Part 3
"Finally." Ulrich parks the camper. "We can finally stop and relax." Ulrich and the others had driven nearly non stop for three months straight. They stopped in several places but the US Military was after them.
"This is it?" Yumi looks out the window.
"I guess, this is where Odd stopped." Yumi and Ulrich go to the back room where Jeremie was with the babies. "Jeremie, this is it."
"Good." Jeremie points to the kids who were the kids. "They've been sleeping for about an hour."
"Aw, they're so adorable." Krieger and Sanne were hugging each other as they slept. "Want to come outside?"
"Sure. Been getting tired of being stuck in here." Jeremie and the others leave the camper.
"Hey everybody." Odd waves to them. "This is it."
"Our new hiding spot." Sandra looks around. "Hey, this looks familiar, Odd is this what I think it is?"
"Yep."
The group was now hiding in Canada. They were hiding in the woods of Saskatchewan from Aelita and the US military. It had taken them three months to find a new place to hide. They had gone several places but none were right and the military was always after them. They needed a place that was remote enough that they wouldn't be found but was close enough to at least one town so they could get supplies. Canada would get cold in the winter but they were out of US territory and hoped they wouldn't be followed by the US Military into Canada. "I'm glad I remembered this place." Odd is cutting up firewood while talking with Vallejo who was also cutting firewood. "It was a pretty exciting trip."
"What did you do here again?"
"Extreme climbing. Some of these trees are almost four hundred feet tall. You try climbing to the very top without any harnesses." Odd swings an axe splitting a log. "Not as good as the cave."
"Yeah but this is still a nice place." Several large trees had grown and twisted into each other creating what the founder liked to call a 'tree of life'. It created an area that was protected from the sun, rain, and wind.
"I guess the Aelita attacks keep people from going on vacation." The 'tree of life' was a tourist attraction but no one had come in the weeks since they had been there. "Jeremie said he was going to stop Aelita soon." Odd swings his axe and chops a log in half.
"Yeah but he hasn't." Vallejo chops a log. "What is he waiting for? Aelita destroyed Detroit then Toronto this month."
"I know. He doesn't want to lose Aelita but millions of people are dieing." Odd chops a log.
"I don't care about Aelita anymore. My grandparents lived in Columbus when Aelita destroyed it." Vallejo chops a log. "Do you know what is really taking him so long? I know he said he doesn't know how to get it to Aelita but, well, I don't know Odd." Vallejo chops another log.
"I don't know how to do that either. If I did I would have done it already. I hate hiding out." Odd chops another log.
"Same here." They continue to chop logs for firewood.
A week later Jeremie and Ulrich are in the woods looking for berries. "Ulrich I'm telling you its too dangerous."
"I know but I have to." Ulrich and Jeremie had been arguing over something very important. "It's the only way to stop Aelita."
"If it doesn't work you'll die! I don't want to be responsible for you getting killed."
"Then I won't die."
"Xana is stronger then ever. They nuked him, they used a nuclear warhead, and he didn't even blink."
"You know that's not true. Aelita was hurt and if your EMP device doesn't stop her then I will."
"Ok Ulrich. If you can get Yumi to agree then I'll let you do it." Jeremie smiles knowing Yumi wouldn't let Ulrich put himself in danger. They continue going through the woods finding food. They wanted to stay out of the nearest town as much as possible to keep a repeat of what happened in the old town from happening. They were tired of running for their lives.
Several months later, after Aelita has practically emptied Canada of people, Ulrich and Yumi are arguing. They had been having the same argument for nearly five months. "Ulrich it is way too dangerous! I don't want to raise Krieger alone!" Yumi stomps her foot.
"You won't raise him alone. I'll use the EMP device to stop Aelita. With my powers she can't hurt me."
"She could kill you before you even blink."
"Yumi Aelita is going to go to Japan sooner or later. She'll kill your parents, your brother, and his wife, all of them. If we don't stand up to Aelita right now then millions if not billions more will die."
"I, I love you Ulrich. I don't want to lose you and I know Krieger doesn't want to lose his father."
"I don't want to lose my lovely wife or my son. If we don't face Aelita and stop her I will lose you."
"I know but, but, Ulrich promise me something."
"What?"
"If it doesn't work you'll run away."
"I, yes Yumi. If the EMP device doesn't work I'll run away. I won't fight her I'll fly back here."
"I, ok." Yumi hugs then kisses Ulrich. "I love you Ulrich."
"I love you too." Ulrich kisses Yumi back. "I'm not doing it today or tomorrow. I, I'll wait a week."
"Why?"
"I want to form a plan and, um, if," Ulrich sighs. "If it doesn't work and she catches me, um, I want to give everyone a chance to say goodbye." Ulrich sees a tear in Yumi's eye. "It won't happen because I'll run away but it, um, just incase Yumi." Yumi buries her face into Ulrich's chest hugging him hard.
"Don't say that." Yumi cries.
"Ok I won't." Ulrich holds onto Yumi letting her cry. Ulrich knew it could happen. Ulrich knew he could die. Ulrich also knew that Jeremie was a genius and that the EMP device would work.
The next day Ulrich announces to the others what he was planning. "Ulrich you're insane! You'll be killed!" Odd was not for this plan. "There has to be another way to do this."
"There isn't." Ulrich sparks with energy. "I can use the powers given to me by Elisabeth to stop Aelita."
"But what if the EMP device fails?" Vallejo doesn't want Ulrich to do this. "You're a father."
"I know. I'll run if it fails. I'm not stupid enough to fight Aelita. I'll be fine even if the EMP device doesn't work."
"When are you doing this?" Sandra is also concerned for Ulrich. He was her friend and she worried for Krieger.
"Five days from now. On the fourth of July."
"Why?"
"American Independence, Bastille Day, a general day of freedom. I'll fight and stop Aelita so we can go back to normal lives."
"I want a normal life but I don't want you getting killed. Yumi how can you let him do this?!" Senoid looks at Yumi.
"Ulrich won't die. If the EMP device doesn't work he'll run away and come back here." Yumi has Krieger in her arms. "He won't let Krieger grow up without a father. He won't leave me."
"Guys I'll be here to celebrate on July fourth. We'll be celebrating the death of Xana and the release of Aelita."
"If you say so Ulrich." Odd stands up and goes over to him. "If you die I'll kick your ass."
"Ok Odd."
The next five days seemed to take forever for Ulrich but seemed to fly by for the others. Ulrich played with Krieger as much as he could. Ulrich talked with his friends as much as he could. Ulrich tried to keep himself busy and tried to make sure everyone knew he would be ok. The next five days was a countdown for the Lyoko Warriors to the day that Aelita would be defeated.
The morning of July fourth came and Ulrich wakes up after a night with Yumi. Jeremie had taken Sanne and Krieger to Odd and Sandra's trailer so Ulrich and Yumi could be alone. "Ulrich you don't have to do this. None of us want you to. We won't blame you if you don't want to."
"I want to do this." Ulrich kisses Yumi. "I want to do this because I love you. I want to do this because I love Krieger and I want him to grow up in a world without danger." Ulrich kisses Yumi again. "I love you so much Yumi. I'll tell you how much I love you later tonight."
"You better." Yumi kisses Ulrich. "Are you going to see Krieger and the others before you leave?" Ulrich nods.
"I have to see them first." On that morning Ulrich was getting nervous. He was sure the EMP device would work but if it didn't and if he couldn't get away… He didn't want to think about it. "But I think the kids might still be sleeping. What to do with the time we have now?" Ulrich smiles.
"I can think of a few things." Yumi smiles then kisses Ulrich before they make love.
An hour later Yumi and Ulrich come out of the shower and change into clean clothes. They go out of the trailer and see Vallejo and Odd working on breakfast. "Hi Odd, is Krieger awake?"
"Krieger and Sanne are taking a bath." Odd blows on the fire. "I like wood cooked food but we have a stove."
"Odd you know the propane is expensive and we shouldn't be going into town as often as we did at the last one."
"I was just saying it was easier."
"Don't worry Odd." Ulrich sparks with energy and the wood bursts into flames. "I want a big meal before I leave today."
"Oh, that's right." Odd looks at Ulrich. "Are you sure you want to do this? We won't hold it against you if you don't."
"I have to do this so we can all go home." Ulrich smiles when he sees Jeremie leave Odd's trailer with Sanne and Krieger. "Hi Jeremie. Did Krieger behave last night?" Jeremie nods.
"Krieger and Sanne played together until it was time for bed." Jeremie smiles at the two children. "You enjoy last night?"
"Yes, thanks Jeremie for taking Krieger."
"Yumi took care of Sanne I have to make it up to you two." Jeremie takes the two children near the fire. "Today is the day." Jeremie sighs. "You better come back Ulrich." Jeremie had already let Ulrich know that if he died that Jeremie would do his best for Krieger like Yumi had done for Sanne but Jeremie didn't want to do this. He wanted Ulrich to come back. They had been friends for years, longer then the others. "When are you leaving?"
"After breakfast."
And so they talked, they ate, they dreaded the upcoming moment. After breakfast Ulrich walks away from the campsite after saying goodbye to everyone. "I have one last stop to make." Ulrich has the EMP device and turns it into a black mist then himself. He flies through the woods until he gets to a telephone pole. He enters the wires and travels at the speed of light to Germany. "Dad?" Ulrich comes out into a living room. "Mom? Is anyone here?" Ulrich sets the EMP device down. "Hello!" Ulrich hears something upstairs.
"Who's there!?"
"It's me, Ulrich!" Ulrich walks over to the stairs and starts to go up them when he sees his parents at the top of the stairs. "Hi mom, dad." They run down the stairs and hug him hard.
"Where were you!? We were so scared Ulrich. That alien thing is after you and Yumi was pregnant, oh, is she ok?"
"She's fine mom. And so is your grandson." Krieger's mom lets out an excited yell.
"Oh what's his name!?"
"Krieger Buke Stern. She named him."
"That's so adorable. Congratulations Ulrich. What are you doing here? Where have you been all these years?"
"Hiding from that alien." Ulrich sighs. "Mom, dad, we're doing something about the alien."
"What?"
"Jeremie found a way to stop it. I, mom, dad, here." Ulrich hands his mom an old DvD. "This will explain it all."
"Ulrich dear this must be at least six years old. We still have an old DvD player but, what's on it?"
"The truth." Ulrich hugs his parents. "I have to go." Ulrich runs down the stairs then goes to the EMP device. He turns it and himself into a black mist and leaves the living room.
"Honey, what, but…" Ulrich's mother looks at the DvD. "I guess we should look at this. I hope he's ok." They go upstairs to find the old DvD player to see what was on the DvD.
"What is that?" Aelita feels something flying towards her. "Ulrich? What does he think he is doing?" Aelita was floating over Anchorage Alaska. "Ulrich is coming to fight me is he?" Aelita laughs.
"She already knows I'm coming." Ulrich can feel her energy in the air. "I'm kilometers away and she can feel me. Her energy is powerful. This EMP device better work Jeremie." Ulrich turns the EMP device on. "I'm coming back to Yumi and Krieger. With or without a living Aelita." Jeremie asked Ulrich to bring Aelita back, dead or alive.
"He has something with him. Is it a bomb? Hmmm…" Aelita thinks. "Let him set it off then crush him." Aelita waits for Ulrich who gets closer and closer with what she thinks is a bomb.
"Aelita!" Ulrich sees her and flies directly at her. "Aelita stop this now before I hurt you!" Ulrich knows it is hopeless to negotiate with Xana but wants to try and reach Aelita before he attacks her.
"Try it Ulrich. That bomb will do little more then tickle." Aelita's energy charges around her. "I'll give you ten seconds before I kill you." Ulrich grabs the back of the EMP device.
"I'm sorry Aelita." Ulrich presses a trigger and a blue beam of energy comes out. The blue beam of energy surrounds Aelita. It hits Aelita who smiles at first before realizing what was happening.
"No!" Aelita struggles but can't fly away. Ulrich continues to hit Aelita with the blue energy when he sees it is working. A black mist is being ripped from Aelita's body. Her hair is starting to turn pink at the roots and continues up through her hair. The energy Ulrich had felt around him was shrinking until it had gone away completely. Aelita would soon be freed from Xana…
"No, don't, no!" The EMP device made a high pitched whining noise then a cable breaks. "What is it doing, stop!" Ulrich yells at the EMP device but it does nothing. The energy beam fades when another cable breaks. "Shit." Ulrich shakes the EMP device but nothing happens. The black mist forces itself back into Aelita as her hair turns black.
"Very good Ulrich." Aelita laughs. "I'm assuming Jeremie forgot to add the winch on the end of the cables to keep them in place." Aelita was back to her normal, Death Demon self.
"Aelita I don't care." Ulrich gets his swords out. "You'll die right here, right now, Aelita." Ulrich charges with energy. He promised Yumi that he would run away but this was it. He had the chance to stop Aelita, Xana, and free the others from her. "Aelita I didn't want to kill you but to stop Xana I will." Ulrich flies at Aelita and swings a sword at her.
"You think you can kill me?" Aelita dodges Ulrich's swords. "You are nothing compared to me!"
"So was Elisabeth! I was able to free her from Xana's grasp and now I'll free Aelita!" Ulrich uses his powers to swing so fast that not even Death Demon Aelita was able to dodge it.
"That hurt." Aelita has a cut on her cheek that has black blood coming out of it. "Now it is my turn to fight." Energy forms around Aelita's hands and forms into swords. "Lets see who is the better sword fighter." Aelita swings her energy swords at Ulrich who either dodges or blocks them.
"Aelita I'm better than you!" Ulrich charges more energy as the battle gets heated. "I won't lose!" Ulrich is fighting for Yumi, for Krieger, for everyone on Earth. He has to kill Xana, Aelita.
"You're nothing!" Aelita cuts Ulrich across the chest. "I am only toying with you Ulrich!" Ulrich blocks her next swing and cuts Aelita on the leg.
"Then why are you bleeding!" Ulrich swings for Aelita's neck but she blocks it. "I'll win!" Ulrich swings his other sword at Aelita's chest but she blocks it. The two are locked together in mortal combat. Energy surrounds them as they try to break through the other ones guard.
"What is this?" A soldier sees something going on over Anchorage with the spy plane sent to spy on the alien. "Sir come and look at this." A lieutenant walks over and looks at the screen.
"It seems to be another alien." He looks closer. "It's using swords? What kind of alien is this?"
"I don't care what it is using as long as it kills the other alien." More soldiers come over and watch the battle.
"Aaaa!" Ulrich is cut deeply on the stomach. His energy sparks over the wound and seals it. He was letting his smaller wounds go because using energy to heal meant the corruption would come faster but the last wound was too large to ignore. "Aelita give up now and maybe we can save you!"
"Save me? From what? Power, undeniable power?" Aelita goes to shove an energy sword into Ulrich's chest but he dodges it. Ulrich swings his sword and spears it into Aelita's back. He spins around and gets behind Aelita putting his other sword at her neck.
"You lose Aelita." Ulrich pushes the blade against her neck. "I'm sorry." Ulrich goes to slash his sword blade across Aelita's throat when an energy bolt comes out of Aelita's back knocking Ulrich away.
"I think not!" Aelita charges with more energy. "You're holding back Ulrich, don't. Don't worry about the corruption and fight me! I want a challenge. I've been killing millions of people with ease and now I want a challenge!" Aelita charges Ulrich ready to kill him.
"That's just fine with me Aelita." Ulrich blocks her attacks and ignores the corruption creeping up into his brain stem. His body charges with more energy. "I will win this fight Aelita." Ulrich moves using the energy to power every muscle in his body. He moves so fast Aelita can barely see his movements. The corruption reaches Ulrich's brain as he slashes Aelita again and again trying to kill her. "You lose!" Ulrich shoves a sword into Aelita's stomach. He swings his other sword at her head but she blocks it. Energy sparks around her eyes.
"I can improve myself also." Aelita charged her eyes with energy allowing her self to see Ulrich's movements.
"It's too late Aelita." Ulrich pulls up on his sword cutting Aelita. He remembers how he killed Elisabeth and charges his sword with energy sending it into Aelita trying to rip her apart from the inside.
"It is never too late for me!" Aelita shoves an energy sword into Ulrich's chest. "I won't die!"
"No…" Ulrich coughs up blood. "I can't lose…" He sends more energy into Aelita. If he was going to die he would take Aelita with him. "You're dieing with me Aelita." Ulrich screams as Aelita rips her energy sword out of Ulrich chest then shoves it into him again. Ulrich sends more energy into Aelita. He was going to die he knew it but he wasn't going to die alone. Aelita pulls her energy sword out of Ulrich again and punches him with the other. She starts shoving both energy swords into Ulrich and ripping them out. She does this dozens of times ripping Ulrich into pieces. Finally Ulrich goes limp. Energy stops going into Aelita through the sword. Ulrich has died but Aelita still lived.
"What happened?" The soldiers were still watching the fight through the spy plane. "Did they kill each other?"
"That hurt." Aelita is using her powers to hold Ulrich in place as she pulls his sword out of her stomach. "But I have finally killed one of them!" She laughs evilly. "Where could the others be?" She looks around and sees the spy plane. "We had an audience, how nice." She points her hand towards the spy plane and her energy crushes it in mid air.
"We lost it."
"Damn it, it must have killed the other alien."
"What do I do with you?" Aelita looks at the mutilated body of Ulrich. "I do want a trophy." She cuts Ulrich's head off and his body falls to the ground below. Aelita creates energy to bind Ulrich's hair to her belt so Ulrich's head would hang down like a trophy. "I wonder what the others are thinking right now. Are they waiting for him to come back? Maybe I should have let him run away so I could have followed him. Oh well." Aelita flies to the center of Anchorage and destroys the city in victory over Ulrich Stern.
At the camp site the others are getting worried. "Ulrich should be back by now right?" Yumi is holding onto Krieger. "He said he'd run away if it didn't work. He better be coming back."
"Yumi I'm sure he's ok. He might have to go somewhere else so Aelita doesn't follow him." Jeremie is keeping an eye on Sanne who was running around playing. "Can't be leading her back here."
"Oh, good point." Yumi smiles. "Ulrich would know not to do that." She sets Krieger down. "Go ahead and play with Sanne." Krieger walks away to go and play with Sanne.
A few hours later though Yumi was in her trailer crying. The others were giving her room knowing that something had gone wrong. Either Ulrich ran and didn't make it or he fought and died or he never even got a chance to use the EMP device on Aelita. "Mama." Krieger walks into the trailer and sees his mother crying. "Mama." He walks over to her with his arms stretched out.
"Krieger," Yumi wipes her eyes of tears. "What is it?" Krieger points to his knee and Yumi sees a scrape.
"I got a booboo."
"Come here honey." Yumi picks Krieger up and holds him. "You're going to be ok." Yumi rocks back and forth more for her own comfort then Krieger's. Yumi cries a little more.
"Mama, why crying?"
"Mama got a booboo." Yumi doesn't want to tell Krieger what had happened to Ulrich. "But Mama is ok."
"Mama need kiss to make booboo go away?"
"Mama doesn't need a kiss." Yumi kisses Krieger's scraped knee. "There now you'll be ok." Yumi looks at Krieger. Krieger was what she had left from Ulrich. Well, Krieger and some hair Ulrich had given her that morning before he left to go and try to stop Aelita.
Over the next few days Yumi was trying to stay strong but Krieger noticed that Ulrich was gone. "Mama where's daddy?" Yumi looks away trying not to cry. "Mama?"
"He, he went away. For supplies." Yumi lies. She didn't want to tell Krieger that Ulrich had died. It was too painful to think about it and she didn't want Krieger to know. "He'll be back when he finds them." Yumi hugs Krieger. "What did you and Sanne do today?"
"We went swimming in water." Krieger moves his arms around like he was splashing in water.
"Who went with you?"
"Uncle Odd and Aunt Sandy."
"Ok." Yumi knew she was in a horrible state. I have to thank those two later. Yumi looks at Krieger. "How about tomorrow Mama takes you and Sanne to the water?" Krieger smiles.
"Yea!" The door opens and Jeremie walks in with Sanne. "Sanne!" Krieger gets off the bed and goes over to Sanne.
"Hi Jeremie."
"Hi." Jeremie looks away from Yumi. Jeremie felt guilty for Ulrich's death. Since then he had said little to Yumi. "Sanne, don't run you'll trip and fall." Jeremie watches as Sanne and Krieger run into the bathroom then back out. "You to Krieger. Remember your knee?"
"Oh, we should stop running." Krieger looks down at his knee. It had already healed but he didn't want another hurt knee. "Mama can we go play outside?" Yumi looks at Jeremie.
"Go over to Uncle Odd's trailer and you can watch TV."
"Ok." Sanne and Krieger walk out of the trailer and go over to Odd and Sandra's trailer. Jeremie goes to the sink to wash his hands when Yumi gets up and walks over to him.
"Jeremie I don't blame you." Yumi knew Jeremie was blaming himself. "Aelita, Xana, did it not you."
"Yumi, I'm sorry. Krieger doesn't have a father anymore because of me." Jeremie turns the sink off and dries his hands off on a towel. "I, I can move into another trailer if you want me to."
"No Jeremie I don't want you to." Yumi hugs Jeremie from behind. "You're Ulrich's best friend. I know you didn't want Ulrich to do this. You told him to get my permission."
"I never thought you would give him permission to do that." Jeremie takes his glasses off when his eyes start to tear up. "I never thought you would so I made the deal with him." Jeremie realizes how that sounds. "I, I don't mean it's your fault. I know you two argued about it."
"It is Xana's fault. All of this is Xana's fault." Yumi rests her head on Jeremie's shoulder. "What do we do now? Can we stop her?"
"I don't know. If the EMP device didn't work then I don't know. We don't know what did happen. Aelita could have killed him before he got a chance to use it or the EMP device could have done nothing to her. We don't know and can't know." They had no way of knowing what happened. "And I can't build another one without Ulrich to get me the parts."
"We're dead aren't we?" Yumi squeezes Jeremie in her arms. "Nothing can stop Xana." Yumi sighs. "Jeremie, why don't we go back to France? We can turn the Super Computer on and flee to Lyoko."
"Lyoko was destroyed remember Yumi?"
"You can make a new one. You're a genius you can do it. We can live there can't we? Maybe call our families and get them there to."
"No Yumi." Jeremie had thought about it before. "I, I have to find a way. Aelita is my wife and Sanne's mother." Jeremie puts his hands on Yumi's hands which were linked together at his waist. "We will stop Xana."
"Whoa." Odd was bringing Krieger and Sanne back to the trailer when he sees Yumi hugging Jeremie from behind. Her head on his shoulder in what looked like an intimate moment. "Um, your children were, uh," Odd looks away. Yumi and Jeremie pull apart when they realize how they looked.
"Odd I gave them permission to watch TV." Jeremie grabs his glasses and puts them back on.
"Oh, well, um, ok."
"Odd it wasn't what it looked like." Yumi feels embarrassed. She just lost her husband and didn't want Odd to think she and Jeremie were doing inappropriate things. "We were talking about what to do about the alien." They never called the alien Aelita around the children. "Jeremie can't make another EMP device and we were wondering if we should go back to France."
"Why France?"
"Lyoko." Odd's eyes get big.
"But, it was destroyed."
"Jeremie could make a new one."
"But I won't." Jeremie sits down on a bed. "We have to figure out a way to stop the alien. We aren't going to hide forever on Lyoko."
"Um, wait." Odd looks down at the children. "Let me take the kids over to my trailer so they can watch TV. You get Vallejo and Senoid for a meeting." Odd leaves the trailer with Krieger and Sanne.
"We aren't going to Lyoko. We aren't hiding." Yumi and Jeremie leave the trailer and go to the fire ring in the middle of the camp site. Vallejo and Senoid were already there and soon Odd and Sandra come out of their trailer. They go over to the fire ring where the others were.
"What's the meeting about?" Senoid looks around. "Where are the kids?" Odd points at his trailer.
"They're watching TV."
"Ok, why was this meeting called?"
"We have to do something to stop Xana." Odd sits down on a log they used as a bench. "He killed Ulrich. Jeremie says he can't build another EMP device because Ulrich was the one who got the parts. Yumi mentioned something about going back to France."
"Why France? Why not Italy? Or Russia?" Senoid didn't want to go back to France. She had sworn she was done with France once she was allowed to leave the Hermitage.
"Because that's where the Super Computer is." Odd looks over at Jeremie. "Jeremie could make a new Lyoko and we could hide there. We could get our parents first so they don't die."
"I'm not doing it!" Jeremie stands up from the log. "We are going to stop Aelita not run and hide forever."
"Jeremie if we vote on it will you go against the vote?" Vallejo looks over at Senoid. "Senoid and I don't have any family but you guys. If we have to live on Lyoko forever then we have to live on Lyoko forever."
"But then everyone will die! Billions of people will be killed if we run and hide on Lyoko."
"We'll die to!" Sandra stands up. "Are you willing to let Sanne die if Aelita finds us? I don't want to die Jeremie. I, I did die, once before. Xana killed me once I don't want to die again."
"Everyone will die if we don't stop her!"
"We can't! Ulrich died trying to stop her. The military used nuclear warheads on her and she lived. She can't be stopped." Odd looks back at his trailer. "Do you want Sanne and Krieger to die because you had some feeling of pride or something to stop Aelita? I don't want them to die."
"I don't want them to die either but I don't want to run away." Jeremie sits down on a log. "But if you guys vote against me we can go to France. I don't know how long it will take me to make a new Lyoko though. The information will be saved somewhere on the Super Computer but to actually reform Lyoko could take months. Maybe even years."
"You can do it Jeremie we know you can." Odd raises his hand. "All in favor for going back to France and going to Lyoko." Yumi, Sandra, Vallejo, and Senoid raise their hands. "That means you're the only one who opposes. Sorry Jeremie but majority rules." Jeremie sighs.
"I guess." Jeremie looks over at Odd and Sandra's trailer. "How do we get back? I don't know of any planes flying to Europe."
"Any public planes." Vallejo stands up. "We can purchase a private jet and get back to France. Senoid and I flew on private planes enough to know what it costs." Vallejo smiles thinking about the time him and Senoid joined the Mile High club for the fourth time on a private plane.
"Where though? There aren't any airports near here."
"We pack up and drive to the eastern coast and find an airport. We pay them however much they want and get to Paris." Vallejo explains his idea. "We can sell a trailer to raise the money for a trip."
"Why?" Odd raises his hand. "We all have money in our bank accounts. Just go to an ATM."
"We all have money but to get it we'd need to find a bank who wouldn't call the military on us."
"Oh." Odd looks away. "If we go to an ATM we could all get money out. But we will have to sell the trailers unless we plan on taking them to Paris with us." Odd looks at the trailer that had been his home for nearly four years. "Would hate to leave them behind though."
"We'll have to Odd. Yumi and Krieger can stay in our trailer while Jeremie and Sanne stay in yours."
"If we can find someone to buy the trailer."
"We'll have to drive into town and find someone. If not there we can keep driving until we find someone who will."
A few days later the group is driving east. They had sold the third trailer and now Yumi and Krieger were in Odd and Sandra's trailer. "Mama why did we have to leave?" Krieger was talking to Yumi as Sanne took a nap. "I liked it back there. We could play and swim."
"We're going to a better place Krieger I already told you that." Yumi is lying on the bed dealing with a headache. "Mama's head hurts and needs peace and quiet." Krieger gets on the bed and lies next to Yumi.
"I can kiss your head and make it fell better Mama."
"I'll be ok Krieger." Yumi hugs Krieger. "Mama loves you Krieger you're so sweet." Krieger smiles.
"I love you too Mama." Krieger hugs Yumi. "Krieger going to draw while you sleep ok Mama?"
"Ok Krieger but don't make a mess." Yumi turns over as Krieger gets off the bed and gets a coloring book out.
"Hey I see a town!" Odd honks his horn alerting the others to pull over. The two trailers pull off to the side of the road. Odd and Vallejo come out with two maps. "Vallejo I don't see a town on the map."
"It might be a new one, the remains of the other towns and cities destroyed by Aelita." Vallejo points to the road they were one. "Here is where the nearest airport is supposed to be. Maybe they moved it here."
"If they did then we can get out of here. It's a good thing Aelita went into Russia instead of coming back through North America." Odd and Vallejo roll the maps back up then go into the different trailers. They drive into the town hoping to find a way to France.
They pull over at a gas station and they get out to stretch their legs. "Jeremie is Sanne awake?" Jeremie nods.
"She wanted us to stop so she could go and play with Krieger but I told her to wait." Jeremie turns and sees Sanne coming out of the trailer. "She hates being away from him."
"Krieger gets so bored when she isn't around." Yumi smiles when she sees Krieger and Sanne hug. "I wonder what they will make of Lyoko." Jeremie sighs. "What? We voted on it."
"I don't know if I can make a new Lyoko. It's so complicated Yumi that without Aelita or Sanne, Aelita's mom, it could take me months. That is if I can even do it at all." Odd and Vallejo come out of the gas station.
"Good news everyone!" Odd waves to the others.
"There is an airport and they do have planes!" Vallejo finishes Odd's sentence. "So get ready to leave tomorrow." Vallejo had called the airport and set up a flight time for early the next morning.
The next morning they are all at the airport. Sanne and Krieger were being fussy about leaving the trailers. They had grown up in the trailers and saw them as home. "Where are we going!"
"Krieger I already told you someplace better. Sit down, keep your seatbelt on, and be quiet." Yumi was getting frustrated Krieger. "Jeremie and Sanne better get on soon." Sanne would distract Krieger.
"Please get in your seat we are getting ready for take off. Put on your seatbelts and keep them on until the sign indicates it is ok to take them off." The pilot and co pilot prepare to take off.
"Wow." Jeremie sits down and helps Sanne put her seat belt on. "This reminds me of when I fled Europe."
"Going back finally." It had been nearly four years since Xana rose and attacked. "Vallejo and I haven't been in France since we left the Hermitage." Senoid is sitting next to Vallejo, Odd, and Sandra.
"You couldn't wait to be on your own as soon as possible."
"Hey I didn't want to be on my own." Senoid takes Vallejo's hand in hers. "I just didn't want to remain cooped up in the Hermitage after years of being stuck in it." Senoid squeezes Vallejo's hand.
"We are going onto the runway so please remain in your seats." The plane moves and soon it is in the air heading for France.
"What was that?" Aelita senses something. "Credit card, Vallejo used his credit card." Aelita was over a town in Eastern Russia destroying buildings for fun. "Maybe I'll have to go see what he bought." Aelita decides she was done with the city and just levels it with her powers. She flies east going over the Atlantic Ocean back into North America to look for Vallejo and the others.
A few hours later the Lyoko group land in Paris. "I'm bored." Krieger was kicking the seat in front of him. "Are we there yet?"
"Yes Krieger we're here, stop that." Yumi grabs Krieger's leg. "See? Look out your window we're there." Krieger looks out the window and sees buildings. "So please calm down we'll be off the plane in a few minutes."
"Ok Mama." Soon the group is off the plane.
"We'll need a couple of taxis." Jeremie is struggling with a suitcase. "Sanne stay next to me."
"Jeremie we'll need more like four or five taxis." Vallejo has two suitcases. "Senoid where's your other suitcase?"
"I'm getting it." Senoid struggles but gets the suitcase off of the conveyor belt. "We should get a van or something to stay together." Senoid walks over to Vallejo with her suitcase.
"I'll get a van, maybe two." Odd sets his suitcases down. "Everyone stay here I'll be right back." Odd walks away to rent a van or two.
"Daddy why are we in France?" Sanne is clinging to his leg scared. She hadn't been around so many people before. Heck her entire life she'd never been around more then the group and now she was surrounded by dozens of people all of them strangers. "Daddy?"
"We're here to get away from the alien." Jeremie puts a hand on Sanne's head and messes with her hair.
"Daddy!" Sanne giggles and pulls her head away from Jeremie's hand. "Don't mess with my hair."
"Mama where's daddy?" Krieger was looking around wondering if his father was there. "Is he meeting us here?"
"He will." Yumi reaches into her pocket and feels the plastic bag that had some of Ulrich's hair in it. The thing that originally made her thinks of the Super Computer and Lyoko. If she could just get this hair scanned it would bring Ulrich her husband and Krieger's father back. Odd comes back with two sets of keys. Odd tosses one set of keys to Vallejo.
"They're waiting for us in the parking garage." Odd leads the others out into the parking garage where they find two vans.
"Odd how did you find two purple vans?" Vallejo opens a door and starts to put luggage in it.
"I'm just good like that." Odd opens the back door of another van and throws luggage in it. "Everybody ready?"
"Jeremie can Krieger ride with you?" Yumi is holding Krieger's hand. "He doesn't want to be in the van without her."
"Ok, sure. Come on Krieger you and Sanne can sit in the back row." Jeremie helps Krieger into the van. Yumi goes back to the other van and gets in it. She closes the door and soon Odd drives the van out.
They drive for several minutes before getting to the Factory. "Wow." It was even more run down then Odd remembered it to be. "We better be careful. Especially with the kids." Odd parks the van in front of the Factory. "Actually let me and Vallejo check it out first to make sure it is safe." Odd gets out of the van and waves to Vallejo. "Hey, let's go make sure it's safe first."
"Ok." Odd and Vallejo starts walking down the bridge when Jeremie gets out of the van and yells at them.
"Hey, you need me to unlock the elevator." Jeremie goes over to the others. "Since I'm the only one who knows the code."
"Ok but be careful." The three cross the bridge and get to the end. Odd jumps and swings down to the Factory floor below. "Ok the ropes will still hold our weight." Vallejo and Jeremie jump and swing down to the Factory floor below. "Jeremie unlock the elevator." Jeremie enters the code and the elevator doors open. The three step on it and take it down to the Control Room.
"Wow." Jeremie and the other step off the elevator. "Spiders took this place over." Spider webs were everywhere.
"And rats." Odd sees one run across the floor. "Maybe we should let the kids stay at a hotel until this place is clean."
"Let them come down first so we can explain to them what is going on." Vallejo knocks a spider web down.
"We need a hotel anyways until I can make a new Lyoko." That's assuming that I can make a new Lyoko. "Tell the others to come down then get a hotel while we start on this." Jeremie moves some spider webs out of his way as he goes over to the control panel. "It's been so long since I've sat in the computer chair and worked on you." Jeremie puts a hand on the control panel. "I have to turn you on." Jeremie goes over to the ladder and takes it down to the Super Computer Room. He walks over to the Super Computer. "I never thought I would have to do this again." Jeremie turns the Super Computer on.
"Come on Krieger its ok." Yumi is trying to get Krieger to swing down on the rope. "Uncle Odd did it."
"It's scary." Krieger looks over the edge. "Uncle Odd is big and brave." Krieger backs away from the edge.
"Uncle Odd will catch you if you fall." Yumi pats Krieger on the back. "It's ok Krieger." Yumi looks at him and smiles. "Your father never liked doing this either." Krieger's eyes get wide.
"Daddy?" Yumi nods. Krieger scrunches up his face and walks towards the edge. "Uncle Odd you better catch me if I fall." Krieger jumps and grabs the rope. He hangs on to it for a bit then slowly slides down to the Factory floor below. "I did it! Come on Sanne!" Krieger waves up to Yumi and Sanne.
"Ok Krieger." Sanne runs then jumps and grabs the rope. She starts to slide down when she slips. "Aaaa!" She falls but Odd catches her. "Thank you Uncle Odd." Sanne hugs Odd.
"No problem Sanne." Odd sets her down. "Are you coming Yumi? We're all waiting for you." Odd laughs as Yumi jumps and swings down. "Come on kids we have something to show you." Odd and the others go over to the elevator and take it down to the Control Room.
In North America Aelita feels something. "The Factory, the Super Computer. Did they flee to France?" Aelita closes her eyes and concentrates. "Yes they have gone to the Super Computer. Did they think I would cut my connection to the Super Computer just because I was here?" Aelita laughs evilly. "I shall kill them finally! Victory is mine!" Aelita flies east going over the Atlantic Ocean as she heads for France. For the Super Computer.
"Sanne, Krieger, this is what we call a Super Computer." Jeremie was at the control panel. "This used to hold a place called Lyoko. I am going to remake Lyoko so we can go there."
"Is daddy there?"
"Um, Krieger, I," Yumi clears her throat then holds up the plastic baggy. "Yes. Um, I'm going to bring him back soon." Jeremie motions to the ladder and Yumi walks over to it. Yumi climbs down then goes to the middle Scanner. She places some hair in the middle Scanner. "In fact I'm about to bring him back. Just wait a few minutes." Jeremie types at the keyboard trying to remember how to Scan something. "Uh, there we go." The doors on the middle Scanner close and a few seconds later opens up. "Ulrich?" Jeremie waits for a response.
"Whoa." Ulrich looks around recognizing the Scanner Room. "Yumi I, I guess this means I died." Yumi throws herself at Ulrich and hugs him hard. "But I'm back. How long has it been?" Yumi doesn't answer just kisses and hugs Ulrich.
"See Krieger? Your father is back."
"Ew, Mama and daddy are kissing." Krieger looks away.
"Yeah it's been awhile since they've seen each other." Jeremie takes his glasses off and wipes his eyes. He didn't want to cry in front of Krieger or Sanne. "Yumi, Ulrich, come on up before you put on a show for all of us." Jeremie and the others laugh at the joke.
"What? Oh, ok." Yumi blushes. She forgot about the security cameras. Yumi and Ulrich take the ladder up to the Control Room.
"Daddy!" Krieger runs over and hugs Ulrich. "What were you doing down there Daddy?" Ulrich looks around the room for an answer and sees his friend's mouth he doesn't know.
"I was uh, setting up your room."
"When can we go?"
"Soon, I hope." Ulrich isn't sure what is going on. "So Jeremie how have you been?"
"Um, good I guess. We were just looking to remake Lyoko so we could hide from the alien." There is a loud booming noise that scares everyone in the room. "What was that?" Jeremie sees what it was.
"Hide? From me? Did you think that I wouldn't feel the Super Computer being activated?" Aelita floats in the air. She had exploded through the ceiling in a dramatic entrance.
"Ael-" Jeremie stops. "Alien!"
"Oh Jeremie why do you call your own wife that?" Aelita charges with energy. She focuses on Jeremie and doesn't see the little pink haired girl hiding behind Odd and Sandra. "I'll kill you all then continue my purge of Earth before moving on to the next planet. Say good bye to your loving wife one last time." Aelita laughs evilly. "Come on Jeremie don't you want to tell your wife you love her? The mother of your daughter? Or will you die never letting her know how you felt about her? Will you let Aelita Belpois die without telling her you love her?"
"No I, shut up Xana!" Jeremie stands out of the computer chair. "You're not my wife you're a monster!"
"You'll hurt my feelings. You'll hurt Aelita's feelings." Aelita smiles wickedly. "For that I will kill you."
"Mama?" Sanne comes out from behind Odd and Sandra. Jeremie had told her that her mother's name was Aelita. Even at four years old Sanne was intelligent. She had heard the adults call the alien Aelita before but never understood until now. The alien was Aelita, her mother. "Mama, why are you doing this?" Aelita turns around and sees her daughter.
"You? What is your name?"
"Sanne. I, I was named after my grandma." Aelita turns and starts to float towards Sanne when Vallejo steps between them.
"Stay away from her Aelita!" Vallejo is knocked out of the way by Aelita's energy.
"Mama don't hurt Uncle Vallejo." Sanne is grabbed by the back of her shirt by Odd who was trying to pull her away from Aelita.
"Sandra, Senoid, get Sanne and Krieger out of here!" Yumi gives Krieger's hand to Senoid.
"Mama? You call me Mama? I was never your mother!" Aelita charges with energy as a black aura surrounds her. "I thought you were dead at first. I killed all those babies in that hospital. Your father grabbed you and ran out. I thought he would have just run to save his own skin!"
"Mama don't yell." Sanne cowers in front of Aelita. "I love you Mama." Aelita raises her right hand. It charges with energy and forms an energy sword. "Stop this Mama and come back. Daddy misses you."
"Sanne, I," Aelita swings her right arm. Sandra tackles Sanne but hadn't needed to. Aelita wasn't aiming for her but for herself. "I'm sorry Sanne. I was never there for you." Aelita drops to her knees as her energy expands through her chest. "No! Kill them!" Energy sparks around the wound Aelita had made and starts to heal. "Kill them all!"
"Mama don't!" Sanne runs over to Aelita and hugs her. She gets black blood all over her shirt and pants but Sanne doesn't care. "I love you Mama stop this so we can go home."
"Sanne, stay back." An energy field pushes Sanne away from Aelita. "I have to do this." Aelita raises her left hand and forms another energy sword. She swings her left hand and shoves it into her chest next to her other wound. Black blood flows out of her. Aelita had hit her heart. "Jeremie, you, you tried. I know it was you who made the EMP device. It didn't work." Aelita coughs up black blood. "I, I love you. Please make sure Sanne doesn't remember what I did." Aelita falls forward as more blood pools around her.
"Mama!" Sanne goes over to Aelita. "Mama? No, move, come on Mama. Lets go home." Sanne shakes Aelita but she doesn't move.
"How?" Vallejo is breathing hard. He had been scared to death. Not just for him self but for Senoid and the others.
"I don't know." Odd helps Sandra up. "Jeremie is this a trick?" Jeremie shakes his head.
"No, I, Ulrich what stops the corruption?"
"Rest or an act of love." Ulrich doesn't know why Jeremie wanted to know this. "Why?"
"Aelita, she, she loved Sanne. Sanne loved her back. She didn't want to kill Sanne so she stopped Xana the only way she knew how. She killed herself." Jeremie starts to cry.
"Daddy." Sanne steps through the blood to get to Jeremie. "Don't cry daddy she's coming back right?"
"No, she isn't." Jeremie hugs Sanne. "I'm so sorry Sanne. Mama isn't coming back." Jeremie continues to cry.
"Jeremie, why not?" Ulrich looks at the blood on the floor of the Control Room. "We have plenty of DNA."
"Well, but, Xana would still be inside of her."
"How? Where was he all those years?"
"The energy orbs."
"Then I'll go, rip them out of Aelita, and bring her back." Ulrich forms into his Lyoko form. "Sanne your father wasn't thinking. Your mother just went to Lyoko. This isn't your mother this is someone pretending to be your mother." Ulrich hopes Sanne believes it. Ulrich uses his powers to form a cup and scoops up some blood. "Get ready to bring Aelita back."
"Wait," Jeremie looks up. "How though? There's no Lyoko just the Digital Sea." Ulrich has an answer.
"I'll catch her." Ulrich floats down the ladder entrance to the Scanner Room. He pours the blood into the middle Scanner. "Send her!" The Scanner doors close as Ulrich turns himself into a black mist and goes to Lyoko.
"Aaaa!" Aelita is falling towards the Digital Sea.
"Got you!" Ulrich catches Aelita. "Aelita?" Ulrich sees Aelita isn't entirely herself. She has streaks of black in her pink hair. He can see black lines climbing up through Aelita's arms and her neck. "Jeremie where are the orbs?" Ulrich wasn't sure what to do.
"In her chest! Just, just rip them out!" Jeremie crosses his fingers hoping this would work.
"I'm sorry Aelita." Ulrich shoves a fist into Aelita's chest.
"Aaaa! Stop it Ulrich you're hurting me!" Ulrich rips a black orb out of her chest. "What are you doing?"
"Saving you. Jeremie what do I do with this?"
"Throw it into the Digital Sea." Ulrich does and gets a surprising reaction. The Digital Sea where the energy orb landed starts to turn black like an oil spill. Energy sparks around the black spot as it grows.
"I better get the rest out of you." Ulrich shoves his fist into Aelita's chest and rips out another black orb. He throws it into the Digital Sea and another black spot forms on the Digital Sea. He shoves his fist into Aelita's chest again and rips the third and final orb out. This one was different as it still has a bit of its original color on it and wasn't completely black.
"My orb." Aelita see the pink in the energy orb. "That's my orb." Aelita reaches for it and sparks shoot out between her fingers and the energy orb. "Give me back my orb!" Aelita goes to grab it but Ulrich pulls it away. He throws the energy orb away into the Digital Sea. It creates a third black spot on the Digital Sea.
"Jeremie something is weird here." Ulrich watches the three black spots as they grow and energy sparks around the black spots. Suddenly a pillar spears into the sky and then another. "Jeremie there is something seriously wrong going on here!" Ulrich looks down at Aelita who looked sick and pale. Another pillar forms then the three pillars swirl around each other and soon form a giant black orb in the air above the Digital Sea. "Jeremie what do I do?"
"Watch." Jeremie can't tell what is going on from the control panel. "If it gets dangerous get back here."
"Dangerous?" Ulrich watches the black orb start to shrink. It gets smaller and smaller and then starts to form into a human figure. "Xana!" Xana was forming out of the black orb. "We have to turn the Super Computer off!" Ulrich turns himself and Aelita into a black mist and takes them both back to Earth. Ulrich and Aelita reform in the Scanner Room where Ulrich drops her. He floats through the floor and goes to the Super Computer Room. He then goes over to the Super Computer and turns it off. "There, we're safe."
"No!" Xana was almost reformed when he felt that the Super Computer had been turned off. "I don't have to power to leave. No!" Things start to turn black. "I must hide." Xana flies into the Digital Sea as the darkness swamps over the area above the Digital Sea.
Ulrich flies back up to the Scanner Room and sees Aelita. She is deathly pale and thin. "Aelita give me your hand." Ulrich leans down and takes Aelita's hand. He closes his eyes and sends energy into Aelita.
"Ulrich, what, what happened?" Aelita has flashes of memories. She sees cities being destroyed. She sees herself flying through the air. She sees a green flash then darkness. "What have I done?"
"Ulrich, I sent Sanne and Krieger down." The elevator doors open and Yumi steps off of it leading the two children. "Put them and Aelita in the Scanners." Yumi helps Ulrich get Krieger, Sanne, and Aelita in the Scanners.
"What are you doing? I turned the Super Computer off so Xana couldn't escape." Ulrich looks at Krieger who was standing in the left Scanner.
"Sandra will turn the Super Computer on and then I'll scan all three of them. After that, well Ulrich get ready for a big one." Jeremie was planning on destroying the Super Computer. He would use all of its energy to launch a return to the past that would hopefully undo all that Aelita had done. "Now Sandra!" Sandra throws the switch. Jeremie's fingers fly over the keyboard and the Scanner doors close. Aelita is healed as Sanne and Krieger are made unaffected by the return. As the Scanner doors open Jeremie prepares the final return.
"Krieger are you ok?" Krieger nods.
"Daddy I didn't go anywhere."
"You're about to." The lights in the Scanner Room dim as Jeremie brings in energy for the final return.
"Die damn it, never work again!" Jeremie presses a button. "Return to the past now!" The white bubble comes up and reverses time.
"Whoa." Aelita looks around. "Jeremie what did you do?"
"We're wanted Aelita." Jeremie looks at his cell phone. "Oops." He had gone back to far. It was now 2017. He wanted to go back to 2018. He looks at the day. "Wow, we've been married for four months."
"Where, where is she?" Aelita pats her stomach. She wasn't pregnant. "Where is uh, Sanne." Aelita had to think of the name of her own daughter.
"I don't know. She, crap." Jeremie thinks about it when his phone rings. It is Ulrich and Yumi. "Is Krieger there?"
"No! We, we don't know where he is!" Ulrich and Yumi were panicking. "Where's Sanne!?"
"We don't know either." Jeremie looks at Aelita. He then looks out the window of the building they were in and sees the Eiffel Tower. "Aelita and I are going to check the Factory."
"Ok, call us." Jeremie and Ulrich hang up.
"Aelita hurry." They run out of the building and see the car that Aelita had been driving in 2017. A bright pink Ferrari Convertible. "You drive!" Jeremie jumps in to the front seat since the top was down. Aelita runs around to the other side and gets in. She gets the keys out her front pocket and gets them in the ignition. She turns the engine over and drives for the Factory. "Aelita slow down!" Aelita was driving like a mad woman passing cars.
"She's probably scared out of her mind!" Aelita was having flashes of memories going through her head. She sees herself giving birth to her daughter then she sees the black energy taking her and possessing her. "Jeremie what did I do?" She sees herself destroying the hospital.
"Nothing Aelita. It was all reversed, I think." Jeremie knew Sanne, Aelita's mother, had done a return that brought people back to life. It was after Xana's new host had been born. Jeremie tried to do one and tried to destroy the Super Computer at the same time. He doesn't know if he did either one yet. Would there be a report on the news in America and Canada covering the hundreds of millions of people found dead? Jeremie shudders thinking about it.
"There it is, out of my way!" Aelita gets around a car then slams on the breaks sliding to a stop in front of the Factory. Jeremie and Aelita get out of the car and run down the bridge. They jump and swing down to the Factory floor below. They run over to the elevator and hit the button but it doesn't work.
"What is wrong?" Jeremie pushes the button again and again. Aelita realizes why it wouldn't work and moves Jeremie out of the way.
"You have to enter the code first." Aelita enters the code and unlocks the elevator. She pushed the button again and the elevator doors open. Aelita and Jeremie get on the elevator and take it down to the Control Room. "Hello?" Aelita hears something from the Scanner Room. "Sanne, uh, other one, are you ok!?" Aelita hears a response.
"Mama!" Sanne yells loudly.
"Wait right there we'll be right down." Aelita and Jeremie get on the elevator and take it down to the Scanner Room.
"Mama! Daddy!" Sanne runs over to Aelita and Jeremie hugging both. "Krieger they're here."
"Where's my Mama and Daddy?"
"They're in Japan. They'll be here as soon as possible." Jeremie gets his phone back out and calls Ulrich. "We found them."
"Ok, we'll be there in a few hours. We're in our house in Germany."
"Really? Ok, see you two soon. Meet us at the Hermitage."
"Tell Krieger we'll be right there."
"I already did." They hang up. "Aelita wait I'll be right back." Jeremie takes the ladder down to the Super Computer Room. Jeremie walks over to the Super Computer and puts a hand on it. "Did I do it?" Jeremie goes over to the lever that would turn the Super Computer on. "I did it. I don't need to try and turn it on. I went back so far I went past the date I wanted to go to." Jeremie goes back to the ladder and climbs up to the Scanner Room.
"Is it over?" Jeremie nods. "Come on you two lets go to the Hermitage." Aelita smiles at Sanne and Krieger.
"Where?"
"The Hermitage is where my mom and dad live." Aelita gets a flash of memory. She sees herself killing Jim then Sanne before destroying the Hermitage. She shakes her head to get the mage out of her mind.
"Let's go see them." Jeremie wonders if Sanne and Jim remembered anything. They had been killed but would they remember the months they had lived before that? "Come on Sanne, Krieger." Jeremie and the others get on the elevator and take it up to the Factory floor.
The four take Aelita's car to the Hermitage. Aelita parks her car in front of the Hermitage wondering what the response would be. Jeremie and she had been discussing what to do. She was no longer pregnant but had a four year old girl. How to explain that to doctors or lawyers? Aelita and the others go up to the door of the Hermitage and knock on the door. The door opens and Aelita sees Jim. "Oh hello Aelita what's the special occasion?" Jim didn't remember the return or did he? "Aelita, wait, then it wasn't a dream was it?"
"Was what?" Aelita and the others come in
"Sanne and I, we, I thought we fell asleep or something but then you show up without calling. There was a return done." Jim looks down at the two children. "Who are they?" Sanne and Krieger hide behind Jeremie.
"Um, get mom please so we can explain to you what happened." Aelita sighs. "It's a long story." They go into the living and sit down as Jim gets Sanne from upstairs. They come down and wait for the story.
"Mom, dad, this is um, your granddaughter." Aelita is holding Sanne's hand. "And that's um, Krieger, Ulrich and Yumi's son."
"But, you, you're both just pregnant." Sanne's eyes are wide with shock. "How? What, how, when?"
"Listen Sanne, um, older Sanne. This might be a little confusing." Jeremie looks at his daughter. "Honey, why don't you and Krieger go upstairs and play?" Sanne and Krieger run up the stairs looking for something to do. "Ok, um, Sanne, Jim, we've just done a major return." Jeremie and Aelita tell the long story to Sanne and Jim of Xana's return, the attacks, the slaughter, the hell. Of hiding in a cave for years while Aelita was trying to exterminate the human race. Fleeing the cave when the military was told where they were by the small town. Ulrich trying to stop Aelita and being killed. Then finally going back to France to try and hide on Lyoko from Aelita. "That's when Xana came and attacked us."
"But, how did you live? If Aelita, Xana, was able to wipe out entire cities how did you live?"
"An act of love saved us." Aelita is holding Jeremie's hand. "Ulrich always told us that an act of love fought off the corruption and it's true. I, I couldn't kill my daughter. She said she loved me even though she never met me. I gained control and used that time to kill Xana."
"Oh, how did you kill Xana?"
"By killing myself." Sanne's jaw nearly drops. "But then Jeremie brought me back using my DNA."
"How do you know Xana won't come back?"
"Because we destroyed what Xana was hiding in. Mom, you, you remember those energy orbs right?" Sanne nods. "Ulrich ripped those out of me then threw them into the Digital Sea."
"That's amazing." Sanne and Jim had sat for nearly three hours listening to the story. "So, we, we have a granddaughter that we've never met until today?" Aelita and Jeremie nod. "And you named her Sanne?" They nod again.
"I wanted to let Aelita name her but she, she was, you know. And after you sacrificed yourself to save me and the baby I named her after you." Jeremie smiles. "I'm so glad to see you two again. After spending years with the others its nice to see new faces, old faces."
"So the return, it healed everyone?"
"We're not sure yet. We haven't turned a TV on yet." Jeremie and Aelita look over at the TV in the living room. Jim picks up the remote control and turns the TV on. All four cross their fingers hoping for good news, or at least no bad news. "Whew." It was a water skiing squirrel. "If that's on the news then obviously millions of people are alive and well." Jeremie squeezes Aelita's hand. "We should check on Sanne and Krieger. Who knows what those two are doing."
"I surely wouldn't know." Aelita looks to the stairs. "I can't believe she loved me even though she never met me."
"She knew you Aelita. I told her all about her wonderful mother. How sweet you were. How kind you were. How you would do anything for your friends and family." Jeremie smiles at Aelita who smiles back.
"I'd like to meet my granddaughter too Jeremie." Sanne stands up. "She is Sanne Version 2, if you call me Old Sanne I will throw you out of this house." The group laughs as they go upstairs to check on the two children.
A few hours later Ulrich and Yumi arrive at the Hermitage. Sanne had made dinner for everyone and they were sitting around the table eating when Ulrich knocked on the door. Jim goes to the door. "Hello Ulrich, Yumi. Finally come to pick your kid up?" Jim laughs. "Stay for dinner."
"Sure Jim." Yumi and Ulrich walk into the Hermitage and see Krieger sitting next to Sanne Version 2. "Hi Krieger did you have fun today?" Krieger looks up and sees his parents.
"Mama!" Krieger gets out of his chair and runs over to them. "Daddy!" He hugs Ulrich then Yumi. "Where were you?"
"At home. Sorry about leaving you behind we didn't mean to."
"It ok Sanne was here to play with." Krieger walks back to the table. Ulrich and Yumi follow him.
"Glad you two could make it." Jeremie and Aelita get up and welcome their friends. "Where do you think Odd and Sandra are?"
"Knowing those two they are probably somewhere in America doing something dangerous. Where do you think Senoid and Vallejo are?" Jeremie shrugs his shoulders. "Probably somewhere in Europe, or Asia, or in the western hemisphere." The group laughs. "I am hungry though. Airplane peanuts are not filling." Jim gets two more chairs for Ulrich and Yumi and they all sit down to eat dinner after a very stressful four years of pure hell.
In 2019 Jeremie and Aelita officially adopted their daughter. Jeremie had to create a lot of fake paperwork but they had done it. Later that year with Jeremie's help Ulrich and Yumi adopted their son. But the group was noticing something as the years passed. "She isn't getting bigger Jeremie." Aelita was concerned with Sanne Version 2. "She hasn't grown an inch."
"I have a few theories on that. Same reason why my hair hasn't grown and neither has yours." Aelita looks quizzically at Jeremie. "The return I did really messed things up. I, I don't think any of us will age for the next few years."
"So you mean the Twins will actually be older then Sanne and Krieger?" Jeremie shakes his head.
"No once we reach the day that the return was done Sanne and Krieger will start to age again. So they'll be a few months older then the Twins." Jeremie and Aelita refer to Odd and Sandra's children as the Twins. Two bouncing babies, a boy and a girl. Ark Della Robbia and Skitz Della Robbia. "It would explain why we aren't getting wrinkles already. After all the returns we did fighting Xana we would probably be a year or two older then what we really were. But I don't think we actually age until we get to the point that the return was done."
"So you won't start losing your hair at the age of thirty?" Aelita smiles. "Good. But how do we explain Sanne or Krieger not getting older to everyone else not in our group?" Jeremie thinks about it.
"Um, I could take a year or two off their ages. Simple enough to just hack into the government's computers and change the age on the adoption papers." Aelita sighs. "What Aelita?"
"Those two are going to be messed up aren't they?" Aelita bites her lower lip in worry. "Living all those years in trailers hiding from an alien only to have that all wiped out. Then reliving those years but never aging. Then having to tell them they are younger then they really are so no one gets suspicious. I thought it was hard enough pretending to be Aelita Stones at Kadic Academy."
"It's ok Aelita. Sanne and Krieger are two smart kids." Jeremie leans down and kisses Aelita. "When do you think Senoid and Vallejo will have kids?" Aelita laughs then shrugs her shoulders.
"Those two? Maybe never."
"It would be rough flying around everywhere with children."
"Be even harder climbing Mt. Everest and sky diving and taking a private shuttle to outer space. Those two, I don't know, I guess being dead once they wanted to live as much as possible."
"Yeah but I bet they'll have a kid sooner or later. That's life, having a child to raise." Jeremie and Aelita smile thinking about their daughter. "Well, your parents' anniversary dinner is soon. We better leave."
"I'll get Sanne." Aelita leaves the room to get Sanne. Jeremie goes downstairs and goes out to the car.
"It will be nice seeing the others again." Jeremie sets up Sanne's child seat. She was too big for a baby seat but too small for just a seatbelt. "I'm sure Sanne and Krieger will have fun. Maybe Ulrich and Yumi can stay for the holidays." Jeremie talks to himself as he gets in the passenger seat. "Thirtieth Anniversary." Jeremie laughs. It wasn't really the Thirtieth Anniversary but to keep the premise of Aelita being Jim and Sanne's daughter it was. "Aelita's right how did we all stay so normal when we can't even celebrate a birthday or anniversary on the days they actually happened?" Jeremie sighs then sees Aelita coming out with Sanne. Sanne was ready to go. She missed playing with Krieger. After growing up for four years with him she hated being away for even a week let alone the months it usually was between visits. "Come on Sanne don't you want to see Krieger?"
"Yes!" Sanne climbs into the backseat of the car then gets in her child safety seat. She buckles herself up and everything. She was now six years old, technically, and was much smarter then a normal six year old. Having two genius parents did that to a child. "Let's go!"
"We're leaving now Sanne." Aelita gets in the driver seat and turns the car on. "Here we go!" Aelita drives out of the driveway driving like a mad woman.
"Aelita slow down!" One thing about Aelita that Jeremie didn't like was her driving. She drove everything like she was being chased by a Mega Tank and had to get to the activated Tower even if it was just going to the grocery store. "You barely missed the curb!"
"I missed it." Aelita laughs. She loved driving her bright pink Ferrari Convertible.
At the Wedding Anniversary the Lyoko Warriors were regrouped. For that night everyone was happy, loved, and celebrating. "Here you go Senoid." Odd gives Senoid a champagne glass.
"I can't Odd." She gives it back.
"Why?" Senoid pats her stomach. "No way, really?" Senoid smiles and nods. "When?"
"I'm two months now."
"Hey everyone!" Odd gets everyone's attention. "Senoid is pregnant!" Everybody's jaw drops.
"I, but…" No one could believe it. Senoid and Vallejo were such free spirits never staying in the same place long.
"I'm two months already! We wanted to wait to tell you so we wouldn't take any thunder from Jim and Sanne but I had to tell Odd!" Senoid hugs Odd. "I can't wait. I'm going to be the best mom ever."
Everyone celebrates even more. Being together like this was what life was all about. Being with friends and family made everything worth it. All of those years fighting Xana were forgotten but the life long friendships formed from the fight shined brightly.
A/N Ok, movie over. But… I know, big surprise, another movie coming. Code Lyoko Mark II.