Disclaimer- I don't own Code Lyoko, the characters, blah blah blah...you get the point.
I do own the story and Sage and whatever characters I may invent in my pee-brain.
Final Note- I don't have a word program anymore, I got my computer fixed and it needed it...I have only notepad...
Chapter 4-Enter Sage
"Where could they be?" Jeremy dialed Yumi's number. "Yumi! Where are you?"
"Jeremy what are you talking about?" Jeremy's eyes widened.
"Ulrich never called you? Yumi, come to the factory now!" Jeremy cut off the line and then dialed Ulrich's number. Nothing. He then dialed Odd's number.
"Odd tell me Ulrich is with you?"
"Yeah, but we have our hands full! XANA has an army after us!"
"Come to the factory now we have two activated towers and it's going to take all the power we have to take care of this." There was a slight groan on the other line, but it was muffled out by a yell from Ulrich and then another groan as Jeremy heard a thud. Then Odd started talking again.
"Two! XANA started the party already? Alright, we're on our way!"
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"Sage, you're almost there now" Jeremy said.
"Great, and the others?" Sage asked.
"They're coming..."
Sage saw the edge of the sector and stopped.
"Great now what?" Sage said aloud.
"Hold on" Jeremy said typing in the all too familar password, Scipio.
The overbike disappeared and Sage looked as a white sphere with the eye symbol on it came. The sphere stopped in front of him. Sage was about to walk towards it when he was engulfed by a white light. He felt himself being pulled at high speed. Sage looked out around him at the desert region as it sped by. As he passed he saw the tower Aelita was heading to deactivate. Sage wished her luck again as he was headed toward something bright. He could faintly make out the outlin of a half sphere. He then broke through and was enveloped in the all too familar, blue glow of a tower. Computers as far as the eye could see where everywhere. The computers thinned and what was left was a huge sphere that had a solitary ring and four pipe-like things coming out of it. Sage noticed an opening as he went in the sphere itself. Next minute, he was pulled into it. There was another flash of light and Sage felt the pulling sensation go away.
"Welcome to Sector five Sage" Jeremy said.
Sage looked around and noticed that the walls were spinning.
"What's going on Jeremy?" Sage asked as the spinning started to slow.
"No time to explain, just get to the next room and find the key. You have three minutes to do so"
This day just wasn't getting any better Sage thought to himself. He made it to the next room and noticed columns and pillars everywhere. The problem was there wasn't a floor above or below. Just columns moving like platforms. Sage backed up a bit and ran to the first column and got on it without a problem. Besides, he was just getting one key right? Sage peered ahead and noticed a switch. Was this the key Jeremy was talking about? Sage jumped to the next column/platform. He heard a roar in the distance. Sage turned around quickly as his eyes turned to the jade color they were before. He didn't like whatever that was so he quickened his pace and got on to the next one. He finally reached the switch and pressed it. The columns stopped moving all together. It was dead silent now. Nothing happened for a few seconds then he heard a rumble that got louder and then he heard several roars.
"Sage, that was the wrong switch!" Jeremy said. "Be careful, I don't know what XANA has planned."
Sage did because it had already started. The pillars that he saw before were now falling like icicles towards him. The platform/columns he used to get here had already fallen. The one he was on then started to fall. Sage felt the ground beneath him give way. Sage quickly drew his sword and stabbed it into the wall. He let out a huge sigh as he stopped falling and watched the last pillar fall. All was silent again, he didn't like that.
"Jeremy alittle magic from you would be helpful."
"Give me a minute here. Aelita has monsters attacking her..."
Sage closed his eyes and waited. The place began to shake and he quickly opened them as his eyes burned more fiercely then ever. Something was overlooked here.
"Jeremy, how much time do I have left!" Jeremy looked at the screen. He had forgotten about that. His eyes then widened as he noticed the counter still ticking away.
"One minute!"
"Damn it! I knew it!" Sage said. He then closed his eyes again and yanked out his sword and started to fall.
"Sage, what are you doing!"
You'll see, he thought to himself.
Sage continued to fall and then he came up against ground as if it had come up to swallow him. Wait, it was coming up? Sage didn't waste a second as he dove off the pillar coming up that had got him. The next second he heard a loud thud as it hit the ceiling and it rained down what seemed to be chunks of marble. Sage jumped off the next pillar he had landed on as he heard another thud. He noticed something further down out of the corner of his eye. It looked as if it were the same switch that he had pressed higher up. Sage jumped off again using all his might to reach this switch with speed or face...erm whatever happened in this place. He was within reach of it when he felt a sharp pain run through his back knocking him on to a pillar that was speeding up to the ceiling. He looked up and saw on a ledge out of the way of the chaos, eight slug-like things. Sage couldn't move, he was hurt too badly. He closed his eye and waited for whatever happened in Lyoko to well, happen.
"I'm sorry Aelita..." he said.
"Triplicate!"
Three of the slug-like things dropped and blew up. Sage looked on and saw three yellow streaks shoot all around the remaining ones as they all blew up a second later. The three yellow streaks then formed into one as it dashed towards Sage picking him up seconds later as the pillar crashed into the ceiling spilling more chunks of marble-like material everywhere. They both landed on a pillar further down.
"Good job with the Creepers Ulrich, hurry, you only got twenty seconds left." Jeremy said.
Ulrich and Sage looked at each other for a minute and nodded jumping off the pillar they were on to go further below. This was the last attempt.
"The switch is near the bottom, do you see it?" Sage yelled over the thundering thuds of the pillars. Ulrich nodded.
"Supersprint!" Ulrich yelled gaining speed. He jumped off the side of a pillar to gain more momentum and within seconds, pressed the switch and then kicked off the wall heading back towards Sage. Sage, was on a pillar that had stopped moving. Ulrich hit it with a thud. Seconds later, a wireframe formed all around the pillar and turned into ground. One of the walls then opened up to reveal blinding white light on the other side.
"Phew, good job you guys." Jeremy said. Ulrich said nothing and then turned to Sage.
"This isn't a videogame! What are you doing here?" Ulrich said coldy.
Sage looked calmly at Ulrich and then with lightning speed, pulled out his sword and was going in for a slash to his neck. Ulrich blocked just as Sage's sword was about to come within range. He pushed it back with force. Sage laughed as he sheathed his sword, leaving Ulrich sitting there in a stance.
"I won't reveal my hand just yet..." Sage then started to walk to the opening the key had made leaving Ulrich there.
"Cool it Ulrich, Sage can be trusted" Jeremy said. "Now follow him, he only has ten life points left and needs all the help he can get, just like you do!"
Ulrich sighed and followed after Sage. He walked through the passage and then something strange started to happen. Ulrich was falling. He looked all around and couldn't see anything. The blinding light that was there before, was now gone. Then all went black.
"Ulrich wake up!" Sage said kicking him. Ulrich woke with a start, readying to attack. He then noticed that it was just Sage. Ulrich looked around at his surroundings. Everything was bright around him. It felt as if he were back on Earth. There was wildlife everywhere. From huge Evergreen trees, to the smallest of bushes. Ulrich looked down at himself and noticed he was still in his Lyoko attire.
"Jeremy? Jeremy!" Ulrich shouted vainly.
"I tried that...wherever we are, it's still part of Lyoko but not found I suppose..." Sage said flopping down beside Ulrich to sit.
"We should get going then...apparently we are still in Sector 5" Ulrich got up. Sage followed after him. They were heading towards a dense forest. The trees towered over them like skyscrappers.
"How long does this forest go?" Sage asked "I feel like we've been here for hours..."
"Well you're in luck...there's a light at the end..." Ulrich answered. Sage looked at him with an odd look, but said no more on the subject. When they broke through, they were standing in a meadow. There was a huge river to their right, Sage looked further up the river and saw a waterfall. It was sunset, and it made the water glitter and sparkle as images of the fish in the water played on it. Sage walked over to the water and took a sip. He felt recharged.
"Ulrich come over here and try this!" Sage yelled. Ulrich walked over and took a sip. His eyes grew big a minute as he looked at Sage.
"Is this place really virtual?" Ulrich asked.
"I don't know, but this place is incredible." Sage said.
They looked around for another minute. It certainly didn't look virtual. Everything seemed real, in fact they could feel everything as well.
"Ulrich, Sage, can you hear me?" Jeremy's voice sudden rang out.
"Jeremy, are we glad to hear from you! Do you have any idea where we are at?" Ulrich said. Back on Earth, Jeremy was typing feriously on the keyboard trying to pinpoint their coordinates while at the same time trying to help Aelita.
"What? This can't be! You're in another sector all together!" Jeremy looked at the computer in disbelief.
"Exactly how many sectors are there you guys?"
"There's six now. I'm getting strange readings from it too. The activated tower is north from your current position...by the way how did you recover life points?
Sage looked to Ulrich. Ulrich shook his head. He then thought of all the things they had done since coming to this new sector. He then remember the river.
"Jeremy there's a river here, I think that's what did it." Ulrich finally said.
"We'll have to look into that later, for now let's worry about the tower."
Sage waded across the river on to the opposite side. The river current wasn't too fast, so it made that possible. There was another forest to cross. Sage groaned. He didn't want to go through another forest.
Sage and Ulrich said nothing as they broke through the forest on the other side. The tower was now in plain sight. Sage and Ulrich started to run towards it, when something to their left jumped out towards them.
It looked humanoid and held an axe. There wasn't a face. Instead, there were stitches where eyes were suppose to be. It had on simple tanned leather that was hardened.
"What's that?" Sage asked. Before Ulrich could answer, there was more rustling and more enemies came out. One looked like Ulrich and the other one looked like Sage. Both were a darker color.
Sage and Ulrich looked at each other and then dove to opposite sides of each other. Dark Ulrich sped towards Sage and was attacking before he hit the ground. Sage had just enough time to block Dark Ulrich's strike. Ulrich looked towards Sage, but the next second slashed a blast of fire in two so that he wouldn't get scorched. Ulrich stared at Dark Sage, his face was expressionless. His eyes were the most haunting however because they were a dark velvet color. Close to the color of blood. Ulrich then supersprinted towards Dark Sage. The other enemy stared intently at Ulrich as he was fighting Dark Sage, he seemed to be watching his every move.
Meanwhile, Sage kept up at Dark Ulrich's pace. Strike after strike, a fury of blows was exchanged between them.
"Ha you're pathetic! I can take you easily!" Sage yelled. With that, Dark Ulrich paused and then shifted into three.
"Damn..." Sage sighed getting into stance. If he lived through this he'd learn to shut up.
Another blast of fire came at Ulrich. He ducked to avoid the blast. He then ran at Dark Sage. Just then, the doll figure jumped out in front of Ulrich stopping his charge at Dark Sage. Ulrich halted and stared at the doll figure. The figure tossed the axe in the air. Ulrich watched as it morphed into a totally different weapon. The figure caught it and Ulrich looked in horror as it looked almost exactly like his sword. It then got into a stance, crouching low.
"J-Jeremy what is that thing?" Ulrich asked as Dark Sage walked up beside it smiling.
"I don't know, but whatever it is; precede with caution...I don't like it..." Jeremy sighed after saying that. They were in knee deep now. How could there be more unexplored sectors? Did XANA create it just to attack them?
Meanwhile, Sage was doing all he could to stay one step ahead of the three evil beings. One was advancing at him now. where'd the other ones go? Sage looked around frantically. Suddenly one came up from behind and got him in a bear hold. The other two supersprinted towards him and stopped exactly in front of him. Sage eyed the one Ulrich in front of him, getting ready to bring his sword down for a slash. He also noticed the Ulrich directly to the left of him. One chance was all that Sage had. Time seemed to slow to the speed of a snail as the sword came down to strike him. Sage threw himself foward making the Ulrich that was holding him flip over Sage and hit the Ulrich that was trying to slash him. It instead slashed the Ulrich holding Sage. One down. The one that had just slashed it's comrade lost momentum and fell over. Sage then flipped back up and slashed the Ulrich that was on the ground. Two down. That left the one to his left.
Sage brought his sword up so that the tip was pointed at Dark Ulrich's face Sage smirked at him and waved for him to come forth. Dark Ulrich actually smiled. That made Sage unnerved and he backed off. That was all that Dark Ulrich needed. Sage tried to get back the offensive but it was too late. Dark Ulrich went into attack.
"Triangulate!" Dark Ulrich shouted. Sage didn't even have time to react as the foe formed a triangle around him. At each point of the triangle, was one of the Ulrichs.
Sage closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He didn't want to die here. Not like this. Sage held his sword in the air. The air around Sage started to get dense. Sage's sword started to turn green, emerald green. Within seconds, Sage had wind at his command. In fact, he was engulfed in it. Sage spun around doing a 360 with his sword, projecting the wind in all directions like a razor blade, hitting all three of the Dark Ulrichs. The triangle dissapated but the one speeding around it didn't. Dark Ulrich came right at Sage, Sage didn't expect this and was caught off guard. Sage let out a scream as the evil being cut his shoulder open. He glared at Dark Ulrich who was smiling. Sage let anger overtake him. He ran at Dark Ulrich and stabbed him through the chest. He watched him disappear. Sage surveyed the damage. His right shoulder was cut all the way to the bone. This arm was useless now.
"Sage, help!" Ulrich said ducking from a slash to the head. He then dove to his right seconds later as a wave of fire hit the spot he was at before. Dark Sage sped towards Ulrich the next minute doing a series of strikes which Ulrich parried easily.
"Ulrich this place is real! Don't get hit at all!" Sage shouted. The doll-like figure turned and then started advancing on Sage. Sage pulled out his sword, holding it in his left hand, it seemed it took all the energy he had just to hold it with his left hand. The doll-like figure walked over slowly to Sage. It sheathed the sword it had, it then held it's arm up. The arm was pointed at Sage's chest. Wait a sec, what was he doing?
"Sage, get out of the way it's copying Odd!" Jeremy yelled. Sage panicked as the arrow was shot seconds later. Time slowed as Sage did the first thing that came to his mind. He back flipped out of the way of arrow, going directly up in the air.
Ulrich dodged another blast of fire. He didn't know how much longer he could go. That's all he needed, to actually get killed.
"Supersprint!" Ulrich yelled sidestepping from left to right as he closed the distance between him and Dark Sage. Dark Sage stuck his sword out in front of him waiting for Ulrich to get closer. If this turned out wrong, he would die. He flipped right onto Dark Sage's blade at the same time that Dark Sage thrusted his sword out towards Ulrich. Ulrich jumped off the blade a second later doing a somersault slicing Dark Sage. Ulrich landed, but there wasn't an enemy to greet him.
"Practice" Ulrich said and sheathed his sword. He looked in the direction the doll had gone awhile ago. He saw Sage there on the ground, putting his sword up in final defense. The doll like creature was standing over Sage, sword held in the position above its head to just come down and strike Sage.
"No!" Ulrich yelled, supersprinting once more towards the doll figure and to Sage's aid. The doll turned around and shot a laser arrow right into Ulrich. Ulrich looked down and saw a burn that had hit him in the stomach. Intense pain over came Ulrich and he crumbled to the ground. Sage, having watched the whole thing, felt a new surge of energy take hold of him. He jumped up and did a series of slashes to all the vital parts on doll's body. The doll screamed, it backed off and disappeared into the forest around them.
Sage sheathed his sword and winced as a sharp pain feared to overtake him. Ulrich was on the ground. Sage took a step towards Ulrich. Was he still alive?
"There's no time, secure the tower!"
"But Ulrich-"
"I'll take care of him Sage" Jeremy said.
Sage looked at Ulrich and then nodded running as fast as he could towards the tower. Sage arrived at the tower. All was quiet. Sage looked up at the tower and saw the red smoke like stuff come out of the tower. Sage sighed.
"How's Aelita doing on getting to her tower?" Sage asked.
"Not good, monster are appearing everywhere. Why do you ask?" Jeremy look at the monitor curiously, what was Sage planning?
"I'm sorry Jeremy, but I can't wait on Aelita" Sage said. He walked into the tower and was in the familar blue room. Sage walked into the middle and looked up toward the second floor. He then felt the ground leave him as he came closer to the second floor of the tower. He landed gently on it and walked towards the screen. He put his hand on the screen. His hand felt like it was stuck to the screen. He tried to pull it off but he couldn't. He then felt electricity course through him. The XANA symbol appearing everywhere in the tower Sage felt the darkness coming at the edge of his vision as he fought to stay conscious. He then yanked his hand off as he blacked out. The next minute, the screen said Sage, Code, Lyoko. The tower then faded to darkness.
Phew...all the people that have Microsoft word better apperciate that program. I had to look in a dictionary for a couple of words. You guys and your spell check. growls Anyway, I'll make sure that it doesn't take me as long to update the next chapter. Thanks for reading. And starting soon I'll add little previews. But I have to tell you it's going to take me a bit to get the next chapter onto paper. I'm currently trying to get a job. See ya!