A/N: I'm gonna change my writing style for this chapter. In your reviews, could you guys say if you like this one better or if I should stick with my old style?
My heart throbs with barely withstood agony, my eyes burn with sorrow beyond what most could hide. Masked in anger and lack of sleep, my soul becomes hard and cold as steel. All that has happened has permanently changed me, for better or worse, I don't know. How the Hell should I know? I'm no damning psychic! X.A.N.A. was the first to decide to piss me off, and now, he'll feel my pain a thousand times over! Tanaka thought angrily, channeling all of his pent up rage and hatred, but even more fueling was his sorrow. Watching silently as the enemy army closed in slowly, another X.A.N.A. clone taking point position, Tanaka's eyes turned to a deep, endless black. "Guys, get out of here. Go to the activated towers, I'll hold them off as long as I can. I'm the only one ho can do this so you might as well save our world before too many die of whatever cause X.A.N.A. has thought up this time. Hurry up! And Lari. Ich leibe du, errenierrst das."
"We can't just leave you here Tanaka!" Kimi yelled loudly.
"You've been a great friend to us all. We will fight by your side, with or without your consent." Ulrich said firmly.
"Thanks guys, but our world is more important then my safety. Besides, it's not like I'm without backup." Tanaka said firmly, gesturing to the immense army behind him. "Go and deactivate the towers. I'll be able to send fairly small squads with you. Good luck guys."
The showdown came to the initial standoff, both armies facing each other, trying to intimidate one another. Useless as it was, seeing all soldiers were virtual and could not feel fear, it was a necessary protocol of war that was programmed into X.A.N.A. when he was first created. For several agonizingly long moments they stood like this, the best example of the phrase 'the calm before the storm.'
With an eruption of cries of pure anger, the Lyoko army of horrors came to the height of their show, weapons all held high, bows nocked and pulled back, rifles loaded and ready to fire, and muscles tensing in anticipation. The tension didn't seem to reach Tanaka, for he was simply standing there in his dark armor, smiling like a villain who had finally gotten his way. He was about to vent so much of his anger and hatred and pain that he was already gathering it into his heart. His grip on his swords strengthened to the point where, if he was in the real world, the hilts would have been crushed. His head lowered slowly, as if he was giving his respects to the dead. A single, blood red tear fell from his eyes as his head shot upward, and his army burst forth from their positions, still organized even as they met the enemy's front lines. Arrows whistled through the air, the clashing of virtual steel on virtual steel ringing across the broken plain. "And so, the Dragons of Sorrow take back what is theirs." Tanaka said as he walked calmly into the fray.
"I'm in the Forest region!" Lari exclaimed after killing the bomb that awaited her. She knew, somehow, that it was there and ready to fire as soon as she came out. She found a motorcycle waiting for her, preprogrammed to take her to the activated tower, turrets taking out any pursuers. Her thought wandered, from the danger her world was in, to the extent of the damage she must have done to Tanaka for his immense imagination to have come up with those horrors he calls soldiers. Climbing on, a strange barrier swung around her to protect her from the turret's fire.
"I've arrived in the Glacier region!" Odd said as he walked out of the tower. He saw a bomb turning around so he dived behind a nearby rock.
"You've now got an infinite amount of arrows so don't worry about wasting them!" Tanaka's clone said over the comm. The rock shook and cracked, and with another red blast from the bomb, collapsed into dust.
"Cool! That got really annoying, thanks for getting rid of it!" Odd said, sending five arrows into the bomb's insignia.
"Meadow region secure!" Ulrich called out from the inside of the Meadow tower. "Wasn't too much trouble getting here. Just a bomb and a few hornets and krabs." He added, walking out.
"Good. Why don't you go help Yumi out? There's two towers in her region and she's gonna have to fight three bombs to get to the second. She's in the largest tower in the Mountain region. It's a newly created tower on the summit." Tanaka's clone instructed, showing him a visual of Yumi's current location.
"Alright Tanaka." Ulrich said, departing right after those two words. I almost said 'Alright sir." Why? He thought as he passed through the datastream. He seemed almost like someone I should say that too, like a higher-ranked military guy or something. He felt hard ground underneath his feet, and found that it was cold. He looked around and saw that he was in the scanner room! The scanner had locked behind him.
"Tower's on our side now Tanaka! I'm coming back to you!" Kim called out, jumping off the side of the tower's landing. She too, woke up outside of a locked scanner in the real world.
"Forest region secure, falling back to your position." Lari said, falling over the ledge inside the tower. She was the third to awaken in the real world. "What's going on? Did X.A.N.A. do something to the towers?" she queried, finding Ulrich and Kimi at the terminal.
"No, the history says that Tanaka modified the transport program. I have no idea what the rest means, but I think this is his doing. It says remote access and I know that means Aelita didn't change the program." Ulrich replied, calm and collected as usual. The elevator came down again, and the other Lyoko warriors walked out, all but Tanaka.