(I am truly sorry, but do to some circumstances that have recently come up in my life, I will not be able to finish this story for you now. But I didn't want to leave anyone who was actually interested in this story hanging, so I've left you with an overview.
The FIRST SECTION is just something I wrote on the back of a piece of paper when I was coming up with the storyline. -I write very small- Of course the story would of changed a bit, but this is a basic idea about what it would of covered.
The SECOND SECTION is telling who Aelita is and how she fits into everything.
And the THIRD SECTION is just some quotes and scenes I liked from the story.
Unless your really interested, the FIRST SECTION may seem a little confusing or boring. And I think the SECOND SECTION is just bizarrely insane since I'm the one who came up with it. But if you can make it through the first two sections, the THIRD SECTION will probably make a lot more sense.
If circumstances change in my life and I am able to post another story for you, I promise never to do this kind of thing to you again.
Goodbye for now, Meg :)
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(FIRST SECTION):
Everyone knows each other but moves in different social circles.
Ulrich is one of the most popular boys in school along with Odd. Jeremie really has no friends and is a nerd.
Jeremie tutors or has tutored Ulrich before and comes to him with a problem. Ulrich tries to be nice and fair to everyone.
Jeremie accidentally connected to this file and found Aelita who thinks she is some sort of helper for running the computer. Jeremie soon suspects she is more (there's this battle of computer wits between them - Aelita trying to hide and Jeremie hacking and unlocking firewalls to find her).
Yumi is a grade ahead and a bit of a loner too. Not in the rejects, but in a mysterious kind of way.
Her and Ulrich have some kind of connection, though you're not really sure how. Their social circles don't cross either, but Ulrich is clearly a little sensitive about her. But really it's just one of those ridiculously complicated things that only Ulrich and Yumi would get caught up in. You get kind of confused yourself.
Ulrich at first seems touchy around her as a subject and kind of gives you the impression of an admirer from afar. But when the two are together they seem almost cold and hostile (Like what in the world did you two do, to get so incensed at each other?).
It seems common knowledge at school that the two can't stand each other. Only Jeremie seems to know better (often smiling and rolling his eyes at their tiffs).
Odd, though he doesn't seem to know as much as Jeremie, too senses there is a little something more than meets the eyes. Everyone commonly assumes that they had some awful fight over something or other and are both just too stubborn to make amends.
In reality, Ulrich always admired Yumi. Ever since she first came to school.
Ulrich always seems to take an interest in people and noticed Yumi all the way across the courtyard when she first walked in the school gates. But their paths never really crossed (again, different social circles) until one day Yumi drops her books and Ulrich stops to pick them up. Caught off guard that the most popular boy in school would stop to help her, she starts to notice him.
Ulrich admired how bold Yumi is -wishes he could be like that (Everyone kind of already thinks he is because he's so popular. He does everything so perfectly. . . Halfway the reasoning behind Jer asking him for help). Also he's intrigued by her mystery and independence. When he does something he always seems to have a posse.
Yumi intern notices how good and kind Ulrich is to everyone.
After the two notice each other, they just start. . . happening to run into each other when no one else is around. And form this kind of sibilance of secret friendship.
The only reason Jeremie knew about this, is because Yumi accidentally stopped by Ulrich's room to return something when Jeremie was tutoring him. There was no mistaking the way they looked at each other.
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"Hey Ulrich I just wanted to return your book- . . . That um, fell from your bag. I uh -found it, in the hall. Has your name in it..."
(After she leaves) Jeremie just shook his head. It was none of his business.
"So in this line of numbers, the solution comes where?"
"Huh? Oh sorry Jeremie, what'd you say?"
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Well one day in the future, Ulrich and Yumi end up kissing. And of course they can't be like normal people and say: "We're together now!" They didn't know how to react.
Ulrich waited for Yumi to say something about it and Yumi vise versa. When neither say anything Yumi takes it as a 'this didn't mean anything to you like it did to me.' The message was clear: We're in different social circles and always will be.
Ulrich took is as a sign she didn't like and him and regretted the kiss (he blames himself for the kiss, which works because she blames him 4 it too). A suspicion completely confirmed by Yumi walking suddenly up to him and declaring: "It was a mistake ok, I get that."
Trying to counteract their real feelings, both get in the habit of biting and being cool to each other whenever their together. They don't even fully comprehend this. They don't want to get close.
Jeremie trusts Ulrich and asks him for help. Odd, being the roommate, kind of stumbles in (doesn't need and explanation, just sort of says "cool" and moves on).
When Aelita accidentally get's materialized (Odd dropping candy on Jeremie's keyboard - Them arguing about it- Ulrich on bed sees flash of light behind them: "Uh guys…") they realize they need the help of a girl. -Dun, duh, duh YUMI!
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(SECOND SECTION): Sorry, there are some holes in here I didn't have time to fill in, but I think you can get the general idea.
Basically, Aelita was part of a secret project of this very prestigious corporation called Lyoko.
Using her as a guinea pig, they experimented on making the young girl's physical form into a virtual one.
In a breakthrough, they managed to virtualize and locked her up in Carthridge, a site they designed to store her digital makeup.
Since Aelita was originally human, the code that made her up was innumerable and so complex that the company had to developed a series of towers in Carthridge to organize and help support her digital presence there.
Carthridge was an internet based site and they had one computer that had the file to access it. That file was Carthridge Towers.
(Later, Jeremie has to connect to Carthridge Towers when he wants to talk to Aelita in Carthridge.)
But the company's research was far from ethical and, in fear of discovery, Lyoko terminated the project after 11 years and deleted the Carthridge Towers' file. This in effect, shut down Carthridge and Aelita with it.
They told themselves they weren't really killing her, just putting her in stasis. Since they didn't completely remove the file from the computer, it was technically possible to bring her back to life. In reality, they'd taken her life from her and shut her down to rot.
(Though she has amnesia when Jeremie first wakes her up, Aelita holds all of the information concerning Lyoko's secretive work and would be a real threat to them if she remembered it.)
In case of an inspection, to be safe they needed to get rid of the computer holding the deleted file in it. So they decided to modify and sell the computer, right along with the new line of computers they were just releasing.
Who else could her file be more safe with then the general public? No one could possibly find Aelita they reasoned. Carthridge Towers was deleted, encrypted, had a copy of Aelita guarding it, and then of course there was Xana.
In case all else failed, Xana was created to activate upon Aelita's activation, and was a virus with the sole purpose of destroying her.
Of all the clueless hands of the general public the computer could of fallen into, it fell into Jeremie's instead. After he does the impossible of activating Aelita, it isn't long before she discovers Xana.
Aelita also finds that the towers in Carthridge are hard for Xana to access. So she begins to try and hide in them. Unfortunately she is too large digitally to stay any one tower for long and has to constantly move from tower to tower. This is dangerous since Xana can try to trap and catch her in-between towers when she's out in the open of Carthridge.
When Jeremie realizes all this, he immediately begins working on building her a set of towers in his Lyoko computer, so he can transfer her out of Carthridge and into his computer where she will be safer. His set of towers are (of course) called Lyoko towers.
"We have to get Aelita to the Lyoko Towers where she'll be safe."
Once she's in Jeremie's computer, they think they have left Xana behind.
(Jeremie wanted to delete 'Carthridge Towers' to destroy Xana for good, but is afraid part of Aelita is still connected to Carthridge and fears he may destroy her as well. So he just sets up locks to keep Xana where he is.)
But every once in a while Xana breaks through and becomes active in Jeremie's computer using one of the very tower Jeremie created as a connection. When he does this it bugs up Aelita's systems. If Aelita get's to the tower Xana activated, she can enter the Code: Lyoko to sever his connection to the computer and send him back to Carthridge. Then Jeremie can reset the system, putting a lock back on Carthridge for Xana to try breaking through again.
Jeremie wants to preserve Aelita until she can remember her past and set things right.
Aelita has trouble getting to towers when Xana bugs up her system, so it's necessary to type in code to free her system up. But at the same time Xana is behind her and needs to have firewalls set up to slow him down.
Jeremie can't do both at the same time and so realizes he need help. He enlists Ulrich to try and type in the code for Aelita on his laptop and then Odd wonders where his roommate is getting to and sort of stumbles in on everything. Which is good because Ulrich really isn't fast enough.
When Odd accidentally drops candy on Jeremie's keyboard one day, he triggers a program to materialize Aelita. While Jeremie is arguing with Odd about the candy, Ulrich watches Aelita materialize right in the middle of the room.
Jeremie didn't even know that materializing Aelita was possible! But now that there's a passed out girl on his dorm floor, he and the rest of the group realize they're going to need a girl's help. So Jeremie sends Ulrich off to recruit Yumi :D.
Yumi joins the group and of course helps, but Aelita's materialization turns out to be only temporary and after a day she fades back into the computer.
Now that Jeremie knows materialization is possible, he starts working to find the program again. If he can get Aelita out of the computer permanently, he can shut down his computer and trap Xana for good.
Shortly after Yumi joins, the group finds this abandoned house in the woods called the Hermitage. Odd starts (and everyone else soon starts joining in) calling the house a factory, because it ends up looking like a computer factory.
It's a good place for them to work without worrying about being caught, so Jeremie builds and set's up three extra laptops there, and puts them on a network with his computer back at school.
So when Xana attacks, everyone runs to 'the factory' where the computers are. Jeremie has set them all up with ID's so that only they can enter the network and so Aelita can recognize their digital presence. -They go, scan their ID's into their computer and type in code that Jeremie has provided to free up the bugging so Aelita can get to the tower Xana has activated.
Jeremie stays with the group to help them guide Aelita to the right tower and puts up the firewalls to slow down Xana. So with Jeremie's putting up walls for Xana, the group is taking the walls Aelita's bugging causes down, and everything just sort of works out.
Every time they help Aelita it's a risk though. Xana's virus programming has become faulty, it has mutated and evolved. Xana doesn't just want to destroy Aelita, it wants to escape and destroy all the computer systems across the world. They can't fail, they have to make sure Xana is sent back to Carthridge.
And if Aelita could be taken from the computer and put in the real world, who's to say it's impossible for Xana.
Can you imagine a virus built to decay and wipe out systems, released on the real world?
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(THIRD SECTION): Bit and pieces of scenes. . .
-"Are you sure you haven't been near that drink machine again, cause I think this time it's fried your brains?"-
-"When I was trying to access Maya's file I think I woke it up. Some sort of dormant program, a virus. Built to completely wipe out Maya's programming."-
She had a cautious look in her eyes that reminded Ulrich very much of a lost and wondering deer.
"And why couldn't you go to Yumi with all this?"
Jeremie avoided his eyes. "Well you know how Yumi can be. . . If she found out it was dangerous she'd want-"
"To shut it down," Ulrich finished. (Quiet a minute) "Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news Jeremie, but I'd have to agree with her. If it's going to harm people we need to shut it down. Too bad for Maya, but still, it's not like she's human."
"But that's just it, I think she is."
"Is what?"
"Human!"
Stunned, Ulrich leaned back. He wasn't quite sure how he should respond to this. Very, very carefully he imagined.
"Jeremie…"
I see you've developed certain feeli- That is, I know how you might think Maya seems real. . .
What should he say? What could he possibly say? What would be the right thing to say? How he wished Yumi was there now.
But Jeremie saved him the trouble of making up his mind by interrupting. "I know what you're thinking. That she's just a cleverly designed A.I. that's confused its protocol, but it just doesn't add up." Jeremie tried to think of the simplest way he could put this. "Listen, in order for there to be an A.I. there has be a massive system of digital grouping code to promote a reasonably convincing phycy. Her code is not just massive, it's grouped innumerably. It's unbelievably complex. Just one of her emotion strands would take a decade to write."
. . .
"Questions?"
"Yah, just one. . . What's an A.I.?"
Jeremie sighed, it was going to a long night.
There wasn't much they could do but tell him.
Jeremie started, with Ulrich trying to translate, and they both managed to get the story out. Much to there surprise, Odd didn't register any shock or surprise at all over what he was hearing. He merely waited patiently until they were done and leaned back to collapse on his bed.
"Cool," he said.
"Well, who died and made you princess of Lyoko Inc?"
If Aelita had been in the real world she probably would of blushed at the comment. "No one, I just. . . I'm just saying it's not a good idea to tamper with Lyoko's software."
"We could ask another friend of yours. . . A certain black-clad, mysterious one?"
Jeremie bit severely on his tongue as Ulrich sent him a warning look, but not, before Odd caught on.
"You mean Yumi?" he asked. Odd stood there a moment then let out a hard laugh.
Ulrich and Jeremie sighed.
. . .
"She can't even stand him!"
Ulrich smiled back, but it was strained and lack a certain genuineness that Odd failed to grasp.
Jeremie sighed; it was none of his business.
"Right," he affirmed.
It was none of his business.
"I don't know what I was thinking."
"I told you not to touch anything and now look what you've done!"
"What? I didn't doanything. The candy just slipped and-"
"And fell on the keyboard. These key are very sensitive, I have no idea the type of erro-"
"Uh, guys. . ." Ulrich started behind them.
"Relax genius, your precious computer's fine."
"And that's my candy!"
The glow was intensifying.
"Guys!" Ulrich yelled.
Finally they turned and Ulrich pointed. "Look."
"Alright fine, I'll do it." He let out a deep sigh. "But I'm going to need a distraction. . ." His gaze flickered to his roommate. "Odd?"
"Right behind you, buddy."
. . .
As they approach the hoard of populars Odd lost no time.
"Ahhh!" he cried, grabbing at his chest and collapsing to the ground.
As Ulrich slowly started to back away, one of the girl's eyes began to follow him and Odd groaned louder.
"Oh the pain! THE MISERY!!"
"What?!" they all cried.
"The mashed. . . Po-tatoes . . . There-there coming.."
Ulrich didn't stick around to hear the end of this, Odd wouldn't be able to hold there attention much longer. He turned and took off in a dead run. It was noon which meant Yumi would be. . .
"My ID picture is a samurai?"
"Well yah, Yumi helped me pick it out. Is something wrong?"
"Oh well, I guess we can always wait until Yumi get's here." Jeremie raised his eyes from his work as Odd grew silent. He mentally reviewed his reasoning again to see if he had missed anything, but no, that still seemed the logical conclusion.
"Oh right," said Odd sarcastically. "She'll just walk right over to the popular table when she get's here and ask him."
Ahh. . .
Jeremie began to understand where Odd might have been seeing a gap in his logic.
Ask? Had he said anything about asking?
. . .
He didn't look at Ulrich though. He studied the black-haired girl that was sitting next to him. They way her dramatically lined eyes never left his face, how her slightly agape lips hung on every word he said. And at that moment when she laughed hysterically at something Ulrich whispered, he noted how she smoothly ended the gesture by laying a slender hand on his arm.
A very rare and very impish grin slowly made it's way across Jeremie's face. The conveniently upraised screen of his laptop, hid nicely as he turned back.
"Yah," he told Odd. "I doubt she'll notice at all."
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Yumi's didn't even bother to sit down, but her bag slammed as it hit the table.
"What kind of game does he think he's playing? We have a group meeting today, why is he sitting over there?!" She demanded.
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He didn't acknowledge her for the longest moment and Yumi felt her annoyance start to grow.
One. . . Two. . .
Gradually he lifted his eyes from the table to face her. Then slowly, deliberately, raised an inquiring brow.
"Can I . . help you?
And two was as close to the number of ten as she got.
"We have a job to do, can't you guys just kiss and make up already?"
Ok, even Jeremie had to admit that was a poor choice of words.
"Oh, because you always do the right thing, right?"
Frustrated Ulrich turned to face her. "I try!"
"Are you sure this is a good idea," Odd said, glancing over his shoulder.
"Trust me, they're better off without us."
. . .
Their retreating footsteps echoed dully back at them and then were gone.
Ulrich raised his eyes to look at Yumi. She avoided them.
Now what?
Her eyes lit up for a moment at that, then once again the wall was brought up in his face.
She rolled her large brown eyes and turned away.
He guessed that meant he wouldn't be getting it back any time soon.
(He starts off softly)
"Listen, I'm sorr-"
(Then he changes his mind)
"You know what, forget it! I'm tired apologizing to you. All I do it apologies to you. I'm not sorry, I'm not sorry at all! And you know, maybe we shouldn't be friends again. Maybe you shouldn't ever forgive me. Because if I could go back. . . I'd ki- I'd kiss again."
Odd eyed the group with a smile. "Wow, the reject, the popular, the loner, the clown, and the girl in the computer, who would of thought it?"
Well, if Aelita was trapped in a computer, imagine how other people could be. Think about it, it's possible that all of us could travel through digital worlds of information."
"Yah," his friends sighed.
Honestly they didn't want to think about it.
"Eleven years of my life, gone."
"I know." Jeremie patted her hand soothingly. "But at this moment you're free. We may not be able to return to the past now, but we can move on to the future."
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(And that's it.
I liked coming up with this story, because I loved being able to incorporate so much of the original Code Lyoko. Also I love the idea of different people from different backgrounds coming together for one cause, which kind of was a theme of the original show.
For all the different things that come up in the story, I have to say my favorite part is this chapter where a popular trips Jeremie in class and Ulrich offers him a hand up. Ulrich glares the other popular down and, in front of everyone, him and Jeremie turn and walk together out of class.
I love it because it is the turning point. From that moment on, Jeremie is no longer just this kid Ulrich is helping with a problem, he's his friend. And now that Jeremie has Ulrich's backing, no one will ever mess with him again.)