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Chapter 3: XANA Awakens Part 2
It was hard to sleep that night. The excitement of it all never really went down. The next morning I walked into the cafeteria to get some breakfast, and saw Ulrich and Sissi sitting in a table towards the back. I began walking to them after I got my food.
"Morning." I said. Ulrich nodded his head at me, while Sissi just simply waved. I looked around, and noticed a certain purple clad boy missing. "Where's Odd?"
"Uh..." Ulrich said, and pointed behind me. I looked back and almost burst out laughing. Odd had some how managed to get his hair up into a point, like how it was in Lyoko. My guess, is that it took A LOT of hair product.
"What's with the hairdo?" I asked, attempting to keep my laughter down.
"Lyoko style. It's pretty trendy, huh?" He asked. "Meow!" He sat down in the seat next to me, and began shoveling food into his mouth. I scooted away him slightly.
"You always eat that much?" Ulrich asked Odd peeled a banana.
"No, I'm not that hungry today in fact." He replied, still chewing his food. "Has anyone seen Jeremy?"
"He was up all night in his room working on Lyoko after he put the computer back together." Ulrich answered.
"Man that guy's a real Einstein." Odd remarked.
"Who's Einstein?" Sissi asked. I face palmed at the one. She really WAS brain dead.
Jeremy's Room
Jeremy was talking to Maya rather than going down to eat.
"Unfortunately, you're not like Odd, Ulrich, or Emily. You can't be devirtualized when you lose all of your life points." He said.
"That's too bad," Maya replied. "but at least now I know how to change sectors." Jeremy nodded.
"Yes, and I also found out what the towers are for. They're portals between the real world, and the virtual world. And when they're red, it means they're activated."
"Are you sure?" Maya asked.
"Just about." Jeremy answered, with a nod. "And they may be the way to materialize you on Earth!" Maya's eyes widened at the prospect of being on Earth. "Unbelievable, huh? I can't wait to tell the others about it!"
After Breakfast
"You want us to go back to Lyoko, just to get Maya into a red tower?" Ulrich asked in disbelief.
"Like I said, I'm sure that's the only way to bring her into the real world. Pretty wild, huh?" Jeremy said.
"Pretty dangerous, you mean." Odd corrected. "We could've all been wiped out for good last night!" I rubbed my left side, which was still slightly sore from the night before.
"Odd's right. We're better off shutting down the supercomputer." Ulrich agreed. "Too bad for Maya, but still, it's not like she's human."
"But she's still a sort of intelligent being! She's got... emotions like we do!" Jeremy argued. I nodded.
"You see? I told you, he's madly in love with a computer program." Ulrich joked. Both Odd and I couldn't help but snicker.
"C'mon guys, be cool! I'm just asking you to go there one last time."
"Well... One last time won't kill us." I said.
"We can't even make it past the monsters!" Odd pointed out. "We'll probably get ourselves blown away in a heartbeat!"
"True... Things didn't exactly go very well last night." I thought.
"Odd's right. If only there were at least four of us... But Sissi's too scared." Ulrich stated.
"What!?" Sissi exclaimed, visibly offended by the remark. "No I'm not! I really DO wanna go with you guys to Lyoko, but when cheerleading practice is over."
"Thanks Sissi." Jeremy thanked. "So here's the scoop: As soon as Maya is materialized into the real world, I give you my word that I'll shut down the supercomputer. Meanwhile, we gotta keep this a secret."
"Promise."
"I swear."
"You can count on me." We all looked at Sissi.
"Ditto." She finally said, and put her hand on Ulrich's shoulder. "I can't wait to see what I look like on Lyoko!"
"Me too. With some luck, I won't be the dumbest looking one in the group." Odd remarked. I laughed as Ulrich got up and started walking towards the gym.
"Ulrich, where are you going? Aren't you coming to see my cheerleading routine?" Sissi asked.
"No, I got something important to take care of." He replied, causing Sissi to humph in annoyance. I noticed Odd and Jeremy were beginning to walk off as well.
"Where are you guys heading?" I asked.
"Library." They said in unison.
"Well... I have nothing better to do. Might as well come with you I guess." I said, and started to follow behind them.
"It's true that at first I thought Sissi was real babe. But the more I get to know her, the more I realize that she's uh... How do I put this tactfully...?" Odd trailed off.
"A turkey?" Jeremy asked.
"Exactly!" We entered the library, and found a table that was basically empty. Jeremy pulled out his laptop and started typing away, while Odd was writing something. I was reading a book.
"I still have to wonder why I'm here..." I thought. "Did XANA send me? But then why didn't I land in Sector 5?" I let out a soft sigh. "Too many questions that I just can't answer... At least my Lyoko form is cool."
"Aha! Bingo!" Jeremy exclaimed in a whispering voice, and interrupted my thoughts. I looked up at him.
"What?" I asked him.
"A couple of days ago, I dug up a brand new program on the supercomputer called 'Return to the past', and I just figured out how to activate it!"
"That's great, Einstein." Odd said, uninterested in the Lyoko news. "But, could you give me a hand with my electrochemistry report?" Jeremy sighed.
"Hey Odd, are you planning on calling me Einstein forever?" Odd took his pencil eraser out of his teeth.
"Eh, why not? But what about my report?"
"Well, why don't you say that electrochemistry is a science that deals with the relationship between electricity and chemistry? Then, you say that electrochemistry involves opposing polar systems composed, at its two extremes, of electrically conducted material." Odd looked up a Jeremy.
"You mean... All I have to do is say that?" He asked.
"Well, not really." I said. "You're gonna need to give some examples." I said.
"Like what?"
"I don't know! I was going over Newton's laws of motion at my old school!" I said defensively.
"You hear what happen to Sissi?" A boy behind Jeremy and Odd asked his friend. "She was taken to the infirmary by Jim."
"What'd she do? Pull a muscle in her brain trying to add two plus two?" His friend asked.
"No man, she got electrocuted." We all looked at each other with a worried expression. I stood up.
"Let's go check this thing out." We walked over to the infirmary door, and did a little eavesdropping.
"You're the ones that brought Elizabeth here, now tell me what happened!" Mr. Delmas demanded.
"She was in her room when an electricity monster jumped from a coat hanger!" Nicholas exclaimed. The principal seemed unamused.
"Would you try to be serious!? You're the one who's going to get a shock in a moment!" We looked at each other again.
"Somehow, I get the feeling we should head to the factory." I said.
"And somehow, I get the feeling you're right." Jeremy said. We bolted out the door, and ran straight for the manhole. Jeremy pulled out his phone and dialed Ulrich. "Ulrich? Yeah, great, we need you. Sissi just got electrocuted some sort of giant-"
"Electric thing?" Ulrich asked.
"Yeah! How did you know!?"
"Because that same electric thing attacked me in the gymnasium!" Ulrich exclaimed. "This is getting more and more dangerous, you and your supercomputer!"
"All the more reason to materialize Maya ASAP!" Jeremy exclaimed. "We have to get to Lyoko, and bring her to the red tower. If it works, we can shut the computer down tonight! We'll meet you in the sewer." Odd removed the manhole cover as Jeremy hung up.
"Ladies first." Odd said. I rolled my eyes.
"How classy, Odd, offer a girl to go first in climbing in the sewers. You're a real charmer." I joked as I climbed down. Jeremy closed the cover as we went down. We didn't have any mode of transportation down there yet, so we had to go by foot. We soon met Ulrich, and another girl, the one I saw by the vending machines yesterday.
"Hey! Who's that girl?" Jeremy bluntly asked.
"This is Yumi, she was there when I was attacked, and she can fight, so I thought-" Ulrich was interrupted.
"Ok, ok, later. Right now, we have to get to the factory. Let's go!" The three boys took off running, but I stayed back for a few seconds with Yumi.
"Well, you're stuck with us now! C'mon!" I said, and ushered her to follow me. I led her to the bridge, where we found the others at the broken stairs. Odd, Jeremy, and I all swung down, but Ulrich and Yumi stayed behind for a moment. Soon, the both swung down, and joined us in the elevator though. We went down to the lab level, and Jeremy walked over to his seat.
"So who's this Maya?" Yumi asked.
"You're going to be meeting her in just a minute. Go straight to the scanner room, and get ready for the big plunge!" Jeremy said.
"Big plunge? But I don't have a bathing suit." Yumi said nervously.
"Relax, you won't be needing one." Odd explained. I hit the button, and we went one more level down, into the scanner room. We explained to Yumi what was going on, but she wasn't exactly buying it.
"This story of yours is pure science fiction." She deadpanned.
"Uh yeah... Except it's real." Ulrich remarked.
"Are you guys ready? I'm starting up the procedure." Jeremy said. As our scanners closed, I heard Ulrich say to Yumi,
"Don't tell me you're scared."
"I'm coming too!" She decided.
"Ok, wait for one of the scanners to open up when I'm done. Transfer Ulrich, transfer Odd, transfer Emily, scanner Ulrich, scanner Odd, scanner Emily, VIRTUALIZATION!"
Unlike before, we all actually landed this time, and in the Ice Sector too.
"Bummer, I'm still a big purple cat." Odd commented.
"Ouch!" We heard behind us. Yumi landed about as well as we did yesterday, and looked like a geisha. Odd let out a low whistle.
"Wow, that Japanese outfit is pretty sharp." He said, the frowned. "It's not fair! I'm the only one who looks like a nitwit on Lyoko!" He complained.
"Uh, mind telling me where we are?" Yumi asked.
"A virtual world. Don't worry, you'll get used to it." Ulrich explained.
"Move it! Maya's needs help! She's in danger!" Jeremy said.
"Ok, here we go!" Odd exclaimed, and led us onward. Yumi hesitated for a moment, but then realized we were the only other one here. I slowed down to talk to her.
"Crazy day, huh?" She nodded at me.
"No kidding." Soon enough, we found Maya surrounded by about three Bloks. I looked at my staff as we approached her.
"I wonder if I..." I stopped, and raised it in the air. "Magic Blast!" I shouted, and fired a white orb at one of the Bloks, which exploded. "...Awesome!" I exclaimed. I ran up along with the others to help defend Maya. I immediately saw Odd flirting with our damsel in distress.
"Hi, are you Maya? I'm Odd." He introduced. "I have to admit, you're a real cutie c Jeremy's got taste." He winked at her, not at all noticing the incoming laser. I came up in front of them.
"Barrier!" A small red shield formed at the tip of my staff, and allowed me to block the shot.
"No time for flirting, Odd! We've got work to do!" Ulrich pointed out.
"You're right!" Odd realized. Yumi jumped down, but realized she couldn't attack.
"Hey, I don't have a weapon!" She exclaimed, then noticed something poking out of her obi. She pulled it out, and found that it was just a fan. " A fan, that's all?"
"Try throwing at them, you never know!" Odd suggested. She shrugged, and threw the fan like a frisbee. It cut through the remaining Bloks with ease.
"Not bad." Ulrich commented.
"Wow, I think I'll keep it." She said as the fan came back to her.
"I don't think you have a choice." I said.
"Nice work! Now bring Maya into the red tower so we can matirailize her!" Jeremy said.
"Gotcha." I said, and we began running to the activated tower.
"Hey, uh Odd, I think I've got a good life size example formyour electrochemistry report." Jeremy said nervously.
"Oh yeah? And what's that?" Odd asked.
"A nice little electric monster. Where are you guys?"
"We're coming up to the tower!" Ulrich said.
"Hurry it up then, things are about to start jumpin' over here!" He left only for a second. "Watch it guys! There are some more monsters heading your way!" Two Krabs came marching our way. Odd grinned.
"Great, crabs! Who brought the tartar sauce?" He joked. We all split up in order to divide and conquer our new foes. These were harder than the Bloks, because their weak point was on the top of their shell. I held up my staff again.
"Bolt!" I cried. A bolt of lightning came down from the sky, but narrowly missed the Krab. I sighed in fruatration. "Man, these things are tougher than I thought!" I looked over at Odd, who had climbed up one of the icebergs, I guess if you want to call them that.
"Beat it Krabs! The tide is coming in!" He shouted, and fired a few more arrows. Yumi tried to throw her fan at it, but missed the bullseye. "Man, these guys are not only ugly, they're tough!" Odd fired some more Laser Arrows, but was devirualized by Krab in the end. It started chasing after Yumi after that.
"Jeremy, Odd just got devirtualized." Maya said, but heard no reponse. I came over to her.
"I get the feeling he's having a playdate with our little electric friend." I assumed. She nodded, and we looked over at Ulrich and Yumi.
"Wanna give it a try?" He asked, and Yumi nodded. She slid on her legs, and put them into the air. Ulrich jumped on top of them, and with a boost from Yumi, managed to get on top of one of the Krabs, and kill it. I ran over to the other one, and fired anothe Magic Blast at, but I missed the eye. It shot my foot, forcing me to retreat. I looked down at my foot as the electricity faded away.
Yumi attempted hit the Krab with her fan, but missed, and ended up getting shot in the leg. Ulrich rushed in and attempted to jump on top of the Krab without help, but failed. The monster caught him, and tossed him away like a piece of trash. He landed in front the two of us.
"Get Maya to the red tower!" He managed to say, and was then devirtualized. She looked at me, and nodded, and ran forward, but the Krab stopped her. It fired some lasers, but I took the full force of them, and sacracficed myself for her. I foumd myself leaning against the back of the scanner again, then fell forward. I pulled myself out, and looked at Ulrich and Odd.
Back on Lyoko
Maya fell to her knees, and began to sing. A wall of ice appeared in front of her, and she was shocked. Yumi ran up to her.
"Was it you who just did that?" She asked.
"Yes, I think so!" Maya replied. Yumi looked at the ice wall waririly.
"Run to the tower, hurry!" Maya nodded and ran off, leaving Yumi alone with the Krab, which had started firing lasers at the wall. "Jeremy, it's ok. Maya is-" She was devirtualized by the Krab, as it finally got through the wall.
In the tower, Maya jumped back in fright at the screen that appeared in front of her. She looled around nervously, before finally putting her hand on the screen. "Aelita..." She read, and happily realized that this was her true name. The screen then said, 'Code Lyoko'.
Real World
After Yumi came back to us, we all went up to the lab. Unfortunately, Sissi ratted us out, and was in the elevator with Mr. Delmas, and Jim fell to the floor after being electrocuted.
"What's going on here!? What were those flashes!?" Mr. Delmas demended.
"Sissi!" Ulrich exclaimed in disbelief.
"Ulrich!" She cried, and attempted to wrap her arms around him. He swayed back, and glared at her.
"You swore to us you wouldn't tell!" He shouted.
"Unsurprising." I said with a glare. "Gossiping is one of the many 'talents' she has." She sent a nasty look my way.
"I came here to save you, Ulrich! And what's this Chinese girl doing here, huh!?"
"I am Japanese!" Yumi growled. Sissi took a step backwards in fright.
"What about Maya?" Jeremy asked with a hopeful look. "Is she here?"
"No, sorry Jeremy, but it didn't work. She didn't materialize." Ulrich solemnly answered. The brainiac looled down, a disappointed look plastered on his face.
"Alright, that's enough, Belpois. I order you to shut this thing down now; then you can explain to me exactly what this about!" Mr. Delmas ordered. Jeremy sent a glare up to the principal.
"I think we oughta alert the authorities right away!" Jim suggested.
"Me too, Jim. It's much too dangerous. " Sissi agreed. "I told you so, didn't I?"
"You're nothing but a rotten traitor!" Ulrich exclaimed.
"No more than you are, Ulrich darling!" Sissi let out a humph, folded her arms, and looked away.
"Let's go Belpois! Kill this thing immedietly and follow me!" Jeremy looked up at the principal with a defiant look in his eyes.
"No." He sternly said, and began typing.
"What do ya think you're doing!?" Jim asked.
"I'm launching a new program! With a little luck, it'll work!"
"What kind of program?" I asked.
"Return to the past, now!" Jeremy exclaimed. A white light emerged from the hologram, and engulfed us all.
We ended up back at the vending machines. Odd's hair was still down, and Yumi was getting a drink from the machine. She looked over at us with a confused look, while Odd scratched his head.
"What happend anyways? What are we doing here?" Ulrich asked.
"But we were doing this yesterday. You don't think..." Yumi trailed off. I pulled out my phone and looled at the date on it.
"It's official, we're reliving the past." I said, and showed my phone to them.
"Einstein, you're a genius! Your return to the past, it works!" Odd complimented.
"What's that? What're you talking about?" Jeremy questioned.
"You haven't forgotten about tge supercomputer and Lyoko and my big purple cat costume, huh?" Jeremy looked back at us with a look of shock.
"You know all about Lyoko!? But, how!?"
"That's weird: it looks like the return in time didn't quite work on him." Yumi noted. Ulrich tossed his drink away, and slung his arm around Jerem'y shoulder.
"C'mon, we're gonna fill you in."
Later that evening...
"But... Why wouldn't I remember anything?" Jeremy questioned, after we finished explaining.
"Maybe because out of all of us, you were the only one not sent to Lyoko." I suggested.
"Yes, that could be." He said with a hand to his chin. "Well tomorrow, I'll go to tge factory first thing, and scan myself."
"No, Jeremy. We have to shut the supercomputer down and you know it. It's too dangerous!" Maya protested.
"But, Maya-"
"Aelita." She winked. "When I went into the tower... I remebered my name!" Aelita exclaimed.
"Aelita..." Jeremy sounded. "That's even better than Maya. But what about bringing you in? I promised!" He looked back at us. "Give me one more night to work things out. I'll find a way!" He pleaded. We all looked at each other, and nodded.
"Ok." Ulrich said. Jeremy grinned at us all,
"Thanks guys!"
"We'll meet up in the computer lab tomorrow morning to see how you're doing." Ulrich decided. We walked out, and could hear Jeremy immediately begin typing away. Unfortunately, we saw Sissi standing there as we left, taping her foot impatiently.
"Ulrich!" She exclaimed. "What're you doing there!? I've been waiting for you for an hour! I've never been stood up like this before!"
"There's a first time for everything." Ulrich simply said. "Now if you excuse me, I'm with my friends." We walked off in the opposite direction of her.
"I'll make you pay!" She shouted. "You hear me, huh Ulrich!?"
"I've got a bad feeling about this girl, Sissi. I get the idea she's gonna give us a lot of grief." Odd joked. We all couldn't help but laugh.
The next morning
"Hi." Jeremy said as we walked in.
"Find anything?" Yumi asked.
"Yes, XANA."
"XANA? What's that?" Odd questioned.
"A super dangerous program, almost like a virus, that can control electricity, and it activates towers on Lyoko to gain access to your world." Aelita explained.
"So the red tower, the electricity monster, the weird symbol, the monsters on Lyoko, all of that was XANA?" I asked.
"Yes." Jeremy replied. "Only Aelita can counter it by deactivating the tower that it uses for attacks in the real world."
"Well that's great." Ulrich said sarcastically. "What about materializing Aelita?"
"I could do it, but I need some time." Jeremy said. "It's dangerous; XANA could attack at any moment."
"Be reasonable, Jeremy." Aelita said. "We'd better just shut this thing down." We all sadly looked down.
"Listen, now that we know how to neutralize XANA, we just have to Aelita to the activated tower!" Ulrich said.
"We can find a way to counter the attacks while Einstein brings Arlita back to Earth, right?" I grinned and nodded, leaving only Yumi,
"...It's risky... But I think we should. After all, we are Lyoko warriors, aren't we?" We all cheered.
"You really think you can do it?" Aelita asked.
"They don't call me Einstein for nothing." Jeremy pointed out. "In a few weeks, I'll have it figured out. Meanwhile, let's not forget about our pact, huh?"
"Hey relax, we all know how to keep a secret." I let out a sigh.
"Mind keeping another?" I asked nervously. They looked at me quizzically. "I'll be honest with you guys: I'm not fr here."
"So what? Lots of people aren't?"
"Er, I mean from another Earth..." I paused. "Let me explain." I explained everything that happened before I met Ulrich in the woods. "I know this seems hard to believe, but I'm telling the truth. I swear!" I exclaimed, and nervously fiddled with my jacket string. Yumi put a hand on my shoulder.
"We believe you."
"Thanks guys." I said. "And by the way, feel free to call me Emmy!"
This ends what started it all. I finally got a review! Hurray! Next time, we start out season one, and maybe we'll even check in on the real world!