(Hey guys here is chap 4 I hope you are liking it. I try to make my plots intricate, but digestible ~ Broly69)
William was staring out the window while Aelita was staring at him. William asks "Hey Aelita what exactly are those things, I don't get a friendly feeling from them?" "Well they are one of Xana's specters, you have to watch out they have a lot of incredible power…. Physically at least, and you pretty much can't kill them." William brings his hand up and clenches it into a fist. "Hmm, well don't they have some kind of weakness?" Aelita walks up to the window by William and looks out the window only to see the two specters walk in. She panics a little bit. "Well I know that if you electrocute them or hit them with a metal rod it will slow them down." William thought for a second and looked around. "I think I have –"Aelita interrupts "WILLIAM WAIT! I just remembered my father made a secret exit to get from here to the factory.
"Really? Where?" Aelita points out the window. "It is out there; when you were walking around this house do you ever remember seeing a big silver rectangle on it? It almost looks completely random like it doesn't fit in." William thinks. "gh.. I think was it like the size of a door?" Aelita looked reluctant. "Yeah that's it!" Then they both heard the door down stairs swing open. They both jumped. William got a bit of a smirk, "Hey Aelita I have an idea get the paper they out."
Jeremy was belting at Odd and Ulrich to hurry up. "Guys! No time to lose. Transfer Odd, Transfer Ulrich, Scanner Odd, Scanner Ulrich, VIRTUALIZATION!" Odd and Ulrich were dropped a good ways away from the tower, but it was still in sight. "Uh Jeremy, were going to need some rides!" Odd yelled. "Vehicles coming right up." Odd flipped onto his over board and Ulrich got on his bike. They quickly sped off towards the tower. The ice sector seemed rather quiet to them. They got closer and closer to the tower and finally they arrived. Jeremy grew a confused look on his face. "That's strange, no monsters here?" Ulrich gave the most reasonable response. "C'mon Jeremy, Xana does this all the time. The whole no monsters then poof there they are." Jeremy sat back in his chair. "Well you're probably right, but just go scout the area." Odd and Ulrich zoomed around the area, starting right next to the tower then the ice field, hills, and caves surrounding it.
They searched and searched for a good five minutes, but to them to it felt like forever since there was nothing. Odd talked "Well I hate to break it to you Einstein, but we have nothing on our end." Jeremy looked really confused. "Are you guys FOR SURE, you looked everywhere?" Ulrich responded. "Yeah nothing, you think this has to do with some bigger plot of his Jeremy?" Jeremy felt like a pit had suddenly spawned in his stomach. "I'm not sure, but I can tell you it doesn't give me a good feeling." Odd shouted, "Well do you think it is because Aelita isn't here?" "No that wouldn't make sense, if Xana could get you guys out of Lyoko earlier and single you out, it would be a much easier for him to fight you off and keep his tower activated." Ulrich and Odd just stood there and looked up, "Well what do you want us to do?" There was a silence for a minute, Odd talked again, "Uh earth to Jeremy, hello?" Jeremy clenched his fists and slammed them into the chair. "GH! What does this mean!? Yumi's gone, William and Aelita could be hurt and I don't even know what to do! Damn you XANA!"
Odd and Ulrich could feel that Jeremy was starting to break. Ulrich responded calmly, "Hey Jeremy its okay, why don't you give William a call real quick and then we can talk about what to do." Jeremy released the tension from his body and let out a deep breath, "huh, thanks Ulrich. Right let me c- oh NO. This can't be happening right now." Ulrich and odd quickly looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders, Ulrich spoke up. "Jeremy what is it?" "Change of plans guys…."
Aelita said "Ya I got the paper here." And pulled it out. William said "Okay here is what we are going to do." He began whispering into her ear. She began to look shocked, "William are you crazy! If this fails it will end up really bad." William looked her in the eyes. "Well unless you can come up with another great plan in the next minute or you know how to fight off two super humans I am all ears." Aelita grinned "alright then, let's do it." William hid in a closet in the room they were in with a metal rod. Aelita then made a stomping noise. "Hey Xana! I have got what you are looking for right up here." The two specters quickly made their way up to the room and were standing in front of Aelita." They were both large men, looked like two body builders in FBI suits. "You best give us that paper Aelita." They said in a demonic like voice. Aelita smiled and said "Shure here you go." One of Xana's specters took it and looked down at it. It was a poorly drawn picture of Sissy. "HEY WH-!" Just then William jumped from the closet and swung the rod and hit both of the specters in the head. William saw the picture of Sissy and laughed a little. "Your drawings of Sissy are like exact replicas of her." Aelita smiled and laughed. "Well I try not to show off too much ha-ha, but let's go moving they are bound to get back up any second." William nodded his head.
They began to run over Xana's specters and down the steps. They quickly made their way out the front door, but as Aelita passed the living room to get out she couldn't help, but feel like this reminded her of the time her and her father had to run from Xana to get to Lyoko, it made her feel a little down on the inside. She began to slow down, but William grabbed her wrist, "AELITA C'MON! You need to speed it up!" She sped up again and they made it out. Aelita pointed out the door and they quickly slipped into it. Just then William's cell phone rang. "Hey Jeremy, what's up?" "Wow, you guys sound rather calm, that's a relief, what is happening Odd and Ulrich really need your help, some strange stuff is happening and oh put it on speaker I need to tell Aelita this too." "Right" William put his cell phone on speaker mode and started explaining to Jeremy what happened. "Well to summarize it me and Aelita enacted a plan I made up and it worked, we still have the paper and are running through the sewers now, but Xana's specters only got knocked out temporarily." Jeremy felt a little bit of comfort. "That's good news, but you guys have to hurry it up they could already be on your tail, also really strange me, Odd, and Ulrich found an activated tower in the Ice sector, but get this no monsters…." Aelita raised a brow. "Wait Jeremy are you sure? You looked everywhere?" "Ya that's the weird part, we even waited a couple minutes and nothing, but that's not even the worst. Out of the blue Xana started attacking the core of Lyoko. This has thrown my mind into too many directions."
Aelita began to worry. "But… Jeremy this means I could lose-""I know Aelita, that's why we need you guys over here as soon as possible." Aelita turned to William. "alright William let's move it." William smiled, "right, Jeremy we will be there in five minutes tops." He hung up. They began to sprint even faster through the dark sewer. It was a bit hard to navigate, but they eventually made their way to the ladder that goes up to the bridge and they got into the elevator. They made their way into the computer lab. They saw Jeremy nervously typing at the computer and staring into it. Aelita spoke up. "Jeremy were ready to go." Jeremy snapped out of the zone for a second. "Guys another change of plans, it has gotten even worse." William and Aelita looked even more concerned. There was a silence, but William broke it. "What's the deal now?" "Well from what I am seeing it looks like Xana is trying to push Yumi into the digital sea, but Odd and Ulrich are in sector 5 stopping Xana from destroying the core, so you two are heading to the ice sector that way Aelita can deactivate the Ice tower too."
William and Aelita both said "Right." They headed off to the scanner room and got transported to the ice sector. William looked around. "wow this place looks a lot cooler than sector 5. More intricate at least." Aelita said "Lets go save Yumi." They both began to sprint off. William could see Yumi being surrounded by 2 mega tanks 2 Krabes and 2 Tarantulas. He noticed that the one krab had its leg positioned so that one little push would throw her into the digital sea…..
Why did Xana wait to reveal yumi? Why does he want to push her in and destroy Lyoko? Why does he want paper? Can the Lyoko warrior save Yumi and Lyoko? FIGURE OUT NEXT WEEK!