Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko or any of the original characters.

Authors Note1: This story was written before the second season and is based entirely off the first season.

Authors Note2: This story takes place immediately after 'Dark Regions, Part Two'

Authors Note3: I realize that I royally screwed the continuity in the authors note last chapter. Gomen Nasai!

Authors Note4: I apologize to the two people who reviewed the first two chapters. I forgot to mention you last chapter. . .

xMimiCks-BunnEyx: I will, don't worry, I have all of this written, its just taking a while to type it all, for a while my friend had the whole thing. . .

DayDreamer23182: I hope that last chapter answers that. . .

Key: Scene change

Code Lyoko: Collection I

By. Tate Icasa

Aelita looked around. "Are we all here?"

"Anyone who's not here say 'I.'" Odd said, then paused for a second. "We're all here."

"Ok, everyone, remember, there's no one in the real world to warn us of monsters, so be careful."

"Yeah, yeah, I know. So, what do we do now?"

"How about explain, hmm?" Yumi asked.

"Oh, I forgot you weren't listening to us. Ok, I'll make this quick. Xana messed up Jeremie's subatomic structure so Jeremie can't survive on Earth."

"And we can't turn Xana off."

"Exactly. But I found a program that came make Lyoko and Okoyl autonomous from Xana. The problem is, the program is scattered through all the regions, and we have to collect all the parts."

"You think Xana will try to stop us?" Odd asked.

"Think about it, Odd," Jeremie pointed out, "We're talking about shutting him down. Of course he'll try to stop us."

"Speaking of which. . ." Odd said suddenly, as three blocks came into view.

"Three blocks? That's it?" Sissi asked.

"Don't jinx it, Sissi." Yumi said, throwing her fan at one. As it was destroyed, two more came into sight. "Oh, great. Guys, lets get to a tower."

More Monsters came.

"Yeah, ok." They began to run.

Aelita saw the tower first, dozens of feet in the distance.

"What the-? It looks different. I don't remember this tower."

On a second glance, the tower was strange. It wasn't glowing like a normal tower, in fact, it almost seemed to be glowing inwards.

"Maybe it appeared as a result of the new program."

Before anyone could respond, one of the blocks caught up to them, and shot a bluish beam that completely froze Yumi.

Odd pushed Sissi out of the path of another beam and caught his leg in it. As he was trying to pull free, another of the blocks fired a laser at him. Ulrich jumped in front of him and blocked it with his saber.

"Jeremie, get Aelita to the tower and find that program. We can hold them off."

"Are you sure?"

"Just go already!" Sissi said.

Jeremie nodded, and he and Aelita took off toward the tower.

Odd's foot finally unfroze.

"It's about time! Ulrich you can go protect Yumi now."

As soon as Ulrich was out of the way, Odd aimed his arrow.

"Hey, ugly!" he called, causing one of the blocks to spin and face him. He shot three arrows and it exploded. "Laser Arrow!"

The inside of the tower was as strange as the outside. Unlike most towers, the platform had a second bridge leading out to the other side.

"Come, on!" Aelita said, poking her head out. "It's safe."

"Aelita, you shouldn't have done that!" Jeremie exclaimed. "What if it hadn't been safe?"

"You would have rescued me." Aelita said simply, stepping out of the tower. "Coming?"

Jeremie sighed and followed her.

Yumi thawed out.

"Ok, what'd I miss?" She asked, falling into position beside Ulrich.

"Jeremie and Aelita are in the tower. Once they have the program we can let the Monsters devirtualize us." He trust his saber into another block.

Odd landed on his hands on the side of the line of blocks. Rebounding into the air, he destroyed one of them.

"Ha! Take that you creep!"

"Odd, be careful!" Ulrich warned.

"Who me?" Odd asked half-seriously.

"Yes, you." Sissi said.

"Oh, alright." Odd said. "You win, I'll be 'careful.'"

"You don't even know what that means, do you?" Ulrich asked laughing.

"Nope." Odd said, grinning.

"What is this place?" Jeremie asked.

"It's so much like your world." Aelita said in awe.

The path seemed to stretch on forever, a rocky path, surrounded on all sides by reddish sand.

"It's strange." Jeremie agreed. "Come on, we've got a long way to walk."

Aelita nodded, and took his hand before walking down the path.

The block hit Odd's leg.

"They just keep coming!" Yumi yelled. "Can we hold them off long enough!"

"We have to." Odd said quietly. Then he grinned. "I doubt Jeremie would be able to protect Aelita by himself, anyway."

"True." Ulrich grunted, digging his heels into the ground against three lasers.

"Odd, look out!" Yumi yelled.

Odd jumped, but the beam caught his foot, and he began to devirtualize.

"Bye, bye." he said, waving.

"Wait." Jeremie said. "It could be a trap."

He bent down and touched the light path across the pit. The path crumbled, falling into the pit.

"Oh!" Aelita gasped. "Now what are we going to do?"

"We fly." Jeremie said. "Hold on."

She nodded, and clasped her hands around his neck. "I'm ready."

He launched off the ledge.

"Jeremie, this is amazing!"

Sissi took another step back. "We can't hold them forever! How long does it take to find a program!"

"As long as it takes." Ulrich answered dryly.

"It better not take much longer." Sissi complained. "We can't hold them!"

"Ulrich!" Yumi yelled. One of the blocks had frozen her in place, and was aiming its laser.

"Don't you dare, block!" Ulrich said, leaping in front of the beam. "Bye, Yumi!" he said, as he disappeared.

The scanner opened.

"Welcome back, Ulrich." Odd said, helping him up. "Maybe you can make some sense of the super-calculator."

"Um. . ."

"Oh, come on, at least try." Odd said, dragging him into the elevator. "You know I can't make heads or tails of it."

"Alright, alright, I'll look at it." He did. "Ok, if I understand this. . ." he picked up the headset and put it on. "Sissi you have 50 lifepoints, Yumi 30."

"Ulrich?"

"Yeah. I hope I'm reading this right."

"We trust you." Yumi said.

Jeremie landed on a large platform. There was a tall, reddish-silver, transparent wall covering most of the platform.

Aelita put her hands on the wall and pressed. Her hands sunk into the wall. She stepped forward into it.

"Aelita." Jeremie warned. She kept going.

He sighed and stepped into the wall.

"Be careful." Ulrich warned. "You're both low on lifepoints, and they outnumber you."

"We'll be fine." Yumi assured him. "Honest."

The wall was like gelatin. It bent around them, soft, fluid, but strange. They finally exited the wall into a small room lit dimly with red light.

In the center of the room was a tiny chip floating in a beam of reddish light. Next to it was an interface console.

"Aelita, don't touch it."" Jeremie said. "Just use the interface to send it to Earth."

Aelita nodded. "Alright, Jeremie." She began to use the interface. "What? Come look at this, the materialization program is being blocked."

"Huh? No, that's not right. . ." he began, moving things around. "There, ok. Aelita, can you break this code."

"Oh, sure." She agreed, and began.

Yumi threw her fan. The block exploded.

"Yes!"

Another beam hit her from the side. She watched her hands disappear.

The scanner opened.

Yumi punched the ground.

"Hey," Ulrich said. "What happened to 'we'll be fine?'" he asked, smiling.

"Sorry." She said, accepting his help up. "It's all up to Sissi now."

"Got it!" Aelita exclaimed. "The chip should be materialized now." She turned. The chip was still there. "What?"

"Let me try." Jeremie said. "There."

The chip disappeared. He moved some screens around and Aelita began to fade.

Sissi punched the block.

"This is it. . ."

Jeremie moved some more screens, and began to fade himself.

The scanner opened.

"Did we get it?" Jeremie asked.

Aelita held the chip up.

"We got it."

"Great." He stepped into the elevator.

"Oh, good, you're here." Yumi said when they arrived. "You can take this." She handed him the headset and slid down from the chair.

"Sissi?"

"Jeremie? Did you get the program?"

"Yes. You can come back now."

Sissi nodded, and slipped her whip back into its place.

She held her arms out and allowed the blocks lasers to hit her.

"We win this time."

The scanner opened.

"So, what's it look like, anyway?"

Jeremie held the chip up.

It was silverish, and about 1/8 of a computer disc.

"Wait a while, and we'll go back for the next."

"Great. I can't wait to sleep in my dorm again."

"No! You can't! I don't know how long we've been gone. But if we go back to Kadic we won't get back to the factory."

"We have to live here, like we did in 1994." Odd said. "Cool! I get the scanner room!"

"Hey, that's not fair! You can't call dibs, Odd!" Ulrich protested.

"Can and did. Ha ha!" he took off.

"Get back here! Odd!"

"I'm just going to go back to Lyoko now." Jeremie said, pointing.

"I'll transfer you." Aelita said, heading for the elevator.

Jeremie stepped into the scanner.

Sissi and Yumi smiled, watching their boyfriends run around the room.