I forgot to mention before that this story is set in the 4th season after Lyoko is reconstructed yet still before the development of the Skidbladnir. This fanfic also ignores Evolution as I really only watched a few episodes of it so it is really based on the original cartoon.
However, you are free to envision it either way you like as you have the right to enjoy it whichever way you please. ;3
"Be careful guys, X.A.N.A. has sent you four bloks and a krabe to contend with," Jeremie's voice warns as he watches blips on his screen move in closer to the gang.
"Read ya loud and clear, Jeremie!" Odd calls back from the top of his overboard, flying fast across the ice sector. "Laser arrow!" He exclaims, hitting one of the bloks directly in the eye. The wounded blok shakes violently before exploding into individual pieces. "Yes!" He cheers, getting excited about the successful shot.
"Watch out guys, that krabe is coming up fast!" Jeremie warns.
"Thanks, Jeremie," Yumi replies. She readies herself and faces the oncoming krabe. She opens her fans and throws them both at the krabe. The krabe ducks the first fan but the second barely catches it, making a scratch as it glances off its shell. The monster focuses on her and growls irritably.
"Nice try, Yumi. Now let me show ya how it's done!" Odd shouts as he flies towards the krabe. "Come on Cyrus! Come and get me!" He taunts and shoots a laser arrow at it. The attack hits the krabe right above its leftmost upper light, doing little more than chipping a bit of the shell and disabling the light.
"Is that it? I thought you were going to show me how it's done?" Yumi mocks. Odd only crosses his arms and looks frustrated.
"Odd, are you seriously still naming the monsters?" Ulrich asks, giving his friend a disapproving tired expression.
"Well of course, it gives them personality and character," Odd replies back as he pulls up on the front end of the overboard so he could turn around and have another go at the krabe.
"Well, I hope you're ready to part ways with personality and character," Ulrich chuckles, gesturing to the krabe and one of the bloks in front of him. He speeds forward on the overbike, overtaking Odd's lead, and maneuvers swiftly behind the bloks where the krabe was quickly gaining ground. He draws both of his swords and points them upward as he starts to drive under the krabe ready to stab it from underneath.
"Hey watch out!" Odd yells. The warning comes too late for Ulrich as a laser from a nearby blok hits the overbike, causing it to spin out of control and Ulrich tumbles off onto the ground. The krabe Ulrich had aimed for moves back and growls.
"Boys," Aelita says and rolls her eyes. "This is how you really get something done! Energy field!" She shouts, firing at one of the bloks. The attack engulfs and destroys it immediately.
"Nice one, Aelita." Jeremie says.
"You okay, Ulrich?" Yumi calls out in his direction.
"Yeah, I'm alright, but I don't think I can say as much for my ride," Ulrich replies, watching as his vehicle continues to spin as it slides off the edge of the sector and into the digital sea below. Before anything else, a scream fills the air.
"Aelita!" Jeremie shouts in obvious panic. William had suddenly appeared within a cloud of supersmoke and now had the girl trapped with his power. The krabe that had seemed to be engaging Ulrich suddenly rises up and turns away from him, then quickly bolts off with Odd directly in its path as it barrels forward.
"Yeah! Laser arrow!" Odd exclaims as he shoots an arrow and rolls out of the way of the monster's trampling claws, seeming to be obliviously engaged in combat with his opponent.
"Odd, quit fooling around, Aelita's in trouble! Wait- huh?" Ulrich says. His eyes follow the krabe, which ignores Odd and continues to dash forward, knocking a blok over on its way past. Not slowing down, it piles through a second, shoving it to the side and nearly off the edge of the sector. The second blok frantically scurries away from the edge and looks in varying directions seeming to be just as confused as Ulrich.
"Hey! Wait a minute! I'm over here!" Odd shouts as he slowly gets up off the ground, watching the krabe and holds his arm up ready to fire a laser arrow at the creature. The krabe slides to a stop a short distance behind William and growls firmly. Odd, about to fire, suddenly stops when he realizes what is happening. "Huh? Whoa… What's it doing?" He asks quietly and slowly lowers his arm.
"Wait… Is it actually-?" Yumi asks, and slows to a stop, stunned by disbelief of what she sees.
"Hey am I seeing this right, or is that krabe actually firing at William?" Jeremie asks to make sure his eyes were not playing tricks on him. Enraged at being caught off guard by the krabe's attack William glares at the monster and charges forward to cleave the monster in two with his sword.
"You're seeing it right, Jeremie. It appears… to be saving Aelita?" Ulrich replies, watching William and the krabe fight, unsure if he should do anything to help and is honestly more interested in just seeing what happens.
"I- I'm certainly not complaining, but... Why?" Jeremie asks, just as confused as the rest of his friends. The krabe narrowly sidesteps out of the way of William's zanbato. It continues backing up as quickly as possible to avoid the slow even swings of the weapon. It fires it laser multiple times, a couple of which manage to hit William but most are deflected by his sword. Seeing how everyone else seemed more interested in watching the spectacle rather than doing anything, Yumi decides to take advantage of the situation and throws both of her fans at William.
Catching the motion from the corner of his eye William quickly turns and swings his sword upward, easily deflecting the two fans in one stroke. Two lasers suddenly strike him from behind reducing him to nothing but smoke. With X.A.N.A.'s human pet gone, the power holding Aelita also dissipated.
"Whoa. Something is seriously off with that krabe, it just fought off William! I'm starting to feel kinda bad for firing at it now," Odd says, looking back at his friends.
"Aelita... Are you alright?" Jeremie asks with concern. Aelita sits up holding one hand to her head for a minute before responding.
"I'm alright, Jeremie. Thanks for the help, guys," Aelita says with a relieved sigh and gets to her feet.
"Hey, I appreciate the thanks but it wasn't us who saved you this time," Ulrich replies.
"Yeah, save your thanks for that krabe—huh where'd it go?" Odd says as he turns to point at the krabe but notices that it had disappeared.
"Huh... Looks like 'Cyrus' had more important things to do," Ulrich replies, looking in the direction the krabe had been.
"Come on. You can't really expect me to believe that can you?" Aelita replies with a skeptical look.
"It's true! It really did save you," Yumi replies. "You can even ask Jeremie if you don't believe us!"
"Right. So then where did it go?" Aelita asks.
"The others are right, Aelita. The krabe attacked William, and now it's nowhere on my screen," Jeremie replies. "It just vanished."
"That mysterious krabe just saved you," Ulrich adds.
"That's so very strange. But why?" Aelita asks.
"No idea. I'm still having a hard time believing it myself," Yumi replies. "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, that is."
"Well, Nevermind that now. We still have a tower to deactivate," Jeremie states.
"Yeah, It should be easier; we only have two more-" Ulrich starts, as he stabs the overturned blok next to him, "- one more to go."
Yumi threw her fans at the remaining blok, successfully destroying it. "And now it's zero." Ulrich suddenly tumbles forward forcefully and is devirtualized the instant he hits the ground. Odd and Yumi turn around quickly to see another couple of bloks approaching from behind them.
"Guys watch out! X.A.N.A. just sent two more bloks your way," Jeremie warns.
"Yeah, Ulrich just got devirtualized!" Yumi replies.
"Aelita, Head for the tower while Odd and Yumi take care of the bloks," Jeremie instructs. Aelita nods and starts running for the tower.
"Alright, it's a two-on-two battle now, sounds fair. Laser arrow!" Odd exclaims, but completely misses the blok. The blok Odd just fired at spins around and faces him then fires a freeze laser at him, freezing him solid. Ulrich sighs as he exits the scanner and takes the elevator up to the lab.
"Odd, be careful. You don't have a lot of life points left," Jeremie says. A couple more normal lasers from the blok hit Odd and the ice imprisoning him breaks, freeing him. He tumbles over, and fires a laser arrow at the blok.
"Take that!" he exclaims. The arrow hits the blok, shattering it; its remains disappear after hitting the ground. "Phew," He sighs and looks to see that Yumi had already taken care of the other blok and gives her a thumbs up. "Your turn, Aelita," He says, more to himself; watching as she rushes into the tower.
Aelita levitates up to the top platform, lighting down on the edge and walks to the center. In response to her presence, a blue panel pops up. She places her hand on it where her name flashes for a second then displays the word 'Code'. Inputting 'Lyoko', the tower deactivates.
"Alright, Good job everyone. I'll bring you all back in now," Jeremie says, running the devirtualization program on Yumi, Odd, and Aelita. Odd appears in the scanner room as the two other scanners continue to make noise. Yumi and Aelita step out of their scanners a moment later and the three join up with Jeremie and Ulrich in the lab.
"Alright, job well done. Tower deactivated, nobody got hurt, and we even had X.A.N.A. on our side!" Odd says.
"X.A.N.A. is on nobody's side but his own," Jeremie responds.
"Then how do you explain what happened on Lyoko today?" Ulrich retorts.
"It was probably just some kind of computer glitch," Jeremie replies.
"Computer glitch? What kind of glitch would make the enemy the hero?" Odd asks.
"That sounds like one heck of a glitch to me," Ulrich says, not quite sure himself.
"It could be part of X.A.N.A.'s plan," Aelita says.
"Which we stopped, right guys?" Yumi asks.
"Hmm. If it was part of his plan, what good would he have gotten out of saving Aelita from himself? That doesn't make any sense," Jeremie replies, focusing on the supercomputer screen intently.
"Who knows? Maybe X.A.N.A. is going haywire and might even turn into our friend," Odd jokes.
"Odd, remind me to remind you that X.A.N.A. is the bad guy in this monster movie," Jeremie replies. "Well anyway," He starts as he logs off the supercomputer, "I guess we're done here. Which is good; I'm starved."
"Yeah, I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow!" Odd exclaims.
"You always could, noting your bottomless stomach," Ulrich replies, as they headed to the elevator.
"And I think I'm going to do some digging around after dinner tonight. See what X.A.N.A. might be up to. Just in case," Jeremie says.
"Alright, I guess we'll all stop by the cafeteria for dinner then?" Yumi asks.
"Sounds good," Ulrich says.
"Yeah. I hope they got a meatball hero prepared for me!" Odd exclaims.
"You mean twelve?" Yumi jokes. The rest of the gang laughs as the elevator doors close.
This is just a short little introduction to the story each real 'chapter' will be like an episode in the show and will be much longer.
Also, feel free to comment and review! Your input might actually influence the story a little bit!
Till next time guys. ;)