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Aelita led me through the nearby woods. She called somebody on her phone as we ran. She ran to a clearing where there was a manhole. She started climbing down it. As disgusting as it was, I followed her. There were a couple skateboards and scooters. She grabbed one of the scooters.

"Grab one of the skateboards," Aelita instructed me.

I grabbed one and followed. We went through the sewer to another opening and climbed out. We were on a bridge to a factory. She ran into it and grabbed a hanging rope. She swung down to an old elevator. Against my better will, I grabbed a rope and followed. She pressed a button and the elevator came up. We went down to one of the floors. The door opened up and a giant computer appeared.

"What is that?" I asked.

"LYOKO," she replied simply.

She went to the computer and checked the screen.

"Oh great, X.A.N.A. sent an army," she muttered. She picked up an earpiece and pressed a button.

It didn't take me long to realize that she was talking to Jeremy, one of her friends. I sat on the floor, waiting for something to happen. The door to the elevator suddenly opened. Odd, Ulrich, Jeremy, and a Japanese girl I had never seen stepped out.

"Hey Carina. What are you doing here?" Odd asked.

"I followed Aelita," I replied.

Jeremy went over to the computer. "Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, and Aelita. Head for the scanners."

"Wait. I want to help," I started.

"You can't," Jeremy said simply. "Transfer Odd. Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Yumi. Scanner Odd. Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Yumi. Virtualization. Transfer Aelita. Scanner Aelita. Virtualization. I brought up your vehicles."

"Jeremy, there's too many. It's going to take forever to get Aelita to the tower," I heard Ulrich say.

"Let me go too, I can help," I pleaded with Jeremy.

He sighed. "Fine. But you can never tell anybody about this. This is a secret that can never be shared. Got it? We'll explain everything later, when this is all over."

"Ok, where do I go?" I asked.

"Take the elevator down. You'll see scanners. Step into one of them. I'll do the rest," Jeremy said.

I ran to the elevator and did as he said. I jumped into the open scanner. The doors closed.

"Transfer Carina. Scanner Carina. Virtualization," I heard Jeremy say. I felt a whoosh of air.

I landed with a thud. Amazingly, I didn't feel any pain. In fact, I didn't feel anything. But for some reason, everything looked strangely familiar. 'I'll focus on that later. Right now, I should find the others,' I thought. I looked around. There were strange trees everywhere. I heard laser fire somewhere nearby.

"That's weird…" Jeremy said from nowhere.

"Where are you? Where am I?" I asked.

"I'm talking to you from the real world. You're in LYOKO, a virtual universe," the voice said.

"Interesting…so…what do I do?" I asked.

"You need to help the others. You should have some sort of weapon," Jeremy told me.

I looked down. That's when I realized I had changed. I had silvery colored sock-like shoes, light green/silver Bermuda shorts, a purple belt, a t-shirt with a silver back and silver short-sleeves with a brownish red v-neck front and gold clasps down the front and was cutoff so that it showed my midriff, silver bands around my wrists and silvery black gloves. There was a simple dagger strapped to my waist. I wondered what my head looked like. I put my hands to my head. I had elf ears and still had blond hair to my waist.

"All I have is a dagger. How can I help with that?" I asked Jeremy.

"Hold on. A file pulled up when you were virtualized. It tells all about your LYOKO character. You should have…shadow…bolts. I'm guessing you can shot shadow bolts," he told me.

"Hmm. Shadow bolts!" I cried, holding my hands in front of me. Nothing happened. "Ummm, shadow!" My hands had this freaky black, green, and purple aura around them. Then a black sphere shot out of my hands and into the distance. "Thanks Jeremy! Where are the others?"

"Not to far from you. But hold on, you're going to need a vehicle. It seems you already have a vehicle, according to your file. Let me see if I can pull it up," Jeremy said.

The air in front of me fizzled. My vehicle showed up. It looked like a snowboard, but had a disk underneath it that made the "snowboard" hover. It was black with white sparkles and a single white star in the middle. "Thanks again!" I said.

"Head south towards the others and hurry! Ulrich and Yumi's life points are almost gone and Odd can't hold out with the many blocks anymore," Jeremy cried.

I jumped on the board and realized I could move it with my thoughts. 'A mind controlled vehicle…AWESOME!' I thought as I headed to where the others were. As I neared the battle, I saw what Jeremy meant by "blocks"; they WERE blocks on legs. They were shooting at a flying purple cat, which at second glance I realized was Odd. There was a pink haired girl, whom I identified as Aelita, flying around and avoiding lasers. There was a shaggy raven haired boy fighting Ulrich and the Japanese girl…Yumi I think her name was. I saw one of the blocks getting ready to fire at Odd.

"Shadow!" I cried, a bolt flying from my hands. It hit the block, making it turn black and exploded.

"What the-" Odd started. I flew right past him and started hitting more blocks with my shadow bolts.

"Hey Jeremy? Whose the chick?" Odd asked.

"Your friend Carina," Jeremy replied.

I watched Odd straighten suddenly. I laughed inwardly; if he could do so he probably would have blushed. She destroyed a couple more blocks. I glanced over at Ulrich and Yumi fighting the shaggy haired boy. I locked eyes with him. His eyes widened for some reason and he mouthed something. I barely made out "Carina." 'How does he know who I am?' I thought as I hit another block. Aelita finally flew towards the tower. She went inside.

"Why'd she do that?" I asked Odd.

"She has to deactivate the tower so X.A.N.A.'s attack in the real world disappears," he told me.

"Huh?" I was so confused.

"Jeremy must not have explained it to you. I'm sure he'll explain it when we get back to Earth," Odd said.

"Hey guys, I'm going to bring you in--No I'm not…" Jeremy sounded thoughtful.

"What's a matter?" Yumi asked as she and Ulrich finally destroyed the shaggy hair guy.

"A new sector was just created," Jeremy replied thoughtfully.

Sorry if the plot's a little slow. It gets better later. I'm working on a sequel for X.A.N.A.'s Own and that's kind of my priority right now. I'll update probably tomorrow. Thanks for reading and pretty please review!

-K