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I never thought that last week, I'd end up here. I've been put in an early war because Fuse attacked the academy. We've been hiding in the boys' locker room. Odd's gang has brought in an army of little monsters. They were small, and they looked like mechanical cockroaches. They had lasers that took our 7 Spawn that were lined up, so their weaponry is potent. Their intelligence though… Not so high. Several of them killed each other, instead of their target, but for the most part, they were getting the job done. We stayed on the boys' locker room, with the gym door barricaded, and Odd, his gang, and there roaches take down the Spawn. This war is going out of control… I may not make it… I just wish I could tell Aly goodbye…
CHAPTER 10: Fuse's Offensive
Odd sneaks into the gymnasium through the windows. I was surprised. He is a very amazing climber. He ran to the locker room, and we all looked at him. "Me and the others have decided to come and watch you guys in shifts. I got shift one." He sat sown next to me, and looked at me. "Hey Pike." "How's Buttercup?" I immediately asked. All the staff got called to the fight, and all the students got sent to safe havens. I wish she were here, or that I was out there to protect her, but she was still a teacher, and although I was soon to be 18, I'm still a student, so I'm stuck here. In the safe haven. With all the other peons… I heard something in the vents… Have the Spawn come for us. We all looked over to it… I saw…black hair. Buttercup burst from the vent. "Ms. Utonium!" She looked at me, with a blank expression. "Hey Aftershock." I forgot, the other peons are her. She looked over at Odd. "Della Robbia, Ishiyama said that Dunbar injured his ankle in battle. He's in the infirmary, that's Spawn free, but we don't know how long that will last." William was injured…crap… "Dammit…" Odd said looking down "This war is getting far too out of hand" Buttercup looked down. "Don't worry. Your friend will be okay." Odd looks off into space, and sighs. "You know, I was supposed to be deployed. Dexter wanted to send me back to this, but this came to me. Hehe, and Wednesday, I could've found Sam and told her I loved her… Wait, Wednesday… Alysson!" I looked at him. "What do you mean Alysson?" "She asked me to let her into the Null Void so she could see you. I told her to stay under the bleachers until I came back with the word… She's still there…" I glared at him. "You let her into the Null Void?!" "You left a girl under the bleachers for 2 days?" Buttercup asked. I tried to run out, but Buttercup grabbed my wrist and looked at me with teary eyes… "Don't go out there, it's too dangerous…" "The door is barricaded, I'll be fine… And I can't just leave her there…" I pulled away and ran towards the bleachers. I slid in the crevice between bleacher and wall, then I got on my knees and looked inside. I saw Aly laying right there…sleeping… Well, she always was a heavy sleeper, but I knew how to easily wake her. "Alysson, momma's making bacon." She jolted up. "Bacon!?" She looked around, and looked at me. "Pike!" She ran to me with her head ducked, then she grabbed my face and she kissed me without warning. "I have missed you so much… I wanted to say this before you left… I love you…" Those words rang in my head, as I thought about Wednesday with Buttercup.
…"Pike… I think… I… I think I love you…" My jaw dropped and I slowly smiled. "I love you too." We kissed, and it felt like we were the only two on the planet. I felt true love at that very moment. "Pike, I wanna be a couple… But we have to be careful… REALLY careful…" I smiled at her, and kissed her. "Thank you. You won't regret it. I love you, Ms. Utonium" She laughed and playfully hit me in my chest. "You had to make it awkward!" Aelita burst in, breathing heavily. "Yumi… Ulrich… William… Odd…" "Gym, Field, Ben's room, Earth" She ran back out. I was worried at the moment, and it festered in my mind for a while, but I had to quickly dismiss it, to keep the moment. We kissed once more, and things slowly, but surely got heated. You know how this story goes. Clothes hit the ground, blah blah. When we finally caught our breaths, we got dressed. Sometimes a good quickie eases stress, or so my dad told me, putting that images of my mom in my head… We cuddled and it felt right, before she jolted up and looked at her watch. "Pike, I have to go! I forgot I had a lesson to create!" She kissed me and left, and that's when I laid back and stared at the ceiling and Alysson came to mind…
…and come to find out she was here…and tell me this… I don't know what to say. I don't want to say know, because what if she never wants to talk to me again… I can't lose my best friend over this small shit… But me and Buttercup just made it official and I can't lose this one… I just panicked, and called Odd. "Odd!" He ran in. "Who got shot?" "Send her home. It's not safe here." He nodded, but she grabbed my hand. "I'm not leaving without you. If you're staying, I'm staying…" I glared at Odd. "TAKE HER HOME!" He opened the portal and pulled her off me. A tear came to my eye as he pushed her in and quickly closed the portal. She'd gonna hate me after this…but it's for the best. I have someone…and regardless, she could die here. 40 students already did… I couldn't forgive myself if she suffered the same fate. We ran back to the locker room, and tried to distract ourselves… I looked down, and then looked over at Buttercup. She mouthed "What's wrong?" I just looked back down… This is something I don't want to talk about. This day is just not going right… Alysson is in love with me… Fuse is attacking the academy… 40 students…dead… I will never understand anyone who could take a life so easily… Fuse is a monster… I vow…that if I ever get the chance… I will PERSONALLY take his life… For the students who he decided to murder today…and for the girl crying on the sidewalk in front of her house because the man she loves might not come home…
After two hours from his arrival, Odd got a transmission from a member of his gang. "Go for ODR… Oh hey Yumi… Okay who's got next shift… Okay, and where should I go…? Okay…" He stood before us all. "Okay, I have to go get reinforcements, so my friend Aelita will have you guys for the next two hours. Treat thee with the utmost respect." He crawled out through the vents, and Aelita came in not to long after. I loved Aelita. She was like a big sister to me. I could look to her for almost anything. She reminded me of…Alysson… God I feel so bad… Maybe I should talk to Aelita about it… "Okay, I am Aelita Stones, and I am here to look after you all for the next two hours. Oh yeah, Buttercup, Dexter need you." She nodded, and crawled out through the vent. I was actually relieved that she left… The last thing I need is her here right now…
I pulled Aelita aside so I could talk to her. "Pike, what's wrong? You seem upset." I took her hand, and clenched it gently, because I know I would hurt her if I hadn't held back. "Odd let my friend Alysson in the Null Void…" She looked down. "That dumbass…" "I got her back in, but that was after she…told me she loved me… and she kissed me…" She looked at me, and she was shocked. "Did you tell…your girlfriend?" "No way!" She glared at me "You have to tell her. Relationships aren't about keeping secrets." I looked down… "But Aelita…" "No buts. When she comes back, you'd better tell her. She loves you. You don't hide things like this from those who you love." I looked down in shame, because I knew she was right. I also know that Buttercup has quite a temper, and I don't want to endanger the life of my best friend, but… "Fine, I'll tell her, but if she gets mad and wants to kill her, you have to hold her back…" "Me and Odd will be there." She hugged me. I then crawled towards the vent. Aelita grabbed my ankle. "Where do you think you're going?!" "To Buttercup…" I yanked away, and crawled through the vents to the outside. A lightning ball damn near grazed my face, and Gumball ran past me. He has very good aim for a blue cat. I ran towards the armory, and Darkpaper Ninja guarded it. Shit… I don't know what to do. Hmmmm, all of Fuse's ninjas are made from black magic spells on…PAPER. Good thing I smoke… I pulled out a lighter and charged at it and when I got close enough, I held out my lighter and lit it. The ninja went up in flames quickly and turned to ash. I laughed and went into the armory. Let's see… Aah, the graduate armor… I know, I'm not a graduate, but I have to. I put the armor on, and searched for a weapon. I didn't want a projectile weaponry. I need something I can swing. I hammer, I stick, a…SWORD. I saw a katana that kind of looked like Ulrich's but thinner. It looked amazing, and I couldn't wait to try it out. I have to get out of here.
I opened the door slowly, and then looked to my right, then my left, then once more to my right, just to make sure the coast was clear. Then I ran out and to the staff hall. I looked inside and saw something that looked like a big ass spider, with its butt facing me. I can't remember for the life of me what a spider butt is called, or this monster's name for that matter. Wait, now I remember… The Alpha Arachnid… I backed up a few feet, and lunged at it, then jabbed it in the head with my katana. I jumped off and it blew up, which was good, except that I saw some of Fuse's horse things. What were they called again…? Pesky Ponies. They weren't that much stronger than Spawn, but by god were they good in abundance. There were five of them and they just lunged at me. I got into a stance, ready to lunge at them. I charged, and when I got at a good distance, I jumped, and mid-air turned forward to a front flip, stabbing the monster at the 180 mark, and landing sitting on one of the next two in line. I was facing, back to its head, front to the two following. I stabbed them as well as the one to my left, then I reached back and stabbed the one I was riding just before I jumped off and they all exploded. Piece of cake. I ran to Principal Dexter's room, and he looked at me. "Pike Aftershock, what are you doing here, and why do you have the graduation armor on, or the infinity sword." Buttercup stood from in the corner. "Aftershock?!" I bowed to Principal Dexter. "I need to have a word with Ms. Utonium. May we step outside? I've already cleared the halls of all monsters." He nodded, and I ran to the corner, and pulled Buttercup outside. "Babe, what are you doing? Dexter was making me a new sword. And why are you all suited up? Why are you even out of the gym?! You could've gotten hurt!" I took her hands and kissed her. What I was going to tell her might be a little difficult, but dammit I had to do it. "Buttercup, I need to tell you something. You may not like it…" Her eyes narrowed and I looked down… "Remember the friend Alyssa I told you about…?" She nodded. "She kissed me…when me and Odd got her out from under the bleachers… I immediately sent her home though…" She teared up, and it looked like she was going to bawl…but then she stopped and just hugged me. "I…respect your honesty…" We kissed once more before a laser flew over our heads. We looked over, and there was an over grown wasp the door way. Yumi came up behind it and swatted it in the back of the head. "Bad Hornet. They are friends." She waved to us. "Hey guys, how are you?" she ran to us, and the Hornet followed. "The overgrown wasp is Flutter. I named her." She smiled bright. "Well Flutter tried to kill us." Buttercup mumbled. I looked at her. "Oh stop, she didn't know." I looked at Yumi. "How are things with you guys?" She looked down, and uttered. "William's ankle is broke, and he'll have to stay off it for a while. Other than that, we're all safe…" I hugged her. "Let's go, we have monsters to fight…"
The battle was reaching its 19th hour… It's around 5 pm, and everything was a wreck… The dorm was basically destroyed… 20 more students were killed, 30 were injured… I don't know how much longer we can hide out, or where Fuse could be in the Null Void. Where is his portal? I stand behind the dormitory with Odd and his gang, as well as Buttercup, and Aelita speaks. "We need to split up. We can get stuff done this way." Odd walks over to her. "And how do you suppose we do that?" Aelita looks at him. "Good question, dearest cousin of mine." She looks at all of us. "Odd, Ulrich, you two find Fuses portal, and find a way to destroy it. That's how he's getting here with his monsters. Pike, and I will go after fuse directly. Yumi and Buttercup, you cover the monsters that are already here. There shouldn't be that many left. Lyoko Warrior on three." I looked puzzled. "What's Lyoko?" Odd puts his hand on my shoulder. "Don't worry about that." Aelita spoke again. "1… 2… 3…" We all yelled in unison "LYOKO WARRIORS" We split up.
Odd and I were team one. How did I not see that coming, after all we've been through? It's not that I don't like Odd. He's been like my brother since we met, but c'mon. He's lazy as hell. Uugh, oh well. Can't pick your friends. We searched the grounds for the Null Void portal, in hopes of destroying it, and trapping Fuse, and kill him finally. For Jérémie! We decided to take the search to the fields… We saw Fuse… Rat bastard… "Aelita, we've spotted Fuse 100 meters from the field entrance… Okay…" I ended the transmission, and successfully snuck past him. We started seeing more and more monsters as we get further and further north. We tried to stay in the shadows, and we say it… The Null Void portal. Odd loaded his gauntlets, and I drew my swords, then we charged in. We saw a conveyer belt that was sending out all the monsters. We destroyed it, but the portal was still open. "Ulrich, what're we gonna do…?" "I don't know, there's gotta be a schematic around here somewhere that'll show us what it looks like." We took the laboratory apart looking for a schematic that would show us what the portal generator looked like, and how to destroy it.
Aelita and I were group too, and Ulrich has already given us the location of the bastard. We saw him, and Aelita got furious, and prepared a plasma ball. I stopped her. "Calm down Aelita, we want him dead, but we have to be tactful." She calmed down and nodded, and I saw Mr. Uno run past us with a laser gun. "Eat Laser!" He shot at Fuse, but it only winged him. "Nigel Uno." He maniacally laughed and grabbed him. "The Kids Next Door has lost a good operative." He grabbed his legs and he just… He ripped him in half…! That inconsiderate bastard! "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" I lunged at him, and slung my sword. He block, but at the cost of losing a hand. He yelled, and ran. Me and Aelita chased him. He dies TODAY!
Buttercup and I were taking out as many monsters as we could, from Spawn to Ninja. The Hornets Xana sent us weren't doing too bad either. I gave Buttercup one of my fans, and surprisingly she was good at it. It's all in the wrist really. All the monsters were down to the last two Arachnids due West of the field entrance. We stood facing them. I threw mine left, and she threw hers right. Mine went through the one in front of her, hers in front of mine. They exploded, and the fans came back to us. We ran further into the field.
…"I found a schematic!" I ran to Odd, and he handed it to me. It's small. About the size of a Cheez-it. "Okay Odd… Here's what we're going to do…" I searched around the portal, and saw a small chip on the wall. "You are gonna shoot two arrows at that chip when I give you the signal." I put the schematic over a Bunsen burner and watch it torch. "Ulrich…?" I looked towards him, and the portal, and I saw Fuse running towards it. I ran out of it. "Kill the portal! Before Fuse gets in! I'll hold him back!" He panicked, and he got closer. "HURRY!" He pushed me on the ground, and jumped for the portal. He shot the arrow… but not before he got in… The portal closed… Fuse might have him in a dungeon like last time… Oh no… It's all my fault… It should've been me…
We ran up, and Ulrich was on the ground in tears… Aelita put her hand on his shoulder… "What's wrong…?" "Odd… He's stuck in there with Fuse… What if he doesn't come back…? It's all my fault… It should've been me…" A tear leaked down my cheek, and Yumi and Buttercup came up. Aelita told them and they went to comfort Ulrich. I stoop there solid, with a single tear drop rolling down my cheek. Not only did Fuse escape, not only did he kill Nigel Uno… but Odd might be stuck there again… What if he doesn't come back…? What if Fuse just says fuck it and kills him…
We sat in my room hours later… Aelita used her plasma balls and cleared through enough rubble to get us in. Strangely the inside was unscathed. William had a cast on his ankle, and he was in front of us in a wheelchair. Thank god Nurse Bubbles helped. Ulrich stopped crying, but he still looked shaken up. I as always was staring at the door, and mentally asking it questions. Why does Alysson love me…? Why did she wait 'till now, when I'm happily with another woman to tell me…? Is Odd okay? Did Fuse lock him away? Did he…kill him…? A magenta spark appeared, and it broke my trance. Another, larger one appeared, and then a portal from Earth appeared, and out came Odd. "Odd…" I mumbled, they all looked at him, and hugged him. I waited. I just don't do group hugs. I looked at his finger. "Hey Odd, is that an engagement ring?" Ulrich looked at the ring. "What happened?" They all release him, and he smiled. "I almost immediately escaped Fuse, and first place I went was France… I took out some of my reward money for all the good things I did that I got paid for, and I flew to Kay Jewelers on my Overboard. I bought the rings and proposed. We're getting married in a year." We had a little…fun, and I came back" I walked to him and shook his hand. "You're a good soldier Odd Della Robbia." I smiled, and he hugged me. "So are you Pike Aftershock." We all shared a moment… I'm gonna miss those…
A WEEK LATER.
It was the day of Mr. Uno's funeral. All of his fellow Kids Next Door agents were there, as well as Ben, Dexter, Odd, Buttercup and I. They put Mr. Uno in the dirt, and I cried a little. He was a good man, and didn't deserved the fate he got. We went to his memorial service, and then Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, and Aelita were to be deployed. William had to stay until his ankle was better. They waved to us, and the Lyoko Warriors were off. I still don't know what Lyoko is, but oh well, whatever floats there boat. When I got back to my room with Buttercup, we sat on my bed. "It's gonna be hard here… Just the three of us, me you and William…" She looked down at what I said, and she looked at me. "Four…" I looked at her… "What…?" She put my hand and her stomach, looked into my eyes and cried happy hears. "Four… I'm…pregnant…"
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