As Jeremie, Jim, Yumi, Rukia, and Sissi watched, red triangles met up with the three white ones that represented the group. Occasionally, a card would show up with one of the boys' avatars on it along with a round black ball's card or a strange bean shaped enemy. While communicating with the group on Lyoko, Jeremie explained to the newcomers, "Everything has life-points. An attack will do a certain amount of damage. When you run out of life-points, you are devitalized. The only way to do any damage however is to hit the strange eye on your opponent's body. We however can be attacked anywhere on our bodies."
Jim looked at the screen, "Wait, so if Aelita gets hit 10 more times then she gets devitalized?"
Jeremie looked at the screen, "Aelita, you only have 10 life-points, what are you doing?"
Jeremie, they snuck up on me!
As Jeremie and the others watched, Aelita's card went grey and her icon vanished from the screen. A few minutes later, she sighed before explaining. "It's pretty bad out there, I tried to stay out of the way but then I got fired on before I knew it. We may have to bring in another team."
Jeremie frowned. "Alright, I don't know how we'll deactivate the tower but I'll send Yumi in." At that moment however, Ulrich's card also went grey. With a sigh, Jeremie added, "And Rukia."
After Yumi and Rukia had been transferred, Jeremie was shocked to hear an alarm. He tried to figure out what was going on before Jim pointed to the white cell phone in Jeremie's pocket.
With a sinking heart, Jeremie pulled out his Soul Pager. "Rukia? Can you come back here?"
I'm a little busy, what's wrong?
"Hollows."
Give Aelita the computer and use your Soul Candy to get into Soul Reaper form.
"I can't do it! Last time was a fluke!"
There's too many of them for me to return. One false move and all three of us are down. You're a Soul Reaper, you can do it.
Face pale, Jeremie took off the headset he was wearing. "Aelita, I have to go."
Aelita thought for a moment, "We need to get a program for that. I'll stay here and keep an eye on things."
With that, Jeremie handed her the headset and grabbed his Soul Candy. "Well, here it goes." With that, he popped a pill into his mouth and his body fell to the ground before getting up.
Jim gasped, "What… why are there two Jeremies?"
"What are your orders?" The soul in Jeremie's body asked.
"Stay here." Jeremie said, running off in the direction that his Soul Pager was showing him.
Jeremie ran off, grumbling under his breath. The Hollow was in the city and pretty far away from Kadic. At last, he made it to the Hollow and pulled his sword out before defeating it. Right as he was in the middle of sheathing it, another appeared and another. At last, he made it back to the factory and into his own body.
"So how did you do?" Rukia asked.
"There were ten of them."
"What!?" Rukia roared.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
Rukia checked her Soul Pager. "I've been ordered to return to the Soul Society."
Jeremie started swearing until he heard another alarm and checked it to see that he had a message on his phone. At first, the message was in Japanese before switching to French. "So have I. But I don't have to go… do I?"
Rukia nodded. "You're a Reaper. Even if you haven't been admitted to a Squad yet, you have to follow orders."
Aelita, watching the screen, sighed in relief. "The path to the tower is clear. Odd's going to try and get in."
As one, the group stared at the screen, saw Odd enter the tower, and then Aelita heard a gasp.
Hey Aelita, how do I deactivate the tower?
"What does it say?"
At first it said Odd and now it's asking me for a code.
"Try Lyoko."
It didn't work."
Aelita stared at the screen and then,
I just tried a few and for some reason KIWI did.
A.N. I picked codes that hold meaning for the Warriors. Since Aelita only knew Lyoko in the beginning, she uses that as a code. The thing that holds most meaning for Odd is Kiwi.
