I hated where I was going with chapters 10 and 11 so I deleted them. This is just a new ending for chapter 10.
Odd held onto Mina's arm as the elevator reached the scanner room. Her eyes were tired and she was slouched against the back wall. As the large doors opened she stumbled in, Odd quickly walking next to her. The small girl stepped into the scanner.
"Jeremie, we're here, and we're ready to go."
"Odd? Who's we?"
"Me and Mina."
"How'd you get her out of the school?"
"Jeremie," Mina interrupted, "please, we're ready." She looked at Odd and smiled. As the blonde boy walked into the yellow scanner, the doors closed."
"Alright, I just sent in Yumi and Aelita. Scanner, Odd, scanner, Mina." The whir of the scanners started up and Mina straightened her sore body a bit. "Transfer, Odd. Transfer, Mina. Virtualization."
"Mina!" Aelita yelled as she and Yumi rode over in the overwing. The two fell onto Odd's overboard. "What happened to your outfit?" Mina looked down, confused. Her clothes were different. Her body suit had changed from a light gray solid fabric, to dark gray fabric wrapping her body up to her neck. A teal sleeveless top that reached just above her waste was the same wrapped texture clung to her form. Wearing similar pants to Aelita's, (except gray) she was also not wearing shoes, just wrapped fabric, like Aelita. Odd and Yumi looked the girl up and down. Odd's eyes lingered on the small teal face tattoos the girl had, six pointed tattoos, two coming from the top of her head, two from the side, and two from the bottom.
"How did this happen?" Mina asked, perplexed. "Jeremie, did you do something?"
"No, this wasn't me, we'll figure that out later. How's Lyoko?"
"I can't see anything," Yumi responded, discouraged. Mina rode up next to her, now riding on her own energy board.
"They're in Sector Five." Mina said softly, and she took off, causing the others to follow.
"Who is? How am I supposed to transport you when there's nowhere to go?"
"Leave that to me, alright?" The brunette smiled and she raced ahead. Abruptly stopping, the others were soon next to her. She looked around for a moment, and closed her eyes. As her small body began to radiate a soft white light, they group was encompassed in a ball of energy and taken directly to Sector Five.
"How did you do that?" Jeremie asked, astounded.
"I have very advanced abilities. But apparently, now Xana does too."
"How did this happen?" Aelita asked, as they began to run through the open passage.
"Well," Mina felt her sides. "Someone must've taken my charm. It's the only thing that harnesses that kind of power." As they reached the elevator, Mina told the group they were to go to the core; "That's where William most likely is." And she was right. Surrounded by mantas and creepers sitting on the ledges, William floated weightlessly above the core, a read mist surrounding him.
"What's going on?" Yumi asked loudly, the four looked up at William. They could see a white light coming from the large orb. She looked over to Mina, but she was gone.
"Wait" The young geisha heard Odd yell. He was racing towards Mina who was soaring towards William, dodging the attacks by the mantas. As Yumi and Aelita followed, they both separated to help eliminate some of the monsters.
"Mina, can't you make them just disappear? Like before?" Jeremie asked.
"No, William has the charm, my powers are limited."
"Laser arrow!" Odd yelled as he leaped into the air, shooting and destroying two mantas. Back flipping onto a third one, he drove his claws into it's back.
"Yumi, help!" Aelita called out, she was hit by a creeper. Shooting an energy field, she hit it, but nothing happened. The creeper moved forward towards her, until she reached the edge of the platform. As Yumi flew over, her overwing was shot down by a manta. As she fell, she was caught by Odd's monsters. She jumped off onto one of the platforms, and quickly started making her way to Aelita.
Mina was about to get to William, when he disappeared. Confused, she heard a grunt behind her. William grabbed her small waist and threw her off the board. A large red cloud of smoke formed in his large hand. Throwing it towards her falling form, it encompassed her. He heard a small shriek coming from his left. Throwing the same ball of smoke towards Aelita, he laughed menacingly. Aelita closed her eyes and waved her hand over the band on her arm. Just as her wings sprouted, the cloud hit her. The wings shattered. The two girls continued to fall into the darkness of Sector Five, where they were grabbed by two scyphozoas.
"Mina, Aelita! Odd, where are you?" Jeremie yelled, "Yumi?"
"We're coming Jeremie." Yumi jumped down a few platforms, then dove over the edge towards the girls. They were wrapped up in the scyphozoas' tentacles. The red mist around them was fainter, now that the creatures had them. Whatever information they needed, they were getting, and fast. As Yumi flew downwards towards her friends, she felt something land on her. William had landed on her back. Throwing himself, and her to nearby ledges, he threw her upwards, where she was caught by a manta and was flown upwards, away from Aelita and Mina.
"Oh no, Odd?" Jeremie watched helplessly. Dialing Ulrich, he informed him that he needed him, and Ulrich ran out of the lunch room to meet them. "Odd!"
"I'm going as fast as I can, Einstein! Laser arrow!" He had been booted off the manta and was running on all fours down the long path.
"You have to go faster, the scyphozoa is taking Aelita's memory!"
"What about Mina?"
"I don't know what they're trying to get... ah, oh wait! Mina holds the rest of the essence of Lyoko that her charm doesn't have, they're taking that!"
Odd picked up speed, panting. Looking up, he saw Yumi throw her fans at William, and being devirtualized. She fell quickly past him as the rest of her virtual body disappeared into pixels. "How much time do I have?"
"Less than five minutes, Ulrich is on his way, you-" A large red exclamation point appeared on Jeremie's monitor. "Oh no!"
"What now!?"
"Xana's locked me from your stats, I have no control over materializing vehicles, or your extra arrows."
"Damn it. How many do I have left?"
"Three, so-"
"Laser arrow!" Odd destroyed a creeper in front of him, then shot an arrow at the descending William.
"One."
Ulrich ran through the schoolyard, panting loudly. As he whizzed past Jim, the large man smiled.
"Alright Stern! Working outside of PE! I did a lot of overtime myself when I was a personal trainer."
"You were a personal trainer?" A young student asked him.
"Oh uh, yes. But I'd rather not talk about it."
"Odd, where are you?" Jeremie yelled through the microphone. The progress bar for the girls were reaching dangerously low numbers. He had no more than two minutes left before they were finished.
"I'm a little busy Einstein, William won't get off my back."
"Try to shake him, you have no time left!"
Odd turned away from his enemy and raced towards the girls. "I'll be right there, I'm so close." He finally made it to his two friends. They were on opposite sides of the round pit.
"Shoot them free!" Jeremie yelled frantically, "they're both at less than six percent, no, three, Odd!"
"I only have one arrow!" He looked between the two.
"I'm still locked out, Xana set this as a huge trap for us. Odd, you have to save at least one of them!"
"You can't expect me to pick!" He watched the large monsters suck the lives out of his good friend, and the girl he felt an overwhelming connection to. Jeremie was feverishly typing away at his computer, trying to unlock the system.
"Odd!" Was all the blonde boy could cry as he hit the enter key one last time, the hum of the elevators caused him to turn around.
"Jeremie," Odd asked quickly, "how much time?" When there was no response, he grew worried. Still aiming between his two friends, he began to panic even more. Closing his eyes, he aimed. A loud but all too familiar cry. It was Ulrich. As his best friend flew through the air, and sliced through the tentacles holding Mina, Odd didn't hesitate to shoot Aelita free.
Jeremie let out a large sigh of relief, Yumi rested a reassuring hand on her friend's shoulder. He had unlocked the computer and was able to virtualize Ulrich, just in time. Odd fell backwards onto the ledge and let out a huge sigh. Aelita hovered over him with a look of happiness. Looking across the way, she saw Ulrich grasping Mina's arm and pulling her up. The blonde boy felt a something growing in his stomach. Jealousy.
Mina looked up towards the core where William was consuming the rest of Lyoko's power. Grunting softly, she mounted her energy board and flew upwards towards her foe. Aelita flew after her and Jeremie re-virtualized Odd's board and gave Ulrich his overbike. As the friends headed upwards, they were silent. Mina got to him first, jumping off her board and landing behind William, having created a ledge for her to stand on, she grabbed him by the shoulders and threw him away from the core.
The three watched as Mina's orb started returning energy to the core. Mina had pinned William down, in an entranced state. Her small hands held the struggling boy down with greater force that even she didn't know she had. A white mist surrounding the core reached out and touched her, surrounding her, fueling her. With a low grunt, she encompassed William in the light too. Taking her hands off him, he was motionless. Her slender fingers reached down and snatched what belonged to her. As she turned away from William, the mist disappeared. He stood up and started towards her, but was grabbed by Aelita. As he struggled, Ulrich tried to attack but missed when he turned into the black smoke.
"Alright," Jeremie said quickly. "That's more than enough." Mina's stone expression switch to the softer one everyone was used to. She turned around and smiled at her friends, and watched as Aelita was materialized, then Ulrich and Odd, and she was last.
As she squinted at the bright lights appearing in front of her, she was greeted by the arms of Aelita, pulling her out into the circle of her friends. They were all smiling, happy they were both okay.
"Guys, let's get back to school, someone must've wondered where we went." Nodding in agreement, they all walked slowly back towards Kadic. As Ulrich, Aelita, and Jeremie headed off towards the main door, Yumi walked off to the lunch room, hoping to be clued in by students in the class she missed.
Mina caught Odd's hand and asked him to wait. Walking back into the woods, she sat down by a large tree. As Odd joined her, she stared at him.
"What are you staring at?" Unsure of how to react, he felt his cheeks grow red.
"I'm not very good at what I do." She stated, turning her head towards the sky.
"What do you mean?"
"I can't protect Aelita... you saw what happened."
"It's not your fault," he wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "You haven't had to deal with William before."
"I was programmed specifically to protect her. What's wrong with me?"
"Nothing! You're just... rusty."
"Rusty?"
"Yeah like... you were trapped for a long time, you just have to get back in the game." He looked at her with a smile.
"I guess so. But those monsters that trapped me, I couldn't do anything, what if they come back?"
"You have me, and Ulrich, and Yumi to help you!"
"They had us both, I was so scared. I came so close to..."
"I know, but you're fine now."
"...Who were you doing to pick?" She looked up at him with curious eyes.
"W-what are you talking about?" Odd was shocked that she still realized what was going on. Did that happen? Did he just not know about it?
"You almost had to choose between me or Aelita, yes?" She waited as he nodded slowly. "So, who were you going to pick?"
"Oh, well uh... I was," he paused, looking at the small girl leaning on him. "I was going to pick-"
"Guys?" They heard Ulrich call. "What are you doing in- oh!" He said surprised as he saw Odd's shoulder wrapped around her. "I um, sorry!"
"That's okay!" Mina responded cheerfully, disconnecting herself from Odd. She stood up and smiled at the brown haired boy. "Coming Odd?" The young boy nodded and quickly walked after his two friends, sighing with relief.