I noticed I did not recieve reviews. I still have not decided what will the baby be. The name is still a mystery to me. I know my story is a bit out of the Code Lyoko standards. But I will be getting close. One of the ideas I had for this story was the difference in both worlds. As in, this happened, what will happen if we do this instead. And Lexia is just a form of artificial intelligence just like Xana. I have a great plan with both of them and I think I am giving much by saying this. I would like to have reviews even if they are critics they will be accepted. Everything for the bettering of the story. And I need more monsters for Lexia's army so any ideas are welcome.
Chapter 4: Lightning
Aelita's POV
We were on the scanner room now. Jeremy had went up to the super computer's controls. We were six and there were only three scanners. I was thinking about who would go first. And that brought me to think what would we find when we got to Lyoko. This Lexia had gained access towards Lyoko. How? She didn't have the keys to it.
William was going into Lyoko too. I was surprised Jeremy didn't leave him as backup. Guess he was already sure that William was totally unxanafied. I knew that he was free but that didn't mean he was inmune to Xana.
"Alright," Jeremy said from the super computer's controls. His voice reached us on the speakers. "Odd, Ulrich and Aelita first," he directed. We got into the scanners. They closed and the process started. "Scanner, Odd. Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Aelita. Transfer, Odd. Transfer, Ulrich. Tranfer, Aelita. Virtualization."
It was always like a current when we were virtualized. I think that's how you are supposed to feel when your atoms become digital signals.
We were virtualized into Lyoko's desert sector. We fell on our feet. Ulrich looked around. I knew he was ready for any creature attacking.
"So, where is this tower?" Odd asked putting his hands together, ready to launch an arrow to anything that moved. Everything was still. I didn't feel anything out of order here.
"Uh, to the north," Jaremy replied. Angelo, Hunter and William got virtualized. They all fell on their feet. I smiled at William when I saw him on his clean, white clothing instead of his black outfit he had when under Xana's control.
"The tower is very far from here," Angelo noticed as he looked around the area. "Jeremy how do you expect us to all get over there fast?" he demanded looking up.
"Wait a minute, I'm sending you the vehicles," he said. The Overboard, Overbike and Overwing were virtualized in front of us.
"Guess you are all a step ahead of us," Hunter said. "How do you ride them?"
I giggled. "You really never had the opportunity to make one?" I asked. I got on the Overwing. Ulrich and Odd got on their rides.
"Uh," William looked at the vehicles. Angelo jumped high, wings appeared spreading big from his back. He flapped them to stay above us. William looked up at him. "He goes with his name I guess." He looked towards the edge of the big expanse of cyber rock. "MANTA!" he called. For a moment I thought he was crazy until I heard that familiar sound that came from the digital sea. I was surprised. Was it Xana? A manta came from the edge. But it was different from the others. This one was white and silver instead of white and blue. William jumped and landed on it. He had two rope like things on his hand that I guessed were to guide the manta.
"What?" Jeremy said surprised. I pictured him typing into the computer. "Well, yeah, he can summon mantas," he said in total shock.
"How?" Ulrich asked Jeremy. A manta could be called only by Xana and Jeremy.
"Seems to be a program that Xana had. You know, when we saved William we just got to get him out of Xana's will but part of Xana remained on him. It is possible that the multi-agent system freed William from Xana and unxanafied the programs and, well, in the end, letting William use them at his will," Jeremy explained. So we had advantage of William getting xanafied after all.
"Enough chatting, Lexia may do something while we are here," Hunter said and got on the Overwing with me. Well it was the safest looking vehicle. We started down the way towards the tower at full speed. "These are nice vehicles. How did you program them?" he wasn't asking me.
"Lots of hard work," Jeremy replied. "I was months before I got them right."
"And that before we make the ship," I added.
"A what?" Hunter asked interested on knowing more.
"A ship. We used it to go into the internet and find replikas. Xana had hundreds of those," I said. I looked back at him and noticed his eyes were pale gray here on the virtual world. His outfit was much like William's but it was more like a white jacket with a black belt and white pants. His guns were on his belt. They were silver and gold.
"So, why are you an elf?" he asked looking at my sharp pointed ears.
I smiled. "Maybe because of a little doll I had for Christmas that I loved so much. The same Christmas that my mother was taken away..." I trailed off.
"Shield!" Odd called. His shield was hit by a laser. Monsters. "Laser arrow," he called and shot three arrows to wherever the monsters were.
I caught sight of them. They looked like tarantulas but they were different. Something between tarantulas and creepers. They were tarantulas but with that long tail. They shot like tarantulas. Their head was like tarantulas but they had tails instead of rear legs. They had big purple veins showing across their back and head.
One was hit right on the target and exploded. "Furies," Hunter said. He took out his guns and started shooting towards the furies.
"Furies?" Jeremy said the name in confusion.
"That's how we called them," Angelo replied. He descended. We weren't that close to the tower but there were furies everywhere. There were too many.
"Great," William said. "Laser," he commanded the manta. It started shooting at the other monsters.
Ulrich's POV
There were furies everywhere. We were practically surrounded. These creatures were ugly. Much worse than Xana's monsters. The creepers would be beauty queens compared to these furies. They stood on their tails like snakes when they shot. I ran my overbike towards them and jumped from it letting it slide into one. It exploded as all monsters do on this virtual world.
Some furies shot at me. I ran to them at speed, jumped and "Impact," I said and jumped away letting the beast explode behind me. Then I started slashing with my blade all I could. These weren't that different from the tarantulas.
Aelita was still on the Overwing shotting her energy fields at the monsters. They were quickly destroyed.
"Jeremy, how many are they?" Ulrich asked.
"Uh, lets see," a moment passed. "Fifteen left," he replied. I slashed three. "Ten. Five, oh wow, there aren't any more left."
"Lost my bike," I said.
"Here, take my place," Aelita said coming towards me. She stopped the Overwing in front of me. I took her place. Hunder didn't seem to mind. I actually couldn't run that fast as the other Vehicles.
"And you?" Angelo asked Aelita. Aelita smile and pushed the star on her wrist. Her wings appeared. She flapped them. "Oh, you do impress."
Aelita giggled. "A present from my Jeremy."
"Uh," Jeremy said. I pictured him bright red on the super computer.
Yumi's POV
"Done," the nurse said. "I believe you will be alright."
"Thank you," Leiah said with a smile holding her child in her arms. Her child was so small on her hands. I had forgotten that Hiroki had been that small once.
I looked at the placenta. "Gross, I will never be a nurse," I mumbled.
The nurse smiled at me. "You have to have a good stomach for this. The nerve too."
"Thank you, Yolanda," I said her name not sure if she wanted me to call her that but prepared if she said she didn't.
She just smiled. "That's what I'm here for. Now, you can't stay here on the factory tonight. Where will you stay?" she asked Leiah.
"Uh, we don't have anywhere to stay," Leiah responded. "You know we are not from this planet."
The nurse nodded. "I know. I just thought that maybe you would have somewhere to stay. Um, where are the others? Are they in the Lyoko world?" I nodded.
Aelita's POV
The tower came into view. This one was activated but not tainted in red but in violet. What was that? I couldn't believe what I was seeing. This was definitely not Xana. Angelo was first to get into the tower. He touched it before entering. He was surprised to see that the tower was solid to his touch.
"I don't understand," he said confused and worried.
I landed behind him, "I guess this is my area then," I said and walked freely into the tower. It was good to know that my father seemed to have made different codes. I'm glad Xana didn't know how to change them.
I got to the center and ascended to the second level of the tower. The screen appeared when I got there. I started my so practived process. AELITA, the screen said. CODE, LYOKO. The tower was deactivated.
"Good job," Jeremy said.
"I will go meet the others," I said. "Don't bring us in just yet." I stood at the edge of the second level and left myself fall down to the first level. Towers never let you fall hard down. Gravity wasn't a problem inside them.
I walked out.
Odd's POV
Aelita had just came out of the tower. Angelo nodded at her. He looked at the tower. The color had changed. Hunter was speaking with Ulrich. I sat on my Overboard waiting for something to happen.
"Is it all right?" Aelita asked Angelo.
He shook his head and sighed. "Lexia found you. She came to Earth. The worse is expected now."
"But you could give us your anti-virus and we could insert it on Lyoko for protection," Aelita replied.
"Not so, Lexia has gained power again and this time it is worse. She can break through security. Your multi-agent system should have worked at least as a barrier to Lexia. If she is here then that means that she could surpass what we thought of here. In other words, she became stronger somehow," Angelo explained.
"Maybe by replikas. Wait, I have a scanning program for replikas. Lets see. I just have to program it to look for Lexia. I can use the codes from the tower scanner and its starting. Do you want me to bring you in?" Jeremy asked.
"Not yet. I want to explore this new world here. I have only been here for not more than two or three hours. I do not believe this and the ice sector are the only ones you have?" Hunter said.
"Mountain sector, forest and another one that would be the core," I replied.
"Look, what's that?" Ulrich asked pointing with his blade towards some weird creatures coming our way.
"And what's that behind them?" William asked. He was still over his manta. He seemed to like being on them.
Hunter turned and gasped in astonishment. "Meiah," he said.
"Leiah?" I asked. But Leiah was giving birth when we came here.
"Not Leiah, Meiah," Angelo said.
Jeremy's POV
I was typing into the computer to get a closer look at what was happening. There was another person in there apart from the others. And some weird monsters that weren't furies. The elevator's door opened and Yumi came into the room.
She walked towards me. "How are they doing?"
"They deactivated the tower but there is another person there. I can read it on the screen but I can't identify it. Uh, Yumi, I'll be sending you in. I think they will need you. Go to the scanner," I ordered. She didn't hesitate a second. I started Yumi as a delayed virtualization and typed in another code trying to figure out a way so that if Angelo and Hunter were devirtualized they could come out into our scanners instead of the ones in their planet.
Yumi got virtualized pretty close. "Go north. They aren't that far. Turn left on the bridge and you will get to see them," I directed.
"On it," Yumi replied. I could see her running.
"Jeremy, its Meiah who is coming," Angelo said.
"Is that Leiah's sister?" I asked.
"No, its actually her servant. Or she used to be so. She's under Lexia's control now. She was the last one to get into our group," he informed. I could clearly see the scene though I would have liked some visuals. There were five monsters along with Meiah.
I nodded, "So the same story happened on your planet. Seems like fate."
"In our world destiny is a very much used word. Its as much curse as blessing," Hunter said.
"Watch out with her fire," Angelo warned.
Yumi's POV
I was running on the desert sector. The nurse had told me that maybe I should help. She already knew a lot about Lyoko and the other world. I think she understood just fine and didn't freak out by this.
I threw my metal fan when I saw some creepy creatures with six legs that looked like a cross between the kankerlots and the tarantulas. My fan got all the way towards one and hit it right on the target. The monster screamed before exploding. That's when I saw her. A girl with red hair loose and a black leather suit with high-heel boots. She stooped and looked at me. She took out her long whip. Great. First it was Elektra and now its Catwoman.
I saw something white on the floor like smoke. William appeared at my side. A gray manta attacked from the opposite side. "Hey Yumi, you look in danger," he mocked.
I frowned at him. "Watch out, you still don't have much practice," I warned him.
"You don't have my advantages," he raised his hand. "MANTA!" Three more mantas came from the digital sea. All of them white and silver. They stated attacking the creatures.
"What are these things?" I asked pointing at the creatures besides Catwoman.
"Gornets," Hunter said shooting at the monsters. One of them stood up in two legs and started shooting our way. I deflected them with my fans. Willam didn't have to move his sword much. That thing was huge. I have no idea of how he came handle it. Hunter jumped to dodge the attack.
"Angelo, get out of here," Hunter shouted.
Angelo went into the tower. Why did he have to run?
Odd's POV
"Shield," I got into the tower. Angelo was in there.
"I need to get away from here," he said.
"Why?" I asked. "Can't you just attack?"
He shook his head. "That is the problem. I can but I would get everyone devirtualized here," he said.
I didn't have time for esplinations. Fun was outside. "Angelo, go to the edge and let yourself fall. That will take you to another sector," I said running out to the battle. There was only the girl with the whip left.
I shot a laser arrow. She used her whip to deflect it. Wow, she was good. She aimed her whip towards Ulrich and got hold of his blades. She threw them at Aelita.
"Ah," Aelita got devirtualized on the air.
"Hey," I said and started running towards her. She moved her whip towards me. I swiftly dodged it. When I was getting close and was ready to shoot my arrow she raised her hand and threw fire towards me.
I found myself on the scanners staring at Aelita.
Jeremy's POV
"Angelo, why did you run?" I asked. He was on the forest sector.
"I know why I do," he said running through the sector. He got into a tower.
"I need a code to be able to program you guys to come into our factory when you get devirtualizded," I said.
"I will give it to you now," he said. I opened a window where I saw him and I was sure he saw me. He was working through the programs. "You know that is easier to work with the programs here on the virtual worlds than on the computer? Here everything is just play with the blocks. Sending it."
"I'll bring you in after this. You have company outside," I said.
"Actually I would like to take care of that. He ran out of the tower. A second later the screen did not read anything but just the presence of Angelo.
The program was finished. "I will bring you in now," I said. I started the devirtualization program. Odd and Aelita were already besides me.
"This sucks," Odd said. "I was about to shoot her when she threw that fire thing at me."
"Jeremy, I don't have my blades," Ulrich said from Lyoko. Everything is fire here.
"Good timing," I smiled.
Ulrich's POV
This was was getting off hand. I was dodging her whip however I could. Jeremy spoke, "Ulrich, call lightning."
"What?" I asked jumping and practically dancing. The whip was everywhere.
"Its a little something I programed you," he replied.
"Okay," I said. "Lightning!" I raised my hand and bolt hit from the sky of Lyoko. The energy was too strong on my hand. I had to let it out. I reached forward towards the girl. "Urgh," I launched the electricity towards her.
The bolt was all absorbed by her. "Argh," she said in a double voice. It was obvious it was this Lexia. She moved her hand and was surrounded by flames. How could she be in there?
"Phyrokinesis?" Jeremy asked from the super computer. "It can't be. Yumi, I think you can help now. Blow with your fan as hard as you can."
I recovered from the lightning bolt. It had tired me out. "Jeremy, I can't hold here more longer." I looked at a manta wishing it would shoot me. Not that I was giving up but I just felt so weak and without my blades I was useless. Another bolt of lightning that I called and I would be devirtualized after it.
Yumi waved her fan. It was as if a storm was left loose on the area. The gust of wind was inmense. I was thrown off my feet. The reason I didn't fall into the digital sea was that a manta came to my rescue. It took me towards William.
"Be careful," he said in a mocking tone. "You will fall."
"Shut up," I hissed and noticed the flames were nowhere. The Meiah, had recovered from the bolt of lighting. I called another one and shot it towards the girl. She was pushed all the way to the edge of the expanse. She was weak now. Probably her life points had diminushed to less than twenty.
She smiled our way and rolled herself into the digital sea. I was waiting for the light to come up saying that she had been lost in it but nothing. Just like William when he was under Xana's control. I saw as my hand got devirtualized.
"Okay, I'll bring you in," I heard Jeremy say. "You did great..."
I hope you liked it. I actually planned this all out and thought that maybe some new programs would come in use and about William I thought it would be good to give him some help since he is still not that acurate with the sword.
