Old Habits Die Hard
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko or its characters.
Amanda belongs to Ann4ever17
Chris Rudy belongs to me.
Author's Note: Chris's Lyoko form is based off of the armors of Koragg and Wolf Warrior from Power Rangers Mystic Force, with some slight changes
Chris, DJ, Jordan, Brady, Chelsea, and Jacob were in Chelsea's room, smiling.
"I can't believe we won." DJ said.
"None of us can, dude." Jacob said.
"XANA was tough, but in the end, we were tougher." Jordan said.
"Amen." Brady said.
"And now, we can finally go back to our normal lives." Chelsea said.
Chris smiled then it faded. "Guys?"
The other five looked at him. "What's wrong, Chris?" Jordan asked.
"That foreign exchange thing I told you guys about?" Chris asked, hoping they'd catch on.
DJ did. "Where are you heading?" He asked.
"Some town in France. I'll be attending a boarding school called Kadic Academy."
"When do you leave?" Brady asked.
"Leah, Shannon, and I board a plane next week. I wanted to tell you guys sooner, but we were a little preoccupied."
"Then we have a going away party for you." Chelsea said.
"You guys don't have to."
"We know, but you can't stop us." Jacob said.
Chris smiled. "You guys..."
"Come on. Let's get a selfie." Jordan said.
The six friends gathered and took a picture of themselves together.
Chris woke up from the dream and saw he was still on the plane.
"You okay, kiddo?" A woman on his left asked. She had black hair down to her shoulders. Her clothes consisted of a pink tank top, shorts, and tennis shoes.
"Yeah, Shannon. I'm good." He replied.
"You sure?" A woman on his right asked. Her hair was also black with red highlights in it that reached her shoulder blades. Her clothes were darker than Shannon's, and they were a dark red shirt, jeans, and heels.
"I'm sure, Leah." He said.
The two nodded then the plane began to descend after the captain instructed the passengers to buckle up.
When they were out of the airport, they got in a cab and drove to Kadic Academy.
When they arrived at the school, Chris hugged Leah and Shannon, got out, put on his red leather jacket, then got his suitcases out of the trunk of the cab.
"Don't forget to call us every now and then." Leah said to her adopted son as she and her wife held each other's hands.
"I won't. Make sure you two take care of Beefy for me." He said.
"We will, kiddo." Shannon said. "Vid chat us after you set up your room."
"Okay." Chris said then looked at a bulldog puppy in a crate next to Leah. "Daddy's gonna miss his little princess." He said then Beefy whined as the cab drove off.
Chris took his things then walked around the grounds, looking for the administration building, until he saw a Japanese girl with chin length black hear, wearing a black shirt, black jeans, and black shoes and walked to her. "Excuse me?"
She looked at him. "Yeah?"
"Can you help me? I'm looking for the administration building."
She nodded then led him to the administration building. "Here we are."
"Thanks, ah..."
"Yumi." She introduced herself, extending her hand.
He shook her hand. "Chris."
Yumi then walked off and Chris walked into the administration building. Once outside the headmaster's office, he saw a teenage girl with long black hair with a blue streak in it tied in a ponytail, wearing a blue tank top, black jeans, and black and blue tennis shoes, then he walked to the blonde woman at her desk. "Excuse me."
She looked at him. "How can I help you, young man?" She asked.
"I'm here to get my class schedule and my room key from Headmaster Delmas." Chris said.
"Name, please?"
"Christopher Rudy."
"Ah, yes. Headmaster Delmas is currently in the middle of a phone call. When he's done, you may see him. For now, please have a seat next to Miss Thomson."
"Thank you." He said then sat down next to the girl. "Chris." He introduced himself.
She looked at him. "Amanda." She introduced herself.
The two shook hands then a few minutes later, the woman looked at them. "You two may go in now."
Chris and Amanda then walked into the office.
A man behind his desk looked at them. "Ah, Ms. Thomson and Mr. Rudy. I've been expecting you two. Welcome to Kadic." He said then handed them their room keys and their class schedules." "Here are your room keys and your class schedules. Mr. Morales is outside the building and he will show you both to the dormitories. You both are excused from classes today to set up your rooms."
The two teens nodded then left the administration building and saw a man wearing a white t-shirt under a red sweatshirt, red sweatpants, socks with his trousers tucked into them, and brown shoes.
"Are you Mr. Morales?" Chris asked.
"I am, but everyone just calls me Jim." The man replied. "You must be the new students."
"That's us, sir." Amanda said.
Jim nodded. "Follow me and I'll lead you to your rooms."
When they arrived at the dormitory building, Jim told them the rules for the dorms then led them to their rooms.
Once in his room, Chris took off his jacket. He saw it was big, but only had one bed. "No roommate? Works for me." He said to himself then started setting up his room.
When he finished, which took him till after dinner since he brought a lot of his things, as he promised, he logged into his Skype and send a vid chat call to Shannon and Leah. Soon, they both were soon shown on the screen.
"Hey, kiddo." Shannon said.
"Hey." He replied.
"You all settled in?" Leah asked as she sat in Shannon's lap.
He nodded. "Where's Beefy at?" He asked.
"I'll go get her." Leah said then walked off. She came back a few minutes later, holding Beefy.
Chris smiled. "Little Baby Beefy, Little Baby Beefy." He sang to her. Beefy whined and pawed at the screen.
Chris chuckled then turned his attention to his adoptive mothers. "How about you two? Y'all settled in?"
They nodded. "Yeah. In a one bedroom apartment." Shannon said.
Chris nodded. "Hey, I'm gonna vid chat with my friends back home then explore the grounds."
"Okay. Have fun, kiddo." Leah said.
"I will. Love y'all." He said.
"We love you too." With that, the married women ended the vid chat then Chris checked and saw Chelsea was online. He vid called her and when she answered, Chris saw DJ, Brady, Jordan, and Jacob were in the room.
"Yo-ho-ho!" DJ greeted.
Chris smiled. "Hey, guys."
"What you up to, you ugly bastard?" Brady joked.
"Looked in the mirror lately, Naves?" Chris countered.
All six laughed.
"So, what's up?" Jordan asked.
"Does a guy need a reason to Skype with his best friends?" Chris rhetorically asked.
"Good point." Jordan said.
"So, what's the school like?" Chelsea asked.
"I think I just might like it here." Chris said.
"Room looks awful." Jacob joked.
"You're one to talk. Your room's a permanent disaster zone." Chris countered.
"Touché." Jacob said.
Again, the six laughed. They talked for a few hours then ended the chat. When Chris closed his laptop, he went to lay on his bed.
Just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard someone say "Hey!"
He groaned and got up, grateful he hadn't put on pajamas yet. He opened the door and saw a guy with blonde hair and a big spot of purple just above his forehead. "Dude, I was almost asleep."
"Sorry. It's just, I just saw my dog being taken. Help me get him back and I'll make it up to you." The guy said.
Chris sighed. "Fine. Let's go."
"I'm Odd, by the way. Odd Della-Robia." The blonde introduced himself.
"I'm Chris. Chris Rudy."
After that, the two then followed the guy who took the blonde guy's dog, only to run into a girl with raven hair.
"Ouch." Chris said unenthusiastically.
Amanda walked out of her room, not wearing her pajamas either. "What's going on here?" She asked.
"No time. We gotta hurry." The four of them followed the guy who had Odd's dog. They followed the guy who had Odd's dog to some sort of passage.
"Where's he going?" Amanda asked.
"I'm sure there's another girl behind all this." The other girl said.
"No, look, it's not a girl. It's Kiwi, my dog." Odd said, making the other girl faint.
"Sissi?" Amanda said, nudging the girl.
"Who is that guy?" Chris asked.
"My roommate, Ulrich Stern." Odd replied.
After Sissi woke up, the four followed Ulrich to an abandoned factory as an elevator went down.
"But why is he taking Kiwi into this factory?" Odd asked.
"Who knows?" Amanda asked.
"Maybe he wants to use him for some horrible science experiment." Sissi guessed.
"You watch too many horror movies." Chris told her.
"Yeah, you're right, that was pretty dumb. It's probably more like some sort of ritual sacrifice or voodoo thing." Sissi said.
"That's even dumber. Either way, we need to follow him." Amanda said.
"Let's use the ladder." Chris said. "Come on."
With that, the four used the ladder then made it into the elevator. When they did, they saw three cylinder like cabins.
Chris inwardly groaned. "Great..." He thought.
He looked at Amanda and saw the same look on her face. As Odd and Sissi headed into strange room, Chris gently gripped Amanda's arm. "How much do you know about this stuff?" He whispered.
"Too much. You?" She whispered.
"Same. My friends and I defeated him a week ago."
"Me and my friends beat him a month ago."
"For now, we keep quiet about this except to our friends."
She nodded. "Agreed."
The two then joined Odd and Side I just as the cabin closed on Odd.
"Oh, no! You're gonna be mummified!" Sissi exclaimed.
"Chill, Sissi." Amanda said.
"Help!" Sissi shouted.
"Sissi?!" Ulrich said.
Chris, Sissi, and Amanda looked at him.
"Ulrich, it's okay. Odd is safe and sound on Lyoko." Jeremy Belpois said.
Chris looked at Amanda and the two nodded. "Jeremy, send me and Amanda in." Chris ordered.
"Okay. Get in the other two scanners."Jeremy said.
Chris and Amanda got in the other two scanners.
"We're ready." Amanda said.
"Okay. Transfer Chris. Transfer Amanda."Jeremy said then the scanners closed.
"Scanner Chris. Scanner Amanda."
The two were scanned.
"Virtualization."
Chris and Amanda landed perfectly in a forest area. They saw Odd looked like a giant purple cat.
"Man, you two look sharp." Odd told them.
Chris had an all gold armor of a knight, a head of a silver dragon on both shoulders. In his left hand was a shield and attached sword.
Amanda's appearance was similar to Odd's, only colors were black and blue and she looked like a wolf.
"Huh. I have to admit. I never thought I wouldn't miss this." Chris said then drew his sword from his shield.
"I missed this too, despite how much I wanted a normal life." Amanda said.
"Are we... in a video game?" Odd asked the two with him.
"I guess that's one way to look at it." Chris said.
Odd said it looked like something from a video he played.
"Actually, I don't really know." Jeremy said. "It's a virtual world, that much I'm sure of."
"Cool." Odd said.
Chris was suddenly shot in the back by something and the trio saw some strange cockroach looking monsters approaching them. "Kankrelats... I hate these guys!" He thought.
"That's a lot less cool." Odd said. "There are these giant cockroaches attacking. Is that normal?"
"Yeah." Jeremy said.
"Oh, nothing to worry about, then." Odd said.
"Not exactly." Chris and Amanda said.
"Let's get out of here!" Chris said.
The three took off in the opposite direction.
"Chris, Amanda, Odd, hang in there. Ulrich Stern is on his way to give you guys a hand." Jeremy said.
"Copy that." Chris said as Ulrich was virtualized and landed in front of them, but his landing wasn't perfect like Chris and Amanda's were.
Ulrich was now dressed like a samurai. After standing up, he drew the saber he had. "Wow! This sword rocks!"
"Hey, that's not fair!" Odd complained. "How come Ulrich gets to be a samurai and Chris gets to be a knight? Those are so much cooler."
"I have no idea why. Maybe the computer just reads into your own subconscious desires and projects them onto your digital incarnation." Jeremy said.
"I don't dream about giant purple cats! What's more, I'd rather have a weapon like either Ulrich or Chris, not these great big useless paws." Odd said.
"Odd, my paws contain what I like to call Laser Arrows. Chris, I'll shoot one at you and you either block or dodge it?" Amanda said.
Chris nodded. "Ready."
Amanda nodded back and aimed at Chris. "Laser Arrow!" She shouted and an arrowhead shot from her paw and Chris blocked it with his shield.
"How'd you do that again?" Odd asked and accidentally show one of his own Laser Arrows off, with Ulrich barely dodging it.
"Hey, watch out." Ulrich warned.
"Hmm... Now that I think about it, these Arrows are pretty cool. I take back what I said." Odd said.
"Okay, you guys. Try to hook up with Maya in her tower. Hold on. I'll give you the coordinates." Jeremy said.
"Who's this Maya?" Chris asked Ulrich.
"A virtual girl who lives on Lyoko." The samurai replied.
"Oh, you mean there are babes here, too? Great." Odd asked.
"Yes, but I get the impression that Belpois's flipped for her." Ulrich said.
"For a virtual chick? Is he mad?" Amanda asked, using her British slang.
"Kinda. Jeremy, are you gonna give us those coordinates or not?" Ulrich asked, but they got no answer.
"Jeremy, are you asleep or what?" Chris asked.
"Look, I see a tower. It could be that one." Odd said.
"Only one way to find out." Amanda said then the four ran to the tower.
"Is there a door?" Odd asked, leaning against the tower, but he stumbled the tower. Chris, Amanda and Ulrich joined Odd in the tower, but all four soon ended up in an icy region.
"Nice. My favorite sector." Chris said, smirking.
"Okay, right. Where are we? Where did the forest go?" Odd asked.
"How should I know?" Ulrich snapped.
"Guys, we were just in a Way Tower. They're connected the different Sectors of Lyoko." Amanda said.
"You guys see the tower over there? Weird how it's not the same color." Ulrich said, gesturing to a red tower.
"Some things never change." Chris thought.
"And those creatures. They're kinda weird too." Odd said as cube looking monsters made their way to them.
"Bloks." Chris and Amanda groaned.
One of monsters prepared to fire.
"Uh, might be a good thing to beat it, don't you think, guys?" Ulrich asked, earning nods from the others as the monsters attacked. As they ran, Chris ended up devirtualized.
He growled and banged his fist against the inside of the scanner then stepped out. The scanner closed behind him and a few minutes later, the others joined him.
"Great. At least we're alive." Ulrich said.
"Alive? Well, if you say so. I think I'm about to throw up." Odd said.
"Devirtualization has that effect." Chris said bluntly.
After cutting a pipe, stopping an attack, Jeremy made way back to the computer. "Maya? Are you there?" He asked as an elvish girl with pink hair soon appeared.
"Yes. Is everything okay on your side?" She asked.
"Well, we're a little shaken up, but it could've been worse."
Chris pulled out his phone and dialed DJ's number.
"What's up, Chris?"
"He's back." He whispered.
"Impossible. We beat him." Jordan said.
"Evidently not. He's in a Supercomputer here in France. And we weren't the only ones who've fought him."
"Do what you can, Chris." Chelsea said.
"I plan on it." Chris said then hung up.
"Chris, Amanda?" Odd called, making the two look at him.
"Have you guys done this before?" Odd asked.
"A good question for another time." Chris said then left the factory.
That's chapter one. Y'all know what to do.