Phew... I'm glad I had time to write this. :/
Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko.
Connecting to IP ...
Connection blocked by firewall. Please input the password:
Starting rapid input at 10000 passwords a second...
Password correct: ***********
Signing off user account "Marcus"...
Creating new user account...
Named user account Franz Hopper.
Established adminstrative control. Accessing program folders...
Hacking application Skype... done
Marcus had just come back from lunch and saw his computer inputting wierd code. Damn, I forgot it on again. Suddenly his Skype informed him that he has a call. Franz Hopper? I've never added any... Before Marcus was able to reject the call it opened up on it's own. "What the..."
"You don't know me and I don't know you. But still we need each other."
"What kind of a hacker are you?"
"I have no time to explain. Do you know my daughter Aelita?"
"Yeah. She's a friend of my..." He stopped to consider for a sec. "...good friend Yumi's."
"I need to tell her something."
"So you expect me to believe some weird old guy who has a different nickname than her own daughter? Are you a pedophile of some kind?"
"I can give you what you want the most. But only if you help me contact my daughter."
"You can't possibly know what I want the most."
"I hate to admit it... but I love Yumi Ishiyama more than my parents."
It was from Marcus's digital diary. "H-how did you do that?"
"I can give you Yumi if you tell Aelita something."
"I'm still doubting. Don't you think this is weird?"
"MY TIME IS RUNNING OUT!" Marcus's laptop's speaker let out a terrible squeak.
"Hey, don't break the speaker, I just bought the thing."
"Sorry about that. Just... tell Aelita what this paper I'm printing to you says." The printer connected to Marcus's laptop printed a paper and Marcus took it. "And just in case the paper is destroyed somehow, just remember the bold part of the text." Franz Hopper has left the conversation.
"What the heck is this?" Marcus read the paper thoroughly. "I knew this guy was some kind of a maniac." He scrunched the paper up to his pocket and shut his computer down.
At the cafeteria:
Ulrich, Yumi, Jeremy, Odd and Aelita were sitting on their usual seats, when Marcus to pick up food. Immediately a group of girls gathered next to him to pick more food on their trays. Seeing this, Odd said:
"You'd better keep a close eye on Aelita."
"Why?" Jeremy asked confused.
"Who knows if Marcus gets a crush on Aelita and she falls for him too."
"Aelita would never fall for him." Jeremy said continuing eating, but started having minor second thoughts: "Or would you?"
"What?" Aelita asked shocked. "Of course not!"
"You see?" Jeremy said.
"Just saying." Odd looked at Ulrich and Yumi who had been smiling and gazing at each other the whole dinner, not saying anything. "Come on!"
"What?" Ulrich asked sounding confused.
"What's going on between you two? Something has clearly happened."
"Nothing, Odd. We just know something you don't." Yumi said.
"Yeah, for sure. I know every story and rumor around this school."
Aelita had just finished eating. "Why don't tell us then?"
"It's a secret." Ulrich said.
"We're your friends too. I'm going to be hurt if you won't tell me."
"Let them keep their secret." Jeremy said saving the situation. "They have the right to that, just as much as we do."
"Jeremy!" Aelita yelled at him.
"Well what is your secret then?" Odd asked. "The whole school knows you're dating so it's not that."
"The term secret really means secret, Odd." Jeremy said.
"We will tell ours if you tell yours." Yumi said.
"No. Let's go Aelita." Jeremy said and they rose from the table. As Aelita had taken her tray, Marcus came to her.
"Hi Aelita."
"Oh, hi." Jeremy started feeling jealousy.
"I need to talk to you. Do you have time?"
"She's coming with me." Jeremy said.
"What is it about?" Aelita asked Marcus.
"It's funny actually. See, my..."
"Aelita, let's go." Jeremy grabbed her from her hand.
"Is it how urgeant?" Aelita asked Marcus.
"Not too much, I guess. I might just leave it forgotten."
"No!" This made Jeremy very angry. "In a half of an hour, at the coffee machine?"
"Sure." Jeremy pulled Aelita away from the cafeteria.
"You were flirting with that jerk!"
"I was just being nice."
"You're letting him tell you he loves you!"
"It might not be that. And even if it is, I don't love him."
"His sweet talk might make you fall in love with him!"
Aelita frowned. "Don't you trust me?"
Jeremy sighed. "Sorry. Odd just really made me..."
"Odd can really be an idiot sometimes." Aelita said. "I love you only."
"I love you too."
At Ulrich's dorm:
"Odd almost got us." Yumi said.
"Would it really have been so bad?" Ulrich answered. Yumi sat down next to her on the bed.
"Yeah. Well..."
"Are you starting to have second thoughts?"
"No!" She put her forehead against Ulrich's. "I just want to keep this as a secret for sometime. Until we've reached the stronger grounds."
"If you want it." They kissed each other but were interrupted by the door being knocked.
"Who's there?" Ulrich asked annoyed.
"Jim here! Surprise check on your room."
"Get under the bed, quickly!" Ulrich whispered to Yumi. She went there panicked, as girls are not supposed to be on boys' dorms.
Jim came in. "Haha, just kidding! Just coming to check my fav pencak boy."
"How nice of you..." Just the best thing that could have ever happened.
"I thought of actually coming to see you training with those kiddies tomorrow. If it's okay with you!"
"Of course." Ulrich sighed in annoyance.
"You know, I used to train pencak."
"Really? When and where?"
"I'd rather not talk about it." Jim said and looked at his watch. "I need to go now, I have a class beginning. Bye!"
As Jim had left, Yumi came out from under the bed. "That was random."
"He has been doing that since I first started doing the class." Ulrich rubbed his forehead. "Maybe it wasn't a good decision."
"But it got your father happy."
"It was more from the grades." Ulrich said. "Anyway, shall we continue?" Yumi sat on his laps and they continued kissing passionately for many minutes.
"I need to go home now." Yumi said interrupting the kiss.
"Aww!" Ulrich said disappointed.
"We can continue tomorrow. Walk me back home."
"Ookay."
10 minutes later, near Yumi's house:
After they had disappeared from the school's view, Ulrich and Yumi started walking hand-to-hand. Everytime anyone went past them, they both blushed. "Why are we blushing like this?" Ulrich asked.
"We have just started. It will go away in a few days."
Yumi saw an ice cream stall across the street. "It's been a while since I last ate ice cream. Wait here, I'll go get us." Yumi said. Before Ulrich could say anything, Yumi was already running across the street. Ulrich looked at a McDonalds a for a second and when he looked back, he saw her lying on the ground.
"Yumi!" Ulrich yelled. He ran to her. He looked right and saw a stopped car. "Are you blind?!" He yelled to the driver, but received no response. "Yumi, please wake up!" Ulrich dialed 112.
At the coffee machine:
Aelita arrived and saw Marcus drinking coffee. "Hi."
"Hi." There was a deep silence for some time. "Is it really this awkward? 'Cause if it is..."
"No no! What was it you wanted to talk about?" Aelita asked embarrassed.
"My Skype was hacked today by some wierdo."
"Jeremy is better with these things. You should ask him."
"It's not just that. It's about you. I don't know how this jerk knows you, but..." Marcus dug the paper from his pocket and was about to give to Aelita, when a jealous Jeremy came and grabbed it from his hands.
"Is this some kind of a love letter?" Jeremy ripped the paper to pieces. "I told you, Aelita."
"Jeremy! It could've been important."
"For sure. And you..." Jeremy gazed at Marcus. "Stay away from my girlfriend." Jeremy ran away towards the dorm hall.
"Jeremy, wait!" Aelita ran after him. When she reached the hall, Jeremy had already disappeared. That was so unlike him. Her cellphone rang. "Ulrich?"
"Yumi's been admitted to the hospital."
"What happened?" She asked horrified.
"She was hit by a car. She's in critical condition."
Aelita was silent for some time. "I'll call Jeremy and come there asap."
Ulrich hung up. Aelita started running as fast as she could. She dialed in Jeremy's number, but he didn't answer. She saw Marcus sitting on a bench. He grabbed her from her arm and said: "Maybe we now have some time to talk without your jealous boyfriend. I have this jerk who persecutes me..." Aelita pulled her hand away from Marcus's grip and continued running. "Hey! What's wrong?"
Aelita stopped for a small moment. "What's wrong?! My best friend is dying that's wrong!" She continued running twice as fast as before.
As Aelita disappeared from view, Marcus went to his dorm confused: who exactly is dying? Hopefully not Yumi. He opened up his laptop and decided that he himself must tell the persecuter to stay away from him. Before he could do anything, Skype opened up.
"Hello again. Did you talk to my daughter?"
"I was interrupted by her boyfriend, Jeremy."
"Were you able to say anything?"
"No."
"Then we have another option. As you probably read, there is an abandoned factory near the school."
"Yeah, what about it?"
"It can save your good friend Yumi."
Marcus was terribly shocked. How could this man know all this? "A-are you some kind of a government agent?"
"I'm Franz Hopper, the inventor of the supercomputer in that abandoned factory."
"What should a damn computer be able to do?"
"Trust me. It's the only way for you to save her."
"It's not up to me. It's up to the doctors."
"They can do nothing with the severities of her damages." Marcus sighed. "What do you have to lose?"
Marcus looked at the screen and an image of him and Yumi playing football together on his table. "Fine. As odd as it sounds."
"Good. Get to the factory through a sewer system in the woods. Inside the factory, get to the bottom floor and start up the machine you see there. Then go the second floor and start operating the console. There I will tell you the rest."
Marcus shut the computer down and left to the sewer system. As he reached the beginning of the system, he noticed scooters and skateboards. He took a skateboard and started going towards the end of the tunnel-like sewer. He went up the ladder at the end and went inside the factory. He slid down one of the ropes and went to the elevator. As he reached the bottom floor, he was stunned by what he saw. He pulled the power switch and the machine powered up.
After being frozen by astonishment Marcus went to the second floor and powered the console up, as guided. The screen showed wierd coding and then an image of Franz Hopper appeared on the screen.
"Wait for some time. I'm soon ready."
At the hospital:
Ulrich, Aelita, Jeremy and Odd were waiting in the waiting room outside the OR. "Please let her be okay." Ulrich prayed.
"I'm sure she will. I mean, she survived many X.A.N.A attacks, why wouldn't she survive now?" Odd tried to cheer Ulrich up. Then they saw a couple of doctors going into the OR with a defibrillator.
"No.. no no no no no!" Ulrich said and ran after them.
"Ulrich!" Jeremy and Odd tried to catch him. Ulrich went inside the OR, where her parents were standing terrified near Yumi, who was being defibrillated.
"No..." Ulrich said.
"Get out of here!" One of the nurses said. Jeremy and Odd arrived.
"She's my girlfriend! I have a right to be here!"
Hearing this Jeremy and Odd became both happy and sorry for Ulrich. When they saw how angry the nurse was, they left without saying a word.
"I'm sorry, but you have to go too." The nurse started pulling him away from his shoulder.
"NO!" Ulrich kept looking at the monitor that kept giving three beeps as a warning of cardiac arrest.
"360! Clear!" The monitor let out a loud beep and then a continuous one.
"No... you can't be dead."
Back at the factory:
"She's dying in a couple of minutes."
"Yumi?"
"Just press enter."
"What happens if I do this now?"
"You have a chance to save her. Do it, you idiot!"
"I love her, but..."
"Just do it!"
Marcus swallowed. "Okay." He pressed enter.
"Yumi, please don't die!"
"Continue CPR!"
"Return to the past, now!"
So, what do you like? Review, positive review are accepted, negative ones are appreciated :). Ideas are also appreciated, I'm very open-minded with this story.