Chapter 3 - split
burgessa- wow
the others- Oo
kasi karra- thanks
all- you know the disclaimer and claimers
"We're what?!" Yumi asked again.
"We have to save Xana," Olivia said finishing her typing. "Are you coming or not?"
"Why would we go save Xana? She just changed sides!" Ulrich exclaimed.
"How do you know?" Olivia asked eyeing Ulrich. Ulrich looked for an explanation, but was unable to come up with a good one.
"Fine, but how do you know she hasn't changed?" Ulrich asked Olivia in almost an accusing dare.
"How was I created?" Olivia asked.
Ulrich was taken off guard. "What do you mean?" he asked.
"I was created from Crystal and A.X.," Olivia said answering her own question. "I've been catching glimpses of A.X.'s plan lately. They aren't clear and perfect, but I believe that this last "attack" of his was like a decoy. It was merely to confuse us."
"What would confusing us do?" Yumi asked.
"If we thought that Xana was evil and in the beginning stages of becoming evil we would hunt her and try to kill her or try to change her, dropping our defenses and making us vulnerable," Aelita said catching on. "So now we're splitting up and becoming more vulnerable."
Olivia nodded. "It's a chance we'll have to take."
"Why don't we just tell the others and stay together?" Ulrich asked.
"You saw the look in Crystal's eyes Ulrich," Yumi said.
-flash back-
"we have to kill Xana the next time we see her," Crystal finished. The others nodded. No one was happy about it, but they knew that they could barely handle A.X. on a bad day. How would they handle two of them.
"From now on Xana is our enemy too," Crystal declared.
-end flashback-
Ulrich sighed. "All right. I'm in," he said putting his hand out in the middle of the circle they had unconciously formed. Yumi nodded as she put her hand on top of Ulrich's. Aelita nodded and put her hand on top.
"Thanks you guys," Olivia said with a smile. "Virtualize," she whispered as she put her hand on top. "Lets go," she said.
"Wait a minute," Ulrich said. Everyone stopped and looked at Ulrich. "Our group is a little small. Isn't there some one else that is willing to help?" he asked.
"Crystal is set on Xana's destruction and Odd will do what ever she does," Yumi pointed out.
"And Sapphire will do whatever Crystal does which means that William will help them also," Aelita continued. "And I have no idea how Jeremy will react, but he won't be a lot of help if he virtualizes and follows us."
"True," Ulrich sighed. "Fine. Lead the way."
Olivia nodded, taking the lead as they left. "We're coming Xana. Just stay strong . . ." Olivia prayed.
After the Lyoko Warriors had left a black smoke filled the room. A.X. laughed as he inserted a disk and downloaded a program.
"THEY DID'S WHAT?!" Sapphire screamed. Even William backed off as Sapphire let off some steam.
"They've gone to save Xana," Jeremy calmly replied again. Jeremy sat in his seat in the lab at the main computer. Crystal read the screen over his shoulder. Odd scratched threw the ball for Kiwi to catch again. William stood a little ways away from Sapphire as she nearly exploded in anger.
"Olivia signed her name first, so I believe that she's the one in charge," Crystal said pointing at the screen.
"I knews we couldn't trust her either," Sapphire muttered between a few strings of curses.
"Maybe they have a good reason to save Xana?" William innocently suggested. Sapphire glared at him, Her eyes were almost like a deep black pit of hate. "Or maybe not." Wililam quickly took back.
"Their power signatures are headed south," Jeremy said pointing to a small beeping red dot.
"It looks like Olivia downloaded a program that should have covered their trail," Crystal whispered looking at another screen. "Looks like it didn't work."
"We better hurry and stop them before they reach Xana or get into trouble," Odd said, piping in for the first time.
Everyone agreed. "Virtualization," Jeremy said pressing enter.
Crystal, Odd, Sapphire and William stood and got in the elevator. Crystal summoned a little ball of light. "Jeremy are you there?" she asked.
"Roger that," Jeremy said.
"It works just like a cell phone Jeremy," Crystal said. "You'll figure it out." Crystal dropped the ball and it attached itself to her belt almost like a cell phone.
"They just reached the Sahara Desert, but they aren't moving very fast. If you guys hurry you can catch them about half way through at noon tomorrow."
The group nodded as they took off.
"Keep running . . . ." A.X. laughed as he watched Crystal's group run south in what almost appeared to be a crystal ball. "Soon you'll all be dead," he said as the image in his ball changed to Olivia's group as they walked on to an uninhabbited part of the beach. Aelita looked up to the sky almost as if she could see what was projecting their image to A.X. As the moon glistened off her eyes, they flashed A.X.'s symbol.
