This chapter was written by me and edited by Undeadmonkey8.
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Big bug means big trouble
In the courtyard
POV Lila's
I go to meet Ulrich, Odd, Yumi and Jeremy and all of us, into the courtyard as it looks like Sissi, is with Milly and Tamiya. Sissi is with Milly and Tamiya, as they look like they are finishing an argument.
Her two goons – Nicholas and Herb- are with her as usual.
"How's it going?" Sissi asks as we approach them.
"Sissi being nice? Aren't you usually conceited?" Odd asks. "Well, I'm fine. Thank you for asking."
"I didn't mean you," Sissi remarks as she smiles at Ulrich. "Don't you think it's time to stop being shy Ulrich, and finally tell your friends how you feel about me?"
"I'm not shy. I'm just not into anybody who's stuck up," he replies, crossing his arms.
We all laugh at that, even Nicholas and Herb. Sissi looks at Nicholas, then turns to Herb, and they stop laughing. Odd lays his hand out.
"Let me guess: She's been going on and on about how she's the prettiest girl in school. That there's no guy in school, who isn't attracted to her. Am I right?" Odd asks. "I mean, she's always hanging out with these two. They're probably the only ones at school who are into her."
This causes Nicholas to get angry, and he starts to walk to Odd, but Sissi sets a hand on his chest, pushing him back.
"Impressive. It's almost as if you've got them trained on command," Ulrich jokes. "Maybe you can be a dog trainer in the future."
Sissi puts her hands on her hips.
"You can joke, all you want to now Ulrich. I know your true feelings. Whenever you aren't around with your friends, I see how you look at me." She claims before she, Nicholas, and Herb start walking away.
"She must be daydreaming," Ulrich says as Yumi can't help but look at him.
"I just realized! I have to feed Kiwi," Odd remembers.
"Yumi, Lila, want to go with us?" Ulrich asks.
"I'm actually going to go and see Jeremy," I reply.
Yumi shakes her head, "Me too, but thanks though," she waves.
"Okay, see you later," Ulrich says as he smiles at Yumi.
Yumi and I make our way to Jeremy's room.
On the boy's dorm floor
We're in the doorway of Jeremy's room. We hear typing coming from his room.
"Jeremy? I'm with Lila," Yumi says.
"Hi, you're more than welcome to come in," Jeremy says as Yumi walks into the room first. I walk in after as I close the door.
In Jeremy's room
Jeremy is typing, and we walk up to him. Yumi sits on the side of his desk, "What are you up to?"
"I'm creating a new program. It's going to act a catastrophe alerting system," he explains.
"Kind of like a news report?" I ask.
"Kind of yes. So, the idea I've thought of is to rate disasters that occur naturally, and those disasters that don't occur naturally. I'll publish it onto multiple websites and information networks," he starts to explain. "These disasters will be rated on a scale of one through ten. If the disaster reaches the number five, I'll be notified immediately."
"What will happen then?" Yumi asks.
"It'll be the best way to identify any signs of a Xana attack," Jeremy answers.
"That's so cool," Yumi says sarcastically.
Jeremy notices her tone, as he looks at her. "Penny for your thoughts?"
Yumi puts her finger on her chin. "Is - is there a chance Ulrich is into Sissi?"
I nearly choke on that question, as Yumi pats my back. The choking dies down and stops.
"Sorry caught off guard. That's what you're worried about?" I ask.
Jeremy puts his hands behind his head. "Lila's right. Sissi? Ulrich is not into Sissi. I would have never guessed that you're the jealous type Yumi."
Yumi gasps, "I am not jealous!" she exclaims.
"Well if you were jealous, I'd tell you, you wouldn't need to worry," I smile. Yumi sits on a desk to the side as Jeremy continues typing.
"And... done. I think the program is ready," Jeremy says as he presses the final key.
"Nice job," I compliment.
"Thanks. Now, all we can do is wait," Jeremy says. As if on cue, a window pops up with a news channel. I get off the bed, as we watch it.
The news channel shows a picture of the train, with a question mark, on it as it turns into a smaller window, and focus on the anchorwoman.
"The country's main computer systems are affected by some sort of strange, but an extremely powerful virus. Multiple and important information structures such as Communications, banking, subways, and air traffic control. The imminent danger, however, is the possibility of a major collision course between two trains," The anchorwoman informs. "For more information. Here's John Swang," Yumi, Jeremy, and I look at each other as the scene changes to the news reporter.
"Thank you, Veronica. If you're just tuning in, there is indeed an immediate danger, of trains crashing. There are no passengers on board, but these trains carry dangerous and very toxic chemicals. Should they spread into the air, this would lead to a catastrophe, that could have irreversible effects on our environment," John Swang explains.
"John, is there any hope of avoiding such a disaster?" Veronica asks.
"Local law enforcement has yet to comment how they plan on stopping the collision, but I've been informed that they are beginning a local evacuation as a safety measure." Jeremy turns the program off.
"Yumi, inform Ulrich and Odd. Lila and I will go to the factory, connect with Aelita, and start the transfers," Jeremy says.
Yumi takes out her cell phone as she dials Ulrich first and calls him. She paces around the room, as he doesn't' answer. She calls Odd's number but no luck.
"They're not answering," Yumi frets.
"Maybe their mobiles are off?" I suggest.
"Let's hope not," Jeremy replies.
"No one's picking up," Yumi says as she hangs her phone up. She puts it in her pants pocket. "I'm going to go and find them. They should be done feeding, Kiwi by now."
"Right. Then, we'll go to the factory," Jeremy says.
Afterwards
We leave the room and begin making our way to the factory.
At the boiler room
Jeremy and I reach the boiler room. We run to the door that leads to the passageway and I open it. We start running down the passageway as we make it to the sewers.
In the sewers
Jeremy grabs his scooter, as I grab my scooter. We start riding our scooters.
Afterwards
Jeremy and I run into the freight elevator. He presses the red button, as the elevator's hanger door then closes. The elevator goes down. We reach the lab, as the elevator's doors open.
Inside the lab
Jeremy goes to sit on his chair, as he places the headset on him. He starts typing on the keyboard.
"Do you copy Aelita?" Jeremy asks as Aelita's window pops up.
"Of course, Jeremy. I've been working on the materialization program. How are you doing Lila?" Aelita asks.
"I'm okay, thanks," I say.
"There's not enough time for that right now. We have a serious situation. Xana's woken up, he's already made his move. Have you felt any pulsations?" Jeremy asks.
"I haven't, but I'll go out and take a look," Aelita says.
Yumi calls Jeremy, as her picture pops up on the monitor.
"Yumi, any luck on getting through to them?" Jeremy asks.
"No such luck. I'm going out to look for them now."
"Please, keep us posted," Jeremy says as he ends the call, as he opens a window on the supercomputer. He turns it to the news channel.
"The situation is still ongoing. The freight trains, are still out of control. Armed units are working with local law enforcement to safely escort people out of the area," Veronica says. "The country's capital is dealing with multiple traffic jams, which is creating a gridlock. There's chaos, and the police are too busy and cannot lend more manpower. Since all alarm systems are down, I have various reports of looting coming in."
"This is crazy..." I trail off.
Jeremy nods in agreement as he types some keys.
"Aelita, do you have anything new?" he asks, my mother's window pops up.
"Yes, Jeremy. I've found the pulsations, and they're leading to an activated tower in the Desert Sector. I'll leave now."
We turn around to see Ulrich, Yumi, but no Odd.
"Odd's not with you?" Jeremy asks.
"Sissi ratted on Odd, about Kiwi. Jim knows about Kiwi now, and he's in the principal's office," Yumi explains as she and Ulrich are on the other side of Jeremy.
"Then you three should get ready to depart immediately," Jeremy says.
We walk to the elevator as we get in. I press the red button to go down.
In the scanner room
It brings us to the scanner room. The freight elevators' doors open as Yumi, Ulrich, and I go and take our perspective scanners. We step into our scanners. The scanners close.
"Transfer: Ulrich, Transfer: Yumi, Transfer: Lila," Jeremy begins. Closing my eyes, the scanner starts spinning.
"Scanner: Ulrich, Scanner: Yumi, Scanner: Lila," The scanner continues to spin and starts humming.
"Virtualization!"
I close my eyes as a familiar gush of wind and bright light, billows my hair and necklace. It then engulfs me in the scanner, virtualizing me to Lyoko.
Lyoko's Desert Sector
My sight returns as I open my eyes, and Yumi, Ulrich, and I land perfectly.
"We're here Jeremy. It was a smooth transfer," Yumi informs.
"We can see Aelita too," I add. I see my mother across from us, she waves her hand.
"That's good news. There doesn't appear to be any monsters, for the moment," Jeremy informs.
We start running to Aelita.
"Has there been any word from Odd?" Ulrich asks.
"No, but I'm going to try and reach him."
"Okay," Ulrich says and we reach Aelita.
"The tower isn't too far away, we should get going," Aelita says.
"Right!" I nod. We start running again. We pass by gray cables along the way, that are pulsing red. Aelita points to the tower, surrounded by jagged rocks.
"There's the tower," Aelita says as Yumi, Ulrich, and I look around.
"Something's... not right," Yumi says.
"Looks, like Xana, is trying to trap us again," Ulrich agrees.
"Jeremy. Is there anything on your monitor?" I ask.
"No there isn't, it's really strange. Not one monster," Jeremy replies.
We start walking, but we only take a few steps before Jeremy speaks up again, "I stand corrected, four monsters are surrounding you."
Ulrich puts his hand in front of Yumi to stop her. He scans the area with his eyes, as he readies his blade. I ready my staff.
"But... where can they be?" Ulrich asks
Several lasers hit all of us, including Aelita, and our bodies begin to spark. Ulrich yelps, as he makes a dive for the ground, then moves to Aelita's right side. He readies his katana. Four Bloks appear as I take my sword out, ready to shield Aelita. Ulrich readies his Katana blade, as the Bloks continue to fire again. He blocks the incoming lasers, his Katana glowing light blue with each block. I use my sword to block the incoming lasers. Yumi opens her fan as she throws it, the Blok dodging it with ease.
"All of you are quickly losing your life points, retreat for now!"
"Okay, sure thing Jeremy! Should we grow some wings and fly out of here, huh?" Urich as we continue to block the lasers.
"If you look to your right, there are a lot of rocks. You can try to lose them in there."
"Yumi, Lila. Go and take Aelita, I'll finish them off," Ulrich says.
"But Ulrich -" Yumi and I say in unison.
"No time to argue, just run!" Ulrich exclaims.
"Triplicate!" Ulrich exclaims. He forms into three different versions of himself. Each version stands in front of a blok, while the last one stands in front of two bloks.
"Hurry, go now!" Ulrich exclaims as we start running. Glancing over at him, he nods and we start running. From afar, we watch Ulrich battling the blok. It manages to fire a laser at him and devirtualizes him.
"Run!" Yumi exclaims as we start to run again. With the blok not far behind us, I take out my staff. I begin to chant in Latin and charge my staff.
"Exardesco! Exardesco! Exardesco!" I exclaim. I fire off three Fire Bolts, but the Blok somehow manages to evade each and continues running as it starts firing its lasers. It shoots a laser at Aelita. Yumi manages to tackle her out of the way as I get in front of them, and ready my sword, to block the attack.
"Telekinesis," Yumi says. She places her hands on her head. Her body starts to glow pink as she lifts one of the large rocks with her mind. Aelita gasps as I ready myself with my sword to defend her. Yumi uses her telekinesis, to bring the large boulder above the blok. She groans in pain from the tremendous pressure of the blok. She releases the rock, crushing the blok. Yumi makes a fist, proud of her success.
"You're clear to go Aelita!" Yumi exclaims.
"Nice one Yumi," I compliment, turning to her and taking my eyes off the battlefield.
"Thanks," Yumi smiles.
Not hearing the monster approaching us, Yumi and I turn to see a megatank opening up.
"No - Yumi, Lila, watch out!" Aelita exclaims.
Without giving us a chance to grab our weapons, the megatank unleashes its energy wave. It hits us, knocking us to the ground. We start to devirtualize.
"Aelita-" I start to say and we completely devirtualize.
Back in the scanner room
I open my eyes, finding myself back in the scanner. The scanner opens, and I groan.
"That sucked," I say. Yumi's scanner opens. She groans as well. Walking to the elevator, we use it to bring us back to the lab.
In the lab
"Welcome back to reality," Jeremy greets.
"I'm so sorry Jeremy. I tried," Yumi says.
"Me too..." I trail off as we walk up to Jeremy and Ulrich.
Aelita's profile card pops up with the VS card and the Megatank's, I gasp.
"Aelita what do you think you're doing?!" I exclaim, worrying for the safety of my mother. Her vulnerability on Lyoko makes it this battle a real life or death situation.
"Please, get out of there! It's not safe, have you gone insane?!" Jeremy exclaims as well.
The monitor shows us Aelita handling the megatank with her creation, forcing it to the digital sea, the card on the supercomputer's monitor disappears.
"Alright!" Ulrich exclaims.
"I had a feeling she would use that," Jeremy says.
I roll my eyes and giggle a little, "You just doubted her earlier." He turns to me.
"Fair enough, but let's be honest. Both of us did."
I smile and nod, "True, I did. She did it and that's all that matters."
Another Megatank quickly matches its profile against Aelita's. We tense up again, but she uses her creation to quickly deal with the megatank. Its profile disappears, and we all relax.
To the window on the left, Jeremy's program is showing the trains continuing to grow closer and closer to the collision. We watch, with each of us gasping, but thankfully the trains stop within a few feet of each other. We cheer.
"Alright! Just in time!" Ulrich exclaims.
Jeremy starts typing the keys on the keyboard.
"Return to the past now!" Jeremy exclaims.
A big white bubble engulfs us all, bringing back to the beginning of the day.
Earlier
The same day
I decided not to join Ulrich, Yumi, Jeremy, and Odd in their new prank involving Sissi and Herb. As funny as it sounds, I decide to go to my room. I reach my room as I open the door, closing it behind me.
In Lila's room
"I'm glad you guys made it in time, I was concerned," Mary says.
"Me too. My mother fought off two Megatanks all by herself."
"That's good. And in time, she'll develop powers that will not make her as vulnerable, as she is now," Mary says. "I'm sure of it." A question pops into my mind, as I ask Mary:
"Do you think it would be a good idea, to create a digital journal of Xana's most recent attacks?"
Mary thinks about it for a few seconds, before nodding. "It would be. I think it could lead us to find a weakness in Xana. Something, strong enough to stop him from reactivating the supercomputer in 2019."
"Somedays I just wish, I could make a time jump in 2019 and deal with it now," I sigh.
Mary nods, "I understand. But doing so could be catastrophic to this timeline. By accidentally establishing yourself as a Lyoko Warrior, our friends are going to need your help. If you go missing, during Xana's next attack… there's no telling what affects that will have on the timeline."
"Time travel is really complicated, isn't it Mary?"
"It is Lila, but I'll be here with you. Every step of the way."
I smile, "Thanks Mary."
And done! Don't forget to review!
Author's note: Midterms are tomorrow and next week… so this story may not be updated for a week or two. I don't want to worry any of my readers, but I can tell you that I have been pre-writing the chapters of Lila's Journey. I am currently pre-writing my version, of what will be Exploration, which takes place in Season 2. I have a LOT in store for everyone. Until the next one!
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