Authors note
I wanna apologise for the lateness in the start of this chapter, I've recently been ill but throwing up my stomach acid has cleared my system, and I also found out I have Tinnitus which I must have had for four years (At least) and never noticed, so says how big an idiot I am, even worse I've been having relapses about my mate but it's not all doom and gloom.
Also another update as this is near 7 months after the last chapter, I've been pulling my life back together, piece by piece mended a few friendships, one of which went horribly down south, got with my new girlfriend, became a father figure to her kid, discovered my half-sister, whom turns out was a friend on Xbox long before either of us knew.
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Episode 67 – XANA's Kiss
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A new day broke over Kadic academy, due to the time of year it was warm and the sun rising left an orange hue over the area, the male warriors walked towards the bathroom in their nightwear, they looked at Dallas as his torso section hadn't finished growing back the skin and still had the bandages wrapped around him, Jeremie hated looking at him,
"So you've dated every girl in the 10th grade" asked Ulrich, Odd chuckled and rubbed the back of his head, "yeah everyone except, Aelita, Heidi and Sissi for more than obvious reasons" said Odd, Dallas rolled his eyes, "you tryna set a record or something" asked Jeremie as he opened the doors in front of them, "no way I'm just searching for true love" said Odd in a calm tone "sometimes Odd your luck with the laddies both impresses and disgusts me" he said as he held open the door to the bathroom, "well look whose here my dear Ulrich" said an annoyingly familiar voice it was clear she was waiting outside for them, standing with her was Nicholas and Herb, Dallas made a small note of the absence of Adam and Evelyn, "wanna go see a movie with me this afternoon" Asked Sissi twirling her hair around her finger, Odd and Jeremie Looked at Ulrich as he smugly said "that would depend on what's playing" and despite his obvious hint of disinterest Sissi still enthusiastically answered "Adventure in the tropics", Ulrich realised that Sissi hadn't taken the hint, "Oh no what a bummer, I've already seen it, shame" he said as he and his friends entered the boys bathroom, Sissi watched with disappointment then she felt a tugging on her sleeve, "I'll go see it with you" said Herb as he looked up at her, Sissi looked down at his spotty face, "see what" she said with a hint of slight anger, "the film" said Herb nervously "great lets go then" said Sissi with a sarcastic tone, one that Herb failed to notice, "do you mean that" he asked sweating nervously "Not" she said as she walked away hurting his feelings, this just left Nicholas laughing as he watched.
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On Lyoko Dallas was riding the Over-Rider through the desert sector, the exhausts kicking up a small storm behind him, he looked forward focused on what was a head of him, suddenly he noticed the Scyphozoa moving behind him, strangely the creature was keeping up with him, he then noticed that Adam was also behind him on his bike,
"lead him away" said Adam as he looked at the squid, it made a small nodding motion, Dallas looked back with his eyes, he slowed down slightly so Adam could draw level with him, as the agent pulled his musket and aimed at Dallas, the later grabbed the breaks and slowed to a holt, he quickly turned around and shot backwards in the opposite direction, "Fuck" said Adam as he turned around but he had a wider turning circle and by the time he had done a 180 Dallas as already shooting off, he was kicking up more of a storm as he had increased speed, Adam was moving up close behind him, Dallas grinned with a hint of Anger, then he slowed down again and looked down at his shot gun, he waited for Adam to get closer, suddenly he noticed the Scyphozoa moving out from behind a rock, Dallas drew the Sawn-off and quickly aimed and pulled the trigger, the bullet exited the Barrel and instead of hitting Adams chest as Adam thought he'd try, the spread hit his arm severing it, screaming Adam lost control and ramped off a small rock crashing into the Scyphozoa causing the engine inside to explode and setting a small area ablaze, Dallas skidded to a holt and dismounted rushing back and looking at the damage, he looked down as the burning carcass of Adam devirtulized before he holstered his weapon and looked around, "didn't want me this way" he said to himself as he walked back to and returned the Over-Rider to the baton, he looked around before seeing it in the distance, he grabbed his binoculars and looked down them seeing an activated tower in the distance.
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Herb having been heart broken and embarrassed walked with his head down into the boys bathroom, as he walked towards the sink he watched as Ulrich and Odd brushed their teeth and Dallas shaved his face with a cut throat razor,
"You actually went to see Adventure in the tropics" asked Odd as he looked at Ulrich with confusion, "you shittin me, I'd rather study for a math quiz than go to the movies with Sissi" replied Ulrich as he spat into the bowl, this angered Herb to the boiling point, "you make me sick Stern, I'm gonna knock that smile right off your face" said Herb as he turned around with what was meant to be an angry face, but in the end it just made him look more pathetic, Ulrich was unfazed by the threat, "oh yeah what're you waiting for go on then" he said, Herb was now over the edge, in an attempt to imitate what he'd seen Ulrich, Adam and Dallas do several times, he attempted a high kick for intimidation but he pulled a muscle in his thigh attempting to raise his leg, he yelped as he fell to the floor, with everyone looking down at him, "now that's gotta hurt" said Ulrich as Jeremie chuckled at Herb, Odd laughed as he muttered something through the toothpaste in his mouth, "what" asked Ulrich, Odd laughed and said "I said Jealousy makes people gonna bananas", Herb limped out of the bathroom to reunite with Nicholas who was trying to suppress his laughter, "Yeah and Love can play tricks with your mind" said Ulrich, Jeremie blushed at the thought of love, "Is that you and Yumi" asked Odd with a laugh, Ulrich shook his head and chuckled "nope its pure love with me and her" he said, Jeremie moved away from his sink "well I'm gonna meet Aelita, I'm giving her my Croissant she likes croissants with her hot Chocolate" said Jeremie as he walked towards the door, "Give her mine, I can't eat remember" said Dallas after him, but he rolled his eyes thinking it fell on death ears, "Give it time, it heals all wounds" said Odd placing his hand on Dallas's shoulder, "it's one that he prefers open" said Dallas as he grabbed his razor to remove the stubble, Ulrich and Odd entered the showers, "speaking of hot chocolate I gotta get going I finally got a date with Heidi" said Odd as he looked away from Ulrich and begin scrubbing himself as fast as he could "You gonna give her you're croissant?" asked Ulrich with a chuckle, Odd laughed in response saying "are you mad I gotta eat don't I", Dallas grabbed his toiletries and walked out of the bathroom, suddenly one of the plugs sparked and short circuited and the black ooze that formed a spectre dripped from the socket and began to form.
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Aelita sat up from her bed stretching her arms and legs as she yawn still half asleep, she pulled out her ear phones which she used for her alarm as Yumi valued whatever sleep she was getting along in the pregnancy, Aelita Smiled as Yumi remained curled under her blankets sleeping, Aelita quickly and silently grabbed her toiletries and moved towards the door
"Aelita" said Yumi with a low voice as it was clear she was still tired, "Yeah Yumi" said Aelita as she looked back at her roommate, "Tell The others I'll be down a little later" responded Yumi as she turned over and faced the wall, Aelita smiled as she slowly shut the door behind her.
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Heidi was a blond that was just taller than Odd, she was dressed in a light black t-shirt and dark pink trousers, she was sitting on the steps to the Cafeteria looking around waiting for her date, suddenly Jeremie walked in her general direction he stopped almost motionless before looking at her, she stood up and walked towards him
"HI Jeremie you haven't seen Odd anywhere, he promised to have breakfast with me" she asked however Jeremie said nothing as he grabbed her and roughly kissed her, in full view of Ulrich and Odd "you gotta be shittin…" said Odd as he curled his fist, but Ulrich grabbed his arm, suddenly having noticed them Jeremie ran off as quickly as he could, which seemed faster than usual, Heidi stood watching him confused as to what had just happened, meanwhile at the vending machines another student an upper year was standing looking at what to order from the hot liquids, sudden a shadow covered him and obscured his light, he turned around to see Yumi standing behind him looking down, "say Yumi you wouldn't have the answers to next week's math Quiz would you" he asked, William was walking towards the vending machines having been up all night, he was tired and was rubbing his left eye, suddenly he saw Yumi kissing the student inside the vending machine hut, "what the hell" he said to himself, Yumi moved off of him and as he dropped to the floor shocked Yumi ran away as quickly as possible, "wow I sure am glad I brushed my teeth this morning" said the student to himself.
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Jeremie and Aelita walked away from the staircase to the dorm building, but neither knew nor expected Heidi to be waiting there, she moved from behind the pillar
"Jeremie do you mind telling me why you kissed me in front of Odd" she asked, this caught Jeremie off guard and shocked Aelita, "what're you talking about" asked Jeremie in a tone that didn't exactly convey innocence "Are you outta your mind" added Jeremie, Aelita looked at Heidi who was too angry for words and turned and walked away in a strop, Aelita confused walked off towards the Cafeteria, "Aelita" said Jeremie after her but she ignored him "oh no" he said to himself as he stuck his hands in his pockets.
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Dallas, Ulrich, Odd and Aelita were sitting at their usual table each with their own variety of a breakfast, Dallas mainly had a bottle of water, the rest of his food had as usual gone to Odd,
"Hey everyone slide over and make me some room" said Jeremie as he walked over with his breakfast, but Ulrich, Odd and Aelita weren't paying any attention Dallas looked at them confused but decided to not get involved, cause even giving Jeremie the benefit of the doubt would get him yelled at, "Don't you want to sit with Heidi" said Odd angrily as he ate his food, Jeremie looked at the others not even bothering to look at his roommate, "she's all by herself" added Odd as Jeremie looked towards her but didn't bother with a second glance, he quickly walked around and sat down next to Aelita, "Listen I don't know what all this is about, but I swear to you…" started Jeremie, but Aelita couldn't even look at him let alone be near him and she stood up and walked away, "you know something you really threw me a real curve ball mister romantic" said Odd as he finished the content of his bowl, he stood up to leave when William walked over, "Ulrich you're not gonna believe me when I say this" said William as he sat down, the once leaving Odd stood around to listen "it can't be any worse than what's going on" said Ulrich, William took a gulp "Yumi Kissed Mathias, the nerdy kid from mine and her year" said William as he caught his breath, "William what the hell are you…" started Ulrich about to call him out when he noticed Mathias walking in he was still dazed and almost love struck, "So Yumi" he said to his group of geeky friends "Yeah the pregnant one" he added, Ulrich's hand began to curl but Dallas grabbed it and Ulrich found himself unable to move it, "If you weren't a machine I'd like to see you try that" said Ulrich, Dallas didn't even emote, "There has to be a reason, come on he called be bullshitting" said Dallas, William looked at him, "I saw it man" said William, Ulrich tried moving his arm but found himself unable to, "You sure it wasn't someone else from behind" Said Jeremie, Dallas looked between the two "it could have been Sissi from behind" said Odd, William looked towards him, "why would she dress as Yumi, I mean it failed once" he added, the five looked at each other, as Mathias exited the building Adam walked in holding his arm like he sprained his wrist "Einstein check your laptop" said Dallas as he let go of Ulrich's arm, "I won't listen to an automaton" said Jeremie as he watched Dallas grab his jacket, "I'm getting to the bottom of this" he said as he pulled it on and walked after Adam, Odd looked at Jeremie before standing up and walking away "Guess you won't be needing this" said Ulrich as he grabbed Jermeie's Croissant and walked away after Odd, the two passed Yumi as she entered the cafeteria, "Ulrich" she said but he brushed past her not saying a word, "Ulrich" she repeated but sadder, she noticed Jeremie and William and walked towards them "what's with him" she asked, but William also stood up, "I know you and Ulrich are a thing but you didn't have to kiss Mathias" said William as he went and grabbed his breakfast "So apparently I've kissed Mathias" said Yumi as she sat down, Jeremie looked at her and said "Apparently I kissed Heidi".
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Yumi walked up towards a mirror in the girl's bath room that had been closed for renovations, it was dark because of this and there was barely any light, she looked in the mirror as Evelyn walked up to her with Adam behind her,
"They're already at each other's throats" said Adam as he held his arm, Evelyn looked at him and chuckled, they didn't know that Dallas was outside listening in, "Whose next" asked Evelyn as they looked at the motionless Yumi, "Ulrich and Aelita" said Adam, Dallas quickly snuck in pulling his Glock 17 and torch, suddenly Yumi lost quality and deformed into the black sludge before reforming as Ulrich, Dallas quickly turned on the flash light and turned to where they had stood, he pointed the torch around looking for them "Come on" said Dallas as he knelt down where Yumi then Ulrich had stood, "what's he doing here" said Adam as he extended his blade, "no, he doesn't know we're here" whispered Evelyn, then they looked at Ulrich who was motionless as he crouched near them "go" said Adam, Ulrich snuck out catching something on the way out Dallas turned with the torch and looking around, he turned back and looked at the floor noticing a small black mark, "what the fuck" he said as he ran his hand on it, Adam and Evelyn quickly escaped the room whilst he was distracted, "XANA wants you to lead the Lyoko defence, I have my own orders" said Adam, but Evelyn grabbed his arm, "what orders" she asked, Adam didn't even bother turning and looking at her "XANA wants me to pick up something, I don't know what" he said as he broke his arm free of her hand and walked away leaving her angry and confused.
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"Ulrich will never go out with you" said Herb to Sissi, but she wasn't listening to him as he wasn't saying what she wanted to hear, "he said so himself, I heard him" added Herb, but Sissi continued to ignore him, Ulrich slowly walked towards the two as they stood with Nicholas, "hey speak of the devil there he is" said Herb, Sissi looked at Ulrich as he moved almost unnaturally as if he was in a trance, but she didn't pay any attention to that detail "why don't you ask him yourself" said Herb as he and Nicholas watched Ulrich walk between them and towards Sissi, as this transpired Jeremie and Yumi were walking under the arches when they saw what was happening, Ulrich moved away from kissing Sissi, she was left blushing whilst Ulrich seemed agitated above anything else, Yumi's eyes began to tear up as she watched this, Ulrich quickly moved away almost like he was moving at double speed, Sissi had a large grin on her face as she turned and looked at Herb who was shocked by Ulrich's actions "Hehe, what were you saying" said Sissi as she walked away leaving Herb jealous and angry, "how does he do it, what does he have that I don't" he asked angrily, "Everything except for your gross pimples" said Nicholas in a mocking tone, "I dare you say that again" said Herb as he rolled up his sleeves and threw some jabs at his friend but Nicholas being taller and being slightly more athletic threw single punch breaking Herbs nose in a single blow, Sissi walked towards the near crying Yumi and Jeremie, "looks like this means nothing to him" said Sissi as she patted Yumi's belly, But this only resulted in Dallas grabbing her and pushing her against the Pillar "Lay your hands on her again and I promise it'll be the last thing you do with it" said Dallas, Sissi gulped as he let go, "you're just waiting…" started Jeremie but Dallas cut him off "I haven't got time for this crap, I've got a trace of a spectre" he said as he held up a small bag with a small black powder inside "Spectre residue" asked Yumi, Jeremie grabbed the bag and looked at it, "you could be making this up covering for XANA" said Jeremie as he pocketed the bag, Dallas rolled his eyes as he walked away, "you could be more accepting of him you know" said Yumi as she walked after him.
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(The historian side of me loves this next bit)
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The school bell rang and everyone moved to their next class, Dallas, Aelita, Jeremie, Odd and Ulrich entered their history class, Mr Fumet walked in putting down his books
"If you remember from last lesson we were discussing the causes of World War 1, an event in motion shaped the world for the next 75 years spanning through such events as World War 2, the cold war and Vietnam" he said, Dallas sat down looking around for any motions that seemed irregular, although all he noticed was that Jeremie was looking at Ulrich strangely and Odd was doing the same to Jeremie "Aelita can we talk" said Jeremie, but she turned and sat with Odd saying "We're in class", Jeremie sulked at this, "it began with the assignation of the archduke Franz Ferdinand" said Fumet, Jeremie turned his Eyes towards Ulrich as he sat down next to him "Why did you kiss Heidi" asked Ulrich, Jeremie sighed heavily as he looked at his tablemate and replied "I Did Not kiss Heidi", Ulrich Pointed at his eye and said "I saw you, it wasn't very nice thing to do to Odd", Jeremie was angered by this comment "What about you kissing Sissi, Yumi is pregnant with your kid" he responded, Ulrich looked at him "What I didn't kiss Sissi" he said with shock, "Now can anyone tell me when Ferdinand die" said Fumet, he turned and looked at the class, none of which seemed remotely interested in what was being taught except for Aelita and Herb, Fumet decided to pick out a student "Ulrich when did Ferdinand die" he said, despite him having practically haven given him the answer, Ulrich hadn't paid attention, "Well uh… at the end of his life" responded Ulrich causing everyone to laugh at him, "you're not wrong" said Dallas quietly.
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Jim was walking through the school ground look for any student who was ditching class, he walked past the classrooms in the bottom of the dorm building, suddenly he spotted a student near the Cafeteria,
"Stern" he said in shock "What're you doing there" he added, Ulrich looked at him with no emotion, Adam and Evelyn watched from above the Cafeteria, Jim was too focused on Ulrich to pay any attention to them "Crap, the bloody thing needs a manual instruction to change, I told you that you should have stay with Sissi to keep an eye on it" said Evelyn as she looked at Jim "Shouldn't you be in class" said Jim, Ulrich suddenly started walking backwards almost as if in reverse and out of Jim's eyesight, Adam quickly moved off the building and towards Ulrich "Change now…" he said but thought for a second "that nurse" he said in a small panic before moving back up onto the building, Jim quickly moved to intercept Ulrich, but instead he found Nurse Yolanda walking towards him, "Oh is that you Yolanda" said Jim starting to blush, but she said nothing as she moved towards Jim and Kissed him on the cheek, Jim blushed again as she moved away, he quickly sprinted away in a good mood as the school bell rang, once out of Sight Yolanda suddenly began to morph again, Jeremie hung back for a second as he tried pulling his head together, he watched as Aelita took off obviously trying to ignore him, Jeremie sighed as he walked out of the class room after everyone else, he then noticed Aelita standing near Sissi's group, he waved to her "Hey Aelita" he said, but Aelita stood their blankly and emotionless, suddenly she grabbed Herb and quickly kissed him catching him off guard and hurting his broken nose further, suddenly she ran off leaving Jeremie shocked, upset and angered Jeremie returned to his room to do some more work, but as he neared it he heard a voice he didn't want to hear "Jeremie you want to talk to me" said Aelita as she came up behind him, "yeah lets talk about and Herb" said Jeremie as he folded his arms "huh" said Aelita, she'd never really talked to him, he'd tried numerous times but she always brushed him off, "I sure hope he's better at kissing than he is at math" said Jeremie in a small rage as he turned away, Aelita tried looking him caught off guard by the accusation "what're you talking about I never kissed Herb" said Aelita, Jeremie was thrown over the edge by this comment, he turned back and faced Aelita "I don't believe this, first you kiss the biggest loser in the whole school and then you lie about it" he said in a blind anger, "But Jeremie trust me" she started almost crying but Jeremie was too angry, "Incredible, you make a fool out of me in public then you lie to me then you expect me to trust you, how could you do that you really let me down, you have no idea how much either" said Jeremie as he entered his room, Aelita looked at his door before running off, Jeremie threw a pillow at his wardrobe in anger, Jeremie was about to lay down in his bed when his computer went off, a tower had been located followed by a text message "Jeremie tower located dessert sector", Jeremie then grabbed the small bag he took from Dallas, "the automaton was right" he said sighing, he quickly stood up and moved for the door.
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Outside, Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, Dallas and William were standing near the pillars but they were mostly Arguing with Dallas standing at the side,
"I'm telling you I never kissed Sissi" said Ulrich, Yumi was nearly crying "I saw you do it Ulrich" she said, William then stepped forward "I saw you kiss Mathias" he said, Odd was just sulking, "but I didn't kiss him I swear to you Ulrich" she said, Dallas turned his head "it's true she didn't" said Jeremie coldly, everyone turned and looked at him, "Dallas found spectre residue, XANA has commenced an attack, I located an Activated tower" he said as he handed Dallas the 1887, Dallas checked to see if it was loaded and nodded, "okay so that covers one of us" said William as he looked at the others "but who" said Odd as he looked at Ulrich, Yumi and Jeremie "this is a new type of Spectre, one that has the ability to change its physical appearance" said Jeremie, the others looked at each other "a polymorphic spectre" said William, the others realised that it might be true, "We need to get Aelita and head to Lyoko" said Odd, Jeremie looked at them, "where is she Einstein" he added, but Jeremie took a second to respond "we had an argument, she ran off, but I believe I know where to find her" he said.
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Aelita sat on the child's bed in the hermitage, being that the building was derelict no one was going to disturb her, she looked out the window at the birds singing when she heard a voice
"Aelita" she turned her head to see Jeremie at the door panting and out of breath "I'm really… sorry Aelita" he said, Aelita was confused as she rushed over to him "You're not angry with me anymore" she asked, Jeremie shook his head "XANA has created a spectre that can change its appearance" he said tryna catch his breath "You didn't really kiss Heidi" asked Aelita, Jeremie looked up at her shaking his head "no, and I know you didn't Kiss Herb, come on we need to get to the factory" said Jeremie as he grabbed her hand and began running despite being on the verge of collapsing, the two quickly exited the Hermitage and stopped as they saw Jeremie, Ulrich, Dallas, Yumi, Odd and William, "What" asked Aelita as she backed away from the Jeremie she was nearest to, "Aelita be careful that's an imposter" said the other Jeremie, Dallas raised the 1887 and pointed it at the first Jeremie, "Two Jermeie's great" said Odd, the others looked at the two "how do we tell which is which" asked Yumi, the first Jeremie pointed at the second "XANA's created a clone of me to trick you guys" said Jeremie, the second Jeremie looked at him "Aelita trust me please" said the second one, "Don't listen to him I'm the real Jeremie" said the first as he looked at the others, the second stepped forward "Guys you know it is me, Come on Dallas you know me" he said, the first rolled his eyes "of course that fucking Automaton would defend you XANA" he said, the others were confused then Dallas raised the 1887, "AELITA DUCK" he shouted, as Aelita dropped to the ground Dallas pulled the trigger, suddenly the second Jeremie was blown off his feet and knocked to the ground "Jeremie" said Aelita but the first grabbed her, then she noticed there was no blood from the bullet hole, Dallas rushed over and began unloading more and more shots into the spectre, "Go this won't hold him for long" he said before looking at Jeremie who had the biggest shock on his face "NOW" shouted Dallas, Jeremie and Aelita quickly rushed over towards the others, suddenly the spectre grabbed Dallas's leg and pulling him down to the ground and grabbing the 1887 and firing the last bullet into his head damaging the skin and causing the bullet to ricochet of the metal skull and strike the spectre, "I'll stay and help him" said Odd as he rushed and jumped at the spectre knocking him over, "William stay with them" said Ulrich, William nodded and jumped towards them disappearing in his black smoke before repairing and helping Dallas up as the Spectre threw Odd against a tree, he shielded his blow with his armoured back, Ulrich quickly super sprinted and opened the secret door, "COME ON" he shouted, Jeremie and Aelita grabbed Yumi and helped her, Ulrich quickly rushed and gave them a hand as Jeremie locked the door behind them, "That won't hold them" said Ulrich as he panted heavily.
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The Spectre grabbed Dallas and threw him through the door of the hermitage, William appeared through his smoke going for a superman punch, but the Spectre turned and grabbed William throwing him to the ground, Odd charged back and jumped at the Spectre but he moved and Odd missed,
"Damn it" said Odd as he rolled over in the dirt, Dallas got up and ran over picking him up, William flashed into his smoke and appeared next to them "We take him together" said Dallas as they looked at the spectre, "besides he's only Jeremie's size" said William the spectre emotionless suddenly deformed and reformed as Dallas, "why do you always open your mouth" asked Odd, suddenly the spectre jumped at them forcing Dallas through the wall of the building, Odd and William charged after them, whilst in the sewers The rest of the warriors ran as quickly as they could towards the factory, and thanks to the now exhausted Ulrich had just entered the elevator,
"I'm never doing that again" he said as he collapsed against the wall, the door opened and Jeremie rushed towards the console, "Dallas will meet you in the Dessert sector" said Jeremie, Yumi knelt down to Ulrich as the elevator door shut, "I'm sorry Ulrich" she said as she hugged him, he looked up from his exhausted daze "its me who should be sorry" he responded trying to smile, then the Elevator door opened and Aelita helped him up, "God you need to lose weight" she said jokingly as she helped him into a scanner "We're ready Jeremie" said Yumi as she stepped into her scanner, "Transfer Yumi, Transfer Aelita, Transfer Ulrich" said Jeremie as he typed causing the scanners to shut, "Scanner Yumi, Scanner Aelita, Scanner Ulrich" he added as he selected their ID cards, they began to spin and rise, "Virtualization" he said as they felt the blast of air sending them to Lyoko, Their Blue squared outlines appeared as they dropped to the ground they turned weapons ready as they heard a metallic noise, they let out a sigh of Relief as they saw Dallas standing there, "The tower isn't too far away" said Jeremie as he localised it "direction north, north east" he said, the warriors quickly looked around "There" said Aelita as they noticed it, "Across the…" started Aelita, but Dallas stepped forward cutting her off, "across the bridge" he said, he looked at Ulrich and Yumi before looking away "Is there something wrong with him" asked Yumi but there was no answer, "The path is clear I say we convoy" said Ulrich as he looked up, Jeremie smiled and said "Already on it" he quickly typed and the Over-Bike spawned "great work Einstein" said Yumi as Ulrich mounted with her behind, Dallas dived forward and spawned the Over-Rider and Aelita climbed on behind him, the two vehicles shot off.
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Odd was thrown through one of the walls smashing the door frame, his armour absorbing most of the blow, the Spectre turned and dodge a right hook from William causing him to strike his hand into the wall, he screamed before disappearing in his smoke, the spectre looked around, suddenly a sudden blow to the jaw caused it to destabilize, Dallas threw a barrage of successive blows, each struck the spectre knocking it away from Odd, William appeared and grabbed it,
"Dallas should be able to kick the shit out of that thing" said Odd as he wiped the blood from his mouth, "he can't, he's not used to the extra weight of the endo skeleton" said William as he looked at his bloodied hand, the Spectre Grabbed Dallas and using one of his moves twisted its arm back before locking its foot around Dallas's head and its other around his neck and pulling downwards on the forearm and upwards using the rest of the body causing a loud snap from the metal inside his arm, Dallas turned and grabbed the spectre pulling him down, he looked at his arm as his fingers were locked up "shit" he said as the Spectre tackled him down the stairs, "Dallas" said William as he followed after them, but Dallas was holding his Spectre counterpart, "GO" shouted Dallas, the Spectre began to pound its hands into Dallas's head, due to the inability to damage the metal skull, it forced his head into the ground, Dallas stopped moving, the Spectre stood up and looked around before moving back up the stairs, "fuck" said William as he ran back and grabbed Odd, "Dallas is down, we need to get to the factory" said William as they exited the building and rushed into the sewer entrance.
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"Hurry up guys, I have a feeling that Odd and William are probably getting there arses handed to them" said Jeremie as he watched the radar and map, "Hornets 6 o'clock" said Jeremie, Dallas looked behind him, "Hang on" he said as he flicked the Gyro control and shot forward, "what is with that guy" said Ulrich as they darted forward after them, The Hornets fired and struck Yumi knocking her off the Over-Bike, "Yumi" screamed Ulrich in fear, but Yumi managed to land on her hands and flip, "oh that's gonna come back on me" she said, Aelita smiled but this soon disappeared as Dallas turned around and moved towards the Hornets, "what're you doing" asked Aelita, Dallas didn't even bother looking back at her "Ulrich get ready to take Aelita" he said coldly.
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The Spectre looked around the Hermitage, it had been damaged in the fight and was trying to get its Barings, its blurred vision cleared as it moved downstairs and towards the sewer entrance, looking back down the corridor it saw that Dallas was still motionless with his head half buried in the floor, William was running as fast as he could but his hand was bleeding and hurting him severely,
"Your hand" said Odd as William was practically carrying him over his shoulders "I'm fine don't worry" he said, but Odd stopped him, "come here" he said as he tore off part of his shirt "It's best if I bandage it best I can, we keep a med kit in the factory" said Odd, William held his hand out allowing Odd to bandage it, then he noticed something on Odd's chest "what's that scar" he asked, but Odd ignored the question as he finished with bandaging, "that's the best I can do" said Odd as William helped him moving again through the tunnel, William wanted to ask again but decided against it not wanting to come off as rude, "Great a ladder" said William as they reached the end of the tunnel, "Hold on" he said as they disappeared and reappeared atop of the bridge, Odd Screamed as he looked at William, "never do that again" he demanded angrily, William laughed as they rushed along the bridge.
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Dallas quickly drove past Ulrich as he moved in the opposite direction Ulrich grabbed Aelita helping her onto the back of the Over-Bike, The Hornets broke off into two groups three followed after Ulrich and Aelita, the other three moved towards Yumi and the fast approaching Dallas, Yumi heard the engine roar and threw her fans towards the Hornets but they dodged out of the way,
"Move" said Dallas as he shot past her, the Hornets then moved and followed him, "what the hell" said Yumi as she watched them kick up a small sand storm, suddenly Evelyn shot past her not even attempting to devirtulize her "Jeremie what's going on" asked Yumi as she began running after Ulrich and Aelita, Jeremie just shook his head "I have no idea" he replied, Dallas watched as the Hornets followed after him, "its split the group at least" said Jeremie, Ulrich and Aelita looked back at Yumi as she defended herself from the Hornet Shots, She quickly ran forward dodging all the shots muttering "I hate being pregnant" as she almost got hit, she quickly moved behind them before throwing her fans against them causing the fans to just miss them, the fans returned to her hands, "heads up XANA's sending a monster" said Jeremie, Yumi turned around looked as a Tarantula spawned, it quickly knelt down and began firing at her, Ulrich stopped as he reached the bridge, "Aelita, I gotta go and help her" said Ulrich, Aelita looked at the clear space and stepped off the Over-Bike and ran towards the activated tower, Ulrich darted back towards Yumi, suddenly the Bridge DE spawned behind Aelita.
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Dallas sped away, the engine of his bike was running to the maximum and he looked as the heating dial was reaching the overheating point, his eyes suddenly turned to the Hornets and Evelyn as they were catching up to him, suddenly he heard the beeping that the engine was over heating and smoke began to emanate from the engine,
"Son of a…" he started but Evelyn sped up and pulled her musket firing at the engine, it sparked as Dallas began losing control, he struggled to maintain it suddenly a Krab appeared, Dallas steered to avoid but due to the engine damage and the gyro lock being off he was thrown as the bike exploded leaving black smoke and him bloodied and bruised, Evelyn pulled up and looked at the Hornets and the Krab, "Be careful he's the human code of Dallas he's frail and not Immortal" she said as they moved towards the crash, Dallas crawled away from the wreck, his left arm was broken and he had pulled a muscle in his right arm and was struggling to pull himself away, he reached a rock and collapsed too badly damaged to move any further, "find him, I want him" she screamed at the monsters, she moved down the small ravine towards Dallas, the aforementioned found his sight blurry similar to a concussion, suddenly he heard the movement of one of the Krabs, it let out a noise and tilted itself towards him alerting Evelyn to his position, she walked over through the smoke and burning remains of the Over-Rider, "XANA will make a fine work out of…" she started then she noticed Dallas holding his sawn-off with his sprained arm "You think you could shoot me, they'll devirtulize…" she started again, but Dallas quickly butted in, "Cut the crap I know what XANA Knows" said Dallas as the two looked at the wobbling weapon, Evelyn raised her arm and the Monsters moved away backing off, "You can't know anything" said Evelyn moving towards him, but she backed away as Dallas moved the Sawn-off to his own head, "XANA needs me alive, I die…" he said but was finding himself almost too weak, "you wouldn't dare" she said but Dallas began to squeeze the trigger, Evelyn looked at him, "savour this win, it shall be your last" she said spitting at him, Dallas didn't even smile, his one working eye followed her as she mounted her bike and rode off with the monsters following her, Dallas suddenly dropped his Sawn off as he collapsed both damaged and exhausted.
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Odd and William sat near the elevator as they quickly applied whatever first aid they could to Williams hand, the later kept looking at Odd's scar,
"Are you gonna tell me what that is" he asked, but Odd continued to say nothing about it, suddenly they heard what appeared to be a digitized yell, they watched as the XANA clone jumped down looking at them, "ready for a round two" asked Odd, William stood up dropping the cold press from his hand "nope" he said taking a boxer stance, back on Lyoko Yumi drew her fan and threw it towards the Tarantula, the creature retaliated by firing it's lasers at it and destroying the weapon, Ulrich quickly ran as fast as he could without using super sprint out of fear of losing any life points, the Hornets seized this opportunity to encircle him, they fired a shot at him but Ulrich managed to block the shot, more of them fired at him this proved unsuccessful as he managed to block them, unfortunately he failed to block the last and was struck in the shoulder, Yumi turned and looked exclaiming "Ulrich", the aforementioned Ulrich looked towards his Katanna reaching towards it, suddenly the Lead Hornet that overlooked him exploded as Yumi's other fan sliced through its torso, Ulrich grabbed his Katanna saying "Lets switch" and running towards her, the Tarantula quickly opened fire in another attempt on Yumi's virtual form, however she moved to far and the lasers were striking the ground too wide for them to hit her, Ulrich however ran up towards the creature and blocked its lasers in a rapid manor barely giving him time to breath from each new laser blast striking his weapon, "Bring it" said Ulrich as he took a traditional stance.
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The Spectre evaluated William and Odd, it tilted its head and decided neither were a big enough of a threat,
"HEY PRETTY BOY" shouted Odd, the Spectre pressed the elevator button before turning back to face them, "COME ON THEN" Shouted Odd, William looked at his swollen hand, the spectre then began to charge, William ran forward towards the Spectre grabbing him as the two collided "Here goes" said William suddenly the two disappeared in a flash of black smoke before they quickly reappeared with the two just a few feet away, Odd ran other to William who was violently coughing up, "Careful you idiot you can't breathe when teleporting" said Odd as he dragged William away before noticing that the Spectre was in the support beam, it's torso trapped inside whilst it's arms flayed around almost uncontrollably "will that stop it" coughed out William, Odd placed his arm over his shoulder and carried him towards the elevator, "not for long" he wearily replied.
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"Careful Yumi at 10 o'clock" said Jeremie as he monitored the speed of the Hornets moving towards her, quickly turning around she drew her fans to block any laser being fired at her, when the firing stopped she tossed one of her fans towards the creatures however they narrow missed them and returned to Yumi's hands, "I'll materlized the Over-Wing" said Jeremie as he quickly began typing, Yumi Quickly began back flipping trying her hardest to stay on form dodging every laser from the Hornets she quickly twisted and turned narrowly dodging the lasers before they could hit her, she quickly twisted her body in a 360 degree motion before back flipping again, quickly drawing her fans she blocked more lasers as they moved closer along with the Materialization of the Over-Wing, back in the lab the elevator opened allowing Odd and William to exit, "where's Dallas" asked Jeremie both concerned and Happy he wasn't there, "ones got his head half buried in the Hermitage, the other is currently stuck in a support beam" said William as he sat down resting from his brief jump, suddenly the elevator door closed causing the three to look towards it "do you think" asked Odd with a slight panic, "I hope not" replied William as he coughed violently.
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Yumi quickly managed to mount the Over-Wing, quickly adjusting so she could maintain control she placed her hands onto the handles and making sure that she had full control she moved away from the Hornets, but they remained in pursuit,
"Thanks Jeremie" she said as she flew away, Ulrich watched as he turned his attention back to the tarantula, drawing his Katanna he stood ready for any move the monster was willing and prepared to make, the Hornets however were not being as patient and began to relentlessly open fire on Yumi, the numerous shots barely missing her, however a single shot hit the moving vehicle, Yumi was thrown as she was launched into the air, but Jeremie quickly typed as fast as he could and quickly taking control of the vehicle he manoeuvred it towards Yumi allowing her to land safely again, the Hornets began to fire again but Yumi was prepared and widely dodged each shot, the creatures changed movement and flew below her forcing Yumi to once again throw her fans, both missed before returning to her hands, "Damn it" she said as they continued to follow her, The Tarantula had tired of waiting and began to fire on Ulrich, who having stood his ground was blocking or deflecting each shot that was fired against him, in a flash Ulrich disappeared from the creatures line of sight, it looked around scaling the horizon for him, but it was unable to locate him, Ulrich believe he'd outsmarted the creature with a quick super sprint and was behind the tarantula in an attempt to distract it, but XANA clearly had Ulrich outsmarted as another two Hornets spawned behind him, "careful behind you Ulrich" said Jeremie as he noticed the two new signatures on the radar, Ulrich didn't notice them until it was too late and was knocked onto the ground by them, he looked up as the four Hornets that were pursing Yumi had become more aggressive and had her surrounded, quickly leaning off the Over-Wing she drew her fan and threw it backwards and in a circle like motion it pierced each of the creatures destroying them like clockwork, suddenly Yumi noticed the situation Ulrich was in and circled around to help him, Ulrich deflected a shot from the Tarantula but the creature changed priorities and aimed upwards rapidly firing at Yumi, she in retaliation threw her fans the first was destroyed by a shot, the second barely scratched the creatures head, the laser shots continued and managed to destroy the Over-Wing, Yumi held onto the slowly devirtulizing blue square outlines before it disappeared entirely and she dropped to the ground "YUMI" cried out Ulrich as he ran over to her, as he did so one of the Hornets moved in for the kill shot, but was destroyed as Ulrich stabbed it with his Katanna, however the second Hornet fired at Yumi striking her causing her devirtulization, Yumi arrived back in her scanner, she slowly stumbled out of it feeling queasy but made her way towards the elevator.
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"Aelita hurry up" said Jeremie as he watched the map and radar, "I'm nearly there" responded Aelita as she neared the tower, she stopped dead in her tracks as she heard a noise that brought nothing but fear as the squid like Scyphozoa moved towards her, Aelita began to move back towards the Bridge but found it gone "I'm trapped" she said to herself hoping that one of the others would come to her rescue, back in the lab the elevator opened and Dallas exited, his face covered in blood from the skin and it slightly torn,
"Hold it right there" said William as he raised the Sawn-off and pointed it at him, "What the fuck man" said Dallas as he raised his hands and backed away slightly, "That's it William" said a similar voice, Odd and Jeremie watched as the other Dallas dropped from the hatch as the Elevator Door closed and descended, "which ones which" asked Odd, Jeremie looked at them, both were identical so whichever one the spectre was it had taken the shape of the real Dallas, "its me" they both said at the same time, "Now that's getting us nowhere" said Jeremie, Odd grabbed the Glock 17 and moved towards the Second Dallas making sure to keep it pointed at him "Jeremie what do we do" asked Odd, the first Dallas looked at the Sawn-off and noticed William's trembling "first time you've ever held a fire arm" he asked, William nervously pointed it forward in an attempt to shut Dallas up, Jeremie moved towards the first "as far as I'm concerned we shoot them both" he said, suddenly the second grabbed Odd by the collar and tear the Glock from his hand threw him to the ground and pointed the weapon at Jeremie pulling the trigger, Dallas quickly Grabbed Jeremie and turned, the bullet scraping the side of his head and causing the section of skin to come loose, William turned and fired hitting the spectre, it's head exploded but remained a single piece, it fell to the ground in a seizure, Jeremie looked at Dallas who moved and grabbed the Sawn off "what did you think of my shooting" asked William, Dallas flicked the barrels forward and removed the spent shell replacing it with a new one and responded "I'm just glad you fired at the right bloody target" as he moved towards the spectre, the elevator opened and Yumi stepped out "looks like I missed a party" she quipped as she stumbled over, Dallas examined Odd, "He'll be fine" he said as he moved Odd towards the wall, "Yumi tend to him" said Dallas as he pointed the Sawn-off at the spectre as it began to reform its head, pulling the trigger again it's head exploded again as a small explosion erupted from the Sawn-offs barrels, "that's bought us about 10 minutes" said Dallas, then Jeremie noticed something "Jeremie, Jeremie are you there" it was Aelita's voice on the computer "Aelita" he said in a panic as he rushed over to the console "Aelita are you okay what's going on" he asked, he then noticed the screen "Ulrich the Scyphozoa its attacking Aelita" said Jeremie, Back on Lyoko Ulrich quickly turned his head to see the giant squid wrap its tendrils around Aelita, "it's not exactly a picnic out here" replied Ulrich, he took a deep breath before saying "Son of a bitch" without hesitation he broke into a sprint and made his way towards Aelita, the Hornet and the Tarantula opened fire on him giving chase, the spider like creature moving onto it's back legs to make it's shots, the shots narrowly missing him, "Jeremie I'm gonna need the Over-Bike" Said Ulrich as he came towards the end of the Plato, "I'm working on it" said Jeremie, but Ulrich seemed too determined to give him a chance and broke out into a full on super sprint, he quickly jumped as he reached the end of the Plato, however on the downwards descent he undershot barely planting his hand onto the side of the landmass.
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William moved to Jeremie's side to watch the events on the radar,
"Ulrich are you okay" asked Jeremie, Ulrich looked down at the digital sea as the window for Aelita's memory drain opened up "Ulrich better hurry up" said William in a panic, Ulrich began to climb up the small rock face using his Katanna by smashing it through the surface, but before he could remove it again to attack the creature he heard Jeremie shout in a panic "ULRICH HURRY AELITA'S NEARLY OUTTA MEMORY", without even thinking Ulrich extended his wrist blade and ran towards the squid like creature and jumped spinning in mid-air slicing through its tendrils, as the ends lost energy and lost grip falling to the ground Aelita fell gently with Ulrich looking down at her "you okay Aelita" said Ulrich as he knelt down to her placing a hand on her shoulder "Ae… Aelita" asked Jeremie, slowly raising her head and slowly shaking her head "I'm okay Jeremie" she responded, Ulrich helped her up and the two began moving towards the tower, Jeremie looked towards Dallas as he watched over the spectre, slowly in a futile attempt to push the damaged skin back together, back on Lyoko Aelita passed into the tower moving towards the centre of the platform, meanwhile the Spectres head slowly began to reform, "Aelita hurry" said Jeremie upon noticing, Aelita began to slowly fly upwards towards the 2nd platform and spinning backwards to avoid striking it, a sign of her becoming more human, as her feet touched the ground she placed her hand on the screen the word AELITA followed by the words CODE LYOKO typed out the tower's aura turned from red back to blue, and the blue screens descended as the spectre's body twitched violently before sinking into the ground disappearing from sight and existence.
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Dallas sat in the computer room having removed his shirt he was pulling every bullet out of his body, each one was flattened having struck the metal endo skeleton, he dropped them into a bucket before putting down the knife he used to pull them out, before grabbing the skin that was lose on his head and tried placing it up but again it fell down
"Need help" Dallas turned having heard the voice to see Jeremie standing at the open elevator, "The others went back to school probably to try and explain all the kissing" added Jeremie as he sat down next to Dallas, "why are you helping me" asked Dallas as Jeremie grabbed the medical bag and began to stitch his skin back, "You grabbed me and moved me out of the way of the gunshot" said Jeremie as he continued the stitching "Its what I Do" replied Dallas as he twitched from the slight pain it caused him, "I'm sorry" said Jeremie as he looked at Dallas's face, he didn't turn to face Jeremie back, "Listen I was harsh to you" added Jeremie as he finished the stitching and let Dallas's hair fall to cover the damage, "I'm not angry" said Dallas as he looked at his damaged shirt "shit" he said under his breath, Suddenly he was handed a light blue silk shirt by Jeremie "It's all I could find" he said upset the way he'd treated Dallas, "it's not really my Colour" responded Dallas as he pulled the shirt over his head and grabbing his jacket "or my style" he added as he and Jeremie walked towards the elevator.
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"CARL IS DEAD YOU PIECE OF SHIT" shouted one of the men, covered in combat armour painted with a symbol of a small terrorist group, "AND FOR WHAT A FUCKING FREZZER" he shouted as he let go of the collar of one of the other men in the back of the truck he was one of 8 men sitting there between them a massive tube that was made of metal and was clearly freezing cold, "The military has been holding this thing for about 16 years" said the militia soldier as he removed the others hand from him, "it's so secret it's not even on paper nor any computer" they added as they removed there mask, he looked at the other soldiers, 4 were visibly shaking whilst another who had received a gunshot wound in his shoulder and leg, "Trust me this has to be important to them" said the solider as he grabbed a cigar and went to light it but suddenly the truck stopped with a jolt causing him to drop his cigar "son of a…" he said as he leant forward to grab the cigar, the others started laughing at him as he got off his seat and rummaged around to pick it up, suddenly they heard the driver say "what the fuck" then there was silence, but no one paid any attention to it, the solider grabbed his Cigar "gotcha you son of a…" suddenly before he could finish he was defend by loud gun shots and the sounds of his fellow soldiers being shot, there flesh being torn from their bodies by each passing bullets, as their twitching stopped the solider looked up, his face was drenched in blood from the soldiers who a few seconds ago had just been laughing at him, suddenly the back of the truck opened and Adam stepped inside carrying an M60 machine gun with a smoking barrel he dropped it on the floor as he took a puff of his smoke, "messy business" he said as he wiped his hand across the capsule, the Soldier looked at Adam in anger, quickly reaching for one of the riffles he grabbed it and aimed it shouting "FUCKING KID" but as he pulled the trigger he realised that one of the bullets had clipped the barrel rendering the weapon useless, Adam smiled as he looked at the solider "I should thank you for making this job easier" he said with a laugh before drawing a revolver from his trousers and pointing it towards the solider, the solider tried moving away, but Adam only laughed as he pulled the trigger striking the solider in the forehead, his body slumped over, "Well XANA I wonder what you want with this man" said Adam as he wiped the frost build up off the Capsule window.
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Authors note
Holy shit 6 months since I updated last, I am so sorry, so much shit has happened in that half a year, I can't really go into a lot of detail, because talking about it would probably be considered escalating the situation so I won't mention a lot of the bad just the good, I've been in a relationship for the past month and have become a father figure to her kid, so I'm happy there, been going a load of cons and have been cosplaying with my Girlfriend, so yeah, that hasn't taken up all my time, trying to find a job and coping with personal issues has, again I apologise for the lateness of this chapter, hence I decided to beef it up best I could for you guys to enjoy and I hope you do.