-1Chapter 9: Lyoko returns
Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Code Lyoko, Returns to the past, the super calculator, or XANA in any way shape or form.
Ulrich, Odd and Sissy walked down a street and onto the all too filmier bridge leading up to the factory. The air was cold and bit at the three new friends as they started walking toward the Factory.
"What is this place?" Sissy asked.
"What you don't remember?" Odd asked in half jest. "You've been here plenty of times Once possessed by XANA once by Franz Hopper and a couple of other tomes too like that time.."
"I think she gets it odd." Ulrich said as they finally entered.
Not much had changed since they had stopped coming here eight years ago Ulrich thought. Maybe a Little more graphati and a bunch of cobwebs but nothing much else. The ropes they had used to swing down to the elevator were dry rotted and unsafe to climb he found out as odd tried one and Ulrich had to grab odd by that ridiculous purple spotted looking mop he had.
"Ouch let go man." Odd complained as he hung out over the edge watching the rope fall twenty or so feet and wavering his arms like an idiot trying to fly.
Ulrich let go. Odds body lunged foreword and started over the edge. "Seriously man I didn't mean it!" Odd yelled as Ulrich grabbed him by his jacket and drug him back up onto the ledge.
Odd was about ready to say something nasty to Ulrich when seemingly out of nowhere "I see things haven't changed too much." A filmier voice said as a Pink haired girl stepped out from what seemed the wall." She was wearing a tight pair of blue jeans and a pink short-sleeved t-shirt over top of a crisp white Thermal shirt and a pair of casual brown boots. Her hair was still short like she had always kept it and still pink (Natural of course) Bur despite the resemblance of her former self she had changed : ) and odd was the first to notice.
"Princess!" He exclaimed running up to her and before she knew it he had lifted her up off the ground and was hugging her. She returned the favor all except the picking up part and when odd finally set the down he took a step back and eyed her for a minute. In common Odd fission as he put his thumbs together and looked at her between his thumbs. "Um yes unhugh..oh yea." Odd said as he circled around her. Aelita who caught onto what he was doing bean to act like a model and strike various poses. "Oh yea work it baby, I want to see you laugh cry, you love the camera Common I want to see a tiger, she humored him even up to the point of taking off her pink shirt and throwing it when...
"Odd!...Odd! are you ok?" He heard Ulrich's voice slowly he opened his eyes everything was a bit fuzzy and he hurt all over.
"Ugghhh... What just happened he asked weakly." Ulrich smiled the rope broke and you fell." Ulrich said with a slight laugh. "Lucky your bones are made of playdoh otherwise you'd really be hurting."
"Um..whheres Aelita?" He asked as Ulrich and sissy helped him to his feet.
"here I am she said with a smile appearing out from behind one of the beams. She looked exactly like odd had envisioned even down to the clothes she was wearing.
"Hi Princess." Odd just weakly smiled as slowly the felling returned to his body.
"So tell us why were here again?" Ulrich asked when they were over by the elevator.
"Well" Aelita replied "Lets get down to the control room and ill tell you what I know." She said stepping into the elevator and removing a control panel typed in a password. The metal door clinked shut as now four adults stood where kids once did. After a few moments of a sinking felling there was a loud hiss of an airlock door opening and they were in the control room.
The place was a mess littered with dust and cobwebs all over everything. Briskly Aelita ran over to the control panel and booted it up. There was a loud whirling noise as Aelita scraped ten years of dust from its station and began to speech.
"Ok before you say in crazy, listen I had thought I had gotten over all of what happened ten years ago, You know Jeremy's death and XANA and all of that goings on, I thought it was buried deep in the past and dead as dead as this computer should be."
"That's why I never seen Jeremy or Yumi after that spring ten years ago." Sissy interrupted dumbstruck by the revelation that had hidden itself from her for all those years.
"Yumi's not dead." Odd jumped in "She lives in Japan now."
"Anyway" Aelita continued messing with some plugs and wires at the back of the machine. "Well I thought It was all gone But two weeks ago I received a strange email. One explain the theory of Ghost matrices existing within a quantum system in a almost substructure of its own."
"In English" (French for all those of you that know the orgin of the show but I used English for effect) Odd said baffled.
"Basically its this, With any system like Lyoko there will be bits and pieces of information lost over time." She Gestured with the wrench in her hand. "And those pieces are still existent but function completely separate of the rest of the system. Usually the boundaries between these systems is well defined but sometimes they blur and what you get is a Ghost Matrices existing within a Matrices. Basically a ghost.
"And why should this concern us?" Sissy asked
"Patience." Aelita said as she finally finished the hooking up phase. "With the email I also received a program similar to the super scan Jeremy use to use with instructions to scan the Internet. I did. And after two weeks of hard searching i found it..." Aelita paused not wanting to be wrong well at least something. Remember the DNA sequencing code I almost gave Yumi. Well I found one on the internet hidden deep within Lyoko."
"So what dose all this technical mombo jumbo mean? and sissy is right how dose it apply to us?" Ulrich asked
"Well ill admit its a longshot" Aelita replied typing on the computer. "But see computer programs don't have then just real and living creatures. Like humans and such. Well the one i found on Lyoko, It matches the human DNA structure. Jeremy might still be alive in there!" She exclaimed unable to hold it back any longer.
Silently Odds heart seemed as if it had been pricked at those words "Jeremy might still be alive." And he felt terrible about it. He had only been in Aelita company for ten minutes or so and was hopeing that she at least remembered him and maybe..sorta kinda had some felling left for him. And with Jeremy gone.."Man what a dick I am" He said to himself My best friend and he's dead and i want him to stay that way so i might have a shot at his girl. "Damnit" He silently yelled within. all the while fighting himself as Aelita continued trying to persuade them to help. "Ill help no matter what Ulrich and sissy say I owe at least that much to Jeremy. He said to himself hoping to make penance for his evil thoughts.
"Ok well do it." He herd Ulrich much to his surprise. "Well get down to the scanners." He said as they started for them while Aelita was messing with the controls.
"Aren't you coming?" Odd asked making it obvious that he wasn't listening to Aelita the whole time.
"No odd were going to go and scout. You know kinda get the feel for the place and see of any of XANAs creations are still there." He smiled Knowing good and well what was on Odd's mind. and the elevator closed reopening a few seconds latter into the scanner room. Surprisingly It looked nothing like the rest of the factory it was spick and span spotless and dusted a complete contrast to the rest.
"What are these things?" Sissy asked looking at the scanners.
Slowly Ulrich turned to her. "Remember all of those times you wondered what We were doing sneaking around and such, well if you really want to know you'll step in there and find out. He cracked his trademark half smile as he and a wee bit o' fear in Sissy's brown eyes.
"Ok." She said as ready as if she were one of the gang and had done this a hundred timed before.
As the scanners hissed open the three Odd, Ulrich, and The Brave Elizabeth Delmas stepped into then and they slammed shut cocooning around them. Suddenly she was all alone and Sissy's feigned courage faded. She didn't know what was going to happen she just wanted to be near Ulrich and he didn't seem afraid.
"Ok guys its been a while but ill see what i can do." Aelita said as she cracked her knuckles and began typing like an octopus playing the drums. Lashing out with fury in all directions.
"Scanner Odd! scanner Ulrich! Scanner Sissy!... "Wow she didn't think she would ever be saying those words." Aelita smiled to herself
Suddenly Sissy found herself floating up into the air whirl a band of yellow scanned her outline and Simotanisouly she heard Aelita say Vitalization as her long black hair blew back and she was surrounded by a blinding white light.
Look guys I know I Have jumped up and down on a lot of toes thus far, You guys need to tell me how I am doing, Good, bad Whatever just so long as you tell me something about the story.
That said I am gowing to stop here Until AI have a total of 10 or more Reviews, Its not hard just click the button and type a few likes related to the story. (Ill apologize for my rant after i get the 10 reviews : )
And for all those of you that do read this what should happen next. What dose sissy Look like on Lyoko? Has anything changed about Lyoko? And what is Yumi doing right now anyway? And should Jeremy really be Dead or not? Thanks for the suggestions because some of them will be used. Thanks again I love you all (...In a sibling sorta way ; )