Aelita
"Unfortunately you're not like Odd or Ulrich. You cant be de-virtualised when you loose all of your life points."
"Too bad. At least them and Angel have found a way to switch between sectors." I saw Angel standing up and bowing dramatically.
"Thank you, thank you. I'm here till Friday" she said in a low voice causing me and Jeremie to laugh at her antics. During all the virtualisation talks she was the one that kept the atmosphere light which I was grateful for. Jeremie managed to find out that we are both sister, twins to be exact. No wonder we looked so similar.
"Yeah and I also found out what the towers are for. They're portals between the real world and the virtual world. When they're red it means they are activated."
"Are you sure?" asked Angel.
"Just about. They might be the way to materialize you on Earth." At this hope sparked in both my eyes and Angels even though we weren't in the same tower I knew she had the spark. After all we're twins. We both wanted so much to get out of this place and to the real world. "Unbelievable huh? Cant wait to tell the others about it."
Angel
Suddenly I felt something outside the tower. I stood up and tried seeing if I can feel it again but nothing happened.
"Is everything ok Angel?" I heard Jeremie's voice say. Brushing it off as just a feeling I didn't think much of it.
"No its just me being paranoid." I said, sitting back down.
"Ok if you're sure." he said warily.
"I think you should get going, you don't want to be late" I said.
"Christ! Thanks Angel you saved me from Jim." I smiled as he yelled his goodbye and shut the screen off.
"Who's Jim?" Aelita asked. I shrugged cause I didn't know either.
Ulrich
"You want us to go back to Lyoko to get Maya and Angel into a red tower?" I asked truly not believing it. One half of me says that we should shut the supercomputer for good and forget about Maya and Angel. However the other part of me is saying that we should try our hardest to get them out of Lyoko.
"Like I said. I'm sure that's the only way to get them into the real world. Pretty wild huh?"
"Pretty dangerous you mean. We could've all been wiped out for good last night." Odd said and I had to admit he was right.
"Odd's right. We're better of shutting down the supercomputer. Too bad for Angel and Maya but its not like their human" I felt a little pull in my chest that told me otherwise but I chose to ignore it.
"But they're still a sort of intelligent being. They've got emotions like we do."
"See I told you he's madly in love with a computer program"
"Maya you mean" commented Odd with an amused smirk.
"Come on guys be cool. I just want you to go there on last time."
"We cant even get pass the monsters. We'll properly get ourselves blown in a heart beat."
"Maybe if there were at least 3 of us but Sissi is too scared." Than she started denying it and saying she has to have her cheerleader practice beforehand.
"Thanks Sissi. Here's the scoop. As soon as Maya and Angel are materialised to the real world, I gave you my word I will shut down the supercomputer. Meanwhile we must keep this a secret." We all promised and I left to go and meet Yumi.
Angel
"You know, Jeremie seems quite taken with you" I said smugly. She instead gave me a confused look.
"What you mean?" my sister is intelligent and everything but she can quite oblivious.
"Do I need to explain this to you like to a 6 year old? Jeremie likes you! I mean like, likes you" She looked down but that didn't block the soft smile that appeared on her lips.
"Oh like that. I'm sure he doesn't. After all we are just a computer program" I raised an eyebrow.
"Do you honestly believe that?" her silence was all I needed.
"Its just, even if we were on Earth before and if we are humans how did we get here?"
"Look I don't know but I'm sure we are not just a computer program. Once we're out of here, I promise to find out as much as we can about our past." I smiled reassuringly at her.
"Now that I think about it, we must've been humans before. I mean there is now way you were programmed to with this personality and attitude" she said, smirking at me. I sat in front of the screen, mouth a gape. Did she just….
"Did you just…" I said out loud, not believing her comment. Her only reply was to smirk. Then a massive smile spread across my lips.
"Now that's my sister. I was starting to think you were switched or even adopted" I said.
"Umm what's adopted?" she said confused.
"Umm I'm not sure" I said honestly. I don't know why I said it, it just slipped out. We both shook our heads forgetting about it for a moment.
"Ok even if Jeremie likes me it would never work out" she said.
"And why not?"
"Because for a relationship to work out, you need to return the feelings and-"
"And you don't. At least not yet" I said, nodding knowingly. She awkwardly smiled at me but I just reassured her that its ok if she doesn't feel the same about him.
"Thank you" she said. It was my turn to look confused.
"What for?"
"For being my sister" she said.
"I will always be your sister. No matter if its on Earth or Lyoko. Nothing will tear us apart"
"If you don't mind I want to just look through the database, see what I can find out about Earth" she said unsurely. I smiled reassuringly at her.
"Bubbles its ok. You don't need to be so shy about it." she smiled softly before turning her gaze to the other screen but no disconnecting with me. I chose to lay down and close my eyes. I know I cant sleep but closing my eyes helps me relax.
After we woke up on Lyoko, it felt like we just woke up from a long dream, at least it felt like that to me. I even remember a dream I had. In there our lives were normal. We grew up, went to school, got married and had a family. We were normal. We had parents. But now I know even if bubbles doesn't that we wont have that. We wont have parents to take care of us nor will we have a normal life.
I was pulled out of my thoughts by another wave of pulsations. This time I knew I wasn't imagining it.
"Bubbles" I said.
"What is it?" she said nicely but with a hint of concern.
"I feel pulsations. I think its in the Ice Sector where I am now so you need to get over here. Safely" I said for an extra measure. She nodded and shut the screen out.
"Jeremie, Jeremie can you hear me?" I said but got no response.
Ulrich
I had no other choice but to bring Yumi along with me. She might be a good asset to our group. Better than Sissi anyway.
"Hey who's that" Jeremie said pointing to Yumi.
"This is Yumi. She was there when I was attacked and she knows how to fight so I thought…"
"Ok later. Right now we have to get to the factory. Lets go" Jeremie said interrupting me. We all immediately ran to the factory. I promise myself that I will see Angel tonight, if it's the last thing I do.
"Don't tell me you're scared" Yumi told me once we got to the ropes. Taking a deep breath I slid down the rope and made my way to the elevator.
"So who's this Maya and Angel" Yumi said
"You'll be meeting her in just a minute. Go straight to the scanner room and get ready for the big plunge" He said whilst leaving us to go to his supercomputer.
"Being plunged. But I don't have a bathing suit" she said.
"Relax you wont be needing one." Odd reassured her.
"Maya can you here me? Angel" we heard him say to the supercomputer once we got down to the scanner room.
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"Why did you leave the tower before we got there? Are you crazy?" He said worryingly and a bit angrily.
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"Why didn't you try to stop her than" its weird hearing one side of the conversation. However the response wasn't exactly nice obviously cause the next we know Jeremie is apologizing rapidly.
"Don't worry. I'm sending back up. For now just try and hide somewhere"
"This story of yours is pure science-fiction" she said looking around the scanner room.
"Except that its for real" I said smirking at the glare Yumi is sending me. Me and Odd made our waves to the scanners whilst Yumi stayed outside.
"I'm starting up the procedure." Jeremie said.
"Don't tell me you're scared" I said with a challenging smirk before the scanner shut the door. In the last minute she decided to come as well.
"Virtualisation" than I saw a bright light. The next moment me and Odd both landed on the ground, the Ice Sector.
"Bummer I'm still a big purple cat" Odd said looking down at him self. We heard a thud behind us and turned to see Yumi on her ass. Guess we forgot to tell her about the landing.
"Wow that Japanese outfit is pretty sharp" Odd commented. I nodded in agreement. "It's not fair. I'm the only one that looks like a nitwit on Lyoko"
"Um mind telling me where we are?" Yumi asked.
"In a virtual world. don't worry you'll get used to it." I said as if it was nothing.
"Move it. Maya and Angel need you. They're in danger" Jeremie's panicked voice said. Me and Odd immediately ran where Jeremie pointed us to with Yumi right behind us.
We suddenly got to a place where blocks were standing at, surrounding something or most likely someone. I stabbed the closest to me block. Whilst I still fought the monsters I heard Odd talking to the girls.
"Hey you must be Maya and Angel. I must admit you are darn cuties. Jeremie sure knows how to pick them" He said the last part to Maya, I'm sure, with a wink. I didn't even have time to look at the girls and he outright flirts with them.
"No time for flirting Odd, we got work to do"
"Right sorry" he said before fighting against the monsters as well.
"Throw it at them" I heard a voice I recognised as Angel tell Yumi. I didn't pay attention to what Yumi asked before so I was surprised and impressed when both the blocks exploded.
"Impressive." with all the monsters out of sight I finally had the chance to look at them. Maya still looked like she did before but now I was able to see Angel for the first time and I wasn't disappointed. She is girl from my dreams. No questioning it. She looks just like her. The same red hair, same green eyes, same outfit minus the wings and defiantly same smile. I cant believe she is standing in front of me right now. I felt so happy that no words could describe it.
"Great job guys. We need to get Maya and Angel to the red tower now though" we all went running towards the tower. During then Yumi introduced herself to Maya and Angel.
"We're coming up to the tower" I told Jeremie after he asked where we are.
"Hurry it up then. Things are about to start jumping over here." he said "Watch it guys, there are some more monsters coming your way"
Then two massive crabs things came out from behind ice blocks. Just what we needed. We all stopped with Odd a little bit ahead. We start running back with me and Odd staying behind to kill the monsters off. I saw Yumi going over to help Odd leaving me alone.
"I need to get on top of that thing" I yelled out in furstration. Suddenly I felt like I was off the ground and flying. I looked up to see in fact Angel, with her wings, flying. She smirked down at me.
"Better be ready" she said before dropping me. I managed to land on top of the crab and stab it, making it explode. I jumped down and wanted to run but a laser hit me, managing to de-virtualised me. But at the moment I didn't care, I have met and Angel and that's all that matters.
Aelita
Just before Odd got de-virtualised he told me to run back to the tower. I did so without second thought. Whilst the crab was firing lasers at the ice wall I created, I ran back to the tower. Passing Angel I grabbed her arm and made her run along with me. As soon as we got to the tower I dropped it and she pushed me in the tower but not violently.
"Aelita" I said when the name appeared on the screen. Code Lyoko it then said. Suddenly the tower wasn't red anymore. I walked out of the tower and smiled. My sister ran up to me and hugged me.
"Lets get to a tower" she said. I nodded.
Later on we we're contacted by Jeremie along with Yumi, Ulrich and Odd. This time Angel was with me also. We started wondering why he couldn't remember like the others. We figured it was properly because he didn't go on Lyoko.
"No Jeremie" I said.
"We have to shut down the supercomputer."
"You know it."
"Its too dangerous" me and my sister said whilst finishing each others sentences.
"But Maya-" he started but I smiled and corrected him.
"Aelita."
"That's even better than Maya" he said with this weird look on his face. Next to me Angel started laughing but covered it up with a cough. The guys agreed to gave Jeremie one more night to see if he can de-virtualised us.
Next day the guys came again, this time in the lab. We explained who Xana is.
"But what about virtualising Angel…and Aelita" said Ulrich. I smiled at the fact he only he only mentioned Angel at first.
"Its dangerous. I can do it but I need time. Also Xana can attack at any moment."
"Be reasonable Jeremie" Angel started
"Be better just shut this down." We both saw all of them but there heads down.
"Look now that we know how to fight Xana we have to get them to the activated tower." said Ulrich once again. Guess he really wants us on Earth.
"We can fight them whilst Einstein figures out how to get them on Earth, right?" said Odd
"I think we should, even though its risky. After all we are Lyoko warriors" said Yumi
"You really think you can do it?" I said hopefully.
"They don't call him Einstein for nothing" said Angel.
"Meanwhile lets not forget about our pack though." Jeremie said.
"Relax, we all know how to keep a secret" said Yumi
That's chapter 2. Hoped you like it. There is a poll on my profile now about which pairing you want so check it out.