Beyond the home

Chapter 10: Stuck in Limbo

Sweetie was fidgeting with the device she knew she left back home, but she found it when she took it from Chase. Which was strange...how did Chase even know how to operate it?

"Jarvis?" "Yes, Sweetie?" The program responded. She was alone at the ship since Timur went back to his house in order to talk with Porsha.

"How much time till the posters are ready?" "An hour," Jarvis replied. She nodded and looked at the map.

But, she noticed two dots abruptly disappearing.

Right on top of Slovakia.

"Timur?" She said, but the call began crackling. "Where did he go?"

"He disappeared at his family house. Beginning search." The program responded, making Sweetie believe it was smarter than her.

Where could he go? Sweetie thought.

"The proxy used for traveling through the multiverse was disconnected," Jarvis explained. "Trying to re-establish the connection." 

Proxy? "Define." "We use a proxy to travel through the multiverse, which is digitally stored on the world's supercomputers." Jarvis began explaining. "Meaning it's impossible to get rid of, but also it's able to find anything anywhere."

"So where's this proxy located?" Sweetie asked, the map suddenly changing, displaying some form of the world, divided into four sections and a sphere in the middle. "What is it?"

"Lyoko, digital world running inside a supercomputer," Jarvis explained. "By gathering data I found out that the proxy is disconnected from each other, making it impossible to go through it."

"Get me to that...Lyoko." "You would need to virtualize yourself in a scanner," Jarvis said, and suddenly, a path of light showed up on the floor. "Follow the light to the scanner."

Sweetie ran along the light, stopping when she stepped across a tube with doors, and cables everywhere. She stepped inside, her suit covering her. 

"Virtualization in 3 seconds." She heard before the door closed and she was being teleported to the digital world...

"Ouch!" She yelped in pain, falling from the sky. She looked around, seeing she was on a platform. Lifting her paws up, she saw it was all digital. She was digital. 

Cool. "Jarvis? Where's this proxy?" She asked, a map appearing on her visor.

"Through the Digital Sea." The program replied. "Before going in, turn on the shields on your suit."

Sweetie jumped into the Digital Sea, turning on her shields before. Soon, she found herself exiting it through some kind of tube, appearing inside an ocean. 

"Now follow the direction." She turned on her thrusters, moving them to the back, so they would act as a propeller. 

She looked around the water she was going through, admiring it all. It looked like a city, but upside down. There were holograms on some of the "buildings" displaying random characters.

Soon, she appeared in front of another tube, almost exactly like she got out. She thought that coming closer to it would open it, but no.

"Hmm." Sweetie thought, before enabling something on her tag that she uses to capture data from systems. The beam connected to the tube, and soon it opened. She went through it, and got out of the sea, appearing on a place with ice platforms. 

This looks so real. Aelita said, flying over the platform. Soon, she spotted two black spheres, glowing in all kinds of colors, but red was the most frequent one.