What Should Have Happened in Code Lyoko Chapter 21: Episode 20, a code lyoko fanfic

Episode 20: The Robots

Okay, Important Announcement! These things are getting longer and longer to produce. Since I've been putting in more detail, these things take a lot longer to produce for you guys. It doesn't help that I have to go back into the ones I have already written up until episode 25 and add in more detail. I am editing in more and making brand new ones on a daily basis. Because of these details, I have to watch the episode again to remind myself of what happened, where I occasionally find new scenes I can create. I then have to edit them all and delete some parts I no longer like.

This is a very long process and with the added detail the length of these episodes is doubled in almost every single case. For this reason, episode 24 will be posted as multiple parts, so I have time to edit everything. Also, since school is starting up again, I may have to update every other week in order to still be able to produce quality content for you all.

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The group is gathered in Jeremie's room before the robot show that afternoon. Jeremie has called them all in to his room in order to give them a sneak peek at the new robot. "I'd like you to meet Kiwi Two." Jeremie says proudly as a lithe metal dog walks towards his friends. The dog is small and flawless, no metal pieces sticking out of it and no signs of being designed by a middle school student.

Yumi bends down to look at the robot and frowns. "It's great Jeremie," she says. "But wouldn't your time have been better spent on materializing Aelita so that we can kill Xana?"

"Yumi!" Jeremie says sounding scandalized. "Priorities!"

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Yumi bends down and looks at the robot. "Hold on, Jeremie." She says slowly. "How exactly did you manage to do this? It looks so professional and you did this all by yourself in a period of about a month at most based off of your previous statements. Keep in mind that most schools take about half a year to build something that looks like crap to play a simple game and you accomplished that in a quarter of the time with minimal effort. How are you not at some genius engineering school?"

Kiwi Two begins to urinate on Odd and Odd looks over at Jeremie with disgust. Jeremie shrugs. "I didn't have time to take him out," he says, smirking as he does so.

"Really," Odd says. "Tell me, exactly why did you install that function onto the robot? How will it help you win the tournament at all? Doesn't it seem like a giant waste of time that would have been better spent on; oh I don't know, teaching it how to play basketball?"

The group begins to walk outside for classes and Odd frowns slightly. He keeps the door open as everyone else passes through and holds an arm out when Jeremie attempts to follow. "Hold on Jeremie," Odd says, stopping his friend at the door. He motions all of his friends to keep going and they shrug and head down the hallway, looking backwards as they do so before stealthily hiding behind a corner to listen in on the two.

"What's wrong Odd?" Jeremie asks.

"Well I have to ask this and I didn't want to embarrass you in front of everyone," Odd says softly. "But you do know how basketball is played don't you?"

"Odd," Jeremie says sounding affronted. "Of course I do!"

"Really?" Odd asks. "Because I don't know a lot about it, but what I do know is that you built a four legged animal robot to play a two legged sport."

"How is this a problem?" Jeremie asks.

"Well the only feasible way that this dog can possibly hold the ball and move towards the baskets is if it holds the ball in its mouth, which of course means that it can't dribble. This means that the robot you built can't play the sport it was designed for and should be unable to compete."

Jeremie looks stunned and his eyes widen in horror. "You're right!" he whispers. "How can I get out of this? Everyone will think I'm an idiot!"

"Exactly." Odd says. "Therefore, we are going to take Old Yeller out back and make it have an accident. How about that Einstein?"

Kiwi Two pees all over Odd's pants and Odd recoils in disgust, narrowing his eyes at Jeremie. Jeremie smiles balefully at Odd before turning to his friends, "He needs an oil change every day." Jeremie says happily.

Odd frowns. "Disregarding the fact that you have just ruined this pair of pants, which seem to be the only pair I own, in a stupid, selfish prank, don't you think that needing an oil change a day is really inefficient?"

"It's a joke Odd." Yumi says flatly. "Right? It's a joke right?"

The robot Xana has built makes its way up from the mechanical center of the factory and begins to make its way up towards he Super computer. It is directed into the elevator where it hunches over to avoid hitting its head on the ceiling. It enters the room where the Super computer waits. Xana clutches at the Supercomputer and begins to gather information. Huh. Xana thinks. This makes no sense whatsoever. Let me break it down. How exactly does my robot arm manage to gather information from the Super computer. I'm simply clutching it. And even if my arm penetrated the metal and went into the wires, how does that get me any information?

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The robot Xana has built makes its way up from the mechanical center of the factory and begins to make its way up towards he Super computer. It is directed into the elevator where it hunches over to avoid hitting its head on the ceiling. It enters the room where the Super computer waits. Xana clutches at the Supercomputer and begins to gather information. Huh. Xana thinks. This makes no sense whatsoever. Let me break it down. Even if I managed to break the shell and somehow get information through the wires, how exactly am I getting pictures from the computer of everyone at Kadic Academy? Did Jeremie load pictures of everyone on there? And if so, for what reason? It couldn't have been Hopper, he has been with me for years now, long before any of these people were at the school. So why are the pictures on here?

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The robot Xana has built makes its way up from the mechanical center of the factory and begins to make its way up towards he Super computer. It is directed into the elevator where it hunches over to avoid hitting its head on the ceiling. It enters the room where the Super computer waits. Xana clutches at the Supercomputer and begins to gather information. Huh. Xana thinks. This makes no sense whatsoever. Let me break it down. Why do I even need these pictures? I don't! I mean, I'm right here and my robot claws are obviously strong enough to pierce strong metal, so why am I not destroying the scanners physically? There are so many other great things I could be doing instead of this!

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Xana clutches at the Supercomputer and begins to gather information. Huh. Xana thinks. This makes no sense whatsoever. Let me break it down. Why do I even need these pictures? I don't! I already know what these people look like! I've never had any problems with tracking them down before! The bees, the rats, the teddy bear for God's sake! All of them knew what they looked like, so why am I wasting time?

And even if it's because I am in a robot right now, does that matter? The robot is still inhabited by me, Xana, and since I know what they look like, so should it. Bringing up the other attacks I've done, why do I even need to do this? It just seems like I'm trying to make this attack longer and more dramatic than it needs to be.

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Xana clutches at the Supercomputer and begins to gather information. Huh. Xana thinks. This makes no sense whatsoever. Let me break it down. How did I manage to build such a great robot? I'm not saying I can't do it- no I'm a genius A.I with a god complex, I know that. However, I can only do that with certain quality tools and time. And this factory looks like it's been inactive for at least ten years or more, meaning many of the metal parts I used would have been rusted and unusable. Also, this factory looks like a car factory so none of the parts here would be sophisticated enough to create this robot. Evidence comes from my vision, which is perfect, if not a bit red. That's impossible! Nothing about this situation makes sense!

The heat of the robot competition is on. The game has just begun and Jeremie stands tall and proud as he maneuvers Kiwi Two around the field. Herb's robot, a disgusting abomination that is meant to look like his beloved Sissi, manages to keep pace with Kiwi Two, despite having a terrible design that would drag it down tremendously.

Herb grunts like a maniac and twirls his controls around. Wow," he says happily. "It sure is a good thing I learned how to pilot this thing so quickly after having so many problems with it earlier!" Suddenly his robot begins to swear and he grunts more, twirling his sticks around. The robot crashes into the wall and explodes violently, pieces of Sissi hair flying around the room. "What!" he gasps in disbelief. "How! How did this happen?"

"Well what did you expect?" Jeremie asks happily, directing Kiwi Two to win the game. "You were moving the control sticks around in every direction but forwards, honestly I'm surprised you made it to the finals with that! I don't know if you've noticed but, forward movement is generally controlled by moving the control forwards, not by jerking it around like a crazy person."

Herb snarls angrily at Jeremie. "Well how exactly are you controlling yours!" he asks angrily. "That thing has four legs, shouldn't it have four controls?"

"Herb," Jeremie says smirking at Herb as the school begins to chant his name. "In case you haven't noticed, I'm a genius. Normal physics and rules simply don't apply to me."

Aelita runs from monsters on Lyoko panting as she does so. She nearly trips over a rock but manages to right herself in time. She has been running for a few minutes now and is beginning to wonder why she left the safety of the tower in the first place.

"You know." Aelita gasps out as she is chased by Bloks. "I'm beginning to think that maybe if I wasn't so dependent on a man to do literally everything for me, I would be able to fight back and develop more as a person so that I'm not so damn irritating all the time with my inability to take care of my self. I've been reading the internet, and as it turns out, men tend not to like helpless, lecherous women."

Seriously, this woman is always whining to Jeremie about everything! She never does anything for herself unless Xana's monsters aren't around. She is so pathetic in the first two seasons I honest to god want to enter that world just so I can slap her in the face and force her to stand up for herself. And she only gets better by the 4th season and even then she still has her moments. Evolution seems to be doing a little more to make her more of a real person, but more on that later.

Milly and Tamia come up to the group who are trying to cheer up a despondent Jeremie. "Hey," they ask. "We can show you what happened if you'd like."

Jeremie sighs and his friends nod behind his back. Milly and Tamia bring out their video camera and begin to play the video. They fast forward through the beginning game talks and the game itself until the final 30 seconds of game footage. The video shows Herb's robot gaining on Kiwi two as the robot closes in on the winning point. Suddenly, Robo Sissi's mouth splits open and a metal nut flies out, colliding instantly with Kiwi Two's back, the robot exploding instantly.

Jeremie and his friends watch the video in shock. "One question." Yumi says. "How exactly did you two manage to get those camera angles all on this one camera when you didn't move?"

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Milly and Tamia come up to the group who are trying to cheer up a despondent Jeremie. "Hey," they ask. "We can show you what happened if you'd like."

Jeremie and his friends watch the video in shock. "He cheated!" Jeremie growls angrily.

"So now what Einstein?" Odd asks in concern. "We have video evidence that he cheated, are we going to show this to Mr. Delmas and get him disqualified and possibly suspended?"

"No." Jeremie says. "We aren't going to do anything like that. That would be far too reasonable."

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Milly and Tamia come up to the group who are trying to cheer up a despondent Jeremie. "Hey," they ask. "We can show you what happened if you'd like."

"Wow," Yumi says finally. "What shoddy workmanship."

"What?" Jeremie explodes, spinning around to face the Japanese girl. "What are you talking about? Kiwi Two was the model, the messiah, of robot engineering!"

"No it wasn't." Yumi says. "It exploded from being hit with a low power projectile. Let's face it; Herb hit it with a nut. That shouldn't make a robot explode. It didn't go inside the robot and damage it internally. It didn't rip a hole through the robot. It made the thing explode, there was nothing left of Kiwi Two when it got hit. Meaning that it is your fault that it blew up. Well, that's not technically true, seeing as he hit it. But your shoddy workmanship caused it to blow up. What, did you pack a bunch of pressure mines inside the robot or something? There's no way that should have happened!"

As Odd picks up a large metal pole, he faces against the large twenty foot tall robot. He gulps audibly and he swings the pole directly at the robot, which grabs the pole and swings it around. Odd immediately flies off of the pole, losing his grip as he begins to swing immediately, flying across the room and smashing through the window of the gymnasium, glass flying through the air as his body crumples. Yumi gasps in horror and shock as the robot casually throws the pole aside and advances on the warriors.

Ulrich turns to her and rolls his eyes, "Well I'm not entirely sure what you were expecting, the robot clearly showed his strength when it busted through the door like tissue paper, there is no way that Odd could have held onto the pole without either releasing it or having his arms dislocated at the least, ripped off at the worst." Ulrich shrugs, "honestly, this was to be expected. Shame though."

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Odd lays in the corner as he tries to shake off being flung about the room by the robot. He soon recovers and runs towards his friends, holding his head in pain. As the robot advances on the group Jeremie begins to issue orders."Yumi and Ulrich, you two stay here to try and neutralize that thing." Jeremie commands

"Wait, what!" Ulrich yelps. "Why?"

"Because you two are the most physically fit ones here and have the best chance, seeing as you have actual fighting skills." Jeremie says.

"And you saw how that robot fell down and all but exploded from you throwing a small toy basketball at its face." Odd says cheerfully. "Face it; this thing is weak as all get out."

"Also," Aelita chimes in from the computer. "You have to stay because based on all the previous attacks, your school will not attempt to call the police, the army, or any other service that could fight off some malevolent force."

Ulrich sighs and looks at Yumi. "You ready?" he asks.

Yumi smirks. "Ready as I can be."

As Odd is virtualized Xana looks on from above. You know. He says. Why do I not send some Hornets and shoot them when they are being virtualized or while they are landing? That way they would be killed before they could do anything to stop me.

Odd and Aelita finally reach the tower to see some of Xana's monsters already gathered there. Odd groans and shakes his head in frustration. Aelita begins to make her way forwards towards the tower but Odd holds her back. "Let's make a little detour." Odd says as he sees the monsters by the edge of the platform closest to the tower turn towards them menacingly. Luckily, the two aren't spotted and they hide once more.

Aelita pulls back on his arm and stops. "Why?" she asks.

"Because the monsters…" Odd says slowly.

"But you have weapons." She points out. "And since you are a long range fighter and you have the element of surprise, just take them out. It will be easy and then I can use my powers to make a nice safe bridge towards the tower. In fact," she says happily. "We can skip the fighting and I can just use my powers to make a bridge a little ways away from the monsters and we can safely walk over to the tower with no problems!"

"You are being really helpful today." Odd says suspiciously. "Are you the real Aelita?"

"Aelita laughs and begins to skip around. "Of course silly! I'm just on my period during this Xana attack. So you will never, ever see this helpful side of me again! Nope! Next attack, all of this will be gone and I'll be the bitter, angry, sarcastic Aelita you know and love!"

Ulrich stares in horror as he watches Xana assemble another robot. The gears and wires creak as they are slotted into place and the new mechanical death machine comes to life, it's eyes beginning to glow in the darkness of the factory. "It's never going to stop!" Ulrich says in horror as he watches another robot being formed. "You know, until it runs out of parts that it can use. Which it will, soon enough, after all this is an abandoned factory and I'm sure that whoever made the Super Computer used many of the parts here seeing as the parts used to make cars can make fully functional war machines with machine guns for hands."

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"It's never going to stop!" Ulrich says in horror as he watches another robot being formed. "That's why I think I'll just stand here while the robot is being made. I'm not even going to try and move out of the way and get into a more wide open space with pillars or anything so I can hide. I'm not going to stay here and hide behind some thick sheet metal to try and hide. No," he says, shaking his head slowly at the new robot. "I'm going to stand here like a statue until I'm about to die, then I'll try and make it out of this place alive, but not before. That would just be stupid."

Aelita manages to deactivate the tower in time and the robot immediately crumples to the ground, it's eyes fading back to a dead black. Ulrich lies on the ground and watches as the nuts and bolts freeze in time. "This must be what Yumi was talking about!" he whispers in shock. "Time just sort of, freezes for no given reason! So really, even though I should be lying in a pool of my own blood right now and then the Return hits me, I'm perfectly fine and all known and unknown laws of physics and space time are torn apart and defecated on! Hooray for our world's physics!"

Physics that are supposed to follow our own world's laws. Yeah. Great job on that one Code Lyoko.

Body Count (of people who should have died due to time and physics errors: 2 (3 if you count Jeremie being thrown down the impossibly long hole in the scanner room.)

Just wait until the end of the show, it will rise. Trust me. Remember to review!