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Chapter Five: Transformations

The mysterious figure quickly logged into a personalized Lyoko channel to monitor the other's progress. In Lyoko, only two young women knew someone was there.

"So, Dawn, how've you been? Is Alex still a pain?"

"Yeah, not to mention Amber reads my diary for enertainment."

"Well, in truth, I don't expect much is there to hide."

"Uh-oh!"

"What?!"

"I think a tower is active. But how...?"

"Your suspicions are well founded, Dawn. I detect an activated tower in the mountain region. I'm switching to computer manual mode."

"Okay, Amber. Upload our weapons."

"Wait a minute. Your sister is on Earth tap dancing around the supercomputer while we're inside the virtual world of Lyoko and she pretty much has total control over everything except X.A.N.A.?!"

"Yeah, except she also has some measure of control over X.A.N.A., since she made him. She knows his override protocols. Let's go."

The group took off running, with Dawn and Aelita in the front. Soon, they came to the forest tower and transoprted to the mountain region. Once there, Aelita was consumed by a raging fire.

"Aelita! We need to get her out of there!"

"No, that's just how she goes into battle dress. Unless you'd rather see her without her clothing, I'd suggest you leave it alone."

"Sorry, Jeremy, I should've warned you new guys about how our transformations take place."

"Me next, Sis!"

"Wait until Aelita is finished."

At that moment, Aelita stepped out of the fire, and it died down. She was now wearing a red tank top, a ruffled yellow and orange skirt, and black leather strap sandels. She carried a long, thin saber across her back in a plain black scabbard.

"Now me!"

"Uploading battle attire. Designate: Dawn."

Dawn was enveloped by a pure silver light that stretched out it's tendrils and seemed curious about the rest of the team. They could only watch in amazement as the tendrils crept back and tightly bound Dawn's small form, then solidify into shining steel. The steel then broke apart back into light that changed into the colors of early morning dawn. As the light receded, they saw that Dawn was now dressed in a silver tube top and a silver huntress skirt (Ya know, those long skirts with slits up to the upper thigh?), and no shoes. Instead of shoes, she wore a plain silver ankle bracelet on her right ankle.

"As for the rest of you, I'll have to work on your avatars to get you and upgrade like theirs. For now, all I can do is give you 100 more life points apiece."

"I think that will be fine for now. How many enemies are we up against?"

"Ten crabs, six blocks, several hornets, and a mega tank. It shouldn't be too much of a problem."

"Okay. Let's go!"

Aelita and Jeremy took off for the tower directly, Jeremy shooting monsters on the way with his bow. Once, the monsters surrounded him, but Aelita summoned a ring of fire to destroy the monsters around him.

"Thanks a million, Aelita."

"Don't mention it."

Yumi and Ulrich were also working as a team. Yumi took down several crabs before being surrounded. Luckily, Ulrich went unnoticed by the enemies surrounding Yumi until it was too late for them to do anything if they tried.

Dawn and Odd made up the last team. Odd, being the kind of person he is, fell into the hornets' trap before he could blink. Before he could even ask Amber for a refill on his Laser Arrows, Dawn was there with him swinging her silver staff. The hornets never knew what hit them.

After the enemies were defeated, Aelita went into the tower and typed in Code: LYOKO on the blue screen. Things on Earth returned to normal, and since nothing had really gone on during the battle, Amber elected not to use the return-past program.

"Fine work, team. Now, back to my original business. Aelita, I need you to go to the tower in the desert region, and I need the rest of you to prepare for de-virtualization."

"What are you going to do?"

"Aelita, I worked out the bugs that infected my materilization program. I'm bringing you home."

END CHAPTER

Janette: Another cliffie!

Sharina: So, you're bringing Aelita back in the next chapter, huh?

Janette: ..........

Sharina: I knew it!

Janette: Just you wait until chapter seven....