Stairway to Heaven

"It's to the right, north by northwest. Not too far. Hurry!"
"Easy for you to say, Einstien, you're not running around down here!"
"You have the overboard, Odd, so neither are you!"
"Oh, BURN!"
A gall of laughter came from the computer speakers, and Jeremie smiled. "I"m glad you're amused, guys." The he gulped, looking harder at the screen. "Cause you got some company!"
Odd whooped, having forgoten about being disgraced a few moments ago, and put a burst of speed onto his board. Yumi and Ulrich followed on their own vehicles, as Aelita flew ahead of them with her shinning wings. She stopped and looked down at the three crabs that blocked their path to the tower.
"Did any body bring tarter sauce?" Yumi asked drlyly as she unfured her fans. Ulrich snorted.
"Yeah, and butter. A regualar sea food plater."
Odd fired his first arrow, then dived as the crab shot back, missing the arrow by inches. "Can we eat, then?" The cat boy called back, as one of the crabs suddenly became covered with pink sparks, and exploded. He mock-glared up at the pink blur that was Aelita. "That was MY crab, Princess!!"
Aelita simply laughed, and shot foward, faster than the other warriors could follow.  Instead of watching, Yumi and Ulrich stood back-to-back, fending off crab lazers with super-human speed.
"AH!"
"Ulrich!"
Yumi ran foward to her friend, who clutched a spot on his chest that was sparking with blue lightening. It faded slowly, and he smiled at Yumi. "I'm fine, it's only the first hit of the day." Yumi nodded, then without even looking, threw one of her fans. It hit the crab behind her square on the shell, and the thing exploded in a shower of sparks.
"Way to go!"
Odd flipped in the air, shooting as he went. One of the lazers hit the last crab right in the XANA-symbol, and it was devirtualzed instanly. The cat boy landed next to Ulrich, his tail twitching with the high of the fight.
"You good?" he asked his roommate, and Ulrich gently punched his best friend.
"As if that little shot coulda hurt me," he joked.
Yumi smiled as she boarded her overwing again. "You're not invinsiable," she reminded him, and Ulrich met her eyes.
"I know."
Odd looked back and forth between them as the staring-contest held, then sighed.
"Ok, you two, we have a tower to deactivate!"
At that, Ulrich and Yumi looked away from each other, and a few moments later, zoomed off in the direction that Aelita flew. They could still see the light of her wings shinning in the freezing air of the polar region.  
**
Jeremie whisled softly. That was a clean fight. He sighed, leaning back in his chair. It was good they had moved so quickly. So far, XANA hadn't been able to reach earth. He watched as his friends moved to the tower, then Aelita went in.
Suddenly, Jeremie felt cold. He shivered violently.
Then he shouted out as suddenly everything went dark.
***
"Jeremie?!" Aelita cried, hearing his voice call out in what sounded like fear.
No answer.
She looked around the tower. She had just deactivated it. Everything seemed normal.  She frowned, then fell gracefully too the floor of the tower, and walked out.
She gasped and a familair voice came from what sounded like under her.
"Toto, we're not in Lyoko in more."
**
Stairs. A room of stairs. She was standing on platform, looking out over the strangest sight she had ever seen in her life.
And that was saying something.
"Yumi? Ulirch? Odd? Jeremie?!"
"Yo!"
"Aelita!"
Aelita whirled, about, hearing her friend's voices. She saw no one.
"Over here!" Aelita looked, and saw Yumi climb up a flight of stairs, trying to get nearer. She waved, and Aelita waved back.
"Is this a trap of XANA's?"
"I don't think XANA's studyed M.C Esher," came Odd's voice from under Aelita's feet. She gasped, and looked straight down. There was Odd, sitting apparently upsidedown on another set of stairs on the flip side of the set Aelita was on.
"M.C. who?" Ulrich asked, and Aelita looked. There was he was, sitting on what looked like bench that jutted out from the wall. He stood, and as Aelita stared, walked down the wall toward Yumi, but couldn't seem to find the right stairwell.
"M.C. Esher," she called, answering his question. She and Odd had taken the same art class. "A surreal artist who's works of art were mostly optical illiusions. This looks like one, without the figures. 'Relitivity', I think it's called."
"And I don't think XANA really cares about art," came a dry voice from behind her. Aelita spun, and gasped.
"JEREMIE?!"
There he stood, dressed in his favorite outfit of blue-turtleneck sweater and capris. He smiled at her.
"The one and only."
"That's MY line!" Odd shouted indignetly from below. Aelita ignorned him. Jeremie was looking at her with an awed look on his face. Aelita blushed, realizing that he had never seen her in her Lyoko form before. Especially her new one.
"Aelita...You look...." his cheeks went pink. Here was another strange thing, Aelita realized. In Lyoko, no one could blush. Jeremie's face went red, and he looked at his feet.
"I wonder how...we got here."
"Yeah, what happened, Jer'?" Ulrich called, still looking for a stairway to reach Yumi by.
Jeremie shrugged. "I just...felt...cold, and then I blacked out, and woke up here, standing in this place."
"And I"m disapointed," Yumi said, placing her hands on her hips and trying to look up at Jeremie. "Why didn't you appear in your Lyoko form? Me n' Aelita never got to see you!"
Jeremie flushed darkling as Odd and Ulrich sniggered. "You don't want to."
Aelita moved closer to him, and took his hand. She almost dropped it when she felt warmth under her fingers. She had no touch in Lyoko. Yet....She blushed as she looked up at Jeremie. "I do," she told him softly, and smiled. "We'll get you to come down and at least WATCH a fight, sooner or later." She winked at him. "You better believe it."
This time, all three of the other Lyoko warriors sniggered as Jeremie went purple and Aelita turned so pink, her cheeks almost matched her hair.
"Alright, enough of this!" Ulrich said, in a loud, deep voice that made them think of their gym teacher, Jim. (hehehe) He reverted back into his normal voice when Odd snorted and the girls both giggled. "We should try to make some sort of sence of this place."
"Good luck," Odd called back. "I"m broke."
Ulrich gave his roommate a scathing look. "Ha ha. You know what I mean."
"Sir, yes sir!" shouted Odd, Aelita, Yumi and Jeremie, all standing up straight and saulting Ulrich as if they were in the army.  Ulrich rolled his eyes, and opened his mouth to continue-
A flash of pure white light lit the room, blinding them. They cried out in surpirse, Aelita falling backwards and landing against something soft and warm. She could hear the other's shouting. Slowly, the light faded, and Aelita found herself pressed up against Jeremie, holding onto him for dear life as he held her. They both blushed furiously, then tried to move apart before the others saw.
That's when Aelita screamed.