Hello everyone! Partly due to writers block and a need for diversion I'm attempting my hand at a Code: Lyoko fic... be warned I know no French and will probably resort to using Japanese words that are strange and confusing to the uninformed... please bear with me while I attempt to tell you this little story... thank you very much and on with the show!
It's so hard to remember teachers or who is indeed in each class so I'll have to improvise, I hope no one minds....
Does anyone here know the name of those little four legged basically laser things? Not blocks or crabs, I just can't remember what these things are... as well as the name of those cronies that always hang around Sissy, I think one of them is named Herb..
Future Holds...
Chapter One: Transference
"Od! Be careful you only have ten more life points, try and conserve your ammunition you only have three arrows left"
Three crabs surrounded the boy who struggled to his feet, "easy for you to say in that chair..." he quickly dodged another blast, leaping into the air he landed with catlike reflexes on top of the middle crab,
The two flanking crabs immediately charged their cannons aiming straight toward their enemy. Od hung on tight with his clawed paws as the shots fired straight for him, in an instant he bounded from the top of the crab, the two shots flew in just below his form as it performed a flawless flip.
"Now!" he signaled firing two arrows directly on their mark,
From the scattered rocks Yumi and Ulrich stood, and in an instant their weapons were lodged in the metallic forms of the flanking crabs. All three of Xana's troops exploded in the following moment as time seemed to return to normal after slowing down for those action packed moments where one rarely notices the time has passed, all three stood at the bottom of a rocky patch of the Mountain Region.
"That was almost too easy!" Od bounded about hyper as he always was in Lyoko as a cat,
"I have to say it was almost too easy this time around" Ulrich yanked his sword from the soft earth in which it had lodged itself, "It's even more difficult for me to believe that Xana would use a different tower to create the same earthquake, he's tried that same tactic twice already"
"Speaking of towers Aelita should have reached it right about..." A great expanse of light shot forth from the horizon, "now" Yumi concluded as they were all engulfed in the returning past...
Aelita finished entering the code, she stood back to watch the glimmering data of the tower plummet to the abyss. For a moment the world reset, after the flash of light she was floating in a sea of pure darkness...
Her eyes fluttered open in the darkness of an instant she could swear she saw the glimmer of light something like she had never seen before...
"what?" she felt forward with her hand, she seemed to float forward toward this shimmering light, it felt so warm and familiar...
Her real eyes opened to the feeling of the cold metal floor of the light platform, all around her the data swirled, glowing in their surreal incandescent light against the darkness of the background.
"I wonder what that was..." she pulled herself from the floor below her until she was once again standing before the edge of the platform. She brought her hand to her chest feeling again the strange warmth she had only moments before, I wonder...
She turned from the edge falling back effortlessly into the sea of code that led to the scattered fields of Lyoko...
Riiiiinnnnnggg! "That was the bell everyone it is time to begin class..." a young woman with long blond hair stood before the class that as mentioned had just begun. Among the chattering of students it was instantly recognized that this was a substitute.
The blond haired woman wrote her name on the blackboard, "My name is Mrs. Idoru and I will be filling in for your math teacher today..."
She turned from the board to face her students, "and the first order of business today is to begin learning about exponential functions today..."
Briiinngggg Briinnnggg Brinnngggg
Mrs. Idoru was interrupted by the sudden interjection of the telephone, she put down the math book she was about to open, dashing for the receiver.
"I wonder what this is all about?" Ulrick stared at the teacher as she muttered into the phone, a few "yes sirs" and "no sirs" nothing upon which any information could be gleamed. It had apparently been a long time since the phone had been used, not including Xana attack related chaos.
"what do you think Od?" he turned his head to see the snoring form of his friend slumped over on his desk, apparently Od had decided to take advantage of the substitute situation, like he would on any other school related occasion.
He couldn't help but sweatdrop at his appearance( I haven't seen this in the show but I hope its there) "you really should get more sleep..."
The clatter of the receiver against the handle brought the chattering to a halt as Mrs. Idoru returned to her place beside the desk. She cleared her throat, "ahem, I have an announcement to make..." she paused for a moment gazing at the sleeping and mostly sleep needing students in wonder, "it would appear that this class will be receiving a new student..."
"what!" The collective gasp of the student body was astounding, and the following chattering mind numbing. Ulrich stared eyes wide in disbelief, That's impossible!
He scanned the room for Yumi and Jeremy who returned his puzzled and disturbed expression,
"How can that be!" cried a student, "we only have one more seat left and its my foot rest!" cried another in despair and anger, "yeah! And another female student would interfere with the crucial male/female balance that has carefully been built in this class...."
"What do you mean! We barely have any girls! Although it would be nice if it were a cute mature looking guy!" one of the girls yelled as her imagination began to run...
"what's going on already?" questioned the awake, but still groggy Od,
"Silence!" the blond woman screeched at the top of her lungs, in an instant all was such. She cleared her throat once more, "I believe the student has arrived..." a soft knocking sound was heard emanating from the door to the left. Mrs. Idoru walked toward the door smiling as she stared into the silhouette of the figure through the glass, "you may come in..." she twisted the handle of the door pulling it open....
All sound seemed to cease save for the footsteps of the new arrival, who walked slowly from the door to the middle of the room,
"What the hell..." Od's voice trailed off as he gazed at the scene before him,
"It's nice to meet you all, my name is Kiro Higureshi" a young boy roughly Ulrich's height bowed before them. His messy brown hair hung just slightly over his forehead, he straightened out to reveal a set of stunning green eyes. A charming smile hung about his face as he stared out into the student body before him, "I look forward to meeting you all..." his gaze wandered about the room, from Jeremy on the upper left to Yumi on the right. It was there were his gaze stopped and stayed for a moment longer than some people believed necessary.
"Thank you Mr. Higureshi, would you please take a seat at what I have been informed is our last seat next to Ulrich."
Ulrich watched as the boy approached him, This doesn't make any sense at all...
"Hello my name is Kiro, and you are Ulrich right?"
Ulrich stared from the boy's smiling face to his dark blue shirt and pants then back to the hand he held out.
Ulrich smiled shaking his hand, "yes, nice to meet you"
"It just doesn't make any sense at all..." Jeremy was first to voice his opinion,
"I was hoping you would have an answer, how could something happen that didn't happen before..." Yumi took a bite from her casserole as that same question mulled over in the minds of the entire group.
"Does this mean that every time we travel back into the past we run the risk of encountering alternate events?"
"I suppose it's possible, we have changed little events that we knew of before... however in this case it happened without us directly changing anything" Jeremy stared at his lunch in thought, "I suppose I should check with Aelita on it..."
"That would probably be best, I'll go with you" Yumi stood from her seat following Jeremy, "It should only take a second anyway, I have time"
"Are you sure? A second with Aelita to Jeremy usually means several hours, makes me wonder what you two talk about"
"Od! You know how sensitive Jeremy is about his relationship! I am shocked by your insinuations"
The two enjoyed a bout of laughter as Yumi and an extremely blushing Jeremy made their way from the lunch room,
A pair of green eyes stared at the retreating pair as they left the cafeteria, "I suppose it's almost time then..."
"Regardless of how he got here, what do you think about that new kid?" Od questioned as he casually leaned his chair back, "He seemed nice enough to me..."
"I don't know there is just something I didn't like about him..."
"Could it possibly be that he stared at a certain someone for a millisecond longer than necessary?" Od smirked
"I don't know what your talking about"
Ulrich turned away from his friend to find his gaze met by a familiar pair of startling green eyes, "umm, may I sit here?"
"Sure why not?" Od piped in cheerily from his flan
"thank you very much" the boy sat down on the chair next to Ulrick, "I think I remember this all now, your Ulrick, he's Od, and those two who were leaving just now are Yumi and Jeremy"
"yeah that's right... so Kiro, where do you come from?"
Kiro gazed down at his tray thoughtfully, "actually I was born in France, I just transferred here from Shiere Beloqois" the two gave him a rather blank stare....
"heheheh, its probably a place you've never heard of before" Kiro chuckled nervously as he stared at Ulrick and Od who paid more than partial attention to his story.
The door to Jeremy's room opened as he and Yumi filed through it. Jeremy sat down on the chair grasping the headset from the desk and placing it securely on his head, "Aelita can you hear me?"
In a moment the screen flashed and the same pink haired, green eyed, woman they all have come to know, respect, and love appeared before them.
"Yes I am here Jeremy, is there anything wrong?"
"That's what we wanted to ask you... we encountered an irregularity in the events since the time reset"
"Oh, in what way?"
Yumi stood from Jeremy's bed to be closer to the computer, "We received a transfer student in our class today, but that event did not occur before we reset"
"I see..." Aelita's gaze shifted down for a moment her hand on her chest, "As I think back there was an irregularity in Lyoko as well..."
"What do you mean Aelita?" This could be more serious than I thought...
"So what do you think of your new class?" Od had become much more interested in their new arrival since he had offered his desert,
Kiro smiled brightly, "hmm, well I haven't been here for very long, but I think I can grow to like it" The math is easy enough...
"you were so amazing! Solving that math problem so quickly, its all Greek to me..."
"It really is very easy, exponential functions are one of my favorites because no matter how much you go down you never reach zero... I can teach you if you want"
Od shook his head, "no thanks, but I'm sure Sissy would love your help, she's not very bright"
"hmm... you mean that one over there?" Od followed his hand over to the very same black haired girl, "yeah, how did you know?"
"I overheard her little group talking moments before, she sounds awfully conceited."
"that's what we've been saying! I think your gonna fit in very well here Kiro" Od gave him an assuring pat on the back, to which he sweatdropped, "ah, thank you..."
In an empty room somewhere within school walls a sink dripped. Pit Pat Pit Pat Pit Pat...
From within the darkened room an outlet flared with sparks, a black cloud wound its way from the plug. The faucet handle began to slowly turn releasing a deluge of water from the high powered nozzle, the water writhed and bubbled within the confines of the sink. It boiled and seethed over the boundaries spilling to the floor, like a gelatinous blob it rose slightly from the ground, electricity surged from the outlet and the beast began to grow. A red eye burned to life somewhere near its top...
"So you say you saw a bright light?" How peculiar...
Aelita nodded, "yes, during the time of the reset I could feel something in the darkness, even if that is impossible..."
"What was it like?" Yumi piped in from the corner of the chair, "It's hard to explain..." Aelita closed her eyes in thought, "it was like it was familiar, something I should know but I can't quite..."
Suddenly her eyes shot open, "Jeremy I sense a tower being activated!"
Jeremy leaned forward, "What!? Where is it?"
"The pulsations seem to be emanating from the Forest Region"
"Alright we will meet you there!" Jeremy swung the chair around dashing out of the room as Aelita disappears from the screen,
They are running at top speed through the hallways, "Yumi get Od and Ulrich on the phone, tell them to meet us at the factory, its time to go to Lyoko"
Yumi nods slowing down as she grasps her cell phone from her pocket.
Lunch was just about over, Ulrick, Od, and Kiro were still sitting around the same table, nursing their respective lunches. "So see anyone you like yet?"
Kiro sighed, "well Od, that's kinda a personal question..." his gaze shifted from Od to Ulrick who had been quietly staring at him for some time now, "but if I were to say someone..." he noticed now Ulrick gaze seemed to become more intent on him as this line of questioning reached its conclusion. He couldn't help but smirk closing his eyes for a moment he cocked his head to the side, "would probably be Yumi..."
Ulrick got up from his seat, grasping his tray firmly, "Hey Ulrick were you going?"
He didn't respond until a sudden vibration in his pocket almost made him drop the remainder of his lunch, Briinnnnggg Briiinnngg Brinnngg Click!
He held the phone to his head, "Ulrich we have a..."
The door to the cafeteria burst open, the three turned in time to see the double doors fall flat to the ground. A large nearly clear blob burst in carrying a student in its grasp, a red Xana sign on a slight slimy protrusion on its top burned red. Electricity shot through the child in its grasp until she stopped screaming and fell limply to the ground.
"what the hell is that!?" Ulrich and Od yelled in unison
"We have a problem, Xana has activated another tower, we need you and Od at the factory now!"
The blob raced forward nearly engulfing another student who just managed to escape through a side door. "We have a situation here too, a large blob of something is attacking students, one of them is already down, we'll try and reach you as soon as we can...."
"What's going on!" Ulrich turned to find Sissy next to him,
"Sissy, Od, Kiro we have to get us and the remaining students out of here now!"
"I'm on it!" Od ran over to two girls that were huddled in a corner, pulling them up they ran and made it through the exit toward the outside, "Come on"
Ulrick grabbed Sissy's arm and together they made their way toward the door. They had reached the threshold when Ulrick turned around, "come on Kiro hurry!" he screamed through the cafeteria as Kiro had stayed behind, he was facing the creature who had managed to seize a new victim. He turned to them, "don't worry Ulrich, I'll get out my own way... besides you sound like you have somewhere to be..."
Ulrick wanted to run back and grab him but was pulled forward, "Come on Ulrick we have to escape!" Sissy pulled him along as they ran out into the courtyard.
Jeremy scrambled to put on his headset, "Aelita what's your status?"
"I'm approaching the tower..."
Aelita hops over a large tree trunk, "no sign of Xana's forces yet"
"I'm not detecting any either, but keep on your guard, I'm sending Yumi in now..."
The door to the scanners opens and Yumi runs into the middle chamber, "Alright Jeremy I'm in position"
"alright then, Scanning Yumi"
Her eyes close as her body is lifted through the scanner system, "Scanning complete, transferring Yumi"
Her form slowly phases into an area surrounded by trees and grass, "Alright Jeremy, where's Aelita?"
"She is running towards the tower, north by northeast of your current location"
"Alright then"
Aelita stops over a high cliff, below her only partially obscured by the clouds and mist is the unmistakable glowing red tower, and...
"Jeremy..."
What is it Aelita?" Jeremy is fiercely typing on the keyboard, the screen and the large model of Lyoko shifting around, "I'm still not detecting any creatures..."
"I can't be positive from this distance, but I see at least eight blocks, three crabs, and something else guarding the tower..."
"what! That can't be possible..." more typing and the area encompassing Aelita appears on the screen, in a moment the true number of enemies appeared on the screen. The screen seemed to become fuzzy as the motion recognition became choppier, their movements were becoming harder a harder to see...
"Damn it! Yumi we have a problem"
"I've almost reached Aelita, what's wrong?" Yumi hops eloquently over another log as she begins up an incline toward a small jump, she can see Aelita awaiting her on the cliff ahead,
"We have a large number of enemies below the cliff, they are guarding the tower and I'm having a heard time tracking their movement"
"is that all!" she launches herself over the edge, reaching the other side she flips forward landing upright, "are you alright?"
"I'm fine Aelita, now let's see the enemy..." she stares down the cliff, the blocks below are holding stationary around the tower in a grid, the crabs are standing guard before the narrow passage toward it, and... "What is that thing?"
The great beast of water hurls the student in its clutches limply to the wall. The child strikes the wall like a doll falling limply to the floor. The beast stares out the door leading to the hallway and more prey, a tray bounces off its slimy back, it turns to see Kiro standing before it grasping another tray in his hands.
"I think you've had quite enough..."
The beast charges forward two projections of water shoot slightly from it resembling arms. Kiro stands firm a smirk never leaving his face as his grip on the tray tightens, the beast is feet away before stopping in its tracks. The red sign blazes on its projection resembling a head, it swivels around confused,
Kiro chuckles slightly through his smirk, "that's right Xana, it's time to play..." he soars upward as the creature dives down attempting to snatch him, with a somersault in the air he smashes the tray on the eye of the water beast with great force. Landing on the ground he turns to find the beast splash to a puddle of water on the ground, "that should hold you, for a short time anyway..."
Kiro runs from the cafeteria hurrying out into the courtyard, "not much time now..."
"What's going on!" Sissy yells out in the open courtyard that leads to the park,
Od turns to Ulrick, "We have to go now, the Jeremy and Yumi need us..."
"but what about..." Ulrick looks back at the cafeteria, "don't worry look" Od points at the form of Kiro as he dashes through the courtyard and into the park,
Ulrick nods, "Sissy you stay there, we have to go now, bye!" he calls back as they make a mad dash through the forest,
"Ulrick, Od come back here!" Sissy calls after them as they disappear into the foliage, I don't want to be alone...
"Jeremy, do you think we would make it if we just tried a mad dash for it?" Yumi crouches down gazing over the ledge,
Jeremy leans back in the chair pushing his glasses back against the bridge of his nose, "The chances of success would be very low, in any event we should wait for Ulrick and Od to arrive..."
"But we can't just wait here!" Yumi cries out in frustration, her foot knocks a small rock from the ledge. It falls to the ground klicking and klacking against the edge before coming to rest against the foot of a small four legged hopper.
The creature gazed up into the sky until it almost falls over, the targeting system just made a lock-on.
"huh?" Aelita gazes down at the ground below them, her eyes widen in shock,
"what is it Aelita?" Yumi crouched beside her gazing down, "Look out!"
Aelita pulled them both back just before a high powered red blast shoots past where their heads had once been.
Jeremy typed frantically on the computer as the screen continued to worsen, "I can't tell what could be blocking the scanner!" for an instant the screen became clear and the data flowed seamlessly, it was then he saw the red blip, of something he had never seen before. The card flashed on the screen, his two friends versus... "Aelita, Yumi run!"
Jeremy's voice sounded through Lyoko as the two sat up from the ground, "what is it Jeremy?"
A black blur flew from the tip of the ledge, it flew high into the air. A fierce black dragon spread its mighty wings, its long black tail swished in the air as its head arched back, a bright red light shone in its eyes.
"Yumi we have no choice!" Yumi nodded back as they both jumped to their feat, they took a mighty leap from the cliff. They plummeted for several seconds before making a disorderly landing in the brush of the forest below. They turned back just in time to see the top of the cliff annihilated by the red blast of the dragon...
Ulrick and Od rushed past the short bridge to the factory, "come on Od hurry up!"
Od struggled to catch his breath behind him, "I can't help but sense some deja vu here, that is as long as you beat me to the elevator!"
With that he put on a burst of speed passing Ulrich he skids into the turn at the entrance to the factory. Ulrick struggles to keep up, "If I don't beat you, you know that means your further messing with time right?"
"Odd, I never thought of it like that..." The extra thinking time create the exact moment of indecision Ulrick needed to succeed. He puts on an immense burst of speed passing Od and reaching... "what?"
They arrive at the elevator just as its door closes, Od pushes on the button, but the doors refuse to open, "Maybe it's broken?"
"No, I saw somebody in there, the elevator must be waiting for that passenger to get off..."
Od waits around shuffling his feet, "but, how can that be? We're here and Yumi and Jeremy must be down already..."
Ulrich stood for a moment deep in thought, his thoughts brought him back to just before he left the cafeteria. He was gazing at Kiro who stood watching the water creature, his eyes suddenly widened, "It can't be!"
"Aelita, Yumi are you alright!?" Jeremy calls frantically from the chair, he saw their icons move from that cliff to the field below. At that instant the three crabs advanced forward accompanied by four blocks they approached in a staggered line toward them.
"Yes for now!" Yumi's called out from the bushes they had landed in, "Come on Aelita we have to find some cover!"
They both ran as the red shots landed all around them from the combined force a dozen yards away. They stood in formation firing into the air like artillery, "they seem to be leading us forward"
The forest seemed to thicken as they reached a small area where four logs created a makeshift fort in the center. The minute they dove behind the log the firing ceased, "I think your right..." Yumi squinted off into the distance where the blocks and crabs were slowly advancing forward.
"Jeremy we found some cover, but I don't know how long we'd be able to defend it... we need Ulrick and Od now"
Jeremy looked behind him as he heard the elevator coming to a halt, "I think they may have just arrived..."
"that's a relief!" Yumi jumped atop the log launching her fan she managed to take out one of the blocks as it lumbered over some rocks, "one down..."
"watch out!" Yumi managed to jump back just as a second wave of laser fire pelted through the air were she had just been... "phew that was close..." the fire began to concentrate on the log as she lay back against a small rock that lay in the clearing... "we could really use Od and Ulrick"
"I know what you mean Aelita, I know what you mean" Ulrick get your ass up here or I'll fan you...
Jeremy got up from his seat as the doors opened wide, "Od, Ulrick its about time you..."
In place of his two friends their stood a boy about the Ulrick's height who wore a dark blue shirt and pants. He was smiling deeply at Jeremy's mumbling attempts at understanding, "hello Jeremy, my name is Kiro the transfer student"
It took a moment before Jeremy collected himself, "how did you get here? Ahhhhh and by here I mean our secret three dimensional game creation facility ha ha heh"
Kiro's features became serious, "I don't have time to explain..."
He walked from the elevator to the middle of the room before turning, "I just need to be in Lyoko right now!"
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Chapter One: Transference end
Well I think that that went pretty well, I managed to get in a lot of what I had originally intended and what's awaiting is even more surprising I assure you...
I have been looking around a lot now and I notice that a lot of the fanfics have transfer students coming over and doing things, but I hope that mine will be an interesting and different spin on this much used plot line.... thank you and I hope your reading was and continues to be a pleasant one...
Next Up! Chapter Two: Death is Death