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Sudden Changes Continued

Jeremie:

I was in Lyoko, it was my fourth time, but it was so different from the other three. The first was a long time ago, and it was a little after I met Aelita. The second was when I went to Lyoko to apologize to Aelita for yelling at her, I had gotten stuck in limbo… The third time was when I had gone in to save my friends from a virtual earth. Two of the three times I had never actually made it to Lyoko, but the first I had. And now Lyoko was so different then it had been.

We were all in older bodies, somewhere around seventeen or eighteen, and we appeared to be ourselves. Not only had we changed, but Lyoko had as well. The landscape was a thousand times more detailed, and the sky looked incredible. The sun was going down and it was nearly twilight. The colors were simply amazing.

I felt a breeze blow against me. I could actually feel the breeze, the coolness and the pressure against my skin. I could smell the flowers as I breathed in and out. I could even feel the coolness of the night against the warmth of the sun. This was something that Lyoko had never been able to do before. Lyoko had been a decrease in the senses, but now it was increasing them far more than I could believe.

"Shall we?" Odd asked looking over the cliff.

"You can't be serious…" Sissi exclaimed. "That has to be a forty-eight foot drop. Nothing could survive that."

"Well, I don't see much choice." Yumi said. "The tower is off in the direction over the cliff, and unless you see any easy way down we will just have to go over it."

"Besides, in Lyoko we have super powers." Odd said.

Odd suddenly began running to the cliff he jumped and literally dived off of it. Sissi ran after him trying to stop him, but he was already falling to the ground as she reached the place where he had been. We joined her at the edge of the cliff and watched as Odd did a few flips in mid air and landed on his feet with the grace and agility of a cat.

"How did he do that?" Sissi asked.

"As he said, we have 'super' powers in here." Ulrich told her. "I bet that none of us will get even slightly hurt when we land."

Ulrich took a few steps back and began running to the edge. He jumped just as Odd had and we watched him land next to Odd. They both appeared to be perfectly fine. It was almost as though they had enjoyed it…

Yumi was next, and then Aelita tried her luck. Finally it was just Sissi and me, and we were both as frightened by the idea of jumping off of a cliff as the other. I decided that I had to do it, there was no choice… I walked back to the pond and began running as fast as I could. I suddenly realized that I was moving much faster than I had expected. I reached the cliff in only a matter of microseconds and flew off of it.

As I flew through the air I saw the ground below me quickly rise up to meet me. I began to panic, not wanting to be a splatter on the ground. Suddenly just as I reached a few feet above the ground a hole opened up below me. The hole was not in the ground, but instead in the air above it. As I fell into the hole I found myself slowing and then I landed on the ground next to the others.

"That was…" I started. "I don't want to do it again."

"Well, all we have left is Sissi." Odd said. "I hope she can find the nerve to jump."

I thought about it for a moment. When the hole had opened I had been thinking about landing next to the others. It might have been my thoughts that opened the hole. If so I could control it, and if that were the case… I began to think about a hole below Sissi leading to a spot next to us. Suddenly a hole opened up in the sky and Sissi fell through it. She looked around shocked to find herself at the bottom of the cliff without having jumped.

"Well, now that we are all here lets continue to the tower." Ulrich said.

We began walking in the direction that we had all felt the tower in. As we walked we looked at our new surroundings and began talking. Sissi still needed to know a few things, but those questions were easy enough to settle. When it really got interesting was when we debated our new abilities.

"Jeremie, you created that 'wormhole' right?" Ulrich asked.

"Yes, I apparently can create 'portholes' from one place to another."

"Ok, so your power is some form of teleportation. Yumi's is most likely some form of telekinesis. Aelita's is most likely the same…" as he said this Aelita tested out what she could do by growing a small patch of flowers. "Well, that was correct at least. That still leaves us with Odd, Sissi, and me…"

"Well, before, and on earth, my ability is having premonitions and something like 'out of body experiences'…" Odd said. "I don't see any reason that it should be any different."

"That's true… But what is Ulrich's then? We never really knew what he was able to do on earth." Yumi said.

"We also don't know what Sissi can do." I said. "I mean she was able to remember what had happened even after we had reset time, but the traveler said that was his doing."

"I wonder…" Ulrich muttered to himself. "Triplicate!"

Suddenly Ulrich became three Ulrich's. The three of them looked at one another and nodded. "I thought so." One of him said. "Fusion." The three of them fused into one person again.

"Well, our original Lyoko abilities work that's for sure." Aelita said. "But I feel as though there is something more here… I just can't place it."

"I just thought of something…" Sissi said. "Why are we walking when it would be faster to either run, or for Jeremie to create a 'porthole' to get us there?"

"Oh, that's a good question." I said. "I'll try…"

I focused on the space in front of us for a few seconds and a hole opened. As we looked through the hole we could see the tower and X.A.N.A.'s monsters. One of the monsters noticed us and began firing on us. The monsters looked more real, as did their attacks. The laser reached the hole and came through it. Thinking fast I created another one that the laser went into and when it came out it hit the monster on X.A.N.A.'s symbol.

"I guess the battle has begun." Odd said.

The next chapter gets a little graphic. A person who is previewing my chapters has advised that I tone it down a little, but if I do it won't get a point across. I will see what I can do to keep it the way it is... But I may have to tone it down... Until then I won't be able to update...