THIS IS NOT THE LAST CHAPTER. THERE ARE TWO MORE COMING. :D

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Chapter 8: An Old Memory

Mark landed on hard ground with a very audio able thump.

"Owwww," He complained. He fell to he back and gazed at the virtual sky.

Mark blinked. A moment ago he'd been suffocating in a giant test tube. How did you get transported to a forest?

Mark shook his head, and stood quickly. "Okay, where am I? I still don't even know my name!!!" Just then something clicked. He could remember his old friends, he always had, but he remembered….a voice. And a hospital.

"Mark…your parents are dead. We did all that we could to save them, but they had breathed in too much of the toxic smoke. You'll go to France and live with your relatives, okay? You'll stay at a boarding school with your cousin…But rest up for now. You took in a lot of that smoke, too…."

Mark shook his head from his memories, it was too much all at once.

"Mark?"

"Who's there?"
"It's me, Jeremy. Head north."

"Should I trust you?"

"JUST GO!"

"Right, north, got it," Mark looked around. There was only one way to go, and that was left. So Mark assumed that that was north.

"Do you see a tower?"

"If by tower you mean a white stick with glowy red all around it, then yes," Mark replied.

"Good. Pick up the pace, and I'll run a scan to find your powers. There are a couple Kankrelats ahead. Just keep going."

"Roger Dodger," Mark saluted and ran foreword. "But I'm still really confused. One moment I was suffocating, then I am here."

"You're on a virtual world called Lyoko."

"And?"

"And there is an evil computer virus, XANA, which activates towers to attack us on earth. Aelita deactivates towers to stop a XANA attack. Ah, I found your powers. You can-"

Jeremy was cut off by Odd.

"We have a slight problem, Jeremy,"

Odd just pointed. Jeremy looked to the direction he had indicated and saw… Sissy.

But It wasn't really Sissy. It was X.A.N.A, being Sissy.

'Sissy' raised her hand, and little blue sparks came out of the fingertips. She took a step foreword, and-

Odd and Ulrich pounced, tumbling into the open elevator with 'Sissy'. The doors slip shut and the elevator began to climb upward.

Jeremy continued to Mark as if nothing had happened. "You can shoot lasers like the Kankrelats have, and you shoot them from your hands. You can also use your paint brush to make a carbon copy of anything in the area. And your last ability is that you can make a protective bubble of smoke around your self, and it acts as a shield. Got it?"

"Yes, sir!" Mark responded. He twisted around a large rock and in between several trees.

"Um, what's that?" Mark stopped and stood still in his track. He had spotted the Kankrelats up ahead.

"Attack them with your laser. Hit them on the eye-symbol."

"There's, like, four of em," Mark said. "Lesse. They can't see me right now. If I go around this tree and the shoot that one there…yea. Okay. Well…here goes nothing!" He shouted the last three words, and flung himself into action. Lots of lasers were fired, and miraculously, Mark wasn't hit.

"Hey, I'm pretty good at this! Probably 'cause I've done it before! Wait, I've done this before?"

"No." Jeremy responded bluntly.

"Oh. Well, it feels like I have. I bet it was in a dream! Yeah! It was so in a dream."

Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Just keep going."

"Okay!" Mark was happy to have remembered this kind of thing from a dream.

It didn't take long for Mark to reach Aelita. She was silent as the two of them ran towards the tower, and deactivating the tower went quickly.

"So now what?" Mark asked as Aelita stepped out of the tower.

"A return to the past," She told him.

"Um…what's that?"

Aelita paused. "A return to the past," She said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. (Witch it was.)

And then everything went white.

Sigh. Another shortie. Well, I can't help it; I wanted to get this chapter out, and I wanted to end it there. I'm sorry I didn't say anything about the fight between the XANA sissy and the others. Sorry *hehe* ^^' so anyway, sorry for taking so long to update. I really have no excuse.

ALSO!!!!! There is two more chapters after this before it's over. So stay tuned!!!!!

~Elena Forest