lostmoonchild: Okay, chapter two is up now. I plan on updating every Saturday but I might update sooner depending on how many reviews I get and if writer's block decides to come for a visit. Thank you to the ones who reviewed, you seriously have NO idea on how much I look forward to checking reviews and reading what everybody has to say. Now, on with the story!
Chapter Two
Disclaimer: I don't own Code: Lyoko or any of the songs unless I say otherwise. I only own the characters who aren't part of Code: Lyoko so don't sue me!
Morgan ran as fast as she could, somehow managing to keep up with Odd. "What's going on!" Morgan shouted as they climbed up a ladder and ran into the factory.
"I'll explain when we get to the elevator!" Odd shouted swinging down the rope and turning to catch Morgan.
"Kami-sama, if I should die without any honor, I just want you to know that I'll hate you for all eternity." Morgan prayed closing her eyes as she slid down the ropes.
Her heart pounded loudly against her chest as she felt a pair of arms wrap around her. Morgan opened one eye and saw that Odd was holding her near him. "Lets go." Odd said managing to hide a blush that was forming.
Morgan nodded and followed him into the elevator. "So what's happening?" Morgan asked looking afraid.
Odd sighed and said, "We're trapped in the middle of a war against this evil computer called XANA. Every time XANA awakens, he activates a tower in a virtual world called Lyoko. We can tell basically because Jeremy is told by an AI called Aelita."
"Why not just shut XANA down?" Morgan asked.
"We did once except we had to turn him back on when Aelita fainted. We discovered later that XANA implanted a virus inside of Aelita keeping her from truly being part of our world." Odd answered as the elevator doors opened again. "Einstein here can explain more about Lyoko since he's working on an anti-virus for Aelita."
"is this dangerous?" Morgan asked.
"Yes." Jeremy answered still typing away at the computer. "Odd, take Morgan down to the scanners. I've already told Aelita that we have a new volunteer and that she's going to use Yumi's character."
"How do you…"
"Yumi called me and told me since she had a feeling that you'd be too shy to say anything." Jeremy answered. "Now you two hurry up, Ulrich has only thirty life points left."
"C'mon." Odd said grabbing Morgan's wrist and unknowingly opening a cut. "We're heading to the scanners."
Terrified but not wanting to show that she was scared, Morgan quietly followed trying desperately to hold onto some hope that she would get to see Yumi.
Yumi looked around the cafeteria, grateful that everybody had retreated inside in fear of being stung. "We're going to die!" Sissy said crying loudly.
"Shut up! Nobody's going to die!" Yumi wanted to shout desperately but decided to remain silent instead, checking the windows to make sure that the killer bees couldn't get inside. She knew that XANA would make the bees sting everybody until they died but she was choosing to stay silent instead.
"I don't want to die!" Milly sobbed loudly.
Yumi knelt down next to Milly and said, "Listen, nobody's going to die."
"How do you know?" Milly said crying.
"I have a niece, though technically she's no blood relation." Yumi said with a gentle smile. "I always tell her to look on the bright side of things and to hold onto some hope, even when things are at their worst. Just hold onto some hope, even if it's a little, that somebody will stop the bees from getting in here."
Milly nodded and fell silent as she stopped her crying. "How can you tell that little pipsqueak to hold onto hope when we're all going to die!" Sissy shouted panicked.
"You're not helping, Sissy!" Yumi shouted. "If you think that everybody looks up to you, then stop panicking and try remaining calm!"
Sissy stopped screaming and looked at the Japanese girl with shock. Nobody had ever dared raise their voice to her and stayed in school to brag about it. "Don't you tell me what to do." Sissy said her voice barely above a whisper.
"Then do Ulrich a favor and try keeping calm." Yumi said not wanting to have brought Ulrich into the conversation.
Yumi grabbed her cellphone and dialed Jeremy's number. "Jeremy, how's it going?" Yumi asked.
"I'm scanning Morgan and Odd into Lyoko now." Jeremy said typing at the computer and saying, "Scanner Odd. Scanner Morgan. Virtualization! (A/N I know, I probably missed something but I'm not exactly keeping track)"
Morgan kept her eyes closed tight before feeling a sense of nothingness as she fell to the ground and landed on her butt. She opened her eyes and looked around, surprised to find herself in a forest region. "Welcome to Lyoko." Odd said grinning.
"What happened?" Morgan asked looking confused. "We're not on Earth anymore."
"We're in Lyoko and right now, Aelita and Ulrich need help." Odd said starting to run off. "Hope you can learn while you fight!"
Morgan chased after Odd and watched as he shot his laser arrows at some monsters that looked like roaches. "What in the hell are those!" Morgan shouted.
"Those are roachers. Try to hit the mark on their shells to destroy them. Since you're using Yumi's character, you have the power of telekinesis and you have a fan that is a good weapon." Jeremy said.
"Whoa!" Morgan shouted as a roacher shot at her, missing only by a few centimeters.
Insinctively, she grabbed Yumi's weapon and threw it at a roacher, watching in amazement as the fan it the mark on the roacher's shell and blew up. "Good job!" Ulrich said running back to them. "Now lets go before XANA decides to send more of his monsters."
"This place is weird." Morgan said as a girl with pink ears walked out from behind a tree.
"Hi. I'm Aelita, you must be Morgan." Aelita greeted with a pleasant smile. "Jeremy said that you would be using Yumi's character."
"Uh, guys, an elf is talking to me." Morgan said looking a little freaked out.
Odd and Ulrich laughed and Jeremy said, "That's Aelita. She's the sole inhabitant of Lyoko."
"Okay, can somebody please tell me how Jeremy's talking to us when he's not here?" Morgan asked looking up at the sky.
"Sorry to have to rush you guys, but Yumi just called and things are getting worse." Jeremy shouted.
They started running until they saw an activated tower. "No monsters so far, you guys." Jeremy reported as Aelita went into the tower.
"So what now?" Morgan asked before screaming as Ulrich was shot by a hornet and devitalized.
"Its okay, he's back here on Earth." Jeremy reported. "You two hurry up and get rid of the hornets."
"Uh, okay." Morgan said watching as Odd fired his laser arrows and got shot.
Morgan threw the fan and jumped back as a hornet tried to hit her. "Alright! Got one!" Morgan shouted doing a stupid dance before catching the fan and throwing it again as Odd fired a laser arrow.
Ulrich leaned against the elevator wall, exhausted from the fight in Lyoko. He walked to where Jeremy was sitting and saw that Odd and Morgan were easily killing XANA's monsters. "Morgan, seventy life points left. Odd, same." Jeremy said before his cell phone rang. "Yumi? Okay, Aelita's in the tower now."
"better tell Morgan what's going to happen before she haves a panic attack."
"Morgan, just so you don't have a panic attack, we're going back into the past, probably around to when you first arrived to Kadic so don't be surprised if you feel a sense like its already happened once."
"Okay, Jer." Morgan answered.
"Return to the past now."
In the cafeteria, the bees stopped just as they managed to get into the cafeteria and came close to stinging everybody. Yumi sighed with relief and leaned against a wall just as everything and everybody was surrounded in white light.
Few hours earlier…
Yumi and Morgan walked towards the school in silence before Morgan looked at her cousin. "Uh, Yumi, what just happened?" Morgan asked quietly.
"We left Japan." Yumi answered.
"Not that, baka. I mean, I was in Lyoko with Odd and then Jeremy said we were going back into the past. What happened?"
Yumi looked at her cousin and said, "We're back in the past, a few hours technically. Nobody besides us, Jeremy, Ulrich, and Odd remember. Well, Aelita remembers too and I'm willing to bet XANA remembers."
"Damn. Here I was thinking at it was a dream." Morgan said pretending to look unhappy.
"You remember?" Yumi asked looking surprised.
Morgan nodded as they walked onto school grounds. "Hey, Yumi." The guys greeted.
"Hey, guys." Yumi said with a smile. "Guess what."
The boys looked surprised when they saw Morgan looking at them without any fear or anything. Just confusion. "What?" Ulrich asked looking at Yumi.
"Kaji remembers what happened." Yumi stated with a sigh.
"Don't sound disappointed." Morgan shot at Yumi before turning her attention to the boys. "Okay, I've got questions and I would really appreciate them being answered."
lostmoonchild: and there's chapter two. I'm working on the chapters ahead of time and during school (mainly during study hall) writing down ideas. I'm now working on chapter three and its almost finished. If I get enough reviews and you ask nicely, I'll update very soon. As always, Read and Reivew, flames are accepted so don't be afraid to tell me if something needs to be fixed. Like the chapters being a little shorter.