"Lyoko is a virtual world where my mother was trapped on till she found out the history of her life. I know it sounds crazy but if you see the scanners and the supercomputer you will be amazed. I mean I have high hopes but I am not even sure I believe it yet." Aiden confirmed as the elevator started moving down.
"I mean, I-I will believe you this time, but it this is all really hard to believe. You are saying that you mom, Aelita, was stuck in a vi-virtual world? I mean I remember Mom and Dad saying stories about it, but-but it was fake right?" Marie stuttered.
"She is making a point here, this all sounds like mumbo jumbo. Mom was stuck in a computer? In a virtual world, that's a lot to swallow. I have faith in you though brother," Jessica said looking down.
Jonathan quickly added, "Your parents, Marie's parents and my dad are really good friends, and I even thought this was all fake. Just simple stories they made."
I nodded along with them. What else could I add? Aiden's and Jessica's parents are Aelita and Jeremie Belpois, Marie's are Ulrich and Yumi Stern, and Jonathan's are Odd and Emily, but his parents got divorced early on but Odd kept Jonathan. Jonathan has a picture of his mom and that's it. We never really asked about it because of the emotions it might bring out. The elevator came to a stop and the doors began unlocking and slowly opened, and what stood in front of us was unbelievable. It looked like the bottom of a wedding cake but with several wires swirling out of it going up to the upper levels. Aiden exited the elevator reaching out his hand to the bottom structure. Another cylinder rose highly out the middle of the base. A switch popped out in front of Aiden's hand and he quickly grabbed it with both of his hands.
"I'll quote my father on this one, I hope I don't regret this," he whispered as he pulled the lever down. The structure let out a blinding light, blowing Aiden backwards. I threw my hands over my eyes, blocking the powerful light.
"What is happening?" Jonathan yelled. The light began to dim down, letting our eyes open freely once again.
"I activated the supercomputer. Come up to the computer room and I can slowly start explaining what is going on okay?" Aiden said as he walked into the elevator typing in another code and slamming the up button.
"Lyoko is a virtual world that you can send real life people to with a program called virtualization. In Lyoko your natural talents are usually enhanced and you are equipped with weapons. In Lyoko there is a virus called X.A.N.A. who wants to do what all villains want to do, try to take over the world."
"So we play this video game and fight him?" Jonathan asked, "Sounds great!"
"Yes, well no. You'll see just come on," Aiden replied as the elevator made the loud noises opening up into an even more unbelievable room. There was a giant computer attached to the ceiling reaching down in front of a chair. The top looked like it could make the monitor revolve. I looked up seeing more of the huge wires moving along the ceiling going down the wall into a hole in the ground. Most likely they were connected to the stacked electronic cake. We all moved closer to the computer, Aiden taking a seat. The computer monitor had a main screen, surrounded by three different screens to the right, left, and top. He typed in several commands with various windows popping up. Jessica was right, it looked like mumbo jumbo, crazy mumbo jumbo but I didn't comment. Jessica was peering over Aiden's shoulder, seeming as she was understood every single component and factor of the equations.
"So, what is happening right now?" Jonathan asked with a dumb expression on his face.
"Seems as if Lyoko and all the stories were true, everything our parents told us wasn't a lie." Jessica said in awe.
"Let's virtualize you guys!" Aiden yelled in excitement.
"Do you even know how to work that thing," Jonathan said sarcastically, sneering at Aiden. Aiden had a thing for proving people wrong and guess who just tested it.
"That's like asking you do you know how to eat. Now climb down the ladder over in the corner, you should be in front of four pods or scanners. I want you to wait for my mark."
"Four? The system said there were only three scanners available," Jessica said. Maybe she was just as smart as Aiden. Only thing I knew is that Aelita and Jeremy created two brain monsters.
"There is a hidden one between one and three," he punched in a couple of codes and the computer chimed in response, "There, it is activated."
"Sounds simple enough," Jonathan said charging for the ladder. I didn't mind trying it; I mean I have no background information like they did. But I practically knew a lot from the stories I heard them whisper about in Kindergarten to 3rd grade. I scratched my head following Jonathan, not commenting on anything moving with the flow.
"No questions Richard?" Aiden asked quickly.
"Maybe afterwards," I said smiling, waving a peace sign at him.
As Jonathan got near the bottom of the ladder, I followed after him. In the room stood 4 open pods emitting a yellow hue to the dark room. We all stood in front of one scanner waiting for further instruction. This seemed like a Sci-Fi movie, but it didn't have a spaceship. That would be cool. I mean who doesn't want a flying saucer?
"Step into the scanner the front of your body pointing like you are walking out," Aiden's voice said coming through an intercom. We mimicked his exact move looking all at each other. We gave our signature peace signs wave and they scanner doors slammed shut.
"Transfer Jessica, Transfer Jonathan, Transfer Natalie, Transfer Richard," I heard Aiden's voice from a far. My hair began to float up as if I were underwater. The yellow dimmed lights began to increase becoming slightly stronger.
"Scanner Jessica, Scanner Jonathan, Scanner Natalie, Scanner Richard," My body began to float up and down as the inner lining of the scanner began rotating around me. My feet touched the ground and my hair relaxed but the lights got even brighter.
"Virtualization," My head flew back, blowing my hair up in the air hardly and it felt as if my body disappeared. I felt like I had a mind but no body, a mind thinking that I just killed myself. I slowly felt myself reanimating from head to toe, feeling a falling sensation. No wait, I was falling.
"Clunk!" I looked around to see the others flat on their butts also.
"Virtualization feels weird," I said out loud with a quick response of nods. I stood up scanning my surrounding area. It looked like a forest high of the ground with several manipulating trails. I looked over the edge and saw an ocean below us well several trees starting from slightly above them stretching high into the sky. The green paths didn't have leaves and thorns covering the floor but you could tell the model was supposed to be a forest. Not a great one at least.
"Welcome to Lyoko!" Aiden's voice sounded off from the sky.
"Lyoko, this is it?" Jessica said looking the air, "It is amazing!" she said in awe. She never ceased to be amazed. I gave her body and up and down glance seeing she was wearing bright red body suit with many accessories. The neon purple belt held some sort of fat knife I assume and the stop had a shoulder strap hold a half sword/dagger. Her pretty blonde straight hair was pulled up into a long high pony tail swinging around as she moved, looking at her out. She had on purple boots, ones for running though, almost skin tight running up passing her calf. The body suit ran down her arms followed by work out gloves matching the purple and red suit.
"This is cool!" Jonathan yelled. His body outfit was completely grey with an electricity symbol on his chest. On his bag was a huge case going all the way down from the top of his back to the bottom of his calf if going straight down. He reached back, grabbing the handle of the huge sword that had to weigh a ton, sliding it out of the case slowly. He held it in front of him with ease, swinging it around like a feather. The sword was about as thick as half my body, so there is no way he should be able to carry it.
Marie turned around looking at her body suit. On her back stood an ultimate bow and arrow with red dot sight, and metal arrows. Her body suit was sky blue with arm guards and finger tabs to help with her arching. I guess even in the digital world you have to worry about safety. Even though they gave Jonathan a 200 pound sword that could possibly break his back out of place.
I looked down to my suit and it was a dark blue, with light blue lines running completely through it. All the lines came from a center circle in my chest which seemed as if it was pumping energy throughout my body. Great, I was Iron Man. I looked around my body for a weapon but there was nothing. I am officially the suckiest on here already. Isn't that perfect?