Author's note: Sorry this took a little longer to update, since I ran out of ideas of what to write in this chapter, but it looks like my story is doing ALOT better than I thought it would, I'm so happy you guys are liking it so far! So..
Enjoy! ^_^
(Noone's P.O.V)
"Now pay close attention children, " Ms. Hertz informed, writing an equation on the board, saying, "An electrical charge flows through a section of conductor, the current intensity is expressed in..."
All the students were taking notes, while Odd was sighing and whispering to Ulrich, "There isn't one ticket left.. completely sold out.. And I absolutely have to find one before the concert. "
"Relax Odd, Aelita is gonna give us each a ticket, she's the opening act of the concert, she's got tickets for all of us." Ulrich responded, going back down to his paper.
"I know that," Odd fussed, "The probably is, I need two tickets for tonight."
"Ah, so you made a promise to a girl you didn't know you were gonna keep." Ulrich asked, smirking at Odd.
"You could never understand Ulrich-" Odd started, but was interrupted by Ms. Hertz.
"Odd," Odd looked up at her, "Would you repeat what I just said, what is an electrical charge?"
"U-it-uh.." Odd stuttered, trying to come up with something, "It's the amount you have to pay every month for electricity."
The room started to laugh, but Ms. Hertz only glared.
"Not exactly an enlightening answer." She scolded, crossing her arms.
"I know someone whose more stressed out about tonight." Ulrich leaned over and told Odd. The class ended, as everyone got out of the classrooms, sighing in relief, while Aelita and Jeremy were walking out, Aelita asked, "Aren't you coming to lunch, Jeremy?"
He looked back at her and shook his head, "No, I'm trying to come up with a program that should help us get William back, and destroy XANA! See you later!"
"I'll see you later too! I've got an-uh- unimportant errand to run!" Odd waved, running off.
Krystal walked up to Aelita smiling and asking, "Where are those two going?"
Aelita sighed, replying, "Not to lunch, that's for sure." Krystal shrugged at Aelita's answer, and the two started to walk towards the dispenser machine.
"Sub-digitals.. I like them better as the Sub-sonics." Ulrich said, looking down at the magazine.
"I like their new name." Aelita commented.
"Well Aelita, all set for the big night?" Krystal asked/teased, as Yumi came up to them.
"Oh please don't talk about it, it's making me so scared." Aelita said, slightly shivering.
"Well, welcome to stardom, " Yumi read, giggling, "Listen to this: In our next issue, an exclusive interview with Aelita Stones, Kadic's brightest new star."
"Did you know about this?" Krystal asked, shifting her head to face Aelita.
"Milly and Tamiya haven't stopped hassling me for over a week now for that interview, but I didn't promise them anything." Aelita explained, Krystal shrugged and giggled at the same time, making Aelita frown and slightly stick out her tongue.
"Well you know that those two are like, always looking for a little gossip." Yumi pointed out, making them all slightly giggle.
"Well," Ulrich looked up from his magazine, "Whatever you do, think about the concert."
"I try, but whenever I do, I always get butterflies in my stomach." Aelita said, wrapping her arms around her stomach, "I wish I could just get my mind off of it for a while. Well, I'll go see if Jeremy needs help with the calculations, see you later." Aelita waved, walking off, leaving the three there.
Odd started to walk up and complained, "I don't believe this, I'm jinxed, the last tickets slipped right under my nose just now."
"But Aelita has a ticket for you, Odd." Krystal pointed out and Ulrich snickered and said, "Yea, but that's not enough for Odd's little harem(did I spell that right?)."
"Yea, yea, laugh go ahead, but wait until you see Kelly." Odd said, proudly crossing his arms. Ulrich rolled his eyes at Odd, knowing that something was up with him. Suddenly, Milly and Tamiya walked up to the foursome and asked, "Have you guys seen Aelita?"
The foursome looked at eachother, Ulrich shrugged and informed, "Yea, she went to the gym."
Tamiya thanked him and the two started to walk to the gym. "Poor Aelita." Krystal giggled, shaking her head and Yumi agreed with her.
(At Jeremy's dorm.)
There was a knock on the door, the person on the outside saying 'it's Aelita', making Jeremy say, "Come in." The door opened, then closed and Jeremy's pink haired friend came in smiling.
"I'm so nervous about the concert, I can barely think straight." Aelita commented, sighing as she sat on the bed. Jeremy stopped typing on his computer and turned to her saying, "I know, I'm nervous too! I'm almost finished with this calculation, it'll possibly bring William back."
"But, I can't wait to see you at the concert!" Aelita exclaimed gleefully.
"Maybe.." Jeremy thought aloud, going back to his computer, "I'll probably be late, or not be able to make it."
"W-what do you mean..?" Aelita asked, looking surprise.
"Well I don't know, the calculations are coming in soon, but I may have to do a few tests too, I'm pretty sure I'll make it, but I'll be pretty late." Jeremy formally informed. Aelita blushed, but it wasn't because she was shy, this time, it was out of anger.
"I'm telling you that I'm so nervous that I don't want to go, yet all I hear from you is 'I'll be pretty late'!?" Aelita bursted out, clenching her hands into fists.
"It's not my fault, we're so close to defeating XANA!" Jeremy exclaimed happily, while Aelita just stood up and slightly raised her voice, "Now I know what Krystal means."
Jeremy looked confused at Aelita, Aelita noticed that and explained, "Krystal was a bit upset with how you treated her, when she had to go meet up with William in Lyoko."
"She was about to put Lyoko in danger! All because Odd was in a foul mood! That was completely selfish!" He argued, and Aelita looked hurt.
"Selfish for caring about her friend?" Aelita threw the ticket on the bed, "Here! You can give to someone else, since your not going to make it!" Jeremy sighed as Aelita slammed the door.
Outside of Jeremy's dorm, Aelita started to tear up because of the argument.
(In the hallway)
"I'd better not see you with that pink haired mouse again! Or else you can kiss those tickets goodbye.." Sisi threatened to Herb and Nicolas (did I get their names right?). Odd's ears perked up when he heard this.
"Hey Sisi... you wouldn't have a bunch of tickets for tonight, would ya?" Odd asked, as Sisi scoffed looking at him.
"What do you think? Being the principal's daughter has it's advantages." Sisi sassily remarked.
"And um.." Odd slyly smiled, "You wouldn't have an extra one, by any chance, hmm?"
"I do," she smiled, "But not for you Odd." As the three pushed passed him, the two boys were snickering at him.
Sisi turned around and said, "Then again, if you can convince Ulrich to go with me, and not that skinny crow, the ticket's all yours."
He frowned at her, sighing and agreeing, "Okay."
...
"Tada!" Odd showed Yumi and Ulrich, as he walked in the lounge area, he sat down, satisfied with the ticket in his hand.
"How was your hunting?" Yumi asked, looking at him.
"It was cool, all was great, I have the ticket." Odd said, putting his hands behind his back, lazily.
"And Odd didn't have to pay a leg or arm for it?" Ulrich asked smirking.
"Oh no, no.. and huh by the way I have to ask you a favor Yumi..." Odd stuttered slightly, making Yumi give him a questioning look.
"Y-you see-" Odd started but when he saw Krystal come in, he shouted, "Hey Krystal!" Krystal looked up from the school newspaper and waved at her three friends, walking up to them.
"So what was the favor?" Yumi asked, and Krystal gave a curious look to both of them.
"H-heh.. no big rush.. why don't we talk about it later.." Odd said, shrugging it off. Krystal sat next to Yumi, and asked, "So, are you guys excited for the concert or what?" They all nodded excitedly in response. Aelita then came in a said, "Oh there you guys are."
"I came to give you your tickets for tonight." Aelita explained, grabbing her bag and pulling out the tickets. They all looked at Aelita, seeing her flushed and Krystal asked, "Hey, what's wrong?"
Aelita shook her head and responded, "O-oh it's nothing.. it's on account of Jeremy.."
"Einstein wins another first prize in diplomacy?" Odd teased, making Aelita smile.
"Yea.. I guess you might say that.." Aelita replied.
"Relax princess, you'll see, you're going to bring the house down tonight!" Ulrich encouraged. They all gave a thumbs up at Aelita, making her smile and blush once again.
"Anyways don't get there too late, it gets crowded quickly." Aelita told, they all nodded in response.
(At the concert)
Aelita was putting on her mascara, when she heard a knock on the door, turning around she saw it was her friends, which made her smile.
"We came to see our favorite star-" Odd started, but Krystal finished, "-before she gets too famous to see us." They all walked up to her.
"Don't be so silly, " Aelita smiled, putting on her blush, "I'm really glad to see you all. Um.. didn't Jeremy come..?"
"S-sure he did! But we lost him in the crowd.." Ulrich lied, trying to put on his best smile.
"You know Einstein, a great head for math, but it's always in the clouds everywhere else." Odd pointed out, but Aelita didn't really buy it that much.
"Don't worry! He'll be out there, listening and cheering you on!" Yumi said, smiling.
"Aelita, your on in five minutes!" A woman (probably the manager) informed.
"Time for me to started concentrating." Aelita said to herself, but the four heard her.
"Okay then, we'll see you later! And don't worry, you'll do great!" Krystal encouraged, as the other three waved her bye. Closing the door, Aelita sighed and looked herself in the mirror, she smiled, knowing that her friends were going to cheer her on. She then looked at the floor and saw Krystal's cell phone.
"Oh no.." Aelita mumbled, grabbing the cell phone on the table, "I'll return it later, or hopefully she'll find it before I go on.."
...
As they exited Aelita's room(not her dorm) a brunette haired girl shouted, "Ooooddd! Hi!" She shouted waving at him.
"Kelly!" He waved back, walking towards her, "These are my friends, Krystal, Ulrich and Yumi."
"Hi." Ulrich simply said.
"Hello." Yumi simply greeted.
"Nice to meet you." Krystal politely said.
"Hi!" Kelly greeted, waving her hand at the three.
"Alright, let's go." Odd said, linking arms with Kelly and almost walked off, when Sisi stopped him.
"Odd!" She shouted.
"O-oh hey Sisi.. how ya doin..?" Odd nervously greeted.
"What's that skinny crow doing here?!" She pointed towards Yumi, "I gave you the ticket in exchange for a date with Ulrich!"
"What?!" Ulrich exclaimed/asked, and Odd slightly shrugged, but Krystal only stayed quiet, knowing that she wouldn't like the outcome of the drama.
"Well huh.." Odd thought.
"In that case, give me back my ticket!" Sisi snatched the ticket out of Odd's hand and stormed away. He turned to Kelly and nervously smiled, saying, "Well Kelly, you can have mine.."
Kelly crossed her arms and said, "Listen Odd, you told me you spent your last penny buying tickets to this concert, not that you were really dealing with Delmas! Loser! You can keep your ticket!" And with that Kelly marched away, scoffing at Odd.
"I wonder if she bites." Krystal teased Odd, but he was still dumfounded.
"By the way Odd, what was that tiny winy favor you wanted me to do?" Ulrich asked/teased and Odd sighed saying, "Forget it."
(Jeremy's Dorm.)
Jeremy was typing codes on the computer, when his phone rang, he stopped typing and bent down to grab his phone.
"Hello?"
"Jeremy where are you? The concert is about to start! And Aelita is really sad that you aren't here!"
"O-oh! I didn't see the time... Don't worry! I'll be there, I just need to run a few more calculations!"
"A-alright, fine."
With that, Jeremy hung up the phone, then his computer started to beep, meaning that there was an activated tower in Lyoko.
"Oh no! Not now!" Jeremy mumbled.
(At the concert.)
The manager (I'm going to call her Sophie), Sophie, was walking towards Aelita's room, when from behind her, black smoke came out, when Sophie tried to scream, it was too late because it had already possessed her.
...
Aelita turned around to see Sophie standing in the doorway, Aelita smiled saying, "Sophie, I'm ready."
"So am I." Sophie replied, but had the XANA symbol in her eyes, making Aelita gasp before Sophie electrocuted her.
...
"Shoot." Krystal mumbled, looking through her pockets.
"What is it Krystal?" Yumi asked, turning to her blonde haired friend.
"I think I dropped my cell phone while in Aelita's room! I'll go get it!" Krystal explained, running and waving.
"Well hurry! Aelita's about to start!" Yumi shouted, as the other two boys turned and gave Yumi and Krystal a questioning look. Krystal gracefully slipped through people, making sure not to bump into anyone, but it was slightly hard, due to the fact that there was a crowd of people.
...
"Hello?" Chris picked up his phone(Chris was the famous singer.)
"Chris? Aelita won't be able to make it because she isn't feeling well, you'll have to begin without her."
With that the phone hung up, and he looked at it weird and shrugged.
"Okay guys, Aelita isn't feeling well, let's go!" Chris told his fellow band members.
...
Once Krystal managed to get to Aelita's room, she knocked on the door and opened it. Krystal saw Aelita unconscious on the ground and gasped, seeing Sophie smirking at Krystal.
She then noticed the XANA symbol in Sophie's eyes, making her back away, but Sophie was quicker and grabbed Krystal's hand, electrocuting her to become unconscious too.
"Oh dear.. I've picked up two little birds? But which one shall I take?" Sophie/XANA thought, smirking and looking at Krystal, "I guess Krystal is the oh-so lucky winner."
Sophie picked up Krystal, and headed out the back door so no one would see her.
...
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Sub-digitals!"
The crowd started to cheer as they saw the famous band come up on stage, making the three friends worry.
"B-but, why didn't Aelita go on?! And where's Krystal?!" Odd exclaimed/asked, and they all started to look suspicious.
Yumi's phone rang and she picked up, "Jeremy?"
"XANA just launched another attack!"
"They just cancelled Aelita's opening act! And Krystal is missing too!"
"That sounds like XANA! Check it out and then meet me at the factory!"
Yumi hung up and explained to the guys, they nodded and headed straight to Aelita's room. Knocking on it, they opened the door to find Aelita unconscious.
"Aelita!" Yumi gasped, going down to the girl. Odd dialed Krystal's number, but instead, the cell phone was ringing on the table. Suddenly, Tamiya and Milly came in, but they had the XANA symbol in their eyes too.
"Do you think their mad because they blew a scoop?" Odd joked, making the other two roll their eyes as Yumi picked up Aelita. Ulrich looked at Aelita's perfume, and he saw a blanket too.
"I'll try to distract them, you guys try and get Krystal back." Ulrich said, he then threw the blanket ontop of the two, making them both get tangled in it, Yumi carried Aelita and Odd and Yumi ran out of the room.
Yumi called Jeremy and said, "Jeremy, I don't know who, but Krystal is missing, it's probably XANA and they're most likely headed to the factory, be careful!"
"Okay, I'll try to hit it off, but you guys better hurry!"
...
Jeremy hung up, and saw Sophie carrying an unconscious Krystal, so he jumped on top of her. Unfortunately, it failed, because Sophie pushed him away, making him hit hard against the wall. She stepped into the elevator and put Krystal into the scanner.
"Virtualization."
(In Lyoko)
Krystal fell onto the ground, finally waking up and mumbling, "Seriously..? Isn't this like the.. fourth.. fifth time?" She then looked up, hearing moving noises and saw one kankerlat facing her.
Krystal's eyes widen when she then saw a block come from behind a rock(she's in the mountain sector). "This," Krystal stood up, getting her freeze balls ready, "Is now my least favorite sector."
She waved her hand infront of her belt, making her wings appear. She then flew above the kankerlat, preventing it from shooting her. Smiling in victory, Krystal was about to speak until a mantis hit her.
She hit a rock, looking around, the left side was a kankerlat, the right side was a block, infront of her was a mantis and there was no way she could go behind, due to the fact that there was a huge rock behind her. "I'm surrounded!"
(The factory)
"Jeremy, if you're there please answer! I need help!" Yumi and Odd heard as they entered the factory, seeing Sophie.
"Let's do this!" Odd said, Yumi nodded as they ran toward Sophie, who tried to zap them, but missed and Odd jumped on her. Aelita finally woke up, seeing the three fighting she stood up and decided to help.
"Where's Aelita and Krystal." Jeremy looked to his left and saw Aelita making him sigh in relief.
"Aelita, I'm so so-" Jeremy started to apologize, but Aelita cut him off saying, "It's alright! Right now, we have to get to Krystal!"
(In Lyoko, once again.)
As a block started to shoot at Krystal, but she dodged it, and jumped over the kankerlat, giving her a path to escape. The mantis started to follow her, going ahead it spun around, making Krystal stop and run the other way, but she was trapped due to the kankerlat was right behind her(not to mention the block too.)
"Krystal?! Are you okay?!" Aelita's voice asked.
"Aelita! At last! This isn't exactly where I was expecting you, but I'm happy to hear your voice!" Krystal said, ducking as the mantis shot it's laser, hitting and destroying the kankerlat.
The mantis started to shoot at Krystal, who made a shield with her freeze balls, each time the mantis kept shooting, she kept going back, making her hit a gigantic sword. She turned around and gasped, "William!" She barely managed to dodge the mantis' attack, making her fall to the ground as the sword was being picked up by William's smoke-ish telekinesis.
"Aelita, I need your help! XANA sent William here!" Krystal exclaimed, throwing freeze balls at William, which sadly missed him, but did lead him off course.
"We're coming now Krystal!" Aelita assured, as Krystal nodded. Seeing a block and mantis blocking her way, she got out a couple of freeze balls and tried shooting at it, unfortunately, Krystal missed once again. What is with my aim today? Krystal thought to herself.
William smirked, seeing Krystal's bad aim as a weakness, but got hit by two fans, making him snarl at where it was coming from.
"Nice one Yumi." Aelita complimented.
"Thanks." Yumi thanked.
"Hey, you guys ready for the tall dark bad guy?" Odd teased. Though, they were a bit stuck due to Krystal was in a taller platform and she was too far for them to jump.
"Jeremy, there's no way we can get to her without transportation." Yumi said, looking up at the sky.
"Okay, I'm sending in vehicles right now."
Yumi got on her overwing, while Aelita had her wings and the two started to chase after William, while Odd was getting the two kankerlats that just appeared from behind the rocks.
Aelita flew to Krystal as Yumi was distracting William and Odd followed William and Yumi. Suddenly, their vehicles started to disappear and Yumi asked, "Jeremy? What's wrong?"
There was no response, making them worried as Odd said, "Looks like we're on our own." William, being on the mantis, chased the two until Yumi's fans hit the mantis, making him fall.
But William turned into smoke, going behind Yumi and said, "Looks like it's game over for you, Yumi! The ice princess will be XANA's!"
But Yumi threw the fans before he hit her, and she responded, "Krystal won't ever be XANA's! Game over for you too!" William looked in confusion as he turned around and saw two fans hit him and de-virtualized him.
...
Krystal looked up at Aelita and shouted, "Hurry! Go to the tower!"
Aelita nodded at that and rushed to the tower, deactivating it.
"Return to the past.. now!"
Soon, a white light engulfed them all, making it yesterday once again.
(At the concert.)
There was a knock on the door, Aelita said, "Come in."
Jeremy popped his head through the door and smiled. "I-huh.. wanted to see how you were doing Aelita?" Jeremy asked, smiling shyly as he entered the room.
"Well I don't have stage fright anymore, and I guess it's because I've been here, if you know what I mean." Aelita joked, but then there was an awkward silence between the two.
"H-have you seen Krystal? I kinda wanted to apologize for the incident..." Jeremy asked, rubbing the back of his head.
"I'm pretty sure she forgives you now, even if she doesn't, I'll talk to her, but I'm really sorry for blowing up on you like that." Aelita apologized.
"No it was my fault.. I got so caught up in work that I didn't know you needed me.." Jeremy started to ponder on what he just said.
...
"Everyone! Put em' together for a new Dj, Aelita Stones!"
The announcer announced, everyone was dancing and cheering, but no one noticed that Krystal wasn't at the scene, she decided to stay in the dorm due to the incident of seeing Aelita unconscious.
(Aelita and Krystal's dorm.)
The blonde haired female was typing through the computer looking for a good happy movie, when a message suddenly popped up on her computer.
Unknown: Hello Ice Princess.
Krystal looked in confusion, debating on whether to reply. Hesitantly, she replied.
Krystal: Hello? May I ask who this is?
After a couple of seconds she got a reply from the anonymous person, it read:
Unknown: You know me as XANA.
Krystal looked in surprise, but thought that someone was probably just pranking her.
Krystal: Okay, whoever this is, cut it out! I don't have time for a prank.
She angrily typed, sending the message, once again it only took a matter of seconds for the person to reply.
Unknown: I assure you, Ice Princess, that this is no prank.
She skeptically looked at the laptop and sighed, nobody else in the school knew about XANA, and she didn't know anyone outside of Kadic Academy.
Krystal: Okay, let's say you are XANA, what do you need?
The next message took her by surprise when she read it.
Unknown: Let's make a deal, I'll give back William in exchange for you.
Author's note: CLIFF HANGER! Woo-hoo, I'm so happy I finally managed to finish this chapter! I'm not promising the next chapter will be as long, this is my LONGEST chapter ever!
Anyways, sadly, the end is coming near, but once again, I MAY make a sequel to this, depends if I have the idea to do so, anyways...
Enjoy! ^_^
