Chapter 9: The Unexpected Visitor
Special shoutouts to yugiohobssessed and austin 383897 and lastly I do not own Code Lyoko
[Monica's P.O.V.]
I awoke to the sounds of typing. I sat up and saw that I was still in the factory with Geo and the others. Everyone was here except for Geo because he was being scanned in the scanners right now. "This doesn't make sense, how did the Scyphozoa explode when no one was able to hit the target, I mean it was absorbing something important in Geo and then BAM it exploded. And how does Monica have powers?" Jeremy exclaimed.
I stood up and walked over to the only standing figures in the room, which were Odd, Aelita and Jeremy. "I'm not sure I just raised my hands feeling power surge through me. I thought that was you." I said as I stared at the screen which had nothing wrong on it yet it said something was wrong. Jeremy started talking to himself. I tried to read him but I heard the elevator doors open as May began to moan.
[May's P.O.V.]
I groaned along during a really weird dream
Dream: I was walking along Lyoko with Geo next to me in a weird blue area full of monsters that Xana usually didn't send out without enough strength in his arsenal. They just sat there watching us as we walked by, motionless, and moving as we moved. We came across a large room with a strange creature in it that was moving and half as tall as the mountain that we crashed into last time. It saw us and ripped off the wires that was holding it back and lunged at us.
I awoke from my dream sitting up, panting, and getting looks from the others in the room with me. I heard the elevator doors open and saw Geo there looking around until he saw me sitting there against the wall. He came over and sat down next to me. "Are you okay May" he asked as I nodded. "Geo come over here, we need your help with something" Odd called. I looked down at my watch. 12:00 AM on a Saturday, I think we were fine. He went over there as I slumped down and fell back asleep.
[Monica's P.O.V.]
Geo walked over as Jeremy said "Geo we need your help with these codes for the generators" "That's it… all you wanted was for me to insert the rest of the codes" Geo said. "Just insert them already, they're important remember". Groggily Ulrich woke up and came over. "What did I miss" he said as Odd told him Geo was about to insert the codes. "Bet you both 25 bucks I can finish these in less than 3 minutes" Geo said. Odd and Ulrich looked at each other and smiled as they both said "You're on" they both said.
"Ready…" they said "Set" they began to say as Geo got ready "GO" Geo began to type as they started to count "1…2…3…" "Done" Geo said as the osculating plus began to come up. They all stared wide-eyed as I just stood there looking at my nails, because I had seen him do that as an excuse for money all the time. They gave him the money as they went to wake them all up to go to the scanners for the materialization of their portable generators.
We all sat waiting for their weapons to come up. "Uh, how long is this going to take!" William exclaimed. "Calm down, it takes time to be able to materialize 8 generators for 8 fighters to fight on earth" Geo said. "Okay guys here we go" Jeremy said. "Materialization, Odd weapon, Ulrich weapon, Yumi weapon, Aelita weapon, William weapon, May weapon, Monica weapon, Xavius/Geo weapon!" he said as the scanner door opened to reveal a rack that had belts similar to what Geo and May had as belts but with all different colors. Geo grabbed the rack and we brought it to the supercomputer room. Geo grabbed the white one with black buttons, May the green one with yellow buttons, I had a blue one with brown buttons, and William the black one with silver buttons. Then Aelita got the one that was pink with clear crystal buttons, Odd purple with silver buttons, Ulrich yellow with black buttons, and Yumi black with yellow buttons. "Good job Jeremy these look great" Geo said putting his own on. Everyone else followed suit. "All right guys head up so I can test the generators" Jeremy said.
Just then the elevators opened up and out came Jack. "Jack what are you doing here?" I asked wide eyed. "I saw you walking off campus and decided to follow you. I saw you come in here and debated on whether or not to come here and check on you." He says looking down as if embarrassed. "Jack you can't be here right now! Did you hear what we said?" I start asking frantically coming toward him almost angry. How could he do that? He's just starting to stalk me now-and weirdly I kind of like it. "Well I heard something about materializing generators for fighters. Monica what's going on?" He says looking at me.
I gaze into his blue eyes and say "I can't tell you." Tears strickening my eyes. One falls free before I can think about it. His fingers graze my cheek wiping away the fallen tear. "It's okay. But whatever it is I'm right here. Actually can I join? I am not doing anything else right now and this seems like fun." He says looking into my eyes and then to everyone's faces. Now that I realize what's going on I see everyone's faces. Jeremy, Odd, Yumi, Ulrich, and William look stricken. Aelita looks straight to me sharing a knowing look and a slight smile only I can see. Geo and May look at each other then at me. May has the same look Aelita does but Geo looks at me as if saying no. "Can we discuss this for a second?" Jeremy states.
I look at Jack and say, "I'll be right back." "Well I'm not going anywhere." Jack says with a slight smile. I smile back, grab his hand and give it a little squeeze before letting go and walking to the group where there is a little hole where I should be as well as a heated discussion. "I don't know if we can do it you guys. It's already a lot trying to get all of you to virtualize."
Jeremy says. "Well we could make more chambers." Odd says talking my side. "I'm pretty sure it can't be that hard." Ulrich says also taking my side. "I kinda want to see his talents and what he can do." Aelita says looking at me with a smile. I smile back. "I don't think he will be that bad. I mean he volunteered to do it didn't he." I say looking at all of them. "Well yeah but we don't know if he's going to keep this a secret." Geo says looking pointedly. "I'll make sure he doesn't. We can make him promise." I said glaring back at him. "Promises don't always work Monica!" Geo yells. "Sometimes they do Geo!" I yell back.
We start to walk to each other before I feel arms wrap around me. "You don't need to protect me Geo! I'm strong enough to protect myself!" I yell at him struggling to get out of whoever's arms they belong too. Geo is also struggling to get out of someone's arms. "Maybe I need to protect you because you're too oblivious to everything else brainless!" he says using a nickname I got in middle school from bullies. I immediately stop struggling tears strike my eyes again. I push the arms off me. I walk up to Geo and slap him.
"You promised you would forget about that. I'm leaving. Find me whenever you decide what to do." I say to no one in particular. I brush past Jack with tears freely falling down my face. He tries to grab my arm but someone else keeps him back. "She needs some time to be alone right now." I hear Aelita say. I get in the elevator and look back at everyone. Geo's face is red as if realizing what he just did. May and Aelita are talking to Jack trying to tell him that I just need time to breath.
Jeremy and the rest are talking about Jack. I look into Jack's eyes right as the door closes. As soon as they open again I head straight for the virtualization chamber. I step into the chamber and wait for myself to be in Lyoko. "Um, okay, Transfer Monica, Scanner Monica, Virtualization" he says as I'm swept off my feet and blinded by a bright light. I close my eyes and feel the air rush between my fingers and hair. I feel myself falling and open my eyes. I land softly on virtualized grass.
I look up and look around before moving forward. "Monica is that you?" I hear Jack saying confused. "Yeah. You wanted to join us. Well this is what we do." I say kind of smiling. "Cool!" He says. He sounds like Geo but I know it isn't him. And I honestly don't want to think about him either. "Monica you have some trouble coming up ahead." Jeremy says. "Perfect that's why I wanted to come here." I say as honest as I can. And it's true whenever I'm upset I either go to my room and sing or go hunt. This is a perfect alternative. I run forward a little before I see them. Kankrelats. I take the bow and pull the string, instantly and arrow appears. I smile and take aim. I shoot and hit the bullseye. Before I take another breath I pull the bow again and yell "Three!" this time instead of one arrow, three appear. I smile before taking aim and shooting the last three kankrelats in the bullseye.
"Nice shot Monica!" Jeremy says. I can tell he's smiling so I lift my thumbs up. I put the bow on my back right as more trouble comes. Instead of taking my bow out again I move my hands summoning the earth around them. I take a deep breath and lift my hands above my head then smashing them together. The earth beneath the kankrelats comes up and smashes two of them together. I purse my lips and breath out as if whistling and a huge gust of wind comes picking up two more kankrelats. I move my hand in a circular motion swirling the wind while my other hand tightens into a fist holding the ground under the rest of the kankrelats. (This is all happening 50 ft in front of Monica because of her powers) The tornado rips the two kankrelats and throws them off the cliff. I focus on the rest of them and take little rocks from the ground under them and one by one they shoot as lightening speed into the bull's-eyes of the kankrelats. They all explode. I smile triumphantly letting the remaining ground down. "Good job Monica!" I hear Ulrich say.
"Thanks! Hey is Jack still there?" I ask into the sky- or whatever you call a virtual sky. "Right here!" He says. I can hear the smile in his voice. I smile "Would it be okay if Jack could come experience this?" I say smiling hinting to Aelita tell her to come along. I might need some of their help. "Yes!" I hear Aelita say. I really hope she got my hint. "Am I the only one going?" I hear Jack say. "No I'll be coming with you." I hear Aelita say. Good she did hear what I was trying to say. I think out of all the people at this school Aelita is the one who understands me the most besides Geo. "Thanks guys!" I yell. I look into the depths of the forest waiting for anything to come out. A few minutes later I see Aelita and Jack virtualize. Jack lands on the ground with an "Oomph!" while Aelita is soft.
Jack is wearing a dark blue version of what I have except his is more masculine than mine. He has a long sleeve blue shirt with an "X" on it just like me, Geo, and May. He has navy blue pants with a brown belt. He has brown shoes and his hair is in its usual way as the real world. He has an orange bow and the brown arrows to go with it and the case held some attachment to the arrows. His brown belt holds little capsules and he is wearing a necklace that holds a little container of capsules also. I wonder what they do. He looks really handsome. I smile as they run over. "So what do you do in here?" He says with a puzzled look on his face. "You fight things." I say stating the obvious. "Oh really now?" He says rolling his eyes. Aelita and I laugh.
"Trouble up front guys! Be careful!" I hear Jeremy yell almost nervous. I turn around and look at Jack "You can do this. Use your bows." I tell him. "Aim for the bullseye. That's how they go away." Aelita says. Right before Jack can say anything I get hit by something. I look back and see what I got hit by and see hornets. Before I can grab my bow, an arrow is shot into the hornet's bulls-eye. I push toward the ground and I am pushed up into the air by wind. I push my hands as if punching and small gusts of wind shoot toward the hornets pushing them back. More arrows are shot into bulls-eyes. I concentrate more on the ground beneath us and get the little pebbles into the air. I push the air with my hands concentrating on each bulls-eye and watch as each pebble embeds itself into a bulls-eye. Once all the hornets are gone I go to Jack. I see the eagerness in his bright blue eyes. That's the last thing I see before everything goes black.
[Jack's P.O.V.]
I arrive in Lyoko. It's just how it was on the computer. I see Monica and run over to her. She looks really nice in aquamarine. "So what do you do in here?" I say. "You fight things." She says stating the obvious. "Oh really now?" I says rolling my eyes. Aelita and Monica laugh. "Trouble up front guys! Be careful!" I hear Jeremy yell almost nervous. Monica turns around and looks at me. "You can do this. Use your bows." She tells me. "Aim for the bullseye. That's how they go away." Aelita says.
Right before I can say anything Monica get hit by something. I look back and see what she got hit by and see huge hornet-looking monsters. Before Monica can grab her bow, I shoot an arrow into the hornet's bulls-eye. Instantly me and Monica start working together. She's working with her hands and mind and I'm working with my bow. When all the hornets are gone Monica runs to me. I look at her and see her beautiful brown eyes before they close and she starts to fall. I catch her while I call for Aelita.
"What happened?" Aelita says running to me. "I have no idea she just passed out!" I say frantically. I start shaking her gently. "Jeremy get us out of here!" I yell into the air. "We can't. Not yet. Jeremy is everything okay in the real world?" Aelita says. "Geo passed out too! The exact same time Monica did. Something is going on." Jeremy says. "I'm materializing you guys right now." Right when he says that the virtual world pixalates and I'm not holding Monica anymore. I close my eyes as I land on something. Doors open in front of me and a voice calls out. "Hurry they don't have much time! You have to steal the zero code from Xana!" I step out as Monica falls out still unconscious.
I catch her. "We need to go to Jeremy. Can you carry her?" Aelita asks checking Monica's head and pulse. I nod and carry Monica into the elevators. As the doors shut, I look at Monica wondering what just happened. Whatever happened I promise myself that I'll protect her from anything. No matter what. This girl has got me bad.
A/n truth be told the gang isn't going to use their new materialize things until at least chapter 16 or 17 so those who are excited for the action in the real world then you will have to wait and those who even mention what the materialization reminds you of, do not say or I will hunt you down myself and (insert joke from later chapters here) and I apologizeif you found it a bit stupid
