Greetings readers, I HAVE NOT BEEN ON IN FOREVER _ """" jeeze Iam terribly sorry this terible beast has grabbed ahold me and that bast is called life...this chapter I worked bit by bit on for awhile now I missed a large window of opprtunity in the summer and I am very sorry for those who are waiting for more activity. I also realize that my Code Hearts fanfic has gone without a new chapter for a lil while...I am almost done both of my ongoing series and after that I will post a new chapter every friday when the stories are complete (5-10 chapters) or heck just might just post em at the same time. This is the four-part finale for this fanfic. Anyway enjoy this chapter & expect more activity from me *crosses fingers* with some luck.
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Chapter 27: Valentine pt. 1 Roses are red
After much anticipation, the day had come! Valentine's Day! A significant day in a young lover's year, and everyone had someone on this day. Couples were up and down the hall cuddling, hugging, kissing and muttering sweet phrases into each other's ears, and the teachers couldn't do a single thing about it.
"Attention class!" Mrs. Hertz announced in home room and the rosy-cheeked students got into their seats," Today we'll be studying, due to today's circumstances, the process of infatuation," explained the old teacher writing in chalk
Then, a note landed on Mason's desk in the form of a paper airplane, and Mason quickly hid it under his desk to avoid the teacher seeing it. Mason opened it to see small cursive hand-writing which filled up only about a fourth of the lined paper it was written on.
Are we still on for tonight? I don't want to be left behind and then made a fool out of just because you got cold feet. Are you going to wear the same tux from when you hosted the show? Anyway, I'm sorry I'm just so excited about tonight! Can we talk more after class about it? -Emily
Mason gave a small smirk and then looked in the direction the note came from to see a black-haired young woman waving at him slightly, and went and waved back at her. He gave a smile and then wrote on the piece of paper, rolled it into a ball, and then rolled it under to where Emily's desk was. Emily picked it up and unrolled it, adjusted her glasses, and looked at the cursive handwriting.
Don't worry babe~ It's going to be all right….yeah I'll be wearing that tux again and yeah good idea we'll talk about it after class –Mason
"B-babe!?" stuttered Emily to herself blushing and then writing again on the note, and doing the same thing as Mason. Mason picked up the note.
Okay, are you excited for tonight? –Emily
Mason wrote down his response and then tossed the note to Emily. Emily picked it up and read it.
Sure am, I can't wait to see what you are going to wear? By the way dnt respond because Ms. Hertz is looking our way….
Emily looked up to see a stern face looking her direction. "Well, now that our interrupters are done, we can now continue the lesson." She looked down and blushed and continues writing down notes into her notebook.
After class, everyone filed out into the courtyard where people started talking about tonight's dance. The Lyoko Warriors, short of Mason at the time, went to their usual spot on the bench.
"Hey where's Mason?" asked Ulrich looking around for a sign of his blond-haired friend.
"He said he was going to talk to Emily about tonight, he said he should be over here soon." said Aelita with a happy tune in her voice.
"What's got you in a good mood?" chuckled Yumi being cuddled by Ulrich.
"Oh it's Je-"Aelita was about to say before Jeremy came running up to them.
"Guys, we have a problem! My laptop hasn't been getting a signal from the Super Computer! We need to find a way to fix this, or we won't know when XANA attacks!" spazed Jeremy waving his arms around.
"Calm down Jeremy, might just be a poor signal or something…..it has been snowing hard recently….." replied Ulrich using a stick to poke the show on the roof causing it to fall on Odd. This small event caused everyone o laugh as Odd ,agitated, dusted the snow off himself.
"Hmmm….maybe your right," sighed Jeremy "I'll go to the factory and clear some snow off the roof and then reboot the system and see if that'll work,"
"Good idea, and we'll start getting our formal wear ready for tonight," smiled Aelita.
Mason suddenly strolled over in his brown hiking boots and sat down where Jeremy was sitting.
"So how was your talk?" smirked Ulrich looking over at Mason.
"It was good, it was good," replied Mason "Did you tell them yet Aelita?" smiled Mason over to where Aelita was.
"O-oh! Well, after much talking…me and Jeremy decided that we should…go steady?" giggled Aelita blushing terribly.
"Aw, that's cute you guys…..congratulations you two," smiled Yumi.
"Thank you Yumi. It was, after all, thanks to your guys' support that we were able to be together" smiled Aelita.
"That's all touching and all," interrupted Odd, "But we need to get ready for tonight!"
"Oh yeah, hey, shouldn't of Jeremy have come back by now?" asked Ulrich looking around for Jeremy.
"I don't know, but he'd better hurry like his life depends on it," replied Mason.
"Speaking of missing persons, has anyone seen Apollo at all today? He seems to have completely disappeared," asked Yumi.
"Yeah, that is weird, I don't think I've seen him at all today," said Mason.
Meanwhile, at the factory, Jeremy had just logged onto the supercomputer to see if clearing the snow had solved the network problems.
"It doesn't work, there's something wrong with something inside the supercomputer," sighed Jeremy worrying about how long this will take in order to make his "previous appointment".
"This is weird, the supercomputer's configuration has all been rearranged," spoke Jeremy trying several binary codes in order to repair the glitches.
Then an error sign popped up and then flashed red saying "NO ADMINISTRATOR PRIVILAGES DETECTED – CANCELLING OPERATIONS IMMEDIATELY" , then the screen restarted the code input.
"Something, or someone, disabled all the administrative pathways to the supercomputer," gasped Jeremy trying to redirect the pathways.
Suddenly Jeremy typed in a code and the eye of XANA appeared on the screen. Suddenly, the screen flickered off and then back on. A alert came up saying "ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNT DETECTED – ENABLING PRIVILEGES" .
"Oh no, not now…..this is the worst time for a XANA attack," spoke Jeremy getting out his cell ready to call Ulrich.
A large metal object then took a swing at Jeremy , hitting him in the head, and causing him to fall to the ground. Jeremy looked up before he became unconscious to see that Max was standing above him with a lead pipe in his hand. Max's Eyes flickered with the eye of XANA as Jeremy blacked out. Max then picked up Jeremy and proceeded to place him in the elevator. When Max came up the elevator, he grabbed Jeremy and locked him in a equipment room on the factory level. Max then headed back to Kadic and tossed the lead pipe in the garden shed where he had found it, and went to go meet up with the others.
"Phase one is in place…now for the rest of the warriors," evilly plotted Max headed back towards the school.
At the school, the other Lyoko warriors had finished getting their formal wear together for tonight. They proceeded to walk down from their respective dorms and met on their casual bench.
"Hey, where is Jeremy? He should have gotten dressed by now," asked Aelita to the others.
"None of us haven't seen him….. he may still be working on the Super Computer," replied Yumi.
"Oh, I hope he gets here on time," sigh Aelita.
"Aw, don't worry Aelita, he'll be here to take you to the dance as soon as he's done fixing the computer," assured Ulrich patting Aelita's shoulder.
"Okay, but still I hope he gets here soon," smiled Aelita to her friends.
Meanwhile Max had just walked out of the woods. He fixed his hair back in place, and shook off the dirt off his shirt.
"Hey Max, have you seen Jeremy?" asked Aelita.
"Um…..not recently, didn't he go to the factory?" asked Max scratching the back of his head.
"Oh…..okay…thanks Max," sighed Aelita.
"Hey, he's just taking a little longer than usual, he'll be here Aelita," comforted Yumi.
"Yeah sure, " grumbled Aelita resting her head in her hands.
The others looked at each other with faces of concern to where Jeremy was at this time, the worst of all times, to be absent. Aelita soon left afterwards to go prepare the DJ booth for the dance.
"Well what are we going to do about this, this mess?" asked Odd brushing back his pointed hair.
"I don't know about you, but we should go look for Jeremy. He's an idiot sometimes, but not dumb enough to ditch Aelita during the dance," said Ulrich sternly.
"Very true , we better go straighten him out, or else Aelita may never forgive him," replied Mason getting up.
"No, Mason, you need to stay here. If Emily were to see you not here she'd be a little upset, trust me I've dated her," responded Odd nudging Mason.
"Thanks Odd, I appre- wait you what?" asked Mason looking around to see Odd and Ulrich were gone.
Mason made a small "hmph" he went to go met up with Emily. He walked over to the girls dorm and asked Asura and Claire if Emily were in the dormitory.
"Why yes she is Mason," said Asura.
"Yeah, last time we checked she went into Sissi's room because Sissi needed her help with something I heard," replied Claire.
Mason gulped, from what he heard about from Ulrich about Sissi, he had a feeling that this wasn't going to end well.
Meanwhile within the woods, Odd and Ulrich equipped flashlights and began to call Jeremy to see if he would respond.
"JEREMY ARE YOU THERE, ARE YOU OKAY?!" yelled Odd waving the flashlight around.
"Odd, he might be in trouble in the factory, we should try to go find him in there," sighed Ulrich.
"Okay Ulrich, but we better hurry, we don't to let down our princess just because we can't find her prince. We her royal knights absolutely cannot fail in this mighty quest to find her one true love!" joked Odd posing like a performing actor with a single arm in the air.
"All right, all right, enough clowning around Odd, like we said we can't let Aelita down." said Ulrich.
After searching the woods for 5 minutes they finally came to an agreement that Jeremy wasn't in the woods. They walked up to the front of the factory's bridge.
"You think that Jeremy may be in there somewhere?" questioned Ulrich to Odd.
"I bet, let's go check, if worse comes to worse it could be a XANA attack," suggested Odd shining this flashlightnito the opening of the factory.
Ulrich and Odd walked across the bridge and into the factory. Meanwhile an active security camera was spying down on the two intruders. Max, on the other side, saw the two flies go into the spider web.
The pieces began to fall into place in Max's mind, the brains of the warriors were already out of the picture. He assumed that not the warriors are beginning to split up due to the huge event. Apollo was already dealt with, and two warriors are vulnerable to being captured. The plan was coming into place, and no one could predict what was to come.