YEAH! CHAPTER 8! WHICH SO HAPPENS TO BE MY FAVORITE NUMBER! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOT! …. Anyway in this chapter there is the very hard to come up with outfit for Franz. I decided on a weapon that my friend Monkey came up with. GO MONKEY! … FYI His real name isn't monkey I just call him that for reasons you don't need to know. So if your best friend since first grade calls you Monkey I might be her… then again I might not be … Really if there is something like that that you know about please tell me cause that would either be weird or neat. Or I might know you… which would be even weirder… JELLY HAMMER! … Like it or not that has some relevance to something… may not be this story but it still does. Anyway Sorry this chapter is a little late, I actualy had things that I had to do... almost every day this week... and I had to come up with an outfit for Franz.
Franz entered the scanner room and looked around at the three scanners. His face had the utmost certainty at what he was doing, but inside he was just plain nervous. He was all alone in the room since a possessed Yuri and a normal Aelita were on Lyoko, Jeremy was in some other room, Yumi and Stella had gone after Odd and Ulrich who were probably fighting Creepers somewhere.
"Franz get into a scanner and I'll transfer you to Lyoko." Jeremy's voice said from above, apparently he was worried about something. Franz just stood there for a moment not moving and staring at the scanner he was going to enter. "Franz, are you in there yet?" Jeremy said making Franz realize that he needed to move.
"Right, scanner." He said getting into the one on the far right hand side then turning around so it was now the one on the far left hand side. The scanner started to hum to life as Jeremy started the process. "Uh Jeremy?" Franz asked still nervous as the door closed. "Are you sure this is safe?"
"Well the others had no troubles with it, but I'm not sure. Anyway to late to stop it now." Jeremy's voice said giving Franz no encouragement what so ever. But as Jeremy said it was to late to stop it now and soon a bright light flashed sending Franz to Lyoko.
He arrived on lyoko falling down in the usual drop and landing on his behind. "OW!" He yelled rubbing his but then he noticed something, something that he didn't like at all. He stared at himself for a minute then shouted his opinion of his new uniform to the sky.
"WHY THE HELL AM I PINK!" It was true he was all pink, different shades of pink but never the less pink all over. In Fact the only thing not pink were his goggles that had taken a shade of blue.
His outfit was simple a full body suit covered in darker pink lines that formed an X over his chest and lines along his arms and legs. On his arms there were two identical silvery pink bracelets made out of some type of metal. He had a belt where you were supposed to put one. His hands were uncovered by the body suit but both hands had a bright pink circle in them. As far as he could tell he had no weapon, but his goggles had some sort of computer information in them and he could clearly see where Aelita and Yuri were from his current position. Plus they helped with the fact that his vision was impaired.
"Franz you need to hurry Yuri has just grabbed Aelita and is heading for the digital sea." Jeremy's voice said from above.
"I… can see that Jeremy." Franz said looking at the image in his goggles. "And I'm guessing that that's a bad thing." He said running the way that his goggles told him to. He soon was able to see them. Yuri with Aelita on her shoulder while Aelita seemed to be unconscious, but they were still to far away and he knew that he couldn't reach them before Aelita was thrown into the digital sea. So he did the only thing that he could think of partially from instinct.
"YURI!" He yelled at the same time regretting it. To everyone's surprise she stopped and looked at him if only for a minute before she started to run again. "YURI!" He said again. She stopped and didn't look at him, but she looked confused if she should run or not. Franz ran forward toward Yuri all the while shouting her name. "YURI!" Each time, making her stop running for some reason. Soon he caught up to her. "Yuri?" He said softer as he reached toward her, but it seemed that XANA had regained control as Yuri grabbed his hand and threw him into a nearby rock at the same time dropping Aelita.
Franz had no idea what he should do as Yuri ran toward him knives in hand. He knew he should block but he had no weapon. Yuri was on top of him now ready to strike and all he could think was, 'I wish I had a shield.' He was ready for the knife to pierce through his body but to his surprise he looked up to see that he had blocked Yuri with some type of pink shield that even with her repeated attempts to break it wouldn't budge.
"Okay now we're in business." Franz said still pressed to the ground but able to defend himself.
Yumi ran through the sewers all the while looking for Ulrich. Odd would be fine too but all she really cared about was finding Ulrich. So far the only person she had seen in the sewers was a brief glance of Stella as she ran off somewhere. Soon she heard some noise coming from a nearby tunnel. It sounded like laser fire and something that she couldn't identify. She ran down the tunnel and saw something that she really didn't want to see.
Ulrich was lying on the concrete floor his face pointing at the wall while one hand was moving back and forth in the sewer water uncontrolled by its owner. Other than his current state of unconsciousness, he appeared fine, but there was a creeper that had decided that Ulrich needed to be shot at.
If anything this filled Yumi with rage as she ran toward the creeper hitting it as hard as she could eventually denting it so bad that it could no longer function and it fell into the water. Yumi then turned to Ulrich who still hadn't moved.
"Ulrich?" She asked going over to him. He still looked fine, but as she moved she noticed that Ulrich had many burn marks on his body from where creepers had shot at him, including one on the hand that he had put in the water. Which she guessed was probably to stop it from hurting before he passed out.
"Ulrich?" she said slapping his face lightly to see if she could wake him up. He did.
"Yumi?" He asked quietly as he slowly woke up.
"Yeah it's me. You okay." She asked as he woke up.
"No." He said simply holding a burn that hurt on his arm. "Where's Odd?" He asked.
"I'm not sure." Yumi said as Ulrich tried to get on his feet. "Why?"
"Cause a second ago." He said pointing to another tunnel. "He was over there." Ulrich had almost gotten up when something hurt and he had to fall down again.
Franz looked at Yuri using his shield whenever she attacked him.
"Yuri wake up. You've been possessed by XANA." He said looking at her at the same time dodging her attacks. "I'm Franz remember me?" Surprisingly this got a response from Yuri who held her head. "We grew up together. Me you and Stella. Remember Stella? She's your cousin. She loves to annoy you all the time." Yuri had fallen to the ground. "And me we fix computer parts together. Well you kinda use tools and I tell you what to fix but that doesn't matter now. We even became boyfriend and girlfriend a week ago."
"Franz." She said real slow starting to get up.
"That's right." He said not believing that that had worked. "That's me." He started to walk over to her. "You remember?" he touched her light brown hair. She grabbed his hand in hers gently at first then she grabbed it clearly still under XANA's control flinging Franz to the ground then jumping on top of him knife at his throat.
She was going to strike, and devirtualize him, but for some reason she didn't. Franz looked at her and saw that her hand seemed to be shaking.
"Yuri?" He asked quietly.
"Franz!" Jeremy's voice said from above. "Devirtualize her it's the only way to get her out of XANA's control." Franz looked at her.
"I don't have a weapon." He said.
"Well you have to have something." Franz thought long and hard.
"I wish I had a blade." He said and to his surprise a pink blade to long to be a knife yet to short to be a sword appeared in his hand. "Okay then." He said not caring to know where it came from as he devirtualized a still not moving Yuri. He looked at her for a moment as her digital envelope vanished.
"Franz." Jeremy said after a moment. "Are you okay? If it helps Yuri arrived safely."
"Yeah I'm fine, just… never mind. I guess I should get Aelita to the tower huh."
"Yeah, she's awake now so that should help." Jeremy said. "The tower is close on the…"
"Yeah I know, Jeremy." Franz said apparently getting out of his trance. He looked in his goggles where he could see Aelita and ran to her. "Hay." He said as he reached her. To tell her he was there more than anything else.
"Hay." She said still a little out of it. "Do we have to get to the tower now?"
"Yep." He said helping her up. "Don't worry it's not to far away." He said pointing to the place where the aura of the tower could already be seen. "See look."
"Right." Aelita said trying to shake the dizziness from her head. "Lets go." They ran toward the tower and got to it's base without any monster attacks. Aelita decided not to say anything and went forward towards the tower as Franz stayed behind and watched. Just as she was about to enter the tower a laser blast came from somewhere and devirtualized her.
"AELITA!" Jeremy's voice came from above. Jeremy looked at the screen not able to believe what it said. Aelita was devirtualized, and the tower wasn't deactivated. Yumi's phone appeared on the screen. "Yumi?" Jeremy asked seeing her phone on the screen.
"Yeah Jeremy It's me." Yumi's voice said from the other end. "Look Ulrich's badly injured and Odd and Stella are no where to be found. How close is Aelita to the tower." Jeremy gulped.
"A whole world away." He said still in a state of shock. "She just got devirtualized."
"WHAT?" Yumi screamed. "Jeremy you have to find a way to deactivate the tower. There are creepers everywhere and I have no idea who else is injured.
"Right. It's the only way." He said to himself more than anyone else. "Okay Franz, I need you to cut the cables leading to the tower." No response. "Franz?" There was still no answer. Jeremy looked at the screen confused at why it seemed that Aelita being devirtualized had made Franz's brain turn off. Then for no apparent reason he began to move, not toward the cables but toward the tower itself. "Franz? Can you hear me? That tower won't let in anyone else besides Aelita, and there is still that monster to think about. Franz?" It seemed that nothing that Jeremy could say would make Franz stop moving or to respond.
There was the sound of the elevator opening. Jeremy turned to see Yuri step out of it and walk over to the computer. She was holding her head like it hurt something fierce.
"I don't think that lyoko like's me very much." She said rubbing her temples. "Either that or it's XANA that doesn't like me. I really can't remember." She looked confused. "So what happened?" She asked Jeremy.
"We'll explain later, right now I have to get Franz to respond to me, or do something to let me know that he's there."
"Let me try." She said. Jeremy nodded and handed her the headset. "Pinky?" She asked. Franz did nothing to show that he had heard her and kept walking. "Franz?" He stopped and looked toward the sky but then started walking again. "What are you doing?" She asked again. He again looked at the sky and stopped moving.
"I'm not sure." He said, his voice sounded distorted and fuzzy. He started walking again and to everyone's surprise, he entered the tower.
Franz Fuller walked on the circles of the eye of XANA on the platform in the tower making each of them ping. As he reached the center circle, his body was covered in a white light as it moved upward and he arrived on the upper platform. He walked forward and the see through screen popped up. He placed his left hand on the screen and then watched as it took in his DNA. The screen said three words in the normal order for Aelita except one of them was different.
PROTEGE
CODE:
LYOKO
"Tower deactivated." Franz's distorted voice said as he was devirtualized. On Earth, all of the Creepers fell to the ground and all people fighting them let out a cheer knowing that they had won the fight against the weird robot things. In the Factory, there was silence as confusion filled the air.
In the computer room Jeremy and Yuri stared at the screen mouths opened not able to believe what had happened, and all the while wondering how it had happened. In the scanner room, the pink haired people stared at each other, one of them wondering the same thing that Jeremy and Yuri were wondering. The other one was wondering what had happened after Aelita was devirtualized, how he had gotten devirtualized, and why he had the sudden urge to hug Aelita screaming I did it. Jeremy was the first to get out of his confusion since experience had taught him to ask questions rather than be confused.
"Franz… Do you have any idea what you just did?" He asked.
"I did something?" Franz's voice said no longer distorted but full of confusion.
"Yeah you deactivated the tower. Don't you remember?" Franz thought for a moment.
"Sorry Jeremy the last thing I remember is Aelita being devirtualized."
"That's weird." Yuri said apparently over her confusion. Jeremy began typing things on the computer.
"Jeremy?" Yumi's voice asked since her phone was still connected to the computer. "What happened? The creepers just toppled over did you deactivate the tower."
"No." Jeremy said. "Franz did." He was still typing.
"Wait wich Franz. The one with pink hair or the one who lives on a computer."
"The one with pink hair." Jeremy said still typing.
"WHAT?" Yumi yelled.
"Hay don't yell so loud!" Ulrich said in the background at the same time that Yuri said the exact same thing, since she still had the headset and Yumi had just yelled in both of their ears.
"Sorry." Yumi said quieter. "But how did he do that."
"That's what I'm trying to find out." Jeremy said typing on the computer as a screen popped up. "That's really weird." He said getting the headset back from Yuri. "Aelita, Franz you had better get up here, there's something that both of you need to see."
Franz, Yuri, Aelita and Jeremy all were around the computer with Yumi and Ulrich listening in on Yumi's phone making both of them get really close together and blush. They still had no news from Stella or Odd.
"As you all know. Aelita and Franz both have the ability to activate and deactivate towers. They also have unusually natural pink hair…." Jeremy was cut off as the elevator opened to reveal Stella supporting Odd who was limping on one leg.
"Hi peoples." Stella said smiling. "I's back and I brought Kitty." She said putting Odd on the ground next to the wall surprisingly gently. "So what did we miss." Jeremy had to explain to them how Franz had deactivated the tower. "WOW You did that pinky?" Stella asked Franz.
"Yeah. I think." He said scratching his head.
"Anyway." Jeremy said. "I looked at their DNA signatures and I'm surprised to announce that…" Everyone held their breaths waiting to hear what Jeremy had to say. Jeremy paused for dramatic effect clearly enjoying the fact that everyone was listening to him so hard that they couldn't breathe. "According to the computer… Franz is your son, Aelita." Everyone gasped, on Stella and Yuri's part partially because they had ran out of air during Jeremy's dramatic pause.
"What?" Aelita and Franz both said looking at eachother.
Oh cliffy... and if your thinking 'That was unexpected'. Yes, yes it was, but more on that next chapter.
Anyway I hope you like Franz's outfit... I think it kinda sucks but hay it works... and he's pink
Okay hopefully I wont have stuff to do this week and I will actualy get something written down on the next chapter soon. So until then people who are reading this.
