Chapter 2 Love at First Sight
After drama class Eddie sought out the black haired girl. Yumi found him first. "Hello, I'm Yumi. I'm the one who invited you to sit next to me." "I'm Eddie nice to meet you. I met your friends, they seemed nice enough so I took their advice, they told me to find you." "I know, I got a text message. Umm... would you like me to show you around the school? I know every nook and cranny, n-not to brag or anything" "That would be, that would be great." They both looked nervous. "Here's my cell number, meet me at the gym after school and I'll give you the tour." Eddie programmed the number into his mobile and pressed send. Yumi's phone started vibrating. "Now you have my number. I-I look forward to your tour."
Meanwhile...
Aelita appeared on Jeremie's computer screen. "Jeremie I feel pulsations X.A.N.A.'s activated a tower. Jeremie, are you there?" She saw Jeremie's laptop on his bed. "I can't reach him ther-" The power cut off, the computer screen and light bulbs both shattered.
After School...
Eddie waited at the gym and sure enough, Yumi walked up to him. "Jeremie's coming too, I think he wants to know you better. He stopped by Ulrich and Odd's dorm first, the power went out he wanted to check it out." "Why? What can he do about it?" "Umm...Jeremie! Was everything okay?" Jeremie walked up to them. "The bulbs blew we told Jim, he's going to replace them ASAP." "That's a relief," She turned. "Eddie ready to get that tour now? Jim teaches PE which is taught here, next stop is..."
Ulrich and Odd's dorm...
"Hey Ulrich, is that stuff yours?" "No." Odd was pointing at three suitcases. "The shattered glass got all over it, our new roommate is gonna be mad." "I don't see why the principal is letting another person live in the school, our rooms are crowded enough," Ulrich complained. "Yeah not after what he said yesterday at lunch, 'the school is full, no one else is permitted to live on campus' blah blah blah. Here's what I say, practice what you preach." Outside they heard faint talking. "...and this is your dorm, your with Ulrich and Odd." "If you fuse virtual particles and rip them off a sever what do you get?" "This is the easiest one yet Jeremie, the particles materialize but its in theory and you'd need something to interpret the data the particles have and convert them..." "I've heard enough, your right." Yumi opened the door. "So you're our new dorm buddy." "Your stuff got hit by broken glass be careful when your going through it." "That's okay Ulrich, I'll buy new-I mean I'll try to save as much as I can." The power cut out and the new bulbs shattered. "This is no coincedence," Yumi stated while staring at Jeremie with a serious look. "I'll go check things out" "I'll go with you." Jeremie and Odd left. "Umm...Yumi, whats going on?" "No time to explain, we've got to go." "But..." It was to late Ulrich and Yumi were already running down the hallway.
Eddie's POV...
"That's it I want some answers, the powers out, glass is everywhere, Jeremie's quizing me, and they're running to who knows where... I'm following them." Eddie ran down the hallway and stairs. He saw Ulrich and Yumi running towards the school's park, he trailed behind. He got lost in the trees. "Come on, we have to get to the factory," he heard Ulrich say. "I'm gonna stay here and watch out for the school if you need me call." He heard a griding sound. "I'm going for it," he thought. "Good luck on Lyoko." He jumped out of the trees.
"Okay, I want some answers. What factory? What's Loco?" Yumi looked at Ulrich, he nodded in encouragment and continued down the ladder. "Okay, here's what's really going on." The park's lanturns blew. "Oh no, it's not just the school any more." Yumi looked frightened. "Hurry follow me." She grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the opened manhole.
At the factory...
"Aelita? Aelita can you hear me?" Odd and Jeremie were staring at a blank moniter. "I'ts no use Jeremie the power's out. You would think a place this big would have generators or something." "Odd, you're a genious! Well, sort of." "Thank you, Thank you, I couldn't have done it without Kiwi, for without him none of this could be possibl-" "Odd, stop fooling around if we can get the power back up, we can use the scanners. The supercalculator room has it's own power so there has to be generators somewhere. If we can reroute some power from that generator we might have enough to power the scanners." "Well then what are you waiting for Einstein get moving!" "To the machine room..." Odd started for the frieght elevator. "Odd, the power." "I knew that."
At the factory...
"I've hated this place ever since X.A.N.A. tried to kill us here." "Odd, over here. I've found it." Odd walked through a doorway to find a room full of more strange machinery and in the back Jeremie was examining one of them. "X.A.N.A. made sure not to overload the generators keeping Lyoko on." He flipped a switch and the lights flickered back on. "Well what do you know, he didn't blow the bulbs either. Hmph" Odd shrugged at his own statement. "Let's go Odd, we can take the elevator now, immediate departure.
In the computer room...
"Aelita, can you hear me?" Her face appeared. "Finaly, I've been trying to reach you for ages. X.A.N.A. has launched an attack, the activated tower is in the glacier." "I'm sending Odd though the power going on and off could cause shortages, there's uncountable problems that could occur." The lights flickered, the power cut off but the generators kicked in a second later. "If the power comes back on the generators go off and the process repeats." "There's no cutoffs in Lyoko once Odd's here he'll be safe." "I'm not going to stand here all day Jeremie, send me already." "Odd, you're going to the polar region. Transver Odd, Scanner Odd, Virtualization! Just as he pressed the enter key, the power cut off but again, it was dark for only a second. The screen flicked back on and the first thing he noticed was a big red exclaimation mark on it.
On Lyoko...
As Odd was appearing on the virtual landscape, he noticed it was going slower than usual. His vision blurred and cut out voluntarily and then returned to normal and repeated over and over. "Oh no, Jeremie can you hear me?" Aelita's voice quivered. "Odd can't complete the transver normally, he keeps starting over and disappearing, you have to pull him back." "I can't, I'll boost all available power to his scanner, he's sure to complete it then." Odd, felt a sudden rush through his body. Weakened, he face planted onto the cold, frozen surface. He didn't move. Aelita ran up to him. "Odd, are you okay?" she shook him. "Aelita? What-what happened?" He slowly got to his knees. "Odd, the power cut out during your transver. It caused a complication converting you into virtual form." "No!" Jeremie screamed through the mike. "You don't have any arrows and only half of your life points!"