Behind the group the gym doors crashed open and Sissy walked out. She looked like a gypsy dressed in blues and purples with multiple silver bracelets on one arm and gold bracelets on the other arm with a matching set of hoop earings. Her long black hair had a silky sheen to it and the ends were a bright purple highlighted color. On her left hip was a 9 pronged whip and in her right hand was a microphone attached to a bungee cord.
"Sonic Boom!" Sissy sang on an ear piercingly high note into her microphone. Everyone cowered as they tried to cover their ears. A taranchula staggered out from behind a clump of bushes as the note messed its programming up. Suddenly Sissy stopped singing as she whipped the microphone out. The microphone hit the taranchula killing it. The bungee snapped back and Sissy caught the microphone.
"That was painful." Ulrich said uncovering his ears and standing up.
Beside the rock that Yumi had dropped, Herve magically appeared. Herve was wearing a dark green cloak with the hood flung back and a shiny gold star for the clasp around his neck. He held a gold staff that came to the top in 4 prongs that held a blue ball with neon green clouds swirling inside. Under his cloak he wore a lime green t-shirt tucked into navy blue slacks, tucked into, forest green boots. His face was clean of freckles and pimples and his hair was neatly parted on the side. He almost looked handsome.
"Emily, you hurt yourself again?" Herve asked. Emily looked at the ground a little ashamed. Herve sighed. "Healing Beam Bubble." A little neon green beam shot at Emily and created a bubble around Emily. The bubble made her float in the air gently for a second before setting her gently on the ground again.
"Thanks Herve," Emily said rushing to Herve and hugging him. Herve staggered a little as Emily ran into him, but he returned the hug.
"Don't kinkerlots usually travel in groups of 5?" Ulrich asked Yumi.
Aelita was staring at the woods again. "Who was that boy?" she asked no one in particular.
Suddenly someone ran out of the gym and began to run around the clearing leaving nothing, but a streak of light behind like Ulrich. In the process of running around the person created a sandstorm.
"Stop that right now Nicholas!" Sissy half coughed, half screamed.
Nicholas stopped behind Sissy and poked her in the waist. Sissy screamed in surprise. Nicholas quickly ran, stopping by Jim's side as he bent over to pick up his club. Nicholas was wearing a black mask with a black mesh that covered his eyes. In each ear he had two sets of golden earings. He wore a black ninja outfit with a black sash around his waist and wraps around his hands. One shiny dagger was attached to his waist and ninja stars adorned his sash. He also wore black steel toed boots. Finally poking out of his darkened hair, held back in a ponytail, was a tiny pair of devil horns.
"Cut that out Nicholas," Jim grunted. "We don't need anymore fighting." Nicholas didn't answer, but he gave a smile that made him look more like a devil.
"Why don't you talk?" Odd asked.
Nicholas shrugged. "He can't for some reason," Jim replied.
"Oh," Odd replied turning to see if Aelita had an explanation. Aelita was still staring into the forest after the long gone boy.
Aelita finally turned and asked again, "Do you know who shot the arrow that saved me?"
"I didn't shoot an arrow," Odd said.
"Not you stupid," Ulrich replied.
"I can't help it if I'm . . ." Odd began.
Emily interrupted. "I'm sorry Aelita, but we don't know who that boy is. We have seen him a couple times, but we aren't quite sure who it is."
"Don't worry. We'll . . ." Odd began again when a laser came flying out of the bushes and hit Odd in the chest.
"Odd!" Aelita exclaimed.
Odd began to fall. Before he was able to land he placed his hands behind him and did a backflip. A blue disk appeared at the zenith of Odd's backflip arc. As Odd passed through the blue disk he virtualized. Doing another backflip he landed. "Laser Arrow!" he shouted firing 3 arrows. 2 unlucky boxes that had just appeared blew up.
The final box aimed and fired at Nicholas. The laser flew and Nicholas disappeared. The box twisted confused. Suddenly Nicholas appeared behind it with a dagger in each hand. (the shiny dagger was still on his belt) Nicholas cut with his daggers in an X shape. Nicholas ran out of the way as the box blew up.
"Let's be prepared in case they attack again," Jim shouted taking command.
"Can I please try to pick up your club again? Please," Odd begged.
"If you'll quit bugging me," Jim replied dropping the club with another thud.
"Yipee," Odd exclaimed as he tried to pick up the club with his tail.
"I thought you said be on the look out," Yumi said folding her arms and staring at Jim.
"I have a special ability where all damage is halved and I have twice as much health as you do," Jim replied folding his arms and staring back.
"Haha Success!" Odd exclaimed as he held the enourmous club a couple inches off the ground.
"Hey Look," Ulrich exclaimed. "Odd succeeded in doing something for once.
"Hey!" Odd shouted back.
Herve interrupted, "I would suggest putting the club down before you strain your tail to the point of breaking it."
"Break it. Hah. Don't make me," Odd's tail snapped as it broke. "Owwwwwww!!!" Odd yelped as he dropped the club. He screamed in pain again as the club fell on his tail.
"Huh. Did I hear an echo?" Herve asked as he pretended to listen for the echo.
"This is almost entertaining," Jim laughed as he picked up his club and hefted it on to his shoulder. Herve pointed his wand at Odd and began the healing process as giggles floated from the forest.
"No pass it here," Tamiya yelled as she crashed through the bushes. "Come on Milly, Please."
From the forest Milly's voice sounded. "FORE!" A loud crash sounded as Milly hit something. Out of the bushes the 5th kinkerlot came flying. Herve's attention turned to the kinkerlot for a second and his healing bubble popped. Odd dropped 10 feet and happened to land on his feet.
"I guess cats really do land on their feet," Yumi whispered to Ulrich.
"Igotit. Igotit. Igotit!" Tamiya yelled raising her weapon. Her weapon was a 5 gallon water jug with a stick coming out of the neck for grip. "SPIKE!" Tamiya yelled as she slammed the kinkerlot into the ground. The kinkerlot quickly got back on its feet and tried to run. "No get back here," Tamiya yelled at it.
Milly ran in front of the kinkerlot and it shot at her. Milly, using the same weapon as Tamiya, bounced the laser off her weapon. The bullet hit the kinkerlot and it exploded.
"Darn, it died." Milly said as she looked at where the kinkerlot used to be.
"Want to go find another one?" Tamiya asked.
"Yeah lets go," Milly replied, her expression lighting up instantly. The new set of twins prepared to run off.
"WAIT!" Jim roared. Tamiya and Milly stopped and looked back at Jim. "We need to stay here and stay together."
"ahhhhhhhhhh, but . . ." the twins started to complain together. For the first time since their arrival they noticed the others. "Yeah others like us." They exclaimed jumping up and running over. Immediately they began to ask questions, a million words a minute.
Yumi started to get a headache from all the blathering. "Here," she almost screamed flinging her fan around the building and into the forest. "Go get it."
"Yeah!" the twins exclaimed as they began to run off.
"but Yumi doesn't your fan," Ulrich began. Yumi dug her high heel into Ulrich foot. He yelped in pain and shut up.
"Don't stray too far." Jim yelled. "Now where were we?"
"GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!" Another voice came yelling from inside the school. A krab ran out of the door almost tripping over its feet as it tried to get away. A crazy man with white hair sticking out in every direction and blood shot eyes, dressed in a leather print wrap, like a caveman, jumped on the krab's back. The man began to beat it to death with a twisted, damaged, meter stick. The poor krab died a painfully, slow death. When it died, it didn't even explode, it just dematerialized. The man turned around and eyed each of them.
Sissy gasps and then recomposes herself. "Daddy! Get back in the school now. You're embaressing me." She yelled.
Slowly the professor looked around again. "Someone had better explain what is going on, or someone is going to get it." He said waving his meter stick dangerously.
"To get the world back to normal, I have to deactivate XANA's tower and someone has to run a return to the past program," Aelita said.
"A tower like the one behind the school?" Emily asked.
"Yes, but the mist around it needs to be red," Ulrich exclaimed.
"Now we have two problems," Aelita stated. Everyone turned their attention to her. "One If Lyoko and Earth are connected, this world is huge and it will take forever to search it for 1 tower. Two electricity doesn't run here and I don't know how we'll run the return to the past program."
"Great. We could be stuck like this forever," Jim said sarcastically.
Suddenly there was a minor earthquake. Yumi looked to Aelita. "I'm sorry," Aelita whispered. "I can't tell what direction it is coming from."
Whoosh! An arrow flew by and landed at Ulrich's feet. In surprise Ulrich did a no hand backflip flying through a blue disk just like Odd.
Landing on the ground virtualized, Ulrich pulled out his sword. Running after an already disappearing shadow he yelled, "Come back here Demon!"
Nicholas shrugged and followed.
"WAIT!" Aelita shouted. "He wasn't . . . he wasn't trying to harm us," she whispered to herself when she knew it was useless.