Trying something a little different from my usual writing. The creators of Code Lyoko are awesome and deserve all the credit. I am not worthy!

"I knew this was a bad idea!"

Molly yelled as she ran down the path.

"Well we didn't really have any other option. We needed a distraction so the others could shut down the tower, to stop the attack in the real world."

"I get that Stan, but why did it have to be me!?"

Molly jumped the gap and headed for the away tower, she was being closely followed by two crabs and blocks. The blocks couldn't make the jump while the crabs just stepped over the gap. Molly grabbed the sword on her back and drew it as she stood by the away tower waiting for the crabs.

"Because you are the fastest runner and HANA wants you, not the others."

Stan's voice sounded above Molly.

"Remind me why we decided it was okay for me to be by myself then?"

"You ran off alone! This whole thing wouldn't have happened if you had waited for the others in the first place!"

"Since when have I ever been good at waiting Stan? Correct answer: NONE!"

Molly shouted angrily as she engaged the first crab. Molly's sword didn't look like most swords, it was an empty frame, it had the blade and flat edge but no middle. Her sword was disproportionately huge and should have weighed a ton if it were in the real world. But since Molly and the others were in the digital world, things like mass and physics didn't really apply to them. Molly swung at the crab and missed, the crab then shot it's lasers at Molly. She dodged and hid behind a rock. Her armor was light so it allowed her to move quickly but it also meant she could only take a few hits before being devirtualized. Her armor consisted of a metal plating over her heart and left arm. She wore gloves that glowed with energy. Her legs had shin and knee pads and her shoes had metal strips on the bottom as well as small cleats for traction. This isn't working, I need to change weapons. Molly thought and then pressed a button on the handle of her sword.

"Weapon change!"

Molly shouted and her sword folded up into a shotgun. She pumped the gun and jumped over the crab, she fired one shot into the top of the crab and landed on the other side. The crab exploded violently and Molly pumped her fist into the air.

"Woohoo! Who's the best? I'm the best!"

"You can celebrate after you get rid of the second crab Molly."

"Way to poop on my party."

Molly readied another shot and turned to face the second crab. Only it had left, Molly could see it running away at a rapid pace down the path.

"Uh, are they supposed to run away? I didn't know they could even do that."

Molly asked Stan as she stood by the away tower scratching her head.

"Hold on, I'm getting some weird readings in your area. Do you see anything weird?"

"Nope."

Molly looked around,

"Wait, I hear something."

She said cupping her ears, suddenly the ground began to shake.

"Oh no, this can't be good."

"What is it Molly? I can't tell from my end."

"I remember you telling me about pulsations and how they're a sign that HANA is near by. I think these are them."

"Can't be, the activated tower is in the snow zone, and you're in the forest zone. HANA can't be in two places at once."

Molly placed her hand on the ground to feel the pulsations.

"It feels like a heart beat Stan, like it's alive."

"I think you should get out of there, whatever it is it can't be good and we can't risk you being attacked without backup."

"I'm not a pretty princess that can't take care of herself Stan. I'll see if I can get you a visual, I won't engage, deal?"

There was a long pause and Molly tapped her foot in impatience.

"Okay but I'm sending Monica and Ted to your location, so after ten minutes you'll have some backup, whether you want it or not."

"I can work with ten minutes."

Molly replied, she looked at the pulsations and could see they were coming from the East traveling West. She began to run in the direction they were originating from and after a short distance for Molly she found the source.

"Stan can you see this? What am I looking at?"

Molly asked. In front of her there was a huge black sphere in the middle of an open piece of land. There was a strange symbol on the side, there was a circle with two smaller circles with a dot in the middle and there was a line coming from the top and three from the bottom.

"I am getting a lot of interference, I can barely hear you Molly."

Molly cocked her head to the side, her pointed ears twitching. I can hear voices coming from inside that thing. Don't tell me there's somebody actually inside!

"Stan, I think somebody is trapped inside the sphere. I going to try and get them out."

Molly yelled at Stan, hoping he could hear her. All Molly got back in reply was nasty static. She transformed her weapon back into a sword and gripped the handle. Here goes nothing. She ran at the sphere and jumped high into the air. The eye like symbol moved with her and watched her as she came down, sword tip first on the round object. That's so creepy. Molly thought as she drove the tip into the sphere, only to have it bounce off and send Molly crashing into a tree. She grabbed her head and stood up, ouch that hurt, bad idea. Then she stopped herself, that hurt, it never hurts like this in the digital world. What is this thing? Molly suddenly was having all sorts of second thoughts when the sphere began to shift. Long arms with clawed hands pushed its way out of the sphere and headed straight for Molly.

"Stan! Help! This thing is alive and wants me for dinner!"

Molly yelled running away, hoping that putting some distance between her and the sphere would allow Stan to hear her. There was more static but Molly heard Stan's voice say "Run!" and she didn't have to guess what the rest of the message would be. Molly had to constantly dodge the claws as they made grabs for her legs. She tried to cut one but her sword bounced off it like it was a toy. Molly weaved between the trees trying to slow the claws down. The claws were too fast for her to keep track of and finally one got her leg. She fell hard on her face and dropped her sword. It rolled away from her just out of reach.

"Great"

Molly said as she looked behind her at the sphere as it approach her. She tried to pull away but the clawed arm held her tight and wouldn't let go. When the sphere got close enough Molly could see that it had a mouth now, complete with shark-like teeth. She panicked and struggled against the claw.

"Stan it's going to eat me! Help!"

Molly made a fist and looked at her hands, guess I have to use this, this does count as an emergency. Her hand began to glow and collect energy, all the while the sphere getting closer. She released the energy at the claw and when it made contact, the claw shattered briefly and then began to reassemble itself. There was enough time though for Molly to pull her leg away and escape. She picked up her sword and transformed it back to a shotgun. More claws swooped in making grabs at Molly. She used the shot gun blasts to keep the from grabbing her but couldn't destroy them.

"Stan, where is everybody? I could use some help."

Still no response, Molly had made it back to the away tower.

"Yes! I can get away here."

She jumped into the tower onto the platform and waited. She could hear the arms clanging off the sides of the tower and shaking the whole structure.

"Molly! Molly! Can you hear me? Answer me please!"

Stan's came in loud overhead. He sounded just as panicked as Molly felt.

"Stan, I'm alright I made it to the away tower, it seems our new friend can't get in like the all the other monsters."

"Thank goodness you're okay. I couldn't reach you and then the power on the super computer was knocked out for a while. I was so worried that thing would get you."

"Well it didn't, and what happened to my backup?'

"They got delayed by some hornets, I'm so glad you made it back to the away tower."

There was a cracking sound that made Molly's skin crawl. The arms were drilling through the tower walls.

"Stan bring me in please! They're breaking into the tower!"

"What? That's not possible!"

"I'm looking right at it Stan. Bring me in!"

Molly backed away from the walls of the tower and stood in the middle, gun at the ready.

"I can't bring you in, the system is all bugged up. Monica and Ted should be there any second."

"I don't know how long I have Stan please hurry."

Molly's breathing became shallow as the grinding sounds continued. The drilling sound stopped suddenly and there was yelling and explosions outside.

"Guys!" Molly yelled as she stuck her head out of the tower.

"Molly where do you find these guys? This one is the toughest yet."

Ted yelled as he used his ax on one of the arms. It dispersed where he had chopped it but then reconnected and wrapped around Ted. It lifted him into the air and threw him. He tumbled toward the digital sea.

"Ted, I got you!"

Molly yelled, her shotgun transformed into a rifle and she raised it to aim down the sites. She took a deep breathe and squeezed the trigger. The bullet hit Ted in the head for a critical hit and he devirtualized immediately.

"Nice shot Molly."

Stan said,

"He would have been a goner if you hadn't hit him."

"Blah, blah, blah, Molly's a hero, let's worship the ground she walks on while we're at it."

Monica said rolling her eyes.

"You don't have to be that mean Monica."

Stan replied,

"I'm not being mean, I just don't see why we have to praise the newbie for everything she does. Besides this mess is her fault to begin with. We wouldn't even have had to come here if she had just waited for all of us to meet up at the usual place at the usual time. Tell me I'm wrong Stan, I dare you."

"No, you're right Monica, I messed up but it's not like you've never made a mistake yourself. I'm not asking to be friends but we have to work together whether we want to or not, so a little slack would be nice."

Molly said as she defended herself from another attack by the sphere monster. Monica sighed,

"Fair enough, but we better wrap things up here fast, I have class at six and can't afford to be late again this week."

The sphere monster reached out to grab at Molly again, this time succeeding and grabbing one of her arms.

"A little help Monica!"

Again Monica rolled her eyes but ran to help Molly. She pulled out her wand and yelled,

"Fire!"

Fire shot out and hit the arm that was holding Molly. It didn't effect it all. The arm dangled Molly over its mouth which had opened up. More smaller arms came out of the mouth and moved to grab Molly. Molly used her powers to keep them away but they were slowly closing in.

"Any day would nice."

Molly yelled at Monica.

"I'm working on it newbie."

Monica yelled back and then waving her wand again she yelled,

"Lightning!"

There was a flash of light and a lightening bolt fell down from the sky striking the highest point of the monster, which was the arm holding Molly. Molly yelled as she felt the electricity hit her. This wasn't the first time that she has been hit by Monica but this time she could actually feel the pain. The monster moaned as it felt the lightening.

"Molly what's wrong? That shouldn't have hurt that much."

Stan asked as Molly fell limp,

"No good Stan she's out cold, I think there's a bug in her program. Remind me to apologize to her when we get back."

Monica said as she moved in to hit the monster again. This time the monster threw the unconscious Molly at Monica. Monica couldn't dodge, she had to catch Molly otherwise the impact of hitting the ground would take all her life points away and Molly would be devirtualized permanently. Monica caught Molly but they were both hit by the arm the monster used to blind side Monica with. They were sent flying and Molly rolled to the edge of the floating piece of forest. Monica was thrown a few feet farther and lay on the ground for a moment.

"Monica get up, Molly doesn't have that many life points left and I still can't use the program to bring her in yet. You have to get her to the away tower so she can regenerate her life points."

Stan yelled through the microphone. He hated having to watch everything from his seat, but he was the only one who was smart enough to use the super computer if things went wrong, like right now.

"Molly can you hear me? Please get up, you have to stand up and walk to the away tower."

Molly moaned as she slowly woke up. Her whole body hurt, her muscles complained when she tried to stand. I shouldn't be this hurt. She thought as she stood and began to hobble towards the tower. Her weapon was gone, dropped at some point when she was unconscious. She looked behind her and saw that the monster was on the move towards her.

"I think I'm a goner Stan, this thing is invincible."

"Don't say that. Monica where are you?"

Monica rose to her feet,

"How many life points do I have left?"

She asked gripping her wand tightly.

"You have five left Monica, are you going to use that self destruct spell?"

"Yeah, the lower my life points are, the stronger the spell, so this would be a good time to use it."

"Let's just hope it kills that monster, otherwise Molly won't have anyone to protect her."

Molly was making her way as fast she could manage towards the tower. She was about twenty feet away when the monster caught up to her. She didn't have the energy to dodge as the arm came down to grab her again. Monica ran out from behind a tree and pushed Molly out of way.

"Go, make a run for the tower. I'll delay him as long as I can."

Monica yelled at Molly. Molly nodded and got up, pushing her self into a run to get to the tower before Monica used the self destruct spell. Monica held her ground and hit the monster with more lightening, drawing it's attention. It roared and attacked Monica head on. She let herself get picked up by one of the arms and began chanting the self destruct spell. As Molly threw herself through the tower wall, Monica detonated herself. There was a huge explosion that shook the tower and the whole zone. Molly remaining lying down as she felt her life points begin to regenerate.

"Did she get it?"

Molly asked finally sitting up, she didn't get a response,

"Stan? Did she get him or what?"

She finally got fed up waiting for an answer and walked out of the tower to see for herself. When she looked around she didn't see anything at all. Except for a few broken trees, there was no evidence that the monster had ever existed. Molly breathed a sigh of relief and took a few more steps away from the tower. That's when she heard the growling, she whipped around and looked up. The monster had climbed the tower and was waiting for her to come out. It had a scorch mark on its right side from Monica's spell, but other than that, there was now sign that the monster had been hit. Molly didn't have time to run away, the monster swooped down and grabbed her.

"Let me go! Stan?! Ted!? Monica!? Somebody help!"

The monster ignored her struggling and brought her to its mouth. It opened its mouth wide and dropped a screaming Molly in, swallowing her whole.

Stan, Monica, and Ted watched in horror as their friend was eaten by the huge monster.

"No, no, no, no! This can't be happening, Stan do something man!"

Ted yelled at Stan.

"I can't the system is locked up, this new virus has locked me out of the computer and I don't know how to bypass it. We can't do anything to save her."

Stan held his head in his hands and began to cry.

"What will we tell her sister? Her parents? The School? We can't tell them the truth then we won't be able to fight HANA if we are locked out of the factory."

Monica sobbed.

Ted grabbed the computer screen,

"Give her back, you stupid machine! She doesn't deserve this!"

Molly's player card came up on the screen for a moment and the trio watched as her life points reached zero and then the card dissolved. Stan pushed a few buttons and then turned off the screen. Facing his friends he said,

"It's official, as of today, Molly Green is dead."

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