Episode 2: Dying to Live: The pieces come together
Light sabers spun swirling around and clashing with the opponents. Riley was facing a doppelganger XANAfied version of himself. It had dark black Jedi robes, just about black everything. Riley's green light saber once again met the doppelgangers red one. The doppelganger had shockingly white hair and yellow eyes with XANA's mark proudly stamped for a pupil.
Riley had been expecting a light saber duel, but with Stella not himself, per say. Riley had been suspicious of the Dante proved doppelganger shortly after it came out of the scanner. Riley had briefly glimpsed movement in the forest region while dragging his steamed sister to the elevator. The pieces hadn't connected. Why would Dante be in the forest region and then suddenly back on earth right when communications went down so he said. Plus Dante was frostier and more stoic then norm.
Well, he had been right and if his guess was correct none of the girls, with the exception of Sakura, were off of Lyoko. And knowing Stella she would do something incredibly unwise and totally lacking common sense in order to be heroic and to prove she can take care of herself.
So when the clone devirtualized Sakura (she hesitated to land the final and only blow in the match when the clone changed its appearance to look like a younger version of their mom. The doppelganger seized the moment) Riley was the only thing that stood in its path from getting to Stella. He would hold this thing of as long as possible if he couldn't kill it.
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Drew chased after the mega tank. He had one goal right now: kill the mega tank. Bit it kept running away. Every now and then it would fire on him, but it kept going away from Stella and the tower. If Drew didn't know any better he would say he was being played a fool by a hunk of machinery.
"Stop running and fight like a man or a machine you pawn of XANA. Sheesh."
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Sakura looked out over the world of Lyoko keeping track of every person's movement. Dante was being slowed down by wave after wave of monsters in the forest region. Riley was keeping the doppelganger in check and busy. Drew, Drew the annoying blond that loved to make her life miserable, was chasing after a mega tank.
Sakura looked at the scattered out dots and looked at Stella's location. She was all alone. She could handle herself, yes, but everyone was so strung out on Lyoko there would be no one to help her if she needed it.
A flashing XANA tagged dot came into view on the screen. Sakura clicked on it, and it all started to make a terrible sense.
Divide and conquer. What better way to get to Stella when she didn't have anyone to back her up. What better way to hurt a person when they're all by themselves with no one to help them up if they fall.
XANA monsters were keeping Dante in the forest region. Riley was holding off the doppelganger or more likely the doppelganger was keeping Riley distracted. The mega tank was leading Drew on a merry chase far away from the tower, and Sakura was devirtualized, stuck on earth.
And the Scyphozoa was heading in a direction suspiciously toward the activated tower. Sweet nibblets, XANA was playing them the fool this time.
Sakura grabbed the mike and relayed a quick message for all of Lyoko to hear.
"Stella, I don't care if you want to deactivate the activated tower or not, the next tower you see you are going to go in side and stay there. In fact if you turn north 28 degrees you'll find one."
If she didn't she was going to walk into a trap.
