Hey everyone! I'm back again with another chapter of WTJB! Yet again, this is the longest chapter so far - 2,242 words!
Disclaimer: If I owned Code Lyoko, there wouldn't be French names in the credits. Does that answer your question?
Claimer: I own Mia, Kyle and the Scyther.
Chapter 9
(Monday morning again, normal POV)
As before, the gang was sitting at the table, excluding Jeremie.
"I wonder what all that stuff was about on Lyoko..." Mia said.
"Simple really," Yumi said to her. "We have to get Jeremie's laptop and put that CD in it."
"Trouble is, Jeremie doesn't really like us any more," Odd said.
"Maybe what we did wasn't worth it," Aelita said, looking worried.
"Well whatever you did," Ulrich said in his usual boring but very truthful voice, "it's done now. So get over it, and stop wasting time."
Odd looked at Mia, who was sitting opposite him. She was staring at the ceiling. Odd waved his hand in front of her face, and she didn't respond. "Hey, what's wrong with her?" he said.
Yumi prodded her sister, who promptly came out of her daydreaming and back to reality.
"Huh what now?" Mia said, confused.
"You just zoned out for awhile there. What happened?"
"Oh, I was just thinking about... stuff..."
Odd raised his eyebrows and looked at Yumi.
"I think she means Kyle," she said.
"Who's Kyle?" Odd said.
"Aelita's brother."
"I have a brother!" Aelita half-asked, half-exclaimed, almost jumping out of her chair.
"Yes, you do. He gave us that CD we told you about earlier."
Suddenly, the bell rang, signalling that breakfast was over. Everyone apart from Mia had finished, so she just dumped her food. The five went to their lessons.
(First lesson, Aelita's POV)
"Okay, you're going to be running cross country now," Jim said to his PE class, which unfortunately included me, Odd, Ulrich and Jeremie. We usually run in a group, but today, I decided to run off ahead of the others. Odd was the first one to catch up with me.
"Hey," he said, "where're you off to?"
Ulrich quickly came after him, as he certainly didn't want to break his perfect record of being faster than Odd.
Jeremie, however, was the slowest of us, and got left behind.
"So why did you run off, Aelita?" Ulrich asked me.
"I think she wanted to get rid of Jeremie." Odd replied.
"Odd..." I started.
"Yes Aelita?"
"You think going out with me is making you more intelligent? Because you just thought correctly."
The boys laughed at this. We carried on running, completely forgetting about Jeremie.
"So, what're the bets for the time of XANA's next attack?" Odd asked.
"Since when did we bet on-" Ulrich said, but got interrupted as he fell over an annoyingly protruding rock.
But it wasn't really a rock...
"Dude, what is that thing?" Ulrich said, getting up and looking at the rock. He managed to remove it from the ground, and showed it to me and Odd, as we had now stopped running. The thing was covered in dirt so at first it didn't look like anything special. However, we recognized a familiar symbol on its face.
"Look, it's the XANA symbol," I said.
Ulrich rubbed some of the dirt off of the rock, revealing a much smoother, shinier spherical object.
"You think we should keep it?" Ulrich asked.
"Of course," I said, "if it has the XANA symbol on it, it's got to have something to do with XANA!"
"Well we'd better get moving again," Odd said.
"Yea, otherwise Jim might catch us." Ulrich added.
"Or Jeremie." I said. "And he might take the ball away."
(End of first lesson, Yumi's POV)
I was walking out of my math class, heading the other side of school for history. Boring day this. Or at least, until Aelita suddenly came by.
"Hey, aren't you meant to be in PE?" (A/N: Assume their PE lesson takes two periods... that's how it is in my school and it's certainly useful for the storyline ;) )
"Yes, but I have to give you this," Aelita said, "or it might get stolen by Jim."
Aelita handed me the XANA symbol sphere, which was about the size of a soccer ball. "What is this?" I asked her.
"I don't know. We found it while running. Just keep it somewhere safe. Oh, here's Jeremie's other dorm key. Try and get to his laptop. Anyway, I've got to go now so I don't get caught by Jim."
And with that, she ran off again.
I stuffed the strange sphere into my bag, and carried on to my history class.
(Lunchtime, Yumi's POV)
As soon as we were let out of the classroom, I went straight to Jeremie's dorm, unlocked it with Aelita's key (good job nobody was in there) and went in. I switched on his laptop, and soon I was asked for a password. I tried "Aelita", but that failed, so I tried "Lyoko", but that failed as well. While I was thinking about the password, Aelita came into the room. She told me to try "Hopper", so I did, and it worked, surprisingly enough.
I put the CD in, and it loaded.
"It's not a video or anything?" I said as a program filled with unintelligible symbols appeared on the screen. I was expecting it to instruct us further.
"Look! The sphere is glowing!" Aelita said, as she suddenly noticed that light was radiating from my bag. I removed the sphere and held it in front of me, and saw that one of the symbols on the screen was also glowing. I started typing some commands, curious to see what this was about.
Just then, the door opened, and Jeremie walked in, spotting Aelita before anything else, luckily for me.
(Aelita's POV)
"Aelita! You..." he started.
"Jeremie... you should calm down..." I made sure to take his attention for as long as possible, so that Yumi could continue.
"You should let me destroy XANA."
"And you should stop trying to! Why can't you just stay out of the way if you don't want anything to do with us any more?"
"Aelita... I sacrificed everything for you... But you are nothing compared to the world..."
"Look, nobody ever said we were going out. I'd say it's your fault you got into this mess."
"Aelita..."
"Come on, we're going."
"What? Where to?"
"The factory."
Dragging Jeremie out of the school was no big deal, considering my physical skill, and his lack of such.
(At the factory, Aelita's POV)
"What's your idea with this, anyway?" Jeremie asked me.
I started up the virtualization program, and headed for the scanners. After pushing Jeremie into one, I stepped into another and waited.
(Meanwhile, Yumi's POV)
"Wow... this sphere is a part of XANA?"
"Correct." Kyle was speaking through the computer. "If XANA gets it back, he will get remarkably stronger. Franz Hopper created the spheres as a failsafe in case anything went wrong with XANA."
"So why is XANA still able to harm us?"
"Without the spheres, XANA's powers are limited. But only I can completely stop him. For several years after XANA's creation, and our imprisonment on Lyoko, I held the spheres. But they suddenly disappeared from Lyoko. They must have been rematerialized in the real world. If you bring me the spheres, I can stop XANA, but I must stay in Lyoko to do so."
"And how do I know you're not XANA?"
"It's impossible to prove that. I rely merely on your trust."
"Fine. I'll ask the others."
(Lyoko)
(A/N: I watched the entire Season 2 in one day. Therefore, tarantulas, mantas and creepers all exist through a plot hole. Carthage and the Scyphozoa may or may not be worked into the plot somehow. The vehicles will not exist at all, because although they look really cool, they make Lyoko battles more boring IMO.)
"Aelita..." Jeremie began. "Why did you have to bring me here?"
"I wanted to talk to you away from anyone else."
"What's there to talk about?"
"It's you Jeremie. How can you just suddenly turn your backs on all of us like this? Do you realize you intend to destroy me simply because I'm not in love with you?"
Jeremie turned his head away from Aelita.
"I know you're angry with me Jeremie. But you're going too far."
"Then maybe you shouldn't have deceived me ever since I met you."
"Deceived you? It's not my fault that you can't figure out what love is."
Then there was silence. However, it was short-lived, as the unmistakable buzzing of hornets came into earshot.
(Yumi's POV)
I walked through the school to the cafeteria, knowing that Mia, Ulrich and Odd would be here. When I got there, I told them about the sphere and what Kyle had said.
"How could you possibly think Kyle is XANA?" Mia said quickly, before shoving more food in her mouth. I wouldn't blame her; she did spend all of breakfast dreaming, after all.
"More like, how could you think he is, when you're so in love with him?" I laughed to myself slightly after saying this.
"Hey! I said he was hot. I never said I was in love with him!" Mia joked.
"Really," Odd said. "I think he was telling the truth. I'd give him the things if we want to stop XANA. I mean, why else would one be lying in the middle of the track?"
Ulrich wasn't looking too happy. "Well I think he is. The whole thing sounds dubious to me. I'd say it's just another one of XANA's plans."
"Well, we'll go to the factory as soon as we've finished lunch."
Mia suddenly yelped. "What the hell? Get off my foot you stupid dog!" she shouted while kicking her foot at mid-air. I looked down, and saw Kiwi attached to her foot.
"Kiwi!" Odd got up from his seat and walked over to his dog. "What's going on?"
The dog just carried on trying to gnaw off Mia's foot. "Looks like XANA," I said, noticing the symbol in Kiwi's eyes.
"XANA must be running out of ideas by now." Odd said. "Come on, let's go to Lyoko."
"I'll stay here," Mia said. "No good letting a rogue dog run around the school unwatched. XANA must have possessed it for a reason."
(At the factory, Yumi's POV)
"Okay, you two head for the scanners." I said to Ulrich and Odd, who did so.
"Aelita, are you there?" I spoke into the computer. I glanced at the holomap, and noticed Aelita was indeed there, in the desert sector. Jeremie was also there... and unfortunately for them, so were a group of three hornets.
"Aelita! I'm going to virtualize Ulrich and Odd. Can you see the activated tower anywhere?"
"Yes, it's in the distance over there."
"Okay." I started up the virtualization program. "Transfer, Ulrich. Transfer, Odd. Scanner, Ulrich. Scanner, Odd. Virtualization!"
(Lyoko, Odd's POV)
"Happy to see me?" I asked, rhetorically. Aelita smiled and turned to face me. Jeremie just stayed sat down, sulking. What is he doing here, anyway?
"You go ahead with Ulrich. I'll take care of the hornets. Laser Arrow!" I fired a couple of arrows, which both missed. The hornets began firing at me, so I quickly flipped out of the way, and fired more arrows, this time taking down two of the three hornets. The last hornet flew off after Ulrich and Aelita.
I glanced at Jeremie, who hadn't moved. "You can't stay here Jeremie. You'll just get attacked by XANA!"
"Go away Odd," he said. "You're the last person I want to see right now."
"Whatever, but don't blame me if you get killed..." I ran off after Ulrich and Aelita, who were being attacked by two Tarantulas.
"Now do I hate those things or what?" I said to no-one in particular. I shrugged, and was about to carry on when I suddenly heard Jeremie scream from behind me. I turned round just in time to see a Scyther grabbing him.
And then, it walked straight to the edge of the plateau.
And then, it dropped him.
"Hey! Yumi!" I shouted. "Can you see Jeremie anywhere?"
"No, I wasn't following him. Why?"
"I think XANA just dropped him into the Digital Void..."
"He what?" Yumi practically screamed. "Oh my god... I can't see him anywhere, I think he's gone..."
"Oh well, no point wasting time with that." I said, running back to Ulrich and Aelita – and the Tarantulas – as the Scyther had just calmly walked off after its attack. Maybe XANA really does have a problem with using them too much.
(Ulrich's POV)
"Damnit!" I said as I deflected the never-ending laser blasts. "As far as buying time is concerned, these guys have to be the most annoying!"
"You got that right," Aelita said, as she jumped between some rocks.
Suddenly, the Tarantulas exploded. "Need any help guys?" Odd yelled from far behind us.
"Thanks Odd," I said.
"The tower's just up ahead," Aelita said, running towards it. But just before she reached it, two Krabs stepped out from behind the tower.
"Now what?" I said, but didn't waste any time. "Triplicate!"
My copies ran straight for the Krabs on either side. I ran down the middle. The Krab on the left fired at one copy, which disappeared, and I jumped on it before it could recharge its laser, killing it. The Krab on the right destroyed the other copy of me, and shot at me straight after. I fell down, temporarily stunned.
"Ulrich!" Aelita screamed. The Krab then charged up its laser again to fire at her. But just before it did, it exploded. Odd had once again saved us.
"Well, I'd better go deactivate that tower," Aelita said, and did so.
Triple cliffy! What happened to Mia? What will happen with Kyle and the sphere? Is Jeremie dead? It's review time anyway. I'd like to know particularly whether you think it would be a good idea to kill off Jeremie, or to make him mysteriously come back later.