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Code Lyoko: Mystery Girl -- p1

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Code Lyoko: Mystery Girl

Written by Orelia Muldova and Byron Hertz

Part One: The Ghost Tower

The sky of Lyoko’s forest sector was the same changeless blue without clouds or even a sun for light. The enormous virtual trees rose up through the floating stretches of land above the endless digital sea and through the thick growth. Odd, Ulrich and Aelita sped in hot pursuit of XANA’s monsters.

“Any news on that weird mystery tower, Jeremie?”

His voice came from the relative safety of the real world. “I can’t seem to localize it. It’s so frustrating. It’s a tower that both is and isn’t on Lyoko at the same time. I can’t explain it any better than that.”

“Coordinates Jeremie,” Ulrich demanded.

“Oh, right…” He paused. “Thirty six, or… uh, thirty eight, by fifteen, no seventeen… Ah! It keeps changing!’

“Got it Einstein,” Odd interrupted, “somewhere nearby’ would’ve worked.”

However Aelita, on the overboard, looked concerned, “I don’t like this. XANA’s monsters are all converging on the very same spot, but they don’t seem at all interested in us. It makes me nervous.”

“Whoa!” Odd dodged a branch on a low tree.

Ulrich chuckled. “Odd leading the way… that’s enough to make me nervous.”

“Are you kidding, I can smell trouble a mile away.”

“You sure that’s not your feet?”

“I’m serious you two!” Aelita’s reprimand silenced them. “This activated tower…something about it feels…wrong.”

And then through the trees came the boom of a laser blast. “You guys, I’m detecting quite a collection of monsters ahead.” Jeremie warned.

“Well, I guess we’re about to find out.”

The trees parted into a narrow clearing where, bordered by a Stonehenge of misplaced boulders, a horde of blocks and three mega tanks guarded the region. A small plateau rose in the center with steps hewn into the stone and, perched atop it, was just what Jeremie described: A tower that seemed out of phase with the rest of Lyoko. It was semi transparent and seemed to flicker in and out of existence with a strange black mist rising out of the ground around it. It was as if Lyoko itself didn’t want it there and XANA’s monsters had the same idea. They pummeled it in sync with laser blasts, rocking the tower on its unsteady foundation.

“Do you see what I see?” Odd spouted.

“How about you guys fill me in,” Jeremie begged, “my scans aren’t making much sense on this end.”

“It’s an activated tower all right,” Aelita reported, “But I don’t think it’s XANA’s doing. The glow around it isn’t red. It’s more of a dark blue, black-ish. I think somebody else activated this one… Jeremie, it’s almost as if Lyoko is trying to isolate it… And XANA’s…helping.”

“Helping? I really don’t think XANA helping can be a good thing. Hold on a second,” There was a pause while Jeremie typed. “Aelita, that tower’s source code is coming from the network. Someone on the network is modifying Lyoko in real time.”

“But who would…” Odd started.

“Franz Hopper.” Ulrich guessed.

“Dad,” Aelita seconded.

And Jeremie nodded. “Exactly… Lyoko thinks the tower is a virus – it’s trying to get rid of it – and XANA’s not helping matters. You have to stop those monsters! Whatever’s in that tower must be awfully valuable.”

“Then I say we find out just what it is.” Ulrich crouched and drew his swords. “Super sprint!” In a flash he flew across the plain, but one of the blocks soon guessed his plan and unleashed a salvo of laser blasts. He dodged one, side stepped out of the way of another, then bounded from tree to tree and launched himself upon his foe like a human missile. “Impact.” He drove his sword into the block and somersaulted off, spinning in the air with bolt of his blades drawn, he dove upon the nearest mega-tank and plunged both sabers into its eye. “Impact!” Both the block and the mega tank exploded in an instant.

XANA’s monsters now devoted their full attention to these invaders. Odd found himself rounded by five blocks. He smirked in a nonchalant fashion, “Let me introduce you to my new trick,” and he called, “Jeremie, you ready?”

“You’ve got five hundred arrows in reserve, Odd. Try not to make Ulrich too jealous.”

Odd chuckled and rose his arms. “Laser arrow… Rapid fire!”

A stream of tiny arrowheads erupted from his hands and rained down on the nearest blocks, which exploded instantly, but their comrades pelted him with laser blasts in retaliation, scoring two hits. Odd jumped atop the closest block, with its two allies to his left and right. Acting without forethought these two sprayed laser bolts at him destroying their compatriot instead. Before the fatal blow, Odd thrust himself upward and shouted once more, “Rapid fire!” A wall of laser arrows flew from his fingertips and the last two blocks vanished in one brilliant blast.

Dodging fire left and right, Aelita wound her way from one tree to the next. The tower was in sight, but her path was blocked by the massive bulk of a mega-tank. She stopped in her tracks as it charged its enormous weapon and fired. A luminescent disc of red laser-light burst forth, traveling along the ground. She screamed, but when the dust had settled, Aelita was nowhere to be seen. The tank wheeled left and right in search. There was a faint “tap, tap, tap” and the tank spun about to confront Aelita behind it. She offered a polite “Hello,” then blasted it with an energy sphere.

Ulrich dismantled another four blocks before he met head to head with the final mega-tank, “XANA must really want this tower gone!”

“All the more reason to save it,” Jeremie insisted.

With a grunt Ulrich shouted, “Triangulate!” and two clones of himself rounded the tank in a blur of yellow, but to his dismay the tank flipped on its side. It loose a massive ring of destruction that spread out in all directions too quickly for him to dodge. With a scream of anguish he and his doubles vanished and the tank turned its sights on a new target.

“Aelita! Get to the tower,” Odd yelled and he showered his foe desperately with laser arrows, but soon found himself in short supply.

“Jeremie, reload.”

“I’m on it!”

Odd dodged a laser blast intended for him, while Aelita sprinted to the tower which continued to vanish and reappear at random. With closed eyes, she stretched out her arms and stepped forward. Rather than entering the tower she seemed to step through it as if it weren’t even there.

She gasped, “Jeremie, I’ve got a small problem!’

“Yeah, I see that. The tower is almost completely out of phase with Lyoko now, but I think we can still make this work. Cross your fingers, okay? I’m going to try to take you out of phase as well.”

“Out of phase!” Aelita trembled. “Just what does that mean exactly?”

“Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing.”

She gasped as her hands and legs faded before her eyes, becoming transparent as was the tower. “Jeremie,” she stammered, “I don’t like this!”

“Hold on just a little bit longer, I’m changing the access points for your data on the network.”

Angrily she replied, “That does not inspire confidence, Jeremie!”

Then, in only a moment he said, “Okay, you’re good to go. Try it now.”

“Hurry Aelita!” Odd screamed, fending off the mega-tank.

She held her breath, closed her eyes and stepped forward and when next Aelita opened them, she was inside the tower. She gasped, how strange. The place was lit by a faint red glow. It was shockingly larger inside than it appeared from the outside. In here the walls seemed solid, though with every passing second, the tower was being torn from its foundation on Lyoko. She would go with it, lost forever, if she did not hurry.

She stepped cautiously into the dark recesses of the place thinking, just what is it that I’m really looking for? This tower was nothing like those she’d seem before. Completely unfamiliar, just a cylinder of black walls stretching upward to infinity, and spanning far onto a misty plain of empty space. Everywhere there was a thick fog of luminescent red mist that limited her sight to a few meters in front of her. Apprehensively, she ran through the mists for what seemed like hours, until she came to the opposite wall. “There’s nothing here!” She screamed in a panic.

“Jeremie?” It was no use, Jeremie could not hear her in here.

Aelita ran back through the haze, eagerly searching for the way out and, looking left and right ran headlong into an obstacle in her path. “Owwwww!” She fell to the ground and looking up, rubbing her head, saw before her an enormous globe of glistening, clear gemstone. She rose and ran her hand across the sphere.  What is this? She wondered. Peering deep into the stone she squinted and saw a face which she first mistook for her own reflection. No, there was a young girl trapped within. She was clad in a flowing purple robe, covered with white stars and half moons, and white tunic over that. Her arms and legs were wrapped with dark purple gauze, and her short black hair was streaked with bands of pink. Her eyes were closed as if in a deep sleep. Aelita guessed her age between ten and thirteen.

“Who are you?” Aelita asked the silent prisoner.

A great tremor shook the tower spilling Aelita again, “Have to get out,” she stated the obvious.

Hearing her plea, an access screen appeared before her and, confusedly, she laid her palm upon it. Her own name appeared followed by the familiar confirmation: CODE LYOKO.

The diamond globe lit with a brilliant light and Aelita shielded her eyes. The crystal melted away like ice and, there, lying inert upon the ground was the young child. Aelita ran to her aid and cradled her in her outstretched arms. “Please wake up. You have to wake up.”

Another tremor shook the tower an a large crack spread up the opposite wall. Aelita gasped and shook the youngster, “Wake up! wake up! wake up!”

The child’s eyes fluttered and shot open. She whispered, “Aelita? Aelita, I knew you’d come for me, I just knew it! Did dad send you?”

“Dad?” she questioned, “Wait, how do you know my name?”

“How do I know your name?” She repeated, “Aelita, don’t be silly.”

“Who are you?” Aelita demanded.

“It’s me, Mina.”

“Mina?” Aelita questioned.

“Mina Hopper, your little sister.”



:) Part 2: Code Earth...again? coming in DECEMBER  :)
Part one of our fan fiction story: Aelita makes an awkward discovery in the GHOST TOWER
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I love this fan-fic!!! Actually, I'm writing one too, except with a different concept. Hey, Odd needs a girlfriend too!