Okay, remember how hard you cried after watching the final episode of Code: Lyoko? Then how you cried again when Cartoon Network stopped showing it forever? Well, even if you didn't cry, prepare to jump for joy as Code: Lyoko lives on! Yes, it's not a show. Yes, it's been overdone in fan fiction. No, I'm not letting that stop me. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Reawakening.

Code: Lyoko – Reawakening

By ShinkisRule

Chapter 1

Yumi Ishiyama awoke to the sound of ear-piercing music. She quickly took out the ear buds from her ears and turned to see Hyroki. She gave him that threatening glare that she always gave whenever he irritated her.

"What?" asked Hyroki, "Mom told me to wake you up!"

"I don't think she told you to do it by blowing out my ear drums with my mp3 player," Yumi said, swiping it from his hands.

"You better hurry up and get ready or you'll be late for school," said Hyroki.

Yumi noticed that he was dressed and then looked at the clock. She gasped.

"Why didn't you wake me up earlier?!" she yelled, "It's already 7:15!"

"I tried, but all you did was smack me in the arm."

"I would remember that!"

"I have it on the camera if you want proof."

"Why would you film…?! Oh, just get out," Yumi muttered.

It was so annoying having a little brother. Somehow he always knew how to get on her nerves. She didn't know how Odd could survive with so many siblings. Maybe it was because they were all older than him. It was probably also because he lived at Kadic and only had to be around his five sisters during the summer. Yumi, on the other hand, was close enough to school not to live there, and so she had to deal with Hyroki every day. At least she could get away from him during school hours, because even though he went to Kadic as well, he was in 7th grade while Yumi was a sophomore. She even sat at a different lunch table, with her mature friends who were around her age. Yumi was almost glad to go to school.

**

"I've finally figured it out," said Jeremie as he sat down in the cafeteria.

"What?" asked Odd, "How to keep your self-esteem in gym class?"

"You're hilarious," said Jeremie flatly, "No, I've figured out how to remotely control the pulley to make Yumi fly."

"Why can't you just do it manually from backstage?" Asked Aelita, "Wouldn't that be easier?"

"No way," Jeremie answered, "This play is going to be amazing and I want to be in the audience when it's performed. I can't see how great that scene will look if I'm backstage!"

"That'll be one of the hardest songs I'll have to do," said Yumi, "I don't know if I can hold that last note for so long without stopping for a breath."

Now that Wicked was finally off of Broadway, Kadic's drama department could do it like they had always wanted to. It was a lot of special effects for Jeremie to put together, but he thought he could manage. He was just happy to be able to work with some of his best friends. Yumi got the lead role of Elphaba, and Aelita was Nessa. Unfortunately for Jeremie, however, Sissi was Glinda (technically, she was first Galinda and then Glinda, but that was beside the point). It was even more of a problem for Yumi because they had to act as best friends, when they actually despised each other.

Elisabeth "Sissi" Delmas was just about the most stuck-up girl in the whole school. Being the principal's daughter, she thought she owned the world. She had been accepted by Jeremie and his group earlier, after their main reason to be enemies had been eliminated, but apparently she had gotten bored of being nice. Even though Yumi wouldn't admit it, Jeremie could tell she couldn't care less about their secret. The real reason she hated Sissi was because she was jealous of her. She and Sissi were constantly fighting over the affection of Ulrich.

As Jeremie was thinking about this, he imagined Sissi's shrill voice asking Ulrich to go out with her. He could almost hear it. When he went back to reality, he realized that he actually was hearing it.

"Hello, Ulrich dear," said Sissi, trying to sound charming and failing, "do you want to come sit at my table?"

"I am not your 'Ulrich dear,'" said Ulrich, not even looking at her.

"Wow," Odd murmured, "She thinks he's a deer."

"What did you say?" Sissi asked, looking ready to throw Odd out a window.

"I just said you're so mixed up you've mistaken Ulrich for a woodland creature," said Odd, followed by his friends' laughter.

"Shut up, oddball! Humph!"

With that, Sissi stormed off.

Jeremie sometimes wished he was as good as Odd at making snappy comebacks. He didn't usually think of things like that until it was too late to say it.

"Well, I'm going up to my dorm," Said Jeremie, "I've got some work to do."

"Oh, you always have work to do," said Aelita, "You can't do everything by yourself. I'll go with you."

**

"So, how does this thing you're making work?" Aelita asked, picking up a screwdriver.

"I've figured out how to run it on batteries," Jeremie answered, "I have it all in my head; I just need to put everything together. And I'll have to remember everything, too."

"Maybe you should make blueprints on your computer that we can follow."

"That'll help." Jeremie turned on the computer.

Aelita watched him work and helped him remember all the parts he needed to use, and suggested substitutions for certain things that she didn't consider fitting for what they were meant to do. Jeremie was about to print everything off when a pop-up appeared on the screen.

Aelita couldn't believe what she saw. This couldn't be. She must have been dreaming. What other explanation could there be? She saw what she used to see a year ago…

…When a tower had been activated.

She finally found her voice. "That's impossible…"

"We turned off Lyoko," said Jeremie, "I'm certain we did… what did we do wrong?"

"Maybe someone… or something…" Aelita suddenly lost her voice once again.

"But how could they have found it?" asked Jeremie, perplexed.

Aelita couldn't answer. She had thought this was all over. She had thought that she could finally live a normal everyday life. She had thought she was finally starting to fit in. She had been starting to feel normal. She had thought that for once, she was safe.

She was wrong.

Dun-dun-duuuunnnn! What's going on?! How did that happen?! Even though you're not the least bit shocked that XANA's back, HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!?! Find out in the next chapter. Just click on the little arrow in the corner. That's it.