It's time for this epic adventure to begin! I hope that this whole story doesn't turn out to be a huge flop. For any of you who have Netflix, Code Lyoko was removed in August of this year, but Amazon Prime still has it. So my job is still easier than it has been in the past. Though admittedly, I am pretty peeved that Netflix doesn't have anymore.
Anyways, enough of me gripping, lets get this party started! Time for this adventure, to begin!
Chapter 2: XANA Awakens Part 1
Just as I was told, I received my schedule after breakfast. I also met the school gym teacher, Jim. He showed me to to my dorm, and explained all the rules to me. Now, Ulrich and I were walking into science class. He went ahead of me, and sat down in a seat by the window. I walked over to seat in the front, and noticed a familiar blond in the other seat. He wore a blue turtleneck, and khakis, and a pair of thick black glasses. It was Jeremy Belpois.
"Mind if I sit here?" I asked. He looked over at me.
"No, go ahead." I put my binder and book on the desk.
"I'm Emily, I just transferred here." He looked over at me again.
"Jeremy. Nice to meet you." He said. I looked behind me, and saw a short guy wearing purple, and blond hair, with a strange purple splotch at the bottom of it. Another face I recognized, Odd Della Robbia.
"Are you Ulrich Stern?" He asked Ulrich.
"That depends. Who wants to know?" Ulrich asked.
"Odd Della Robbia, his brand new roommate." Odd replied happily as he slid into the seat.
"What!?" Ulrich asked.
"I'm new at the academy, and the principal told me to move in with you." Odd quickly explained. Ulrich raised an eyebrow.
"Uh, latch onto me sounds more like it." He said, still not happy about an unexpected roommate.
"Relax," Odd said. "I'm totally cool. Trust me, you'll see you won't even know I'm there."
"I sure hope so." Ulrich said bluntly. "Look, we don't exactly go way back, so for now, lets just go and take things nice and slow, ok?"
"Ok, nice and slow." Odd repeated. Then, a girl with long black hair, a pink shirt, pink skirt and pants came up to Ulrich, which I gagged at. Sissi Delmas, the principals daughter and biggest snob in the school.
"You know her already?" Jeremy asked. I looked back at him,
"You could say that, but I wish I didn't know her." I replied as she walked off.
"I'm pretty sure that everyone thinks that." I laughed as the bell rang, and class began.
Later that day...
"And the waiter says, 'I don't have frogs legs, that's just the way I walk!'" Odd began laughing at his own joke. I just rolled my eyes. After class Odd had introduced himself to me, and immediately tried to get us to laugh. Jeremy disappeared somewhere after class. "You get it?"
"Odd, I like lame jokes and puns more than anybody I know, but that was pretty bad." I said.
"No, but what I am beginning to get is that you're determined not to give me a break!" Ulrich exclaimed.
"We're gonna have to get to know each other!" Odd argued. "And you'll see, by the end of the day, you won't be able to do without me!" Ulrich started walking towards the vending machines with me and Odd following behind.
"Honestly Ulrich, getting a roommate isn't the end of the world." I said. "It could be worse." Ulrich just grumbled as he entered a coin into the vending machine, and hit a button for a soda. Odd got a hot chocolate for himself, and I just got a bottle of water. Another girl came up and also got a hot chocolate. She had shirt black hair, and sore a black shirt and black pants. Ulrich was staring at her as she walked off. "Someone has a crush." I thought.
"Y'know what I was thinking? Y'know your girlfriend there, Sissi?" Odd asked, attempting to break the silence.
"She is NOT, my girlfriend!" Ulrich protested. I just snickered at the idea of Ulrich willingly going out with Sissi.
"Cool!" Odd exclaimed, and crushed his empty cup. "So that means she's available!" He happily said. Jeremy walked by us scratching his neck.
"I'm telling you, she's lame. Plus, no offense, but you're not her type." Ulrich explained.
"Oh yeah, I hear that a lo-" Odd was interrupted by Jeremy screaming in pain. He was getting electrocuted by the vending machines!
"Belpois!" Ulrich exclaimed.
"Jeremy!" I exclaimed. Ulrich threw his drink away from him as he ran to check on Jeremy. I put the his glasses back on his face. "Hey, Belpois! Are you ok!?" Ulrich asked in a panicked tone. He looked up at Odd. "We're gonna take him to the infirmary." He said.
"Tell the teacher, ok?" I asked. Odd nodded before running off. We each put one of Jeremy's arms over our shoulder's, then began walking to the infirmary.
At the infirmary
We made with Jeremy just fine. He woke up a few minutes after we arrived.
"Nothing too serious, just a minor electrical shock and some superficial burns." The nurse said. I let out a sigh of relief.
"You wanted some juice, well you got some." Ulrich joked. I grinned and laughed at that. Jeremy rolled his eyes, but still smiled.
"Very funny, Stern." He said sarcastically. "But, thank you all the same."
"Don't mention it." Ulrich said as he walked to the door. "I'll check on you tonight after my martial arts class." He closed the door and walked away. Jeremy and I looked back at the nurse.
"I don't see anything major, you can go." I extended my hand to Jeremy, and helped him up.
"Sorry that happened, but I guess it could've happened to any of us." I said. "That's a lie and I know it."
"I guess so." He said. "Hey, mind helping me with something?" Jeremy asked.
"It would depend on what it is." I replied.
That Evening
Jeremy had asked me to help him with his robots, and it was actually pretty fun! At this point, Jeremy was typing away at his computer, while I was sitting on his bed. Soon, his screen had red an black bullseye like symbol, that I found very familiar.
"XANA!" I thought.
"I've seen that logo before..." Jeremy thought aloud. His robots suddenly started moving on their own. They immediately began assaulting him and me with electric shocks. I tried kicking them away.
"Haven't you been shocked enough today!?" I exclaimed.
"I had nothing to do with this!" Jeremy protested. I guess our telling attracted the attention of Ulrich, as he soon came bursting in the room to lend a helping hand. A robot the climbed up to Jeremy's shoulder was picked up by him, as another stabbed him in the shin. He kicked it up to him, and smacked it away. The symbol disappeared, the robots stopped moving, and all was calm again.
"Your little friends are kind of aggressive." Ulrich noted. "Maybe you should check their settings." Jeremy went over to pick up his chair.
"I had nothing do do with it, they just attacked me all of a sudden." They both looked over at me.
"Don't go pointing fingers at me now!" I exclaimed, raising my hands in defense. The looked back at each other.
"You've lost me." Ulrich said. "You mind explaining?" Jeremy looked at his desk.
"No, forget it." I gave him a bewildered look.
"How does one FORGET an event like that?" I asked.
"She's right, and besides, maybe I can be of some help." Ulrich said, as Jeremy began typing again. "What if your suddenly attacked by a blow dryer and I'm not around?" He asked jokingly. I smirked.
"Don't forget those curling irons, I've heard they're REALLY dangerous." I joked. Ulrich grinned.
"Haha, very funny." Jeremy said sarcastically, unamused by our humor.
"I'm not leaving this room until I know what's up." Ulrich said in a stern tone, and sat himself in Jeremy's chair.
"Uh, same with me!" I said, and sat back down on Jeremy's bed. Jeremy looked between us before finally sighing in defeat.
"Ok. What've I got to lose? I'm already in way over my head So I might as well tell you. It's just so crazy..." He walked over to his door and closed it. "First, tell me if you can keep a secret."
"I don't have anyone to tell one to." Ulrich said.
"I don't like to, but I can." I said. He opened his door again.
"Then follow me. I'll explain on the way."
Factory
"That tunnel in gym is great way to beat curfew." Ulrich noted.
"Yeah, and there's another one on the campus as well." Jeremy said. He led us to where stairs had once stood in the factory, but now only went down a little bit. Ropes and cables now allowed us access into the factory. Jeremy and I each grabbed one and slid down no problem, but Ulrich was hesitant.
"What's wrong?" Jeremy asked. "Scared of heights?" Ulrich gulped.
"Uh, no." He clenched his teeth and closed his eyes as he slid down. I looked at the old elevator warily.
"This old thing still works?" I asked. Of course I knew it did, but I have to make things seem believable.
"Well, it hasn't killed me yet, so I'd say so." Jeremy said, and pushed the button. The elevator closed and moved down to the computer lab level. I gasped when the door opened. In front of us, was a huge monitor with a hologram behind it.
"Incredible..." I muttered. "This thing looks amazing!" I thought.
"So, this is the mega computer you started up?" Ulrich asked.
"Uh huh." Jeremy replied. "It's actually a supercomputer; it's ULTRA powerful, and while I was examining it, I found out that it runs a virtual universe called 'Lyoko'." He explained.
"You know what Belpois? This mornings electric shock fried your brain." Ulrich scoffed. "This thing's just the control center of the factory, that's all." Jeremy began typing on the keyboard, and made a girl with green eyes and pink hair appear on the screen. My eyes widened.
"It's Aelita! Wow!" I thought.
"Oh yeah? And what do you call this huh? A program for spray painting doors?" Jeremy asked .
"Hello, Jeremy." The girl said.
"Who's the girl with the pink hair?" Ulrich questioned.
"That's Maya, a form of artificial intelligence who lives on Lyoko." Jeremy explained. "I don't know what she's there for yet."
"Don't mess with me! You programmed her, right?!" He accused. Maya shook her head.
"No. I woke up the moment Jeremy restarted the supercomputer." She explained. "I don't know who I am; my memory has been erased." Our attention snapped back to Jeremy.
"Maya has to hide in some kind of a tower." He said. "As soon as she leaves it, she gets attacked by monsters! You gotta believe me guys! This is an incredible discovery!" I looked at Jeremy, and Maya.
"I believe you." I said. Ulrich, wasn't so easily convinced however.
"Let's say it is." He said. "What if... What if it's all just some kind of giant video game?"
"Then it's a very dangerous game." Jeremy replied. "My robots are programmed just to go and fetch a ball, and they just tried to kill me don't forget. You saw them!" Jeremy exclaimed. "What's more, the moment they attacked, a sort of logo appeared on my computer screen, the same ones the monsters had on Lyoko." Ulrich had started spinning in the computer chair, and stopped with a hand on his chin.
"Better and better." He muttered. "Do you mean then, that the virtual thing that attacked Maya ALSO wants to kill you?"
"That's what it looks like." Jeremy said.
"You know what? If that's true, Belpois, if it's that dangerous, I think you should shut it down and call the police."
"Ok." Jeremy said, and looked down. "But first, I wan't to help Maya to understand what she's doing on Lyoko."
"Say what?" Ulrich asked at the sudden discovery
"I really do. And if I'm right, we can materialize her right here on Earth!" Ulrich shook his head.
"Oh that's too much. What makes you think you can?" Ulrich asked in disbelief.
"You'll see, Stern." Jeremy then led us to a ladder that went into the room below is, the scanner room.
"What's all this?" Ulrich asked.
"Scanners" Jeremy replied. "I haven't found the program that can being Maya back to Earth, but I dug up the one which allows someone to be scanned and sent to Lyoko." He said.
"Neat." I said.
"In fact, the super computer analyzes your molecular structure through these cabins, and then breaks down your atoms before digitalizing them, and recreating a digital incarnation in the virtual world!" Jeremy said. I actually understood what he meant for once.
"Cool!" I said. Ulrich looked over at me.
"In English?"
"You go inside the cabin, you get teleported to the virtual world."'I explained.
"Jeremy, these things don't exist yet." He leaned against the scanner. "There's no way!"
"You still don't wanna believe me." Jeremy said in an annoyed tone.
"I would love to! But virtualization is straight out of science fiction!" Ulrich pointed out. Jeremy sat down in the scanner.
"Why don't we try it out?" I suggested.
"Exactly my thoughts." Jeremy said. "But we're gonna need a guinea pig..." I raised my hand.
"I'll do it!" I said. Jeremy gave me look that basically asked me, 'Are you insane!?'.
"No, I have a better idea." Ulrich said, then went to the elevator. As soon as he was gone, Jeremy looked over at me.
"You have any idea what he means by that?" I shook my head.
"No clue." I said.
Later
Ulrich came back with Odd's dog, Kiwi. I gave him a bewildered look.
"Are you insane!?" I asked.
"What? Better him than you." He put Kiwi in the scanner. "Nice puppy, don't move." He went to the ladder and climbed back up, with me following shortly behind. "Everything's cool Jeremy, the mutt is in the scanner." Jeremy nodded.
"Ok, lets see how it goes. It's not gonna be a piece of cake." He started typing on the keyboard. "Right, we're all set. I'm starting up the procedure. Transfer, guinea pig, scanner, guinea pig. Hey, that's a weird looking dog." Jeremy noted. Ulrich gasped.
"That's no dog! That's Odd Della Robbia!" He exclaimed.
"I-I don't know how to stop the procedure!" Jeremy exclaimed. We then heard an annoying voice calling for help. Ulrich grumbled as he and I climbed back down. Sure enough, we saw Sissi standing there.
"Sissi!?" Ulrich asked.
"Ulrich!" She exclaimed happily.
"Ulrich, Emily, it's ok! Odd is safe and sound on Lyoko!" Jeremy said from his mic.
"Thank god." I said.
"Er, scratch that. He's in danger, and I need to devirtualize him. I don't know what to do!"
"Can you send me, Emily, and Sissi to Lyoko?" Ulrich asked.
"Well, I can always try."
"Send us where, Ulrich?" Sissi asked nervously.
"To a virtual world where weird monsters wanna massacre you. You said you always wanted to go out with me, now here's your chance!" Ulrich explained. I couldn't help but snicker.
"No thanks. I uh, prefer real worlds. Plus I couldn't possibly miss cheerleading practice tomorrow." Ulrich walked passed her and into a scanner. I did the same.
"See ya, chicken. Jeremy, I'm ready to go!"
"Same with me!" I said.
"Ok, I'm starting the procedure. Transfer, Ulrich, transfer, Emily. Scanner, Ulrich, scanner, Emily, VIRTUALIZATION!"
Ulrich and I both landed in the forest sector, with Odd in front of us. I use the term landed loosely, because we actually didn't stick it at all. Ulrich stood up and looked down at himself. He was a pretty cool looking samurai, but then I looked at myself. I was wearing a blue cloak with a white trim, and had a hood on it. I also had a loose fitting white shirt, same kind of pants, a pair of black gloves, and a pair brown felt boots. I looked down at my side, and saw a golden staff with a small blade at the bottom. I think I was a mage.
"Wow! This staff is awesome!" I said as it crackled with a sort of energy. Then, I looked over at Odd, and laughed. He was a giant purple cat! It was WAY funnier in person.
"Hey, that's not fair! Why does he get to be a samurai, and her a mage? Those are way cooler!" Odd asked.
"I have no idea why. Maybe the computer just reads into your own subconscious desires, and projects them onto your digital incarnation." Jeremy suggested.
"I don't dream about giant purple cats!" Odd protested. "What's more, I'd rather have weapon like Ulrich or even Emily's! Not these great big useless paws!" He flicked up his wrist as he spoke, causing an arrow fire from it. We both narrowly dodged it, causing Ulrich to then glare at Odd.
"Hey, watch out!" He said. Odd looked back down at his hands.
"These arrows are pretty cool... I take back what I said." He said while flexing his fingers.
"Try to hook up with Maya in her tower." Jeremy's disembodied voice said. "Hold on, I'll send you the coordinates." We started walking forward.
"Who's this Maya?" Odd asked.
"A virtual girl who lives on Lyoko." Ulrich replied.
"You mean there are babes here too? Great!" Odd exclaimed.
"Yes, but I get the impression that Belpois has flipped her." Ulrich calmly replied.
"For a virtual chick? If he nuts?"
"Kinda." I laughed as their conversation came to a close.
"Jeremy, are you gonna give us those coordinates or not?" I then asked. "Jeremy? Are asleep or what?" Odd looked around the sector.
"Hey look, I see a tower, it could be that one." I nodded.
"We won't know if we don't try, I suppose." I said, and followed them to the tower. Odd leaned on it with his hand.
"Is there a door?" He asked, and then accidentally went through the wall of the tower. Ulrich looked me, before going through as well. I followed, and then found myself holding onto one of Odd's legs. "You guys are too heavy! Drop your stuff!" He exclaimed.
"Nice try, but forget it!" Ulrich said.
"How about no?" I replied. Odd's grip have out, and we fell below.
We walked out of another tower, and found ourselves in the Ice Sector.
"Okay, right. Where are we? Where did the forest go?" Odd then asked.
"Um, a tundra?" I guessed.
"How should we know?" Ulrich asked.
"Hey, do you guys see that tower over there?" I asked.
"Yeah, weird how's not the same color." Ulrich noted.
"And those creatures, they're kinda weird too!" Odd said, pointing a some cube shaped creatures. They started firing lasers at us.
"Might be a good time to beat it, don't ya think?" Odd nodded in agreement.
"Out of all our options, that seems best." I agreed while we ran. Soon enough though, we had been cornered by the Bloks. Ulrich was blocking lasers with his saber, and me my staff. He jumped on a block, and attempted to kill it by hitting it silly with his saber.
"So how do you kill these things?" He growled in frustrations.
"I don't know." Odd said. "You guys wouldn't happen to know how many life points we have?"
"No." We said in unison; Odd was then devirtualized. Ulrich jumped at the Blok, and stabbed it in it's eye. He smirked, but was then devirtualized. I went over and used the blade on my staff to destroy that Blok, but I was then devirtualized by another. I found myself in the scanner room once again, but this time, I felt exhausted. I was leaned against the back of the scanner, and fell out of it.
"Great, at least we're alive." Ulrich said.
"A-alive? If you say so. I feel like I'm about to throw up..." Odd moaned.
"Well... He does have a point." I said weakly.
"AHH! HELP US!" Sissi screamed. That was enough to get us all to start moving. We climbed up the ladder, and saw that Jeremy was being held up by a bunch of cables!
"Hang on Jeremy!" Ulrich exclaimed, and picked up a scrap piece of metal. He attempted to cut through the cables, but was electrocuted, and sent flying backwards.
"Ulrich!" I exclaimed. I ran over to help him up, but I soon found myself being sent in the other direction. A stray cord had electrocuted me, and sent me flying. Odd picked up the scrap metal that Ulrich dropped, and cut through it this time.
"It works the second time!" He exclaimed. "See? I told you by the end of the day you wouldn't be able to do without me!" He sliced the rest of the metal through. Jeremy came back down from his unwanted position from above. He went over to the computer, and brought Maya back up on the screen.
"Maya, are you there?"
"Yes, is everything ok on your side?" She asked.
"Well, we're a little shaken up, but it could've been worse!" Jeremy said.
Ok, chapter 2 done. Thanks for reading, and I'm posting this at school... Don't tell the teachers!