Now before I get lynched by my normal fans, I just want to say that I'm sorry but I got a sudden craving to do this badly! I'm not sure if this is going to turn into a full multichapter story or a one page wonder as I write this, but I do know that it is going to be a story I will write out of my own desire to see it's potential. If I get enough reviews I'll continue it, if not, oh well it was a good idea. This story takes place a year or so after the fourth season. And yes, there is a new Lyoko Warrior.
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko nor Garage Kids or any of the affiliated characters. I do not write these for financial gain, they are simply made out of fun, and I hope that if somebody who makes the show ever sees this that they feel proud. With that said, I hope you enjoy the story.
P.S. I will put the time of day if there's a time change, so you won't have to worry about trying to figure out the time too often.
---------- Saturday Evening----------
Jeremy sat in front of his computer working again on the program to bring William back out of Lyoko now that he was un-Xanafied. They had managed to break his bond with Xana but still needed to do many things to get William completely free from the rest of Xana's 'curse'.
They had at least managed to get a digital recreation that William could control from a tower, but today he was still recovering from the previous day since creation and control of the clone took alot of effort over the course of a week. Thankfully he was getting used to it and could practically do it effortlessly with practice. It felt real enough for him and he felt everything so he felt normal enough in the real world.
He didn't have to worry about being devirtualized since for some reason when Xana took over him he made a program that rewrote his digital 'DNA' inside of a far away tower if he was ever deleted or lost all his life points. Jeremy still doesn't know how it works, but is glad nonetheless.
William's friends had convinced his parents that he was staying with Jeremy in his room, and Jeremy had convinced Principal Delmas that William was sharing a room with Jeremy. Both sides believed the team since William was there and said so as well.
Ever since, then, the only time the school teachers or anybody at all had come into his room was to enlarge the room taking up a bit of the extra area around the stairs, and to place a cot-like bed inside the room to match Jeremy's on the opposite side of the room.
"Hey Einstein, take a break, you'll pass out if you keep this up." Odd said as he sat on the bed talking with the rest of the Lyoko crew sans Ulrich. They had decided to gather together to discuss who was going to give Ulrich his present and what they were planning on doing for the day.
"Okay, so when are we doing this?" Jeremy said as he turned the monitor off and faced his companions. They had hidden the presents in his room since they were less noticable. Being without a roommate sure had it's advantages sometimes.
"In the morning, it's easier to make any impromptu plans that way." Aelita said as she looked to the various places the presents were hidden. She couldn't see a single sign of any of them.
The bed across from Jeremy's looked barely touched except for as a makeshift sofa for friends, his half open closet looked like it was the same mess it always was considering the rectangular box in the room. Even the stuff under his bed looked exactly the same despite the small box under the bed.
"Sounds good to me. Odd, think you can last that long without breakfast?" Yumi said, poking fun at the boy sitting across from her on the opposite bed eating a plate full of stashed food from the cafeteria. "Hey, it's not my fault. A Lyoko Warrior needs a full meal to fight off Xana's army of monsters after all." He said in his defense as he wolfed down another sausage.
"If that's true, with the way you eat, I think Xana might come up short-handed for the next fight or two." Yumi said as she watched Odd stuff another two sausages down at the same time. "You better believe it!" He said with a mouthful of sausages.
Everybody grinned as Odd's face became devious and he, in a comedic fasion, rushed to finish the two sausages before looking at Yumi.. "So Yumi, any other plans for tomorrow? Possibly some personal time alone with Ulrich?" He said as he stared accusingly at her.
Yumi blushed red as she considered his words. Okay, so she did like him, but it wasn't her fault, it just seemed to work for them. Counter time. "Sure, that way you can have some time to spend with Samantha." She said, easily sending the purple clad boy into a furious blush. "She's just a friend, okay?"
"Oh please, you spent a week with her when you said you were going on a vacation." She said as Odd stared in half-horror and half-embaressment. "How did you know about that!?" He said as he looked at her.
Yumi shrugged. "I saw you at the mall with her holding hands that weekend." She explained. Odd let his head drop in defeat as his friends laughed slightly.
The joyful moment was short-lived since a moment later Jeremy's computer started blaring their alarms. Jeremy swiveled around in his chair and turned on the monitor. "Two activated towers! This is bad, we need to get to Lyoko now!" He said as he pulled out his cell phone. Everybody was already out the room while Jeremy and Odd pulled out their cell phones.
"Hey Ulrich, it's Jeremy, it's Xana again, where are you?" He said as he followed the others to one of the many hidden routes around campus. "It figures, it's not like you see a polymorphing trash can everyday. I'm over by the cafeteria, but I have to stop it from hurting people, you and the others get going." Ulrich said as Jeremy heard crashing in the background.
"Okay, we'll deactivate the two towers and go back as soon as we can, just keep an eye out, there's two activated towers afterall." Jeremy warned. "Okay thanks for the heads up Jeremy. I'll be careful." He said as he turned off his phone.
"Hey Samantha, we're headed to the factory, how close are you?" Odd asked. "I'm close enough to get there before you, another attack?" She asked. "Yeah, we need to deactivate both towers as soon as we can, okay?" He said through the phone.
"Wait, two?" She asked. "Yeah why? Are you seeing something where you are?" Odd asked as well. "No, but still, we need to be careful. I'll be waiting in Lyoko, I'll send myself and be waiting for you with William." She said. "Okay, as long as you're both there instead of just one of you. I'll see you there." Odd said as he closed his phone.
"She's on her way, what about almost-birthday boy?" Odd asked as they all got down to the sewer system and started to race through on their various sets of wheels. "He's busy. He's fighting a polymorph possessed trash can." Jeremy explained. "Well that must stink." Odd quipped as he snickered and everybody else rolled their eyes.
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"Hey William, have you seen anything strange besides those towers? I don't see any mosters around." Samantha asked in her red shoulder, armlet, shin, and elbow armor that reflected shots much like Ulrich's blade and Yumi's fans. She also uses spiked knuckles as her main weapon and has the ability to hack into up to two monsters she can see to stop it's weapons, but is unable to move while doing so making it very useless under most circumstances. She could also use something similar to the super sprint that Ulrich used, making her able to get close up like Ulrich.
"You know what I know, there's an activated tower and no monsters, something fishy is going on. I can sense some creatures nearby but I can't see them." He said feeling nervous. Samantha trusted his gut feelings. Ever since he was 'freed' from Xana he had been affected by him. William could sense things through a connection Xana had forced onto William to avoid being beaten by the Lyoko warriors. The virus placed inside of him made his legs glow with the Xana symbol on each of his arms, otherwise allowing him to change back to normal.
"Any idea of where the towers are?" Samantha asked. As if on cue Jeremy answered. "They both are side by side almost. They are on the other side of the mountain to the north, Odd, Aelita, and Yumi will see you in a second. Just hold tight unti--Look out!" Three megatanks materialized in front of them and started racing towards the two of them.
"Um, I think now's a good time to run." William said as he pulled Samantha's arm and they both began to run. "Super Smoke!" William said as he turned into a bright blue cloud as Samantha cried, "Super Sonic" and sped up with him. "I don't think I can run like this forever, any ideas?" Samantha asked as she followed behind the colored clouds. The smoke seemed to waver to the left and right twice before continuing it's straight course. "Didn't think so."
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They could feel their bodies being pieces together slowly before making impact with the ground and looking around them. "Ah, the mountain region, how nice." Yumi said sarcastically before Odd said it making him give her a funny look.
"No time for jokes, Sam and William need your help, they're heading directly towards you from the north. I need to figure out what else Xana's done with the second tower. So far it just looks like he put in a new code to speed up creature production. So far there are about ten creatures around each tower, five tanks and five tarantulas and he's creating even more as we speak. Help Samantha and William, then take out the creatures around each tower while Aelita works on deactivating them." Jeremy said as he typed away on the console.
"Okay Jeremy, we're on it." Aelita said as her wings sprouted and she flew to the north to meet the others while Odd and Yumi hopped onto the vehicles that appeared in front of them.
"I wonder if Ulrich is having as much fun as we are." Odd said as he hopped onto the overboard and followed Aelita.
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Ulrich dodged yet another random object that was thrown at him. The polymorph kept changing shape into random objects, from the original trashcan, to a baseball shooter, and even a toilet when it chased Ulrich into the bathroom. Everytime it changed it replaced something in the area so it was impossible to tell where it was.
Crash! That was another close one. He needed some kind of plan... But no matter what he came up with there was always the problem that he couldn't find the specter in the first place. "Why can't you just come out and fight me face to face!?" Ulrich shouted out of frustration.
"Good idea." A familiar voice behind him said. Ulrich turned around to see himself standing ten feet away from him, but it wasn't just him, it was the version of him from Lyoko! "You have got to be kidding me." He said as he stared wide-eyed at the specter before him.
"Triplicate! Super Sprint!" Three version of the digital Ulrich appeared and circled him at high speeds. "Me and my big mouth..." He said as the three moved closer and closer with each rotation.
"Hold it right there, nobody attacks students on this campus while I'm around!" Somebody yelled as one of the three disappeared and a javelin landed in front of Ulrich.
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Blam blam blam! Arrows flew through the air into the group of three creatures before hitting one multiple times causing it to explode. "Woohoo! One more creature down, that makes three for me, how many do you have so far Yumi?" Odd asked as they went back-to-back. The whirring of Yumi's fans coming back could be heard along with an explosion. "Four, but they seem to be getting clumsy, I saw one of the megatanks hit a tarantula while Aelita was flying above it." She said much to Odd's dismay.
"Oh, well, yeah I was just counting the, uh, Megatanks, yeah." Odd said stumbling over his words. Yumi gave him a look that said 'Yeah right' but didn't say anything. "How about you Aelita? How many so far?" Odd said hoping for better results. "Five not including the ones that hit eachother because of me." She said making Odd's jaw drop.
"Geez, how come I'm doing the worst?" Odd said as he hit another tank that opened up. "Who knows maybe it's because you're distracted by me." Samantha said as she appeared next to Odd. "At least you're doing better than me, if not for the armor I would have lost all my life points already. I can't seem to get past the tanks either, only gotten three tarantulas." She said, watching as Odd quickly brightened.
"WATCH OUT!" Yumi was too late, as soon as she saw it materialize, a megatank shot and hit both of them devirtualizing them both. That left only her, William, and Aelita.
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They both appeared in opposite pods from eachother. "Well we tried." Odd said sounding out of breath. "Yeah..." Was all Samantha could say. Odd walked over to her and helped her out of her pod. "Never do get used to being devirtualized, at least not completely." Odd said.
She half-hugged him as he carried her until they were sitting in the middle of the room together. "Well, if you can be here to help me every time, can't be all bad, right?" She said with a grin. They both blushed as they each realized how they looked since they basically looked like they were hugging eachother, but didn't move because they were comfortable like that.
"So if somebody sees us like this, we can say that you were out cold when you came out of the pod and I helped you out?" Odd said comedically. Samantha gave him a look. "If anybody passed out, it was you." She said as they both began to laugh. "So are we still on for tomorrow night?" Odd said with a grin. "Of course." She said as she cuddled closer to him.
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"Two tarantulas left, Aelita's inside the first tower and deactivating it, just take out the last ones and head to the next... Wait a minute, the other tower deactivated itself." Jeremy said sounding completely confused. "I'm calling Ulrich to see if he's okay and if we need to go back to the past again." Jeremy said as he hit the buttons to call from the computer.
"Hey Ulrich are you okay?" Jeremy asked.
"It's Jim, Ulrich can't answer, he's badly hurt. It was like there were three of him with swords. Can you tell me what's going on?" Jim asked over the phone.
"I'm sorry Jim, I can't. It would be pointless since you aren't going to remember any of what I say in a second. Return to the past now." Jeremy pressed the button and the usual blast of light passed over everybody and everything returning everything back to that morning.
----------Saturday Morning----------
Oooh, I forgot how much of a headache I woke up with this morning. "Ugh, where's those headache pills? Oh yeah, we're out." Yumi said as she grabbed some clothes. "I wonder what we should do today now that all the plans are set. I mean it's not like we need to do anything again." She rubbed her eyes and jumped when she saw William materialize out of thin air from an outlet in front of her.
"Yumi I need your help, you--Er, sorry." He turned away as she stared at him grumpily from her bed under the blanket. "There's a problem with the super computer, and I can't get anybody else's help since I don't know where Samantha lives and I can't get to anybody at Kadik Academy." He said sounding urgent as she got dressed behind him.
"Wait, why can't you talk to anybody at Kadik?" Yumi asked when she thought over what he said. He sighed as he thought over how to tell her what was wrong.
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"Nice to wake up in bed again. I'm glad I slept this time instead of staying up all night on the computer." Jeremy said as he swung his feet over the bed. He heard his computer bring up the usual web pages early in the morning, daily news, weather, etc... as he changed, but this time something strange happened.
Outside he heard voices and people running around before finally a it quieted down some. "Belpois, get out here right now! Something strange is going on and we wants answers!" He heard come from the door.
Jeremy stuck his head out the door to see Jim and the Principal standing there. "What's going on Jim?" Jeremy asked looking confused.
"Yesterday, er, today, or whatever it is, the school was torn up, and now everything is back to normal, it's like nothing happened! You know what's going on, now tell us everything. All the students are going crazy and only the students and teachers in Kadik seem to remember yesterday, or today, or whatever you call it. I have questions, and I want you to answer me." Jim said looking down accusingly at Jeremy.
Jeremy couldn't remember anything about recent events because of the many attacks recently so he just guessed that maybe it was just a prank or something.
"I don't know what you're talking about Jim." Jeremy said assuming his most innocent look. "Don't give me that, you told me you were going to tell me but that I would forget, now you have no choice." Jeremy froze as he looked at Jim and turned deathly pale. They remembered everything from the return to the past. How could they? They weren't programmed into the computer, were they?
"Jeremy are you okay, you look a little pale." He said, then realization dawned on him as to why. "Oh, I see. Now I know you're hiding something and you aren't getting away until you tell me everything." Jim said, stomping on the ground to symbolize his stance on the issue.
Jeremy couldn't believe it, but he sighed and decided he wouldn't be able to fix things and get away until he explained to them. "Okay, I'll tell you."
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Dun dun duuuun! Okay first chapter done, what do you think? What do you think Jeremy is going to do and how is he going to get out of this one? What did Xana do and what can the Lyoko Warriors do to stop his plan, review (even once or twice) and find out in the next chapter!