Mya the Fox Mechanic
Note: Sorry if anything is out of cannon or if anyone's majorly out of character, but I think I can manage to keep them in character enough. Enjoy, read, and please please please review!
Chapter 1 – New Comrade
"Before we begin," Mrs. Hertz said, "I'd like to introduce Mya, she's new to Kadic and will be your new classmate. Now, I want everyone to look after her. Odd, since you're so eager to talk, how about Mya sits next to you?"
Odd was caught off guard by this, but smiled politely all the same, covering up his embarrassment. He hated it when Mrs. Hertz caught him talking to Ulrich and Jeremie.
"Now, everyone, get into partners." Mrs. Hertz said sternly, "And no talking."
Sissi saw an opportunity to have a new friend who could help her get Ulrich to like her.
"Here, Mya, you can be my partner." Sissi said, with a friendly smile that was quite obviously forced.
"Um, ok." Mya said shyly, not wanting to sound rude by saying no to this confident and bossy girl. She felt a hand rest gently on her wrist, and she turned to see Odd smiling at her.
"Sorry, Sissi, Mya's with me." Odd said, his smile widening as Sissi glared at him. He turned his attention to his new lab partner, "Hi, I'm Odd."
Odd and Mya got along quite well, and Mya spent most of the lesson laughing at Odd's jokes and general mucking about, much to the annoyance of Mrs. Hertz. And that's how Mya came to be sitting with Odd, Yumi, Jeremie, Ulrich and Aelita at lunch that day.
"Sorry I wasn't in class today, I felt sick." Aelita smiled politely, but she didn't seem to be telling the whole truth.
"Don't worry if you don't want to eat much," Ulrich changed the subject, grinning, "Odd'll finish it for you. He eats the same as an elephant."
"Do not." Odd said through a mouthful of mashed potato, and everyone started laughing. But there was a sudden beep from Jeremy's bag.
"Uh oh." Jeremie said, "Uh, sorry, Mya, we're going to have to go, we have something really important we need to do."
"We'll catch you later, ok?" Yumi said, smiling as she followed Jeremy, Odd and Ulrich out of the lunch room.
Mya waited five seconds, then hurried after them as discreetly as possible.
"Great work, everyone." Jeremie said with triumph, "We got Xana just before he had time to do anything. Saves us a return trip to the past. And with the data Aelita managed to get from sector 5 earlier, we're well on the way to getting the anti-virus." Suddenly, Jeremy turned. He thought he'd heard the lift, but he must have imagined it. Everyone was virtualised in Lyoko, so nobody could be in the lift.
A few minutes later, Odd, Aelita, Yumi and Ulrich entered from the lift, all smiling at Jeremie and cheering. But Ulrich's smile suddenly faded, "Damn, I think I dropped my phone when I got out of the scanner."
"I'll help you find it." Aelita volunteered with her polite smile, "We'll find it faster if there's more than one of us."
"We'll wait up here." Jeremie said, "If Xana attacks again, it'll be easier if we're all already here."
As they got nearer to the room with the scanners, Ulrich and Aelita thought they could hear something. A pencil, like someone was sketching something. Someone must've been down there.
Their suspicions were confirmed as they noticed Mya sitting by one of the scanners, drawing. She turned, saw Ulrich and Aelita staring at her, and realized she had nothing to hide behind except a nervous smile. "Uh, hi Ulrich, Aelita." She said, clearly hoping they would forgive her.
"What're you doing down here?" Ulrich said, his fists clenched in anger.
"Well, I, uh…" Mya trailed off, unable to think of a valid excuse.
Ulrich couldn't hold the anger in anymore. He grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and slammed her against the wall so her face was level with his (she was an inch or two shorter than him). "Admit it!" He yelled, "You're a spectre working for Xana!"
"I don't even know what this Xana thing is." She said, her brown eyes full of fear, "Or how I could be a spectre."
"Mya?" Came Odd's voice from behind Ulrich, "What're you doing down here?"
"She's a spectre sent by Xana." Ulrich said through gritted teeth, "She must've been tampering with the wires of the scanners or something. I can't believe it. I actually liked you. I thought you were nice. But I guess it was just an act to get us to trust you."
"I'm not." She said, her voice matching her fear-filled eyes, "I don't know what Xana is."
"You would say that." Ulrich glared at her, "Now tell the truth!"
"Woah, chill, Ulrich." Odd said, pulling Ulrich's hands slowly off Mya, "I think she's telling the truth."
"So what were you doing down here?" Yumi asked, just casually out of interest.
"I was making blueprints of these –scanners, did you call them?- since I noticed that you could use an extra one or two. I'm a dab hand with mechanics, so I thought that I could offer to build you a couple of new scanners to save time." Mya explained, silently thanking Odd for intervening, "And in return, you could let me come with you to Lyoko or whatever it's called. I heard you talking about it, Jeremie, it sounds like a really cool place."
"I'm not so sure." Jeremie said, "I mean, Lyoko is pretty dangerous, what with Xana activating towers and all, and all the monsters. You'd have to be ready to fight."
"I don't mind fighting." Mya smiled, "I'll pull my weight, I promise. Pleeeeeease, Jeremie?"
Jeremie thought for a moment, and then said, "Alright. But first, I'll have to scan you and set up the virtualisation programme for you. And you have to promise not to tell anyone else about Lyoko or Xana or anything else to do with this."
"Yes!" She grinned, jumping around like someone who'd had too much sugar, "Oh, thank you, Jeremie, I won't tell a soul!"