HEY, HEY YOU GUYS o3o Thought I forgot about this story but I didn't...I was just...distracted...yea, that's it ^^" Anyways I own Katie and Ana and the rest goes to MoonScoop. ENJOY!
My dad pulled up to the curb in front of Galaxy Academy.
"Bye daddy." I said, giving him a quick hug then getting out of the car. The first thing I noticed was that it was a bit cooler here in Cocoa Beach than down in south Florida, though it was just as humid, unfortunately. The school looked, nice, I guess. I was the new kid though...most people started to come here in sixth grade and already had a bunch of friends. I was in the eighth grade and didn't know anyone. Ok, not entirely true, there was my friend Ana Rose who was my best friend in kindergarten. She was here.
Anyways the only reason I was here was because my parents got a new job as some sort of computer programers for NASA. I got my suitcases out of the trunk.
"Sure you don't want me to help you with those?" Dad asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure. Don't worry about me, dad, I'll be fine." I replied.
"Ok. Have a great day!" Dad said, driving off.
"Yeah, sure, ok, great day..." I mumbled. I had a bit of a problem fitting into a new crowd. As I mentioned Ana was the only person I knew here, and who said she'd even remember me after the years that we'd had little to no contact with each other. On the other hand I didn't want my dad sticking around.
I picked my suitcases up from the sidewalk and turned around, and saw Ana running toward me.
"Katie! It's been so long!" Ana yelled, running up and hugging me. I nearly tripped and fell from the force of the hug. Ana stepped back and looked me over.
"You haven't changed a bit." she said, smiling. But you sure have, in looks, anyway. I thought to myself, she was all...fashionable. She dressed for looks instead of comfort, like I did with my t-shirt, jeans, and flip flops.
"It's great to see you, Ana." I would have been more enthusiastic but I was tired.
"The principal gave me your key and schedule. There's orientation in the afternoon." Ana said, handing me a key card and a slip of paper. I took them and slipped them into my pocket.
"So I guess you'll want to-"
"Sleep." I interrupted
"Well, I was going to unpack but that works too." Ana said, I chuckled slightly, then picked up my bags and walked, Ana lead the way. When we got to the room I collapsed on the bed and slept for a while.
When I woke up it was time to start heading over to orientation. It was highly boring, I just kinda sat there, listening to the principal who's name escapes me. He mostly went over the school code of conduct and stuff. I tried making jokes about him but some teachers told me to be quiet.
That night I couldn't really sleep, having had that really long nap, so I watched a marathon of Code Lyoko. Did I mention I'm probably one of the biggest fans of that show? Well yeah, that.
"Remember in elementary school when this was on the first time?" I asked Ana.
"Yeah, I guess." She was busy texting someone.
"Don't you wanna watch, come on, it's cool."
"Nah, I'm good."
"You sure?"
"No offense, but it seems kind of stupid..."
"Oh..."
"Yeah."
We sat in silence for a minute, on the tv Jeremie was explaining some long drawn out thing.
"So how have things been?" I asked.
"Good, good, can't complain. You?"
"Everything's been fine." I chuckled slightly, then was silent again. This was...awkward, we hadn't seen each other in so long and now we were part of two separate worlds, so to say. All our conversation so far had been shallow.
Ana fell asleep while I was watching Echos, after it was over I turned off the light and stared out the window. I couldn't fall asleep right away, I never had been able to, couldn't get my brain to shut up. Echos...what happened to the warriors after that? I mean, one could assume they went on with their normal lives, or did they have to fight Xana off again? Was Franz truly dead, and Anthea? I'd seen many ideas written from various fans but with no season five being made anytime soon, one could never actually know.
I looked out the window. It wass weird how close to some of the old space research buildings were. One of them...
"Hey...that kinda looks like..." I whispered. I got closer to the window, one of the buildings looked like the silhouette of the factory from Code Lyoko...I looked over at Ana, she was fast asleep. I found a piece of paper and wrote a note down:
Ana,
Gone Explorin'
Cover for me if Ed comes, I should be back by midnight.
-KG
Ed, of course, was what one could call the real life version of Jim Morales. In fact, he even had the same kind of pun in his name. Jim the gym teacher, Ed the phys ed teacher. Weird...
Anyways, I put it on my pillow and slipped out the window, which was easy since my room was on the first floor. I breathed in the night air. Everything has a different feel at night...quieter, yet at the same more alive...I made my way off campus and into town, keeping my eyes on the building that looked like the factory. Unfortunately, I could find no secret sewer tunnel at the time, so I had to use the streets.
When I got there and went inside I saw it was even more like the factory on the inside than it looked on the outside. Sure, it didn't look exactly alike but it was a large open floor, where I could see anyways, with an old elevator across from me. I got into the elevator. It was old, but it didn't seem quite as old as the factory's elevator, it seemed much more...modern. I went down and what should I find but the thing everyone would expect me to, since this is not a very surprising part of the story, the lab with the supercomputer.
However, even though you are probably not shocked, I was. I had a spazz attack, this was quite literally a dream come true. What's more the supercomputer was turned on. I went up to it and there was a window open, a chatbox. The picture next to the text was Aelita in her season four outfit, like in the show when people messaged each other. There actually was a message...
SOS. Me and my friends have been captured by something unknown. We don't think it's Xana. We're being held in some sort of prison. I somehow managed to send out this message to the nearest supercomputer that had scanners and the capability to connect to Lyoko. Please help us. Follow the instructions below to connect this supercomputer to the virtual world of Lyoko and set up a delayed virtualization. Go find large glowing metal tubes with the doors open and step inside. There will be a drop of about 10 feet. When you get there ask for Jeremie, if nobody answers, wait, he'll come, keep calling for him. If you don't want to come save us you don't have to, but please find someone who is, we don't know how much time there is left.
~Aelita Schaeffer
Below there were step by step instructions on how to connect to Lyoko and start a delayed virtualization. I blinked...was this...for real? The only real way to find out would be to try it out and see if I ended up on Lyoko. Was I willing, of course, I was more than willing! First thing it said to do was check what this Supercomputer was connected to on the web. It wanted me to check the coordinates of what it connected to inside the network and change it to the coordinates of Lyoko. I opened the window that showed the coordinates, and...they matched up to Lyoko's exactly. So...this was already connected to Lyoko then? Not that I should have been surprised, this was so much like the Supercomputer from Code Lyoko, I mean...I shoulda seen that coming, really.
Well, with that whole set of directions out of the way, I went right to the delayed virtualization. I set it up just as the note instructed and it worked. I went down two floors, and there were the scanners, three of them, just like the show. I got into one of them and was virtualized onto Lyoko. When I landed, I noticed three things. One, my sense of smell and need to breathe were gone, two, unlink the show, there was no background music here, and three, I was in the Forest Sector.
"The Forest Sector...where the winds of new beginnings blow...or something like that." I muttered to myself, paraphrasing the description of New Bark Town. Yes, I'm also a Pokemon fan. I was near the lake with the logs and I saw my reflexion. I was wearing a cream colored long sleeved shirt and pants with golden bands at the waist, ankles, and arms. There were golden threads weaved into my clothing that came together as the chain for a necklace with a charm about the size of a ping pong ball that was a purpley blue. I pulled out a sword from a sheath in my waste band that also had the golden wire like threads and larger gem near the center.
"Strange...I would have sworn my color would be blue..." I said, then remembered what the note said. "JEREMIE!" I yelled. A few seconds went by with silence, I was about to call again but someone answered.
"Aelita...?"
"Uh, no...Sorry, I'm not Aelita." I said, instantly recognizing Jeremie's voice. "She sent me here though. The name's Katie Griffin and I'm gonna be a Lyoko warrior and go rescue your buddies."
"You're...what...How are you even here?"
"Well, ya see, I followed the instructions from the note Aelita left on the Supercomputer-"
"What Supercomputer!"
"The one in Coco Beach of course. Not your Coco Beach, though, the from the live action world." I said.
"...Live action?"
"A different dimension than this one, or I guess this would be neutral territory."
"This is completely crazy! You're completely crazy!" Jeremie exclaimed.
"That may be, but here I am. I mean, how else would I have gotten here?" I said.
"You...could be a trick of Xana..." That stumped me, because Xana lies, and really...I didn't have any proof that I was for real.
"Uh...I don't know how to prove I'm not." I said.
"Hm...I believe you..." Jeremie said.
"Why?" I asked in disbelief that he trusted me.
"Xana would have had an excuse." Jeremie said, chuckling a little. "Can you go to the nearest Tower so I can at least see this new mystery warrior. It's a little south of your location. I'll send you a vehicle."
"Can it be the Overboard pleeeaaase." I've wanted to ride the Overboard my whole life of knowing it existed, you don't even know.
"Uh...sure. How do you know what the Overboard is though?"
"Well...ya see in my dimension, this one is a TV show. So yeah, I know all about your guy's war against Xana and Franz Hopper and Project Carthage and stuff. It makes me a perfect warrior! You don't have to explain how stuff works, because I already know. I know what kind of thing I'd be getting into too, and I'm totally ok with it." Jeremie was silent, and then the Overboard appeared.
"...This is crazy...Why are you so comfortable with this?"
"Einstein...this has been my dream for a really long time, and I more than welcome strange things." I said, getting on the Overboard. I'd always wondered how exactly this thing worked. How I saw it there were two theories on the subject, one, pressure pads and foot controls, or two, telepathy. Since I didn't see any buttons or anything I figured it was telepathic, so I willed it to go forward. It did...I didn't...I fell flat on my butt.
"Hehehe, don't worry, I got this." I said. I got back on the Overboard, and this time I lurched forward and wobbled on it awkwardly, but I rode it. I was doing ok, so I willed it to go faster. It leaped forward and...well...I crashed into a tree.
"I take it you don't skateboard or snowboard or surf much."
"Try not at all..." I laughed sheepishly. "But I'll learn how to ride this!"
"How about you just walk." Jeremie said.
"Yeah, ok." I laughed. I walked the rest of the way to the Tower.
"Hm...interesting. Mind if I do a full scan?" Jeremie said as I opened an interface on the second floor of the tower. Not gonna lie, I couldn't understand a thing on there, just looked like a bunch of symbols and figures and numbers and letters. It was really shiny though.
"Nah, go ahead." I said. "I stand still and close my eyes, like a scanner, right?"
"Uh...yeah. In the center dot of the platform." Jeremie replied. I nodded and stood in the center. I felt myself being lifted off the ground and saw light, just like being virtualized, but not as bright. After...I wanna say a minute, though really I couldn't tell how much time had passed. I guess Lyoko does that to people. When it was done I landed gently on the ground.
"That's so strange. You're essentially the same as us but there are some interesting differences, like forehead size."
I laughed. So much.
"Yeah, like I said, different dimension. By the way, how have you managed to fight Xana without the Lyoko warriors? Also how long has it been since you...ya know, defeated Xana the first time. I mean, you obviously didn't succeed which sucks but...yeah..." I trailed off.
"Two years since we thought we beat him. About a year ago since they disappeared. I've been fighting by myself...but there hasn't been much of a fight, after the rest were captured, Xana just...disappeared. There are still a few attacks here and there, but nothing I couldn't handle with a little training."
"Weird...you'd think Xana would take the opportunity to launch a full scale invasion. No offense but you aren't exactly a threat Jer, especially by yourself."
We were both quiet for a second. It was awkward...I knew him...but I was just some kid who'd popped in with an impossible but true story.
"Uh, well, listen...you may be able to fight Xana single-handed, but I'm not that awesome so...I think we're gonna need a few more members to the new Lyoko team. I have a friend who'd be good for the part, but we'll need more than two. You know anyone?" Jeremie began to speak but I cut him off. "Never mind, I know most of the people in your dimension, I'll think about it and bring you back my ideas tomorrow."
"Uh...um...ok." He stammered.
"Great! Now...would it work if you devirtualized me or do I go find some monsters, or...?" I asked.
"No...I can handle it. I just have to improvise." Jeremie said. Over the intercom I could still hear him typing...and then I could feel myself begin to disintegrate..pixels peeled off my body, and then...I was falling out of the scanner...it wasn't cartooney...I was in the right place. I blacked out for a few minutes, having been completely drained by the process. A few minutes later I woke up and made my way back to my room.
I climbed in through the window...there was a noise from Ana's side of the room, but I hadn't seen her in so long that I didn't know if that was normal, or I'd woken her up. I looked at the time...1 am...I said I'd be back by midnight, but oh well. I flopped down on my bed and litterally fell asleep before my head hit the pillow.
Hope you loved it. I actually had people watch me write the last 2 pages or so of this, wheeeeeeeeeee also what do you guys want updated next (though I think I know the answer already) CL Rewind or Code Revenge? REVIEW o3o