The Numinous

Chapter 1: Interface

"Aelita, there's a monster behind you!" Jeremy's voice urgently calling out for me to be ready to get out of the way.

"What?" I turned around to see a block right behind me, charging, getting ready to attack. I started to panic as its lasers started charging.

"Odd," I yelled, "Help!" Odd was the only one on Lyoko here to protect me so I could deactivate the tower.

"Aelita!" Odd jumped over from where he was, over my head and landed right on the top of the block's head.

"Hello you miserable beast! Ready to go bye-bye?" Odd grunted and pulled on his wrist as he shot a laser arrow straight into the eye on the blocks head.

Jeremy was anxious, and I knew it was because XANA would be sending more blocks soon. "Guys!" Jeremy urgently exclaimed, "Odd! You need to get Aelita to the tower before-"

"Yeah I know Einstein," Odd said, "But it seems to be too late. The reinforcements are already here."

I could see the blocks in the distance coming. But I knew what to do. "Odd," I tried to say calmly but directly, "I know how to get to the tower but..."

Odd defiantly was thinking along the same track. "Right, you need me to hold off the blocks?"

I nodded and ran to a small crevice that put me further down onto another platform. I knew this place well, I mean Lyoko, but I was starting to lose my memory of everything, being on Earth so much. I didn't have enough space in my memory.

I looked around for what I thought would be a natural staircase that I hoped would lead to the tower.

"Yeah! Jeremy, I see the tower! Or, to be more specific, I know where to find it!"

Jeremy was getting really nervous. "Okay, but hurry! Ulrich can't take care of everybody much longer! Soon the lunch room will be gone!"

I ran as fast as I possibly could, but I was really exhausted from the running on the way here. The vehicle program was faulty, Jeremy had realized earlier.

As I reached the natural flight of steps, I could see around the corner of the winding steps the evil red glow of XANA's activated tower. I hated XANA. I always have. The reason I wanted Jeremy to find the anti-virus to my virus inside me, was not so I could live on Earth, but so they could switch off XANA once and for all. So I could make sure he would never hurt any of my friends again.

"Aelita, hurry!" Jeremy was yelling.

I was in the tower now. I rose up to the platform with the deactivation screen, and as I pressed my hand onto it, it read, "Aelita," and then, "Code: Lyoko"

"Tower deactivated." I exhaustingly sighed.