Episode 10: RAnSoM NOtE
Aelita was sitting in her room, typing frantically. "Come on, Come on!" she said, knowing that she had to hurry. She typed in a little more, but then pressed enter and crossed her fingers. The figure stretched down more and more, but when it reached the head, it beeped with a red exclamation mark. She groaned as she had to look back at the data, rewrite it, maybe delete a portion.
She was getting irritated to say the least. Aelita had worked and worked, but none of it brought Xana to Earth. She sighed and went to bed, pulling the covers over herself and falling asleep. She had a dream that night about something that confused her.
Aelita got out of her bed and looked around. She wasn't in her room anymore, but instead she was in the control room of Kadic. She wished she could look around, but she continued walking towards a large pit in the middle of the floor. She stepped into it and fell forward. She fell and fell, but then at the deep bottom she saw some kind of hundred legged monster, its fangs bearing as it waited for her to fall into its mouth.
Aelita fell out of her bed, nearly screaming as she panted hard. She looked around, frightened by that dream. It was so weird. Maybe she should stop working on programs for Kadic before bed. She looked at the computer and figured she would talk to Xana for a few moments before going to bed.
She sat down and turned on the computer and brought up the program, but didn't get a feed to Xana. "Hello, Xana? Are you there?" she asked, getting confused. She looked for him in every tower there was, and even scoured all of Kadic but found no signs of him. "Did it work?" Aelita asked herself.
After some sleep and a shower, Aelita tried again, this time getting a different result. This time Xana appeared on the screen, though instead of the usual enthusiasm to talk, he seemed emotionless. "Hello?" he asked in a sort of drone.
"Xana, is that you? Are you okay?" Aelita asked, getting worried for her friend.
"Yes, of course," Xana said, not blinking. He didn't normally blink but right now it was just creepy.
"Where is the real Xana?" Aelita asked. She had started tracking the signal, but only got to seeing that it was coming from the mountain sector, in the possibility of three towers when the signal stopped.
Suddenly there was a beeping sound. She looked at the screen and saw that the active tower was in between the three towers. Aelita turned around and pulled out her phone to call the others all at once. "Kadic Warriors, we have a mission," she stated.
Instantly after getting Aelita's message, William got out of bed and got dressed, but when he went to leave, he was cut off by what appeared to be Xana from Kadic. 'Xana' was holding his mother by the throat, energy buzzing around him and the JEREMIE Eye plain on his chest.
"Hello Willy," Xana said, his voice much deeper and slightly buzzing.
"Run son!" William heard his dad call from the living room. When William looked to see his father stuck to the wall, but as he was distracted a blast of energy caught him in the chest, sending him flying right into a glass cabinet. He got up and looked up to see the form of Xana throw his mother next to his father, then start coming towards him.
William got up and grabbed his dad's golf club, which he promptly hit Xana right in the head, knocking him out. Xana fell to the ground, and William ran, grabbing his bike and riding as fast as he could to the factory. He arrived and saw that the others weren't there yet.
"Late as always ladies," William mumbled, standing in the elevator.
Moments later all of them were at the factory, waiting to be virtualized. The three warriors stepped in the scanners and the process began. "Transfer: Sissi, transfer: Sam, transfer: William." The profiles were selected. "Scanner: Sissi, scanner: Sam, scanner: William." The figures filled up with green. "Virtualization!" Light and air blasted up at the three, and in seconds they vanished.
The three landed on Kadic in the mountain sector. "Where to Aelita?" William said, propping his sword on his shoulder.
"William, go 47.3 meters north, Sissi to 71 meters to the west and Sam head 56.24 meters to southeast," Aelita replied, and the three looked at each other. They nodded and ran the ways instructed.
William ran as fast as he could, but was still going slow. After a few seconds he saw the tower in a distance, an orange glow coming from it and a beam shooting into the sky. William looked up and up, but couldn't see where it ended. But then he saw that it split into two and went the ways… that the girls had gone.
"Aelita, JEREMIE is sending an orange beam up from the towers," William said. He walked up to the tower and put a hand on it, and when he pulled it off, there was a layer of orange on it. He wiped it off on the ground and then looked around.
Sam ran towards the tower, but was cut off the one monster she really didn't enjoy after the last mission: Hornets. There were nearly hundreds of them buzzing around her. She pulled off both pistols, and got ready. One dove for her, but she fired at it, destroying it before it got close. She ducked under another and grabbed it by the abdomen and used it to impale another. "One Hornishkibob, coming up!" she said, throwing the two Hornets as they exploded.
Sam jumped up and jumped off another, shot two and landed on two more, pushed them to the ground, jumping into the air and catching the beak of one and pulling it into the Eye of another, landing on two more hornets, jumping up into the air and air kicking two more then finally landing on the ground. She crouched and aimed at the last Hornets, blasting them out of the sky. She ended by walking up to the tower and sitting down cross legged, spinning a pistol on her finger.
Sissi was the last one. She ran down a hill, and from the height she saw 30 Megatanks rolling around in an apparent design. She sighed and looked at her hands, knowing she could only make about 20 disks. Maybe she could trick some into going into the Digital sea? She sighed, and dove into the enemies.
She pulled back an arm and flung a ring, hitting an open Megatank and destroying it, the explosion knocking over another right into the digital sea, destroying it. Sissi said, "Hexipate!" and five copies of her were made, all of which went after a different Megatank, while the real her jumped away and watched, since she had to disperse her energy among them, and she was the unfortunate one out, meaning she had no ring power unless Aelita reloaded her. The clones fought for several moments before all of the Megatanks except two stood.
"I have an idea," Sissi whispered, then charged, shrieking, "Super Speed!" resulting in her running as fast as a hurricane. She ran between the Megatanks, and they fired, hitting the other's beam and propelling them towards the edge, where they fell.
"Good job, Kadic Warriors," Aelita said, happy that she now had access to the towers. She typed some more and said, "I need all of you to walk along the energy to the center. From there I will be able to continue."
Sissi sighed and jumped up, then crawled up the tower and was lifted by the orange energy, which lifted her to the energy cord, realizing it was more like a support beam.
William did the same, but had to drop his sword on the top of the tower and started balancing and walking forward on the beam like energy.
Sam looked up and gritted her hands together, getting ready to crawl up the tower. She grabbed knot after knot and climbed up, arriving at the energy that took her up and started going across the energy.
After a few moments, they were attacked by Hornets, one group of three each. "Damn, that was a bad idea dropping my sword!" William yelled, dodging a laser and trying to keep his balance. He fell onto his stomach and started crawling, blue energy blasting up his body but causing only one percent damage every 10 seconds. He continued until arriving at a small sphere, hovering just over an active tower.
"What is this thing?" William asked, having been inside one only and not really seen one. "Wait…" he said, looking inside. He could make out the faint figure of…
"Xana!" Aelita cried, diving away from a blast of energy from their friend.
"He is such a good help," JEREMIE said through Xana. Xana charged an energy blast and fired, nearly hitting Aelita as she jumped away. She cringed as a bolt hit her right in the back. She fell over, felling the burnt flesh tear as she moved.
The three Warriors were around the sphere, but didn't know what to do. Last time it took a clone of William, but only Xana or Aelita could make those, so they needed Aelita, but they had heard her get attacked. "I have an idea!" William said, getting up from his sitting position. "Sissi, make a clone," he stated, pointing to her. She made a clone, and it landed behind her. "Sam, use your Shift power and turn it into Xana," William added, and Sam put a hand on the mimic Sissi's shoulder and a burst of energy and standing there was Xana.
Xana jumped into the air, and the Guardian leapt at it, pulling away from one of the energy beams. It seemed to dim, letting more details of the two Xana's come in. It warbled, and another broke, then another. The real Xana fell to the ground, but was caught by Sam, Sissi and William. The three helped him stand up and he looked around.
Aelita cringed as energy blasted around her, buzzing and frying machinery. The false Xana seemed to warble physically. Another warble, and another and then it started jiggling and soon it ruptured and exploded, letting Aelita fall to the ground.
Xana ran into the tower and floated up to the second level. He put his hand on and entered code 'Kadic' and the panels around him fell, and he said, "Tower, deactivated."
"Return to the past, Now!" the injured Aelita said, pressing enter and embracing the white light.
She was sitting back in her chair, this was when she was about to test the program. She sighed, and said, "I know that won't work." She looked back at the code, and together she and Xana worked on it through that Saturday to Sunday night.
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