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 VI'
Key: Scene change
Code Lyoko: The Completed Collection
By. Tate Icasa
Yumi slowly became aware of the others, also floating in that strange place.
Hello? She thought, hoping Sissi would be reading her mind.
Surprisingly, she got a chorus of 'hello's' in return.
Where are we? Timiya asked.
No-space. Caramela answered.
What?
Where?
No-space. Caramela repeated. A place between all places in all universes. From here I suspect we could travfel anywhere in any universe.
You're saying we could. . .what? Odd asked.
Instantanious travel. Yumi said. Let's try to leave.
Where to?
How about the elevator?
Ok. Go. Yumi closed her eyes and opened them in the elevator, surrounded by everyone else.
"It worked." Timiya said in awe.
"Yeah. Let's go up to Hope."
Odd moved to presse the buton.
"No." Yumi said. "I meant through No-space."
They nodded, and skipped out of the universe and back in seconds.
The ghostly fingue watched as seven people appeared from thin air. The Enemy had discovered the Place-Between. Master Xana would have to be warned.
It could take one of the Enemies, but it was sorely outnumbered. It decided to retreate back to There.
It turned and drifted into the Filter, back through the Circuits to Master Xana.
The Eye of the Master floated in front of it. The Eye beckoned it forward.
SPEAK.
I come to warn the Master Xana.
YOU MAY CONTINUE.
The Enemy has discovered the Place-Between, Master.
THIS IS KNOWN. YOUR MISSION IS CHANGED.
It listened as Master Xana gave it new priorities.
Hope disconnected the HVP and turned around the see the others standing there in their Lyoko forms.
"Um. . .what happened?"
"We're not quite sure." Ulrich said.
"We think Okoyl has shifted." Yumi said. "And we broke into No-space."
"But that means. . .you -how -that's not possible!"
"Apparently it is." Yumi said. "It shouldn't be. But it is."
"No." Hope said. "You don't understand. I've studied the Multi-verse!"
"The what?"
"The Multi-verse. The collection of universes. What you say has happened can only happen under one condition."
"What condition?"
"The threads of this universe are coming unraveled. Soon this universe will cease to exist. And if the Xana program has not been shut down, this destruction will spread."
"Then we have to hurry." Odd said. "There are two program towers left, right?"
Hope nodded. "Caramela, can you get us the Castle program."
"I can."
"Then go. Hope, the volcanoes?"
"I'm on it."
"Jeremie and Aelita can sit this one out." Odd said. "Ulrich, Yumi, and Timiya, go the Castle with Caramela. Sissi, Milly and I will go with Hope."
"Let's go." Hope said.
One at a time they closed their eyes and skipped.
Aelita lay on the ground, asleep, her beautiful son culed up in the crook of her arm, when Jeremie returned from the deser. He was, or course, surprised at the site of the baby. It had light orangish hair and pale skin.
"Aelita?"
She blinked awake and sat up, cradling the baby into her arms. "Hi, Jeremie." She said, smiling. "This is Talin." At the name, the baby woke up.
"Aelita?" Jeremie asked.
"Talin was born when you were away." She explained.
"I knew that." Jeremie said. He sighed. "How are you?"
"I'm fine." She said. "Are you ready?" He motioned to the tower.
She nodded. He helped her up and they entered the tower.
Ulrich, Yumi, Timiya, and Caramela appared outside the Castel Program Tower.
"Ok." Yumi said. "Who goes and who stays?"
"Timiya and I'll go." Caramela said. "You two stay out here." She turned to Timiya. "Ready?"
"Let's go."
They stepped into the tower.
Odd, Sissi, Milly and Hope appeared outside the Volcano Program Tower.
Hope turned to enter the tower, and Milly stopped her.
"You can't go alone."
Hope turned, raising her eyebrow. "Are you volunteering?" She asked.
Milly swallowed. "Sure." She put her hands on the tower wall. "Let's go find out what's in there."
"Go ahead." Jeremie said, pushing Aelita and Talin toward the center of the platform.
"We'll e right back." She said. She stepped onto the center ring.
Timiya looked around. The Tower World looked exactly like the outside.
"Where's the program?" She asked Caramela.
"If it's anything like the outside world, in the Throne Room."
"Where's that?"
"This way." Caramela said, turning into a hallway.
Milly choked on the ash-laced volcanic smoke.
"Let's find that program." Hope said.
"Maybe it's over there." Milly said, pointing to a shimmering thing in the distance.
"That's as good a starting place as any." Hope said.
They started to walk.
Aelita and Talin floated u to the second platform. Aelita took Talin's hand and placed it on the interface.
TALIN.
Caramela put her hands on the gelatin wall, and pressed her hands into it. She glanced behind her at Timiya.
"Stay here."
She stepped into the wall.
"Stay here?" Timiya repeated. "You can't tell me what to do." She stepped into the wall after Caramela.
Milly and Hope reached the shimmering thing which turned out to be a gelatin wall.
They stumbled into it, coughing.
CODE
The screen popped up, and Aelita entered the code.
LYOKO
The data screens fell to the bottom of the tower. Aelita felt the two platforms merge and she stepped off, to stand next to Jeremie.
"There." She nearly collapsed.
"Aelita, what's wrong?" Jeremie asked.
"Nothing." She said weakly.
"I don't think that's nothing." He said. He led her onto the platform and turned on the interface to run a diagnostic. When the interface closed, Aelita was holding two babies. A boy and a girl, both orange haired and pale skinned.
"Twins?" Aelita asked.
"What're you going to call the other one?" Jeremie asked.
"Kalin." Aelita said after a moment.
Caramela didin't look up from the interface when Timiya came through the wall.
"I told you to stay outside." She said.
"I know."
The program disappeared."
"To Earth?" Timiya asked.
"To Earth." They closed thier eyes.
Hope touched the interface.
Milly leaned against a wall.
"So, after this, then waht?" She asked.
Hope muttered something.
"Ok, I'll leave you alone."
Hope closed the interface as the program disappeared.
"Now, then, let's go to Earth."
They closed their eyes and skipped.
Jeremie and Aelita stepped outside the tower, each holding one of the twins.
"Jeremie, Aelita." Timiya said, appearing holographically in front of them. She froze for a second upon seeing the twins.
"Hello, Timiya." Aelita said. "This is Talin." She held him up, and motioning to the other, "And that's Kalin."
"Hi." Timiya said. Then she picked up a glittering disc. "We've got all of the program. "She said. "What now?"
"Put it into the supercalculator. We can access it from here." Jeremie said.
"Correction."Aelita said, handing Talin to Jeremie. "I can access it from here. You are staying out here with the children."
She stepped back into the tower.
Jeremie stared after her, then back at the sleeping twins.
Timiya's imaged blinked out.
Yumi, Ulrich, Sissi and Odd blinked as they apppeared in front of Jeremie, who was trying not to murder Aelit'as children.
Talin was crying for reason, and Kalin was climbing up his head.
For a while, no one spoke, then Odd grinned.
"You're not into the whole babysitting thing, are you Jeremie?"
"Odd." Jeremie warned, prying Kalin from his head.
Talin started to cry again and Jeremie looked at Sissi. "Could I have some help here?" He asked.
"Oh, sure." She said, taking the baby fron him. "Come on now, baby, come see Auntie Sissi." She said. She balanced Talin on one arm, and took Kalin in the other, and began to rock side to side, humming lullabyes.
The babies yawned and stretched, squirming a bit before falling asleep.
Jeremie sighed in relief.
Just then , the ground rolled under them, and Aelita stepped out of the tower.
"Lyoko and Okoyl are autonomous from Xana."
"Did you hear that?" Yumi called to Milly, Timiya, Hope and Caramela. "We can disconnect Xana now."
"We heard," Milly said. "Why don't you come here? You deserve it."
"I can't." Jeremie said. "I can't survive on Earth."
"And I don't want to hurt the twins." Aelita said. "But you four can go."
So, they did.
Yumi put her hand on the Xana Power Switch. Ulrich put his over hers. Then Odd, Sissi, Milly, Timiya, Hope, and Caramela.
They pulled together and Xana powered down.
"Now." Yumi said. "All we have to do to save the Multi-vers, is disconnect the scanners and supercalculator."
"Yeah." Odd said. "Just one problem. Isn't this universe going to end?"
"Um. . .yeah. . " Yumi said. She frowned. "We can always travel through No-space to escape. We can try to bring others with us. We can save people."
"Let's." Milly said. "Timiya, start on the doors, and teachers. Everybody else, your parents, then help. I'll get Jeremie's parents and join you."
Nobody moved.
"You heard her." Yumi said. "Go, we don't have enough time to argue."
They went.
Yumi stayed a minute to shut down the supercalculator and scanners, and filled Jeremie and Aelita in.
