Chapter 3: Contest
It was lunchtime at Kadic and our group was in the lunchroom.
"Hey are you gonna finish your pudding?" Odd asked Danny pointing to his untouched pudding cup.
"Yes, I am. Why?"
"Oh, because if you weren't going to, I'd be more than happy to eat it."
"You already ate yours," Danny said opening the cup, "and Yumi's and Jeremy's, and Tucker's."
"Yeah, and I wanted it too." Tucker whined.
"Odd, you're like a walking stomach." Jeremy said typing on his laptop.
"Hey, it's not my fault I'm a growing boy." Odd responded with a fake pout.
Danny groaned "Fine here." He tossed the cup to Odd.
"Yes!"
Sam rolled her eyes, "Boys," she muttered just loud enough for Aelita and Yumi to here. The two girls chuckled/giggled at the way she said it.
"Why does Odd want the cups anyway?" Aelita asked. Odd answered by pointing to a sign. "An eating contest?" The pink haired girl questioned.
"Yup. It's tomorrow and I've been practicing all week."
"The way you eat Odd," Ulrich stated "it's like you've been preparing all year."
The group laughed as Odd made an annoyed face, "Ha, ha very funny. We'll see whose laughing when I beat last years champion."
"Well good luck Odd, you'll need it." Yumi said as the lunch bell rang. Everyone left the cafeteria, Yumi parting ways with them to go to her classes.
"What I don't get Odd is how you can eat so much and still be so scrawny." Danny pointed out.
"I'm not scrawny…I'm svelt."
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With the exception of Yumi, the group was in their last class of the day, Italian. Most of the class was staring with bored expressions on their faces. The same went for the gang, except for Odd, and Jeremy. Jeremy was trying to understand the language (and having little success), while Odd was actually paying attention.
"Odd, do I need new glasses or are you actually taking notes?" Jeremy asked in wonder.
"Your eyes do not lie. I need at least a seventy grade point average to pass and the only classes I'm mildly interested in are art and language. Besides, the look on your face right now is picture worthy. If only I had a camera."
"Odd!" The Italian teacher shouted getting the purple clothed boys attention, "Can you please explain what a preterit verb is?"
"Certainly sir." While Odd began explain, and surprising not only the teacher, but the whole class, Jeremy turned around to Danny, Tucker and Sam.
"Hey, can you guys come with me to the factory after school?" He asked.
"I guess, why?" Sam questioned.
"I want to scan Danny's DNA to create a Lyoko card for him, so he can help us fight on Lyoko; I also want to create one for you guys also." He answered.
"I understand Danny, but why us?" Tucker asked.
"XANA is getting stronger, and because of that his attacks are becoming more deadly, so we have to use the return to the past option. Anyone not programmed into the computer forgets what happened when we turn back time."
"I'm guessing to hide any evidence of the attack." Sam concluded.
"Precisely."
"Mr. Belpois." Jeremy quickly turned around when he heard his last name being said by the teacher. "Mr. Belpois if you are so smart that you don't need to pay attention in class you'd you be so kind as to translate the sentence on the board and use it in preterite form."
"Uh… certainly. It's uhh…"Jeremy stammered having no idea what was on the board. The teacher frowned.
"I see. Maybe you should spend less time talking with Mr. Fenton and more time on you studies." The teacher scolded, "Now Odd, would you please translate the sentence.
Odd did so once again having the class wonder if the real Odd was abducted by aliens and this one was a clone.
After class Danny, Sam, Aelita, Tucker and Jeremy went to the factory. Once they got there, Jeremy got on the super computer.
"Okay, take the elevator down one floor and get in the scanners." He instructed.
The three teenagers did so and stepped into the scanner room when the elevator stopped.
"Now go into the scanners, it doesn't matter which one." The half-ghost and his friends did so, the doors closing after the entered the scanners surprised them a little.
"Okay let's start with Sam." Jeremy typed on his keyboard as he began creating Sam's card. He then moved onto Tucker's and finally Danny's. While doing Danny's the error message appeared on the screen. In the scanner room Danny's scanner opened and he collapsed onto the ground.
"Danny are you alright?" Sam asked as he and Tucker caught him.
"Yeah I'm fine. A little dizzy, but fine."
The three teens went back up to the computer room. "That's weird. I wonder what went wrong." Jeremy muttered as he typed furiously on the super computer. "So that's the problem." The young genius concluded, "The supercomputer can't register Danny's DNA code."
"Why not?" Tucker asked.
"I wish I knew."
"It's strange really," Aelita started, "The super computer has enough memory so it should have no problems registering human DNA."
"Well, I'm half-ghost, maybe that's what's causing the problem." Danny suggested.
"It might." Jeremy concluded. "We'll worry about it later."
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Night had fallen and it was around midnight. An electric socket sparked with electricity and XANA's ghost came out of it and entered the refrigerator.
Morning came about a few hours later and the eating contest was underway. Kadic was going against two other schools. In truth the contest was more of a fundraiser and whichever school one, student or teacher, would receive money for the school.
Millie and Tamiya were interviewing Odd.
"Odd our viewers want to know, do you think you'll be able to beat last years champion?"
"I believe my chances of winning are as good as me failing my next math test. In other words, very high." The boy who lived up to his name replied.
"So, who is this 'champion' Odd mentioned anyway?" Tucker asked.
"Some kid from another school." Ulrich replied. "Who knows Odd might actually win this year, I mean he skipped breakfast."
The contestants all got to their seats. A whistle was blown and the contest began. One by one each kid either gave up, got sick, or passed out until only Odd and another kid were remaining.
As the lunch lady brought out the last dish, cherry pie, Danny's ghost sense went off. The half-ghost looked around the room.
"Ghost sense?" Sam asked
"Yeah, but I don't see anything."
"False alarm?" Aelita suggested.
"No, it never has a false-"
"Odd!"
The half-ghost was cut off at Ulrich's alarmed cry. Odd started coughing and his body began to pixelize. He finally passed out, face pale. Ulrich went up to his friend, "He's not breathing. Someone get the nurse!"
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Odd was brought to the nurses offices, and eventually to the hospital. Ulrich, Danny, and the others, minus Jeremy and Aelita who went to the factory, arrived a few minutes later.
"The doctors are saying either Odd was exposed to a large amount of poison or he choked." Ulrich said as he left Odd's room.
"Or XANA attacked him from the inside." Yumi suggested.
"Can he even do that?" Tucker asked.
"Not directly, he needs to use something to help him attack the person." Ulrich said. His cell-phone then went off, it was Jeremy.
"I just found an activated tower," Jeremy said, "Aelita and I have located it in the desert region."
"Okay, were on the way." Ulrich said then looked at Yumi, "XANA's on the offensive, let's go."
"We'll stay behind and keep you posted on Odd's condition." Sam assured them as they left. "Something wrong Danny?" She asked the half-ghost kid.
"I'm trying to figure out why my ghost since keeps going off when XANA launches an attack."
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"Are you three ready?" Jeremy asked the three lyoko warriors.
"Yup, you can start the process, Jeremy." Aelita told him.
The scanners closed, "Transfer Ulrich, transfer Yumi, transfer Aelita. Scanner. Virtualization."
The three warriors were successfully transferred and safely landed in the desert.
"The tower should be North of were you are now." Jeremy told them. At that the Ulrich, Yumi, and Aelita started heading for the tower.
"Be careful, you have Kankrelats coming up on your right."
They continued going for the tower until the roachster like creatures began to fire at them. Yumi took out her fans and threw one of them at the Kankrelat hitting and destroying it.
Ulrch took out his sword and blocked some lasers to protect Aelita. Yumi threw both of her fans, one of them hit another Kankrelat, the other missed. While off guard one of the monsters hit Yumi with it's laser.
"Ten life points Yumi." Jeremy told her. Yumi's immediate response was catch her two fans and throw one of them at the Kankrelat to get rid of it.
"Ulrich, take Aelita to the tower, I'll handle this." The Geisha said before performing some backhand springs to avoid the laser fire.
"Come on." Ulrich told Aelita and they went off to the tower while Yumi continued fighting.
Jeremy looked at his screen to see Sam's cell-phone number come up on the screen. "Jeremy, it's Sam. How are things going on Lyoko?"
"So far things are not running smoothly, but I have a bad feeling that that won't last long." Jeremy answered then asked "How's Odd."
"He's not doing to well, his heart beat is slowing down." Sam answered
"Alright we'll hurry." Sam turned off her cell phone and Jeremy turned his attention back the screen on his computer.
"You're almost at the tower Ulrich." He said.
"This is way to easy." Ulrich commented slowing to a walk.
"We'll if it makes you feel better, there's two mega-tanks guarding it."
Any sign of the Scipizoa?"
"Not yet."
"How about Yumi?" Aelita asked.
By this time Yumi had finished off the last Kankrelat. "Jeremy, I'm gonna need the Overwing."
"It's on the way." Jeremy said typing in a code that materialized her vehicle. She hopped on the Overwing and sped off.
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Ulrich and Aelita reached the tower. True to Jeremies word, two mege-tanks were in front of it.
"Aelita stay hidden while I take care of these things." Ulrich commanded. A mega-tank turned to them as Aelita ran to hide and began rolling towards her. Ulrich took out his sword and went for the tank.
"Triangulate." Ulrich activate his super sprint and ran around the tank in a triangle creating two clones. The tank opened itself and fired a wall laser at one of the clones, then the other. The real Ulrich jumped on the mega-tank and stabbed his sword into the eye. He jumped off of it and it exploded.
Yumi flew by on the Overwing getting the other tanks attention. It opened and fired its attack. Yumi dodged the laser wall and threw one of her fans. The mega-tand closed itself and the fan bounced off. It then reopened and fired again, this time hitting the Overwing. The vehicle de-virtualized and Yumi began falling.
Ulrich noticed this and used his super sprint to run over and caught Yumi.
"Thanks." Yumi said as Ulrich put her down.
"Oh, it's no-ugh!" Ulrich was cut off by the mega-tanks wall attack hitting him. He was de-virtualized instantly.
Ulrich!" Yumi cried. She quickly got out of the way to avoid another assault and threw her fan, hitting the mega-tanks eye. It blew up.
"All clear Aelita."
The pink haired girl ran up to the tower and slid through it. She slowed down upon entry and levitated up to the top platform. She put her hand on a screnn and typed in the 'Lyoko' code.
"Tower deactivated."
Jeremy pressed a button on the computer. "Return to the past now."
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The gang was back in the cafeteria Odd was being interviewed by Millie and Tamyia.
"It's called, XANA's ghost. It is like XANA, but in a specter form and what he uses to attack our world." Jeremy explained to Danny who asked.
"That explains why your ghost sense went off." Sam concluded.
"Yeah it does." Danny also concluded. He looked over at Odd who started to come by.
"Okay guys let's go." He said. "I dropped out of the contest."
"Dropped out?" Ulrich asked, "Why?"
"After all the chaos with XANA earlier, I think I lost my appitite."
"Wait, you lost your appetite?"
"Well, yeah."
"I guess theirs a first time for everything."
The gang shared a laugh and left the cafeteria.
End Chapter 3
Sorry for this being late, reasons vary between laziness and the factI can never get what I write on paper onto the computer.