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Chapter 8: The Fighting Rages On
They continued walking until they reached the clearing. Ulrich unsheated his sword, lasers humming. Yumi, Odd, and Slyzer hid behind trees, ready to fire. Jeremy crouched down below a large rock.
"Alright, you'd better cover me!" Ulrich shouted. He ran into the fray, all twenty of the hideous beasts turning and preparing to fire. Odd's shots sounded and five arrows were loosed, destroying three of the seven hornets. Ulrich sliced a block in two, but had to jump back behind the trees as the mutant creatures took aim and fired. Yumi emerged suddenly, throwing her fan. It killed two roachsters, but she was hit by a laser. She bent down to clutch her burned leg, and Jeremy crawled over to help tend to the burns.
Now it was Slyzer's turn. He had climbed the tree, and just jumped down. He threw three discs in the air, killed a hornet, and landed. He went into a forward handspring, slicing the legs off the mutant crabs on the way around. He extended the claws, and finished the mutants.
By now there were a couple of hornets, two or three blocks, three roachsters, and only one mutant. But the enemies in the air were keeping the fighters at bay. They were barely able to protect themselves. Odd, Slyzer, and Ulrich were caught in the middle of the beasts. Ulrich was injured badly, as were the other two. Odd eventually, with Yumi's help, killed all the hornets and the last mutant. Now it was just the blocks and roaches. Slyzer had about 20 discs left, and he used five to eliminate the roachsters. Odd, who was saving his 17 remaining arrows, distracted the roachsters while Ulrich moved in for the kill.
"Finally..." Yumi gasped. She wasn't hurt as bad as the boys, but she had still suffered burns. Slyzer had been hit on the arms twice per arm, an attempt to deflect lasers with his claws gone wrong. ("Hey, what can I say, the lasers just keep coming from all sides!") He had also been hit on the leg once while doing some disc work. Ulrich was scorched in several places, and in great pain. He had been hit a lot by the crab/hornets. Odd was somewhat lucky. The only injuries he had were the poison burns on this ankle, (from the hornets) and a frost bitten hand, work of the block's freeze ray.
"Are you ok?" Jeremy asked the gang urgently.
"Not really.. Ulrich said clasping his many burns.
"Ulrich!" Yumi said running over to him. She immediately put her arm around him to help him stand straight. Slyzer normally would have not been very happy about this, but in the thick of things like they were, he hardly noticed.
Jeremy tended to their wounds. For some reason they hadn't gone to the factory yet. They all looked like kid-frankensteins, all patched up and bandaged. Right when Jeremy bent down to open the manhole-entrance to the factory, a huge laser beam hummed and fired. It just about hit Jeremy's hand. The gang slowly looked up to see the ghastly looking figure that was X.A.N.A. himself.
"X.A.N.A.!" Jeremy shouted. The gang was suddenly outraged. They remembered all the pain he had caused for them, all the suffering. Everything he had ever done came flashing though their minds. So, they were mad. Those of them who were armed lunged forward. Three arrows were fired, X.A.N.A. easily evaded them all. Yumi's fan came whizzing by his head, then back. X.A.N.A. hadn't expected it to come back. It turned around in mid-flight and X.A.N.A. barely moved in time. The fan sliced into his side, and strange datestream-like blood oozed from the cut. Slyzer took advantage of the distraction, and threw a disc, which drilled itself into X.A.N.A's arm.
"YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT EARTH-CREATURES!" X.A.N.A. roared. He raised his hands, and white-hot lasers poured from his palms. The gang looked like a circus act, doing jumps and flips to the best of their abilities trying to avoid contact with the deadly lasers. X.A.N.A. was now laughing at the top of his lungs. He was actually enjoying this. How could someone like this?
"Uggh.. X.A.N.A. that's it!" Odd yelled. He fired alternate shots, catching X.A.N.A. by surprise. Three of them hit his sides, and the other two simply flyed past him. He screamed in pain. Ulrich and Slyzer took advantage of this, running in ready to strike. Disc, disc, slash, disc, disc, slash. This pattern continued until Slyzer was out of discs. X.A.N.A. was extremely wounded, but he fought on, being the powerful evil maniac virus that he is. He sprouted blades out of his arms, and started to deflect the fighter's blows, and attack as well.
"YOU CAN NOT DEFEAT ME!" he roared in the same evil voice. His blood was flowing from his body now. It was like acid. It burned through the ground, and kept spreading, making physical attacks impossible, well, almost. Slyzer and Ulrich took a giant leap, flipped, and on the way around slashed at X.A.N.A's eyes. He roared in pain yet again, as Odd drilled his last 6 arrows into his head. Yumi threw her fan and his head came clean off. He roared. It went on and on, and seemed like it was coming from within their heads. There was a bright light as X.A.N.A.'s body began to glow. The kids had their eyes squeezed shut tight, and their hands covered their ears.
In a flash it was all over. X.A.N.A. was gone from their world. But he was not gone completely...
"Jeremy.. is it all over.. did we really defeat him for good?" Odd asked.
"I'm afraid not," Jeremy replied grimly. "I think, I think he just retreated to Lyoko."
The gang looked very bad. They were hurt, they had just fought for their lives and now they hadn't even won.
"Well, ah, at least we can get to the factory.." Odd said, trying to cheer everyone up.
"Yeah, I'd bet we'd better get going before more monsters show show up.." Jeremy said. They all silently went down the forest passage and into the sewers. They skateboarded and skootered, or ran in Slyzer's case, across the sewers. They climbed the ladder, ran across the bridge, and slid down the ropes into the factory. The elevator went up to the lab, and as Jeremy readied the programs, the fighters prepared for immediate departure.
Suddenly Jeremy yelled over to them, "Wait! Don't go! There are way too many monsters!" The gang crouded around the screen and saw at least fifty monsters. "AELITA!?!" Jeremy shouted.
"I'm ok!" She said appearing on the screen. "I've found towers to hide in!"
"Phewww.. I was.. worried about you Aelita.." They were caught in a romantic moment..
"Ok Jeremy, back to real life, we've got a tower to get rid of before more monsters show up!" Odd said.
"You're right... But how are we going to get past all these monsters?"
"Jeremy, we're strong, but we'll need at least one more person.." Yumi said.
"What about that new girl?" Ulrich suggested.
"Yeah, she looked like she could fight," Yumi said to Jeremy.
"Ok.. we'll get her," Jeremy agreed reluctantly.
"What's she look like?" Slyzer asked, "I can go get her."
"Dirty-blonde hair, really hot, can't miss her, names Chandra I think," Odd said. Slyzer nodded and ran out of the room as Yumi glared at Odd.
Jeremy was typing away as Slyzer ran into the elevator. He went to the sewers, and started sprinting through them. He came to the passage and climbed quickly. He ran out of the park, and went to the school. He ran all over, looking for the fighter called Chandra. There were plenty of dirty-blondes, but when Slyzer asked them if they were named Chandra, he felt extremely stupid as they gave him weird looks and he recognized them. Finally he found a girl that fit the description perfectly. She looked to be about 13, about five feet four. Her hazel eyes shown brightly, making her even more beautiful. She wore jeans and a bright orange t-shirt.
"You Chandra?" Slyzer asked quickly, out of breath.
"Yeah..." The sight must have been odd to her. A strange boy, covered in bandages and clearly in great pain from whatever was under those bandages. He also still wore the razor-claws.
"Name's Slyzer, come with me," he barked, grabbing her wrist and running out of the school. By now some of the people were in panic, because a couple of the monsters were roaming about.
"Mind explaining Slyzer?" Chandra demanded.
"No time. To make a long story short, we're gonna stop those monsters."
"WHAT? Me.. I'm.. I'm no fighter."
"Look fine to- I mean you look strong enough to me," he said.
"Ok..." Chandra was very confused now.
"Hold on a sec.. he said, letting go of her. He jumped up and started sprinting, claws extended. The kids around him, even the older ones, were scared to see the kid running around with razor-sharp claws at his disposel. He jumped into the air, leaping a few feet, and slashed hard on the roach that was causing havoc. It blew, as did it's friends in the following seconds. He ran back to Chandra, thouroughly exhausted from all the sprinting.
Chandra figured she'd better get away from this kid, he seemed pretty dangerous. She started to run. She was surprisingly fast, but Slyzer caught her and practically dragged her to the passage.
"Ok, ok get OFF!" She said shaking away Slyzer's hand.
"Sorry, sorry..."
"Ok I'll go with you but what is going on huh?"
"To make another long story short..." And he told her everything about Lyoko. Forty minutes later...
"So.. you really want me to help you stop this.. Zann.."
"X.A.N.A. And yes. So let's go, they're probably wondering where I am!"
"Ok... if you say so, let's go."
The two kids went down the passage, and sprinted even more into the factory.
Fifteen more minutes passed, and Chandra had selected a special weapon program for Lyoko.
"Call me SpitFire." She said, naming the program she had 'tweaked'.
The five brave warriors were all virtualized, Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd first, then Slyzer and Chandra.
"Don't worry, it'll be ok," Slyzer reasured the scared girl. "We're here to support you."
"But why'd you have to choose me?" She asked.
Slyzer grinned his famous grin, "Luck of the draw," he said shrugging. They were now virtual...
Well I hope you all like it! Thanks Aelita for ur reviews, and keep them coming! Well, see you later, next chapter is Flames of the New Girl. Hope you like it!
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