"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. If anybody is wondering about the night terror thing, I got it from Boston Legal. I might use more story points from Boston Legal.
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. Yolande is pronounced, "Yo-lawn-duh." And if you're going to read this story, PLEASE at least have the decency to leave a review!
Chapter Seven
"Transfer Jeremie"
Aelita got dressed, and came running up to Yumi's room. She knocked on the door three times before Yumi came and answered it.
"What is it?" she asked. Then her eyes opened wider. "What happened to you?!" she asked, pointing at Aelita's eye.
"I'll tell you later! Jeremie's had another one, and he took off running to the factory!"
"We've got to warn the others!" said Yumi.
They headed downstairs to the boys' dorm and knocked on Ulrich and Odd's door. After a few knocks, Odd came out and rubbed his eyes.
"What happened?" he asked.
"Jeremie took off running to the factory!" said Aelita.
"WHAT!?" said a voice inside the room. "Come on, let's go!"
Ulrich came out of the bedroom and slipped his camo jacket on. He led the way to the factory.
Jeremie took the ladder back up to the computer room and sat down in the chair. He put his head in his hands. He had punched Aelita when he was having his night terror. He slapped himself on the head. But, somehow, that didn't seem to be enough. He then got up from the chair and started banging his head against the wall.
"I- AM- THE- WORLD'S- BIGGEST- JERK!!!" he exclaimed, slamming his head against the wall with each word. He then collapsed to the floor, leaned his head against the wall and began crying.
"So, Aelita, what happened to your eye?" asked Odd as they skated through the sewer.
Aelita looked down, and then looked up at them.
"Jeremie had another night terror. He began banging on his window, and when I tried to console him, he turned around and hit me."
"That must be why he ran off," said Ulrich. "I know I would."
"When he saw my face, he started crying," said Aelita.
"Well, at least we know he didn't mean it," said Yumi. "Does it hurt at all?"
"A little bit," replied Aelita.
Jeremie lied down on the floor next to the wall and lay in the fetal position. He remembered a situation somewhat like this when he was a child.
"Let me see your homework, shrimp!" said a figure towering over him.
"No, I worked really hard on this!" he replied.
"I said, give it here!" said the figure, snatching a piece of paper away from Jeremie.
"No! Give it back!" he said. He then punched the figure in the stomach.
The figure groaned as Jeremie's fist made contact.
"You're gonna pay for that, four-eyed small fry!" he said.
The figure shoved its large hand against Jeremie's chest, pinning him to the wall. The figure then moved his fist backwards.
"No! Stop! Please!" yelled Jeremie.
The figure moved his fist forward swiftly, making contact with Jeremie's stomach. The figure released his grip, and left Jeremie lying against the wall, and Jeremie broke down crying.
They stopped at the bottom of the other manhole and climbed up. They ran to the entrance and slid down the ropes. Aelita punched in the code and the elevator doors closed. They began to descend to the computer room. They found Jeremie lying against the wall opposite the elevator.
"Jeremie!" yelled Aelita.
Jeremie got up from the wall and began moving backwards. He didn't want to run the risk of hurting Aelita again.
"Jeremie, wait."
Jeremie stopped where he was and let Aelita come closer.
"Aelita-" he began. "Aelita, I'm so sorry!" said Jeremie.
Aelita put a finger to his lips to shut him up.
"It's all right, Jeremie," she answered. "I know that you couldn't control yourself, and that if you were awake, you wouldn't have hurt me."
"But, I still did it! I'm surprised that you guys didn't just leave me here," replied Jeremie.
"Come on, Einstein. You know us better than that," said Odd.
"I would never abandon you because of something that happened on accident," said Aelita. She hugged him once again.
"I really am sorry, Aelita."
Aelita felt her shoulder with one of her hands. It was all wet. It was soaked from a combination of Jeremie's sweat and his tears.
After a while, everybody calmed down.
"So, then, you forgive me, Aelita?" asked Jeremie.
"Of course I do, Jeremie."
He smiled. His princess had just said that she wasn't mad at him.
"You ready to come back to Kadic now?" asked Aelita.
"Well of-"
"BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"
"What the?" said Jeremie.
He ran over to the supercomputer and looked at the screen. It showed a glowing red structure.
"A tower's been activated on Lyoko!" he said.
"What's XANA up to this time?" asked Odd.
"I don't know, but I'm not going to wait and find out. Get downstairs! Now!" commanded Jeremie. He began typing code after code on the computer.
"I'm setting up the virtualization program," said Jeremie.
They got back into the elevator, and pushed the button that brought them to the scanner room. They heard Jeremie's voice over the intercom.
"The activated tower is in the Desert Region. You guys should appear just a few yards away."
Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd walked into their respective scanners, and would soon be followed by Aelita. The cabin doors closed around them.
"Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Yumi. Transfer Odd."
The scanners began to hum.
"Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Yumi. Scanner Odd."
They began to float toward the top of the scanners.
"Virtualization."
They disappeared, and they reappeared just to the right of the tower.
"Alright, Jeremie, we're here," said Ulrich.
"Hang on, Aelita will be right with you."
"Ready to go, Aelita?" asked Jeremie over the intercom.
"I'm ready."
"Transfer Aelita."
The doors closed around her and the scanner began to hum.
"Scanner Aelita."
She floated to the top of the scanner.
"Virtualization."
Aelita disappeared and then reappeared next to the others.
"I made it, Jeremie."
"Good, the activated tower should only be a few meters from your position. Wait a minute. I'm picking up four Flying Mantas around the top of the tower. Be careful."
Sure enough, four Flying Mantas appeared over their heads and began dropping mine after mine over the group's heads.
"Look out, you guys!" said Jeremie.
The group got out of the way of the mines, and one of the Mantas shot a laser blast from its mouth that detonated all of them.
"Are you guys alright?" asked Jeremie.
"Yeah, we're fine, Jeremie," said Aelita.
Jeremie let out a sigh of relief, but his relief was short-lived, as he spotted something familiar on the scan.
"Oh, no!" said Jeremie.
"What is it, Jeremie?" asked Odd.
"It's William!" answered Jeremie.
Odd and the others looked over their shoulders, and saw William. Only this time, instead of his Manta, he was riding on the back of the Scyphozoa! William jumped off of his mount, and went to face Ulrich. He picked up his cleaver, and began slashing at Ulrich. Ulrich blocked nearly all of them, until…
"Ow!" William hit Ulrich on the shoulder.
"Ulrich, be careful! You just lost twenty life points!" said Jeremie.
William took another swing at Ulrich, missing, and Ulrich managed to knick William in the torso.
Meanwhile, Aelita was trying to make her way to the tower, while being closely chased by the Scyphozoa.
"Jeremie! It's getting closer!" yelled Aelita.
Jeremie sat there with a worried expression on his face.
"Run, Aelita!"
Aelita ran until she reached the tower, but was picked up by the Scyphozoa.
"Jeremie!" yelled Aelita.
"Oh, no!" said Jeremie. Aelita was going to be destroyed. He didn't want to let that happen, but there was nothing he could do. Ulrich was too busy fighting William, Yumi and Odd were occupied with the Mantas, and Aelita was hanging upside down from one of the Scyphozoa's tentacles.
Suddenly, Jeremie had a thought.
"Hold on, guys, someone's coming to help you!"
"What's he talking about?" asked Ulrich. "Who else could he be sending?"
"I don't know," said Odd.
"Jeremie! What are you talking about?" asked Ulrich.
There was no answer.
"Jeremie!" yelled Ulrich.
Still no answer.
"Why won't he answer?" asked Yumi.
"Einstein, this is no time for games!" yelled Odd.
His voice still went unheard.
"Jeremie! We need your help!" yelled Aelita.
The Scyphozoa was wrapping its tentacles around her.
"Jeremie, where are you?!" asked Aelita.
Just then, something hit the tentacles. They fell off of the Scyphozoa, and Aelita fell to the ground.
"Right here," said Jeremie's voice, only this time, it didn't come from the sky, and it didn't sound like it was coming from a telephone. They all looked around, and saw a blond-haired being.
"Jeremie?" asked Ulrich.
Jeremie was standing on one of the plateaus, looking down at them. His hair was the same, but his circular glasses had changed, they looked smaller, and they now looked like a targeting visor. He had a long-sleeved light blue shirt with a dark blue vest over the top. He was also wearing a pair of pants that looked like they could be camouflage. He was holding two handguns, holding them sideways instead of straight up. He was also wearing a Billy the Kid grin.
"Miss me?" asked Jeremie.
The Scyphozoa was retreating, but Jeremie jumped down into the ravine and began shooting at its eye.
After about six shots, Jeremie broke the case protecting the eye, and made one more shot.
"Impact," he said, trying out Ulrich's phrase.
The Scyphozoa crumpled and hit the ground. It exploded and blew its legs all over the place.
The others looked at him in awe. They had been trying to defeat the Scyphozoa ever since they found out that it existed, and yet, Jeremie defeated it so easily.
Aelita looked at Jeremie. He's cute, she thought.
"You guys said he looked ridiculous on Lyoko!" yelled Aelita to Ulrich and Odd.
"He looks different than he did last time!" said Odd.
Jeremie then looked in Yumi and Odd's direction. He saw that they were still having a hard time trying to get rid of their flying foes. He spun the cylinders on both of his pistols, and fired all of the bullets in the air at a forty-five degree angle.
"Hail of Bullets!" he yelled.
The bullets then rained back down on the Mantas and destroyed them all. After that, he turned his attention to William, who made a hand gesture, and made a battalion of Kankrelats appear. Jeremie clicked a button on his glasses-now-targeting visor, and put William in his sights.
"Target acquired," he announced.
He began firing bullet after bullet at William while dodging shots from the Kankrelats.
"You guys need to get Aelita to the tower!" said Jeremie.
"How? William and the Kankrelats are blocking the way!" said Ulrich.
"Hold on." He pushed another button on his targeting visor.
"Computer, program vehicles. Overboard, Overwing, Overbike. Run program."
With that, sure enough, the three vehicles appeared on the surface of Lyoko.
"Now, get going!" yelled Jeremie.
They did as they were told, except for Odd, who stayed behind to help Jeremie with the Kankrelats. Aelita hopped on the Overboard and rode it to the tower.
William was so busy keeping Odd at bay after all the Kankrelats had been destroyed, that he didn't notice Jeremie come up behind him. He suddenly felt something cold touch his temple. He shifted his eyes over in its direction.
"Catch this," said Jeremie.
He fired. William vanished in a puff of smoke.
"Whoa, nice one, Einstein," said Odd.
"Thanks," replied Jeremie. "We'd better catch up with the others."
"You're right."
With that, they began running in the direction of the tower, and found Ulrich and Yumi standing just outside.
"Did she make it in?" asked Jeremie.
"Yep, it's just been deactivated," answered Ulrich.
"All right. Computer, return to the past, now," said Jeremie.
A white sphere emerged from the computer engulfing the entire area in an eerie white light.
To Be Continued…