"Some Gift From Heaven: The Unauthorized Story of Aelita Hopper"

By

That Guy In Everclear

Overture:

This story may shock you. It alters the 3rd season of Code: Lyoko and the prequel altogether. It's supposed to be the life of the main character, Aelita Hopper, but with the reason why she hasn't any memory about her dad (in the show, it was his shutting down of Lyoko that caused her memory to disappear), what happened to her mom (she probably died of cancer in the show), and many other weird things of how the second season came into effect.

This was meant to be a replacement for "The History of the Pop-Rock Progressives" during the time I had no computer (February 15-June 9, 2006). I wrote it on paper during March-May, until I had a serious case of writer's block. When I came back home from camp, I saw my computer and quickly finished the story into a transition into the story that it was supposed to replace.

The story is like that Adam Sandler movie "Click", with 2/3 of the story being pure humor while 1/3 of it is a serious drama and action/adventure. I was sad during the writing of the story for various reasons, but I always ended the sadness with a happy part.

The man turned on the TV and saw a Star Wars movie. He quickly changed the channel to a commercial.

His wife, Lani, said, "Franz, why are you watching your stupid commercial? In any second, I could be in labor."

Franz then replied to her, "Lani, you're not going to be in labor in a second. Just let me watch my commercial for my company."

Lani adjusted herself to the bed and removed her red sneakers and socks, relaxing her feet to the sounds of "Safe as Milk" on her Walkman. The commercial then came on…

(TV's point of view)

There was a bright flash of lights, then it pulled back to show Franz in front of his company building.

The announcer, in a voice similar to James Earl Jones, said to the viewers, "HOPPER COMPUTERS! It can change the 20th century! We sell Apple computers, IBM PCjrs, Tandy Trash 80s, and Coleco Adams! We also sell the hottest games ever made!"

The screen cut to a PC version of Pong and the announcer continued saying, "We also have a project named Project Carthage, coming out in 1992, that we don't know what in the hell it is meant to be! Hopper Computers…"

Franz then said, "…The Future is on us!"

(Now back to our regularly scheduled program)

Franz couldn't believe it. Lani, after 9 months of pregnancy, was in labor in his bed. He got up, put on his clothes, put her footwear on, and took his wife into the Ford Pinto that he drove to work at Hopper Computers. He ignited it and drove it to the hospital in Gatlinburg. There, he got her out and wheeled her to the emergency room, where doctors put her in a maternity gown and wheeled her towards the maternity ward. In there, she was in constant pain, bleeding from her blistered fingers that she got by drumming the Beatles song "Helter Skelter" a total of 55 times. Also, her water broke.

Suddenly, the baby's head popped out and the doctors told her to take deep breaths.

She didn't listen, but Franz said to her, "DEEP BREATHS, LANI! DEEP BREATHS!"

She did what Franz told her to do and the baby came out like a greased out Cadillac stuck in a doghouse. The doctor grabbed it and cleaned it off of its blood and amniotic fluid.

He handed it to Lani and Franz and said, "The baby is a girl, as you can see by the vagina."

They hadn't seen anything as beautiful as this before, especially in a child that turns out to be a girl.

Franz said, "You're so beautiful. I'm gonna name you Aelita Melanie Hopper." The wife agrees with the name.

Of course, Aelita had her baby days, but since those are boring, we'll just skip to her Pre-K days.

(In 1986)

Aelita Hopper came inside and slips off her boots. She took off her jacket and hat and starts up the family's record player. She then put in the vinyl for "2112" by Rush and started to draw what Geddy Lee looks like, even though she's 4. Not all 4-year-olds listen to Rush on a daily basis. It's supposed to be inappropriate to her age.

Her dad saw her and said, "You put in my favorite band's vinyl! How nice of you! Go to your room! That stuff is inappropriate for you, especially for a 4-year-old like you, Aelita Melanie Hopper!"

She then sulked to her room and waited for her mom to say, "Dinner!" She went downstairs and saw that they have a ham on the table and heard all of the Mannheim Steamroller music playing in the background.

She said, "I know it's December 24th, Mommy. Don't call me naïve, but I don't know why Daddy scolded me for listening to his extensive Rush catalogue, which in fact, are only 7 or 8 albums in there."

Lani replied to her, "Even though he is a hardcore fan of them, your daddy doesn't want you to listen to Rush. You see, he had to spend the night with Alex, the guitarist for that band. I'm glad because I got to spend the night with Geddy and Neil. I remember hurting Neil at that party with a pillow. He instantly broke his arm or something like that. Why does he look like a tough man?"

Franz interrupted by saying, "Don't talk about that night to Aelita, Lani! She's not supposed to learn about that band until she's a preteen! Why did she have to listen to my '2112'? Aelita, go to your room! We are going to have an adult conversation here! That means no damn little kids that may tell everything to their damn and naïve friends!"

Aelita replied, "Daddy, I have no friends! You told me not to make any because you want me to be the next Virginia Woolf! See, you are a very bad dad!" and then went to her room, crying out a river.

Graham, her brother, sat down at the table. He's 6 years older then her and wore a bunch of green shirts. His hair is jet black, but his eyebrows are brown.

He said, "Dad, can I listen to your 'Moving Pictures'?"

Franz replied, "Sure, Graham. You're 10, not 4, like you damn defiant sister, Aelita."

Graham said to his dad, "Dad, don't call Aelita useless. She may save the world one day from a teenager gone badly or your new project. Shall I tell Mom about it?"

He replied, "No! She's can't know!"

Graham walked off to the living room. He then started up the record player and put it on the Cheap Trick "Dream Police" vinyl.

Lani left the room, saying to Franz, "Now, to let me get rid of my anger, I'll go listen to 'Safe As Milk' on my Walkman."

Later that night, Aelita was sleeping in her bed until her dad came into the room. He took the bed sheets off of her.

She woke up and said to him, "Why'd you put the bed sheets off of me, Daddy?" He got angry and said to her, "To do this!"

She then pulled the sheets back onto her and Franz looked at her sleeping. He goes to the basement and launches the Project Carthage feelings program. He puts on a Power Glove-like thing and runs to Aelita's room. He then took the bed sheets off of her and puts his hand on her right foot, covered in a blue sock. He then took off her sock and started to massage the bare foot. Why he's doing that is because he's trying to improve his feelings program on Project Carthage.

In Lani's room, she hears her daughter's laughter and looks to the side of the bed. Franz is missing. She goes downstairs to Aelita's room, where she sees him tickling her daughter's foot.

She asks him, "What in the world are you doing to my gift from heaven?"

He replied, "She needs some comfort. She had a rough day at Pre-K today."

Lani gets steaming mad and said to her husband, "She's going to get dependent on your tickling. She thinks you're going to tickle her every freakin' night when she's sleeping and get used to it. She's going to expect this…this…THING in her sleep, so STOP IT NOW!"

Little did they know, their 10-year-old son Graham was videotaping the whole incident on Beta Tape and was shocked at the footage. He kept silent the whole time.

It's morning on Christmas Day. Aelita wakes up from her avant-garde dream and gets up from her bed. Suddenly, she saw a sock on her floor and puts it on the foot that her dad somewhat tickled, as it was bare and she didn't like to walk around in bare feet (at the time, though). She then runs downstairs to the living room, where a crapload of presents are under the Christmas tree, and jumps from the balcony to the floor in a matter of death-defying seconds that would even scare the living daylights out of Evel Kinevel, Captain Beefheart, and John Lennon. She then sees her brother, her mom, and her dad opening presents and gets into the fun of doing it. Graham got a new stereo system (I don't see how a 10-year-old would want one), Lani got a new TV with a cable box included (so Franz wouldn't flip the channels to find his commercials), Franz got more floppies for Project Carthage (because…it's big), and Aelita got a Nintendo Entertainment System.

She then thanked for the gift and thought in her head, "What the? I don't really like the concept of playing video games, much less buying them and seeing the footage from them. It's just a waste of time and can kill your brain. I'd rather listen to music and draw pictures of their lead singers any day."

She put up the game system and saw more presents for her. She opened them to get The Beatles' "White Album", Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass' "Whipped Cream & Other Delights", a stereo system, a sketch pad, NES games, a TV, and more clothes. She was happy for the presents. Graham got some more, but there was one last present for him. He opened it to find an elf doll. He dislikes it, so he gives it to Aelita, who's sitting next to her dad talking about her dream.

Graham interrupts the conversation by saying to Aelita, "Here you go" and giving her the doll.

She thanks him and proudly hugs the doll.

She said to her dad, "Well, Daddy? What should I name it?"

He ponders for a while and thinks of the word "Puck", which means goblin in Swedish.

He then replied, "Why not Mister Puck? It means goblin."

She replied, "I'll take that name. Thank you, Daddy! You're the best!"

She'd only think that for 3 more years, but when she got back to Pre-K in January, she was lonely. She'd usually play with Hot Wheels until she'd cry for her mom and dad. One day, she was playing with Hot Wheels until 2 boys came over. One had a shaved head and was dressed up like the Black Knight from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". The other one had brown hair all spiked up and was dressed up like King Arthur from the aforementioned movie.

The brown haired boy said to her, "What's your name?"

She replied, "I'm Aelita Melanie Hopper. What's your name?"

He steps out and said, "I'm Daniel Duncan. The Black Knight is my brother, Peter Duncan."

Dan sits next to her and said, "Do you wanna talk about anything?"

She said, "Well, on the day before Christmas, I had this avant-garde dream about some Romeo tickling me. When I woke up the next day, I saw that my right foot had no sock on it and I found a sock on the floor. What is wrong with me?"

Dan replied, "I think your dad may be doing something to you, Aelita."

Later on in the day, her dad and mom came to the Pre-K classroom she was in. Her mom comes in and walks to the teacher.

She said, "My daughter is finally making friends."

The teacher replied, "Mrs. Hopper, your daughter, formerly, she was playing with Hot Wheels and crying for you, but when she met Daniel and Peter, she's been making friends with them and socializing with them. She is finally not an outkast!"

Suddenly, 2 teenagers by the names of Andre Benjamin and "Big Boi" sue the teacher for the name, somehow. The teacher then repeats the sentence, with no "K".

Lani then goes to Aelita and said to her, "Aelita, I'm happy that you're making friends. Are you gonna have a sleepover with them?"

Aelita then replied, "Yes, Mommy. I am having them over one day."

That day came a year later, on the 28th, after Aelita's 6th birthday. Aelita was setting up the living room and put the TV near the couch. She then put Mel Brooks's films and Transformers VHS tapes on the table. The doorbell rings. She answers it to see Peter and Daniel. They were also 6 at the time and had the same identical hairstyle: bald.

Aelita said to them, "Hey, guys. How are you doing?"

Peter replied, "We're doing good, Aelita. Can we see what you're gonna watch?"

They walk inside. Aelita starts up the record player on the "1984" vinyl by Van Halen, putting the needle on "Panama".

Daniel listens to the song and said to Aelita, "You listen to 1980s mediocre hair metal? I listen to Anthrax!" He unzips his bookbag and grabs out an Anthrax vinyl. He turns off the "1984" record and puts in the Anthrax record. He puts the needle on "Madhouse", Anthrax's first single, and rocks out to it. Meanwhile, Peter is looking at the videotapes that Aelita has.

He said to her, "Doesn't your dad have better ones than these?"

Aelita replied, "No."

They walk to her room while Lani comes in and puts up Aelita's VHS tapes. She grabs out the tapes for "Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke", "Nice Dreams", "Monty Python's The Life of Brian", "Monty Python and the Meaning of Life", "Blazing Saddles", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", and the 2 "Airplane!" movies. She watches them and forgets to put them up. This was a careless mistake, indeed.

Later that night, the 3 kids are in front of the TV, watching Saturday Night Live on NBC. They see some sketches, like the Coneheads, Wayne's World, and many others. After that, they put in a VHS tape and see the beginning credits for "Up In Smoke". Aelita stares at the screen while the boys watch the movie in amazement.

Soon, Aelita was laughing at it and realizing, "R-rated movies are the shiznit!"

Daniel looks at the screen when the big marijuana joint is being passed between Man and Pedro and said to Aelita, "Where in the hell did you get this?"

Aelita replied, "Don't ask me."