Code Lyoko: Xanatex Revolution

DISCLAIMER:
Code Lyoko belongs to Moonscope. Everything mentioned here that was in the original show is theirs. However, all characters and other monsters and XANATEX are mine. Please do not steal. :)

Day One: Factory; 6:30pm; Lab Room

"Sanner, Kyle."

Sean was in the middle of scanning the trio of teenagers into a recently rediscovered world called Lyoko. He didn't know what to expect, but tried to keep his concentration as he digitalized his friends.

"Scanner, Yugo." He secretly feared that he would slip and hit the 'delete' button and erase his friends forever. The journals hadn't gone into much details about what had happened on Lyoko, so he just had to hope that nobody would be killed.

"Scanner, Shirley." Sean was sweating bullets by now, the droplets of perspiration dripping onto the bridge of his nose, making his thin, wireframe like glasses slip down on his nose. He pushed them nervously back up and continued the process of virtualization.

By now, the blank picture cards had been starting to generate a picture of the kids, but it wasn't fully completed yet. Finally, he reached the last two steps. "Transfer, Shirley." Then, his voice uneven, uttered what would be the beginning of a whole new adventure like no other before. Well, at least to his knowledge.

"Virtualization."

Lyoko; Metal Sector; ?:?

The landscape here is completely metal, with bits of rust in places. The metal is shiny in some places, and dull in others. The hills were metal, and there were large metal blocks rising out of the ground. Some were as tall as trees, others were only a few feet high. It was like being trapped in the world's weirdest video game. There were large gaps in the metal, and the areas that had paths were only about twenty feet wide, and surrounded by nothingness.

Slowly, a wireframe of the three teenagers appeared high in the air, then started to fill in. When each character landed on the ground with a dull clang, then stood up and examined the area and looked steady other's outfits.

"Woah, Kyle. Dude, you look awesome." Shirley said, impressed. She was dressed in a black body suit with white lines running all around it a futuristic circuit like pattern that looked like it was straight out of Tron. She had two black blade katanas strapped to her back, which she unsheathed slowly. The black energy charged swords made a sharp sound as they were withdrawn from their sheaths, like dragging a magnet across a sheet of metal. She switched the blades to look at her reflection. Her face remained unchanged, while her hair was a steel gray color, and sort of shimmered when she moved her head.

Kyle was examining his outfit, which was a black full body suit and lots of gray armor over top of it. He held a short metal stick, which when a button was pressed, as he did so just at that moment, extended into a double blade, 7 foot long, black and red staff. He held it up to the light and admired the wicked sharp edge to the staff, imagining how much that would suck to get sliced by it. He saw his reflection and saw that his hair had been straightened and was possibly even a little longer. He nodded in agreement with Shirley. "Yes, I do look awesome. So do you, and Yugo too!"

Yugo blushed and looked down at her not so ordinary outfit. It was a medium purple robe, with an outer came that was black with royal purple around the trim. In her hand she held a green staff, which a purple orb was gripped in. As she stood there, it crackled with magical energy. It appeared to be very powerful, which became apparent when she accidentally fired a laser beam from it, taking out a chunk of metal from a near by box. Her shoes were pointed and black, and had the XANA symbol on them, where the Nike swoosh would have gone. She looked utterly powerful, and probably felt powerful too. Her hair was jet black, and fell to meet at a point on her back. Her bangs were long and made her eyes have an almost scary looking shadow effect to them. She looked at herself in a nearby block of metal before seeing herself and blushing.

"I look ridiculous!" She stammered, embarrassed.

"Nonsense you look fine!" Shirley said, smiling. "You look powerful in that outfit. I'm almost jealous."

"Yeah, you actually do, Yugo." Kyle said, eying her staff. "That thing looks dangerous. You should watch where you long that."

Yugo laughs and agrees. Just then, from nowhere, Sean's voice appeared.

"Hey guys, I'd hate to break your little chat, but you've got company on the way." He said, his voice transferring into their ears.

"Sean! Where are you? Can you talk to us from your computer?" Shirley asked, intrigued.

"Yes, I found a headset while you guys were talking. It's really out of dated, but it will have to work for now." He said, smiling quietly to himself.

"Um, what was it that you said about company, Sean?" Yugo asked, gripping her staff.

"Oh, yeah." He said. "You've got a monster coming your way. It's relatively small, but it could be dangerous... You'd better be careful."

"Roger, Sean." Kyle said, doing a mock salute. Yugo and Shirley laughed while Sean just snorted. They soon heard a loud clanking noise and saw a small, creepy looking monster. It was only about a foot tall and looked like a potato with a tripod stuck into it. There was a single red eye on the front, and it peered around at the warriors. It had the XANA symbol on it's forehead.

"Um, Sean?" Shirley said. "That doesn't look very threatening." Suddenly, the small creature's eye began to glow and there was a humming sound as a stick of light appeared in front of the monster and began to spin.

"Hey, what's it doing?" Kyle asked, staring nervously at it. It turned to him and fired a laser at him. It hit him in the shoulder and he staggered, as the wounded part crackled with blue energy.

"Kyle, be careful! You only have one hundred life points to survive with, and you just lost twenty of them!" Sean said, staring at his screen as Kyle's life point bar went down a fifth.

"I stand corrected," Shirley said, narrowly dodging a laser. Then, she kept forwards and struck the thing head on. It staggered before blowing up, little particles of virtual matter flying through the air and disappearing. She stands straight and looks into the black blade of her katana and smiles.

"Okay, good job Shirley. We have to find the tower now, I'll try to find it." Sean said, relieved. He starts searching for it and soon finds it. "Okay guys, head west until you get to a fork in the path."

They nod and stow their weapons, Yugo's staff slung across her back, Shirley sheathing her katanas, and Kyle shortening his staff into the size of a flashlight and putting it on his belt. They all take off running, but had barely moved anywhere before thy encountered more monsters. A laser from what looked like a large Lego piece with four legs caught Yugo in the chest. She yelped and grabbed her chest, blue lighting dancing across it, the sign she had lost life points. The block seemed to grin at her, and his buddies, two more Lego blocks, spun their heads, whirring around. The original block did the same, but this time the laser was blue. She rolled to the side, the laser striking where her legs had just been. I've began to form, making a small rock before stopping. Yugo dove quickly to the safety, disappearing behind a large metal box, where Kyle was also hiding. "A little warning next time, Sean!" She said, looking up at the sky.

"Sorry," He said, watching her life points drop by thirty. "You just lost thirty life points, just so you know. And I wouldn't recommend getting hit by either of those lasers again."

"Gee, thanks Sean." She says sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

"Are you okay?" Kyle asked quietly, inspecting her. "Nothing permanent?" She nodded, confirming she was okay before slinging her staff of her back. Kyle's eyes going and he elongates his staff, twirling it once before gripping it so it was nearly parallel to the ground.

"Let's kick ass." Shirley said from behind them. They both jumped and turned around. Shirley appeared to be no where, until she moved, and they saw a ripple.

"Hey, Shirley! We can't see you." Kyle said, a weird grin on his face. "That's so cool! Maybe you can sneak up on them."

Shirley looked down in surprise, the only indication she was there was a slight ripple of movement, like heat on the too of cars distorts the air. She moved backwards and suddenly slipped into view. "I guess I can stay hidden while I'm standing relatively still..." She said, looking at her hands, which were now solid.

"I don't know, Shirley, but you all should hurry up!" Sean said, his voice laced with impatience. "We don't know if this XANA guy is strong enough to take control of objects in our world yet, but we shouldn't take any chances!"

Shirley sighed. "Stop being so bossy for once." She said. Then, she turned to the other two. "So what's the plan?"

"Well..." Kyle said. "Attack?"

They smiled and nodded. "I'll hit them from a distance while shooting lasers from my staff, while you two can charge in and kill them close up." They both nodded and wished each other lucky before Yugo jumped out from behind the box, firing lasers as fast as she could, which was only a dozen or so every 30 seconds. Kyle and Shirley dashed out and went on either side of her, sprinting towards the large Lego type monsters. Shirley jumped up and delivered a powerful slash to the left foremost corner of a block. The creature shuddered, but then spun it's head around and shot her point blank. Shirley flew backwards into Yugo, who thankfully hadn't fired a laser at her. They both tumbled on the ground, before picking them selves back up gingerly.

"I think you should try hitting the XANA symbol on them. Maybe that will do something, Shirley." Sean said anxiously, watching her life points. Kyle was currently battling hard with a box monster, deflecting lasers and not really getting any good strikes in. Then, suddenly he kept forwards, narrowly missing a laser and stabbed it right in the center of the XANA symbol before jumping back, already raising his staff to deflect another laser. But, to his great surprise, the block exploded.

"Yeah, thanks Sean." Shirley said, grinning. "We got it now."

Kyle ran back to them, deflecting a laser from hitting all three of them. "You guys okay?" He asked, his back to them. They nod and get up.

"We got this, Kyle." Yugo said, gently shoving him aside. Then, she aimed her staff at the block directly in front of her, before firing a laser at it, just as it fired a laser at her. They both found their marks, Yugo staggering as the laser caught her leg.

Shirley, meanwhile was dashing towards the other box, jumping quickly from side to side, trying to confuse it. Then, she jumped onto a nearby metal box, standing on top. She enjoyed the blocks' confusion before jumping down onto it from her hiding spot, driving her sword into the XANA symbol on the front face of the monster. She dashed back to the group and listened to a satisfactory blast of the monster exploding.

"Yugo, you have only forty life points left, be careful!" Sean cried, grimly watching her health drop.

"I'm trying, Sean." She replied, struggling to stand straight again. She turns to the others. "Let's go guys." They all dash off the path again, and soon reach the fork. They can see the tower now, and took the appropriate lane to get there. It was unguarded, thankfully, and they all sighed with relief.

"Maybe XANA didn't have the energy for more monsters." Kyle said, hopefully.

"I don't know, something seems fishy..." Sean said, rubbing his chin. Then, he shook his head. "Never mind, it doesn't matter. Just figure out who can access the activated tower!"

They all look at each other, wondering who should go first. "I think Yugo should, since she's the most badly hurt." Kyle said. Shirley nodded and Yugo stepped towards the base of the tower nervously. She walked towards it and then was stopped by her hands, which had been stretched out ahead of her.

"I'm not the one..." She said, almost relieved. Kyle looked suspicious and stepped forwards, putting his hand on the tower. Then, the tower rippled and his hand disappeared inside.

"Well, I guess I am." He said, walking inside the tower. "See you in a second."

Kyle proceeds to walk inside the tower and walk into the center of the platform, rings of the XANA symbol glowing as he stepped on them. He wondered what to do next and then, as if to answer his question, his body began to glow blue and lift up into the air. He gasped as he was taken for a ride, soaring upwards to another platform. There was a screen on this one. He placed his hand upon it and words spelled out:

KYLE

His name blinked a few times before it showed:

CODE: LYOKO

The screen disappeared, and he exited the tower. He turned to inspect the glow of the tower, which had turned back to blue before Yugo was shaking him.

"Kyle! Kyle! XANA took Shirley!"