Captaindrake123: "Alright here's the next chapter."
Commandercaleb: "Yeah I couldn't sleep with all you're typing..." *Yawn*
Captaindrake123: Right now is probably the best time to tell you that these prologues have been taking place After episode 30 A great day, because now were going to start getting into the original storyline."
Captaindrake123:"Anyways enjoy."
BOLD is for when someone speaks English...
Drake's POV:
It's been almost a month now since my first day of school, and over the time I settled in pretty well.
"Oh come on! Again!?" Odd said as he couldn't get the annoying vending machine to work.
After a while I gave up on the thing and just didn't get any drinks from it, Right now I was leaning against the wall letting the others talk.
"Too bad Odd maybe next time" Ulrich said as he drank his drink with a smile.
This was the normal routine for us hanging out together, over time I got to know more about the others and became more and more apart of their group.
"I honestly never expected to be friends with them" I thought.
...it was interesting to say the least, and I eventually also found out about Odd's dog Kiwi.
I promised to keep it a secret, and to help him keep kiwi hidden, they seemed to grow on me the more I hang out with them...
"How's your biology class Drake?" Aelita asked dragging me out of my thoughts.
"I got a B- on my last assigment thanks to you" I said thankfully and then looked annoyed "I just wish it didn't sound so boring in class."
It honestly was boring, the teacher tried to make it seem interesting but ended up failing, he seemed to give up afterwards.
Ulrich finally got his cast off today, where I got my bandages removed a few days ago, he was enjoying having his other arm back for his use.
"You're lucky I got a D in it" Ulrich said as he twirled his former broken arm.
If there was one thing I noticed about Ulrich was that he didn't have the best grades, I often tried to help him out studying for other subjects in my own way and some of his grades did go up, of course though we still had some loose ends to tie up.
"Hey you're getting better, before it was an F" I said trying to cheer him up.
"Yea I don't think cheering people up about their grades is your strong suit Drake" Odd laughed.
I shrugged "Hey at least I'm not letting the vending machine bother me anymore..." I said as a small smirk formed on my face as I leaned on the wall.
Over the past two weeks I had a lot of fun and ended up spending most of my time with these friends of mine.
I put away the book I was reading earlier as I looked at Jeremy.
"How's the new software holding up?" I asked, I had recently given him a software disk I asked for from my father to help Jeremy speed things up a little on his computer.
"It's working smoothly, my programs are going a lot faster now." Jeremy said smiling.
Yumi looked up from her drink and looked at me for a moment before talking to Aelita.
I could tell she wasn't entirely sure about me yet, we didn't talk all that often but I think she's starting to get used to me.
I knew they were hiding something...
I'm not an idiot,whenever they were having a conversation and I walked up to them they suddenly stopped and talked about something else, It explained why sometimes they were skeptical of me.
Jeremy would put away his laptop when I offered to look over his program, Odd would make a joke whenever I mentioned something I overheard as they had their conversations, Ulrich would say it's nothing, Aelita shifts around uncomfortably when I asked what they talked about and would say it's nothing to worry about, and Yumi would just simply say she had to go do something.
"Yup definitely hiding something" I thought as I looked at my friends conversing with each other.
I figured they would tell me though when they were ready, it was probably a close secret among friends with them and I could understand why they wouldn't want to tell me right now...
"But damn did it make me curious" I said but I restrained that curiosity and was patient, a trait that Odd could definitely learn about.
"Hey Yumi could I borrow some of you're notes for my next class?" Odd asked.
"No way Odd I need these" Yumi said " why don't you make your own?"
"Because Odd's odd" Aelita said making us laugh while Odd frowned in annoyance.
The bell rang signaling it's time for our next class.
And so we said goodbye and went our separate ways...
Later at night...
I took off my jacket and hung it up at my hangar in me and Jeremy's dorm getting ready for bed.
"Yo Jeremy you should really get off of there, you need sleep" I said "You also keep me up with all that tapping from your computer" I finished telling him to take a hint.
"But this is important Drake! Just one more hour..." Jeremy said as he continued to type for god knows what program.
"Yea well until you tell me what that program is I don't think I care" I said as I pulled him away from his computer.
"Hey wait a minute!" He exclaimed as I quickly saved his program not even bothering to look at it and turned his computer off, I then turned to him.
"Jeremy if I have one more sleepless night my mind will actually break down and I'll go insane." I said, I held myself highly for my mental control, where in most situations someone would get mad or did something out of anger I did calmly. But with all the sleepless nights,constant bickering of Sissy, and students making up rumors that I was a delinquent because I killed a wolf irritating me I couldn't take it much longer.
"But I-" Jeremy said trying to explain to me.
"Butts are for sitting Jeremy" I said " besides you need sleep too, the reason why you can't figure out whatever it is you're working on is probably because you're sleep deprived, sleeping recharges and repairs the cells in your body and not to mention organizes the new memory you made during the day..." I said as quite a matter of fact " and when you don't sleep you might as well be a zombie"
"...okay" he finally admitted defeat with some reluctance.
"Good!" I said as I got in bed and turned off the lamp light.
Jeremy sighed and then turned off his lamp light and laid his head down on the pillow.
Third person POV:
Aelita was tossing and turning in her bed, she was having a horrifying nightmare...
A small elf wearing a blue hat, and wore strange dark pink clothing was running through the woods with wolf howls coming from behind him. He ran through the woods with all the strength in his legs.
He then stopped, panting heavily he put his hands on his knees trying to regain his breath...
After regaining his breath and looking around he began to walk forward, but then heard growling behind him.
"Huh?" The elf said as he turned around to see what the noise was...
A hungry wolf was behind him growling at him, the elf backed up from the wolf and was sweating with worry. The wolf towered the elf and growled, he then scrambled towards the other way.
"AAAAAHHH!" The elf screamed as the wolf pounced at him.
"AHHHHHH!" Screamed Aelita waking up from the nightmare.
The door opened up and Aelita blocked the light with her hand, and onced her eyes adjusted she saw it was Sissy...
"WHO. IS. DOING. THAT. SCREAMING!?" Sissy...well... screamed.
Over in Drake and Jeremy's Dorm Jeremy Ironicly snored sound asleep while Drake heard the yelling downstairs...
"God fucking damn it..."Drake said getting out of his bed and exiting his Dorm " I just can't get one full night of sleep" Drake mumbled as he went to see what the commotion was.
Back over with Aelita she awkwardly answered Sissy's question"...um...you are..." She stated as a matter of fact.
Aelita looked at Sissy's angry face as she said" DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!?"
"Do you?" A familiar voice said and coming near Aelita's doorway was a Drake with a very irritated look.
"Go back to sleep Sissy god damn it I'm trying to sleep" Drake said angrily and tired.
Sissy glared at him then turned to Aelita "This is the third night in the row you woke me up with your screaming...I HAVE HAD IT!" Sissy said walking away and soon entered her room and closed the door.
Drake looked at Aelita through the doorway "You okay?" he asked.
Aelita nodded " Thanks for getting rid of her..." Aelita said thankfully.
"...so what's this I hear about you screaming three nights in a row?" Drake asked concerned.
Aelita looked down, not entirely sure what to say. She looked up at Drake again and reluctantly decided to tell him.
"...I've been having the same nightmare three nights in a row" Aelita said barely audible.
"What's it about?" he asked.
"...you'll probably laugh..." Aelita said"
"Hey!" Drake said getting her attention. "If it's making you scream in horror three nights in a row then I'm most definitely not gonna laugh when my friend is clearly terrified." He stated.
Aelita looked at him for a moment...and told him the short version about what happened in the dream.
"A wolf...would it happen to be the same one we met" Drake asked a little worried about her.
"No...somehow it was even more terrifying..." She said clutching her blanket tighter.
"Well hey if you want I'll take down that wolf too..."Drake said jokingly cheering her up.
She giggled "What are you my new bodyguard or something?" Aelita asked.
"If it will get you to stop having nightmares then sure" He said and then yawned.
"Well I better get back in bed before I'm caught here" Drake said as he turned around and took a step, but stopped.
Drake looked at Aelita "Hey...if you ever want to talk about this with me, I'll listen and what time it is doesn't matter for you" Drake said a little reluctantly.
Aelita smiled " Thanks Drake...I feel a little better now." She said.
Drake then yawned again " well I'm gonna go finish sleeping, sweet dreams Aelita" Drake finished as he walked away after closing her door.
Aelita got comfortable in her bed again feeling better after that talk.
But somehow that wolf still worried her...
In the morning In the showers...
Aelita had just entered the girls shower room, she was still wearing her pajamas and had a towel in hand.
As she walked she then stopped after hearing something.
She looked around for a moment then looked ahead of her, and then in a flash the same growling wolf from her dream came out of nowhere...
Aelita dropped her towel in shock and widened her eyes in fear as she began to back up.
The wolf then pounced towards her "AHHH!" Aelita screamed as she ran the other way to the exit.
Once she got out she immediately closed the door and held it there.
"What are you doing Aelita? get out of our way" Sissy said walking up to her with two other girls.
"Don't go in there! There's a huge wolf inside..." She said terrified.
"Oh really?" Sissy said as she moved Aelita aside and opened the door, everyone gasped.
They then looked at Aelita with a look saying "Really?".
Aelita peaked inside to find a brown haired girl wearing a bathrobe and glasses standing near the doorway...the wolf was a hallucination.
"Oh my it's a four eyed wolf!" Sissy said as she and the other girls laughed.
The girl in the bathrobe gave Aelita a small glare before walking by.
Later...
Drake's POV:
The last time I saw the group was when they asked me to leave them alone while they talked to Aelita...
I was a bit confused at first, wondering why I couldn't join them. But then I figured it had something to do with their secret and so they politely asked me to leave them to talk.
As I finished packing my stuff to go to my next class, I figured I would see them there because we had the same class.
It turned out I was right, but I didn't expect Sissy and her evil henchman to be throwing an elf doll while Ulrich, Odd and Jeremy were trying to get it back. And then the doll was tossed over towards Sissy, only for Aelita to catch it too and they got into a tug of war with it.
Nicholas was about to grab Aelita to help Sissy get it.
"Give it back!" Aelita screamed and then saw Nicholas about to grab her.
"Oh no you don't jackass!" I quickly grabbed him and threw him on his ass, he looked up at me and his face pales as I glare at him "Did you not learn ANYTHING from last time!?" I questioned him.
And just as I was about to speak again, everyone saw some sort of key fly out of the doll and onto the ground...
Sissy immediately tried to grab it only for Ulrich to put his foot on it while smirking."Nuh uh" he said mockingly.
Herb looked like he was about to help Sissy get Ulrich's foot off of it but Odd stood in front of him.
"Sorry, game over" Odd said smiling.
"What is all this noise about!?" The teacher finally came in seeing that all the students were making a mess of the classroom.
Everyone of the students quickly began cleaning up and getting back to their seats.
Sissy got up "Fine keep It, but only because it's you Ulrich" Sissy said and went back to her seat.
Ulrich then gave Jeremy the key and they went to their respective seats.
I went to mine as well which was behind Ulrich and Odd's.
"I wonder what that was all about and what that key was for" I thought as I listened to the teacher beginning her lesson.
And not long into the lesson I heard Jeremy.
"It's a key to a train station locker!" He said.
"Well one of my questions have been answered..." I thought as I watched as Jeremy answered the teacher's question wrong and Sissy laughed with her goons.
Later after class...
Third person POV:
As the lyoko warriors headed out of the classroom Jeremy explained that the key was for a train station locker and assumed that the train station not too far from Kadic was where it belonged to, so they decided to go there after school ended.
"Hey guys!" Drake yelled to them as they walked down the hall, they stopped and turned over to Drake as he ran up to them.
"Hey Drake what is it?" Jeremy asked.
"What was going on in there? You guys were fighting over some elf toy with Sissy before I came in..." Drake asked a little irritated.
Odd, Ulrich and Jeremy looked nervously at each other while Aelita looked down at the ground feeling guilty...
"Well you see Drake we found in the woods earlier hanging off a tree..." Odd said trying to explain the situation.
"Then what about that key that fell out of it, Jeremy seemed to think it was important" Drake said as he looked at Jeremy "I'm not an idiot, what is really going on?" Drake said getting a little mad that his friends were apparently trying to lie to his face...and it wasn't even the first time.
He wasn't sure how many times he's been lied to or not but sometimes they would make an excuse to go somewhere or to do something else, It was honestly annoying for Drake because not one of them even noticed that he caught most of their lies.
Frankly it was stupid to Drake, he was friends with them for a while now and they were still suspicious of him.
"Drake we-" Aelita tried to say but was cut off.
"Guys you should really get to class soon" Yumi said walking by them and looked at Drake "Including you Drake".
Drake stared at them, and then turned away to go to his next class.
The others soon did the same.
Aelita's POV:
"It didn't feel right not telling him..." I thought as I walked to my next class and sat down.
I knew that the others felt guilty too leaving him unanswered like that, but I knew we had to do it...
Flashback...
Inside the hermitage...
"There There, stay down boy..." Odd said as he looked and pointed at books on a desk.
"See everything is just fine Aelita" Jeremy said comforting me.
"I'd honestly feel a bit better if everyone was here..." I said as I looked around the hermitage.
"That probably wouldn't have been a good idea Aelita..." Jeremy said honestly.
"Sorry but it's just too much to risk Aelita, if Drake came with us he would ask questions and might find out about the supercomputer..." Yumi said putting a comforting hand on my shoulder "we don't know what he will do and worse case scenario he would turn us into the authorities, I know you trust him after the wolf incident but you have to remember he didn't know everything about the situation..."
I nodded in understanding, I then looked over to a staircase and started walking towards it.
Flashback ends...
"Would he really turn us in?" I thought as I looked at my desk while the teacher gave his lecture.
Drake's POV:
It was now lunch time and Drake had quickly finished his lunch and left before anyone in the group came, and is now sitting on a bench.
"They still don't trust me..." I thought as I sighed annoyingly.
I'm patient, no matter who else tells you, I am patient. But I was losing that patience...
Right now I needed to get away from the group, sometimes I just wanted to be alone and quickly ate my food to come out here just to think.
I was irritated, I understood that whatever secret they had was important to them...
But damn did it sometimes piss me off when they would lie to my face about it, and it also made me curious...but as always I resisted.
"Well look who it is..." I heard a certain annoying girl walking towards me.
I ignored her like I usually did, it was the best tactic for people who annoy you.
"Having problems with you new group of friends I see..." Sissy said as she sat down next to me.
"Damn it take a hint!" I thought as I crossed my arms and looked at her.
"What problems?" I asked annoyed by her staying here.
"Oh don't tell me you don't feel annoyed of them not telling you anything about their little secret..." Sissy said in a knowing tone.
I looked at her curiously.
"You want to know too?" I asked, kind of already knowing what the answer was.
"Of course I do!" She screamed "Jesus, can you scream any louder?" I thought but continued to listen to her.
"There is something going on in there little group and I intend to find out...and I was wondering if you could help me" She said.
"What?" I thought.
"You see I just happen to have heard one of their conversations, and found out their going to leave the school later to go somewhere and I need someone to help me follow them, someone good at not being seen." Sissy said.
It was true...I often escaped crowded places and people often didn't know where I was or hear me coming, one time I came up to the group undetected and was almost kicked in the face by Yumi...
"So what do you say?" Sissy asked putting out her hand waiting for me to shake it.
...If I said the offer wasn't tempting I would be lying.
I wanted to know what they were really doing, and the fact that their leaving school for this secret could mean that it's really important. And the other fact that they lied to me so many times also floated around in my mind and made me curious to just what all those conversations were about.
I looked at her, I already made my decision.
I opened up my hand and brought it to hers and...slapped it.
"Huh!?" she said surprised as I was about to walk away from her.
I maybe curious but that will never be enough to make me betray them, they were good friends even with the secrecy. Back at my old school there was just a bunch of jerks and all they cared about was who was dating who, who's gonna get into a fight, and annoying the teachers in class. That's why I never really had friends, I wasn't gonna change myself into some annoying punk who laughs when somebody hasn't seen the latest movie or doesn't take pictures of people fighting in the hallway and instead trying to stop it.
But ever since I came here and became friends with this group of mine...I saw none of that. They were different from the people from my old school, Odd told me a joke (no matter how bad it was) when I was feeling a bit down, Jeremy helps me with my computer and we often talk about stuff before I go to sleep,Ulrich and I sometimes spar just for the fun of it (a little restricting with the casts), Aelita helps me study for the dreaded biology class and genuinely wants to know what I like and get to know me better.
And I've learned to respect Yumi, whenever she was being suspicious of me it wasn't out of spite, she was doing it for the well being of her friends. She cares about them, she even put some signs in the forest to make sure they made their way back and often defended them against Sissy.
There was no way I was gonna betray these good friends over something like mere curiosity or because I was just irritated.
"We've been over this, I'm not you're pawn"
"Hey don't just walk away!" Sissy screamed angrily.
"Leave him alone Sissy" Odd said as him Ulrich and Aelita came over "I think he's heard enough of you're nagging about you not having a brain"
Sissy looked over at Odd and glared at him.
"Oh you're so clever aren't you? what are you even doing here?" Sissy asked as she looked at them.
"We came to see if our friend Drake here needed help getting away from you" Ulrich said with a smile.
"Well I was just talking to him about something, but apparently we disagree" She said as she glared at me "I guess I'll take my leave then..." and then walked away.
"Is everything alright Drake?" Aelita asked as she turned to me.
"I'm okay, and thanks for helping me get rid of the idiot" I said.
"Honestly...I thought you were mad at us" Aelita said a little worried.
"...I'm not mad, maybe irritated but not mad." I said as I scratched my head.
"Look Drake were sorry about what happened earlier today..." Ulrich started.
"It's okay I get it...I just need some time alone for a while to think about it okay guys" I said to them.
The bell rings, signaling it's the end of lunch.
"Well we better get to class guys..." Odd said.
We all waved each other goodbye as we went to our classes.
As I walked to my next class I stopped and thought "How much did they listen to that conversation...?"
Later at night in Drake and Jeremy's Dorm...
Third person POV:
"So...what's with the box?" Drake asked and looked at the box Jeremy brought in.
"...well..." Jeremy said awkwardly as Drake looked at it.
"Ok let me stop you for a sec..." Drake said as he put down his laptop and looked at him "I get it if you don't want to tell me about it but just...don't lie to my face again, or else I might just jump out the window..." Drake said annoyed but oddly calm.
Jeremy looked at him surprised and began to speak "Well...yes I can't tell you about it" he said a little worried.
"...ok" Drake said as he sat down and began typing on his laptop, he was studying for history class.
"Ok?" Jeremy asked surprised for a second time "you're not mad anymore...?"
"Ok who said I was mad?" Drake asked as he got up and looked at him "I wasn't mad I was irritated..."
Drake looked at him again seeing that he wasn't completely satisfied with his answer and sighed.
"Look Jeremy...I thought it over and I decided to trust you guys because I know you're good people" Drake said, it was a little harder to say than he thought but he said it "I don't mind if you don't tell me about it, just stop trying to lie to me to keep it secret...is that cool?"
Jeremy sat on his chair and looked at me.
"...Alright, that's fair" Jeremy said smiling "thanks Drake, you're a good friend"
"No problem nerd..." I said as I continued typing.
"Oh the crazy sci-fi fanatic is calling me a nerd huh?" Jeremy said smirking.
"Hey!" Drake said looking at Jeremy "I'm a trekkie and I'm proud of it computer boy!"
"Says the guy with three laptops and two portable outlets...and you're calling me a computer freak" Jeremy said looking at me chuckling.
"Oh...and who was the one who gave you a portable outlet so you could type away my precious sleep time at night" Drake said smiling.
They both stared at each other for a few seconds, and then laughed.
It was often like this, they would go on and on and joke around for this sort of stuff while they were both in this Dorm.
"Well we better turn off the lights and get to bed before the teacher's get cranky" Drake said as he put away my laptop and turned off the lights.
"You go ahead, I'm gonna keep working." Jeremy said and then turned around to his computer.
"Fine...I'll let you get away with it this time but only because I came prepared" Drake said putting on ear plugs and getting into bed.
"Alright goodnight Drake..." Jeremy said as he typed.
"Do you hear that?" Drake asked.
Jeremy turned around "Hear wha-"
"Peace and quiet!" Drake said still with earplugs on "It's beautiful..."
Jeremy rolled his eyes and continued to work on the computer.
Everything was back to normal, but not for long...
In the morning...
In Ulrich and Odd's dorm Ulrich was already awake and about to go to the showers, Odd was still in bed with kiwi...
"Come on Odd get up!" Ulrich said as he opened the door.
"mmm...five more minutes..." Odd grumbled
"Fine, I'm going to go take a shower..." Ulrich said as he walked out the door.
A creaking sound could be heard on the other side of the dorm as the lamplight slowly aimed towards Odd, a black mist then came out by unscrewing the lightbulb and setting it down in the short time it could.
Kiwi then turned around groggily and then stared at the black mist and began to bark at it, that black mist then proceeded to enter Odd's ear as a grey color consumed Odd's body and Kiwi continued to bark.
"AhaaahAaaaahha" Odd said as he felt something try to take control of him.
"AHHHHH WHOOOAAA!" Odd screamed as the black mist left his ears, it failed to control him.
He looked around and saw a worried Kiwi.
"Hey what happened..." Odd asked himself as he comforted Kiwi.
"Wait a minute..." Odd mumbled as he left the dorm and went to the showers.
After he made it to the showers he slowly entered he saw their was one other person in here brushing his teeth and began to look around.
"Ulrich you in here?" Odd asked and then heard screaming to his left.
"grrr AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Ulrich screamed as he fell through the door to as shower and was completely grey like Odd was before, the smoke then left Ulrich and was going into a near power outlet leaving behind some purple electricity.
"Ulrich you okay!?" Odd asked as he went over to him.
"Whoa what happened?" the student asked as he came over to them.
"It's okay Theo...I think I just have some stomach problems" Ulrich said.
Theo looked at them real quick "Alright but you should probably go to the nurse's office though" he said as he walked out.
"...you knew who that was too right?" Odd asked Ulrich.
"...Xana" Ulrich said getting up "we got to go tell Jeremy about this"
They both exited and ran down the hall and passed by Drake who was going to the showers.
"Hey Drake, can't talk now, got to go, bye!" Odd said quicly as him and Ulrich ran towards his dorm.
"...what was that about?" Drake asked no one in particular as he stood in the hallway, he then shrugged figuring they needed Jeremy to help with homework or something and continued his way to the showers.
In Jeremy's room when the two entered Ulrich began to shake Jeremy awake.
"Jeremy, Jeremy!" Ulrich screamed at him as he started to wake up.
"Huh...guys what is it?' he asked confused.
"Xana's ghosts attacked us, me and Ulrich" Odd explained to Jeremy.
"Wait what!?" Jeremy said surprised and climbed off his bed.
"Don't worry were okay, they couldn't posses us and ran away." Ulrich said as he got up.
Jeremy walked over to his computer, he began clicking on a few things and brought up the super scan.
"The super scan didn't detect any activated towers, it looks like Xana's attack failed." Jeremy said as he read over the super scan again.
"That's weird, Xana can posses humans but not...you two?" Jeremy asked as he looked over to them.
"...maybe it has something to do with sex appeal?" Odd said as he smiled.
"Yeah right..." Jeremy said as he read the scan again "okay be careful guys for all we know Xana might try again."
"Got it" Ulrich said as him and Odd walked out "C ya later!" Odd said as they closed the door.
Jeremy stared at the door for a few seconds before turning around to face his computer, but then black smoke rose from behind his chair and entered his body...
For a few seconds he was grey and fizzling and then it stopped, he turned around his chair, the super scan beeped behind him indicating a tower had been activated.
The symbol of Xana was now in Jeremy's eyes.
And only a few minutes later did Drake come in and got all his stuff ready for Gym class.
"Hey Jeremy come on were gonna be late, Jim's gonna be pissed off if you keep ditching his classes..." Drake said as he then looked at Jeremy.
"...hey you alright?" Drake asked as he looked at Jeremy.
Jeremy looked at him and smiled "I understand, thank you Drake and I'll make sure not to anger him again" he said as he got his stuff ready.
"...okay" Drake said looking at Jeremy a little confused.
"Well lets get going." Jeremy said as he walked out the door, and Drake soon reluctantly followed.
Drake's POV:
On the track field everyone sat on the grass, I sat in between Odd and Aelita as we were listening Jim's speech.
"Well...mostly" I thought.
I honestly tuned him out for I was thinking of something else, he wasn't really saying anything important just talking about how running is the most noble sport or something. What I was really focused on was Jeremy's behavior...
"You okay?" Aelita asked as Jim talked.
"...it's probably nothing." I said quietly.
"Oh...well I was wondering If I could talk to you later" Aelita asked quietly as Jim came by.
I was still paying attention to her but Jeremy's behavior earlier still bothered me.
"Oh sure..." I said but then Jim interrupted before anything else could be said.
"Jeremy! Let's see how powerful you're strides are..." Jim said, and after a bit more explaining (rambling) from Jim, Jim then got the timer ready.
"On you're mark...get set...GO!" Jim yelled and pressed the timer and Jeremy started running, but in no time at all Jeremy started walking around all funny and then began hopping on one foot.
"OUCH! ah!" Jeremy yelled as he hopped on one foot.
"What, what happened?" Jim asked.
"I twisted my ankle!" Jeremy said Immediatley.
"...no that's not right..." I thought as I watched Jeremy hopping "That happened way too fast, not to mention how he twisted it in the first place..."
"But...why would he fake it?" I thought and looked at Ulrich and Odd, Odd was snickering but Ulrich seemed as skeptical as I was at what just happened so that confirmed it's not a group thing.
"Well of course you did! You don't get muscles by sitting in front of a computer all day!" Jim said as he looked at Jeremy's "twisted' ankle "Herb take him to the infirmary!"
"Actually Jim could I go with Aelita instead...?" Jeremy asked hopping on one foot.
"Alright then, take him far away from me!" Jim said and Aelita walked towards Jeremy.
"Hey guys..." I said to Odd and Ulrich "you saw that right?".
"Other than Einstein's zero athletic potential" Odd said still snickering.
"No...Drake's right something was off..." Ulrich said as he saw Jeremy walk away with Aelita.
"He faked it..."I whispered to them.
"You sure?" Odd asked hesitantly.
"Is there something you would like to share with us Odd!?" Jim said as he looked at Odd with a waiting stare.
"Does he always single out Odd?" I thought as I heard his response.
"Ummm...I love this class?" Odd tried.
"Nice try Odd now be quiet" Jim said.
"Um hey Jim..." I said making him turn to me "I think I drank a little too much water before coming here, can I use the restroom?" I asked.
"Trying to keep yourself well hydrated huh Drake? Good but take it easy next time...go ahead!" Jim said and then turned to the other students.
I brought out my phone and pointed at it for Odd and Ulrich to see, letting them know I'll call them if something is up. Ulrich nodded, I ran towards them when I was out of site and kept hidden. Jeremy was acting weird first with this morning apologizing about Gym when he usually complains that he has to work on his computer, and now he fakes a twisted ankle to get out of class with Aelita, I need to find out what was going on...
Aelita's POV:
"You okay Jeremy?" I asked as we walked towards the nurse's office.
It was a little surprising at first when Jeremy twisted his ankle like that, I know he's not as physical fit as he should be, but after all the running from the Xana attacks I thought he would have gotten a little better...but then again we did use the return trips pretty often before Xana hacked it. Everyone's bodies physical abilities probably just go back to the way it was before all the events...
"Yes I'm fine..." Jeremy answered a little slowly, he then stopped limping.
"Hey you're not limping anymore..." I said a little surprised.
"I didn't expect him to recover so quickly" I thought as I looked at his leg.
"Has you're ankle stopped hurting?" I asked.
He then turned around and looked at me and started...growling?
The symbol of Xana was in his eyes.
"AHHH!" I screamed, I quickly backed away from him.
Jeremy then proceeded to walk towards me, and then tried to kick me.
Only for him to be stopped.
Third Person POV:
Drake quickly grabbed Jeremy's foot before he could do anything, and then with the advantage he threw him over to the ground.
"Jeremy what's gotten into you!?" Drake said as he then had his hand being pulled by Aelita.
"Come on follow me!" Aelita said as she pulled him towards the direction of the woods while Jeremy took time to recover, and afterwards he began chasing them.
In the bathroom on the upper floor Yumi saw the whole thing through the window, she then proceeded to leave the bathroom and call the others.
Ulrich on the track field then picked up his phone from his pocket and answered it.
"Ulrich! Something's wrong with Jeremy, he just tried to attack Aelita!" Yumi said over the phone as she made it to the steps.
"Wait a minute Xana tried to posses us this morning and failed, he could be controlling Jeremy but why would it work on him?" Ulrich said in a hushed voice as he talked to Yumi.
"I don't know but I saw him attack her, Drake protected Aelita before Jeremy could get her and I saw them heading towards the forest." Yumi said over the phone as she reached the bottom of the stairs "I don't know how long they can keep it up, I'm gonna go check the super scan while you look for them!" She then hung up and headed towards Drake and Jeremy's dorm.
"Ulrich!" Jim called and quickly got Ulrich's attention.
"I'm counting on you to raise the level you got it!?" Jim said as he looked at Ulrich.
"Ok Jim but I got to go us the bathroom real quick" Ulrich said as he got up.
"Oh me too Jim!" Odd said pointing his finger up.
"Hmmm...alright but make it snappy you two!" Jim said giving them the go.
"Thanks Jim!" Odd said as they ran.
Over in the forest...
"I think we lost him for now..." Aelita said as she and Drake slowed down and hid behind a bush.
"Alright now with that done do you mind telling me what happened to Jeremy?" Drake asked seriously as he looked around.
"Drake I need you're phone..." Aelita asked.
"Aelita don't dodge the question, he was attacking you!" Drake said to her in a hushed tone.
"Drake please there's too much to explain right now..." Aelita said as she looked at him.
"...alright" Drake said and he quickly gave her his phone.
She then dialed the number to Odd and waited for it to answer.
"...Drake? Where are you?" Odd answered over the phone.
"Odd it's me Aelita, Jeremy has been possessed by Xana and I'm in the woods with Drake" She said over the phone.
"Do you think you guys can meet us in the factory?" Odd asked.
"..." She looked at Drake real quick and then answered.
'I think so" Aelita replied.
"I'll tell Yumi and we'll meet you there..." Odd said.
Aelita then hung up.
"Possessed?" Drake asked as he looked around for Jeremy.
"Yes, I can't explain everything at the moment but I need you're help to get to the abandoned factory" Aelita said.
"You mean the old car factory?" Drake asked "why?"
"Drake I have to get there!" Aelita said looking into his eyes "It's the only way to get Jeremy out of this"
Drake stopped for a moment.
"What is it?" Aelita asked and then was shushed and pulled by Drake over to a nearby tree.
Jeremy was walking by and thought he had heard someone talking, so he came over to investigate.
"Hmph..." Xanafied Jeremy said in frustration when he found nothing, he then kept moving continuing his search.
Up in the tree above where Xanafied Jeremy was, Aelita and Drake looked down to make sure the ghost is clear and waited a minute before getting down.
"So how did you like climbing you're first tree?" Drake asked as he helped her down "Well...besides with the circumstances we are in."
"Interesting..." Aelita said smiling and then frowned looking at Drake "Drake I need to get to that factory" she said seriously.
"...alright I'll trust you, I'll make sure you get there." Drake said with acceptance but still looked annoyed.
"Thank you Drake, follow me." She said and led Drake to the factory...
Meanwhile in Jeremy and Drake's dorm...
"Sector one the ice territory, South East" Yumi said writing it in a sticky note from the super scan on Jeremy's computer.
She then put it in her pocket and walked towards the door and noticed a black case that was all bashed up.
"Wait a minute...no!" Yumi said as she then opened it, only to find that all the disks from Franz Hopper were destroyed.
"Xana destroyed them...Dang it" Yumi said but then ran out the door for she had more urgent problems to deal with.
In the sewers...
Drake and Aelita ran through the sewers, soon reaching the manhole for the factory.
"Here it is!" Aelita said as she climbed the latter opening up the manhole.
Drake soon started climbing as well but as soon as he reached the manhole he saw Jeremy running towards them at the other end of the sewers.
"Shit..." Drake said in English as he exited the sewers through the manhole.
Ulrich and Odd just entered and were getting their skateboards.
"Come on we got to hurry!" Ulrich said as he jumped on his skateboard, Odd following suite afterwards.
Over by the factory Aelita and Drake entered and neared the ropes.
"There grab onto them!" Aelita said and then jumped onto the rope and swung herself in front of the elevator.
Drake quickly got out of his slight shock and followed her, but when he landed he was shot with purple electricity.
Jeremy was above them on the upperfloor at the entrance, Xana's symbol flashing in his eyes and his hand covered in purple electricity...
"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?" Drake screamed in English as he got up from that shock feeling a little woozy but quickly shaking it off.
"You okay!?" Aelita asked concerned.
"Since when did he have superpowers!?" Drake asked irritated and shocked, he looked up at Jeremy as he jumped down to the lower level.
"Grrrrr..." Jeremy growled towards Drake as he made his way towards him.
"Aelita go do whatever you need to do!" Drake said quickly as he stood between him and Aelita.
"Alright!" She said quickly and quickly got into the elevator.
Jeremy then tried to punch Drake, Drake quickly brought his right hand up and pushed it to the left, it moved Jeremy's fist away from him and Drake quickly punched Jeremy in the stomach with his left hand.
"Sorry Jeremy..." Drake said as Jeremy crouched holding his stomach.
Drake then tried to go for another attack but Jeremy quickly got a hold of his wrist and shocked him.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Drake screamed as electricity coursed through his body, he was then thrown into a nearby wall.
Drake's POV:
"I would be lying if I said I wasn't scared..." I thought as I leaned against the wall while Jeremy walked towards me.
It completely baffled me and made me wonder"....HOW IN THE HELL DOES HE HAVE SUPERPOWERS!?"
The fact that Jeremy was shooting lightning from his hands showed just how serious the situation was, Jeremy wasn't just out of control but had become a fully super powered human being bent on killing me.
Most people I imagine would run away in fear of getting killed...fortunately I'm not one of those idiots, he would probably catch up to me and not to mention he could go after Aelita, whatever is going on Aelita and her group obviously have something to do with it, that much is obvious and with a electrified evil Jeremy on the loose I can't just leave it like this or otherwise someone could actually die.
"...Now that I think about it I'm probably going to die" I thought as Jeremy electrified his hands as he walked right in front of me.
I caught his wrists before his hands reach me, he was struggling to get them to my head and slowly I was losing.
Oh my god shut up!
"What is this...am I seeing my life before my eyes?" I thought as Jeremy's hands got closer.
Images quickly flowed through my mind, some more strong memories came through.
What do you want to be?
Ha Ha! Drizzy Drake!
I want to go to space!
I just want to be alone...
I'm not going to go change myself just to make friends.
Just ignore them...
Whether you like it or not I consider you a friend...
I quickly came back to my senses.
Third person POV:
Acting on instinct Drake quickly dropped to the floor and pressed his back against the wall, where he then kicked upwards hitting Jeremy's chest making him land on the ground with a thud.
Jeremy soon got up and looked at Drake with the Xana symbol flashing.
Over up on the upper floor Odd and Ulrich made it, they then quickly jumped on the rope and swung over towards the fighting.
"Hey how's my two good buddies doing!?" Odd said as him and Ulrich ran behind Jeremy and assumed a fighting stance.
"Wow it's weird to be fighting against Jeremy, I mean I don't want to hurt him" Odd said as he looked at the Xanafied Jeremy.
"I wouldn't worry about that!" Drake yelled to Odd staring Jeremy down.
Odd went to punch Jeremy but was quickly swatted to the side and knocked out.
"What did I just say!?" Drake said angrily at Odd's unconscious body.
Ulrich taking heed of Drake's advice quickly sidestepped when Jeremy went to punch him, he quickly kicked at his side. It worked, Jeremy was stumbling and Ulrich decided to go for another punch.
This time though Jeremy sidestepped seemingly learning Ulrich's move and punched him, Ulrich then hit one of the metal beams.
"AH!" Ulrich screamed holding his injured hand.
Jeremy then grabbed Ulrich by the neck in front of the elevator electrocuting him.
"HIYAAAHH!"
Yumi had arrived.
She quickly hit Jeremy with a wrench bringing him to his knees, Ulrich was dropped to the ground.
"GAH!" Ulrich breathed in the air the he missed so much, his throat burned somewhat making it a little painful.
Yumi then hit the call button on the elevator "Glad I came when I did, are you okay Ulrich?" Yumi asked helping him up.
"Never better..." Ulrich replied sarcastically.
"I have the coordinates, where's Aelita?" Yumi asked.
"She's wherever that elevator goes!" Drake yelled to them while helping Odd get to his feet.
"...alright that's good lets get down there" Yumi said as the elevator arrived.
"What about sparky?" Odd asked as Jeremy began to stir awake.
"I'll take care of him" Drake said pushing Odd in the elevator.
"Wait Drak-" Ulrich tried to say.
"Dang it Ulrich go do whatever you have to do to make sure my roommate doesn't kill us!" Drake yelled at him as Jeremy woke up.
"Good luck Drake!" Odd yelled as the elevator went down, Drake then turned to face Jeremy.
"They have so much explaining to do..." Drake mumbled "Alright come on Jeremy it's time we got a little exercise!"
Jeremy growled at Drake as he raised his hands, meanwhile down in the monitor room (That's what I'm calling the place with the monitor, keyboard, and holographic thing) Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd had just walked out of the elevator.
"Aelita are you okay?" Yumi asked as she Ulrich and Odd walked over.
"Just fine I got the scanners ready" Aelita looked around "What about Jeremy?"
"Drake's got it! Odd said "Now let's hurry before he's barbecued!"
Odd, Yumi, and Ulrich then headed down the latter and once there entered the three scanners, Ulrich on the left, Yumi the right, and Odd in the middle.
"Alright here it goes...Transfer Odd, Transfer Ulrich, Transfer Yumi" Aelita said as she typed into the computer, the avatars then popped up on the screen.
"Scanner Odd, scanner Ulrich, scanner Yumi..." Aelita said there Avatars began to load, their colors being shown as it scans.
"Virtualization!" Aelita said as she pressed the enter key finishing the process.
The three in the scanners then felt the familiar sensation as the scanners took apart and digitalized their molecules, their consciousness was then sent through the wiring connecting the scanners of the supercomputer. All three then traveled into the supercomputer where it stored their consciousness and began making the digital avatars, on Lyoko the three began to digitalize as their template scanned down from the head to toe.
Once done their sight returned to them and they landed on the ground and waited for Aelita.
"All clear princess!" Odd said to the sky.
Aelita then activated the count down on the computer and went down the latter, quickly entering the scanner as the countdown went to zero and Aelita was then virtualized and her consciousness was sent to lyoko.
Aelita's digital avatar was formed and she then fell and landed on the ground.
"Let's go!" Aelita said and they then ran towards the tower.
"He who runs well goes far!" Aelita said smiling.
"Odd what have you been teaching her?" Yumi asked looking at a certain purple cat.
"Who do you take me for? Jim?" Odd said as they ran.
"It was Jim" Ulrich said nonchalantly.
Back in the real world where things aren't as funny...
Drake's POV:
I quickly rolled out of the way of one of Jeremy's punches and got behind him, where I then quickly grabbed him and lifted him over my head.
"Yes! I got him!" I thought as I was about to throw him "Wait a minute...no no NO!
Before I threw him Jeremy had electrocuted me, I quickly tossed him to a beam to make it stop.
"DAMNIT HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GONNA DO THAT!?" I screamed as I dropped to my knees and held myself off the ground.
"Damnit...ok think! Is there anything here that doesn't conduct electricity!?" I thought as I looked around.
"Maybe I could...no he would use the beams to electrocute me if I climbed up there" I thought and looked at Jeremy getting up.
I looked around again to find nothing that could help me.
Jeremy then got up and went over to me, I tried to get up but Jeremy seemingly wanted to get payback and picked me up over his head.
He threw me, I bounced off the wall and landed on the ground breathing heavily.
Jeremy then walked over to the elevator a bit slowly seemingly somewhat injured, he looked at me like he was mocking me as he walked over.
"He thinks he's superior..." I thought, and some annoying memories popped up with that too.
One thing was for sure...it pissed me off.
Jeremy then pressed the button and waited for the elevator to come up, once it did he entered it and then reached for the controls.
"GET BACK HERE!" I yelled angrily as I lunged at the surprised Jeremy and knocked him into the wall, I pressed the button when I got up and the doors closed behind me.
"You can't get rid of me that easily...let's go sparky!" I said to him as the elevator moved down.
Back on Lyoko...
Third person POV:
The four were nearing the tower, no monsters in sight yet.
"Keep an eye out guys,Jeremy's not exactly on our side right now to tell us where monsters are!" Ulrich said to the others.
"I miss him already!" Odd yelled in fake sadness.
That's about when the ice beneath them began to shake.
They all skidded to a stop, surrounded by cracks in the ice.
The ice then began to break, four blocks then came out of the ice and walked towards the Lyoko warriors and surrounded them.
"Can't you blockheads leave us alone?" Odd said at them and brought up his paw and aimed it "LASER ARROW!" Odd screamed as he shot the block in front of him, it then blew up.
Ulrich then super sprinted through the open spot, Yumi moved in front of Aelita to protect her from the blocks shots with her fans.
Ulrich sprinted towards one of the blocks "-AH!" Ulrich screamed as his attack was interrupted from a block's laser blast on his stomach.
"ULRICH!" Yumi yelled as she threw one of her fans at the block 'HIIIYYAAHH!" she screamed as it flew.
The block was hit dead center, it span around it's blockhead before exploding and it's remains disappeared.
Odd moved in between Ulrich and another block "I gotcha!" Odd said aiming his paw.
The block's head spun around for a moment before it's eye produced a blue light, Odd fired at it but not before it fired at him.
The block was hit with the laser arrow and blew up, but Odd was now frozen.
Ulrich then ran towards the last block "TRIPLICATE!" He screamed as two more of him appeared and ran towards the block.
The block was confused, it quickly acted and fired on the one in the middle.
The clone disappeared and the real Ulrich on the left in the block's eye was the real one, Ulrich then stabbed at it's center making it explode.
"FUSION!" Ulrich yelled as him and the remaining clone came back together.
"Odd are you okay!?" Aelita asked as she stood next to him.
"GRRRRrrr..." Odd said *translation* "NEVER BETTER!"
Back in the real world...
The elevator door unlocked and opened as the two wrestled for dominance.
"Alright...listen!" Drake said as he locked arms with Jeremy "I have no idea what's going on or who you are but I know this, you are not Jeremy and are somehow controlling his body..." Drake was then shocked while there arms locked but he didn't let up which surprised Jeremy.
"AND I"M NOT GONNA LET YOU CONTROL HIM ANYMORE YOU SON OF A BITCH! Drake screamed at him as he then kneed him in the stomach making him stop electrocuting Drake as he let go of his arms.
Jeremy then backed up and glared at him he then threw a punch at Drake only for him to catch it.
"Not so superior now hu-" Drake then stopped to see the purple electricity which Jeremy then released making it course through his body.
Jeremy had increased the power to make it more effective, and while Drake was dazed for a second Jeremy grabbed the color of his shirt and threw him towards the chair.
Drake crashed into the chair and in doing so broke it off the ground as he hit the wall.
The Xanafied Jeremy then walked over to the monitor.
In Lyoko...
"What should we do?" Yumi asked Ulrich and gestured towards the frozen Odd.
"...I'll stay here and cut him out while you head towards the tower with Aelita!" Ulrich said as he then began to cut at the frozen Odd.
"Right we'l-AH!" Yumi then was interrupted by being devirtualized as her digital body began to disappear.
"Yumi!" Aelita and Ulrich yelled while Odd gurgled.
In the real world...
"Dematerialization Yumi..." The Xanafied Jeremy finished as he then tried to do it on Ulrich, only for his glasses to be taken off of him.
Once he turned around he was immediately punched in the face by Drake and fell to the ground.
"Thought I'd take these off..." Drake said as he held his glasses and set them on the Keyboard "I'm trying to stop you not cut you're eyes open with broken glass..." Drake said as he breathed heavily, he was clearly tired.
Jeremy was injured too but his powers from Xana made up for it, and so he jumped back to his feet to face him.
While in the scanner room Yumi got up from her little nap...
"Ugh..."Yumi said groggily as she got up from the scanner chamber "What the heck happened?"
She then heard some banging noises from upstairs.
"Xana...sounds like he's having a hard time" Yumi said to herself as she then jogged towards the latter and proceeded to climb it.
Back on Lyoko...
Ulrich quickly sliced at Odd, and a few seconds later Odd was free.
'GUUHHH!" Odd gasped as he got out.
"Odd...we don't need to breathe here." Aelita said.
"I can't help it! Do you know what it's like for people to not understand a word of what you're saying while being trapped in ice!" Odd yelled as he got up.
"That wouldn't be so bad..."Ulrich said thoughtfully.
"Come on guys we have to get to the tower quickly!" Aelita said, and then they began to run towards the tower.
Just as they were about to reach it two Krabs began to materialize in front of the tower and dropped down.
The trio stopped, Ulrich and Odd got ready their weapons.
"Oh come on!" Ulrich screamed exasperated.
"Well at least will have seafood" Odd said rubbing his stomach.
The Krabs then started moving towards them firing their lasers, Ulrich swung his sword towards the lasers blocking them from Odd and Aelita.
Odd began to fire at the Krabs while Ulrich blocked the lasers, Aelita backed up to let them do what they have to but only for it to be a mistake.
The schyphoza then wrapped it's tentacles around Aelita and lifted her up.
"NO!" Aelita screamed as the schyphozoa proceeded to lift up it's tentacles to her head and began glowing red, stealing her memory.
"Aelita!" Odd yelled as he tried to run towards her but was then shot on the back making him fall to the ground.
"Odd I'll take care of the schyphoza you distract the Krabs!" Ulrich yelled to him.
Odd heard him and got up, he went all fours and sprinted towards the Krabs drawing their fire.
"You're aim is worse then Jeremy's!" Odd yelled laughing at them.
Ulrich then sprinted towards Aelita, he then jumped in to the air and sliced through the tentacles holding her and the schyphoza retreated.
Aelita gasped as she landed on the ground.
"I thought you said we didn't need to breathe" Ulrich said as he helped her up.
Aelita gave him an annoyed look.
In the real world...
Jeremy punched Drake towards the wall as he recovered from a kick, Drake hit the wall and slowly got back up.
Jeremy then heard the beeping from the supercomputer, he looked at it to find out that the schyphozoa failed.
"NO!" The Xanafied Jeremy screamed, he then glared at Drake as he got up.
"Hah! they kicked your ass didn't they!" Drake yelled at him in triumph "Serves you right!" he said as he smirked.
Jeremy then electrified his hands.
"...the one time I open my mouth" Drake said leaning against the wall as Jeremy walked towards him.
'HIYAH!" Yumi screamed as she kicked Jeremy's back knocking him out to the ground.
"Oh...thank you universe" Drake mumbled.
"Drake are you okay?" Yumi asked as she ran to him and helped him up.
"Oh yea totally..." Drake said sarcastically.
Yumi gave him an annoyed look.
"...sorry I'm a little annoyed right now" Drake said honestly.
"Annoyed at what?" Yumi said sarcastically.
"Oh I don't know...maybe the fact that my roommate is being mind controlled and was given superpowers?" Drake said and then looked around "And then there's this" Drake said calmly as he waved his hands around the lab.
Jeremy then began to move again and got up his hands electrified and his eyes full of anger.
Drake then glared at him as he and Yumi got into a fighting stance.
"Drake I'll take care of this..." Yumi then ran up to Jeremy to punch him, it hit and he was dazed and Yumi went and kicked him in the chest.
He then grabbed her foot and electrocuted her, Yumi was then thrown next to the elevator.
Drake leaned against the wall and watched as Yumi charged at him again.
"Just needed a minute..." Drake mumbled as he then pushed himself off the wall.
Yumi's arms were held by Jeremy, she then headbutted him, he wouldn't let up though as he then grabbed the collar of her shirt and lifted her up.
Drake then snuck up behind Jeremy and put him in a choke hold making him drop Yumi, Jeremy then reached his arms behind him and grabbed Drakes Jacket and threw him over his head at Yumi.
Jeremy then walked over Drake towards Yumi and was about to kick her.
"Oh no you're not fighting her were not done yet!" Drake yelled behind Jeremy.
The Xanafied Jeremy then looked over behind him to find a hurdling chair coming at him.
He was hit into the wall knocking him out as the chair bounced off next to him on the floor.
Yumi then got up from the ground and looked at Jeremy.
"...thanks" She said a little surprised.
"Don't mention it..." Drake then fell on his back to the floor where he lost consciousness.
Back on Lyoko...
The Krabs were still alive, they were nothing short of relentless towards Odd as they fired their lasers.
"Can't you guys take a chill pill!" Odd yelled as he dodged a laser "There should be plenty around here!"
Aelita's singing could be heard as it echoed through the ice sector, a ramp formed near one of the Krabs once she was finished.
Ulrich in a starting position then super sprinted towards the ramp drawing his sword.
Ulrich went up it and jumped towards the Krabs shell and landed.
"IMPACT!" Ulrich yelled as he stabbed the eye of Xana, he then jumped off before the Krab exploded.
"Odd when I say go I want you to run towards me so I can give you a boost!" Ulrich yelled towards Odd.
"Gotcha!" Odd yelled back as he dodged another laser.
Ulrich then ran towards the Krab "TRIANGULATE!" he screamed as he surrounded the Krab with his super sprint making a triangle, leave a clone at each edge of it.
The Krab quickly shot one of the Ulrich's only for it to just disappear.
Ulrich behind the Krab yelled to Odd "GO!"
Odd ran up to Ulrich and stepped on his cupped hands for Ulrich to boost his jump to the krab, once done the Krab shot Ulrich devirtualizing him while Odd landed on it's shell.
"LASER ARROW!" Odd yelled as he shot the Xana symbol and jumped off, the Krab soon exploded afterwards.
"Your tower awaits you princess" Odd said to Aelita.
Aelita then walked inside the tower and walked towards the center, she then lifted up her head and began to float to the top.
In the real world...
Yumi was kneeling next to Drake making sure he was okay after how he fainted, Jeremy then pushed the chair away from him as he got up with his hands electrified making his hair stick up with how much power was in it.
"Crap!" Yumi yelled as she stood up in front of Drake.
In Lyoko...
Aelita had reached the top of the tower and the screen appeared, she then placed her hand on it entering the code Lyoko.
In the real world...
Jeremy was running towards her only to then fall on his face unconscious.
"...okay" Yumi said surprised.
Ulrich then got up from the latter and stood up to look around.
"Yumi are you okay?" Ulrich asked as he walked up to her.
"I'm fine..." She then looked at the unconscious Drake and Jeremy "We should devirtualize the others to figure out what were gonna do..."
Later...
All the Lyoko warriors were around Jeremy as he woke up.
"...what happened?" Jeremy asked as he tried to get up only to feel pain "OW OW OW OW!" he held his arms as he laid back down.
"Take it easy Jeremy what's the last thing you remember?" Yumi asked.
"I remember talking to Odd and Ulrich...but then nothing it's all a black hole to me..." Jeremy said as he laid down.
"Xana took control of you Jeremy, he tried to bring me to the factory to steal my memory" Aleita said.
"What!?" Jeremy screamed trying to get up only for him to feel pain and lay back down.
"He also destroyed Franz Hopper's Disks, apparently he had a problem with us having them." Ulrich said.
"Oh phew that's all?" Jeremy said a little surprised.
"What do you mean that's all? He destroyed them" Odd questioned.
"Don't worry on our way from the train station I copied the data from the disks and stored into the restricted part of the supercomputer..." Jeremy explained smiling.
"Jeremy your a genius" Aelita said giving him a thumbs up.
"Right now we have something to deal with though..." Odd said pointing at the unconscious Drake laying down.
"What happened?" Jeremy said looking at him as he was helped up by Ulrich.
"Drake was fighting you while we were on Lyoko" Odd said "He was kicking your butt too from what I've heard'
"So that's why I'm all sore..." Jeremy mumbled.
"Drake's the reason that I wasn't captured by you Jeremy, he got me here safely" Aelita said.
"Does he...?" Jeremy asked.
"Nope not a clue!" Odd said smiling.
"He did it totally blind..." Ulrich said looking at him.
"Yea speaking of which where are my glasses?" Jeremy asked as he realized they were gone.
"Over here" Yumi said as she brought him his glasses from the keyboard "Drake must have took it off you to make sure they wouldn't break"
"Thanks" Jeremy said as he put them on.
"Hey he's waking up!" Ulrich said as he helped Jeremy over to him with everyone else.
"Ugh...my head" Drake grumbled as he opened his eyes.
"How you feeling champ?" Odd asked.
"...like crap, is this what a hangover feels like?" Drake asked as he held his head.
"...um...where are we?" Drake asked as he looked around.
"So that wasn't a dream..." Drake said as he looked at them.
"Well guys how about we vote if he joins or leaves?" Jeremy asked and they all nodded.
"What?" Drake asked clearly confused.
"Raise your hands if you say yes!"" Odd yelled as he raised his hand.
"What the hell is going on?" Drake asked.
Everyone else raised their hands except for Jeremy...only because he didn't want to move it.
"Hey could...someone raise my hand?" Jeremy said and then Aelita helped him raise it "Ow...thanks"
"Seriously what is this?" Drake asked annoyed.
"It means your officially apart of the group" Yumi said smiling.
"...you mean your telling me your secret?" Drake asked as he sat up "Why?"
"Well you have proven that we can trust you after saving us a few times" Ulrich said chuckling.
"Not to mention your speech earlier!" Odd said "I WILL NOT LET YOU CONTROL MY FRIEND ANYMORE!" Odd screamed dramatically making everyone laugh as Drake glared at him.
"Wait how did you hear that!?" Drake questioned.
"The mic" Yumi said still chuckling while Drake looked over to where she pointed and there was indeed a mic there.
"Great...so what happens now?" Drake said as he got up looking at them.
"Well now we tell you the whole story" Aelita said.
Drake looked at them curiously.
"We'll give you the short version since we have to go back soon" Jeremy said.
"When the school year started I found this place in this abandoned factory while looking for spare parts, it's called the supercomputer" Jeremy said explaining his backstory.
"Supercomputer...?" Drake asked.
"It holds a virtual world called Lyoko where an evil artificial intelligence called XANA lives, Aelita was there when I turned it on and eventually we found a way to bring her to earth but now XANA has put a virus inside of her and if we shut down the supercomputer she dies" Jeremy explains further.
"..."
"Xana activates towers to attack the real world, we have scanner pods that can send someone there, Aelita is the only one who can deactivate the towers and so I stay on the computer while the others defend her on Lyoko" Jeremy finishes.
"...ok" Drake said.
Everyone looked at him surprised.
"You...don't think were crazy?" Odd asked.
"Odd I fought a super powered Jeremy that nearly killed me..." Drake said crossing his arms.
"Good point!" Odd said.
"Yea, as weird sounding this is I believe you because after what just happened I don't have much room to dismiss it..."Drake said holding his head.
"This is all just so weird..." Drake said tired.
"Drake were giving you a choice okay" Yumi said grabbing everyone's attention "You can join us in the fight against XANA or not"
"..." Drake didn't say anything.
"Well...?" Odd asked.
"I'm thinking!" Drake said holding out his hand annoyed.
"Can I have until the end of the day to decide?...this is all a lot to process" Drake said holding his nose.
"We'll give you until lunch ends okay Drake..." Jeremy said.
"...I can do that" Drake said.
"...Well we better get going before are classes misses us" Ulrich said as he got in the elevator.
Everyone nodded and went in, it was an awkward elevator ride.
Later at lunch...
Drakes POV:
"What the hell?" I thought as I sat on the bench outside.
"Traveling to a virtual world, fighting a virus, saving the world!?" I thought and realized the first part sounded kind of appealing but only to shake it off and go into my thoughts again.
"I always wondered if there was something more I could do, but I can't just accept this can I? I've only been here for over a month and now this happens? I thought as I sighed holding my nose in irritation.
"I made some good friends...I never really had that many friends but these people accept me" I thought as I looked at the sky.
"Mind if I join you?"
I got out of my thoughts and saw Aelita standing near the bench.
"Oh...sure" I said not really caring.
"Thanks..." Aelita said as she sat down.
"You said that I could talk to you if I wanted to" Aelita said looking at me.
"...I did say that didn't I?" I thought and looked at her.
"I honestly didn't imagine this was the situation I would be in" I said.
"I get it, it's a big decision" Aelita said.
"Your right it is..." I said in thought.
"I just wanted to thank you" Aelita said.
I looked at her.
"For helping you?" I asked.
"No for being a good friend" Aelita said.
"Wait what...?" I said baffled.
"When I first came to this world the only people I made friends with was the people in our group, the ones who knew about Lyoko" Aelita explained "And after meeting sissy in the real world and how some of the other students treated me I didn't know if I would make another friend, so thanks you're a good friend" Aelita said smiling at me.
"...thanks Aelita" I said.
"Hm?" She asked.
"No one has ever really said that to me before, I didn't have a lot of friends before coming here" I explained remembering how I always saw all the annoying people in my old school.
"So you wanted to talk right? what do you want to talk about?" I asked looking at her.
"I could tell you about some of the stuff we fought" Aelita suggested.
"...sure" I said.
"Even after all those doubts It still feels wrong just to turn it down, I mean I would go through my day knowing that my friends are facing something dangerous and could possibly die. They save the world but heck who the hell protects them from all these things that Aelita tells me about? They risked themselves everyday and keep the supercomputer on to keep their friend alive, and I definitely know why they didn't tell the government because they would just destroy it...
"I think I have my answer..."I thought as I listened to Aelita about a specter attack.
Later...
"What do you think his answer is?" I heard Odd ask as I came towards there table with Aelita.
Aelita sat down with a smile "Hey guys" she said.
"Hey Aelita what's going on" Jeremy asked.
I sat down with them.
"I accept" I said.
"Really!?" Odd asked a little too loudly.
"Yea I think someone needs to watch your backs and that might as well be me" I said looking at them seriously.
"What do you mean?" Ulrich asked curiously.
"Look after some of the stuff I've heard from Aelita I realize just how much trouble you are in from a XANA attack, so I'm the guy who is gonna make sure that you get to the factory safe and make sure Jeremy isn't killed" I explained to them.
"So you're going to protect us?" Ulrich asked as he ate the rest of his food.
"That's what I want to do yes..." I said to them, after all the stuff they go through I want to make sure they don't get killed doing it "Honestly from what I've heard you don't really need someone else on lyoko do you?"
"Well don't get me wrong were awesome" Odd said smirking.
Drake then turned his head to Jeremy "From what Aelita tells me you might just have brain damage from all those attacks Xana sends at you"
Jeremy rubs his head a little awkwardly.
"So I'll be in the real world handling all the attacks, making sure you guys get to the computer" Drake finished
"We could use someone to protect Jeremy from all the XANA attacks" Yumi said smiling.
"Not to mention we would sleep easier if we had someone like you guarding us, you're good at fighting" Odd said smiling.
I smiled but then frowned as I look at Jeremy "Um there's no hard feelings right?" I asked.
"No there isn't but..." Jeremy said.
"What?" I asked.
"Could you hold back your punches next time?" He said holding his shoulder making everyone laugh.
I looked at everyone as they laughed and smiled.
Little did they know XANA was always watching...and planning.