WitheringNight: Sorry about the long wait, and the hiatus call, I didn't leave this story to work on my other ones! I swear! I left it because I wanted to see what I really wanted for this chapter. I don't want this story to be long and have a lame ending, even though it won't because I know the ending I want...anyways! I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Code X.A.N.A-What's its Plan?
Chapter 36- Surprises
Author's POV
After the plan was given out, and making sure that Eric got out of Rodger's house without being seen, everyone got into their positions. Aleita, Odd, and Ulrich were by the machine, which they knew worked now, and Jeremie, plus Rodger, were by the the control panel to activate the machine.
"Now, remember." Rodger warned. "This may work now, but we don't know how it'll affect humans, understand? It could send you to a totally different place than planned, but you know what to do if that happens, correct?" They all nodded. Aleita held up a tiny device. It had a small red button on it. It would open the portal back up, under their control, and they would be transported back to Rodgers home. But it was only to be used if they were teleported somewhere else.
"Alright Aleita, step into the machine." Jeremie said and waited until she was fully inside, a glass panel then came down trapping her inside. "Now, turn on your invisibility function." After she did that he pulled a lever down and they all watched as she disappeared. Rodger then turned on the headset he had.
"Aleita." He said into it. "Can you hear me?" There was static for a moment before a reply came.
"Yes." She said. "I think this is Xana's headquarters, it looks like a headquarters...just send the guys so we can get out of here before the suit reveals us."
"Alright, your turn boys." He said to Odd and Ulrich. They then went through the same procedure as Aleita.
-In an Unknown Region-
Ulrich's POV
Once we were teleported, which felt a lot different from the other times in the factory, we waited for the portal to disappear. Once it did, we went exploring, placing the cameras around in suitable places as we did.
"I wonder were Xana has the twins...if he still has them that is." I heard Aleita whisper. Odd and I looked at her, horrified at the thought of the twins possible dead.
"I'm not saying that they're dead." She explained noticing our looks. "He might've sent them somewhere else, possible knowing that we were going to come." That made sense.
"Well, we're just going to have to look around to see." I replied. After a few minutes, and still not finding were the twins or Xana was, we quickly got aggravated. We stopped at a cross-way.
"I think..." Odd started. "We should split up, since this place is so RIDICULOUSLY big!"
Aleita and I looked at each other, "That's actually a good idea Odd." I said. He glared at me, "Hey! I can have good ideas ever now and again." I raised my hands, "I never said you couldn't." He looked like he was about to say something when Aleita interrupted.
"Hey! Instead of arguing, we could be searching for the twins and Xana. These suits and the portal have a time limit." She reminded us. Odd and I nodded, understanding.
"Alright, so...who's taking what part of this place?" Odd questioned. I thought for a moment.
"Well, it doesn't really matter." I said. "So, Aleita can continue down this path, I'll go to the left, and Odd you can go to the right."
"And if you guy's find anything, then just use the headset microphone to contact us." Aleita informed. Odd and I nodded before headed down our designated paths. I just hope nothing happens.
Antoinette's POV
Whilst Xana was busy working on his minion army in the human world, my sister and I were stuck watching the cameras in case those people came back for us or Xana.
"This is boring." I thought before looking at Amelia. She had the same bored expression on her face.
"Hey." I said gaining her attention. "Isn't there something else we can do besides this, or at least do something whilst doing this?" She shrugged. "I don't know. We haven't exactly looked everywhere, and this place is huge, so it'll probably take some time to find something...which, with Xana's rocking and cool attitude, I highly doubt he'll have any games to play anyways. So it'll be a waste of time."
I thought for a moment, "Makes sense." I said. Xana was too cool for games, which is now one of the many reason I admire him.
"I wonder what he looks like underneath his hood." I said. Amelia looked back at me with a smile.
"I wonder that too." She said. "He's probably adorable...or to match his personality, hot."
I giggled, "You think he'll show us since we're going to be his future queens?" I questioned. She frowned, "Future queens?" I blinked, "He did tell you." I suddenly felt smuggish (Smug). "Hm...I wonder why?" I then turned around. Amelia was still staring at me, now with suspicion.
"You knew this all along and you did tell me." She said before her eyes widened. "You're trying to get him to yourself."
I glared at her, "I am not!" I said offended. "I would never stoop so low to try to get him to myself...unlike you!" She blinked and had a confused expression on her face.
"What are you talking about?" She questioned. I stood up, "Don't act dumb. You've been trying to get him to yourself ever since you laid eyes on him, you spend all your time around him, you help him with his inventions, and you try and give him food." I then smirked. "Which he doesn't even eat by the way. He told me that himself." Now she was standing up and glaring at me.
"Oh so let's just put the entire blame on me shall we?" She said walking down the small steps before turned around. "I know what your game is." Now I was confused, what game?
"Now it's my turn to say: What are you talking about?" I said. She continued to glare, "You don't even try to stay near Xana, and when you do you're closer than ever! Admit it, you're only ignoring him to get him to like you more! It's the oldest trick in the book." I blinked. Actually, that wasn't what I was doing, but she just gave me an idea.
"You know, I should thank you." I said watching her now confused expression. "For giving me a new idea!" I said before walking off. I then felt someone push me down. I sat up and glared at Amelia, who was sneering at me.
"Xana is mine!" She said or shouted. I stood up and sneered back her, "Yeah, he likes you just as much as he likes your cooking." She then tackled me to the ground. We didn't notice, or hear, footsteps stop directly near us.
"Girls." We continued to fight.
"Ladies." We still continued to fight.
"Antoinette and Amelia!" We stopped fighting and looked up. Xana, still in his hood, was looking down at us. We immediately stood up and straightened our looks. I smiled, "Hey...Xana." I said. "We didn't know you were coming back so soon."
"It didn't take much to..lure..those pathetic humans into my trap." He said before walking over to the security cameras. "Aren't you two supposed to be watching these?" He looked at us. I gulped and stepped forwards.
"We were..." I started.
"...but we got into a fight." Amelia finished. I glared at her, I wasn't going to tell him that bit of information. Now he's going to want to know why we were fighting.
"And why is that?" He questioned coming near us.
I opened my mouth, but Amelia interrupted me, "Because!" She started. "We both like you and we want you to choose between us!" I blinked.
"Ladies." Xana said putting his arms around both of us. "You're both special to me, with you both at my side we'll rule Lyoko and the human world with an iron fist!" He then paused and looked at the both of us. "I like you both, I admit, and I cannot choose between you two. Your both too special to let go." He then let go and stood in front of us.
I thought for a moment.
"Well..." I said looking at Amelia. "Even though we can't, individually, be with him. At least we still get to be with him, even it's together." Amelia looked in thought before she nodded. "Alright, I'll give in. You can have us both, I mean...if you want." Xana smiled, walked over, and gave us both a peck on the cheek. "It's what I want." He whispered to us in a sultry voice. Amelia and I giggled whilst blushing before following him to another part of the room. We didn't hear footsteps leave the room.
-Back at Rodger's House-
Author's POV
"You're lying!" Odd yelled. Aleita has just informed them of seeing Amelia and Antoinette, romantically, involved with Xana and everything else that went on in the room.
"Am not!" Aleita yelled back. Rodger stepped between the two, "Alright! We don't know what Aleita saw, but seeing as how she placed a few cameras in there at the before everything happened, we can check them." Odd looked down and nodded before everyone headed over to the security TVs. Rodger pressed a few buttons and plugged in a wire before entering a code. They then watched what happened in the room.
Ulrich's POV
As we watched the video, and I reveled in my shock, I looked at Odd to see a number of expression pass on his face. First was shock, like my own, then there was hurt, then discomfort, and now finally anger.
"Stop the video." He growled. Rodger stopped the video and everyone looked at him. Aleita stepped up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Odd...I'm so sorry." She said. He chuckled, but it wasn't his regular one, this one sounded flat and void of any emotion. He then looked up, "Hey, what can we do? If sh...if they...want to be with that...that...thing, then that's their problem. Obviously everything we went through together didn't mean a thing." He then turned around. I then stepped forwards.
"Odd." I said now kind of angry. I couldn't believe that he just said that. He looked at me, "What?" He questioned anger still evident in his voice. I walked up to him and, to everyone else's surprise, punched him in the face.
"Odd! Ulrich! Stop!" I heard Rodger command. Odd stood up, holding his face where I hit him, "What was that for!?" He shouted. I glared at him, "For being such an idiot!" I then calmed myself down a little. "I never thought you'd be the one to give up on the girl's this fast. I thought you had more faith in Antoinette than what you just showed." I shook my head, I had a headache now. "You shouldn't jump to conclusions." I looked at everyone at this. "None of you have any reason to jump to conclusions, maybe Rodger, but the rest of us have been with the girls long enough to know who they truly are. And I'm 100% sure when I say that we most certainly know that they wouldn't do something like this, knowing it'll break Odd's and my own heart along with your feelings, without being influenced." I looked at everyone. They all looked in thought, except Odd, who looked guilty.
"Wow..." He said, the anger was now gone from his voice. "I didn't think of it that way. I was just angry that they were with Xana, I didn't think of the fact that it might've had something to do with Xana influencing them. I feel like an idiot." He then sat down in a chair, depressed. I walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder, "Yeah, it might've been a rash decision, but I understand why you were angry. You love her more than anything, you're risking your life to have her back in yours, along with saving everyone else's, and seeing them with Xana like that isn't helping the frustration. The only thing we can do, to really show that we care, is to continue this...no matter how much it may hurt to do so." Odd looked up and nodded, "Alright." He said.
"Alright. Now that we know what's going on, and the situation with the twins, we can now decide on what to do with Xana." Rodger said. "He's already gotten most of the science professors and teachers on his side. And according the surveillance video, he has more human minions."
"So...do we need to tell someone about this? Or still keep it a secret?" I questioned. "Because I highly doubt that, even though we've been through a lot, that all of us can do something about this. Like Rodger said, we're going to need more people than us to defeat Xana." Jeremie, who was quiet throughout everything, nodded.
"Yes. That is true." He said before looking at Rodger. "But, we'll need proof of Xana existing to show to anyone who's willing to join us." Rodger nodded, "I agree." He said. "But we'll need more than just his video, so we'll add it to the other videos we're going to get later."
"Until then we need to work on a strategy. We've already gotten the cameras in Xana's headquarters, we need to work on how to weaken Xana. That's the next step." Jeremie said. I sighed.
"That's going to take a while." I said. "We don't know Xana's weaknesses, if it has any that is." Odd looked up, he opened his mouth before closing it.
"What?" I questioned. He looked in thought before looking at us.
"Remember when Xana said that it needs Antoinette and Amelia to "rule" the human world and Lyoko?" He questioned. We all nodded. He stood up, "Well...what if he's just using them to do the things that it can't do. I mean it still is just a virus, a living one, but still a virus." I blinked. "You're really on a roll today Odd." He smiled, "Yeah..." He then sat back down.
"So if Odd's theory is correct...we'll probably need someway to get the twins away from Xana." Aleita said. Rodger shook his head, "Wouldn't be any point, at least not now anyways, for Xana still has many human minions it could use in the place of them." I blinked.
"But if it's using humans that are smarter than Antoinette and Amelia..." I started.
"...then why is Xana still keeping them there?" Odd finished standing up.
"I honestly don't know. I know that we can rule out the possibility of Xana actually liking them in that way..." Rodger said.
"The only thing I can think of is that Xana may be using them to get to us." Jeremie said.
"What if he's using them to weaken us?" I questioned. "I mean we just saw how Odd acted when he saw Antoinette with Xana the was she was, he acted on impulse and rather rashly at that."
"So...Xana wants us to act on impulse?" Odd questioned. I looked at him, "Maybe, I don't know, but it would make sense." I said.
"Yeah, because if you act on impulse then your more than likely to mess up." Aleita said. "You'll probably be weakened to do anything to get..." She trailed off looking at me.
"...the twins back to us." I finished. It was the same thing I said earlier...that was a coincidence.
Rodger then stepped up, "Alright, like Jeremie said before, we won't throw away any suggestion on Xana's true intentions. Because we don't know exactly what it's planning, or what it actually wants with the twins. But for now, we do need to work on figuring our what Xana's weaknesses are. Now...let's get started."
-Back at Xana's Headquarters-
Author's POV
We can see Xana and the twins looking at a video. Upon a closer look we see that they are looking at what's going on with the Lyoko warriors.
"So...are we going take down the cameras?" Antoinette whispered so the cameras didn't pick up what she said. Xana looked at her and shook his head, "No. Let them stay, we're going to have some fun with them." He then pressed a button on the panel below them.
"You may enter now." He said with a smirk. Antoinette and Amelia looked confused but then looked towards the door to see a girl standing there. She was mostly in black and looked kind of Asian. She was smirking.
"You called?" She questioned. Xana looked at her with a smile, "I need you to pay a visit to some people, I think it's about time you returned to them." He then laughed and the girl did as well. Antoinette and Amelia looked at each other, confused. Who was that girl and what was Xana planning to do with her?
WitheringNight: Ooooooooh! Looks like Xana knows what the Lyoko Warriors are up to, I wonder what's going to happen now? And I give you one guess to well...guess...who the girl is at the end. If you don't know, please, I beg of you, go watch the show again.