Disclaimer: How many times do I have to tell you! I don't own Code Lyoko nor anything in it…I am merely using them…

I do however own Sage and the plot of the story….

Ok then sorry for taking so long on the chapter but I finally have it done and I am already underway on Chapter Four which will be a spin off on things but that's not until next time…for today I will give you the next chapter….

Chapter 3- Lyoko

Sage felt the wind rush by him and then felt himself be blown away along with it. His vision darkened a minute and then he got an overhead view of night with ice around him. Wait, ice? He then felt himself fall and he flipped and landed perfectly. He looked down at himself and noticed that his appearance had changed. He was wearing black baggy pants and on his left side was a gold chain instead of the copper one he had. He had pointed ears like Aelita. His hair was the same but it was tied in the back and moved up to his mid-neck and not his lower. The hair was slightly longer on all sides. He had on light leather armor that was the same color as his pants. He also had on finger gloves that were black as well. (A/N gloves that don't cover the fingers all the way. You'd be amazed at how many people don't know that….). He had a sheath on his right side. He pulled the sword with lightning quick reflexes. It looked as if for a minute the wind bended with a swing of the blade. Sage examined the blade itself. It was dark green on the edges and in the middle it got lighter and lighter.

"Everything went fine Jeremy," Aelita said now in her usual attire.

"Roger, and how is Sage?" Aelita's eyes grew large a minute and then she went back to her usual look of warmth. "He's fine."

"Wonder what else I can do?" Sage said sheathing his sword.

"Ok you remember that slope you and Odd were on heading towards that tower?" Aelita remembered it vividly. That wasn't too fun, four hornets and a slippery slope, oh boy, what fun…"Head to that tower there's something I want to check" The overbike appeared. Sage looked at Aelita and then jumped on it.

"Coming?" Sage said revving up the overbike's engine. Aelita jumped on and they sped off on the narrow icy path leading to the tower.

"I'm surprised, you don't seem to be shocked about Lyoko," Aelita said. Sage was caught off guard.

"So umm tell me what's been happening," Sage said quickly. Aelita eyed him a minute and then started.

"In the beginning my father created this place. It was to be used in the military. Its original name was Carthage the AI inside, XANA, was suppose to watch Lyoko and Carthage, a guardian if you would. However, the government had other ideas in mind. We escaped to this factory because the government sent two people after us. My father sent him and I into Lyoko permanently…I was its guardian…and my father was as well. A short while ago, Jeremy and his friends found the factory and me. Jeremy found a way to bring me to Earth. However, when they did, we believed that I was given a virus from XANA, who had gone rogue, and was attacking relentlessly. Its mission is to dominate in this world and on Earth. We later found out that I in fact didn't have a virus but that XANA took away something from me to make sure I was tied to him. He took my memory…One month ago, we went on a supposed final mission to finally put an end to XANA. The mission was to recover my memory…I got it back, but at a terrible price…XANA had succeeded in getting the keys to Lyoko that would ensure its freedom…that was to drain me of my memory. Now, the only attacks XANA has done is activate old towers."

Depression suddenly swept over Sage. He was in fact, too late. All doubt he had was now drained from him. The threat was serious, he had to prevent the world from knowing about XANA. Sage gunned the engine. He stopped suddenly; they had arrived at the slope.

"Well this is going to be interesting…" Sage accelerated again and they were off.

The bike was pretty fast and in no time they had entered the cave. Sage took advantage of the ice and was riding on the wall. The cave had an aluminated blue aura surrounding it. Sage expertly handled the bike and in no time was on the roof and then on the other side of the wall on the left side. Sage looked at Aelita who looked a little scared at what he just did. He was about to say something when he heard a distant rumble. Then he heard a loud crash and a steel boulder was coming at them.

"Sage! A Megatank is closing in on you. Protect Aelita!" Sage looked up to the ceiling as if Jeremy's head were there and nodded.

"Take over on the bike Aelita!" Sage yelled as he backflipped off the bike. He had a new friend to make…

Sage landed directly behind the Megatank, perfect; now for some fun. He shuffled his feet as if he were ice skating, and in no time at all he was trailing right behind the Megatank. He unsheathed his sword and slashed at the Megatank. No damage, in fact, not even a dent.

"Sage, it has a weak point when it opens up!"

"Dammit Jeremy! That would have helped earlier!" Sage screamed in frustration. Sage looked around him, there wasn't any hope of hitting the Megatank, then he looked to his sword. The air! He remembered how it was earlier. He remembered how it made the air move slightly. Sage started slashing countlessly and swinging his sword around in hope of generating air. The wind picked up slightly and Sage felt himself be propelled a little more, but it just wasn't enough for what he was trying to do. Sage cursed at himself and then he got angry. He was so angry he felt he could burst! Then the wind picked up as if in a rage and hit the Megatank knocking it off balance. Sage focused on the anger he had felt moments ago again. He screamed and watch as a huge gust hit the Megatank dead on getting it stuck into a wall.

Sage looked at the Megatank as he passed by. It didn't look dead. It didn't matter to him at that point. His concern was to make sure that Aelita was alright. Sage looked ahead of him and noticed that light was slowly coming closer. Good, he thought to himself. Then the light hit him in swift motion and he landed on the ground about fifty feet below.

He stood up slowly to get his bearings about. The tower was only a short distance away.

"I was getting worried about you" Sage turned to his left and saw Aelita leaning against the overbike. "The Megatank?" Sage shook his head. Aelita nodded and got back on the bike and sped off towards the tower. Sage dashed after her and stopped halfway in between from where he dropped to where the tower was.

"Remember Sage, it's weak point is in the middle when it opens" Jeremy said.

"I got you Jeremy" Sage said closing his eyes. He started to take in air and letting it out slowly to calm himself. He heard a thud the next minute and he exhaled one last time and opened his eyes which were now jade green to face his enemy. Sage started to give off a green aura.

"Jeremy, call reinforcements…it's gonna get ugly."

"What are you talking about Sage? I don't-" Jeremy cut off as beeps started to sound off and icons appeared everywhere on his screen. Hornets were coming. Jeremy quickly dialed Ulrich's number.

"Ulrich, we got trouble. Get the others and come to the factory."

Sage ran at the Megatank and watched as it opened. Sage jumped and shot a blast of wind at the ground that propelled him even higher into the air and towards the Megatank. The Megatank opened and gave off a blast of energy the next minute that resembled a half circle as it quickly approached Sage. It didn't take Sage anytime to react and he defended the blast with his sword. However, it was still strong enough to throw Sage off his momentum and he landed to the side of the Megatank which had already closed and was heading off to the tower.

Sage had a look of alarm on his face as he watched in horror. He got up and dashed after it. He jump and landed on the Megatank itself. It had stopped and was opening up getting ready to shoot at the tower. Sage stabbed it alittle too high and got nailed on the blast.

"Sage you have to hit it in the middle!" Jeremy said.

"Why thanks Jeremy as if I didn't know…" Sage watched as the Megatank turned around to face Sage. Oh great, he angered it, score one for him and now here is how it ends. Sage did the only thing he could think of seeing as he wouldn't make it in time to stab the symbol. He would send the sword to it. Sage aimed at it and then threw it and directed the wind to blow in his direction giving it a slight boost of power. Sage watched as it hit dead on. The Megatank blew up and shot his sword back at him. The bad part was the sword was going to kill him. Sage ducked at the right moment and watched as it soared by him and hit the glacer that had deposited him on to this nice spot only minutes ago.

"Defeated…" Sage said as he pulled his sword out of the ice and sighed as he sheathed it. He looked at the path and ran off towards the tower.

The tower had cables all around it. The cables looked as if they went underground and then came back up like a hunched over dolphin. Or at least it did to Sage. Red smoke was pouring out of it above. Sage was looking at the rocky bottom of the tower and then walked into it without noticing. He was expecting pain, but it never came. Instead, he found himself in a room that had about a dozen computers on a wall going all around him. An eye symbol was lit up and Sage saw a second floor high above; Aelita was up there. A couple of seconds later, Sage heard Aelita say something and then all the computers fell into an abyss below. The tower went black and then the computers sped back up into their original position giving the tower back its blue light. Did Aelita restart the tower like a computer? Sage laughed at this and then noticed that Aelita was coming down towards him.

"Good work Aelita!" Jeremy's voice suddenly rang out and said.

"Thanks Jeremy, but I couldn't-" She was cut off by a beeping coming from the floor above. Aelita looked at Sage and then rose back up to check out the computer.

"Jeremy, I got two activated towers! One in the desert region and one in…Sector…five" Aelita collapsed to the ground. "I can't go back there…not after what happened…"

Back on Earth, Jeremy looked at the computer sympathetically. He wished he were in Lyoko right now to give her comfort, but there wasn't time for that. They had a job to do.

"Aelita, I know it's tough for you and after what happened I understand why, but you are the only one that can stop XANA…we can only go so far to help you…" Aelita closed her eyes and nodded slowly. She jumped off the platform and landed on the floor below.

"Sage we're off, there's been two activated towers. Follow me." Aelita said.

"I wonder what happened to those hornets…" Sage said. He watched as Aelita walked to the edge of the platform and then jumped off. Sage did a sharp intake of breath as he watched that happen. Sage was about to scream when he saw a laser blast shoot right past him. There were three hornets in the tower with him.

"How did they get in!" Jeremy said. "They can't get in to the tower…they don't have the code…"

"XANA must have given them the ability!" Sage drew his sword as he said this.

"Don't waste your time Sage. Follow Aelita!"

"What?" but Sage never got his answer as he was shot in the torso. The blast was strong enough where it knocked him off the platform. Sage let out a small yelp as it occurred. He felt himself being pulled further into the abyss. Numbers surrounded him the next minute as there was a blue glow around him here as well. The pulling sensation stopped and he landed on the platform. He walked out of the tower and was suddenly blown away. He was now in a desert?

"What happened to you? I've been waiting for you for what seemed like forever." Sage smiled not even looking at Aelita.

"Don't scare me like that again…I thought you died." Sage then felt the pain on his torso and winced some at it.

"What happened back there?"

"The hornets got into the tower and I was shot off the platform." Sage said.

"Be careful Sage, you only have 40 life points left."

"Gee, thanks for the update Jeremy…I feel so much better now that I've had my expectancy read."

Jeremy laughed in spite of himself.

"Ok there's a tower activated here and there is a tower waiting for you in Carthage. I've uploaded the overbike and overwing. Aelita, stick with the desert region for right now and leave Carthage to Sage." Sage shot a quizzing look towards Aelita.

"Good luck Aelita…"

"You too Sage"

"Aelita, wait for backup, Sage, head off north to the edge of the sector.

"Got it" Sage jumped on and went off.

Sorry for it being insanely long…umm yeah I realize that my title is the name for one of the Lyoko Season two episodes but I'm not changing it again…I just don't feel like it. Also I have Chapter Four on the way already I've started it….and have one paragraph into it…thanks for reading this and now review please….