Saturday, what Saturday meant was no lessons in the afternoon, Dallas used this time to plan his night, after the last few XANA attacks in which he had to deal with more than the others, getting shot through the knee, his face smashed in, blown to pieces by a laser, and then having to explode himself, Dallas believed he had more than earned some time to relax, so he found an Italian restaurant that was close to Kadic and reserved a table for him and Alexa, he had told her something causal, but she wouldn't take no for an answer and made Dallas wear a suit, something he didn't enjoy a lot, the night came quickly, and he knew wearing his 'monkey suit' as he put it wouldn't be suitable on his bike, and driving the ford falcon was going to get him arrested as he wasn't old enough to drive it, so he ordered a taxi, the place was actually a nice restaurant
"so how did you get the money for this" asked Alexa, as Dallas led her in, the latter was wearing a grey tuxedo, with a white shirt and black tie, and had placed his wings over the jacket "we'll I um" replied Dallas, he didn't want to say he had been hunting without her "long story" he said, as they walked towards the table Dallas had booked, it was a round table, a booth by a window, they sat down, Dallas however couldn't keep his eyes off of what Alexa was wearing a one piece red dress that really pushed up and showed her cleavage nicely, "nice view" asked Alexa sarcastically but she secretly enjoyed it, catching Dallas in the act, the latter then looked out the window which was a view of a park that was adjacent a river, he then looked back at Alexa "yeah this is better" said Dallas cheekily as a waiter came over with some drinks, they had gotten some cola, "you know the only thing I know about you before kadic is that you were in foster care" said Dallas, Alexa took a sip of her drink and then looked at him, at first Dallas thought she wasn't going to answer and might have ruined the evening "well I was born in this country and raised here, but my dad, man o' man was he an arse, when he knocked up my mum, he took all the baby care stuff and sold it" said Alexa, starting to bring a tear to her eye "sorry, don't carry on if you don't want to" said Dallas, Alexa whipped her face "no, it's fine , turns out he had another family and was having an affair, he was in fact raising my half-sister Kim, so that's where his money went, my mum died during childbirth, and my dad, refused to take care of me, so I ended up in foster care" said Alexa, she then started to cry, Dallas handed her a tissue, she then wiped under eyes "what about you" she asked, "well as far as I know I was born in France, to my dad, I don't know anything about my mum, my dad already had a son, my half-brother Liam, we moved to America when we were I was young, we lived in Detroit, a place that was hell to live in, there was always problems with the gangs, they were always fights, me, Liam and my dad where in a trailer at the time" said Dallas, Alexa laughed "me and my brother were outcast by the trailer park gang for a while" said Dallas, then he had some of his drink "that was until me and him, stood up for some off the trailer park gang, I remember there was these suburb guy, he was outside his territory, I punched one of them clean in the face, cut up his face really badly and broke his jaw, god then they respected me, the gang was a laugh, there was Sol, the leader of the gang, Jess, he was slightly brain damaged but what he lacked In brains, he made up in loyalty, Bobby if we need some things, he'd be the guy we'd talk to and then of course there was Upcoming" said Dallas, then Alexa interrupted him "who" she asked, "we called him that as unlike most of us, who would focus on the present, he'd focus on the future of our group, and my ex-girlfriend Lucy" replied Dallas, Alexa looked at him "who's Lucy" she asked getting jealous "she was my girlfriend for some time, and was close with the group until I found out she had been going out with the suburb guys, man oh man was I pissed off" said Dallas, then he laughed "what happened" asked Alexa, Dallas then looked up from his drink "well the guys, found out so we, one night using Sol's car a 73 delta 88, and a lot of cash, went to a gas station, and filled her up, then we went to the suburbs, and found some houses under construction, the owner was Lucy's dad, we then decided to pour the gas in the houses, Jess then accidently set the house's on fire whilst I was still in them" said Dallas, Alexa then laughed at this despite the fact her boyfriend had just revealed to arson "what happened" asked Alexa, "well we stood there, as the house burned chanting 'the Roof, the Roof, The roof is on fire, we don't need no water Let the motherfucker burn, Burn, motherfucker', then we heard sirens and we quickly jumped back into the Delta, and Sol drove away as quickly as he possibly could" said Dallas, "god it was the life until the reason that I had to go" said Dallas, then he undid his shirt slightly and moved his tie to show a scar on his chest, this wound had been sustained before the accident and would heal back into the wound "how did you get that" asked Alexa, Dallas rolled did his shirt back up "during the last week I was their me and Liam where with the gang, we were minding our own business when, the posh bastards that lived in the suburbs, whom one of their dads was planning on buying the trailer park, they showed up telling us to leave, we of course refused, then my brother stood up, to them he said and I quote 'hey, this is are turf we don't go to your turf and tell you to fuck off'" said Dallas, then he stopped as if something was telling him not to continue "then the fucker" he started to cry "the fucker quickly pulled a gun and started shooting, he shot Sol, crippling him, my brother in the chest, my brother survived however, but he got the blame for the whole effin affair, me and Upcoming managed to get them to a hospital, whilst Bobby and Jess phoned the cops, my brother was arrested and as the investigation was going on, they killed him so he couldn't testify, so my dad believing that we might have been next moved over here, but not before they damaged his bike, hence we started repairing it" said Dallas, then stopped crying "I'm sorry" said Alexa, Dallas smiled "it went to shit after that, but then I met my friends and then you" said Dallas he and Alexa then leaned forward and kissed, before their meal came.
Once Dallas had paid for their meal, he and Alexa walked out of the restaurant, it was late, and Dallas looked at his watch to see it was past midnight
"oh shit it's late" said Dallas, then he saw a rat at the base of Alexa's dress as if it was trying it eat it, Dallas then pushed Alexa to the side, then he kicked the rat away "pesky little shits aren't they" said Alexa, then she and Dallas got in a taxi with Alexa saying "shall we enjoy ourselves for a bit" as she nudged him, the rat however then opened its mouth and screamed, before moving down into the sewers where several other rats around 30 of them where all looking for something to eat, they scavenged around one of the pipes, when the rat that Dallas had kicked and scarred on its left eye noticed a pine cone, which was hanging above one of the broken grilles, the rat jumped for it, missing it, then another rat jumped on him, he screamed at the rat that had just done so, but unlike any civilized being, it was blamed and the other rats turned and screamed at him, then he quickly rushed to another of the pipes, when it found running water it began following it until it found another pipe, with a black rag hanging out of it, he then followed this up to a greengrocers shop, where there were several wooden crates of apples, the rat was able to smell this and he rushed towards them overjoyed at his discovery, this was not to last as an electrical socket began to emit a black ooze, which then took the form of a legless black smog, which then attacked the rat by pinning him down, the rat screamed at the top of its lungs as the ooze began to force itself down the animals throat, then suddenly the XANA logo appeared in both of its eyes.
Monday afternoon, the Lyoko warriors where in the study hall, but they managed to find a way to defeat the purpose, so as Jim sat at the end of the hall, reading a bodybuilders magazine which featured a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger, many of the other people in the library were, Alexa, Mollie, Sissi and her group, Millie, Tamiya, Naomi and Taelia, Jim was too distracted by the magazine to notice Jeremie on his laptop
"but I can't speak any louder, I'm in a library now" said Jeremie, "what's a library Jeremie" asked Aelita, Jeremie had taken the liberty of sitting as far away from Jim as he could, "a databank where everything's printed on paper, and where you can't make any noise" replied Jeremie, Aelita understood this immediately "oh because I guess you need silence to concentrate on what you're studying" said Aelita, Jeremie nodded and said "and so is not to miss the match point", then he looked to see that Dallas, Yumi, Odd and Ulrich using several books had made a miniature tennis court, it was match point, Dallas and Odd, vs Ulrich and Yumi, Odd was serving
"you're future flash, tellin you anything" asked Dallas to his teammate, Odd shook his head "he no powers remember" said Ulrich, Dallas then rolled his eyes as he handed Odd the piece of scrunched up paper, Odd placed it on his right hand before pushing it with his left, it bounced over the centre books where Ulrich using his right hand passed it back, Dallas then using the back of his left hand swung it backwards, Yumi then quickly returned it, Jim looked up from his magazine "hey quiet" he said, then he noticed the game and despite being a member of staff he was curious to who would the match, Dallas and Odd quickly using both the formers left hand and the latter's right both smacked the paper, the paper moved to fast for Yumi, Ulrich then quickly leaned back in his chair he then managed to hit the paper back, causing it to land on Dallas and Odd's side, but Dallas quickly, placed his left hand underneath the paper and quickly knocked it back onto the other side "game set and match" said Jeremie upon the win, "I know what it's like to be southpaw, you can bet your ass that I'm left handed" said Dallas, then Ulrich fell back in his chair, and onto the floor, Dallas cringed his face before remembering what he had just said, then he quickly pulled out his book as Jim, who had seen the conclusion of the game, walked over "Ulrich is that what you call studying" said Jim, as Yumi helped Ulrich back into his chair, Ulrich who didn't know how to reply to that question just laughed "in case no one told you this is not the school yard, you are here to work, Okay" said Jim, Yumi couldn't help but laugh "and work means silence, and no more games from now on" added Jim, then he heard someone walk in rather loudly, "okay then if that's the way you wanna play, I can play just as hard as you can my little friends" said Jim, then he turned to grab the person "2 hours detention" said Jim, then he noticed he had grabbed none other than Delmas by the earlobe "I'm sorry about that sir, I um" said Jim trying to make an excuse for himself, whilst the Lyoko warriors laughed "classic Jim" said Yumi, then Delmas walked over towards Jeremie, "hello their Jeremie, would you come to my office, I want to talk to you it's very important" said Delmas.
In the sewers the rats had managed to retrieve the pinecone and had just finished eating it when suddenly they heard a strange squeak come from the pipe behind them, the scarred rat walked towards them, the rats screamed at his presence, XANA's logo then appeared in its eyes and jumped at the nearest rat it could get, it pinned the creature down, and then jumped to another biting it in the wrist causing it to scream then both looked at the rest of the horde, XANA's logo in their eyes, they then attacked the rest of the rats.
Outside the Main building, Ulrich sat against the wall Yumi stood up next to him, whilst Odd, sat on the steps, and Dallas looked in through the door, they all had their bags with them except Dallas who had his crossbow, Dallas stepped back to let Jeremie exit the building, it was obvious Jeremie wasn't happy
"Jeremie" asked Odd, but Jeremie kept on walking away Dallas whistled and Yelled "hey Yo Einstein" there was still no reply and Jeremie walked on down the path, Dallas turned back and raised his arms to signify even he didn't know what the hell was going on, he then started moving after Jeremie, the other's then followed Dallas after Jeremie, Yumi was the first to catch up to them
"what's going on" asked Yumi, as Jeremie didn't look up from the path from which he was treading "well you know the principal, he went on and on, he says the school psychologist has been observing me for a long time, and he thinks that I'm an overly gifted student" said Jeremie unable to bring himself to look up at his friends "is that all, but that's nothing we were scared that the principal had found out about the lab, big deal huh" said Odd, relived at this news, but was less than relived when Jeremie said "it's worse than you think Odd, the shrink's decided that I have to take all kinds of tests tonight to determine my IQ is", the others still weren't getting the point of this "yeah so" asked Ulrich "if the tests show I have a really high IQ, the gut is going to see to it I get sent to another school" said Jeremie the news shocked the others forcing them to stop as Jeremie carried on work, he knew they had stopped but he was too upset to care "are you saying he's going to send you to a school, for like, future Einstein's" asked Odd, Jeremie finally stopped moving and replied "yeah, fuckin brilliant", the others looked at each other "better watch your mouth sunshine" said Dallas, as he walked towards Jeremie and placed his arm around his shoulder "that is serious, if you're not here then we can never go to Lyoko again and if we don't shut down the super computer XANA will be able to do what he wants" said Yumi, they looked at each other worried "where would we be without Lyoko" said Odd, "6 feet under" said Dallas, as he looked at the rest of them who took a slight bit of time to work out what Dallas meant, then it hit them, but still didn't make any sense to them, only Jeremie knew what he meant "it's not just that you guys I don't want to leave here, because of you all, were friends" said Jeremie still unable to look at them, Odd then stepped forward "hold on, cool it don't panic okay, I mean they can't force you to change schools" said Odd, which made the others more happy, that was until Jeremie dropped the bomb on them "it's not all that easy, the physiologist creep couldn't wait to talk to my parents, he told them at that kind of school I'd be entitled to a big scholarship my folks aren't goanna pass up a great chance like that" said Jeremie, Dallas shook his head knowing that if Jeremie left it would devastate them all, "is there anything we can do" asked Dallas using any form of hope that he could muster "no I don't think there is" said Jeremie.
in the sewers the Scarred rat stood at the entrance to a pipe, the XANA logo flashed in its red eyes, it screamed at the thousands of other rats that stood around it either on the stone or in the water itself, they all screamed leading to a defining noise, then they all started moving through the numerous open pipes.
The final school bell of the day rang and many of the students stood outside, as the sun was setting, it turned the sky orange and gave a feeling of calm before the storm that Jeremie was walking into, the warriors were standing against the wall outside the library, Jeremie and Odd had their backs on the wall, whilst Yumi stood legs crossed, with her left arm extended against the wall, whilst Dallas stood leaning with his right arm on the wall, and Ulrich he stood facing the other's
"what's the problem you mess up on the test then they'll think you're a total moron, nobody will ever know and you're home free" said Odd, Jeremie was still depressed even though Dallas had given him a shot of Tequila for his nerves "sure I'd thought of that, but there's a problem as tests like that are full of trick questions, and if you really want to mess up and make mistakes, you gotta be very clever" said Jeremie, "that's great you're the cleverest kid around" said Yumi, this brought Jeremie's hopes up and for the first time in a couple of hours Jeremie smiled "well okay I'll do my best to flunk but I can't promise anything" said Jeremie, who then started walking away "can only imagine what's goin through his head right now" said Dallas, as he looked as Jeremie rather nervously walked away "I'll see you guys later, keep me posted okay" said Yumi as she walked away.
Jeremie had entered the library, where the shrink a man who was in his late 30's wearing a suit vest with a white button up shirt, and brown trousers his shirt wasn't done up at the top as he was more relaxed than the rest of the staff, he also wore wire thin glasses, which disappeared in either his long hair or his beard
"ah hello their Jeremie, do you recognise me, I'm Mr Klotz the school Phycologist" said Klotz, Jeremie then rather sarcastically said "of course I do, is it really true, you're planning to get me transferred to a school for gifted children, that's great my parents are goanna be so glad", Klotz despite his job means he needs to know human behaviour failed to pick up on this sarcasm "well that's what were here to find out tonight, now to start off I'm going to give you a multiple choice test, it's a test in which you…" started Klotz but then he started to chuckle "I'm sorry I'm sure you already know" he added as Jeremie sat down at the desk at the end of the table, where numerous sheets of paper had been placed out along with a pen and a lamp so Jeremie could see what he was doing.
Many of the students upon hearing the dinner bell started walking towards cafeteria
"so what's for dinner" asked Ulrich as he Odd and Dallas walked in the crowd "I dunno some has they all taste the same" said Odd, "that's funny Odd, s'plains why you eat almost anything that's put in front of you" said Dallas, causing him and Ulrich to laugh "Dallas what are you going to do if Jeremie sent off" asked Odd, killing the mood "I dunno, I'll most likely shut down the super computer" said Dallas, he then stopped moving knowing he would have a moral judgement to make "and that means killing Aelita" he added, Odd and Ulrich stopped and walked back towards him "listen nothings for certain yet" said Odd, as he and Ulrich stood either side of him urging him to go on.
Sissi returned to her room, after the long day with the intention of going to the cafeteria later, her group had already moved on to the lunch room, Sissi placed the key in her lock and then opened her door, she stepped in and flicked on the light, she was shocked at the sight a torn up pink material was on the floor
"oh no it can't be" she said, before kneeling down to the material "my brand new Gucci Dress" she said as she picked up the biggest piece "I don't believe it, then a rat fell from it "ah, so you're the savage that did this" said Sissi upon seeing the creature, she then threw her shoe at the animal "here take that" she missed and the rat ran around her wardrobe, where Sissi followed but the animal had disappeared, she was happy that the vermin was gone.
In one of Lyoko's many towers, Aelita was lying down in front of a blue screen, on this screen were all kinds of information that was going to be useful to Aelita once she was on earth, she smiled at knowing this nee knowledge, but unbeknownst to her, only a few virtual miles away was the activated tower, suddenly, Aelita felt the vibrations and the heartbeat, and she knew that XANA had begun an attack
"Jeremie" she said appearing on his computer "Jeremie listen XANA's woken up he must be preparing an attack, Jeremie" she said but to no anvil.
Jeremie however was still in the library, working out the correct answer on a test, before ticking the wrong one, whilst Klotz struggled with a Rubix cube, when he suddenly decided he'd had enough and he placed it down on the table, whilst outside the school at the fuse box, a few rates where chewing through the wires, when suddenly all over the school the power went out, as the lights in the lunch room went out everyone was confused as to what was going on, whilst back in the library Jeremie had stopped writing
"sir don't you think we outta stop" he said, but Klotz whilst keeping an eye on Jeremie rummaged through his back at his side "that would be silly besides the tests are almost over, the lights are bound to come on again" said Klotz as he found a torch and turned it on, projecting a blinding light in Jeremie's direction, whilst in her room Sissi was trying to turn on her mirror lights
"oh what kind of a 2 bid school is this" she said, as using whatever little light there was left she started brushing her hair, then she heard a squeak, she turned but became frightened and she jumped onto her desk, knocking off some bottles causing them to smash on the floor, she then began edging along the wall whilst standing on her bed, the rats screamed at her, she then ran to her door, she quickly opened and shut it before screaming "help" as she ran down the corridor.
The lunch room had turned into chaos, Jim was shocked at the behaviour of the students many where throwing food whilst others stood on tables
"that's enough get back to your seats right now and quiet down, come on now the lights will be back on soon, now stop clowning around understand" said Jim, they stopped for a minute then they started up again "come on now" said Jim, when threw all the noise and confusion Ulrich heard something even when a student stood on his table stamping like crazy, "shhh, quiet down listen" he said but there was no response "allow me" said Dallas, then he closed his eyes and then eagle sense began to appear surrounding his body, then it exploded flying everywhere causing some people to stumble and even Adam to fall of the table he was on, everyone was now quiet wondering what the hell had just happened "now shut the fuck up" said Dallas, as he listened in to the noise, everyone looked up, to the roof "what" said Jim upon hearing the noise, then he stood on a table and then pocked his head through one of the ceiling boards, where he saw dozens of rats move towards him, Jim quickly jumped down from the table landing on his back, as many of the floor boards fell landing on either the floor or the tables with numerous rats on them, upon landing the rats began to cause havoc by attacking the students "we better get out of here" said Ulrich, then some of the rats landed in front of them, many of the rats were jumping at the cook, who was managing to fight them off, by waking them with a tray, whilst one rat jumped at Taelia, but was then pinned to a wall by a crossbow bolt, Dallas quickly ran over towards it and pulled back the bolt launcher and grabbed the bolt from the rat "move" he said as Taelia stood up and started running away, Dallas quickly reloaded the bolt, and then he rushed over towards the door with Ulrich and Odd "don't panic, I said just get outta my way" said Jim as the crowd of students followed the 3 warriors, upon reaching the door Ulrich was shocked "oh no" he said as there were now thousands of rats standing outside, Dallas and Odd looked through the window, "any ideas" asked Ulrich, Dallas looked at them "I could try eagle sense but it might not work, besides I might end up killin one of these guys" said Dallas, then he shook his head "fuck it, we'll get these guys to safety then to Lyoko" said Dallas, then it sunk in "were trapped" said Ulrich as he banged on the glass in the door, "great going XANA, the rats all waited for night time and attacked when we were all in the cafeteria" said Odd, then he suddenly found himself along with Ulrich and Dallas pinned to the door as the students tried to escape the rats, Ulrich managed to after struggling to reach it, pulled out his phone, and dialled a number, whilst at the ishyama residents, Yumi was lying in her bed, reading a book, when at her side her phone began to ring, she answered it, and said "is that you Ulrich" in a softer tone than what she would usually speak in, she shot forward almost immediately as she heard what was going on "what" was all she could say.
In the library Jeremie was still working on the test when he heard his phone ring, he looked up to see it, it rang again, but Klotz placed his hand down on it
"but" said Jeremie, "after the test you can make all the calls you want" said Klotz, both of them unaware of what was happening, as for the people in the cafeteria they more than knew what was happening
"what's the matter why doesn't he answer" said Ulrich as he tried to get Jeremie to answer his phone, "the extinguisher's Jim , hurry up" said Odd, having an idea, but Jim was close to frozen with fear as he looked at the hundreds of rats that stood in front of him, "don't panic, just don't panic okay" said Jim when suddenly the rats were thrown across the room, and eagle sense disappeared from around Dallas's hands, as many of the students started passing the fire extinguishers, towards Odd and Ulrich, whilst outside Sissi shut the door to the dorm building, hoping that she had escaped the rodents, then she turned around to see even more of them, whilst Ulrich, Odd and Dallas evacuated people from the cafeteria, "okay outside everyone" said Odd, as people left rather calmly with lunch trays being held, just in case whilst Ulrich and Dallas used the fire extinguishers to spray the foam onto the rats, who despite XANA's conditioning still had some basic instinct, Odd finished letting everyone out of the cafeteria, Dallas quickly threw the extinguisher to him, and then grabbed his crossbow, looked at the bolt "hang on" he said, as he grabbed his shoe, and placed it on his bolt, which he then loaded into the crossbow, then he pulled out Adam's light "why the fuck have you got that" asked Adam, Dallas ignored him, as he set his shoe on fire before firing the bolt into the crowd rats, causing many to catch fire, and burn many of the nearby rats ran towards the fire as it was a source of heat, but it had little effect "damn, liked that shoe" said Dallas, as he slung his crossbow back over his shoulder "there are way too many of them we'll never be able to hold them back all night" said Odd, as he and Ulrich carried on spraying the foam "help, help over here" said Sissi, calling out to the main group, "Sissi, what the fuck is she doing out here" said Ulrich, Dallas then looked around at the rats, "shit, can't get to her" he said, "we have to help her or she's goanna be eaten alive" said Odd, "poor rats" said Dallas.
Back in the library Klotz finally heard the commotion, he moved the torch away from the Jeremie and towards the door
"that noise is unbearable" said Klotz before he stood up and walked over to the door, he opened it and said "listen this noise has got to…" he quickly slammed the door, at the sight of hundreds of rats "rats" he said as he stumbled backwards towards his chair, he fell over trying to sit down due to the shock "rats, a whole army of them" said Klotz, Jeremie stood up from his chair and uttered a single word "XANA", then they heard a strange nibbling "their trying to eat through the door, we gotta barricade it" said Jeremie.
Outside the rats had regrouped and where now in greater numbers as they surrounded the group of students, Sissi was so scared that she wouldn't move, then there was a faint, small sign of hope but it was what was needed, a bell ringing
"what's that" asked Ulrich, as he and Odd looked at the rats who had stopped moving forward and where now surrounding them "that's something I like to call hope" said Dallas, then he quickly manifested eagle sense around his body, then it went towards his hands "cover your eyes" said Dallas, everyone quickly did so, then Dallas with this concentrated amount of eagle sense, smacked his hands together, creating a blinding flash, the rats suddenly where confused and kept on knocking into each other, the students opened their eyes, then Dallas turn to face Ulrich, "oh shit" said Ulrich as Dallas's eyes had become cloudy and burnt from the flash, "I'm fine, I can see just, you know" said Dallas, he then looked around, apart from the blinded rats the only damage were some scorch marks on the walls, Dallas scratched the back of his head, "I ain't doing that again" said Dallas, then they heard the ringing again, and Yumi roared through on her bike "here she comes" said Ulrich, as Yumi pedalled through the blinded rats towards Sissi, when she quickly turned and stopped her bike causing it to skid towards Sissi, Yumi managed to stop in the nick of time "you're carriage Cinderella" said Yumi, then reluctantly Sissi climbed onto the back of Yumi's bike, then Yumi started peddling towards the group through the rats however unbeknownst to them the rats had started to regain their vision, she then turned the bike causing it to skid on its side, but then as Yumi's bike came to a standstill, a dozen rats who had regained the sight jumped at Yumi and Sissi, but as they were in mid-air they froze, Ulrich had disappeared and all they could see moving around the rats was a brown blur, when the rats suddenly fell to the floor dead, and the brown blur stopped to show Ulrich, "welcome to the rat pack" said Odd, as he helped Yumi up.
Back in the library, Jeremie and Klotz had barricaded the door, with hundreds of books, since both of them had failed to move a shelf
"Okay, keep going alone sir" said Jeremie, he then ran back to the table, where he grabbed his bag and placed it on the table "let's hope this will hold them back long enough" said Jeremie as he grabbed his laptop and placed it on the table, he quickly began typing "Aelita" he said, whilst on Lyoko Aelita was lying down behind a rock looking at the activated tower "XANA has activated a tower Jeremie, I've spotted it where it is I'm on my way their now, I'll try and get a closer look okay" said Aelita abruptly as her window closed on Jeremie's laptop, he then closed it, before pulling out his phone, and started calling Yumi who whilst defending herself with a lunch tray, used telekinesis to raise her phone to her ear "hello Jeremie… yes the rats have attacked okay right we'll meet at the lab" said Yumi she then hung up before turning towards the other "we have to find a safe place" she said "where huh the rats are all over" said Ulrich, Dallas looked around, his eyes having returned to normal, "fuck, there's nowhere" he said, then they heard a voice call out "err… I know one" it was Jim "The only place with no access to the sewers is the science building" he added then they started moving towards it "let's go" he said, Yumi looked back at the man who had been scared to even move, who was now leading them to safety "better hurry" she said, Dallas however was confused "science building, no sewers are they fucking mental" he asked.
The rats had swarmed outside the library and where standing on the window ledge, peering into the room, Jeremie walked over and assessed the situation
"this time where the rats in a trap, and I don't like it at all" he said, whilst at the science building, Jim had begun to suffer from slight PTSD and was unable to open the door to the building
"hey get a move on the extinguishers are nearly empty" said Odd, Jim still wasn't able to open the door, but Yumi guided his hand, until the key was in the lock "come on easy does it" she said, the door was unlocked "faster" said one of the students as they all rushed into the building, the rats were aware of this and started running at them, Odd ran ahead leaving Ulrich with the only fire extinguisher, he held the nozzle out and went to spray the foam, but it was empty "oh what do I do now" asked Ulrich to himself, then he felt something on his shoulder, but was relieved when he heard Dallas say "hold on" then Dallas placed his arms around Ulrich, before jumping into the air, and then using eagle sense they were propelled backwards into the science building at a tremendous speed, Odd and Yumi slammed the door's blocking the rats, "did everybody see that as I will not be doing it again" said Dallas, the rats then started charging at the windows "okay lets go up to the roof if the rats get in we'll be safe up their" said Yumi, then she lead the group upstairs, whilst Dallas followed bringing up the rear with his crossbow in hand, after a few exhausting minutes that felt like hours the group made it to the roof, Dallas was the last onto it, Odd shut the door behind him, then the two walked over to the edge off the roof, Dallas whistled at the amount of rats there were, then they noticed that the rats where chewing the base of a tree "huh" they all said, then the tree collapsed smashing the door of the science building "we have to get to the factory, Jeremie will meet us there, as soon as he can that is" said Yumi who with Odd was standing away from the edge whilst Ulrich and Dallas remained crouched at the edge "sounds great but how do we get their huh" asked Ulrich, Odd turned around and noticed the fire hose, "what about this" asked Odd, Dallas walked over and inspected it "it'll hold, but getting it to budge is the problem" said Dallas, the others looked at him "well this model needs water flowing" said Dallas, then he pulled lose a part of the hose "so what can we do" asked Yumi, Dallas then tied the hose around his waist and walked over towards the edge, then he looked down and back at the others "well we need to put some wait on it to pull it lose" said Dallas, then he fell backwards off the building, the others gasped and ran towards the edge, when they noticed the hose had started moving, Dallas stop himself from hitting the ground by grabbing one of the ledges, then using, one of his hidden blades he cut the hose causing him to hit the floor, he stood up "okay you're good" he said as he rubbed his nose, Odd grabbed the hose "okay here I go" said Odd, as he began to slide down the hose, Yumi was next to go down, Jim then noticed what was going on "what are you doing" asked Jim, then he went to reach for Ulrich, but he was too late Ulrich was already over the side, something Jim didn't want to risk doing "no come back here, come back hey" said Jim after the four of the "too late" said Ulrich as he reached the ground, Jim then leaned over the edge and shouted "not you guys too", the warriors then started to run towards the sewer entrance, the woods where free of rats so it was an easy run, they reached the sewer entrance with no problems, Dallas and Ulrich knelt down to remove the hatch, they raised it to reveal the entrance filled to the brim with rats, Dallas and Ulrich then dropped the hatch onto the rats, this caused the rats to scream in pain "No choice, we'll have to go on foot" said Yumi, then they started running again.
Back in the library, Klotz had broken down he was sitting down at the table leaning over it panicking he was sweating, he was constantly turning the torch on and off again
"rats anything but rats" said Klotz, Jeremie looked up at him, before he noticed the window, the rats had disappeared "when I was a boy, a rat came up to my… to my room" said Klotz, then it struck Jeremie, he stood up walked over to Klotz and grabbed the flash light, before walking over to the window, the rats had regroup and were once again sitting on it, then Jeremie raised the torch , and quickly turned it on and off again, creating a blinding flash, causing the rats to fall of the ledge "bingo" said Jeremie he smiled and turned around "you stay here sir, I gotta get to the photo lab be right back" said Jeremie, as he pointed at Klotz then towards the photo lab, before running towards it.
The Lyoko warriors arrived at the bridge, to the lab; they were shocked to see thousands of rats, standing on the bridge
"XANA's thought of everything" said Ulrich, as he shook his head, Odd then looked to his right before running across the path "come on" he said before running and climbing over a barrier, the other ran towards the barrier to see Odd standing next to a dingy "care for a cruise" asked Odd, Ulrich and Yumi then climbed over and slid underneath the barrier respectively, whilst Dallas vaulted over it, they quickly boarded the small vessel, Odd sat at the front, whilst Yumi was at the back, with Dallas and Ulrich rowing, Yumi looked back at the rats, when they suddenly started to climb down the bridge "fast" said Yumi, Dallas and Ulrich didn't need to be told twice and picked up the pace, they then struck the factory's small island, and disembarked, Dallas stopped and grabbed the ores for the small boat, "just in case" he said as they found a hatch "hurry up faster, hurry" said Yumi, as Dallas quickly looked at the lock that held the chain together "Yumi, goanna need some time" he said, Yumi then placed her hand on her forehead, and then the rats started moving upwards as if they were moving up and invisible wall, Dallas then placed his left blade into the lock "come on, come on" he said, then he heard a click, the lock opened and Dallas removed the chain, Ulrich then opened the hatch Dallas then manifested eagle sense around his hand's "Yumi come on" said Ulrich, but Yumi fell to her knees from exhaustion, Dallas quickly dispersed eagle sense at the rats buying them enough time to get Yumi down the hatch, Dallas quickly followed them and as he shut the hatch he placed on of the ores, between the inside handles.
Klotz was breathing heavily as if he was suffocating, apart from the rats and his breath it was silent, when suddenly he heard footsteps and then Jeremie ran into the room holding the flash equipment used for the cameras, he then placed most of them down on the table, before walking over to the window, and then pressing the button, the flash was twice as bright than the torch, the rats fell from the window to the floor below, Jeremie smiled and said
"it works great", he then walked over to the table and passed Klotz the flash equipment "if they come use this, it'll chase em away" said Jeremie, then he ran over to the window, Klotz just realised he was being left alone "stay, please don't go, I'm afraid of rats" said Klotz as Jeremie on the window sill used the equipment to flash the rats and causing them to scatter.
The elevator opened on the lab floor, they all looked at each other
"okay whose filling in for Jeremie" asked Ulrich, who along with Odd, began to look at Dallas, but Yumi rushed to the computer as the door closed leaving them in the elevator, Yumi sat down in the chair and pulled out her phone, before dialling a number quickly
"hey Jeremie, I'm in the lab I have to contact Aelita, and virtualize the others, explain to me how to do it" asked Yumi, Jeremie was walking, as being the un-athletic person he was, he was outta breath "listen up know" said Jeremie, whilst on Lyoko, heard a noise so she stood up and looked around the rock she was hiding behind and saw that two crabs where running towards her, she then turned around and started running, the crabs opened fire at her, missing every shot, "okay, that's done, I've contacted Aelita and I've located the activated tower, Aelita's got a problem" said Yumi suddenly the phone went fuzzy "what speak louder I can hardly hear you, I have to type in the coordinates, 19 degrees west, that's it isn't it 19 degrees west" said Yumi, "no I said 79 degrees west, 79 degrees west, listen Yumi the rats have invaded the city" said Jeremie, but Yumi didn't and began typing in the coordinates, and she had hung up "okay then I'm ready" said Yumi, Jeremie looked at his phone "Yumi can you hear me" he said, but it was too late Yumi typed 19 degrees, whilst in the scanner room, Odd, Ulrich and Dallas stepped into a scanner each "transfer Odd, transfer Ulrich, transfer Dallas" said Yumi, then their ID cards appeared and began to lighten up "Scanner Odd, Scanner Ulrich, Scanner Dallas" said Yumi as in the scanners the three began to spin and rise "virtualization" said Yumi, as the three suddenly felt the blast of air that sent them to Lyoko, where in the sky of the desert sector their blue square outlines appeared and gained their texture before dropping to the floor, upon landing Dallas looked around "good to be back" he said, Odd then assessed the three of them "it's okay, you did it Yumi" said Odd, Dallas's hands then began to glow, then they stopped "powers check" said Dallas, they looked around seeing numerous dead trees "do you see Aelita" asked Yumi, "no she should be around here somewhere" said Ulrich, then Dallas noticed something, he turned around before turning back "oh no, I didn't enter the right coordinates, I virtualized you too far away from Aelita" said Yumi, for some reason Odd didn't seem to mind "that's okay, we could use a little exercise to get warmed up" said Odd.
Back on the bridge that lead to the factory, Jeremie stood there as the hundreds of rats walked towards him, he then held up the flash equipment and said
"smile", whilst on Lyoko Ulrich, Odd and Dallas where running in Aelita's direction, Ulrich was going faster than the latter two, when they suddenly stopped and slid across the floor on their feet until they reached a stop
"do you see her now" said Yumi, then speaking of the devil, they noticed Aelita running towards them, she appeared to be flowed by a dust cloud, "yeah I see her" said Odd, then as she got closer it was revealed the dust cloud was in fact two crabs "yeah but she's not alone" said Odd, "be careful" said Yumi, as Aelita looked back at her pursers, she then stopped and feel to her knees skidding towards the others "hello princess" said Ulrich as he knelt down to see her, "that was close, I just managed to get away" said Aelita looking up at Ulrich, "you're knights in armour have come to protect you" said Ulrich, then the crabs stopped moving, the Lyoko warriors then started moving towards them, Ulrich had his hand on his sword, Odd had his arm raised and Dallas had his left blade extended, the crabs then dug the legs into the ground "I gotta bad feeling about this" said Dallas as he retracted his blade and drew his tomahawk, then as they started to get closer the floor began to get steeper "hey you know this is kind 'a weird" said Odd, then they noticed something odd, "uh guys what is happening" asked Yumi, "that's a good question" replied Ulrich as the land, began to tilt itself, as the computer began to beep at Yumi, she began typing "I don't understand it could have been my mistake, although" said Yumi, then she looked at the right screen "it's XANA, he's changing the slope of the plato, better hold tight" said Aelita, then they fell, even Odd's claws couldn't stick in, Dallas using his tomahawk smashed it into the wall in an attempt to stop, but it was no use he carried on moving down, he then reached out for the others, he could get to them, then Aelita placed her hands to her forehead and started to sing, then the plato began to extend outwards allowing the warrior's to land on it, at the same time Dallas tomahawk broke causing it to flash and disappear, unfortunately he fell to far out, but as he quickly passed the small land mass that the others were situated on, Ulrich grabbed Dallas arm, stopping him from falling "thanks" he said as he dangled, he looked down at the orange sea below him, he chuckled then Ulrich helped him up onto the platform, Dallas then rolled onto his back and laughed, Ulrich was confused at why Dallas was laughing, Ulrich then looked up "fuck, get down" said Ulrich, as he noticed the two crabs moving towards them, shooting laser's at them, however they then started to aim at Aelita who was still kneeling down, Ulrich then jumped in the way of the numerous blasts, getting shot sending him backwards, "two crabs a battery of lasers, 10 life points per impact" said Yumi, as Ulrich's life points depleted, the warriors pressed themselves against the wall, the crabs carried on firing "any ideas" asked Dallas as he looked up he grabbed his crossbow and aimed upwards "any luck" asked Aelita, Dallas shook his head "fuck, no I'd need more space" said Dallas, Odd looked to his side "you two take care of Aelita, she's lost too many life points" said Odd, as he ran and jumped of the small platform and grabbed a small stone that stuck out, he then lifted himself onto it, before jumping and grabbing small ledges and began to climb up the wall, he stopped when he was level with the crabs, as they began to get closer to the others, then one of them stopped and turned as it noticed Odd the later raised his arm and said "laser arrow" firing them at the crab at the same time, the Crab fired its energy bolts, most of the arrows hit the bolts, but the last few arrows struck the Crab destroying it, the second then turned and began firing at Odd, the latter jumped and dodged the first few blasts, but was struck by the next one, and then by the following battery, "no Odd, get out of their now" said Ulrich, Odd got up and started to run towards another of the rocks, he grabbed onto one but a Crab shot the rock causing Odd to fall towards the digital sea "Odd no" shouted Ulrich, "nooooooooooooooooo" screamed Odd as he fell, then the Crab struck Odd one last time causing him to DE virtualize, and flash out of existence, Ulrich and Dallas then looked up at the Crab as Aelita remained pressed against the wall, but then they heard a voice scream "You fool, we could have dealt with him once and for all" then lightning, which was very white shade of white, struck the crab running across the creature, until it exploded, Dallas looked up to see a figure wearing a brown cloak, the figure was turned away, he then walked away across the land mass "what the fuck was that" asked Dallas, as he looked at Ulrich and Aelita, the former just shrugged his shoulders "Aelita you ever seen something like that before" asked Dallas, Aelita just shook her head and said "no", Dallas then looked up "Yumi you see anything" asked Dallas, "I don't know what I'm looking for" said Yumi, then she felt something on her shoulder "Need any help" said Jeremie, as she turned her head she sank back into the chair "oh Jeremie, you're finally here, listen Odd has just been DE virtualized, Ulrich has hardly any life points left, but Dallas still had all his but there aren't any of XANA's monsters left" said Yumi, then they heard a beeping and they looked at the screen and noticed there were two armoured warriors "well Yumi you know what to do" said Jeremie.
At the school the rats where beating at the door, in an attempt to break it down, whilst on Lyoko the armour warriors where throwing their swords at Ulrich, Dallas and Aelita the latter was behind the others, Dallas was projecting a shield made of eagle sense, the swords of the warriors where flying back in to their hands
"how long will that last" asked Ulrich, Dallas's eye's looked upwards "bout 5 minutes 10 if we're lucky" said Dallas, then Dallas fell to his knees and the shield started to break apart, Ulrich knelt down to him "Dallas are you okay" asked Ulrich, "yeah I forgot, I lose energy with the use of my power" said Dallas then he looked up, Ulrich then looked up "Oh shit" said Ulrich as the first of the two warriors had reached them, it swung it's sword at Ulrich knocking him down next to Aelita, who was panicking, Ulrich then looked at Aelita, then at Dallas before he jumped at the warrior with his sword, but before he could strike it, the creature swung it's sword causing Ulrich to fly backwards towards where Aelita was laying, and he then DE virtualized leaving the last remnants of his virtual form to hit Aelita, who was now scarred Dallas wasn't strong enough to protect her, then suddenly the second armoured warrior jumped down he looked at the first, then drew his sword and then it swung it's sword at Aelita, who looked at Dallas who was still too weak to defend them, this didn't stop him however using his arm blade, he blocked the swing, and then knocked the sword upwards striking that warrior in the head destroying it, then Dallas turned his attention to the second, it then screamed letting out it's buzz saw scream "come get some" said Dallas, the warrior then swung at Dallas who quickly ducked underneath the sword, Dallas then using his own legs kicked the warriors, knocking it off balance, then Dallas grabbed his crossbow in his left hand he fired at the creature, only managing to break his bolt, the creature then swung again, striking Dallas in the side breaking his virtual form, and causing Dallas to DE virtualize, the armoured warrior then returned its attention to Aelita, it then raised its sword and was ready to strike Aelita, when suddenly it's arms flew of the body the buzz saw scream rippled, as the arms fell to the floor and DE virtualized, Aelita looked up to see Yumi with her fans, standing at the top of the land mass, the latter then folded them in and sheathed them before dropping down, the creature turned around, defenceless, it looked up as Yumi threw one of her fans striking the creatures neck causing it to stumble backwards towards Aelita, who then raised her legs and as the warrior fell onto her feet she kicked upwards sending the creature of the edge of the land mass, Aelita and Yumi then smiled at each other over the teamwork.
On the roof of the science building the rats bent the door allowing them to poke their head's through, whilst on Lyoko after Jeremie returned the rotation to normal, Yumi and Aelita made their way to the now unguarded tower, Yumi stepped to the side as Aelita walked up to the tower where she opened her arms and passed through the wall, before walking towards the centre of the platform, where she began to rise
"go on Aelita, you their now go on" said Jeremie, as Aelita reached the top platform, whilst in the library the rats had broken through Klotz barrier and he had managed to pull himself together as he stood against the wall with the flash equipment "say cheese" he said, as Aelita placed her hand on the blue screen then the word AELITA, was typed in as the hundreds of rats moved on the students atop of the science building then the word CODE, followed by the word LYOKO, causing the rats that had jumped and the ones that had begun attacking the students to freeze, as the blue screens that surrounded the tower descended into the black void below, Jeremie then hit the enter key and said "Return to the past now"…
earlier that day the group was once again in the library but this time they weren't playing their game
"Hey Jeremie, did you figure out a way to flunk the test" asked Yumi, as she put down her book "well now that I know all the questions, I shouldn't have any trouble giving all the wrong answers" replied Jeremie, Ulrich wasn't as convinced and asked "are you sure it's goanna work", Jeremie just leaned back in his chair "anyway I've got a fool proof way of flunking, I'm going to get all of my answers from Odd" said Jeremie, causing Ulrich and Yumi to laugh "yeah, yeah laugh you're heads off but who knows you might be in for a big surprise" said Odd, "quiet" said Jim upon hearing the racket, Dallas however wasn't in the mood for laughing, after what he saw on Lyoko he knew it was no figment of his imagination, so what was on Lyoko, Aelita had never seen before, he knew XANA too well, but a new ally, could XANA really have acquired one, he was uncertain, but he didn't know if he should bother the others with this information…
Authors note
Thanks for reading, another Q&A will be happening after just in time, but you never know how long that'll be.