Chapter 6

The end of the world as we know it!

A/N I would like to thank all my reviewers for their effort and nice comments that make me want to write these stupid things .

As promised I dedicate this chapter to Kayla!

And now on with the show!

I noticed in the past few chapters I have not put a copyright thingy so please don't sue! I'm only 13 so here it is. I do not own code lyoko or and of the characters or anything else related to it except my TV.

(Quick recap. X.a.n.a. activated all the towers and a squid like monster caught Yumi. Ulrich killed it and jumped out of the blast radius but Yumi didn't)

Ulrich lunged to grab the falling form of Yumi but tripped! He stumbled and fell to the floor yelling as Yumi hurtled downwards. Then a bright streak flashed across the air and he saw Yumi vanish. Suddenly he was hurtling along in the grasp of someone he had never seen before. He noticed Yumi in the other arm and let out a sigh of relief smiling as he passed out. The mysterious figure noticed the smile and grinned, speeding on to a location only she knew.

On lyoko

Aelita stood there mouth agape staring at Jeremy. She was so overwhelmed by his image that she couldn't register it all so decided to work her way up. She noticed he was wearing no shoes and his clothes were long black robes. His arms were bare and his hands were glowing with all the digital power he was welding. She looked, at last, at his head. He looked pretty much the same except his hair was long and pitch black. He grinned at her and asked

"Do you like it then?"

"Well its surprising al right!" Aelita said after three attempts.

"Well watch this." Jeremy said. He closed his eyes and concentrated. Suddenly three blocks appeared. Aelita tensed but she noticed their X.a.n.a. symbol was upside down. That meant they were against X.a.n.a.. That couldn't be right though? They were his creation so why would they be against him? She looked at Jeremy questioningly.

"I made them. I have all access to lyoko's programming!" Aelita was stunned. That meant she wouldn't need to go into lyoko again because Jeremy could deactivate the towers!

Then two real blocks appeared. Aelita tensed but Jeremy just drew a symbol in the air that turned to fire as he drew it. Then he drew back his fist, punched the symbol and sent it flying. It hit the ground and exploded killing both of them instantly.

"Whoa" was all Aelita could say.

In the tower of esren…

Ulrich was just coming around. Yumi sat up and watched him intently. She would have gotten up and gone to help him but she was chained up to the other side of the wall. As he came around she tried to get out of the chains yet again, failing miserably. She sighed and slept a little longer.

On lyoko…

Things were rough. Aelita had devertualised and was giving Jeremy instructions. Jeremy didn't want to worry Aelita but he had installed a failsafe that he would die to shut down all the towers. He hoped it wouldn't come to that, he thought as he killed 47 crabs in two blasts.

In the tower of esren…

Ulrich woke up. He looked around and saw Yumi. His heart leapt as he remembered what had happened and tried to get up and see if she was alright when his chains pulled him back down. Carefully he examined her and noticed she looked fine. He relaxed and mentally noticed how cute she looked when she was asleep. A smile was spreading across her face and he realised she had woken up.

"Hi Yumi" he muttered trying to mask his blush.

"Hi Ulrich. How are you and what's with the staring?" Yumi said still grinning.

"I'm fine and never mind" Ulrich muttered. "How about you then?"

"I'll be o.k. but I've seen better days"

"Now the important thing is where the hell we are" Ulrich said looking around. Suddenly a door opened up and a fairly short girl with light brown wavy hair came in. She looked at both of them then motioned them to follow.

"We can't there just happen to be chains here" Ulrich said very slowly like he was talking to a mad person.

The girl clicked her fingers and the chains fell away then she motioned for them again.

Ulrich and Yumi stood up and went to another room. This one however was bright and cheerful. It had a huge window that went nearly around the whole room looking out onto the sea. In this room there was a very old man sitting down staring out onto the sea.

"Sit down" he said in a rough scratchy voice. They sat.

"Do you now why you are here?" he asked. Yumi and Ulrich shook their heads.

"You two are here because of a certain computer program, yes I know about lyoko." He said adding the latter when he saw the look on Ulrich's face.

"This is the tower of esren and I am not supposed to tell you anything until I am sure that you are trustworthy but I can tell you where we are because you will not remember. What do you know about lyoko?"

Ulrich looked at Yumi and she nodded.

"We found it one year ago. Aelita (at the mention of the name the man stiffened) sent a distress signal to Jeremy because X.a.n.a. was attacking our world through the towers. We all went into lyoko and started to materialise Aelita every now and then. We were all good friends then we got Aelita out permanently and now in a week lyoko will be shut down." Ulrich said like he was getting a huge load off his chest. He was sick of saving the world and no one knowing it.

"How did you shut down lyoko? There were hundreds of code walls and viruses stopping you. And we disconnected the super computer console." The man asked quickly thinking he might have gotten the wrong people.

"We didn't Jeremy did. He got past it all thinking it was X.a.n.a. but now we understand." Ulrich said.

"But it wasn't it was you wasn't it!" Yumi interrupted.

"Yes. We found lyoko like you did but couldn't shut it down so we sent X.a.n.a. o sleep and encoded the whole of lyoko so no one could ever use it again. We moved to this place and built the tower of esren to train people to act like they did in lyoko. Only they did it in the real world. There is just one problem with your story. We never found Aelita. She was in the programming but we never saw her. Why?"

"That's easy. She had no form until we came" Ulrich said. Yumi looked at him strangely, he never was to good at computers. He shrugged "Jeremy told me! So why are we here" Ulrich finished turning to look at the old man.

"To begin your training." The man said with a smile. "I am esren!"