Code: J.U.L.I.A
Chapter 1: The Newcomer
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko or any of the other characters involved except for Julia
A group of students stepped out of their classes and made their way into the nearby park. They quietly found a man-hole cover and checked to see if anyone followed them, they disappeared below.
"So, Einstein, what's the problem this time?" One of them asked, his hair was styled in a spike
"I don't know yet Odd, I just know that the Supercomputer has detected an activated tower." 'Einstein' replied
"That's all we need to know." Another one said, she was the oldest looking one, wearing a black top and pants.
The group soon arrived at a ladder to take them up. They ascended and entered an abandoned looking factory building. They slid down a group of cables and entered an elevator. The doors slid shut and they descended.
After the usual virtualazation of this group and the ensuing fight with X.A.N.A's monsters they left to go back to school.
In class the next day; Jeremy, aka Einstein, was sitting at his desk in Biology, Aelita was sitting next to him. Leaning on their desk was Ulrich and sitting on it was Odd.
A girl approached them, she had black hair that came to her shoulders and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with sleeves that covered her palms and a pair of black tights under a black skirt with black boots.
"Um, can we help you?" Jeremy asked
"I can certainly help you, help you find the perfect date that is, with yours truly." Odd said grinning
"Um, I was hoping you could talk to me after class, I don't know if you know who I am, but, I'm Julia. I'm new here." She said
The group looked to each other "Alright Julia, meet us at the soup machine after class." Jeremy said bridging his fingers together.
She nodded her head, bowing slightly "Thank you." She said before walking away.
"Do you think she knows?" Ulrich asked
"I don't know, maybe she actually warmed up to Odd." Jeremy said jokingly and the group laughed, except Odd
"Oh, thanks Einstein" He said as the bell rang. The group sat down in their seats and class started.
The teacher introduced Julia to the class; they were informed that she was from the United States and that she was going to be a permanent addition.
Other than Julia's introduction it was a boring class and the group was eager to see what Julia wanted after. When the bell rang they made their way to the soup machine, and met Yumi on the way, which Odd gave an update. Julia appeared a few minutes later.
"Alright, you wanted to talk?" Jeremy asked
"Yes, I was, um, I was wondering, if, maybe. We could be friends?" She asked
The group seemed a little surprised by this "One minute." Jeremy said and called for a huddle
"What do you say guys?" Jeremy asked
"She seems alright." Aelita said
"I can't agree with you more Aelita." Odd said
"But, can we have someone as a friend without having them know about Lyoko?" Ulrich asked
"Well, I did have William for a bit." Yumi said
"But that was just you, not all of us." Jeremy said
"Do you think then that maybe we should let her in on it?" Odd asked
"Odd, are you crazy?" Jeremy asked
"I've even got a plan on how." He replied
"Well, if she doesn't rat us out I agree." Ulrich said
"Same" The girls added
"There, majority wins, sorry Einstein." Odd said as the group disbanded
"Sure Julia" Odd said as he walked around behind her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder "But first, we have a little initiation you have to do."
"What do I have to do?" She asked
"It's somewhere else, off campus." Odd told her "Come on"
"But, the rules say we can't leave campus without permission" Julia said resisting a little
"It's alright. We have special permission." Yumi said covering for Odd who looked a little stuck
"Al-alright." Julia said before letting be led away. They led her to the manhole cover in the park and they all managed to get down the hole. After a small of an argument of who she would ride with it was agreed she would help ride Odd's skateboard with him, at least this once. The group made their way to the factory and repeated the process from yesterday. As they arrived at the supercomputer Julia was in awe.
"You guys own all of this?" She asked stepping off the elevator
"That's not the best part." Odd said "It also links to this virtual world called Lyoko."
"And that's where you fight this Xeema thing right?" Julia asked
"X.A.N.A and yes." Jeremy stated
"Could-could you show me?" She asked
"Of course." Odd said grinning
"Odd, no." Jeremy said "What if X.A.N.A attacks?"
"Then we'll beat him like we always do." Odd said grinning
Jeremy opened his mouth to reply when the whole group looked at him expectantly. He closed it then sighed "Fine. Get in the scanner room."
They all grinned as they disappeared into the elevator. Jeremy sat down and his chair slid itself into position and Julia watched from over his shoulder.
"Scanner; Odd. Scanner; Ulrich, Scanner; Yumi." Three pop ups showing Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi's Lyoko forms appeared on Jeremy's screen.
He waited a second and then pressed the ENTER key "Virtualization" he said calmly
From Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi's point of view they materialized and dropped to the ground in the Ice Sector. They looked around and called to the sky "Alright Einstein, we're clear. That ok with you?"
"That's fine Odd." Jeremy said
Julia was staring intently at the screen then she reached out and tapped it with her finger "What's that mean?" She asked
Jeremy looked at her finger and gasped "Guys, megatank headed your way." He said
"Alright, we see it." Ulrich called as he drew his katana
"This'll be easy." Odd said as he aimed his laser arrow at the center of the tank. It stopped rolling and opened, readying itself to fire. The trio dodged the attack and Odd fired a barrage of arrows which the tank deflected by closing itself.
"Guys, more monsters behind you." Jeremy said as a swarm of red dots appeared on his screen "They're hornets"
"Oh great." Odd said "The Megatank is bad enough."
"That doesn't look good." Julia said
"It's not, and they could get seriously hurt if they aren't careful." Jeremy told her as he began to type
"Is there anything I can do?" She asked
"Just sit here and hope." He said
"No, I don't want to sit idly by while my friends could get hurt. I want you to send me to this 'Leon' place." Julia said
"Lyoko" Jeremy corrected and turned to look at her, he saw the determination in her face "No, I can't do it. You've never been to Lyoko, we don't know what you can do and it wouldn't be safe to throw you into the middle of a fight."
"Please." She said
"No, and that's final!" He shouted
She turned his head "Listen to me. I won't sit here. Send me." She said seriously
Jeremy thought for a second "Fine. At least you won't get killed while you're there." He said "Just be careful" He warned as she raced to the scanners.
Aelita was sitting in the scanner room waiting when Julia entered. "What's going on?" She asked
"Lots of monsters, lots and lots of monsters." Julia said as she stepped into a scanner
"What are you doing?" She asked
"Helping." Julia replied as the scanner door shut on her
"Scanner: Julia." Jeremy's voice said as the scanner hummed to life.
The pod lit up and Julia closed her eyes as the lights became too strong.
"Virtualization"
The scanner flashed and Julia appeared on Lyoko, she opened her eyes as she dropped to the ground, flailing her arms as she landed on her butt.
"Ow. Ow ow." She said rubbing it. She looked up to see the others fighting hard, in the time she took to scan a group of blocks had shown up. She stood and felt something brush past her leg. She looked down and saw she was wearing a white dress-robe combo, she felt a hood on her head. She watched her hair fall down past her face and stop next to her chest "What?" She asked as she held it in her hand. She also noticed a staff in her left hand that curved into a spiral at the top.
"Julia?" Ulrich asked as he spotted her
"What are you doing here?" Odd asked as he dodged a series of blasts from the hornets
"I came here to help." She said strongly
"We appreciate the sentiment, but we don't even know what you can do." Yumi said as she threw her fans at the Megatank, only to have them deflected by its armor
"But-" She was cut off as a block shot her in the back "Ah!" She said as she fell forward, her chest releasing static
"Julia!" Jeremy's voice called "Are you ok?"
"I'm-I'm fine, that stung though, really badly." She said
"I don't believe this." Jeremy said
"What is it Einstein, more monsters?" Odd asked as he managed to take down a hornet
"No, Julia's life points." He replied
"What's with them?" Ulrich asked as he deflected a blast from a block
"They're regenerating." He said
"Like, when Aelita's in a tower?" Yumi asked as she dodged the megatank blast
"Yes." He said "What does this mean, I wonder." He said thinking about it.
"I'm feeling better." Julia said standing
"You should be, you're basically regenerating your ability to stay on Lyoko, so the pain should go away soon, but I wouldn't suggest getting hit again, your regeneration doesn't seem to compensate for concentrated fire." Jeremy told her
"Alright." She said as she stumbled to her feet.
"Watch out!" Odd shouted as he jumped in front of a blast from a block. He flew back and his chest sparked
"Odd, be careful, you only have 30 life points left." Jeremy said
"Alright." Odd replied as he pushed himself up
Julia rushed over to Odd and put her hand on his chest. It began to glow blue and green.
"Julia, what are you doing?" Jeremy asked
"I don't know." She replied
"Well whatever it is, keep doing it, Odd's life points are going back up."
"Al-alright." She said, faltering for a second
Ulrich managed to dispatch a block. "Triplicate" he separated into three clones that rushed forward and eliminated the remaining two blocks. "Fusion" he returned to one person as he ran over to defend Julia and Odd from the Hornets.
"Almost done." Julia said as she continued to heal Odd
"Take your time, I could get used to this." He said jokingly
"Done." She said
"Aw come on, really?" He asked leaping back onto his feet.
"Don't be so reckless this time." Julia said gripping her staff with both hands.
"You know me, Mr. Safety- ow." He said as a hornet got off a lucky shot.
"Odd! You're lucky Julia was there to heal you, that shot would've drained- what the?"
"What is it?" Odd asked as started firing
"That shot only took out 10 life points."
"I thought Hornets always did 20 at least." Yumi said as she backflipped away from the megatank
"That's what I thought."
"Maybe it was something Julia did?" Ulrich asked
"Any ideas?" Jeremy asked
"Well, I wanted Odd to feel better and I wanted him not to hurt so much." Julia said "Maybe that's what did it?"
"Hm. Maybe… I wonder. Try doing something else." Jeremy suggested
"Um, Jeremy, this isn't the best time to be experimenting." Ulrich stated as he blocked a barrage of Hornet darts.
"I've got an idea." Julia said, she ran forward and put her hand on Ulrich's back.
"Strength" She said as her hand glowed red. Ulrich swung his sword to block a shot aimed at Julia and he went a little to fast, but was able to bring it back and stop it.
"What the?" He asked "My sword feels so much lighter now."
"What did you do Julia?" Yumi asked
"I wanted Ulrich to be stronger to protect us." She said
"Hm. Maybe, and this is just a theory, but maybe Julia's power is she can will things to happen on Lyoko." Jeremy said "Try making a wall"
"Alright." She said. She put her hand to the ground, and willed a wall to appear around them, nothing. "What, I don't understand." She said lifting her hand and looking at it
"Maybe she can only will those around her." Aelita suggested
"That makes sense, seeing as she's only healed Odd's life points and made him more durable, and increased Ulrich's strength." Jeremy said
Julia turned to see Yumi just barely dodge the Megatank blast. She rushed over and helped Yumi to her feet, her hand glowing yellow as she lifted her.
"Look out." Yumi said dodging over quickly and dragging her and Julia to the ground. She was back up on her feet, her fan on its way toward the Megatank, the giant ball turned and took the attack head on.
"Whoa…" Yumi said as she caught the fan "What did you do?"
"I saw how you barely dodged the attack and I wished you were faster." She said as she pushed herself up.
Odd helped Ulrich finish off the last of the Hornets and as Ulrich sheathed his sword the group was materialized.
"That was amazing!" Odd shouted grinning happily as he hugged Julia, she blushed darkly and Yumi pulled Odd off her
"Alright Romeo, give her space." She said "Thanks by the way, you were great."
Ulrich nodded as he put a hand on her shoulder. Then walked away to join the rest upstairs. The group arrived and Jeremy was waiting with Aelita
"Do you think it's time to get back to class?" He asked
"Yeah." They warriors nodded
Jeremy shut down the computer, and let his chair slide back into place, they used their modes of transportation to get back to the school and returned to class.