Chapter 2
"Hi Odd, is that the new girl?" asks Ulrich.
"Yes, and her name is Zoe by the way." said Odd.
"So Odd are you going to introduce your friends or not." says Zoe sitting down.
"Yeah, that's Ulrich, that's Yumi, that's Jeremy and last but not least Aelita." he says.
"I see, Odd's told me a lot about you."
"Wait you already knew Odd?" says Ulrich.
"Oh yeah me and Odd are childhood friends. Didn't he tell you?"
"No."
"I have Ulrich. But I always called her Zee remember." said Odd.
"Oh right. Odd said a whole lot about you." says Aelita.
Zoe and the others continued to eat lunch and Odd eat a load of food while telling jokes. Then Sissy came over.
"What do you want Sissy?" said Ulrich with scorn in his voice.
"I only came over to talk to the new girl." says Sissy.
"And what would the daughter of the principle want with me?" said Zoe in a mock Sissy voice standing up to face her.
"Well just to ask who you were talking about when you were in the woods that your friends know but don't want them to know you know." says Sissy.
"Can you please make sense." said Zoe nervously.
But Sissy just turned around and walked off knowing that Ulrich dear and his friends won't trust her much now.
"What did she mean?" asked Yumi.
"Search me." Zoe said with worry in her voice. She and Odd new exactly what she meant.
"What's going on here?" says Jim coming over to the table.
Jeremy was just about to say something when the lights began to flicker and black smoke came pouring out of it. It headed strait for Zoe but knowing what it was dived away just as it reached were she used to be standing. So it tried going for her again but she somersaulted away. The XANA smoke decide to give up on the girl and instead possessed Jim. Jim dived at the children but they managed to get away.
"XANA must have activated a tower." says Aelita.
Aelita screamed as Jim charged at her only to be hit on the head by a tray, he looked around to see thrower of the tray Zoe. Jim went for Zoe but she once again somersaulted away.
"I'll keep Jim busy while you go and stop XANA." she called dodging a fist.
"What?" said Jeremy dumfounded that Zoe knew that They were to stop him.
"I'll explain latter now go." Zoe called as she lead Jim to the other end of the hall.
The gang ran out towards the forest clearing.
"How did she know?" asked Ulrich while running.
"Didn't Sissy say something about her and Odd knowing." said Yumi.
They stopped at the drain cover and all eyes turned to Odd.
"Listen we'll explain latter but now Zoe is in danger and we have to deactivate the tower." he said pulling up the drain cover and dropping down into the sewer and grabbing his skateboard the others following close behind, as they raced down the sewers Odd prayed that Zoe would be able to hold up.
Jim ran at Zoe. And she pulled a stunt by standing in front of a brick wall then stepping away at the last moment allowing Jim to crash head first into the wall knocking him out.
"They always fall for that." she said out of breath.
One of the students then arrived with some rope that she had asked for then tied him up.
"What's wrong with him?" he said.
"He must be delirious or something." she said off the top of her head.
Zoe waited and waited but no white light came to envelop them.
"Agh!" screamed someone. Zoe turned round to see Jim awake just as he broke his bounds. Zoe prepared to fight once again but Jim just smirked, turned and ran. Zoe knew where he was going and gave chase, but since Jim was possessed he was much faster.
Zoe pulled out her phone and hoped that the team was nearly done because if not they were in trouble.
"Careful Ulrich you only have 20 life points left, Yumi you have 30, Aelita 60 and Odd 50." said Jeremy suddenly his phone ringed and he was suppressed to find it was Zoe. He answered
"How did you get my number?" he asked.
"I'll explain latter. But tell everyone to hurry because Jim is heading your way." said Zoe. Who was now running along the sewer route.
"Ok and Zoe be careful."
"Always."
"Shield!" calls Odd and purple energy field appeared in front of him blocking a laser from a Block.
Odd and Aelita were battling the monsters while Yumi and Ulrich were still battling William. A crab fired at Aelita and caught her in the leg.
"Careful Aelita you've just lost another 10 life points." said Jeremy's voice from above. "And can you hurry I just got word from Zoe that Jim's on his way.
"Got it Einstein" said Odd. "Laser arrow!" called Odd firing at the Block causing it to explode.
"Energy field!" called Aelita throwing a pink orb at the Crab meeting the same fate as the Block.
Yumi threw her fan at William only to have it blocked by his huge sword. Ulrich tried to hit William with his twin katana but he was once again blocked.
"Shadow smoke!" said William turning to a cloud of smoke racing along the ground behind the pair. Yumi and Ulrich just managed to dodge his attack when there was a scream from above distracting them long enough for William to hit Ulrich and Yumi with his sword and devirtualised them.
"Yumi, Ulrich! Aelita deal with the rest of the monsters and get to the tower I'll distract William." and with that Odd ran at William to fight.
In a room with 3 mechanical cylinders and then suddenly 2 of them opened to revel Yumi and Ulrich stepping out.
"Jeremy!" said Ulrich remembering the reason for there distraction.
Running into the elevator Ulrich punched the button closing the doors as it ascended. When the door opened again it revealed Jim holding Jeremy up by the neck trying to strangle him. Ulrich picked up a near by metal pole and swung it at Jim causing him to drop Jeremy and turn on Ulrich., Yumi picked up another pole and joined Ulrich in fighting Jim. Ulrich and Yumi were thrown into the elevator and Jim followed, Ulrich got up and hit the up button closing the doors leading Jim away from Jeremy and the super computer.
Zoe finally reached the factory at last and leaned over quickly to catch her breath. The elevator snapped into action and caught her attention, when the elevator finally reached the top and the doors opened Ulrich and Yumi were thrown out they looked very battered. Jim stood over Yumi about to strike when a yell rang out he looked up to see Zoe swinging on one of the cables and her feet collided with Jim's face causing him to fall over. Zoe landed on her feet and helped Yumi and Ulrich up onto theirs.
"Thanks Zoe." said Yumi. "If it wasn't for you…"
"It's alright and call me Zee." she interrupted. "Will you be able to manage Jim over there?" she pointed to Jim who was getting up.
"Yeah I think we will." said Ulrich.
"Good, see you soon." said Zoe jumping into the elevator and pressing the down button.
When the elevator doors opened up again to the surprise of Jeremy Zoe stepped out.
"How are they doing?" she asked
"Only Aelita and Odd are left and they are both low on life points. Odd is up against William leaving him with 30 life points and although Aelita is against 2 Tanks and 3 Hornets William managed to hit her when Odd wasn't looking leaving her with 20 life points. If Aelita doesn't' get to the tower soon she'll be devitualised" said Jeremy baffled that Zoe seemed to be following this with ease.
"Send me." said Zoe.
"What?"
"Listen it's already clear I know a lot about XANA and I managed to hold my own against Jim for long enough without getting hurt. And I'm the only person you've got." said Zoe.
Jeremy thought for along time until a voice came from the computer.
"Just send her already!" shouted Odd.
"Fine, Zoe go down the scanner room and get into one of the scanners." said Jeremy.
Zoe once again went into the elevator and pressed the down button and when the doors opened she quickly stepped into an open scanner and the scanner doors closed.
"Transfer Zoe, scanner Zoe, Virtualisation."
On Lyoko Zoe dropped down onto the ground and looked around the forest sector. So this is Lyoko, she thought.
"Zoe the others are North-West of where your facing." says Jeremy from the sky.
"Got it" Zoe calls.
Zoe ran to where everyone else was when she was ambushed by 2 Hornets, they fired at her and she managed to dodge. Looking over herself for a weapon she found a staff on her back with a big crystal on the top. The Hornets fired again, instinctively Zoe swung the staff in front on her and cried…
"Absorption!"
The two lasers suddenly were sucked into her crystal, Zoe looked at her staff and smiled then pointed the crystal at one of the Hornets.
"Fire!" she said and one of the lasers left her crystal and destroyed it. Zoe was about to blast the other when it shot her staff out of her hand and continued to fire at Zoe to get her away from her weapon. She climbed one of the trees and hid behind it.
"Zoe you lost 10 life points." came Jeremy's voice
"Got it thanks." she said. Zoe looked her self over for a secondary weapon when her eyes fell upon the nails she had just used to climb the tree, they were sharp and pointed and when she looked at her shoes she saw that the ends were pointed into makeshift claws. The Hornet came round the tree to attack but Zoe attacked first.
"Quick slash!" said Zoe jumping at the Hornet as her nails grew longer into claws and she slashed the remaining Hornet in the symbol. She landed on the feet as the Hornet exploded, picking up her staff she once again set off.
Odd was having plenty on trouble with William, he was on his last 5 arrows and 20 life points. And Aelita was till battling a Megatank and a Block. William tripped Odd up and he fell onto his back. William was just about to deliver the final blow and take the rest of Odd's life points.
"Fire!"
William was hit by a blast that shot him away from Odd, he got back up to see who attacked him. In front of him helping Odd up was a Vixen, it was Zoe.
Zoe was wearing a pure white top tucked into her trousers, over the shirt was a ruby red sleeveless unzipped jacket and where the arms came out was what looked like white fur, her gloves started midway up the top part of her arm and began with white fur it was too red until bellow the elbow where it turned brown and the gloves ended not wrapped around the fingers but in a point just reaching the bottom of the middle finger, her trousers had more white fur around the waist and were red until past the knee when they turned brown, her shoes had 3 spikes on each foot and claws on her fingers. Zoe's white hair with red highlights still covered her left eye while under her right eye was a black Z marking, and finally in place of her human ears were big fox ears and at the base of her spine a red bushy and elegant tail with a white tip. (If you want to see my drawing of Lyoko Zoe visit my account on DeviantART called DreamVixen2511.)
"Odd help Aelita, I'll keep tall, dark and hansom over here busy." says Zoe.
Odd ran over to Aelita and destroyed the Block.
"So you think a rookie can beat me?" says William in a mocking tone.
"Well then lets see shall we." says Zoe holding her staff in front of her and attacked.
Ulrich held his side in pain, he was bloody all over and was pretty sure at least one of his ribs were broken. Yumi was doing all she could to keep the door that separated them from Jim closed, she too was badly injured broken nose, a huge gash down the side of the arm and limping badly. Ulrich went over to help her.
"I hope Zoe has got what it takes on Lyoko to stop William long enough to get Aelita to the tower." said Yumi.
"What makes you think she's on Lyoko?" says Ulrich.
"If she didn't plan on going to Lyoko I don't think she would Jim to just us."
"Well she had better hurry then." said Ulrich as Jim had started to bust through the door.
William swung his sword sideways at Zoe but at the last second she jumped and landed on top of the sword then kicked him in the face with a clawed boot, he hit the ground and growled at the fact he had just lost a total of 30 life points to this lone rookie.
"Shadow smoke!" he said and turned to black smoke travelling along the ground fast, Zoe tried to dodge him but he tripped her up. Fully materialising in front of her and directed his huge sword towards her heart. Just as William was about to devirtualise her he was hit by a Laser arrow.
Odd this time came to Zoe's rescue after defeating the last Mega tank, Aelita was now running to the tower.
"So Zee what do you say we show William what will happen when he messes with us?" says Odd with mischief in his eyes.
"Lets." she replied.
Together they were a strong force, when William went for one the other always had their back. Both being very athletically able they flipped away from Williams attacks and could kick and punch him if they could get past the sword and in Zoe's case deliver some damage. XANA monitored them through Williams eyes separate William could easily handle them but together they always seemed to know what the other was thinking and worked in harmony to become a deadly force, a deadly force he could use.
Jim was closing down on Yumi and Ulrich, Yumi was unconscious and Ulrich had her in his hands trying to drag her away but to no avail thanks to his broken ankle. Jim charged up electricity in his hand ready to fire and Ulrich braced for impact.
Aelita floated up the tower and landed on a platform, a screen came up and she put her hand on it. Taking her hand of the screen read Aelita then Code Lyoko.
"Tower deactivated." Aelita said.
Jim fell to the floor just before blasting Ulrich and Yumi and Ulrich let out a sigh of relief.
The tower stopped glowing red and William growled.
"Well William nice playing with you." said Zoe.
A white light came from the tower. I can't resist, thought Zoe and fired the Laser arrow Odd gave her at William and devirtualised him just as the white light hit them.
"Return to the past now!" said Jeremy.
Now the XANA threat is over how much does Zoe know of Lyoko?
Will she join the group?
And what does XANA have planned?
Find out once I get my next chapter out.