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Summary: Kirsten is new to Kadic Boarding School, but she is already in a group of friends held together by a bendable, but unbreakable bond. They have saved each other from death more times than they can count. Can they finally stop XANA and destroy him forever?

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Chapter 8: Intensification
The door had opened, and the group started running down the stairs.

"Timer started. You only have three minutes before reconfiguration!"

"Got it!" Ulrich replied.

They all stopped in the next room. Kirsten looked around.

"Jeremie? Which way?"

"Oh, right, I forgot. Go left."

"What did you say? Right or left?"

"Sorry, go left. By the way, want to speed up a little?"

The vehicles materialized in front of them. They mounted up and took off down the left passage."


"This is John Miller, from channel 10 news. The attack on the city has intensified. There are many injured, but none confirmed dead…yet. Evacuation of the city has been authorized. The nearby boarding school, Kadic, began to evacuate two hours ago, only to find that six of their students are missing. If anyone has seen any of these six people, Ulrich Stern, Yumi Ishiyama, Jeremie Belpois, Aelita Lyoko, Odd Della Robbia, or Kirsten Anderson, please take them out of the town with you, then call this number."

A number, along with pictures of the gang, appeared on the screen.

"Guys? Trouble. We're technically 'missing' now and the police are looking for us. The factory doors are locked for now, but you never know…and you only have one minute left!"

Yumi responded. "Right. We'll hurry."

"Oh, one more thing…"

"What?"

"XANA's power has intensified! It has activated half of the towers in Lyoko!"


"WHAT?"

"It's activated all of the towers in the desert and forest regions!"

"Oh…we better hurry…"

The gang emerged into a huge room with blocks (A/N: not monsters, just part of the architecture). They all flew up and into the center of the room, searching for the switch, and for any monsters.

Suddenly, Kirsten zoomed off. "Found it!"

The rest of them followed her to the switch, and she pressed it.

"Odd? Didn't you say that there are normally monsters in this area?"

"Yeah, I wonder––"

Ten lasers flew past them. They all turned around to see ten creepers heading towards them.

Ulrich immediately took charge. "Okay, two each, with two left over for whoever finishes first. Kirsten, first two. Odd, second two. Yumi, third two. I'll take the fourth set. The last two we'll leave for later."

"Got it!"

They split up, headed for their two adversaries. Kirsten reached hers first and fired a few lasers, hitting one of them. She was hit in the leg several times.

"Kirsten! Only ten points left!"

"I can fix that."

She concentrated, but still left some of her mind open to help her navigate the battlefield. Jeremie saw her life points go back up to a hundred.

"I'm so glad you got that ability."

"I know, Aelita would be dead if I didn't."

"You're right!"

Kirsten headed towards her other monster. Odd had already taken care of his two, Ulrich and Yumi had taken care of one each.

"Impact!" Ulrich hit the other creeper right in the center of the symbol. Yumi threw both of her fans. A laser knocked one of them out of the air, but the other one hit its target. They went to join Odd. Ulrich was hit in the back by Kirsten's creeper, and was devirtualized. Yumi was also hit, by

Kirsten finally took care of her other creeper, just as Odd hit the last one. They headed off to their new destination.


XANA's monsters had come full circle and were now wreaking havoc at the school. Everyone had been evacuated, but XANA still relentlessly attacked the building, heading for Aelita's half-completed antivirus, intending to destroy it and prolong the time he had to take over the world.
Ulrich and Yumi tumbled out of the scanners, and immediately headed for the school. They called Jeremie to tell him what they were planning.

They reached the school and saw the carnage. The buildings were in pieces and the monsters were preparing to head to the factory and destroy the scanners and kill all of the children that had bothered XANA for so long.

Ulrich and Yumi stopped. "Well, you know what to do!"

"Right."

Then they concentrated and shouted "CODE LYOKO!" as loud as they could.

They began to glow orange and green.


Meanwhile, the three left on Lyoko had reached their destination. Odd and Kirsten were waiting nervously for Aelita to finish.

Uh, Odd? I see the bulges you were talking about. Over there."

"Where? Oh…shit…"

The entire area in front of them was bulging outward. They were about to have a big problem.

"Aelita, hurry!" Odd shouted.

Kirsten looked thoughtful. "Odd? I have an idea…"

She concentrated and all three of them glowed with a blue light.

"If the monsters hit any of us, we'll heal almost instantly!"

"Awesome! Just make sure that not all of them hit us at the same time, or we're screwed."

She didn't answer, she was concentrating harder because she had seen the first nest hatch.


Jeremie was panicking. "Aelita! Hurry! The monsters are nearly at the factory! Ulrich and Yumi are holding them off, but they can't for much longer!"
Ulrich and Yumi had their hands full. Ulrich was supersprinting all over the place. Both of his clones were killed. Yumi was doing okay. She had deflected nearly all of the lasers, but one grazed her arm, severely burning it. She was having trouble throwing the fan from that arm.

"Yumi! How many on your side!"

"Three blocks, a tanantula, and a bunch of kankrelats…wait…scratch the kankrelats."

Ulrich smiled and continued to deflect lasers with his sword while moving faster than the eye can see.


Aelita jumped. "I've got it! And more!"

"Good! I'll materialize you guys so you can help the others."

Then, the scipizoa appeared.

"Oh no! Jeremie! It's the scipizoa! Hurry!"

"Okay, Aelita first…" Aelita faded into a wireframe, then disappeared.

Before Jeremie could do anything else, the scipizoa grabbed Kirsten and tried to drain her DNA, to keep her from being materialized.

Odd shouted with rage. "NO! I WON'T LET YOU HURT MY GIRLFRIEND!"

He ran at the scipizoa as he began to glow purple.


Jeremie, at his computer, saw Odd's card, then eventually everyone else's, change. Each one had a little number one in the corner. Jeremie had tried unsuccessfully to figure out what it meant when he virtualized them for the first time. Suddenly, all of them changed to the number two. A message popped up on his screen:

LEVEL UP. ALL STATS INCREASED. WEAPONS AND POWERS UPGRADED.

Well, well, well…XANA's power intensifies, so does ours.


Ulrich and Yumi had begun to glow their respective colors again.

"Huh? What?"

A second sword appeared on Ulrich's other side. Yumi's fans grew and became slightly sharper and more aerodynamic, and she felt a boost in her telekinesis.

Both of them stared at their upgrades, then shrugged and made use of them.


Aelita, in the elevator, glowed pink as she felt her powers increase. She got out on the control level and asked Jeremie about it.
In Lyoko, Odd's laser arrows became sharper, and he received new types of arrows, poison-tipped, faster, more damage, etc. He could also see visions whenever he wanted to, rather than just by chance.

Kirsten, who was glowing blue, felt an increase in her healing powers and she could now fire lasers from both hands.

Odd switched to the most damage-dealing arrow that he had, and fired it, not at the tentacles, but at the symbol on the scipizoa itself.

He hit the symbol, and the scipizoa exploded, finally gone forever…well…at least for now. As Kirsten was thrown up in the air, Jeremie devirtualized her. Odd was soon to follow.


That's it for chapter eight! This is going to be ten chapters when I'm done. I'll have one more action chapter, then the epilogue, which may leave more questions than answers…oh well…;)

Writing another CL story after this. Might be a sequel. Might be something else entirely. I'll probably publish it before the end of this week, or by next Monday at the latest

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