Chapter 6 Holiday in the Fog
A.N. – So, this obviously is a holiday, so Nadia goes back to see her mom. This will be at the end. It won't be as big as some events later on, but this will be a start.
Disclaimer – I do not own Code Lyoko, the plot, or the story idea. I am just a fan of the show, the plot is owned by the creators, and the story idea was submitted by LittleRedRebel.
At nighttime, Ulrich peeks around the corners. He gestures Jeremy to follow him. They run over to one of the buildings, Ulrich shaking a can of spray paint. Jim snores in his room, drool coming from his mouth. Kiwi comes in, sniffing him before howling. He rolls around before taking Jim's blanket off of him. Jim rolls around and Kiwi sniffs hos neck, licking him. He breathes in Jim's nose, and he wakes up from the smell.
"Hey, what are you doing here, huh? You dumb dog!" He starts chasing Kiwi. "Wait till I get my hands on you! I'll get you this time, you mangy mutt."
"Yeah, way to go Kiwi" Odd whispers as he watches him leave.
Ulrich and Jeremy are spray painting, hearing Kiwi bark. Ulrich runs off while Jeremy continues. Nadia looks outside to see what's going on with the barking. She looks just in time for Jeremy to get caught. Jim runs past Jeremy before realizing the fact that he's outside.
"Jeremy, you mind telling me what you're doing outside at this hour? And that, huh? What's that supposed to be?!" He sees that Jeremy has spray painted him with bunny ears and a goofy look on his face. Jim looks in disbelief.
"If I'd have had more time, I could've done the eyes better" Jeremy admits. Jim turns to the blond boy, who has a smile on his face. Nadia has a hand on her face, eyes closed, shaking her head. She was in total disbelief in what he had done.
Odd, Nadia, Yumi, and Ulrich sit outside the principal's office, waiting for Jeremy. The door opens, Jeremy stepping out.
"I hope this will teach you a lesson Jeremy," Mr. Delmas explains. "I don't understand, a model student like you. You should be ashamed."
"Uh, yes sir" Jeremy answers, the principal closes the door. His friends gather around him.
"What'd he say?" Yumi asks.
"Tell us" Odd asks at the same time.
"Oh, he gave me detention for the whole week of vacation" Jeremy fake sulks.
"Cool, her really let ya have it."
"As punishments go, you're a champion!" Ulrich tells him.
"I'm sure we couldn't have done better than that" Yumi smiles.
"Could have been a bit more subtle. How are you going to keep an eye on Xana if Jim's watching you 24/7?" Nadia asks.
"That's the point. Xana won't get any vacation this time. As long as I'm here, Xana can't plot without me knowing" Jeremy smiles. They walk away, Nicolas appearing behind them.
"Am I dreaming or does Jeremy look happy to be punished for the vacation?" He asks skeptically. No student is never glad to be punished.
"Yeah, it sure is weird. You'd almost think he did what he did cuz he wanted to be punished," Herb points out. "I don't get it."
"Me neither. And who's this Xana he was talking about?"
"Herb is right," Sissi stands in front of them. "It's even weirder than weird and I'm gonna find out just what's going on."
"Huh? What are you gonna do?" Nicolas asks curiously. "Don't you have to leave with your dad after school?"
"Just a little change of schedule" she turns to him. When it comes to her father, Sissi can get almost anything she wants.
Principal Delmas is writing a letter in his office when Sissi comes in. "Daddy, can I talk to you for a minute?"
"But Sissi dear, I'm very busy" he tells her.
"It won't take long. Well, you see, there's this girl I know," she sits on his desk. "Whose grades aren't very good and the best thing for her would be to study over the vacation. But she's supposed to go to see her grandparents."
"I see, and who is this, uh-"
"Shh," she stops him from speaking. "I'm coming to that. She knows that when she gest to her grandparents house, she won't feel like studying, so what do you think she should do? She needs your advice as a principal."
"Well, my advice would be to give up her vacation and stay home and study for her own good. What's this girl's name? Perhaps I could talk to her."
"You just did!" She hugs him, to his confusion. "Daddy, it's me!" She kisses his cheek. "Thank you for the advice! I promise to study hard, kiss grandma and grandpa for me!" She runs out of his office, giggling.
Ulrich, Odd, Nadia, Yumi, and Jeremy are walking through the park. "Odd get's to go see his parents. Nadia is visiting her mom in America. Yumi's off for a vacation in the mountains, and what do I get? A whole week of math tutoring" Ulrich says.
Odd laughs, placing a hand around his shoulders. "If they think that they can make a good student out of you in one week, well I say good luck to them. It sounds like Mission Impossible, if you ask me" Odd says, Ulrich smiling in amusement.
"Mine's no picnic either. I got a whole week to try to find out my past" Nadia says.
"Are you sure that you've seen Aelita or someone close to her before? Could just be a coincidence?" Ulrich asks.
"If it is, then knowing this women is a start to unlocking my forgotten past. Maybe it can even lead us a possible source of Xana or Aelita's creation. I gotta try."
"You sure you can manage on your own without us?" Yumi asks Jeremy.
"No sweat! And if Xana leaves me alone, I'll be able to work on Aelita's materialization" Jeremy says, grateful for the extra time.
"It's a nice thought, but not a reality for a while" Nadia replies, knowing taking something out of the virtual world is harder than virtualizing one in.
"Oh don't worry, he's not gonna be alone," Sissi is standing in front of them. "I'm staying at school too, and I'll look after him. I'll be his guardian angel."
"Wow Jeremy, are you lucky?" Odd leans in.
"Alright young man," Jeremy turns to Jim. "You think this walls gonna clean itself? Get to work NOOOOOOW!"
Sissi laughs at this. "Go on, go on, laugh while you can, young lady. Your father told me to monitor your studying and that's what I intend to do!" Sissi looks surprised. "Okay now, get to work and clean that up!" Jeremy starts walking along with Sissi, who looks annoyed.
"I don't know why, but all of a sudden, my math tutoring doesn't seem all that bad" Ulrich comments.
"Yeah, well stuck with Sissi for a week is something they need to put in a medieval torture chamber" Nadia adds.
The group all disperses as Odd and Nadia go together in the same direction. "Hope you find what you're looking for" Odd tells her.
"Thanks, but it's not gonna be easy" Nadia replies.
Jeremy uses a wet sponge to wipe the wall. Jim is in a lawn chair, opening a soda can. He gulps some of it down as Jeremy squeezes some water out. He groans slightly as he continues scrubbing.
"Come on, you can do better than that. A little more elbow grease. Keep scrubbing, go on, you can do it. How's that math problem?" He turns around to Sissi. "Making any progress solving it? I sure hope so."
"Um, I'm a little bit stuck here. Maybe if I give Jeremy some help? My father always says that manual labor is good for the brain" she suggests so she can interrogate him.
"Huh, I guess all kids aren't lazy after all. Good idea Sissi. Stay there, I'll go and get you a sponge" Jim says and leaves.
"Oh, what a shame to have to wipe all that off. I guess I'm not the first one to recognize your talent. It's really well done, a work of art. By the way, did you do it all by yourself or did your friend Xana help you a little? Huh?"
He stares at her, not answering. He did wonder how she knows about him. Luckily, she doesn't understand it all. Jim walks into the boiler room, opening a door to the supply closet. He finds a sponge and grabs it along with a brush. When he leaves, a black mist appears from the outlet and onto some barrels of liquid, spilling them and creating a thick purple gas.
"I overheard you talking to the other kids about Xana, she your girlfriend. Maybe I know her. Come on Jeremy, tell me?" Sissi says, hoping Jeremy would tell her.
"Xana is the name of a rock group. But with all that junk that you listen to, there's no way you could possibly know them" Jeremy tells her.
"What do you think I am, an idiot or something?"
"Uh, you said it, not me," he hands her his sponge. "Here, since you volunteered to help me. It's time I took a break." He sits in Jim's chair. "A little more elbow grease, go on, keep scrubbing." He is now imitating Jim. "You can do it, go on, you could do better than that."
Jim walks up behind him, clearing his throat. Jeremy turns around to an unamused Jim, smiling sheepishly.
Sissi is in her room later that night, talking to Herb on her phone. She's complaining about all the scrubbing she had to do. "Oh, I ache all over, I swear. I'm telling you; I'd have never thought it was possible to be this sore. It's even hard to blink."
"Sissi, you should go to sleep" he tells her.
"Are you kidding?" She sits up. "I can't. What if Jeremy tries something tonight?"
"Oh yeah? What?"
"I don't know, but he's up to something, I'm sure of that. And I'm almost sure that this Xana is in on it." She holds up a mirror so she can see outside her door. "Tonight's the night, I'm gonna play super spy. At last I'm gonna find out the secret of Jeremy and his weird friends!"
"I know I'm on the right track, but I need the computer in the lab to check out the figures," Jeremy tells Aelita in his room. "I'm gonna head over to the factory."
"You should go to bed Jeremy. Xana seems to be stable. I don't feel any pulsations," she suggests. "And you know, it's not the end of the world if I stay virtual one more day."
"Uh, that's fine for you, but if you don't come soon, I'm gonna have to spend my vacation with Sissi and Jim! I'll never survive."
"Jeremy, thank you. Thank you for everything you're doing for me."
"That's okay" he replies while blushing. He sneaks out of his room, past a sleeping Sissi. He goes down to the supply room, but he hears a crash from one of the rooms. He opens it, encountering the purple gas. He chokes on it, continuing to cough after he shuts the door. As he tries to catch his breath, Jim comes up behind him, scaring him.
"Now don't try to tell me that you were sleepwalking because I've been working here for 20 years, and I've heard that story about-"
"Jim, something awful has happened! Have a look, in there!" Jeremy points to the door. Jim opens it, seeing the mess of barrels, but no smoke.
"Huh? It looks like there was a hurricane in there. This had better not be your doing."
"But the smoke, it's disappeared! That's weird, not even a trace. It's Xana!" Jeremy says quietly.
Jim has taken Jeremy to his room. "Don't even think about leaving this room. Tomorrow, I'm calling your parents. You've got some explaining to do. I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes!" He slams the door shut, Jeremy turning to his computer.
"Aelita, come in. Please, hurry. We got a big problem" Jeremy says.
"You're not the only one, Xana's woken up. But I don't know which tower he's activated, but the pulsations converge in this direction" Aelita responds.
Early the next morning, the purple smoke starts traveling through the school's vent system. Sissi is still asleep in her room.
Jeremy has made it to the factory, pushing the button. The elevator starts going down. The smoke travels above Sissi in her room.
"It's even worse than I thought, the spilled bottles contain an extremely poisonous substance. If the data from the computer is right, the gas can…even be deadly! In cases of extended inhalation."
The smoke appears in Sissi's room.
Jim is walking to Jeremy's room so he can call his parents. "Get up, young man. Time to face the music." He sees that Jeremy is not in his room, however. "Jeremy!"
Sissi wakes up to the gas. "What's happening? Where am I? Jeremy! Can't see, I'm totally out of it. What's going on?" She starts screaming and Jim hears it as he's walking down the stairs.. He runs up the stairs as Sissi runs out of her room away from the gas. She bumps straight into Jim before hugging him. "Jim! Over there, smoke with arms!"
"This has to be contagious, what's all this about smoke anyway?" The smoke that she's talking about appears around the corner. "Come on, I don't see any-" he sees it and screams, running away with Sissi. They race down the stairs.
There's beeping from the computer and Jeremy looks at the map of Lyoko. "Bingo. Aelita, I found it. 37 degrees south, in the forest sector."
"Okay, I'm on my way, but I'm nowhere near it. And I'm gonna need some help" she says, since she's currently in the desert sector.
"I know four volunteers who will be happy to cut their vacation short and help."
Ulrich looks in boredom as the tutor is speaking. It felt like he was in school all over again just by listening to her. "You'll soon learn that mathematics is actually quite easy, young man. All you need is a sense of logic, a little bit of common sense, and of course, if you have good concentration, skills, and if you have-"
Ulrich's phone beeps and he picks it up to see a message from Jeremy. "S.O.S. Xana, Jeremy."
"Analysis, that will help as well, but I assure you, if you apply yourself, it's not at all complicated."
Ulrich sneaks out of the house, his tutor not even noticing.
Odd and Nadia are in the airport, going through security. Odd is in front of Nadia and the guards see a moving skeleton in Odd's bag. It's just Kiwi, however. "Hey, come and have a look at this Charlie" the security guard says.
"What is it? Wow, that's incredible!" Charlie responds.
"What is that kid?"
"Uh," Odd looks at the screen. "It's, uh, looks like a skeleton."
"Yeah, that right, but uh, don't you see anything strange?" Charlie asks him.
"Your skeleton is moving" the security guard adds.
Odd looks closer. "Uh on, that's Kiwi my dog."
"Seriously Odd, you brought Kiwi with you?" Nadia asks him.
"Well, he was supposed to stay here" Odd starts.
"You do know that dogs are only allowed in the luggage compartment" the security guard says.
"Well, yeah, he was supposed to stay her with my grandma, but…" Odd's phone rings and he picks it up. "Oh it's Gram. We were just, uh, talking about you." It's actually Jeremy on the phone.
"What are you talking about Odd? It's me Jeremy!" He says in annoyance.
"Yes, of course I know it's you Gram. I'm sorry, I know you told me a hundred times that you don't like me to call you Gram. Yeah, okay. I'm on my way. Right. I'll bring back the dog. I'll also say hi to Nadia to." He winks at her to let her know it's an emergency. "Bye Gram."
Jeremy rubs his temple in confusion. He had no idea what that was just now, but he'll let it slide.
At Yumi's house, their car trip hasn't started yet because Yumi's mom hasn't finished packing a dress. "We should have left over two hours ago!" Yumi's father complains from the driver's seat.
"You know how much she loves that dress" Yumi points out.
"I don't even know what dress she's talking about."
Her mom opens a window from the second floor. "I'm coming! I'll be down in two seconds!"
"Yeah, I doubt that" Yumi replies as her phone rings.
Yumi's mom returns to the car. "You're gonna laugh darling when I tell you-"
"No, I don't really feel like laughing. Have you noticed someone is missing in the back seat?" Yumi's seat is now empty, the car door opened.
Jim and Sissi hide from the smoke, which moves past a hallway Jim shushes Sissi from whimpering, the smoke coming back.
"Oh no!" Sissi shouts. Jim coughs from the smoke, seeing a closet.
"Over here, hurry up!" He pulls Sissi into the closet. He shuts the door before any smoke can come in, taking off his jacket and rolling it up. He places it at the bottom of the door.
Aelita has gotten to a way tower and she enters it. She walks to the side and holds her arms out, letting herself fall. She flies through a data stream, landing on the lower deck of another tower. She leaves the tower, now in the forest sector. "Jeremy, I'm coming into the forest sector now."
"Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and Nadia should be there very soon. Be careful Aelita. There are bound to be monsters around there," Jeremy warns. "I better go back to the school. Jim and Sissi might be in trouble. I've gotta warn them."
"Help, help us!" Jim shouts, even though it was hopeless. Besides Jeremy, they were the only ones on campus.
"Heeelp!" Sissi yells and they both start to sweat. "It's no use. We're finished."
"No, no we're not finished. Be brave now. Jeremy can't be far away. He'll help us out of this" Jim tries to assure her.
"Jeremy? Huh, that's pretty reassuring. It's nice to know the closet thing to Bruce Willis is coming to the rescue!" She retorts back.
Jeremy arrives at the school, starting to look for them. "Sissi? Jim? Where are you?" He starts to sweat as he's suddenly surrounded by the gas. Ulrich and Yumi arrive as well.
"We'll cut across through the boiler room, it's faster" Ulrich calls out to Yumi.
Jeremy coughs from the gas, Ulrich and Yumi stopping when the gas is blocking their way. "Through the park!" Yumi says, turning around as they hear coughing. Jeremy crawls out of the smoke.
"Jeremy!" Ulrich exclaims, the two helping him get away from the gas. Yumi and Ulrich look over him.
"Jim…and Sissi…are still inside. We gotta find them" Jeremy explains. Catching his breath.
"I'll go" Ulrich runs off.
"Ulrich, wait!" Yumi calls out.
"Yumi," she turns to Jeremy. "The factory, you've…gotta go and…help Aelita." She helps him to his feet.
"Oh, hang on Jeremy," she starts dragging him when Odd and Nadia show up. "Nadia, Odd, you got here in the nick of time.'
"Where's Ulrich?" Odd asks.
Ulrich walks up the stairs of the foggy building, coughing. He holds a tissue over his mouth as he starts checking the rooms.
"I only stayed at school to try and find out the secret of Jeremy and his friends, cuz…the truth is that I've been wanting to be part of their group for ages, but it seems so hopeless," Sissi admits. "Do you understand what I mean?"
"Huh?" Jim turns to her, not listening to a word that she had just said. "No. All I understand is there's no ventilation in here. We're gonna run out of oxygen soon."
"I better stop talking then, right? Okay, I can take a hint."
Odd, Nadia, and Yumi are watching a news report about the smoke in the supercomputer. "A strange and toxic smoke whose origins are unknown. The elderly and children are advised to remain indoors."
"Odd, help me get over to the computer," Jeremy coughs, holding his stomach. "And get ready to dive in. Stop looking at me, come on. There's no time to lose." Yumi, Nadia, and Odd are standing in front of the scanners. "Transfer Yumi. Transfer Nadia. Transfer Odd." They step into the scanners, turning around. "Scanner Yumi. Scanner Nadia. Scanner Odd. Virtualization." Jeremy presses enter and they're scanned before they are virtualized.
They are successfully virtualized in the forest sector, landing safely. They look around for Aelita. "Where do we go now?" Odd asks as she's nowhere nearby.
"The activated tower is over this way" Aelita appears from behind a tree, waving.
"Hi Aelita," Yumi waves back. "Have you seen any monsters?"
"Not yet" Aelita shakes her head.
"Guess you didn't look very hard" Odd points ahead, three kankerlots approaching.
"Looks like we're in for a warm welcome" Nadia comments, drawing her sword.
"Ulrich, do you copy?" Jeremy asks into his headset. "How's it going?"
Ulrich coughs into the phone. "Still nothing. I've been through most of the building."
"Ulrich, get out of there. You can't stand that smoke any longer, it's too dangerous. And they may be outside already" Jeremy warns him.
"I'll try one last room, then I'll go," he walks up to the closet. "Jim! Jim, Sissi, are you in there?" He tries to open the door.
"Ulrich, get out right now! Ulrich, come on, what's going on?" Ulrich has fallen unconscious outside the door. "Ulrich, answer me! Look, I don't wanna rush you, my friends, but it's getting kind of urgent here."
"What about us? What do you think we're doing, huh? Getting a suntan?" Odd jokes as he fires an arrow.
"Xana likes to pull the brakes on us. We aren't going anywhere right now" Nadia adds, as she blocks the lasers.
Yumi throws her fan and destroys one. Another laser is fired and Odd flips away from it. One of them prepares to fire. "Odd, watch out!" Yumi warns, Odd flipping from more lasers. He gets hit from the last one. Nadia throws her sword at one destroying it, as she wasn't moving any closer. Aelita goes to check on Odd, and a kankerlot fires at her. Yumi quickly pushes her out of the way, getting hit instead.
"You okay Yumi?" Jeremy asks in concern.
"No broken bones yet!" She replies.
Nadia recovers her sword and is hit by a laser in the arm. "Ah, miserable little pest!"
"Take good care of Aelita" Jeremy tells her.
Ulrich is pulled into the closet by Jim. "There, you see, Sissi? I told you he'd come and rescue us." He sees that it's Ulrich when he turns him over. "What the. Ulrich!"
"Oh, he came for me. Oh, he came to save me, it's just like I always dreamed!" Sissi says, though that wasn't the case.
Nadia, Odd, Yumi, and Aelita hide behind a tree as the kankerlots continue to fire. "Only way to the tower is via a tree bridge. But it happens to be behind the monsters. And so you're gonna have to find a way around them" Jeremy informs them.
"Wonderful, but our guests don't seem on letting us through" Nadia comments as two kankerlots block them.
Yumi moves her head away from a laser. "I might have an idea for blocking the monsters. You tow take care of Aelita."
"Laser arrow!" Odd destroys one of the kankerlots. Aelita smiles at him.
Yumi uses her telekinesis to move a rock. She lifts it over two kankerlots, who fire lasers. She drops the rock over one of them. She throws her fan at the other one, but it moves to the side, hitting her with a laser. Odd, Nadia, and Aelita watch as they run. Yumi is hit again.
"Yumi. If she gets hit one more time…" Jeremy starts.
"Jeremy" Aelita says just as Yumi is devirtualized. They run across the bridge.
Yumi appears at the lab. "Welcome to Earth Yumi."
"Hey look," Jim takes Ulrich's phone from the ground. "A cell phone. Now we'll be able to call for help."
"Jim, is that you, huh?" Jeremy questions into his headset.
"Jeremy!"
"Where are you? And Ulrich?"
"Jeremy, we really need help. We're starting to run out of oxygen in here," the smoke starts to come into the room. "Nooo!" He drops the phone.
"Jim? What's happening? Jim! Odd, Nadia, hurry up!"
They arrive at the tower, but there is water surrounding it. "Well, what do we do now?" Odd asks.
Aelita turns around. "You two take care of the monsters." One kankerlot approaches them.
Aelita starts to use her power to make logs appear to the tower. The kankerlot sees this and Odd fires, missing. The monster fires at Aelita, and Odd jumps in the way getting hit.
Aelita starts to walk up the ramp and the kankerlot appears behind her. It starts to charge its laser when it is suddenly destroyed. Nadia reappears from using her invisibility and puts her sword away.
Aelita walks into the tower, walking onto the lower pad. She floats to the top from the center.
Smoke is everywhere in the closet.
Aelita lands on the pad, walking up.
"Let's hope it's not too late" Jeremy says to Yumi.
The interface appears in front of Aelita. She presses her hand to it.
Aelita
Code
"Aelita, hurry up!" Jeremy urges.
Ulrich lies on the ground still unconscious.
Lyoko
The smoke stops and the tower is deactivated. Jeremy launches the return trip. "Return to the past now!"
Time rewinds to the night before Jeremy was caught. "I don't understand why you insist on getting punished with detention again Jeremy," Ulrich says in confusion. "Come on, Xana's not gonna reactivate this soon. You could give yourself a short vacation."
"Not as long as Aelita stays virtual. And this time, to tell you the truth, considering what we've painted, Jim can't be too angry." This time, they painted Jim like a king. Nadia smiles from her room, glad they went more subtle this time. They hear barking and know Jim is approaching.
"Come to think of it, I'm gonna stick around. Anything is better than another one of Miss Smit's math lessons. Even Jim."
Jim runs past them. "Get back here!"
Nadia is looking over pictures at her mom's house. She sees nothing of Aelita or of her father.
"It doesn't make sense. I feel like I heard and seen Aelita somewhere, but where?" Nadia says quietly.
"Something wrong, dear?" Her mom asks.
"No, but I do have a question. Do you know of an Aelita?"
Her mom sighs. "I don't know how you know her, but there is something you should know. She is the daughter of Franz Hopper, a man I turned to after something happened in my life. And no, he's not your father, but he was your godfather."
"Was?"
"He and Aelita disappeared. No one knows what happened."
"Was Aelita a girl with pink hair?"
"Yeah, all natural from her mother, who also disappeared. We all know who took her but to where is unknown."
Nadia had some answers, but more questions were asked. Was the Aelita she knew the one that disappeared, or a perfect recreation of her 13 year old self? And if it's a recreation, what happened to the original Aelita and why? Nadia had questions and the only way to answer them was to rematerialize this Aelita.
A.N. – A little introduction into the mystery that will be explored in season 2. It will still center around Aelita, but it will also help Nadia understand her past. The story will center around Nadia when they encounter Professor Tyron in the fifth season. PM me with story ideas! Review with questions or comments! I will respond! As always, till next time! See ya! -lyokowarrior97