Authors note:
having just finished the previous episode and starting this one I just realised the massive tone shift for this arc, which I feel like breaking my usual style its only gonna be this darker style for this arc, as in until the end of this arc, the tone will be rather dark, but will be back to normal when it's over… I hope
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Episode 85: Tidal Wave
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The teachers sat in shock as the news report rolled in, Delmas, Jim, Kidd and Hertz held their mouths in horror, even the tough as nails Claudius looked shocked he was more surprised than anything else, then he looked at the name on the report of the sole victim, Jonathon Dunbar,
"Isn't that William Dunbar's Uncle" asked Claudius as he turned his good eye to look at the others "I think so yeah" said Jim barely able to speak, Claudius looked down as he grabbed his walking stick and stood up, "what a tragedy" he said with very little sincerity, but the other staff didn't seem to notice, Claudius looked out the window and saw the Lyoko warriors, William was stumbling forward as they exited the forest, none of them had shared a word since leaving the factory, William fell to his knees his emotions got the better of him and he couldn't move any further "I… why… what could XANA want" asked William as he looked forward staring into space, Ulrich placed his hand on his shoulder "Come on you need a drink" he said as he helped William to his feet, "Best we don't leave him alone" said Aelita as they followed them into the dorm building, the sky was orange as it neared night time, Claudius was ready to punish them for being out late but he looked at William and he turned away not wishing to go any further with the boys suffering, "someone died before because of XANA, but then it was a criminal" said Jeremie, the others looked at him, "that was…" he started but knowing why and who was different, "XANA has strangely stopped short of actually killing people in the past, but why would it kill now" he said changing his words, Odd opened the door to Williams room "Come on you" he said as he and Aelita placed William on his bed, the poor boy was shaking like crazy, whilst his uncle had been local he still had to be a border because of his uncles job, "Ulrich go grab my sleeping bag from our room" said Odd, Ulrich nodded and rushed off to grab them, "I'll stay and keep an eye on him" said Odd as he looked at the others, "William" said Yumi as she kneelt down, "We'll be a phone call away" she added, William didn't even look up at any of them, "this the one you mean" asked Ulrich as he tossed a crumb covered sleeping bag to Odd, "Come on we've got work to do" said Jeremie as he patted William on the shoulder, they slowly made their way out of the room with Yumi being the last to leave shutting the door behind her, William remained motionless looking forward towards the empty side of the room, "William" asked Odd as he looked at his friend, but the older teen remained silent, Odd couldn't tell if William was purposefully blocking everyone out or if he was in that great of shock, "I'll be here if you need me" added Odd as he unrolled his sleeping bag and laid down on it in an attempt to get comfortable but on the hard wood floor that was difficult, outside in the hall, Jeremie began to rub his hand over his head "This means one thing" he said looking at the others "What do you mean" asked Ulrich, Jeremie looked up at them and said "If XANA attacks like that again we're gonna need the one chance we have at stopping him", Ulrich and Yumi looked at each other and nodded at Jeremie, "What can we do to find him" asked Yumi, Aelita looked up briefly thinking "A police report would attract too much attention" she said unsure what else they could do, "I'll scan the web see if anything comes up" said Jeremie as he walked towards his room, "But no promises" he added wirily making Ulrich and Yumi a little nervous, Aelita placed her hand on Yumi's shoulder but it obvious that not comfort would help this issue.
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Carter had departed the Club having had a small drink and wanted to be back at the school before dawn and without a hangover, Evelyn stayed a little longer to observe Dallas, XANA knew where he was now all she needed was for the warriors to find out, Dallas however was remaining silent and gulping down his whiskey, Hardy took a couple of aspirins for his headache, since the fight and the enormous sum of money that came Hardy's way, he'd changed his tone towards Dallas,
"Tell me where'd you learn to fight like that" he asked, but Dallas remained silent as he continued to drink, he couldn't even feel the burning that the drink was well known for "This girl" he said catching Dallas's attention, the servant girl suddenly became scared gripping Dallas's arm, "You think she's pretty" said Hardy, Dallas didn't answer as Hardy stood up and walked behind her slowly starting to invade her personal space, "As a gift from Caesar I give you her" said Hardy as he walked towards the door of the booth, "Your next fight is in 2 days, I'll see that you get equipment for training" said Hardy as he stumbled out of the booth, The servant girl started to shake Dallas looked at her "Why not run" he asked, she looked at him "Wh… what" she responded scared, "you're uncomfortable" he said as he finished his bottle before standing up and walking towards the door, she stood up and followed "I… I can't, if I'm given to you…" she said grabbing his arm scared out for her life, "They'll kill me or worse" she said, Dallas nodded and lead her down to the ground floor, Oleg stood counting the money from his bet, "I see the boss has given you a little play thing" he said laughing whilst looking at the servants revealing outfit, Dallas simply continued to look at him, Oleg shrugged his shoulders and signalled for the both of them to follow, Dallas did so with the servant girl following after him, "Please don't trust them" she said, Dallas looked back at her as their guide stopped outside an elevator "press number 4 that'll take you to your floor, don't be fooled this stupid thing is backwards" said Oleg as he walked off again eyeing up the servant, Dallas curled his fist ready to start another brawl but she pulled him into the elevator and pressed 4 and the doors closed, the silence between the two was almost eerie, Dallas was again staring off into space, "what's your name" she asked trying to break the ice, "Does it matter" he responded, but she pushed him against the wall, it was clear Dallas was at least 4 inches taller than her, "Listen I don't know what arrangement you have with him but I'm trying to be nice" she said, Dallas did nothing as she moved away from him "I'm Tony in case you were wondering" she added as the door opened, the apartment was massive and consumed an entire floor, it was clear that Hardy had a lot of money to be able to operate the club and own the entire building, a large kitchen looking like it was from the future sat in one corner, a living room consisting of a TV and several chairs and furnishing, the bed room was bigger than most regular apartments for students, Hardy stood up from one of the chairs having been obscured from sight "About time you two got up here" he said, Dallas walked towards one of the windows and looked out, "The windows are one way, no one can see in, the fridge is stocked up, theirs a Gym in the room over there which I expect you to use, the phone will get you anything you want" said Hardy as he looked at Dallas who stared out at the dusk lights in the sky, "I take care of those in my employment and especially so of those who bring me big money" said Hardy as he smiled but it wasn't comforting, he looked at Tony "You will please him, my new star fighter" he added as he walked to the elevator stepping inside "Have fun" he added, as the doors closed Dallas finally let loose a little and began to hobble towards the bed room, his knee had finally given out from all of the physical stress and he sat down on the bed pulling up the leg and gripping the knee, "Are you okay" she asked but Dallas didn't respond as he began to squeeze his knee, with a loud cracking noise the pain stopped, Tony began to worry again as she started to pull of what could barely be called a shirt as it consisted off a boob tube and nothing else, before pulling off the short skirt and her underwear leaving her in her heels and nothing else, Dallas looked towards her, Tony was slightly busty and skinny, it was clear she wasn't eating enough, either from being given very little or not being allowed to eat enough to attract customers, "well" she asked nervous as she stood naked in front of him, she was shocked as Dallas threw a white fluffy dressing gown at her, "What… What're you doing, don't you…" she started but Dallas stood up and began walking past her "you don't want to" he said without even looking at her as he moved towards one of the sofas and laid down on, Tony stared at his bruised body, she couldn't help but be attracted to his physical frame but she looked away as she moved towards the main bed and moving to lay down.
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Evelyn exited a taxi, she smiled at the Taxi driver who was more happy than the average driver was near the middle of the night, she walked towards the door of Adam's warehouse and banged on the door, she stood waiting as it got colder before she banged on the large door again, then it suddenly raised with Adam standing in a jumpsuit that had the top part hanging around his waist, welding goggles over his eyes, heat proof gloves on his hands and a cigarette in his mouth,
"I didn't order a whore thanks" he said as Evelyn walked into the building, "love you too bro" she said sarcastically kicking off her heels and sitting down on one of the packing crates as Adam closed the door, "I'm sure you know that the Attack was a success" said Evelyn, Adam turned away from the Toyota which had the front stripped down, missing its bonnet, tires and wings, "Yeah the Dam burst, but there was a casualty" responded Adam as he returned to wielding, Evelyn was shocked, "Isn't this what XANA wants" she asked, but Adam shook his head as he kept wielding, Evelyn stood up finding the stone factory floor cold "Then why did we attack" she asked angrily, the first time either of them had questioned XANA's choices, Adam stood up, "XANA needs Dallas back with the Lyoko warriors" he said as he threw off his goggles to angry to keep wielding, he took another puff finishing his cigarette, "why, one less threat for us to deal with" she said as she reached for his box on the side and grabbed one of them causing him to get a little angry, "Because it turns out XANA's plan isn't exactly done yet" responded Adam as Evelyn lit up, "The plan was either let Yumi give birth and then trap Dallas when he was a new-born, or capture her once pregnant and carry out the same plan" she said walking towards the Toyota looking at the stripped out frame, "So what the hell did you two spend 2 years trying to accomplish if the plan isn't done" she added turning back to face Adam as he lit up a new cigarette this time with a blow torch, "Why do you think we did that" asked Adam, Evelyn froze in her place she'd never wondered why they'd spent so long trying to put the plan into place, all she knew was the timeline but not anything more, "I hate that XANA tells you more than it tells me" she said as she moved towards the locker with her normal attire in it, "Because I'm the senior agent" he said as he sat down, Evelyn began to strip down in front of him causing him to look away in disgust, "so what's the next plan" asked Evelyn as she began to get dressed, "there isn't one, XANA is too shaken by the unplanned death" replied Adam as he sat down, Evelyn turned angrily towards him, "there have been deaths before" she said, Adam stood up in anger "Peter Duncan was a criminal on death row, the group of terrorists were obviously terrorists" he said before walking off towards the office, "Alexa Mathers?" she asked, causing Adam to stop, "Ralph Couture?" she asked, Adam stopped and looked back saying "Necessary" before he stepped into the office and out of Evelyn's sight, he sat down pulling out his revolver and threw it down on the desk and looking angrily out the cracked window, he followed XANA but not blindly.
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In what could be considered the worst way to try and keep everyone's heads clear Jeremie suggested a recon mission to sector 5 for more data, although he didn't know exactly what he was after or what was needed, but regardless everyone agreed to the mission and it had been successful, XANA showed little resistance, neither Adam Nor Evelyn showed up as front line generals, Jeremie sat analysing the data for anything that might help with either of their objectives,
"All I have to do know is analyse the data from Sector 5" said Jeremie as he typed away, he was hopeful that they'd found something useful but hope was running dry, "Think we can learn anything from it" asked Yumi leaning forward desperately, Jeremie leant back a bit "I have no idea but if we can find anyway of fighting XANA on the internet its worth a try" said Jeremie with a small smile beginning to crack on his face, "I dunno about you guys but something to eat might hit the spot" said Odd trying to keep the mood light and being genuinely hungry, "I dunno Odd, we can't be late for gym class" said Ulrich chuckling as Odd's face turned to horror with the others beginning to snicker "but… But we haven't had breakfast yet" said Odd causing the others to break out in laughter, "Too late" said Aelita mockingly, William placed his hand on the small boys shoulder "I think me and Yumi still have time" he said chiming in, Jeremie moved away from the screen as he finished setting up the auto analysis, "We best get moving" he said as they walked towards the elevator, "Joining us this time Einstein" asked Ulrich as Odd held his stomach "Yep, Jim has warned me if I keep missing his classes he's gonna have my hide" said Jeremie as he pressed the button and punching in the code locking the door to the lab, "I wonder how rare that is" asked Aelita with a small chuckle, Yumi blushed as the others were confused, William laughed "Jeremie trying to run is something I'd pay to see" he said causing Jeremie to sulk "Just watch Jim forcing him" said Odd, Jeremie rolled his eyes as the elevator came to a stop, "for that we're not making any stop for food" he said getting back at his friend "he's got you there Odd" said Yumi as she patted him on the back leaving him standing still gutted.
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With the most obnoxious and loud clapping imaginable Dallas shot forward, every single muscle in his body ached and his knee creaked as he looked around the apartment seeing Hardy walking in holding a small bag filled with breakfast from a fast food joint,
"there he is" said Hardy as he sat down on the sofa opposite Dallas, "My champion" he added then he realised that Dallas was on the sofa, "Did she not…" he asked but Dallas remained Silent, Tony stepped out of the bedroom wearing the gown, she looked more normal as she'd been able to wash off the make up and let her hair down, "I told you to serve him" said Hardy standing up ready to strike her, "Don't" said Dallas looking at him, Hardy looked back ready to do so, but he decided against it and sat back down, "if you ignore me again I will burn you to the fucking ground" said Hardy in a threatening manner towards Tony, then he turned his attention back to Dallas and his tone shifted back to cheerful, "Your fight last night" said Hardy as began to dig into one of the sausage muffins, "Its got people talking among my… shall we say friend groups" he added as he swallowed his food, Dallas looked at the table and grabbed a drink and another of the muffins and tossed it to Tony, Hardy looked confused but Dallas simply said "She eats" and Hardy did nothing, Tony opened the wrapper and began to scoff down the food almost as if she hadn't eaten in a few days, Dallas realised he had some control over Hardy but he wasn't sure where the boundary was, "Anyway, you're next fight is in a couple of days, people are placing large bets against you" said Hardy as Dallas began to drink "I'm sadly not going to be present, I have to make an unexpected trip" he added, Dallas looked at Tony as she moved to sit next to him nervously, "has Oleg given you, your cut" he added, Dallas didn't respond as he noticed how scared she was, "let her go" he said, she looked at him, Hardy chuckled as he threw down his rubbish onto the table "She was a gift, it'd be rude to throw away a gift" he said as he stood up and walked to the elevator, "I expect you to be ready for the fight" added Hardy as he pressed the button and stepped inside, Tony finally began to shake and she grabbed onto Dallas, "why don't you leave" asked Dallas, she shook her head "He's threatened me enough" she said, Dallas stood up limping on his knee, "your hurt" she said as he walked towards the shower "Does it matter" he asked before sitting down on the bed, "Yes it does you idiot" she said standing up and moving to him, pulling up his trouser leg, he used his hand to start to brush her away but she persisted and began to wrap a white cloth around his knee, "This should help for a bit" she said looking away as she moved back towards the door, Dallas looked back at her without her noticing.
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In the gym none of the students had changed getting ready to run or partake in any activity, Odd was sitting down and appeared to be violently shaking as he was beginning to starve, his stomach was groaning and rumbling like the engine of a car, he held his torso as the hunger was genuinely causing him physical pain
"Hey Odd could you cool it for a second" said Ulrich as he looked back at his roommate, "Yeah your stomach is almost as talkative as you are" said Aelita as she stood looking down on him, "Listen if I don't get something to eat right now there's no telling what I'll do" said Odd as he groaned in pain, "Did you forget you just had a chocolate bar 5 minutes ago" said Jeremie folding his arms and starting to look concerned, "That was nothing, just a warm up, I need some real food to get me going in the morning" retorted Odd as he groaned again, Sissi and her goons sat across the hall looking over at them, Carlos had a small note book which he was sketching in with Nicholas peaking and looking what he was drawing, Sissi was focused on Ulrich with the usual attraction she had, whilst Adam was laying on one of the benches staring off into space, his peace was disturbed as Jim and Kidd entered the main hall, "Hey, I know you kids are gonna be disappointed but I'm gonna have to cancel todays shot put competition" said Jim disappointed which was the polar opposite of every students reaction as they all cheered, the sound of which varied depending on how athletic the student was, "Told you" said Kidd with a chuckle, "Quiet Down" said Jim as he walked in front of the students "Actually as today is Nutrition day our school nurse, is going to speak to you and tell you what to eat, so that you all remain fit and healthy" said Jim as Dorothy walked next to him and looked at him uncomfortably as he placed his hand on her shoulder, quickly removing it as she did, "So those of you who can't wait to wolf down your next junk food meal, better think twice before you do, because junk food is your worst enemy" said Jim dramatically something which failed to help anyone take him seriously, "Unless your name is Odd, then his worst enemy is whoever gets between him and his food" said Ulrich causing Jeremie and Aelita to chuckle "better believe it" said an increasingly frustrated Odd in agreement, time passed with Dorothy rambling on and on "Starting to sound like an afterschool special" said Ulrich as he felt like falling asleep, "Now for example if you have Mash Potato and lamb for lunch, no need for stake and fries at night" said Dorothy the latest in many things she was saying that got under Odds skin, "What on earth is she talking about, if I eat mash potato and lamb for lunch, there's no need to wait for dinner, I'll have steak and fries for dessert" he said as he slouched forward more and more, "Good thing we're not getting a test on what she said, you'd get a Zero for sure Odd" said Ulrich winding him up causing Odd to sulk, "He'd probably try and eat the test" added Aelita, causing Jeremie and Ulrich to chuckle, but it was interrupted as Jim said "SO, don't forget that a head of lettuce can save your life, and remember the better you eat the better you live, look at me" before he started to jump around and run on the spot, causing Kidd to look embarrassed "I'm a prime example of what good food can do, Perfect shape" he added as he squatted with his arms spreading but there was a loud cracking noise, with muffled cries of pain Jim silently said "I just pulled something" before he began to waddle out of the room with Kidds help, with him saying "You idiot" as everyone watched, Dorothy face palmed with disappointment, "Kidd hand out the new gym uniforms" said Jim as he exited the hall with Dorothy after him, "Okay Odd its finally time for lunch" said Jeremie as he turned to face him, but to no one's surprise Odd had already made a run for the Cafeteria.
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Yumi and William had already finished their class and were eating what was now considered lunch at the school, although neither felt like eating, but they needed to,
"William" asked Yumi as she stopped playing with her food, the aforementioned looked up at her "Yeah what's up" he responded feeling down, "You wanna talk about it, your uncle I mean" she said scared of making things worse, William looked away not wanting to show that he was on the edge of tears, "No… its fine I know these things happen" he said not believing a single word he said, William was trying to convince himself more than anyone else, over in the line Odd's hunger had driven him crazy as he cut in line and looked at the person he loved the most at present, "So Rosa, what have I got today" he said as he placed his tray down, "Shepard's Pie, Sausages and Fries, beef stew huh" added Odd as he was only a few seconds away from licking his lips, but Rosa was as sad as Odd became as she responded "Odd, I didn't want to but they said I have to cook healthy and well balanced meals from now on", Odd stared at her as his heart and indeed his stomach broke, then he looked down at what was being served, "Grated Carrots and cucumbers, steamed Vegetables and fish" said Odd in horror at what he saw in front of him, he didn't know what was worse, the food being served or the minuscule portions of said food, "Not even fried or breaded" said Rosa in horror as she put a slice of fish on Odd's tray, Odd was ready to cry as she put the rest of what Odd would barely call a light snack onto the tray, he picked it up and moved to the table putting his tray onto the table dismally, Ulrich walked over chuckling as Odd began to play with his food, "Great I love broccoli" said Ulrich sarcastically causing Yumi and William to laugh, "Say that again and you're dead fish" said Odd sulking as he starved with his minuscule proportion, "Give me your fish please" said Odd out of desperation as he leaned over the table to Ulrich's tray but he was stopped as Ulrich extended his blade and flicked it downwards into his fish stopping Odd from moving it, "He's got you there Odd" said Aelita as she and Jeremie sat down, "So I'm planning a trip to the factory to analyse the data we recovered, whose in" asked Jeremie as he began to dig into his food, "can't we have History" said Yumi as she gorged herself on the fish, "with Cooked onion of all people" added William as he looked around making sure he wasn't heard this time, causing the others but Odd to chuckle, "What about you two" asked Aelita, but Odd looked up from his food and said "No I'm staying here" before a light bulb suddenly turned on his head and he looked at Ulrich opposite him "You I need your help" he added deviously, Ulrich chuckled as he wiped the fish grease from the blade "My help" he responded with a chuckle.
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John whistled as he danced through the stone corridors of the club, with Hardy away on business that meant Oleg was left in charge and by extension, John was now in charge of security, every morning after a fight was slow, the staff from the night before usually had a drink before starting the next shift, although Hardy discouraged day drinking,
"Fat man" said Oleg as he sat at the bar drinking a cup of coffee, John looked annoyed as he walked over, "What did you call me rusky" he asked in response, Oleg laughed and signalled for the bartender to leave which she did scared of Oleg's reputation, "I have found something you'd find interesting" he said with a laugh sipping on his drink, "That so" asked John as he sat down before reaching over the bar and grabbing a bottle of water, "I know who our esteemed guest is" said Oleg with a laugh, John was confused and doubtful, "I checked the police records, he's got no record but he was in a very interesting case" said Oleg as he finished his drink slipping the file to John, "Sukin syn is a tough Ublyudok" said Oleg standing up, John raised his eyebrows in admiration of what Dallas had been through then he really looked shocked almost scared "Is that" asked John standing up and closing the file, "Yeah that's why the Nachal'nik has gone on his trip, he wants to keep his new asset" said Oleg before looking at a cleaner who was chatting up one of the waitresses, "Sukin syn" he said before grabbing his pistol and holding out the grip.
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Laying on his bed staring into nothingness and having skipped lunch due to a lack of appetite Adam looked at his ceiling with a cigarette in his mouth, although because of his day dreaming it was just burning away, he finally grabbed it and dabbed it into his ash tray, and dropped it into it, he sat up and reached for his jacket to grab another one,
"Had to make me with a sodding conscious" Said Adam to himself as he grabbed his box and found only 4 left, "shit" he said as he grabbed one and lit it up, standing up he walked towards his window and looked out to see Odd and Ulrich walking around to the other side of the cafeteria, suddenly he heard his phone ring, he ignored it as it carried on ringing, but the noise began to annoy him and he grabbed a bottle of whiskey and began to drink from it taking massive gulps, the phone kept ringing before he slammed down his bottle and grabbed it answering the phone "What do you fuck…" he started before he realised who was on the other end, "oh" he said instead as he listened in on his phone, "this soon, didn't we just cock up yesterday" said Adam as he looked out of his window again, "fine if you insist, you tell Evelyn I think I have an idea of what this attack shall be" he added as he hung up and stared at the two warriors who were now circling the Cafeteria, he took another puff of his cigarette before he dabbed it into his ash tray and grabbing his jacket "XANA's not starved of ideas yet" he said to himself laughing at his own joke.
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It would have been an understatement to say most of the staff weren't thrilled with the new health initiative, chief among them was Carter as he sat at the head of the table with his own packed lunch attempting to circumvent the nasty tasting food in the canteen, Delmas however wasn't listening and was just relaying what he'd been told by the board,
"as I Keep saying Mr. Daniels, this wasn't my decision" said Delmas as he dug into his fish which happened to be breaded, the effect caused Jim to drool, "Many of the students have eaten too much fatty foods" said Kidd as he folded his arms he was in the minority of teachers who were in favour of the healthier food, Carter slammed his fist down, "There's making the students eating healthier and then there's taking the fun out of their break" said Carter as he sat down again, Delmas shook his head and sat back gulping down his food, "Professor you've yet to chime in" asked Delmas, but Claudius couldn't care less about the discussion as he sat in the corner of the room not wearing his coat reading 'who goes there' quietly, to say more of his professional nature it was a near mint first edition, "Because I don't consider it important" he said turning the page of his book, Carter was annoyed but returned his attention to Delmas, Claudius looked at Jim as he held his clearly grumbling stomach, Claudius chuckled as Jim was on Delmas's side although it was obvious that Jim was starving from not eating the healthy food, "Mr Delmas sir?" said Jim rubbing his stomach, Delmas looked over at him "What is it Jim" he responded frustrated from the arguing Jim stood up, and bowed saying "May I be excused sir", Delmas rolled his eyes and wiped his glasses as he dismally responded "If you must", Jim bowed again before walking fastly out of the room, Claudius grinned as he turned his page again and let out a small chuckle.
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Jeremie and Aelita had slipped away to the factory, it was the first time in a while that the two had been alone, and whilst Jeremie was more focused on analysing the data on screen, Aelita couldn't help but look at him it was almost impossible for her not to stare at him, Jeremie didn't seem to notice, although since she'd regained her memory something about Jeremie was more and more appealing,
"What do you think the internet looks like" asked Aelita breaking the silence and moving towards Jeremie placing her hand on the chair, "I dunno but I guess we're gonna find out" said Jeremie as he leaned forward slightly looking at the data, "Wait that looks like" he started noticing a familiar looking code but then an activated tower window opened up "An alert" said Aelita as she leant forward brushing past Jeremie causing his head to be at her neck, he turned bright red as he said "Oh no", Jeremie leant back and clicked his fingers, "We need to alert the others" he added as he loaded the phone "I can go alone" said Aelita, this caused Jeremie's heart to practically stop "You can't if you get devirtulized" he started as he turned to face her, "I won't be lost I'll come straight back here" she retorted before moving towards the elevator, but Jeremie hit a key and with a load noise the elevator was locked "We don't know what XANA's planning, if you get devirtulized it could spell disaster" he said standing up, Aelita smiled as she made a human error, "I guess I'm getting more and more human" she said, Jeremie smiled and hit the phone button.
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Yumi and William were walking towards there next class which just happened to be history, Claudius was sitting waiting for all of his students to arrive, he was seemingly ignoring most of them as they walked through the door, he watched as Yumi and William walked up to the class,
"What do you think it'll be this time" asked William as he held his hands behind his head, Yumi chuckled "for you a history of fear" she said causing Williams heart to sink, then the sound of relief as he heard his ringtone of Thriller by Michael Jackson, he grabbed his phone and answered it "William, are you with Yumi" asked Jeremie as he had a sigh of relief, "no Shit Einstein" said William as he and Yumi stopped in place, "Good head to the factory XANA is attacking" added Jeremie, William sighed in relief himself "It beats history with Scarface" he responded as hung up, "XANA" asked Yumi as she put her books back in her bag, "Of course my dear, Duty awaits" said William chuckling before they rushed off towards the woods with Claudius looking at them before turning and looking at his class saying "Okay so food for thought".
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Having learned from breaking and entering into Yumi's house the previous year, Odd and Ulrich had their phones on silent as they snuck around the now empty canteen, although the rumbling of the formers stomach was enough to alert anyone within a 1 radius, Odd poked his head out and looked
"Coast is clear" he said with Ulrich casually grinning as he was close to laughing, Odd looked around as he hoped up the stairs to the door "Time to eat up a storm" Added Odd but then his moment of stealth was interrupted as Ulrich's phone started ringing "Hang on" he said as he grabbed it, Odd frustrated turned and looked at him, "Jeremie" said Ulrich answering the phone, "Head to the factory on the double, XANA's activated a tower" said Jeremie, Ulrich rolled his eyes and said "Be right there", this angered Odd, "That's what you think but I refuse to be virtualized on an empty…" he started but before he could finish Jim booted open the door, in a moment of his powers combing his skin armoured as the door smashed into his back and was close to shattering, Jim would have normally noticed if not for the mountain of food on his tray, "Eating healthy is okay but I'm bloody starved" said Jim as he began to chew into a drum stick, then he noticed Odd and Ulrich, "Stern and Della Robbia, what're you doing here" he asked spitting food towards them, causing Ulrich to brush himself down as he said "I could ask you the same thing, I thought you were a nut about staying in shape" Jim was caught red handed and it wasn't from the sauce dripping off his tray "I… I asked you first, answer me" retorted Jim then suddenly the windows of the Canteen exploded outwards Odd and Ulrich dived to the ground as Jim was almost showered with Glass, they were suddenly taken aback as an apple bounced on the ground, "What the…" said Jim as he moved to investigate "Whose in there" he added, Ulrich suddenly had the Crossbow in his hands, "I have a bad feeling" said Ulrich as he loaded it, whilst inside the canteen Adam formed as a plug shorted circuited "Whose that" asked Jim as Ulrich slowly moved forward ready but then Jim was knocked backwards as a load of food struck him like a train "Hungry Jim" said Adam as the food began to form around him resembling an armour, suddenly it began to pour out of the shattered window before reforming with Adam at the Centre "What the… what is this shit" said Jim as he collapsed trying to back away, Ulrich aimed the crossbow as Adam seemingly ignored the two warriors, "What's the matter Jim" started Adam as he started to march forward his movement slow as he adjusted to the weight of all the food he laughed as he said "this is what I call a snack attack" he added as he went to punch Jim into the ground when suddenly one of the Bolts flew through the air, it entered through his left temple and exited out his right eye socket and suddenly the giant food suit collapsed with Adam landing on the ground shattering into its individual pieces, Jim was shocked with fear and was shaking as Ulrich said "That pun was just terrible", Odd started to move forward as he was tempted to just dive into the pile of food, but Ulrich held out his arm "Don't" said Ulrich as he didn't believe Adam would go down so easily, "But I'm Hungry" he said starting to salivate, Ulrich reloaded the crossbow as he moved after his starving friend "Be careful" he said as the two treaded carefully, Ulrich was moving to check if Adam was down whilst Odd thinking with his stomach was looking for the tastiest thing he could find.
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Jeremie and Aelita were still waiting in the factory, the Elevator door opened and by reflex Aelita raised her arm as if she was able to fire an energy sphere, but instead it was William being carried over the shoulders of Yumi,
"That was quick" said Aelita sarcastically looking at William as he looked pale "Yeah leap frog here decided to try a further jump" she said as she placed him against the wall, then she looked around "Where are Odd and Ulrich" she asked slightly concerned, Jeremie turned and quickly looked at her "They should be here in a minute" said Jeremie as he turned his head back to the computer and began to load the Materlization code, then Ulrich's phone window opened "Jeremie" said Ulrich as he moved slowly through what felt like a mine field of food, Odd was looking around like a starved dog, "Ulrich where are you two" asked Jeremie getting slightly frustrated, "we found what the attack was, we're checking if I might have stopped it" said Ulrich as he got to Adam and pushed his body over, "we might be a little late" said Ulrich as he hung up, Jeremie looked at the others, "What's happening" asked William as he looked up feeling like he was going to throw up, "I have no idea" said Jeremie as he finished typing you three better get going the tower won't deactivate itself" said Jeremie as the girls moved to help William into the Elevator "The tower is located in the Mountain…" started Jeremie as the door shut "Sector" he said rolling his eyes too late before he began to type, whilst in the room below the door opened with Yumi and Aelita lugging William towards one of the scanners, "I'm fine I can walk" he muttered out of breath, "Yeah and this floor is metal, you want a broken nose" said Aelita as they placed him into a scanner, "Not really" he responded causing Yumi to chuckle as they moved towards a vacant scanner each, "Get ready guys" said Jeremie as he typed in the code, "Transfer Aelita, Transfer William, Transfer Yumi" he said as the scanners closed the three began to go numb as they span and rose "Scanner Aelita, Scanner William, Scanner Yumi" added Jeremie as he hit enter, and with a flash he said "Virtualization", the three were bombarded with the blast of air as their blue squared outlines appeared and gained detail before dropping onto their Vehicles, Aelita and Yumi landed on the Over-Wing and William onto the Over-Board, he looked down a little annoyed "Jeremie" he asked looking up as the three shot off, "sorry Ulrich asked me to not let you use the Over-Bike" said Jeremie tugging at his collar nervously, "Okay guys the activated tower is just further north" said Jeremie as he managed to confirm its location, then he heard the beeping and loaded the radar "Shit, XANA's sent some Krabs after you" said Jeremie, William looked back and his sword materlized in a cloud of black smoke into his hand, "we read you" said Yumi as she head the unmistakable growl from the oversized creature, the two that were in pursuit opened fire, Yumi swerved the Over-Wing and managed to avoid any fire, William pulled up but was struck in the leg, "Shit" he said as he barrel rolled to avoid any further damage, "90 points left William" said Jeremie as he looked at his ID card, the two vehicles came up to large boulder and quickly swerved to the right moving around it, the Krabs tried speeding up but were unable to maintain pursuit, however they were blocked off by the appearance of a third monster as the new Krab fired at the three, its laser narrowly missing Yumi's head, the two vehicles shot forward with Yumi shouting "THAT'S MY HEAD", the three warriors were now moving away from the tower, "Yumi" said Aelita tugging on the older girls outfit, she nodded and turned moving parallel to the bridge, William turned a second later but the two pursing Krabs weren't giving up as they began to march along the bridge, "I've an idea" said Aelita as she looked at William who nodded and drew his sword, the two vehicles swerved and barrel rolled over the bridge, the two pursing Krabs didn't have time to look up as Aelita raised her hand and said "Energy field" launching it down into the first Krab whilst William used his sword to slice down into the second, both creatures exploded with the warriors darting forward with an increased laser barrage from the remaining monster.
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"don't tell me Jim ate all the good stuff" said Odd as he rummaged on his hands and knees trying to find something delicious, whilst Ulrich reached Adam's body, he tapped his body using his foot feeling no resistance Ulrich slowly kneelt down and pushed him over onto his back, Odd finally found a nacho flavoured crisps (I'm British leave off) and was about to dig in when Ulrich said "Okay he's done, lets…" but suddenly he was thrown into the air along with Odd as the food began to move again with Adam shouting "SURPRISE" the food tunnelled towards the two sending them high up almost like being hit by a train, "ODD" screamed Ulrich, as he landed in the trees hitting several branches on the way down which managed to break his fall, Odd looked back and as he was about to land on the canteen he crossed his arms and his clothes tore as his armour grew and hardened, it managed to break his fall as he crashed through the roof landing on a table with enough impact to break it, "AH SHIT" he screamed as he stood up, whilst he wasn't injured he was in a bit of pain as he felt his back and his cracked armour retracted into his body, "Ulrich" he said jumping out the window, but he was knocked to the ground by the sudden landing of the food pile with Adam once again at the centre of it despite his wound, "what's the matter Odd, lost your appetite" said Adam laughing at his own joke, Odd turned and raised his arm sending one of his smaller bolts at Adam, the latter moved to dodge, but it struck his shoulder "bastard" he said as the food that was representing his arm collapsed, Odd stumbled to his feet and rushed towards the woods, "Ulrich where are you" he yelled trying to find his friend, "ready for the second course" said Adam as the food armour collapsed and moved extremely fast towards the scrawny teen, Odd dived out of the way causing Adam to miss forming back into the armour, Odd looked up and quickly ran at him managing to jump and get past one of Adam's Swings, "ULRICH" he shouted trying to find him, "Come back here Odd" said Adam as he turned around and began to move after him his large steps causing a tremble, Ulrich looked up from the ground the fall had broken a few of his ribs and he was slightly concussed "Yumi…" he coughed as his vision blurred "Dallas" he added before Odd grabbed him, "Come on you" he said trying to move him but he found him a bit heavy "You need a diet" said Odd managing to drag him behind a tree avoiding Adam's eye line "Little pig, little pig" said Adam as he looked around, getting close he smashed his hand into the tree the two warriors were behind but not finding them, "Come out, come out where ever you are" said Adam chuckling, Odd managed to grab Ulrich and began to move away as fast as he could, "the Hatch it's our only hope" said Odd quietly, but Ulrich began to cough from the pain in his chest, Odd grabbed his mouth so Adam wouldn't hear, "Shhh" he said as they began to move towards the Hatch.
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The School had flooded into the courtyard the loud crash from Odd landing in the canteen combined with the tremors was enough to get anyone interested, the students looked at the wrecked building amazed at what had happened whilst Dorothy was tending to Jim as he was shacking and barely making any sense, Claudius moved towards the traumatised Gym teacher his can audibly tapping against the ground,
"Jim what happened" asked Dorothy as she wrapped up his head, through his mumbling he said "The food it… it attacked us" he said Dorothy shook her head as she reached for an ice pack, "must have hit your head" she said, Claudius looked down at the two, "You sure that's what you saw Jim" he asked curious, Jim barely managed to nod, Claudius chuckled slightly before looking towards the woods and grinned.
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Yumi and William were dodging the laser fire from the remaining Krab as best they could, given it was a single monster against two targets it was easy to dodge, but they didn't let their guards down, most of shots struck the ground but they were more than easily avoided,
"Hang on" said Yumi as she dodged to the side, suddenly they noticed a new Krab "Son of a bitch, these things don't give up" said William swerving to avoid its fire, the two vehicles swerved around a large rock each going a different way, with a Krab following them each they intercepted each other before Aelita grabbed onto Yumi's belt and yelled "ENERGY FIELD" firing an orb striking one of the Krabs dead on causing it to explode, "Yes" said William as the two moved past it, "We can see the tower Jeremie" said Yumi as it came into view at the end of a donut shaped pathway, "Well down guys" said Jeremie proud of how quickly things were sorted, but it was to be short lived as Aelita sadly said "wait a second Jeremie, something feels weird" the two vehicles slowed down upon approaching the tower, William looked around slowly "I don't see anything" he said shrugging his shoulders, "the digital sea has risen all of a sudden" said Aelita finally spotting the trouble, beneath the floating stone structures began to become engulfed as the digital sea began to pour over them making them barely visible beneath it, "what's going on over there" said Jeremie as the radar began to glitch out, William and Yumi pulled their vehicles up to avoid being caught within the digital sea, The pursuing Krab however wasn't so lucky as the sea touched it and it exploded but its explosion was suppressed beneath the waves, "hey You're right Aelita, the digital seas really going way up" said Jeremie as he finally made sense of the radar, "Must be another one of XANA's tricks" he added as William looked down avoiding any waves that could catch him, "You think" he asked sarcastically avoiding a wave, "You mean that Lyoko is gonna be submerged and disappear forever" asked Yumi with Aelita gripping her slightly scared of the thought, Jeremie shook his head "No they won't disappear, Lyoko sectors aren't affected by the digital sea" he responded reassuringly but then he dropped the bad news "But it will get submerged unless I can find a way to lower the sea level" he added, he began typing to try and fix the issue when suddenly the alarm went off, "Oh shit, Monsters are heading to the chamber at the core of Lyoko" said Jeremie panicking then he realised what the plan was, "XANA's trying to stop you from deactivating the tower and reaching sector 5, by raising the level of the digital sea, and that's precisely how he plans to wipe out Lyoko" he added, Yumi looked around as they got closer to the tower "You've got to get to sector 5 before the sea swallows the mountain sector" said Jeremie, Yumi wanted to try and get closer to the tower but the entrance was now inaccessible "Yumi it's no use" said William as he looked at the two girls, "Take care of the tower first" said Jeremie, but Yumi turned away, "Its no use the tower is lost" she said as the two vehicles pulled up avoiding another wave.
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Authors Note:
Okay I wanna apologise for the lack of an update, its been a terrible few months for me, firstly my laptop broke on me so I had to transfer everything to my old one which has a terrible fan and sod all space, and secondly my grandfather died so I've had such little motivation to do any writing, so everything post here is what I've managed to get done.
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The loud thumbs of the food giant suit caused trembles causing branches and anything in them to crash to the ground, Odd was struggling to stay hidden with a half unconscious Ulrich over his shoulder and the crossbow over his other,
"Come on Odd I just want to have a talk" said Adam laughing as he punched into a tree but Odd wasn't behind it, "that was too close" said Odd watching from a distance, suddenly he collapsed as Ulrich was too heavy, "Ulrich come on" said Odd as he grabbed his arm in an foolish attempt to drag him "FOUND YOU" shouted Adam as he brushed aside a tree but it fortunately for the two warriors they weren't behind it, Odd gripped Ulrich's shirt by the collar and began dragging him as hard as he could, although since the brown haired teen was about 40 pounds of muscle heavier it was a struggle to move him, "Lose weight" grumbled Odd as he saw Adam turn and look around, the former quickly pushed his friend into a pile of leaves and dived in after him before covering the two of them, Adam stomped past slowly looking around trying to find them, Odd covered Ulrich's mouth as the giant passed by, as the trembling stopped Odd poked his head out and grabbed Ulrich "Come on the hatch is nearby" he said with Ulrich groaning from the pain he was in.
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Whilst things were tense in the forest in the mountain sector they were at boiling point, the two vehicles were getting close to skipping along the rising sea level, which was making things more and more dangerous,
"Jeremie the Digital sea is getting higher and higher, I don't know if we're gonna make it to the edge of the sector" said Yumi as she pulled up to avoid a small wave, "you've gotta make it there for the transporter" said Jeremie as he felt his heart begin to race, "Einstein if you could shit out an idea right about now that'd be great" said William as the two vehicles pulled up to the highest land mass level, "Odd and Ulrich should be here soon to help" said Jeremie as he loaded the transport window, "I hope" said Aelita as she gripped on tightly to Yumi's stomach like a concerned younger sister, Odd had managed to carry Ulrich to the hatch, but with his empty stomach and the ridicules weight difference that the two shared, he was all but exhausted by the time he pulled the hatch open,
"come on" said Odd, Ulrich groaned as he managed to stand up on his own two feet gripping his ribs as they were causing him agony, "I'll follow" said Ulrich as he stumbled to the manhole, Odd started descended first with Ulrich slowly following after, he managed climb down without letting out a noise, "YOU OKAY" shouted up Odd, Ulrich nodded as he closed the hatch, but suddenly he lost his grip due to the pain and fell, "Shit" said Odd as the brown hair teen struck him, Odd raised his armour and the two struck the floor, Odd yelped as he felt his armoured skin crack and fracture beneath him, plus with Ulrich landing on him it was causing him a considerable amount of pain, he pushed his friend onto the floor and pulled off his shirt feeling something rattle then he looked as the Armoured skin fell off his back, and cracked like a brittle piece of plastic on the ground, Odd tried turning his head and look at his back, all he could see was above his shoulder, his back looked like it was sun burnt and the skin was all blistered, "That looks nasty" said Ulrich coughing a bit before leaning against the wall, "don't start" said Odd as he pulled his shirt back over his head, "Come on" said Odd as he grabbed one of the skateboards and placed Ulrich on it "Good thing we left these bloody things down here" said Ulrich with a laugh but this only hurt him even more, suddenly he felt something drip on his head, "Odd" he said concerned as Odd began to pull him along by his leg, then he heard something drip onto the metal floor, "ODD" he said louder, then they both heard something loud smack against the floor before a splash, Odd turned his head back but nervously kept moving forward, then the two noticed what was happening as food began to drop slowly at first before it flooded down like a giant worm with Adam poking out the front, "FOUND YOU" he said as Odd began to run pulling Ulrich as quickly as he could, with Adam laughing at his prey before slowly moving after them, "You can run" he said tauntingly as the food snaked along towards them.
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"Guys bad news" said Jeremie as the radar began to pick up new signals, "Jeremie Don't tell me XANA's" started Yumi as she, William and Aelita looked around "sent Hornets after you, Yes" responded Jeremie pre-emptively answering the question, "Good things were getting a little boring" said Yumi sarcastically, Aelita turned around and spotted the three pursing Wasps, "look" she said pointing towards them, "oh Shit" said William as he moved behind them holding out his Sword to block the lasers, "How much further" asked William as he swung his sword to block the lasers but found himself loosing balance quickly on the Over-Board, "you're nearly there" said Jeremie as the Elevator opened he turned ready to panic, but it was an Exhausted Odd and Ulrich, "Where have you two been" asked Jeremie as he looked at the two dishevelled friends, "weren't a hunger drive" said Odd which despite his pain Ulrich managed to smack the back of his head, "You two head to the scanner room" said Jeremie as he looked at Ulrich clutching his chest, "Him first" he said sarcastically, then they heard a loud thud, "Whats that" asked Jeremie slightly scared, "Don't ask" said Odd as he rushed into the elevator, "What're you…" started Ulrich, but the door closed and Odd smacked the button and with a shake the Elevator began to rise, "I'm gonna need Help" said Ulrich as Jeremie tried picking him up but since Jeremie was brains over brawn he struggled more than the Scrawny Odd, in the Elevator Odd trembled as Adam opened the hatch, "you're trapped Odd, I've got you pinned now" he said as the food began to fill into the Elevator, "no you don't" said Odd as he dived down, Adam was confused when suddenly he was crushed between the roof of the elevator and the top of the shaft, the steel girder holding him against the elevator, Odd dived out of the steel crate and looked as Adam laid bloodied and beaten but amazingly still conscious, "Fucking XANA" said Adam as he coughed blood up, Odd grinned and threw up a peace sign as he began to rummage through the food for something he wanted to eat.
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Jeremie placed Ulrich in one of the Vacant scanners being as careful as he could to not cause any more pain to his friend, Jeremie nodded as he rushed back to the ladder, whilst on Lyoko The wasps had gained ground on the warriors and were surrounding them, William tried swinging his sword to either slice or swat them but he couldn't maintain his balance
"Crap, Guys I'm useless" said William, the Wasps fired at the three, but the speed caused the lasers to be inaccurate, Yumi threw her fan and it spun around before slicing into one of the wasps, "Yes" she said as she grabbed her fan but in retaliation the wasps opened fire at her and she was thrown from the Over-Wing, "YUMI" screamed Aelita as she looked down but thankfully Yumi smacked into a mountain side which devirtulized her upon impact, Aelita leaned forward grabbing the handles before the Vehicle spiralled out of control, William looked around and shouted "HIT THE BRAKES QUICKLY", Aelita suddenly slowed down for a second, William jumped grabbing the Over-Board and swung around smacking it into one of the Wasps destroying both the monster and the Vehicle before he landed behind Aelita causing a small sway, "Good going princess" he said grabbing her shoulder, "Okay guys Ulrich is on his way" said Jeremie as he sat down in the chair and began typing, "Yumi's been devirtulized its just us two" Said William as he looked at the remaining Wasp which was getting trigger happy with its laser blasts, "Okay Ulrich is coming your way" replied Jeremie as he began typing "Scanner Ulrich" he said hitting enter and his scanner closed as Yumi's opened letting her out "Transfer Ulrich" he added as Ulrich began to spin and rise inside the scanner, "Virtualization" he said as Ulrich's blue squared outline appeared and dropped onto the one of the last few remaining land masses he looked around seeing the damage, "Oh Jesus this place is washed up" he said looking down at the digital sea, "I've spawned the Over-Bike, Meet with Aelita and William and get to sector 5" replied Jeremie as he hit enter and the Over-Bike spawned next to him, "Jeremie where's Odd" asked Yumi as she stumbled to her feet, "He's upstairs dealing with World hunger" said Jeremie sarcastically causing Yumi to smile trying to laugh but she was too exhausted as she started to move towards the ladder, Aelita was swerving the Over-Wing as fast as she could the laser blasts were getting closer, "That was too close" said William as he tried swinging his sword to swipe it, "We'll I'm not used to a load of dead weight" replied Aelita as she swerved again just dodging one of the lasers, but she turned too sharply and the Over-Wing lost altitude and came down towards one of the bridges and skidded throwing the two occupants along the ground "Aelita" said Jeremie as the Wasp again opened fire it's shots getting closer and closer, "I'm on my way Jeremie" said Ulrich as he gunned the engine of his bike towards them, "Energy field" said Aelita as she fired one of her spheres towards the Wasp, it quickly fired and dodged, the creatures laser struck Aelita knocking her backwards towards the Digital sea "AELITA" screamed William as he dived grabbing her leg to stop her from falling, "Oh crap" said William as he watched the Wasp come in for the Kill but then he heard a yell as Ulrich jumped from the Over-Bike with incredible speed and spun with his Katanna slicing cleanly through the Wasp and landing on his feet as it exploded, "Took you long enough" said William cockily reigniting their rivalry "that's Odd's taxi service for you" said Ulrich laughing as he sheathed his Katanna "Okay Guys I'm entering the code" said Jeremie as he loaded the transport window "Scypio" he said as he hit enter, and with not a second to lose the transport sphere engulfed the three warriors and the final path of the mountain sector was swallowed leaving the area completely under water.
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Odd was rummaging through the food that had fallen into the elevator and what was now on the ground, Adam groaned as he was in pain,
"Do you mind it's awfully distracting" said Odd with a chuckle as he looked for his favourite food, "Why not move the elevator" responded Adam cockily as he tried to shift himself but found himself trapped, "Ah here we are" said Odd as he found the bag of crisps (Leave off I'm British) he sat down ready to dig in, when suddenly Adam started Laughing "Didn't expect to see you here" he said looking towards the factory floor, Odd was confussed and stood up extending his blade moving slowly towards the exit of the metal crate, suddenly there was a rumbling nose and the Elevator door began to close, "Son of a bitch" said Odd as he dived out, "WHOSE THERE" shouted Odd but the factory floor echoed with emptiness, suddenly Odd gulped as he heard a loud thud, he turned around and Adam's food armour had reformed and a giant hand grabbed Odd "I've got you now you scrawny bastard" said Adam as he held Odd up to him and began squeezing "I Told you" said Odd as he tried wiggling his arm free, Adam looked at him when suddenly Odd got his left arm free and extending his blade he sliced into Adam's face, the latter tried moving but the blade cut open the side of his face, Adam flinched the grip loosened dropping Odd, "I'm Svelte" said Odd grinning, Adam held his face "XANA said to hurt you" said Adam as he began to show signs of remorse, "But I'm gonna make this as easy as possible" he added as he began to charge and dive at Odd, the latter jumped and managed to hope over the train of food as it barrelled towards him, "can I at least have a final meal" said Odd as he started running.
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The inner dome lit up as the transport sphere entered and opened letting out its passengers, the room began spinning as the rest of the sector loaded,
"I don't suppose either of you ran into Evelyn did you" asked Ulrich, Aelita turned her head towards him, "Judging from your tone you didn't" she responded, Ulrich remained silent which was more than enough of an answer, "What about Adam" he asked Dismally, Ulrich chirped up as he said "Yeah he's helping Odd with a hunger strike" this caused Jeremie to chuckle as he changed the map to Sector 5, "Okay guys the timers gonna start soon" he said, the turning room slowed down "we need to find the data to reset the digital sea" added Jeremie as he looked at the state of the Mountain sector, "You think we'll find it" asked William, Jeremie pushed his glasses to his face, "If not we can't deactivate the tower" he responded causing Yumi to gasp, then the alarm went off, "Whats that" she asked learning forward, Jeremie rolled his eyes, "The last thing we need" he said as he began typing, "You guys will have to split up, Ulrich head to the core otherwise bye, bye to our beautiful virtual world" said Jeremie as he began to get more frustrated at everything, "Got it Jeremie" responded Ulrich, the first wall opened and the three warriors rushed forward onto the narrow bridge, "So stop the countdown, save the core, find the data and deactivate the tower" said Aelita as she looked at the taller boys, "I don't think we have enough to do" said William sarcastically, the wall then opened with the hallway spinning to make itself a more difficult pathway to traverse, Ulrich shot forward like a bullet with super sprint whilst Aelita and William moved slower to find the Timer, "Don't sweat Einstein, we got this" said William, Jeremie tugged at his collar "How come I'm sweating" he responded slightly worried, Yumi stood up and moved towards the Elevator, "I'm gonna go help Odd" she said and pressed the button, "Be careful you're still too weak" said Jeremie turning away quickly.
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Odd had been running Adam around in circles but because of how long he'd been running and the little sustenance he'd consumed Odd was starting to feel weaker and weaker and slowed to a crawl before collapsing to his knees,
"Whats the matter Odd" said Adam mockingly as the food armour turned into a surrounding wall with Adam stepping out and moving towards him slowly clapping, "I have to give it to you Odd, you put up a decent fight" said Adam kneeling down to him grabbing his head forcing Odd to see all of Adam's injury's, Odd wanted to spit into his face but his mouth was too dry, "But face it you need him, you need that useless bastard" added Adam when suddenly he was thrown against the wall of the factory as part of the food wall smashed into him throwing him, "Don't speak ill of my son" screamed Yumi as she lowered her hand, she fell to her knees as Adam laughed through the latest blow of pain, Odd stumbled to his feet "Yumi" he said grabbing his friend "You okay Odd" she asked as she felt like she was going to throw up, "I feel how I look" he said as he helped Yumi up, "Terrible then" she said as they moved towards the elevator, Adam stood up grabbing his back before the food slowly moved back towards him, "Lookout" said Odd as he pushed Yumi into the metal crate before diving in after her and slamming the button, the door shut before Adam could attack, "Whats your plan" asked Yumi, but Odd shrugged his shoulders as he collapsed from exhaustion, Yumi grabbed his wrist and fired his bolt into the control panel and with a tiny explosion of sparks the crate shuddered to a holt, "what're you…" started Odd as he watched Yumi moved towards the hatch and extending her blade "Let's see how well Dallas made these things" she said as she managed to jam the hatch with it before she practically collapsed "We should be fine for now" she added as she sat against the wall shutting her eyes trying to relax, although that was going to be difficult.
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Authors note:
Okay so they actually didn't a scene dedicated to the timer in this episode which is odd because that's usually a big deal, so… okay then
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With a suspiciously empty room moved through like a summer breeze Aelita smacked the button allowing the room to reshape and the wall opening up revealing the inner sphere "Better Hurry" said Jeremie as the radar began to light up "The monsters have started their attack on the core" said Jeremie, the warriors exited the room and saw the elevator coming, "Ready" asked William then they jumped and landed as the platform shot upwards before reaching the axis and switching direction "We made it Jeremie" said Aelita as the platform slowed down before stopping and the wall opened "We've made it to the celestial dome" said William as they started moving forward "I'll see you guys on the other side" said Ulrich as he rocketed forward completely out of their view "Okay good you two head for the interface, you've gotta get me the data necessary to lower the digital sea" said Jeremie as he loaded the data transfer window ready to receive any info, "We're on it" said William as the two exited into the outer sphere's balcony platform, the Over-Board spawned ready for any trouble that they knew was only a matter of time away, in the elevator Odd and Yumi were close to falling asleep, they were trapped in the metal box and they'd never spent enough time in it to find out how hot it could get, especially when the cooler was turned off which Yumi had accidently disabled when she destroyed the controls, Odd managed to open his eyes and felt how dry his mouth was he looked over at Yumi and quickly stumbled to his feet grabbing the leather jacket and was about to pull it off her knowing it was cooking her but she grabbed his hand "No…" she managed to spit out looking up towards Odd "Leave it on" she added pushing his hand away, Odd was confused not knowing why she was wearing it, "You're gonna burn up if you…" he started but then they heard a tiny thump, "what was that" he asked looking around then there was another tiny thump "Sounds like lunch time" said Yumi as she stumbled to her feet, Odd looked at her as she had to push herself up the wall before he gulped again and then he felt his stomach grumble like the engine of a motorbike.
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"found anything yet Aelita" asked Jeremie as he tapped his hand on the arm rest, Aelita was starting to worry as so far the data search had turned up fruitless, "Not yet" she responded dismally, William looked at her as he paced back and forth, holding his sword over his back he kept looking around, whilst at the southernmost region of Sector 5 Ulrich was coming up to the entrance, he slowed down before speeding up to not get destroyed by the rapidly opening and closing door, "How about you Ulrich whats up" said Jeremie as Ulrich dismounted the Over-Bike and started running up the large stairs, "Everything's good" he said as he reached the top into the circular room beneath the core, "I can see the core" said Ulrich with a grin then he noticed three Manta's and Evelyn pointing her rapier towards the core directing their fire, "I know I said everything's good" he added before drawing his Katanna "Just don't let them destroy the sphere, that goes Lyoko goes" said Jeremie, Ulrich nodded and started sprinting like a rocket, he quickly moved onto the second level, Evelyn noticed and pointed her rapier towards him and one of the Manta's moved to intercept, Ulrich looked up and skidded to a stop and held out his blade as the creature blasted a laser towards him he managed to block, the manta moved ready to turn back on him, Ulrich started running again with Evelyn pulling her musket and fired just missing Ulrich's foot but he still stumbled from the narrow hit and the swordsman tumbled to the ground grabbing his Katanna to deflect the next shot, with the returned laser narrowly scraping the flying Manta causing it to scream and move away, "yes" said Ulrich as he got back on his feet and started running again, "Persistent aren't we" she said when suddenly the first layer of defence exploded, she raised her arm to block the near blinding light, "SHIT" shouted Ulrich as he nearly ran off the edge, "Bad news guys the first protective layer just blew" said Jeremie smacking his fist down on the chair, Ulrich looked forward at the gap between the sections and took a few steps back as the Manta circled back towards him, he quickly ran forward jumping and then bouncing off of the manta and landing on the next platform with a running start, "Stay on the core" said Evelyn as she jumped down, the third Manta was raining down lasers on Ulrich narrowly missing him each time, the two mantas rained fire into the core, "The second barrier won't last much longer" said Jeremie beginning to panic, then he heard some good news as Aelita said "Jeremie I might have what we need to debug the digital sea", Jeremie smiled and leaned forward ready to receive the data, William smiled when suddenly with a bright flash from the outer wall, two dim red lights moved to the path way, and two creepers spawned "Shit" said William as he held his sword forward, one faced each of the warriors and both between them, "Jeremie I may have a problem" said Aelita as she slowly began to back away.
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Ulrich quickly swerved from side to side as his purser fired more lasers, he looked back as he jumped up onto the platform, but suddenly he was kicked down by Evelyn as she lunged at him knocking him down, Evelyn grinned as she looked at the Manta's
"Destroy the shields then depart" she said, Ulrich looked up at her dazed hearing Jeremie scream "ULRICH, CAN YOU HEAR ME, ULIRCH", Ulrich quickly looked and dived for his Katanna but it Exploded as Evelyn shot it with her musket, "Believe it or not I'm doing you a favour" she said as the second defence exploded with the Manta's letting out a cry before they departed and all but disappeared, Ulrich quickly jumped to his feet and charged at Evelyn but she grabbed her rapier and held it up to his throat, "Now, now that's no way to treat a lady" she said before kicking him down, Ulrich grinned as he said "what can you do to help" as he planned his next attack, Evelyn stepped towards him and looked away with what appeared to be regret, "I can tell you something you want to know" she said before turning towards the core and reloading her musket, "Ulrich whats going on, William and Aelita are in danger" said Jeremie unable to work out what was happening, Ulrich looked up at Evelyn choosing not to speak, "Ulrich answer me" said Jeremie starting to worry, Evelyn finished reloading her musket "I know where Dallas is" she said, Ulrich's eyes shot open and he froze in place, "XANA wants to see if you're able to find him, but… Williams uncle and what happened with Dallas…" said Evelyn, Ulrich found himself unable to move with shock, "Look for Danse De Monstre" said Evelyn as she aimed her musket at the Core "now my conscious can be clean" she added as she began to squeeze the trigger when suddenly Ulrich jumped up and stabbed her with his wrist blade, Evelyn yelped at the sudden Blow, Ulrich's eyes looked set on murder, he grabbed Rapier from the sheath before kicking her off the ledge and watched as she devirtulized before hitting the ground, "Ulrich are you okay" asked Jeremie starting to get frustrated, Ulrich looked up before turning away "Yeah I'm on my way" he said pondering on what Evelyn had said.
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"Aelita, William I'm gonna pull you two in" said Jeremie as he began to launch the devirtulization program, Aelita looked up slightly angrily whilst staying focused on the creeper as it lunged and snapped at her, "No don't I was just about to get a hold of the data" she replied, William tried swinging his sword at the monster in front of him "Come here you over grown piece of shit" he said as he missed, it fired a laser at him and he blocked with the giant sword but it knocked him back, the monster pinning down Aelita spat a laser towards her, but in a quick moment Aelita dived forward and turned saying "Energy field" she quickly smacked the sphere into the creatures head knocking it backwards and destroying it, the second creeper turned around to see what had happened but this proved to be its downfall as William jumped and slice through the creatures neck decapitating it and causing it to explode "You okay princess" he asked as he extended his arm and helped her up, Aelita nodded as she felt excited over what had just transpired "It'll just take a second" as she turned back towards the menu and began to transmit the data to Jeremie.
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The thumping had both increased in loudness and speed, Odd looked around whilst thinking about how they could defend themselves, then Yumi had an idea,
"Odd can you give me a boost" she asked, Odd looked at her and felt his stomach grumble, "Maybe I dunno, I mean…" he started but Yumi fired a death stare at him, "I've lost the pregnancy weight before you saying anything" she said spitting daggers, Odd nervously nodded, then the thumping stopped "What's your plan" he asked, outside the elevator the food pile formed pack into the armour, Adam raised his arms and slammed it as hard as he could, "Come out come out" he said trying to break the hatch down, then suddenly the hatch opened, "That was easy" said Adam as he dived forward diving in through the hatch "Now" said Yumi as she kicked Adam into the wall, "What the" he said angrily at what was happening, Odd quickly lifted Yumi out of the hatch with the food flooding in Odd managed to get onto a pile, "Hurry" said Odd as Adam began to rise through the pile moving towards him, "Don't make this difficult" he said as he was about to grab Odd, "NOW" shouted Yumi then suddenly Odd looked up and jumped and with a sudden jerk Odd grabbed Yumi's foot as the Elevator suddenly descended faster than it should, Yumi had severed the cable, Adam reached out to grab Odd but it was too late in what felt like slow motion he watched as his prey moved away from him as the metal Crate fell to the bottom of the shaft, "Now what" asked Odd as he looked up at Yumi.
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"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT" asked Jeremie practically wetting himself upon the loud thud as the elevator crashed in the shaft, "Jeremie" asked Aelita confused at what had happened, "Ive found it" she said with a smile before transmitting the code, "are you ready to download the data" she added, Jeremie adjusted himself "I sure am" he said, whilst on Lyoko Ulrich pulled up next to the bridge and looked at Aelita and William, "What do you think that was" asked William as he looked at the brown haired teen, but Ulrich remained silent which William didn't notice, "Im launching the programing for debugging the digital sea" said Jeremie as he began typing and implementing the code "I hope" he added sheepishly, "What was that" asked William getting concerned but Aelita shrugged her shoulders choosing to not answer, "You three need to get to the towe P" added Jeremie, Aelita hopped onto the Back of the Over-Bike, whilst William took to the Over-Board, "Jeremie remind me to have a chat with you" he said as he put his sword away, whilst in the mountain sector the digital sea descended and the tower became visible again, "Great Aelita the data you found was exactly what we needed" said Jeremie thankful that it worked.
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XANA's monster hadn't time to regroup as the two vehicles raced towards the activated tower, Ulrich was pondering too much on what Evelyn had said and as such overshot the tower,
"Are you okay" asked Aelita, Ulrich shook his head getting out of his daze, "Oh sorry" he said as he turned back, Aelita wanted to say something but William said "Starting to crack compared to the new blood", Ulrich rolled his eyes and came in low landing in front of the tower, "Hurry Aelita" said Jeremie, she quickly rushed into the tower, "You okay bud" asked William, Ulrich looked at his rival but turned away, whilst in the elevator Odd looked at Yumi, "You think there'd be enough food to break my fall" he asked as they were engulfed by the return to the past.
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Odd paced back and forth in Jeremie's room when suddenly William appeared with a bag, Odd grabbed it like a wild animal,
"A thank you would be nice" he said but Odd didn't respond as he tore open the packaging and began to chow down on a burger and fries, "somehow that is rather wholesome" said Yumi as she leaned against Ulrich, but then she noticed he was staring into space, "Ulrich" she said nudging him and he shook out of his daze, "You okay you've been acting weird since sector 5" said Jeremie, Ulrich looked down but then looked up "I ran into Evelyn" he said, the others were confused about how vague he was being "that happens often enough" said Aelita, then Odd tried speaking but his mouth was stuffed full of food, "She said… she said where we can find Dallas" he said, the room went silent until Odd spat out his food, the first time he'd ever done so in his life, "And you didn't say anything" he said wiping his mouth as Kiwi at the spat out food on the floor, "He's got a point" said Jeremie as he moved towards Ulrich, Yumi gripped his arm not out of anger but concern, "Because what if it's a trap, who knows what XANA's up to, I didn't want to get our hopes up" said Ulrich, William shook his head, "what did she say" he asked sitting down, Ulrich shook his head holding back tears, for the first time in months "Ulrich take your time" said Aelita as the others moved towards him with Kiwi resting in his lap.
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The difference between France and Japan was staggering, with a private jet landing on the airstrip, a Jet black Toyota Century pulled up as the jet slowed down, 4 men stepped out 1 was carrying a sten gun, he looked around before nodding, finally a 5th man exited the vehicle his coat worn over his shoulders with a black fedora over his head, he was clearly older than all of the others, the door and stairs of the jet opened, and Hardy descended down the stairs instantly standing out as his bodyguard followed carrying a Mossberg 500
"Takashi how are you" said Hardy as he walked open armed towards the older gentleman, "Where's the meeting taking place today, how about the…" started Hardy but Takashi raised his arm and signalled for one of his subordinates to light his cigarette, "Arigato Oi" he said before looking at Hardy "This is going to be quick, I want you're new fighter" said Takashi, Hardy grinned and laughed at the gentleman, "you had me fly half way around the world for that, surely a text would have been better" said Hardy as he pulled a flask out of his pocket "You would have ignored the text" said the Nephew, Takashi smiled at the comment, and nodded signalling for the Nephew to offer a cigarette to Hardy who accepted, "not my favourite brand but…" he started but Takashi raised his hand cutting him off, "I respect loyalty, loyalty to me and loyalty to everyone who works for me, and I owe a favour to one of my men, I want the fighter" said Takashi, Hardy lit his cigarette and shook his head, "I'm sorry but that's gonna be a no, if you wanted to buy him maybe that would have been more civil, but he is numerous paydays waiting to happen" responded Hardy as he turned back towards the jet, "I don't like to be disappointed, nor do I disappoint those I'm loyal to" said Takashi, but Hardy ignored him as he boarded the jet again, "Ima Nani" asked the Nephew, Takashi threw down his cigarette and turned back to the Toyota, "Betsu no yūkai misui" said Takashi as he removed his hat and sat down.
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Authors note:
Okay firstly I really fell off with this chapter, and I mean I was on a hot streak then this took a while, I wanted to revise this season more as I wanted to change some things around, and I had to get out of a deep depression, only to get into the seasonal one, which sucks like hell, I hope this chapter wasn't too bad as I feel that it wasn't my best work, but I'm still happy with it.
