Sorry for the delay, but I'm moving and I have been busy. Since I'm moving I don't know when I'll be able to get back online. That said this may be the last chapter for a month or more, sorry. I'll update as soon as posible.
Now that that junk is done, I would like to thank Mr. Bob Frisco for the proofreading, and I would like to thank nevermoreloverslove for always repliying. Thank you both of you.
Now for legal junk, I do not own Code Lyoko, however I do now own the laptop I'm typing this on :)
Now on with the story.
Return of Their Past
By natdrat00
Chapter Five
The Plunge
"Step into the scanner. The computer will auto-create your profile." Angela called over the COM system.
"Okay." Jessica replied stepping in the scanner. The doors closed and it began to hum loudly.
"Auto-profile creation started." Joseph called out.
A ring in the bottom of the scanner moved upward to the top and began slowly moving downward. She was lifted off the floor by some unknown force and as the ring passed by Jessica felt a soft tingle, like an electromagnetic field and numbness together. When the ring reached the bottom she settled back down to the floor.
"Auto-profile creation finished." Joseph said.
"Transfer Jessica." Angela said.
"Scanner Jessica" Joseph added typing some keys.
As the ring started to rise once more she was again lifted up and could feel the tingle come back at her feet and move up to her head. But it was stronger this time, almost painful, as if her atoms were being torn apart.
"Virtualization!" Joseph and Angela said together.
The scanner began to fill with a bright white light, blindingly bight. Jessica closed her eyes tight, just then she felt a huge pressure wave hit. It blew her hair back as her body seemed to go numb. It felt as if she was traveling at the speed of light, but she felt nothing. When it felt like she had stopped moving she began to feel the tingle again, but it was almost soothing this time. It started at her head and moved down past her waist and to her feet. She opened her eyes and saw the ground moving up quickly.
"AHHHHHHHH!" She screamed.
THUD! She landed on her feet and fell backwards almost catching herself.
"That didn't hurt like it should have." She thought getting up.
"Jessica, are you okay?" Joseph asked, his voice booming through the air from nowhere in particular.
"What? Where's your voice coming from?" Jessica questioned as she looked around realizing it was the COM system. "Yeah, I'm fine. The transfer was a little rough, but I have both arms and legs." She was about to check over herself when she looked a little past a boulder in front of her. "Hang on. I have movement." she said as she reached to her side for her gun. Her hand hit her empty hip, she patted it as she looked down and was amazed at what she saw. "Guys, I don't have my gun anymore, in fact, I don't have the same clothes on at all."
"That doesn't surprise us; the manual said that Lyoko forms differ from the person's real world clothes that they entered with." Joseph explained.
"The computer randomly selected a character look for you." Angela continued "Also you're now a computer program, you shouldn't feel pain."
"I beg to differ, I just fell about twenty feet" Jessica complained "Although it didn't hurt too much."
"See" Angela said "so, what do you look like?"
"Well I have no shoes on, just barefoot, a black mini-skirt and a red backless shirt" Jessica said as she looked over herself. She was shocked when she looked over her shoulder.
"The computer should have given you a weapon, what is it?" Angela asked.
"It's a sword on my back, a katana with a two pronged hand guard." Jessica told them "But that isn't all that's on my back, I have a set of wings."
"What?" Joseph said.
"Cool." Koji added.
"Anyways, I see some movement just past a boulder ahead of me." Jessica reminded them. "I'm going to check it out."
"Okay, but be careful." Joseph said.
As Jessica slowly crept toward the boulder she could only see a little jittering on the side of the big rock. She put her back against the rock when she reached it, and slowly moved to the side. She peeked around the edge. "What in the world?"
A door swung open, "I'm Back, are you alright?" Jeremie said as he walked to the bedroom of his New York hotel suite.
"I'm fine, but I told you not to cancel the meeting." Aelita said.
"I didn't. They did. There was some kind of problem at one of their labs." Jeremie explained. "They said we could go back home. The meeting has been rescheduled for Monday at LE JULES VERNE in the Eiffel tower, at One O'clock."
"Really, that's good we can visit the kids." Aelita said "How early could we get a flight?"
"They have tickets for seven-forty three tonight, courtesy of S&S Inc." Jeremie informed her. "We will still have this room when we come back, so we don't have to pack up."
"Good, we've got a lot of stuff here." Aelita said. "It'll be nice to see the kids. It's been three weeks and I miss them. I wonder what they're up to?"
"Probably just playing computer games or something." Jeremie said as he turned on the TV. "You know how they're always goofing off."
Jessica had a confused look on her face. "This is strange, the movement I saw is some rocks that are moving, and they're floating around not touching anything" She said while on Lyoko.
"Remember, you're a program in a computer now." Joseph said.
"Physics don't necessarily apply." Angela added. "For all we know you could fly."
"I do have wings after all." Jessica reminded them. "I probably can." With that she stretched out her wings to get used to their movement. Then she moved the forward edge up and back, the back edge following. "Here goes nothing." she said with her wings all the way back, and then she swiftly moved them forward. Reaching in front of her, she quickly moved them back again and flapped again. Feeling herself lift off the ground a little, she stopped and dropped back down. "I believe I could fly, I would just need some practice first." Jessica informed them of her findings.
"Cool, I want to go there." Mike said "Can you two send me next?"
"I don't think we should do that just yet." Joseph said.
"Well I think we should, to test another scanner and make sure this thing can still handle multiple profiles." Angela said.
"Everything seems fine over here. The transfer is a little rough, but I think that has more to do with the process not the machine." Jessica assured Joseph.
"Well okay Mike, but only you for today, I still want to get to know this stuff more before we send anyone else." said Joseph caving in to the others' wishes.
"Agreed." Jessica said over the COM system "We need to get more familiar with this equipment before we send more than two. See you in a minute Mike. Prepare yourself for a rough ride."
"Okay, how rough?" Mike said as he moved to the elevator.
"Not too bad." Jessica said reassuringly "Just like a wreck at Daytona."
"Great. That bad huh." Mike said as the elevator door shut. A level down, he cleared out some cobwebs from one of the scanners and stepped in. The doors shut. "You sure this is safe?"
"That's what you're for." Koji said with a small laugh.
"Auto-profile creation started." Angela called out.
The ring in the bottom of the scanner moved upward to the top and began slowly moving downward as it did with Jessica. Mike was lifted off the floor by the same unknown force and as the ring passed by he felt a soft tingle, "Hey this thing tickles." When the ring reached the bottom he settled back down to the floor.
"Auto-profile creation finished." Angela said.
"Transfer Mike." Joseph said.
"Scanner Mike." Angela said as Joseph continued typing some keys.
As the ring started to rise once more Mike was again lifted up and could feel the tingle come back, stronger this time, moving from his feet up to his head. It was almost hurting.
"Virtualization!" Angela and Joseph said together.
The scanner began to fill with a bright white light, blindingly bright. Mike closed his eyes tightly. He felt a huge pressure wave hit, blowing his hair back as his body seemed to go numb. He then felt as if he was traveling fast, but still standing still. When it felt like he had stopped moving he began to feel the tingle again, but it was much less painful this time. It started at his head and moved down past his chest and down to his feet. Like Jessica he opened his eyes and saw the ground moving up quickly.
"WHAT THE?" He screamed but was cut off.
CRASH! He slammed face first into the ground.
"I'd give it an eight point five." Jessica said walking up as Mike got up. "Nice threads."
"You could have warned me about the fall!" Mike said brushing his new clothes off. "These are nice threads."
"I told you all that I fell." Jessica stated "What do you care? It didn't hurt did it?"
"No. Not really." Mike said really looking over himself. He had on black polished shoes, white suit pants, and a black button up dress shirt under a white suit jacket. "I look like a business man."
"Or a gangster." Jessica told him "What weapon do you have?" she asked.
"I don't know." Mike said as he pulled his jacket open. "OOO, found it." He says as he pulls out a hand gun.
"Whoa, be careful with that. It's a .357 Magnum." Jessica said putting her hands up. "That thing will shoot through an engine block. Make sure you hold it with both hands when you fire."
"Okay, but it's only a six shot revolver, how useful will be?" Mike says disappointedly.
"Are there any extra rounds on the holster?" Jessica asks.
Mike pulls open his jacket again and puts his gun up. "Yeah it looks like there are four rapid loaders. I can work with that."
"Sounds like you are a gangster Mike." Crissy said. Just then an alarm began to sound. "WHAT'S THAT?"
"Uh guys, I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, but something is coming your way and the computer doesn't like it." Joseph said quickly.
"Can you be a little more specific on what this 'something' is?" Jessica said hearing the alarm through the COM channel.
"Hang on." Joseph said as he shuffled through the screens on the computer. "The computer has it labeled as a 'Mega Tank', there are two of them and from the look of them they're out to kill you. Angela, can you look through the manual for any weaknesses of these things?"
"Sure." Angela says as she opens the book, "Here it is 'Section Nine: Monsters, Part Five Mega Tanks' It says here the only weak spot is the Lyoko symbol inside it, so you'll have to wait until it's about to shoot you when it opens to kill it."
"Not what we want to hear." Mike said.
"At least we can kill them Mike." Jessica said "It could be worse, like some kind of invincible artificial intelligence bent on world domination."
"Good point." Mike states "But what sent them?"
"Something in the computer, it is like a game or something." Joseph said "Watch out they're almost on you."
"We see them." Mike said as he pointed to two big silver spheres rolling towards them.
"They look metal, I don't know if I'll have any effect on them." Jessica said as she looked at her sword. "How exactly do these things attack?"
"They target you and then open up and fire a laser ray at you." Angela said as she read the manual. "It can take fifty or one hundred life points from you."
"You only have one hundred life points to begin with." Joseph added.
"Right, the only time it is vulnerable is when it opens to fire so you better be quick." Angela said.
"And what happens if we lose all of our life points?" Mike asked.
"You'll be devirtualized and return to this world." Joseph stated "You should be anyways."
"Not funny." Jessica said as the mega tanks came up and surrounded them. "This is not good. Mike, get ready. I'll charge this one when it opens to fire you start shooting for that mark." she said pointing at the tank in front of her when she heard a deafening screech and turned around just in time to see Mike narrowly avoiding a blast. "Never mind, they're faster than I thought." She said as she heard another screech and saw a laser blast coming her way. She quickly pulled out her sword and put it into a defensive move in front of her. As the blast hit her sword, she was pushed back, but the sword held.
"I got it!" Mike yelled as he drew his gun and opened fire on the tank. He hit the mark with his last round, the tank closed quickly and a white light shown though its cracks as it exploded. "Yeah! Take that you punk!"
"Watch your back Mike! You still have to reload." Jessica yelled to deaf ears.
"MIKE LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!" Joseph screamed into the COM system.
"What?" Mike asked as he turned around and saw a blast coming at him. "Crud!" was all he got out as he quickly jumped back, only his feet were hit. "Ugh, that hurt!"
"Are you okay?" Jessica said as she ran to Mike's side as the mega tank repositioned itself.
"Mike you have fifty life points left." Joseph told him.
"I'm fine, the pain's gone now." Mike said as he got up. "Stupid tank."
"You better reload." Jessica told him as she turned her attention to the last tank. "Look out!" She said as it unleashed another attack. She jumped out of the way, but the blast caught Mike mid-reload. His clothes faded into a wire frame, then disappeared altogether. "MIKE!"
"It's okay, he was devirtualized fine. Koji, Crissy can you two go down and check on him." Joseph said.
"No problem." Crissy and Koji said together and proceeded to the elevator.
"You piece of junk. You won't get away with that!" Jessica said as she charged straight ahead at the tank. It fired twice and missed. She raised her sword for a killing blow, but the tank closed just before she impacted it and her sword just bounced off. "You jerk, open up and fight." With that the tank rolled back quickly and opened up and fired before she could react. "What?" was the only thing she had time to think before she was hit. She flew backwards as her clothes faded into a wire-frame then to nothing, just as Mike had done.
The Mega Tank closed up and rolled away in victory.
Back in the scanner room, Koji and Crissy were helping Mike to his feet when they heard a loud humming sound. When it stopped the scanner doors opened and steam billowed out. As it cleared Jessica fell to the floor. "That's worse than going there." She said as Crissy grabbed her arm and helped her to her feet.
"What happened? You were doing good." Mike asked.
"I guess I lost my cool when it got you." Jessica answered. "I've always had a problem with my temper."
The elevator doors opened up and Angela and Joseph stepped out. "So how was it?" Angela asked.
"Great, when can we go back?" Mike asked. "There's a Mega Tank with my name on it."
"Yeah, on its 'kills list', Jessica too." Koji said.
"Okay smart man, you can come next time." Jessica shot back.
"Well it won't be till tomorrow. We'd like to study the manual a little more before anyone goes back." Joseph stated.
"And it says if you get devirtualized you can't go back on for twelve hours." Angela added "That way your body will have time to recover."
"Speaking of bodies recovering, is it dinner time yet?" Mike asked.
"I hope so. That takes a lot out of you." Jessica said. "So we are coming back here tomorrow after breakfast?"
"Yeah, we'll try sending all of you over then." Joseph said as he looked at his watch. "It'll be dinner time by the time we get back. Let's go."
"Tomorrow you lousy Tank, tomorrow." Jessica said as she followed the others onto the elevator.
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Like I said before, I'm moving and I don't know when I'll get back online. Sorry. It hurts me too. But it's Nashville Tn, surely I'll find an internet cafe, wish me luck.