Things stop spinning

Things stop spinning. I open my eyes. The world spins a bit, but things seem to be back to normal. What just happened? I wonder, sitting up in the scanner and rubbing my head.

It all comes back in a flood, and the scarily relieving thing is that I'm rubbing my head with my right hand. It's back, though where it went I have no idea. Since when do entire limbs disappear on vacation?

"Looks like you make it back all in one piece," I hear Yumi mention thankfully.

"Looks like…" I reply, standing up in the scanner and stretching. It feels nice, though why I'm stiff and sore I don't really know. Yumi looks unaffected by the return trip.

"The others are all upstairs waiting. Let's go," Yumi continues, heading for the elevator. I follow.

"You have any idea what happened back there?" I ask, wondering what her take on my first time in Lyoko was.

"Well…you fell when you were virtualized, which happens to everyone on their first trip, and then well…your right arm was just gone. The socket had skin over it, so it wasn't like some horror movie in that sense, but really…just one arm is kinda creepy." Yumi tells me, finishing as the doors opened.

"Okay Jeremie, I want some answers," I demand, probably a little too boldly, striding forward.

"Really Ryka, I don't know why your first trip was so rough. Everyone else just fell after being virtualized, but you…I don't really know what to tell you," Jeremie states, click clacking away on his keyboard.

"Do you think we could do a scan on her for a run down on her Lyoko form, Jeremie?" Aelita asks. "At least then we could at least know what's supposed to be happening to her there, and it wouldn't require us to send her back."

"Excellent suggestion, Aelita," Jeremie agrees with that fond look in his eye. Well…at least it sounded like a plan, for as little of it I understood. "Back down to the scanner room you go, then."

"Alright, just promise me you won't send me back to that freaky place without warning me first," I advise him, knowing that I'll be very, very miffed if he does otherwise.

"Got it!" I hear as a reply, and then the elevator doors close.

The scanners just sit there and mock me. 'You're afraid of us! Big, tough, scary Ryka is afraid of a widdle machine. Hahaha…' I'm starting to really hate them.

"You said, Jeremie!" I shout, stepping into the metal contraption. Why am I so irritable today? Oh yeah, that's right; I was left in a strange world with no visual capability and three limbs. Fun.

The scan begins; it is a scanner after all. I tried to keep my eyes open, but the bright lights were just too much. Guess I'm back to being temporarily blind with all its perks and privileges. All of none.

The next long while was really boring. The scanner would go off, Jeremie would tell me to wait, the scanner would go on; repeat eighty times!

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"You're a three limbed ninja with all encompassing vision."

"WHAT?!"

"I said-"

"Jeremie, she heard you the first time," Aelita mentions quietly, finding the expression on my face almost comical.

"Now, ….just, what?" I ask again, completely unable to comprehend what he just said.

"Well, that is your Lyoko-self in a nutshell," he adds, shrugging. He just couldn't accept I didn't understand what he meant.

"What Jeremie is trying to say," Ulrich starts, (Please let him reiterate in English!) "Is that on Lyoko you don't have a right arm, you can see everywhere at once, and you use short, dagger-like weapons to attack."

"…you're serious?" I ask rhetorically, staring at all of them. "Did you program me this way?" I accuse Jeremie, pointing. "You think it's funny?"

"Honestly Ryka, I'm at a loss too. I don't know why you are the way you are. It just is…" he defends, hands up. I notice then that I have my hands clinched into fists.

"Sorry…" I mumble, sticking my hands in my pockets.

"Well, on Lyoko I'm a purple cat," Odd mentions with a huge grin, "Have no idea why, but I am."

"Well that's just swell…" I huff, kicking one foot out to vent. "So all of you get reasonable abilities and I'm left as a useless pile of mass that can't do anything."

"Sounds just about r-"

I am very glad someone elbows Odd in the back just then. Stupid cat.

"So what am I supposed to do about it?" I ask, still not really sure what all this is telling us.

"Learn your abilities I guess. Until then the others will cover for you, and you probably shouldn't go during attacks," Jeremie tells me.

"Yeah, I'd be completely worthless," I mope, the self pity is abound.

"You just need to learn. You'll be fine after that," Yumi smiles, placing a hand on my shoulder. I shrug it off.

She's about to try and say something else comforting when her mobile rings. She picks it up, makes a few vague comments and hangs up.

"I have to go," she states running off. Ulrich looks glum; the 'abandoned puppy in the rain' kind of glum. But what's there to be upset about?