A Code Lyoko Story

The season never to be aired

2. New Problems

William stared at the celling of his tanish grey room. It was a standered one bed room and he hadn't put anything up on the walls yet. He was still in his clothes from yesterday, he liked to sleep in them; altough he hadn't gotten much of that last night. Too busy thinking about Arianna. Wild he didn't remember her from before. He kicked the dull red blancket off of him and put on his boots.

As he walked over to the dresser where his clean shirts were he remembered something, a flick of a memory of being under X.A.N.A.'s control maybe? The weird thing was he forgot it as quick as it had come. That was annoying.

He took off his shirts and threw them into the far corner of his room ontop of a lether chair angled toward him. He put it there origanlly to sit on it but it made a great hamper too. He pulled on two clean shirts, same color and style as yesterday, and walked out his door.

"William."

William looked down, apparently he was just in time. Odd, Ulrich and Jeremie were standing there. "Just in time?"

"Yeah we were just about to wake you up," Odd said.

"Shall we go?" Ulrich started walking and the rest followed.

"Hey Jeremie you finish Arianna's program for materialization yet?" William asked.

"Yes, this morning at four thirteen," Jeremie looked tired.

"Hard work Einstein?" Odd turned around but still continued to walk he just walked backwards.

"Yes Odd, it was." The four of them waited at the usual bench for Yumi.

"She's late," Jeremie sighed.

Ulrich's phone went off.

"Hullo…Hi Yumi…No we're waiting for you…Really…can't you get out of it…ok…yes I'll tell them…yeah…bye." Ulrich pressed a red button on his black flip-phone and then flipped it close. "Yumi can't come, she's stuck baby sitting her brother."

"Oh well, well, there's no use waiting here, let's go," Jeremie lead them into the park, down and through the sewer, up the ladder, down the ropes, and into the elevator. There Jeremie pressed a large red button and all four of them went down to the first sub-level, the super computer room.

"Aelita? Arianna?" Jeremie asked after the computer booted up.

"We're here Jeremie, no problems except a couple of Hornets, but we took care of them, right Ari?"

"Right!"

"Good, Aelita get Arianna to a tower, I need to test this program, like I did for you. Arianna I'm just going to materialize one hair for a test, okay?"

"Okay!"

"Good I'm sending the over-wing and the over-bored, along with Odd, Ulrich, and William." Jeremie turned to the three guys looking at him. "Get ready to be virtual guys."

William, Odd, and Ulrich went into the elevator and down to another sub-level, the scanner room. They walked into them and waited for the virtualizing process to begin.

"Scanner William. Scanner Odd. Scanner Ulrich" Jeremie began. "Transfer William. Transfer Odd. Transfer Ulrich. Virtualization!"

William, Odd, and Ulrich appeared in the forest region, right next to Aelita and Arianna.

"Welcome to Lyoko guys," Aelita said.

"Oh wait I forgot, I'm sending the over-bike too guys."

"Ok Jeremie, where's Yumi?" asked Arianna.

"At her house, she has to watch her little brother today," Ulrich said.

"Oh okay."

"Well let's get going, where's the nearest tower Jeremie?" asked Ulrich.

"Long way away, head northeast and you should hit it."

Ulrich and Aelita jumped on the over-bike, Odd on the over-wing and William and Arianna on the over-board. When they started moving fast, Arianna got really scared and held onto William, he blushed.

"Look! There it is," Aelita pointed to a tower that glowed white.

"Only Arianna can go into it, unless you want her genes to be fused with yours."

"Okay Jeremie, we'll stand guard then," Odd said.

They came up to the tower and Arianna ran into it. She hated the feeling of going into the towers. If felt like you were diving into water but when you step into the tower itself there's nothing, very creepy.

In side the tower itself wasn't to amazing either. It wasn't cold or warm; it was a nothing, empty space. The platforms felt weird because they were just floating there randomly and she was afraid she would fall off.

"Code Earth," the sound of Jeremie's voice within the tower gave her a spine tingling chill.

The screens that were surrounding her inside the tower spun fast around her and raised her up into the air. Then it stopped and she fell back to the ground on her but.

"Uh, Jeremie? What happened?" Arianna asked. No reply.

Outside the tower everyone was in battle. There were two mega tanks trying to break down the tower and three units of hornets (A.N. hornets travel in packs of three).

Aelita and William were trying to protect the tower while Ulrich and Odd were trying to kill the hornets.

"Energy field!"

"Nice hit."

"Thanks William."

"Ah!"

"Good block William!"

"Aelita watch out!"

The Mega tank had fired at her and hit her. Almost devirtualizing her.

"Jeremie how many life points do I have left? Jeremie?" Aelita threw one more energy field at the Mega tank and looked up at the sky. "Jeremie?"

William dodged a hit but it hit the tower.

Inside Arianna gave a yell. "What the heck is happening out there Jeremie? Hello?"

Outside William had destroyed the mega tank.

"Nice job William," Aelita said.

"We could use some help guys!" Odd said. "Laser arrow!"

He hit one. So far Odd had killed two and Ulrich had killed three, still four to go.

"Jeremie?" asked Aelita.

"He must have disconnected communications some how Aelita," Ulrich reassured.

"Watch out Ulrich! Energy field!" Aelita killed one.

"Cool, thanks princess,"

"No problem Ulrich."

William was staring at the tower.

"Uh William?" asked Ulrich.

William didn't move.

"You think she's ok?"

"Yeah Jeremie problem has the program working right now, don't worry William," Aelita said.

"Hello? Guys? Three hornets chasing a big purple cat here! Could use some help!"

William and Ulrich sprang up into the air and killed one each.

"Laser arrow!" the last one was killed.

"Jeremie?" asked Aelita again.

"Einstein? I wonder where he is, maybe he had to go."

"Odd!"

"Sorry."

"He wouldn't just leave us here, right?"

"No William, Jeremie will come back, maybe he's down in the scanner room getting the piece of hair he materialized just now."

"Should we go in the tower?"

"No."

"Why not Ulrich? She could be in trouble!"

"Calm down William, she could be in the middle of something and you could get fused with her genes!"

"So we wait?"

"Yes Odd, we wait." Aelita looked to the sky. I hope he's all right was what she thought.

"JEREMIE?" Arianna was panicking now. She wanted out, but the tower wouldn't let her. It just felt solid. "Ok Ari just stay calm," she told herself, "Jeremie is just talking with them out there and can't talk to two people at once." She highly doubted it though. "Maybe not…" Arianna walked to the middle of the tower and somehow she was lifted to a second floor. "What the…how did I do that?" a screen popped up, Arianna jumped back startled. She looked around; well obviously no one else could have opened it. She put her hand on it. It read: Arianna Code. What does Arianna code mean? She thought. "Lyoko?" she said. Then the screen went blank again so she put her hand on it again. It read: Arianna Code XANA. And all the screens around her fell downwards then they reset themselves. What did that do? She wondered.

Outside the color out the tower changed from white to red.

"Uh guys?"

"What Odd?" Ulrich sat up.

"The tower changed color from white to red."

"What? With her in it?" asked Aelita sitting up too.

"Yeah."

"I'll go take a look inside," Aelita stood up.

"What if your genes get fused with Arianna's?" asked Ulrich.

"I don't think anything has happened in there for a little bit, Jeremie has gone missing," Aelita told them and she ran off into the tower.

"Aelita?"

"Arianna? Where are you?"

"Up."

Aelita raised her head and saw Arianna looking over the edge. "What happened?"

"Uh well this screen thing popped up so I put my hand on it, it took a while but then it said Arianna Code XANA, what does that mean?"

"I think you just activated a tower for X.A.N.A."

"I what?"

"About how long ago did you do that?"

"Five minutes ago, sorry I didn't know what would happen…I…I couldn't get out and then I was lifted up here and…and…"

"It's okay Ari, really."

"Okay."

"I'm coming up Ari so watch out," Aelita stepped into the center and floated up like Arianna did.

"Hello Aelita."

"Hi Ari." Aelita walked up and the screen popped up again. Aelita also put her hand on it but instead of it saying: Code XANA it said: Code LYOKO. The same thing that happened before happened again. All the screens fell but they didn't reset them selves.

"Tower deactivated," Aelita said.

"What?"

Aelita turned around and looked at Arianna. "You activated a tower. Towers here on lyoko are portals between worlds, with them X.A.N.A. can activate them and send polymorphic clones to Earth."

"Oh, that's bad then?"

"Yes, the either try and kill one of us or try and take over the world. The only way we can stop it is if I come in the activated tower and deactivate it, which is what you just saw now."

"Oh, sorry." Arianna said.

"Hello? Anyone there?"

"Jeremie?" Aelita asked.

"Aelita! There was a bug in the program and I lost communication for a while, then a tower was activated and a ghost took over the computer and nearly killed the program."

"Sorry."

"No it's ok Arianna it wasn't your fault."

"No but Jeremie? It kinda was."

"What do you mean Aelita?"

"Arianna can activate the towers."

"Really? That's wild, how did you find that out?"

"I put my hand on the screen just like Aelita did but XANA popped up instead of Lyoko."

"So you sent that ghost on me?"

"No!"

"I think she opened the tower for X.A.N.A. and he did it Jeremie."

"Oh, ok well lets test that program again, shall we Ari?"

"Sounds good Jeremie."

"Bye Ari! Hope to see you on Earth!" Aelita walked out of the tower to meet the three guys who looked relived to see her.

"What happened Aelita?" asked Ulrich.

"Arianna accidentally activated a tower and it nearly killed the program. On top of that the super computer bugged up the communication program, and that's why Jeremie couldn't hear us." Aelita explained.

"Oh. So is he re-testing her?" asked William.

"As we speak."

"It worked guys! It worked! I have her piece of hair right here with me!" Jeremie yelled.

"That's wonderful Jeremie!" Aelita said.

"I'm going to devirtualize you guys so you can welcome Arianna, oh and Yumi's here."

"Okay we're ready Jeremie," Aelita said.

Jeremie hit the enter button four times and they all came back to Earth.

"Hey Jeremie, we're here," Odd said.

"Okay, Odd, Ulrich, and William better come upstairs and Yumi you go down stains to the scanner room with Aelita.

"Why?" Odd asked.

"Because I just made the DNA for her so if she wasn't ever on Earth she could be wearing nothing, which is why Yumi has a bathrobe." Jeremie said.

"Oh."

Yumi climbed the ladder down as the guys took the elevator upstairs.

"Hi Aelita."

"Hi Yumi."

"Ready girls?" Jeremie's voice asked.

"Yes." They said.

"Arianna ready and in position in the tower?"

"Yeah Jeremie! Everything's a go in here!"

"Materialize Arianna." Jeremie started up the program.

Inside the tower it looked like it did the last time Jeremie tried. The screens that were surrounding her inside the tower spun fast around her and raised her up into the air.

"Code: Earth." He pressed the enter key.

Downstairs you could here the scanner opening.

Arianna appeared in the scanner; she was curled up on the bottom of it, without clothes and hair a mess; but she was alive. She opened her eyes and smiled. But her face started to turn red.

"Ari open your mouth!" Aelita said.

She opened her mouth and gasped as the air rushed into her lungs.

"What the heck is in my mouth?" She asked, her voice shaky.

"Oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen. Humans need it to breath." Explained Aelita.

"Is it always so uh cold?" She asked as she ran he fingers up and down her arm; it had goose bumps.

"Here but this on," Aelita reached out her hand and helped her up, as soon as Aelita let go Arianna's legs buckled and she collapsed on the floor.

"Ow!" Arianna cried.

Yumi helped her up, half laughing, as Aelita slipped the bathrobe on Ari.

"Everything ok Ari?" asked Yumi.

"That hurt, but yes I'm ok now." She raised her hands to her cheeks. "What the heck? What is this? Water? Am I leaking?"

Yumi burst out laughing and Arianna glanced at her with a confused look.

"Your crying, it's what happens when you experience pain." Aelita explained and she too was laughing.

"Oh," she laughed at herself. "Why can I not stand?"

They stopped laughing at once. "I don't know, Yumi, help me get her to the elevator."

"Okay." Little by little the got her to the elevator and propped her up on the wall. Aelita pushed the red button and the door closed and the elevator started moving.

Arianna screamed.

"It's ok, it's ok," Aelita told her.

"Yeah, it's supposed to do that Ari." Yumi explained.

"Oh," and then she seemed more comfortable in it.

When they got to the top, the doors opened and Arianna saw four people standing there smiling back at her, three she knew, one she didn't. That one guy looked the happiest and she guessed instantaneously that it was Jeremie.

"Hello," Arianna said her voice still shaky.

"Hi Ari!" William said.

"Hi Ari, I'm Jeremie."

"Nice to meet you, uh Einstein was it?" they all started to laugh.

Then Jeremie suddenly stopped and realized she was sitting on the ground.

"Why are you sitting on the ground Ari?"

"Oh uh, Jeremie, she can't stand. Her legs don't support her." Aelita stopped smiling, everyone else did too.

"Is that bad Jeremie?" Arianna asked.

She looked innocent. Her face in a confused look, her blonde hair fell down past her shoulders, on Earth she didn't have the pink in it, and sitting on the floor she looked incredibly small.

"I don't know."

He saw her face go into a scared look.

"Wouldn't it be normal?" asked Ulrich.

"Huh?"

"Yeah, after all babies can't walk at first," Yumi added in.

"So I'm a baby?" asked Ari.

"No, but Aelita didn't have the same problem."

"Yes Jeremie, but I had also been to Earth before."

"Oh, that would explain it."

"How will I go to school if I can't walk?"

"We'll teach you," William said and he walked over to her and held his hand out to her. She took it and stood up by leaning on William. "See it's not hard."

"But she's leaning on you, she can't do that all day," Yumi pointed out.

"Right." William picked her up and carried her to Jeremie's chair where he set her down. Everyone walked out of the elevator.

"I have an idea," Aelita said. "How about we stand in a pentagon and have her walk to each one of us? William can walk near her and catch her if she falls. Little by little we can back up, I think that would work right?"

"Yeah, sounds good to me but make a square, I'll watch." Jeremie said. So Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, and Aelita stood in a square. William helped Amara stand up and, holding both hands, he helped her walk from the chair to Odd. That was about two steeps. Now the hard part making it to Yumi. That was about five steps and took about a minute. When she got back to Odd they stepped back and then it was seven steps, then nine, and then eleven. By that time she had only fallen three times and was getting used to it.

"I have this weird feeling, like my eyelids are getting heavy."

"Your tired," Odd explained.

"Tired?"

"It means you have to go to sleep," Yumi explained.

"Where?"

They all thought for a bit.

"We haven't really thought about that yet. Have we?" asked Aelita.

"Well she can't go to the school because one she has no clothes except that bathrobe, two she can't walk, and three I haven't enrolled her yet so that's ruled out." Jeremie pointed out.

"She can't come home with me because my parents wouldn't let her." Yumi said.

"Hotel?" asked Ulrich.

"Too much money, and she doesn't have an I.D."

"Here?" she asked.

Jeremie thought for a moment, "Well, if we could find an inflatable mattress, and get some pillows and blankets she could sleep here."

"Sounds like that best plan" William agreed.

So William helped Arianna back onto the chair as Yumi ran home to find the inflatable mattress, Ulrich went to find the blankets and Aelita went for the pillows.