Code Lyoko: Revolutions and Evolutions

Chapter 22

AN: Thank you to everyone who continues to read and review my chapters. I greatly appreciate all the feedback and your continued support. This was a harder chapter to write as I was trying to determine the pace of the story from this chapter onward. But after prayer, because I was genuinely stuck a couple of times, it came out beautifully. As always, read, review and enjoy and I'll see you next chapter.

It was a new morning and it was peaceful, with no tones, no sounds. The stillness the only sound heard was that of the birds outside in the trees. Jeremy woke and stretched as he prepared for today. It was the last day of the finals before summer vacation. He had rested well over the night and the day before had been peaceful a day of nothing but study, nothing but dedication to his final preparations. He was far more confident. Just one day yesterday had made all the difference. No tones were telling him to go here or there, they were gone. The students were once again free as was he to relax and enjoy this new day, a day without the checks and balances of the security of the system.

Going to his radio he turned on his music and selected a song suiting his mood, George Harrison's Got My Mind Set On You.

As the song played, Jeremy got dressed for the day dancing to the rhythm, he felt so wonderful that he felt his soul would jump from his body and dance itself. In so many ways the past day of freedom felt like that of a triumphant victory. As the song got mid-way through, he heard a knock at the door. Opening it, he found Aelita at the door.

"Well, you seem like you're in a good mood." She said.

"Oh, better than a good mood. For the first time, I'm in a great mood. Let's consider things here for a moment. We have no barriers to keep us in anymore. There were no more annoying tones for breakfast, dinner, supper, none of it. The silence is glorious!"

Aelita laughed, "It's so funny seeing you like this."

"Come on, Aelita, this is a sweeping majestic victory and it's not even slightly pyric."

Aelita knocked on his desk and Jeremy said, "Seriously? Knocking on wood?"

She shrugged with a smile, "Why not? Besides, it's the last day of finals today. Are you ready?"

"I'm rested, well-studied, happy. I don't see how—you know what?" He made a motion over his mouth of a key locking.

Aelita smirked as she sat down on his bed, "Odd and Ulrich will be here in a bit they're in the showers I assume. Anyway, what are your plans for the super-computer it's been a couple of days already how long do you anticipate them to stay on vigilant bed checks?"

Jeremy unlocked his mouth and sat beside Aelita, "Honestly I'd say give it till' after finals when things are genuinely more relaxed. Wait just one more day because I just feel it's a safe thing to do. Also, in my nocturnal studies, I've been going over what your mother gave us on North-Gate. It's a very interesting read even if I've read it a few times over. Something that occurred to me is that this program may have a few Achilles' heels."

"More than one you think?"

"I'd say it's more than the program would let on. I'm studying the program's methods by which it goes about its operations and as I worked on it, you have all manner of things that could potentially turn into massive areas to serve as a blind-spot."

"Such as?"

"Well, the way the program was originally implemented is that it has all manner of environmental as well as economic elements which it would try to implement to gain momentum in its operations. The program hasn't lied to us in the regard that XANA was the chief soldier software. In many avenues, that's what XANA was full-on military offensive software. The more I read into North-Gate the more I could see that this is a program that invested itself heavily in the elements of what I can only call societal longevity applications.