Hi I really wanted to post something so I cut this a little shorter than I planned, oh well. I don't own Code Lyoko. Enjoy

Jeremie sat at the supercomputer, rubbing his temples while Aelita looked at him intently.

"What's on your mind Jeremie?" Aelita finally asked. In response Jeremie just scowled.

"I'm not quite sure what you're doing. Are you all right?"

"Yes, Aelita. I'm just trying to think." Jeremie had promised Aelita warriors to help her fight off the monsters but...How in the world was he supposed to do that?! Aelita was a computer program, so Jeremie figured he could program something like an antivirus. As soon as he took a look at these monsters though, he realized that a simple antivirus would not suffice. He could create a program powerful enough...but not in six days.

"UGH THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!" Jeremie banged on his arm rests in frustration.

"What is?"

"YOU WANT ME TO FIND A WAY TO DESTROY SUPER VIRUSES IN 6 DAYS!"

"You could always turn off the supercomputer like I originally suggested."

"No...no I'm not going to do that."

"What if you brought people here to fight?" Aelita asked. Jeremie rested his head on his hands and lifted an eyebrow.

"I can do that?" he asked.

"Of course you can. You've only seen this floor of the factory. There are two floors beneath this one. One of them is the scanner room which can, in theory, bring people to Lyoko using this program." Aelita opened a window labeled "Virtualization Process" and a window that showed security camera footage of the scanner room below. "And the floor below that has the power switch."

"Wait, what do you mean 'in theory'?"

"I mean I don't remember it ever being used...So I have no way of knowing if virtualizing a human being would actually work." Aelita said, and Jeremie smirked.

"So what you're telling me is...we need a test subject."

Jeremie scanned the cafeteria, looking for anyone who would be a good test subject. Jeremie had formulated a plan. He would say the supercomputer was a new top secret video game project he was working on. The problem was that he needed to find someone who liked video games enough and was stupid enough not to not question the obvious safety issues.

The new kid, of course! The one in the corner eating a mountain of food with one hand and playing Tetris with the other. He shared a few classes with Jeremie, and he wasn't exactly the smartest kid around. He was sitting at a table in the corner by himself. Jeremie sat down across.

"Della Robbia, right?" Jeremie asked. Odd just kept on playing and eating, clearly he was in the zone. Jeremie snatched the game boy advanced away from him and it instantly made a game over noise.

"Hey! What was that for?! I oughta clobber you for this, jerk!"

"I just wanted to know if you were interested in testing out my new video game system. It's eons beyond this piece of garbage." He said, sliding the game boy back to him. He was cool and collected, unafraid of this physical threat.

"Oh?" Odd's interest was peaked. Jeremie nodded. "...Tell me about it." Jeremie smiled in satisfaction, he already had his test subject, all he had to do was take him to the site.

"Full immersion virtual reality system with advanced artificial intelligence NPCs. Does that sound like enough to you?"

"Well yea that sounds amazing but why are you asking me to test this? Besides I wouldn't peg you as the type to make a video game." Odd asked, Jeremie shrugged in reply.

"I work on all sorts of projects, and you look like you like video games."

Maybe it was just the fact that Odd didn't really have any friends and was glad to be recognized, but he agreed to test out Jeremie's "video game" that night.

"So, you have any plans tonight, Della Robbia?"

"Ulrich, since when have you been interested in what I'm doing?" Odd asked, looking across the room at his roommate while absentmindedly petting his dog.

"I'm not. It's just that Sissi's coming over to the dorm in a little while and I need to talk with her alone, got that? So just find something to do outside." Ulrich said.

"Don't worry, I have plans. Just make sure Kiwi doesn't get caught, ok?" Odd asked.

"I'm not doin that mutt any favors, but I won't turn him in yet. If he gets caught it's his own fault." Ulrich flipped the page of a magazine he was reading.

"Fine...fair enough I guess. Come on boy." Odd ushered Kiwi into his underwear drawer and left. It was unfortunate that he didn't have a better relationship with his roommate. Odd would love to be good friends with Ulrich but Ulrich just treated him with irritation and indifference. Sure...Odd could be annoying sometimes but he had genuinely good intentions...Jeremie's dorm was right down the hall. Jeremie didn't have a roommate. Instead of another bed and desk, Jeremie had computers, robots, and other projects. He was easily Kadic's brightest student...but also it's most isolated. Odd knocked on the door.

"It's open." came a voice from inside. Odd opened the door and stepped in. Jeremie was sitting cross-legged on his bed, screwing together what looked like a miniature robot arm. "Oh, Della Robbia, hi. I'll just be a minute." he finished screwing the arm together and connected it to a battery and it flexed.

"Wow, that's amazing." Odd stared at the robot arm.

"You really think so? It's nothing really." Jeremie said, setting his robot arm aside.

"So, where is this video game of yours?"

"Not here. It's in a factory nearby."

"A factory...?"

"I needed the space." Jeremie opened the door and motioned for Odd to follow him.

"Ulgh...uh did we HAVE to go through the sewers? I can STILL smell it!" Odd wrung out his shirt for what must have been the twelfth time. It still smelled.

"The game is worth the smell, you'll see." Jeremie pressed the elevator button and walked into the elevator.

"Is this safe?" Odd asked, looking around the elevator. Jeremie tapped his foot impatiently.

"If it wasn't safe I wouldn't be in here." Jeremie said, Odd shrugged.

"Fair enough."

Odd stepped into the elevator and with the press of a button it descended two floors to the scanner room.

"Err...what is this?" Odd asked. "Looks like something out of science fiction."

"Perhaps it is...This is the scanner room, and those are the immersion chambers, or scanners. They're your way into the game. Just stand in one and wait, ok?"

"Can do." Odd gave a little salute and walked to one of the scanners. Jeremie pressed another button, went to the computer room, and brought up the virtualization program.

"Jeremie...are you sure this is ok...ethically?" Aelita asked from the computer.

"Yeah, of course. He'll be fine. Just be there to meet him." Jeremie typed in the coordinates where he would be sending Odd. Jeremie set up the program...all he had to do was press enter. "Here goes nothing...

Jeremie pressed enter.

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