"State the obvious why don't you Odd." Yumi said, rolling her eyes then she looked to Ulrich, "A trap? Xana?" She questioned, he shook his head, "I don't think so." he murmured, staring down at the girl with a suspicious stare," Then how?"
She was trapped, trapped like a rat in a maze with no place to go. 'What is this place?' the question swarmed though her, an answer no where in sight. The high, cold walls of her mind stood before her shrouding any hope of escape, "No!" she screamed, her voice cracking and ending in sobs, the echo of her scream still bouncing off the walls in her mind, "What did I do?" she said though her tears, resulting in fits of coughing.
Back in the light, the four some was standing over the girl, who now looked like she was having a fit. Her eyes were closed and she was violently moving. Yumi stooped down and tried to calm the 15 year old in a motherly way. "What did I do?" the girl's voice was frightened as she talked in her deep "sleep." Yumi whispered into the girl's ear while Odd and Ulrich stood wide-eyed, feeling rather unhelpful, " Shh, it's ok Calm down." "Odd, Ulrich," Jeremie's worried voice boomed into Lyoko and their thoughts, " You have 3 hornets and a block approaching from the activated tower, I need you to get Aelita to the tower so she can deactivate it." The boys nodded to each other, " We're on it Einstein." Odd grinned and they set off, waiting for Aelita first of course who had been trying to help Kate and Yumi to no avail.
"I'm going to try to do a scan and try to find what or who she is." Yumi nodded and replied looking to the Lyoko sky, "Ok Jeremie, tell me if you find anything." "Will do, Yumi."
'Is that music?" she thought, the familiar melody echoing in her thoughts. 'I've heard this song before...' she thought during a pause in the music, when it resumed she found herself following the sad song with a soft hum. 'I'm going crazy that has to be it.' The worry of dying had now deserted her mind, for she knew that heaven was white and pearly, filled with angels and such, this was not heaven, nor was it hell. This was sort of like something in between.
The music was louder now, pounding though her painfully, but the pain was minuscule to the pain the memories brought to her already broken heart. "Mom.." escaped her lips, as the music brought the familiar scene of her Mother sitting grandly at their rinky dink piano to her. Though the piano was second rate the music that came out of it was delicious, you could taste the sweet, sweet taste of Beethoven and Mozart that spilled out of the piano. But this was an opinion of course.
"Jeremie, she's getting worse." Yumi worried, " Have you found anything?" A sigh came with a sad announcement, " The coding is deep, all I have found out is that she's from the United States, at least that's were she was Virtualized." "The states?" Yumi said looking at the girl in a slight of awe, "Anything else?" "Nothing, no name, no age." She nodded appreciatively. "We'll make due, maybe if she wakes she can tell us who she is." "I'm not sure about that Yumi, I'm not sure if we can Virtualized her back to the factory." "We have to try; we can't just leave her here in Lyoko."
In these few minutes she had gone though one of those 'near death experience flashbacks,' this was making her worse. The thoughts drove though her mind, making her insane. She wanted them out, "GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" she yelled but they did not reply, they kept coming. Her thirteenth birthday, starting Jr. High, threatening suicide, falling apart in the Guidance office claiming it was only a threat, nothing more. Painful memories, lessons hard learned. A new memory floated by, this one brought a small grin to her face, and a blush to her cheeks, He drew closer...she could feel his body moving closer to her's, her face flushed a deep mauve as his large brown eyes stared into her almond-shaped green ones. 'This is it...' she thought, "Maydrain..." his name escaped her lips and what was left of the gap between them closed, she could feel his breath on her cheek and then... she cringed at what she knew would come next as the memory floated away, down the silver tunnel that was now the only light in the room of her thoughts, 'Follow it' a voice nagged, 'it will bring you to what you desire,' she nodded, following its instructions and clumsily dove head first into the tunnel. 'I see the light...'
Impact!" Ulrich yelled, driving his sword though one of the Block's eyes, causing it to explode in a cloud of debris. "Odd, behind you!" Jeremie yelled, watching a hornet come up behind Odd on the screen, "Laser Arrow!" an arrow shot out of his wrist, nearly missing the hornet, "Odd, get out of there!" "No Jeremie, I can do this!" the hornet fired, Odd tried to dodge and got hit in the chest, " Only 20 life points left Odd." This was the last hornet, they had to get Aelita to the tower, "Aelita, Go, Odd and I will distract the hornet." "Ok Ulrich" Aelita said as she began for the tower, the hornet immediately went after her, "Oh no." she gasped and ran, she was nearly there... "Laser Arrow!" "YES! Got him!" Odd boasted and a did a sort of victory dance.
Aelita pressed her hand against the blue screen, 'Aelita.' It verified, 'Code?' It questioned, 'L-Y-O-K-O' she typed as her answer. The infected files fell down into the black nothing while the safe ones stayed. Aelita stepped out of the tower, this time was different, this time they wouldn't be returning to the past, yet.
'Voices... Are those voices?' "Jeremie, she's coming to." a voice said, its tone smothered with relief. "Ok, try to see if you can find out anything. Im going to work on trying to get her here." Yumi nodded, "Hello? Are you ok?" Yumi said, her voice booming though the tunnel, "Light, I see Light." Kate said as she was thrust from the tunnel back into her body, she shot up into a sitting position, panting.