Chapter 2
Exploration
It was night at the factory and the group were talking after deactivating a tower.
"We should explore that new mysterious sector we discovered."
Jeremie spinned his chair and looked at Aelita
"Sector 5? We dont know whats in it"
Odd shaked his head
"No we do,Monsters,traps,the Scyphozoa that wants Aelita's memory and maybe that X guy we saw a few days ago."
Aelita nods
"But what if there's something else there like information on XANA or X"
Ulrich agreed
"Right the three of us should go."
"You mean the four of us, i want to be apart of this mission."
Jeremie stood up
"With the Scyphozoa slinking around? No Way!"
"I have to go what if there's a tower to deactivate? Even if by some miracle X shows up and deactivates it, he hasn't shown up in days."
Jeremie thinks for a minute.
Odd put his hand on Aelita's shoulder.
"C'mon Einstein with bodyguards like us, she has nothing to worry about."
Jeremie nods
"Ok well go tomorrow."
Meanwhile in Lyoko…
The hooded figure known as X is walking in Sector 5 to the data interface.
"This is it."
He places his hand on it and was blasted into a wall.
"Urgg"
He stands up.
"I won't be able to get this data."
Mantas started to fly towards him.
He summons his scythe and spins his weapon around as the Mantas shot at him.
A creeper attempts to shoot at him from behind.
X noticed this and throws his Weapon at the Mantas.
He backflips dodging the creeper laser and was behind the creeper.
The spinning scythe destroyed the Mantas before vanishing and reappearing in his hands.
X quickly sliced the creeper in half.
"The longer im here the worse this is going to get."
X vanished.
The Next Day…
Odd Ulrich and Aelita we're in Sector 5 trying to hit the key before time runs out.
Jeremie was watching the countdown
"6 5 4"
Odd was about to hit it before he was shot by a creeper and devirtualized.
"Nooo!"
Ulrich shouts before a creeper rapidly shot at him devirtualizing him.
"Aelita the countdown is over the room is about to change now."
The Creepers backed off and Aelita was trapped inside a cube like room.
Jeremie saw something was wrong.
He checks the scanners and sees no one.
"Aelita! Odd and Ulrich didn't come back!"
"What?!? That's impossible,are they lost?"
"They are"
A different voice said.
"X?"
Aelita and Jeremie looked confused.
"How are you communicating?"
Jeremie responded.
"I'm connected to Lyoko i am communicating through a tower but that's not important, your friends didn't return because this Sector 5 as you label it, is where XANA is both its strongest and most vulnerable, he has stronger control over there but he also has a weakness."
"What do you mean?"
Aelita questioned
"There's data there, possibly what you need to bring your friends back."
"Can you give it to us?"
"Unfortunately i cant access that data ive tried but it wont let me in, but it should let you in."
"But i'm trapped"
X remained silent.
"Get your third friend to lyoko immediately Aelita doesn't have much time."
Jeremie spoke up
"I already contacted Yumi she'll be here soon."
X ran out of the tower and attempts to instantly go to sector 5.
His body pixelated a bit.
"Urgg"
It returned to normal.
"I haven't fully recovered from that blast."
He starts running.
A little bit later Yumi was Virtualized a few feet in front of her
"What are you doing?"
X ran past her
"No time Aelita needs help."
Yumi nods as the overwing appears in front of her.
She jumps on and follows closely behind X
"How are you faster than a vehicle?"
"My abilities are due to my connection to lyoko."
He looks back and sees some Kankrelats about to fire lasers at Yumi.
X threw spinned his scythe and threw it at the monsters stopping them from destroying the overwing.
Yumi stopped at the edge of the sector.
X quickly joined her as the transporter took them.
They arrived at the entrance of sector 5.
The entrance opened.
"Quickly you two we you need to hit the key before the countdown runs out."
Yumi and X ran down the hallway.
Meanwhile…
The Scyphozoa had taken Aelita and was draining her memory.
"2 Minutes left you two quickly."
They entered the main room where there was a laser grid in the way of them and the key.
Yumi flipped through some of them but her hand hit one of the lasers damaging her.
Several Creepers crawled into the room.
"Get through the lasers forget about the monsters."
X stabbed one of the creepers as they began to aim at Yumi.
Yumi kept moving through the laser grid.
X kept destroying the Creepers except for one.
"10 Seconds Yumi"
Just as it reached the 2 Second mark Yumi hit the key and the countdown stopped.
The doorway opened.
"Alright the whole room is being reconfigured including where Aelita is."
X stabbed the creeper in the stomach, lifting it up with his scythe and slamming the creeper into the laser causing it to explode sending X across the grid and landing next to Yumi.
"Quickly"
X ran down the corridor and Yumi followed.
They stopped when they reached the edge.
"When i say now jump."
"What?"
The elevator was almost to them.
"Now"
They jumped and they were on the elevator.
They passed Aelita.
"Try to grab Aelita as you go by."
Jeremie said monitoring the elevator.
Yumi held her arm out as the elevator moved.
Aelita did the same and Yumi pulled her onto the elevator.
She looked at Yumi.
"Where are you taking me?"
"I have no idea."
"I do"
Yumi and Aelita looked at X
"X?"
Aelita said.
"What do you mean?"
Yumi questioned.
"If you want your friends to return then you better listen to me."
Yumi and Aelita move away.
"Jeremie can we trust him?"
Yumi questioned.
"I'm not sure he did help save Aelita."
Aelita looked at X then at Yumi.
"I think we can trust him."
"Aelita are you sure?"
"Do we have any other choice, this could be our only chance to bring Odd and Ulrich back."
Jeremie thought for a moment.
"Alright still be careful around him."
The elevator stopped and X started running down the path.
Yumi and Aelita followed.
They reached the interface.
"Aelita you have to use this."
X moved out of the way and Aelita walked to it and began to use it.
"Incredible the interface gives us access to XANA's own data."
"Huh"
Jeremie was confused.
"Sector 5 is where XANA lives."
"I cant use the interface myself otherwise i would have sent you back to earth."
X said summoning his scythe to him.
"Be ready."
He said to Yumi who looked a bit confused but was on her guard.
Some Mantas were starting to hatch.
"Quickly find the codes to save your friends!"
The Mantas completely hatched and flew towards the three.
"I'm gonna need the overwing."
Jeremie tried to give Yumi the vehicle.
"Uh oh, while Aelita is on the interface i can't do anything from my end."
X thinks for a moment.
"I can't give you that vehicle but i can offer something else."
He tapped his scythe on the ground a few times and the overbike appeared.
"The overbike how?"
Yumi looked surprised.
"I got data from it when I took it before hand"
Aelita transferred the data to Jeremie.
"Alright Jeremie you have control again."
Jeremie worked and made the overwing.
"Aelita take the overbike,Yumi the overwing."
The two jumped onto the vehicles.
Aelita looked at X
"What about him?"
X saw some creepers heading down the corridor
"Go now"
X ran towards them.
Aelita and Yumi rode the Vehicles up.
Jeremie started to work on opening the tunnel as the mantas started to fire at the girls.
They dodged as best they could as the tunnel opened.
As the girls head towards the tunnel one of the Mantas shoot Yumi off the overwing devirtualizing her.
"Yumi!"
The remaining Mantas blocked the way for Aelita.
"Jeremie i can't get through."
"Hold on Aelita maybe i can-"
Suddenly X's scythe slices the marks on the Mantas destroying them.
Aelita looked back and saw X standing on the Overwing.
"Go now."
Several more Mantas head towards them as Aelita flew through the tunnel.
Soon she was brought back to earth and with the new code so were the others.
Unfortunately a few others found the factory.
X saw all of this from the factory security cameras while he was in a waytower.
"Well then I suppose I better do something."
He tapped the ground twice with his scythe and a Return to the Past was triggered.
X falls on his knees his body was glitching and pixelated.
"I hope I don't have to do this again."
Meanwhile…
The Lyoko Warriors were in the courtyard.
"So let me get this straight this creepy grim reaper warrior guided you to the program that saved us?"
Ulrich questioned.
"Yeah i find that hard to believe."
Odd nods.
"Well it's true."
Jeremie added.
"He worked with us and if he didn't we wouldn't be having this conversation."
"Yumi are you sure he didn't have any ulterior motives?"
"Ulrich he saved Aelita twice and us from being lost."
Speaking of Aelita she was being quiet through all the stuff involving X.
Jeremie sighed.
"Anyway we now know that Sector 5 has the information we need for the Aelita's antivirus,we'll deal with the X situation as it comes."
"What if it's not a situation?"
They all looked at her.
"What if it's possible that X is like me and is a program against XANA."
"Then we have a better chance against XANA"
AN: And another chapter completed I hope you all enjoyed it I had a bit of fun writing this,and im glad to see some positivity for this story, until next time.
