1Yay! You guys reached 5 reviews when even Fire and Ice didn't and that one is my most popular story. So here is your reward the next chapter and bonus I happened to come across this idea that would extend the story I'm not sure how many chapters yet because I'm still fine tuning the idea so sorry if this and the next couple of chapters are a little bumpy as far a plot line goes.
Disclaimer: I was walking down the street when I happened to see a sign that said Code Lyoko was for sale so I ran inside and bought it, then my teacher hit my hand with a ruler and I woke up form my daydream so sadly I don't own Code Lyoko (just so you know my teachers don't really hit us with rulers... though I'm sure they have wanted to smack some kids at times)
Sasha tumbled out of the door. "Ouch that hurt" she rubbed her tail which had been forced into a position that it wasn't meant to be in. She looked around.
"This can't be right," her voice echoed in the empty room. This wasn't the core. She had been to the core many times and this for sure wasn't it.
It was a big room. The walls, floor, and ceiling were made from data streams. Wondering if they were solid she stomped her foot down a couple of times, yep it was solid.
"Hello?" Sasha cried out into the empty room hoping for a response. She didn't receive one.
Sasha gripped the handle of her key tightly. "Xana where am I?" She knew Xana was listening; he was the one who had brought her here.
"All alone again are we?" Xana's dark voice rang out unpleasantly.
"Where am I and where are my friends?" Sasha demanded changing her key into her blade. "I won't attack you with monsters here my dear so you can relax and put that blade of yours away" Xana said rather calmly.
"Hey, why not?" Sasha knew he normally would have just sent a herd of monsters knowing that she was already weak from her encounter with the dinos. "They would be able to keep their form. You won't be able to keep your form for much longer either as a matter of fact." Xana seemed pleased with himself.
"Why what's going on?" Sasha didn't change her blade back into her key for the simple reason that she didn't trust Xana. "This room is more or less a data box and all the data that fills it gets infected with a virus.
"The only way to get rid if the virus is to leave the box. If you can't figure out how to get out the virus will slowly take over your body. Eventually your virtual form won't be able to take any more of the viruses affects and it will implode." Xana laughed evilly.
"You can't get out of here I made it nearly impossible. So really why don't you just give up? Make it easy on yourself and hand yourself over to me. I promise I'll make the code extraction utterly painless." Xana's voice was as happy sounding as an evil voice can sound. Sasha stood her ground.
"You've been out witted. All of your friends are either not on Lyoko or in the core so you have no help you are all alone." Sasha dropped to her knees her wings drooping along with her ears. It seemed as though Xana was right.
"That's right just give up nobody can hear you, and nobody knows where you are." Xana's voice was cold.
Sasha stood up her grip on her blade tightened. "No," she said simply. "If you think I'll just give in then you are sadly mistaking," Sasha's voice was filled with determination.
If Xana had a face he would be smiling evilly right now. "Good, I like it when my prey fights back," Xana's voice died out on the last part.
"Xana," Sasha called out. No reply.
Sasha turned her blade back into her key and sat down resting her back along one of the walls. "What am I going to do?" She asked herself. She looked around the room, no means of escape just as Xana had said. She sighed and started to turn over her key in her hands.
As she did she noticed an engraving on the key. Wondering why she hadn't seen it before she read it. 'Keys can open new doors even in the darkest of situations.' "Except when there isn't any door," Sasha mumbled to herself.
Just then a painful zap ran up her leg. Sasha yelped and looked down at her leg. The data was all fuzzy looking, like it was being torn apart slowly.
"Stupid virus," she muttered. "I wish I could just heal it," she said to herself out loud. She hit herself on the forehead "duh, I can."
Placing her hand on her disappearing leg they started to glow blue. The glow died down but the leg was still disappearing. She got up to see if she could walk on it, yep. "Ok, so it isn't useless just fading," she told herself.
'How to get out of this' she looked around again desperately trying to find a glitch in Xana's plan. "It's flawless not a piece of data out of place." She said sourly.
Feeling down hearted she started to turn the key over in her hands again. After a moment of thinking she stopped and reorganized her thoughts.
'Ok what do we have? Me, my key, and a large empty room. What do we know about each? I don't really remember all that much about my key except that it's really powerful. The empty room is just that, empty no use there.'
"Why couldn't you open something like a time gate or become a big map or a plan creator, you can't even open a tiny teleport hole or something. Nope all you do is crate doors." Sasha complained looking down at her key. Then an idea hit Sasha. "You can create doors."
"Ok but how?" She looked around the room. "Maybe I can try to do things like I did in the other room." Hoping it would work she walked to what she thought would be the center of the room.
Nothing. Sasha's tail started slashing irritably at the air.
"This isn't working" She said frustrated. She was going to be stuck here, Xana was going to get his code.
She was failing in her job to keep it safe for the worlds sake, more importantly she was failing her friends, she was failing Odd. Everyone would suffer because of her mistake.
Why did she have to be the princess of Lyoko anyway? She didn't want to be anymore all she wanted was a normal life. She laughed at the idea, a normal life. Then she though of how dreadfully boring that would be.
No Lyoko, no saving the world, and no knowing all of Sissy's plans before they happened and being able to foil them. Nope, if it weren't for this situation that she was in she would be loving life right now. But she wasn't, she was stuck in a big data box being slowly infected by a virus and was soon to be destroyed.
She sat down watching the data stream below her. Laying her key to the side she racked her brain for ideas. She lay down to look at the data that streamed over her trapping her in this stupid box.
"I wish I had a map I don't even know where in Lyoko I am," She spoke allowed just to hear her own voice. She sighed for what seemed like the one thousandth time that day.
"God!" Sasha bolted upright and grabbed her arm. It had been infected by the data ripping virus. The data became the same fuzzy appearance as the leg. "I need to get out of here," you could tell just by her voice that she was starting to lose hope. Sasha got up and started to pace.
Moments later she was brought back from her thoughts by a searing pain. "Not again," Sasha moaned. She looked down at her other leg and sighed. She wasn't as fazed by the virus as she would have been a minute ago. She did notice that the virus was starting to take control more quickly than earlier.
Just then something caught her eye, a Xana symbol was floating among the data stream.
She started to watch it as it moved across the floor. Careful not to lose trace of the small symbol she reached out and grabbed her key. She quickly transformed it into her crystal blade.
Then for the fourth time that day she felt a familiar searing pain only this time rippled across her arm. She looked down at the arm. Sure enough her arm had taken on the tell-tale fuzzy appearance.
Gripping the handle tightly she aimed for the center of the symbol. "Please let this work," She whispered before stabbing the symbol.
After stabbing it Sasha looked around. The data has stopped moving but other than that there seemed to be no difference. She cursed under her breath. Then the room started to shake.
Sasha fell backwards landing on her but. When she fell she dropped her blade and it skidded a couple of feet from her. Getting down on all fours she started to make her way to her blade. This was quite difficult for the shaking had grown worse.
"Oh shoot," the ground below her started to crack. Knowing she didn't have a lot of time she jumped for her blade. She grabbed it just as the ground below her gave way.
Sasha tumbled into the darkness below her. As she fell she could feel the virus leave her system. Her legs and arms felt much better and she could tell even in the darkness that the fuzzy appearance was no more.
A sigh of relief escaped her lips. Even if she didn't know where she would end up when she hit solid ground she knew that she was one step closer to the core. She could feel it.
Let's see if you can pull it off again! Just review like you did last time and I'll make sure to update this story before any of my others.
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