It was early in the morning when time decided to play itself out. While everybody was either still asleep or just not getting up, Aelita was racing towards the factory hoping that her dad AND brother would be there. She swung herself off the platform and into the elevator. When the elevator stopped in the control room Dr. Hopper was in the super computer looking for something or someone. Aelita sighed with relief, "Where's Aiden? " She asked
Dr. Hopper glanced down for a moment he wasn't able to find the right words to say, he fiddled with the super computer trying to think of something until the doors to a scanner opened. Dr. Hopper typed up the cameras and focused on the one in the room while Aelita went down the area.
"Is anybody in there?" She asked climbing down the ladder
A low but soft mumble replied to her. As she got closer, a fully grown twenty year old body fell out of the scanner wearing a black jacket, dark blue jeans, and blue striped black Adidas. His body was buff like Roman, but athletic like Aiden. His hair stopped in the middle of his back as if Aiden had a haircut or Roman grew his out. Their was no difference between the two expected when they talked.
"Aiden? Roman?" She asked gently shaking his body "Wake up please wake up. Say something anything. " She pleaded
"A-A-Aelita?" He mumbled under his breath slowly opening his eyes only to close them after a few minutes.
"Dad, what's wrong with him?" She asked laying his head on her lap
"He's adjusting to reality, he'll be like this until he's capable of adapting to the real world." He answered
"Will he ever wake up?" She asked
"That's up to him and time." He answered
Aelita looked at down at him and gently stroked his cheek hoping he'll wake up soon.
It's been almost a month and a half since Xana's last attack and since than everything has been peaceful. Yumi and Ulrich finally made their relationship official. Odd finally did found the perfect girl for him after Maya dumped him. Naomi found out he was cheating on her with her twin sister Maomi. He broke up with Katie, Amber, Megan, Ashley and Jessica because they didn't like Kiwi. Ladonna, Lisa, and Elisa because they smothered him to death. Tiffany, Taylor, Halley, and Carrie because Kiwi didn't like them...and what was I talking about again?
Oh right Odd's girlfriend Terra. Yeah, she's perfect for him loves animals, video games, and having a great time while William continues to get into some form of trouble whether it was playing pranks with Odd and Terra or skipping classes to go over Aelita's house. Aelita, Jeremy and Dr. Hopper have been watching Aiden or Roman. Every since he was devirtualized back into reality, Aiden or Roman has been in a comma trying to adapt to reality both physically and mentality. It's the middle of December and it's the frist day of winter break everybody decided to meet up at Aelita's house before going there separated ways.
"Did that really happen Odd or are you messing with us?" William asked wiping a tear from his eye
"I swear, Terra created this bubblegum bomb and put it in Mr. Delmas' office. As soon as he opened the door it went off and covered everything in bubblegum for a two weeks." Odd explained
"Yeah, and what made matters worse was Sissi was with him at the time so she got cought in the crossfirer." Ulrich added eating a cookie
"Where's Terra now?" Yumi asked
Odd folded his arms and glanced down sadly,"Military school, her parents said that was the last straw before shipping her off." He said sadly
"Do you still talk to her?" Aelita wondered offering him some popcorn
Odd nodded and started to stare out the window,"I'm not hungry." He said daydreaming
Everybody looked shocked for a moment before starting a new topic.
"Umm Aelita how's Aiden been?" William asked
"Yeah, how is ROMAN doing?" Ulrich said in a correcting tone
Aelita got up and led everybody basement when Jeremy and Dr. Hopper was trying to come up with a way to wake up Roman or Aiden. Motors surround his room and sensors covered his body from his head to his chest.
"Only if we can find something to wake him up." Jeremy said
"It'll have to be something to trigger his senses, alerting his mind telling him to wake up." Dr. Hopper added
"Can it be triggered by a sense of smell, hearing, or touch?" Yumi asked
"We've tried hearing and touch but we don't know what to use for smell." Jeremy said
"I think I have an idea on what to use." Aelita said before leaving with Odd
Thirty minutes later, Aelita and Odd came back with power pink box and walked up to the body.
"What does she have?" Jeremy whispered to William
William shrugged and passed the question along to Yumi, she passed it on to Ulrich, he passed it along to Dr. Hopper shrugged and waited patiently for the answered to appear. Aelita opened the box and the smell of cinnamon filled the an entire room. Everyone inhale the sent of the sweet cinnamon roll as Aelita gently taken it out of the box and waved around Aiden/Roman's nose hoping he would respond.
"Wh-what is that heavenly sent?" He mumbled in a half n' half ascent
"Aiden? " Aelita asked.
The man sit up,"Who's Aiden? " He asked taking the cinnamon roll
"Yes! Welcome back Roman!" Ulrich happily said
"I'm sorry but I don't know who you're talking about." He said before talking a huge bite out the cinnamon roll
"Than who are you?" Dr. Hopper questioned
The man licked his lips and dusted off his hands,"My name is Raiden." He answered
"Interesting." Dr. Hopper said rubbing under his chin while the other stared in disbelief.
"You gotta anymore cinnamon rolls, because I'm starving?" Raiden said removing the sensors off his skin
July 13, 2019
Its been over eight years since Raiden entered our lives. Raiden is both Aiden's and Roman's personalities combined into Aiden's former body. Some times one personality tends to over shadow the other for example whenever he seems over protective of his friends and family it's Aiden's personality, and whenever animals are present Roman tends to appear. Both personalities often work together in unison to create a stable human being. Our fight against Xana I.e. Malcolm finally ended during our last year of high school and we shut off the super computer late that March after the battle against Xana was finally over we were able to start a new lifes. Ulrich and Yumi went to collage together, Odd got signed by Tony Hawk's skatebroad campany after winning a global championship, he soon became an entrepreneur opening his own skateboard shop. William decided to sign up for the arm forces and is now a retried General with his wife and two kids. Dr. Hopper openned up his own company before passing away and leaving it to Raiden and my finacee Aelita.I'm the supervisor at Schaeffer Industries and life has never looked better for everybody. Last week everybody decided to meet up at Aelita's childhood home for the weekend, we talked for hours about the adventures we shared together when we were younger and I asked Raiden, "Why did you always feel the need to protect Aelita and Dr. Hopper?". He looked at me and smiled before answering.
"Because it's human nature to protect the ones you love the most. Even though I can't even remember my real father if my life depend on it, something keeps telling me that I belong here. Dr. Hopper has always been my father Aelita has always been my little sister and it's my job not only as a friend but as a brother to protect them. The code I live by is very simple; Family, Friendship, and Love." Raiden replied