I'm back with another chapter! That last chapter was something. The world's worst enemy, Ze. And the evil version of the Lyoko Gang. Looks like they have some issues. And let's not forget Ze's right-hand man, Scar. And what's this about a project to resurrect Xana? Well, I'm just gonna shut up now, and write the chapter. But first, here's Midna with disclaimer.
Midna: Naruto'sramengirl does not own Naruto, Code Lyoko, or Zelda.
Here's Chapter 12: Resurrection
Everyone was sitting around silently. Ulrich had just told them the name of his worst enemy. Ulrich seemed to be sadder than ever. Dolslik was the one to break the silence. "Did he have anything to do with what happened to Leslie?"
Ulrich took a long breath. "Yes." he paused for a while."He's also the one responsible for Ariku and," he turned to the Lyoko Gang, "you'll learn about them later."
"Why didn't you tell us?" Sonrick asked Ulrich.
"I . . . I wanted to, bu-but I . . . I didn't want to make you guys sad." Ulrich answered.
"But Ariku and Leslie were our best friends too. And they helped us like you he did you." Sonrick replied.
"So what's your point?" Cam said.
"We had a right to know who was responsible too." Sonrick stated.
"I wanted to. I just couldn't deal with the fact that they were gone." Ulrich said.
"But we still had a right to know!" Sonrick's voice began to rise. Several people in the restaurant turned their heads towards the table.
"But they . . . I just couldn't . . . bare the pain that they were gone." Ulrich replied.
"It was hard on us too, Ulrich." Dolslik stated.
"But it was harder on me."
"Harder on you? We had our moments of pain too." Dolslik's voice began to rise also. And more heads turned towards the somewhat loud table.
"You know what I mean." Ulrich tried to explain his self, but was in no mood to do anything.
"We know what you mean. Just because you were the one with the problems, doesn't mean that it was harder on you." Sonrick said.
"It's just that . . . I . . . but you don't . . . never mind." Ulrich slouched into his seat, and stared at the wall.
"See. You don't have a real reason at all." Sonrick said."I can't believe you wouldn't tell us."
"What kind of a friend are you?" Dolslik stated. "You've changed."
"Shut up!" Burrick blurted out. The entire restaurant was quietly staring at the usually shy boy."Sorry." Burrick said to all of the onlookers. Everyone went back to doing whatever they were doing."Look," Burrick began, "Ulrich should have told us, but it was harder on him, and you should know that!" Sonrick and Dolslik sat there and hung their heads."Leslie was Ulrich's first friend and best friend. Before he met her, Ulrich was extremely shy, and couldn't speak much English. But Leslie helped him. If it wasn't for her . . . we might not be friends with Ulrich now. She was the crutches under Ulrich's arms. But Ze decided to break those crutches in half. Ariku."Burrick started on the other girl."When Leslie went into that coma, Ariku was the one that helped him get over his sadness. She was the wheelchair in Ulrich's life. But it just wasn't enough. That's when he comes in." Burrick took a look at Ulrich. He seemed to be comforted by Burrick sticking up for him. Burrick took a deep breath, and began again."That man was like a father to all of us. He was Ulrich's cast. He did his best to make sure that no harm came to Ulrich. But Ze ripped the cast off of him. He burnt it into a crisp. Ariku tried her best to make Ulrich happy. And she was doing pretty well. Then Ze decided to make Ariku his slave."Burrick took another breath and began."Ze diseased Ariku. A disease that could kill her whenever Ze wanted her to die. He made Ariku hate us. And he made Ariku try to kill Ulrich. He knocked the wheelchair right from under Ulrich. And all Ulrich could do was lay there in the dirt, crippled. We had no problems that needed to be solved. We didn't need that much comfort. But Ulrich did. And to make things worse, Ulrich witnessed all of those sad moments and more. You two should be ashamed of yourselves. Ulrich has been through things that no 14 year-old should ever have to go through. And you're not making it any better. We came here to help Ulrich. And that's what I'm going to do." Burrick folded his arms, and put on the most determined face he could muster up.
All eyes at the table were now on Ulrich. He seemed sad, but was smiling at Burrick's comforting words."Thank you." he whispered to Burrick. Burrick just smiled, and did the thumbs up gesture.
"You're right."Sonrick replied."I'm sorry Ulrich. I guess I'm just a little upset that you didn't tell us."
"Yeah," Dolslik began."Same thing here. I'm sorry, Ulrich. It must have been hard living through those tough times."
"I'm glad that everyone's happy. But what is going on?" a very dumbfounded Sam asked.
"Oh yeah," Odd began."You don't know what's going on. I'll explain everything to ya later, but could you promise me to keep everything you heard a secret?" Odd pleaded.
Sam smiled and answered, "Anything for you, Odd." After that, everything went smoother.
"How did you know about me witnessing what happened, and Ariku's disease?" Ulrich asked Burrick.
"Well Cam told m-me about . . . it . . . he showed me . . . the v-videos." Burrick seemed to be out of his non-stuttering state, and back to his normal self.
"Well I'm glad he did." Ulrich smiled at Cam.
"I had to tell someone." Cam said.
"So who is his next target?" Aelita asked.
"I don't know." Ulrich replied.
"I think it's a girl." Sonrick stated.
"Shut up, Sonrick." Cameron said.
"No, I'm being serious here." Sonrick answered back."The thing is Ze attacked two girls and a man." He paused for a bit, and continued. "All of the victims were older than Ulrich. So I think it's a girl who is older than him." Sonrick concluded.
"You may be right, but that would mean that it was Saiyushi, Kelly, or me." Yumi commented.
"There are two other things that Sonrick forgot." Ulrich said."I wasn't related to the victims, and they all helped me in their own way."
"So it's Yumi?" Cam asked.
"How do you come up with that?" X asked Cam.
"Well Ulrich has known Saiyushi for more than three years, but not Yumi." Cam replied.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Biggs asked Cam.
"Ulrich knew the victims for at least a year and a half. Three years for Ariku and Leslie." Cam stated."Besides, I think Saiyushi would have helped Ulrich a lot more than she has, and Ulrich seemed happier when he met Yumi."
"I met everyone around that time." Ulrich pointed out.
"Good point." Rick said.
"So is it Yumi, or not?" Sonrick asked.
"We don't know." Sonrick answered."We'll worry about that later. What we really need to worry about is how we protect the new target."
"I think this is where we come clean." Rick said as he smiled to his older sister.
"What?" Jeremie said. His interest in this conversation was building.
"We'll show ya outside." Kelly began smiling as she stood up from her seat.
Everyone walked outside, and into the densest part of the forest."So," Rick began, "who wants to go first?"
"I do!" Saiyushi spoke up raising her hand. She ran in front of the group and said, "Look what I can do. Sonrick, look at Yumi." Sonrick turned towards Yumi. Saiyushi snapped her fingers, and a red glitter seemed to have gone inside of Sonrick.
"You are HOT." Sonrick said to Yumi. Yumi became a little nervous.
"Ulrich, your friend is scaring me." Yumi whispered to Ulrich.
"What is it my love? Don'tcha want some action with the main man?" Sonrick said.
"Get away from me creep!" Yumi yelled as she slapped Sonrick. Saiyushi snapped her fingers, and red glitter came out Sonrick.
"Whoa, what happened?" Sonrick asked.
"You flirted with Yumi. What else is new?" Ulrich plainly said.
"What did you do?" Yumi asked Saiyushi.
"I made Sonrick fall in love with you." Saiyushi answered.
"I still think you're hot." Sonrick commented
"So you can make people fall in love with other people?" X asked.
"Yes. I can do that and more because I'm a witch." she happily stated.
"No you're not." Sonrick said."You're a very nice lady."
"She meant the kind of witch that does magic." Dolslik said.
"Oh." Sonrick answered."I knew that." he said as he smiled.
"Now I go." Ijiyo said. He stretched out his hand towards a tree. All of a sudden, the tree uprooted, and floated up into the air.
"Wow." X said as he smiled a toothy grin.
"So you have telekinesis?" Odd asked.
"Yeah, I'm a psychic." he answered."I can also see into the future, read people's minds, and harm people mentally."
"Ok, stop hogging the spotlight." Rick said."It's my turn." He walked over to a tree and began punching it. His punches were slow, but he began throwing them faster and faster. He was punching the tree at the speed of light.
"Super speed. Now that's cool!" Sonrick exclaimed.
"With super strength to boot." Biggs added.
"My turn!" Kelly said as she moved in front of the group. She rubbed her hands together, and worked her magic. She waved her hands towards Sonrick in a magical sort of way. Then Sonrick dropped onto the floor, fast asleep.
"You made Sonrick fall asleep?" Dolslik asked."What kind of super power is that?"
"Wait." Kelly said. She stretched her hand towards Sonrick. All of a sudden, Sonrick was writhing on floor."I can give people deadly nightmares."
"She's everyone's worst nightmare now." Rick said. Kelly glared at Rick.
"You better sleep with one eye open." she threatened him."I CAN hurt you."
"In your dreams." Rick said.
"No, in your dreams." Kelly said.
"Before you two kill each other, you mind explaining what's going on?" Jeremie asked.
Rick looked at all of the kids in front of him. Then he looked at Ulrich."We have super powers that can hold Ze off. And that's just what we'll do." Rick asked.
"Is that going to be enough?" X asked mainly asked to Ulrich.
"I don't know." Ulrich pondered.
"That's not all we can do. That's just the theme of our super powers." Ijiyo assured the younger members of the group.
"Good. Well this has been a big day for me." Ulrich answered. Everyone said their goodbyes, and went their separate ways.
THE NEXT DAY
Ulrich got up from his dreamless sleep. He looked at his clock. It read 7:00. He sighed and got out of bed. He put his clothes on, and walked out of the dorm that he and Odd still shared. He went towards the middle of the forest, and took out a medallion. It was silver and had black letters on it that read GLAA. He pointed it towards the sun, and a beam of light came from the sky and down towards the ground. The beam seemed to have burned a whole into the ground, and made a portal. He jumped into the portal, and then he was falling through what looked like an endless pit of white. Then he finally landed. He stood up, and took in his surroundings. He was in a park that belonged in a city. He walked off into the busy streets of the big city.
Franz was being dragged into a large lab, filled with machines and chambers. The guards dropped him in front of an old woman. She was short and smelled of chemical waste. Her hair was wild, and she had a lazy eye in her right one. She dressed more like a fortune teller with her blue and purple robes covering her small body.
"Ahhh, you must be the new specimen." the old woman said."You must have done something horribly wrong for the master to order you to be used in the XRP."She walked off to a table that had many chemicals that were in many colors. She took a red one off the table, and continued."XRP. That stands for Xana Resurrection Project. A project that has killed many of my patients. But I think I've got it this time." She made Franz drink the red liquid, and he began to turn pale and he seemed weakened."Put him in the chamber."The guards dragged him to a chamber in the left corner of the lab. It was a large cylinder, and looked like a large, transparent version of the scanners. She pulled a lever, and the top of the chamber began to let out electricity. Then the electricity went inside of the chamber, and shocked the evil Franz. He screamed in agony, as the electricity surged through his body. The electricity seemed to have died away, and the door to the chamber opened. Franz fell out of the chamber feeling aftershocks every now and then.
"Good. He survived." the woman said."Put him on the table." The guards put him of a table that was in the middle of the lab. They strapped his arms and legs with metal curved bars."This is the fatal part."She and the guards walked up the stairs that led to a sort of observation level. She pressed a few buttons on the computer, and the table lurched upward to the level of the female scientist. The table rose into a room that was hanging over the lab. The scientist then pulled another lever, and black smoke filled the room Franz was in. He began screaming for his life for he knew what would happen next. The smoke went inside of him, and he felt pain like no other pain had been felt before. It felt as if his soul and spirit were being ripped out of him. Then black electricity filled the entire room. The scientist could only see the electricity filling up every inch of the small room as Franz screamed in pain. He couldn't bare this kind of pain for long. But he lost all of his senses. The black electricity burst out of the room, and destroyed every machine in the room. The scientist pulled the lever down, and the table descended towards the ground. The smoke cleared, and in the middle of the now destroyed lab was a pile of scrap metal. Then a black hand stretched out of the scrap heat the black figure pulled him out the pile, and now he was standing on top of it.
"I have been reborned! I have been fused with my physical being, and with my artificial being. I am the ultimate . . . I am the powerful and the intelligent . . . I am Xana!" This Xana had completely taken over Franz's body. He was now completely black, and had piercing red eyes. The scientist ran off to fetch Ze. The warlord came into the room just in time to hear Xana's speech.
"It's . . . beautiful." he smiled his most devious smile, and stepped toward Xana. He turned towards the evil professor."You have done something that no evil scientist has ever done before. You have fused the demon Xana with the AI Xana. You have created the most powerful Xana ever. You will be rewarded handsomely for a job well done. Now get out! I want to be alone with my new pet." The evil scientist stepped out of the lab, and Ze looked at the black figure in front of him."Xana! Kneel before your master!"
"Master. Is this my old master?" Xana growled.
"Yes. It is me." Ze answered.
"I will do your bidding, master." Xana said.
"Good. Now here's what you're going to do. You are going back there, and let them know that you're back and better than ever." Ze said."Don't kill them; just rough them up a little. Let them get a taste what you can do. But after that, we will rage war. But DON'T kill Ulrich. You'll bring him here to me."
"Your wish is my command." Xana said. A black lightning bolt hit Xana, and he was gone.
"Where's Ulrich and Cam?" Odd asked the others. They had just finished eating lunch, and no one had seen Ulrich or his brother all day.
"They went for a walk in the town." Rick lied. They were actually at the GLAA, but the gang could only know so much about the organization, and he knew the truth would bring up more questions.
Everyone was on their way to the factory when a black thunderbolt hit the spot right in front of them. The smoke cleared, and a black figure appeared in front of them.
"Hello boys and girls. I'm back and better than ever." Xana said.
"Xana?" Jeremie asked in fear.
"You got that right." Xana answered.
"How did you get a body?" Aelita asked.
"Technically, I always have and haven't at the same time." Xana replied."Now let's get started."
He threw a black lightning bolt at Kelly, and she took it full blast. Ijiyo stretched out his hand, and Xana started clutching his head. Odd ran up to Xana, who was now kneeling on the ground, and kicked him right in the head. Xana had his eyes shut at this point, but opened them in an instant. A flash of lightning shot out and hit Ijiyo. Xana ran up to Odd and began punching him. Jeremie grabbed a large branch and hit Xana across his back. Xana stopped punching Odd, and walked up to Jeremie.
"After all these years, you finally decide to fight. Well it's too late!" He swung his arm across the boy's head, and Jeremie flew through the wind and hit a tree.
"Blaze!" Saiyushi yelled. From her hands, fire shot forth, and Xana took the blast and hit the ground with force. He got up just in time to get stuck in a small twister formed by Rick from running in a circle. The wind was strong, and ripped Xana's skin open."Blaze!" Saiyushi shouted. The fire hit the twister, and became a flaming twister. Xana was now on fire, and the wind was opening up his flesh. He stretched his hand towards the sky; a large black lightning bolt hit the flaming twister. Rick was hit by the great explosion caused by the lightning, was now tossed aside by the strong wind. Xana ran right into Saiyushi's face, and put his hand in front of her face. Black smoke came out of it, and Saiyushi fell to the ground, knocked out.
"Is that the best you can do? Xana taunted as he walked towards Aelita. She tried to punch him, but he grabbed her by the wrist, and flung her towards a tree. Yumi did a roundhouse kick to his neck, and it landed with great force. Xana was writhing with great pain. He grabbed Yumi by the shoulders, and she felt a surge of electricity go through her body. She fell down, unconscious.
"What's going on!?" Sonrick yelled.
"I'm through with this! DARK FLASH!" A giant ball of black energy appeared and started expanding around the forest. Everyone was hit, and fell down, defeated."If this is the best you can do, then you'll all die!" Xana looked around at everyone."Where's Ulrich." no one answered."Never mind that. You guys are pathetic." All of a sudden, a man kicked Xana in the head. Xana looked at his attacker, and was shocked."YOU!"
"You got that right." The man was tall, and had a built structure. His black hair reached the bottom of his neck, and was spiked at the end."Now get out of my universe!" the man said.
Xana glared at the man, and burst into black smoke. Xana had been chased off by this mysterious character.
"Who are you?" Jeremie asked.
The man smiled. "I'm the founder and leader of the GLAA. I'm Z Dragon."
That's it. Who's this Z? You know him, and he's not supposed to have an e at the end of Z. You'll have to find out on the next chapter! And Please Review!
