Chapter 6 – Preparations for Lyoko
"Hey, you're kinda cute, who are you?" questioned Jérémie.
"There's no time for that," the virtual girl said. "Xana is trying to delete me and I need your help."
"I guess."
"Okay, first, are any of you good with computers?"
Jérémie's face lit up. Never did he think that he would be able to rescue a damsel in distress with his computer knowledge. "Well..." Jérémie says in an insinuating tone, "I'm pretty good with computers."
"Great, now another one of you needs to go further down to the scanners so you can meet with me here."
"And where exactly are you?" questioned Ulrich.
"I'm in a virtual world called Lyoko. It's the sphere in front of you," said the virtual girl.
"Although this may just be an elaborate prank made for the first person to come down here, I'll go," said Ulrich.
"Hey Ulrich, how come you get all the fun huh?" said Odd. "I'm coming too, besides, who's gonna save your butt when...well it needs saving? Yumi, why don't you stay here with Jérémie and the virtual Cinderella while we check this out?"
"Okay Odd, but be careful" said Yumi slightly reluctantly.
"That's okay Yumi, you can go with them too if you want, it doesn't seem like any of the action will be taking place here." Yumi nodded in affirmation and went with the 2 boys down the elevator they were in before.
"Now," instructed the virtual girl, "you need to give them an outfit, a weapon and a special power. There's a list of them in the book next to you. Jérémie looked around him and found a huge book with the title "Project Xanadu" on the cover. Jérémie skimmed through the book and found a chapter on customization.
"Okay guys," said Jérémie to the rest of the group in the scanner room. "Yumi, you'll be wearing a traditional Japanese outfit which comes with a fan as a weapon, and you have telekinesis."
"Jérémie...I'm all for the Japanese outfit, but how is a fan going to be a weapon against anything except a little heat?" asked Yumi.
Jérémie continued due to the fact that he couldn't hear Yumi. "Ulrich, you'll be going in Japanese battle clothes, which comes with a sword. You will have the ability to triple yourself such that to confuse the monsters."
"With all these cool battle outfits and weapons I can't wait to find out what I get," said Odd.
"I just hope this virtual girl is worth us wasting our times, and if she's telling the truth, our lives," Ulrich said, slightly skeptical.
"Lastly Odd, I'm making you into what appears to be a monkey," Jérémie announced.
"Hey brainiac, you run out of costumes already?" yelled Odd in Jérémie's direction.
"You get 10 laser arrows that fire from your wrist and the ability of foresight."
"So not only do I get the worst costume, but the most useless power too. Thanks a lot Jérémie."
"Okay," Jérémie called to the computer. "Now what?"
"Everyone needs to step into one of the scanners in order to be virtualized, and hurry, I think Xana is coming closer," said the virtual girl. Jérémie relayed the message to the scanner room and the group of three each stepped into one of the scanners.