The Core

Chapter 1: New Room?

"Jeremy, it's a prison. Whoever is in there, is Xana's prisoner." Aelita explained further. "Which means Xana isn't going to let us take her quietly." We all turned when we heard the Creeper's call.

"I wish you had been wrong, Aelita." Yumi said taking out her fans.

"We'll handle the Creepers, Aelita you focus on getting whoever that is out." She nodded and went back to work as I turned back to our Creeper friends.

"Laser Arrow!" I shot one of my arrows at the Creepers and hit one dead on the mark. Yumi took out the second one before it could shoot me. "Thanks, Yumi." She grabbed her fan as it came back to her and smiled.

"Anytime, Odd."

"I got it." Aelita said, turning our attention back to the tower of light that was disappearing. A girl with white hair fell from the tower and landed on the ground unconscious.

"You have to get her to a way tower so she can regain her strength." Jeremy said. I rushed over and grabbed her. She was surprisingly very light even thought she was just dead weight. "Head to the Celestial Dome." We ran as fast as we could to the elevator and finally back out to the Celestial Dome. "I've programmed your vehicles, get going."

"You know Jeremy. A please would be nice, we are the ones doing all the hard work." I stated and got on overboard.

"I don't have time for your jokes, Odd. The north passage is open go." We headed towards the opening right as the Mantas hatched and started chasing us.

"We're going through the portal now, Jeremy." As we passed through the portal and back into the polar region I could feel the girl start to move in my arms. She opened her eyes slowly and I saw they were a light blue.

"Where am I?" She asked confused.

"Well princess, we're in Lyoko. But the real question is who are you and why are you here?" She closed her eyes passing out again.

"Odd, the way tower is on your left, get her inside." I nodded and headed inside the tower, setting her down gently. "She's regaining her life points that's good. She should wake up soon." I stood next to Aelita and Yumi as the girl sat up and rubbed her head lightly.

"This is a way tower." She said looking around.

"Yup, we brought you here after we found you in Sector 5." She backed away.

"Are you with Xana too?!" A sword appeared in her hand.

"No, we're from Earth." Aelita said taking a step towards her. The girl lowered her sword and dropped it as she saw Aelita.

"Aelita...?" Aelita looked at her shocked.

"You know who I am?" The girl nodded and took a step towards her.

"Don't you remember me?" Aelita shook her head confused.

"Of course, Xana... I'm sorry forget I said anything, but why did you find me in Sector 5?" She asked.

"We don't know exactly, a new room appeared in Sector 5 and you were trapped in a light tower. Xana made you his prisoner." Aelita explained. She shook her head backing away.

"But that's not possible... I never went to Sector 5... It's not possible... Wait, what year is it?" She asked suddenly.

"2010." Yumi said. She dropped to her knees.

"Are you sure?" I nodded at her.

"I've been stuck in that tower of light for ten years." We all looked at her shocked.

"How do you know that?" I asked.

"Because when I was a little girl, my father performed an experiment that virtualized me into Lyoko. I then went searching for something in Sector 5 and that was when I must have been captured and trapped in the tower of light. That was the year 2000. I was only 4, when I was virtualized into Lyoko." She explained and put her head into her hands.

"Jeremy, there must be something we can do for her." Yumi said trying to comfort the girl.

"I can try running Code Earth on her as well, but I'm not sure it's going to work or not. Plus how are we suppose to convince the school to let her in?" The girl looked up.

"My father, he wanted me to enroll at Kadic Academy, if that's the school you're talking about. I'm sure there won't be that many problems with enrolling myself in the Academy."

"Well that solves a lot of problems. Jeremy devirtualize us first." Aelita said as Jeremy began the program to devirtualize us.

Once I got out of the scanner I walked over to everyone else who was waiting for Jeremy to start Code Earth. We stood in front of the closed scanner as Jeremy started.

"Code Earth." As the program launched Jeremy came down to join us. When the scanner opened the girl was passed out on the floor of the scanner.

"You did it, Jeremy." Aelita said kissing his cheek, making him blush bright red.

"It was nothing really, she had a very similar genetic code to you, Aelita." It was strange, but this girl knew something about Lyoko that we didn't know about, I could feel it.

"We should take her somewhere else to rest, it can't possibly be easy coming back to the real world after being prisoner to Xana for ten years." Jeremy said as I picked her up and carried her to the elevator and finally outside of the factory.