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"...Who are you..?" Krystal looked around, still on the ground, "W-who am I..? Where... am I?"
Krystal blinked multiple of times seeing William, who only smirked victoriously at the young girl. Krystal slowly got on her feet, brushing some (pretend) dust off her dress, then looked at William.
He walked slowly to her making the smirk fade into a soft smile.
"My name is William, " He bowed at Krystal, "You will be meeting my master, shortly, so please come and follow me." Krystal looked confused, but then nodded in response. As William started walking, Krystal followed him, still confused with the whole situation. When they reached to the edge of the ice land, William called, "Manta!" Suddenly a manta came flying up and went down to where they were.
When it landed near them, William stepped on, stretching his arm for Krystal, who mumbled a 'thank you' and got on the manta, so it started to fly away from the ice land and onto another one, far away from any towers.
~~~~In the Factory~~~~
"Krystal... no!" Aelita screamed, crying next to Yumi, who only smiled sympathetically at the young pink haired girl.
Jeremy sighed, fixing his glasses and saying, "There's no use in crying, that's not really going to get her back." Odd glared at Jeremy's inconsideration.
"Einstein geez, could you show a little emotion? Your girlfriend is crying over her best friend!" Odd exclaimed, Jeremy slightly turned pink when Odd called Aelita his 'girlfriend'. Aelita only shook her head saying, "It's okay, he's right I-"
"No, " Odd shouted, making everyone surprise, "It's not alright! Jeremy has been like this whenever it comes to Krystal! Now what's your problem with her?!"
"Odd.. chill..." Ulrich tried to calm his friend down, putting his hand on Odd's shoulder. Odd only shook his head faster.
"No! It's not fair to Krystal! Sh-" Odd started, but was cut off when Jeremy said,
"I think she has some kind of connection with XANA.."
Everyone turned to Jeremy with a questioning look, making Jeremy sigh explaining, "Here's my theory from the information I've learned: Krystal was really young when she went in Lyoko, but something happened, so she was trapped in Lyoko. I don't know why she's so special to XANA, but it's obvious he doesn't want her to leave. And it's not like Krystal holds any information we need."
Everyone hated it, but they knew he was right, Krystal didn't have any secret information they needed, so why was she there.. right?
Odd asked, "So... what are you suggestion Einstein?"
Jeremy sighed and answered, "Only one thing... We focus on getting William back... then shut down the super computer... Which means goodbye XANA for good."
Aelita pointed, "But it also means goodbye Krystal for good! Jeremy we can't do that! I'm not going to abandon her like that!"
Jeremy argued, "She's right now the only one whose holding us back! We don't even nee-"
Odd interrupted saying, "Listen to yourself Einstein! You act as if this is all her fault! Mind you we still need to get William!" Yumi and Ulrich watched the threesome argue back and forth.
"If I may, " Yumi interrupted their little argue, "Maybe it's for the best, if we get William back before Krystal, that would be our chance to destroy XANA for good!" Ulrich, having a crush on Yumi, agreed with her.
"You people are ridiculous! I can't believe you'd totally leave Krystal like tha-" Odd started but was interrupted by Ulrich who said, "Odd, the only reason why you are defending Krystal is because you're inlove with her!"
Little did the warriors know, there was a little camera, watching their every move and eavesdropping on their little argument.
~~~~In Lyoko~~~~
"Odd, the only reason why you are defending Krystal is because you're inlove with her!"
A raven haired boy grinned, looking at the screen of his, which revealed the warriors fighting over the decision they should make with Krystal.
"These stupid warriors.. I'm so glad I took my ice princess away from them." He said, walking towards a huge ice tower.
~~~~In the Ice Tower~~~~
Krystal patiently sat on a chair made of ice. William had lead her into the room on the top floor of the tower, it was fairly big, with a queen sized bed (the mattress, pillow and blanket not made ice) made of ice, a couch (made of ice), a chair(made of ice) and a table (made of ice). There was one small window, but Krystal could barely see out of it, due to it was pretty foggy.
So she just sat, tapping her fingers on the table slightly getting bored. It had been exactly 15 minutes since William had left, he told her that his 'master' would meet her in the tower and explain everything.
"I wonder if he was just joking... I still don't even know who I am.." Krystal mumbled to herself. Suddenly, a boy that looked like William, except his uniform was pitch black instead of dark brown , but it was still the exact same uniform, hair and symbol, had come through the doors, with a block right next to him.
Krystal quickly got out of the chair, shifting, uncomfortably, towards him as he bowed to her.
"My dear Ice Princess, " He started, with the same voice as William's, and gently grabbed her hand and kissed it, "I am terribly sorry for the long wait."
Krystal smiled at him, stuttering at him, "T-that's okay... so.. is my name Ice P-princess?"
He chuckled at her and responded, "Of course not, your name is Miyuki." The boy smiled as he lied straight to her. Krystal(I'm gonna call her Miyuki from now on.) had smiled, believing it, but then asked, "But what is your name?"
He's eyes opened up wider as he clapped his hands, "Ah yes, how rude of me, my name is XANA, but you can always call me your prince." XANA had seductively said the last part, making Miyuki once again shift uncomfortably.
"I-it's nice to meet you.. XANA.." Miyuki quietly said, not trusting her voice that much. He smirked at her.
"You won't try to escape me, right?" XANA asked, slightly narrowing his eyes at the young girl, who quickly shook her head, making him smile.
"I must be off, I will visit soon." He said, before bowing and leaving as Miyuki waved at him. As he closed the doors behind him, Miyuki sighed and sat on her bed.
~~~~With the Warriors~~~~
Aelita looked up at the ceiling, she was still in tears from what happened that evening to Krystal. She looked at (clone)Krystal, who was fast asleep, under the covers, the same way (real)Krystal use to sleep.
Jeremy and the rest decided, against Odd and Aelita's will, that when they somehow manage to retrieve William, they'll shut down the super computer. But, if they manage to save Krystal in between those times, then she would be back in the group. Aelita, although, thought that was the most messed up plan, they were willing to save William, but not Krystal, who was probably 10x better than William was.
There was a lot of arguing, but since they did a vote and Ulrich, Jeremy and Yumi decided that getting William first and shutting down the computer would be best, of course they would have won.
"Krystal.. Odd and I.. we'll save you..." Aelita mumbled, before falling asleep.
~~~~Next Morning 6:30~~~~
Aelita's eyes snapped open as she quickly got out of bed. She had thought about it all night and decided to retrieve Krystal, with the help of Odd, without the rest knowing. Aelita texted Odd the plan last night.
She sat near the forest entrance, waiting for Odd to arrive.
Aelita heard footsteps coming towards her, as she looked up to see Odd running towards her.
"Sorry, " He panted, "I had to be super quiet so Kiwi wouldn't start barking and wake Ulrich up."
Aelita nodded, smiling and saying, "No problem! I just want to get this mission done as soon as possible." Odd nodded in response, so they started to run towards the factory. Once they entered the computer room, Aelita started to type in codes.
"I've managed to locate to Krystal, " she said, squinting her eyes, "She's in that tower, but it's really far from other towers... I wonder why XANA put her there..?"
Odd shrugged saying, "He probably wanted her far out of our reach."
They both entered the scanners and got virtualized into Lyoko.
~~~~In Lyoko~~~~
Once they landed on their feet, Aelita looked up to see the tall ice tower, "Look over there!" She pointed to the tower in the far distance and Odd nodded as they both started to run towards the tower.
Finally reaching it, they hid behind an icy rock seeing crabs and blocks guard the entrance and mantas flying on the top of the tower, guarding the tower's window apparently.
"Guess this is gonna be a lot harder than we thought.." Odd said and Aelita nodded in agreement.
~~~~Jeremy's Room~~~~
"Heh..?" Jeremy groggily opened his eyes when he heard his laptop beeping. Jeremy sat on his bed a walked up to his laptop, looking at the circles on the screen.
"W-what..? Aelita...? Odd...? Oh no.. Krystal!" Jeremy gasped as his eyes widen in realization of why the two of them were in Lyoko. Jeremy dialed Ulrich's number. After about a few minutes Ulrich picked up with a hoarsely voice.
"What is it Jeremy..? And where's Odd..?"
"They went to Lyoko, I bet you it's to save Krystal." Jeremy clicked his tongue.
"No doubt.. That's Odd for you.."
"We have to contact Yumi and get you two there as quick as possible, XANA could just be using Krystal as bait."
"Okay, I'm on it."
And with that, they both hung up and Jeremy grabbed his phone, running out of the boys' dorm. It was a Saturday, so thankfully they didn't have any classes that day. He ran as quickly as he could toward the forest to save his two friends.
~~~~In Lyoko~~~~
"So.. Aelita Stones, Jeremy Belpois, Ulrich Stern, Yumi Ishiyama, and Odd Della Robia are my enemies?" Miyuki asked, slightly tilting her head to the side, curiously. William had been teaching Miyuki about her powers, her enemies and allies.
"Yes, you must attack them at first sight." William confirmed, happy that Miyuki was actually believing all this. Miyuki nodded, seeing the pictures William had showed her of the 'enemies'.
William turned towards the door and sneered, making Miyuki ask, "What's wrong?"
He turned to her, bowing and putting on a serious face saying, "I must leave, I'm very sorry."
Miyuki nodded, understandingly as he got up and left, swiftly closing the doors behind him. Miyuki sighed as he left, she was mumbling, "Finally... I can have some peace.." When Miyuki heard shooting outside the tower, she rushed to the window, trying to see what the commotion was about. Peeping out, she saw a couple of teenagers fighting some of the crabs and blocks, which William explained were her 'allies'.
"They must be the enemies!" Miyuki gasped, wanting so bad to get out the tower and help her fellow allies.
"William! William! XANA?!" She shouted, banging on the doors, but nothing happened. Miyuki then rushed back to window, trying to see what else was going on. It seemed as though a figure, William, was going to fight them. Sighing as to see she couldn't really do anything, Miyuki sat back on the bed.
"How to escape... how to escape.." Miyuki pondered, but then remembered that she told XANA that she wouldn't try to escape.
~~~~In the Factory~~~~
"So what are they doing in Lyoko again?" Yumi asked, crossing her arms as her, Jeremy and Ulrich were in the computer room.
Jeremy turned to Yumi responding, "I have the greatest feeling that they're trying to get Krystal back."
"But, Krystal won't remember us, she got her memory erased." Ulrich pointed out and Jeremy nodded in agreement.
"I know, " He started, "But I doubt Aelita and Odd would listen right now, right now, we should focus on getting William back." Ulrich and Yumi nodded. Jeremy adjusted his glasses on his face.
"I've managed to find a code of William's signature, if we can retrieve it, by Aelita, and de-virtualize William when the code is ready to be used, then we can get William back in no time." Jeremy explained.
"I'll need you guys to convince Aelita to get that code though, do you think you guys can do it?" He questioned and they nodded.
"We'll try our best." Ulrich winked.
"So that's our plan? And after we get William, we shut down the computer for good?" Yumi asked and Jeremy nodded in response. Ulrich sighed in relief saying, "A world without XANA? That'll be hard to believe."
Jeremy turned to the two, "Well it won't be easy, you guys are going to have to try to convince Aelita and Odd to stop trying to rescue Krystal for the moment, tell Aelita to get to the tower and retrieve the code, WHILE trying to stay alive for William, not to mention we don't even know if XANA has turned Krystal into one of his slaves."
Ulrich shrugged and said, "Well, I guess we'd better get going then, huh?"
Jeremy nodded and Ulrich and Yumi headed to the scanners, ready to be virtualized into Lyoko.
~~~~In Lyoko~~~~
Ulrich and Yumi both landed on their feet, looking around to see that they're in the ice sector.
"Okay guys, Aelita and Odd are pretty far south, so I'll send in some vehicles, no monsters near you guys yet."
"Okay, Jeremy." Yumi acknowledged. They turned around to see their vehicles virtualizing. Hopping on, they headed towards the southern part of the ice sector.
"I wonder why they're over here-... woah! Look at that!" Ulrich said, but then saw a huge ice tower in the distance. Yumi squinted her eyes to try and see clearer, seeing the tower, she gasped in awe. As they arrived closer, they could see in the distance their friends trying to fight off William and other monsters.
"Look, " Yumi pointed to her friends, "They're over there."
Ulrich nodded and they started to head towards two teenagers.
"Aelita, Odd!" Yumi shouted, getting out her fans and running towards to fight William.
"Yumi!" Aelita shouted, "Watch out!" She pointed towards a block that froze Yumi's foot. William smirked seeing this and ran towards Yumi, who was slightly trembling, until Ulrich jumped infront of Yumi, ready to fight William.
"You guys, Krystal's in there!" Odd shouted, pointing to the ice tower. There was still two blocks guarding the entrance, so Odd ran towards them, as Yumi finally managed to get out of the ice and Ulrich was fighting William.
Yumi ran towards Aelita, who was ready to attack William.
"Aelita wait! We have a plan to get William back!" Yumi started, "But we need your help to get to the tower and retrieve the code! Please, Aelita!"
Aelita looked towards to see Odd fighting the blocks and she slightly pouted saying, "B-but.. Krystal..."
Yumi looked up, then turned to Aelita, saying, "How about this, we try to save both William and Krystal? Odd and Ulrich will go save Krystal, while me an you go save William?"
Aelita nodded at that plan and Jeremy, hearing the conversation said,
"That sounds good, but hurry! Odd and Ulrich are down to 60(Odd) and 80(Ulrich) points!"
The two nodded, Aelita waved her hand infront of her star watch and Yumi hopped on her overwing and the two flew off to the nearest tower. Meanwhile, Ulrich tried his best to defend himself instead of fighting.
"It's game over for you guys, XANA wins." William taunted as he effortlessly hit Ulrich.
"It's not over yet!" Ulrich shouted, dodging William's sword.
Meanwhile, Yumi and Aelita flew over to the closest tower they could find (with the help of Jeremy).
"Alright Aelita, you know the drill." Yumi said and Aelita nodded. She hopped off of the overwing and ran into the tower, floating up to the top, a screen appeared and she started to type things in the screen.
Yumi waited patiently outside, that is, until a couple of tarantulas come from behind the tower, preparing to fire.
"Shoot, " Yumi mumbled, "Looks like this will be a lot harder than we thought."
Odd had defeated the last block standing, as he saw William still fighting Ulrich.
"Now's my chance." Odd muttered, running into the ice tower and William seeing this, sneered at Ulrich before shouting, "Super smoke!" He then turned into smoke and rushed in after Odd.
"Oh no!" Ulrich thought aloud, he ran after the two of them in the ice tower.
"Krystal, Krystal!" Odd shouted throughout the ice tower, there were spiral stairs that lead to a room, the doors were unlock so Odd busted them open, scaring the girl inside the room.
"Krystal!" Odd shouted, running up to Miyuki, who only looked at him confused and said, "Who are you?"
Odd hugged her, but then stopped and said, "It's me, Odd! Remember?"
Miyuki thought for a second, and was about to speak when someone behind Odd shouted, "Miyuki!"
Odd turned to see William lift up his sword, Odd then ran behind Miyuki, who got scared and ran behind him, the two kept doing this until Odd finally hit the wall, with Miyuki infront, who was trembling, thinking that William was going to attack her.
"Krystal.. what do we do?" Odd asked, as Miyuki turned to Odd, confused with the whole situation. William sneered at Odd and pulled Miyuki to the side of him. Odd then grabbed Miyuki's hand, and pulled her back with him.
"Back off XANA! Krystal's our friend!" Odd shouted as the two were practically playing tug a war with Miyuki, who was still oblivious to who 'Krystal' was. William only growled and pulled Miyuki harder to his side.
"Krystal is XANA's!" William shouted, letting go of Miyuki, and sent both Odd and her tumbling back.
"Odd!" Ulrich shouted, he was still running up the stairs. William turned to the door, then back at Odd and Miyuki, who were still on top of eachother. William grabbed Miyuki's forearm and dragged her away from Odd and out of the room.
"William, where are we going?" Miyuki asked, as he rushed out of the room, closing the doors and locking it so Odd couldn't get out.
"Shouldn't we help him?" Miyuki asked another question, William only growled and held Miyuki's arm tighter as he saw Ulrich coming up.
"Guys! Aelita retrieved the code! But they both got de-virtualized, you two need to hurry and get William de-virtualized! It's up to you two!"
Jeremy's voice had informed, making the two Lyoko Warriors even more stressed, without Yumi or Aelita, it's going to make things a lot more difficult. William spawned his sword with smoke, once again, as Ulrich faced William, preparing for a fight. When William let go of Miyuki, she ran back to her room in the tower, which William was not aware of when he was busy fighting Ulrich.
Unlocking the door, she opened it to see the room, when she saw nobody was in it, she peacefully walked in, that is, until Odd pounced on her from behind, preparing to shoot a laser arrow at her.
"What are you doing?!" Miyuki shouted, preparing her ice shields.
"I'm rescuing you from XANA!" Odd responded, but what Miyuki said next surprised Odd.
"But I like being with XANA." Miyuki said, pushing Odd off of her.
"W-what a minute... did you say you were Odd, before? As in Odd Della Robbia?" Miyuki asked, tilting her head to the side, as Odd nodded, Miyuki narrowed her eyes and got out her icy energy fields, ready to fight.
"Odd Della Robbia is an enemy!" Miyuki shouted as she threw her icy energy fields, making Odd yelp as he got hit.
"Odd, what was that?! You just lost 40 life points! You have 20 life points left!"
"W-Wow.. that did a lot of damage.." Odd mumbled, brushing himself off.
"Krystal.. W-we're friends.. remember me..?" Odd asked. Miyuki shook her head, ready to once again fight, he walked slowly towards, but she hit him once again, de-virtualizing a sad Odd.
"Yes! XANA will be so proud!" Miyuki gleefully said, clapping her ands together gleefully.
~~~~In the Factory~~~~
Odd held his stomach, obviously in slight pain.
"Odd!" Aelita ran up to him, "Any luck?" Odd shook his head, sadly saying, "She doesn't even remember us... and worse.. she said she liked being XANA.."
Aelita stared in shock but then whispered quietly, "There went our chance.."
Odd and Aelita stared at eachother sadly, Yumi put her hand on Aelita's shoulder, reassuringly saying, "Don't worry, Ulrich's still there, maybe he can say Krystal." Aelita looked at Yumi with hope in her eyes, "I hope.." Aelita mumbled.
~~~~In Lyoko~~~~
"And in the end, the warriors never saved Krystal.. pathetic warriors." William said, him and Ulrich were fighting outside of the ice tower now.
"Like I said, it's not over yet, XANA!" Ulrich shouted, using his super sprint and managed to hit William with his sword. Just one more hit, Ulrich! You can do this! Ulrich thought to himself, but since he was in deep thought, William took that moment to get back up and hit Ulrich with his sword.
"Ulrich! What are you doing?! You only have 10 life points left!"
"Shoot.." Ulrich mumbled, as he saw William grinning and running toward him. Ulrich ducked when William swung his sword, but then Ulrich kicked him square in the chest, then stabbed William, making him de-virtualize and shout, "No!"
"Yes!" Ulrich shouted happily.
"Ulrich! Go save Krystal now!" Odd's voice shouted/commanded.
"Alright, alright I'm going." Ulrich muttered, but then Jeremy cut in.
"Move Odd!-... Ulrich! Krystal's right behind y-"
Ulrich was cut off from hearing Jeremy when something hit him from behind, de-virtualizing him.
"Yes!" Miyuki shouted, jumping up and down.
~~~~In the Factory~~~~
"No Krystal!" Aelita said, now in tears as Yumi rubbed her back. They all rushed to the scanner to see both William and Ulrich there. William looked up and asked, "So.. how did I do?"
Ulrich got out of the scanner, as did William and the warriors looked worriedly at William.
"We'll explain later, William, for now, we have to turn off the computer." Jeremy ordered, Aelita and Odd looked at eachother sadly, but then turned to Jeremy, sadly smiling.
"Look, I know you two are sad about Krystal.. we all are, but this is the right thing to do.." Jeremy said and William gave them all confused look.
"Krystal? Whose Krystal?" He asked, and Yumi turned to him smiling.
"We'll explain later." She said and he nodded. They then all ran to the super computer, holding hands, Jeremy switched the lever off, making them all sigh.
"So.. that's it.." Aelita whispered, "It's all over?" They all nodded and William pouted, "Waaa! I didn't even get to do much! What a let down!"
They all just turned to William and sighed.
~~~~In Kadic Academy~~~~
(After a few hours of explaining to William) "WHAT?!" William shouted, while they were all in the rec. room.
"William, keep your voice down, people are staring!" Yumi scolded him, but he just looked at her in shock.
"So.. you guys just abandoned Krystal like that? Geez, I'm happy I'm important." He blurted out, Aelita and Odd both looked hurt.
"So, what about the principle though?" William asked.
Ulrich explained, "Jeremy used his voice synthesizer to act like Odd's fake uncle, Jeremy said that Krystal would be transferring to a different school, due to she was moving. So, no one will suspect anything."
William nodded and pointed out, "Wow, you guys had everything planned out pretty good."
Aelita smiled, but then frowned, "Atleast XANA's gone... but now I'll be pretty lonely.."
Yumi smiled at Aelita and said, "Don't worry, Krystal would've wanted this, you know how she is."
Aelita looked up at Yumi, saying, "You're right, she would've wanted this, but there's one thing I don't understand.."
They all looked at Aelita confused and Aelita spoke, "What did XANA want with Krystal?"
Author's note: Longest chapter ever! I think I made a good ending heh? Yep, this is the end of the story guys, no joke. BUT,
There WILL BE A SEQUEL OUT SOON I'm not sure when, I haven't even started writing it yet, but I think the sequel will answering all the questions and hopefully tie all the loose ends. Hurray!
Thank you for reading! ^_^