Chapter 10: 404

"Let me go!" I fought to let go. Unfortunately the spell kicked in and I was unable to move. The dark yellow colours engulfed me and soon my skin was becoming transparent. I could only stand there and watch in horror as my true self became exposed.

A Tecna made out of blue, silver, and green circuitry was shown below with few exposed wires around my joints. To be honest, it still creeps me out that this is who I am underneath.

"This is Tecna," she put a strong emphasis on the 'this'. I slumped down to my knees after she let me go and I returned back to normal. I hung my head as I knelt there, I didn't want to see my friends faces. I knew I wouldn't have been able to hide this. I watched as the spell on my friends was lifted and the witches seemed to take off towards another part of the school.

Everyone approached me as I knelt there with my head in shame, "I'm sorry." I couldn't find the words to say anything else. Timmy knelt beside me.

"How did the witches know Tec? I thought only you and I knew," he replied sadly.

"Umm...well...maybe I encountered someone on my walk last night. And maybe he found out when we fought," everyone could understand what I meant by that.

"Why didn't either of you tell us?" Musa asked me and Timmy sadly, "We're your best friends."

"I knew I should have told you. I just figured...I was made like this to be normal like everyone. I also felt like everyone would look at me funny because of it," I finally admitted.

"We didn't want to hide anything," Timmy added in, "We just wanted Tecna to feel normal again." He was completely right by that.

"So this is why you lost your powers?" Stella asked.

"And are super strong and are able to grab attacks in mid-air?" Layla asked.

I nodded to all of them, "All true. Please don't hate me because of all this."

"Of course we don't," Musa held out her hand to help me stand up, "You're still Tecna. The Winx Club isn't the same without her." I smiled and we all formed a group hug. It felt so good to get this all finally off my shoulders. Things finally felt almost normal.

Suddenly we watched in horror as the Trix came back. Everyone was drained; I hope they didn't want a fight. Everyone had their guard up right away.

"What do you witches want now?" Stella yelled.

"Oh nothing at all. We just want to show Ms. Tecna something," Stormy laughed, "Well...actually all of you." What in the world could they possibly show me?

"Because you see...this whole battling you guys here was to keep you guys distracted from what was really going to happen," Icy explained, "After Valtor's encounter with Tecna last night, he found how useful technology could be if it was on his side." Icy brought up an orb and everyone gazed into its screen.

We could all see Valtor standing in a huge room with machines on all the walls. The room was circular and in the middle was a huge floating aqua blue sphere that seemed to be made out of a liquid, but for some reason could keep its spherical form.

"You see that? Well that's Zenith's power supply to all of its technology," Darcy explained, "I wonder what will happen if dark magic consumes it?" The witches seemed to be staring at me while they said this. It hit me, all the technology on Zenith will go crazy and start either crash and shut down...or follow the orders of Valtor.

"Zenith will crumble to pieces!" I yelled out furiously. They weren't about to do this to my planet.

"Exactly, and we'll have a whole army under our control that we can use to our advantage," Stormy laughed.

"You can't do this! It could destroy Zenith beyond repair," I fought the tears. Valtor finally used his dark powers to send a shockwave through the room. All the machines around the room crashed, exploded, or caught on fire. I suddenly started to feel really strange. I collapsed to the ground in pain, but thankfully I stayed conscious.

"Tecna!" Timmy ran to my side, "What happened?" I finally figured it out.

"My technology's from Zenith. I'm connected to Zenith's power supply..." I weakly said. My body was in a lot of pain. It was only a matter of time before I either crashed or I...no, I will never help Valtor. I'll fight it for as long as I can.

"Hold in there Tec," Musa encouraged me. Out of the corner of my eye I could see the image of Valtor. He put his hand inside the orb and began to put his magic into it. It began to turn black. Black like his heart for doing this.

For some reason I was able to get back up on my feet again, "You monsters will pay for this!" I told the Trix.

"I don't think so," Icy laughed, "You're going to help us now." She pointed at my neck, I peered and I had Valtor's mark on my neck.

"No! Get the mark off her!" Musa yelled furiously.

"No can do," Darcy laughed.

Suddenly I felt myself sink deep inside my mind. Oh no...Not again. My mind began to fill up with codes, commands, and other such jumble. Okay...that's enough. I can stop with the codes. There were so many codes I was becoming confused. I realized I wasn't in control of myself anymore. I was seeing through my eyes, but I couldn't control anything I was doing or saying.

-Error 404: the server you are trying to reach is unavailable- I said; I didn't have a clue what was happening.

"What did she just say?" Stella looked at me confused.

"Valtor's magic is messing up her processor and other parts. He's taking over," Timmy almost had tears in his eyes, "I can't believe he's doing this."

-Virus detected. Running system reboot-

There was a long pause. I couldn't believe this was happening...Valtor was gaining entire control just like that. I couldn't do anything but sit along for the ride.

-System overload-