Hey, I'll be working on stuff all weekend. I couldn't get Taelia to hack into MoonScoop so I don't own Code Lyoko...not yet. Wow I started this a while ago!
In Science today a nuclear technician (or something like that) was going over the parts of a power plant, but to be honest, I think Einstein was the only one listening. Odd was sketching Kiwi, Ulrich was looking at the birds outside, and I was fantasizing about my favorite Code Lyoko episodes and planning where I would have to be when to get in on the action. (it's actually what I've been doing right after the standardized testing when you can't do anything)
The guy finished his speech and asked if there were any questions. Cue Jer asking about materialization. He raised his hand with one finger, which I'd actually taken to doing also.
"Uh, sir?" he asked
"Yes, go on Jeremie." Mrs. Hertz said.
"Is there an atomic process that exists for fusing virtual particles and materializing them in the real world?" the three of us looked up, nice question! The scientist guy paced a little before answering.
"That is in the realm of Science Fiction, sorry." he frowned at Jer but then the teacher came to the rescue...sorta.
"Jeremie is a good student, but he's a bit of a dreamer..." the entire class was laughing at him, especially Herb. But then then the projector went out, hey there Xana, how's it goin'? Though it really did seem unlikely when you think about it...
"Oh, what's this?" Mrs. Hertz asked trying to turn the projector back on, but she couldn't.
"Oh, I'm sure it's nothing serious, just a short circuit."
We all exchanged a look, we knew what Jer was thinking but Odd just shrugged.
"And I'm saying that maybe Xana is behind this."
"Jeremie, it was just a short circuit." Odd said as we walked out of the Science building, Yumi was waiting for us. As you can probably tell Jer was being paranoidally accurate about the nature of that short circuit.
"I happen to think Jeremie is right. This is Xana's doing." I said.
"What is that, a psychic prediction?" Ulrich asked sarcastically.
"Sure, why not?" I replied. Then Mr. Delmas came up behind us.
"Odd I've decided to let you create that band, the uh...Fox Trot Fanatics?"
"YEAH!" Odd and I jumped in the air and high-fived each other, we were soooo exited about this band!
"It's actually the Pop Rock Progressives sir." Yumi corrected.
"Yes, well you can have it but it must be open to anyone who wants to join. Is that clear?"
"No problemo sir!" Odd said and Mr. Delmas left.
"Yeah! I'm the king of rock 'n' roll!" he got on his knees and slid across the ground.
"Yeah, you keep thinking that, Odd. Come on, if we hurry we can make fliers before lunch. Jer, wanna help?"
"Nah, I'm not much into rock, plus I'd like to check out that power outage."
"Fine then, be like that!" I joked as he walked away.
As I walked to the lunch table Ulrich shoved his tray away in disgust.
"What, the brussel sprouts?"
"Yup."
"Say, where's Odd?"
"Right over there." Yumi said pointing over to Odd and Jim.
"Odd what're you doing?"
"Handing out fliers for our band, sir." Jim snatched one out of his hands. "Hey, we need a drummer!" He said, passing it out to anyone who would take one.
"That reminds me Yumi, we're agreed that I'm the lead singer, right?"
She sighed and rolled her eyes,
"Fine, I'll play base guitar."
"YAY!" I bounced up and down with excitement.
Later we were at the famous screwed up vending machine. Odd was choosing something something to drink but then Ulrich chose for him.
"Hey! You pressed soup!"
"Oh, come on, it's not that bad."
And on top of that the machine only gave him a drop or two!
"Oh, stupid machine's busted again!" he exclaimed, dumping the barely full cup.
"Maybe it's another power failure." Jeremie said
"You worried?" Yumi asked
"Yeah, I'll keep checking up on things."
"Okay Jer, we'll be holding auditions in the gym if ya need us."
So we're sitting listening to this kid play the drums, and it sounds all cool but not exactly rock.
"Ya got a lot of style, that's heavy metal, right?"
"Yeah! You guys like it?"
"Listen, I'm really sorry but we're looking for more rock than metal." Yumi said.
"NEXT!"
And Naomi came in, and Odd stared all goo gooey at her.
"Hi guys."
"Hey Naomi, I didn't know you played the drums!"
"Well yeah, a little. I've always dreamed of being in a band."
She was turning up the charm, trying to get the guys to let her in.
"Well, go on." Ulrich said
She played. Now I'm not an expert with drums but...how can I put this nicely? She royally sucked! Like really, really bad! And yet Odd stood up and clapped, the lovesick kitty boy.
"Great job, Naomi! Fantastic! Well, come on guys, it's not like we're gonna find anyone better."
We glared at him.
"Yes we will, Odd!" I said.
We still had to sit there, auditions were open for another two hours but no one else seemed to be coming. Until Jer burst in the door.
"This is Xana's doing! I'm sure of it!"
"I knew it!" I yelled.
"Yeah, go on." Yumi said, ignoring me.
"Power's out all over school and the pylon is way over the voltage limit, it could explode!"
"But why would Xana do that?" Ulrich asked.
"Cause a big boom would kill us. Duh!" Sorry, but it was kinda of obvious. Then the door opened.
"Surprise." It was Sissi, ugh, I hate that girl! She came and sat down, her two goonies at her side.
"So I know I'm not very welcome but daddy did say everyone's allowed to audition. Oh don't worry, I don't want to be in your stupid band, but Nicholas here just loves the drums."
"A drummer, what does he play, his mom's pots and pans?" Odd insulted him sorta. Not that great an insult in my opinion but all right.
"K guys, I'm off, keep ya posted!" and with that Jer was off.
Nicholas played, so much better than Naomi! Sissi and Herb (or is it Herve?) applauded.
"Looks like you found yourselves a drummer."
"Nicholas? A drummer in our band? I don't care how good he is it isn't happening! Sissi just set this up to give up a hard time." Odd ranted.
"Or maybe she was trying to help us out. You've got to admit Nicholas is a really good drummer."
"Yeah, much better than Naomi!" Ulrich added.
"She's just a beginner, she needs more time!"
"Yeah, Odd, about two years and she'll be good!" I joked.
"Well if you take Nicholas then you'd better find another guitar player!" Odd yelled.
"And if we don't take Nicholas you can find another base!" Yumi replied.
"I'll stay singer! Gee, if Sissi was trying to cause trouble she did a great job!" I piped up.
"Agreed."
Then we heard trumpet or trombone or something like that music coming from Jim.
"You guys need a sliding trombone by any chance?" he asked, then played his audition anyway.
"So, what do ya think?"
Odd was the first to speak up.
"Well, ya see Jim, this is a rock band not a military brass band-" Yumi's phone ringing cut his sentence short.
"Uh...be right there." she hung up. "We're gonna have to audition you some other time." and we got out of there.
We ran out into the forest and got to the manhole. We climbed down into the sewers and I picked up the skateboard I bought a few days ago.
"You sure you wanna go with the board? Your bike's still here." Ulrich asked.
"Nah, I think I can manage." Let it never be said that Odd is bad at teaching someone to board! We went through the sewers and on to the factory where we met Jer in the lab.
"Finally!" he said, revealed. "okay here's what Xana's up to, he's storing voltage in that pylon." he gestured to the window on the computer that showed how full the pylon was. "When it reaches 100 he'll unleash it all!"
"Unleash it where?" Odd asked.
"The nuclear power plant."
"Creating a short circuit and-"
"Kablamo!" I finished.
"The pylon can take one million volts, when it gets that much he'll use it to blow up the power plant."
"Nuclear sabotage, that's a bit over our heads don't ya think?" Yumi asked.
"What do you mean?" Ulrich asked.
"Well think about it, if we fail on Lyoko not only do we die but we take out half the town with us, I think we should tell the authorities."
"Except we won't fail." I muttered.
"Yeah Jessica, and what if we do? This effects your life as well!"
"Yumi this is crazy. If we tell the authorities we'll be questioned, we'd have to tell them everything! And if they discover Xana, they'll pull all the plugs!" Jer exclaimed.
"We'll lose Aelita!" I added. Not to mention the men in black would find us and make all sorts of trouble.
"I know that! But we're talking about a nuclear disaster here!"
They just stared each other down, both too suborn to do anything.
"Okay, let's vote, who's for raising the alarm?"
"For." Yumi said.
"Against." Jer said.
"Against" Odd said.
"For." Ulrich said.
They all looked at me, two for, two against, I was the tie breaker.
"I'm not voting. Aelita should decide, it's her life were talking about after all."
"Thank you Jessica. I'm voting for." Aelita said "I don't want thousands of people to die just to save me."
"Thank you Aelita, Jess." Yumi said, heading out
Ulrich, Odd, and I went down to the Scanner room and stepped in. The doors closed.
"Transfer Odd, transfer Jess, transfer Ulrich. Scanner Odd, scanner Jess, scanner Ulrich. Virtualization!"
We landed in the Desert Sector.
"We gonna make it?" Odd asked
"Let's hope so." He replied.
"K, I got it. I've picked up the Activated Tower. It's near an oasis."
We ran the short distance to Aelita.
"I know where it is. That way on the other plateau." she said, pointing the way. We ran over to the oasis but the Tower was nowhere to be found.
"Where is it?" Odd asked.
"You can't see it, but it's there, I can feel it."
"Come on you can do it, you guys can't be to far. You have to find it fast the pylon is gonna overload soon!"
Okay Jess, let Odd find it, or do it yourself? Let Odd find it...yeah, I can take glory some other time, it's not like we're gonna get hurt, better let him find the Tower.
We were bored, really bored. Ulrich slashed at the ground with his katana, Aelita looked around, Odd tossed a rock and I danced around singing "Show off" except I only knew about half the lyrics so I skipped a bunch of parts of it. Odd finally threw the rock into the fake lake, he put his hand in, no water.
"I found it." We all stopped what we were doing. "We've been tricked, there's no water down there, just a surface layer. I'll take a closer look." He jumped in...through. Then we went after him, falling and landing on a platform below. And there in the distance was none other than the Tower! We ran to it but just as we got there a Krabbe shot!
"Careful Odd."
"I really hate those Krabbes!" He shouted, rubbing his damaged leg.
Did I say there was one Krabbe? Well I meant three! Ulrich drew his sword and I slung my rifle from behind my back taking a fighting stance.
"Aelita take cover!" I warned her. Aelita ran but the Krabbe was on her trail, so Odd jumped in the way, and got hit, and devirtualized, after two hits!
Ulrich took on one Krabbe while I took another. At first I shot at it but then I got a better idea. I closed my eyes and concentrated on the Krabbe, a turquoise aura appeared around both me and the monster. I opened my eyes but now I could see from two points of view, mine and the Krabbe's. Persuasion, it worked! I had my Krabbe shoot and destroy the other one, then stand still while Ulrich stabbed it.
"That's a pretty cool power!"
"Thanks!"
"Yeah, thanks for saving Aelita! But the pylon is up to 98%. Soon Xana will be able to attack the power plant! Hurry up!"
"Okay Einstein! We just finished up here! Aelita, you take care of the rest."
Aelita went into the Tower, we were safe! A minute later the RTTP started up and...
We were at band practice. Nicholas was drummer.
"And a one, and two, and go!"
We played the original song "Mystery Girl" I sang amazingly as usual!
"You were right, he's doing great!" Odd told Yumi.
"What you mean Jim?"
Jer clapped. "Great guys, your energy is super nuclear! You're gonna make this town explode!"
And Jim played us out with his trombone on yet another episode of this growing series.
PLEASE READ! I'm gonna be buggin you with this every chap but I'm starting now.
I have two things I want you to vote on
1. Episode 10 is "The Girl of the Dreams" which has Taelia. So, do you guys want it to be MoonScoop's Taelia (aka absolutely no history, just some random orphan) or my OC Taelia Hopper?
2. "Swarming Attack" Okay, so I am absolutely terrified of bees so I'm debating whether I should have that one, replace it with an episode of my own creation or have both. What do you people think?
Oh, and review, always review. ^_^