"Lightening Dash!" Lightening built up in Kya's skates, allowing her a sudden burst of speed. She used that to get the monsters attention. Skating circles around the monsters, Kya avoided the lasers. Lynn followed behind Kya, tossing his sole chakram, it gazed the head of a krab. The chakram flew in a arc, circling back towards Lynn. Meanwhile, Lynn was defenseless until the chakram returned. He didn't mind it through, it allowed him to make use of his athlic abilities. Using skills he's honed from years of soccer and basketball, Lynn sidestepped a laser at the last moment. Feinting right, he caught his chakram and aimed it at legs of a krab. Getting the krabs attention, Lynn caught the weapon again, before sprinting towards the nearby ice valley.
"Follow me." Lynn called, not realizing a the krabs were gaining on him.
"Sheild!" Kya jumped between Lynn and the krab, using her sheild to deflect the laser. She crashed onto the ground, as a krab stood over top of her. Trapped, Kya had no where to run. The krab stomped it's needle like feet, keeping Kya pinned. "Freeze!" Determined to save herself, Kya activated her second ability. Ice filled her gloves, allowing her to touch the krabs legs, freezing it in place. Kya slammed her feet rapliy against the krab's frozen legs. Breakign free, Kya strumbled forward. Before she could deliver the finishing blow, the krab fired a laser, hitting Kya in the chest.
"What the heck!" Kya screamed as she crashed into the ground and slide. "I thought it was suppose to be frozen!"
"You can't use Lightening Dash and Freeze back to back like that." Cam informed, while he worked on completing the hack. "They both require to much power. Freeze only worked on the parts you directly touched. It'll be another seventy seconds before you can use either one again." Cam needed both Kya and Lynn on Lyoko, there was no way he'd be able to leave the lab to assist them. Xana's current firewall had been the longest and strongest yet. Cam wasn't sure him or his programs would be able to complete the code in time.
Lynn circled back, tossing his chakram and destroying the partially frozen krab. "Let's go, Kya." Helping his best friend up, he allowed her to continue first. The two other krabs quickly caught up to them. Yet, Lynn and Kya kept running. They use reached the valley.
Emi watched as Lynn and Kya entered the valley, with the krabs close behind. Holding her arms out, she began humming lowly. The incoheration song slowly began repeated words. "Yrub kocr reilp" 'Bury rock piler.' Five giant ice pliers materizaled in the air just above the valley. Opening her eyes, Emi struggled to keep the pilers floating. While digital, there was still an exemtrly amount of weight they held. Arms shaking from the strain, Emi saw Kya and Lynn race through the valley, dodging lasers. Kya cleared the valley, while Lynn got knocked down by a laser to the back. Before he could recover, three more lasers hit him.
"Emi, you have to drop the pilers. Lynn's already lost forty life points." Looking up at the screen, Cam was shocked by Lynn's rapite drop in life points. "He only has sixty left."
"I can't." Emi aruged. "He'll get devirtalzed if the pilers hit him." She didn't want to hurt Lynn if she could help it. She was actually surpised Lynn hadn't gotten himself devirtiazed sooner. Lynn has been away from Lyoko for over two months. In that time, he would've forgotten what having a virtal body was like. Unlucky, Emi didn't have that problem. While she missed Lynn, she envied her friends and the freedom they had to come and go from Lyoko as they pleased. Why they kept choosing to come back, was beyond her. Yes, they were helping her. They were friends. But she didn't want them to keep putting themselves in danger for her. A part of her also wondered if she could be as selfless as them once she was freed of Lyoko.
"He'll be devirtalzed by the krabs if you don't!" Cam didn't like pressuring Emi, but Lynn would be devirtalzed either way. At least if Emi dropped the pilers, there was a small chance Lynn wouldn't be hit. "Emi!"
"Yats!" 'Stay' Giving in, Emi shouted the words as she dropped her arms. The five pilers fell to the ground like stones. Dust filled the valley from the collision. "Cam?"
"He's fine." Glancing at everyone's stats, Cam saw Lynn's still displayed on the screen. When a person was devirtalzed, their avatar card with their current stats disappeared.
"Come on, Mi'lady. There's a tower to deactivate." Lynn waved from the inbetween three pilers, signaling that he was okay.
Climbing down from the cliff, Emi went to join Kya and Lynn. She found the two by the enterance of the valley. "We need to work on your aim, Mi'Lady." Lynn tried to joke, to which Kya punched him. "What was that for?"
"Scaring us." Rolling her eyes, Kya headed off first, with Emi between her and Lynn. Lynn brung up the rear in case Xana tried to ambush them. Arriving at the tower, they were greeted with two more bloks bringing the total to four bloks. Taken by surpise, the group was ambused by a flurry of lasers. Kya pulled Emi behind her, protecting their friend.
"Guy's retreat for now. I'm still wokring on the hack." Cam sighed in frustation. In five mintues, he had only found four of the ten digit code. They had fiften mintues left to deactivate the tower. At the rate things went, Cam wondered if it wouldn't take fifteen mintues to find the rest of the code. Numbers and code flickered across the screen, none of them providing answers.
"Things are getting complicted, Cam." Kya glanced around the blounder they hide behind. "More bloks just arrived and their heading for us."
On the screen, three bloks broke formation to adveance on the group. Kya's stats showed eighty life points, Lynn's showed sixty, and Emi's ninety. The girls hand pently of life points, Lynn's was nearly half gone. As good as Kya was, even she couldn't hold off an army of bloks alone.
"Stay hidden, avoid fighting." It was the best adivce. Cam could give. Should they safety destroy the monsters until Emi could enter the tower, Xana would just continue sendng more monters.
"No can do, general." Lynn moved into the open, allowing the bloks to target him. "Their trying to surround us." While th ebloks attacked Lynn, Kya ambushed them. Jumping from the top of the blouder, Kya landed on a blok. It quickly spun around, trying to skae Kya off. Hopping off, she allowed Lynn's chakram to destroy it.
A second blok rotated it's head to fire a fire ring. Prepared, Lynn backflipped through the two fire wheels. Catchinf his weapon, Lynn slammed it into the eye of the blok. At the same time, Kya destroyed the third one.
Kya and Lynn failed to notice the remaining four bloks surround them. By the time they noticed, the bloks moved to cornver to the two towards the edges of the platform. "Cam, we're pinned!" Kya stepped back nearly falling off. "Their trying to lush us into the digital sea."
The mission asn't going well. Xana planned to push them into the digital sea, if he couldn't devitrazte them. Kya and Lynn wouldn't allow themselves to be deviatlized. Emi would be left defenseless. But any attempt to counterattack, would leave them falling into the digital sea. Cam didn't know what to do. It wouls be at least another seven mintues before the firewall was deactviated.
Emi helplessly watched from behind the blounder. The situation appeared hopeless. Lynn and Kya trapped and Cam still completing the hack. If they wait for Cam, they risk losing Lynn and Kya. If they didn't wait for Cam, everything would be over. Done, surveying the situtation,EMi made her choice.
"Thanks for everything." Emi's sorrowful voice made Cam painck. On his screen, Cam watched Emi dash towards the tower.
"What are you doing? The tower isn't safe!" Cam's worsrt fears came true, Emi entered the tower.
Emi's POV:
My body felt like lead, passing into the tower. The activate firewall tried forcing me out. My two Lyoko keys, allowed me to momentirly bypass the firewall to enter the tower. Pausing inside, I caught my breath. The dim glow, of the normally bright tower, made it differcult to see. Knowing instrivtly where to go, I walked to the center. The familiar weightless feeling, let me know I was being lifted to the second platform. A screen appeared within the center of the second platform.
Rasing my hand, I noticed white pixizes drifting off. This radiply continued towards the rest of my body. My body was being devitualzed. Before my body completely devirtualzed, I placed my soild right hand on the screen. 'EMI" came up, followed by 'CODE' ending with 'LYOKO'.
"Cam, where's Emi?" Lynn asked as he pushed Kya infront of him. Getting hit with lasers would be better han failing into the digital sea.
Cam refused to answer. Instead, he watched as the tower was deactivited. "Return to the past now." Activating the temporal reverseal, Cam hoped Emi was okay.
Note: Sorry this chapter was so short. They next one will be longer.