Taking the sewers they quickly arrived at the ladder that lead to the bridge. Damien saw the drain lead to under the bridge and slid through the greasy bars.
" Come on," Damien said to everyone then started to move toward the factory from under th bridge. " Anybody up for a swim?" Damien said, forgetting about the water until he saw it.
Aelita looked at the water. " Not really," She said. Odd smiled then jumped in first. Damien smiled then went as well. Ulrich and Yumi shrugged and did the same. Aelita looked off the edge again then sighed. She went in last.
The swam across the river then climbed on the other side of the bridge carefully looking then running in. They avoided the elevator and made their way to the boiler room entrance and soon were climbing down from the crawlspace above the computer. Still shaking off the water Damien took the chair and typed up the location of France Hopper's DNA code again, so Jeremie could guide them from here.
" Odd, Yumi, Aelita, and I will go in. Ulrich you help Jeremie in case my father gets wise," Damien said to him then climbed down the alternate entrance to the scanner room. Odd, Yumi, and Aelita went in the scanner and Jeremie virtualized them, and Damien shortly followed. They all landed in the desert sector and Jeremie sent them to sector five to get Hoppers code.
Odd complained of a stomach problem from the orb before the wall opened and the four of them took off. " Where's the key?" Damien asked Jeremie as they ran through the corridor to the trap room.
" Umm, theres's four of them?" Jeremie said puzzled.
" Nice," Damien said. " Everyone, pick a key," Damien said then went to stop looking around the room.
" There's one," Aelita said.
" Another's over there," Odd said. Yumi saw one as well then pointed it out. Damien saw his own and smiled.
" Go," Damien said then ran toward his. The moment he took a step, he was knocked back and hit the wall hard.
" What the hell!" Damien shouted, trying to stand. Across the room was a creeper. " They're usually not that strong," Damien said to them.
" Guys, that thing isn't normal. It has nearly five hundred points," Jeremie said. It fired again and Yumi tried to block it with her fan that shattered and made her fall back.
" This is bad," Yumi said then stoop up. Damien reached out, then punched his hand into his chest. After a moment he punched in the other one and pulled out two katanas to fight with.
" Seriously Damien, do you have to do that?" Aelita asked.
Odd fired an arrow to see if it would affect it at all. Odd saw a shield arise from around the creeper before contact was made.
" Oh shit," Odd said aloud. The creeper was angry and fired at Odd. " Shield!" Odd's shield held the blast as Odd slid back several feet but didn't topple over. " Again, holy shit."
" Does this thing have a weakness?" Damien asked aloud.
" Doesn't look like it. Two minutes," Jeremie said, reminding them of the timer.
" I'll find the weakness," Damien said. " Let me get a bigger sword. Hold these please," he said to Aelita then handed her the katanas. Damien reached into his chest then a moment later pulled his arms back with a the hilt of a sword. Slowly pulling he was soon holding a six foot heavy sword.
" What do I do with these?" Aelita asked.
" Give me them, my fans are useless," Yumi said. Aelita threw her the swords and swung them around once. " Here we go."
Damien charged then jumped high. Pulling the sword behind his back he swung straight down and hard. He saw the shield make contact with the sword and began to fight against the sword. It held for a few second, before it shattered violently sending Damien back and slamming against the wall. The giant sword impaled Damien while he was up and he began to devirtualize.
" Son of a bitch," he said before he was gone.
" He's fine, the shields down, kill it, Minute thirty," Jeremie said them. Odd began to fire at it, hitting it almost every time, taking down it's life points slowly. It fired at Odd who dove out of the way then began to run as the creeper kept shooting.
Damien pulled himself up from the hatch to the scanner from and climbed into the lab. Jeremie looked at him, then kept helping them in lyoko.
" Do you mind telling me what the fuck that thing was," Damien said to Jeremie.
" A creeper."
" I know what it looked like. That thing is on steroids for christ's sake.
" Xana is attacking with more power."
" I don't think so. That one didn't have an eye of xana on it. It didn't have any symbol," Damien said then sat against the wall. " How they holding?"
" Fine for now, but the timer is running out...and Yumi's out," Jeremie said, watching Yumi's life points go to zero. " Ulrich, get in there."
" I'm on it," Ulrich said then began to climb down the hatch.
" Yumi!" Odd shouted while Yumi devirtualized. It's points were less than half now but it was too dangerous to fight it directly. " Aelita, check the keys, I'll hold him off." Odd said.
Aelita nodded then ran for the nearest key. Odd shot at the creeper getting it's attention away from Aelita who had just pressed a button. At first nothing happen, but suddenly the ground began to shake. The ground beneath Odd was shaking, then at the last second he jumped and the ground below him fell.
" Wrong key!" Odd shouted as other ground fell. Aelita swore to herself then avoided a blast. Diving out of the way she almost fell down one of the holes but grabbed the edge in time. The creeper fired at her, but Odd jumped in the way.
" Shield!" Odd shouted and the blast was blocked, knocking Odd back and against a wall. Odd stood up then looked next to him and saw a key. " Thanks." Odd hit the key and waiting to see what happened next.
Pieces of the roof fell and Aelita jumped out of the way to avoid it just in time. One landed on the creeper, then deteriorated.
" It's weak now guys, less than one hundred," Jeremie said to them. Odd fired an arrow at it to keep the life points dying. " Ten seconds!" Odd saw the nearest key and began to pray it was the right one. The creeper shot at Odd who cartwheeled out of the way then somersaulted toward the key. Jumping up he pushed the key in and the time stopped at five seconds.
The door opened , but the monster still blocked the path. Ulrich came running through the entrance a moment later and jumped to strike it, but was shot back and hit the last key back first. Everyone stood still as they waiting for whatever was supposed to happen to take place.
" Now what?" Odd asked. The floor and the roof began to rise and fall toward each other. Odd grabbed Aelita's hand then ran toward the creeper. Odd pushed Aelita around it and she slid into the next room, but Odd was hit.
" Odd!" Aelita shouted. Ulrich was crushed a second later, but Aelita began to use creation. She created a block to keep the one above Odd up. Odd looked over to her and began to walk on all fours to her. Aelita grabbed his hand just before the block broke and the creeper finally destroyed.
Odd and Aelita were breathing deep and heavy as they just lay on the floor. " Come on, the room is going to crush us if we don't start moving," Odd said then helped Aelita up. The two began to run, and a few moments later the room began to close. Making it to the end easy they were at the terminal outside of the sphere.
Jeremie instructed Aelita on what to do and then a door opened on a part of the sphere. Jeremie materialized the over board and wing and the two entered the room. The room was circular and in the center was a sphere that bobbed up and down, like Aelita's memories xana used to lure them into a trap with.
" That's it. Grab it and go," Jeremie said to Aelita. Aelita walked over to the sphere and grabbed it. It immediately stopped bobbing and vanished in her hand.
" Jeremie?" Aelita asked.
" Don't worry, you still have it," Jeremie said. " Get out of there. I'm opening the exit."
Odd and Aelita rode out of the room with France Hopper's virtual dna and out the exit.
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