Chapter 10

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(Alex first person)

Yumi, Aelita, and Crystal woke me up.

"It's still summer. Go back to bed," I said.

"Jeremie wants us to meet him in the lab. He said the words 'Aelita' and 'attack', so I figured it had to be important," Yumi said pulling my covers off of me.

"Do you think it is a XANA attack? Can't he just let us sleep in for once?" I said, half joking.

"I don't know. Last night Jeremie called Crystal and me to the lab for a scan. He said it would take some time to go over the data," Aelita told us. "Sounds like Jeremie doesn't want us to sleep either."

"He was probably trying to figure out everything that happened to you after you got your memory back," I said, standing up. "Well, better not keep him waiting. Let's go."

We rode our transportation to the end of the sewers and climbed the ladder. The others slid down their ropes, but I decided to teleport into the elevator. I was tired and simply didn't feel like running. They got in and I pushed the elevator button. Jeremie was typing at his computer when we arrived.

"Took long enough. I wanted to show you something," he said.

"So you've told us," Yumi said. "What is it?"

"Aelita now has the ability to protect herself," Jeremie said. Everyone became more interested. "She has an energy field. It has an incredibly high damage rate. It is both offensive and defensive. I need you guys to go to Lyoko and let Aelita practice."

"Can't we eat first? I'm both hungry and tired," I said, still complaining about waking up so early.

"Sure," Jeremie said. "We can eat. I need you guys to be ready to fight." Jeremie got out of his seat and walked to the elevator. We walked back to school and into the cafeteria. Each of us walked though the line and sat down.

"Could you guys hurry?" Aelita said, eating faster than Odd and I ever could. It was obvious that she wanted to get to the lab as fast as possible and use her new abilities.

"We are eating, Aelita. Not inhaling our food." Jeremie said. Aelita slowed down.

"Sorry. I just don't like being the only defenseless one," Aelita said. We finished eating our meal in silence, not wishing to upset Aelita.

Afterwards, we all ran to the manhole in the forest. I picked up the lid and set it aside. I let the others climb down first, then pulled the lid back. We reached the bottom and climbed on our skateboards or scooters, and rode back to the factory. We went down to the control room. Jeremie opened a map of Lyoko.

"It looks like there is a large group of monsters in the desert sector," Jeremie said. Aelita didn't have to be told. She headed for the elevator. I looked at Aelita and Yumi, each looking at eachother, then walked over to the elevator. Aelita and Yumi got in the scanner first.

(Third person omniscient)

Alex and Crystal spawned above Yumi and Aelita.

"Here they come," Jeremie said. "They are coming from both directions." Alex and Crystal stood side by side, back to back with Aelita and Yumi. The group of monsters arrived. Aelita ran ahead of the others, arm extended. Alex and Crystal turned around, eager to see Aelita's power. A pink ball appeared at the end of her hand. She concentrated and the ball flew at a Blok. The energy engulfed the Blok and it was immediately devirtualized. Everyone attacked. Alex pulled his staff up from his thigh, and added the laser tip to it. He began shooting the incoming hornets. Yumi jumped on a Krab and threw her fans at some Tarantulas. Crystal slid under a laser being shot from a Krab, then jumped on top of it with her knife and stabbed it through the top. As she fell, She was shot in the shoulder by a Blok. Aelita shot at hornets and Kankrolots, enjoying her new ability. Alex lengthened his staff and switched to the blade tip. He swirled the staff above his head and brought it down on a Blok. Crystal ran at a Tarantula, throwing both her throwing knives at it. It shot both, knocking them to the ground. She grabbed its arm and flipped it over her shoulder off the edge into the digital sea, then walked back over to her knives and picked them up. Yumi threw one fan down at the Krab she was standing on and rolled on to the ground, throwing another fan at a Hornet, missing. The Hornet shot her chest. She then ran and caught both of her fans and threw them at two more Hornets. A Megatank rolled on to their warzone. Aelita turned to look at it as it opened. She put two energy fields together and created a wider energy field. Alex stood behind her.

"You can do it," he told her. "Hold the wave." He blocked several shots from hitting her. Crystal and Yumi continued fighting. The Megatank shot. Aelita caught it with her energy field. The force was pushing her back. She tried as hard as she could to withstand it. "Move, Aelita," Alex said turning around. Aelita rolled out of the way. Alex held it with his staff.

"MOVE!" he yelled. Yumi jumped off of another Krab. Crystal backflip kicked a Tarantula in the head. Alex dove out of the way of the wave, shortening his staff, destroying Crystal's Tarantula, Yumi's Krab, and several other monsters. Alex switched his staff tip to laser, but the Megatank had already been devirtualized. Alex looked over at Aelita. She was standing, arm outstretched to where to Megatank had already been. There were only a couple of Kankrolots and Hornets left. Alex shot into the air at the Hornets, hitting two. Yumi threw her fan, hitting two Kankrolots. Aelita fired at Hornets, hitting three. Crystal threw her throwing knives at two Kankrolots and on her way to pick them up, she kicked one into the digital sea.

"They're gone, Jeremie," Aelita said.

"Not quite," Jeremie said. "There is another large group coming. It's a lot bigger than the last. Here come your vehicles." The OverCar and OverWing spawned. Aelita and Yumi jumped on to the OverWing and Alex and Crystal jumped into the OverCar. They rode away from the hoard of monsters, side by side. They could see them closing in. Aelita shot her energy fields along with Crystal who was standing in the car throwing knives.

"There are way too many of them. There is no way we can all get out of this," Alex said.

"Wait. I have an idea," Aelita said. Aelita put both of her energy fields together, then she threw it at them, but it was no longer the small ball of energy. It was a massive wave. It took out twelve of the monsters. The rest of them stopped to wait for the wall of energy to stop, then followed the group. Alex stopped and put his staff out the side, blade tipped, and put it in reverse, charging through Bloks. Crystal also put her knives out the door, cutting the legs out from under Krabs and Tarantulas. As the monsters turned around to look at Alex and Crystal, Aelita and Yumi turned around, both taking out dozens of monsters. Alex and Crystal stepped out. Alex teleported under a Krab and stabbed it through the bottom of its head. Kankrolots surrounded him. He raised his staff to stun them, but one of them had already shot him in the back. As he fell, another shot him in the arm. Crystal came up behind one and stabbed it. Another Kankrolot shot Alex in the leg.

"Your down to 20 lifepoints," Jeremie said. Alex spun on the ground, kicking the remaining two away. Then he picked up his staff and golfed them into the digital sea. Yumi jumped off of the last Blok, and Aelita finished shooting the last Hornet down. There were still several Tarantulas and Krabs on the neighboring flat. Crystal grabbed Alex's hand.

"Heal," she said. Green lines flowed from her hand to his.

"Your life points are back to 100," Jeremie said, his voice full of disbelief. He hadn't known about any powers Crystal had, other than the time Crystal had appeared in the scanner after falling in the digital sea. Alex smiled at Crystal. He walked back to the OverCar, still holding Crystal's hand until they reached the vehicle. Yumi and Aelita climbed on to the OverWing. They rode to the flat of the remaining monsters. Yumi drove over a Krab, and Aelita jumped on to it. She put her hand on the Krab, then charged her energy field, immediately shocking the Krab. Alex drove beside a Tarantula. Crystal jumped out, knife in hand, on to its back, putting her knife on its neck, then slicing its head off of its body. A Tarantula shot the OverWing. Yumi jumped off just before it had finished being devirtualized, grabbing both of her fans, and landed in front of the Tarantula that shot her vehicle. It started shooting at her. She blocked herself with her fans, moving them to deflect or absorb all shots. Aelita shot it, then ran under a Krab, devirtualizing it, also. Alex drifted around to face a Tarantula. He floored the accelerator, charging it. The OverCar hit the enemy. With the Tarantula on the hood of his car, Alex drove to the edge of the flat, jumping out just as he reached the edge. Crystal charged the last Krab, deflecting its shots with her knives, then jumped on top of it and stabbed it with both knives.

"Well, that's it," Jeremie said. "I'm bringing you in." Aelita and Yumi were devirtualized first.

(Alex first person)

We sat in the control room.

"I like it," Aelita said. "It is much better to fight than need to hide from the monsters."

"Yeah," Yumi told her. "Now you are a complete Lyoko Warrior."

"Let's go back to the room," Alex said. "We are almost done with the superscan."

"Yeah, we need to finish that," Jeremie said standing from his chair. We each walked to the elevator and then back to the school.