Chapter 3: Welcome to the group...

Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko, Ulrich, Odd,Yumi, Aelita, Jeremie, or any of the other characters seen in Code Lyoko. I do however own Shinrai Flare, and Krista Flare.

(I had all 3 chapters ready, was waiting for Delay to end.)

"OH GOD, NO!" Odd yelled out...

A large dark shadow appeared behind Krista. Something flashed in the shadow, a symbol.

"XANA..." Odd leaped forward, trying to push Krista out of the way as the shadow arc'ed in the air and goto Krista before Odd. THe shadow entered her body quickly as Krista screamed out. Her eyes began to flicker and flash as the Symbol of XANA began appearing in one eye.

Unlike the other victims that XANA had possessed seemed to just fall right under it's control, but it seemed that XANA could not do anything.

"Odd.HELP ME!" She called out as XANA began to attempt to force her body into submission. The violent jerking of her body had thrown her into the ground as if she is having seizures. Odd picked her up quickly, a look of dispair on his face as he looked up to Jeremie. Something had passed in that wordless conversation, something more than love at first sight, something like one of Odd's visions.

"Help her...Please..." Of asked as Shinrai ran to his side and grabbing Krista's wrist... Krista's face was not beginning to become pale and white as Shinrai checked her pulse.

"Her pulse is dropping, steadily, oh god..." He stood up, his face in a grim mask,"Jeremie... Tell me how to help," He grimly looked to them, his only sister's pulse was dropping by a computer virus.

"Follow me," Jeremie turned and began to head to the Factory elevator. Everyone following him while Odd carried Krista. They entered the elevator and set it to the control room first,"This is XANA's work Shinrai, and we need your help to save your sister... Ulrich and Aelita will take you to the scanner room. During that time I will create your character template," He told them and then sat in a chair in the control room. Odd carried Krista into the control room as well, nodding once to the three that were in the elevator.

The elevator dinged again and the door closed. On the way down to the next floor, Ulrich looked to Shinrai and nodded.

"After this tower is deactivated, Jeremie will use a program called 'Return to the Past', which basicly will cause us to go into the past, where no one will remember anything, except for me, you, Jeremie,Odd,Aelita, and Yumi. Though Krista will not remember anything, not yet anyway," Ulrich explained, looking at Shinrai's grim face.

"What do you mean 'Not yet'?" Shinrai almost snapped, his hands clenched into fists, ready to hit anything.

"If we stop XANA today, when we meet you again, we will fill your sister in on what happened, and then virtualize her into Lyoko, for some reason whoever has been virtualized in Lyoko cannot be possessed by XANA with normal means," Ulrich continued. The elevator stopped and the door opened, revealing a room with three giant tubes in it.

"These take you into Lyoko?" Shinrai asked, stepping by the entrance of one of the scanner tubes.

"Right you are, Shinrai, these scanners take you to Lyoko, speaking of which, your template is now ready, it was a bit hurried though, ya know. Now step into the scanners and stop XANA," Jeremie's voice echoed through the intercom of the scanner room.

The three nodded and and each stepped into a scanner. The door closed on each of them and Shinrai looked at the surroundings in the scanner tube.

"Alright, Transfer Ulrich, Transfer Aelita, Transfer Shinrai,"

"Scanner Ulrich, Scanner Aelita, Scanner Shinrai... Virtualization..." Jeremie said, with that last word, he pressed one of the buttons on his keyboard. The air in the scanner began to rush upwards, affecting Shinrai's white hair as a bright light began to shine infront of his eyes.

Ulrich, Aelita, and a man with white hair, dressed in a outfit of a blue Tanktop with a blue vest ontop of it, and dark blue jeans fell down onto the ground of the Artic sector. Sticking in the ground beside Shinrai's side, was a long spear. He began to pull it out of the ground as Ulrich spoke.

"Do you know how to use that?" Ulrich ased as Shinrai spun the spear around some, looking a bit clumsy.

"Yeah, you just poke things with it. Where is this tower thing?" Shinrai asked, lookng around the frozen wastes.

"About SouthEast of you location, Follow the pulsations, and hurry; Krista is fading even faster," Jeremie told them, he sighed and added, "Be safe Aelita..." He finished and looked at the screen, seeing Ulrich, Aelita, and Shinrai head towards the tower.

After a few minutes of an uneventful run, Shinrai looked over to Ulrich, face puzzled," Ulrich, why do we need weapons?" He asked him sontinueing there pace, the tower in sight.

"Because there are usual... WATCH OUT" He dived forward, a laser blast grazing his hair as he slid on the ice.

"AELITA, SCIPIZOA TO THE LEFT!" Jeremies voice yelled out as Aelita had turned, startled, to the left, into the waiting tentacles of the Scipizoa.Before it could even get a good hold of Aelita, Ulrich's sword flashed as it cut the tentacles from the Scipizoa's body.

"Shinrai... Take out the Blocks..." Ulrich told him as he hit the Scipizoa with his sword. Shinrai turned around, confused.

"What the hell are Block..."He groaned some and turned to face something that had hit them, it was the creature Ulrich told him about, it looked like just a block from the old style games. Shinrai growled some stabbed his spear into the symbol of XANA on the 'face'(Geometry term) of the Block. The Block exploded into pieces pieces as three more blocks came into view.

"Ulrich... A little help here?" shinrai said, backing up as he used the blade of his spear to block a laser blast, he had blocked it comepletely by accedent. He grinned some as he used the blade now to block another one, this time on purpose. He laughed once as he ran to a Block, spinning around, gaining momentum as he spun around, he brought his spear in a slashing movement, as the tip cut into the symbol on the Block. The block had done the same thing as the one before it.

A scream had made Shinrai turn, a block was beginning to shoot at her. He ran forward, holding his spear as he deflected one of the blasts away. He held his spear ready to attack, when the block exploded into shrapnel. Ulrich stood behind it, obviously having taken out the block before he destroyed the one attacking Aelita.

"I have a question Jeremie... Why are the Blocks shooting right at her, trying to hit her?" He said, turning and following Aelita to the tower, Shinrai following them, keeping his spear ready to attack anything behind them.

"I don't know, I think it wants to hurt her enough to where if we even try to help her, he can hold her in the hostage sitation. Because from the looks of it, XANA has stopped trying to possess her, and now is trying to kill her, which is unusual," Jeremie replied. Shinrai's stopped suddenly, looking down he asked out to Jeremie. 'XANA is trying to kill my sister... MY ONLY SISTER!' Thought Shinrai, seeing as Ulrich and Aelita going to the tower. He turned around and groaned in pain, a blast hitting him again, this time right in the stomach.

"You just lost more lifepoints, if you lose all your lifepoints, you will be devirtualized and materialized in the real world, which right now, is not a good thing. Aelita, enter the tower, Odd is giving CPR to Krista, hurry!" Jeremie told them. Aelita nodded and entered the tower, she moved to the center of the floor and began to levitate to the second level. She placed her hand on the Screen and another one popped up.

AELITA...CODE...LYOKO

"There you go Jeremie," Aelita's voice rang out as Jeremie looked behind him, Odd still giving her CPR.

"Return to the Past NOW!" Jeremie pushed the button and leaned back as a white light began to engulf everything..

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"I am Shinrai Flare, and this is my sister, Krista Flare..." The boy with white hair said, putting his hand on Krista's shoulder before sighing some. "We're from America..."

He began to laugh and look to Odd, and Ulrich. Introducing her sister to them. Odd reached to his ringing cellphone and picked it up.

"Bring her," Was all that Jeremie said before he hung up abruptly. The four nodded as Shinrai led her out of the dorm hallway. He began to fill her in on Lyoko and what happened before she stopped him.

"SHinrai, I understand it all, when that shadow attacked me, I kept all my memories for some reason," She told them. She then looked to Odd and then hugged him softly, "and I still remember that. Thank you for helping me, Odd,"

"D...Don't mention it..." He said simply. He looked to Ulrich and Odd and then kissed Krista deeply. Ulrich and Shinrai laughed some more and broke them up, almost having to drag them to the factory.

When they entered the factory. Ulrich looked to Jeremie and Aelita. Thier hair was slightly messed up.

"That is why you hung up on me ubruptly," Odd said, laughing out as he did. He held Krista's hand softly, the blush still on each of their faces.

"Odd Take Krista to the scanner room, and then lets get her resistant to XANA," Jeremie said, his face red still by the comment made by Odd...

(Krista's outfit will be a surprise with the end of the story. I need at least 3 reviews for chapter 3 before I post a preview for Chapter 4, Good reviews and bad)