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 'Excursions'
Key: Scene change
Code Lyoko: Collection VI
By. Tate Icasa
Sissi noticed that Jeremie was not heading toward the others.
Jeremie? Where are you going?
Labyrinth region.
Labyrinth region! Why?
Aelita's in trouble.
But Hope said she wasn't here on Okoyl.
She's not. She's in the Tower World. Tell the others to meet us there.
You talk to Aelita first.
You're the one with telepathy.
I'm in your head. You can use my powers. Now call Aelita.
She sat back to watch.
Aelita rushed through Earth history, not finding anything. She heard the monster at her wall, and the let the interface go, running.
Aelita.
Jeremie?
I'm borrowing Sissi's power. Don't ask. How are you.
I'm fine. . .Ok, not fine, persay.
How can I help?
I'm in a maze. There's a monster chasing me. You said once. . .a myth?
A myth? Ok, Ok, A maze. A maze. . .
Hurry!
A maze. . .
Jeremie. Sissi cut in. Milly might know. She said she studied mythology.
Ok. Aelita, I'll be back.
Aelita nodded.
Milly?
Jeremie? Where are you?
On my way to the labyrinth region. Aelita's in danger in the tower world. She's in a maze, ebing persued by a monster. She mentioned a myth.
A myth? A maze and a monster. . .Thesus and the Minotaur. Duh.
What?
Long story short? Kind Mino sent Thesus into the labyrinth as a sacrifice to the minotaur. But Mino's daugher Ariadne fell in love with Thesus, so she helped him out of dthe labyrinth, gave him his sword, and he slayed the minotaur.
Hurry and get here.
Aelita slammed into a wall when she swung around the corner.
"Ouch!" She quickly synthesized another wall. "I'm in so much trouble."
Aelita, the others are on their way. I'll be there very soon.
Ok, hurry!
Jeremie saw the others.
Sissi, are you ready to leave?
Whenever. Just go over and touch my temples.
Jeremie rushed over.
"Hey!" He called.
They stopped.
"I'm not staying." He said, as soon as he arrived. "Just putting Sissi back in her own body."
He touched Sissi's temples and she left. Her eyes oepned.
"I'm back." She said.
"Good." Jeremie turned and leapt into the air.
Aelita held her hands out and synthesized a sword. She had no where left to go.
It was long and sharp, with an icy hilt. The blade was made of stone, laced with desert sand and wook.
She held it up, nearly too heavy to hold, to defend herself against the beast.
The wall shuddered.
Jeremie stepped into the tower world.
"Aelita?"
"Help!" He leapt above the walls until he found her. The beast knocked her sword away like a stick.
Aelita was pressed against the wall, having no where else to go.
Jeremie shot down towards it, his staff ready, and drove it through the beast's skull. The beast thrashed around, apparently not dead.
Jeremie landed hear it. He sent a very large bolt of electricity down the staff and the beast lay still. He pulled the staff up and put it away.
"It's not dead." He said. "Only stunned." He stood next to her. "How are you feeling?"
"Better." She said. She smiled sheepishly. "A little scared. Like I've been incredibly stupid."
"You have." He said. He smiled. "But it's ok. No harm done."
"That's good to know. Let's get out of here. I don't trust that thing."
He nodded. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he leapt into the air above the labyrinth.
The others stepped in front of the tower.
"How dangerous do you suppose it is in there?" Sissi asked. She reached a hand out to touch it.
Odd caught her hand. "I don't know, and you aren't going to find out."
The ground began to crack again.
"Uh-oh." Yumi said.
"Get ready." Caramela warned.
"For what?" Ulrich asked.
"I don't know."
One by one, they popped out of existence.
Yumi blinked her eyes open. She was in the machine room of the factory. She looked at herself and realized that she was still in her lyoko form.
She glanced around.
The others where there too, all in their lyoko forms.
"What happened?" She asked.
Milly sat up and the others followed.
"Whoa!" Odd said. "How'd we get here?"
"Yeah." Timiya said. "Didn't Jeremie say Okoyl wasn't parallel to Earth?"
"He said that." Caramea said. "Apparently something changed."
"It's. . .possible. I suppose. . ."
"What does that mean?" Ulrich said.
"Okoyl could have Shifted dimensionally."
"In english, please."
"Okoyl is a separate plane from earth, opposite lyoko. So it could have shifted planes to a closer one."
"You call that english?" Odd asked.
"Ok, how uch do you know about dimensions?"
"There are three. We live in one, Aelita in another, you live in the thierd. Why?"
"Theory." Caramela said. "Dimentinal theory. How much do you know?"
"Um. . .nothing?"
"O-kay." Caramela said. "Theory dictates that all dimensions, or universes exist in the same place." She stopped. "This is only possible becasue all atoms in one universe vibrate on a certain sonic requencey and each universe vibrates at a different frequency."
"Ok." Sissi said.
"Lyoko's frequency is so close to earth's that they can be. . .played. . .in parmony. Okoyl's is that same type of closeness to Lyoko but not to Earth."
"That's why we can travel to Lyoko directly, but not to Okoyl." Yumi said. "If Okoyl has shifted. . .changed frequenceies, closer toe Earth. . ."
"That could be a definite advantage." Ulrich said.
"Wait." Odd said. "If Lyoko is that close to earth, why do we need the scanners to get there?"
"Maybe. . .originally, they were't close enough." Yumi suggested. "When we helped create the scanners, we started a shift ourselves."
"So why don't we just go back to Lyoko and Okoyl?"
"How?"
"If this is anything like Inverting," Caramela said. "You just concentrate."
"We might as well try."
One by one they closed their eyes and concentrated.
Jeremie landed just outside the wall.
"Are you sure you want to go in?
She glanced back at the labyrinth. "I'm sure."
"Alright." He said, and they stepped into the wall.
Yumi felt a strange chill spread from her head to her feet. After it had passed, she sat for a while in silence. Then she opened her eyes. She was not on Earth.
The world was black and white. Literally. Perfect darkness swirled around perfect light, and for some reason it was hard to tell where one ended and the other began.
No, she wasn't on earth. But she wasn't on Lyoko or Okoyl either.
Jeremie touched the interface. Within moments the program disappeared. He turned to go back to the wall, but Aelita ggrabbed his shoulder.
"Do we have to go back out there?" She asked. "With that beast?"
"That thing's go you really freaked out, doesn't it?" He asked. Before she could answer, he smiled. "If you don't think it'll hurt the baby, you can Invert us."
"Thanks, Jeremie." She said. She took his hands and closed her eyes.
Hope glanced up from her work when the supercalculator began to beep. A problem.
Everyone wbut Jeremie and Aelita were missing. And there was a tower activated in the desert.
She switched the ELAS on and put on the headset. She fingered the HVP for a moment before turning that on.
"Jeremie, Aelita, we have a problem." She began.
A ghostly form floated nearby, wary of the energy barrier. It wasn't on a timer, not really anway. Xana had all the time in the word. . .
