Chapter 4
Welcome to the Virtual World
"Scanner Odd, scanner Ulrich, scanner Yumi. Transfer Odd, transfer Ulrich, transfer Yumi. Virtualization." Their digital forms loaded in the 'air' just above the ground a few yards away from the waiting Aelita, who was hiding behind a rock, staring at someone who was not her entering a tower.
"You've got three crabs, and six Blocks flanking you. XANA's really got her battle strategies down." She considered something. "You'd better split up. Yumi, stay with Aelita until I get there. Odd, get to work on the Blocks. They are very weak, probably because there are so many of them."
Jeremy flew into the elevator, not being used to having people on Lyoko while he wasn't there. Adain was up and ready to go, handing him several cards with distinct color pictures of her in strange clothing. He took the top one, which had a photo of Adain in black shorts and what looked like a black sports bra.
"Loading Adain." He inserted the card into the slot on the side of the keyboard. "Scanner Adain. Transfer Adain. Virtualization." Adain loaded behind Aelita and Yumi.
"Welcome to the Virtual World, Adain."
"Aelita, shield yourself, or hide or something. Yumi, ready for some crabs?"
Aelita noticed, before shutting herself in a little rock bubble, that Adain had a sword in a sheath strapped across her back.
Adain drew Rec'myla, her sword. It glowed in a black, shimmering light. (I know, Black light is an oxymoron, but that's what it looked like!) Its name came from what it looked like. Black Blade. Yumi raised her eyebrows at both the sword and the shirt (if it could be called one), but said nothing.
The girls walked up behind two different crabs. Adain had an air of casualness, before her muscles tensed and she sprang silently onto the crabs back, shoving Rec'myla into the eye-thing on it's back. Yumi chucked a closed fan at the crab, like it was a dagger. Just after she threw it, she realized that she'd never done that before. What was going on?