Chapter Three Aelitas Search for Answers.
Aelita was searching through the files in a nearby tower from where she had crashed and the answers she was searching for kept coming up empty. She had spent the whole night looking while Jeremy tended to Yumi's injuries. "Jeremy this replika seams to not be finished yet," said Aelita.
"What do you mean?" asked Jeremy working on fixing the skid from the lab.
Aelita sent him some data to Jeremy and said, "All the data shows that xana is trying to rebuild the mountain sector with not just one supercomputer but two."
Jeremy was flabbergasted, "what could he do with having two supercomputers controlling one replika?"
"That's a good question," said Aelita as she descended from the upper platform of the tower. Aelita exited the ower and walked down the path to the skid resting on the cliff. Repairs to the skid were as fixed as they were going to get. The window was repaired and the engines were online. Shield strength was low but it could hold flying through the digital sea again. Aelita boarded the skids and prepared to make the plunge back into the network. The skid drifted out the access portal and onto the network. The skid had several dings in it and its engines were only working at 50%. Aelita fired the main engine and sent Aelita out of the gravity field of the replika. Aelita was on course for Lyoko with was a good hour away unless she used a hub. But instead she altered course for the nearest replika on radar to look for her missing friends.
On the ice sector replika Parker and William were sleeping inside the tower about 1000 yards from the crash site. Parker woke up first and quietly rolled out of Williams embrace and began accessing data in the tower. Parker thought to himself about how he could get Jeremy's attention in order to get rescued. "I need to activate the tower," Parker said to himself. "That way Jeremy will pick it up on the super scan."
William woke up to Parkers talking and said, "good morning Hun."
"Morning," said Parker as he activated the tower, its normal white glow changed to a dark purple glow and a shockwave ripped out from the tower traveling through the network shaking the surfice of every replika and ever thing in its path.
Aelita felt the shockwave and homed in on the source. "Jeremy I found someone they activated a tower on the ice sector replika."
Jeremy ran a super scan, "I see that you're on course for it right now. You should reach it in about half an hour."
"I'm off," said Aelita sending the skid into full speed.
William and Parker were getting back up to their feet as the ground shaking tremor subsided and the tower went back to normal. It was still active but now the tower could be used to do anything. Parker went through the codes and deactivated the tower so that xana couldn't use it for his own purpose. He leaned down on the floor and hugged William and kissed him passionately. During the kiss the tower rocked hard and the two feel to the floor. Seconds later Aelita came walking into the tower
"Well boys having fun?" asked Aelita as she stepped into the center of the tower.
"Aelita!" yelled the two boys springing to their feet running to and giving her a big hug.
"How bad is everything?" asked Parker releasing Aelita from the hug.
Aelitas face turned grim as she answered, "not good. There has been no word from Odd or Ulrich and Yumi is back on earth hurt badly."
The skid cruised along the network on course for Lyoko with nothing happening things were boring. "After we get back to Earth what are we going to do about finding Odd and Ulrich?" asked Parker as he tracked their way home.
Aelita was doing some system checks on the skid when she replied, "we are first going to finish repairing the skid then we are going to find Odd and Ulrich."
"Sorry guys but you're going to have to postpone returning home a little bit longer," said Jeremy's voice over the skid comms. "I have just located Odd and Ulrich and we might as well get them now before you return to Lyoko."
"Roger Jeremy altering course," said Aelita as she turned the skid about toward another new replika. As Aeilita and the crew reached the new replika and entered the desert trouble hit, Jeremy's scan lite up with the super scan.
"Activated tower in the desert sector," said Jeremy as he began programing repair programs. The skid rose out of the digital sea right next to the tower Odd and Ulrich were in. Odd and Ulrich were standing next to the tower and the crashed navskid. They were back in their uniforms again and were well rested. The navskid docked with the skid and latched on, as the broken window repaired its self. Odd and Ulrich climbed into the skid that's when trouble hit big time. A large explosion ripped through the replika treating the doom apart. The digital sea came pouring into the replika the skid was ripped from the tower and sent crashing into the doom wall. The lights in the skid went dark as the doom filled with the sea. Out of the darkness a light appeared and surrounded the skid pulling them all the way back to Lyoko.