Episode 7: Guardians Suck

The four Warriors were on their way to the factory, having been attacked by an army of living toasters. One of the toasters jumped up and fired a blast of flaming toast, which hit Sam in the shoulder. She patted out the small fire as thousands more living toasters charged.

"You guys keep going, I'll take care of them," Sam said, stopping on her skateboard and getting off, using the board to smack the Toasters of Death.

The others nodded and started riding, soon getting to the factory and getting ready to virtualize. Seconds before the scanner closed, a toaster blasted Sissi's scanners cords, damaging it and the other, but leaving the one in the middle only with devirtualization.

William landed on the Mountain Sector, but when he saw that Sissi wasn't there, he felt a little worried. He ran towards where Xana was hiding and soon saw the AI crouched behind a rock, a Megatank guarding the tower.

William ran at the monster, blocking a blast and sliding back before flinging off an Energy Disk, hitting the monster right in the Eye and destroying it. "Let's go!" William yelled, running at it.

Sissi kicked the Toaster into the wall, breaking it. "I think that was my mom's toaster," she said. Suddenly she was nearly hit by another piece of flaming toast. She looked back and saw another one, this one looking ready to rumble. "This is the most cartoonish attack he has ever used," she whispered before punting the thing back into the elevator.

William and Xana ran towards the tower. They stopped outside it and looked at it. "Are you sure the tower is still active?" William asked of as Xana ran in.

"Positive," Aelita replied.

Xana went up to the second level, deactivating the tower quickly. However, he heard a yell from William outside, then a loud blasting noise that nearly made him fall over. He regained his balance and looked around, but then managed to float down and walk towards the wall of the tower.

"He just disappeared off the map!" Aelita cried as Xana ran out. He looked around frantically.

Sissi stopped fighting the now regular toaster and saw the middle scanner open, William passed out in the middle of the round tube. "Aelita! William's in the scanner!" she yelled as the white bubble blasted over, taking them back to when they were having another meeting in Sam and Sissi's room, but of course William collapsed to the ground and they started trying to carry him.

In a few moments, they were laying him down on the infirmary bed at Lyoko. Just then, Nicole came in. "What is going on here?" she asked after seeing William on the bed unconscious.

"We… um, we found him… uh, well, he was trying to… well, the point is he got hurt!" Sissi said, trying to come up with a good excuse and failing, obviously.

Nicole sighed and put a hand to her forehead. "Just, go!" she said. The three girls left, leaving their friend alone in the infirmary. Nicole walked over and adjusted her glasses. But suddenly William's eye popped open and he grabbed her arm, pulling her down and covering her mouth with the other, muffling her screams.

A few minutes later, the three girls were sitting outside the cafeteria when William came over. "William!" Sissi said, coming over to him. "What happened on Kadic?" she asked him.

"I don't know. Maybe we should go there to check everything out," he said, not even trying to be sly about it.

"Or we could have Xana take a look around. The scanners could have been damaged, or even the transfer program. I don't want to send anyone to Kadic if you guys could die," Aelita finished.

Suddenly Suzanne came over. "William, get to Mr. Stern's office immediately," she stated. William complied and left the area without question.

William stepped into the room and sat down in the chair. "William, why did you attack Nicole?" Mr. Stern asked.

"She got in the way," William replied blandly.

"In the way of what, may I ask?"

"My mission."

"And, what is your mission?"

"I cannot tell you that."

Mr. Stern sat forward. "And, why can't you tell me your 'mission'?" he asked, intertwining his fingers.

William looked at the brown haired man. He suddenly stood up and started walking towards the door. Mr. Stern was standing right there, and he reached to grab Williams shoulder, but the teenager turned to face him. William grabbed his principal by the arm and said, "You are becoming a hindrance to my mission."

A few moments later, William ran out of the room after exiting the admin building. He ran towards where his friends were and said, "JEREMIE is attacking." The girls listened right away, not even bothering to check, and started running towards the sewer entrance.

The four got on their transportation and rode off. But all the while, when William normally would have been whooping with exhilaration, he was just rolling along slowly, barely doing anything.

They went up the ladder, swung on the chains and went down the elevator. Aelita sat down in the computer chair and started the transfer program.

The three warriors stepped in for the process. "Transfer: Sissi, transfer: Sam, transfer: William." The profiles were selected. "Scanner: Sissi, scanner: Sam, scanner: William." The virtual bodies of them appeared in three small windows, and green filled them from the feet up. "Virtualization!" Aelita called, and then pressed enter.

But just as she did, William pulled open the scanner, filling the room with heat and light. William pushed the scanner the rest of the way open as a red exclamation mark shot up on the computer screen.

On Kadic, the two girls dropped right behind Xana, who had been backing away from a Blok. Sissi formed a disk around her wrist and shot it, destroying the monster in a few seconds.

On earth, William was doing his own destroying. One scanner was completely smashed, another was dented and scraped and the last was untouched.

The girls were running in front of Xana, who was trying to look out for any monsters. But then they were cut off. Four Bloks surround them, and the two girls tried to go around Xana.

"This would be so much easier if William were here," Sissi called, trying to block lasers.

Sam shot a double bullet into two Bloks, making them explode. "Two down, two to go!" she cried, rolling away from a fire ring.

Sissi flung another ring, taking out the second, then the last fell before a laser from Sam's pistols. "Let's go!" Xana yelled, running off towards the tower. The two girls ran off behind him after looking at each other.

Aelita looked at the screen as exclamation mark after exclamation mark jumped up on her screen. Just as she was getting frustrated, she heard a sickening sound of bending and wrenching metal. She turned around to see William in the elevator. The metal of the door was twisted and torn, with lots of scraps of metal all over the floor. He looked at her and said in a deep heavy voice, "Hello Aelita!" He ripped the door open again and stepped through.

But as the trio on Kadic ran towards the tower, Xana caught sight a glowing orange glow nearby with a giant orange beam coming from far away. He stopped and looked at it, catching the attention of the others. When he went up to it, he saw the faint figure of… "William!" Xana cried.

"What? William is in that thing?" Sissi asked. She looked at it intently, then took a step back. "I'm going to shoot it," she declared, bringing back an arm and three disks appeared around it, then she pushed forward and sent all three forward, but heard a sickening warbling sound, like the thing just ate it, or ricochet it. She looked down at her chest and saw blue energy covering her stomach. "Okay, that was not a good idea," she stated, rubbing the damaged area.

"Maybe we can make an illusion of William?" Sam suggested. The other two looked at her. "I know, stupid idea. I'll just let you two think of some-"

"Sam, that's brilliant!" Xana said happily.

"It is?" Sam asked. She personally had gotten sick of people calling her a genius. She sighed and said, "Next time I do something smart, someone say it in a different way and take it as your own please," she said, the other two just nodding, not really paying attention.

Xana nodded and stood a ways away from the orange sphere. He closed his eyes and hummed an ominous tune. Soon, a figure of William was standing in front of him, and started walking towards the sphere. The sphere jumped at it, but then stared wiggling and shaking with both the Williams inside, and then it burst in a massive explosion, sending the others to the ground. Sissi sat up and looked at William, standing over her with his massive sword in his hand.

"Um… what happened?" he asked, stumbling slightly as he helped Sissi to her feet. Sissi replied by hugging him tightly. "Um, did I miss something?" William asked, hugging her back with his free hand.

"Yeah, kinda," Sissi replied, still hugging him. At that point, Xana and Sam had stood up and were looking at the two.

"Not to break you up or anything," Xana said, "But don't you think we should deactivate the tower?"

The two stopped hugging and the four were off towards the unguarded tower. When they arrived, Xana ran in and went to the second level. He pressed his hand against the panel, his name appeared it, and then he entered code Kadic and the panels around him fell. "Tower Deactivated," he stated.

Aelita had been dodging punches from William when she clicked enter and said, "Return to the Past Now!" The white bubble covered the world, engulfing the factory, school and city.

After two missions in a row, all of them were too exhausted to go to school, coming up with the excuse that they had gone to a party last night and were too tired. William was punished, as expected, but he didn't really care and just wanted to sleep.

Please people, I'm getting really self conscious of this. I'm getting worried no one's reading this, and that makes me think I might as well just end it, but I've already worked so hard on it so I don't want to, so please review otherwise I might go insane and try eating either A) my brother, or B) my dog, and I'm sure no one wants me to eat a poor little puppy.

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Also, I couldn't think of much for my Season 1, but the rest will be as original as I can get it. Besides, hopefully my OC's that will soon be joining will make it a little more interesting. So don't just knock it off because it seems a lot like the first Season!