Third update of the day, WHOOOOOO! I own Kitten and Zach, and Shadowings, person I don't even talk to anymore owns Elena, and Prosper Jade owns Gem. I hope I wrote Gem right. For those of you who don't know this is my 2 year anniversary being here and I ain't done updating yet! Moonscoop owns the rest and SwaNamimi on deviantART made this pic.
"Hey, why so glum looking you guys? Elena asked, sitting down for lunch. "Kitten you're barely touching your food."
"...Xana took my cousin." I muttered. "Some new monster..."
"Your cousin? New monster? Why wasn't I informed about this?" Elena asked.
"Jeremie tried to contact you yesterday, but you didn't answer. What were you doing that was so important anyways?" Zach asked, ripping a chunk of bread off a spring roll with his teeth.
"Mom had me cleaning the house all day. I didn't have my phone on me." Elena explained.
"Ya know...if you're going to be a Lyoko warrior you need to make fighting Xana the priority, and keep your phone on you at all times, and actually answer. We really could have used your help on Lyoko."
"I'm sorry..."
"It's alright." I said, then smiled. "We just have to find her and beat the living snot out of that monster. Uncle Jer said Xana wouldn't kill her right away. It isn't his style." I ate, not as much as usual, but I ate. Suddenly my phone buzzed. I took it out of my pocket, it was a text from Jeremie.
We found Gem in Sector 5. Come quick, we'll call you in sick.
"Speaking of which, it's time to go." I jumped up and ran out of the cafeteria, the others running after me. We got to the factory and virtualized directly into Sector 5. Everyone went, when it came to family, there was no room for failure. I looked around, the only thing there was a pathway leading up to a wall...that was about it.
"So now what?" I asked, looking around.
"We ride the elevator down to the main part of Sector 5 and rescue Gianna." Dad said.
"No time for that!" I exclaimed, then jumped off the edge. O thought I could hear Zach sigh and say something like "So impulsive." Suddenly the floor was coming at me very slowly. Zach was slowing down time for me.
"Thanks!" I called up, though to them it would sound like some long, drawn out, low pitched tone. I positioned myself so that I landed on my feet. Zach landed next to me, going in normal motion, but to me, it looked like he was going super fast. He turned off his chronokinesis so that we both went at a normal pace.
"Heh, cats always land on their feet, right?" I joked.
"Right." Zach chuckled, then looked up at our parents and Elena. The elevator was just now getting to them. "We have to get moving, they can catch up."
I nodded and we ran. Suddenly, I was flung into the far wall. I went to look for what had hit me, but immediately a dizzy spell started. My senses cut out, the world went black, and I had a vision.
The monster that kidnapped Gem flew through the northern entrance of Sector 5. It flew through a series of rooms, then finally stopped in one.
"Get your paws off me, damn flying monkey wannabee!" Gem yelled at the creature with the wings made of shadow. It dropped her from roughly 10 feet off the ground. She landed with a thud, spun around, drew her big metal disk with spikes, though a second later it was knocked out of her hands by a kind of translucent tentacle. She whirled around to find some sort of colorful jellyfish with translucent tentacles, a clear dome over it's pink, translucent, squishy, somewhat triangular brain, and the eye of Xana on the front.
"A big jellyfish, eh? Is that the best this Xana guy can do?" Gem smirked. She reached for her disc but the Shadowing shot a laser at her foot. She was trapped. The jellyfish wrapped it's tentacles around Gem. Red...stuff pulsed through the tentacles into her body and mind, then black stuff. The jellyfish thing released her. She collapsed, then she lifted her head and opened her eyes.
They flashed the eye of Xana.
The vision faded out and reality returned. Gem was in trouble...or would be...Was that a vision of the past or future? I've had both. Were we too late, or could she be saved?
"Zach, speed us up." I said.
"Huh?"
"DO IT NOW!" We ran, the Shadowing tried to catch up to us, but with the time around our bodies sped up it didn't even have a chance of catching up! We jumped down a shaft and ran some more until we came to the room with the jellyfish...just in time to see it drop Gem. I gasped, we were too late, she was possessed. The Shadowing caught up and blocked the exit.
"JEREMIE! WE NEED HELP!"
"Yeah, I saw. Don't worry, they're on their way. Xana's tried this before, remember the stories about the Scyphozoa we told you? Well there it is. It isn't permanent, just try to devirtualize her!" Jeremie said over the intercom.
"You worry about your cousin, I got the monster." Zach said, we were back to back, the Scyphozoa had retreated.
I could hear about a dozen rapid fire arrows and the rumble of chunks of the wall falling but no explosion. Gem smirked and threw her spiky metal disk at me. I ducked, it was a matrix moment. She used telekinetic abilities to bring it back around, it nicked Zach in the arm but I jumped and avoided it. While I was midair I got hit by a laser that knocked me to the side. When I got up, I saw the disk still flying around, it picked up speed and glowed red. I needed to break her concentration. Without really thinking about it, I hurled a bomb in her direction. It didn't hit her, but it was enough to stop the disk and make it fall.
Zach took this opportunity to shoot a sped up arrow right through her head and devirtualized her right there. I jumped onto the Shadowing and slammed a bomb right into it's head, where the eye of Xana was. Then I pushed off, did a back flip, and stuck the landing, hearing a satisfying explosion come from behind me. They were both gone in an instant.
That's when everyone else showed up.
"What happened?" Elena asked.
"Good job guys. You're really getting better at being Lyoko warriors!" Jeremie said, we were all met by hugs and congratulations by the parents. I smiled but Zach looked uncomfortable.
"Did Gem get back ok?" Dad asked.
"Yes, she's fine, she's in the scanner room with Adele. I'll bring you all in now." One by one we all fell out of the scanner and saw aunt Adele hugging her daughter.
"You're never going back there again! I won't allow it!" Adele said. "I almost lost you too..."
"But-" I started but mom shushed me.
"No, this guy is even worse than Jack! I have to help fight him!" Gemmarld protested.
"You got captured." Aunt Adele looked to Jeremie for support.
"All we have to do is build up some immunity, get her better at reaction time. If she wants to fight, I'll do my best to protect her. I know Kitten and Zach will do their best too.
"Of course, what are cousins for! We've got your back."
We went upstairs to the Supercomputer and were about to leave when it beeped a bunch of times. Jeremie's eyes widened slightly, he went over to it and typed in commands.
"This is incredible!"
"What is?" Yumi asked. Jeremie didn't respond for a few seconds, he was typing, opening different windows.
"Earth to Einstein, come in Einstein!" Dad said, slightly jostling Jeremie.
"I found...another Replika..."
"So? Xana's made dozens of Replikas, why wouldn't he make more?"
"Oh great, we have to deal with those again." Uncle Ulrich complained in the background.
"Come on, you know we had fun on those missions." Aunt Yumi said, putting her arm around his shoulder.
"That's just the thing..." Jeremie said. "This source code...it isn't Xana. It's vaguely similar...but it isn't him." We all stared.
"Then who made it?" Zach asked.
"No idea." Jeremie answered. "But I'll check into it. I rebuilt the Skid a while back. There aren't enough for all of us, but I think the kids can go, along with Aelita to teach Kitten to pilot."
"Sounds like a plan, when are we gonna do this?" I asked.
"How about this weekend?" Jeremie replied.
"Sounds great!"
Hope you liked, next I will do...er...XANA, how about XANA
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