Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN CODE LYOKO ONLY MY CHARACTERS

Author's note: Just pretend that Katherine is the new student and not Aelita and if I make changes that does not go with the original story line please remember that I did it for a reason.

Aelita's POV

'Odd' Yumi called as she neared the overwing in his direction.

I hopped off and went to see if my friend was alright.

'Are you ok' I asked quickly checking him over.

'Oh yeah, there is still some work to do on the overboard Jeremy' Odd said.

'Maybe it's the rider who needs the work' Jeremy's voice said.

'What happend Odd? You miss a step' Ulrich said as he laughed.

'Very funny. I'd like to see you on an overboard' Odd said.

'I guess surfing's not my thing' Ulrich said moving his hand in a wave like motion.

'I bet talking to Katherine would be your thing' Odd muttered under his breath.

'What did you say?' Ulrich asked.

'Nothing, nothing' Odd said.

I hope Katherine found her way to the dorm alright. After she stormed out of the cafeteria, Ulrich had gone after her. He said the she remembers the instructions I gave her, but I'm still worrying.

'Uhh sorry to interrupt your fascinating conversation, but it looks like XANA had spotted you' Jeremy said.

We all turned around and looked behind us but we didn't see anything, yet.

'There is something coming your way' Jeremy said.

Suddenly one of XANA's monsters came towards us. But we have never seen anything like it before.

'Aelita get behind us' Yumi said as she stood protectively in front of me.

'Aelita, there is a de-activated tower nearby' Jeremy said to me.

I nodded and began running towards it. After a while, I entered the tower and Jeremy was able to materialize me. The scanner doors opened and I looked up to see Odd, Yumi and Ulrich. We all took the elevator back up to Jeremy.

'If XANA is going to start programming new monsters it means that our trouble has just begun' Jeremy said.

'Anyway Einstein one thing is sure, you're going to have to program our vehicles faster otherwise, we don't stand a chance against those tarantulas' Odd said.

'It's getting late, Katherine might start to wonder where I am' I said.

'Hey can we come with you to welcome her to her dorm' Odd said.

'Sure, I think she would appreciate that' I said as I walked towards the elevators.

They all followed me and we headed up in the elevator.

'Do you think that she'll forgive me?' Yumi asked.

'I don't think she's one to hold a grudge' I said.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~KADIC ACADEMY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

'Do you think Katherine has a nick name? I mean Katherine is such a mouthful' Odd said.

'I don't know I never asked her' I said as I opened the door to my dorm.

My jaw dropped, one half of my room had been turned pink. Katherine's bed was a bit bigger than mine and had a pink and black bed set on it. Her closet and drawers were filled to the brim and the name 'Kate' was on the wall in a cursive handwriting. But what had shocked me the most was the Katherine was on the floor, her body twisted in a weird and unnatural pose. Was she ok?

'Katherine? Are you ok?' I asked.

It seems that she just noticed that I was there and she straightened out her body to be standing up right. When she noticed the rest of the gang here, she blushed and began fiddling with her top. I notice that she does things like that when she's nervous.

'Yeah I'm fine' she said.

'So your nickname is Kate' Odd said to her.

'Huh?' she said confused.

'The wall' Jeremy nodded his head at the wall.

'Oh yeah, some of my friends used to call me Kate so I guess it just stuck as a nickname' she said.

'Well we're friends now right so we'll call you Kate' Odd said.

'Ok sure' she said.

It was an awkward silence following that and Katherine, I mean Kate looked like she wanted to run.

'Katherine, about what happened in the cafeteria. I'm sorry' Yumi said.

'It's ok. I forgive you and you can call me Kate' she said offering her a small smile.

I'm glad that they made up. It would've caused even more trouble to have them dislike each other.

Kate's POV

'We'll let you get some sleep Kate, see you tomorrow' Ulrich said.

'Goodbye' I said to them.

I shut the door and turned to Aelita.

'So, I'm going to turn in for the night. Good night' I said to her.

'Good night' she said as she went to change her clothes.

I climbed into my bed and closed my eyes. I was tired from today both physically and mentally. I soon drifted into slumber after a while.

I heard shuffling and moving about so I peeked one eye open to see Aelita, quickly putting on her shoes before she ran out the room and quietly close the door. It was 2 in the morning? Where was she possibly going? I knew that I shouldn't be snooping but I was too curious. I jumped out of my bed and followed her out the door. I watched as she looked around before she sneaked down the stairs and out the door. Where is she going? Maybe I should just turn around and let her go.

I was about to go back to my dorm when I saw Odd, Jeremy and Ulrich following her out the door.

'What the hell?' I said to myself.

Now I really have to follow them. I mean what if they get hurt or something? I stealthily made my way out the door. I saw that Yumi was also gathered with them at a tree. They talked for a while before they went running into the forest. I really should just go back to my dorm, but I was just too curious. I began running after them from a distance. Thank God that I was in shape.

They stopped at what looked to be a sewerage hole and they all climbed in. Odd was the last one in and he closed the hole up. I waited 30 seconds before I climbed after them. Upon coming to the bottom I realized that I was really in a sewer a really smelly sewer.

'This is disgusting' I said covering my nose.

I saw their silhouettes moving fast along the walls, and it looks like they were on skateboards and scooters. After I while I peeked around the corridor to see one last skateboard there. Adam only taught me the basics of riding a skateboard, but I think I'll manage. I grabbed it and steadied my feet before I took off. I was wobbling, a lot, but I somehow managed to make it to the end of the sewer where another ladder was. I rested the skateboard where the others were present.

'I am probably going to regret this' I said to myself as I began climbing.

When I made it to the top my jaw dropped as I saw an abandoned factory, most of the windows were broken and the paint was chipping off the walls.

'Where in the world am I?' I said to myself.

I started running towards the factory but I stopped when I saw the stairs cutting off and only three ropes were hanging there. I heard a noise and I looked to see an elevator closing and going down. I grabbed one of the ropes and swung down to the bottom. My hands burned from the rope but I ignored the stinging sensation. I pressed a red button and the elevator came up to me. There was a number pad on the side.

'Come on Katherine, think' I told myself.

After a few wrong combinations, I tried the four corners technique and after a while I got yet. Yes! The elevator began going down and I felt butterflies burrowing in my stomach. What if they are a part of a gang or something and they attack me when see me? Ok maybe Ulrich and Yumi could be a part of it, but Aelita was too sweet, Jeremy was too nerdy and Odd was just too…odd. The elevator opened to a room where a giant 3D holographic map was floating over some time of machine and Jeremy was sitting at a computer seemingly controlling it all.

'What in the world!' I said loudly without thinking.

Jeremy's head snapped towards me and his eyes widened in shock. I mentally cursed myself for being so stupid. How could I have made so much noise?

'Katherine? What are you doing here?' he asked getting up out of his chair.

'I was- ah-umm-' I stammered as I tried to think of a believable lie.

'Did you follow us? You had no right following us?' He said getting angry.

'I'm sorry, I just wanted to make sure that you guys weren't doing anything that might get you hurt' I said raising my hands in defense.

'Hey Einstein who are you talking to? We still need those vehicles' I heard Odd's voice say.

'Odd?' I said looking around but he was nowhere to be found.

'Kate? Is that you? What are you doing here?' Odd's voice said.

'What? Jeremy?' Aelita's voice said.

'Where are they?' I asked looking around.

'That's none of your business? You need to leave right now?' Jeremy said pushing me back towards the elevator.

'No!' I exclaimed.

'What do mean no?' he said.

'What do you mean, what do I mean no? I mean what I mean' I said quickly.

I watched his face twist in confusion for a second by my metaphor but then it quickly shifted back into annoyance.

'Kate, you need to leave' he said in a softer tone.

'No I want to know what's going on first' I said stubbornly.

'Kate-' he started but Odd's voice cut him off.

'Jeremy, we really need those vehicles, like today' Odd's voice said again.

What vehicles? Where are they?

Jeremy ran back over to the computer and I watched and he typed rapidly onto the keyboard. Three digital vehicles came on the screen as they loaded.

'Finally' Odd's voice said again.

'Did you just send that through a computer? Are they in the computer?' I asked shocked.

'Kate, fine you can stay, I'll just have to launch a return to the past' Jeremy said.

'Return to the past? You mean like go back in time? You can do that?' I asked him.

'Of course I can' he said priding himself.

'That's amazing, what exactly is all of this?' I asked looking around.

'Well I guess I could tell you, you'll forget anyway. This is a supercomputer that we use to fight an evil AI called XANA' Jeremy said.

'XANA' I asked confused.

'Yeah he kind of wants to take over the world' Jeremy said.

'So where are Aelita, Yumi, Odd and Ulrich' I asked.

'They are on a virtual world called Lyoko. It's where XANA lives and where we first found Aelita. We finally materialized her a few weeks ago' he explained.

'Are you serious?' I asked in shock.

'He's dead serious Kate' Odd's voice said.

'This- this is absolutely incredible. How did you guys find this place' I said looking at the giant 3D map.

'Well-' Jeremy started but was cut off.

'Jeremy, we've got trouble. XANA has sent more tarantulas and Yumi just got devirtualized and no one is here to-ahh' Odd's voice said.

'Odd' I shouted.

'He just got devirtualized' Jeremy said typing frantically on his keyboard.

'Devirtualized' I said as I stood beside him.

'It means that he got sent back to the real world' Yumi said.

I turned around and saw her coming out of the elevator. She looked tired to I grabbed her arm and put it around my neck to help her walk.

'Thanks' she said as she sat on the floor.

'Oh no, Ulrich and Odd just got devirtualized, Aelita's all by herself' Jeremy said panicking.

'Well just bring her back' I suggested.

'I can't, I only can materialize her through a tower right now. If she gets devirtualized, she'll be gone for good' Jeremy said.

Ulrich and Odd came out of the elevator looking exhausted.

'Use your creativity Aelita, do something until Ulrich, Odd or Yumi can come back to Lyoko' Jeremy said.

'Jeremy they are exhausted, they can't possibly go back' I said.

'Jeremy, the wall I made is breaking' Aelita's panicked voice said.

'Oh no' Jeremy shouted.

'Send me' I said suddenly.

Everyone's heads snapped up to me.

'No, if I send you then I won't be able to take your memories of this place away' Jeremy said.

'Jeremy, what other choice do we have? We're all exhausted and Aelita is in danger' Ulrich said.

Jeremy thought about it for a while before he reluctantly agreed.

'Take her to the scanner room and get her prepared' Jeremy said turning to type on his computer.

Ulrich, Yumi and Odd all went with me to the elevator.

'Hang on Aelita, help is on the way' Jeremy said.

'How will I be able to fight?' I asked them.

'You'll have some kind of weapon on you, find it and then use it to kill monsters. There will be a symbol and them and you strike in the middle' Ulrich instructed.

I nodded and swallowed deeply as the elevator door opened. Three tall cylinders were in the room and I started to feel a bit apprehensive.

'Step in' Yumi said.

I stepped in on and turned around to face them..

'Good luck and remember protecting Aelita is your main mission' Odd said.

I nodded one more time before Jeremy's voice came through the speakers.

'You ready Kate?' he asked.

'Ready as I'll ever be' I said in a shaky voice.

'Ok here we go' he said.

The door shut tight and my breath hitched. Oh gosh what did I get myself into.

'Transfer Kate' Jeremy said.

A noise was heard inside the scanner and a light wind was felt under me.

'Scanner Kate' Jeremy said.

The light wind suddenly turned very strong and I actually started levitating upwards. My hair was whipping around my face.

'Virtualization' Jeremy said.

A blinding white light came out of nowhere and suddenly if felt as if my body was floating in nowhere. Then my sight came back. I was dangling in the air for a while before I fell to the floor.

'Ouch' I said as I rubbed my bum.

'Kate, are you alright' Jeremy's voice said.

'Yeah I'm good' I said as I stood up.

I looked around at my surroundings and saw that I was in some sort of desert, but it wasn't hot at all.

'Where am I' I asked.

'You're in the desert sector. Aelita is not too far from you. I'll materialize a vehicle for you' Jeremy said.

I looked down at myself and I saw that I was now dressed in a white, blue, red and yellow rhythmic dancing costumes. But it was more warrior styled. The skirt was flared and pleated; it was blue with red trimming. The top was yellow and white and it was elbow length; it was also fitted. A thick silver belt with patterns of balls, clubs and ropes on it was placed around my waist. On my wrists were two silver bands and on the left one was a ribbon wrapped tightly around it. My shoes were white ballet looking shoes and wrapped up to calf. My hair was pulled back into a high neat ponytail.

'What up with this outfit?' I said as I tugged on the skirt.

It was a bit too short for my taste. I quickly flipped it up to see if I had shorts on under and surely enough, blue shorts were placed underneath the skirt.

'Your outfit will consist on your personality' Jeremy explained.

'That explains a lot' I said feeling the ribbon on my wrist.

When I touched it, it expanded into 6m ribbon and it was blue, yellow and red. I held the wand in my hand and twirled the ribbon.

'I think I found my weapon' I said twirling my ribbon.

'Ok Kate, I'm sending the overwing if you keep heading north, you'll see Aelita' Jeremy said.

What in the world is an overwing? Suddenly a gray floating scooter materialized in front of me. I guess that's the over wing. I fastened my ribbon back on my wrist and hopped on the overwing. It was surprisingly easy to control. After a while of flying, I looked down to see two giant spider looking monsters, with a weird symbol on their heads.

'I see two monsters' I said.

'Yes, Aelita is caught in the middle of them' Jeremy said.

They must've heard me because they turned around made a weird sound before they began firing lasers at me.

'Whoa' I exclaimed as I began dodging the lasers.

'Hit them in the center of the symbol on their heads Kate' Jeremy instructed.

I nodded and unwrapped my ribbon from my hand. I whipped it at one of the monsters and the edge of it cut a part of their leg off.

'Awesome' I exclaimed as I began whipping the ribbon around more.

I hit one of the monsters in their target and I watched as it dropped to the ground before it exploded. The other one began firing rapidly at me and it hit the overwing. The overwing started to spiral to the ground and I quickly jumped off before it hit.

'Bring it, spider face' I said as I got in front of the monster.

I used my ribbon as a shield to block the lasers but it was hard to strike without being hit.

'Ouch' I said as I got hit in the side.

'Kate be careful, you just lost 30 life points' Jeremy said.

My hand accidently brushed up against my belt, and 5 clubs materialized into my hand.

'What the-?' I said as I looked down.

When I touched the clubs on my belt, they materialized, but now they disappeared from my belt. I guess I can only use them once. I began juggling the clubs in my hand and I fired them into the air. They shot up into the air at an amazing speed and rounded back around to the monster. Four of them missed, but the last one hit the monster right on target. It exploded instantly.

'Nice one Kate, you're a natural' Jeremy said.

'Thanks' I said.

I still kept my ribbon in my hand in case another monster appeared. I walked around a large boulder and saw Aelita crouching in a fetal position.

'Aelita!' I said as I ran up to her.

'Kate? Are you ok?' she asked checking me over.

'I'm fine, what about you' I asked.

'I'm fine' she said.

'Ladies, the tower is not too far from you, go inside so I can materialize you both' Jeremy said.

Aelita ran towards the tower and I followed her. The tower was a tall white cylinder that glowed green.

'How do we get in?' I asked her.

'Watch' she said.

I watched as she slowly entered the tower. It's like it absorbed her. I hesitantly followed her actions and saw that I was standing on a platform with the XANA symbol on it. The walls on the tower contained squares with information on it.

'Materialize Aelita, Materialize Kate' Jeremy said.

I watched as Aelita start to disappear into little pixels, I looked down and saw the same thing happening to me. Soon I found myself back into the scanner. I felt a little loopy so I grabbed the nearest thing I could get my hands on, which happened to be Ulrich's neck.

'How was your first trip to Lyoko?' he asked wrapping an arm around my waist to steady me.

'Better than any video game I've ever seen' I answered truthfully.

'You beat two tarantulas all by yourself! You deserve to call yourself a Lyoko Warrior' Odd said giving me a thumbs-up.

'Kate, if you hadn't followed us, I don't know what would've happened' Jeremy said.

'Well'-' I trailed off not knowing what to say.

'Now that you know our secret, you have to keep quiet about it. Absolutely no one can know' Yumi said.

'I wasn't planning on telling anyone' I said.

'Well then, welcome to the group Kate' Odd said engulfing me in a hug.

Soon it was a group hug as they welcomed me into their group. I have to admit, fighting on Lyoko is almost as fun and Rhythmic Gymnastics, almost.

I had originally wanted Kate to be a Lyoko warrior much later down in the story but I just couldn't help myself T_T.

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