Chapter 04: An Unforgettable Dance
"A little bit to the left." Odd said as he watched from the sidelines. "A bit more… Go back… A little to the north… Perfect! Right there."
Danny's eye twitched. "I'm back where I started Della Robbia!" He shouted in exasperation.
"Come on, calm down." Ulrich tried to ease the tension while Yumi rolled her eyes at what was happening.
Prom was going to happen that night and the Lyoko Warriors volunteered to help with the set-up.
Danny didn't have any problems with helping out but he just wanted to be by himself that day. He actually used Jeremie's back-up computer to do a video chat with Sam and Tucker, leaving out the events that involve Xana, that morning.
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"So wait, you're in France?" Tucker asked in shock as Danny sat in a chair in front of the computer. "Man, no wonder no one can find you."
On hearing that, Danny felt some guilt flowing through him. "How are my parents doing?"
"Terrible." Sam answered honestly, feeling that Danny wouldn't want them to sugarcoat it. "Your Dad is convinced that a ghost kidnapped you and your Mom is tearing up whenever she sees a picture of you. And then there's Jazz who is paying more attention to Psychiatry to keep herself busy but there are bags under her eyes."
"I… I didn't mean to cause them pain." Danny muttered as he looked down.
"Dude, it's not your fault." Tucker reassured him.
"Yes it is." Danny shook his head. "I was a coward, thinking that they wouldn't accept me as a ghost and I still am."
Sensing the tension, Sam decided to change the subject. "So how is it in this Kadic Academy?"
Sending Sam a grateful glance, Danny took to the change of subject. "It's interesting to say the least, hell on my second day here I ran into a bona fide ghost and fought him."
"What?" Tucker and Sam asked in shock.
"He was pretty pathetic though." Danny muttered under his breath with his arms crossed. "He called himself the Box Ghost and vowed to terrify people with all that is cardboard and square along with occasional bubble wrap."
Tucker busted out laughing as he heard that while Sam looked amused before she frowned. "You said that you made new friends?" She asked a little hesitantly.
"Uh yeah." Danny again felt guilty because he didn't want Sam and Tucker to think that he's replacing them. "They don't know anything about me being a ghost and I'd rather keep it like that."
"Well, who are they?" Tucker asked curiously.
"Well there's Odd Della Robbia and his name does him justice." Danny said with a chuckle. "He snuck his dog Kiwi into the school and is keeping the little guy a secret from the headmaster, but when he eats it's like watching a twister land in a trailer park."
Sam had a disgusted look while Tucker looked awed. "Seriously?" Tucker asked wanting to meet this guy.
"Then there's Yumi Ishiyama, Sam you would get along with her very well with her being a little Goth and she knows Martial Arts." Danny explained missing Sam looking a little jealous. "I think there's something going on between her and Ulrich Stern though."
Sam looked relieved. "Sounds like I would like to meet her."
Danny nodded. "Yeah, as for Ulrich, he knows Martial Arts and is Odd's roommate… He seems a little cold at first but he just not used to being sociable. Then there's Jeremie Belpois or as Odd calls him Einstein and man the kid is that smart."
"Sounds like an interesting group." Tucker mused wondering how they all met because with how different they were no one would've thought that they would know each other.
"Finally there's Aelita." Danny said with a chuckle. "She's a pen pal of Jeremie's that might be moving to France in the next year."
"Interesting… So did you change your name?" Tucker was wondering since Danny wouldn't be going by Fenton.
Danny was nervous. "Uh… Danny Manson."
Sam's eyes widen in shock. "You used my last name?"
"It was the first name that popped in my head at the time." Danny defended himself with a nervous chuckle as he sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "I was more concerned at the fact that I seemingly understand French."
"Weird-." A beeping from Tucker's PDA cut him off. "Sorry pal, I need to go."
"It's fine." Danny told his friend as Tucker signed off before looking at Sam. "I'm guessing you need to go as well?"
"Yeah, my parents are going to be up at any moment." Sam muttered before she smiled. "Have fun at Kadic."
"I will." Danny promised as he cut the link before sighing and doing a face palm. "Great… I'm lying to the Lyoko Warriors about being dead and now I'm lying to my childhood friends about the problems with Xana… My afterlife is filled with lies isn't it?"
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That is why Danny wanted to be left alone because he was getting tired of the lies that he's keeping from his two groups of friends but he can't tell either one because of the potential consequences.
"Hey Danny, you feeling alright?" Yumi asked when she saw Danny being more quiet than usual.
Danny faked a quick smile. "Yeah, I'm just a little tired. I spent most of the night talking with my friend and cousin back home."
"You should sleep more." Ulrich advised as he held the ladder while Yumi was climbing it. "What if Xana attacks and you're too tired to help?"
His concern was justified because it's been two weeks since they stopped Xana and the program hasn't attacked them at all. "I'm never too tired." Danny chuckled at Ulrich before handing the boy some duct tape as he passed it to Yumi. "Plus it was the only time I could talk to them with the time differences."
"He does have a point." Odd pointed out as he munched on a candy bar he got from who knows where. "But can we focus on a more important discussion?"
"Like what?" Danny asked in confusion.
"Like making sure that Sissi loses the Prom Queen contest tonight." Odd said still feeling a sting of how Sissi betrayed their secret to her father, before Jeremie pulled a return to the past, which caused all of the Lyoko Warriors to despise Sissi.
Her arrogant attitude didn't help her at all.
Yumi frowned as Odd was looking at her. "No."
"Oh come on." Odd pleaded in exasperation. "You're the only one of us who can enter."
"I am not going to enter to become Prom Queen." Yumi told him as she taped some decorations up. "It's a stupid waste of time."
Danny sighed before rubbing the back of his head. "So, who's going?"
"Well… Yumi and I are going tonight." Ulrich said looking a little red in the face.
"Hey, congrats." Odd told them giving a thumb up. "I'll be sure to find someone too."
"Will that be before or after you strike out with every girl in the school?" Danny asked in a serious voice, but you could tell he was joking from his smirk.
"Hey now." Odd chuckled before looking at Danny. "So, are you going to ask someone to the dance Dan?"
Danny looked a bit off because there were still rumors about him due to his white hair and pale skin. But he wasn't sure about asking someone because of what he was. "I don't know." He muttered under his breath.
A small cough interrupted them as they turned to see Milly a girl with red hair in pigtails and in a pink jacket that was opened to show a black t-shirt. "Excuse me, Danny?" She said in a small voice and she was red in the face with some tears leaking out. "W-Would you be my date tonight?"
"Uh…" Danny looked at the others for help but they weren't interfering. "Milly, aren't I a little too old for you-?" He tried to say gently despite the disapproving look from Yumi, but a familiar and obnoxious voice interrupted him.
"You see?" Sissi laughed at Milly's face. "What did I tell you? Oh but don't worry, I'm sure that you'll find a boy in the sandbox dance. Now why don't you go play with your dolls?"
Milly took off running with tears streaming down her face before her friend Tamiya, a young African American girl with braided hair wearing a yellow shirt and green pants taking off after her. "Milly! Milly, wait."
Sissi had a smirk on her face before she turned to back up a bit as she saw Danny's eyes glowing in anger. "You are a heartless bitch." Danny told her shocking everyone.
"W-What?" Sissi asked in shock.
"You heard me." Danny spat out not believing that she was almost a Lyoko Warrior. "Why the hell did you do that? Do you like messing with everyone's emotions? All you are doing is showing how much of a bitch you are."
Odd put a hand on Danny's shoulder trying to get him to calm down while Sissi huffed and walked away.
"I can't believe her." Danny muttered as he felt like hitting something before looking at the others. "I'm going to try to find Milly."
"Maybe you should wait for her to calm down." Ulrich advised but Danny shook his head.
"No that could make it worse." With that he walked off.
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Jeremie was typing furiously on his computer before he hit the enter button. "Aelita? This is Jeremie! Can you hear me…? Aelita?"
In a second Aelita's face popped up. "Hi!" She greeted happily. "How are you?"
Jeremie smiled. "I'm fine! How about you?"
"I'm okay!" Aelita answered. "I haven't seen anything unusual about the Towers… It seems quiet… Well for the moment."
"Well I'm making progress on my research so you can come and live with us." Jeremie said sheepishly.
Aelita's face lit up in happiness. "The key to Materialization? You found it at last?"
Now Jeremie looked sad. "Uh no not yet, but I'm working on it so it's only a matter of time! Then Xana won't be able to do anything to harm you! Or us!"
"That's great, thanks!" Aelita said with a nod before she remembered something. "By the way, I did what you asked me to do! In the Tower, I scanned the Bio Signature that belonged to Danny and you were right, it's different… I can't figure it out."
Jeremie leaned back. "Just what is he hiding?" He asked while cupping his chin. "I know that it's none of our business, but it could be something to do with Xana"
"Well, I'm sure that he'll tell us when he wants to." Aelita said to Jeremie who nodded.
"Yeah, I guess." Then he looked at the time. "Oh, I'm supposed to be helping them with setting up for Prom."
"Prom?" Aelita asked curiously. "What's Prom?"
"Oh, well…" Jeremie scratched the side of his face as he felt it heating up. "Prom is an event where people dance."
Aelita smiled. "That sounds wonderful." Then she looked sad. "I wish that I could go there."
"Well." Jeremie had a smile to cheer her up. "When we materialize you, all of us can take you to one, how does that sound?"
"I would love that." Aelita answered honestly.
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Milly was hugging her Teddy Bear while her friend Tamiya was trying to comfort her. "Don't listen to Sissi!" She said to her friend. "We'll go to the Prom and Jim said that the News won't be due until nine tonight!"
"It's a waste of time!" Milly cried out. "Let's face the facts! They don't care about the News or us or the Newscast!" Her computer screen lit up to show Xana's symbol. "Oh I hate them all! I hate everybody in the world!"
"You don't know what you're saying!" Tamiya said trying to get her to think about what she was saying. "You'll see-!"
"Oh just stop it!" Milly shouted in anger. "Just leave me alone!" With that she ran out with her Teddy Bear.
Tamiya sighed, "It's true that Danny could've been a little nicer." She admitted with a sigh.
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Yumi gave Ulrich a look while he was taping some wires to the floor. "You seem to be gloomy."
"I guess it's because of what Sissi did." Ulrich honestly answered as Odd was twirling the microphone.
"What do expect from the spoiled little daddy's girl?" He asked in the microphone before thinking. "Actually that's an insult to all spoiled little daddy's girls out there."
Ulrich chuckled at Odd's humor while Jeremie carried a box of supplies to them. "If meanness is a quality of becoming Beauty Queen than she has this in the bag."
Jeremie joined in on the joke. "That's true, but try to get Miss World to see that."
Odd grinned before saying in the Microphone. "Miss Inner World is more like that!" Sissi glared at the group for that comment before leaving with a huff.
"Hey, where's Danny anyways?" Jeremie asked since the teen was supposed to be helping them with the decorations.
"He went to find Milly." Odd answered as he finished setting the microphone up. "Sissi made her cry and it was because Danny tried to tell her that he was too old to take her to the dance."
Jeremie winced on hearing that. "Ouch."
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Milly was in the old toolshed holding her Teddy Bear. "At least you don't care how old I am do you?" She asked with a smile. "We always understand each other! We're not like those dumb older kids that love to run things."
She hugged the Teddy Bear with some tears sliding down her face.
"They think that just because we're young that we don't count at all! And if for once we were older than them they wouldn't laugh at us now would they?"
Then someone tapped on the window. "Milly? Are you in there?" Tamiya asked looking through the window. "Are you finished sulking? Hurry! We have work to do!"
"Okay, okay I'm coming!" Milly put her Teddy Bear down. "You stay right there and I'll be back for you!" She said before walking out the door.
"We have a report to do on Prom remember?" Tamiya asked as they left.
But back inside the toolshed with the Teddy Bear the lights fizzed out before something dark flowed out onto the teddy Bear and with Xana's symbol in its eyes it let out a roar of bestial fury.
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Danny found Milly and Tamiya but before he could speak, Milly walked off in the other direction, while Tamiya gave him a glare before running after her causing him to sigh. "Man, try to avoid going to Prom and I end up the bad guy." He muttered wondering how he could fix this.
Hearing a roar he turned towards the shed in shock.
"What the hell?"
Turning intangible, Danny walked through the wall only to not see anything. "Alright this is weird." He muttered before he turned to leave.
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Meeting back up with the others he saw they were just finishing up. "Sorry for not helping." Danny apologized with his head down.
"It's alright." Yumi told him before looking concerned. "Did you find Milly?"
"Yeah, but before I could speak to her she left while Tamiya gave me a glare." Danny told them as he sat down. "Man, I really screwed something up."
"You think?" Odd asked him as he too sat down. "But don't let it get to you Dan, I'm pretty sure that you can make this right."
"If you say so." Looking out the gym doors, Danny frowned when he saw a crowd gathering. "What's going on down there?" He asked curiously eliciting the Lyoko Warriors to look over.
"What's say we find out?" Jeremie decided as they walked over only to see Sissi in a bathrobe wearing a face mask crying to her father talking about how something was wrong in her room and how she was nearly attacked.
"Looks like we found ourselves a super scoop." Milly said to Tamiya before seeing Danny in the crowd and overhearing Odd say something.
"What's say we go check this out to see if our old friend Xana is behind this?"
"If it was Xana I would praise him for knocking Sissi down a few pegs." Danny muttered under his breath.
'Xana?' Milly felt her reporter side wanting to know, so she motioned for Tamiya to follow her as she followed them.
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"So what's the verdict?" Ulrich asked as Jeremie and Yumi looked inside of Sissi's room.
Jeremie chuckled. "It looks more like a short circuit." He announced. "Too many appliances plugged in at once."
"Uh-huh." Yumi counted the appliances that were plugged in. "The Hi-Fi lights, lady shaver and curling irons. What did you expect?"
"And the brain stimulator." Jeremie was chuckling. "Although she probably hasn't figured out how to use it."
"Try definitely." Danny drawled before shaking his head. "Well, if it isn't Xana then I don't see any reason to not be here."
"Good point." Ulrich said as they left.
As soon as they were out of sight, Milly and Tamiya came out of hiding to take some pictures. "Just who is Xana?" Tamiya asked out loud.
"I don't know but I want to thank him for this." Milly answered.
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Back in his room, Danny sighed as he opened up a textbook to do his homework while everyone else got ready for Prom. "Maybe this will take my mind off of what happened to Milly." Danny muttered to himself.
While he was sitting he didn't notice the small teddy bear on top of his closet cabinet looking at him until it lunged and attached to his head.
"Ack!" Danny shot up and flew into the ceiling, knocking the bear off of him before he turned around in midair to see the teddy bear get up and he saw Xana's mark in the eyes. "Xana?!"
The bear looked at him curiously as Danny realized that he was still floating but he narrowed his eyes. "Just what are you doing?"
The bear growled and lunged at him causing Danny to turn intangible and as it went through him he saw some words on the back.
'Property of Amelia 'Milly' Solovieff'
Danny rolled his eyes. "Great." He grabbed the bear and landed on the ground. "Although you aren't that much of a threat like this, are you?"
The bear snarled before black mist shot out of the bear and into Danny's face, actually causing him to choke before he was on the ground looking at his own body.
"What the heck?!" Danny asked before covering his mouth at the squeaky voice and he looked over himself to see that he was the teddy bear now. "Oh hell."
"So much power." Xana said in a dark voice before green energy surrounded his hands. "Prepare to die."
"Uh… No thanks?" Danny ran to his door only to see that it was closed. "Oh boy."
Xana shot a beam at Danny and he barely managed to duck as it shot through the door making a hole big enough for Danny to get out.
Once Danny was out of sight, Xana smirked and turned invisible.
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Odd was carrying CD's before he saw Milly crying again while Tamiya was trying to cheer her up. "Something wrong Milly?" He asked as he walked over to her.
"Someone stole her teddy bear." Tamiya explained to the boy. "And Jim banned us from the dance when we were looking in the tool shed for it."
"And I'm sure it's one of the big kids who did it from spite." Milly said angrily before Tamiya gasped.
"Milly, you're right." Tamiya showed the picture of Sissi's room. "Look under the pillow."
"Who would've thought it?" Odd chuckled at the situation. "Next thing you know she'll be playing with dolls."
"I'm going to get it." Milly decided as she stood up.
"But Jim told us to stay away from the dorms." Tamiya reminded her friend.
"I'll get it." Odd promised them. "Just wait here."
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Ulrich, Jeremie and Yumi were putting the supplies for setting up the decorations away as Jeremie spoke up. "Still, what happened to Sissi was a little strange, don't you think?"
"It was a short circuit." Ulrich told the blonde. "A simple short circuit, what else could it be?"
Jeremie rolled his eyes. "It was just weird and you know what I mean."
They would've continued if Yumi didn't speak up. "Anyways, let's just play it cool, the walls have ears."
That warned them that Nicholas and Herb were eavesdropping on them before Yumi stretched.
"Well, I've got to go home to prepare for the Prom." Yumi told them before smirking. "Sometimes being a day student is a big drag."
"Don't complain." Ulrich scoffed at her. "No one wakes you up at six, you have hot water and you don't have to sleep next to smelly Odd."
Yumi chuckled before she waved and left.
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'This is bad.' Danny thought as he waddled down the hall. 'This is really bad.'
As he came around the corner, he literally collided with Odd's ankle. "What the?" Odd looked shocked. "Oh man, Xana possessed a teddy bear?"
"No." Danny squeaked and despite the change in voice, Odd recognized him. "He took over my body and trapped me inside of this one-." He stopped as Odd busted out laughing. "OI! STOP LAUGHING DELLA ROBBIA!"
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"You're kidding." Ulrich said as he saw Odd pull Danny out of his backpack in their room.
"Hey, I was just as surprised as you." Odd said with a shrug while Danny gasped for air.
"Good lord." Danny wheezed. "What do you put in there?!"
"Xana attacks in weird ways." Jeremie admitted. "But it's simple, we just find Danny's body and ensure that he doesn't cause any harm."
"Uh, that will be hard." Danny voiced cringing as they turned towards him. "You see… When he possessed my body he seemed to be able to use energy attacks."
"Surely you can't be serious." Ulrich groaned with a hand to his head. "He has powers too?"
Danny nodded feeling relieved that he didn't have to explain about him being a ghost here.
"So who goes and who stays?" Odd asked excitedly causing Jeremie to give the boy a look.
"We can't do any solo missions." Jeremie declined. "It's too dangerous without Yumi. Go alone and who knows what you'll find over there-."
"I volunteer." Odd said with a smile that turned into an annoyed frown when Jeremie sighed.
"What did I just say?"
"Do you have a better idea?" Odd asked in anger. "We have to stop Xana before he kills someone and we can't leave the school unguarded. Plus even with a return to the past we don't know if it'll work on people who died."
"Odd's right." Ulrich told Jeremie. "You guys go, and I'll stay here with Danny. If I find any clues I'll pass them on, so tell Aelita that Danny and I said hi."
Jeremie smirked before he and Odd took off.
"… You are never going to let me forget this are you?" Danny asked in annoyance as Ulrich chuckled.
"You have that right."
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Jeremie got off the Elevator in the Computer room while Odd went down to the Scanner Room. "Aelita? Aelita, it's Jeremie! Can you hear me?"
"Hi there!" Aelita greeted.
"Xana launched an attack!" Jeremie explained quickly. "He possessed Danny's body leaving him inside of a Teddy Bear."
"I haven't felt a Tower activate." Aelita said truthfully, but she looked concerned on what happened. "But I better start looking."
"Odd is coming with you!" Jeremie said. "Ulrich is with Danny looking for Xana and everyone looks ready to go… How are things with you Ulrich?" He asked as he used the headpiece to communicate through Ulrich's phone.
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"So far nothing." Ulrich muttered as he looked around while Danny was in his backpack and he had an easier time then in Odd's. "We're keeping a low profile right now hoping to find Xana, but you won't believe how hard it is to find a kid with white hair."
"Was that a shot?" Danny muttered from the backpack.
"We'll keep at it." Jeremie told them. "We'll finish up here soon."
"Wait… Xana wanted to kill me." Danny said to Ulrich after Jeremie hung up. "So wouldn't he go after everyone else as well?"
As soon as Danny said that, Ulrich gasped. "Yumi." He took off running, hoping to get to her house in time.
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"Transfer Odd. Scanner Odd. Virtualization."
That was all Odd heard, before he virtualized into Lyoko and he looked around to find himself in the Desert Sector to be exact before he saw Aelita waving at them. "Hello there!" Odd called out waving back before he ran to her to see that she was standing next to a steep drop.
"The Tower can't be that far away." Aelita said as he looked down the steep drop that they can run down.
Odd swallowed nervously. "Well not down there anyway." He joked. "Maybe on one of the neighboring plateaus?"
"You got company!" Jeremie warned while Odd looked over.
"Oh it's only four Kankrelats!" He said as he saw the four cockroach like monsters.
"Four what?" Jeremy asked incredulously.
"I call naming them!" Odd said childishly.
Jeremie sighed at his behavior. "Focus, will you and take good care of Aelita."
The Kankrelats opened fire so Odd was doing some acrobatic moves, "Laser Arrows!" He called out shooting them. "Get going Princess!" Odd ordered as Aelita started to run down the slope before he ran after her.
Then Odd was blasted back a few times.
"Odd! You just lost another Ten Life Points!" Jeremy warned him.
"No Kidding!" Odd groaned in pain before he gasped as he saw a vision of Aelita falling before he shook his head. "What was that?" He muttered shaking his head in confusion then he yelped as he was shot again.
"Odd be careful! You only have fifty life points left!" Jeremy called out.
Odd did a backflip, "Laser Arrows!" He shot three of them hitting two but he knocked the last one over to where it shot Aelita in the back and she began to fall like she did in Odd's Vision.
"AELITA!"
Odd jumped over the edge grabbing Aelita's arm and using his claws to dig through the rocks as he slowed them down to a stop before he let out a sigh of relief. "We can't leave you alone for one second huh?" He joked to defuse the tension.
But Aelita was staring through a crevice in the wall seeing wires that connect to the towers glowing red. "Odd, I think I found something!"
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Ulrich kept ringing the doorbell until Yumi opened it dressed up for the night and the wet hair told him that she just got out of the shower. "Ulrich?" Yumi sounded surprised before Danny popped his head out.
"Long story short, Xana attacked." He said making Yumi's eyes widened as she recognized Danny's voice. "And please no jokes, my pride is already damaged quite a bit."
"That's not the only thing that's damaged." Xana's voice came out from behind them as he shimmered into view. "Tonight your lives will end."
He shot a green energy blast at them, but Ulrich took off with Yumi right behind him as Xana flew after them. "Uh guys he's catching up." Danny squeaked in horror.
"Jeremie tell Odd to hurry up!" Ulrich said in his phone as an energy beam nearly killed him. "Xana is doing everything to kill us."
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"Odd, Xana is getting real angry." Jeremie told Odd as he ran through the pathway with Aelita.
Odd was about to make a retort when he and Aelita heard a rumbling noise so he turned to see a giant black ball rolling towards them. "Houston we have a problem." Odd joked as he and Aelita took off running.
They barely made it out of the crevice and they jumped to the side as the monster rolled through and bashed itself against the Tower.
"Houston we found the objective!" Odd joked. "But we have a problem."
"A Monster is blocking your way, I know."
Odd lunged out of the way as the Monster opened up and shot a giant laser causing an explosion where he was. "Laser Arrow!" He shot it but the monster clammed up before the arrows could hit it, "Damn it!"
"Odd you have to win this!" Jeremie called out.
"I know, I know." Odd muttered as he dodged another laser.
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"Hey I'm going for a walk." Milly told Tamiya as she had the camera.
"You want me to come with you?" Tamiya asked curiously.
Milly shook her head. "Nah, I just want to walk around."
A few minutes after she left, Milly was surprised when she saw a flash of green light so she took off towards it.
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"Agh!" Ulrich went sliding on the ground as Xana blasted at his feet.
"Ulrich." Yumi went to help him but Xana just backhanded her and sent her flying into a tree.
Danny narrowed his eyes at seeing his friends being hurt by his own body. "Hey, why don't you pick on somebody else?"
Xana just shot an energy blast at him causing Danny to duck and he was going to make a retort when there was a flash of light causing them to turn to see Milly holding a camera.
"D-Danny? What are you doing?" Milly asked in shock at what she was witnessing.
"Run!" Danny shouted causing her to stare at him in shock. "Get out of here-." An energy blast blasted off his arm causing stuffing to fall out. "Gah!"
"You are a pathetic being." Xana said as he slowly walked towards Danny. "You have all of this power and yet you hide it?"
Ulrich groaned as he tried to stand up but Xana flew over and lifted him up by his throat. "Ulrich." Danny ran at Xana despite missing a limb but tree branch slammed into Xana causing him to turn to see Milly so he punched her in the gut. "Milly!"
"Caring for others?" Xana chuckled evilly. "You are weak."
"SHUT IT!" Danny jumped and attached himself to Xana's face. "YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME!"
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Odd readied himself but the monster shot again. This time Odd jumped as the ground beneath him exploded sending him right over the monster. "IMPACT!" He shot it right in the target destroying it, "Now Aelita!"
Aelita ran in as a Hornet shot Odd in the chest devirtualizing him.
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"Oof." Danny went flying into the side of the building as Xana blasted a leg off. "Gah!"
"Are you suffering?" Xana mocked as he fired another beam going through Danny's stomach. "Good."
"Leave him alone." Milly jumped on Xana's back causing the next blast to miss Danny.
"No, get out of here!" Danny roared to Milly before Xana turned intangible to get out of her grip and he picked her up by her neck before flying into the air.
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Aelita was floating up the Tower and she pressed her hand against the screen entering the code.
AELITA
CODE
LYOKO
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Danny watched in horror as Xana dropped Milly knowing that the girl would die from a drop of that height, but then Xana screamed in pain before he found himself back in his own body. "Phew-MILLY!" Flying down as fast as he could, Danny knew he wouldn't be able to pull up in time, as he grabbed her before shifting around to where he would take the impact from the fall.
"D-Danny?" Milly asked in shock as Danny laid winded from the impact causing a small crater. "W-What are you?"
Danny smiled in pain. "Now that's a secret." He said before passing out.
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"RETURN TO THE PAST NOW!"
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In a flash of light all of them except for Jeremie were in the Gymnasium when Milly's voice spoke up again, "Excuse me Danny." She said hesitantly. "Would you be my date tonight?" She asked with her face going red and there were some tears leaking out a bit.
Danny smiled as he remembered how she nearly died to save him before the return to the past. "Sure thing Milly." He said causing her to smile in happiness.
"R-Really?"
"Of course, it'll be better than going by myself." Danny smiled at her.
Sissi looked like a cross between a fish out of water and a deer in headlights causing Odd to chuckle. "Careful or your face will stay that way."
"Actually." Yumi had a thoughtful look on her face. "It might be an improvement."
"W-Wha-you." Sissi spluttered with a red face not noticing that Tamiya was recording the whole thing.
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Danny was by himself around three in the morning after the dance in Sceaux.
He really enjoyed himself and he was happy that he made things right with what happened with Milly, but right now he was feeling nothing but guilt.
Xana used his powers to attack the Lyoko Warriors and he lied about not having them. Sure it might not have been him using them but it was still his powers, his body… His actions.
He had a black hoodie on with the hood covering his face because he didn't want anyone to stare at his white hair as he walked through the streets.
"Aaah!" Danny's head snapped up as he heard a scream before looking down an alley to see a couple being cornered by four people and two of them had knives while a third had a chain.
"Now do you have to scream?" One of them asked with a lecherous smirk. "Me and my boys were only looking for a good time."
"Leave us alone." The young teen put himself in front of his girlfriend even though he was scared out of his mind.
"Leave us alone." One of the thugs mocked laughing. "This is out turf and since you don't have any money we have to take toll a different way-."
"Hey!" Danny called out mentally wondering what he was doing. "Leave them alone."
"Go home if you want to live kid." The thug leader said as he turned back brandishing his knife.
Danny's eyes glowed through his hood. "I said." He snarled as an energy beam erupted from his hands. "LEAVE THEM ALONE!" He blasted the knife out of the thugs hands causing everyone to look at him in shock while smoke was erupting from his hands.
"Get him!" The thug shouted as they all came at Danny but he turned invisible.
"Where did he go-?" The one asking the question was sent flying into the wall.
"Len-." A punch stopped him from talking.
"Forget this-." The third guy with the chain went to run but he was flipped upside down before he was pulled into the air.
The leader was left by himself as he put his back to the wall to avoid being surprised and he pulled out a gun pointing it at the couple. "Just leave me alone man." He shouted and after a few seconds he sighed thinking he scared the guy off.
Then a hand came out of the wall and the leader was pulled through.
"Are you okay?" Danny asked as he reappeared in the alley surprising the couple.
"Y-Yes." The guy nodded before his girlfriend asked.
"Who are you?"
"… I'm just a Phantom." He said as he disappeared.
Getting back to his room he sat on the chair of his computer trying not to hit himself.
"What the hell did I do?!" He muttered to himself. "Just a Phantom? Where did that come from?"
Then he stopped to think.
"Although I feel better on stopping what was going to happen." Danny looked at his reflection and messed with his hair a bit. "I… I can help people with my powers."
Then the computer beeped and Danny pressed a button to see that Tucker sent him a message.
'Check the News.'
Feeling curious, Danny went to the site that Tucker sent with that message and he saw something that made him stare.
It was a picture of a man in a blue bodysuit with a red cape, boots, underwear and a giant 'S' on his chest and it read above it. 'Superman Hero of Metropolis.'
"Who the hell is Superman?" Danny muttered as he got on google and typed it in only for a bunch of news bulletins showing him and videos of him coming from nowhere to stop a terrorist attack in Metropolis and it showed his powers.
'Flight, super-strength, speed, durability, heat vision.' Danny was amazed by this because it showed that he wasn't the only one with powers and there was someone out there using them to help people.
"Whoa." Danny muttered before reading more and he was surprised to see that the man was an alien. "An alien protecting people… Can a ghost do the same?"
Danny had a thought of him doing the same before he opened his closet to show the Hazmat Suit that he died in.
"Can I really come out with my powers?"
To Be Continued…
Before anyone asks let me say this, the reason that Danny never heard of Superman was because while the Teddygozilla episode was happening he made his first appearance in Metropolis so he will be a part of the first generation of heroes and in this remake… The Justice League hasn't been formed yet.
So now… REVIEW TIME!
Code R.R: Yup, but he's getting there.
V.I.Y.H: Maybe *Looks around cautiously*
DestinyJoyHope: Thanks.
ImagineBreaker7: That's a relief.
KuriMaster13: Your patience has been rewarded.
James Phantom: She will be.
PrincessBinas: *Busts out laughing at the picture* Nice, very nice.
MysticFalls2357: I hope this satisfies that question.
NightMaster000: Thanks and you'll see soon enough.
Alright, ULW is signing out.
