Chris opens his eyes and sits up. He rolls his head and turns so that his feet touch the floor. He reaches out and grabs the digital clock on the end table next to his bed.
Chris sighs "Damn 2' o'clock in the morning. What am I going to do now?"
Chris stays there for a few minutes and then decides to get dressed. He throws on some clothes, grabs his skateboard and walks out of the school with ease.
As he walks through along the path toward the exit, street lights can be seen in the distance. The lights cast shadows that engulf the pathway. As he reaches the street Chris looks up and down the lone road. Every store and house in his view is pitch black, the only light that can be seen is the few coming from the working streetlights hops on his board and starts down the street. He goes up one street and down another; Chris soon travels half the city. After a while on his board wandering the streets he finds himself at the beach. He gets off his board and walks down one of the piers facing the sits down and places his board beside him. He watches the wave's crash into the rocks for a while. Winter had just past so all of the clouds has moved on to another country leaving the clear sky and moon to marvel at. Chris takes out his phone and checks the time.
"3:15, I did all of that and only an hour past!" Chris slams his hand down in frustration, almost losing his phone in the water.
After a couple of minutes Chris gets up and walks back to the street. He steps on his board and kicks off, as his board starts to move it hits something in the ground, stops and sends Chris flying.
"Ah goddamn it!" Chris sits up and grabs his knee
"Ahhh" Chris groans in pain. He lifts up his plant leg to find an evenly sized scrape.
"Damn it" Chris puts his pant leg back down and rubs his knee. Then Chris stands up and picks his board off the ground. He breathes in sharply to dull the pain in his knee. Chris puts his hand to the ground to find what flung him off. After a few seconds of fumbling in the dark he comes across some cold ground. He wipes some dirt off the ground and finds that the cold ground was an entrance to the sewer.
"I wonder if this leads to the factory" Chris stares at the cover for a few minutes.
Chris looks around and finds a plank of wood in the bushes. He jams it into the sewer cover and starts to pry the panel up. After a few heavy grunts and pushes the cover finally moves. Chris maneuvers himself into the sewer and closes the top so no one would discover it.
Chris drops down and looks around. Across the way he finds an old sign on the floor. He jumps across the gap within the sewer and kneels down in front of it. He rubs some dust off the sign and tries to read it. The original writing has faded, the only thing that can be seen is Xana's symbol and an arrow pointing to Chris' left down the sewer. Chris picks up his board and starts to walk. Chris walks for a while until he finds a point in the sewer where the water stops flowing. Chris jumps on his board and rides the pipe. The pipe suddenly ends and Chris finds a grate at the end of the path. Xana's symbol can be seen at the top.
Chris takes the end of his board and breaks the grate in as it hits the ground a loud clang. Chris takes his board and places it in the long covered pipe.
"This is a bad idea" Chris sits on the board and pushes himself down the long narrow passage in the pipe.
Chris yells as he goes faster and faster down the pipe. Chris then notices a sharp decline the the pipe ahead. After a couple tries to stop himself, he grabs onto his board and yells even louder as holds on for his life. The pipe turns left and right, throwing Chris back and forth on his board. The pipe suddenly ends sending Chris flying into a metal grate. As he crashes into the grate, it fly's open and Chris falls to the floor of the supercomputer room.
"Ugh. That hurt a lot" Chris wobbles as he stands up. When Chris stands and regains himself he finds Destiny standing in front of him with a faint smile
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"Hey Dest" Chris waves and starts to regain his breath.
"Chris what are you doing here" Destiny looks at Chris and then the grate that he had just shot out of.
"It's a long story" Chris watches her as she goes to the grate and looks inside. "It was defiantly the craziest thing I've ever done" Chris chuckles a little bit.
Destiny smiles but then quickly wipes it off. She puts the cover back on the grate and goes back to her seat.
There is a few moments of silence, the only thing heard is the clicking coming from Destiny's keyboard. Chris waits a few minutes and then walks over to her.
"So what are you doing" Chris leans over the chair and tries to read the screen.
"I'm looking through some of these files, trying to find something to help Luke"
"So who's that" Chris points to a blonde haired kid shown on the screen.
"That's Jeremy, He found and turned on the supercomputer the first time"
"Wow, and he recorded everything?"
"Pretty much. Everything that went in and out of Lyoko, plus all the damage Xana caused.
"That's cool"
Chris and Destiny listen to the screen as a video begins to play
"Dairy of Jeremy Belpois, November 22nd. I have found that if the pressure in the back of the scanners is released, there will be less of a chance that an error will occur with the virtualization process.
Destiny looks at Chris. "Did you hear that"
"Yeah what of it"
"Come on" Destiny jumps out of her chair and gets into the elevator. Chris slides in as the door closes.
"So you think its going to work"
"Yeah, from what I read the kid is a genius."
"Well if he is so smart how come he couldn't wipe out Xana entirely"
"Just go do it" Destiny motions Chris to the scanners
Chris moves on dragging his feet as he goes.
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As he reaches the scanners he stops and turns to Destiny "So how exactly am I supposed to do this.
"There should be a valve in the back go look for it"
Chris groans and looks around the back of the middle scanner while Destiny waits for him.
As Chris fumbles around the back Destiny walks up to the scanner and looks at it.
"Hey did you know there is little like gauge on this thing"
"Huh what? I-I can't hear you from back here. Chris is still fumbling around in the back of the scanner.
"There is a gauge on this thi..." Destiny is cut short by a loud burst of air.
"I got it" Chris yells from the back and works his way back.
"Look that little arrow moved when you did that" Destiny points to the top of the scanner, waiting for Chris to look.
Suddently the scanner door shots open and Destiny jumps and holds on to Chris
She blushes and moves back.
Chris moves in front of her and puts one of his hands on his head. He smiles nervously for a few minutes.
The two stay in silence for a few minutes. Chris then leans in towards Destiny, as he gets closer she pushes him back and he falls into the open scanner.
"Ow, what was that for" Chris is on the floor of the scanner rubbing his head.
"Oh my god I'm so sorry" Destiny puts a hand over her mouth as she tries to help Chris up.
Meanwhile a floor above, the supercomputer was beginning to act odd. Then an exclamation mark flashes on the screen and then fades. A spark arises from a nearby outlet and hits the computer. The screen flickers on and off.
Back in the scanner room Destiny finally got Chris on his feet. Out of no where a siren blared and Destiny falls forward into Chris. The door closes behind them.
"Aw you have got to be kidding" Chris begins to shake, trying to get out.
Suddenly a whir type sound is heard and the two are surrounded by a beam of white light.
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Once the light fades the door opens and the two fall out of the scanner, Destiny winds up on top of Chris.
The two groan and sit up. Destiny is holding her head in pain, Chris is doing the same to his.
"What just happened?" Chris finally looks to Destiny
"I don't know, a malfunction with the scanners
Chris stands up wobbling the whole way. Once he is on his feet he walks over to Destiny and picks her up.
"Thanks" Destiny walks towards the elevator and calls for it. Chris soon joins her.
"Doesn't something feel off to you" Chris walks in the elevator
"Yeah, I cant put my finger on it though" The elevator door opens and Destiny walks out to the supercomputer room. "Maybe its" The two stop as they see five kids standing around in the room
"Hey!" How did you get in here" Chris walks up to the five. He is met by one of them. A kid with short brown hair and just a little shorter then him. He is wearing brown pants and a light brown shirt with a light green one open over it.
"Hey, listen you have no to right to barge in here" The kid is in the same fighting stance as Chris.
Destiny tries to hold Chris back "Come on Chris stop"
At the same time a tall Asian girl dressed in black and short black hair was trying to hold back the other kid "Ulrich stop, you don't even know who they are"
"No Yumi they need to explain themselves"
"Wait a minute those names sounds familiar" Destiny turns and looks at the group. "But I just cant place them'
A girl with short pink hair dressed in a purple and pink sweater with pink boots and shorts comes in between the fighting pair."Listen guys I just think they are lost and didn't mean to cause any commotion"
"Well then how did you get here, and how did you know how to use the elevator?" A boy gets up from the computer chair and walks over, he has blonde hair and glasses, he is also dressed in a blue long-sleeved shirt and light brown pants
Destiny and Chris look at each-other and then back to the boy. The turn and whisper to each-other "Chris doesn't he really look familiar"
"Yeah wasn't he from that video on the computer"
"Yeah, this is getting weird"
The two continue to talk to a few minutes, the others wait for a response.
"Jeremy what are we going to do, they are going to blow our whole secret" Another boy comes from a spot against the wall and whispers in the blonde haired boy's ear
"I got it" Jeremy runs to the supercomputer and begins to type away. "I'll launch a return and then we can stop them from finding out.
"Ok good just hurry up, Ulrich is getting antsy" The Asian girl walks over and puts her hand on the chair as she watches Jeremy type.
Chris yells out to Jeremy from across the room "Before you do that, tell me are you Jeremy Belpois? The boy who found Lyoko?"
Jeremy stops typing and looks to Chris and Destiny "Well uhm yes but how do you know about that.
Chris turns white and turns to Destiny "Please tell me you know what is going on here?"
Destiny falls and sits on the floor "Xana...Its the only explanation. I don't know how he did it but he found some way to send us back in time!"
Chris lays down next to her "Well we're screwed" He closes his eyes and puts his hands over them trying to comprehend what is happening to him
"Are these guys serious do they really think they traveled in time" A new boy emerges from behind everyone." He has blonde hair with purple spots with he has in a point. He is dressed in a purple long sleeved-shirt on top of a red tank and jeans.
Yumi adds in a word of advisement."Odd, we travel in time"
"Oh yeah" Odd rubs the back of his head "Well still how do they know about Xana and Lyoko"
The pink haired girl walks over to Jeremy "Jeremy? What do you think? Should we trust them?" The four await Jeremy's response.
Jeremy takes off his glasses, rubs his eyes and puts them back on. He turns to face everyone. "What do you know about Lyoko?"
Destiny looks up at Jeremy and the others. "It's a virtual computer world with vast amounts of information controlled by a sentient program named Xana" Destiny stands up.
"That's right" Jeremy places his hands together and rests his head on them. "Have you been to Lyoko?"
"I haven't but he has" Destiny points to Chris who looks up
Jeremy turns back to the screen and begins to type
"Can I scan him? If you really have been in Lyoko there should be a virtual identity for you somewhere on the network.
"Yes. Chris get up"
"You expect me to trust these guys, we don't even know if this is real" Chris waves his arms around in disbelief.
Destiny smacks Chris in the back of the head "You felt that didn't you"
Chris grumbles and heads to the elevator.
"You guys go too I want you in if something starts to go haywire"
"Finally some action" Odd runs to the elevator and makes it in before Chris
Chris looks at him and them puts his hands in his pockets, waiting for the others. The the other kids pile in the elevator Destiny walks over to Jeremy.
The pink haired girl stops and looks at Destiny
"You too Alieta, I may need you to read some information."
"Yeah sorry" She meets the others in the elevator and they travel down.
Everyone is staring at Chris in the elevator. Chris starts to notice
"Can I help anyone here" As he turns his head to look at them they turn their heads away. The door opens. "I guess not" Chris walks over to the scanner and steps inside
"Good luck" Ulrich adds in before the doors close in a dull unmanageable voice.
"Do you think these guys are for real?" Odd steps in one scanner.
"Only one way to find out" Ulrich steps in the last one.
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Jeremy is typing away at the computer "Scanner Ulrich, Scanner Odd, Transfer Ulrich, Transfer Odd. Virtualization! He awaits for their responses
"We're here einstein. Wheres the new guy" Odd and Ulrich walk around in the forest sector. Odd is dressed in the same way in the real world only now he has purple cat paws. Ulrich is dressed in an orange and black samurai outfit and matching orange headband.
"Just a second. I need all the computer power so I'm sending you guys first, Alieta and Yumi should be coming soon" Jeremy types again "Scanner Alieta, Scanner Yumi, Transfer Alieta, Transfer Yumi, Virtualization!" Again he awaits their response
The two land just behind Ulrich and Odd. Yumi is wearing a female Japanese samurai outfit and Alieta is wearing a pint shirt atop a white one with a short pink skirt and white leggings.
"Ok Jeremy we are here" Alieta meets the two boys with Yumi right behind her.
"Ok then here we go" Jeremy starts to type but then stops
Destiny looks at the screen "Whats wrong"
"I don't have a identity for him but the virtualization process is going off without a problem" Jeremy regains himself and starts to type again "Scanner Chris, Transfer Chris, Virtualization!"
A flash of light surrounds Chris and before he knows it he is being virtualized in Lyoko. "Home sweet home" Chris takes out his sword and marvels at it a bit before putting it back.
"That's a cool sword but do you know how to use it" Ulrich takes out his katana and gets in a fighting stance.
"I'm going to enjoy this" Chris takes his sword and rests it on his shoulder "Whenever you're ready tough guy" He gives Ulrich a devilish smile
"Ulrich do you have to do this right now" Yumi tries to get a hold of the situation
"Yah! Super-Sprint" Ulrich runs at Chris with incredible speed as he meets Chris he takes a swing with his katana. Chris moved out of the way ever so slightly.
"Nice Try" Chris launches at Ulrich and slices with his big sword. Ulrich's katana meets Chris' blade. The two go back and forth for a few minutes, each slashing and meeting each-others weapon. Ulrich tries a horizontal slash but Chris jumps out of the way just in time
"Lighting slash!" As Chris yells from his increased height, his sword begins to glow, when he tries to hit Ulrich he misses, however when Chris' sword hit the ground a beam of light came out and moved towards and hitting Ulrich. Ulrich falls on his back losing his sword. Ulrich groans for a little bit
Chris puts his sword away and goes to help Ulrich up. He extends his hand but Ulrich pushes him away. "I'm fine, I can do it myself." Ulrich stands up and finds his sword, he then turns his back to Chris.
"Well now that that is all squared away lets get you guys back to earth so we can think of a plan"
"Fine with me, theirs too much awkwardness in this air, I think I'm choking on it" Odd holds his throat and gags as he is devirtualized.
Chris watches the others get devirtualized and waits for his turn. Once everyone is back on earth they all meet in the supercomputer room.
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"Look I don't know how the two got here or how we're going to get them back, all I know is that for now their here to help us and we are going to accept that." Jeremy gets up and starts for the elevator. "Everyone clear on that"
Various yes' are heard as they pile into the elevator. Yumi stops Ulrich before they go inside. "What was that about" She puts her hands on her hips as she awaits his answer.
"I just don't trust them, that's all." Ulrich tries not to meet Yumi's eyes.
"Well until we know for sure try to be a little nice to them ok" She stares at Ulrich "OK!"
Ulrich blushes a little "Yes"
"Good, now come on" They head into the elevator and the doors close.
Once the doors close the lights begin to flicker. As they do a figure in a black hood and cloak can be seen in the shadows. Xana's symbol burning a bright red on the top of the hood.
Authors note: Well here it is, hope you like it. Sure took me a long time to type. Tell me what you think and keep dropping those new characters lol, i appreciate it. Hopefully my next chapter wont take as long.