It is summer that means writing time. I do not own Code Lyoko. Please enjoy!

Odd looked at the golden cylinder before him that spouted smoke and light. It was all a bit much, wasn't it? Was this game really that big a deal? Only one way to ind out. Odd stepped into the tube and looked around. He didn't see any goggles or anything like that. The bottom of the tube had a fan and the top had a bunch of wires. Other than that there was absolutely nothing there.

Doors slid shut leaving Odd just enough room to stand comfortably. It felt more cramped than it was. He still didn't see any VR tech anywhere. Just what was Belpois pulling here?

The fan started up and Odd panicked as he felt his feet lose contact with the floor.

"What the-" He was floating midair like he was in some kinda wind tunnel, which of course he was. "HEY WHAT KINDA-"

Light blinded Odd and he felt...weird. He felt as if his body was disintegrating into ten million pieces. It didn't hurt, it just felt like, suddenly, he had no body at all.

And then the ground was coming at him.

"Ow!" Although, it didn't really hurt. He could feel that he fell...or was sense the right word? Either way, it wasn't the same as pain...more like...the idea of pain? It was all very confusing. Odd got up and looked around. These were definitely computer graphics, top notch computer graphics at that. He seemed to be in some sort of super bright forest. It didn't look realistic at all, but it felt like he was in this world, and that was impressive.

"Hello, welcome to Lyoko." Odd could hear a girl's voice. He looked up and there was Aelita standing over him. She offered a hand out to him, and he took it.

"Lyoko, huh? Is that- HOLY CAT ARM, BATMAN!" Odd jumped back as soon he saw his giant purple cat paw. He looked at himself properly and he looked absolutely ridiculous. "Can I get to a character creation screen by any chance?" he asked the girl in pink.

"Hmm...I'm afraid I don't understand." she answered.

"You know, a menu or something where I can change what my avatar looks like?"

"Oh...I don't think there's anything like that. If you want your avatar's appearance to change I think Jeremie would have to do that."

"I don't know how to do that yet. Besides, I think you look...fantastic!" Jeremie laughed.

"Belpois, is that you?" Odd looked around. "Where are you?"

"He's outside of the computer." the girl in pink said.

"And we're inside?"

"That's right."

"And you're the artificial intelligence NPC Belpois was talking about?"

"I suppose you could call me that. Though I'd prefer Aelita."

"Aelita, huh?" Odd looked her over. "Ya know, you're pretty cute."

"Hey, stop that Della Robbia!" Jeremie scolded.

"Lay off Belpois...I was kidding. By the way, what am I supposed to be doing here exactly?" Odd asked. He looked around at the forest looking environment around him. No course of action really seemed obvious here. Was he just supposed to wander?

"The same thing you do in any video game, I suppose. Gain strength and defeat the bad guy." Jeremie explained.

"Sounds easy enough." Odd stretched out and loosened up, prepared for a battle. "And just who is this bad guy?"

"An artificial intelligence who corrupts this world and hates the human race. I used to be able to stop him but he created these creature...and I was not built to fight."

"Oh! No problem, I'll beat these things easy! Where are they?"

"There!" Aelita pointed out a group of five cubes on stubby little legs. It was a miracle of physics that such disproportional cubes could be held up by such tiny legs. They turned around, saw the two, and advanced.

"Ok, how do I fight exactly? Do I get a sword or something?" Odd asked.

Jeremie's eyes went wide. He really hadn't expected to get this far. He had absolutely no idea how Della Robbia was supposed to fight these things.

"I don't know...experiment."

"What? What do you mean you don't know? How do you not-"

"DELLA ROBBIA? ODD? ODD, ARE YOU THERE?"

"He's gone Jeremie, the monsters shot him with a laser!" Aelita panicked, she was still running away from the monsters.

"Where did he go?"

"I don't know."

"Ugh! This is a disaster! Aelita get to a safe place. I'll search the computer for Odd's data. Hopefully he isn't..."

Odd woke up on the scanner room floor. He had collapsed out of the scanner, hit his head, and briefy lost consciousness. The room was now dark and cold. The scanner was closed and now lay inactive. Was it...some sort of dream. Nah, he'd dreamed up some pretty trippy things in the past, but that was definitely not his subconsciousness's style. Whatever hit him back there...it actually stung. It was a video game though, it shouldn't have real pain. Something stunk about this whole opperation.

"At least it isn't the matrix." Odd said feebly, getting to his feet. He looked around the room, which was hard since it was so dark and the game had been so bright. Odd's eyes needed to adjust. After a few seconds, he could see a rectangular outline of light on the ceiling. He walked up to the wall just underneath the rectangle and found ladder rungs. He climbed the ladder and popped the panel on the ceiling up to reveal the computer room Jeremie was in.

"Isn't what?" Odd asked.

"Hehe...nothing." Jeremie smiled nervously and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Right...So what happened back there, Belpois? Why couldn't you tell me how to fight?"

"Hm...Well the important thing is you enjoyed it, right? Pretty impressive gaming experience."

"Well yeah, but that laser blast, I actually felt it. What's with this game, exactly?"

"Listen, I'll have all this figured out the next time you play. You will still play, yeah?"

"Of course...I didn't even get a chance to beat that nasty thing. Odd Della Robbia is not the type to give up after one failed attempt."

"That's good. I'll keep in contact." Jeremie waved dismissively at Odd and Odd got into the elevator and left.

"You're going to have to tell him eventually, Jeremie. You'll have to tell him that this isn't a game."

"I know...I know." Jeremie was already deep in thought, and his fingers glided across the keyboard, trying to hack into the mysteries of this supercomputer.

Back in Odd and Ulrich's dorm, Sissi was hanging out and completely invading Ulrich's personal space. For once, he had invited her over, and she was milking every second of it.

"So, Ulrich, what did you call me over for?" Sissi asked, lying down in his lap. He squirmed uncomfortably.

"Well, I came to tell you-" Ulrich was cut off by Sissi's ringtone. Sissi's tone suddenly turned harsh.

"Hello? Jim?" As Jim spoke her eyes widened and her tone instantly softened again. "Oh? Really? Is he all right?" More talking. "Yes...I'll...I'll be right over." She hung up. "I have to go..."

"What's up?" Ulrich asked.

"Daddy's in the infirmary. He got electrocuted. I have to go..." Sissi got up and walked out of the room...really differently than usual. It was like her mask was off for a brief moment. Ulrich would see many of these moments over the next year or two, and he would come to appreciate her more as a person. But for now all he could think of was that now he couldn't tell Sissi to stay away from him for at least a couple days now.

Is this an awkward place to end? Oh well. Please review if you liked it! Your words mean more to me than a fav or follow though I highly appreciate those too!