Notes: Well that was creepy. Who wants some more?
Everybody: I do I do I do!
Well then, here's some more!
BTW, the scene where Aelita and Kathy meet each other is supposed to be utterly insane. Go ahead and laugh.
Chapter 5- Yumi's Excellent Adventure pt. 2"Yeay!" Aelita cheered as Jeremy soldered the final connection to the Super Calculator. "It's finished! Now we get to test it!"
"Should we try it out now, or when there's an attack?" Odd asked. "Because, well, it's not like I don't trust you two, but I'd rather try it out now incase something goes wrong. Then we'd have a chance to fix it before it comes down to the wire, so to speak."
"I'll try it out." Yumi said, stretching out her arms with a yawn. "It's not like we've got anything better to do today. It's raining for one thing, for another my homework's done."
"For a third, if I have to be stuck in the dormitory with Sissy once more I'm gonna scream." Ulrich put in. "She was teasing me this morning about Yumi falling asleep on our date. SHE thought that we should have made out in the back of the theater. She teases me about it ONE MORE TIME and I think I'm going to strangle her."
"Wouldn't be too big a loss." Odd grinned. "She causes too much trouble anyway."
Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Can we focus on what has to be done?"
"Sure," Yumi said with a yawn.
Meanwhile Kathy and Izzy were working on the program that would open the digiport on Kathy's PC to the computer nearest Yumi, thus tracking her wherever she went. "She didn't say anything about what this, Lyoko was?"
"Nope." Kathy shook her head.
"Then that should be our first order of business, find out what she meant by Lyoko and Xana." Izzy said grimly. "If the Dark Masters get in there, and they've been getting into everywhere lately, then they could cause huge trouble."
"So what do we do?" Kathy asked.
Izzy checked the Digiport. "Spirit Evolve to your Pico form and see if you can go through the Digiport to the room that Yumi just exited. Take this floppy and try to get some information. Don't steal the data, just copy it and bring it back for me to decipher."
"Hey, what am I? Chopped liver?" WhiteVeemon asked.
"No, but you don't know computers the way Kathy and I do. And besides, what if you get stuck somewhere? No, I think this is a one mon job, if you'll pardon the pun." Izzy said with a smile to take the sting out of his words.
"We'll keep an eye on things for you over here." Tentomon agreed. "That way Izzy will be able to warn you if they decide to come back.
"Okay." Kathy picked up her D-Chrono and D.T. Beta. "Execute, Natural Evolution! DryadArbormon! Execute, slide evolution, Dryadmon!" Kathy was now in her adorably cute pico form. She looked like Flamon, only feminine with brown skin, reddish brown hair, blue eyes, and a cheetah skin tank top and loincloth. "Nice, I've never been in Pico form before!"
"Why not?" Asked Tentomon, curious.
"Because I've never needed it." Kathy said with a shrug. "But I can see how it would have it's own advantages."
"Yeah, like the fact that rookies have more fun!" Whiteveemon said cheerfully.
"I is a rookie." Kathy tried out her rookie voice. "I is having more fun than champion. I is sent by Izzy to ga-ther information on Xana."
"Good work." Izzy said with a smile. "Even I wouldn't recognize you."
"I is going now." Kathy took a deep breath, and stood on tip toes to peek into the digiport. She held out her D-chrono. "Digiport open!"
Kathy found herself in a darkened room, similar to the hypnos dome where she had stood watches during her training as a Guardian. If they were similar then the computer access console would be in that chair in front of the holographic readout. How would she reach it? Kathy realized that there would be disadvantages to being a rookie too. "I is a rookie." She muttered. "I is coping with height deficiency."
"What?" Asked a girl whom Kathy hadn't noticed in the room. She had strawberry blonde hair and innocent blue eyes.
"I is sorry to interrupt. I is a rookie level digimon sent by Izzy. I is Dryadmon. Izzy is wanting to know what a Xana is. He is helping Gennai." Kathy bowed low out of courtesy.
"How could something so small like you stand a chance against X.A.N.A.?" Asked the girl.
"It is not I who must stand. Gennai is asking. Gennai is Master Guardian of Digital World. Gennai is looking for a way to get Yumi in. She is Digidestined. I track her here. Yumi resisted Kathy. Kathy gave dream vision telling her to come and she does not. Yumi has thought that Kathy is this Xana in disguise. Kathy tells Gennai. Gennai tell Kathy and Izzy to find out what is Xana. Kathy is working. Izzy is taking over. Izzy tells me to go here and find out what a Xana is." Kathy had trouble referring to herself in the third person. She was even having trouble with the accent that she preferred to keep up.
"Well Dryadmon, X.A.N.A. is a very powerful super computer that keeps attacking the real world." The girl replied. "My name is Aelita."
"I is glad to meet you Aelita. I cannot reach the chair. Can Aelita help?" Kathy decided that referring to Aelita in the third person was equally appropriate for her role as the utterly insane rookie digimon.
"I don't think I should. Do you even know how to use a computer?" Aelita asked. "Tell you what. I'll make a floppy of basic information for you." Aelita said, snapping her fingers as the idea came to her.
"I is thanking you Aelita." Kathy tried hard not to laugh. She sounded like an utter lunatic. But how could this Aelita have known that that was exactly what Kathy wanted and exactly what Izzy had sent her for?
Aelita took five minutes to save the basic information on X.A.N.A. and Lyoko to the disc. "I is thanking you Aelita." Kathy bowed as she backed toward the digiport. "I is going back to castle now. Aelita is welcome to visit Dryadmon, Gennai, Izzy and Kathy if Aelita can."
"Why thank you Dryadmon." Aelita replied.
"Aelita is welcome." Kathy stood and turned back to the spare monitor she'd used as a digiport. "Digiport open."
Kathy disappeared, closing the portal behind her. Then she collapsed into the chair Izzy offered her, threw back her head and laughed.
Aelita found Jeremy as he was taking notes on the new scanner. "Jeremy, you're not going to believe what happened." Aelita rolled her eyes, still not believing it herself. She explained to him what had happened.
"You're kidding, a monster from this other dimension?" Jeremy's eyes widened.
"I kid you not." Aelita giggled. "She calls that other dimension, Digital World. She also called herself a 'rookie level digimon' and that her name was Dryadmon."
"A genuine native?" Odd asked. He giggled.
"It's not funny Odd." Jeremy snapped. "What if one of these creatures gets into the Super Calculator room?" Jeremy demanded. "Think of the damage it could do."
"He's got a point Odd." Ulrich pointed out. "What could have happened to Yumi if she had messed up the super calculator?"
"Okay so you've got a point. Aelita, did you get a recording of this monster?" Odd asked hopefully.
Aelita went to the nearest computer and retrieved the recording she'd made of her conversation with Dryadmon/Kathy. Odd started laughing the moment he heard. "I is a rookie. I is coping with height deficiency." He didn't stop laughing during the whole conversation and when the recording finally stopped he had tears of mirth streaming from his eyes. "That was just classic."
Ulrich snorted back his laughter. "She sounded like a house elf from Harry Potter."
Jeremy smiled and rolled his eyes. "Alright, so it was funny. But what if this Gennai is from our world and leaks the information about X.A.N.A. to the public. That could be trouble.
"Naw, that's not trouble." Odd grinned. "Because the next attack will wipe the slate clean. 'Return to the past now!'" He giggled. "So it really doesn't matter. But gods that was a classic. Aelita that was so funny!"
"Right." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "I ought to ask Ken what he knows. But this part about Yumi being a 'digidestined' is worrisome. Just WHAT is a digidestined? And what exactly did she resist last night?"
Ulrich thought back to Yumi's odd behavior in the movie theater. "I think I know when it happened last night. Yumi fell asleep in the movie theater. About ten minutes before the end of the show she jumped awake, like she'd been startled. And she looked like she was afraid of something, or maybe someone. I didn't think much about it at the time. But it seems like this Kathy of Dryadmon's may have been stalking her."
Jeremy nodded. "Look, we keep an eye on Yumi for a few days, but until then we don't say anything. And I want to see if I can coax any information about this 'Digital World out of Ken and Davis. We want them to join us on Lyoko, we have to be able to trust them, and they have to be able to trust us.""Agreed." Ulrich nodded.
"I don't have any better plan." Odd shrugged.
"I will help any way that I can." Aelita agreed. "And I can keep an eye on Yumi through the computer screens."
Kathy devolved in the Hypnos Dome and breathed a sigh of relief. As she, Izzy, and their digimon left the room, they didn't notice the mysterious, eye-like glyph that had appeared on the computer screen Kathy used as the digiport. But Kathy felt X.A.N.A.'s virtual eye boring into the back of her neck as she left the room. When she turned around she didn't see a thing, but her sixth sense was almost never wrong.
X.A.N.A. held the screen perfectly still, and he waited.