I promised an update over break, and I give you one! HECK YEAH! XD Yeah, this past week wasn't as productive as I would have hoped. So far this is the only "dead" story I've revived. But maybe between today and tomorrow I'll have some other stories updated, too. Yeah, this is just a quick little bit. But it's something. Thank you for your patience!
Chapter 2
"You know," Yumi said to Jeremie, who had just thrown his crowbar across the room, "I've heard insanity defined as trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"That is not what I've been doing!" Jeremie snapped, "I used a screwdriver, a wrench, a drill, AND a crowbar! They're all totally different!"
"You're tired, aren't you?" Aelita asked casually, examining her fingernails.
"Clearly something's wrong," said Jeremie, ignoring her smart remark, "This has XANA written all over it."
Yumi frowned. "Does this look like XANA to you?" she asked, pointing to the hourglass symbol, "He signs everything he does, like it's some kind of art. And this clearly isn't his signature."
"It's a trick!" Jeremie yelled, "He just threw some other random symbol on it and bugged the superscan so we'd let our guard down! We don't go to Lyoko to deactivate the tower and instead we go on a wild goose chase to figure out where this came from, and then XANA uses that thing to do who knows what to you!"
"What if you're wrong?" Yumi asked.
"What if I'm not?" Jeremie retorted.
"Why don't we split up, then?" Aelita interrupted, "You send Odd to Lyoko and try to find anything suspicious. Yumi and I will try to figure out whatever we can."
"And how do you expect to do that?" Jeremie asked, "Do you have any bright ideas?"
"There is a button," Aelita replied.
Jeremie smacked himself in the face. "Aelita… Rule number one: Never, under any circumstances, do you push great big threatening buttons."
"Let's go back to my house, then," said Yumi, "Back to the place where it landed. If it wasn't XANA, then maybe it wasn't supposed to end up with me. And whoever put it there may be coming back for it."
"You do that if you want," said Jeremie, "I'm getting Odd."
Yumi scoffed. "Before noon?" she asked with a smirk, "Good luck with that."
"He'll wake up once we get to Lyoko," Jeremie responded. He made for the door, but stopped himself before opening it. He turned around and faced the girls.
"You know he's gonna push the button as soon as he sees you, right?" Jeremie asked them.
Yumi and Aelita nodded.
Hehe, silly Odd. I think I have ideas as to where to go from here. But I don't know how long it'll take me – could be a few days, could be a few weeks, could be a few months. If it takes too long, I'm deeply sorry.