Chapter 14. Open War.
Lasers and explosions going off everywhere; the only word to describe what was happening is chaos. Two of the new monsters were charging their lasers and firing them like rockets. One could hear the crys of battle from people and monsters alike. As Jennifer told Aelita to stay back the Overwing was blow right past them. "There's too many" Yumi yelled from across the battlefield. "Jeremy get the satellite in position" Brandon yelled evading the bulky monster that charged him. "Its in position just get clear" Jeremy said. "Five seconds till fire move" Jeremy yelled. The sky lit up as the beam of light fell and sweeped the ground destroying some of the monsters.
After the beam of light dissappated the monsters had stopped firing and stood down. "Why are they stopping?" Ulrich asked very confused since they were still out numbered. "So he wants to show up; its about time" Brandon said. The monsters had cleared a path and Grimm had appeared on the field smiling as usual. Beginning to laugh Grimm had drawn a sword he scanned from Ulrich. "Lets go" Brandon yelled as he charged out from behind his tank to fight Grimm. The giants monsters began to fire their cannons, but Brandon evaded them. Grimm had disappeared before Brandon got to him. "Where is he?" Odd said looking around his arm ready to fire. "Ashley cover XANA" Brandon yelled as he was fighting the ten foot tall menace.
As Ashley moved to protect XANA a rocket was fired and destroyed the other vehicles; with the exception of the thick plated tank which was begging to show heavy damage. "Firing the satellite again" Jeremy said. The once again lit and the beam of light swept the plain once more destroying the remaining monsters. Brandon rand over to the others to keep an eye out for Grimm who was still hiding somewhere. "what now?" Yumi asked. "Everyone get ready" Brandon yelled sensing another inbound strike. Brandon rolled to the side and fired his assault rifle destroying the incoming rocket.
"The next tower is in the eastern part of the region hurry" Jeremy said. "No; we don't need to" Brandon said. "What do you mean?" Odd asked. "Grimm doesn't need towers; I don't know why I didn't realize before. Grimm just wants to wear us out until he can finish us off" Brandon said. "Damn ya got me" Grimm said coming out of hiding. "Now then why don't I give proper introductions" Grimm said as two more of the giant white armored monsters appeared. "These are what I call the Gigas" Grimm said motioning for the gigas' to begin their assault.
As the two gigas' began to attack the group scattered. Brandon began to fire his assault rifle but the bullets were like pebbles against the thick armor of the gigas. The other gigas of the gigas fired its cannon while the other went into melee combat with Karen and Ashley. Brandon stopped to reload while Odd continued to fire his laser arrows at the bomb firing giant. Ulrich, Yumi, and Zhao were fighting Grimm while Toshika, Randy and Jennifer protected Aelita and XANA from enemy attacks.
As the battle raged on Ulrich lost after Grimm swung his sword as a tricked then changed it into Odd's laser arrows. Zhao and Yumi were soon to follow. Yumi was knocked to the ground and as Grimm was about to finish her Zhao had stabbed Grimm with his daggers. Grimm turned and did the same to Zhao devirtualizing him. "This is too easy" Grimm gloated as he watched Zhao being cast from Lyoko. As the fight went on Randy and Karen fell too the superior power of the gigas'. With only seven soldiers left it was becoming obvious that they could not win this fight. "Every fall back" Brandon yelled as he held off the gigas' and his brother Grimm with his Gatling gun and rocket launcher.
"Jeremy where is the way tower?" Ashley asked running with the others. "Its about thirty meters north-east of your current position" Jeremy replied. "What about Brandon is he ok?" XANA asked. "The good news is he is still there, but the bad news is he's out of ammo and is pinned down" Jeremy said typing franticly on the keyboard of the supercomputer. "One of us has to help him" XANA said stopping. "We can't Grimm is after you we have to focus our strength on protecting you" Ashley said. "He's also looking for a way to kill Brandon in the most brutal and painful way possible" XANA argued. "I'll go" Toshika said drawing her blade fans from her pockets. "Toshika no" Ashley said. "I'll be able to cover him long enough to get out of there" Toshika said as she ran back towards the battle.
Grimm could be heard laughing over the loud sound of various explosions. "You are finally out of ammunition my brother never thought I'd see that" Grimm said mockingly. Brandon was crouched behind his tank waiting for them to blow it out of the way. Brandon heard something behind him and turned around, but nothing was there. As he turned back around something grabbed him by his neck and threw him into the tower costing him twenty life points. "What was that?" Brandon said getting to his feet. Something attacked Brandon, but he dropped to his knees and swept his leg across the ground tripping what was there.
As Toshika arrived she looked at Brandon and then looked at the ground and saw a tall green scaly-like monster that had strange blades attached to its arms. "What is that?" Toshika asked. "I don't know, but lets go quick" Brandon said grabbing Toshika by the arm and beginning to run. Once Brandon and Toshika caught up with the others they headed for the way tower. Once they got to the tower they headed inside only to find another surprise.
"Guys, guys can you hear me I've lost your signals on the screen Aelita, Brandon anybody can you hear me?" Jeremy said as the blips that indicated the Lyoko gang disappeared from the screen. "This isn't a tower" XANA said looking around. Brandon began to laugh as the others looked at him with curiosity. "What is funny?" XANA asked. "The fact that you haven't noticed" Brandon said charging Ashley knocking her down and taking her weapon. "DIE" Brandon yelled devirtualising Toshika. XANA grabbed Brandon by the neck and sent electricity through his body then throwing him to the ground. "What's wrong with him?" Odd asked. "That's not Brandon" XANA said. When Odd looked at Brandon he noticed that it wasn't Brandon it was one of the green scaly creatures.
"What is that thing?" Odd yelled. "A new monster it looks like" Jennifer said. "But where is Brandon?" Ashley asked. "This way" XANA said a touching the wall and sending electricity through it destroying the illusion. Brandon was standing there looking at them. "Ya done can we go now?" He asked. "What happened?" Odd asked. "Trap; to us it seemed like the inside of a tower" Aelita said. "To me it seemed like you were just standing there I could hear and see you guys, but you couldn't hear or see me" Brandon said. "Brandon I uploaded some more ammo for you" Jeremy said. "Thanks" Brandon said changing his weapons into an assault rifle and a shotgun.
The gang began to head towards the way tower, but there was no opposition the whole way there. "This isn't right what's going on here" Brandon said. "EVERYONE IN THE TOWER NOW" Brandon yelled. A laser was fired from the trees and Brandon avoided a near miss to his head. "Where did that come from?" Odd yelled. "Keep moving don't waste time" Jeremy said. The gang entered the tower and headed for the ice sector.