AN: I've decided that some parts should be in third person POV and some other parts in Star's. If you guys want, I could have some stuff in your OCs' POV. Just notify me first.
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Chapter 2 – Houston, We Really Do Have A Problem
NO POV
Adam Belpois absolutely refused to get up. But Tommy, sensing that Star really needed him, went with her. Star sighed impatiently while her older brother scurried around his room, trying to find something to put on instead of going in his pajamas.
"Tommy! Just put on your slippers and let's go!" Star yelled.
"Selena! Calm down! I am not, let me repeat that, I AM NOT going in my slippers! They're new for crying out loud!"
"I can't believe you're my brother...Tommy! Just slip something on!"
Tommy finally found his socks and his sneakers and slipped them on with extra care, because he was doing it in the dark. Star was literally tapping her foot with impatience. He followed his sister to the factory and almost fell to the ground when Star shoved an oversized book into his arms.
"What the heck is this?" He asked.
"Open it and read it!" Star shouted with a mysterious excitement in her voice.
He did and noticed the first line. "'Code: Earth'? What the heck is this?"
"Oh, come on, Tommy! Remember what Mom and Dad told us? The stories they told to us?"
"No. That was you. They told you the stories."
Star sighed in exasperation. She forgot that they never told Tommy the stories about the fantasy virtual land called 'Lyoko'.
"But I was listening to some stories on some nights. It was on the nights that I wasn't really tired and I was curious of what Mom and Dad were telling you. I never heard of 'Code: Earth' before, but I have heard of 'Big Fat Cheese Head'."
Star got excited again and shouted to him, "Look it up! Look it up!"
"Jeez...you get excited easily. No offence, but it's kind of annoying." Tommy covered his ears, because Star's voice was in his ears.
"Shut up..."
When they found the term 'Big Fat Cheese Head', Tommy read aloud, "'Big Fat Cheese Head - the term/code used to start the self-virtualization process.'" (I think...)
There was silence, and then, "Can we test it out, Thomas?"
"First of all, it's not Thomas. It's Tommy. Second, that is a big, fat, ugly no. And third, are you friggin' crazy? Something'll probably go wrong! We don't know what 'virtualization' is, let alone 'self-virtualization'! Selena, I said 'no'," Tommy told her.
Star pouted, but then yelled, "It's not Selena! It's Star!"
"Well, to me, you'll always be my little sister named Selena." Tommy smirked.
Star pouted again. Then she said, "Give me the darn book!" She tore the book out of Tommy's arms and opened and looked up something herself. She found it in two minutes.
"Ah-ha!" Star shouted. "Eureka! Tommy, go down that ladder right there and step into one of the cylinders. Tell me when you are ready," she said while pointing at the ladder against the wall.
He sighed. "Selena, I don't think you should be the one telling me what to do."
"Tommy! Just go!" Star shouted.
After Tommy went down, Star went to the computer and put on the headphones with the book lying open on her lap.
She cracked her knuckles. "Okay...how do I do this?" Just as she was about to ask Tommy what his position was, an alert like sound filled the computer room. She looked to the screen and saw a window that had a red exclamation mark on it. She quickly looked in the book to see what it meant, and read about an activated tower and then under it, it told how to deactivate the tower. Star nodded.
"Tommy, what's your position?" Star shouted into the headset.
"I'm in the cylinder thing. When can I get out?"
"Not now. Face the front," Star's voice filled the scanner room.
"I am, you idiot."
"Well, sorry. I can't see you. Alright. Here goes!" Star exclaimed. "Transfer Tommy!" Mind you, she was reading the instructions out of the book.
The doors to the scanner closed.
"Scanner Tommy!"
Tommy felt his body being scanned like he was going through one of those scanners at an airport. He didn't like it.
"V-Virtualization!" Star shouted and pressed enter, just like the book told her to.
Tommy felt his body being pulled into a vortex. The next thing he knew, he was in the air. Then, he fell to the ground on his feet at first, but he was crouching down and then he fell onto his butt.
"Ow..." He rubbed his hip bone.
"Tommy!" He jumped when he heard Star's voice.
"Selena?" He looked around him, but all he could see was desert. (I almost typed 'dessert'!)
"Oh, thank God!" Star was relieved that her brother hadn't died.
"Selena, what in God's name am I doing here?"
"Oh! Your card looks so cool! Take a look at your outfit!" Star told him.
He looked down at his outfit. He wasn't in his pajamas anymore. He wasn't even in his regular day time stuff. He was wearing a red shirt with two dragons, one on the front and one on the back. He also had fingerless gloves on his arms with red and blue stripes wrapping around them. He was wearing blue pants with black and green stripes. On his feet were converse-looking shoes with a mini XANA symbol on the back in flames.
"That's right. I look super awesome!" He said pumping his fist into the air while winking.
STAR'S POV
As soon as my brother said that, I quickly turned to the page with the 'Big Fat Cheese Head' thing. I found it and typed in the code. A timer came up and I quickly set down the book on the chair, unhooked the headset from my ear and climbed down the ladder.
I entered a scanner and the scanner closed ten seconds later.
Transfer Star! I thought in my head. Scanner Star! I felt my body being scanned. Virtualization! I felt my body being pulled into a vortex. I felt myself in the air and then I dropped and unfortunately landed on my butt.
I got up and looked down at myself. I was wearing a dark pink mini skirt and a matching top that went over pants and a long shirt that were both light pink, with hot pink gaiters that wrapped around them, and matching (what appeared to be wrapped) shoes. My ears were pointed, like an elf's. I also had light pink, hot pink-edged sleeves cut off from my shirt. In fact, they only covered my lower arms. I also had two six-pointed flower clips in my hair that were gold, one on my right side and the other on my left. I looked pretty good too.
I found Tommy still looking for me.
"Tommy!" I waved when he turned around. "I'm over here!" He ran over to me.
"Okay, now what?"
"I remember reading something in the book about deactivating the tower. The aura surrounding the tower should be red. That should be an activated tower if you see a red tower."
Tommy pointed something red out in the distance. "Is that the tower?"
I squinted to get a better look at it. "Yeah! Good job, Tommy!"
We ran to the tower, but we were stopped by some little monsters.
"What are those?" Tommy asked. "Roachsters?" One of them fired a laser at Tommy. It hit his shoulder. His shoulder sparked a little.
"What the heck?"
"I read something about having powers on Lyoko! Concentrate or something!" I yelled at him.
NO POV
Tommy did what Star wanted him to do. He held out his hand and concentrated. A red aura surrounded one of the monsters. Tommy's eyes widened and then he smirked. He closed his fist immediately and the roachster exploded into pixels. Tommy laughed.
"Selena! Did you see that?"
"I saw! I saw!" Star shouted. She was dodging lasers like hell had gone loose. "Can you try it again?"
He held out it hand face side up. A red orb was hovering above his hand. "I can totally do this!" He threw the energy field at a monster and it exploded. There was one more left.
But this one was smart. It kept dodging Tommy's energy fields. It fired lasers all over the place. Tommy tried to dodge them all, but it was epic fail. He counted precisely. He got hit, including the first time, seven times. (Meaning, he has 30 life points left.)
STAR'S POV
I had to do something to help him. I remembered reading in the book that one girl had to sing to change the landscape. What if I had that power? I had to try.
I dropped to my knees, folded my hands together and started to sing. I kept peeking at the roachster to see if was doing anything. Suddenly it fell and then a beam went flying up five seconds later. I looked at where the monster was standing and saw the landscape close back up. I smiled. I looked over at Tommy.
"So, now what?" Tommy asked me.
"Now, we deactivate the tower," I said with confidence. But my look of confidence turned to a look of worry when I saw Tommy's expression.
"What's wr-" I was cut of by Tommy's voice.
"Selena! Behind you!"
I slowly turned around and saw a huge cylinder lying on its side. It opened up and a huge vertical beam spread across the landscape. And I was in the way of the laser!
I squeezed my eyes shut and waited for the beam to hit me, but it never came. I opened my eyes just in time to see Tommy fade away into pixels.
I started to cry. I didn't want to be alone. I definitely didn't want to be involved with the murder of Tommy Cornelius Belpois. I didn't know what to do.
NO POV
As soon as Tommy got out of that scanner, he ran back to the computer room. He put on the headset and sat down on the chair and put the book on his lap.
"Selena!" He shouted. "Are you still there?"
Star literally got tears in her golden eyes when she heard his voice.
"Tommy?"
"Yeah, I just read that the monster you're facing right now is called a Megatank. Each of its lasers takes away 50 life points. You have 100 life points when you're first virtualized on Lyoko. Right now, you have 50 life points, Selena. Be careful. One hit and you're gone."
"Thanks, Brother."
"Anytime, Sis."
STAR'S POV
I decided to sing again. So I dropped to my knees again, closed my eyes, folded my hands prayer-style, and started to sing. I could feel the ground shake like it was an earthquake, but somehow I was unharmed. The earthquake stopped and I opened my eyes just in time to see a beam rise up from the sea below and the ground reform.
I smiled. I remembered about the tower and I ran towards it. I stopped because there was no way into the tower.
"The book specifically said, 'Enter the tower and walk up to the second platform. There will be an interface and place your hand on it. Let it play its part from there.' The problem is, there's no entrance." I placed my hand on the tower. Blue rippled came from my hand and I pushed my hand into the tower. My hand reached air on the other side and I walked all the way in.
Inside was a platform. I looked up and there was the second platform. Another problem, there were no stairs.
"Selena, walk to the middle of the platform," Tommy said. "The book says walk to the middle of the first platform and wait for your body to be lifted up." I did and when I was lifted up, I was surrounded in a blue aura and felt weightless. I felt so happy, that I even did a single back flip before landing on the second platform.
I walked to the middle of the platform and an interface automatically popped up. I jumped back a little in surprise. I placed my hand on it and my name showed up:
SELENA_
Then:
CODE_
L_Y_O_K_O_
I stepped back to admire my work and said, "It's done, Tommy! Tower deactivated!" The screens around me fell and I felt myself being pulled into the vortex again.
NO POV
As soon as Star stepped out of the scanners, she felt herself swaying on her feet. She fell into Tommy's arms. She whispered to her older brother, "That was very tiring..." Star fell asleep right there in her brother's arms.
Back at Kadic, it was still dark. Tommy checked his watch. 12:32. Oh, good. Tommy carried his sister back to her room and then he went to his room. He didn't even bother to undress. He jumped into bed, threw the covers over him, and fell asleep with his socks and sneakers on.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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A/N: I hope you like it. I sure did! Review, please! And if you have any ideas, please tell me! ^_^