Well readers I've yet another crazy crossover story for you all... crossing the Cartoon Network Maguzi programming block's mega-hit series straight from France is Code Lyoko! Set moments after Lucy's supposed death at episode 13 her soul simply won't rest. It wanders around until it settles into the digital realm called by our story heroes "Lyoko". After XANA's demise unusual activity was attracted attention by Jeremie. He sends Ulrich, Yumi, William, and Odd into the system to investigate. What they find inside will be shocking. Rating is K+ or E10+ or Everyone 10 and up for fantasy action violence, and mild rude humor/innuendo.
-Chapter 1 - A Cyber-punk warrior?
The worn out Diclonius girl named Kaede was tired frankly she was tired of running, tired of killing, tired of slaughtering innocent people, and finally tired of hurting the only boy she ever truly loved Kohta. This was it in a few short seconds she would be shot and executed at long last. If she could go back and redo things she'd do things right time. Not that it'd ever happen. The various soldiers aimed their guns on her ready to shoot.
"Kohta I'm sorry." She thought tears forming in her eyes. She loved him and all she'd ever done was hurt him. Soon back on her feet and closing her eyes at the men waiting to shoot she waited for the inevitable. And so in a barrage of bullets Kaede died but but, but, but, However somehow someway her soul could not rest peacefully and wandered aimlessly for a few years. During a powerful thunderstorm there were several powerful positive lightning strikes which bizarrely carried six to ten times the usual charge & voltage difference compared to normal lightning aka the negative type. Kaede's soul still had a few of her vector's properties at her disposal like vibrating materials apart and their vibration rate created a gravity anomaly disrupting the fabric of the space-time continuum. This combined with the giant cellphone tower connected to the internet in reasons unknown to science digitized her spirit into the web.
There her spirit reformed itself subconsciously into a stronger form of her liking. A large orb of light encased her and in a flash transported her to a large desert area of sorts. Odd considering this was the world wide web and not the Sahara. Her new form was deposited behind a large rock edifice. But her arrival would not go unnoticed by a particular set of French youths with a very particular set of skills.
-begin The One I Embrace the Most by Ambience
-Kadic Academy - Boulogne-Billancourt, France -3 months later
It had been 3 months since the young group the Lyoko Warriors defeated the ultra powerful program Xana as things finally started to return to a sense of normality. Though the teens hated the danger they'd be hard pressed to deny they enjoyed being the action hero types. All of them were walking through the nearby sewer to reach the abandoned factory, and by all that meant the whole group. Ulrich Stern the unofficial leader, his 'not' girlfriend Yumi Ishiyama, the jokester of the team Odd Della Robbia, Aelita Schaeffer as a program who was in fact a human being, and finally the oldest team member yet still the rookie William Dunbar.
But one of the groups most integral members Jeremie Belpois was absent. In fact he had told them to meet at the factory for reasons known only to him. Or made any sense to him. Odd tried probing some info out of Aelita hoping she'd spill the beans on Jeremie. "So tell me my Einstein called us all here again?''
"Sorry Jeremie wouldn't even tell me. Me of all people. His girlfriend. It must be important. He didn't sound worried so it must not be anything serious, I guess.'' The pink haired Aelita theorized.
After finally reaching the supercomputer room they were shock seeing it all decked out with party things like balloons, ribbons, streamers, everything a party usually had. There was even a snack table with canned drinks in a bucket of ice. Naturally Ulrich had to ask the obvious question. "Ok just what is all this Jeremie? What's happening?''
Scratching his blushing cheeks Jeremie had to finally come clean and explain. "Eh call me sentimental if you will but I figured its been a 3 months since we took down Xana and with a lot of Aelita's help we uh made a small party here to celebrate.''
"You sneak. Come here.'' Yumi snickered putting Aelita into headlock playfully giving her a noogie for good measure. Mainly for keeping quiet about it. Taking a can of soda from the ice Yumi opened it somehow figuring Aelita was the nerd's co-conspirator in all this.
Next everyone took a canned drink opening them on cue as Jeremie had prepared a small speech for this event. ''Lyoko Warriors I present a toast to the 3 month anniversary of Xana's defeat. Do I hear a few ayes on that?''
"Aye!'' Everyone unanimously agreed.
They raised their drinks together in a joyful toast and all drank up. "So just how did you set this all up?'' Ulrich asked.
Now that he said that just how did he & Aelita manage to organize this whole thing? "Well remember how she and I were kinda distant during that past few days? We were planning during that time. In fact we even faked an argument just so you'd all be thrown off.''
"I do remember that. You two looked ready to tear each other apart like sharks in a feeding frenzy.'' Odd mentioned the previous event. He was shocked it was all faked. They played the team like fiddles.
"Huh? What is this?" Jeremie said seeing an odd data signature suddenly popping up in the restored Sector 2 also known as the Desert Sector. "Something's come up in Sector 2. Not Xana but something else. We should take a look at it. If its a threat we find it and we will kill it. If not then we won't and that'll be the end of it.''
"Ok but do we have to drag him along?'' The raven-haired griped gesturing at William.
The newest student of Kadic however despite atoning for being controlled by Xana before its final defeat the others still didn't seem to trust him. "Look just let me help ok? Least I can do after all I did before. I swore I'd help before and I mean it now.'' William argued. Still the group just gave him a few nasty glares. "Ok I'll stay back and cover you guys then? That ok?''
"He's right. We might need everyone on this. Something tells me something is in trouble and needs help. But I'm not sure what it is.'' Aelita worryingly confessed glancing at William.
"Best I can think of.'' Odd grumbled not liking it but seeing no other option.
And so quickly they dusted off the virtualization tech and transported into the digital dimension called Lyoko. The second they landed on the sandy ground Jeremie contacted them. "Remember just look around to investigate but stay together if Xana monsters show up. NO cowboy stunts." Jeremie stated as everyone gave a mean glance at William.
The boy simply swallowed his pride and did as he was told. Last time he was a computer program's plaything. Never again. "Whatever you say Einstein." Odd muttered.
Cracking his knuckles William was itching for a little payback at Xana making him its personal puppet. The AI program worked him like a marionette doll. Now it's time to pay the piper. But this time he'd have to fight smarter. No rushing in headlong and then looking like an idiot.
"Fine by me. Gives me a chance to get used to whatever party tricks I got stuck with. No thanks to Xana.'' William grumbled figuring it was best to try at least to get on the group's good side especially since he was possessed by said computer program.
Frankly making matters worse was the fact the others simply didn't want him there in combat. Partly because of trust and frankly his inexperience aka his cockiness.
One by one the warriors went to scanner room, as in all of them. From all that meant Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, Aelita, and William got ready to investigate what was going on in Lyoko. "Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Aelita. Transfer Yumi. Transfer Odd. And transfer William." Jeremie said starting up the process "Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Aelita. Scanner Yumi. Scanner Odd. And scanner ."
-Lyoko...
Once the process was completed, the five landed in the Desert Sector. The now just needed to find out where the strange anomoly was. Hpefully it wasn't anything important. Oh but how wrong the Lyoko Warriors were.
By now though Kaede had awoken from her sleep... she should be dead. Instead she opened her eyes seeing a vast sandy desert with a few large rocky outcrops and weird power cables here and there. Just what kind of afterlife was this? "Eh? Where am I? This isn't Kamakura. Not one bit. What is this place?''
Despite not being an expert on deserts she knew they didn't include giant power cables running through them, wherever she was it wasn't any place she'd ever heard of. Only cutting her off from her train of thought was a barrage of energy blasts sent from a squad of four legged crab monsters, small cube-like bugs, and even wasp-like beasts.
"Hey watch where yer pointing those things! You might hit somebody! Like me! Yow!'' She yelped out taking cover behind a large rock. "Huh what the... ?" It was then she noticed her large assortment of heavy weapons adorning her slender orange armored body. She'd been given two double barrel gatling guns, shoulder cannon and small missile pods on her legs plus another on her other shoulder. Plus she had an armored helmet with a deep grey visor. How? Right now she simply didn't care. "Ooh... Shame not to use these things, least of all on them."
The armored girl leaped out from her hiding spot and opened fire with both her gatling guns which turned out to be laser based. The blasts shredded right through the bigger orange crabs blowing chunks of their armor clean off. The Krab army fell over face first onto a small grassy bush.
The army of cube creatures simply took one look at what this stranger did to the crabs and looked back at her. Almost like they wondered if they just saw what they thought they saw. Little did the monsters know but they'd soon be outgunned and outnumbered.
The five Lyoko Warriors heard weapon fire from just past the nearby trees and saw their target. Whomever they were, they were armed enough to take down Xana's monster horde. In fact the were armed to the teeth.
The unknown fighter launched several missiles from the leg mounted pods which targeted the small wasp monsters. Many were shot and destroyed instantly but it seemed many more came to their fallen comrades aid. "Well there's our anomaly.'' Jeremie noted. He honestly thought it would've taken longer to find it.
"Hey check him out! Looks like we found the target brainiac and so did a few of Xana's leftovers. Somehow. Should we try to help him?'' Odd said suggesting helping the stranger was a bad idea to the blonde boy in glasses.
"Go take them down. Be careful.'' Jeremie warned.
"Just who is that?'' Aelita asked puzzled at just who the strange fighter was. Or where they came from even.
Whoever this stranger was they were slaughtering the numerous Xana monsters. A swarm of Xana wasps sped at the orange armored fighter who retaliated by launching loads of missiles from the pod attached to "his" left shoulder.
"Wow sick moves buddy! Let 'em have it!'' The purple cat-boy loving the moves the stranger had in dealing with the Xana flunkies.
Not sure just how to respond to that Kaede just replied casually. "Um thanks. I guess. Here's advice. HIT THE DIRT!"
And there she tackled Odd to the ground right as a energy blast zoomed just past his head! "Thanks! Check this out Laser Arrow!''
A group of Xana Hornets tried blasting Odd with their stinger lasers with him barely dodging. "So ya wanna dance huh?" He snarked then tumble rolled taking the fight to them. ''Thanks I've love to! Laser arrow! Laser arrow! Laser arrow! Laser arrow!''
Every single Hornet was blasted into nothing! Seeing a horde of Krabs & Bloks nearby William leaped from a tall stony pillar and with his Zweih nder blade sliced off a Blok's head cutting in two. The three Krabs were then sliced clean all the way through with one powerful swing. "Ya like that?! Huh!? Ditto Xana jerks there's plenty more where it came from!'' He roared in a rage speeding for more Krabs to slaughter.
The Krabs fired off their lasers only for William to bob and weave out of their line of fire. So they used the other ability of projecting lighting blasts from under them. The sixth Lyoko Warrior simply jumped high into the air smacking the blast with his blade right back at one of the Krabs blowing it to flinders.
"Jeez lighten up William. Is he tense or what?'' Ulrich sassed seeing just how vicious William was fighting.
Far more than usual except when he was possessed by Xana that is. A nearby Blok tried to shoot him only he slugged it upside its four sided cube face. That stunned it long enough for him to stab it dead. "He's not tense he's on the warpath!'' Yumi corrected him half yelling too.
A few of Xana's Hornet monsters swooped in to help the other monsters as they blasted him with rapid-fire stinger lasers. Using insane speed he jumped and landed on one slicing it. Leaping from that he swatting away the stinger blasts and sliced that one next. The explosion propelled him to cleave the last one and he landed just fine on the dirt.
The behaviors of Xana's creations wasn't like usual though Jeremie noted. They seemed almost scared. Strange he thought so he mentioned this to everyone. "For some reason Xana's goons aren't their usual confident selves.''
Seeing another group of Krabs Aelita with her bracelet powered her Angel Wings and grabbed Ulrich and zoomed towards their hard shelled foes. Moving like an angry dive bombing mother bird Aelita weaved and bobbed every which way avoiding the Krabs attacks she threw Ulrich who sliced the Krabs into crab sushi.
After what Jeremie mentioned Aelita had to agree on that. "Yeah usually they're smarter than this.''
However a group of Bloks had snuck up on the armored weirdo and managed to blast them a few times. seeing their foe stunned they dog-piled them only Aelita swooped in getting away and they piled on Ulrich instead. Naturally he sliced the first right down the middle. The next two were slashed through diagonally.
A mob of tiny Kankrelats barraged the orange fighter step by step to the edge of the Desert Sector hoping they'd fall off into the Digital Sea. Seeing their new ally in trouble Aelita swung several of her energy spheres at the small Xana monsters wiping them out in seconds.
Though just before the last energy ball hit it the last Kankrelat sent a blast that sent the stranger warrior over the edge. With the activation of her wings Aelita weaved like a speeding jet low along the sandy desert floor dodging the blast the nearby Krabs shot at her and rescuing the armored fighter from falling off the sector's edge and into the endless Sea.
She landed as the stranger shook their head getting their bearings back. "Uh thanks. Again.'' The stranger said gruffly only for another Krab tried to swipe at them. This cued 'him' to launch her missiles from her shoulder pod blowing the Krab to pieces.
It seemed there were still more of the Blok and Krabs ready to take on the team and their new ally. Staring down a few of them the stranger sized them up wondering just what they'll do. They sidestepped a few times as did the Bloks & Krabs almost how they should tackle this odd new enemy. They were sizing it up.
"Oh ya think ya can take me eh? Here take this!'' The teams new ally yelled out rushing for the group of Xana monsters.
And faster than the eye could track them the warrior ripped the Krab's leg right off and threw it impaling a Blok right square in one of its four eyes. Tearing off another 'he' threw the next one at another Krab impaling it too in the eye.
"Heh not bad for a newbie.'' Yumi said seeing this fighter had some serious skill in combat. But just who were they? And where'd they come from?
"Thanks again.'' The fighter gruffly said as Xana's monsters were popping out of every hole of the proverbial desert woodwork. It seemed they just kept coming no matter many were taken down more just popped up to take their places. "Don't these little parasites ever quit!" The warrior ranted.
Quickly the large swarm had the Lyoko Warrior surrounded and trapped like rats in a trap. Seeing the design specs for the weapons had a ultra powerful technique the orange fighter figured it might be a good time to bust it out. They figured it was now or never and let loose a battle cry. "Ok let's see what this gear can really do! Omega Weapon Strike yahhhh!''
This cued the orange suited fighter to barrage the monster swarm with continuous gatling gun fire, missile blasts, and finally energy shots from the shoulder cannon. At first only the front row monsters were blasted but soon the continued heavy weapon fire mowed them down like overgrown lawn grass. The attack continued as more of the monsters were blasted to microscopic dust particles.
It seemed the forces of Xana had picked the wrong day to pick a fight with someone they didn't know. In fact they should've stayed home! The monster army was soon engulfed in huge spherical shaped fiery explosions. The ultra powerful warrior unloaded every last bit of ammo they could on the minions of Xana. Then they ran out... and the horde was on fire and the sand charred and burnt like a bad potato chip. Slowly and steadily the huge billows of smoke started clearing up leaving nothing left of the large Xana attack force.
Once all the Xana monsters had been mopped up the battle was over. Well almost since there was a lone straggler, a small Kankrelat which apparently was nervously looking around seeing it was alone but hoping it wasn't. The armored orange fighter lowered the shoulder cannon ready to blast the creature to kingdom come. They added a few last taunts at its expense. "Oh one little jerk left huh? You wanna fight? Fine by me, dead or alive I'm taking you down. Your move creep.''
The meek little bug then suddenly leaped and clamped itself right on its attackers face visor, hard! It would not let go no matter what. "Ahh! Get if off! Get it off me! Get it off! Ahh get it off now! Help! Dahhh!" The cool fighter ranted and raved oddly enough like a scared schoolgirl. Not like a guy at all.
Even more crazy was the Kankrelat glowing then self-detonating itself engulfing the warrior's new ally in a huge fireball explosion. The smoke slowly cleared as the orange fighter fell over backwards hitting the sand with heavy thud. The stranger's armor didn't look too good being charred and burnt.
Ever the caring leader type Ulrich ran to the downed warrior. But it wasn't good. Whomever this person was their Life Points were deleting fast and if they ran out... death was the outcome. Helping lift the stranger up despite the bulky weapons planted on them Ulrich didn't see any option other than de-virtualizing them back to the real world. "Jeremie de-virtualize us this second! Our help just collapsed!''
However ever the logical one Jeremie had to negate that suggestion. "Big negative. We don't even know where he came from. De-virtualizing might be too dangerous. It could even kill them."
This wasn't the time for formalities it was time for quick action! Whomever this person was the warriors couldn't just leave them there not after having helped save their skins. "They won't make it much longer! We're not leaving them! DO IT! NOW!" William half hollered out.
And so the group vanished from the data based world of Lyoko and back into the real world. Once they exited their virtualization chambers Yumi's jaw dropped. Odd was going to make a stupid joke about her long face until he saw just what she was gawking at. ''What the... ! Our friend he's a... He's a SHE." Odd gasped. In no way was he expecting this.
"Ok didn't see that one coming.'' William admitted without a shred of sarcasm in his voice. He was in shock too.
Set over Ulrich's shoulder was their ally... they were in fact a girl! He gently laid her down on a emergency stretcher bed. Despite not being a fashion whiz Jeremie saw their pink haired guest had a long black sleeveless dress with a pink t-shirt worn underneath and a set of grey & black striped long socks nearly going to below her knees. Pretty odd considering her orange armored avatar form, quite a contrast. "Well this is... weird. Even for us.'' The blonde nerd uttered facepalming.
"Looks like Aelita's cousin several times removed. Eh am I right?'' Odd joked only the others weren't laughing in just they glared daggers at him. "Oh right huge buzz-kill.'' He said taking that wisecrack back as fast as he made it.
-sometime later
Mumbling a bit Kaede strained to move her body. Somehow she was tired but still able to move her limbs. She managed to open her eyes seeing a pink haired girl and blonde boy wearing glasses sitting down apparently watching over her. The girl was relieved to see her awake and well. "Hey there. Nice to see you're awake and OK."
"Who? What? Uh where... where am I? Who're you? How'd I get here? Where is here?" The pink haired girl groggily asked not knowing where she was much less how she arrived there.
The two figured they were being too insensitive to their injured helper. Especially after how well she handled herself in Lyoko. The least they could do was the need to introduce themselves. The boy went first. "My name's Jeremie Belpois and this is Aelita. This is the supercomputer complex under the abandoned factory near Kadic Academy."
The terms weren't familiar to her in the slightest. This wasn't Japan evidently. "Kadic Academy? Never heard of it. Heck I haven't heard of a lot of things... " The girl admitted. It was then where she added her name. But she'd use her true name not the garbage the facility used. "My name is Kaede. No last name sorry. But aren't you freaked out by how freakish I am?"
The calm Aelita gestured at her head and face. "You mean your pink cotton candy hued hair? Or your cherry red eyes. I'm not bothered." Aelita said ever so casually twirling it lightly.
This puzzled Kaede just how did Aelita not get freaked out by her horns? Everyone except Kohta was freaked out or disgusted by them. This so-called Jeremie spoke up again. "So does Aelita. It doesn't bother me or my friends."
It seemed to Aelita whomever this girl was she had a poor self-image or was very vain worrying how her good her looks were. Looking through a nearby desk Aelita handed their guest an old compact mirror. Shockingly enough Kaede saw her horns were gone. Like it was magic. "I guess you're... right." She admitted very much stumped.
As long as those cursed things were gone she could care less. Everyone despised her because of them. But if they'd somehow vanished well then she could live with that. All she ever wanted was an ordinary life like everybody else had. ''So what was that place you found me at?"
Typing up the info on the computer network Jeremie then explained the whole fiasco involving Lyoko, Aelita's father, and the might of their powerful enemy the computer AI Xana. It was a lot to take but Kaede figured out the basics. But there was the fact Xana's monsters were still running around. "But if Xana is finished why're his troops still running around?"
"Uh... Well we're not sure on that one.'' Aelita admitted shrugging. She wished she knew the answer but right it was a lost cause.
It was by then everyone introduced themselves... the purple cat-boy was a blonde boy named Odd. Plus the two lovebirds Ulrich Stern and the Japanese Yumi. Though they kept denying such a thing even existed at all for so long. Then there was the new guy William who sadly had been brainwashed by Xana for quite some time until he was freed. On a side note Kaede was told Jeremie and Aelita were together too.
After a few more checks to see if Kaede was truly alright and not some Xana program Jeremie found all was good. The second Kaede got up from her makeshift bed was a big shocker to them all. She was tall compared to them. Very tall. In fact more than William. "Geez and I thought I was tall.'' Looking up at her Yumi blinked noted seeing how Kaede was a full 6 inches taller than her. Which made her 5 foot 11 inches. Now Yumi knew how her brother felt with her leaning over him.
Becoming suddenly very self-conscious of her height Kaede timidly asked if that was a bad thing. "Is that bad?"
With a gentle patting of her shoulder Odd told her the opposite. "Nope. All the more of you to like.'' Odd joked which made Kaede blush redder than a cherry. It was so rare boys paid her compliments on her looks. "Easy there or you might make the cherries jealous.'' He joked again.
After the whole set of introductions were finished though too crazy to think possible, but in only one whole night, the bespectacled Jeremie had been able somehow to forge a document for Kaede so she could attend the school with them. Though she'd be a grade above them, the same as Yumi and William. Her ID with her input she requested she be given the last name Okamoto with her place of birth Kamakura Japan though having been raised in France and recently transferred to Kadic.
She looked over her ID. She didn't look too terrible in the manipulated photo, and like before with the mirror she confirmed her horns mysteriously vanished without a trace. Again not that she cared. Unlike Yumi she'd be bunking at Kadic right across the hall from Aelita's room. Mostly so the two could bond and have each other's back when trouble came up.
However, the newest warrior began to have second thoughts about attending the school when she had gotten her single room furnished. It was small to put it lightly. But she had Odd show her around the floor, though mostly it was Odd volunteering for the job without any reason except those known only to him. Though Yumi had a few ideas. But still too early to say if her instincts were right. Her idea, was that Odd took a liking to their new guest. He was a self-proclaimed ladies man after all.
Shortly after being shown her single bed room Odd again cheerfully 'volunteered' to show off his room to her. Like hers it was small but his roommate was Ulrich. Just how did the two manage not to going stir crazy in such a microscopic room? "Well this is me and Ulrich's room. We're just a hop, skip, and a jump away so don't hesitate to call me... er I mean us uh us I mean. I mean call us when there's trouble.'' He said correcting himself hoping she didn't hear that last remark. Turns out she didn't. ''Oh good save there Odd.''
Hopping out from Odd's bottom dresser drawer was a small dog much to the girl's surprise. "You have a dog? I didn't know you had a dog." Kaede uttered puzzled. "How'd you get a dog here?"
She heard pets were banned from Kadic. So how'd Odd have one? "Oh none of the staff know and his name's Kiwi." Odd explained.
Bending down she looked the small canine in the face. It'd been far too long since she'd been with one up close. The small grey canine yapped and quickly started happily licking her face. "Looks like he likes you." Odd giggled seeing how Kiwi was usually a great judge of character.
Glancing back at Odd while Kiwi kept licking her she had a confession to make. ''Well guess I am kind of a dog person." Kaede blushed getting a fluttering sensation in her heart something she didn't understand and why it came over her. Sure Odd was a well odd cheesy jokester but still she got the feeling deep down he wasn't a bad guy. And neither were his friends. She instinctively knew she could trust them. Somehow. For reasons unknown even for her.
-to be continued
In case you haven't figured it Kaede's Lyoko design was based heavily off Gundam Heavyarms Kai (Endless Waltz version but in TV colors). As far as pairings go nothing super special except I'm pairing Kaede up with Odd. The others are Jeremy/Aelita, Ulrich/Yumi... but still not sure about William yet. Maybe I'll add an OC for him. Or somehow work Sissi into his heart. Also making Kaede the tallest of the group is mostly for plot elements especially since Odd is only 4 foot 8 inches quite a contrast I think. Think Yumi is 5 foot 5 inches compared to Ulrich who's only 5 foot and 1 inch. Not as extreme of a difference.
Why Odd? Simple his cheery mindset VS Kaede's serious demeanor might get her out of her shell and trust those around her. Plus Odd isn't a bad guy deep down & he has a dog. Kaede loves animals especially dogs. Expect a lot of little in-jokes and references during their many spats. Also why didn't I put in any Megatanks? Well that will addressed somewhat next chapter about just who or what is controlling Xana's personal goonsquad. Also many readers might want to know just why I insert songs in so many of my fics. Well for a few reasons because for one they're awesome. Second they set a mood. A creepy tone. Like action. Or adventure.
Please read and review this and my other stories where I strive to satisfy the craving for bizarre crossovers. This has been TURP "The Crossover Writer" and now slightly less insane phasing out people later.