Agghh soooo sorry for the dealy! Alot family issues and as well as having to move! But we have this chapter up and we're working on the next!
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Chapter 21
It was nearly 3 am when everyone was in the computer room at the factory. The only ones that seem to be wide awake were Jeremy and Aelita, while the others where either sitting down with a zoned out look, or in Keir's case…
"Snore…."
She was asleep, on Ulrich's shoulder, her mouth open as she snored, and was starting to drool…
"Why me?" He thought looking over at Odd who looked pretty smug with a dozing Isis leaning against him, his arm wrapped around her, something rare since the girl wasn't into public displays.
"Can you hurry this up?" Yumi yawned irritatedly. (She wanted to be sleeping against Ulrich)
Keir twitched slightly in her sleep. "…cookies…" she drooled even more, leaning even more so on Ulrich, to the point that she nearly had all her weight on him.
"Damn...so...heavy..." Ulrich grumbled.
"Okay, so are you guys ready to know why I called you all here?" Jeremy asked.
"This better be good," Isis yawned clutching on tighter to Odd like a giant pillow. He was really comfy to rest against.
"Make it quick too." Ulrich said, as he began to attempt shove the sleeping bi-polar off him. The girl whimpered, and clung to his arm.
"Mah cookies!" she snarled in her sleep.
"Anyway," Jeremy said clearing his throat. "Aelita and I finally did it!"
"You guys had a baby!?" Keir cried awakening.
Isis rolled her eyes. "Just hurry up and continue so we can all get back to bed, please!" she groaned irritatedly.
"We made a vehicle that would be able to take you guys into the digital sea…" Jeremy started to explain.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what about the baby?" Keir demanded, still thinking that's what they meant, when saying 'did it'. "Can I be the auntie!?"
Isis once again rolled her eyes as her bi-polar friend made the two Einsteins blush deeply. "There is no baby, you dope. That's not even what they're talking about."
"Aw," Keir pouted before in a blink of an eye she was back asleep on Ulrich's shoulder.
"So is that it, right?" Isis asked making her way to the elevators. "Can I go to bed now?"
"Well I need to explain how the new vehicle works, and what it will be used for...Jeremy started, and went on and on.
'I knew I should've brought some coffee' the red thought as she sat back down beside Odd. "Wake me up when he shuts up…" she muttered.
"Anyway," Aelita said quickly, seeing that the others were slowly starting to doze off. "The reason why we called is because we wanted to test the Skid out."
"Skid?" Odd questioned.
"Skidbladiner," Jeremy offered. "It's a ship of Norse mythology that always managed to get to its destination."
"We're testing a magical boat!?" Keir cried, suddenly behind right behind Jeremy. "Can I drive!?"
"Uh...no and no," Jeremy said. "Aelita will be driving."
"Aw," Keir pouted. "You always play favorites!"
"Can we just get this over with?" Yumi asked irritatedly. Apparently Isis and Keir weren't the only ones who were upset about being awakened so early.
"Yeah, but I'll need to explain…" Before Jeremy could finish, Isis was already at the elevator, with a suddenly hyper and bouncy Keir right behind her.
"You can yap all you want while we're trying the damn thing out…" The red head said, as her and Keir walked into the elevator… well more like bounced in Keir's case.
The others shrugged soon following the two girls to Jeremy's disappointment. He had made a speech and everything about the workings of the Skid.
Isis, Keir, Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, and Aelita all stepped out of the elevator and into the scanner room.
"I call shotgun!" Keir yelled.
"We're not in a car," Isis pointed out.
"Then what is it?" The bi-polar girl asked. "A deathstar? Oooh do I get to blow something up then!?" she asked excitedly.
Isis twitched at her friend's hyperness, slightly envying her sudden burst of energy. "Just shut up and get in the scanner…"
"You ain't the boss of me!" Keir yelled. Isis gave her a pointed glare and Keir was in the scanner less then a second later. "Shutting up…"
Isis stepped into a scanner snapping her fingers. "Come on people. The sooner we do this the sooner I can get to bed."
"You're girlfriend is getting kind of scary," Ulrich murmured.
"ODD GET IN THE FREAKING SCANNER!" Isis growled.
"Coming dear," Odd chucked nervously.
"Whipped!" Keir yelled with a laugh, only to have her cackles muffled as the scanner doors closed shut.
Jeremy immediately begun the virtualization, deciding it would be best not to keep the red head waiting. "Transfer: Isis. Transfer: Odd. Transfer: Keir. Scanning… Virtualization!"
At Lyoko
The second Isis appeared and landing in Sector 5, she was already going on ahead. "Hey waits for me!" She heard her bi-polar friend whimpered.
"Walk faster then so you won't get left behind." Isis said… well more liked ordered as she continued on ahead.
Keir blinked but did as she was told. "Ma'am! Yes Ma'am!" She cried, doing a salute. She quickly glared at Odd. "You heard her solider! Faster! Faster! Left. Left. Left, right, left," Keir sang as she marched after Isis.
Odd sighed as Yumi, Ulrich, and Aeltia landed from the sky next to him.
"Jer, here's a reminder," Odd spoke aloud. "No more missions in the middle of the night. They just make Keir and Isis more..."
"Petulant?" Aelita offered.
"Crazy?" Ulrich said trying to hide it under a cough.
"Heard that!" Both the red head and the bi-polar shouted in unison, though Isis sounded more sinister while Keir was just still hyper.
"Come you all!" Keir snarled, suddenly behind the group. "Get moving before I make you all apart of my yaoi fantasy!" She cackled. Isis and Keir found the others moving much faster after that comment.
"So where are we anyways?" Isis asked looking around the made like sector.
"Sector 5" Jeremy explained. "This is where all information about Lyoko is."
"Yeah yeah, but how much further to the deathstar!?" Keir asked in a whiney tone. "I want to blow something up!" She cackled.
Aelita chuckled as they stepped off of a moving platform and onto a small strip walkway that hung above an abyss like room. "Well," she said pointing at the large machine hovering over the empty space. "What do you think of the Skid?"
"I CALL DIRVERS SEAT!!!" Keir shouted, jumping up and down, only to have everyone yell…
"NO!!!"
"Awes… I won't crash it, or run over anyone… much. I swear!" The girl whined.
"I'll drive," Aelita said. "We still haven't tested it out yet so we don't know if there are still any bugs."
"So basically..." Yumi began.
"We're just crash test dummies," Isis said crossing her arms. "Great."
"So we all might DIE!?" Keir asked.
"Uh, well there it should keep you all safe from the digital sea…" Jeremy started to explain.
"And if it doesn't!?" Keir demanded.
"You pretty much die," Jeremy chuckled nervously.
"That's it," Isis growled. "You just bumped Sissi down from nuber one on my hit list."
"Ha! Don't you wish you didn't skip all those P.E. classes where we had to run?" Ulrich chuckled, as they followed Aelita on a weird shaped looking pad.
"Beam me up Scotty!" Keir grinned as she and the other were teleported inside the Skid.
"Ooooh! Buttens~"
"DON'T touch anything yet." Jeremy said.
"Awww! Keir pouted and folded her arms. "But they're so shiny and round!"
"I promise to tell you when you can press the buttons," Aelita said to the girl from the main compartment.
"Yay!" Keir grinned.
"Well what are we waiting for?" Odd asked.
"Road trip!" Keir giggled.
With a jolt, the Skid dropped down through the opening at the bottom of the room. "Thrusters, on" Aelita said as she drove the Skid out of Sector 5 and into the digital sea.
"Oooo!" Keir said pressing her face against the window. "This is so amazing!" The others had to agree. They never suspected that the digital sea would look like some sort of upside down city.
"Can you guys here me?" Jeremy asked.
"Yes Jeremy. It worked!" Aelita said with a smile.
"Good…" Jeremy said with a sigh of relief.
"Hey look! Fishies!" Keir yelled as she pointed at two eel-like creatures swam towards them.
"Xana has monsters even here?" Yumi asked in disbelief.
"Let's keep swimming, swimming, swimming," Keir sang as Aelita maneuvered the Skid as the eels shot laser at them.
"Hey, Jer, does this thing have any weapons?" Isis asked as she held onto her seat. Aelita's driving wasn't the best she'd experienced.
"Yeah. The pods that you and the others are in can separate from the skid. They're equipped with missiles." The computer whiz said.
"Then let's test that out." Isis said.
"Dose that mean I can blow stuff up now!?" Keir asked.
"Yep," Aelita said dismantling the pods. "Have fun."
"Yay!" Keir clapped as she began pressing buttons at random. "Die! Die! Die!"
"Watch it!" Isis said swerving as one of Keir's missiles almost her.
"Sworry…" Keir said in a childish tone.
"Careful, Keir." Jeremy warned. "If any of you get hit then—"
"Lemme guess, we die?" Isis asked.
"Yeah…"
"What kind of heroes would be if we didn't laugh at the face of death," Keir laughed crazily as she fired at the eels again, missing.
"Smart move giving Keir destructive weapons," Ulrich said rolling his eyes. Right then his pod jolted as Keir rammed into him. " Hey! Watch where you're going!"
"I was watching." Keir said. "It was deliberate for what you said, you tard!"
"Hey can we try fighting the monsters and not each other, please?" Yumi asked, starting to get annoyed.
"Sooner we finish these guys the sooner I can go back to bed," Isis growled aiming onto the eels. "Fire," she growled as her missiles were released destroying one of the eels. "Now where is the other one?" Her pod shook as the other eel fired at her.
"Isis!" Jeremy yelled. "You're shields are depleting. If they go down totally then-"
"Death. I know," Isis said irritatedly. "Ever thought of working for the Grim Reaper
"Mabye you should." Ulrich said. "You're kinda scary when—"
"When what!?" Isis snapped.
"ON BICTH-MODE!" Keir cackled as she chased after the remaining eel.
"Am not!"
Keir dodged and swerved, going after the eel when something from the side shot her. "Ah!" she gasped. "It's the evil twin!"
"Oh hell no!" Isis growled, immediately taking aim and firing at William. Isis wanted her sleep, and wasn't about to let some possessed boy delay it. The red head growled as William easily dodged her attack before ramming into her pod.
"Isis!" Odd shouted fearfully trying to make his way over to her.
Eh shit!' Isis mentally swore as the possessed boy continued to ram at her pod. "Back the hell off already!" She yelled as she fired another missile only to have him dodge it yet again.
"Leave my best friend alone you evil twin!" Keir cried.
Keir tried to maneuver her ship towards Isis but a loud beeping nose startled her. "Keir!" Jeremy called. "You're running out of energy!"
"Say WHAT!?" Keir yelled barely avoiding an attack by one of the monsters. "What do you want me to do about it!?"
"You have to return to back to Aelita or else your shields will give up and you'll be a goner!" the boy explained urgently.
"But my short friend needs help!" Keir protested.
"You won't be much help to her if you're deleted!" Jeremy countered.
"Oh fine!" Keir said with pout, before going back to the skid. "The rest of you guys better be able to help Isis, or else your yaoi meat!"
Deeper withen the Digitel Sea...
'Dammit where the hell am I?' Isis thought to herself. She had finally managed to shake off both William and the monsters but only to get herself terribly lost "Jer can you hear me?" Isis asked only to be answered with silence. "Anyone?"
More silence…
"Well this is just great. Can this get any worse?" as if on cue her ship jolted as it collided into…."What the hell!?" She had rammed into some sort of red capsule with… a person in it…? Isis leaned forward in attempt to better see who was inside.
The person appeared to be around the same age as her, and was female with long black hair in loose pigtails. The attire she was in was red, gold, and green body suit, a helmet with fox-like ears, and she had a fox tail. Her fox ear twitched and her eyes snapped open, slamming her hands slamming against the glass of the capsule causing Isis to jump back in surprise.
"Run!" The fox-girl yelled at Isis and on cue a missile whizzed by, grazing the red head's Ship.
'Shit!' The red head swore mentally, once again dodging the oncoming from a certain possessed boy "Dose this guy ever give up!?"Isis continued to dodged William's missiles but she couldn't help but to look back towards where she bumped into that strange fox girl. 'Was she ok?' she wondered. To her surprise, the strange capsule wasn't where it was before. In fact, it was a ship similar to her own and the strange girl was flying behind William. The boy let out a frustrated growl.
"Leave her alone!" The girl growled, and fired what looked like green lasers at the possessed boy. He dodged the attack but the girl continued on relentlessly. Isis watched this fight take place, but snapped out of it and quickly helped the girl. This strange person surly had to be good if she was trying to get rid of William… right?
Isis pushed her ship against William's, putting it in the line of fire of the mysterious girl's lasers. William's ship rocked shakily as it took the harsh damage. There was no way he could keep this up for too long. As the fox girl prepared to make another attack, the boy dodged quickly behind Isis, using her ship as a shield. Both girls' eyes widened as the laser shot towards Isis. Her pod jolted has it got hit, and lights flashed on her screen, warning that her shields were getting too low. "Damn…" she cursed before glaring up ahead at William. "You asshole!"
The boy merely smirked. He was already getting away. The fox girl didn't chase after him. Instead she maneuvered her pod next to Isis. "He has escaped," she said.
"Yeah," Isis nodded before turning to the girl. "Who are you anyway?"
The girl thought for a moment, as if trying to remember. She looked back at Isis and said, "My name is Kitsune."
"Kitsune, huh? I'm—"
"You're Isis. Yes I know."
The red head raised an eyebrow "How did you know my name…?"
Kitsune thought this over but only to shrug. "I don't know. I just do…"
Isis gave her a disbelieving look. This girl seemed weird but at least the good weird. "So I have a few questions for you, two of them being why were you asleep in your little pod thing and if you know your way out of here because I'm kind of lost."
"I'm not sure why I was asleep, however I do know my way around."
"So you'll help me then?"
Kitsune nodded. "Of course I will! Besides, Ali is probably getting worried now."
Isis gave her a strange look. "Should I ask how you know about Aelita or do you not remember that either?"
The fox-girl smiled sheepishly. "Sorry I have no idea about that either…"
"Uh...ok. Well you help me get out and then I'll try to help you remember what happened to you," Isis said with a reassuring smirk.
Back on Earth...
"Have you people found my short friend yet?" Kier whined.
Aelita sighed "Not yet Kier, we're still looking."
"Well you guys better find her! You promised you would!"
Aelita let out another sigh. She really couldn't blame Keir for being impatient now. They all were, especially Keir and Odd, and wanted nothing more than to have Isis safe and sound back on Earth, or, at this point, at least safe on Lyoko. Odd sat on the floor staring intently at the back of Jeremy's head while he anxiously tapped his fingers against his leg. He wanted to go back, to look for her, but the Skid couldn't repair itself on its own and in such a short amount of time.
"Um hello? Anyone there?" A voice of certain red head could be heard.
"ISIS!" Both Odd and Keir shouted at the same time, nearly knocking over Jeremy when they ran over to the computer to talk to the red head. Aelita gave the shoved boy a concerned look before she turned her attention to Odd and Keir who were yelling at the screen.
"Hello?" Isis's voice called out again despite the two excited teens' responses. It was then that the two realized that she couldn't hear them because they didn't have a mic...a mic on a headset...a headset on one unsuspecting computer whiz's head...
The two teens looked at each other for moment before both making a grab for the headset, causing Jeremy to yell in surprise. "Hands off Oddball, I had it first!" Keir sneered, yanking on the headset via Jer's head. "She's MY best friend!"
"Hey let go before you break it, Crazy!" Odd yelled back as he tried to shove the girl away.
"That's Ms. Crazy Princess to you!" Keir retorted. Odd took a momment to raise an eyebrow at the girl before he continued to fight over Jeremy with her for the prize of the headset.
"Ack! Can you guys try not to yank my head off in the process!?" Jeremy yelled as they went on fighting over the headset he was wearing.
At the Digitel Sea
Isis and Kitsune sweatdropped when hearing yelling in background as well as Jeremy yelling to stop. "Er what is going on?" Kitsune asked. "And who are the screaming people?"
"That would be Odd and Keir nearly killing Jeremy over trying to talk to me…" Isis said rolling her eyes.
"Hey who's that second voice?" Keir's voice asked. It seemed she manage to win the tug-o-war batter over the headset.
"I made a new friend," Isis said looking back at Kitsune, hoping she was indeed actually a friend. Something in the back of her mind, though, told her that her statement was true and that she could trust this girl. "WHAT?" the two girls heard Keir scream. "I was replaced? So quickly?"
Isis rolled her eyes "No one is crazy enough to replace you Keir."
"Damn straight!" Keir said. "Wait what..? HEY!"
"Keir can you get Jeremy on the line?" Isis asked tiredly. She really just wanted to go back to bed.
"See?" Keir sniffed. "You don't even want to talk to me anymore."
"Look, Keir. The quicker you get Jeremy the quicker he can get me back to Earth to talk to you as much as you like." Isis knew she was going to regret saying that later...
"Okay fine!" Keir went to do as she told but… "Uh Four eyes is kinda KO'd at the moment…" she laughed nervously.
"What the heck did you and Odd do to him!?"
"NOTHING!" both Odd and Keir's voice said at once.
Kitsune watched somewhat amused at the red hair girl's irritation. These friends of hers seemed like quite the interesting bunch.
"Get Aelita on the line then," Isis said all patience virtually gone.
"Fi—" Before Keir could finish, Aleita had taken the headset and put it on.
"Are you alright Isis?"
"Other then highly annoyed? Yeah I'm fine." Isis said.
"Hey Ali!" Kitsune chimed.
"Hm? Who is that with you, Isis?"
"Her name is Kitsune," Isis said looking at the fox girl. "She seems to know you but she doesn't remember how. Actually, she doesn't remember much."
Kitsune looked down. "Yeah…" she looked back over at Isis. "Anyways now what?"
"Well I'm going to go back to earth—"
"Wait… you're leaving?" Kitsune asked, looking rather upset.
Isis nodded, "I kinda have to."
"You can't!"
Isis blinked. "Eh? What do you mean I can't?"
Kitsune shook her head. "You just can't! I can't help you if you leave!"
"What do you mean by helping me?" Isis asked giving Kitsune a strange look.
Kitsune looked down again. "I'm not really sure… it's just a feeling..."
Isis sighed. "Hey Ali is there any way to have her come with at all?"
Aelita bit her lip. It wasn't the smartest choice to randomly bring an unknown occupant of Lyoko to the real world. Though, like with Isis, she felt like bringing Kitsune to Earth wouldn't be a bad thing. Besides, the super computer wasn't giving out any warning and Jeremy was knocked out so...what was the harm? The more the merrier, right? "Alright we can give it a try."
Isis nodded. "Okay got it." She then looked back at Kitsune. "There you get to come with."
Kitsune looked a little nervous "To Earth?"
Isis rolled her eyes. "No, back to the future." It was obvious that she just wanted to leave. "Of course to Earth," she said at Kitsune's confused face. "We can't just leave you here with Xana."
Later...
The second Isis stepped out of the scanner she was glomped to the ground by both Keir and Odd. "Ack!...missed you two too…"
The scanner opened up, reveiling a girl laying on the ground all curled up "The scanner had a baby!" Kier gasped.
"Ugh... wha?" The girl sat up, rubbing her head before looking down at herself. She was wearing a pale yellow and pink shirt, denim jeans and black and whit sneakers. "Wow..."
"The baby said it's first word!" Keir exclaimed, hugging the girl.
Isis sighed, "Keir that's the same girl I was with in Lyoko..."
Keir blinked "Oh... BEST FRIEND STEALER!"
Before Keir could say anymore, the elevator doors opened revealing a now awake Jeremy. When he caught sight of Kitsune he jumped in surprise. "Who is she?" he demanded.
"Jeremy, calm down," Aelita said walking towards the boy and placing a comforting hand on his shoulder. "This is Kitsune."
"She's the AI I mentioned that helped in the digital sea" Isis explained.
"You mean saved your butt?" Ulrich asked with a smirk.
Isis glared. "Shut it..."
"Look, can we discuss this later?" Yumi asked. "We only have a couple of hours left before we have to get ready to school. Isis immediately perked up at the statement. "I second that. All that agree say 'aye'!"
"Aye" came from everyone except from Jeremy, and a rather confused Kitsune.
"When did this become a democracy?" Jeremy muttered under his breath.
"Since we wanted sleep." Isis said heading for the elevator, Kitsune following after her. What else was the AI supposed to do?
"And what about her?" Jeremy said pointing to the A.I.
"Shush!" Isis said placing a hand over the boy's mouth. "Sleep now. Talk later."
"Sleeping Shorty has spoken!" Keir declared. Isis didn't even had enough mind power to respond to that 'short' comment. Her thoughts were filled with the nice bed waiting for her back at the dorms.
"We'll figure it out after class Jeremy. For now lets just let Isis have her sleep." Aelita said assuredly.
"What she said..." Isis mumbled, and entered the elevator, pressing a button. "Now time for SLEEP!"
Well we promised plot development and we gave 8D And this AI seems to know Aelita and Isis! O: How so you ask? You'll have to wait for the next chapter X3