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Disclaimer: I said it once and I say it again, I only own the Defender Blade, nothing more.

Chapter 10

The Rescue Mission part 1

Location: Hollow Bastion (Did I surprise you with this? Review me and tell me if I did.)

"Everything is in place, Apocalypse sir." Dr. Drakken said.

"Did Eggman transmit X.A.N.A. monsters into the volcano and the base." Apocalypse asked.

"Yes sir" Drakken answered.

"Finally, I will complete my revenge on the Pelekai family!" Slade said.

"Do not gain overconfidence, Slade. I have seen the power of some of those children. They are not to be underestimated. Look what they did to Lazerman." Shademan said.

"Lazerman was a weakling and a fool. He always had trouble trying to destroy Megaman, but now we have an even more powerful ally, isn't that right Bass" Slade said.

Bass said nothing.

"By the way, where is Hamsterville?" Drakken asked.

"He is constructing a robot body for 627 and reconstructing Metal Sonic with the help of Eggman." Shademan said.

"Ooh, I'm surely going to like this." Drakken said.

"Apocalypse, the enemy is approaching the volcano." Nack the Weasel said.

"Good, over and out." Apocalypse said.

Back at Jumba's ship:

Andre was sitting in front of Jumba's computer with the interdimentional Internet, checking his email. Lilo then comes into the room.

"What are you doing?" Lilo asked.

"Checking my email and some battle chip data that my sister sent me. She also sent me a letter." Andre said.

"What is it about?" Lilo asked.

"She was talking about what was going on in the dimensions she is in. They make some astounding discoveries. One thing is that they discovered that Yugi Mouto is the ultimate mutant. The bad news is that he joined Magneto, who is part of the Dark Alliance. She told me to stay away from him, that he could easily be one of the strongest mutants in the multidimensional universe. He is way out of our fighting league. I suggest we work with only our side of the Dark Alliance." Andre said. (If you want to see the other enemies in the Dark Alliance, read my sisters stories, although she did not get up to this point of our story timeline.)

"What else did she tell you." Lilo asked.

"Not much, only that Shego is Yugi Mouto's true biological sister."

"Are you talking about that woman who used to work for Drakken?" Lilo asked surprised.

"Yep." Andre answered.

"Wow!" Lilo exclaimed.

It was then that Andre heard a buzzing on the computer console. He went to check it.

"Meteor Shower?" Andre asked. "Computer, increase magnification on the meteors.

The computer got a magnified visual on the meteors. (Which were falling about 75 miles from the ships current position.) Andre discovered that they were not meteors at all but some strange type of material. Andre recognized them immediately.

"Gummi Blocks! This is just too good!" Andre said.

"What are they?" Lilo asked.

"I'll explain later. We will look for them after the mission hopefully." Andre said.

"Where are Sonic and Tails? I thought they were going with us on the mission." Lilo asked.

"They were called at the last minute and had to return to their dimension. Their friends have reason to believe that there is an experiment trapped in the Scrap Brain Zone of their world." Andre explained.

"Really? That's great! Another cousin to free!" Lilo said.

"Don't get too confident. That place was a heavily guarded area in the past, and it still might be now. We can't afford to let our guard down now."

"Okay." Lilo said.

"Why don't you take some time and talk with Stitch before we arrive. There are a few things that I have to do." Andre said.

"Good idea." Lilo said.

Lilo entered the main room of the ship. Everybody was either preparing for the mission or talking to pass the time. Pleakely was awake, but he was a nervous wreck. (To the point that his eye was bulging out.) Lilo looked around to find Yuki on a bench, she looked very disturbed and she also seemed to be crying. Lilo motioned for Teresa and Myrtle to come with her to see what the problem was.

"Hey Yuki, what's the matter." Lilo asked.

"Yeah, you know you can tell us anything." Myrtle said.

"Remember, we are your friends." Teresa said.

Yuki then sniffled a few times before speaking.

"I know that this mission can be dangerous and that we have to be brave, but…" Yuki stopped.

"But what?" Teresa said.

"I'm terrified of volcanoes! Ever since I was 3! I can't go anywhere near them!" Yuki wailed.

Lilo, Myrtle, and Teresa were surprised by this, but quickly recovered.

"Why didn't you tell us about this before?" Lilo asked.

"I was trying to be brave. You guys need me and I can't let you down." Yuki answered.

"But if something like that scares you so badly, you should tell us. It is never a good idea to keep fear bottled up like that. You wouldn't be able to concentrate while we are there and you could get hurt because of it." Myrtle said.

"Really?" Yuki asked.

"Yep." Teresa said. "Let me tell you something. I'm afraid of volcanoes too."

"You? But you have fire powers! You would have a better chance of surviving in a volcano!" Yuki reasoned.

"The fear is still there, only now I have the confidence to fight it. I think that it would be a better idea if you stay here while we do the mission, so you are more comfortable. What do you think?" Teresa asked.

"I think that that is a good idea." Yuki said.

"It is more than good idea; it's only way for her to survive." Jumba's voice caught the four by surprise.

"Why do you say that Jumba?" Lilo asked.

"Little girls very well know that volcanoes are extremely hot and filled with fiery hot lava. Yuki with her modified DNA is human/experiment hybrid, like you all are, but her elemental affinity is that of a plant. Plant is burned easily by fire. In other words, she would not survive more than ten minutes in that environment." Jumba said.

"Is there any way we can fix this?" Lilo asked.

"Only by extracting some DNA from Lilo, Teresa, and Myrtle and transferring it to Yuki will she gain enough heat resistance to cope with the intense temperatures in a volcano or any hot climate. Jumba said.

"Can we do that now?" Teresa asked.

"Yes, but as you said. Yuki will have to remain here. It would take 6 hours for the DNA to take effect." Jumba said.

"Will the DNA affect my powers or how I look?" Yuki asked.

"It should only make you more resistant to heat and fire to a certain degree, nothing else. I must warn you that your weakness to fire will still be there. You should not get into a fight involving fire unless it is ultimately necessary." Jumba warned.

"Then let's do this." Yuki said.

They went to Jumba's lab and started the procedure. After it was over, Teresa, Lilo and Myrtle left to make final preparations for the mission. Yuki stayed in the lab resting on the bed and letting her body take in the new DNA.

Finally they arrived at the volcano. Everybody except Gantu and Plekeley entered. They were immediately greeted by five of XANA's Tarantula-type monsters. Kioko took initiative and blasted them with an energy beam. The only thing left of them were blast marks on the floor.

"Showoff." Andre said.

"Watch your mouth, kid." Kioko answered with an evil glare.

"Okay, sorry! Sheesh!" Andre said.

They rushed into the main area of the volcano. What they saw surprised them. There were no Heartless or materialized computer viruses, but the dome like area was crawling with XANA's creepers, crabs and roaches on the floor and a mega-tank here and there.

"I remember this place, but the enemies here will make it more difficult to get through." Maui.

"Older boy, it is imperative that you do not use any kind of explosive in battle! Doing so would trigger an eruption!" Jumba said via a communication link. (He is still in the ship.)

"Okay! Barriers for everybody!" Andre said as he activated the barrier battle chip data on himself and the others. "Fight enemies you can fight; dodge the ones you can't! Go! Mission objective: Reach the base and free the hostages inside!"

They all started running and attacking their respective targets. Lilo was trying to make a run for the base entrance but she encountered a mega-tank. She tried to blast an Aqua Orb at it but it just guarded itself. She then tried to run away until she tripped on a rock and fell. The mega-tank then started charging up and blasted her. She couldn't escape and it hit her full force, peirceing her barrier andsending her flying.

The pain Lilo felt from that hit could not be described. It felt like a truck slammed into her and at the same time that a lazer was burning her back. (She was hit on her back.) She hit the floor, all strength drained from her. Then all of a sudden, she started glowing and she felt her strength returning and her wounds healing completely. She then got up as good as new.

"What happened to me? Shouldn't I be dead? Maybe it's has something to do with these queen powers." Lilo thought.

She was brought back to reality when she heard the mega-tank charging up once again to attack. Fortunately, a string of five plasma shots hit it straight in its weak point, blowing it up.

"You okay?" Nani asked her younger sister while holding her machine gun with one hand and her ninja staff with the other.

"Somehow, yeah." Lilo answered.

"Well, let's go! They got the base door open!" Nani said.

"Aren't you going to go crazy? Send me back to the ship? Panic?" Lilo asked.

"No. You're okay. And you can now protect yourself. I'm just here to help my sister when she needs it." Nani said.

"You changed, Nani, but I like this change. Let's go and fight together!" Lilo said.

"Right behind you, Kiddo!" Nani said.

They enter the base and discover that it is deserted. They walk through the silent corridors.

"Something is not right. This is too easy." Andre said.

"No! Ya think!" Kioko said.

"Aren't they supposed to have some kind of security system here?" Teresa asked.

"Is very curious." I am reading no other life signs except yours on the radar." Jumba said over the comlink.

They continued to walk until they got to a large room. There were four glass-covered capsules that contained human beings.

"Mom!" Myrtle cried as she saw her mom in one of the capsules.

"My dad's here two!" Keoni said as he pointed.

"Oh no! Lara and Ellen are stuck here as well!" Nani shouted as she saw who were in the remaining two capsules. (Lara and Ellen are Nani's old middle school friends. They appeared in the episode Retro, on the Lilo and Stitch series.)

"We have to get them out of here!" Lilo shouted.

"Wait! We can't just unplug them! That could hurt them! We need to find the computer that is controlling them!" Kioko said.

"Way ahead of you! I found it, and it has a direct link to a virtual world called Lyoko! That's were XANA launches his attacks." Andre explains.

"How can we free them?" Nani asked.

"Each capsule is controlled by a tower in Lyoko activated by XANA. We have to go into this virtual world and deactivate the towers in order to free them. We better hurry! There is a brainwashing procedure taking place and we have to beat it!"

"Okay cool! And there is a jack-in port to Lyoko! I can send Aileta to help us. Jack-in! Aileta! Power Up!" Victoria said.

"Nani, take over the computer. Jumba will assist you via comlink." Andre explained. "Kioko and Stitch, you stick around here and protect Nani if things get hot."

Then Andre entered on of the many virtualization chambers like the others.

Nani started the transference procedure with Jumba's help.

"Scanner: Lilo, Victoria, Veronica, Teresa, Elena, Keoni, and Andre." Nani said, as the first part was complete.

"Transferring: Lilo, Victoria, Veronica, Teresa, Elena, Keoni, and Andre." Nani said. The second part was now finished; Now for the final step.

VIRTUALIZATION!

End of Chapter Ten

Sorry, but due to time limitations I'll have to split this chapter in two. I'll update as soon as possible. Read and review!