Next Gen Warriors
Disclaimer: Nothing but Nyoka and the kids.
A/N: Please forgive any minor typos, my keys go on the fritz and stick.
-1 week later-
Camille, Raiden, Mirabella, and Aaron were sitting together in Camille`s dorm.
"But it can`t be JUST me, can it?" Raiden asked.
"No, I haven`t heard from Mom and Dad in a while either..." Cam admitted.
"Or me." Mira added.
"So Jeremie, Nyoka, Odd, Aelita, Ulrich AND Yumi are all MIA at once?" Aaron summarized.
Rai looked at the girls. "Did anyone shut the computer down?"
They paled.
"Oh God, XANA has our parents!" Mira squeaked.
"Calm down, Mira..." Aaron set a hand on her shoulder. Just then, Sissi ran in. "Mom?"
"Aaron, have you heard from your father?"
"No, ma`am..."
"I`ve tried to contact him for a week and he`s not answering!" The principal dashed out again.
"Okay, XANA has our parents. All 7 Lyoko warriors." Aaron confirmed.
"Not all; there are four he doesn`t have." Camille stood.
"Cammie!" Mira gasped.
"Belle, what choice do we have? He`s kidnapped our parents! We can`t leave them in his hands! I`m the leader now and I say we GO!"
Rai and Aaron looked at each other, then nodded.
"She`s right." They said in unison.
Belle sighed in defeat and nodded, then the 4 headed to the factory.
Camille was at the supercomputer as her 3 friends virtualized.
"Okay, guys, you`re looking for big orange orbs...I`m coming in too." She set a self-virtualization and joined the others, looking round in the forest sector.
"Ay!" Mira dodged a shot from a Krab, as Aaron, almost a carbon copy of his father`s not-XANAfied Lyoko form, killed it.
"We must be close." Raiden looked around and noticed a Guardian about 30 feet away, 2 more Krabs standing guard.
"I`d say THAT`S what we`re looking for." Aaron commented.
Camille nodded. "One of our parents is in there. Now...CHARGE!"
The warriors dashed to their target, the boys taking out the Krabs as the girls raced to the trap.
"Mama!" Mira cried as she spotted Aelita within the trap, then blushed at her childish outburst.
"It`s okay, Belle." Cam said softly. "You call Aelita 'mama'. She IS your mother. Heck, I`m older than you and I still call Jeremie 'daddy'."
Her friend smiled, then looked at the Guardian. "How do we get to her?"
"Dunno...when in doubt, shoot it!"
"Don`t hurt my mom!"
Camille chuckled softly. "I won`t, Bella." She pressed her hands to the sphere, sending a black shockwave over it, which burst it like a bubble. Aelita fell to the ground, unconscious.
"Mama?" The rose and violet-haired girl shook her mother. Aaron looked over and notices a tail that matched Belle`s hair twitching behind her, but didn`t mention it.
"We`ll go look elsewhere, get Aelita up!" Raiden called, grabbing Aaron`s arm and taking off.
"Tower! Daddy said being in a tower replenishes her life points!" Camille recalled, picking Aelita up and running to the tower, Mira in pursuit. They reached the tower quickly, then set the elfin woman down and waited.
Meanwhile, Aaron and Raiden had found a second Guardian in the sector, taking out 7 Kankerlats.
"It`s Mom..." Raiden said softly, seeing Yumi inside.
"How do we get her out?"
"No idea, but we need to, and fast..." Raiden struck it several times with his katanas, to no avail.
"Well with toothpicks like those you`ll NEVER break her out! Let me at it." Aaron brandished his Zweiihander.
"Shut up, Angus."
"How`d you?-"
"Heard you get scolded by mommy dearest."
"Oh shut up and move."
The black-haired boy obliged, letting Aaron hack away at the Guardian.
In the tower, Aelita`s eyes fluttered open to see Camille and Mirabella. "Huh?..."
"Mama!" Mira cried, hugging her mother.
"Belle...What happened?" The rose-haired woman asked.
"XANA happened. He kidnapped you all and hid you throughout Lyoko." Cam clarified, then saw a flash of Aaron and Raiden at another Guardian. "And it seems that the boys found another. C`mon!" She dashed off with Belle and Aelita in pursuit.
"Aaron, quit it!" Raiden was shouting at the still-attacking boy. "It`s not working and you could hurt her!"
"WELL, HOW ELSE WILL WE GET HER OUT?" Aaron snapped, making Raiden growl.
"Step aside, boys." Aelita walked up to the Guardian and created a clone of Yumi, freeing her.
"Onii-chan?" Raiden kneeled beside his mother. Yumi looked up at her son with a small smile.
"I`m fine, Raiden. But what`s going on here?"
"Long story short, XANA captured you all. Seems he wanted to give us a little scavenger hunt."
"Some scavenger hunt."
"Come on, let`s go."
The group reassembled, one by one, until they were all together. However, they were all separated moments later. The Della-Robbia family was sent to the ice sector, the Sterns to the desert, the Dunbars to the forest and the Belpois family to the mountains. XANA then sent the climates to the extremes knowing which families responded to what climates: sweltering heat in the forest and desert and frigid cold in the ice sector and mountains. Instantly, the temperatures in the ice and mountain sectors plummeted while the heat in the desert and forest soared.
Odd, Aelita, and Mirabella were all racing or the tower, trying to get to shelter before they froze. Already, the three were unsteady from shivering. They made it into the tower, but it wasn`t more that 5 degrees warmer than the sector. Mira was already shivering violently; her parents` intolerance for cold was doubled for her. Her parents pulled her close to them, creating a semi-group hug.
"J-just hang on, M-Mira, we`ll g-get out of this." Her mother assured, trying to sound confident.
"B-but Aelita-" Odd stammered from the cold.
"O-Odd, I`m N-NOT letting our baby d-d-die like this!"
Their child could not reply, only shiver and curl up closer to her mother and father.
"J-just hold on, b-baby girl...h-hold on f-for u-us..." Odd shivered and held his wife and daughter closer. The young couple looked at one anoher, sharing a special memory. (Note: In all the shared memories of the couples, the woman`s POV will be italicized, the man`s bolded.)
Hello! Okay peoples, I wanna know who you want to be the next visited. Oh, and I plan to have memories of how the proposals of the main three couples (Jeremie/Nyoka, Odd/Aelita Ulrich/Yumi) went. I`ll start with Odd and Aelita`s next time! R&R!