CODE LYOKO
Downtown Lyoko
Odd was the last student to grab some breakfast. He said hi to Rosa as she gave him a weird look. Odd wondered why but ignored it as he walked over to his table. There, everyone (besides Sissi) chatted about the upcoming quiz.
"I can't believe we have another science quiz after a week." Ulrich said.
"I know, right? We haven't really covered everything for this semester." Aelita said.
"Ms. Hertz said it's only a review from last week." Jeremy told them.
"Oh, then I'm alright. I already know some of that stuff." Ulrich sighs.
"Man, I have a math test this afternoon." William grumbles.
"Me too." said Yumi.
"Hey Odd, what's up? You haven't touched your eggs yet." Aelita wondered.
A cold chill ran down Odd's spine as he left his daydream.
"Oh, right... Sorry." Odd grabs his fork and chews a bit of his eggs.
"You're acting strange... Odd, Is everything okay?"
Odd's body froze. He tried to hide it, but his body refused to move.
"Yeah, it's okay."
"Speaking of strange, I got stopped earlier." Yumi said.
"What for?" William and Ulrich asked.
"I dunno, some cops wanted me to tell them where a truck went..." Yumi's statement caused Odd's temperature to cool. "...because before that, it came speeding over 200 miles an hour and I ended up falling backwards."
"That's a fast truck." William compliments.
"Did it hit you?" Ulrich asked.
"Nah.. I just fell back because of how fast it went."
"Heheh. Told ya." William said.
"I have good news and bad news. Wanna hear them?" Jeremy said as he closed his laptop.
"What is it?" All besides Odd asked.
"I regained all of the codes for your outfits and powers."
"Really?" They said, including Sissi, who appears out of nowhere.
"Yeah. About leveling up, though, you have to defeat a number of monsters in order to transform into a new costume. Plus, you will get a lot stronger and faster."
"Could you say that in English, please?" Sissi said.
"The more monsters you kill, the more powerful you get." William shortens.
"Oh. Cool."
"I know, right? I can't wait." Aelita cracks her knuckles.
"Huh?" They wondered.
"Oh, yeah. Aelita obtained her powers already."
"Cool!" They said.
"Hey, no fair! We just found out how to get our powers." Ulrich said.
"Sorry, Aelita jumped straight to the scanners right after I finished." Jeremy shot back.
The bell rang. Everyone threw out their mess and proceeded to their classrooms. William and Yumi said goodbye to the rest of the group as they went to math class. Ms. Hertz stood as sternly as possible when Herve tried to throw a paper ball at Nicholas.
"Hey quit it!" He said.
"Oh, shut up. The paper didn't even touch you." Herve shot back.
"Ha, you admitted that you suck at throwing!"
"And you suck at appearance."
"At least I don't suck at society."
"Boys, you are about to 'suck' at this test if you don't behave!" Ms. Hertz managed. The classroom got quiet afterwards. Odd felt fatigued, he couldn't focus well as she passed out the thin packets before the classmates. When he wrote his name down, Ulrich peeks at his ocky handwriting with a raised eyebrow.
"Are you alright buddy?"
"Yeah, I'm alright."
After some scribbling and minor doodling, Odd closed his packet and falls into a deep sleep. Ulrich wondered if he finished, but couldn't tell since his entire head smothered the packet. Ulrich turned back to his packet just as Ms. Hertz looked up to check if anyone was cheating. Then she eyed the sleeping blonde.
"Asleep, huh? That will be an automatic 'F'" she said to herself.
Meanwhile, William was shaking his leg as he waited for the bell to ring. Like Odd, he also scribbled and doodled on his packet, but it took him a while longer to complete. His eyes set on Yumi. She taps her head impatiently as she tries to figure out the last problem. Ms. Meyers suddenly appears out of nowhere and snatches his paper off of his desk while her arm rests on his shoulder.
"Are you finished?" she whispered.
William nods.
"Okay, put your head down." she said as she walks away. William didn't expect her to pop up like that, but he puts his head down. Yumi puts down her pencil and lowers her head.
Time flew all the way to 11:45pm as the students went to lunch. Odd was fully awake right now, as he went to Rosa with a big smile on his face. But his smile partly drifts away as Rosa said hi to him with a weird look on her face. Odd really wondered what was going on as he sat with his group.
"What's wrong, Odd?" Aelita asked.
"I dunno, Rosa gave me a weird look again."
"Maybe she's trying to figure out why you turned from seldom to happy-go-lucky all of a sudden." Ulrich said.
"Speaking of weird, where'd you get the lipstick from?" Yumi wondered.
"What lipstick?" Odd was puzzled.
Yumi came closer to Odd to smell the thin, glossy scent.
"Smells like peach. You dating someone?"
Odd froze again. "What? No!"
"No way." Jeremy said incredulously.
"I never realized there was lipstick on him." Aelita said.
"Are you trying to go out with someone, Odd? Who is she?" Sissi pressed.
"I'm not trying to go out with anyone!" Odd blushes, "Leave me alone!"
"Okay, guys, it's not that serious." Jeremy said.
"WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN,
CAN'T KEEP HIS MIND ON SOMETHIN' ELSE
HE'D TRADE THE WORLD
FOR A GOOD THING HE'S FOUND
IF SHE IS BAD-"
"SHUT UP, WILLIAM!" everyone said.
William seriously had to lay low on Marvin Gaye's The Big Chill album.
The school signaled dismissal as the day ended with an awkward moment when they got their test results.
"I got a B minus." Yumi said.
"I got a B." Ulrich said.
"I got a C plus."
Everyone got a "WTF" look on their faces. He scored a C for the first time, ever.
"How the hell did you manage to pass Ms. Hertz's science test?" Sissi blurted out.
"I just circled all C's on every question." Odd said non-chalantly.
Everyone just stares at him. Jeremy's computer starts beeping. They tensed.
"Well, Xana's on the move." Jeremy says.
Xana-William submerges from the huge lake and shakes off the remnants of water from his hair. The first few buildings were a few meters from him as he saw many figures milling about. He began to enter downtown, passing through a force field as it pulsates. They continued to walk, minding their own as Xana-William passes them. Many unique vehicles drove by as some slightly oversized megatanks with weird vertical markings roll around the area.
"I guess they're police" Xana-William thought.
He was right. An old man tried to slap a girl for calling him "an old piece of crap". The oversized megatank suddenly goes in front of him as it opens up in sections as large turrets protrude out of its sides and legs come out of the middle section, giving it the ability to walk. Inside of it was a patrolman with black clothing with blue streaks. He currently had goggles on with a few icons blinking on and off the lens. Xana-William raised a brow. The man turns around and face the colossal oval-of-a-tank before him.
"What the heck do you want, bastard?"
"Sir, I'm ordering you to stand down." the patrolman said.
"Like hell, I am. She's the one you should tell to stand down, not me" the old man said.
"You committed a crime, so you must be stopped."
"Try an' stop me!" The old man pulls out a metallic object and swings it at the patrolman, who easily blocks it. Then he disarms him, twists his hand and chokes him under his arms. The old man yells in agony, cursing the patrolman for dislocating his arm. The girl looks at the scene in horror as another old man appears out of nowhere with a rifle.
"Why don't you imbeciles leave us be?" He takes aim and fires at the megatank, but it wasn't at all effective. One side of the turret turns back vertically and fires abruptly at the man. The retaliation cause the man to lose a part of his abdomen as it shatters into tiny digital screens. The man groans in pain as he doubles over. Then, the girl slowly turns around to leave. The patrolman enters the megatank with the old man and it closes itself. The turrets also enter the metallic bowling ball as it rolls off to its destination. Xana-William nods in awe as he continues to walk. Then there was static in his left ear.
"...llo? Hello?"
"What?" He asks.
"William" Xana was on the other line.
"Yeah?"
"Where are you?"
"Downtown, why, you miss me?"
"Funny. I found a way to get into Sector Five without alerting its self defense. It won't be easy, though, but it'll be effective."
"Alright. Now what?"
"I'll create pulsations to guide you along the way."
"Won't that alert Jeremy and his friends?"
"I don't care. If they show up and ruin my plan, I will make sure they suffer."
Xana-William tensed. Xana was serious about this mission and she wasn't afraid to quickly decommission the Lyoko warriors. The ground emitted faint rumbles that only Xana-William could hear. Red circles pulsate in a directive manner as he follow its tracks.
The group crossed the bridge as they swung themselves to the elevator. Aelita pressed "down" and the door closes. Apon arrival, the door malfunctions again.
"Man, I really need to fix this thing" Jeremy complains.
"No need." Odd kicks the door and it opens. Jeremy nods as he went to the supercomputer.
"You guys get ready, I'm sending you to Sector Five."
"Right!" They said. The elevator door blocks the lab as they descend to the scanners. As usual, the girls went it first.
"Transfer Yumi, transfer Sissi, Transfer Aelita"
"Scanner Yumi, scanner Sissi, scanner Aelita"
"Virtualization"
Instead of Lyoko scanning them vertically, mini screens come together to form the stand in an empty space.
"Where's Lyoko?" Yumi asked. She was in her second form.
"Why is everything so empty?" Sissi said.
Odd, Ulrich, and William drops near them. Then the open space digitalized itself as downtown was visual. They were now in an alleyway between two short apartment complexes.
"Cool, this is downtown?" Odd said in awe.
"Oh wow, these buildings are huge!" Sissi exclaims.
"Sorry, Lyoko only pops up when all of you are present, unless the cameras don't see you outside." Jeremy explains.
"That's why." Aelita finishes.
"Now what, Einstein?" Ulrich said.
"Xana sent out one of her cronies to steal some vital information from Sector Five. He's on his way there right now. Stop him and devirtualize him."
"Okay, I'm ready to kick some ass." William cracks his neck, but he freezes in place once he realizes that Aelita's appearance was strikingly different.
"Is it me, or does Aelita have bigger boobs?"
Aelita blushes as she covers her breasts in defense. "What!?"
"What the heck, bro!" Jeremy shot defensively.
"What? I was being honest" William said ridiculously.
BAM!
Yumi comically jabbed him in the face.
"Are you 'inspector breast' now?" Ulrich blurts out.
"I just grew a little bit, I'm a higher level now." Aelita said.
Aelita was right and wrong. Her chest grew as well as her abilities and strength. Her hair also grew as it touched her shoulders. Her clothes were loose-fitted which gave her the advantage to move more freely. She was capable of handling moderate situations herself. The only downside, though, her height stayed the same.
"Jeremy after all this, you still didn't give her a growth spurt?" William ran on while rubbing his sore cheek.
"How the hell am I supposed to control her hormones?"
"...good question" William fell silent after that. Aelita giggled a bit. Then Yumi walks off as the rest followed suit. They noticed that there were people walking around. They minded their thoughts as the group did the same... Until Sissi thought out loud.
"What the hell are those things?"
The rest stopped to look where Sissi was looking. There, the huge megatank that Xana-William saw earlier rolls around the area, patrolling for any signs of criminal activity.
"I have never seen a megatank that large before." Yumi answered.
"I never saw a mega-whatever to begin with" Sissi said.
"They grew...but how?" Aelita wondered.
"Xana isn't messing around, at all." Ulrich comments.
"That's not Xana's monster." Jeremy butted in.
"Say, wha?" Sissi, William, and Odd said.
"Huh?" Yumi said.
"I put a special firewall on Sector Five before Lyoko changed, and it's finally taking effect." There was an air of success in Jeremy's voice.
"So it's one of us?" Odd asked.
"Yep"
As the group continues to walk, they reached Sector Five and stands near the tallest building in Lyoko, heavily guarded by tarantulas.
"They're with us, too. I also programmed them." Jeremy said, and Odd lowered his arm in response.
Footsteps.
Odd swiveled himself as he caught sight of Xana's predicted cronie, arriving right on time for his first target practice.
"Odd, what's wrong, oh!" Aelita takes a stance as she also catches sight of her rival. The rest turned around and grabs their weapons as the unlikely battle was going six-to-one.
"All of you are here."
"No way... Even though I left, Xana still misses me enough to make a copy. How desperate." William said.
"How did Xana manage that?" Sissi thought.
"Doesn't matter. He has more life points than all of you combined. Defeat him!" Jeremy informs.
"Piece of cake." Odd takes aim.
"Hm" Aelita hums.
"Alright! All of you can put me up for a challenge. Lets go, I'm ready." Xana-William pulls out his sword, his body glows in the process.
Unbeknownst to everyone, Sissi's eyes started to glow. Her staff slowly protrudes spikes from its tip. She raged inside her mind about the fact that Xana-William looked incredibly horrifying besides William himself. That made her want to delete him as soon as possible. Out of nowhere, Sissi was suddenly right above him as she slams the spiked axe-like staff downwards. As if on cue, everyone charged forward. Not to far away, someone stood watch, metallic tentacles glowing red to fire whenever slip-ups occur. William noticed the shining lights from far away and decides to run off in a different direction, knowing that no one watched him leave.