Odd finally reached the key and slammed his fist down on it. The key retracted into the wall. "You did it!" Mira shouted happily. The moving platforms froze allowing the warriors an easy passage to the next room.
Jeremy guided them as they ran. Mira lost 30 life points when she got hit in the back by a laser. The creeper was quickly destroyed by Aelita's energy field.
"Thank you" She called to her friend as they continued to run.
They made it out of the man part of sector five. Aelita rushed froward where the screen appeared.
"Mantas to your right." Jeremy called. He virtualized the overbike and the overboard for the boys. They jumped on their vehicles and took off. Mira was about to follow on her scythe when a trail of black smoke stopped her. She turned to see William charging at her.
"Ulrich!" She yelled.
After what had happened the last few times, Jeremy thought it was best if Mira didn't fight William. For some reason though, he always seemed to go after her.
Ulrich made a sharp U-turn heading back towards Aelita and Mira. "Squirt whats going on?" He yelled. She didn't have to answer. He could see her and William going head to head behind Aelita who was oblivious to the whole thing as she gathered Data.
He slammed his overbike into William sending him flying over the edge. Unfortunately, William was caught by a Manta.
"Mira go, I'll deal with pretty boy over here."
Mira nodded and got onto her scythe. She took off flying after Odd. When she caught up to him, she was surprised to see he was being trailed by 3 Manta's. He turned. "Laser arrow!" He hit one of them which exploded but got hit with another laser loosing 20 life points.
He was to easy a target. If only there was something Mira could do!
Mira got a warm feeling inside her chest. Maybe if she could. . .
"Illusion." She chanted. Suddenly there were not one, but 4 Odds all flying away from the Manta's. Mira had to work hard and focus on keeping the copies there, so she was venerable to any attack.
Odd looked over at the copies surprised, which reflected his movements. A Manta fired, taking out one of the clones. Now there were only three of him.
"What's going on?" He yelled.
"Odd it's Mira! She's created some kind of illusion, so use it!" Jeremy called. Odd swerved to avoid an attack which the other Odds did as well.
"Laser arrow!" He yelled, rapid firing at one of the Manta's. That was two down, one to go.
Ulrich was struggling with William. All he could do was his best to hold the guy off so Aelita could finish collecting the Data. "I'm sending the information now Jeremy." She said.
Jeremy watched as the Data was loaded on to the computer. He also noticed that Mira was slowly loosing life points. 43...42...41
"Odd was Mira hit by an attack?" He asked.
"No way Einstein, the only monster left here is after me!" Odd was right, there weren't any more monsters.
He snapped his fingers. That's it! "Odd, Mira's illusion is draining her life points! She's got to be careful, she doesn't have many left."
"I could have told you that Jeremy." Mira's voice answered.
Odd took down the last of the Mantas. Mira sighed with relief and stopped the illusion of Odd with only 35 life points left. She turned to go help Ulrich with William. She landed on the platform behind William who was to busy fighting Ulrich to notice her.
She swung the scythe like a bat, slicing him in half. He was gone. "Thanks Mira." Ulrich smiled. "No problem."
"Alright guys, the mission was a success, I'm bringing you back in."
They were all standing in the lab. The teens were waiting for Mira and Jeremy to explain what had happened. "Can you repeat that Einstein?" Odd asked.
"What Mira did was her power on Lyoko, like Ulrich's super sprint or Yumi's telekinesis. It was an illusion that she created. Unfortunately, it drains her life points the longer she uses it. On Lyoko was create an illusion of Odd. Three of them to be precise. But unlike Ulrich's triplicate, these clones can't do any physical damage."
"And if the illusions get's blasted or I get devirtualized, then it disappears." Mira finished.
"And here I thought that I might just end up not the only one without a super power on Lyoko." Odd frowned. Everyone laughed at him.
"How'd you know how to do the illusion anyway?" Ulrich asked.
Mira shrugged. "It just came naturally for me I guess. I knew Odd was an open target so I just wished for there to be a way to create new targets. The next thing I knew I was chanting 'Illusion' and Bam! Four Odds."
"Well it's a good thing you did. We should probably get going back to the dorms." Ulrich replied.
"I think I'm going to stay here and review the data." Jeremy replied. "Do you want me to stay and help?"
"Sure Aelita, but only for a little while."
Mira, Odd, and Ulrich got into the elevator waving goodbye to Aelita and Jeremy as they left. The three of them ended up walking back together, Mira listening in on Ulrich and Odd's conversation about the Sub-Sonics changing their name to the Sub-digitals.
Mira didn't quiet understand what the big deal was but she decided not to question it.
She kissed Odd goodnight then headed back to the dorm where Angel was waiting for her. "Hey Angel." She greeted. Angel yipped and ran around the room excitedly. Mira laughed as she grabbed a rope to play tug a war with her dog.
After a few more hours of homework and tug a war Mira finally decided that she needed to go to bed. "Night girl." She whispered to a dog that was already asleep.
Mira had another nightmare that night. It was the same one as before. Her friends were making fun of her, then everyone from her past. She was curled up trying to ignore them when the scene changed.
Her parents were trying to close the shed doors when a foot stopped them. It shoved the doors open revealing a person holding a gun. They shot her parents. Her dad's body slumped against the back wall while her mother's fell right next to her.
The shooter stepped forward and raised their gun to the young seven year old girl.
They pulled the trigger.
Little Mira fell to the ground. Blood poured from her body but she couldn't feel the pain. She looked up to meet the eyes of the shooter.
It was herself.
The current day Mira smirked with the gun in her hand. She'd killed her mother, she'd killed her father, she'd killed herself.
And she was happy.
Mira shot out of her bed shaking. Her nightmares hadn't been as bad lately, so why did that have to happen? Why did she have to have such a bad dream? She curled up in her usual corner as tears fell down her face. She cursed. Why did she cry so much?
She reached over to her side table and grabbed her iPod.
It was only 2:47. She'd only gotten about 3 1/2 hours of sleep. Every time Mira tried to close her eyes, she only saw her own smirking face holding the gun.
Mira hit shuffle on her iPod not even paying attention to the song that came on. She just focused on one part of her room and stared at it all night.
After what felt like days her alarm went off. She pulled herself out of bed with a groan. Of course she had gym first period. Mira decided to skip breakfast so she pulled out her phone to text Odd.
Still full from dinner last night some I'm skipping breakfast. Tell Rosa that you can have my serving! See you in gym 3
Mira hit send, sighing in relief. With that settled, she got dressed. She put on her usual gym shorts along with her tank top and off the shoulders green shirt. She tied her hair up with a large black bow and added her DC sneakers. "I'll take you out later Angel." Mira whispered to her dog. She didn't feel like facing the outside world just yet.
After sitting in her bed for about 20 minutes simply mentally preparing herself, she got up and walked down to the track.
Odd waved her over when he saw her coming. She sat down next to him and smiled. "Morning!" she greeted kissing his cheek.
"Alright slackers listen up! I want you running 4 laps around the track, then report back here." He called. Mira got up and took her usual spot in the middle while Odd and Ulrich raced at the front. Jeremy had decided to skip so he could work on downloading them onto the network and Aelita was helping him.
Mira was heading into her third lap when she started feeling light headed. She just shrugged it off. It must have been nothing.
As she finished her fourth lap, it got worse. Her vision was blurring when she started walking towards Jim. Most of the students were back and waiting.
"Conwell, get over here!" Jim yelled.
"I'm coming." Mira whispered. She couldn't stand anymore.
Mira fainted.