A/N: I will try to update more often. It's been getting harder to write. So much crap is happening I'm getting writer's block. Very annoying. Oh well, let's see how this turns out.
Disclaimer: The name Sons of Plunder is owned by the amazing group Disturbed from the song of the same name on their Ten Thousand Fists album.
"Tanaka! They're retreating!" Lari yelled. "We've won!"
"No we haven't. Get ready. Seventeen waves are coming at us at once. Virtualizing as many soldiers as I can." Tanaka said, his hands moving just as fast as the supercomputer's CPU. He was virtualizing so many creatures at once, he was outdoing X.A.N.A. by far. "You know what guys? Let's see just how long we can keep X.A.N.A. down. Let's push him all the way back to Terathea!" Tanaka said, his heart pounding. At least, it would if be he had a physical body.
"Are you sure you guys can do that Tanaka? X.A.N.A's gotten really powerful!" Aelita asked fearfully.
"Well we need to go around all the areas anyway to deactivate the towers right? Why stop there? Why not take this war to X.A.N.A.? We may not have enough warriors now, but once you separate to go and deactivate the towers, we'll have all the soldiers we need. Fan out, deactivate all towers. I'll handle our little virtual pal." Tanaka said, taking the material of the tower and forming it into scimitars and full plate armor. "And so the Sons of Plunder strike!" he called out, lowering down to the ground level of the tower.
"Tanaka. I've been looking for you." X.A.N.A. said. "You've given me quite a hassle. Deactivating all my towers which I worked so hard to activate. And now you've stolen my data. I've come to take you into the data sea. Come now Tanaka. It's time."
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! Really X.A.N.A.! You really think I'm gonna just come along with you?" Tanaka said boldly.
"You have no choice, if you value your friend's life." He replied.
"TANAKA!" cried a familiar voice from a viewport in the side of the tower.
"LARI!" Tanaka screamed. "No, that's not Lari. I tied my card to her DNA code. I know when she is in danger. She's off fighting Bombs in the Astral region. I've tied myself to all my friends, both Lyoko West, and Lyoko East. You've been outsmarted yet again X.A.N.A. The only way you're gonna get me to come with you is by kicking my ass, which is not gonna happen. Let's go you virtual coward. Come and see if you can beat the Sons of Plunder!" Tanaka said as he began to glow black. Several blobs of material just as dark emerged from the floor of the tower, taking the shape of Tanaka.
"Sons of Plunder? Really boy. You are nothing compared to me!" the virtual tyrant yelled, calling up many more copies of himself. "I'll be seeing you as random pieces of stubborn code!"
"NOT EVEN WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER!" the Sons of Plunder yelled at once, drawing their scimitars. The real Tanaka's mind raced back through his memory…
"Until we're found…" Lari said sorrowfully.
"We fight unbound" Tanaka finished…
"FOR YOU LARI!" He called out, the other Sons of Plunder standing back. They slowly dissipated, almost like they were just a show. Tanaka's scimitars slashed through so much virtual flesh in the next three seconds that the blades would have been a solid blood red in reality. Tanaka's hands could not even be seen to any other warrior. Aelita, watching through a visual from Tanaka, was amazed. She knew then, that they had won this war.
"Grah?" the real X.A.N.A. cried out as he felt the bite of a scimitar. Impossible! I'm not even there! He thought in his deepest programming. Being an AI, he was able to instantly retrieve any information he wanted on the internet, or any other electronic source of data. He searched desperately for something about the way Tanaka fought, but he found nothing. Not even the most experienced hacker would, for the information was simply not there. This was Tanaka's personal style, one no one had seen before. "WE WILL MEET AGAIN!" came the virtual scream as the clone disappeared.
"Yes, I will make sure we do." Tanaka said to himself more then to X.A.N.A. He went back to the upper level and set the program to automatically create one thousand soldiers of each kind, all to every single entrance to Terathea. "I hope you'll be ready. I'm bringing everything I've got to take you down."
"Tanaka! The Astral region is clear!" Lari said through their connection.
"Good. Get ready to go to Terathea. This may feel strange, I'm altering your Virtualization card. You'll feel like you're being stretched. I'll be waiting for you guys there. The Dweller out." He said, smiling warmly. At last, it's all over. Now I'll be able to take my attention and put it towards getting Lari with me.
