"Code: Insomnia"
By cdc100
Summary: Jeremie is having fits in his sleep. Aelita wants to know what's wrong with him and he insists that nothing is wrong. Find out what happens.
Disclaimer: This is a work of pure non-profit fan fiction. I do not own any of the characters, their weapons, their abilities, or any of their universes, nor do I own any of the lyrics that will appear in later chapters, or any of the products mentioned in the story such as Coca-Cola, or Playstation.
Note: I don't know if I'm spelling Jeremie's name right. I've seen it spelled, "Jeremie," and "Jeremy," so just bear with me. If anyone thinks I should change the spelling, send me a review.
Chapter Three
"On the Rooftop"
Jeremie looked at his computer one more time before deciding to dismiss his friends' appearance as nothing to worry about. He began working on his desktop computer. He decided to modify the Skid a little. He opened a folder on the desktop and looked at one of his newest programming plans. He opened the file, and brought up an interface that connected his desktop directly to Lyoko. He began typing away furiously at his keyboard.
"All right. If I take this program…"
He typed in a bunch of codes into the text box on his screen. He was hard at work typing code after code all Morning. After a while, a green circle with an addition sign inside it appeared.
"That should do it."
He had just installed a particle beam on each of the NavSkids, and thanks to his ingenuity, he had done so without the beams taking up much of the sub's energy. He decided that it might be best to desist with his efforts for a moment and take a walk outside.
Meanwhile…
Ulrich, Yumi, Aelita and Odd were hooking up the camera to a small TV screen in Ulrich and Odd's room.
"Do you really think that this will work?" asked Yumi.
"Are you kidding?" asked Odd. "If Einstein made this, it's bound to work."
"No, I mean, this plan of ours."
"Well, we've got no other plans," said Odd. "We'd better just give this a shot and hope for the best."
"Guess you're right," replied Yumi.
"I think we've got it connected," said Ulrich.
They had hooked up the receiver for the camera feed to their screen. Odd picked up the camera and pointed the lens at himself.
"Do you see anything?" he asked.
"Yep," answered Ulrich.
"What do you see?" asked Odd.
"I see an idiot with an antenna that he calls a 'haircut' looking at us."
"HEY!"
Everybody giggled at this.
"Oh, shut up!" yelled Odd.
They spent the next hour or so trying to figure out the camera's controls. Aelita had somehow managed to hook a wireless PlayStation 2 controller to the camera. She toggled the left analog stick, and the robot moved back and forth. She then moved the right analog stick, and the camera moved by itself.
"Cool!" exclaimed Odd.
When she pressed the cross button, it began recording; when she pressed the circle button, it stopped; when she hit the triangle button, it paused; when she hit the square button, it played back the footage; when she hit the L1 button, it rewound the recording; when she hit the R1 button, it fast-forwarded through the recording. When she hit the L2 and R2 buttons, the robot strafed left and right.
"You do a nice job, Aelita," said Yumi.
"Well, I'm not just a pretty face," she joked.
"How much power does it have?" asked Ulrich.
"I've taken a look at its power supply. We should have enough for about for hours. I brought an expander with us, so that the signal sent out by the controller and the camera feed will be transmittable throughout the school. Luckily for us, Jeremie made a charger so that we can power it back up again. Its power supply isn't unlimited, but it should be enough," said Aelita.
"Good. Now we just have to wait," said Ulrich.
They waited for about another hour.
"I think he's coming out of his room!" said Ulrich.
Sure enough, Jeremie had just decided to come out of his room and take a walk.
"Deploy the camera," said Odd.
Aelita set the mobile camera outside.
She moved the controls so that she could follow Jeremie.
"Jeremie built this camera in with a 'wall-scale' function," said Aelita.
She moved the camera to the right side of the hall, and moved its legs so that they would attach to the wall. The camera moved upwards, and then it attached itself to the ceiling. They followed Jeremie for the next hour. Aelita was now accidentally focusing the camera on Jeremie's rear end.
"Aelita!" said Odd.
"Sorry!" she exclaimed.
"She refocused the camera on Jeremie's face. He seemed depressed about something."
Jeremie looked at his shoes. He was thinking about a certain girl with pink hair. The truth is, she was not the innocent, cute, virtual girl that he had known from Lyoko that he knew he loved. She had evolved into a strong, confident girl. Suddenly, a tear began to fall from his eye. He wiped it off. He continued walking from where he was, and looked down at the ground. He began to have heart-crushing thoughts. Was Aelita not interested in him? Could she have found a different boy to be with? This made his tears fall even faster. He wiped them from his eyes, and continued walking on the grounds. He found a tree and sat down right in front of it. He leaned his back against it, and closed his eyes.
In Ulrich and Odd's room…
"Is he crying?" asked Yumi.
Aelita looked at her feet. She knew why that was. He was in love with her, and he was just about ready to give up. It hurt her to know that he really cared for her, and that he didn't think she felt the same way. She began crying herself.
"Well, if it isn't the sleepwalking nerd," said a snide voice. Jeremie looked around, and noticed that Sissi Delmas, and her two cronies, Herb Pichon and Nicholas Poliakoff were standing with her. "Are you crying?" she asked.
"No, I've got something in my eye," replied Jeremie.
"Sure, you do," said Sissi, almost smiling.
"What do you want, Delmas?" asked Jeremie.
"Did he just call Sissi by her surname?" asked Odd.
"He did," said Ulrich.
"Hey, don't talk to me like that! I own this school!" said an outraged Sissi.
"No you don't. What's more, you don't want to. You just wanna run around, mess with your hair, claim you're the most beautiful girl in the school, and blackmail Ulrich into going out with you because you can't win his heart over by yourself. How many rolls of toilet paper did you use to stuff yourself with?"
Sissi just stood there with a half-furious, half-incredulous look on her face.
In Ulrich and Odd's room, everyone just stood there with their mouth open. Jeremie had just dissed the principal's daughter.
"Let's all pause for a second while you figure out a comeback," finished Jeremie. He was not smiling, but sounded triumphant.
"Now see here!" began Sissi.
"Wow, that didn't take as long as I'd imagined," said Jeremie.
"Uuuugh!" yelled Sissi. She just turned around and walked off with Herb and Nicholas in toe.
Jeremie got up, and started heading back to his room. He needed to continue working on his programs.
"He's on the move!" exclaimed Odd.
"I can't believe Jeremie just dissed Sissi!" said Ulrich. "Using her blackmailing me, her ego, and her hair against her, and tying it all together by asking her if she stuffs herself with toilet paper, it's an unprecedented triumph!"
"I am just disappointed that I didn't think of it myself!" said Odd.
Aelita thought in her head, "I'm in love," and smiled at Jeremie's brilliance. Suddenly, she was frowning again. She had wanted to say those words out loud, but was ashamed because she knew that the reason that Jeremie was sad was her silence.
Jeremie made his way back to his room deep in thought. He thought of his pink-haired beauty with green eyes. Another tear fell down his cheek, but he decided that he would take his mind off of this with a little computer work. He changed into his pajamas in the bathroom, and then sat down at his desktop. He needed to find some way to bring back William. He spent hours on the computer typing in codes, codes and more codes. After a while, he was still on his computer, but with no progress on getting William back. He tried every program he had written. He finally decided that it would probably be best to work on the Skidbladnir some more. A few hours later, he fell asleep with his keyboard as a pillow.
"Typical Einstein," said Odd with a sigh.
"It's getting late. We should probably take turns watching him," said Ulrich.
"I'll go first," said Aelita.
"I'll go next," said Odd.
"How about if I go after that, and then Yumi can finish up for the night?" suggested Ulrich.
Aelita sat down in front of the TV screen. She was looking at Jeremie sitting on his chair, laying on his keyboard. She sat there for an hour wondering whether there was anything she could do for him. She looked at him once again. He looked so cute when he slept. She began wondering if maybe he would feel better if she told him how she felt. After her shift, Aelita decided to go get Odd and go to sleep. Odd would wake them up if he found anything out.
Jeremie was being chased by scary, terrifying voices. He got up from his seat, and began running. He needed to escape! He ran through a door, down a hall, up stairs, and up more stairs. Finally, he realized that he was at a dead end.
Aelita awoke to the sound of another one of Jeremie's screams.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
"We have movement!" said Yumi.
Everybody was up and out of their beds immediately following the scream. Everybody got down and looked at the screen. Jeremie was sitting at his desktop computer, with that same anguished expression that he had on his face before. Sweat was streaming down his forehead.
"Is he having another one?" asked Odd.
"It seems so," replied Ulrich. He looked terrified.
Jeremie got up from the computer and walked fast to the door, his head darting left and right as he went.
"BELPOIS!" yelled Jim.
"Jeremie!" yelled Aelita.
Jeremie darted past all of the students in the hall who had apparently heard the screams. Milly and Tamiya were scribbling something down on their notepads. Jeremie scrambled up the stairs and went, of all places to the rooftop! He was dead scared of heights and he was on the rooftop! He was now standing on the edge, seemingly trying to decide whether or not to jump.
"JEREMIE!"
Aelita ran over to Jeremie's side, and looked at him. Everybody was murmuring something, and Jeremies head seemed to dart in the direction of everybody's voice.
"Belpois! Jeremie!" said Mr. Delmas.
Jeremie looked back and blinked his eyes at this. He looked around, and shook his head a couple of times.
"Huh…?" he said as he looked at us.
"Jeremie, what are you doing?!" asked Mr. Delmas.
"Huh?" he said again.
He looked down, and gasped.
"WHOA!" he yelled, and he shot back, still standing, and saw the school grounds. He closed his eyes, grasped his chest in relief, and clicked his tongue. He looked back at all the people who were staring at him.
"Thank you," he said.
With that, he turned around and walked off. He walked back down the stairs and into his room. He closed the door, and went back to bed.
"That was so scary!" said Aelita.
"Don't worry, Princess. He's back in his bed now," said Odd.
"But what if it happens again?" she asked.
"We'll just have to pray that it doesn't," replied Yumi.
They all went back to their rooms. Yumi headed back to her house, and Ulrich and Odd continued watching Jeremie well into the night. Aelita fell asleep feeling uneasy, and worrying about him. She decided that she would take him to the infirmary tomorrow.