Quick reminder: I don't own "Code: Lyoko," or anything directly involved
with the show, I'm just a teenager who liked it and would like to
contribute a fanfic. So sue me. Wait. No. Please don't. I have no money.
CHAPTER THREE: A DIVERSION
The scene switches to Jeremy. He is sitting at his computer chair in the factory's mainframe computer. The elevator door opens behind him. Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd step out.
"You're here! Good. I've been listening to the TV broadcasts, and the situation doesn't seem to be any better." Jeremy told them as he spun around in the chair.
"What's XANA up to?" Ulrich asked him.
"Well...I'm not sure...it's obvious that he picked those construction vehicles for a reason...so I believe that he is after the school so that he can destroy us. Remember, it's mainly us that XANA is after..."
Yumi nodded. "That sounds just like him."
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm off for the scanners," Odd told them as he raced back for the elevator.
The others nodded and followed.
As the doors closed and they were dropped to the scanner room several stories below him, Jeremy opened communications with Aelita, who had passed back into her home world just a minute ago.
"Jeremy! The pulsations are deafening!"
"Aelita, what's happening?"
"I don't know, but Ulrich was right! XANA is up to something big! I'm sure that we're not seeing the full picture just yet..."
Jeremy nodded in agreement. "I found the tower. It's in the forest region."
"Good, I'm leaving now." She told him as her face left the monitor screen.
Odd, Yumi, and Ulrich stepped into their corresponding scanners. The doors snapped shut behind them as they heard Jeremy's voice through the grates above them.
"Scanner, Yumi."
"Scanner, Odd."
"Scanner, Ulrich."
Yumi wondered to herself if Jeremy knew that they could hear him. She guessed not.
All three of them closed their eyes before they were lifted into the air. They began to spin as they were virtualized into video game sprites.
"Virtualization." Jeremy finished.
In three flashes of light, Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi left this world for Lyoko.
Jeremy massaged his temples. His eyes quickly tilted to the TV broadcast.
"—Apparently switched courses, and are headed towards—"
Jeremy sat up in horror.
"No! It can't be!"
Yumi was crouching on the ground in her geisha guise. Odd was only feet away from her, as a giant purple cat-boy. Ulrich was a samurai, on her other side. The three stood up and glanced around at the woods surrounding them.
"Aelita!" Odd called out.
There was a rustle in the trees behind them. They spun around and armed themselves for XANA's minions. But instead...
Aelita stepped out from the trees.
They all sighed and walked up to her.
She pointed to the activated pillar to their left.
"There's the tower, but it's guarded by several crabs," she told them.
"Leave it to us, we'll handle it," Odd replied.
They had crossed several floating platforms when Jeremy's voice echoed in their heads.
"Everyone! We've got trouble!"
"What's up, Jeremy?" Ulrich asked aloud.
"The construction vehicles! They weren't meant to destroy the school! They're coming to the factory! There's a crane, a bulldozer, and a tractor!"
"So, what? We can handle things here. Anyway, they can't exactly fit in an elevator," Yumi told him.
"They happen to be armed with explosives. They were to be used in destroying that old apartment complex in the city tomorrow. XANA decided to use them to bomb the factory. If he dumps all of it into the elevator and sets it off, he'll take out the only way up AND make the whole place cave in on us!"
"That doesn't sound too good," Odd replied.
"Look out!" Aelita cried.
Odd was knocked backwards onto his back by a laser. Apparently, while Jeremy was speaking to them, they had been ambushed.
"Crabs! And a few Blocks!" Jeremy told them.
Aelita ducked behind another tree as Odd hopped to his feet. Yumi, Ulrich, and he put their backs together in a triangle as their attackers came out from the trees around them. There were two Blocks and four Crabs.
"Yahhhhh!!" Odd shouted as he rolled to the left and shot a block in the target. "Laser Arrow!"
"Triangulate!" Ulrich cried as he spun around a Crab and produced two clones.
"Huuhh!" Yumi yelled as she leapt into the air and flung her fan at a target of another Crab.
Two Crabs and a Block collapsed.
"Ahhhh!" Ulrich shouted as he was shot in the back, his two clones already defeated by the Crab he destroyed.
"Ulrich!" Yumi cried as she too was shot.
Odd jumped over her in a flip and shot her Crab down. It broke apart into vanishing fragments.
As Ulrich and Yumi crawled to their feet, Jeremy warned them of their low amount of life points.
A block crept up and shot Ulrich as he cut down the last Crab. He fell to the ground and vanished.
"One Block left," Jeremy said to himself. He glanced at the TV broadcast again. The three vehicles were less than ten blocks away and gaining. Fast.
The elevator opened and closed behind him. Ulrich walked up to Jeremy and stood next to him.
"How's it looking?" he asked.
"Not good. Aelita's taken her chances and has fled towards the tower. Odd has thirty life points, and Yumi can't take another hit."
"I can't believe I was taken out by a Block." Ulrich sighed. "You'd think by now that we would've been able to take those down with ease."
"They came out from nowhere. It was an honest mistake."
Odd had just destroyed the last Block when he turned around to see that Aelita had vanished. He spun around towards the tower to see that she was almost there.
"Heh heh...impatient, but with good reason," he said aloud.
"Let's make sure she's alright," Yumi told him as she sped off in her direction. Odd followed closely behind.
The three construction vehicles were four streets away. The squad cars were having no luck in gaining on them, let alone stopping them. The yellow vehicles somehow managed to keep from hitting pedestrians or other vehicles, due to pure luck. But they were almost at their destination.
"Yumi! Odd!" Aelita cried. She was at the tower, but one last Crab stood in her way. As it's target began to glow, a laser arrow embedded itself into it.
"It's all yours," Odd smiled as he waved at the piller of darkness before him.
Aelita smiled back and stepped into it.
As she made her way to the center of the large 'XANA' target on the floor, lights began to glow. She slowly floated to the top.
The three angels of death were racing across the bridge Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd had ran across from the manhole earlier...
A touch-screen opened before her. The word 'Code:' appeared. She input her name...
Jeremy plugged in the coordinates as a loud crashing noise was heard. As the factory caved in above him, Ulrich lifted his head...
Aelita's touch-screen vanished. The images dotting the walls of the tower collapsed as a bright white light erupted...
A huge pillar of flame shot down the elevator channel and blew the doors off the elevator. The door froze in midair at Ulrich's face, along with the rubble just meters above him...
"Return to the Past, now!" Jeremy shouted.
The white light forced its way out of the factory in a large dome, that began to encompass the city...
Jeremy was standing by his computer, chatting with Aelita. "I want to have a visit tomorrow. Just you and me. Okay?" Aelita asked him again. Jeremy smiled at her, with a blush-less face. "Yeah, I'd like that a lot." Aelita giggled and whispered goodnight to him before signing off...
Aelita signed off with Jeremy, then sat up and glanced around at her surroundings. She was sitting near a deactivated tower in the glacier region, like she had before the attack. But she kept getting the feeling that something was wrong, something that was conflicting between the two time flows... She didn't notice the cloaked figure that was standing on a peak above her. The figure wore full black, with its black cloak swaying in the wind. It was about Aelita's size. The being stepped back and walked out of sight...
Aha! That was the closest all four human characters have been to death at once. So XANA's plans were thwarted...or were they? After all, just look at the title of the chapter...and just who (or what) was that cloaked entity watching Aelita? Nothing is as it seems in this fanfic.
Expect the unexpected and prepare for what's not there...
CHAPTER THREE: A DIVERSION
The scene switches to Jeremy. He is sitting at his computer chair in the factory's mainframe computer. The elevator door opens behind him. Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd step out.
"You're here! Good. I've been listening to the TV broadcasts, and the situation doesn't seem to be any better." Jeremy told them as he spun around in the chair.
"What's XANA up to?" Ulrich asked him.
"Well...I'm not sure...it's obvious that he picked those construction vehicles for a reason...so I believe that he is after the school so that he can destroy us. Remember, it's mainly us that XANA is after..."
Yumi nodded. "That sounds just like him."
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm off for the scanners," Odd told them as he raced back for the elevator.
The others nodded and followed.
As the doors closed and they were dropped to the scanner room several stories below him, Jeremy opened communications with Aelita, who had passed back into her home world just a minute ago.
"Jeremy! The pulsations are deafening!"
"Aelita, what's happening?"
"I don't know, but Ulrich was right! XANA is up to something big! I'm sure that we're not seeing the full picture just yet..."
Jeremy nodded in agreement. "I found the tower. It's in the forest region."
"Good, I'm leaving now." She told him as her face left the monitor screen.
Odd, Yumi, and Ulrich stepped into their corresponding scanners. The doors snapped shut behind them as they heard Jeremy's voice through the grates above them.
"Scanner, Yumi."
"Scanner, Odd."
"Scanner, Ulrich."
Yumi wondered to herself if Jeremy knew that they could hear him. She guessed not.
All three of them closed their eyes before they were lifted into the air. They began to spin as they were virtualized into video game sprites.
"Virtualization." Jeremy finished.
In three flashes of light, Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi left this world for Lyoko.
Jeremy massaged his temples. His eyes quickly tilted to the TV broadcast.
"—Apparently switched courses, and are headed towards—"
Jeremy sat up in horror.
"No! It can't be!"
Yumi was crouching on the ground in her geisha guise. Odd was only feet away from her, as a giant purple cat-boy. Ulrich was a samurai, on her other side. The three stood up and glanced around at the woods surrounding them.
"Aelita!" Odd called out.
There was a rustle in the trees behind them. They spun around and armed themselves for XANA's minions. But instead...
Aelita stepped out from the trees.
They all sighed and walked up to her.
She pointed to the activated pillar to their left.
"There's the tower, but it's guarded by several crabs," she told them.
"Leave it to us, we'll handle it," Odd replied.
They had crossed several floating platforms when Jeremy's voice echoed in their heads.
"Everyone! We've got trouble!"
"What's up, Jeremy?" Ulrich asked aloud.
"The construction vehicles! They weren't meant to destroy the school! They're coming to the factory! There's a crane, a bulldozer, and a tractor!"
"So, what? We can handle things here. Anyway, they can't exactly fit in an elevator," Yumi told him.
"They happen to be armed with explosives. They were to be used in destroying that old apartment complex in the city tomorrow. XANA decided to use them to bomb the factory. If he dumps all of it into the elevator and sets it off, he'll take out the only way up AND make the whole place cave in on us!"
"That doesn't sound too good," Odd replied.
"Look out!" Aelita cried.
Odd was knocked backwards onto his back by a laser. Apparently, while Jeremy was speaking to them, they had been ambushed.
"Crabs! And a few Blocks!" Jeremy told them.
Aelita ducked behind another tree as Odd hopped to his feet. Yumi, Ulrich, and he put their backs together in a triangle as their attackers came out from the trees around them. There were two Blocks and four Crabs.
"Yahhhhh!!" Odd shouted as he rolled to the left and shot a block in the target. "Laser Arrow!"
"Triangulate!" Ulrich cried as he spun around a Crab and produced two clones.
"Huuhh!" Yumi yelled as she leapt into the air and flung her fan at a target of another Crab.
Two Crabs and a Block collapsed.
"Ahhhh!" Ulrich shouted as he was shot in the back, his two clones already defeated by the Crab he destroyed.
"Ulrich!" Yumi cried as she too was shot.
Odd jumped over her in a flip and shot her Crab down. It broke apart into vanishing fragments.
As Ulrich and Yumi crawled to their feet, Jeremy warned them of their low amount of life points.
A block crept up and shot Ulrich as he cut down the last Crab. He fell to the ground and vanished.
"One Block left," Jeremy said to himself. He glanced at the TV broadcast again. The three vehicles were less than ten blocks away and gaining. Fast.
The elevator opened and closed behind him. Ulrich walked up to Jeremy and stood next to him.
"How's it looking?" he asked.
"Not good. Aelita's taken her chances and has fled towards the tower. Odd has thirty life points, and Yumi can't take another hit."
"I can't believe I was taken out by a Block." Ulrich sighed. "You'd think by now that we would've been able to take those down with ease."
"They came out from nowhere. It was an honest mistake."
Odd had just destroyed the last Block when he turned around to see that Aelita had vanished. He spun around towards the tower to see that she was almost there.
"Heh heh...impatient, but with good reason," he said aloud.
"Let's make sure she's alright," Yumi told him as she sped off in her direction. Odd followed closely behind.
The three construction vehicles were four streets away. The squad cars were having no luck in gaining on them, let alone stopping them. The yellow vehicles somehow managed to keep from hitting pedestrians or other vehicles, due to pure luck. But they were almost at their destination.
"Yumi! Odd!" Aelita cried. She was at the tower, but one last Crab stood in her way. As it's target began to glow, a laser arrow embedded itself into it.
"It's all yours," Odd smiled as he waved at the piller of darkness before him.
Aelita smiled back and stepped into it.
As she made her way to the center of the large 'XANA' target on the floor, lights began to glow. She slowly floated to the top.
The three angels of death were racing across the bridge Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd had ran across from the manhole earlier...
A touch-screen opened before her. The word 'Code:' appeared. She input her name...
Jeremy plugged in the coordinates as a loud crashing noise was heard. As the factory caved in above him, Ulrich lifted his head...
Aelita's touch-screen vanished. The images dotting the walls of the tower collapsed as a bright white light erupted...
A huge pillar of flame shot down the elevator channel and blew the doors off the elevator. The door froze in midair at Ulrich's face, along with the rubble just meters above him...
"Return to the Past, now!" Jeremy shouted.
The white light forced its way out of the factory in a large dome, that began to encompass the city...
Jeremy was standing by his computer, chatting with Aelita. "I want to have a visit tomorrow. Just you and me. Okay?" Aelita asked him again. Jeremy smiled at her, with a blush-less face. "Yeah, I'd like that a lot." Aelita giggled and whispered goodnight to him before signing off...
Aelita signed off with Jeremy, then sat up and glanced around at her surroundings. She was sitting near a deactivated tower in the glacier region, like she had before the attack. But she kept getting the feeling that something was wrong, something that was conflicting between the two time flows... She didn't notice the cloaked figure that was standing on a peak above her. The figure wore full black, with its black cloak swaying in the wind. It was about Aelita's size. The being stepped back and walked out of sight...
Aha! That was the closest all four human characters have been to death at once. So XANA's plans were thwarted...or were they? After all, just look at the title of the chapter...and just who (or what) was that cloaked entity watching Aelita? Nothing is as it seems in this fanfic.
Expect the unexpected and prepare for what's not there...