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💻 - "Um, Aelita?" Jeremie struggles to maintain eye contact as he holds out a small cardboard box, unwrapped but glossy. "All things considered, I figured I should give you this in person. Happy Valentine's Day."
In the box is a bracelet consisting of beads in various shades of pastel pink, alternating between plain oblong beads and star-shaped ones, like little cereal marshmallows. There's also a pair of earrings with the same stars dangling off them.
(Logically, Jeremie knows it's better that he came directly, but that doesn't mean wouldn't have preferred to just leave it at her door and not have to face a reaction immediately. As it is, his legs feel like they've turned the consistency of molasses.)
"Oh!" Her face immediately breaks out into a smile, her eyes squinting in delight. "Happy Valentine's Day, Jeremie." The warmth in Aelita's voice is unmistakeable, and the hint of a grateful blush lights her cheeks.
She accepts the cardboard box and gently removes the top, gasping softly as she registers the bracelet - and then the earrings! "I love them!" Aelita doesn't waste a second before she's slipping her new jewelry onto her wrist - she'll put the earrings in later.
"I have something for you, too, but first..." She leans in, giving her favorite genius a soft, lingering peck on the cheek.
"Thank you for making this day special."
With that, she slips a CD case into his hand.
"I made this myself. Well, not the disc, obviously... but all the music on there is my own, just for you. You can play it when you're working on the supercomputer or in your room. I made sure it's not too energetic, so you can focus. I... I hope you like it."
💻 - No, Jeremie does not fall over like an absolute goober when she so much as kisses him on the cheek. ...It's a near thing, though, and he still feels himself blushing rather intensely,
"O-oh--I--uh--" He holds the CD with all the reverence of a family's prized porcelain dish, smiling shyly as he manages to look Aelita in the face again. "...Thank you too. I'm sure I'm gonna love it. I-I mean, you made it, after all."
...Was that a lame thing to say? He can't actually tell, but it sure is out of his mouth now. He feels like he should've done something more for her...but he wasn't experienced in this sort of thing at all. He still got to see her smile and know it was because of him, though.
And seeing her smile has always done his confidence a world of good.
He reaches out to knit their fingers together, squeezing her hand. "Happy Valentine's Day, Aelita."
Sonari's tail flicked to her sides as she processed Jeremy's words. Her response sounded almost as confused as him. "It's kinda weird you don't remember because you were the kid who told me XANA attacked. I wouldn't know about it if you hadn't."
It occurred to her right then that she might have world hopped unintentionally again. Looking spaced out on the surface, Sonari internally surfed the internet for some indication of this world's current history. She knew of LyoCorp, or however it was spelled. But googling it proved fruitless.
After what seemed like a very long pause, Sonari finally returned her attention to Jeremy and said "Now that I've taken a moment to research, it's... possible that I mistook you for someone else. Oh well." She shrugged.
💻 - "I'm not sure how that's possible, but okay...?"
... (Of course there'd be more than one result. More than one future. I wonder what hers looks like.)
A moment of lightheadedness. Jeremie blinks, keeping his hand resting on his head for a second until it passes.
(I don't think there's any harm in it. No more harm than me being here, at least.)
Maybe it's unwise, but some gut feeling gets him to lower his guard, just a little. "...Well, to answer your question, I'm just not sure what to do for my...uh...Aelita, for it. I've never done this kind of thing before."
Sonari backed up a couple steps with an almost inaudible whimper. All curiosity turned to concern as she stared at Jeremy and said "He-hey, easy friend. Don't you recognize me, mister Jeremy? It's me, Sonari. The robot your friends protected from XANA." Of course, this Jeremy certainly wouldn't remember that because those events happened in a different universe.
💻 - Jeremie visibly flinches at that statement--more specifically, the name attached to the end of it. Well now he's all sorts of confused. It can talk, it knows his name, and it knows about XANA, but he can't remember it at all--and he thinks he probably would remember if he'd ever encountered it before.
"Uh...!" He scratches the back of his head, frowning in concentration as he tries to think of all the things they've done relating to robots specifically. Sometimes he loses track of all the attacks. "I...can't say I do? Ugh, don't tell me I got left out of a Return again somehow..." The initial formation of the Lyoko Warriors is still lost to him, but he'd been careful ever since then, right? "...Sorry? Clearly you know something..."
Stumble for Jeremie, of course c:<
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❀;; --- "Jeremie?!" The girl shouted around the Factory. He hadn't answered his phone, no one could get a hold of him. He'd said he was going to his room, but Odd and Ulrich had already checked there. Empty.
They searched the forest, Aelita searched Kadic, and Yumi moved to the Factory.
"Jeremie?! Where are you?!"
Footsteps echoed through the Factory and immediately Yumi took off in the direction she had heard it. Danger be damned, if that was Jeremie, she needed to know. XANA had attacked and Jeremie had been nowhere to be found.
All she could do was think the worse happened.
And apparently it had.
Jeremie's form came into view, limping, holding onto the wall for support. Yumi nearly stopped dead in her tracks when she finally saw him. He was hurt. Bleeding. And not just from any cut. He was seriously hurt.
"Jeremie!" she shrieked in fear as she took off twice as fast as before. Being the fastest runner in Kadic paid off when she found herself by his side in no time. Her arms were outstretched just in time to catch him as his strength finally gave out and he collapsed into her arms.
"What happened?!" Panic was setting in. He was pale - well paler than usual. A trail of blood followed him. Yumi felt herself getting sick but forced herself to swallow it down. The priority was Jeremie.
She heard him try to say something, XANA perhaps? Yumi felt her chest tighten when she realized they were not alone. Quickly she turned her head in the direction Jeremie had come from and her eyes went wide.
A gigantic robot? Hadn't XANA already tried this before?!
"Come on Jer, we gotta go!" she called out, though there was no way he could help much. He was on the verge of passing out. "Hang on, we'll get to the elevator. We'll be fine!"
Was she speaking to calm him down? Or herself?
"I've got you!"
She took off as fast as she could.
💻 - "...Did Odd just do what I think he just did?"
Well, it could have been a look a like? Like with that one girl you thought was Aelita.
💻 - "Y-you don't have to go bringing THAT up! Besides, that's even more reason to not jump to conclusions, right?!"
What if I were to tell YOU that I could have SWORN I saw someone that looked like Franz Hopper the other day?
💻 - "Then I'd say 'XANA already tried that one'." And he is not amused by the memory.
Honestly 82? I don't. In fact, I'm probably the idiot in this equation.
� - "To be fair, most humans are. We can't expect you to understand."
Wasn't XANA awake and in use for almost seven years?
💻 - "With the Returns? Technically, yes, but you've gotta understand, Franz Hopper's notes stop really being coherent after a certain point. There's a lot I still don't know, which I might be able to learn if somebody actually sent me normal messages instead of throwing a possessed classmate at me speaking in a cadence only comprehensible to computer programs and/or bees."
He huffs in irritation, shaking his head to clear it. "Anyway, all we really know about XANA is that it was created after or at the same time as Lyoko to destroy 'Project Carthage'. I don't know if it was originally intended to be sentient or have emerging qualities, I don't know when it 'woke up', though we can assume it was during the repeated Returns that kept increasing its processing capacity. So I don't know if or how its seven years of operation actually affected its behavior."
Why is XANA so easily angered?
💻 - "You think I have any idea? We don't even know what this thing wants, much less anything about its personality. The only thing I did was turn on the supercomputer, that's it, and he tries to murder me with a vending machine...apparently. I still don't actually remember that."
� - "...Do you even see the kind of idiocy we have to tolerate on a daily basis? You would be irritable too, if you were the master system."
Hey 82, is rain uncomfortable to you?
� - "I have not personally experienced the phenomenon known as 'rain', but other independent specter-class agents have. The memory data suggests that rain is apparently 'tingly', but neither pleasant nor unpleasant. It causes no disruption to our electromagnetic field, but a solitary agent without a host body such as myself should not get caught in it, as the rain will pass through."
A grey, robotic dragon about as tall as a golden retriever just walked over to Jeremy. Sonari's feathery head canted to the side curiously. She asked Jeremy "What is this 'Valentine's Day' you speak of? And why does it worry you?"
💻 - Jeremie proceeds to let out a noise not entirely unlike an audible keysmash, scooting back and holding his fists up in front of him as if he can punch harder than a wet spaghetti noodle. That's a dragon! A small dragon and...a robot, huh, that's interesting--but he's either dreaming or being attacked, obviously!
"Gh--wh-who wants to know?!"
💻 - "Oh no...it's almost Valentine's Day again..."
He loves his girlfriend! But also that one particular Valentine's Day is one of those days he thinks back on and immediately wants to dissolve into the floor. Like the Taelia thing.
