Lord Maximus: I don't own Code: Lyoko.
Summary: What if Xana had managed to destroy Lyoko's Core while possessing Ulrich's body during Nobody in Particular? What if the battle was much harder than they would have guessed?
Yumi tried to keep herself from crying but couldn't. The tears were streaming down her face as she looked down at the picture of the brown haired boy clutched to her chest. Why had this happened? She thought she lost Ulrich when Xana possessed his body and destroyed Lyoko's Core, than Xana made it worse when he tricked them into thinking Ulrich came back only to be snatched away by the horrible truth, now the factory was destroyed and no matter how hard Jeremy tried he could not open a channel to Lyoko.
All evidence pointed to the Lyoko Supercomputer being destroyed when the factory blew up. That meant that Ulrich was gone and any chance of stopping Xana was gone. Why? Why did she get Ulrich back only for him to be taken from her again?
She soon fell asleep but even in her dreams she found no comfort. For in her dreams every time when she found what she wanted it disappeared out of her grip and she cried.
All was quiet in the virtual net. Xana wasn't launching an attack and there were no activated towers or monsters. But in the Volcano Sector that served as Xana's new processor a plan to finish off the Lyoko Warriors was being hatched. In a giant black tower that was glowing red were two figures.
They were both dressed in black in the large room. One wore a pitch black body outfit that covered every part of his body except his head with the Eye of Xana on his chest and forehead. On his right arm was a spike manacle and right now he was bowing before his master with his over sized sword lying next to him. The figure in front of him was the body of Ulrich currently occupied by Xana.
Not that the previous owner of the body did not mind that his body was being used as a puppet. The samurai clothing was replaced by a complete pitch black body suit with red lines going down his arms and legs with Xana's symbol ending at the hands which had metal gauntlets with short curved claws on each finger. There were some bulky lines along his body which suggested the figure wore body armor underneath. As for the headband it was completely black with red Eye of Xana on it.
Where Ulrich's eyes used to be were now pitch black orbs with twin red symbols of Xana.
"William, I trust you brought me good news from our little hunt on Lyoko."
"Yes, I have. The samurai is right now in hiding from our forces but he can not contact his friends now that we have bugged up the communications channels between Lyoko and Earth."
"Good. We will win this time, my servant. Everything is going according to my plan and now it's time to launch our attack."
Xana laughed a mirthless laugh.
Ulrich rolled out of the way as the row of Kankrelats fired a barrage of lasers on him. He blocked lasers as they kept on firing. The Crabs kept on firing as he ran for it.
"Jeremy? Where are you? Jeremy! Come on!
Jeremy! Yumi! Aelita! Anyone!" shouted Ulrich.
He jumped as another Crab fired at him. This was getting ridiculous. For the last twenty four hours he had been on the run as Xana's monsters kept on chasing and firing at him. If he saw so much as one more monster he would lose it.
He looked behind and saw a Tarantula open fire on him. Well they say the mind is the first thing to go.
Everyone sat in the cafe but if they were not off in their own little world they would have noticed that a certain group of certain students at a table all had looks of sadness on their faces. They had been distraught for what seemed like forever even though the factory was destroyed only yesterday. They only thing on their mind was the loss of Ulrich and Lyoko.
"So what do we do now?" asked Hiroki,
"I don't know. Without the supercomputer we have no way of stopping Xana now. He doesn't have to worry about us going to Lyoko and trying to deactivate his towers now that Lyoko and the supercomputer are gone. He still has his Replicas so he has nothing to worry about." said Jeremy.
"Don't say his name again, Jeremy." muttered Yumi, coldly.
Everyone looked at Yumi while her hair covered her face.
"If I ever hear his name again it will be too soon. This is all your fault, Jeremy! If you hadn't messed up that day when you sent him to Sector 5 than we wouldn't have lost his body to Xana! And now I lost him again!"
With that said Yumi piked up her tray and dumped the uneaten continents and ran out. Everyone watched as she ran without following her.
Yumi into the woods and sat under a tree. The same tree Ulrich sat under whenever he was thinking or sulking. She needed to let it out. She held it in around her parents and in her classes.
Now was the time to let it out and she did.
In the Ice Sector of Lyoko a tower started to glow red.
Everyone walked out of the cafe when they heard a loud roar from the sky. They looked up to see a thin green light that flashed through the sky like lightning. Students screamed as they ran back as the lightning hit and blasted the ground in the middle of the courtyard. They looked to see a massive shape rise from the ground.
It was a giant red squat like disk with six eyes and four spindly legs. The Lyoko Warriors recognized the monster that stood before them. It was a Crab but no one besides the Lyoko Gang recognized it. Suddenly green lightning flashed down from the sky and hit the ground again.
This time five Kankrelats stood on the badly scorched ground. Everyone started to scream as more and more of Xana's monsters appeared as green lightning flashed down from the sky and hit the ground with a loud impact. Two Bloks noticed the Lyoko Warriors and aimed their eyes at them.
"Run!" shouted Odd.
The eyes glowed red and fired lasers at them. The Lyoko Warriors ran for their lives and screams filled the air. The monsters ignored the students and teachers that ran around screaming. The lead Tarantula followed the Lyoko Warriors as they ran into the forests.
"Call nine-one-one!" shouted Mrs. Hertz.
Kankrelats and Bloks scuttled in front of the other monsters and fired lasers, Crabs stood over the smaller monsters and let loose a wave lasers, while Hornets hovered above in the air and fired like mad. Yumi jumped up as she heard the sound of lasers being fired and looked to see Jeremy and the others running from an army of Xana's monsters.
"Run, Yumi!" shouted Odd.
She soon took off running with her friends behind her and an army of monsters behind them. Lasers blasted trees, chunks of dirt was sent flying, smoke rose from the scorch marks left behind by lasers that missed their target.
"How are the monster being transported here?" asked Sissy,
"Xana must have taken over a satellite and he's using it to transport his monsters here." said Jeremy, panting.
"That would explain that lightning coming straight down from the sky." said Odd,
"The question is how do stop him?" asked Yumi.
That was the one question Jeremy did not have an answer to. They ran out into an open clearing of the forest and stopped to let out a gasp that took almost all of their breath away. Ahead of them was another group of monsters with their eyes glowing meaning that they were charging their lasers. They looked back to see the forest behind them full of red glowing eyes.
"This is it." muttered Jeremy.
Aelita held onto her for her life and Jeremy held her tightly, Hiroki clutched onto her sister and Yumi hugged him against her, and Sissy did the same thing with Odd. For the first time since they discovered the supercomputer and had their first fight against Xana they did not feel like Lyoko Warriors. Instead they felt like . . . scared children.
The bright red orbs burned as the monsters prepared to fire-
-and suddenly stopped.
The Lyoko Gang watched as all monsters ceased movement. Even the Hornets and Flying Mantas hovered completely still in the air without a single shred of movement. They all now looked like statues as their lasers died and faded.
"What's going on?" asked Yumi, uneasily.
"I don't know but we better make a run for it while we can." said Jeremy.
Somewhere someone had a different thought in mind.
"I don't think so."
Xana chose to voice his thoughts by sending another stream of green electricity from the satellite he had taken over. Odd looked up as he heard a loud roar and saw the clouds shattered by a mysterious force.
"Look out!"
Everyone scattered as the green lightning blasted where they stood. Scorched into the ground was the Eye of Xana with a figure standing in the circle. Everyone gasped as the figure picked up a giant sword and swung it around. It was William in his Lyoko form!
He held his giant sword over his shoulder with his hand and his human eyes were replaced with twin Eyes of Xana. He smirked at the shocked warriors who trembled in terror. They were surrounded with no hopes of stopping Xana, his monsters won't let them escape, they can't get to Lyoko to deactivate the tower because the factory was destroyed, and Ulrich was deleted. This was it.
They were cornered like helpless rats at the mercy of a friend possessed by a demonic AI out to take over the world.
"William." said Yumi, glaring at the boy.
With a battle cry William leapt at them with his sword raised high. The Lyoko Gang managed jump out of the way as William's sword connected to the ground and left a large crater. He pulled his weapon out of the ground and raced towards the Lyoko Warriors. Odd picked up some rocks and threw them but William blocked with his sword and swung.
Odd yelped as he jumped to the side with as the sword sliced a few strands of his hair.
"Hey! You know how hard it is to keep this hair perfect?" complained Odd.
William raised his sword when the sound of movement was caught by his ears. He turned to see Yumi slam into him which knocked them both away from Odd. They rolled together on the ground but Yumi managed to come out on top. She grabbed William's neck with one hand and raised her fist to pound William's face into the ground.
Her fist fell but grabbed her wrist and twisted it. Hard. Yumi gave a shout of pain and tired to pull her arms back into position. William drew his knees up and kicked with both of them, sending Yumi flying back.
Yumi managed to land on her hands and knees and quickly threw a rock hoping it would hit William while he was still getting on his feet. However William simply caught the rock with one hand and smirked. Luckily Odd grabbed William from behind and held one arm tightly around his neck. Just before Odd could get him in a headlock William snapped his head back and Odd's face was sent flying back by the back of William's skull.
Odd was sent stumbling back holding his face in pain. He opened his eyes to see William's foot crash into his chest which sucked the air out of his lungs and knocked him flat on his back. He looked to see William standing over him with a smirk as he raised his sword. Suddenly Hiroki screamed and jumped on William's back.
The boy punched, kicked, and did anything he could to distract William. He finally knocked Hiroki off him only for Yumi and Sissy to send him flying back with two fists down on his head with as much force as they could muster. William hit the ground face first, sputtering in the dirt and trying to regain his senses.
Aelita and Jeremy watched the battle knowing they could not fight as well as their friends.
Ulrich sliced through the guns and stabbed the Eye. The Tarantula screamed as it fell over and exploded. Ulrich panted hard.
"Finally a break." muttered the boy.
He ran into the tower and flew to the upper platform.
"I am not be good as Aelita and Jeremy but I will figure out what happened." said Ulrich with determination.
He scanned through the data and looked at what happened.
"So that's what happened. I better hurry and get to the Ice Sector. I just need to get rid of this bug. I hope I'm not too late." muttered Ulrich.
Aelita and Jeremy caught their breaths as they watched fight go on. The others and William were going at each other like beasts fighting over raw meat. Suddenly there was a beeping sound from Jeremy's laptop. Jeremy opened it up and gasped as Ulrich appeared on the screen.
"Ulrich?" asked Aelita with wide eyes.
"Jeremy? Aelita? Where are you guys?"
"We're in the woods. Xana transported William and an army of monsters here to finish us after he blew up the factory. Where are you, Ulrich?" asked Jeremy.
"I'm on Lyoko."
"But the supercomputer . . ." said Jeremy.
"Xana only blew up the factory. He then bugged up the communications and sent monsters after me to make you all think the Lyoko supercomputer was destroyed. It's there and right now I just finally figured out what Xana was planning. You need to find way into the lab I can't face all of Xana monsters here.
I barely have enough life points and its only a matter of time before Xana sends monsters to attack the tower I'm in."
"Got it, Ulrich. Just stay alive until Aelita and I get there." said Jeremy.
Ulrich nodded and logged off.
"Let's go, Aelita." said Jeremy.
The pink haired girl nodded and ran off into the woods. Their escape caught the corner of William's eye. Distracted from his fight with the others he looked to see Jeremy and Aelita making a break for it. His dark eyes flashed and the monsters began to clatter back to life.
Xana's mark on his forehead pulsed and sent a message to his minions.
"Eliminate them."