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Episode 106: Apocalypse, Part II
"NOOOOOO!" he screeched in unimaginable fury and pain as he felt nothing but absolute fury pulse through his veins. He got up and wheeled around as he closed his eyes, and when they reopened, they were glowing as white as snow…
"You'll pay for what you've done, XANA!" he screamed in a distorted voice that was not his own as his body became engulfed in a blinding white aura. Waves of energy began to pulse out from his chest, and suddenly, a crystal-like shape rose out of it…
Back in the Lab, Jeremy's screens started to blip wildly as alert messages flooded the screens. He moved most of them out of the way, and tried to focus in on the scan of Jacob that was on his screen.
"Unbelieveable…" he whispered. "There's an energy source the likes of which I've never seen inside of him…" he muttered, pointing at the blinking crystal-shaped image on his screen. The group just started in shock at it as they watched what was beginning to happen…
Shock waves of energy continued to pulsate from Jacob's body as the crystal sunk back into his chest. He raised a hand, and instantly, a massive beam of white energy blasted from it, engulfing XANA's monsters completely in a blinding glare. When the beam subsided, they were gone, not a trace left…
"That crystal, or whatever it is, has magnified Jacob's powers far beyond what they ever were before!" Jeremy exclaimed. "Wait, what? What's going on?" he asked suddenly…
…as on Lyoko, Jacob began to levitate in the air. He floated out of the room where Aelita had been lost and made his way through each room of the Core Zone, passing through walls and blocks as he encountered them until he came to the edge of the Core Zone. He lifted his hand to summon the elevator down to him, and a moment later, the Elevator dropped down, leaving a trail of sparks behind it as it skidded to a stop. Jacob drifted on to it, and let his feet touch the ground as the Elevator shot downward towards the South Pole of Sector Five…
"What is he doing?" Jeremy asked impatiently as the gang watched all of this unfold on his screen. "I don't get it…"
The Elevator reached its destination, and Jacob jumped off of it, levitating towards the opening at the southernmost point of Sector Five. He floated up inside of it, and landed on the ground in front of a Key switch. He pressed it, and it depressed into the wall, opening the doorway to…
"He's headed for the Core…" Jeremy breathed. "I think he's lost control of his abilities! We have to stop him! Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, William, head for the Scanners! You have to go back in and stop him!" Jeremy exclaimed as the four of them ran for the Lift…
Jacob, meanwhile; began to float upward along the spiral staircase until he reached the bridge leading out to the platform where the Core was located. He floated along it until he reached the Core, and laid his hand on the first shield layer, disintegrating it with one touch.
"The first shield layer's gone!" Jeremy screeched. "I'm starting the—oh, shoot; he's blocked virtualization directly to Sector Five!" Jeremy hissed. "You'll have to take the Transport Orb!" he said as the gang reached the Scanners. "I'm starting the procedure!"
Transfer Odd, Transfer Ulrich, Transfer Yumi.
Scanner Odd, Scanner Ulrich, Scanner Yumi!
Virtualization!
Transfer William.
Scanner William.
Virtualization!
Moments later, the gang appeared in the Forest Sector, and as soon as they hit the ground, they took off towards the edge of the Sector. None of XANA's monsters arose to challenge them, as he was busy in Sector Five, but, all of a sudden…
In Sector Five, Jacob had already done away with the second shield layer, and he reached out to the Core itself, placing his hand on it. The effect was indescribable. A massive wind blasted into him, and Sector Five began to fade around him. The lights began to wink out as the walls of the orb itself began to crumble… All of Lyoko shook as this happened, and when the shaking stopped, all that could be seen in Sector Five was the walls of binary code and the data tunnels…the actual sphere that encased the Core Zone, Core, Skid Dock, and everything else that made up Sector Five was gone. Floating in the middle of this hollow, blue-lit data sphere, however; was Jacob. His appearance still looked the same, but his eyes were still those snow-white orbs of light, and he turned to look at all four data tunnels before raising both of his hands and letting out a distorted scream that could be heard all throughout Lyoko…
"What was that?" William asked as the tremors finally subsided and the four of them stopped cold.
"It was Jacob," Ulrich realized, recognizing his cry. "Jeremy, we've reached the edge of the Sector, can you give us a ride?" he asked; the gang now standing at the end of the path.
"I'll try, but it's going to be tough," Jeremy answered. "Jacob's managed to totally wipe out Sector Five. The Arena, Core Zone, everything's gone!"
"How is that possible?" Yumi asked. "If Sector Five is gone, shouldn't Lyoko be gone with it?"
"It should be, unless…" Jeremy trailed off. "Jacob absorbed the Core's programming into his body! He's maintaining Lyoko on his own!"
"Is that even possible?" Ulrich asked.
"I didn't think so…but…anyways, you're going to have to devirtualize him! It's the only way to save him!"
"We've already lost Aelita…we can't lose anyone else…" Odd agreed.
Jacob, meanwhile; turned and focused on the data tunnel leading to the Ice Sector. He let out a cry, and raised his hand as he charged a massive fireball in his hand. His eyes glowed brighter as he blasted a massive stream of fire into the data tunnel…
In the Ice Sector, the stream of fiery energy blasted from Sector Five and began to rain down on the Sector. Wherever it hit, steam rose from the points of impact, and the Sector literally began to fragment and melt away as the firestorm rained down on it…
On Jeremy's screen, an alert message popped up as the Ice Sector began to disintegrate…
"This can't be happening…" he whispered…
Jacob turned next to the tunnel leading to the Desert Sector, and charged a massive sphere of white energy in his hands. He fired it into the tunnel as his eyes again glowed brighter…
In the Desert Sector, the blast of energy surged out of Sector Five and impacted the edge of the Sector, causing it to literally erode away. The sandy cliffs began to dissolve as the blast pushed further into the Sector…
Another alert message popped up on Jeremy's screens as the Desert Sector began to disappear. He watched in horror now as Jacob turned to the third data tunnel. His eyes glowed brighter again, and he whirled his fingers around as he charged a blast of electricity and fired it into the tunnel leading to the Mountain Sector…
In the Mountain Sector, sinister thunderclouds now hovered in the sky above the Sector, and they began to rain down massive, golden thunderbolts, impacting the crags and breaking them apart. As the crags splintered, they too began to fragment and dissolve…
Jacob now turned to the last data tunnel, this one of course leading to the Forest Sector. He let out another screech as he blasted another fire wave into the tunnel…
Just then, the gang looked up and saw the rain of fire begin to head for the trees…
"He's going to destroy the Sector, Einstein; do something!" Odd cried.
"Okay!" Jeremy instantly replied. I'm typing in the code: SCIPIO."
The Transport Orb then arose from the depths of the Forest Sector and opened, enclosing the gang as it took off towards the layers of data screens that symbolized the entrance to Sector Five, or what was left of it. As it moved away, the firestorm just like the one that hit the Ice Sector rained on the trees and caused them to burn. Virtual smoke cloaked the area as the ground began to fragment and dissolve…
When the Transport Orb appeared through the data walls, Jeremy was ready, and when the Orb released the gang, Jeremy already had the Overboard, Overbike, Overwing, and Overdisc hovering below them, and their screams stopped as they fell and landed on their vehicles safely…
"Jeremy, what's happening?" William asked as the data walls began to flicker.
"Jacob's started a virtual meltdown!" Jeremy replied fearfully, his voice shaking. "He's destroying all four Sectors. Once that happens, he'll release the energy that's stored in that crystal…and…"
"It'll wipe out what little is left of Lyoko…" Ulrich finished.
"Yes," Jeremy confirmed. "The data sphere that you are in now is all that's left of Sector Five. As soon as that goes, the Digital Sea will flood the empty space and cause Lyoko's outer shell to collapse in on itself. Lyoko will be destroyed and you all with it… Jacob's lost all control over his powers now. You have to stop him at all costs! I don't know what will happen once he's devirtualized, but…"
"It's our only chance…" Yumi whispered as Jacob finally noticed the four of them below him. He looked at them with those blank, glowing eyes, and let out a fierce cry as he swooped down to meet them…
"Well, I guess this is it…" Odd sighed. "Bonzai!" he yelled as he flew towards Jacob. "Laser Arrow!" he yelled as he shot a volley of arrows towards Jacob, who flew out of the way to avoid them. He then screeched as he charged an Energy Field at Odd, who barely avoided it before circling around behind him…
"I hate to have to do this, buddy, but…" He never got a chance to finish his sentence as Jacob whirled around and fired a lightning bolt which hit Odd square in the chest. Odd moaned as he flew backwards and fragmented, devirtualizing instantly…
"Odd!" Jeremy yelled as Odd reappeared in the Scanner Room below. "He's been sent back here, thank goodness! Do something, quick!" he yelled to Yumi, Ulrich and William.
"We're on it, Einstein," Ulrich replied as he flew towards Jacob on his Overbike. He drew his sabres, and Jacob turned to him, summoning his purple sword in an instant and parrying the blow Ulrich tried to land on him. Ulrich swerved back and prepared to get another blow at him, but in that instant, Jacob was gone…
"What? Where'd he—unh…" Ulrich moaned as he saw the tip of a purple blade punch out of his stomach, and he devirtualized, whispering, "I tried my best…"
"Ulrich's down too! Yumi, William—"
"We know, Jeremy," Yumi replied shortly, cutting him off as she glanced at William. "Double team?" she asked.
"Let's do it," William replied as he and Yumi flew around, William to Jacob's front and Yumi to Jacob's back. Jacob growled as he turned to see both of them, and he decided to focus on William, who charged him with his Zweihander. "Yahh!" he yelled as he swung the massive blade at Jacob's head, but he grunted when he felt something impact his stomach, and he saw purple sparks in his eyes as he realized he had been hit by an Energy Field. He smiled, though, as he devirtualized, because with his distraction, Yumi had managed to get right to Jacob's back, and when he whirled around in shock to see Yumi in front of him, she shot both her hands out and placed her fingers on his temples.
"Remember!" she whispered in his ear as she began to glow with a pinkish aura. She used her psychic abilities to transmit memories into Jacob's head…
—Flashback—
"You saved me," Aelita smiled as she kissed Jacob softly on the cheek. He blushed deeply, and she laughed.
"Welcome to the club, Jake!" Jeremy exclaimed cheerfully as Jacob smiled and thought to himself, "I belong somewhere now…"
"I won't let you hurt him!" Odd yelled as he tackled the XANA-possessed nurse. Jacob looked at the scene as he pressed back into the corner of his room and realized he had friends who would protect him at any cost…
"Look out," Jacob said as Aelita and Ulrich stepped back. He charged energy around his fingertips, and blasted a bolt of electricity from them, wiping out XANA's Krabe army…
"Ow!" Odd yelped as Jacob rolled over and laughed. "These things are supposed to catch mice, not cats!"
"That's what you get for messing with me, Odd," Jacob grinned…
"They saved me…" Jacob whispered as he sat in the Scanner, remembering that XANA had used the Scyphozoa to possess him…
"You did it!" Yumi grinned as Jacob sat back in the chair facing the computer. He had done it! He had gotten them safely to Lyoko on his own!
"Okay, now it's your job to find the Tower!"
"It worked!" Jacob crowed as the Sectors were repaired and the holes began to vanish…
"Run!" he screamed to his friends as he turned to face his enemy…
"I won't leave you!" Aelita yelled as she took the laser blasts intended for Jacob and devirtualized…
"We'll always be here for you, Jake…" Jeremy smiled as the gang circled around him and gave him a huge group-hug…
—End Flashback—
"Ungh…" Jacob moaned as all the memories pierced his consciousness. All of a sudden, the glow began to fade from his eyes and the white aura faded from around him. Jeremy watched from his screen as an alert popped up, but this would prove to be good news as the central structure of Sector Five reformed. The gray orb began to reappear, and once it was safe to land, Yumi and Jacob slowly floated down into the Core Zone until they landed safely on a platform. Yumi looked into Jacob's eyes, and the last of the glow faded as his eyes returned to normal. He moaned something inaudible before swaying and passing out in Yumi's arms. She held him there for a few moments before speaking aloud:
"Jeremy, I think I've got him back. How's the rest of everything look?"
Jeremy scanned everything before replying. "The meltdown in the other Sectors seems to have stopped! Yumi, you did it!" he grinned as Yumi sighed in relief.
"Can we come home now?" she asked.
"Yes," he replied. "I'm bringing you both in now…" he said as they began to disappear in a yellow column of light…
In the Scanner Room, Yumi's tube was the first to open, and she moaned as she stepped shakily out of the Scanner. Ulrich and William steadied her as all of them gathered nervously around the Scanner before it opened in a hiss…
…and in the cloud of steam, slumped against the side of the Scanner, was Jacob. His eyes were closed, and he moaned softly before slumping out of the Scanner, and Odd caught him before he could hit the ground. He breathed softly for a moment before his eyes flickered open and he murmured:
"I'm sorry…"
In the Laboratory…
"I tried everything I could to get there in time, Jeremy…" Jacob sighed as he sat against the wall. "I just wonder—if I had gotten there a few seconds earlier—if I had been a little faster—if maybe…"
"I don't think there was anything you could have done, Jacob…" Jeremy sighed resignedly. "I don't think any of us could have saved her…" he whispered in a choked voice as a tear dripped down his face.
"So, what do we do now?" Odd asked, voicing the question that none of them had wanted to face. Yumi and Ulrich just looked blankly at him, and Jeremy sighed, shuddering as he faced the fact that after all the time they had gone with a perfect record, they had finally lost someone. Suddenly, they were all startled by a beeping from the computer screen…
In Sector Five, a bright light suddenly shot up from the Data Barrier as a glowing orb of light rose from below…
Jeremy ran to the computer and checked the screen, and when he pulled up the radar scan, he looked at it with trembling hands as he stared in disbelief…
"It's not possible…" he whispered in utter shock…
The orb of light rose until it was level with the floor of the Core Zone, and floated over to the floor. It flashed one time before releasing something from within it…
"It's Aelita!" Jacob exclaimed in amazement.
The pinkette lay unmoving on the ground as the orb floated away. It hesitated for just a moment before descending back into the depths of the Digital Sea…
"But how?" Ulrich asked in disbelief as Jeremy laid his head in his hands and cried for the second time that day.
"It was…her father…" he whispered, admitting to himself that the impossible had happened. "Somehow, he survived…again…"
On Lyoko, Aelita was still unmoving, but she thought she heard a voice in her head say, "I love you, my dear…" before she felt herself become lighter…
"I'm bringing her in!" Jeremy exclaimed in joy. "To the Scanner Room, quick!"
In the Scanner Room, the entire gang, Jacob included, huddled around the metal tube, waiting for it to open, and when it finally did, in the cloud of smoke lay Aelita, huddled in the floor of the Scanner. She moaned softly before collapsing out of the door of the Scanner, and Jacob and Jeremy caught her, Jeremy holding her in his arms as she fluttered her eyes and they finally opened. She looked at Jeremy, and then to Jacob; and after a few moments she tried to speak, but Jeremy stopped her as he hugged her close to him.
"It's all right now; you're safe," he sobbed as everyone in the room began to cry…
Once Aelita had finally recovered, the entire gang was in the Lab…
"Aelita, I'm sorry…" Jacob muttered as he looked at his feet. "I just didn't get there fast enou—" he was cut off when Aelita laid a finger over his mouth and shushed him.
"It's okay. All that matters now is that we're all here," she whispered as she hugged him. Once she finally released him from her grip, Jacob turned to Jeremy.
"How's Lyoko, Einstein?" he asked quietly. "I'm sorry that I lost control…" he trailed off.
"I'm working on repairing it. It'll recover. But like Aelita said, all that matters is that we have both of you back with us." At that, Jacob smiled, and turned to Yumi.
"Yumi, the whole time, I could sense all of your guys' love for me…it just shot through my anger. So I want to tell you…thank you for saving me…" he trailed off again as Yumi came over to him.
"You would have done the same for any of us…" she whispered in his ear before she kissed him gently on the cheek, making him blush slightly as Odd yawned.
"I'm getting tired of all this mushy stuff!" he grinned. "Someone say something funny already before I die of boredom!"
"My father's alive after all…" Aelita whispered. "I can't believe it…"
"Neither can we…" Jeremy added as Odd groaned.
"Okay, excuse me while I die of boredom!" Odd laughed. "Hey," he continued, "Since everyone's safe, let's go out and celebrate!"
"Yeah!" the entire gang cheered as they got on the Lift and prepared to celebrate the rescue of their comrades…
Meanwhile; in the depths of The World Network…
"The boy has more power than he realizes…" a voice crackled from the center of a shadowy cloud. "Soon, I will stop him!" the voice growled as a pair of glowing red eyes pierced through the smoke…
LW94: Okay, so Lyoko's saved, Aelita and Jacob are safe, and the gang's all together again! Happy ending, right? Maybe for now… Of course, that also asks the question, what will XANA plot next? Stay tuned to find out! Of course, the only way for you to find out and see more is if you READ AND REVIEW! So do it! Or else! Haha!