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 'Additions II'
Key: Scene change
Code Lyoko: Collection IV
By. Tate Icasa
Aelita landed smoothly.
"How are we, Yumi?"
"You're safe. Is Jeremie with you?"
A little screen popped up.
"I'm not quite there yet, Yumi." Jeremie said. The screen winked out again.
"Alright." Yumi said. "While you wait for Jeremie, have Milly and Timiya check out their weapons."
Aelita looked around.
Milly was dressed in a suit similar to Odds, except it was in bright red. She even had the tail and claws.
"Welcome to the cat club." Odd said. "Let's see if you have any arrows."
"What?" Milly asked. She looked at herself. Her hair was darker, almost maroon, and shoulder length. "Arrows? I don't have a bow."
"Of course not." He said. "You fire like this." He shot an arrow.
Milly aimed and shot. Instead of an arrow, something small and silver landed on the ground.
"Throw it!" Ulrich cried.
Milly picked it up. "Why?" She asked.
The little orb exploded in a huge flash of light. Everyone fell backward.
"I can't see." Odd said, shortly after.
"I don't think any of us can." Aelita said.
"That's one powerful grenade." Sissi said.
"Don't worry, the blindness will pass." Yumi said. "I've got a time. 3. . .2. . .1. . .can you see again?"
Aelita blinked. "Yeah."
"Me too!" Odd said.
A chorus of 'yes's' followed.
"How many lifepoints do we have?" Ulrich asked.
"All of them." Yumi said, surprised. "Looks like that grenade is only a fancy light show."
"Not if you think about it." Odd said. "I mean, how long would it take to destroy a blinded monster?"
"Good point, General Odd." Sissi said, saluting sloppily.
"What about you, Timiya?" Yumi asked.
Timiya was dressed in purple clothes, a jumpsuit type outfit lined in silver. She reached behind her and pulled out. . .a piece of paper?
"Hey, Yumi, what is this?"
"Um, actually, I have no idea. Try throwing it."
"Ok." She threw it as hard as it could. It twirled through the air, like a frisbee. "Looks sharp." It came back to her and she caught it.
"I'll bet it's like my saber, or Yumi's fan." Ulrich said. "If a monster fires at you, hold that in front. You shouldn't loose any lifepoints that way."
"Got it." Timiya said. "Now what?"
"Jeremie should be arriving any second no. Ask him."
Odd ducked into a crouch. "Or not." He said, pointing. A Mega-tank was coming down the narrow path towards them. "This is the only monster we've seen whose lasers you can't deflect." He took aim. "Wait for it to open, or your weapon won't do any damage."
"It's opening!" Ulrich yelled.
Odd sprung up from his crouch, flying throgh the air toward the mega-tank. "Laser Arrows!" He shouted, firing three arrows. Too late, he realized that they wouldn't make it.
"Uh oh." The mega-tank fired a shot. Sissi's whip lashed forward, pulling Odd out of the laser-wall's path. It swept forward toward Aelita.
Ulrich leapt into it's path, putting his saber in front of him.
"I thought we couldn't stop it's lasers." Milly said.
"We can't." Ulrich said, as the laser pushed him backwards. "But we can slow it down. Aelita move!" As Aelita ran out of the way, Ulrich's saber flew from his hands and the laser-wall hit him square in the chest, knocking him to the ground.
"Ulrich!" Timiya yelled.
"I'm fine." He assured her tersely. "Lifepoints?"
"Sixty." Yumi said. "Be careful."
"I will." He faced the mega-tank, picking his saber up off the ground.
"Aelita, hide behind those rocks." Odd smiled. "Milly, give me a grenade." He held his hand out.
Milly produced a grenade and dropped it into his hand.
"Get ready." He warned, throwing the grenade.
Everyone closed their eyes.
"Light show's over." Yumi said.
Odd leapt into the air. The mega-tank spun, disoriented. He bounced off the mega-tank, pushing it backwards, and into the void. He flipped and landed on the path. He bowed.
"Great job, Odd." Yumi congradulated.
"Hey, guys!" Jeremie called.
Aelita stepped out from behind the rocks as he joined them. "Which way to the tower, Yumi?"
"Follow the path the mega-tank came from."
"You heard her." Ulrich said as they began jogging.
"There!" Aelita said after a while. She pointed. "I can see the tower!"
"That's a tower?" Milly asked.
"The program towers look different than normal towers." Aelita said. "Let's hurry."
"I don't see any monsters." Yumi said. "That's too easy!"
"Well, then it's a trap." Odd said simply.
"You're gonna walk into a trap?" Timiya asked.
"Well, yeah, we don't have a choice." Ulrich said.
"How?" Milly asked.
"I'll go in first-." Ulrich began.
"All alone?" Timiya asked. "That's suicide!"
"First, Timiya, if you die on Lyoko, you just reappear on Earth. Second," He held his saber ready. "I won't be alone. Triplicate!" Two more Ulrich's appeared beside him.
"Which one's the real one?" Timiya asked.
"Go!" Ulrich yelled and all three darted toward the tower.
"That one." Milly said, pointing. Timiya nodded.
"Ulrich, three mega-tanks!" Yumi warned.
"Come on, girls." Odd said. "Let's not let Ulrich have all the fun. Jeremie, you and Aelita get to that tower. We'll cover you here."
Jeremie and Aelita ran towards the tower.
Timiya threw her frisbee into the air.
"This is harder than it looks!"
"We've done this for three years, remember." Sissi said. "We've had more practice than you."
"Shield your eyes!" Milly yelled tossing two grenades.
Aelita stepped into the tower. She stopped.
"Aelita?" Jeremie asked. "What's wrong?"
"I'm a little scared." Aelita admitted.
"Don't be." He took her hand. "We're going to be fine."
She nodded as they stepped out of the tower.
The world was . . . strange. It was covered in rocks, steep, uphill, sparse vegetation lined the path.
"It's a steep climb." Aelita noted.
"We should start then."
The mega-tank opened.
Milly tossed her grenade.
The mega-tank saw it coming and closed.
The grenade exploded.
The mega-tank opened.
Milly realized that she was surrounded. Two other mega-tanks were behind her.
"Milly!" Timiya called. "Hide!"
Milly looked around. Hide, hide. She thought. There was no where to go. Hide!
The mega-tanks began to turn, looking for their prey.
"Huh? Milly you there?"
Milly nodded.
"Hey, Odd!" Timiya called. "Milly disappeared!"
"Timiya, I'm right here!" Milly excalimed.
"Hey, that's really weird!" Yumi said. "Milly, I've got your card up, but I don't see your picture."
"Wow, Milly, you're invisable." Timiya said.
"That must be your special ability." Odd said, landing on top of one of the confused mega-tanks. "Mine's future-sight."
The mega-tank, sensing his presence, began to open. He leaned over, in front of the eye, and shot it with an arrow. It exploded, tossing him back.
"Odd! Why didn't you jump!" Yumi berated. "You just lost 20 lifepoints."
"Sorry." He said sheepishly. "I forgot."
"Milly, can you become visible again? You don't show up on my map when you're invisible."
"I don't know how to become visible. I don't know how I became invisible."
"Just think about it." Ulrich suggested. "That's how most of our abilities work."
Milly closed her eyes and thought about it. "Did it work?" She opened her eyes. She could see herself, but she'd seen herself when she was invisible.
"You're visible." Yumi said. "I've got you on my screen again."
"Be careful!" Milly yelled to Odd.
It was too late. The mega-tank's laser hit Odd.
"Odd, you're at 40 lifepoints, Ulrich, 70. Everyone else, 100." She paused. "Great job, everyone." She looked at the clock. "Milly, what day is it?"
"It's Friday." Milly said. "Everybody, close your eyes!" She tossed a grenade.
"You have classes in the morning." Yumi said. "I'm bringing you back now. Go back to Kadic, get some sleep, and after classes come back here." She began the program.
"Bye, girls." Odd said. "Don't let Jim catch you."
"Materialization, Milly. Materialization Timiya."
Milly and Timiya disappeared.
"I'll be back, guys." Yumi said. "I'm going to go check on them. It's their first trip back, after all."
"Alright, Yumi." Ulrich acknowledged. He plunged his saber into the mega-tank.
Yumi set the headset down and got into the elevator. The door opened the scanners.
Milly and Timiya stood, leaning on the scanners, breathing.
She smiled. "Don't worry, it'll pass." She said. "I'd forgotten how hard the first trip is. You'll get used to it."
"Now. .. What's going. . .to happen?" Milly asked, between breaths.
"Now, you two are going to go back to your dorm. Jeremie and Aelita will have the program here by the time you get back tomorrow."
She propelled them towards the elevator. "You need your sleep. I'll show you a secret way on and off the grounds." She pressed the button.
Aelita put her hands on the wall.
"It's real." She said, pushing her hands through the wall. She stepped into the wall, and Jeremie followed her.
After what seemed like forever, they exited the wall.
"Jeremie, what happened. I thought we went through the wall?"
The wall in front of them, the steep path behind.
"I don't like this." Aelita said.
"Me neither."
They stepped into the wall again.
Yumi pointed up the ladder.
"You should come out in the middle of some trees. Use this entrance to come back, you can even use our skateboards." She turned. "G'bye."
"Bye, Yumi." Milly said.
Yumi turned back, remembering. "You do know that this is a secret, right?"
"Don't worry. We won't tell anyone." Timiya said.
Yumi nodded and started back to the factory.
Jeremie and Aelita exited the wall where they began.
"This is strange." Aelita said.
"Somehow, we're getting turned around." Jeremie said.
"So, how do we stop ourselves from turning around?"
"I've got an idea, but it requires you to sacrifie a few lifepoints." He said.
"I'll do it. What do I do?"
He told her his plan.
Yumi put the headset on.
"I'm back." She checked the readings. "Odd, twenty lifepoints, Ulrich 40, Sissi 60."
"Thant's great, Yumi. We could really use some back-up here."
"Yeah." Ulrich agreed, hand-springing away from a laser.
"Alright, I'll going you in a minute." She activated the count-down, and headed toward the scanners.
Aelita looked at the path she had created, flame orange on the ground through the brown tinged wall. It was a straight line.
She took one step into the wall, oriented herself, took another step, oriented herself. And on and on for what seemed like eternity.
Finally, she broke into the programing room.
"We made it!" She stepped into the program's platform and keyed into the interface. "Get ready."
The program disappeared from it's case.
Yumi headed towards a scanner.
Suddenly, another opened.
She spun. The program lay inside. She picked it up and smiled. "Finally!"
She headed back to the elevator.
"What's taking Yumi so long?" Sissi asked.
"I don't know." Ulrich replied.
"Hey, guys." Yumi said into the mike. "Don't bother with the monsters. The program is here, you can destroy the tower."
"Got it." Odd said. He began to shoot the tower.
Aelita stumbled backwards, knocking both her and Jeremie to the ground as the world shook.
"I think they got the program!" She shouted.
"Brace yourself!"
But she didn't have time. With a sickening lurch, she was pulled out of reality as her senses overloaded.
Consciousness returned slowly.
She opened her eyes.
"Jeremie?" She sat up and looked around. She was alone. "Yumi, can you hear me?"
"Aelita!" Yumi said. "What region are you in?"
Aelita looked around. "The desert. Where's Jermeie?"
"I wish I knew." Yumi said. "I brought the others back. I'm setting up the program. I'll bring you back and search for Jeremie."
"No." Aelita said quickly. "Jeremie isn't here. You won't find him."
"How do you know that?" Yumi asked.
"Trust me, Yumi." Aelita said. "It has to do with ability to work the interface. I can. . .sense. . .any person who can. And Jeremie isn't on Lyoko."
"Then where is he?" Sissi asked.
"Perhaps. . .he could have been transported to Okoyl."
