[IC] Code Lyoko: XANA's Return

[gamer5910]

"Well this seems more interesting than school related things, so I guess I'm joining you." Flippy told Josive while watching him fiddle with an old worn out keypad. His gaze went over to what look something that an elevator would come up to "where's the elevator?" Flippy asked.

[Jollan]

Garsin made his way back to his room. The classes, today, were mostly meet-and-greet, rules, and regulations. When he made it back to the dorm, he had noticed it was awfully quiet. From the sound of it, it seemed as if nobody was in their room. When he opened the door to his room, he noticed the rest of his things were there, including his cello, which he was very happy to finally have in his room. It would seem like he still didn't have a roommate, and to be honest, he was actually starting to hope that he would, but he put that aside. He had his cello now so passing the time should be incredibly easier. He set the cello, still in its case, against the wall as he started organize all of his other things into his side of the room.

[RawrgnatheBloodfridge]

Arndt Schulz Arndt waved goodbye to Mike as he left, fully engrossed in his studies to give a proper goodbye. After finishing another worksheet, Arndt stood up from his bed to stretch. He let out a deep yawn, and from the window in his room, saw that the sun was declining. The drum set right in front of the window gleamed, and the French sky outside looked beautiful. Arndt was nearly in a trance before he noticed from the corner of his eye, a normal looking letter. It didn't seem to have a name anywhere on it, but it was slid into his backpack. A sarcastic voice in his head propped out, getting love letters on the first day, Arndt? Are we that popular yet? Something an old friend of his once said. Pulling it up, Arndt immediately noticed the strangely refined handwriting. Arndt looked for a name, but couldn't see any sort of signature on the parchment. He started to read the letter, Arndt thought maybe someone had accidentally mistaken him for someone else.

[Alternax]

"Thanks for not being suspicous." Jared mumbled silently to himself, looking down the elevator shaft Jareds' attention was suddenly draw to Josive as he pointed out something. Now looking over in his direction Jared saw the door and keypad as well. Briskly walking over to join him Jared noticed Josive pull out various tools and items. What didn't this guy bring? Jared asked himself as he walked up to the door as well and simply observed Josive and his items at work.

[Gambit]

Bella "Hmm," Bella hummed, somewhat annoyed. She couldn't tell what this kid's motivation was, or why he was so determined to follow them around. He was quite rude, hurling all those accusations at them. Bella supposed it didn't matter though, as long as they were able to make progress in their search. She was going back to search some more when Josive shouted that he found something. She hurried over to him, seeing a door that had been hidden in the shadows. The keypad was broken though. She watched as Josive started trying to repair the door. The tangled mess of wires seemed complicated, but he seemed to know what he was doing.

[Teknonick]

[Josive] I finished up my work on the key pad, and put the cover back on and set it the way it was before. I pulled my backpack open again and set my tools inside of it, as well as the other objects I had pulled out. I zipped up my pack, and slid it over my shoulders. "Alright, that should do it. Let's see where this takes us!" I said to everyone as they gathered around the door. I punched in the new key combination I had set the door to. Better not hit it too hard. I thought to myself after I had hit in the keys. The door beeped, and the light beside the door flashed green just before the door slid open. "Yes! Wasn't sure whether it would work or not. Anyway, here we go then." I said as I lead the way through the door. Eventually I wound up at some big machine room section. "Huh, this area seems like the perfect place to start looking for parts." I pulled off my backpack and set it on the ground. I pulled out my square robot and set it on the ground, then pushed a button on the top of it. A light flashed on, and an antenna shot out of the robot, springing back and forth as it turned on. "J.A.P.R. Scavenge mode." I commanded it. It beeped a small chime, then started off, immediately ramming itself into a wall before correcting itself. "Alright. We can let it do it's thing, and after about fifteen minutes or so it should return to this spot. As long as it doesn't get itself lost in this place. Let's see were the rest of this place leads to." I said, starting to lead the way again after gathering my backpack. I moved on until I reached another room, called "the boiler room". There wasn't very much going on in there, other than a few other side rooms. There was one doorway that lead down several floors, which I took. I followed it down, until eventually I reached the end. I found an access hatch, which lead into the elevator on the bottom floor. I entered into the elevator, and hit a button, which opened up the doors. "Wow. Why is this so high tech?" I asked myself. I walked through, and noticed this giant device, looking like an old computer tower. "Wow. What is this?" I asked myself. The giant computer-device had a bunch discs-drives sticking out of it, almost all of them actually. I walked up to one, and tried to pull it out, but it started sliding in. The others soon followed, all diving into the device as if they were scared of being touched as well. I stood back, not sure what I had done. "Uh... oops. Stand back, I'm not sure this will be good." I called out, stepping back myself. I almost dove into the elevator, but had to see what was happening. Once they all returned inside the computer-device, it started retracting underground, until it was gone. "Uh... I hope I didn't just do something bad." I shook myself. "Maybe we should get out of here now." I said to myself, ready to head back the way we came to gather up my robot.

[gamer5910]

Flippy had followed Josive and the others as they had walked through the many different rooms before reaching the elevator. Which lead them to a room with a big computer tower like thing, and which Flippy thought it was cool and was hoping to see what happened when Josive touched it. After hearing him wanting to leave and go back to his robot Flippy finally spoke up "oh come on this place is cool. What if we find another room just like this room? Maybe it could hold some cool secrets? Maybe it could even tell us what happened to the group of kids that went missing? Come on please tell me you aren't the least bit curious what else is down here."

[Teknonick]

[Josive] "I... I am curious. It's just... I'm not sure about this anymore. It seems dangerous now." I replied to the other kid. I looked around the room, and caught sight of a weird looking robot laying on the ground, damaged beyond repair. I walked over to it, and noticed it had a memory chip in it, so I reached for it and pulled it out, being shocked in the process. "Eek!" I called out as I flew backwards and hit the ground. "I didn't expect that." I sighed to myself, shaking my head and pulling myself to my feet. "See, dangerous. Though, I probably shouldn't have just done that." I sighed. "We can explore a little bit more... maybe." I finished, looking around to see if anyone else who may have followed would want to keep going, or leave.

[Gambit]

Bella "As long as we are careful, I think we should go further," Bella said, though she was also a bit nervous. "It feels like we are getting so close now to figuring this out." She stepped further into the room, giving the broken robot a wide berth, and walked up to the giant computer, wondering what it was for.

[Teknonick]

September 2nd, 7:14pm, Introduction Day. School's out! Only kids living off campus are allowed to leave. Students are allowed to get permission to leave campus by Jim, or the principal. (Not the RP rules... you can get kicked out of Kadic for breaking them, not the RP) [Josive] "Hmm... alright. I'd rather not stay too long. We've already spent a bit of time out here." I said afterwards. I added in an extra sigh, just to make sure I had my point made. "I'm not sure we'll find anything else though. And if we do, I'm not sure what we'd do with it." I shrugged, making my way to the elevator. I entered it, and examined the interior. I looked out the hatch we had climbed down through, noting the wires above us. "Anyone think this thing will run?" I asked everyone, worried about hitting the button. But, before I could even decide whether or not to hit the button, the hatch closed itself shut, and the doors to the elevator started closing fast! The elevator moved up two floors all on it's own, then came to a stop. "What the heck was that?" I asked anyone who managed to make it in the elevator. The doors opened up, to reveal another floor. There was this big 'bowl' in the center of the room, and tracks going around it. There was a computer display on the other side of the room, with a chair sitting in the tracks. "Wow. What the heck is this place? I think we might have found what we were looking for." I stated my own thoughts aloud. I walked into the room, not even thinking about the fact the elevator had moved on it's own anymore. I walked over towards the chair and computer, deciding to take a seat in it to look at the screen. I stared at a black monitor, not sure what to make of it. I looked down at the keyboard sitting in front of me, and decided to enter in a key combination to turn on the monitor... which worked. "Hey look, it worked! Where's the computer tower?" I said, looking around for it. All of a sudden, a giant hologram filled the 'bowl' in the center of the room, showing what looked to be like a floating forest. "What the- wow! I think we've definitelyfound what we've been looking for." I commented, looking back at the screen now. "Oh hey, they have a picture set!" I called out, pointing at the girl with pink hair with her eyes closed.Wait... she looks familiar... who is she?

[gamer5910]

Flippy was following Josive after he said they should leave he wasn't thrilled but Josive did make a point. On the elevator he saw Josive talking about how safe it could be to press the button, and Flippy was about to just hit it if it wasn't for the doors all of a sudden closing and them going up. Flippy was not thrilled about that as well. He was staring down at his feet but looked up at Josive who was staring at some computer picture. Flippy slowly walked over to the screen and noticed something about the picture "Hey that's one of the missing students!" Flippy exclaimed at Josive who must have been trying to figure out who it was.

[Gambit]

Bella "Yikes!" Bella yelped when the elevator doors slammed shut. She had just stepped in after Flippy before they closed. She froze as it started moving of its own accord. Then it stopped on another floor and opened. This is really creepy, she thought. Maybe staying wasn't such a good idea. She walked out into the new room, noting the strange architecture. "Oh," she gasped when the hologram flared to life. A huge forest grew in midair in the center of the room. She had never seen a hologram that was so detailed before. It was magnificent, she thought. But she tore her eyes away from the hologram to go see what the boys were doing on the computer, hearing them start talking about the missing kids. "There's a picture of that girl left behind in my room," she said, shocked to see the image on the computer monitor. "What could she and those kids have been doing in here?" she wondered out loud. This whole place was so bizarre. There was so much high-tech equipment that it looked just like a scene from one of her brother's sci-fi movies.

[Teknonick]

[Josive] "Wow, oh, right. Thanks Flippy, I didn't remember for a moment." I replied after he reminded me. Bella then said that was the girl in the picture left in her room. I looked at the headset, and started to put it on to see if it could do anything. "Oh, really? I think this one's Aelita. I wonder if they built all of this as part of their hideout. It must have taken years to learn how to do this though! How smart are they?" I pondered. Then, after I said her name, the eyes of the girl on the screen opened up, as if she heard us. "Oh, wow! I think it's interactive. Like, maybe a speak and response program." I said. "What? Speak, and what now?" she said as she spoke, looking around and eyeing each of us. "Oh. Maybe it's a video chat instead." I shrugged my original idea. "Where are you? You're one of the kids that went missing a few months ago. And what is all this place we're at here?" I asked her a few questions, trying to get answers. "I'm sorry, who? Missing?" she said, grabbing her head and shaking it as she thought a little bit. She turned her head, and looked around the area she was in... which we couldn't see. "Where am I? I'm... in this sort of white room... I... I don't know where this is." she said, starting to let panic set in. "You don't know where you are? Can you look around for a sign or something." I asked her. She nodded, and the screen flashed away. A new screen popped up in her place, a map of some sorts, showing similar details to that of the forest hologram in the middle of the room. "Wow. What have we walked into here?" I asked myself aloud... not expecting the other's to be standing so close. I saw a light appear on the map, coming out of some object and slowly entering into the forest. The picture of the girl came back up, and she was looking around. "I... I think I'm in some forest. It doesn't feel right though. I can't feel the wind, or smell anything. And... I just came out of this tower, after walking through the walls!" she said as she looked around. "Wait... I think I see something up ahead...." she then stared off at something we couldn't see. Her picture went away, and the map grew larger, showing more area. It now showed two red dots coming from a pathway, heading straight for the white dot and the tower. "Hey, I see something on the map. There's two red dots now." I said, pointing them out to the other two so they could see it in case they missed it. "They're firing at me!" the girl yelled suddenly. The white dot then flung itself into the tower, disappearing off screen. "Hey! Are you okay? Firing at you? Who's firing at you?" I asked. "These... little... red monsters... I don't know! They had this symbol on them. And they were tiny! They shot... these red lasers at me... one hit me, and my side started to become transparent or a moment!" she explained what had happened. My eyes opened wide. I couldn't comprehend what was happening... Monsters, lasers... what!? "And... there was this symbol on them too... I remember it. I think, I think I remember seeing it back at school. Back at Kadic. In my room... I had something under my bed with the symbol on it...." she said suddenly.

[Gambit]

Bella Oh, it's a video! Bella thought when the picture stared talking. No not a video, an actual person, one of the missing kids! She seemed so confused though. She didn't have a clue what was going on. Soon the girl, Aelita, started getting more frantic, saying something about walking through walls. Bella watched with baited-breath as two red dots started going towards the white dot that must be the girl. She yelled that they were attacking her, but luckily it sounded like she got away a moment later. It didn't make any sense though. There was no such thing as monsters, right? Something was really, really wrong here. "What symbol?" she asked the girl. "Your room... 335 right?" Bella glanced at the other two. "I could go and find it. If I run I can get there and back real fast now that I know the way. Maybe it can help her," she said, looking back towards the elevator. This is crazy, she thought. They actually managed to make contact with one of the missing kids! Now they just had to figure out how to find her.

[gamer5910]

Flippy was astonished by what they found. It was just amazing they actually found one of the missing students we'll sort of. While Bella suggested that she could go back Flippy just left Josive to answer that while he looked around the room some more. While walking he ended up tripping over something poking out of the floor. It was a handle, so he got back up and trapped the handle and pulled revealing yet another room. "Hey I found another room I'm gonna go check it out." He said to the other two. Flippy then climbed down some ladder and once he was on the ground he found three huge chamber like things. "Hey guys I found some chamber looking things down here what do I do now there all open!" He yelled back up.

[Alternax]

Jared was quietly following the others as they dove deeper into the 'abandoned' warehouse. Soon the group had encountered what seemed like a recorded message, but after a few moments they realized it was Aelita, one of the missing kids. This surprised Jared but he continued listening, the girl apparently didn't know she was missing, not where she was. As Aelite continued speaking she began to raise more questions in Jared's mind, such as walking through walls, senseless environments, and laser shooting monsters. "She's being shot at? What can we do over here?" Jared asked as he began to move himself into a better position to view the map, still unsure of the entire scenario but every bit helps. After hearing someone shouting Jared found the ladder he used, climbing down after him Jared saw what he did. Three chambers, big enough to hold someone, and a light inside illuminating it. "They look big enough to hold us. But what do you guys think they do?"

[Teknonick]

[Josive] "You can take the sewers to get their faster I bet. I remember from the video he said he used them to get here faster." I told Bella. "What is she looking for?" I then asked the Aelita. "It's... called the Eye of Lyoko..." she said. "It's this dot, with two circles around it, and a line above it, and three lines below it.... I think your'll recognize it. I think it's on a piece of paper. I... don't know what the paper says though." she said, looking around the room she was in. "The monsters haven't gotten me yet. Where are they?" she asked. I pulled up the map, and noticed the three were still hanging around outside the tower. They weren't moving towards it, or moving very much. "They're still there, but they're not doing anything. Can you describe them more?" I said to her. "Um... not really. There like this little hermit crab things... that's it. Oh! And they have the symbols!" she said. "Yes, you told us about the symbol already." I replied back to her. I noticed the two other kids already disappeared down below, after finding a hatch. They started yelling something, and were talking back and forth, but I couldn't hear them because they were so far away. I don't know the systems at all, so I had no idea there was a camera and mic down there that I could use. I stood up and walked over towards the hatch, and cuffed my hands over my mouth. "What!? I can't here you down there. The sound doesn't travel very well!" I yelled down before walking over towards Bella. "I'll let them know where you went. Hurry back!" I said to her before sitting down in the chair. "Oh! And grab my laptop and the cd's I found in my room while you're there! They might help!" I called out to her, hoping she would hear me before she disappeared.

[Gambit]

Bella "Alright, sounds good," Bella said, turning back the way they came. "I'll be back as soon as I can!" she called, sprinting towards the way out, trying to memorize how Aelita described the symbol.

[Jollan]

Garsin was lumbering his way down the hallway of the dorm to go to the cafeteria for dinner. Unfortunately right as he turned the corner- WHAM! He walked straight into Bella as she was running back to her room. Knocked backward a step, he was worried for the other person who he thinks heard hit the floor. "O-Oh my! I'm so sorry! Are you hurt? I didn't mean to-... Are you okay?" The giant asked whoever the the person was that run into him.

[Gambit]

Bella Outside the factory, Bella hurried through the entrance to the sewers. She climbed down to a long tunnel, which was thankfully empty. Bella supposed that it must just be for the water from the storm drains that were on the sides of the roads. About to take off running, she noticed a skateboard lying on the ground. That's how the kids traveled down here, she thought, grabbing the skateboard. For the first time in her life she was actually glad that her brother had insisted on her learning how to ride one. After a few turns she arrived at where the tunnel to the school should be. She left the skateboard and quickly scaled the ladder and opened up the manhole cover. It took a few minutes for her eyes to adjust to the bright afternoon light. Once she could see she saw a familiar-looking building in front of her. The gym! She quickly scurried out of the hole, replacing the cover. Thankfully she thought no one noticed her, most of the students were inside already, probably having dinner, she thought, remembering she hadn't eaten since before noon. There was no time to think about that now though. She dashed across the school grounds to get to the dormitory. Almost there, she thought once she got in. She ran down the hallway and turned the corner to the stairs when- "Whoah!" She yelped as she slammed into someone. She lost her balance and fell to the ground, sliding a few feet from her momentum. "Ow..." she groaned quietly. She hurried back onto her feet though, she couldn't let this slow her down. She looked up to see this really really tall kid towering over her. "Oh, that's okay. I'm fine," she replied to his hasty apology. "It was my fault. You're okay too right?" she asked, trying to catch her breath. "Oh no, I need to hurry before it's too late," she said when she saw the time on the clock on the wall. "I'll catch you later!" Bella called, continuing down the hallway at a fast pace.