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 'Collection I'

Key: Scene change

Code Lyoko: Collection II

By. Tate Icasa

Odd woke up in the elevator.

"What the-? Hey!" he said, pressing the button. "This isn't where I fell asleep!"

"Of course not." Ulrich said, laughing. "You sleep like a log, Odd, you know that? I must have hit your head about a dozen times dragging you over there."

"Why I outta!" Odd mock threatened.

"You couldn't hit me if you tried."

"Uh, guys? Big picture?" Yumi reminded them. "Get in the scanners. You too Sissi." She pulled out her phone as they complied. "Aelita? You ready?"

"Yes, Yumi. As soon as one of the scanners opens, get into it."

"Ok." Yumi agreed. She hung up the phone.

"Transfer, Odd. Transfer, Ulrich. Transfer, Sissi." Aelita called up a screen.

"Scanner, Odd. Scanner, Ulrich. Scanner, Sissi." Jeremie's face appeared on the screen. "Hello, Jeremie, how are you?"

"Fine, Aelita. What about the others."

"Odd, Ulrich, and Sissi should be joining you now." She informed him. She hopped down from the chair. "See you soon." She set the headset on the keyboard and entered the eleator.

Aelita looked around.

"No mosters yet."

"No," Odd said. "You're wrong."

He dropped down from the tree.

"There are Monsters all around the tower."

"We'll clear a path for you." Yumi said.

"When we say go, make a break for the tower." Ulrich said, sprinting ahaed. Jeremie and Aelita remained out of site. "GO!"

They broke into a run, past the crabs and into the tower.

"We made it." Aelita gasped.

"Come on, we have a ways to go."

Aelita exited the tower.

Yumi backflipped onto one of the crabs and shoved her fan into its exoskeleton.

"Hah! I could keep this up all day!"

"You might have to." Odd said, pointing. More crabs were coming.

The world through the tower was beautiful. There was green grass, and there were Earthlike trees. Sunlight streamed in past the leaves, into the crystal clear pond.

"It's. . .beautiful." Aelita said softly. "Come on. Lets go look." She ran off.

After a second Jeremie shook himself and realized she was gone. "Stupid." he muttered, and begam looking for her.

Odd shot three arrows. The first two hit the crab, the second canceled the laser it had fired.

Sissi's whip wrapped around his arm, dragging him out of a lasers way.

"Thanks." he said.

"No, problem. Just try not to get yourself killed."

He nodded and turned back to the crabs.

"Aelita?" Jeremie called. "Aelita!" He stopped. In front of him a was a small waterfall.

"Up here, Jeremie."

He looked up. Aelita was sitting on a low branch of a tree. She hung down and dropped.

"Aelita what are you doing? We have a job to do."

"Oh, please, Jeremie, can't we stay here, for just a minute? I promise, we can go then."

"Oh. . .alright. But just for a minute."

She hugged him briefly before running down to the water.

Jeremie sat down and leaned against the tree, watching her with a smile.

Ulrich pulled his saber out of the crab and leapt backwards. Yumi's fan streaked by his head and destroyed another.

"This is taking longer than last time! What could have happened to Jeremie and Aelita?"

"I don't know. Maybe Xana set a trap for them."

Aelit let the water run through her fingers.

Jeremie finally went down and sat next to her.

"We have to go."

She looked up.

"We have to go." he repeated. "The others are probably in trouble."

She glanced back at the wterfall.

"Jeremie, I don't want to leave. It's so wonderful here. Everything Lyoko could have been. . ."

"Except for Xana." He grabbed her shoulders. "Aelita, if we get the program we can remake Lyoko into a place like this." He shook her. "Aelita, snap out of it! Xana caught you in his trap. We have to go before-."

She put her finger in front of his lips, effectively silenceing. "But, Jeremie, I'm not caught in any trap."

And she kissed him.

When they finally broke apart, she grinned. "Now we can leave."

Odd destroyed another crab, losing ground in the proccess.

"This is horrible! Why is it taking them so long?"

He stepped back again.

"Oh, you miserable crab!" Sissi complained, stumbling backwards.

He caught her as she fell and steadied her.

"This is not crab appreciation day!" he yelled, shaking his fist at the crab.

"Um, Odd," Ulrich suggested. "Next time, try shooting the crab instead of waving your hand at it."

"Great idea." Odd said quickly, shooting. Nothing happened. He tried again. "Off all the times to run out of arrows. . ." he muttered. "Bye, guys." He waved at them as a laser devirtualized him.

They walked a long way in silence.

"Aelita?" Jeremie said hesitantly. "If that is what you wanted, you could have asked."

She stopped.

"Well, in that case," she said quietly. "May I have another kiss, Jeremie?"

It took them a very long time to reach the gelatin wall.

Odd slid the headset on.

"Um, can one of you tell me how to read this thing?"

"Odd!" Yumi exclaimed. "Ok, look at our cards. There should be a line of little red and green dots just underneath our pictures."

"Yeah, ok, now what?"

"Each of the dots stand for 10 lifepoints. The green ones are how many we have left."

"Ok, then. Yumi 60 Sissi 40, Ulrich 10." Ulrich's card disappeared. "Um, make that none. His card disappeared. I'm guessing that means he got devirtualized?"

"Good guess." Ulrich said from the elevator. "Move, I'm better at this tan you are."

"Gladly. Girls, Ulrich is replacing me." He handed the headset to Ulrich, and motioned to the now abandoned chair. "Your throne." He bowed.

Ulrich rolled his eyes and turned to the screen.

The gelatin wall was green tinged.

"Ready?" Jeremie asked.

"Let's go."

Hand in hand, they stepped through the gelatin wall.

Sissi cartwheeled out of the way of one beam, and into another.

"Oops. Good luck, Yumi." She disappeared.

Ulrich read something.

"Yumi, you only have 20 lifepoints left."

"What happens if the tower is destroyed?"

"They should. . .get transported to any other region and that part of the program will be lost forever."

"Then I better not fail." She leapt into battle.

The chip disappeared.

"Ok, Aelita, I'm materializing you. Go tell the others we got it." When she hesitated he smiled, and put a hand on her shoulder. "I'll be fine, don't worry. When the tower is destroyed I'll just appear in any fandom region of Lyoko. Get ready."

"Ok, Jeremie. I have faith in you."

"I know." He said, turning back to the interface.

Aelita stepped out of the elevator.

"We got it." She said, and held up the chip. "Yumi can come back now."

"Hear that, Yumi?" Ulrich asked. "You can come back now."

Yumi nodded as a slaer hit her leg. She disappeared. The crabs turned on the tower.

The room shook. Jeremie used the interface to steady himself. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again he was in the Polar Region.

"That was strange. Hey, guys, what's it look like?"

Aelita held the second chip up. It looked identical to the first.

He nodded. "Tomorrow we'll get the Polar one." He said. "Good night, Aelita"

"Good night, Jeremie."

He closed the visual box and sat cross-legged, until he faded into 'sleep.'

Aelita held the two pieces of the disc together. They began to shimmer. The two pieces fused together, becoming a strange, quarter-disc shape.

She set the shape down in a black velvet lined box and slid the box under the super-calculator.

"To avoid a repeat of last night," Yumi began, looking pointedly at the boys, "You boys well be sleeping up here. We girls will be down in the scanner room if you need us."

She draped her arms around Aelita and Sissi's shoulders and led them to the elevator. Aelita glanced up at the boys, who were watching with their jaws dropped.

She winked.

"So," Sissi said. "Why did it take you and Jeremie os long to get the chip?"

"We got. . .distracted."

"Oh?" Yumi asked.

"Yes, Xana set a trap for us, by a waterfall in a park."

"Sounds romantic."

"It was." She said, before she caught herself. "Hey!"

Yumi laughed. After a second she asked, "Did you kiss him?"

She opened her mouth to respond, then nodded. "Yeah." She giggled happily.