Sequel to A Secret For All. Ever wonder what happened to Erin and Sara? What would happen if the Lyoko gang found out for themselves? The answers and more to come in Secrets Come Back To Haunt Us.
OddObsessed and lazyevil I dedicate this first chapter to you both who wanted more after A Secret For All.
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko, I only own Erin and Sara.
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"XANA?" Taylor called to the room in general.
"Yes Taylor." XANA's voice came at a grumble as a black smoke came into the room, forming a ghostly specter in the shape of a wolf, "What is it?"
"Will I ever get to meet Jeremie?" Taylor asked.
"Undoubtedly, but you might have to be patient." XANA growled, baring his teeth at the wolf-boy.
"Patient? How long do you think it will take?" Taylor asked; he was a curious being.
"With any luck, many years." XANA answered, "I've got plans that depend on that."
"Plans? What kind of plans?" Taylor prodded.
"Some of my secrets are not for your ears." XANA replied shortly, "Now I need to get back to planning."
"Oh," Taylor said, looking to the floor, "I'll go walk around then."
"Just stay out of my towers." XANA warned; the dark ghostly figure padded out of the room towards a secret room of Sector 5 where he could listen to what the teens he knew so well were talking about.
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"So Jeremie," Ulrich said nonchalantly, "What really happened to your leg?"
"Nothing, I pulled a muscle that's all." Jeremie insisted.
"I'll believe that when pigs fly." Yumi pressed.
"Why do you want to know?" Jeremie asked defensively.
"Why are you being so defensive? We're your friends Einstein." Ulrich retorted.
"You really want to know?" Jeremie asked, looking at the pair before him disbelievingly.
"Yes." Ulrich and Yumi replied in unison.
"Ok then, just keep it a secret." Jeremie said, finally giving into his friends as he bent down to roll up his left pant leg slowly.
"XANA?" Yumi asked, peering at the symbol that she had known for so long that had become an angry red scar on Jeremie's calf.
"But we turned the supercomputer off." Ulrich mused.
"Yea, weird huh?" Jeremie said, trying to move the subject a little further away from the supercomputer nonchalantly.
"Right…" Yumi said, letting the subject drop hesitantly.
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"I wonder what happened to Sara." Aelita mused, petting Kiwi who sat in her lap.
"And Erin." Odd added, "Weird how they both disappeared huh?"
Aelita nodded slowly, Odd had filled her in on Erin, the purple being with rainbow hair.
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William glanced at the clock, it was noon, in another three hours he'd get called into the principal's office and he'd have to act the responsible one again. He watched as the clock numbers switched, two hours and fifty-nine minutes left. He couldn't count the seconds, not from that clock anyway. Two hours and fifty-eight minutes of being his somewhat irresponsible, fun-loving, slightly love-crazed, rebellious self. After that he'd have to be responsible. He'd have to act like the person his parents thought he was. Sure they knew he was love-crazed, what fifteen year old boy wasn't? But they expected him to be good and follow the rules, rebellion wasn't in their list of expectations, it was on their list of punishable deeds.
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"So, you want to know about Erin and Sara?" XANA growled ominously, "I can help you with that." The room was filled with a dark cackling as a light swept out through all of Lyoko. The light swept from the factory to Kadic engulfing the school before it flashed twice and went out.
"Have fun and play nice." XANA sneered with an ominous smile.
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Odd landed with a thud. There was a muffled grunt from beneath him before Odd was shoved onto the rocky ground.
"Ulrich!" Odd exclaimed.
"Yes Odd, any idea what just happened?" Ulrich grumbled, pushing himself up.
"No, there was a bright light, almost like a return to the past." Odd replied.
"That's strange," Jeremie muttered, "The supercomputer-"
"Is turned off." Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, and Jeremie finished in unison.
"We know, we know." Yumi said in a voice that said she had heard that many times before.
"Ouch," William grumbled from somewhere nearby.
"William?" Ulrich asked, "What are you doing here?"
"I don't know," William growled, "What am I doing here?"
"It looks like your lying on the ground to me." Odd said, failing in his attempt to be helpful.
"Well, I know that." William said, rolling his eyes.
"Hey, where's Aelita?" Odd asked, realizing that his pink-haired friend was nowhere to be found.
"Was she with you when the light came?" Yumi asked.
"Yea, we were talking." Odd replied.
All eyes turned towards Jeremie for an explanation, including William's.
"No reason she shouldn't be here." Jeremie said with a shrug.
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Aelita was indeed with the others in a sense. She was on the same planet, just not exactly in the same small area.
"Beep?" Sara, a rather large alien wearing a furry red overcoat, asked, turning around when there was a loud pop and a thud from behind her.
"Sara?" Aelita asked, seeing the familiar alien as she landed with a thud on the hard floor.
"BEEP!" Sara cried, running over to hug the human girl.
"Where am I?" Aelita asked as she freed herself from Sara's crushing hug.
"Beep, beep beep." Sara answered simply.
"This could get… confusing." Aelita stated.
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The group had decided to split up somewhat and search for Aelita, but they didn't go too far when Yumi let out a high-pitched girlish scream.
"Yumi?" Ulrich asked, running over to her as she leapt away from the rather large rock that she had been behind, "Are you ok? AH!" He finished with a short scream that was more like a loud gasp of surprise.
"What is it you two?" Odd asked, looking over as a purple figure with long rainbow hair stepped out from behind the rock.
"Erin?" Odd asked, abandoning his search for Aelita reluctantly.
"Odd? Jeremie?" Erin asked in shaky French, "What are you doing here, and who are they?"
"That's Ulrich, Yumi, and William." Jeremie explained pointing to each one in turn.
"We were teleported here." Odd added, "Where ever here is."
"This is my home planet," Erin explained, "Junuette."
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"Oh, I got William as well did I?" XANA chuckled, "Can't complain about that now can I?"
"XANA?" Came the voice of Taylor from somewhere within Sector 5.
"You're beginning to get on my nerves boy." XANA growled, forming into the shadowy figure of a large wolf and padding through the wall to where Taylor stood.
"What's that?" Taylor asked, pointing at a tower floating nearby.
"That would be a tower." XANA said, his voice betraying only a small portion of his annoyance, "I used those to attack Earth, Jeremie and his friends Odd, Yumi, Ulrich, and Aelita."
"Why do you attack them? They seem pretty smart." Taylor asked, causing the shadow-wolf-XANA to shake his head.
"They are my enemies," XANA tried to explain.
"What about that other guy?" Taylor asked.
"What other guy? William?" XANA growled, "He has his uses."
"But you sent him away too." Taylor stated.
"Yes I did, he outlived his- HEY! How'd you know about? You know what, just forget it and leave my plots alone for a bit." XANA growled, taken completely off guard.
"Alright then, but they're going to find a way out, they're smart, and they've got Erin and Sara to help them." Taylor said with a smirk.
XANA growled menacingly and stalked away to go back to watching his favorite enemies in their confusion.
