Episode 79 More Then They Asked For
"Hurry up and take out the Scyphozoa William! It is blocking out our target!" Odd shouted.
"I know. I'm getting to it. I didn't think Sector Five would be this tough." He slashed through the Scyphozoa. He destroyed it. "All right. Should I hit the key?"
"Nah. I got it." Yumi said as she hit the key and opened the path.
They all ran through as two interfaces showed up instead of just one like usual. Rob took the right one and Aelita took the left. "Remember, we're looking for any information on Franz Hopper, Xana, or the Internet Virtualization Code. Oh and if there is anything about shutting down the four main sectors to XANA. If we can find any of those we send them to Jeremie for analysis."
"I got it sis." Rob started to to search.
"Well you two had better make it fast because here comes the second wave. Mantas." Odd said looking over and aiming with his arrows. "Accurate Arrow!" He hit one of them as they emerged from their nest.
"Any help you can offer would be nice William." Yumi said as she sent her fans towards the newly hatched nest of Mantas.
"I know. I am just waiting for them to merge." He saw them merge together as more came out. "Like that." He charged up his sword and then he swung sending out a huge energy blade that slashed through the merged Mantas. "Easy."
"Nice shot. Good timing on that too. How did you get so good in only a few days?" Odd said as he kept firing at the Mantas.
"Just thought about what I could do differently." He aimed for another Manta and swung again destroying it.
"Aelita and Rob, you two are running out of time in there. I am going to send your vehicles now so pull out of the interface."
"Just a few more seconds Jeremie. We almost have something really good." Aelita found part of a sequence code but by then Rob had pulled out after retrieving about six or seven pieces of the same sequence.
"Just hurry up and get out of there. You two take up too much machine power to get the vehicles to materialize." Jeremie stated.
"Fine. I just want to find another part of this apparent sequence." She found one more and pulled out. "All right."
"Here come your vehicles."
"Sweet." Odd and Todd jumped on the same board, one facing the rear and the other facing foreward; obviously driving.
William and Dan got on the same bike in the same fashion as Odd and Todd as did Yumi and Cura. Aelita and Rob got a lift on a new vehicle; the Hover Sphere. It looked like a giant bowl that could pull up a shield for a little bit that could only take so much damage before breaking. They all started to take down the Mantas at once.
"All right, I'm pulling you guys back out now. Good job." He pulled them back in from Lyoko. "Great job all of you. Especially you William. You have gotten a lot better all ready."
"Thanks Jeremie. Any idea where Kurt went?"
"He said he went to go get some supplies. We might be down here for a while at this rate."
"Ok. Well anyway, I think I should keep going to Lyoko and keep improving." William stated.
"Well you are all ready improving and you can only so much with what you have now." Odd stated. "The rest of us all got upgrades to our powers and weapons. Curtacy of Kurt. But don't worry. If you get an upgrade then you will have some fantastic powers."
"Right." William looked over at him from the corner.
"You know in that light he seems a lot more like Ulrich then I would have thought he could seem." Odd stated to Yumi who in her way of answering held up a fist and then aimed for his arm that she all ready injured. He stepped away. "Forget I ever said anything."
"For now you guys should go get in some quick shut eye before XANA decides to launch an attack."
"Ok." They all headed to the school and on their way they saw something they weren't expecting. A boy with brown hair, a black open t-shirt over a light green shirt underneath, and a pair of brown cargo pants... Ulrich.
They didn't realize it was him. That allowed him to brush right by them and without saying anything. He headed for his dorm room that he and Odd had shaired and laid down on his old mattress. Odd entered the room and was shocked. "What are you doing here?"
"What do you think I'm doing here Odd? I'm trying to get some shut eye. I still haven't forgave you yet..." Odd started to raise his finger. "And before you ask, no, I'm not coming back to the gang."
Odd lowered his finger. "Have you seen Kiwi?"
"Yeah, he's over here with me. He hasn't forgotten me." He let him off the bed. "There you go Odd."
"Thanks Ulrich... Umm Ulrich."
"Yeah."
"I am sorry about getting carried away all the time. I really am sorry. So ever since you left I have been being more careful on Lyoko and in school."
Ulrich took a few moments to think about that. "Nice job Odd. Sounds like you really are sorry."
"By the way. Are you going to come to class again?"
"Maybe. I don't know. And if I do then don't rely on me sitting with you."
"I didn't intend to. I still have a lot more making up to do to you. But as of right now I am only interested in trying to patch up our friendship."
Ulrich turned to him on his side and fell asleep.
Odd sneaked out of the room and ran to find the others. "You guys! I have news about Ulrich!"
They all spit out their drinks and Yumi grabbed his collar. "What?! Tell me Odd!"
"He is in my dorm room sleeping. He might start coming to class again. But he doesn't want to come back to the gang."
"You have to try and convince him to come back Odd!" They all shouted at him.
"Please, I'll be lucky if I can even get him to forgive me for what I did and be my friend again."
"I don't know. He might find it easier to be a part of the gang again rather than be one of your friends again. No offense." Aelita said with with a hand up.
"Plenty taken." He looked down and kicked at the dirt. "I really screwed up. I have to try and make it up to him some how. I will someday and after that I will try all that I can to try and get him to rejoin the gang and help us to take down XANA."
"That's good to hear. Well I'm going to bed. I might as well get in a nap before XANA launches an attack." Todd said.
"What I don't get is why XANA chooses to attack the way he does. I mean think about it. Before he took over Xana thinking that we would kill him and if Xana died then the other XANA would also die. Why would XANA choose such a target?" Aelita pondered.
"Maybe he just got bored." Ulrich said as he stepped towards the despenser. He picked out a cup and then poured himself a drink after he put his money in. "Oh and Odd..."
"Yeah?" Odd stated worried.
"If you're gonna sneak out again try to be more quiet about it. I woke up a few minutes after you stepped out." He looked over at Yumi and then back at Odd.
Yumi ran up to him and gave him a big hug. "You don't know how happy I am to see you! It seems like its been years since I saw you last."
"You saw me just last week. That is when I quit." He took a sip of his drink and threw out the cup when he realized it gave him the wrong thing. "I guess I might see you guys around." He walked off waving his hand and then he turned to look at Yumi one last time. He stared at her for what seemed to be forever but was only a few moments. He smiled at the sight of her and then continued to walk.
Yumi smiled to herself but hid it.
"I don't get it." Sissi began.
"What don't you get?" Yumi asked.
"Why does he love you so much? You aren't that great of a match up for him anyway. I would be way better for him."
"Can't you just stop being jealous for about ten minutes of your miserable life? Even I see that these two aren't meant to be broken up." William said. "But that doesn't mean that I won't still help you guys out. I made a commitment to help stop XANA and I will do just that. Whether or not it will help me win Yumi's heart doesn't matter anymore. What does matter is the safety of the world." He smiled. "I will no longer drag on about how much I want to be with you Yumi I will just do what I said I was going to do and help get rid of that scum XANA."
Yumi smiled on the outside again. "Thanks William. That means a lot to me. It really does."
"I know. I just don't see a point as to trying to get you to dump Ulrich and go out with me. I see how happy you are when you're with him so I won't bother." He smiled. He looked around and then looked up as the sun went high into the sky. "It is about noon now. If we spent five hours in Lyoko then that means we were all up before six thirty."
"Why is does it have to be that time? Why couldn't it be six fourty five?" Aelita asked.
"Well think about it this way. That would only give us all fifteen minutes to shower, dress, eat, get to the factory, and be virtualized. We spent an awful long time in there though. And who knows, we might have tired XANA out to the point of not being able to launch an attack today."
"Now that would be cool." Yumi said. She smiled again as she looked over in Ulrich's direction as he opened the school doors. "I think I'm going to go take a quick rest too." She started to walk in that direction but soon after it turned into a run.
"Do you think she is going to chase after him?" Odd asked William.
"Nope. She just wants to go to sleep and act like him leaving was just a dream that she can't wake up from."
"But if she wants it to be a dream why would she want to go to sleep?" Odd asked still confused.
"You don't get the context of it. You see they say that, 'in a dream, if you go to sleep in a dream then you will awaken in reality.' Kind of a weird idea but if it works then fine by me. I hate seeing her sad. Especially when I can't help."
Sissi was actually moved to tears. "That is so sad and yet so beautiful." She looked at William. "Where did you hear such an idea?"
"My aunt when my uncle died. She said she just wanted to go to sleep and make it all a dream. Then she gave me a book full of hypothiseses and I understood from then on."
"Wow. That must make you an expert on explored ideas that were never really proven." Odd stated.
"You got that right." He said ruffling Odd's goofy hair.
He smiled while William messed up his hair, which was odd, even for Odd. "So I guess we have some work to do."
"Well all we have to do is wait for Jeremie to call us when he finishes analyzing those codes." Aelita stated.
"Or when XANA decides to launch an attack." William stated.
"Great point. Now I have to take a nap worrying that the new big brother is lurking over my shoulder." Odd stated shivering. "Let's just go back to our dorms and go to sleep for a little bit."
"Right." They all said and headed off. They all left their phones on for just in case.
Odd went to sleep on the opposite side of the room that he and Ulrich were in. He hadn't wanted to try and change his old friend's mind but he didn't want to just let him sit there making a big mistake. He didn't do anything as a result. He just layed there and eventually fell asleep.
About six hours later their phones went off awakening them all at once. "I have news for you guys. Get down to the factory now."
They all got to the factory a few minutes after they got the call and got down to where Jeremie was. "What did you want to tell us?" William asked for the group.
"Well it is good and bad. Good news is I have managed to analyze the codes that Aelita and Rob sent me and I found that it was actually a part of the Internet Virtualization code that we wanted in the first place. Problem with that is that it has been split into a total of fifteen codes. We have nine of those codes but we need the other six to even be able to test it out. Another bit of good news is that I finally managed to improve the scanner for active towers and attacks by XANA to the point of being able to actually predict precisely when and where the attacks will happen and what tower it is. Problem is that it will only tell me when he is about to attack about twelve minutes ahead of time, and yep, you guessed it, he is about to launch an attack in six minutes. The Tower will be somewhere in the Ice Region and you can guess it, the Scyphozoa will be ready to give you a warm welcome."
"Oh great. So are you sending us right away?" William asked.
"Well that was the point of your quick rest, so you could be ready if he was going to launch an attack." Jeremie said as he turned to the computer. "I will stay here for this mission. When Kurt gets back I will go in. Until then you guys will have to go on with out me."
"No problem. Just start up the virtualization and send us in." Odd said as he and the gang headed down without hesitation.
"Right. Step in now." Jeremie said as he started it up. "Virtualization."
They all showed up. "Sweet, that was faster than usual."
"Well I had one more piece of good news. I managed to improve the speed of your virtualization. Here come your vehicles." The vehicles showed up and they all took off. "William, you keep the Scyphozoa busy. It turns out that the tower XANA is going to activate is going to be the way tower. That means if he traps Aelita then he can gain the partial core. If he gets four of those then it is game over as the core will be reborn."
"Right, then it means that he could take me over again and make me destroy Lyoko, like I did before." He took off on the bike ahead of the others. He eventually reached the tower and found, to his expectations, the Scyphozoa. He hopped off sending his bike flying into the Syphozoa and then he jumped onto it and jammed his sword into the sphere head of the Syphozoa and jumped off its head as it finally exploded. "Done. Hey Jeremie!"
"Yeah?"
"Do we have to wait for XANA to activate the tower or can we just let Aelita go in?"
"We can't let her just go in. If XANA manages to to take over the tower while she is in there then it could mean that he could get a hold of all of our data which wouldn't be good. Just keep a look out for monsters and when the tower becomes red let Aelita go in."
"Oh great, more waiting. Can't XANA speed it up a bit?" William asked a little upset that they still couldn't go in the tower and just get rid of the attack.
"Well he has about a minute left before he takes it over. Just wait patiently for it. Find something to do. Swing your sword around just for the heck of it." Jeremie stated.
William sat down and looked up at the tower. He was waiting for it to be active so they could deactivate it.
Odd practiced his aim with his normal arrows and then he shot at one of the incoming monsters without even realizing it.
Jeremie saw this and he realized it was go time. "All right guys. Defend the tower. There is a huge swarm of monsters coming your way. Just get rid of them. Odd took out one of the Crabs but that was only one of the monsters."
"Right Jeremie." William started to get ready as he finally stood up and took the left side of the tower.
"William, what are you doing?! That is where the biggest group of monsters are coming from!" Jeremie yelled.
"That is my plan. Take out the most I can." William took off towards the monsters as fast as he could. When he got near enough he started to spin around taking them all out with his sword.
"Wow, William sure is getting serious. He just wiped out all of the monsters on that one side and he is still going around. He is intent on taking out all of the monsters before they get to you guys." The tower turned red. "Now Aelita, while William is taking care of the monsters you take care of the tower!"
"Right." She ran into the tower and deactivated it.
William destroyed all the monsters and sat there. "Ok Jeremie, it is safe for Aelita to..." He looked up at the tower as it went back to normal. "Oh, never mind. Just rematerialize us."
"Ok but the last time I checked I don't take orders from you guys."
"Right, I'm sorry. Could you please rematerialize us?"
"Sure thing." Jeremie rematerialized them all and when he finally finished doing that he found that the tower had given them something else. "What is this?" He analyzed it. It was a piece of the Xana antivirus they were looking for. He turned around when the others got up to the same room of the factory. "You guys I have more good news."
"What is it Einstein?" Odd asked.
"Well it appears that since you guys were able to deactivate the tower so soon after XANA activated it, it gave us a special part of a special key code we needed."
"Which one?!" They all shouted together.
"The Xana antivirus. It is only a portion but it is useful because now I can inject the data into either Aelita or Rob when they go to Sector Five next time and that will help them to find that exact key code and if they can find that key code then the rest will be surrounding it."
"Oh I get it. So it is basically bait for the rest of the code." Odd stated.
"Precisely Odd, by the way, nice understanding of it." Jeremie said.
"I am a lot smarter now that I actually study more often." Odd stated with his arms spread out and up near his head. "I feel like my head is now ten times bigger."
"Well actually for you to have picked up this much knowledge it would have to be about one hundred times bigger considering how small it was in the first place."
"Well haha. I'd like to see you back before you started studying." Odd stated.
"I never study. Well ok, I ocassionally study."
"Well anyway you two, this piece of the code is a very powerful piece of information. In this mission we deffinitely got more then we asked for." Jeremie said as he looked up and smiled.
