Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko or any of the original characters.
Authors Note1: This story was written before the second season and is based entirely off the first season.
Authors Note2: This story takes place immediately after 'Collection V, Part One'
Key: Scene change
Code Lyoko: Collection V
Part Two
By. Tate Icasa
And they left Jeremie and Aelita alone for a very long time.
Which turned out to be a pretty bad idea.
"Jeremie, I feel strange." Aelita said. "I can feel my body again."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. Do you suppose that means the paralysis is over?"
"There's only one way to be sure." Jeremie said, and sat up. No thought, he just sat up. She sat up a few seconds later. They stared at each other for a while laughing in relief.
Suddenly, Jeremie got up and started walking.
"Jeremie, where are you going?" Aelita asked, following.
"I have an idea."
"What?"
"If I were the one moving my body, I could tell you, but I'm not."
"What do you mean, you're not?" She cried, planning on stopping to stomp her foot. But she couldn't. "Then waht is?" She asked, realizing that it was a pretty stupid question.
"Xana, probably. The poison must've given him the ability to control us."
"Well how do you suppose we get out of this situation?"
"I don't know. Relax and hope the effect is temporary?"
"How about we scream for Ulrich and Yumi?" Aelita suggested.
"That works too." He said, sounding almost disappointed.
They opened their mouths to shout and no sound came out.
After a while they both stopped trying.
"Well that didn't work." Aelita said.
Jeremie didn't respond.
"Jermemie?"
In fact, his eyes looked pretty glazed over. He gave no sign whatsoever that he had even heard her speak. She bit her lip in frustration.
"Jeremie? Can you hear me?"
He kept walking eyes fixed straight ahead.
Aelita
I had a pretty good idea of what had happened.
Xana, who, of course, was controlling us, didn't want us to call for help. But we're too strong for him to control all of us, all the time. So he'd set us talk. Until we'd tried to call for help.
He'd taken control totally, for a little while. We were both strong enough that it got out of the way so we could talk.
So Jeremie must not be fighting.
The only question now was why. Why would Jeremie not fight for control of his own body?
And the more I thought about it, the more it actually made sense.
He hadn't been fully in control of his own body for fifteen years. The last sonscious decision he'd made was about five years ago when he'd stopped Baachek from. . .um, I'm not going to think about that. Yeah. Good idea.
If Jeremie wasn't going to fight on his own, I'd have to force his hand.
"Jeremie," She said in a sad, almost pouty vioce, "You promised you wouldn't give up."
"Be quiet, girl," he said in a destorted, and obviously Xana controlled, voice.
"But you promised."
"Silence!" He commanded, "I demand silence."
"Why? Do you think my voice can actually make him fight you again?"
"Foolsih girl. He'll never fight me now." He laughed. "He's too tired and unprepared. He has no chance and he knows it."
"He promised he wouldn't give up."
"He lied."
"Jeremie wouldn't lie to me." She said. "He wouldn't. And he promised."
"He gave up years ago, when he fully surrendered to Baachek."
"I don't believe you."
"I order you to be silent."
"Why? If you don't think I can make a difference, what does it matter?"
He whirled on her, hands flying above his head and crackling with electricity. He brought them down toward her head.
His face contorted. "No! Don't hurt her!" And it was his own voice. His hands swerved suddenly, arrowly missing her and hitting himself.
"We should probably go check on Jeremie and Aelita." Yumi said finally.
"Yeah, probably."
Neither of them moved.
"Let's go." Yumi said, and started walking. She stopped. "Um, do you know how we go here?"
"No. Why?"
"Because I think we're lost."
"Oh." He sat down. "I heard somewhere that if you're lost you should stay put, so the searchers can find you."
"What searchers? Jeremie and Aelita are paralyzed. Odd and Timiya are outside, probably busy fighting monsters. Sissi and Milly are whereever. Who's looking?"
"If we find our way back, we're going to be in so much trouble."
"Yeah. So."
"So. Ok, I've got an idea."
He triplicated. Then he triplicated her. And the triplicates rushed uff to look. They both understood that the triplicates might not come back, if they ran into trouble or found nothing. And if they did come back, they'd know hwere to go."
Milly stepped into the tower.
"You know how to travel these?" Sissi asked.
"Only what you guys told me."
"Ok, I'll guide you." She took one of Milly's hands.
"Me too." Hope said, taking the other.
They leaned oer the platform and into the data stream. After a couple of seconds Milly slid her hands out of theirs and held them to her sides, spiraling downwards and smiling.
"Milly!" Sissi shouted. And it seemed to crack and fragment the datastream. They all fell in opposite directions.
Sissi didn't remember blacking out, but she woke up on a platform. She briefly closed her eyes to mentally locate Hope and Milly. They were unconscious, and missing, but safe. Sissi sat up and looked around. The walls of the tower were bluish. She rushed from the tower.
Mountains. Lyoko.
"Oh!" She gaslped. Implications hit her at a shocking speed. The time barrier. Everyone else was till on Okoyl.
She closed her eyes again.
Yumi? Can you hear me?
Sissi! I finally, some good news! Where are you?
Lyoko.
Lyoko? How-?"
I have no idea. The time barrier, Yumi, what happened to it? I don't know how long I've been here. How long has it been for you?
Since I sent you away? Only a few hours.
Ok, so, somehow we're caught in the time barrier.
We?
Hope and Milly are probably here smoewhere. So how are you?
Not quite so great. Ulrich and I are lost.
Lost? How do you get lost watching two paralyzed people?
Um, they wanted to talk alone, so we went into a forest and got. . .distracted.
Sissi laughed. Ok, ok, I'll be right back.
After a second the electricity faded, and Jeremie was still standing.
"Are. . .are you ok?" Aelita asked worriedly.
"I'm fine. How about you?"
She shook her head. "Didn't even hit me. That didn't hurt at all?"
"Not enough to make a difference." She looked at him strangely. "You build up a tolerance for it after a while." His hand went involuntarily to the place the shock-collar had been for almost sixteen years. "Every time she said kneel and I said no." He laughed bitterly. "By the ninth year it took almost a day at high power."
"Jeremie, I'm so sorry-"
"Forget it. I think the electricity shorted out the poison."
"Good." She said. "That's one of us, at least. I wonder how Xana channeled that electricity through you, anyway."
"That wasn't Xana's doing."
She blinked.
"It was a side effect of the shock-collar." He held up his hands and watched the electricity flow between them.
"Do you think you could short out the poison in me?"
"I hit myself rather than hit you."
"I'd rather get zapped by electricity than have Xana control me."
"I know." He said. "But I can't. I just can't."
"Oh." She said sadly. "Then can you show me how it works?"
"I guess so." He said suspisiously. The electricity crackled in his hands. And before he realized what she was doing she had taken them firmly in her own.
"Aelita" He stopped the electricity instantly and she collapsed into his arms.
Yumi, I'm back.
Great! Did you find them?
That's the bad news. There's something blocking me. I know they're alive and not in any immediate danger. I'll contract you if I learn anything more. I'm going to try to find Hope and Milly.
Good luck.
Thanks.
Yumi looked around. Ulrich was standing a few feet away.
She walked over.
"Sissi telepathically contacted me." She said.
"Oh, yeah? Well, what'd she say?"
"Jeremie and Aelita aren't in any danger but she can't contact them."
"We start walking?"
"Ok."
Odd landed next to Timiya.
"That was great!" He said. "None of our other fights have been so much fun!"
"Fun?" She exclaimed. "You call that fun?"
"I call almost anything fun."
"Great." She said. "I'm stuck out here with an idiot. Milly, how I envy you."
Milly looked aorund. The tower walls were different and she was alone.
The last thing she remembered was Sissi calling her name in the data stream. That must have disrupted something. She stepped out of the tower.
Lyoko Polar Region.
Great.
Milly or Hope, are you conscious yet?
This is Milly. I'm conscious.
Good. Where are you?
This is gonna sound weird, but I'm on the Lyokan Polar Region.
That doesn't sound too weird, since I'm in the moutains. I'll meet you.
Hope blinked.
There was no one there. She stepped out of the tower. The ground was flat and orange rocks dotted the landscape.
"This must be the desert." She said. "Alright then, let's see what we can find out."
She stepped back inside, and accessed the interface.
Aelita opened her eyes. She glanced upward, realizing that her head was in Jeremie's lap.
"Jeremie?"
"Aelita?" His head jerked toward her. His face was wet, as if he'd been crying. She smiled at him. "I. . .I thought you were dead." She said.
"Sorry."
"No. I'm sorry." He said. "All you did was bring me back. All the way back." He helped her up. "I want to show you something.
He threw the electricity into the air, until it took on a mind of it's own. It pulsed aorund them, never quite close enough to hurt. So they danced through the storm, letting the lightning course through their veins as blood. . .
