September 2, 2024, 12:12 pm
Kadic
At a lunch table in the cafeteria sat 3 members of a secret club no one knows about. Including the 4th member who isn't there. Alex, Violet, and Stuart sat around their table. Eating their lunches trying to understand why Martin hadn't believed them when they tried to initially explained it. Which caused Stuart and Martin to fight, they aren't on very good terms at the moment.
"So, what now? Clearly at the time when XANA was supposed to attack at the time it did last time, he didn't. I feel like that's the only way to get him into the factory." Stuart whispered but annoyed that Martin, his friend, refused to listen to them.
"Why are you assuming it's a him?" Violet interjected.
"My bad for giving a fricken virus that wants to kill us!" Stuart silently yelled at Violet, where as Violet shot daggers at him. This was a hill she seemed to be willing to die on.
"Gendering a virus will get us no where, but I have an idea that might work!" Alex said trying to calm the situation between his best friend and his other new friend. Alex couldn't believe it took them this long to realize they had someone who Martin inherently trusted during the first incident.
"After classes today we all meet up at the factory?" Alex looked around the table to see what they're responses were.
"What does us being at the factory do for getting Martin to listen?" Violet looked at him with conviction.
"You know the mysterious voice who Martin was talking to and sometimes us? He seems to know a lot about the Super Computer and the virus. Plus, Martin seemed to be quickly able to trust him." Alex said proudly.
"That's not a half bad plan. I guess we all know where to meet then after classes?" Violet said toward the group, but really, she was looking at Stuart for his answer.
"It's not going to be an issue, since the Coach wants to do practice every other day, it's only every day when we have a big game coming up." Stuart responded with a quick nodded. As they were all in agreement, they noticed the time and decided they needed to all head to their respective classes.
September 2, 2024, 4:49 pm
Factory
The elevator stopped at the lab, as the shudders opened the teens all walked into the room. They began to look at each other with expectations.
"Does anyone here know how to use this thing?" Alex asked the room. Both Violet and Stuart returned with a shake of their heads.
"Shoot, I suppose Martin probably didn't open up some kind of window to talk to him on purpose, right?"
"That is correct." said a voice coming from the speakers on the Super Computer. The 3 teens jumped in shock as to not expecting that. They all slowly walked towards the super computer.
"Where's the pink haired one?" Asked the voice.
"Don't mention that in front of him, that won't help with anything. And to answer your question, he seems to not know what we are talking about. It's as if the return to the past affected him as well." Stuart responded quickly.
"I knew I forgot a something, Martin needs to be scanned by the system. It'll immediately put his biology on the list of memories to not wipe." The voice said in a calm tone.
"That's going to be hard" Stuart sighed. "We're not on good terms at this time and it seems like our only option is to wait for another XANA attack to bring him here."
"That is an issue, but there's something I can do. I can simply send him a cryptic email to get him back here. To seem like the Super Computer is reaching out to him." Offered the voice.
"Won't that freak him out and keep him further away from the factory?" Asked Violet chiming in after listening for a bit.
"She has a pretty good point." Added Alex. That left the room in a bit of silence while they each equally brainstormed.
"What if we- no never mind" Stuart grumbled.
"Please continue your thought, any idea is appreciated." The voice quickly said to make sure Stuart didn't lose his train of thought.
"Well, I don't know if we can do it, but couldn't we try to recreate an attack from XANA without the threat of XANA actually attacking? Then I said no because we probably don- "Stuart got cut off by the voice.
"No that's actually a good idea. We can use a Jeremification to cause a little chaos, but not enough to cause a return to the past." The voice said quickly, on his end he started inputting a series of scripts to get sent to and initiated by the Super Computer.
"I'm sorry a what?" Violet said with a squeak in her voice. The other 2 just looked dumbfounded at the word. What did it mean?
"It's just something Jerem- I mean the previous guy in the chair when they were fighting off XANA created a program that lets us use the abilities of a tower. In turn giving us the ability to create havoc like XANA does." The voice started to trail off a bit, it seemed to be a little excited that he got to finally be more part of the help.
"As long as it gets Martin here. That's all that matters." Stuart gave a small smile knowing the plan might actually work.
September 2, 2024, 6:13 pm
Kadic
Martin was sitting at his desk where his computer was. He was working on another game, he wanted to get his mind off those 2 idiots who tried to get him into one of their pranks. They even brought his best friend Stuart into the mix, he couldn't believe that Stuart of all people could be convinced by the delinquents.
Martin sighed to himself before putting his thoughts back to his game he's making. He's working on a bug fix that he wanted to fix before end of day. He seemed to be having some trouble. No matter what, the damned bug won't get squashed. Martin frustratingly slammed both of his hands, palm down. Onto the desk before getting up and landing in his bed. He decided he needed a break. Martin picked up his phone and continued to see the many missed calls from Stuart and a couple other random phone numbers. Seems like Stuart might've given those two his phone number. He sighed before putting his phone back down.
Taking off his glasses he laid his head on his pillow, maybe a nap might help him think better. As he shut his eyes stray thoughts entered his mind, he had only a few nights ago enter his head once more. Clouding his attempt at slumber. The Super Computer, it's all he could think of. Stuart must have told the two delinquents as they were also talking about it. But again, the video said catastrophic consequences would happen if it doesn't get shut down. But it's been a full day since he turned it on, he hasn't turned it off. Hell, last time he thought about it was yesterday during his unfortunate morning and first half of his afternoon being interrupted by a dumb detention held by Mr. Pichon.
Mr. Pichon seemed to have some sort of stick up his rear as he thinks very highly of himself, as to what Martin believed. He thought of ways he could knock Pichon down a peg or 2. Until his computer started beeping.
Getting up from his bed he grabbed his glasses and went over to his computer. It was glitching out. The screen was flickering while the picture on the screen became distorted.
"Damn it! I swear I shouldn't have gotten a virus!" Martin swore at himself. He tried to shut down the computer, it refused. He went to the power button on the computer, it wouldn't shut off there either. He reached for his last resort, the power plug. He reached down under his desk and yanked the power cord out of the wall socket. He bent back up to his desk to see his computer was still on.
"What the hell?" Martin said to himself. The image on the screen before him continued glitching. The words "Factory" was the only intelligible thing on the screen that made sense to him. This was his sign he needed to get back to the factory and shut down that computer. The boy in the video was right. He had only hoped whatever was happening to his computer, it's not wiping any data from it. He got so close to getting this one game he was focusing on the other day almost right.
Martin quickly grabbed his bag in case it takes a while for the process, and he can do his homework. Running down the hall of the dorms he solidified his resolve in the choice he has to make. Shame though, a secondary computer may prove useful for experiments. Though Martin, he didn't have any experiments planned.
September 2, 2024, 7:04 pm
Factory
In the factory, currently the computer screen has a script running with a tower on the screen with a green hue to it. In the chair Alex leaned back and had his legs propped up and over one of the arms of the chair. His head leaning all the way back on the other arm chair.
Violet sat a top the centerpiece of the room. Stuart was pacing back and forth, which was bothering Violet, she tried to ignore him by being on her phone playing a game.
"Look your giving us all anxiety by pacing back and forth dude. Sit and chill. He'll probably be here any minute." Violet sighed.
"I am more nervous about actually talking to him, he needs to listen to us. Before he wouldn't so hopefully, he will now. We need him." Stuart responded, ignoring Violets request.
"Dude you're a real buzzkill, we chillin' till the boy gets up in the his house!" Alex said not moving from his spot. His eyes closed looking fully relaxed. Arms pointed completely vertically and pointing with his index fingers. Alex couldn't looked too bothered. Until his head popped up and looking at the elevator, Violet and Stuart stopped in their tracks and followed Alex's gaze.
The elevator door started opening slowly and there stood Martin, though he wasn't aware of the current inhabitants of the room before him. He had his entire face buried into his phone. With the bag in his hand, he threw the bag in and started walking into the room. After a second he looks up realizing he wasn't in the room that had the computer tower room.
"The hell" is all Martin could muster before the voice rang from the speakers.
"Don't leave, there's a lot you need to know about. In any case you can't leave as the elevator is under my control, and the 3 individuals you should be familiar with is ready to step in if needed." The voice said. Alex got up from the chair to meet with Violet and Stuart to be closer to Martin.
Martin looked uneasy, visibly sweaty looking at the 3 individuals in front of him. On one hand were the 2 delinquents who are notorious for their pranks, but this is even far than they'd usually be. Then there was Stuart, ever sense coming to this new school, who was the only person he can trust. Then he goes and becomes part of this prank. Now there's a secret 4th person.
"Please listen to us Martin, it may not make sense now but eventually it will make sense." Stuart took a couple steps closer to Martin, trying to sound convincing and be equal to Martin. Martin stayed staring at Stuart, which to the other 2 in the room means he might be willing to listen.
"I suppose I can listen, but I don't trust those other 3, I don't know who they are. I know you mean well Stuart. Can we talk about this more privately." Martin eyes the 2 others in the room and tries to do the same to the computer but seeing as there's no real reaction he can get from a voice.
Stuart nodded and they entered the elevator, Stuart now had to kill the time somehow waiting for Martin, had the elevator codes memorized and brought the elevator down to the scanner room. Violet and Alex made their way over to the computer.
"You think we can overhear the conversation?" Violet asked the computer.
"This might be a more private conversation than you realize Violet." The voice responded.
"Yeah, I'll be honest I am as curious as the next guy, but this might be a serious invasion of privacy." Alex said in a tone that sounded somewhat serious. "Let's spy on 'em!"
The voice sighed and integrated the microphone that is in the scanner room to eject sound to the computer speakers.
"Listen I am aware of your skepticism about everything. I would be too. But you lost your memories of that day, we already had that day already!" Stuart said sort of pacing around the room, Martin stayed at the entrance of the scanner room. More so taking in the sight of the scanners after looking at them in the light.
"You mean like a Groundhog Day situation?" Martin sounded with a slight amount of excitement in his voice.
"Not exactly." Stuart said. He spent his time to explain what happened on the original day they had before the new day they had. Prior to the return to the past. Stuart took his time with the details, as with Martin he knew that it would convince him. Little bit of it made sense to Martin while others doesn't. Especially the story of Lyoko and the return to the past.
"So, what you mean to explain to me, is that the computer I found. That was created before we were born. Has the technology to send us to a digital world? But the world we live in now doesn't have that technology worldwide. But its stayed in this factory since the day of its creation? You see how hard it is to believe that. And don't even get me started about this 'return to the past' that you are claiming happened."
"If its hard to believe, lets show you." Stuart pointed his head up to the ceiling. "Set up the scanners! We are going to make the dive!" Without a response, Martin stood there confused as to who the hell he was talking about. But before he could finish that thought the scanners in front of him opened. Stuart stood over to the nearest scanner and looked back at Martin.
"You don't expect me to walk into this obvious SAW trap?" Martin said. Away from the room was Violet in the room above them hearing in on the conversation.
"I called it! I knew that they looked like SAW traps!" Violet screamed while cheering.
"Theres only one way to show you, and these scanners are the key to it. Currently we normally would have you at the helm, but we got a mutual friend to take care of it this time. Now to prove to you this is safe." Stuart entered the scanner, and it closed afterwards. Martin was still unnerved but heard a voice coming from the ceiling.
"Transfer Stuart"
"Scanner Stuart"
"Virtualization"
Then to give Martin more of a visualization of what just occurred, the voice opened up Stuarts scanner to prove that Stuart isn't there anymore.
"Stuart?"
"Stuart!"
Martin was frantically looking for Stuart everywhere. Of course, that didn't bring anything up, Stuart was sent to the virtual world he was talking about. Martin stood in front of a scanner, extremely nervous he stepped into the scanner. It closed behind him, and he heard the voice one more time.
"Transfer Martin"
"Scanner Martin"
"Virtualization"
A/N Sorry for a shorter chapter. I had half written this chapter a couple of days ago and didn't pick it back up until I realized my deadline was today. So, here's more of a chapter I am interested in. Excited to see what Martin looks like on Lyoko! Though I know how he's going to look.
Thank you all for checking this out and get ready to virtualize!