old team. She grabs the picture and traces her hand over it with a sigh. "I wish we could hang out again you guys, but I don't want to give up what I have either." She looks back out the window thinking, 'I hope you are doing okay Jeremy. I'll find a way to save you. I promise.' She put the picture frame to her chest as she started to remember her past time with her boyfriend.
Jeremy sat on the bed in his holding cell and just stared at the wall in front of him. He turns his head to the side and stares at the door with narrowed eyebrows. He watches the door open and stares at the man as he entered the room. "Hello Jeremy Belpois, have you changed your mind?" The man asked.
Jeremy narrowed his eyebrows at the man and muttered, "I still won't do it."
The man smirks, "I see. It seems you are not willing at all. I guess that makes you expendable for the new torture."
Jeremy sees some men come into the room. "Wait, what do you mean torture?" Jeremy asked as the men come into his cell. Two men grab his arms and handcuff them together.
"I only wished you had cooperated Jeremy, but it seems you are too stubborn for your own good."
One of the men hit Jeremy on the back of his neck and knocked him out leaving the group of men to chuckle evilly. "What do you plan on doing with him sir?" One of the soldiers asked.
"First we extract the information the kill him. I don't care who kills him, but no one can know of our secret project that includes the boy and his friends."
"Does that mean we can kill the others as well sir?"
The man looked down at Jeremy with a smirk, "We'll worry about it later. Right now I just need that information from the boy's mind; then we can worry about how you want to kill him and his friends."
Odd Della Robbia walked through the halls of the Helicarrier looking around to find anything that could interest him. He puts his hands behind his head and stops when he hears an explosion. "Huh?" He ran down the hall and entered a room to find himself in a control room. He enters the empty room and looks around curiously. He hears another explosion close by and looks out the window to see someone in a purple costume firing arrows at robots in the training room. "Oh wow, I was not expecting this." Odd said smiling at the scene he was seeing.
"I see you found yourself in the control room to the training room." Coulson said as he entered the room.
Odd jumped in surprise and turned around smiling nervously. "Oh um…I have a good explanation for that."
"You don't need to explain Della Robbia." Coulson told the boy who chuckled nervously. "We knew you would become restless in the meeting room, but we didn't count on you finding the training room."
"Wait, this is the training room?" Odd asked pointing back at the room he saw the person fighting robots in.
Coulson nodded, "Indeed it is Della Robbia, but…"
"Sir, we got a situation." An agent said running into the room.
"What is it agent?" Coulson asked turning his attention to the agent.
"Professor Tyrone has started moving earlier than planned sir. He's going to go into Jeremy's mind and steal the information by force!"
"What?!" Odd yelled in surprise catching everyone's attention, including the guy in the training room. "What do you mean they're stealing information from Jeremy's mind?!"
"Now Odd…" Odd turned his head to Coulson and scowled making the man sigh. "Continue explaining agent." Coulson said knowing where this would be going.
The agent gulped at the level of Odd's glare the continued, "Tyrone plans on starting to take the information he needs from Belpois' brain tonight. We don't know how much longer it will be until he gets the information and (gulps) kills Belpois."
Odd ran out of the room catching both men off guard and was out of sight in seconds. "This cannot be good." Coulson muttered sadly.
"Ok, what just happened?" A man in a purple costume asked as he walked up to the agent and Coulson.
"Hello Hawkeye, we might have a situation that Fury is not going to approve of." Coulson told the archer. Coulson turned to the other agent. "Sound the alarm and make sure that Odd Della Robbia does not escape the Helicarrier with one of the jets."
Hawkeye crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow. "Does it have something to do with that blond hair kid I saw in here earlier?"
Coulson nodded, "It does…"
Odd ran down the halls and out onto the main flight deck of the Helicarrier. He kept on running towards one of the jets to skid to a stop when he saw Fury and a few other agents in front of him. "That's enough Odd. I know you're angry, but we can't risk your life to go after Professor Tyrone." Fury told the boy.
Odd stood there breathing heavily as he stared at Fury. "I'm not going to sit here waiting to save Jeremy." Odd told Director Fury.
"You are not waiting much longer Della Robbia. What would your friends say when they find out you left without them?"
Odd balled his hands up and gripped them tightly. "What am I supposed to do, huh? I'm not going to stay here any longer until Jeremy is freed."
Fury nodded and pulled out a pair of gloves. He tossed them to Odd who caught them in confusion. "I figured you would say that. I just got word that Hawkeye decided to join you."
"Wait, you're letting me go?" Odd asked confusingly. "I thought you were going to stop me."
"We did." Fury waved the agents to leave, and the agents walked off back to their posts. "Hawkeye is just waiting for you to join him."
"Wait what?!"
Uh, this is not how I planned this to go, but I will take it. Scott makes a narrative at the beginning explaining their whole situation but does not make an appearance. I did plan on having him and the others make more appearances in this chapter but could not find a way to bring them into the story.
The bright side is that my new arc has finally begun with Odd going to save Jeremy with Hawkeye. I did plan for this to happen at some point or at least a team up once so Odd would know what it is like to be a real sharpshooter. (I hope I did that right.) Anyway, this should actually start for Odd to learn to become a real marksman even if he is a newbie.
I don't know why I start the series with Yumi and the others only for it to end with just Odd. I guess I see more potential in Odd and Aelita on these kinds of missions more than the others which is a bit sad. Oh well, I can't change it now anyway. Also what I explained in the beginning might still be happening. Aelita will get to reunite with her old team, but I'm not going to give away all the information dealing with that.
I did want to resolve Danny's relationship with Rogue and the friendship between Rogue and Aelita so that can be pushed out of the way to be focused more on the actual storyline coming ahead. Dawn and Kurt's relationship is starting to take a turn, but I never had an actual relationship myself so I hope I did everything alright. If anyone thinks it should go another way in the story then let me know so it could be better. R&R