This chapter was written by me and edited by saturday101. Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko, all copy righting goes to Moonscoop. I only own my OCs. Naomi Jones is owned by sakuraphoenix.
Prologue: Straight to Heart
POV Peter's
Jeremy, Aelita, Yumi, and I were hanging out in the lab. With Patricia, Jade, Ulrich, and Odd still on vacation and Xana nowhere to be found, the lab was quiet, and there was nothing for us to do. On the floor, Aelita and Yumi played GO. Jeremy and I starred at the screen, which was running a program.
The elevator doors opened, and Patricia, Jade, Ulrich, and Odd, walked into the lab.
"Welcome back campers," Aelita greeted.
"Two weeks without us– not too long?" Ulrich asked as he went to go kiss Yumi.
Odd looked down at Aelita. "Did you miss me at all?"
"Forget it; you could have stayed away for three weeks," Yumi responded.
"How was your vacation, Peter?" Patricia asked.
"Fine, thanks, sis," I replied.
"And the Xana attacks: zero." Yumi added.
"That's good to hear," Jade said.
"A nice quiet summer, huh?" Odd asked Jeremy.
"Kind of," Jeremy answered not looking up from the computer, "Ever since Xana discovered a way to leave the supercomputer, and then manage to access the World Wide Web, we haven't heard anything."
"No news is good news, right?" Ulrich asked.
"It'd be nice if that were the case," I replied.
Jeremy scowled. "I trust Xana as far as I can throw him – which is why I just reprogrammed the superscan." On the screen, a new window popped up.
"From now on, we'll know where the big bad wolf is hiding." Jeremy continued.
"That's great, Einstein, but how is that going to help?" Odd asked.
"Well, first off, we can try to find out how he plans to use the internet," Jeremy replied.
"Cool, and then you send us in after us so we can crack a few heads." Ulrich grinned.
"That's about it. But wait, getting you into the internet isn't all that easy," Jeremy stated as he started typing. "So first, let's get a handle on what his scheme is." Jeremy pressed the enter button, and a window popped up. In it, a model of the earth formed from which a map was created. It was randomly trying to pinpoint the location.
"Yeah!" Jeremy cheered.
"Well, let me remind you, we have to pick up our class schedules before lunch, so let's move," Odd said. Jeremy ran over to us as we started toward the door. Yumi cleaned up the Go board and followed suit, but Jade lingered behind.
"Peter, wait a second." She hesitated. "You know, I did a lot of thinking over the summer, and there's something important that I need to tell you." Jade continued.
"Tell me," I insisted.
"Hey, come on!" Odd called from inside the elevator.
"Let's get going, guys," Patricia urged.
"Be right there! Aw, I'll tell you later, okay?" Jade asked.
"Okay," I replied.
Later
I was with Odd and Ulrich, discussing what had happened.
"Something important to tell you?" Odd frowned. "Like what?" Odd asked.
"Does she want to get back together with you?" Ulrich asked.
"I have no idea, and I have too much on mind to get back together with her. Besides, I still can't forgive her for what she did," I answered.
"No class on Saturday morning, meaning on Friday night…" Sissi trailed off.
Ugh, another pain… I thought as Sissi and Herve neared us.
"We could go to the movies?" Herve asked.
"Forget it! It means I can go to the movies." Sissi ran over, waving her schedule.
"Hello, Peter. You know we're in the same class again. Cool, huh?" Sissi asked coming up to me with her schedule.
"Super cool," I replied sarcastically.
"If cool means 'our worst nightmare,' than you're right: being in the same class is really cool," Odd joked, Ulrich chuckled.
"Very funny. Have yourself a good laugh, Odd. Enjoy yourself." Sissi said as she then grabbed his chin.
"Get it out of your system, in a few seconds you're going to be crying." Sissi claimed as she kissed Odd on the nose.
"Ew!" Odd exclaimed.
"See ya real soon, Odd." Sissi sang, walking away.
"Did you see that? Hey, why so sad?" Odd asked as Yumi, Patricia, Jade, Aelita, and Jeremy, walked up.
"You're not in the same classes as we are," Jeremy said.
"I'm not?!" Odd exclaimed.
"If Xana attacks, what do we do without him?" Aelita asked.
"It was already complicated with Yumi, Patricia, and Jade. Now it's going to be impossible to get organized," Jeremy replied.
"What's more is that I'm not going to be able to copy off of you! My grades are really going to go down the tubes." Odd crossed his arms.
"Peter, any chance you could give me a good word to Jim, to see if he can get my schedule to change?"
"Sorry, Odd. My word won't be enough." I replied.
Odd started walking away, as he said: "Well, there's only one thing to do."
"Yeah, what's that?" Jeremy asked.
"Go for broke!" Odd replied.
"Okay, while he's going for broke, we'll go to lunch," Jeremy said as he and the others walked away.
"Hang on, Jade. What was it that you wanted to talk about?" I asked.
"Hey, Jade. It's really great to see you again. Did you have a good vacation?" William asked, coming up to us.
"I'll tell you later, okay?" Jade asked me as she left with William. I sighed, but then I noticed someone familiar – someone we hadn't seen for a while. It was a girl with long brown hair and pink highlights wearing a pink jacket, blue cargo carpi jeans, and wedge shoes.
I walked up to her. "You look familiar. Aren't you Naomi Jones?" I asked her.
"Yeah, I am. How did you… oh, I know, from the dance a while back. Aren't you one of Jeremy's friends?" Naomi asked.
"Yeah, I am. It's been a while. I've barely seen you on campus. What are you doing now?" I asked.
"I was going to grab lunch at the café. I was a commuter actually, but this semester I'll be living in the dorms with this girl named Patricia," she replied.
My eyebrows rose. "You're kidding." I chuckled, surprised.
"Why? You know her?" Naomi asked.
"Yeah, she's my sister. She's at lunch right now, too, if you'd like to meet her," I offered.
"Sure, let's go," Naomi said as we walked to the café.
We went inside the cafeteria as we got our lunch, and went to the table.
"Naomi, is that you?" Jeremy asked.
"Yeah, it is. Good to see you again, Jeremy. So I'm guessing you're Patricia."
Patricia nodded. "Yeah, I am."
Naomi looked at Aelita. "Who are you?"
"I'm Aelita. I'm not a new student but I wasn't enrolled at the school during the dance," Aelita replied.
"How do you guys know each other?" Patricia asked.
"She came to this dance Kadic held a while back," Ulrich replied.
"Oh, cool." "So what's up?" Patricia asked.
"She's going to be your new roommate," I replied.
"Cool! Do you want to sit with us?" Patricia asked.
"I would love to, but actually I got to get going to prepare for one of my classes immediately after lunch. But I'll see you later at the room, I guess. Nice talking to you guys, I'll see you around," Naomi said, as she left.
"You too," Everyone called back, as I sat down.
"So, Jim wants to start a basketball team this year. Seems, he played pro ball," Ulrich said.
"But he would rather not talk about it," we all chimed. As we burst into laughter, Yumi took her seat next to Ulrich, and Jade sat down next to me.
I leaned over to her. "So, what did you want to talk to me about?"
"Hello," Hiroki said to Yumi.
Yumi put her hands to her head. "Hiroki, what do you want?" Yumi asked.
"Just wanted to say hello. Aren't you going to introduce me – especially to Ulrich your boyfriend?" Hiroki asked
She slammed her hands on the table. "No!"
Yumi exclaimed as Hiroki put his hands up in defense. "Cool it, sis. I was going to introduce my new pal, Johnny."
Hiroki said as Johnny waved and smiled.
"Listen, Hiroki, just because you're in junior high now doesn't mean you have to follow me around now. Okay, bro?" Yumi asked.
"Better be nice to me or I'll rat on you about Ulrich being your boyfriend, and when you come home late." Hiroki replied with his arms crossed. Hiroki and Johnny walked away.
"Hey… Peter's sister is pretty cute huh?" I overheard Johnny asking Hiroki as they left.
"No way, you're crazy." Hiroki replied as they left.
"Ugh! What a dork!" Yumi exclaimed.
"You haven't told your parents, that you're dating Ulrich yet?" I asked.
"That's not going to be good," Patricia replied.
Yumi wasn't too happy. Jeremy pulled out his laptop to run the superscan. Soon enough, it began to beep.
"Fantastic! The superscan has located Xana. I'm off to the factory; I got to find out more." Jeremy grabbed his laptop and started to leave.
"Wait up. I'll go with you," Aelita offered.
"Well, I guess I'll help Jade move into her new room. Which room was it?" Patricia asked.
"Aelita's room actually. There's already a new bed there and everything," Jade replied.
"Ulrich, Yumi, do you guys want to help move Jade out?" Patricia asked.
"Sure, that should be fine," Ulrich said.
"Yeah, let's go. Jade, do you want to come?" Patricia asked.
"Actually, Peter and I need to talk," Jade replied.
"Okay, no problem. We'll let you know when we're done," Patricia told us as she, Ulrich, and Yumi, left.
"So what I wanted to tell you during all last year when we dated, see the thing is –"
"Peter!" Sissi called.
Frustrated, I got up and started to leave.
"I just got here, and you're leaving?" Sissi asked.
"Yes!" I exclaimed pushing Sissi aside, making her lunch fall, pulling Jade with me. We decided to go to a quiet spot where there was a bench.
"Okay, no one should bother us here," I said, sitting down. Jade sat down with me.
"Okay, there's no easy way to say this, Peter… but I'm dating William," Jade said.
My heart sunk a little.
"William?" I asked, dumbfounded.
"I know, I know. We know what he does to the others, when he's put into the group. But this world changed when you, Patricia, and Erica entered this world. Don't you see that maybe William can change, too?" Jade asked.
"People don't change." I replied.
"Peter, open your eyes. That girl Naomi she was never in the show. How come she's in this world? Why are we seeing her at Kadic?" Jade asked.
"I have no idea…" I trailed off.
"Look, when we dated it was great. I'm sorry, I know William's your rival and all, but I really do like him." Jade said.
"Right…" I trailed off, sighing. My phone started ringing. I checked the ID, and it was Jeremy.
"Yes, Jeremy?" I asked.
"There's something strange going on in sector five. If you're with Jade, we need you at the factory," Jeremy said.
"Okay, got it." I hung up. "We're needed at the factory."
"Let's go," Jade said.
Neither of us spoke after that, and in the elevator, we kept on either end of the elevator, refusing to even glance over. As the doors to the lab opened, Jeremy turned to face us.
"Hey, you guys, what's the matter? Is there a problem?" Jeremy asked.
"Nope, everything's fantastic," I replied sarcastically.
"Great, that's a relief. Head to the scanners. Aelita's there already. Odd, Patricia, Ulrich, and Yumi will be arriving shortly." Jeremy turned back to the monitor.
We were soon transferred into the ice sector. Jade and I awkwardly kept quietly and waited for Ulrich, Yumi, and Patrica. Aelita frowned at us.
"Everything okay, you two?" Aelita asked.
"Yup," Jade replied.
Ulrich, Yumi, and Patricia, soon arrived, but we still were waiting on Odd.
"I wonder what's taking Odd so long," Ulrich said.
"No idea, but hopefully he'll be here soon…" Patricia trailed off, eyes zeroing in on me.
"Peter, are you okay?" Patricia asked.
"I'm fine, sis," I lied.
On Lyoko's Ice Sector
Jeremy materialized our vehicles. We all hopped onto our vehicles, still waiting for Odd.
Soon enough we could see Odd being virtualized and landed. Odd's Overboard came to him, and he jumped onto it.
"Here we go," Yumi said, putting her hand down as if beginning a race. We started driving our vehicles.
"What took you so long?" Ulrich asked.
"I think I found a way to get back into your class," Odd replied.
"You did? How?" Yumi asked.
"It's easy. I decided to blackmail Jim," Odd replied.
"Blackmail Jim?" Aelita asked.
"But with what?" Patricia asked.
Odd put his finger on his chin and said, "I know a secret that he would 'rather not talk about,' and that he doesn't want anyone else to talk about either."
"Odd, blackmailing is not cool. He helped me a lot to get into Kadic, and he treats me as if I was his nephew," I said.
"Peter's right – blackmailing is really lame," Ulrich chimed in.
"Woah, since when did you get so high and mighty? The ends, justify the means doesn't it?" Odd asked.
"No," we all replied.
Aelita shook her head. Odd drove ahead of us.
"Okay, thanks for your support. I bet you'll be happy without me in class!" Odd exclaimed, as he went faster. We all looked at him confused, but we soon reached the end of the sector. He jumped off of his Overboard as he slid his feet across the ice.
"Okay, Jeremy. We're at the edge of the sector," Odd said.
We got off of our vehicles.
"Great, now get into position, and I'll enter the code: Scipio," Jeremy said.
We soon saw the pod as it came and took us all in one fell swoop.
"Holo-sphere system online," Jeremy said.
The pod dropped us off, the room was spinning.
"So, where are all of these monsters?" Ulrich asked, unsheathing his sword.
"Well, what do you know? They're all in a room, just below your feet. I've never seen that one before. We haven't been there yet." Jeremy said.
"What are they doing in there?" Aelita asked.
"How am I supposed to know? You're the ones on site. Listen, instead of talking, head for that room, guys," Jeremy ordered.
"Can we get in through here?" Ulrich asked.
"No, access is through the celestial dome. Hurry up," Jeremy replied. I met Jade's eyes, and we started running, slowing only to wait for the corridor to open.
"Don't forget to deactivate the countdown, or you'll be back home a lot sooner than you think." Jeremy informed.
We continued to run down the corridor.
"You've only got a few minutes to find the key," Jeremy reminded.
We stopped when we reached a room. This room was different, with platforms that looked like they were tall blocks.
"Key in sight," Odd announced, hand shading his eyes. The key was on the other side of the room.
Odd jumped, only to fall and have to claw his way back up the block.
"I thought I had my A game going," Odd complained. Yumi, Ulrich, Jade, Patricia, Aelita, and I jumped over to the platform with no problem.
"I'll fill in for you today," Aelita winked before launching herself onto the next platform, and then the next, and then the next. We watched her in awe, as she made her way toward the key.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0!" Jeremy counted down as Aelita pressed the key just in time.
"Nice one, Aelita," Jeremy complimented.
The platforms started going up and down.
"I think you all better get here ASAP," Aelita said. Ulrich went ahead first with his super speed. Yumi, Jade, and I followed after. Patricia and Odd were behind. We continued to jump onto the other moving platforms. Ulrich got to Aelita first, then Yumi. Jade and I managed to get to them, we watched as Odd and Patricia were still behind us. Patricia made it as Odd jumped but missed. He used his claws to climb back up.
"Your hand!" Ulrich exclaimed.
Odd took Ulrich's hand in the nick of time, as he was almost crushed by a moving platform.
"Looks like you got your z game going. What happened, Odd?" I asked.
"Lay off, will you?" Odd asked. He and Ulrich leaned toward me.
"Well?" Ulrich whispered.
"Did you talk to her?" Odd asked.
"Will you two just lay off?" I asked.
The platform lowered. We walked off of it and we made our way to the next room.
"We're at the elevator," Patricia informed.
"That's good. There's more and more monsters, I've got a bad feeling about this," Jeremy said.
We made our way toward the elevator, jumped off a ledge, landed on the moving platform, and made our way to the Celestial Dome.
"We're here, Jeremy," Yumi announced.
"Where do we go now?" I asked.
"I'm itching to crack some monsters' heads," Ulrich said.
"Same here," Jade said.
"Head for the south pole of the dome – that's where you can get into the chamber," Jeremy informed.
"Vehicles, Jeremy," Yumi ordered.
"Coming up."
"Hey, maybe that's a place Xana has its annual monsters' ball, 'cuz up 'til now, we haven't seen any," Odd said.
"I highly doubt that's the reason, Odd," Patricia said.
"Right, but look over there," Ulrich said. We saw two flying mantas coming our way. They charged their lasers. Yumi and Jade blocked them using their fans. Odd fired his laser arrows as Ulrich threw his sword. Patricia used her kunai one the one Odd used his laser arrows. They both took care of their manta, as Ulrich's sword slashed the manta.
"Not bad, huh? Bullseye! There's the A game," Odd said, blowing his finger as if it were a smoking gun.
"Get real, man! That was me who got him," Ulrich said, putting his sword away.
"And I helped, too. Sorry, Odd." Patricia told him.
"Huh, really?" Odd asked.
"This is no time to compete with each other, move out," Jeremy ordered as he materialized our vehicles. The others went ahead. Aelita and I tried to get onto Yumi's, and Patricia's vehicles, but a manta started firing at us. We got onto our proper vehicles, dodging laser blasts.
"Hang on, Aelita!" Yumi exclaimed, blocking the lasers with her fan. We managed to get passed one Manta, but Odd, Jade, and Ulrich were behind us.
"You're there. Can you see the access?" Jeremy asked.
The access opened and closed rapidly.
"It's pretty hard to miss," Yumi said.
"That's for sure," I said.
"Great, go on in." Jeremy insisted as we went into the room.
We came by to another key. More than a couple of seconds later Jeremy announced, "Ulrich, Odd, and Jade are in the tunnel."
"At last! Now we can trip the mechanism and go," Yumi said. Ulrich stopped his Overbike, Odd got off of it. Jade rode up with her Overwing.
"Hi, how are you guys?" Odd asked.
"A little impatient," Aelita replied, pressing the mechanism. We looked up as a set of stairs materialized, making our way up as soon as it was solid.
"Jeremy, I think we're here." Yumi announced.
"Can you see the monsters? What are they doing?" Jeremy asked.
We looked up to see the Creepers firing at some sort of sphere.
Flashback
William with an eye of Xana symbol on his forehead, stabbed the sphere, with his sword. Everything soon exploded, destroying Lyoko…
End of Flashback
"Ugh…" I said, trailing off.
"Peter, what's wrong?" Patricia asked in concern.
"I just had a flashback," I replied.
"Jeremy, they're firing at some sort of blue ball," Ulrich informed.
"If Xana wants it destroyed, it's got to be important. Peter, what did your flashback tell you?" Jeremy asked.
"That you're right: it's important. We need to protect it," I replied.
"Okay, then it's down with the creepers," Odd said.
"And the mantas," Jade said.
"Go on. I'm going to try to find out more about that sphere,"
We started climbing up the stairs, as three mantas started firing at us. I used my electricity to form a lightning arrow, aiming at one of the Mantas. It exploded.
"Jade and I will handle these. Head for the sphere," Yumi told us.
We did just that, making our way up as Yumi and Jade went to fight the mantas, but I soon heard Yumi and Jade being devirtualized.
"Jade!" I exclaimed.
"Yumi!" Ulrich exclaimed.
I was with Aelita, as Odd and Ulrich were preoccupied with the other monsters. Patricia was with us, defending us. We saw Odd get devirtualized by a manta as Ulrich used his supersprint to get to us. Two mantas were attacking, and we managed to dodge them. Ulrich used his sword, and Patricia used her giant shuriken to block the lasers. Ulrich slashed the manta, as it exploded. Patricia threw her shuriken, as it cut the manta, and the shuriken came back to her.
"I don't believe it. Ulrich, Patricia, listen. Whatever you two do, you've got to stop the creepers from destroying the sphere," Jeremy informed.
"Why?" Ulrich and Patricia asked.
"Because, that is the heart of Lyoko: the direct access of all of the core programs of the virtual world. If the monsters destroy it, it's game over for good for Lyoko. Hurry up! The sphere has only two protective layers, and the first one just blew," Jeremy replied.
Ulrich and Patricia ran up the stairs, they managed to take out two creepers. Some of the creepers started firing at them, but they used their weapons to block the lasers and send them back at the creepers. Unfortunately they were hit by two remaining creepers.
"Aelita, Peter, it's your turn now," Jeremy announced.
Aelita and I looked at one other, we nodded. We were luring the creepers to the sphere as we backed up. Aelita summoned her energy field, and, after a long time not being able to use them, I summoned a fireball. We shot the creepers with our newly acquired abilities, but were devirtualized.
POV Patricia's
"But, how could Aelita and Peter have done that? Last time I checked, Peter only had his electricity powers, which are limited." Odd commented.
"Aelita developed some new powers during the vacation, and Peter also managed to regain his fire powers. They're perfectly capable of fighting like you can," Jeremy explained.
"Jeremy, look at that!" Yumi exclaimed. We could see Aelita's and Peter's card being devirtualized.
"Oh, no, not again…" I trailed off.
Jeremy started typing furiously. "Oh, no! They've been devirtualized."
"Are you saying that…" Odd trailed off.
"That's right. I can't believe it," Jeremy shook his head. Three bars suddenly appeared on screen.
"What's going on? Come on, hurry up," Jeremy said as we rushed our way toward the scanners, and down the ladder shoot.
POV Peter's
I was somehow in the scanners. Patricia and Jade, along with the others looked at us worriedly.
"Hey, do you realize you almost gave me a heart attack?" Jeremy asked Aelita.
"And almost made me cry… again?" Patricia asked.
Aelita laughed as she hugged Jeremy. I hugged my sister in relief.
"Can someone tell me what happened?" Ulrich asked.
"Well, it seems that even if Aelita and Peter, loses all of their life points, they won't disappear forever," Odd replied.
"They won't?" Ulrich asked.
"How come?" Jade asked.
Aelita and Jeremy let go, but still held hands. I let go of my sister, as Jeremy replied
"Of course, I was too dumb to think of it before. Ever since you and Peter, recovered your human memories, you're exactly the same us. Peter's back to his old self now, like when we first met. We don't need Code: Earth anymore, to bring you two in," Jeremy said.
"That'll really help, now that Xana is determined to destroy Lyoko to keep us from finding him on the net." Aelita said.
"That's great Aelita. You and Peter are full-fledged Lyoko Warriors from now on." Yumi said, giving a thumbs-up. Aelita blushed.
I'm glad things are back to normal. I even regained my flashbacks… I thought happily.
Later in Ulrich and Odd's room
I finally told them what Jade wanted to tell me.
"She's dating William?" Ulrich asked.
"Yup," I replied.
"And are you okay with that?" Odd asked.
I looked at him, but I could picture William's face as we destroying Lyoko. I shook the thoughts away.
"No, but it's her life. Who am I, to be the one to get in the way of that?" I asked.
"What's the matter with you guys? I'll never understand you two. You dated for so long," Odd commented, getting up. He walked to the door.
"Where are you going?" Ulrich asked.
"Going to continue to blackmail Jim?" I asked.
"Just remember one thing, good buddy: a bad deed can back fire on you," Ulrich said as he left the room.
"I hope he does the right thing," I said.
Ulrich nodded, as I let myself go deep with my thoughts.
The image of William destroying Lyoko…., I will make sure that does not happen no matter what. We must not allow William to become a Lyoko Warrior this time.
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