AN* Still don't own this, except for my OC's but that goes without saying.
Chapter 6
On the Monday following the clubs match XANA finally made his move. Jeremy saw the alert and called Ulrich and Odd who were still on campus and told them to head for the factory while he contacted Aelita. Once he was finished he headed for the factory to see that XANA had already unleashed his plan, setting free several Tarantulas.
"Not good." He muttered as he hid around a corner. Suddenly the monsters started shooting at something.
"What on earth are you?" a voice asked looking at the three creatures.
"Erik." Jeremy whispered as he saw Odd and Ulrich sneaking past and motioning for him to head towards the elevator where Aelita was waiting. With a nod he began to move when one of XANA's monsters saw him and began taking shots at him.
"Over here." Erik said as he sliced off one of the guns of the distracted monster.
"Erik!" Jeremy shouted.
"Get going. I'll play with these. However I do expect an explanation once this is over." Erik replied as he rolled away from several blasts. With a nod Jeremy got into the elevator and prepared to send the three to LYOKO. Once everything was set up the three got into the scanners and Jeremy warped them to the desert sector. The three landed and saw that each of them had new uniforms.
Ulrich wore light weight pale yellow samurai armor with a katana at his right and his two kodachis on his back, along with a clothe headband. Aelita still had the jumpsuit on except now at her sides were twin hand guns that seemed to compliment her. Odd's was the most changed, with him in purple cargo pants and top, with two hand guns on his sides, a rifle on his back and on his boots were two knives.
"Wow. We look amazing." Ulrich laughed as they waited for directions.
"No kidding. Nice work on the designs, though I wish I could lose the cat ears." Odd grinned as he tugged on the ears "By the way what's with the guns?"
"Something I picked up on my own. I just channel my energy attacks into these and they fire off smaller and faster versions of my normal attack." Aelita explained.
"Alright you three, the tower is to the south, but be careful, I'm picking up several Crabs in the area. Odd, your overboard is on the way." Jeremy reported "I'm still making you a new vehicle Ulrich so you'll have to ride with Aelita on the overwing."
"Got it." Ulrich said as the two vehicles came into existence. Odd leapt on to the board and took off into the sky and took the rifle off of his back and began scouting out the area for the two. Spotting several Crabs making their way towards the main path towards the tower Odd began taking aim.
"Can't have you guys spoiling the party." Odd laughed as he took aim and fired the first shoot into the XANA symbol on one of the crabs back, taking out half of its life points before it even realized what happened.
While Odd was shooting the Crabs Ulrich and Aelita were heading straight for the tower when Ulrich saw Crimson standing on top of the tower watching them.
"Aelita, start flying using those wings, I'm going to go play with our observant dragon." Ulrich said as she nodded and took off leaving Ulrich in control of the overwing. Heading straight for the black clad foe Crimson watched, trying to take in all of the changes that the LYOKO warriors had made but was still worried that they had changed the game completely. Ulrich pulled up right before the masked man who seemed tense.
"Ready for round 3?" Ulrich asked.
"Of course. Those Crabs should be more than enough to handle Aelita." He grinned as he leapt off the tower, using the side to propel himself further south as Ulrich followed, landing once Crimson did "Try to entertain me." With that he drew his sword and waited for Ulrich to rush in, which the brown haired boy didn't. The two circled each other, each waiting for the other to make the mistake of striking first, until finally Crimson rushed forward slashing at Ulrich's ribs which the young man unsheathed a part of his katana to block the slash while he used his free hand to draw one of his kodachis. Slashing at the man he forced him to take the defensive, making the masked man actually worry. The battle progressed with Ulrich taking equal damage to what he was dealing out to the masked man until he took a different stance, his left hand on the far edge of the katana. Ulrich immediately began to calculate the situation and weighted his odds of winning against the technique that was sure to come from the attack. Finally deciding to take his chances he rushed at him both kodachis out and slashed at the man who rolled with the attack while slashing Ulrich in half devirtualizing him.
"Damn. He has grown quite powerful; it's as if he has been apprenticed to an actual sword master. He is one to worry about." Crimson muttered as he headed back towards the tower to feel a shot just miss his head.
"What the…" he muttered as he moved behind some rocks.
"Darn, I missed." Odd complained as he checked on Aelita to see that she had made it to the tower with no problems "Oh well, there is always next time." With that final statement Aelita had entered the tower and deactivated it.
During all of this Erik had been fighting the Tarantulas, dodging the laser attacks that they shot and quickly severing limbs or slashing into the armored skulls. Once the last one fell did he head for the elevator. Once he reached the computer floor he saw Jeremy at a computer, typing away making sure something was happening.
"What is all this?" he asked.
"It's nothing." Jeremy said quickly.
"Liar. The creatures were waiting here for you to show up, along with your friends. Those creatures weren't anything that I have ever seen, read, or heard about, so I will ask again, what is all this?"
"It's a long story, one that we won't be having today. Return to the past, now!" Jeremy said as he entered a keystroke and a white light enveloped the planet.
Once the light receded the day started over again, and Ulrich was talking with Jeremy about Erik and Crimson.
"I don't see why you are so worried about Erik." Ulrich sighed.
"This is twice now he was there when XANA attacked, each time he saves us. I don't like coincidences." Jeremy sighed.
"Well he can't be working with XANA otherwise he would have taken us out by now, and let XANA eliminate us. He can't be Crimson either since both times we were there fighting him he was there with you, saving you skin." Ulrich pointed out.
"Very true. Still if he doesn't start backing away he will find out our secret and that will cause several problems, remember what happened when we first introduced William." Jeremy argued.
"Erik is no William, not that he isn't a good guy, but Erik has too much honor to try and be a showoff." Ulrich retorted.
"Still it is too risky, you might want to stay away from LYOKO for awhile, let the others handle things until Erik stops being so suspicious." Jeremy sighed.
"Alright, it's only for a couple of days, what could be the harm." Ulrich sighed. Little did they know that Erik was standing around the corner listening the conversation.
"LYOKO, XANA? What are they talking about…" he muttered as he walked off, heading for the factory that they seemed to be the source of all the craziness.
