Chapter 25

The final battles

Andre and Millie started attacking, but it didn't seem to have any effect. Apocalypse seemed to be absorbing the blasts.

"This is a problem." Millie said.

"Your right." Andre replied.

Just then Lilo and Victoria came to the roof.

"The Grand Councilwoman wants you to stand down." Victoria said.

"What?!" Andre shouted thinking she went crazy.

"She says that you are too weak to fight this battle, so she wants you to evacuate everybody else when Helen gives birth to her twins." Lilo said seriously.

Andre sighed and thought about it. They were right. With his powers disabled he can only do so much. It also takes longer for him to charge up his attacks, which could be fatal in something like this. Weighing the options, Andre decides that it is best to do what the GCW says. Besides, other heroes were coming to back them up right now.

"Okay, get me out of here." Andre told his daughters.

(Back in the inside of the castle, in the communications area)

"I have just discovered something!" Jeremy exclaims.

"What is it?" Wade asked.

"Apocalypse is being protected by a force shield, and there is an activated tower on Lyoko. That must mean that XANA is providing the power for Apocalypses shield!" Jeremy explained.

"Are you sure?" Wade said.

"Positive!" Jeremy replied.

"But how will we deactivate it? We have no super scanners here." Yumi asked.

"I believe I will be of assistance." Knight the experiment said.

"How?" Odd asked.

"I can create dimensional portals. I should be able to link to this world of Lyoko, but since it is in a virtual I do not know how that will affect the portal's stability." Knight said

"We'll have to take the chance." Ulrich said.

"Okay, I'll start by giving Knight a briefing of the specifics." Jeremy said.

Just then Dr. Quack came in.

"It was difficult, but I was able to deliver the babies. They are stable enough for transport." He said.

"Okay, Andre you know what to do." The GCW said.

"Yes, now if everybody forms an orderly group at the exit we can get out of here. Myrtle, you and the girls go with me. Lilo and Victoria and Aily (Victoria's Netnavi) will stay and help in Lyoko. Okay, everybody move out!" Andre said.

All the civilians started walking out of the extremely large doors of the castle. The group was so big that it might as seemed like a great migration. So far it seemed that everything was going well, but unfortunately, three little girls, for some reason fell behind!

(Back in the castle)

"Okay so everybody ready?" Jeremy asked while he was linking Knight's dimensional portal to Lyoko.

"Yeah!" the Lyoko gang (Including Lilo and Victoria) shouted.

"Just remember, when I say virtualization, you all have to jump into the portal. Get ready!" Jeremy said.

Everybody got in position.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1…virtualization!" Jeremy shouted.

On cue, the group jumped in.

(Skip to Lyoko)

The virtualization via Knight's dimensional portal was a success and the Lyoko Warriors (Lilo, Victoria, Aile.EXE, and Megaman.EXE included) surveyed the area. What they saw redefined the meaning of mass pandemonium. X.A.N.A.'s Monsters where swarming all around the mountain sector with an intent to give them a hard time while getting to the tower. Hornets and Flying Mantas dominated the skies. Blocks where crawling over the mountain peaks. The Kankrelauts patrolled the floors. In the distance, you could also see at least 7-10 Mega-tanks and Tarantulas each.

"Okay, guys. The tower is just due north of your position. Try to get there quickly." Jeremy said.

"If you haven't noticed, XANA has made a whole party for us." Odd said sarcastically.

"You think I don't know that? I can see it right here." Jeremy said in a frustrated manner.

"Enough complaining Odd. We have to do our best." Yumi snapped.

"Let's go." Ulrich remarked.

They were about to start over a ledge when they had to instantly retreat due to a barrage of fire ring blasts from a quartet of Blocks.

"It's just like XANA to pull out the big guns when he gets desperate." Odd joked.

"Is he always this laid back?" Victoria asked Yumi.

"Oh yeah." She responded.

"This is stopping you guys? I'll handle this! Lan!" Megaman remarked.

"Ready and waiting Megaman!" Lan said.

"I'll go with you!" Aile said.

"Okay, but remember, you must hit them it the eye symbol for maximum damage." Ulrich said.

"Way ahead of you." Aily said.

Aily and Megaman charged the Blocks. The Blocks started charging, but Megaman took one out with a quick Mega-Cannon. Aily summoned her pickaxe and slammed it on the floor creating a shockwave. When it hit the remaining three monsters they were thrown over the edge of the ledge, falling into the digital sea.

"It's clear!" Aily said in a singsong voice.

"Hey, they are pretty good at this." Odd remarked.

"It's what they were made for." Victoria answered.

"Okay, let's go!" Megaman said.

After about 7 minutes they got to the clearing that led to the tower. Right there they were immediately assaulted by XANA's monsters. It almost seemed as if they were going to have to retreat until Megaman finally got pissed.

"Alright! Let's clear out! Zeus Hammer!" He shouted.

A large hammer appeared in his right hand. He slammed it into the floor with all of his strength. All ground-bound enemies were destroyed.

"Now to follow up, Bolt!" Megaman shouted.

A giant lightning bolt fell from the digital sky, frying the enemies in the air. Now almost all the enemies were destroyed.

"Okay, that's done." Megaman said.

"Oh no!" Jeremy shouted.

Everybody turned around to see Aileta having her memories drained by XANA's Scapeazoa.

"I thought that Andre had taken care of it." Jeremy said.

"It seems that this enemy of yours can regenerate." Megaman said. "Enough talk. I'm getting her out of there."

"I'll go with you!" Lilo said.

"Lilo and Megaman rush the Scapeazoa, but are surprised by a gigantic curtain of energy that slams right into them, de-virtualizing them.

"NO!" Victoria yelled as she saw this happen.

(Back in the real world.)

Lilo fell out of Knight's dimensional portal while a red laser beam came out as well and entered Lan's PET.

"No! Aileta is in trouble!" Lilo shouted suddenly.

(Back in Lyoko)

Victoria started charging up an energy beam. She blasted it toward the Scapeazoa. Unfortunately, it had already absorbed Aileta's memory and dropped her on the ground just before getting hit and vaporized by the blast.

"Aileta!" Yumi shouted.

Everybody ran over to her.

"Is she okay?" Ulrich asked.

"It's hard to tell. She seems unconscious." Aily answered as she held Aileta's hand.

"How will we deactivate the tower now?" Jeremy asked.

Then something strange happened. Aileta and Aily's joined hands started glowing. Then Aily felt an idea come to her.

"Wait here. I'll take care of it." Aily said.

"Were you going?" Odd said.

"To deactivate the tower. Don't ask me how 'cause I don't know. What I do know is that Aileta still remembers you guys and she is okay, just knocked out." Aily said.

With that, Aily runs into the tower, enters the main platform and floats up to the higher platform. She touches the digital screen, which surprisingly registers her digital signature as Aileta, and then inputs Code: Lyoko.

"Tower Deactivated." Aily said.

(In the real world, inside the castle)

"Apocalypse's personal shield is down!" The Grand Councilwoman reported.

"All allies attack at full power!" Princess Sally shouts out.

Then an earthquake starts.

"What?" Dr. Hikari exclaims.

(On the roof of the castle)

"What's going on?" Sora asked himself.

(Back in Lyoko)

An earthquake was also happening here. Aily quickly came out of the tower and met with the others. Aileta was just waking up.

"What's going on?" Aily asked in a panic.

"No! Due to XANA absorbing Aileta's memories, he is no longer confined to Lyoko!" Jeremy shouted through the communicator.

"What?" Victoria shouted.

"XANA…has…escaped." Aileta said.

"It's getting too unstable for you to stay there, but I can't divirtualize you guys due to the interference!" Jeremy added.

"What will we do?" Aily asked.

As she finished her question, a white orb of glowing energy flew right in front of them. It then started circling them at high speed. Then it flashed and they were divirtualized.

(Outside of the castle in the real world)

A gigantic black cloud formed all over Knothole Kingdom, blocking out the sun and making is almost completely dark.

"What is this, Mon Ami?" Antoine asked to another fighter.

"Daddy says that THAT black cloud is the XANA computer virus, and it was just released into the world.

"Oh my." Antoine said.

The cloud started flashing, sending lightning bolts of energy everywhere. There was one very large lightning bolt flashed over to a distant part of the city.

"Isn't that where Andre was going?" Victoria asked as she caught up with Lilo.

"Yeah, it is!" Lilo said.

"Where are the children that where in the kids area?" A young mobian woman comes asking.

"Andre took them and the other people out of the castle in a group." Victoria answered.

"But they are not there! They wandered off!" The woman said.

"What?!" Lilo and Victoria shouted in unison.

(Near the underground shelter)

Andre had just sent the last civilian inside the underground shelter when a lightning bolt shot down from XANA's cloud. The energy released form the blast formed into a human being that seemed to be…himself?!

"Girls, get inside." Andre said.

"But we have to help the others in the fight!" Myrtle said.

NOW MYRTLE! I have a bad feeling about this dude. When I finish with him, we will go back to help the others." Andre reassured.

"Well, okay." Myrtle said as she and the other girls entered the refuge. Andre then turned to the new foe.

"What, the Dark Alliance had to resort to making clones of me?" Andre said as defiant as ever.

The being, who was in a crouched position, stood up and spoke.

"That is cocky talk for somebody who is about to die." The clone said.

"Maybe so, but many said that they were going to eliminate me, but I never saw it happening." Andre replied.

"I assure you, I am not like the others." The clone said.

"That is what I always am prepared for." Andre said.

"Well then, are you prepared for THIS?" The clone said as he instantly charged an Omega Beam and blasted it at Andre. Andre barely had the chance to erect a Life Aura around himself.

"You are not like the others, I'll give you that." Andre said. "One question though. Who are you?"

The clone charged its energy, and then replied.

"I am the virus MissingNo, who was revived and enhanced by XANA." MissingNo said.

"Okay, a homicidal Virus is out to get me and my powers are disabled. I could say that I am in trouble." Andre said out loud.

"You finally realize the futility of your resistance." Missingno said.

"Hey, let's get one thing straight. I said I was in trouble, but I never said it was futile to resist. You may be a clone of me, but you are not me." Andre said as he manually charged his blade.

"It will be very pleasuring for me to wipe you out of existence." MissingNo said.

"We'll see who's wiped out from existence." Andre said.

"Well said." MissingNo said.

And so the battle started, and in five minutes Andre was already starting to feel the fatigue. Changing tactics he called out his pokemon, Thyphlosion and Sceptile.

"You resort to hiding behind other creatures?" MissingNo said.

"Never! I am just equalizing the probability of victory." Andre said.

"Call it what you want!" Missingno said as he started glowing.

"Thyplosion, he is about to launch his basic Sky Attack! Slam him with Flame Wheel!" Andre commanded.

Thyplosion rushed MissingNo while becoming enveloped in flames. At the last minute Missingno stopped glowing.

"Big mistake, water gun!!" MissingNo shouted as he quickly blasted an intense blast of water.

"I anticipated that! Thyplosion, dodge it and slam him on the side with Flare Drive! Sceptile, follow up with Leaf Blade!" Andre shouted.

Thyplosion dodged the blast and laid a devastating tackle on MissingNo's side, causing him to stumble. Sceptile followed up and slammed him to the ground with his own attack.

"You will pay dearly for that. KNOCKOUT FLASH!" MissingNo shouted.

A shot of energy blasted from MissingNo's body, blinding everybody. When Andre was finally able to see, he saw that both of his pokemon were on the floor. He checked them and was relieved to know that they had just fainted.

"See that it is futile? You will eventually fall." MissingNo said in a mocking tone.

"I don't intend to." Andre said.

"How interesting your resistance is, but also tiring. I shall end this now." MissingNo said as he charged up another Omega Beam.

Then both combatants heard something that caught there attention.

"ANDRE!!"

Andre felt a pang of fear when he heard the child like voice. He turned to the source of the sound. He gasped to see Haley, Cosmo, Cream, and Wobuffet on the other side of the clearing.

"YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE INSIDE THE SHELTER!!!" Andre shouted.

"We just got here, Mr. Andre." Cream said.

"How touching. I'll just eliminate them first!" MissingNo said as he redirected the Omega Beam toward the trio of children and their pokemon guardian.

"NO!! I WON'T LET YOU!!" Andre shouted.

"Oh please! I know all about your powers being disabled. I was just toying with you. Of course I know that you might try to get in the way of the blast, but now I will make sure that you will never be able to deflect it!" MissingNo shouted as he was completing the charge for the blast.

"New plan! Wobuffet, Mirror Coat!" Andre shouted.

Wobuffet positioned itself in front of the girls and raised the Mirror Coat shield. Andre knew that Wobuffet might not be able to take such a blast, but they had to try somehow. What they needed now was a miracle.

"I see you have given up! Very well!" MissingNo shouts as he unleases the Omega Beam.

It seems that time itself has slowed down. Wobuffet braced itself for the attack, but after a few seconds it discovered that the blast never came. It looks in front of itself and finds that there is young lady in her lower twenties in front of them, creating a shield of her own and absorbing the blast. Andre saw this as well and was shocked. He then recognized the young lady.

"My gosh! It's Maria!" Andre shouted.

"Yes it is indeed Maria! Chaos Spear!" Shadow said as he arrived onto the scene, along with Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable.

"Don't forget about us!" Kim Possible shouted.

"You call this a cavalry? I am more powerful than all of you put together!" MissingNo shouted.

Just then, a massive energy ball falls from the sky, and slams on top of MissingNo, creating a crater.

"I only know one person who can create a blast like that! MissingNo, you are extremely screwed!" Andre shouted in a state of relieved ecstasy.

"WHO DARES?!!" Missingno shouts.

"I dare." Came Kioko's voice.

"ARRRAGGGHHH!!!" MissingNo shouted as he blasted an Omega Beam toward Kioko at ten times the potency of normal.

"Pathetic." Kioko said as he charged an energy ball of his own.

MissingNo fired the blast at Kioko. Kioko wasn't intimidated, though, and calmly blasted his own energy ball at MissingNo. The energy ball easily overtook the Omega Beam and left MissingNo wide open. MissingNo was now shocked in fear.

"Such power…is impossible." MissingNo shouted.

"EVERYBODY DOWN!" Andre shouted as he and the others ducked into a hole. Andre and Maria brought up barrier shields to block the incoming debris. The wind and flying shrapnel eventually died down. Andre and the others looked out of the hole and saw Kioko, with his trademark devilish smile, while MissingNo was nowhere to be seen.

"Hey Kioko, you came back." Andre said.

"Well I sensed a bunch of strong power signatures, so I knew you would need someone to bail you out." Kioko said.

"Oh, well thanks for the assist. Let's take XANA down!" Andre said as he turned his view to the sky.

"What do you suggest?" Kioko asked.

"XANA seems to be a cloud-like entity now. Maybe we can weaken him by attacking him now." Andre suggested.

"Okay, that just gives me something to blast." Kioko said as he started charging up energy.

Andre started charging up electricity in both of his swords and nodded to Kioko when he was ready. They both unleashed powerful blasts of energy into the sky, slamming into the cloud that was XANA's essence. Upon impact, an animalistic, earth-shaking roar was heard in all the area.

"This is it, keep the attack coming!" Andre said.

Kioko and Andre continued their assault. With every blast, chunks of XANA were being vaporized while it roared in agony. Soon enough, the cloud-like virus was about one fourth of its original size. It started to move away from them.

"It's getting away!" Kioko said.

"Grab me and throw me at it! I have an idea!" Andre said.

Kioko grabbed Andre by his shirt and threw him into the sky. Andre pressed a few buttons on his defender blade in order to activate a new program. He then shouted the following:

"VIRAL CAPTURE UNIT ACTIVATE!!"

Andre threw his defender blade at XANA. When it came in range, streams of charged electricity shot out from the blade, engulfed XANA and starting to absorb it. XANA was trying to struggle out of the electrical grip, but it was a losing battle. At the last minute, XANA shot out a blast of electricity charged to the exact same frequency as the electricity emitted from the Andre's blade. This dissipated its electrical grip, allowing XANA to float away, but in the process 50 of its remaining essence was absorbed anyway.

"It got away." Kioko said unimpressed.

"But we weakened it a lot. XANA will be more manageable from now on." Andre said while turning to where Maria, Shadow and the others were located.

"Maria, I am so glad you are finally back." Shadow said as he embraced Maria. Then he did something that nobody thought he would ever do. He started crying. No, SOBBING. "It has been so hard without you for all this time. I always wished for you back, but thought it was impossible."

"Well I am here now. Were together again." Maria said.

"Myrtle, everything is okay here. You and the others can come out now. We're going back." Andre said through a communicator. "Maria, is it okay if I leave Haley, Cosmo, and Cream with you?"

"Of course." Maria said.

"Good." Andre said as Myrtle and the other kids arrived.

"Okay, let's go! RISE GUMMI SHIP ANDROMEDA!!!" Andre said as he snapped his finger.

The gummi ship arrived promptly.

"Hop on kids! Kioko is flying right behind us." Andre said. "Kim, can you and Ron follow us from the ground?"

"Check my name!" Kim replied.

"I knew you would say that." Andre responded.

(Five minutes later, back in Knothole Castle and the Apocalypse Battle)

Andre, Kioko and the kids got back to the castle, which was surprisingly intact based on the current situation. All of the heroes of the Dimensional Federation were holding their ground and defending very well, but it seemed that Apocalypse was still pretty much undamaged. Andre landed and opened the hatch of the gummi ship.

"Okay kids, you know what to do!" Andre said as he pulled out a poke-ball as well. "Regirock, use Earthquake!"

Regirock exploded out of its pokeball and slammed onto the ground, creating a massive earthquake right under Apocalypse, but he was surprisingly able to resist the attack.

"I am the ultimate being! You cannot defeat me!" Apocalypse shouted.

Then Andre felt for a moment, that he was right. But then…

"THIS IS QUITE ENOUGH!!!" A voice from the sky shouted.

Just afterward, gigantic mechanical fists fell from the sky and slammed into Apocalypse, making him fall backward into the ground.

"That was Duo's Meteor Knuckle! Now's our chance, Kioko!" Andre shouted.

"It'll be easy to take him down together." Kioko replied."

"Oh no! The others are in the way! How are we going to get them out of the line of fire?" Andre asked.

Just then Shadow appeared via Chaos Control.

"Shadow, you know Chaos Control. Do you think that you could help sonic get everybody out of here?" Andre asked.

"I could if the faker has the power for such a massive transport." Shadow said.

"Do it. Get everybody to the shelter! This final blast is going to be wicked!" Andre warned.

Andre motioned for Sonic to come to where they were and told him of the idea. Both Sonic and Shadow pulled out their respective Chaos emeralds and started concentrating. After ten minutes, they were ready.

"ULTIMATE CHAOS CONTROL!!!!"

In a flash of chaos energy, everybody except Kioko, Andre and Apocalypse were gone. Kioko and Andre looked over the edge of the castle to see that Apocalypse, who was still in his giant form, was still on the ground of the forest.

"Now is the best time to attack. I'll use the gummi ship to get myself out of range." Andre said.

"I'll follow you." Kioko replied.

They flew about 700 feet from the ground. When they believed that they would be unaffected by the blast they were going to create, they stopped in midair. Kioko stated charging a massive energy beam while Andre downloaded Omega Beam's chip data into the gummi ships laser cannons.

"You know Kioko: This reminds me of when I defeated the Space Pirate Ralmar with the help of Stitch." Andre said over the communication device.

Kioko smiles at this.

"Consider this my thanks." He replies.

"Will do." Andre says.

Having completed the charging, Andre and Kioko blast the final attack of the war toward Apocalypse, who could only watch in a flabbergasted state.

"How…can…the…unacceptable…happen? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Apocalpse shouted as he was vaporized by the explosion.

Andre and Kioko landed after the dust and debris had settled. They surveyed the extent of the damage. The castle was obliterated, as was one fifth of the city.

"I can tell you were holding back." Andre said.

"You better believe it." Kioko said.

"This is going to take a while to fix." Andre said.

"Not my problem." Kioko said with a smirk.

"True. True." Andre replied as he scanned the area. He was then contacted by Nani. He listened to what she had to say and then hung up.

"Good, it seems that the shelter is intact. Everybody is okay, and Riku woke up from his condition." Andre said. "I'll just say one think to you Kioko: Thanks"

Kioko smiled in admiration. "No problem."

End of chapter 25