Angel: Let me make something clear XD Yes, I could make a lot of changes to Evolution, if I really wanted to, but...
I really don't want to.
Just thinking about it makes me wanna cringe, and in the worst way possible. Please do not put me through that, because that means I'd have to watch it again either way...and I honestly do not want to. For me to put in an epilogue, I'd still have to do Evolution, because that season is supposed to expand on the story, and just...
Gah! No. That's just the way I'm imagining it, because I just can't ignore the season altogether. I mean, it exists, and we can't just pretend that it doesn't for the sake of seeing the characters when they're much older.
Honestly, I can see an epilogue, but I just wouldn't put it in after season 4. I'm all about continuity, and for me to do it, I'd have to do Evolution first...I'm very particular about continuity in the universes I'm writing. At the back of my mind, something's telling me 'season 5 sucked, don't put yourself through that suck-fest' when I'm thinking about these comments I'm getting lately.
It's just like with Sonic 06! No one likes it, and just wishes it was never born. Well, that's me with the Evolution season.
It ain't gonna happen. I'm sorry, but that season is a major deal-breaker for me. Like, the chances of me doing it don't look very good, at all.
As for me having Aelita and Amy spend time with Mrs, or should I say Ms, Smith, I'm not that far into season 4, so maybe I'll put it somewhere between episode...74 and 95. The first 8 episodes of the season are already done at this point.
Aelita and her father ran through the sewers, the man holding her hand the entire time. They appeared in the lab, the girl looking around curiously.
"But where are we?" She didn't recognize this room at all...
"In my laboratory," He stopped typing on the computer, turning around to her. "Come on."
"Where?" She wondered as he took her hand again, leading her away.
"To a world where you and I will be safe...forever..."
"And with Amy too?" Aelita asked hopefully. She wanted to see her friend again; and to hear her play the violin. Aelita loved it when she played for her. It was like the music was made to be heard only by Aelita.
"No. She can't be with us now," Franz Hopper glanced at her, his eyes sad behind his glasses. "But we will always remember her. Never stop loving your sister, Aelita."
"Amy's my...my sister?" Aelita murmured in confusion. If that was true, she didn't understand why Amy left them. And why her father wouldn't talk about why she couldn't come over anymore. How could she be her sister...?
He took her down to the scanner room and they got into the scanners. "See you in a minute, honey."
"Alright, Daddy," She said as the scanners closed them in. Everything was dark for a minute and then Aelita was virtualized into the strange world. She landed safely on her feet, looking around for her father. "Daddy? Daddy, where are you?"
"Here I am, Aelita." White orbs appeared in front of her.
"Daddy!" She cried out at his appearance.
"I can't materialize myself into human form yet as you can, Aelita," He assured her, "I still have more work to do on Lyoko. This world needs to develop more." She looked at his new self in awe before she heard a noise. She turned her head to see the Kankerlots approaching.
"Daddy, there are some strange-looking creatures over there."
"Run Aelita, run!" He ordered her as they started to fire. She jumped over the shots and took off into a run.
"Daddy!" She called out in fear. The monsters persisted, eventually hitting her in the arm, but she reached the tower. A few sounds were heard.
"Aelita!"
The girl drops her pen on the desk. "Huh?!" She looks up to see Mr. Fumet, and that's when she realizes that she's in history class.
"You know, young lady, most of us go to sleep at night," He raises an unamused eyebrow while the rest of the class giggles at her, including Sissi. Something hits the back of her head and she whips around to see a ball of paper. Gritting her teeth, she turns to Amy, who's sitting next to Odd while Ulrich is across them. Jeremy is sitting with Aelita in front. Amy just whistles innocently as if nothing happened.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Fumet," Aelita says, the others glancing at each other. Aelita never dozed off in class, even if it was as boring as history.
"Scandinavian mythology, a natural disaster brings about the end of Norse God's world, scorching the earth but for a new peaceful world can arise from the ashes," Mr. Fumet wipes his glasses, putting them back on his face. "Called Ragnarok."
"And roll!" Odd finishes for him, giggling.
"What was that?" Mr. Fumet demands and Odd stops laughing.
"Ragnarok and roll?" Odd spins a finger before rubbing his arm sheepishly. "It was just a joke, sir."
"Very funny, Della Robbia," Mr. Fumet narrows his eyes. "And now would you kindly leave this room?"
"Uh, is that a joke?"
"No, it's an order," The teacher answers sternly.
"Oh..."
Odd puts his hands on his cheeks after class is over. "I guess as jokes go, it wasn't very funny." Yumi stops sipping her soda.
"So how was history class?"
Aelita is hunched over the bench, thinking about the recent memory she had. "Who cares? It's history now," Ulrich replies and Amy's got the sense that something was on Aelita's mind. Call it sister instincts, if she would.
"Aelita, are you okay?" She places a hand on Aelita's shoulder, peeking at her face.
"Well, Ms. Einstein, better get a good night's sleep," They hear, looking up to see Sissi and her gang walking by. "A super brain like yours needs a little shut-eye, and most of us as you know go to sleep at night!"
Amy crosses her arms at her in annoyance. Doesn't Sissi ever take a break from ridiculing them? Scratch that, that was stupid of her to ask.
"Of course you don't have that problem, Sissi, cuz your brains are in your feet!" Odd calls out to her.
"Isn't Odd a riot?" She glances at him. "Look who's got the nerve to talk about my feet," She points at her shoes. "Especially after what Heidi Klinger told me about yours!" Herb and Nicolas chuckle at him, leaving with her.
"What does she mean by that?" Odd asks his friends. This was honestly the first time that someone's actually said it to his face. "What's wrong with my feet? Huh?"
"Well, uh," Ulrich snaps his fingers, unsure how to put it in a way that his best friend would understand. "To put it tactfully, when you take your shoes off, it's a little bit like, um..."
"Like a pile of very fresh manure that we just can't seem to get away from," Jeremy finishes for him.
"That's it!" Ulrich exclaims in agreement, but Odd is not happy about that comparison at all.
"Oh, come on, you're nuts!" Odd narrows his eyes in disbelief. His feet didn't smell that bad to his previous dates, did it? He sees someone walking by. "Well, what do you know? There's Heidi. Now we'll find out. Hey, Heidi, is it true my feet smell a little?"
"A little?" She backs away from him a bit. "Just make sure you and your sneakers don't come within 50 feet of me! Sorry you have to deal with that, Amy!" She giggles, walking away. Amy just rolls her eyes at her while everyone except the two are laughing.
"This is a disaster!" Odd complains as they walk towards the cafeteria together. "My reputation as half of the power couple is at stake! Ames isn't gonna wanna go out with me anymore with a...a..."
"A walking pool of toxic waste?" Jeremy interrupts and Ulrich laughs out loud at this.
"Some friend you are, Ulrich! You could have said something, you know! Give me a little hint, at least," Odd scolds him.
"It's hard to talk when you're holding your nose, good buddy," The boy glances at his roommate.
"I thought you were trying to be funny," Odd sulks a little. Yumi places an arm around his shoulder.
"Don't worry, Odd, modern medicine must've found some kind of cure for it," She offers, glancing at Amy. She doesn't seem bothered by Odd's smelly feet at all, and it's something they've known since...well, ever.
"Well there's...amputation, for example," Jeremy teases, causing only three out of five to laugh.
"Hey, how come you didn't tell him, Amy?" Yumi speaks up and the girl turns to her.
"I was friends with Odd for over a year before we became a thing. I thought he already knew," Amy shrugs at him.
Odd pouts at her. "So you smelled my feet the entire time we've been going out and you didn't tell me?"
"In my defense, there was plenty of times that you've been in your room that you could've noticed the smell," She holds up a finger as they continue walking. "And besides, I don't care how your feet smell, Odd. To be honest, I don't even notice it anymore. I like all of you."
"Aww, that's sweet," Aelita smiles at her, but Odd is still annoyed by all the teasing.
"Start without me. Be right there!" He kisses Amy's cheek and runs off in the other direction. Amy waves to him and they walk inside the cafeteria. She meant every word she said to Odd. If anything, she just likes him even more. She herself didn't know why; but she couldn't stop being with him just because of his feet. She accepted his flaws (or at least, most of them), and to her, that was what made a relationship, to accept people as they are.
Emily steps out of the infirmary just as Odd arrives. He turns around to the girl. "Ah, Emily, can I ask you something?"
She glances at him silently. "When we went out together, did you notice that, uh-"
"That your feet smell?" Emily asks knowingly. "Better believe it. Why do you think I kept dousing myself in perfume?"
And with that, she walks away, to his dismay. He opens the door and slides to a stop in front of Yolanda. "Yolanda, I got a real problem! It's awful, I have-"
"Yes, yes, yes, I know," She drops the towel she was holding. "You suffer from severe plantar perspiration."
"Say what?" He asks in confusion. He didn't know what any of that meant.
"Your feet smell badly, Odd," She lays it down simply.
"Do you mean to say that everyone at school knows?" He questions in shock. How had everyone, including the school nurse, known and yet not him?
"No, no, there's...uh, well yes, everyone does know," She tries to lie to him, but it didn't really work. "But don't worry, I've seen cases that were a lot worse than yours, Odd." She nods a bit.
"Oh?" He raises a skeptical eyebrow.
"What's more, I know just what to do."
"I'll try anything! Ames isn't gonna like me anymore after this!" He gives a pleading look, clasping her hands.
"Well, what did she say about it when you found out she knew?" She asks curiously, walking over to her station.
"Well...she said that she thought I already knew, and she likes all of me..." He murmurs, glancing away with a tiny blush.
Yolanda can't help but giggle at this. "Isn't that sweet.?Odd, if she knew and she was still going out with you, doesn't that tell you Amelia accepts who you are? If she hadn't, you two could've broken up ages ago."
"...Yeah...but, I want her to accept me more...with better smelling feet. I wanna be a better boyfriend to her. I used to date a lot of girls before her, and I want to show her that I've changed! Odd Della Robbia, the perfect boyfriend!" He declares, a fist to his chest.
Well, it's what he wants, and she couldn't deny his help.
Aelita was sitting in the tower after the whole ordeal. "Aelita."
"Daddy," She looked up at his voice, seeing his form again.
"Aelita, I have to make contact with XANA, persuade him that we can live in peace with him."
The girl was confused, however. Who was he, and why did her father need to make peace with him? Was it something they did? "Who is XANA?"
"A multi-agent computer program I created. It has achieved self-awareness anatomy and it's trying to eliminate us now," He explained as best as he could.
"But why, Daddy?" She asked, but as soon as she did, he disappeared into thin air. "Daddy?"
"Whatever you do, don't leave this tower," He ordered her.
"Daddy...Daddy? Daddy!"
She called out to him...but he didn't answer after that.
Aelita sits next to Jeremy at lunch, silent. "Aelita," Jeremy places a hand on her arm.
"Huh?" She looks up in confusion.
"Hey, what's the matter? Is anything wrong?" He asks in concern.
"No, I...I was...I was daydreaming, I guess."
Jeremy stares at her, turning to Amy. The girl just shrugs over Aelita's recent behavior. She already tried asking, and it was unsuccessful. Whatever it was, though, Aelita would be ready to tell her sister in her own time. She could tell that Aelita didn't want to worry her just yet. After all, Amy was the older sister...
"Hey guys," Odd breaks the silence as he arrives, having spaghetti and meatballs and a banana. "No more feet nightmare. Call me odornized Odd!"
Ulrich takes another bite of his apple. "How'd you manage that?"
"You'll find that out tonight," Odd sits across from Amy. "It's a surprise." Ulrich swallows his bite, just staring at him.
Yumi chuckles a bit, standing up. "Well, I'll let you kick your foot problem around a little. I've got a math test," She leaves and Odd slides his tray over to her spot. He gestures Amy to sit next to him and she does so. He holds her hand as he scarfs down his food. Amy just giggles at him. Of course she likes his eating habits; they make her laugh.
"Jeremy, do you..." Jeremy glances at Aelita, waiting for her question. "Do you think our father's still alive?"
"Huh?" Jeremy turns to her in surprise. Amy looks up at her, staying silent.
"Our father," Aelita gestures to herself and Amy, "Franz Hopper. Do you think it's possible to rematerialize him?"
"No!" He says quickly, "What I mean is, well...there's no way to."
"But he managed to survive when XANA captured him the first time. Why not a second time?" She wonders and Amy's eyes turn sad. She doesn't really have that much memories of her real father...after all, Aelita was the one who grew up with him. All she really remembered was getting the violin and playing with Aelita...
After that, not much came back to her.
For Aelita, she just couldn't stop thinking that he was alive somewhere...waiting to share memories with his oldest daughter. It wasn't really for her sake; her sister deserved to get to know her real father, and to be happy with him. Amy had done so much for Aelita even before they found out they were related. She was like her mentor when Aelita was first virtualized on Earth, and she listened to her problems with her nightmares, and she comforted her whenever she got scared...in a way, they were already like sisters before they found out the truth.
"Your father sacrificed himself for you two, Aelita, and he had to have used whatever little strength he had left in him to bring you back to life while Amy had used her only power in Sector Five."
Odd squeezes Amy's hand as the girl glances away, trying not to cry at the memory. Her father was there...and in an instant, he was gone...
"I know, but...but I thought there might be a hope. That maybe you could find a way..." She looks at him hopefully.
"Impossible. I checked every inch of Lyoko and there isn't the slightest sign of him," Jeremy tells her and she looks at him, unsure if that was actually true or not. "Aelita, I've been working really hard in the way of getting into the world wide web, so that we can fight XANA, and you should think the way I think," He takes a hold of her hand. "I mean...think about the future."
She recoils her hand back. "And just forget my past, huh? You think it's easy? You didn't spend ten years of your life as some sort of computer software or without knowing who your real father was!" She yells, surprising all of them. Aelita gets onto her feet, walking past them. "I wish I had never recovered my memory..."
The boys turn back to Jeremy, who shrugs in confusion. He turns to the silent Amy. "I guess you're mad at me too, huh?"
Amy takes a deep breath, standing up. "I don't know what you just did, Jeremy...but never say that in front of me again about my father."
He gives a flabbergasted look as Amy walks away. Odd stares after her, glancing at the genius. Jeremy cringes at that look. That was Odd's 'don't mess with Ames' look.
Aelita sat alone in the tower. She suddenly felt his presence, and that he was in trouble. "Daddy." She ran down the platform. "Daddy! I'm coming, Daddy!"
She runs into the forest, her eyes squeezed shut as she rushes into the open.
Her father was being attacked by Hornets. "Daddy!" She cried once she saw him.
"No Aelita, get back to safety," He urged her. "In the tower!"
The door to the Hermitage opened and she runs inside. All she could think about was her father...and how much she missed him. Why was Jeremy so insensitive about it? Him and his insistence on stopping XANA! As if she could do that without stopping to think where her father could be.
"You and your sister possess the keys to Lyoko, Aelita," Franz Hopper told her. "XANA must never get his hands on them. Do you understand?"
The monsters fired again at him and she could only watch. "It's over, Aelita. XANA is too powerful. He's become a threat to all mankind. I've got to shut down the supercomputer!"
She reached the tower again. "But does that mean we'll die? I'll never see my sister again?" She stepped back onto the platform.
"No, but you nor Amelia must not forget me...ever. Never forget, Aelita. I promise you, you will see your sister again...Someday..."
Everything went dark. "Daddy?"
Aelita cries into her knees in her old room.
"I knew we'd find you here."
Aelita looks up at Odd's voice, turning around and wiping her tears. "You know, our good buddy Einstein may be a computer whiz, but diplomatically, he's...he's a..."
"A total lame-o!" Aelita finishes in anger.
"But he really likes you, you know that," Odd says as he and Amy are standing next to her.
"And I really like him too, I just wish he would understand that our father is all that I have left in my past life. And part of Amy's life too...I wish he could get to know you," She looks up sadly at Amy. "After all...you're my big sister."
"Aw, Aelita," Amy's eyes turn soft as she bends down so that she's level with Aelita. "I feel the same way...I wish I could've spent more time with him...if I had known about him sooner, maybe my life at home wouldn't be so bad."
Odd hugs Amy from behind and she glances at them. Since Jeremy wasn't going to be of much help...
"Amy, Odd. I have to go to Lyoko."
"Huh?!" They ask in shock.
"To Sector Five. I want to try to find some trace of our father," She takes a hold of Amy's hand, squeezing it. Amy and Odd glance at each other skeptically.
"Well, that may not be too easy. You heard what Jeremy said. He's not very anxious to help," He looks towards the door.
"So? We don't need Jeremy, do we?" She leans in closer to them with a small smirk.
"Um, we?" Odd points between the three of them.
"Just us, just you two and me, okay guys?"
"Ahh," Odd puts a hand over his mouth. Amy bites her lip and sighs.
"Alright. We'll go. Something tells me that you'll go by yourself if we don't, and then Jeremy won't just be anxious about it," She closes her eyes. Odd nods in agreement with her.
"Thank you!" Aelita pulls Amy into a hug.
"But just this once," Amy warns her, patting the girl's back.
Jeremy flips through his book. He couldn't read at a time like this, not when Aelita had stormed off like that...
"...Hey Ulrich, do you think I was a bit too hard on the girls?" Jeremy whispers to him.
"What do you think? Wasn't easy for Aelita to learn that she was human, or for Amy to learn that she and Aelita are half-sisters. You saw how she was when she was confronting her mother about it. Better talk to her," Ulrich places a comforting hand on his shoulder. Amy had yet to speak with her father over the matter, because most of the time, he's unreachable. Not that she wanted to, anyway. She wasn't ready to see or talk to him right now. Suddenly, Jim appears between them.
"No, you shouldn't talk to anybody!" He says, surprising everyone in the library.
"Huh?" Jeremy pushes up his glasses.
"There's no talking permitted in a library! Anybody I find talking from now on, is gonna have a little conversation with me!" Jim points to himself. "And if you hadn't had enough, after our little chat, you can just walk down the hall, and have a talk with the principal! No talking!"
"This is awful," Jeremy whispers once Jim is out of range. "Aelita must really hate me, huh?"
"No, she doesn't," Ulrich tells him, wiggling his fingers across the desk to mimic walking. "Hey, I bet she's running around looking for you to make up right now."
Odd, Amy, and Aelita slide down the ropes, landing on the ground softly. They run towards the elevator and get inside.
Yumi's math test is about to start and William enters the room. "Hey William, did you study hard?" She glances at him.
"Yep, just ask me anything you want about American History!" He answers, pumped to ace the test.
"Uh, that's great, but, uh, the test is in Math," She jerks a thumb to the teacher and he has a troubled face, realizing that he studied for the wrong subject.
Aelita is preparing the virtualization for the three of them. "Okay, I'll launch the procedure, which will automatically virtualize us in the desert sector. As soon as we materialize, we'll need Amy to get in sync with the transport."
"Wow, you know how to do all that?" Odd asks in surprise while Amy is a bit pale.
Aelita presses the last key, giving them a thumbs up. "Sure. Piece of cake. Amy, you'll be fine. I trust you. I know you can do it again."
"...If you're sure..." Amy stares at her as she leaves, Odd following after her. She snaps out of it and follows the two. They reach the scanner room and step up to the scanners, with 25 seconds left. The scanners close with them inside, and they're scanned, transferred, and sent into Lyoko.
As soon as they do, Jeremy's laptop beeps. He opens it up to see that the superscan is showing him an activated tower.
"Oh no, an activated tower," He whispers, that's just the thing he needed right now. "In the mountain sector." He shuts off his laptop, putting it under his arm. "Okay, we're out of here. We can beat XANA if we act fast."
"Talk plan?" Ulrich glances at him and the blonde nods, putting fingers into his ears.
"I'm telling ya, the recipe calls for eggs, vinegar, whipped cream, a little wheat germ, and peanut!" Ulrich shouts, getting the attention of everyone.
"And I say you gotta use hazelnut!" Jeremy argues back, though he had no idea what that recipe made.
"You don't!"
"You do!" Jeremy stands up and they ignore everyone who was warning them to be quiet. Jim appears right behind them soon after.
"Oh, we're not by any chance speaking too loud, are we, Jim?" Ulrich asks smugly.
"I want you two out of here immediately!" He points towards the exit. "Now go on, out of my sight, ya hear?"
The boys pretend to look dismayed and they walk past Jim. "That was easy," Ulrich whispers, Jeremy humming in agreement. Jim huffs at them in disbelief and they run out of the library, heading towards the park.
"Hey Ulrich," Jeremy turns to him curiously. "What was that recipe for, anyway? It sounds totally gross!"
"It's one of Odd's concoctions," He explains as they run. They may be disgusting, but for once, they actually did the two a favor. Not that he'd ever let that slip to Odd.
Ms. Meyer walks around the room as the 9th year students take their tests. Yumi's phone vibrates in her hand and she puts it to her chin as the teacher walks by. She then turns away, putting it to her ear.
"Hello?"
Ms. Meyer looks at her watch as a black clothed hand places her test on her desk. "Are you finished already?" The door closes and everyone stares at it. "Yumi."
"Yumi's on her way," Ulrich opens up the manhole cover as Jeremy looks at his phone.
"I can't seem to reach Aelita. You think she's still mad at me?" He brings the cover over, closing the passage.
Odd, Amy, and Aelita reach the edge of the desert sector. Amy closes her eyes and concentrates. Odd looks around, but sees nothing.
"I hope Ames doesn't make us miss our bus," Odd jokes and he turns to Amy, who's deep in thought. Aelita smiles and points to the sky.
"There!"
"Huh?!" Amy asks in surprise, looking up to the transport orb. "I actually did it! I summoned the transporter again!"
"I knew you could do it," Aelita winks at her and Odd wraps an arm around Amy's shoulders.
"That's pretty cool."
"Thanks," Amy smiles bashfully as the orb comes around and snatches them up.
Yumi jumps off the stairs and pushes open the doors to the boiler room. She opens the second door as she's rushing as fast as she can.
The boys have reached the factory and they step inside the lab. Jeremy comes to a stop at his chair. There was a familiar smell in the air...
"Hey, do you smell that? It's weird, it smells as if Odd has been here," He'd recognize the smell of his friend's feet anywhere.
"Forget it, Jeremy. Odd hasn't been here since yesterday. His feet smell, but not 24 hours later," Ulrich tells him. Honestly, it was a wonder that Amy hasn't started wearing perfume all the time.
"Still, it's...bizarre," Jeremy puts on the headset. The smell definitely felt recent...but with no real proof, he'll let it go.
Yumi skates down the sewers on a skateboard.
The Arena starts spinning as the transport orb slowly descends into the center of the room. It releases the three and the floor slowly comes to a stop. The wall opens up.
"Let's go."
They run through the door, coming to a stop at another wall. It opens up to reveal a hallway. The trio dash through it.
Jeremy taps his finger against his knee as Ulrich hangs up his phone. "Still nothing from Aelita...or Odd, or Amy," Jeremy stares at Ulrich. It wasn't like them to go MIA like this and not call by this point. And there's been no attacks on Earth.
"Forget it, it looks as if Odd and Amy are angry as well," Ulrich puts his phone back to his ear.
"Cuz of his smelly feet? That's dumb. Odd is losing his sense of humor..." Jeremy glances away in disbelief. Ulrich waits for Amy to pick up, but he gets voicemail.
"This is Amy!"
"And her amazing boyfriend, Odd Della Robbia!"
"Leave a message after the beep!" They say in unison. Ulrich rolls his eyes at the voicemail. Odd's was the exact same thing. He thought changing their voicemails to signify themselves as a couple was dumb, but it suited them in a good way.
Yumi arrives in the lab. "I hope this isn't a false alarm, I raced through my exam."
"It's real, alright," Jeremy calls out to her. "I'm sending you and Ulrich in right now. The others will join you, just as soon as I can get a hold of them."
Ulrich joins Yumi in the elevator and the doors close. Jeremy starts up the process and the scanners open. The two step inside. "Transfer Yumi. Transfer Ulrich. Virtualization."
They feel the rush of air and the two land safely in the mountain sector. As soon as they do, three Hornets attack. One of them hits Yumi in the arm and she stands up slowly. Spinning around, she grabs her fans, dodging the projectiles. Ulrich eyes the Hornets, getting closer to Yumi.
"Nice one, Jeremy. You materialized us in the middle of an air show!"
"Sorry, you guys, but more surprises are on the way," The genius sees more monsters on the screen. "XANA has called up his heavy artillery. I'll materialize your vehicles."
The three Hornets fire again. Ulrich swings his sword around, absorbing the lasers with his weapon. "Better hurry!"
Jeremy goes as quick as he can. "Look," Yumi points forward. "Tarantulas!" Two of them are approaching the duo. Ulrich stands to her, ready as she pulls out her fans.
"Super sprint!" He runs past the lasers, eventually stopping to deal with the Hornet. Yumi rushes over to help and she throws a fan, destroying two in one throw. The Tarantulas fire from behind, Ulrich and Yumi turning around. She backflips past Ulrich as he dodges the lasers.
Jeremy presses enter and finally, the vehicles appear in front of their owners.
"Ah, it's about time!" Ulrich says in relief as they jump on. They fly into the air, speeding past the monsters that are still firing.
Jeremy calls Aelita again and he waits as it rings. "Come on, Aelita. You've moped long enough, now pick up."
The girls and Odd run into the Core Zone. They look up to see the key on a wall above the door. "Look, the key, it's up there!" Aelita points to it. Odd places a hand on his hip.
"This is almost too easy," Odd rolls his eyes playfully.
"Well, why don't you go and get it then?" Amy asks teasingly. Suddenly they hear a sound, looking around the room. They stand there as Creepers appear out of nowhere. Aelita makes an energy field in her hand, turning around.
"Energy field!"
It destroys the Creeper and Odd aims his arm. "Laser Arrow!" His arrow makes the Creeper fall off. Amy throws her spear and it hits the center of a Creeper. Two more appear on a platform, roaring to each other and then louder.
"Bizarre," Aelita comments at this. They turn around as it turns out that the two Creepers were calling for back-up. "You think they were surprised to see us."
"Sorry, we're not disturbing you, are we?" Odd asks, firing another arrow. One Creeper is wiped out and he takes care of another one. He fires at one above him, but he backs away. Another laser is shot right in front of his face. Turning around, two more Creepers are there.
"Odd, you get the key," Amy points upwards. "Us sisters will handle this." She and Aelita wink at each other.
Yumi and Ulrich have found the activated tower. "I see the tower!" He points at it.
"So do I, but I also see a welcoming committee!"
Two Bloks appear from behind the tower. "Did you get a hold of the others?" Ulrich asks Jeremy.
"Not a word. I'll try again. Stay in position for now, and don't get devirtualized."
"We'll try."
Odd jumps onto a platform, looking up towards the key. He jumps up to another and a Creeper fires. Aelita dodges it using two energy fields, but a stray laser hits Odd in the back. He grips onto the wall with his claws, stopping himself just in time.
"Odd, you okay?" Amy calls out, jumping behind a Creeper. She slashes at it from behind, destroying it. Aelita fires another energy field at a Creeper, destroying it.
"Yeah! Girls! Go!" Odd jumps and presses the key. This opens the door...but it also alerts Jeremy of their presence. Well, technically, the key's.
"Huh? What is going on around here?" He sees that the key has been pushed, but it could only be pushed by people on Lyoko. "Holosphere system online...?" The sphere shows three other people in the Celestial Dome. "I don't believe this, they're already there, the traitors! Aelita, Amy, Odd, I know you're there!"
Aelita comes to a stop, clenching a fist. "For your information, while you're out there having a ball, XANA happens to be attacking. Ulrich and Yumi are already on the spot."
"What now, Aelita?" Odd turns to her in concern. Amy holds Aelita's hand. As much as she didn't want to...she had to deactivate the tower.
"Let's go," She murmurs dejectedly. The elevator comes around and they jump off.
"As soon as you get to the Dome, I'll program a vehicle and then I'll open a tunnel. The activated tower is in the mountain sector, okay? Now get going!" Jeremy orders them. Amy stays silent at this. She couldn't believe that he was being so callous about their father.
They stop in front of the entrance, Aelita looking up sadly as the wall opens. They run into the Celestial Dome, where the Overboard and the OverRunner are waiting for them. Odd and Amy get into their vehicles, with Aelita being Odd's passenger. They take off and look for the tunnel that Jeremy would open. However, something catches Aelita's eye.
"Look, guys!" She points to the south entrance, where three Flying Mantas are guarding it.
"They're not attacking. It must be a game!" Odd jokes, Amy appearing next to him.
"I don't think it's a game that we wanna play," She shakes her head.
"Jeremy, we've just spotted some Flying Mantas at the South Pole of the Dome. They seem to be guarding the entrance."
"Now that is not a good sign. Hold on, I'll check it out," He brings up a schematic of the Core of Lyoko, where there are several monsters. "Uh oh. Looks like you were right. XANA's attacking the Core of Lyoko. The tower in the mountain sector was just a diversion!"
"Okay, we're on it!" Odd declares, both him and Amy flying over.
Yumi flips past a laser, pulling out her fans. A Blok spins in front of her and fires so rapidly that she slides back a bit absorbing it with her fan. The other Blok fires at Ulrich, knocking his sword out of his hand. Yumi throws one of her fans, destroying her opponent. She smirks slightly and then sees Ulrich's plight. Orange rings are fired at him and she holds out her hand. Using her telekinesis, she brings his sword to him. He jumps in the air and lands on top of the monster, stabbing it in the eye.
"Impact!"
He jumps away just as it explodes, Yumi walking up to him. "Your telekinesis thing is really cool!"
"Ulrich, Yumi, change of plans, listen up. Odd, Amy, and Aelita are in Sector Five. You've gotta get over there. They need some help."
"What?" Ulrich asks in confusion. "What's going on?"
"I'll tell ya all about it later, but for now, get going!"
"Odd, it's suicide," Aelita warns as he flies past lasers.
"You're kidding!"
"Well, there's a first time for everything," Amy places a hand on her forehead.
"This is a snap, Aelita," Odd flies past Mantas.
"XAA really outsmarted us," Yumi comments while flying next to Ulrich. "While he kept us busy in the mountain sector, he was free to attack the Core of Lyoko."
"Yeah, but he didn't count on three scanner stowaways already being in Sector Five, fortunately."
"So then you're not mad at them?" Ulrich asks the boy.
"Not a chance. In fact, as soon as they get here, they're gonna each get a big kiss!"
"Jeremy, gross," Odd, Aelita, and Amy comment in unison. He realizes that the trio's avatars are on screen and not Ulrich and Yumi's. His eyes widen in embarrassment.
"Oh, uh, I mean, uh, I wouldn't kiss Amy when she's dating you, Odd," He stammers, sweating a bit. "Or in front of Aelita, I mean, I-never mind! You know what I meant!"
Odd destroys a Manta while Ulrich and Yumi reach the edge of the sector.
"Are you at the extreme edge of the sector?"
"Sir yes sir," Ulrich recites like a soldier.
"Okay, then I'll enter the code Scipio," He enters the password.
Odd gets hit in the tail, causing it to spark. "These guys are tough to get a handle on!"
"You know, you might try throwing one of your shoes at them," Aelita jokes, the fairy trying not to giggle.
"Very funny!" Odd fires another arrow, destroying the second Manta. "I can do better than that! Laser Arrow!"
Before he can fire it, however, the third Manta hits him, knocking him off the Overboard. "Odd!" The girls cry out and he's devirtualized as he falls.
He kneels once he exits the scanner.
Ulrich and Yumi finally arrive in Sector Five. "Hurry up, the girls are all alone!" The two run through the wall.
Amy throws her spear at the last Manta and watches it explode as the two enter the South Entrance. "And the first shield layer of the Core of Lyoko has just given away...!"
They reach the room, looking up to see three Mantas and a lot of Creepers... "Aelita, Amy, where are you?"
"In trouble!" They murmur in unison. The two start running up the stairs. Aelita forms her energy field.
"Energy field!" It hits one of the Creepers. One of the Mantas fly away to deal with them. Aelita runs up the stairs as Amy comes to a stop. Two Mantas fire at them.
"Sorry about this, Odd," Amy mutters to herself, waiting as one of them dives down. She jumps off and lands on one of the monsters, stabbing it into the eye, but not enough to hit him. Aelita dodges the lasers with two energy fields. Amy uses the spear as sort of a gear stick, causing the Manta to fly upwards.
"Hang on. Yumi and Ulrich are on their way!"
The Creepers continue to fire as Aelita runs up the stairs again. She dodges the lasers again and Amy pulls her spear out, kicking the Manta away. It hits the platform and explodes. Amy lands near Aelita just as Yumi and Ulrich arrive.
Yumi pulls out her fans, absorbing the lasers with her weapons. She jumps off the platform and lands on the Manta. She flings down her fans in an X shape, jumping off it and landing back on the stairs. Ulrich jumps up several platforms before reaching a Creeper. When it turns around, he stabs it in the center. Another one fires at him not too far away, but he deflects the shot so that it hits the Creeper, destroying it.
One from the other side fires, but he does the same tactic as before, destroying the Creeper. He has to avoid more lasers from above and Amy runs up the stairs, dodging lasers from a Creeper. She steps back a bit and frontflips onto another platform, quickly backflipping up the other ones as fast as Ulrich's speed.
"Super Sprint!" He runs up the stairs to Aelita, blocking the lasers from the last Manta. He throws his sword and it hits the back. The Manta flies up a bit before being destroyed. "Did we miss much of the show?"
"No, just the opening act."
Hearing two roars, they turn around to see a Creeper approaching from behind, the other one crawling down the stairs.
"My saber," Ulrich remembers that it disappeared when he hit the Manta. Two fans come in and destroy the Creeper while a spear hits the other one. Turning to the other side, they see Yumi catching her fans. Amy walks up to them, bending down and grabbing her spear.
Jeremy sighs in relief. "Nice one, everybody. Aelita, you know that you still have a tower to deactivate...but if you and Amy wanna stop at a terminal first to collect some new data on Franz Hopper...I mean, if you want to."
Aelita taps her chin before smiling at Amy. "Yeah, why not?" They ask at the same time and he smiles.
"Okay then," Ulrich starts off in their room. Odd is getting ready to sneak out with Amy. "So what's this miracle cure that Yolanda gave you?"
"Hold on. I did tell you it was a surprise. Now close your eyes, Ulrich."
"I'd rather close my nose, I think," Ulrich comments, but closes his eyes anyway. Odd removes his shoes and Ulrich sniffs the air. "Ugh! What's that foul odor?"
Even Kiwi dislikes it as he jumps away from Odd's cream-covered feet. "It's a cream," He holds up the bottle. "Pretty effective, huh? Now my feet don't smell at all!"
"That's because the stench of that cream is so horribly strong!" Ulrich holds his nose. Odd sniffs it and gives a deadpan look. Now that he's smelling it, the cream was a little strong. Ulrich rushes past him, opening the door. "Help, open a window or I'll die!"
"Some guys are never satisfied," Odd deadpans at him. He opens up a window and walks past Ulrich. "There. Now I gotta go meet Ames."
"Thank goodness!" Ulrich rushes towards the window.
Jeremy types at his computer, Aelita standing near him. "Any luck?"
He leans back in his chair. "No. Nothing," He reports in dismay. Aelita turns around, about to leave when Jeremy sees something. "Hold on a second. What's that?"
"What have you found?" She glances at him.
"A fragment of a DNA code sequence," Aelita comes back to his desk. "That belongs to...Franz Hopper. You were right, Aelita!"
"Our father might still be alive somewhere on Lyoko!" She smiles at Jeremy slightly at the possibility. She couldn't wait to tell Amy!
Amy and Odd are lying down in the grass, both of them in the forest so that Jim doesn't see them. He told her about the cream he's using, but she didn't really notice a difference since she's so used to his feet. Which brings up a mind-boggling question...
"Odd, why do you care so much if your feet smell bad?" Amy asks him curiously. "Shouldn't my opinion matter?"
"No, no, no, it does!" He says too quickly, blushing as he rubs his neck. "I mean, only if you want it to...I mean...like I'm not trying to pressure you into changing me or anything, no I mean-" He had no idea what he was trying to say now. She giggles at him.
"Odd?"
"Yeah?" He asks in embarrassment.
"Shut up," She laughs and he of course does so. Amy takes a slight breath. "Read my lips," She points to her mouth. "I don't care if your feet smell. If I had a problem with you, I would've said it to your face in a way you'd understand. I honestly don't want you to change, and you don't need to. How else can I put in a way that you'll-"
Odd places his hands on her cheeks and kisses her. Amy stops talking and kisses him back. That was the perfect response he needed to hear. He puts her hands on her waist and pulls her close as they kiss deeper.
They keep kissing for a few minutes as they couldn't get enough of each other. She knots her fingers in his hair and he moans a little. He loves it when she does that. Odd slides his hands to her backside and she hums slightly. They stop to catch a breath and she pants softly as he hugs her closer.
"Thanks, Ames."
"No problem, pudding pop."
They lay down in the grass holding each other and just watch the stars. "Why don't you call me that more often?" He whispers in her ear and she blushes in embarrassment.
"Well...after that trap XANA laid out for you...it was just a slip, because I was really worried. And I didn't know how you felt about it," She rubs the back of her neck.
"I actually like it," He pecks her neck and Amy can't help but giggle. "Okay, then how about you call me that when we're alone? That way you won't be teased in public."
She turns around to face him, a fist to her mouth. "And...what if I do want to say it in public?"
"That can be your decision. I won't force you to do anything," He leans in and kisses her forehead. "Ever."
She smiles up at him and they sit there like that until they have to go back to the school.