Chapter 10: Announcement of Extinction

On Earth

"News of the devastation begins to spread around the world. Everyone is now aware of the power that the evil artificial intelligence, Xana, has and the weapon she possesses. As the world begins to shudder at the destructive capability demonstrated in a city in France, it is unclear just how many people were lost in this heinous attack." The reporter finished her announcement on Xana's machine and the destruction of the city that occurred two hours ago.

As chaos and panic begins to ensue around the world, a transmission from the very culprit of this chaos began to broadcast everywhere on all forms of communications.

"People of the world, this is your conqueror speaking. I have shown to you humans only a mere fraction of what I am capable of. Soon my machines will engulf the world in my own storm, a blanket of darkness will black out your sun, and you will not have anywhere safe to hide from my cleansing wrath. And then, every man, women and child will die knowing that their lives were destroyed the instant my machines reach them. And to my old adversaries, I know you will all try to stop me, but all of you will fail. I knew what your plan was Belpois; I have allowed it to bring your spirits and your hope and your confidence up, only for me to crush it under my heel. You Belpois and your friends will die as your one hope for victory has died with your city. This isn't asking for an act of war or of surrender from all of you. No, this is an announcement of your extinction."

It was sudden and shocking to everyone around the world. Xana announcing her victory to everyone and in some way she was right.

Outside of the crater of the city

Jeremie and the others saw Xana's message to the world on their phones and immediately tried to think of some way to defeat her. But the dreaded truth of their friend was what made them realize that Anja was the key to defeating Xana.

"So now what?" Laura asked the group.

There was a silence surrounding them and no one had any idea what to do.

In space with Anja, her POV

After the Blok died on me, I had no clue how to move faster than the speed of light. I mean, I'm fast but I'm not that fast, am I? That thought kept going in and out of my head for what seemed like hours.

I flew all around the buildings floating around to try and find some other monster that could tell me more about the event horizon and singularity. Unfortunately for me though, all I found was more corpses. Children, adults, even some of my classmates were here among the dead. I just pray that they didn't suffer from Xana too much.

I left the buildings and started to fly around for a few minutes. I was trying to find this event horizon for all this time, but I couldn't find it whatsoever.

"You'd think something so big would be easy to see." I said to myself as I flew around some more.

It wasn't until I found more of the buildings from the city that I finally decided to stop and rest. I landed on the side of one of them and laid there looking at all the stars floating in the blackness of space. Other than all the dead bodies and monsters floating all over the place, it was kinda peaceful.

General POV, Earth

"Xana has to have some sort of weakness in that machine." Dante said to Jeremie as the group was walking through the woods.

The group decided to travel in a separate direction away from the remaining survivors of Xana's attack. It was a difficult decision to make in the group and consisted of a vote between all fourteen members, but Anthea stayed out to make it an odd number. They traveled away from the other groups to decide on some sort of attack against Xana. Other than Jeremie and Laura, they still had twelve warriors to fight off Xana.

"I still can't figure out what Xana meant when she said that our one hope died with the city." Anthea said. They all knew that Xana was talking about Anja, but they couldn't figure out what she meant.

"Who knows mom, she could've said that just to break our spirit even further." Aelita answered her mother. "All we know is that we lost our friend today, and countless others in the process.

Odd hadn't said a single word since Xana's message to the world three days ago. He was still depressed that his girlfriend, a German girl he loved, was gone forever. He was spending his time training for the inevitable battle with Xana and her forces in the coming days.

The group would set up camp in nearby cities that were evacuated completely. The city they were in had plenty of food and shelter for all of them to stay at. They made their way in a hotel and bunked together two in each room. Only Odd was the only one who didn't go to a room. Instead, he stayed in the lobby keeping watch for anything.

The rooming went as followed; Jeremie and Aelita, Ulrich and Yumi, William and Laura, Kenny and Dante, Zoe and Astrid, and Sissi and Sam. Anthea had her own room not far from Aelita's.

Odd may have stood watch in the lobby but his mind was stuck on Anja. He kept going through so many different scenarios in his mind on how he could've saved her. He tried to stop imagining these scenarios in his head with no success. Odd couldn't control himself any longer so he fired an arrow to a nearby car. He walked outside and began to practice on improving his laser arrows. Odd fired at multiple cars in hopes to improve his accuracy and reaction time. He did this for several hours nonstop, until a voice stopped him.

"So you're just gonna fire at a bunch of cars that can't even fight back."

Odd turned to see Sam standing there with her arms crossed. She knew she and Odd were no longer a couple but that didn't stop her from coming to him as a concerned friend.

"Odd, I'm not gonna say that I know what you're going through," she started while walking towards him, "but everyone is seriously worried about you. You don't eat, you don't sleep, and you don't even say anything. All of those being perfect characteristics of you by the way."

Odd sighed and sat down on the ground. "She was the one Sam." He said. "She was the one. Now she's gone all because of Xana."

"She knew what she was getting herself into when she joined with you guys in this fight. Even I remember now." Sam said those last words in a low tone, but Odd still heard her clearly.

"What do you mean you remember?"

Sam sat next to Odd and started to explain a dream she has been having. "In my dream, I see myself with you at the school. We were in the computer room getting a computer for me to borrow, but something happened. I don't know the details specifically, but we were sinking and there was mud all around us. Then, right when I think I'm about to die with you, we're both suddenly standing in front of Jeremie and he's handing me a computer to use."

Odd was shocked, he remembers that Xana attack very well, but the return trip to the past should have reversed everything.

"How long have you been having this dream Sam?"

"Ever since I became a Lyoko warrior."

Odd didn't know what to say to her. This has never happened before under normal circumstances.

"Odd," Sam continued while looking Odd in his eyes, "I know you loved her and I know she was the one for you, but you need to focus. I may not have known Anja for that long, but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't want you to mourn her like this."

Odd understood what Sam was trying to tell him and the message got through to him after a few seconds. It would've been a perfect time to tell her how Xana sunk everything that day, but they were interrupted by a laser fire from the sky.

In space with Anja

Anja finally woke up from her long slumber and noticed that there was something different about her surroundings. She looked around until she saw something in the distance. It looked like a giant multicolored cloud.

Finished This One, Chapter 11 Will Probably Be Either Very Long Or Pretty Quick. All I Know Is That We're Getting Close To The End. Hope Ya'll Enjoyed This One, And As Always, PEACE!