Living Up To A Legend Chapter 7: In the Fray, a code lyoko fanfic

Disclaimer: I am a 15-year-old who lives in California. I don't have a chance in hell of owning Code Lyoko, so bug off and don't sue!

Claimer: I own all my OCs and their Lyoko forms, as well as Jeremie's Lyoko form. Yes, you find out about it in this chapter.

Anyway, I got a bunch of reviews, so thanks. I'll just let you get straight to the chapter.

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Chapter 7 – In the Fray

All five of them walked over to the holomap and stared at it in disbelief. The whole story, the one that Eric's mom had written and that they had all read, was true. The proof was sitting right in front of them.

Dan and Nina were the first to get over their shock, and they ran over to the terminal on the other side of the holomap. Dan reached it first and sat in the chair, looking at the monitors in front of him.

A few seconds later, and six virtual cards were shown on the screen. Each card had one of the adults' pictures on it, but they looked very different. He called everybody over, and they looked at the pictures.

The picture of Ulrich looked like a Samurai, and the one of Yumi looked like a Geisha. Odd looked like some sort of half-cat, half-human. Kirsten was wearing a red jumpsuit with black boots and gloves, and a belt with a blue gem in it. Aelita looked like an elf.

The last one was Jeremie's. He was wearing a white karate robe with a black belt. Strapped to his waist was a black nunchaku. (A/N: A nunchaku is also known as nunchucks.) His glasses were gone, and there was a black strip of cloth tied around his head, much like Ulrich's yellow one.

Dan just stared. "Woah! My dad looks cool! It never mentions what he looks like in the story…"

Nina grinned. "Can you imagine Dad as a ninja?" Dan looked at his sister. They were both silent for a few seconds, then burst out laughing.

Dan stopped laughing and put on the nearby headset, noticing a thick notebook lying next to it. He grabbed it and opened it, paging through it.

"Okay," he spoke into the headset, "Eric? Can you hear me? If you can, get into a scanner."

Eric smiled. He would get to see Lyoko for himself! He hopped into a scanner and the doors closed. He closed his eyes tightly, trying not to notice how small it was. He didn't like small spaces. He didn't have claustrophobia or anything, he was just more comfortable in the open air.

He opened his eyes when the scanner started to hum. He heard Dan's voice come over the intercom.

"Okay…let's see…aha! Profile creation…Eric."

The scanner glowed brightly on the inside, and Eric was lifted off the floor. A metal hoop that ran around the edge of the scanner glowed bright yellow and moved from his head to his feet. He felt himself slowly descend back to the ground as the light around him faded to a normal level.

"Hmm…Transfer Eric!"

The scanner glowed and warmed up again. He smiled when he heard what Dan said. It sounded like he was really in the book, inside 'Code Lyoko'."

"Scanner Eric!"

He was lifted off the ground and scanned again. He stayed floating in the air for a few moments.

"Virtualization!"

There was a bright flash of white light and a rush of air, and his body went numb.

He opened his eyes and looked around. He was in the air, above a network of floating mountains and pathways. He looked down and saw that his body below his waist was a wireframe. He watched as four glowing triangles spaced around his body moved down, and the rest of his body filled in with color and texture. He dropped to the ground and landed lightly on his feet.

"Woah…"

He poked the ground with a finger and vaguely felt pressure. He punched his arm. He felt a sort of vague pain sensation that disappeared quickly. He saw a rock nearby and ran over to it. He got there much faster than he should have, but he didn't notice. He tried to jump to climb up, and found himself sailing up through the air to land on top. He looked around.

"Eric! Are you okay?"

He kept staring for a moment until he realized that Dan was talking to him. He shook his head.

"Yeah. I'm…better than okay…send the others!"

Back in the lab, Dan nodded. "Okay, John, Rena, and Amy, you guys go first. Nina, you follow them."

They nodded and got into the elevator, heading back down. John looked at his sister.

"Hey, refresh my memory. I haven't read the story for a while, but I thought that only three people could go at once, since there are three scanners."

Rena shrugged, but Amy looked up, smiling as she looked into his deep green eyes. "Uh…I think it's because your real body disappears when you go to Lyoko, so the scanner can be reused."

Nina nodded as the doors opened. Sure enough, all three scanners were open. John, Rena, and Amy each picked a scanner and went inside. Nina sat on the floor to wait for her turn.

"Profile creation…John, Rena, and Amy. Transfer…scanner…virtualization!"

The three teens in the scanners closed their eyes as a rush of air and a flash of light brought them away from our world.

The scanner doors reopened, and Nina stepped into one. Dan could be heard in the intercom again.

"Profile creation…Nina. Transfer…scanner…virtualization!"

Dan made sure everybody was okay, then looked through the cards again.

"Hmmm…okay, I'll be gone for a second, okay? I have to check something really fast."

He took off the headset and put it down on the keyboard, hearing quiet affirmatives through the earpiece. He spoke to himself while typing.

"Okay…Profile creation…Dan. Delay…two minutes."

He jumped out of the chair and took the elevator down to the scanner room, making sure to get in the right scanner. He stood still as the doors closed and yellow light blinded him. He floated up into the air and was scanned into the computer.

When his feet touched the ground, the doors reopened, and he ran back to the elevator.

Eric and the others had just met, having been virtualized far from each other since Dan hadn't been able to specify accurate coordinates.

John and Rena stared at everybody else. Each of the five of them was wearing a ninja gi. The only thing that was different from the traditional gi was that they had no facemasks or hoods, and their shins were bare. They would have looked identical, but their clothes were different colors and had different designs. They also had different weapons.

John was wearing a bright green gi. He had a black symbol that looked Japanese on his chest area, and brown and green tattoos of what looked like rocks and vines on his exposed shins. There was a metal pole, about one foot long, attached to his waist. He pulled it out and looked at it, and it expanded into a full six-foot-long bo. He smiled and swung it around a few times. (A/N: Believe it or not, but I came up with this on my own. It was only when I edited this that I remembered that Robin from Teen Titans has an identical weapon.)

Rena was wearing a bright red gi with a white symbol on the front. In the same place that John had his rock and vine tattoos, she had red, orange, and yellow flame tattoos. There were two sai sheathed at her waist. She pulled them out and spun them around a few times in her hands, getting a feel for them. They were much sharper than normal sai, sharp enough to cut somebody easily.

Amy was wearing a navy-blue gi with a white symbol. She had blue tattoos of waves on her shins. She looked at her hands and saw that she had two…things…strapped to her hands. While looking at one, she wondered what it was. As if it was responding to her wishes, three claws slid out of it. The one on her other hand did too. She looked at them and willed them to retract again.

Eric was wearing a bright yellow gi with a black symbol. He had yellow and sky-blue tattoos of random shapes that looked like clouds. There was a small pouch on his waist. He reached into it and pulled out a curved shuriken. He threw it at a nearby rock, and it embedded itself half-way inside.

Nina was wearing a blinding white gi with a black symbol. She had white tattoos of suns. There was a black bow strapped to her back, along with a quiver of arrows. She pulled one out and fired it. It flew straight, rather than dipping slightly as a normal arrow would, and hit a rock. Instead of glancing off, it buried itself in the rock like Eric's shuriken. These weapons were sharp!

John and Rena looked down at themselves. John muttered "Do" just as Rena mumbled "Ka." The other teens stared at them, confused. John looked up and noticed them, grinning slightly.

"We were just reading the symbols on our clothes. Mine is 'do' for earth, and Rena's is 'ka' for fire." He looked at each one of them in turn. "Eric, yours is 'fu' for wind, and Amy, yours is "sui," or water. Nina, yours is 'kō' for light.

Rena nodded. "So, if we got any powers from this, they probably have something to do with that element."

Eric shrugged and stealthily pulled out two ninja stars. He suddenly spun and threw them at Nina. She saw them coming and jumped, the two shuriken flying harmlessly underneath her.

"Hey! Not fair!"

Eric simply smiled. "What? It's not like our enemies will give us time to get ready!"

John smiled and moved quickly to whack Eric upside the head with his bo. He stopped it an inch away and smiled as Eric slowly turned around.

"What was that for?"

"What? 'It's not like our enemies will give us time to get ready', right?"

Eric just rolled his eyes and pulled out two more shuriken. Everybody quickly readied their weapons and began to fight.

Twenty minutes later, everybody was still at it, except for Eric, who had run out of shuriken and was looking for them as Dan tried to figure out if he could refill his ammo.

Eric threw up his arms, exasperated, and sat on a rock to watch the others fight. Nina was very nimble and had managed to dodge attacks while retrieving arrows, which were easier to see than shuriken embedded in the ground and rocks on the floating mountain plateau they were on.

He decided that he wouldn't find his shuriken for a while, and decided to try to use his powers. He figured that since his gi had the symbol for wind, he could control the air. He tried to make a small whirlwind by twirling his finger, but nothing happened.

After another five minutes, he threw his arms up again, yelling "STUPID AIR! JUST MOVE!" After saying the last word, his hands and eyes briefly glowed yellow as he shot up into the air. He realized what had happened after he had landed back on the ground.

He remembered a…feeling…that he'd felt when he yelled. Remembering it, he called it up again and began experimenting.

John blocked Rena's swipe with his bo, but she used the tsuba sticking out from the hilt to catch the staff and twist it out of his grip. It flew off. He sprinted over to it and picked it up. He turned around to see Eric, with a huge grin on his face. He raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, found your shuriken?"

"No, something better."

With that, Eric took a deep breath as a yellow aura appeared around his clenched fists and his eyes started to glow.John felt a huge wind and was suddenly thrust backwards as he hit a rock. He groaned and got up.

"Oh, so you found your powers?"

"Yep! See if you can find yours!"

John shrugged and thought of how he would be able to control the earth. He smiled as an idea came to him. He sprung up high into the air (his fear of heights seemed to disappear in Lyoko) and came down quickly, slamming his bo into the ground. He felt something loosen inside as his hands and eyes glowed green. A shockwave traveled to Eric and threw him up in the air. He spun uncontrollably for a few moments, but concentrated and used winds to stop spinning and slowly float back down to the ground.

John, nodded, impressed.

Eric grinned and concentrated for a moment. Using his powers, he felt for the shape of the air around him, and the areas where there was no air. He immediately felt some strange protrusions and depressions in the rock. Walking over to one of them, he found one of his shuriken. He practiced using winds to make it fly around, then set off to retrieve the rest of them.

Rena and Amy were having their own fight. Amy had just figured out how to use her powers, and was shooting jets of water at Rena, who was busy dodging and blocking with her sai.

Finally, she ran out of patience and yelled something incomprehensible as her hands and eyes started to glow. She punched the air with one hand and sent a fireball at Amy, who held out a blue-glowing hand and created a water shield.

The fireball hit it and went out, but the shield boiled away just as fast. The red and blue glows faded from their eyes and hands. They both smiled at each other and started practicing their powers.

Nina snuck up behind Rena and shot a beam of light at her. Rena ducked as Amy swiped at her with her hand-claws, and the beam of light missed. Rena spun around and shot off a fireball, which Nina promptly dodged, laughing.

After another ten minutes, they had all discovered methods of using their powers for transport. Eric would use winds to propel him through the air. Rena shot fire out of her feet and used them like jets to maneuver. Nina would glow and zip across the sky like a beam of light.

John and Amy had the most trouble finding a way to keep up with them. Amy, finally remembering her father's overboard, created a "board" by producing water and freezing it into ice. She jumped on and maneuvered it, her hands and eyes glowing blue. John, seeing her, used his powers to lift up a board of rock from the ground.

After some practice, they were flying around like pros, and having aerial dogfights.

Then, Dan's voice interrupted them.

"Hey guys, you remember the story, right? You know how they deactivated towers to save the world?"

Eric nodded. "Yeah…so?"

"Well, just guess…"

Jeremie was working a few bugs out of a new game that his company would be releasing soon. He was a hands-on sort of person, and loved doing some of the programming himself. Nobody in the entire company could figure out why one enemy refused to die, no matter how much it was damaged. He had realized that there was a problem with the physics engine, and was trying to fix it. The immortal enemy made him think of XANA.

All this time, we thought it was gone. Now we're back to square one. We have to destroy XANA once and for all, but we can't turn off the supercomputer and take out the battery.

We have to destroy him once and for all, by deleting him completely.

Suddenly, a familiar beeping noise jarred him from his thoughts. He looked at the window that popped up on his screen and groaned. He reached for his cell phone and sent a text message to the Sterns and the Della Robbias.

XANA

He stood up and went to find Aelita.

And, yet again, I leave you with a cliffie.

So, you found out about all of their powers and outfits and stuff. No, I didn't make their outfits match because I ran out of ideas, it just sounded good. So…do you like their powers and stuff like that? I hope so, because it's kinda too late to change it, since I have a large part of the story planned out.

Okay, I have the entire main plot planned out. I just have to plan the many subplots and what happens when XANA isn't attacking, because if there is never a break in the attacks, this story would be much less interesting (not to mention much shorter). I also have to plan the details of the Lyoko battles. After that, I have to write the story itself. Not to mention that school starts next week…

Dear God, what have I gotten myself into?

PLEASE REVIEW!

Oh, and before I forget, here is your preview:

The six adults were on their way to the factory, trying to make their way through rush-hour traffic. Jeremie was banging his head on the steering wheel.

"Why did we have to take the freeway! The attack could happen at any moment!"

Yeah, I know, not much to go on there, but I'm still working on the next chapter.