Living Up To A Legend Chapter 8: The First Test, a code lyoko fanfic

Okay, don't own CL, but I do own all of my OCs and this story, so don't take them or sue me or something!

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So here's the chapter!

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Chapter 8 – The First Test

The five teens currently in Lyoko stopped in front of a large cylinder that was glowing red.

"Uh…I'd guess that this is the activated tower…" Eric sounded awed.

Nina nodded. "So, I have to go through the wall and deactivate it?"

They heard Dan's voice again, saying "Yes. Since it was our mom who originally did it, it should recognize you and me."

She nodded and ran for the tower. She was almost there when three blocks and two crabs came out from behind the tower.

"Oh…great…"

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!"

As Jeremie said that, he heard a crash behind him. He looked in his rearview mirror to see Ulrich and Yumi, in Lyoko form, battling against a man who was obviously possessed. They were on the side of the road right behind him, their car parked a few yards away.

He was about to pull over to help them somehow, when Ulrich supersprinted up to his window, summoned the overbike, and gestured to it. Nodding, Jeremie pulled over and he and Aelita got out of the car as Ulrich supersprinted back to the battle. They got on, Aelita in front, since she was better than Jeremie at driving it.

She hit a trigger and the wheel retracted as the overbike lifted up into the air and shot off through the sky. They were finally moving!

Odd noticed the Overbike fly past, with Jeremie and Aelita on it, and nodded to himself, pulling over.

"Odd? What are you doing?"

Odd turned to Kirsten and smiled. "We're taking a faster route." He got out of the car, yelling "Code Lyoko!"

Kirsten followed suit, and they were soon flying off to the factory.

"Okay guys, one enemy each."

Eric nodded. "Right, Dan. I'll take one of the crabs."

Nina looked up. "I'll take the other."

John, Rena, and Amy nodded, and they sprinted towards their chosen targets.

John stopped in front of a block and dodged a laser that it fired. He pulled out his bo and blocked a second shot, then slammed the bo staff into it, missing the symbol.

He frowned and blocked another laser, then slammed his bo into the ground and caused a spike to shoot up, impaling the block and destroying it.

Rena heard the explosion, but it didn't register in her mind. She was busy blocking rapid-fire lasers with her sais. She blocked a few more, then reached and stabbed the block, also missing the symbol. She used her powers to light the blades of her sais on fire, then stabbed it again, blowing it up.

Eric was having fun with the crab, using powerful winds to dodge attacks almost before they came. He finally ran under the crab and backflipped up high over it, boosting himself up with his powers. As he flipped, he spun so he was diving headfirst into the ground, facing the crab, and hurled a shuriken. He continued the flip and landed lightly on his feet. His aim was true, and the crab was destroyed.

Nina was having trouble. She had used a bow before, and she was used to the arc of an arrow's flight path. Her Lyoko arrows never changed direction, flying on the path that was chosen for them until they hit something. She kept aiming too high. Another laser was fired at her, which she blocked with a shield of light. She jumped up onto a rock and fired straight at the crab, finally getting rid of it.

Amy couldn't get close enough to her block to swipe at it with the hand-claws. She kept having to block and retreat. She finally came up with an idea and quickly hopped on top of the block. It rotated around, trying to find her, as she reached down and sliced it open.

Once the battle was finished, they were all breathing heavily, but they felt reenergized after only a few moments. Nina walked up to the tower and put her hand on it. It sunk through the side, and she gathered her courage and walked through. She found herself inside a circular area that seemed larger than the tower was, with a multitude of screens forming its intangible walls, and a platform with the XANA symbol on it. She walked to the center of the symbol, watching as the symbol slowly lit up. When she reached the dot in the center, she felt her feet lift off the ground as she floated up to a second platform.

When she landed, the symbol lit up. She walked to the center again, and a screen appeared. Having read 'Code Lyoko' so much, she knew exactly what to do. She placed her hand on the screen, jerking it away quickly. She noticed that her handprint remained on the screen, slowly fading.

It was replaced by a single word:

NINA

The possessed person had taken off a while ago, and Ulrich and Yumi were following him on the overwing. They ended up at the factory just as the others were about to go inside.

Ulrich hopped off the overwing and grabbed his overbike, which was still there, yelling "Go inside! We'll cover you!"

The others nodded.

Nina's name faded, to be replaced by another word:

CODE

She knew what to enter, but couldn't find a keyboard anywhere. She was about to give up when the screen changed. The password appeared.

LYOKO

The many screens that formed the walls of the tower slid down into the darkness below.

Jeremie and the others had just walked through the doors when they heard a thump behind him. Ulrich and Yumi caught up with them.

Yumi shrugged. "He just fainted, and the symbol went away. XANA ended his attack…"

Jeremie appeared to think for a moment, then sighed. "We'll still need a return to the past though. He destroyed a lot of stuff, and was originally a prisoner, before XANA possessed him and destroyed the entire prison. I heard about it on the radio on the way here."

The others nodded and stepped into the elevator.

Dan had found something earlier in the notebook, which he now realized was Jeremie's. He typed in several commands, then muttered "Return to the past…now…"

The holomap disappeared, replaced by a cylinder of bright white light, which moved out and consumed the world.

The door of the elevator started to open, and the adults saw a bright light.

"What the––"

The rest of Ulrich's sentence was cut off as he was dragged into the past.

Yes, I know. It's shorter than most of my recent chapters, but still back to my normal length, between 1,000 and 1,500 words, which is a pretty good length.

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Oh, I forgot to say this when I put up chapter 1 a long time ago, but Merry/Happy belated (insert holiday here so I can be politically correct)!

Anyway, I got plenty of reviews, but I wanted to get this up ASAP and I haven't started typing the next chapter, but most of my previews don't give anything away…

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