As Aelita Yumi Odd and Ulrich were taking their breakfasts, chatting like always, Jeremy joined the group.
JEREMY - I have great news. I found a new replika. You go destroy it this evening.
YUMI - Good job, Jeremy.
JEREMY - Thanks.
As they were "listening" to Ms Hertz talking about electricity, aelita saw jeremy was a bit troubled.
AELITA - Are you alright Jeremy ?
JEREMY - Yeah, it's just, the replika I found, I have not been able to get its coordinates, despite the upgrades to the location program, it should be working now, I don't know why.
AELITA - Don't worry, we can take a look tomorrow together if you want.
JEREMY - Thanks Aelita, that would be great.
After the classes, the group met up at the factory. It was time to deal with that replika.
After a bit of navigation through the digital sea, Aelita opened the gate to the new replika. They were astonished.
Instead of a lyoko sector like they were used to, they found a kind of machine world. Everything is here looked like some kind of bot. The colors were very monotonous, even more than usual, with a lot of red and grey. They were able to locate a single tower in there.
AELITA - Seems like XANA is learning how to make new territories, be careful everyone.
As Aelita linked the tower to the skid, Jeremy informed them.
JEREMY - Aelita, Yumi, I'm translating you. Ulrich and Odd, you defend the skid.
ODD - Roger, Einstein.
AELITA - Understood, Jeremy.
After a few seconds the two girls disappeared from the skid and materialised in a large castle.
They looked around, and found a big computer, and a girl with large purple hair next to it. She seemed to be expecting them.
??? - Greetings, people. I am Entrapta, princess of Drill. This place is Drill, this is my lab. Who are you ?
AELITA - Jeremy, it's not good, it looks like we have been seen.
JEREMY - I don't have much info on my end, you'll need to deal with whatever is happening until I figure out where you are. I checked, but there is not a place named "Drill" on Earth. I'm checking for other languages.
YUMI - Good evening princess, my name is Yumi and my friend's is Aelita. You would not happen to know where we are. Like maybe a bit less precisely than Drill ? I've never heard of that place ?
ENTRAPTA - That's strange. Drill is supposedly fairly well-known around Etheria. But maybe you're not from Etheria, are you ? I have never seen anyone around looking like you, with this makeup around the eyes. Also your electromagnetic bodies are fascinating.
AELITA - Wait, we're in an other world ? Is that possible ? And how do you know that much ?
ENTRAPTA - That's not hard. I am the one who redirected the signal, otherwise you would have ended up in the middle of the fright zone, and trust me this place is dangerous, it is swarming with bots.
AELITA - That's where the supercomputer XANA infected must be.
ENTRAPTA - XANA ? Who is XANA ?
YUMI - XANA is a virus that is trying to infect more and more supercomputers to gain power, until he is unstoppable. We don't know exactly his intents, but he tried to kill many people several times, so it can't be good.
ENTRAPTA - So that's why the horde tech grew a lot stronger. Fascinating.
AELITA - We need to go there.
ENTRAPTA - My friends are already on their way, maybe you could join them ? In the meantime I could protect your ship and maybe study it a bit ?
JEREMY - I don't know where you are, maybe having more of you here could help. This girl clearly seems to know what she is doing, she redirected your translation flux in one try.
AELITA - OK, Entrapta, we're going to help your friends. Can you provide us with maps of the place ? It could really help us.
ENTRAPTA - Unfortunately I don't have those.
AELITA - OK, never mind. Also can you redirect two more people here ?
ENTRAPTA - There are more of you ? Fascinating. I'll do it.
JEREMY - Perfect, translation Ulrich, translation Odd.
A few seconds later, Ulrich and Odd appeared in front of the girls.
ENTRAPTA - Fascinating. How many of you are there ?
ULRICH - Whoa, please stay a bit further from me.
ENTRAPTA - Sorry...
ODD - Don't worry, it's just our Ulrich.
YUMI - Anyways, let's get going.
ENTRAPTA - I think I can redirect your electromagnetic forms to where my friends are, but I'll not be able to help you more after that. Apart from protecting your ship of course.
YUMI - That would be great. Thanks.
Princess Entrapta typed a few keys on her terminal, and the group disappeared, only to appear not far from a group of three travelers.
One of them was a small girl, wearing a pink dress and looked like she had glitter in her hair. An other one was a boy with a bow, and the last one was a tall girl with a sword.
The sparkling girl told them:
??? - Hello, my name is Glimmer, and they are Adora and Bow. Entrapta told us about you ? Who are you ?
AELITA - Hello, I'm Aelita, and my friends are Ulrich, Yumi and Odd. Nice to meet you.
GLIMMER - I love your hair.
AELITA - Thanks, I like yours too.
BOW - Well, I don't like being that person, but we have a mission, remember ?
ADORA - Yes. Just follow us, and be ready to act if things go sour, you should be able to take out a few bots, right ?
ODD - Yeah, no problem, we're the best.
ULRICH - Always humble, Odd...
YUMI - We should be able to hold our own in a fight.
ADORA - That's good to hear. Anyways, we try to fight the least we can, so that nobody knows we're here. We find the computer, and we connect it to Entrapta's so that she can hack it.
AELITA - Objection, we destroy it. We have already dealt with a lot of those, destroying it will be enough, and a lot less dangerous.
ADORA - As you want. Let's just get this over with.
The group of friends entered the fright zone. It looked almost identical to the virtual world they found. It used to be a lot more lively, but now only bots were here. The bots were spheric with a single red rectangle as an eye. And XANA's eye in the middle of it.
ADORA - Follow me, quick.
Unfortunately, a bot fired at her.
ULRICH - Careful.
Ulrich blocked the energy bolt with his saber.
ADORA - Thanks.
Bow started firing at the bots.
BOW - They already detected us ? That's impossible.
ADORA - Great, they must have updated their security system.
Glimmer and Aelita started sending pink energy balls at the bots.
YUMI - They seem to be all down. Let's hurry.
They finally arrive in front of a door.
ADORA - The computer should be behind this door, but I don't know how to open it. I think we can power through it, but it will take some time, can you deal with the bots ?
AELITA - I have a better idea.
Aelita came closer to the door and put her hands on it. After a bit, the doors opened.
ULRICH - Bots are coming, Aelita, take someone and deal with the computer, we deal with the bots in the meantime.
BOW - I'm going with her.
ADORA - Well, let's deal with those bots. FOR THE HONOR OF GREYSKULL.
At those words, adora turned into a magical warrior, even taller than she used to be, she now had a shining armor covering her partially and her hair was floating in the wind.
ADORA - Let's go.
ODD - Whoa, you can do that ? That's great.
As the five of them were fighting the bots that kept on coming, Aelita and Bow reached the supercomputer.
AELITA - OK, now we need to figure out how to take it down.
BOW - I have a trick arrow designed for it. It can store energy and release it on impact, it should be able to take down this computer easily, but I would need Glimmer to charge it.
AELITA - I can do it.
JEREMY - Once you destroy the computer I'm bringing you back quickly, are you ready ?
BOW - I hope you will consider joining the rebellion, we could really use warriors like you on our side.
AELITA - Unfortunately we will not be able to stay.
BOW - I'm sure Entrapta will find a way.
AELITA - If she does it will just allow XANA to come back. Also we do have our own fight already, I'm sorry.
BOW - I understand. Ready to charge the arrow ?
Aelita created a large energy field, and Bow planted his arrow into it. The arrow quickly charged up.
AELITA - Thanks for everything.
BOW - Thanks, you were a great help to us.
On the other side, the lyokowarriors heard about everything.
ULRICH - Seems like we will need to go.
GLIMMER - Wait. You need to help the rebellion.
YUMI - That's not going to be possible, sorry. Once the computer is destroyed we need to be out of here, but the bots should be down at this point.
ADORA - I guess that's a goodbye then. I was glad to fight alongside you.
ULRICH - Same. I hope we can see again an other time, perhaps in a friendlier context.
YUMI - Sorry, but we need to be going, bye.
After the supercomputer was destroyed, the four friends were translated back to the skid, and went back to lyoko, and to Earth.
They barely made it back to have time to eat, but Odd seemed down.
JEREMY - What's wrong, Odd ?
YUMI - He kind of had a crush on Adora. The big one.
AELITA - What big one ? You mean there were two Adoras ?
ULRICH - Kind of, we'll explain it someday, when Odd is a bit more ready.
