#Code Lyoko : We'll get close to the light

[erkolblinguispretre]

When you encounter an older version of your friend that has beaten the evil AI you're currently fighting:

A draw of that oneshot. Emmanuel-Jean's younger and is a little bean, and he is absolutely putting TBITC!Aelita in his pantheon of heroes for seeing the end of XANA.

[erkolblinguispretre]

A little appreciation fic', for @the-writing-artist's fic The Boy in the Computer, because I was rereading the 4th chapter of The Girl from the Outside, and I'm frustrated to not be able to write the next part of my own fic' yet. Set between the s1 and s2 (that I'll write as soon as possible) for We'll Get Close To the Light and after the end of s4 for The Boy in The Computer.

Encounter of the Multiverse

Emmanuel-Jean felt his eyes closing, despite all his motivation and effort to stay awake. He had a terrible night last night, and morning classes just exacerbated his exhaustion. But he didn’t want to miss being with his friends just because of his stupid exhaustion!! They had promised to take Aelita to the aquarium and the zoo! Yeah, no. He was NOT going to-

“Rimbaud, you’re staying here,” said Odd abruptly. “You look like a corpse. Or worse, Einstein after PE.”

All of Emmanuel-Jean’s friends giggled except Jeremie, who looked at the eccentric of the group with an annoyed look.

“Wha-No!” replied Emmanuel-Jean, frustrated. “I can perfectly-”

He accidentally cut himself off as he was overcome by a sudden yawning. The others looked at him with the most skeptical eyes he had ever seen.

“Manu,” said Ulrich, “don’t worry about the zoo. We’ll go somewhere else today, and we’ll go to the zoo and the aquarium with the whole band some other time.”

“But-”

“Before you say anything,” intervened Aelita, “no, it doesn’t bother me as much as you being tired like that. You should get some sleep.”

“I-”

“I’m not gonna let you be an idiot insomniac,” interrupted Jeremie, “when you stop me from being one, Emmanuel.”

“. . .”

“Come on Manu,” said Yumi with a smile, “you earned a break. And when you’ve slept some, you can very well join us.”

Facing all this opposition, the brown-haired sleepy mess that was Emmanuel-Jean could only yield. And that’s how he ended up in his bed, grumpy as a bear. But, just as he was rumbling in his thoughts, sleep took him over.

However, just as quickly as he closed his eyes, he opened them, finding himself in… an empty dark space, full of stars all around him. He was floating in this space, alone. But he was not stressed. After all, this was all a dream, right? And most of all, he felt comfortable. Like he was being tugged into warm blankets.

“Huh? Who are you?” He suddenly heard a voice behind him ask.

He recognized that voice and knew who it was before he even turned around. Aelita. But why? And what were those clothes? Not like it wasn’t her style, but he could swear he never saw her wearing that dress with yellow flowers, or that pink jacket. Oh well. Dreams, especially his dreams, rarely made sense.

“Oh hey, Aelita.” Emmanuel-Jean with a laugh. “And here I was worried I could not spend time with you and the others. Are they here by the way?”

The girl’s reaction was however not what he expected. A look of pure confusion was plastered on her facce, like she didn’t understand what he said at all. Or, rather, she was confused by his entire being.

Suddenly, a light crossed her green eyes, as if she reached enlightenment.

“Oh right!” she said. “I remember now! This is the Multi-Void!”

“The what?” asked Emmanuel-Jean, confused.

“The Multi-Void.” repeated Aelita. “A space between universes, which we can reach when we fall asleep.” she added with a smile. “A place where we can encounter other versions of ourselves, or of our loved ones.”

…Okay, this was going really far for a dream. Even for him.

“Wait…” said the boy, trying to arrange his thoughts. “So you’re saying you’re another version of Aelita? The Aelita I know?”

“Exactly!” confirmed the pink-ette with a proud smile. “I’m Aelita Schaeffer, and I’m the cousin of Odd Della Robbia.”

“Cousin?” asked the brown-haired teen, surprised. “You’re human in your universe?”

“Human?” asked Aelita surprised. “Wait, was I the trapped one in your universe too?”

“You mean inside the supercomputer?” asked the brown-haired teen. “Uh, yeah? Wait, does that mean my Aelita is a human too?”

Aelita stayed silent, visibly thinking. Suddenly, she jerked her head up, an apologetic look on her face.

“Oh I’m sorry,” she said, “I was so caught up in the multiverse thing that I forgot to ask your name. I don’t think I ever saw you at Kadic in my world.”

“Oh…” replied the other, shocked. “Uh, don’t worry about it. I understand. I’m Emmanuel-Jean DeRobert.”

“Glad to make your acquaintance Emmanuel-Jean!” said the pink-ette with a smile, extending her hand.

The boy shook it absent-mindedly. Part of the boy was hurt to think that he wasn’t with the ones he considered his only friends in that other universe. And that must have reflected on his face, because Aelita immediately asked with a worried voice:

“Emmanuel-Jean? Is there a problem?”

Oh well… it was not like he could try to hide his discomfort now.

“Oh it’s nothing, it's just…” he explained with a sad smile. “I… I never had any friends before meeting you all so… I… feel bad for my other self… Though maybe he didn’t get bullied at his old schools, like I was…”

Wait, it was still “Aelita” he was talking to!

“Don’t apologize, please!” he added quickly. “It’s just a thought, that’s all!”

Aelita looked at him with confusion first, then with amusement.

“Do my counterpart apologize a lot?” she asked with a smile.

“Uh…” smiled awkwardly Emmanuel-Jean, “Almost as much as me…”

Aelita laughed, and the boy followed quickly after.

“She sounds a lot like ‘my’ Jeremie.” said the pink-ette after calming a bit. “Well, during his stay in the supercomputer.”

“Wait!” said Emmanuel-Jean, shocked. “It was Jeremie that was in the supercomputer? Wow…”

“Yes,” smiled Aelita, “and I’m the one who discovered him.”

“Oh, wow.” smiled Emmanuel-Jean. “It was the exact opposite for us. Jeremie booted up the supercomputer, and he found you inside it. Seems like you two are destined to meet each other.” the brown-haired boy added mischievously.

Aelita reddened, but, far from being embarrassed, she smiled proudly.

“Oh, we did way more than just meet!” she said. “My boyfriend and I are traveling all around the world!”

That’s it. Emmanuel-Jean could die happy.

“You’re together!?” he nearly shouted excitedly. “Oh my god, congrats!! I’m so happy for you two!!”

Aelita laughed.

“You seem overly interested in the subject…” she joked.

“Well…” smiled Emmanuel-Jean awkwardly, embarrassed by his sudden outburst. “I mean… you two are made for each other and… and I know that being together will just make you the happiest couple on Earth. And there’s nothing I would wish more for you than that.”

Aelita smiled, but it didn’t completely reach her eyes.

“Is there a problem?” asked Emmanuel-Jean immediately worried.

“We…” started Aelita after a moment. “We are happy. But… Jeremie still sacrificed so much for our win…”

“...Our win? Sacrificed?”

Okay, before he was worried. Now, he was concerned. What was she talking about?

“...During our quest to free Jeremie,” explained Aelita softly, “XANA found a way to escape the supercomputer. We decided to erase him once and for all, and we did it. But for that, Jeremie’s parents, who were the one who created Lyoko, the supercomputer and XANA, powered the program to end him. With their life. And… Jeremie still misses them… And I.. can’t help but feel… guilty about that. If only I could have.. done more-”

Aelita was suddenly interrupted by Emmanuel-Jean, who hugged her, as she was visibly more and more upset by that memory. Aelita didn’t react, too surprised.

“I’m so sorry to hear that,” said Emmanuel-Jean with a voice heavy with emotions. “You… you guys deserve the world. And I mean it. And… and I’m… so sorry to hear that you suffered…”

The pink-ette let a smile form on her face. She was about to return the embrace when suddenly, Emmanuel-Jean pulled back, with an embarrassed look on his face.

“Sorry about that,” he muttered flustered, and looking down, “I huh.. kinda forget that we’re basically strangers…”

“No problem.” smiled Aelita. “It helped.”

Emmanuel-Jean smiled tightly, before looking around.

“Do you know how long we stay here? Not that I don’t like being around you at all, it’s not the case at all!” he added quickly. “But… I don’t really know how much time passed and…”

“Don’t worry, I understand.” replied Aelita with a laugh. “As to how you can leave… you have to think about leaving?” she added. “Well, that's what he told me.”

“He?” asked Emmanuel-Jean curious.

“Another Jeremie,” she explained. “The one responsible for the multiverse, or so he thinks. The one who told me what I know.”

“Of course, it had to be him…” commented Emmanuel-Jean with a laugh.

“You seem to know him well,” replied Aelita with a smile.

“I joined the Lyoko Warriors a year after they started their fight against XANA,” explained Emmanuel-Jean. “But I started to talk with Jeremie before he even discovered the supercomputer. He was the very first person I saw as a friend. He’s even my best friend. But the others are awesome too. Talking about them, how are they in your world?”

“Oh, well…” said Aelita thinking, “Ulrich and Yumi are finally together and since it’s summer, they decided to do a road trip in Japan with one of Yumi's uncles.”

“They’re together?” laughed Emmanuel-Jean. “Odd would cry tears of joy if he heard that.”

“Speaking of Odd,” giggled Aelita, “he and Samantha are with us, since we’re visiting Italy.”

“Samantha?” asked Emmanuel-Jean. “Huh… I don’t.. recall a Samantha… But it’s really nice of him to accompany you and Jeremie in Italy. You seem all so close, it’s incredible.”

“Yeah,” smiled Aelita, “We’re a family, and nothing could change that fact. And I hope you all will be as close as we were.. no, as we are.”

Emmanuel-Jean smiled too.

“I… I like to think we are,” he answered with a warm heart. “And… I’m… really lucky to have met you Aelita. I mean it. And not only “my” Aelita. You, Aelita Schaeffer. I’m glad you could save Jeremie, that you could offer him the life he deserved. I’m glad that Ulrich and Yumi could finally be honest with each other, and that Odd could still be true to himself after all that. I’m… I’m so, so happy for you all.”

“...Thank you for your kind feelings…” said Aelita with emotion. “It means a lot…”

Suddenly, Emmanuel-Jean felt himself being… slipping away.

“Wha-What’s happening? I’m leaving?!” said the boy worried.

“Seems like it.” smiled Aelita.

“Wa-Wait NO!” shouted Emmanuel-Jean, trying his best not to be swept away by the unknown forces that were pushing him. “I... I want to talk more! I want to help you feel better! I-I-..!”

“Until next time!” replied Aelita with a beaming smile. “And don’t worry, you already did!”

Emmanuel-Jean felt his eyes open, but closed them immediately. So much light?! Why weren’t the curtains drawn? Wait… He remembered. He decided to keep them open, because he didn’t want to sleep, and wanted to go with his friends.

Emmanuel-Jean sat on his bed. He wasn’t exhausted anymore. And he wasn’t as grumpy as before. In fact, he was… happy…? Why? He felt like there was something that happened… But how? He was sleeping! A dream then? But what kind of dream could have made him so joyous that he forgot about his bad mood?

Knock-knock-knock

“Emmanuel?” Jeremie’s voice asked softly from behind the door. “Are you awake?”

“Yeah!” replied Emmanuel-Jean with enthusiasm. “Come in!”

Well, he must have dreamt about his friends. Because there was no way he could not find happiness with them. And for them, he was willing to go to the end of the world. And with them, he wanted to see the whole world. Huh. The last reflection was new. Wondered where it came from...

[erkolblinguispretre]

Did a draw for Emmanuel-Jean DeRobert, my oc for my Code Lyoko fanfic. Here is my son:

He loves to wear large clothes, 'cause they give him a feeling of safety, and finds it really comfortable. No self-appreciation in that boi, who has the nasty habit of bottling up his emotions. The next seasons of my fic will extend those sides of his personnality.

[erkolblinguispretre]

Realizing I never posted that character sheet I did for my boi Emmanuel-Jean (EJ for short). Quite an error. He's my main Code Lyoko OC, and comes from my fanfic We'll Get Close to the Light on AO3.

[erkolblinguispretre]

Decided to post a Code Lyoko fanfic I wrote for me but turned out to be interesting on AO3. Name's Code Lyoko : We'll get close to the light.

Code Lyoko : We'll get close to the light season 1 (1124 words) by Erkol_the_Blinguispriest Chapters: 1/10 Fandom: Code Lyoko Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jeremie Belpois/Aelita Schaeffer, Odd Della Robbia/random character, Yumi Ishiyama/Ulrich Stern, OC & Lyoko warriors Characters: Jeremie Belpois, Aelita Schaeffer, Odd Della Robbia, Yumi Ishiyama, Ulrich Stern, Jim Morales, Sissi Delmas, Jean-Pierre Delmas, Amelia "Milly" Solovieff, Tamiya Diop, Hervé Pichon, Nicolas Poliakoff, Original Characters Additional Tags: Give the warriors a break, Sissi's different from canon, Lot's of change because I could lol, Team as a therapy group, More an AU than anything else, slow start Series: Part 1 of Code Lyoko : We'll get close to the light Summary: Emmanuel-Jean DeRobert, an old student of Kadic, decides to write about what he went through with his friends during his years at the boarding school. This is the story of how he joined the fight against a malevolent AI that ran havoc, and how he helped saving humanity.

Might post some drawing I did for the fanfic here

[erkolblinguispretre]

I realized I never posted Emmanuel-Jean's Lyoko appearanced! Time to correct that error!

Here he is. Yes, this is basically my sona, but what can I say? Emmanuel-Jean DeRobert is the closest thing to a self-insert. He has two powers that will be revealed in the second season of my fic'.

Did a draw for Emmanuel-Jean DeRobert, my oc for my Code Lyoko fanfic. Here is my son:

He loves to wear large clothes, 'cause they give him a feeling of safety, and finds it really comfortable. No self-appreciation in that boi, who has the nasty habit of bottling up his emotions. The next seasons of my fic will extend those sides of his personnality.