Hey guys, new story, this takes place a year after Echoes (approximately) aka, it's Code Lyoko Evolution but with Jess. For those of you unfamiliar with Jessica Meyers stories, this IS a self insert. Jess is my Code Lyoko avatar, pseudonym, or whatever you'd like to refer to it as. I've also put her is Code Lyoko in "CL Rewind" but I'm only in season 1 with that and I didn't want to wait to start evolution. I'll update this as close to the premiere of the episodes as possible (or rather, as close to the time a fan sub comes my way) Now, even though this is a self insert, I swear Jess isn't a mary sue, nor a godmodder. She has all the faults I have, which are a lot, and she doesn't really try to change the plot. Fanfics with Jess are more my commentary on the show than anything.
Anyways, sorry for the long intro, I own Jess and that's it. The rest belongs to MoonScoop. Enjoy! The whole story is in Jess's pov.
Dear diary...I've been here another full year, and the internet from my world's been cut off. I don't understand. We defeated Xana. We turned off the supercomputer. Episode 95, Echoes, we did it, it's done. So why haven't I gone home? There's no more to the story. I miss my family, and I really really miss my internet friends. I mean I have the gang but...-sigh- It's time for gym class.
I closed my notebook. I didn't change into my gym outfit, Jim said we were doing something special today and wouldn't need them. I just took my notebook, in case we needed to take notes or something. That's what stinks about being trapped here without Xana is that I actually had to keep my grades up...and for what? If I had to stay here, what would I do after I graduated from Kadic in two years? Go to college? I didn't have money, or anyone to help me out. Something was blocking my way back...
I made my way to the door, and that's when it happened. There was a flash of light. If I didn't know any better I would have thought it was a return to the past. It lasted longer though, and there was no rewind sound. When I could see again...everything was so real...
My bed, my backpack, the room, everything looked like it was real life now, like my world, instead of a cartoon. I ran to the girl's bathroom and looked at myself. I looked like I did in real life. I was wearing my black San Francisco t-shirt, jeans, and my white and green flip flops, also my black and gray striped jacket. This...was an outfit I'd wear on a normal day.
"What the hell is going on..."
The bell rang, I was late to gym.
"Oh, great, just what I needed." I ran through the halls, down the stairs, and into the gym. The entire design of Kadic was different. I opened the doors to the gym just in time to see everyone leaving out the other door toward the admin building. I sneaked to the back of the group, hopefully Jim wouldn't notice. We went to the computer lab in the library and stopped there.
"Come on, maggots! It's still gym class. Hurry up, move it!" I looked toward the person who said that. It was obviously supposed to be Jim. It was time to play a game called "see how many people I can guess correctly."
"Meyers! You're late! Get to the front with your friends! Come on, just because we're in the library doesn't mean it isn't gym class!" Jim yelled. I moved to the front. The girl with pink hair, who was obviously Aelita, turned toward me.
"Jess, what took so long?" she said under her breath.
"Nothing just...had a little trouble on the way here." I replied.
"Stern! Don't lag behind!" I turned to look at who Jim was talking to and saw a really tall guy in a red shirt. I guessed that was Ulrich. He'd had a growth spurt and now he was taller than any of us, but he was about the same height as William...at least he was in cartoon. Ulrich just smirked at Jim and went to take his seat the a computer. The rest of us also sat down. Jeremie and Aelita sat together at a station, Ulrich and...Odd I think? God...he looked like he was ten years old or something, and his hair was BROWN and not all up in a spike, just kinda messy. I sat alone.
"Tell me again why we're in the computer lab." Odd...it was so weird calling that image Odd, but the personality was unmistakable. Anyways yeah Odd said that.
"You'll find out in a minute, Della Robbia, as a wise man once said, 'patience is a vitriol!' Er...that is.."
"Virtue." I filled in the correct word for him.
"Yeah, that."
"Sports on computer? Does it have something to do with motion sensors, then?" Jeremie asked, pushing his glasses up his nose...dear god they were hipster glasses. I facepalmed.
"Yeah, real funny Belpois. We need to adapt to your level. Students are so attached to their cellphones and video games, I figure we combine the two. Get you to move with a computer. I call it Cyber Sports."
"Maybe you'll finally be able to pass gym, Jeremie." Aelita chuckled, Jeremie rolled his eyes.
"Ok where does this thing go?" Jim stared at the CD in his hand. He pressed various buttons and things he thought were buttons but not the right one. "All this technology, trying to confuse me." I looked to the side. Ulrich was looking down, he'd been in a very mopey mood recently because Yumi and William were hanging out a lot more. Not as a romantic thing, they were just bros.
"Ulrich, you ok?" Odd asked, Ulrich didn't answer. "Ulrich, come on, don't tell me it's about Yumi again. TALK to her already, tell her how you feel."
"And say what?" He snapped. "Yumi, I love you, you're the love of my life? Not happening."
"Where's the CD...port...thing?" Jim kicked the computer tower. Jeremie just shook his head and smiled.
"Would you like some help?" I asked, standing up.
"Sit down, Meyers." Jim said, I sat and shrugged. I was only offering to help.
"See, Ulrich, you need to be cooler about this. Just go up to her and say 'Hey Yumi, just wanted to say I love you.' It's not that hard, buddy." Odd said, trying to be all cool like.
"Great, any other stupid plans, Odd?" Ulrich replied.
"FOUND IT!" Jim exclaimed. Triumphant, he opened up the CD port and went to put the CD in when he jumped back. There was a bolt of lightning or something coming from it, small, but big enough to notice.
"Jim are you ok?" I jumped out of my seat. The other kids were laughing at him...
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine now sit down, it's fine." Jim replied.
"Cyber sports, more like cyber war if you ask me." Odd joked.
Lines of what looked like glitched up coding appeared on the monitor.
"Can someone tell me what's going on?" Jim asked, looking at Jeremie, who just shook his head.
"Jeremie there was some-" Aelita started to say, but the screen went dark and the computer turned on normally and she stopped. "Never mind." Jeremie looked at her and she sort of looked down, like she was thinking, bewildered or something.
The bell final bell rang. We now had a few hours to hang out before dinner.
"Hey, Aelita, did you see the computer glitching up?" I asked, walking over to her and Jeremie.
"Yeah, and I also saw Jim get electrocuted. I think it's Xana." Aelita whispered the last part.
"That's impossible!" Jeremie said, did I mention Jeremie was wearing plaid now?
"Yeah, Aelita. I didn't see the eye of Xana anywhere, it just looked glitchy to me." Though the whole...being live action people thing...
"We defeated Xana. He's dead. You watched it happen." Jeremie added.
"And what if he survived?" Aelita asked, then she looked at me and so did Jeremie.
"What are you looking at me for?" I asked, raising my hands defensively.
"You always seem to know what Xana's up to. Does he have anything to do with this?" Jeremie asked. I stared at them.
"No...I mean, I have no idea. I don't know what's coming next." I said, they stared at me, unbelieving. "Why are you so surprised. I haven't made any predictions in over a year. From the time you turned on the supercomputer to the time you turned it off, that's the extent of my knowledge. I don't know." I thought for a second. "But do you guys notice anything weird about...how everything looks?"
"Uh...no. Why?" Aelita asked.
"No reason. I have to go to my room." Something happened, Aelita suspected Xana, they'd go to the factory, it wouldn't look like Xana's there but then BOOM, he'd show up! It was just like every season 5 fanfictions I'd ever read. I'd been away from home for the past 2 years, it was entirely possible MoonScoop had made a season 5 in that amount of time! That would also have explained the live action even though I wasn't sure why MoonScoop would go with live action. What was wrong with cartoon? Whatever. THIS SEASON 5 AND I GOT TO WITNESS IT FIRSTHAND! First though, I wanted to confirm it, so I'd go to my laptop and desperately try to connect to my old internet.
Before I could do that, though, the fire alarm went off, but there were other noises along with it too like electronic screaming and this really high pitched noise. I held my head. I was sensitive to noise and this HURT. It went on for a good minute before there was the sound of a short circuit and something heavy fell on my head.
When I came to I was in the infirmary.
"Huh? What happened?" I asked, dazed.
"Nothing serious, just a bump from the intercom that fell on your head. No concussion." Yolanda responded.
"Oh, I feel alright now, can I go?"
"Yes, I suppose, but don't strain yourself." She dismissed me.
I went outside the infirmary and saw Jim walking towards me.
"Hey Jim, how's it going?" Jim just stared ahead and kept walking towards me. "Something wrong, Jimbo?" I laughed. He smirked and his eyes flashed the eye of Xana, but not like normal. They were GLOWING and the eye itself was different, maybe. I didn't have time to take a close look cause I ran.
"Hey Jeremie, wanna catch me up?" I asked, calling him.
"Xana's back, he sent a Specter that looks like Jim, it attacked Ulrich, made him dizzy or something, and Aelita's alone on Lyoko. Also something weird's going on with everyone's virtual forms, there's a sort of red halo on the screen. I don't know what it means yet."
"Great, just great, well, Jim's behind me, so I'll be heading to the factory to give you guys a hand." I hung up. Making Ulrich dizzy? That was a new one. I kept running but realized that I didn't hear a second set of footprints. Still running, I turned around. The Specter was...walking?
"HEY, COME ON XANA! I'M RUNNING HERE, PUT A LITTLE MORE EFFORT INTO IT!" I yelled, the Specter didn't respond, and just continued to approach. I rolled my eyes and ran for the forest. Just because the specter was no danger didn't mean Aelita wasn't in trouble on Lyoko. It wouldn't be easy to fight though, considering it had been a year since I last set foot on Lyoko.
I got to the sewer entrance...and it was...a huge platform. What the- wasn't the sewer entrance supposed to be, you know, a secret? That people didn't obviously see, and wasn't sticking out like a sore thumb? Wasn't it, like, a normal manhole? Why exactly did that change, why did anything? Whatever. I opened the manhole, can it even be called a manhole? Well, I opened it and went into the sewers which was just a short concrete corridor that was lit on either side and a lot smaller. I got to the bridge and into the factory, which looked pretty much how I thought it might in live action. Then I punched the big red button for the elevator...but nothing happened. I dialed Jeremie's cellphone again. The weirdest thing about this whole setup were that all their voices were different...they didn't even seem like the same people...
"Jeremie did you lock the elevator door or something?"
"No. Why?"
"I pressed the button but nothing's happening."
"Don't you remember, you need to lift the panel and type in 1506 into the keypad."
"What? Since when?"
"I installed it so nobody could wander into the factory and mess with the supercomputer. Odd's going downstairs now."
"Ok." I hung up. So many changes...
Within a minute I could hear the elevator moving through the shaft, the door opened, and I saw Odd.
"Hey, anything else Einstein didn't tell me?" I asked.
"Did he tell you the forest and ice sector are gone?" Odd asked in reply.
"No, he didn't. Aww...I liked those sectors."
"Good luck on Lyoko!" Odd yelled, running off.
"Good luck with the Specter!" I yelled back, and got in the elevator. I went downstairs to the scanner room and got in a scanner. I turned around...the back was covered with reflective foil...
"Ha, it's tin foil!" I laughed. "Ok, Jeremie, I'm here, virtualize me."
"Right. Transfer, scanner, virtualization."
I found myself in sector 5. Everything was so much crisper and cleaner. My hair was back to the style I was supposed to have in this universe. My outfit had a few modifications but wasn't that different from my old one. The sash was gone and there were various dark gray and light blue patches. My rifle appeared at my telepathic command. I shot it a few times, the laser seemed to be even more powerful than before, and more rapid fire, too.
"Neat." I stretched out a bit, yawning as I did.
"I'm sending you the Overjeep."
"Don't bother, Jeremie, I feel like running." I grinned and bolted off in the direction of the maze and with Jeremie's directions I made it to the Tower. Except it wasn't a Tower. It was a big black...well, tower thing with red lights and...
"Ok, what the hell is that?" I asked, Yumi. The rest was ok but messing with the tower design? That was just...no.
"It's a Tower?" Yumi replied.
"But...they were different."
"Someone must have changed them" Yumi said, giving a shrug, then fell because a Krabbe hit the Overwing and destroyed it. The Overwing had this weird fin at the bottom.
"One for me one for you?" I asked, the Krabbes shooting at us but not getting any hits because I don't know, they just have bad aim. Yumi nodded and ran off to fight one. I jumped and landed on top of it. I'd forgotten how high I could jump here. It tried to throw me off but I shot it and it imploded.
"What no! It's supposed to EXPLODE! Not IMPLODE! Who changed it?" I yelled at the sky as Aelita ran into the Tower.
"I don't know, Xana must have done some redecorating while we were away. Now if you'll be quiet for a minute, I have to concentrate."
"Concentrate? On wh-"
We were back in Jeremie's dorm room. I looked around and blinked. It took me a second to realize we'd returned to the past.
"Why'd you do that?" I asked, somewhat aggravated.
"What, return to the past?" Jeremie asked.
"Yeah, it makes Xana stronger, or did you forget that?"
"Speaking of that, I thought we defeated Xana. What happened?" Ulrich asked.
"Well, when I virtualized you there was...an abnormality in the data. Specifically that all of you have been injected with Xana's source codes. At least everyone I virtualized, but I see no reason why Ulrich wouldn't have them too, and William, possibly."
"Oh, cool, so can we take control of technology and stuff? Maybe I can finally beat level 7 of Galactic Invaders!" Odd exclaimed.
"No Odd, not cool." Jeremie said. "That's how Xana survived."
"How did he even manage to do that?" Yumi asked. Jeremie shook his head.
"I don't know...Xana must have somehow found access to your coding. Anyways my guess is that he's sending specters to take the source codes back."
"But, once he does that...he'll be at full power again and control the world network." Aelita said.
"So why don't we just turn off the Supercomputer? Even if we do have Xana's source codes, they haven't done anything to us, so as long as we shut it down-"
"No, Xana appeared before we turned the Supercomputer on." I piped in. "Remember? The codes in the library and the noises? Turning off the Supercomputer would just make us open to attack with no way to defend ourselves. We need to fight again." Jeremie looked at each of us.
"Looks like the Lyoko Warriors are back." he said. I poked his arm.
"Awesome but you didn't answer my question. Why did you launch a return trip?"
"Jim saw the specter." Jeremie answered flatly.
"But-...Never mind." I sighed internally.
Dear Diary, ok, now I know why I stayed here. There's a season 5 and that's AMAZING! I feel a little uneasy not knowing what's coming next this time, cause and effect and all that. It'll take a while to get used to the live action...also I feel like this started just like any season 5 fanfiction ever. Not sure what I would have expected from season 5 but it's like, "Oh, life's normal, oops, something happened, and Aelita thinks it could be Xana, let's check the supercomputer, nope, nothing there, oh wait yeah there is, and there's some reason we can't just turn the supercomputer off, so we have to fight him." Xana surviving inside one of us was also a common fanfiction thing. Now, granted, usually it was William this would happen to, and it's all of us, but still, same concept. Also the Specter seemed pretty weak, but seeing as Xana is too, that makes sense, also it's good for me cause I'm still not very athletic on Earth. Jeremie shouldn't have returned to the past...even if Jim DID remember the specter he could be convinced it was a dream...the specter didn't actually go after anyone but us...These are minor complaints. I'm excited to see where MoonScoop is going with this. This time I'll find out what it's like to be an actual Lyoko Warrior, I won't be able to avoid danger just cause I know it's coming.
This is gonna be fun.
And well there you have it, my thoughts on the first episode. Rating and whatnot may change depending on what direction the series goes in.
Please review.
