Author's Note 1: I do not own any part of Code: Lyoko, the original characters, or anything else. The only thing within that I claim as my own are the created characters Aurora and Spire Xion.

Author's Note 2: This fic takes place about a month after "The New Arrivals". Sissy and Spire have become great friends, while Aurora has become friends with Jeremy, Yumi, Odd, and Ulrich.

First Time Again

"So, what's with Jeremy and his computer?" Aurora asks Odd, she had managed to catch him leaving his room alone. Her dorm had ended up being righ next to Odd and Ulrich's, sticking her with another girl in their grade. "He's always leaving meals early for his room."

"Well, it's kinda hard to explain." Odd scratches his head. "There's this girl that he talks to that, uhhh, that he, met over the internet! Yea, that's it. He met a girl over the internet." Odd says.

"Oh really?" Aurora drapes her arm around the boy's shoulders. "Look nobody, and I mean NOBODY spends THAT much time talking to a cyber-pal."

"You'd be surprised." Odd says with a smile, looking at Aurora.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Aurora pulls Odd closer with her arm. "Tell ya what. If you tell me what Jeremy's doing, I'll go out with you for a month." a crooked smile forms on the girl's face at the shocked look worn by Odd. "I'll give you a while to think about it, Cutie." Aurora removes her arm from Odd's shoulders and runs ahead to the lunch room.

"Hey Sissy, can I ask you something?" Spire says after they sit down for breakfast. They had shaken Herb and Nicholas for a while and he wanted to make the most of it.

"What is it?" she looks at him.

"Why do you hate Jeremy and his friends?" The question caught Sissy off guard, but not fully unprepared.

"Because they have Ulrich, and I don't." Sissy replies.

"What's the big deal about him? He's just another boy." he asks.

"Big deal? There's everything that's a big deal about him. He's always dissapearing with those other three. They somehow manage to get out of everything."

"And what's the problem there? They are his friends, and yet, you act as if he schould be alone with you all the time." Spire says.

"As well he should be."

"The world doesn't revolve around you. It revolves around those that have found their purpose in life. Ulrich and his little group have found their's. Not many people have found their purpose." As soon as the words are out of his mouth, the lights above flicker off. "Oh great, electrical problems."

"Heya Spire." Aurora walks over. She had entered just before the lights cut out. "Whacha do'n?"

"Nothing." he says.

"Look, I've been thinking. What if you're right, if, somehow, Great-Grandpa's Project still exists. What would it do? You listened to Grandpa's stories more than I did."

"What are you talking about?" Sissy asks.

"Oh, hey Sissy. Look, I need to talk to my brother real quick." Aurora turns back to him. "What was the Project designed to do?"

"It was designed to hack into foreign mainframes to disable their radar and satellite weapons." Spire says, drawing a nod from his sister.

"Alright, so it was a hacker. But, there was a failsafe vocal code. Do you know what it was?" Spire shakes his head.

"You'll have to find that out on your own. And I need to finish before classes start." Just then, the lights flicker back on. "Must've been a power surge." Aurora leaves Spire to the rest of his breakfast. When he looks up, Sissy is gone.

Aurora runs down the hall to Jeremy's room and bangs on the door. "Jeremy! Are you there?" after no answer, she tries the doornob, success! She enters the room, and sits at the on computer, watching the numbers scroll down the screen. After a few minutes, a girl's face appears in a window that opened itself up. "Grandma?" Aurora looks at the girl in shock. Her face looked so much like the pictures of her grandmother from when she was younger. The girl on the screen also looked shocked. She mouthed some words, but Aurora couldn't hear them. She spotted an earpiece on the keyboard and put it on.

"Who are you? Where's Jeremy?" the girl on the computer asks.

"I'm Aurora. I don't know where Jeremy is, I was looking for him. Who are you?"

"Aelita. You don't know where he is?" the window dissapears and Aurora removes the earpiece.

"So, Aelita. You want Jeremy. I really wonder where he is?" Aurora leaves the room and closes the door, making sure that nothing looked out of place. Completely and utterly bored, Aurora heads to her room, but stops at her door. Instead of entering her room, she knocks on Odd and Ulrich's door. No answer. Shaking her head, Aurora pulls out her cell phone and dials Odd's number, but gets no response. She then tries Jeremy's.

"Hello?" Jeremy's voice asks.

"Jeremy, this is Aurora. Where the heck are you?" she says.

"Why should I tell you, since you went snooping in my room." his voice was irritated.

"Snooping? I was going to ask you something, but you weren't there. Then this girl appeared on your computer."

"Aelita, yes. Tell you what." Jeremy sighs. "Come to the forest, Odd'll meet you there." Jeremy hangs up.

"What's taking him so long?" Aurora paces back and forth. She had been in the forest for ten mionutes, and was thinking of calling Jeremy again, when she heard a metalic knocking sound. Knowing that the trees would be the hardest thing to camo from metal, she shrugged and slowly walked back to the school, her head hung. She barely misses it, but out of the corner of her eye she spots the top part of Odd's body from the ground. "What the heck?"

"Hey Aurora! Over here!" he calls to her. Aurora walks over and kneels down.

"Where the heck have you been?" Odd motions for her to come down the manhole he was in.

"The deal's still on, right?" he asks. Aurora nods. "Jeremy's cyber-pal is Aelita."

"Hmmm." Odd hands her a skateboard.

"You know how to ride this?" In response, Aurora leaps onto it and does a short grind on the ledge just above the water level. "I think that's a yes. Follow me." Odd gets on his skateboard and leads her to the Factory.

"This is amazing!" Aurora looks around from the elevator.

"Yea, it is. The most amazing part is down a few levels." Odd pushes the button and the elevator descends to the Control Room.

"Aurora, glad you could make it." Jeremy says when he spots her. "We've got a problem, Odd. Aelita's been pined down by two crabs, and Yumi and Ulrich have both been frozen, there's still two minutes left."

"Too bad I can't go back." Odd says.

"Send me." Aurora tells them.

"Should we?"

"Ok, Odd. Take her to the Scanners." Jeremy instructs.

"Just enter when you're ready. The going's not too rough, but the return trip is bad." Odd says. "Have fun." Aurora steps into the scanner and is transported to Lyoko.

Aurora virtualizes in Lyoko's desert region, and then she drops to the ground, her wings brushing the ground. "Wings?" she reaches back and can feel the feathery softness of the elegant wings. She tries some experimental lift offs, and, succeding, flies to Aelita's aid. In her flight, a sword vitrualizes in her hand. Not thinking about it, Aurora heads straight for one of the crabs and slashes through it. The other turns from trying to get Aelita to attacking Aurora. It's first two shots miss, but the third hits the girl's right wing. "Damn!" Aurora drops to the ground from her flight, barely missing Aelita. Aurora stands, leaning on her sword, and then running-charges the crab, taking a direct hit in her left shoulder.

"Watch out Aurora, three more hits and you're gone. Yumi and Ulrich will be there soon, they've got a few more seconds." Jeremy's voice echos across the desert. Aurora ignores him and plunges the sword deep into the crab. It explodes and throws Aurora back. Meanwhile, Aelita had reached the tower and was entering the code. After a few more seconds, Jeremy's voice is heard again. "Return to the past now."

in the past

"Heya Odd." Aurora drapes her arm around Odd's neck. He sighs, thinking she wouldn't remember her deal.

"Hey Aurora. Listen, do you remember anything about, well..." he pauses.

"Let me think." She says, then kisses Odd's cheek. "Yes!" she says and hugs him. "That was great! Odd, I could fly!" Aurora exclaims.