Code Lyoko Prequel
Author: James the Lesser
This is just something to do for my Code Lyoko Story. Original characters and story are owned by Moonscoop.
This is just a scene between Aelita and Jeremie soon after finding her/Super Computer.
Jeremie is in his room working early in the morning. After dealing with two Xana attacks he wanted to bring Aelita to Earth as soon as possible. Unfortunately he had connected his computer to the Super Computer so he could talk to Aelita for help but she was getting distracting. "Jeremie what is it like to breath? What does water taste like? What is taste?"
"Aelita I'm trying to work on this." Jeremie had been getting ragged working late and up early for two weeks.
"I'm sorry Jeremie." The way Aelita sounds lets Jeremie know he hurt her, well, he wasn't sure if she had feelings. She was a computer program not a human. "I'll go away if you want."
"No Aelita its ok, I'm sorry." Jeremie thinks about her questions. "To breathe, well, it's like something you need. When I take a breath in I take oxygen in through my nose and into my lungs. If I don't do this I get light headed and may pass out." Jeremie hopes this helps but it only brings more questions.
"Light headed? You head loses weight?"
"No it's a feeling, dizziness."
"Dizziness?" Jeremie starts to get more frustrated.
"Aelita um, a different question."
"Ok, what is taste?"
"Taste is one of the five human senses. As I've already explained you only have two of them, sight and sound. Taste is something that happens in the mouth." Jeremie points to it and sticks his tongue out then puts it back in. "Did you see the small bumps on my tongue?"
"Yes Jeremie."
"Those are taste buds. These receive the, flavors, of what you eat or drink. Some pick up the taste of sour, some sweet."
"What does sour taste like? Sweet?"
"Uh, well, that's hard to explain. It will just be easier to let you eat something sour and sweet when you come to Earth."
"Jeremie last night you were sleeping."
"Yes, a little."
"I watched you." This surprises Jeremie since he thought he turned the connection off.
"Ok and what did you see?"
"You moved on your bed a lot. I called out your name but you did not respond. It was as if you couldn't hear me."
"Because I was sleeping. When you sleep your body shuts down a little. Your breathing slows and you don't hear or see and other things. Um, I was dreaming last night and I thought I heard your voice."
"So you did hear me?"
"It's hard to explain. When sleeping outside things can affect your dreams. What you do during the day also does this. Why did you call out my name?"
"Because you were turning in your bed and looked like you were, a feeling? No, emotion, scared?"
"I," Jeremie remembers his dream. A Xana attack just as he's about to bring Aelita to Earth that deletes all of his work. "That is an emotion and I might have been feeling that last night."
"Why?"
"Because my dream was scary."
"Why?"
"Because it was about Xana attacking."
"Are you scared when he does when you are awake?"
"Sometimes. Last time when he possessed the rope and tried to choke me scared me." Thankfully Ulrich had saved him so he could get to the Factory.
"Do you feel bad, no," Aelita thinks of the word she is looking for. "Regret finding me?"
"No Aelita. I, finding you was a good thing. I'll find a way to get you out. You had to get someone's attention to what Xana was doing."
"Ok." Aelita smiles. "It is morning now right?"
"Yes Aelita. I set my alarm to go off early so I could talk with you and work on the materialization program."
"Ok Jeremie. Morning, that is when the Sun comes out right?"
"Well, kind of. The Earth is round and…" Jeremie explains how the Earth spins and revolves around the Sun.
"And the Sun is a large ball of gas that burns right?" Jeremie nods. And why do humans like the morning? Why not the dark, no, um night?"
"We see better in the day time. Also years ago, I mean like thousands of years ago, there were animals that would kill humans and they did that mostly at night so we learned to fear the night."
"Kill, that is when your brain stops sending signals to your body right?" Aelita's question makes Jeremie uncomfortable. He tried to avoid questions about death since it scared him.
"Yes, exactly."
"And how does the brain start sending signals? How does life start?" Jeremie blushes. "Why has your face turned, purple? No, a different color, red?"
"Um, life starts uh, inside of a woman."
"Like Yumi?"
Yes, like Yumi." Oh please don't let Yumi find out I said that. "But that is where life starts."
"How? And what is it inside of a woman that makes the life? Where does it start?" Jeremie blushes even more trying to find a way to answer Aelita's questions without dieing of embarrassment.
"Um it starts inside of the womb, in this area." Jeremie makes a circle on his stomach for Aelita. "And what makes it inside of a woman is uh, well, um," Jeremie feels like his head is about to explode. "I don't know."
"Are you hurt Jeremie? Your face is red. Is that normal?"
"What I am doing is called blushing. It happens usually when someone is feeling embarrassed."
"What's embarrassed?"
"A feeling, not a good one."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be you didn't know. Um, maybe I can have Yumi talk to you later about it." Oh yes that will be a great conversation with Yumi, not. "Um, anything else Aelita? Just not about life or death please."
"When you eat what does it feel like?"
"It can feel good. When you're hungry and you eat the food makes you feel good. But some foods taste better then others. I like green beans, Odd likes meatballs and gravy."
"What happens to the food once you eat it?"
"Well, it goes…" Jeremie explains the digestive system to Aelita. "And then you uh, expel it."
"Expel?"
"Uh, it's another embarrassing question. It involves something that humans don't talk about."
"Why?"
"Because it is taboo."
"What is taboo?"
"Uh, let me get a dictionary." Jeremie gets up from the computer chair and finds one. He reads the definition to Aelita. "Does that help?"
"Yes Jeremie thank you."
"Um, any other questions?" Jeremie liked talking with Aelita but he really wanted to get some work done on the materialization program. He felt he was close just a few more hours, a day at most. Although the dance was coming up not that he would go but his friends bugged him about it.
"Why are you helping me?" This was not a question Jeremie expected.
"Well, because. I, you're trapped on Lyoko and that's not right. You're an intelligent being and it wouldn't be right to leave you there. And you're my, our friend. We help friends."
"Friend, that is the emotion of two people?"
"No Aelita it is a, relationship. Some are called family, the people you are related to and another is called friendship. I have a friendship with Ulrich so we talk to each other and do things together. You and I have a relationship so we talk and do things together."
"Family, related? How are people related? What is related?" Jeremie answers the last question by reading the definition out of the Dictionary but the rest would be harder. "But how are people related?"
"Ok, my mom and dad are related to me because I came from my mother and my father, helped, in that. I share my mom's and dad's blood. If they were to have another child then I would be related to that person because we have the same parents. Do you understand?"
"You said life starts in a woman. That would be your mother right?"
"Yes."
"But how does your father help that? If it starts in your mother? Does he somehow get inside of her and build something like someone built the Super Computer then put Lyoko, Xana, and I in it?"
"Uh, no. Aelita I'll have Yumi tell you about it later."
"Does Yumi know more about it then you?"
"Well, yes and um, it would be less embarrassing for her to tell you then it would for me to tell you."
"Ok. Jeremie I heard Ulrich and Odd talking. Odd said Ulrich liked Yumi. I don't understand what he meant. Like is a feeling right? You told me before that when you like something it means it is more important to you then something you don't like right? So is Yumi more important to Ulrich then you or me?"
"Well, what Odd meant was uh, Ulrich has feelings for Yumi that are more then friends."
"Family?"
"No a different kind of feeling. Um, it is hard to explain. Sometimes a boy and a girl will have feelings that are more then friends. When this happens sometimes they will do something called dating."
"What is dating?"
"It is uh, something a boy and a girl do when they like each other as more then friends. They will go out and eat dinner together or see a movie together."
"But you told me you have eaten with your friend Ulrich are you dating him?" Jeremie shakes his head trying to think of a better way to explain things.
"No we are friends. If uh, Ulrich and Yumi were to date they would do what is called holding hands or hugging or uh, kissing."
"Holding hands?" Aelita puts her hands together like a prayer. "Like this Jeremie?"
"No differently. It would mean more to them if they were dating."
"And hugging, what is that?"
"Uh, when two people put their arms around each other." Jeremie makes a hugging motion. "Family can do this and so can close friends. It shows you, trust, the person or like them."
"And what is kissing? Kisssss…" Aelita plays with the word liking how the S sounded.
"Uh, when two people place their lips together. It is uh, an action that means uh, I can't explain it."
"Why would two people press their lips together?"
"Because it is what two people who are dating do. It probably feels good I guess."
"You have never kissed someone?"
"Well, not like that, like dating someone."
"Why?"
"I'm too young."
"Are Yumi and Ulrich only a year older then you?"
"No, Ulrich is one year older and Yumi is two years older."
"And a year is twelve months, fifty two weeks, three hundred and sixty five days, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours, and five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes?"
"Yes." Jeremie doesn't try to do the math and just trusts Aelita's math. That was something that Aelita knew.
"Then why are they old enough and you are too young?"
"Well I'm not too young its just, I, I don't worry or think about it. And Yumi and Ulrich aren't dating they are just good friends."
"But Odd said…"
"I know what he said. When I have Yumi talk to you later don't bring up dating, or her and Ulrich, ok? It is embarrassing for her."
"Ok Jeremie."
"Aelita, I, it is time for breakfast. I need to get a quick shower and then get to classes ok?"
"Shower, the process you do every morning to clean your body right?" Jeremie nods. "Ok Jeremie I will talk to you later."
"Yes Aelita you will." Jeremie closes the connection then hurries to the boys' bathroom to take a shower and get to class, missing breakfast.
A/N Just wanted to take a break from Code Xana. Just sat down and typed this out. Maybe will do a second part, would love to see Yumi trying to explain things for Aelita. I hope all my fans read and enjoy this little break.