Mary heard someone approaching and turned her gaze, seeing her arch enemy coming. She saw her doom coming yet she did not get up to her battle stance. She no longer cared if she existed or did not. Without friends, without hope, without anything she no longer had enough strength to fight a fight she now felt to be doomed to lose.
"Go ahead! Destroy me! I won't stop you any longer! The whole world has abandoned me, so it doesn't matter where I am anymore! It doesn't matter if I do exist or not anymore!" Mary said with a shaking but determinate voice. She was certain about her decision; she could not stand it anymore. This was hopeless, was it not?
William became confused because Mary had always fought for her life no matter what happened. She had fought even against her friend when the only other option was destruction! What on Earth had happened?
"How on Lyoko have you got that attitude? You've always fought for your life with all means available!" William asked, astounded.
"My friends have abandoned me because they think I'm dead. And when I try to contact them, they think I'm a specter! Even on Lyoko! My life has no meaning anymore!" Mary said and started to cry again. XanaWilliam was completely confused. He did not comprehend how Mary had suddenly started to act like that; after all, the girl had escaped him for already a week. The Xana Warrior no longer knew what to do. Even the head, X.A.N.A., was just as confused, which caused XanaWilliam to stay put without an order.
That was when Mary noticed that X.A.N.A.'s grip on William started to loosen. It awakened a small glimpse of hope in her. Could she still do something to change the situation? Was saving William still possible?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. She would die anyway even if she did nothing. She could die trying to save her childhood friend from X.A.N.A.'s clutches as well. Therefore, she thought up a plan and decided to lure William to the tower which held the protected calculations for the program which was meant to free him. On her way there she would think about her moves better. She stood up and pointed at the wall behind William.
"What's that?" she asked, seeming suddenly panicky. William turned, and Mary used her wings to rise up from the garage. Outside the girl shouted down, "Never believe everything that the enemy says!"
Then she left. William got angry, of course, called his black Manta and started the chase. Mary opened the tunnel to Ice Sector, looked behind her and left, knowing that William chased after her. Occasionally Mary turned to fly backwards and shouted hoots at her chaser. This, of course, made William more and more angry.
Soon Mary found the tower was looking for and flew straight into it. She did not have much time to combine the calculations, download them into a fireball and prepare to act. However, William was faster than Mary expected, and the girl tried to keep him a sword's length away with her fireballs until the download would be ready.
"Come on, hurry up now," Mary mumbled through the teeth she had clamped together. The download was almost ready and William was almost close enough to hit the very last strike.
"Hurry up, hurry up!" Mary growled. Then the download was ready and a greenish fireball appeared into her hand.
William backed off, alert. He realized that Mary was plotting something and threw her out of the tower. The girl protected her precious fireball and got up to wait for William. He came out and Mary closed her eyes, prayed in her mind that it would work and then threw the fireball at William after opening her eyes. The Xana Warrior did not have time to dodge and a blinding white-hot shockwave knocked them both unconscious to the ground.
/Code Lyoko (c) Moonscoop, Lyokostar story series and its original characters (c) Me/