The familiar flash of light scanned me up and down and I felt tingly and closed my eyes to shield them from the light. I opened then again and found myself in a dark world. I looked down to see moving platforms below me and I gulped as I began to descend. I missed the platform below me by a foot and just barely managed to grab onto its edge and pull myself onto the surface. "What is this place, Jeremie?"

The sky was a dark shade of gray and the ground was a dark burgundy color. The layout resembled a mix of the mountain sector and forest sector, having mountainous structures, narrow paths, moving platforms, and tall tree like structures that went on forever into the sky. "It's like the forest and mountain sector if they had an evil baby," I articulated.

"What?" he sounded confused. "Emma you should be in the new ice sector, that's the one I programmed in. Do you see any towers?"

I scanned the vicinity and spotted a tower in the distance, "it sticks out like a sore thumb," I told him. I stood up and moved backward, taking a running leap to the next moving platform and continued that way until I reached solid ground. "Should I go in or what?"

"No. This sector is unfamiliar to me and I don't know what going into a tower in this sector will do. Just… hang tight," he said. I could hear Odd yelling in the background.

"Jeremie, I agree with Odd, whatever he's saying. I'm assuming that he's saying you screwed up big time?" I asked him.

"That's about right. Don't worry, Emma, I'm getting data on this sector right now… I don't understand how it could have sent you there. I entered the coordinates for the Ice region. Try to explore a little, I guess. Maybe this is a blessing and we just don't know it yet."

I decided to take him up on that. I walked down the path and took in my surroundings. It looked like a typical Lyoko Sector; a sun-less sky, a digital sea, and platforms suspended above the sea, which was a thick, dark blue. Usually there was some pellucidity to the sea, at least in the other sectors. Light patches of fog drifted just above each platform and I found that walking through them caused them to thicken and grow, making it harder and harder to see around the sector. "Jeremie, can you receive a visual?" I asked. "This place is way freaky; it's different than the other sectors. The sea isn't transparent as it usually is and there is this light fog that gets thicker whenever I walk into it. I'm going to climb up one of the trees so you can see this place. It's pretty eerie…"

"Thanks Emma, have you seen any signs of other life forms?" Jeremie asked as I found a tree to ascend.

"No? That would be a bad thing, right?" I asked.

"This world is X.A.N.A.'s creation," he told me quietly. I guessed that he didn't want Odd to hear because he knew Odd would bite his head off. "So yes it would."

"Jeremie, that could be really bad for me, don't you think?" I asked but tried to remain calm. I found that the trees in this sector had branches unlike the ones in the forest. I sat down on the first one and looked out over the sector, scanning for any signs of life. "How could X.A.N.A. have created it?"

"Remember I had you analyze data from that computer? Well it seems that X.A.N.A. was expecting that and loaded in his own sector into the disk you used and when you emailed it to me, that created this world and I loaded that onto my computer… and now you're in his world and I have no way of accessing the codes to bring you back home," he said, panic rising in his voice with every word.

"Jeremie, calm down… I will lie low until you figure things out. Tell everyone whats going on so everyone is in the loop… I trust you, you'll bring me back," I said soothingly. "Is there any way I can go to the ice sector you programmed from this sector? Then you could rematerialize me from there?"

"I'm trying to get the layout of this sector and see if there are any safe way-towers connected to the ice sector. The computer says that the two sectors are connected but I don't know where yet."

I nodded in response and was about to respond but a flash of movement caught my eye. I turned and looked to the edge of the branch I sat on and saw a bird-like creature that resembled a crow with metallic talons and tip feathers. It had red tinted black eyes and X.A.N.A.'s eye placed on its chest. The bird was about the size of a Blok and twice as fierce looking. I jumped up and off of the branch just as it made a move on me. I had a quick look around to see there were five identical creatures circling above me.

"Jeremie, do you see this?" I asked as I checked my hands to make sure I still had my weapon. I did, thank god.

"I do. I'd run or attack if I were you," he advised. "I've got the sector almost totally mapped out. When I'm done I'll give you the coordinates and you can go to the ice sector and then come home."

"These things look like they are going to be a pain in the ass to kill," I confided and took aim for the one that tried to attack me and fired, missing as it launched itself out of the way. "Can I call my Overmorph here?"

"Try it," he suggested. "I have the program loaded into the system, plus I fixed it up so it will load faster."

I called my vehicle to me and jumped on just as two of the birds spiraled down toward me, screaming their battle cry. I moved quickly, going airborne and doing a sharp U turn toward the birds, firing repeatedly at the beasts, barely managing to kill one of them. I still had five to deal with and it didn't look like I would be able to take them out. "These things are a crap load faster than any of the other monsters we've fought, I think," I told Jeremie just as of of them managed to land an attack on me, scratching my arm. Instead of my arm spurting electricity as it would have any other time in Lyoko, I actually felt as though I had been clawed at by a bird. "And they hurt! Jeremie, did you find it yet?"

"Yes! Here are the coordinates! Hurry up and don't get hit again because that attack just took out 60 life points!" he hollered and told me the coordinates of the way tower I needed. I kicked my Overmorph into overdrive and high tailed it toward the proper tower and powered through it and downward, coming up on the other side in the ice sector. The downside? The birds followed me. They were able to pass through towers, which wasn't possible in the old Lyoko.

"Jeremie! Hurry up and bring me back!" I screamed as I dodged attacks from the birds left and right. One bird's attack did destroy my Overmorph. I flew off of it, rolling onto the ice sector's light white-blue surface. I rolled onto my back and watched as five furious black birds came barreling down at me, ready to make their kill.

Luckily for me, Jeremie was faster than they were.

But just barely. One of the birds did manage to peck at my chest once just as Jeremie rematerialized me. I came out of the scanner dazed and woozy as I always did, but instead of coming out unscathed; I had scratch marks on my arm and felt a wound in my chest. I peeked and saw all of the wounds were bloody.

A/N: Another thing I didn't mention before... I am loosely following Evolution. I follow some things and ignore others. I don't want to mention everything now because I don't want to spoil anything.