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Revelations
Sector Five
On the bridge
POV Lila's
Using my electrically charged hunter's knife, I block the incoming lasers. Three flying Mantas are firing lasers at us. Yumi blocks the incoming lasers with her Tessen Fans. Ulrich does the same with his katana. Odd is dodging the lasers since he doesn't have any defense weapons. Sissi is using her baton, twirling it to cause wind so that the wind reflects the incoming lasers at her.
Yumi opens her Tessen Fan and throws it at a flying Manta that starts flying towards us. The Tessen Fan cuts through the flying Manta, and a yellow light emanates from within. However the flying Manta is still kicking. Yumi's Tessen Fan returns to her, and she catches it. Looking to my right, I see the flying Manta that's firing at Ulrich. It flies pass us.
"I've got a bad feeling about this," Yumi says. She turns to Aelita, who is still working on the interface terminal.
"Are you almost done, Aelita?" she asks.
"Yes, almost," Aelita replies.
The flying Manta makes a U-turn and dives back toward us, causing most of us to scatter. Ulrich, however, stands his ground and takes the opportunity to slash the flying Manta from below as it flies past. Then Odd jumps up and fires a Laser Arrow at it's eye of Xana, finishing it off.
Just as that threat passes, another shows up. Or, actually, it never really left. That flying Manta that Yumi had been fighting shoots Ulrich in the leg, temporarily paralyzing him. But I'm ready. I disperse my powers and put my hunter's knife in its sleeve. I take my bow off its hook in one swift motion. I put an arrow onto the bow, then aim and pull the drawstring back. I let the arrow fly. The arrow flies at the flying Manta, and just as it flies down the arrow hits the target eye. No more flying Mantas.
But then another laser comes out from nowhere and hits Sissi in her leg, causing her to lose her baton. Her leg sparks and she bends down.
"Watch out! You've got Xana Bots heading your way!" Jeremy informs.
Looking up by the dome area, we see at least four of them heading our way.
Ugh, I hate how Xana can send his Bots in this area… I think. Aelita continues using the interface terminal.
"Done. The controls are all yours, Jeremy," she says.
"Great! Here comes your vehicles!"
Our vehicles materialize. Ulrich and Sissi get onto their Overbikes, they're the first ones to take off. Odd jumps onto his Overboard, and takes off too. Looking at my own vehicle, I realize how much I miss-
"The tunnel is opening… now!"
Though the broomstick was outdated, so Jeremy made me my own Overboard. It's black, with silver stripes on it. Getting on it, I tilt it with my weight urging it to go faster and I take off.
Looking back, I see Yumi and Aelita are having a bit of trouble getting onto Yumi's Overwing, with the lasers interrupting them. When they finally do, Yumi drives her Overwing, and I tilt my weight more, urging my Overboard to speed up.
Afterwards
Back inside the lab
Jeremy types away on the keyboard, as a window opened on the computer shows encryption locks. The encryption locks blink, seemingly to confirm something. Mary is with us in the lab too.
"So… anything good?" Aelita asks.
"No… I wouldn't call it good," Jeremy replies.
"Huh?" Aelita and I ask.
"More like amazing!" Jeremy exclaims. Aelita gasps in surprise, and I smile.
"With this, I bet I can crack the code of Franz Hopper's diary," Jeremy explains.
"Way cool," Ulrich says.
"The only problem is, I'm going to need a supercomputer to process such a large amount of data. I'll have to activate a tower or two," Jeremy says.
"Uh, that didn't go so well last time. Xana hates it when we play with his toys," Yumi says.
"I know, but we don't have a choice," Jeremy says. Odd makes a time out sign with his hands.
"Okay, can we go and eat now? It's mash potatoes today!" he exclaims happily, putting his hands together.
"It is? Awesome!" Sissi exclaims.
"You can have mine Odd, I better stay here and prepare for the mission. That way, you can set out right after lunch," Jeremy says.
"Yeah!" Odd exclaims.
"Say, Mary, how are things going with breaking the passcode on MB's laptop?" I ask.
"Still in progress. I'm running a list of the remaining possible combinations of numbers now, but nothing seems to be right. I believe the numbers that we've entered so far are accepted as place holders and don't actually belong in the spot we've entered them in. I'm going to try and keep running my predictive algorithm, to find a way to enter the numbers in a new order. If all works well, I think I should have it completed by sometime tonight," Mary replies.
"Great," I say. All of us head to the freight elevator, as we make our way to the cafeteria.
Inside the cafeteria
Odd is ahead of us in the line, we've all taken our trays and have mash potatoes on them. There was a side dish for fish but I'm not really that into meat.
"Jeremy said I can take his portion, Rosa," Odd mentions. Using the ladle, Rosa takes the mash potatoes from her oven tray and puts the new helping onto Odd's portion.
"Yeah!" Odd exclaims happily.
"With everything you put away, I just don't understand how you can be so scrawny," Rosa says.
"I'm not scrawny – I'm svelte," Odd defends, then smiles at Rosa, and takes his tray. We head to our usual table. Aelita takes the second seat on the right, and I take the first seat. Odd lets Sissi take the first chair, Ulrich takes the chair at the end of the table, and Odd sits down in the middle chair, which is between Sissi and Ulrich. Taking his spoon, Odd starts eating his mash potatoes. He turns to Ulrich, and swallows his mash potatoes.
"So, come on Ulrich, stop holding out on us. What's your overall average?" he asks, after swallowing.
"73 for the term," Ulrich replies.
"Really? I got 75," Odd says, he takes another spoon full of mash potatoes and eats it. "I beat you," he says while eating.
"Odd, ugh, please, table manners," I say. He smiles at me and I take a sip of my tea.
"And Odd, you only got that 75 because you made some points up in art class. Sissi, what about you?" Ulrich asks. I put my cup of tea down on the table.
"71.8," Sissi replies. "If it weren't for you Lila, Aelita, and Jeremy, my grades wouldn't be as good as they are now. So, Aelita – Lila, what are your overall grade point averages?" she asks.
"95.2," Aelita answers.
"83.9," I reply.
"Huh?" Ulrich, Odd, and Sissi asks, eyes widening.
"Well… it's only because of Math," Aelita explains.
"And I only have that average because of Math and Science," I explain. Odd starts eating again.
"Still, Aelita, Lila, you two must have gotten good grades in all of your other classes, considering the both of you aren't really hu-" Ulrich starts to say, as he is about to cut his fish with a knife and fork. He stops, catching himself.
"Uh…" Odd trails off. Ulrich lifts his finger.
"Uh… I mean..." he trails off to. Aelita nods; understanding him.
"Don't worry, I know very well I'm not really human," Aelita says.
"And it's cool Ulrich, apology accepted," I add.
I wish I could tell Aelita she's truly human… and I wish I can tell the others that I now know I'm actually human. I'm not even sure where I would begin though… I think.
"Still, sometimes I get the strange feeling, as if I've already lived here. Weird huh?" Aelita asks. Odd stops eating his mash potatoes, and when he takes the spoon out of his mouth, he accidentally flicks some on his face.
"Ah that's just the magical Odd effect. You know, you've seen me once, and you feel like you've known me forever," Odd jokes.
"Hey "Magic Odd Effect" you know you've got some mash potatoes right on your face?" Ulrich asks. Odd drops his spoon, looking at the mash potatoes on his face. Aelita, Sissi, and I can't help but laugh at him.
Afterwards
Outside
Me, Aelita, Odd, Sissi, and Ulrich are walking outside the cafeteria. Sissi's phone starts going off. She pulls it out and checks her phone.
"Oh… it's my father. I should get going to meet him," she says.
"How is your father doing?" I ask.
"He's alright…" Sissi replies. "He just doesn't remember going into shock. I hate having to lie to him… but it's the only way to keep him safe. Anyways, he wants me to meet him at his office. I've been doing some study sessions with him, and now I guess he wants me to keep my grades up. Being a good student is really… lame."
"I know, but better to be a good student rather than someone who could possibly flunk out," I say.
"I guess… anyways I'll see you guys when you need me. Send an SOS if Xana attacks," Sissi says.
"We will," Aelita nods. Sissi runs off to her father's office. I look at Odd.
"So, how exactly did you get off the hook with kissing Sissi on the big screen?" I ask.
"I didn't he gave me six hours of detention for kissing Sissi," Odd replies..
The three of us can't help but laugh a little.
Shortly after we decide to go to the bench area. Getting there, Aelita, and I sit on the bench. We look at the students who are taking the time to relax. I see a girl reading, she's standing next to an arch. I've seen her around before on campus lately and in some of our classes. I believe she's a new transfer student and is also a day student since I haven't seen her in the dorm at all. I know her name is Kayori Avalon because of roll call, and she's pretty shy as I haven't heard her talk in the classes we share together.
She's caucasian, about five feet and two inches tall and has green eyes. She has brown hair that goes down to her shoulder blades. She wears a dark blue jacket, and a blood red tube top featuring a wolf design. She's also wearing a dark blue short skirt along with black ankle length socks.
I notice the chains she's wearing around her neck, they're very peculiar as she's hidden what they're holding underneath her shirt. I see that she's wearing black zip up boots – and she catches me looking at her. I blush slightly.
She seems really nice, I think.
As I'm looking at her, I notice she's blushing too. She looks back down at the book she was reading, trying to hide her blush. I turn my focus back to my friends. They haven't noticed anything, Aelita and Odd were talking the whole time. Looking at Ulrich, he seems to be spacing out. But then – his phone starts ringing. Taking it out, he flips the phone open and presses the talk button. He puts the phone to his ear, and we look at him.
"Yeah, Jeremy?" Ulrich asks. There's a short pause. "Huh? Okay, we're on our way," he says, hanging up. He closes his phone and puts it in his pocket.
"Activated tower, you call Sissi. I'll call Yumi," Ulrich says to me.
"Right," I nod. Taking out my cell phone, I dial Sissi's number on speed dial, and put my phone to my ear. The phone rings a few times, and I speak.
"Sissi, I-" I start to say but then hear:
"This is Sissi. I can't come to the phone now. You know what to do."
The phone beeps.
"Sissi, SOS. Meet us you know where," I say. Pressing the end button on my phone, I look at it.
"Lila?" Odd asks.
"I… I think something's wrong. Can you go and get her from Delmas's office?" I ask. Odd, Aelita, and now Ulrich look at me with concern. Ulrich ends his phone call with Yumi.
"Yeah, I'll go and get her. You think Xana is up to something?" Odd asks.
"Not sure. Just a bad feeling," I reply.
"Okay, I'm off!" Odd exclaims. He starts running off to Delmas's office.
"Let's go," Ulrich says. Aelita and I nod. I put my phone into my pants pocket and we take off.
Inside the lab
The freight elevator's doors open. Yumi is with us now. Mary is working on MB's laptop in the corner.
"Where are Odd and Sissi?" Jeremy asks.
"I called Sissi but she wasn't picking up, so I sent her a voicemail. She's supposed to be at Delmas's office, studying, but we still haven't heard back from her. So, Odd is looking for her," I reply. I look at the monitors, Franz Hopper's encrypted notes are blinking.
"I hope they won't be much longer," Jeremy says. "Not only do we have to decode Franz Hopper's notes, but now we have to deactivate the tower as well."
"Okay, let's go," Yumi says.
"Mary, how's everything going with the laptop? Any progress?" I ask her.
"Some, yes. The order I'm entering the numbers in now seems to be acceptable. I have no doubt it'll be completed by later tonight," Mary replies.
"Fantastic," Ulrich comments.
Ulrich, Aelita, Yumi, and I start walking back to the freight elevator. Getting inside it, Ulrich presses the red button to go down. Aelita crosses her arms. She waves goodbye at Jeremy and Mary, as the freight elevator's doors close.
Afterwards
Inside the scanner room
Ulrich, Aelita, Yumi, and I are all standing in the middle of the room.
"They're not answering… I guess Odd is having a hard time with Delmas. Forget them for now, they'll meet you later," Jeremy informs. "Ulrich, I'm going to virtualize the girls first. You'll need to go last."
"Okay," Ulrich says. Aelita takes the right scanner, I take the middle scanner, and Yumi takes the left scanner. We step into the scanners. The scanners' doors close. I close my eyes and Jeremy starts the process.
Lyoko's Mountain Sector
Opening my eyes, I see Yumi, Aelita, and I falling. We land safely in the mountain sector. We leave room between us, so that Ulrich, can land safely.
It's been a while since we've been here, I think.
Looking up, we see three bodies virtualizing. Ulrich, Sissi, and Odd land safely between us.
"Sissi?" Jeremy asks, unsure.
"Everything's okay Jeremy. I'm on Lyoko," Sissi replies.
"There was a bug during the transfer," Jeremy informs. "Mary can't identify it either."
"A bug? What sort of bug?" I ask.
"I'm still looking over it now Lila," Mary replies.
"And we have a new problem. The tower has just deactivated itself," Jeremy adds.
"Are you sure?" Ulrich asks.
"Yeah… the super scan shows all clear. It's as if Xana has called off its attack," Jeremy answers.
"That's good though, isn't it Einstein?" Odd asks. Odd turns to Sissi.
"Right Sissi?" he asks.
"Right," Sissi replies, turning away from Odd.
"What's up with her? Is she sulking or something?" Ulrich asks.
"Not sure," Odd shrugs. "She's been like that the whole way here."
"Maybe her studying didn't go well?" Aelita asks unsure.
"Here come your rides. Remember, we have a diary to decode," Jeremy says.
All of us get onto our vehicles. Aelita puts her hands on Yumi shoulders, getting onto her Overwing. Odd gets onto his Overboard, and Sissi and Ulrich get onto their respective Overbikes.
"I've chosen the tower at 72 degrees south and fifty-five degrees west," Jeremy informs, and we fly off towards it.
"There it is," Yumi points out to it. The tower is enclosed, leaving a small access point for us to go through. If we want to fly over and into it, we can too. Touching down on the ground, we bring our vehicles to a stop and hop off.
Aelita runs up to the tower, and she slowly walks into it, phasing into the tower's "doorway."
"I'm activating the tower… now," Jeremy informs. We see the tower changing from its blue aura to a green aura.
"Yeah it's working!" Jeremy exclaims. "Whenever Xana leaves us in peace, everything is cool."
I have my hand in my sleeve, ready to grab my hunter's knife, just in case any monsters show up. The area starts getting a bit foggy for some reason, and we hear growling coming from afar.
"Uh oh, I spoke too soon. Watch out. Xana's monsters are heading your way," Jeremy informs. Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, and I walk up a little to get at least a better look.
"Where from? We can't see anything," Yumi comments.
"Yeah… everything's so foggy," Odd says.
"There!" I point out, and I take my hunter's knife out of its sleeve. Three Tarantulas are heading our way.
"Wow, Xana's pulled out the big guns," Ulrich comments, and unsheathes his Katana blade. Odd cocks his paw, readying his Laser Arrows. Taking out her fans, Yumi does a twirl and readies her fans in a defensive position. Odd falls down suddenly, devirtualized by three… spades?!
Turning behind us, we see a dark blue light coming from Sissi's bracer. She summons three spades again. She launches them at Yumi, who has no time to react. She devirtualizes too, as Ulrich and I stand back to back.
"Lila, what happened?!" Mary exclaims.
"Mary – Jeremy! Sissi's been possessed!" I inform.
"What?!" Jeremy and Mary exclaim.
Sissi starts walking, a dark blue light flares from her bracer and she summons her spades once again. She launches them. Charging my hunter's knife with electricity, my lightning bolt amulet glows letting me know I'm good to go. My hunter's knife is then engulfed with electricity. I use my electrically charged hunter's knife to block the spades, as Sissi continues to push Ulrich and I back.
"If I can just get a chance to use my super sprint!" Ulrich exclaims, as Tarantulas start firing at him. He quickly takes his katana blade and reflects the lasers one by one.
"Jeremy, we're trapped! We can't reach our vehicles!" I exclaim.
"I'm on it! I'll send you your broomstick!" Jeremy exclaims.
Looking to the side of the mountain pass, my broomstick is materialized. Ulrich and I nod. I disperse my electricity. We take our weapons, sheathe them into their proper places and run. We keep running and dodging, but we finally jump off the side and land on the broomstick.
I kick my broomstick into the air and it flies us over the mountain pass. Ulrich takes out his katana blade and blocks the incoming spade attacks.
"I just can't believe this… how would Xana have done this? It can't happen again!" I exclaim.
"I can, it's not the real Sissi," Jeremy explains. I sigh internally, relieved to hear that. But also concerned for the real Sissi's well-being.
"It's one of Xana's creatures. A polymorphing spectre," Jeremy explains.
"But… where's the real Sissi then?" Odd asks.
"Most likely, Xana has hidden her somewhere. The safest course of action would be to look around the Hermitage. He's used that area before to try and harm you from what Lila told me. You can be sure she's there," Mary replies.
"Okay, we're off. Lila, we'll find the real Sissi," Yumi says, trying to reassure me.
"Thanks. Ulrich, I'm going to handle this clone. I need you to go back to the tower and make sure it's well guarded. Can you do that?" I ask, flying the broomstick directly above the mountainous pass, so we can easily jump down.
"Yeah, I do!" Ulrich exclaims, reflecting another spade. Ulrich and I stand up on the broomstick, it wobbles greatly but we jump down and land on the pass. Looking up, Sissi's spectre growls, infuriated that we have the upper hand now. Using Sissi's overbike, she revs it up and flies down to meet us.
"Super Sprint!" Ulrich exclaims. Using his super sprint, he super sprints back to the tower. Sissi's spectre gets her Overbike on the pass. She gets off the bike and faces me.
"You know, Xana, Sissi's not that great of a fighter. What's wrong, didn't want to use one of us?" I taunt. Spectre Sissi smirks, and starts changing into different people. First Odd, then Ulrich. I gulp.
"Him, on the other hand… he's a good fighter," I say and ready my hunter's knife. My powers flow through me and into the hunter's knife. My lightning bolt amulet glows, and the hunter's knife is engulfed with electricity.
"Lila! I've got some bad news, Xana is trying to take control of the tower! Two of Ulrich's clones are dealing with the Tarantulas but he still needs time to cut the cables! If he can't… we'll lose everything! The vehicles, and Aelita's materialization code!" Jeremy exclaims, worried.
"He'll figure something out!" I exclaim, as Ulrich's spectre starts running at me, leaving a trail of orange behind. Gripping my electrically charged hunter's knife, I run at him. Our blades clash, and we're both knocked back.
"It's true, Xana, Ulrich's a good fighter. But with my electrically charged hunter's knife here, I'd say we're evenly matched," I smirk. The spectre growls again, annoyed by my taunting. It begins to shape shift, and turns into…
My eyes widen.
"How... could you?!" I exclaim, putting my electrically charged hunter's knife up. The spectre is Cameron now... A much eviler, darking looking Cameron, whose outfit has changed to a dark red with black stripes. In his pouch, instead of the flute, is a long revolver gun. Spectre Cameron takes out the gun quickly, and pulls the trigger. Bullets fly out of the revolver, and I quickly reflect the bullets using my hunter's knife.
Each time that I do, memories flood back into me. Our last and first date at the coffee shop… and his laughter…
My mind snapping back to reality, I glare at Spectre Cameron who is now reloading his gun. I'm angry. I'm truly angry that Xana would dare take the form of someone I liked. I should have told Cameron how I felt about him, but instead I let Emily have him… because I'm a kind person.
Pulling my arm back, I yell as I throw my electrically charged hunter's knife at Spectre Cameron. The spectre is surprised by this and doesn't have enough time to react. It's impaled by the hunter knife.
The hunter knife sends electricity throughout the spectre, and the spectre is pulled off its feet, then vanishes in a cloud of pixels. My hunter's knife drops to the ground, and the electricity disperses.
"Lila… are you okay?" Mary asks me. I shake my head.
"No… I just…. Ugh! What's going on with the tower?" I ask.
"We're about to lose the tower!" Jeremy informs. I run up to my hunter's knife, grab it, and sheathe it in its sleeve.
"What can I do?" I ask.
"Ulrich is still trying to cut through the cables, but they won't budge! I'm not sure if you can make it over to the tower in time. Even with your broomstick," Jeremy replies.
This can't be it... I think.
"Ulrich!" Jeremy exclaims suddenly. I look over to where the activated tower is, I see that it is indeed turning red.
"Oh no!" I exclaim.
"Xana is about to steal all of my data… we're done for…" Jeremy trails off.
Looking at the tower, the red aura suddenly starts turning white.
"It… it can't be," I say.
It's Franz Hopper! He's saving us! I think.
"What's going on?" Jeremy asks. "Aelita? Lila?"
"Jeremy, I think Franz Hopper is saving us!" I reply.
"Of course… that would make sense. Aelita, how about things on your end?" Jeremy asks. I can't hear her side of the conversation, but then Jeremy says:
"Lila… we've got the diary decoded. I'm bringing you in."
"Okay…" I trail off. Looking at my body, my body starts materializes in pixels.
Inside the scanner room
The scanners' doors open, and I step out of the scanner, tired and upset.
I still can't believe Xana would even think of taking Cameron's form… I'm glad it's over though, I think.
"Lila, I just heard from Yumi and Odd. They found Sissi, she's okay," Jeremy informs.
"Thank goodness…" I trail off, smiling in relief. After a moment, Aelita tumbles out of the scanner and onto the floor.
"Are you okay, Lila?" Aelita asks.
"I will be. Thanks, Aelita. Come on, let's get back up to the lab," I smile.
"Okay," Aelita smiles back at me.
Afterwards
Back inside Jeremy's room
Odd and Sissi are sitting on Jeremy's bed. She's been using a towel to dry off from because she was submerged in water. Xana managed to trap her and nearly drown her by filling up water underneath a metal grate. The spectre ended up bringing her to the Hermitage after all. From what Sissi had explained it seems like Odd and Yumi arrived in the nick of time.
Ulrich, Aelita, and I are standing in the room. Yumi is by Jeremy's desk, and Jeremy is sitting in his chair.
"Franz Hopper was the creator of Xana. In his diary, he wrote down everything that had happened, during the creation of Lyoko," he explains while looking at us.
"Everything."
"That means you'll be able to find the antivirus," Aelita says. Jeremy closes his eyes, contemplating on telling Aelita what he found out.
"Yeah it does," he turns away from us and looks at his computer. He lifts his finger. "But there's something more," he continues.
"What?" Ulrich asks.
"Come on, let's hear it," Sissi says.
"Well, before Franz Hopper virtualized himself on Lyoko, and before being taken prisoner by Xana, he lived here on Earth," he explains.
"We already knew that, though," Yumi reminds him. Jeremy gets up from his chair, and walks to her. He lifts his finger in front of her.
"Yes, but what we didn't know… was that he had a child," Jeremy explains. He puts his hands in his pockets, and looks at us. "A little girl," he reveals. I look at Aelita, who raises her eyebrows.
"Really? What became of her?" Odd asks.
"He virtualized her on Lyoko, at the same time as himself," Jeremy replies.
"And… did she fall victim to Xana too?" Yumi asks. Jeremy looks at Aelita.
"No… she stayed on Lyoko."
"Huh?" Aelita asks. "But that's impossible! If Hopper's daughter were on Lyoko, I would have definitely known! I'd-" she trails off, as the others look at her.
I think they've realized the same thing I've been keeping from her since I first arrived here. Jeremy closes his eyes once again.
"I'm not –" Aelita shakes her head, and Jeremy opens his eyes again. He smiles, confirming Aelita's realization. Aelita gasps.
Now you know Aelita… you're the daughter of Franz Hopper. I only hope… my knowledge of the future doesn't affect our friendship. I hope one day you'll understand why I couldn't tell you. And why you needed to find out for yourself, I think.
Later at night
Inside Lila and Aelita's room
Aelita has been quiet all night since her revelation, and during the rest of the day. I can tell she's upset with me even more since she's sleeping with Mister Puck, she hasn't been with him in a while. We've been through so much together, and as I look at her while she's sleeping, I just can't help but feel guilty. I'm about to go and take a shower, then change into my pajamas, when my phone vibrates. I take it out and see It's Mary. I answer it and put it to my ear.
"Mary?" I whisper.
"Meet me in the lab. I've got the passcode to the laptop…" she trails off.
My eyes widen. Hanging up, I put my phone in my jacket's pocket. I zip up my pockets, and then I zip my jacket up. Looking at Aelita one last time, I go to the door. I open it, and silently close the door behind me.
Inside the lab
The freight elevator's doors open, and I run inside the lab. Mary's sitting on the holosphere display case, the headset earpiece placed on the keyboard probably after she had called me. She has MB's laptop open and on her lap. I go over to her, and sit on the holosphere display case with her. I look at the passcode, and my eyes widen.
"Impossible…" I trail off. The passcode is 13041994. It seems Mary's new order she entered clearly works because the date is April 13th, 1994!
"The code is... my father's birthday! But it can't be!"
"Yes, it is…" Mary trails off.
"How is this possible?! My father died… how on earth could a laptop that was put in Franz Hopper's train station locker, be connected to him?!"
"I'm not sure. That's why I waited for you. Would you like to do the honors?" Mary asks, turning the laptop to me. I nod. I press the enter button, and the code is accepted, a green bar confirming the code. It blinks for a second, and then a countdown of fifteen seconds appears on the laptop.
"Uh Mary, please tell me it's not going to explode or anything," I say.
"Doubtful. Perhaps as a fail safe it would, but the code has been accepted. Meaning something's about to happen in 10," Mary counts.
"9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4," we count together. "3, 2, 1, 0." The countdown ends, and the laptop screen goes blank. Mary and I raise our eyebrows. Suddenly, we hear noise coming from the scanner room. Mary puts the laptop on the floor, as we get up and into defensive position. Unsure of who – or what is about to make their way to the lab.
We hear one of the scanners open, and coughing. We hear the voice of the person. It's a girl. Mary and I look at each other, still surprised by our revelation, but we don't lower our guards. The girl starts climbing up the ladder shoot. She finally reaches the lab, and gets her feet onto the floor.
Looking at her, this girl is a bit taller than me and Aelita. She has neck length black hair and black eyes. She wears a black long-sleeved shirt, with blue jeans. She's wearing black and white tennis shoes they seem to be pretty worn out.
"I'm glad someone finally cracked the passcode. It seems I was asleep for quite a while," the girl says.
"And, uh, who exactly are you? Why do you have my father's birthday as the password on this laptop?" I ask her.
"It was my father's idea… your father was a good friend to him."
"Your father? Who's your father?" Mary asks.
"Bill Bedard," the girl replies. I raise my eyebrow.
"We don't know anyone by that name," I say. The girl looks at us and smirks.
"Yeah you do. Bill it's a nickname... for William." Mine and Mary's eyes widen.
"William Bedard? The only William we know is-" I start to say, then gasp at the realization.
"Dunbar. William Dunbar… is… your father?" I ask her.
"Yeah. My real name is Mia Dunbar. I guess I should probably explain how I got here, right Lila?" Mia asks.
"You know about me and my father? But how – when?" I ask.
TO BE CONTINUED
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The Key Part 1: Season 2 Finale
Author's Note: MB has finally been revealed! Her backstory was changed a lot. Ultimately AeroJester203 and I had decided it would make more sense for her to be William's future daughter. We hope you liked that reveal! The code's order was changed to a French format to make the fanfiction more believable. Now that Mia Dunbar has been revealed what do you expect from her?
Paladin777 you came very close to guessing Mia's correct backstory had I decided not to change it sometime ago.
Cameron was originally owned by Undeadmonkey8. Dark Cameron was created by me and first appeared in the dark saga. This will mark the last appearance of this OOC. (Out of character.) Please remember that OOC Cameron was originally made of my making and became different because of the chip that controlled him. He was not in anyway a character his creator made, that would actually betray his friends. That was all my doing... unfortunately.
With the reintroduction of Kayori Avalon, who is owned by decode9, she will be Lila's potential love interest in the fanfiction. I know some of you originally voted that William should be Lila's love interest a while back. With Mia's introduction however William is like an uncle to Lila so that would have been pretty weird.
A note about Jeremy's birthday. As well as his and Aelita's age. Tracking it down was pretty difficult for me to come up with for this fanfiction. In the beginning of this fanfiction (which is why it started in 2005) Jeremy was 11 when he restarted the supercomputer. Within a year he and Aelita turned 12 at some point (2006.) In Mary Smith, Jeremy had a birthday and I purposely made it April 13th. His birthday was first revealed in the dark saga. He turned 13. (2007.) Aelita in my version of Common Interests was already 13. (2007.) In the show, there was a dubbing error putting her at the age of 12. However this means she and Jeremy are the same age but Aelita must be a few months older than Jeremy in my fanfiction. All of us know Aelita is still 13 because she spent a number of years in the supercomputer when it was off. Most likely this stopped or prevented the aging process for her. However this would mean she was already 11 years old when she and her father were virtualized onto Lyoko. Jeremy would have been just a few months old since his birthday is in April.
"June 6th, 1994," is the day Hopper virtualized himself and Aelita onto Lyoko.
The final chapters of season 2 will be released on the same day. I hope you'll enjoy the double update!
Until next week,
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LyokoWarrior1994