Chapter Seven – Virtualization
"Okay everyone, I'm starting the transfer," said Jérémie. "Initiate transfer of Yumi, initiate transfer of Ulrich, initiate transfer of Odd." The three future warriors, starting to feel claustrophobic inside the scanners, got even more scared as a beam of light came up from the ground and scan them. "Initiate scan of Yumi, initiate scan of Ulrich, initiate scan of Odd." Surprisingly the three were levitated into the air as the scanner scanned them. "Virtualize Yumi, virtualize Ulrich, virtualize Odd." The group of three then ceased to be in the scanners and rematerialized in Lyoko. As the three fell from the sky, the virtual girl was there to greet them.
"Hi there," the virtual girl said, "my name's Aelita."
"Hey guys, can you hear me?" Jérémie's voice seemed to come from all around them.
"Yea Jérémie, we hear you loud and clear," yelled Yumi, feeling somewhat stupid talking to a voice and not a person.
"I can hear you too guys. I seem to be able to monitor you from where I am," commented looking at the 1 yellow and 3 green triangles on the center computer display.
"Okay, follow me," said Aelita, taking off on the path they were on.
"Should we really follow her?" asked Ulrich.
"We might as well, I mean we've come this far already, it's not as if we'll come across anything that's scarier than those scanners," said Odd. Agreeing, the three of them followed the red headed girl on the path.
"Hey, what's that huge tower over there?" asked Yumi after about a minute of running. She pointed at a large white cylinder that had black wires coming out of the ground attaching at the base.
"That's where we're going. I have to go inside the tower and..." she stopped with a gasp and hid behind a tree. It took the rest of the gang a few seconds to catch up with her, but when they did they found out why she stopped in her tracks.
"What's going on there?" said Jérémie concerned about the three red triangles that appeared on his screen.
"I think we found trouble," said Ulrich looking straight at the 3 cubes with legs further on the path. The three yellow cubes started to march towards the group. "And I think it found us too."