Wow am I in a writing mood or what? Well to MystDragon2k: First off I am terribly sorry that i mispelled your pen name it will not happen again i knew it wasn't quite right but i just wanted to let you ppl know that the message was to you. I'm sorry you have to wait.

Neo Aguni: Don't feel like an idiot, we all have our stupid times!!! Like MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (See?)

to kitsaru: yes i know... yes, i know

Kiko thx for the good reviews, no problem.. looks around (purple pendant has issues..) no one heard that. And ya i was thinkin' of ur story a little when i thought of the healing thing. Well enjoy!

Oh and btw I'm really sry about the whole Jeremy bad to Aelita thing, it will change give me a chapter or two, and i guess i just havn't seen the show in forever cuz they took it off so JxA isn't fresh in my mind. Cries b/c no one likes his writing anymore...

And the whole thing w/ JxA is the result of the five Sierra Mists I had like two days ago...

Well here's the fifth chapter, which is dedicated to Aelita142 cuz i feel like it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko

Chapter Five: Last Hope, Last Tower

Why now, do I think of it, while I'm confronting hundreds of the monsters of my arch enemy. Why now? Aelita wondered. She was standing with her companions and friends in the middle of the grounds, watching in horror as the creatures flew, crawled or dug towards them. And she thought of that day, four months ago. It was so hard for her, only having roughly eight months of Earth at the time. She would have gone into shock, had she known Earth's customs better. She did not know quite what an offensive thing was done to her. Although she felt enough, emotionally. It was her friend's who made her better. It was her friends who were there for her, and always would be. And now she had Jeremy back. She smiled. The thing that happened to her, it was just a thing of the past. In the meantime she might have some healing to do..

The hornets, the white ones, came first, buzzing about, firing lasers. Yumi and Ulrich crossed their weapons, creating an energy shield that protected the whole group, reflecting dozens of lasers back at the ones that fired them, destroying half of those that did fire. The two young fighters let down their shields as Chandra's fire poured at the attackers, and Odd fired lasers at random monsters, destroying several. Slyzer kept producing laser discs and throwing them, which spun around in mid air, creating quite an obstacle for the attacking hornets. It seemed as if the hornets had lost it from the beginning, but then the lasers came, shot after shot. The fighters had to dodge and leap to the safety of Ulrich and Yumi's shield, but it wouldn't hold forever.

Then the blue armies came, the blocks using their long fins to slither across the ground. They had weak water and ice beams, which were being concentrated on parts of the shield to actually freeze it away. Yumi and Ulrich suddenly jumped back, firing waves of electricity from their weapons which broke into the front ranks of the aquatic mutants. The hornets were still buzzing about, and fired several shots, striking down Chandra and Odd.

"I'm ok Aelita," Odd said, "Save your power for Chandra." She nodded and went over to heal the bent over girl. She had been hit on her thigh, but the laser tech helped to heal the burn. Then she got right back to dishing out burns of her own.

This kept up, and with the powerful technology of Yumi and Ulrich's weapons, and with the projectiles of Chandra, Odd, and Slyzer, the blue and white armies were almost defeated.

Electric wave, ten gone, times ten, blue army defeated. That was the work of Yumi and Ulrich of course. Shot after disc after flame. This pattern continued until all 100 hornets had been shot from the sky. It seemed easy, but it hadn't come for free. Odd of course was wounded already, quite badly, and the rest of the gang had many burns as well. Aelita healed some but didn't bother with the ones that could be tolerated, because her healing power was draining fast. Only 50 remained. Taylor and Jeremy were under the protection of shield generaters and Chandra, hard at work.

It was then that the digging crabs of the black army came. They were covered in spikes and drills, and lower to the ground than the original crabs of Lyoko, also narrower. They were also black everywhere, except for the red Lyoko symbol on their backs that had to be hit to bring them down. The red amry of aquatically modified roachsters arrived as well. They were firing their lasers for cover as the black crabs charged. Slyzer jumped into the air, his razor claws, which had been retrieved from the previous battle with the scouts, were extended. He landed on a crab, and in seconds it was cut clean and he had leaped to another one. He continued this, taking out about eleven crabs until three lasers from the roachsters drilled into his chest.

"Ahh!!!" Slyzer cried out in pain.

"Slyzer!" Aelita called running over to him. She used another 15 of her energies to heal the burns well enough so Slyzer could keep fighting. In the meantime it was Yumi and Ulrich's weapons which were proving to be the most deadly and effective. One giant shockwave would take out about 20 monsters. So they, with Slyzer's help, had reduced the black army to hardly anything.

Meanwhile Chandra was protecting Jeremy and Taylor from shots fired by the red army. Odd was running back and forth in front of Chandra, firing at the roachsters. He was doing a good job, but soon got hurt too badly to even continue fighting. He joined Taylor and Jeremy under the cover of the shielding.
So the red was still about 40 strong, and the gold had not yet arrived. The now exhausted fighters, after reducing the black army to a pile of dead crab, moved in on the red, reducing thier ranks to 15 or less. And still no sign of the gold armies, the X.A.N.A.s, and still no sound from Taylor or Jeremy.

"Gotten anything yet Einstein?" Slyzer asked as he pounded down roachsters with his claws. He ignored the burns that plauged his flesh, ignored the aching of his bones, ignored the soarness of his muscles. He fought to win, to save them all.

"Not yet, we're almost there," Jeremy said quickly, cutting off the conversation with the tone of his voice.

By now you must be wondering what the rest of the school made of all this. Well it just so happens that they were having an emergency morning assembly on the other side of school. Something about disciplin. And wouldn't you know it the stupid kids were so loud and wouldn't shut up so no one seemed to hear the lasers and monsters, and other various sounds from the raging battle. Of course it was Sissy who noticed that Ulrich and his friends weren't present. So of course she slipped away and started running down the outside path towards the dorms.

Finally, the first four armies were through, finished, destroyed completely. All of the fighters collapsed in one tired heap, not realizing that they weren't done just yet. They were all feeling light-headed and happy, for they had thought that they had won.

Out of nowhere a wide laser beam shot at the group. It was pure gold in color. The gang barely had enough time to respond and somehow found the energy to jump away from the beams.

"Holy sh-" Slyzer was cut off by another beam as ten groups of ten golden hornets of the gold army flew in. They were gathering their small lasers into a big ball of gold energy, which is how the wide beams were fired. All ten fired at once, surrounding the gang, and cutting deep holes in the earth so that the fighters were trapped in the middle on a small piece of earth. Then out of nowhere five deep synchronized voices echoed, laughing evily, then saying, "You cannot defeat us and you never could! Bring us the girl!!!!!!!!!" And at once everyone knew that the five X.A.N.A.s were speaking. Everyone assumed that by 'the girl' they meant Aelita.

"Never X.A.N.A.!" Jeremy shouted, courage finding its way into his voice. "You couldn't win then and you won't win now!!!!!!!" And somehow, Taylor and Jeremy's computers started to glow, and then a light flashed, like the lights in the scanners in the old abandoned factory. And the gang, and an unexpected visotor, Sissy, were transported to a strange place. In fact, it was Lyoko.

"H-how?" Ulrich stumbled over the words.

"We've figured it out," Jeremy said, "X.A.N.A. couldn't launch his program without power, a tower. And X.A.N.A. couldn't have a tower without Lyoko. So you see, Lyoko wasn't destroyed. In order to destroy Lyoko for good, and X.A.N.A., we would have to destroy that last tower. That last tower is our last hope."

"But.. but if Lyoko is still here then why didn't X.A.N.A. stay here instead of launching himself onto the internet?" Yumi asked, confused but starting to fill with a new hope.

"Because, when we flipped the switch in the factory, all we were doing was hitting the reset button, like on video games. Everything started over, but the actual world wasn't destroyed. X.A.N.A. couldn't stay during the reset because he would be erased as things started over. So he activated his program, which launched and split him, and his program also activated the last tower, after the reset." Jeremy explained it all, his voice never changing. His gaze shifted to Aelita, so beautiful in that outfit she always wore in Lyoko. "Aelita," he began.

"Ok nothing to see here folks," Odd said rushing everyone away. He knew Jeremy, and he knew that something mushy was coming.

"Yes Jeremy?" Aelita asked.

"It's just.. I never listened to you, about the whole thing... you know... and I now see the truth. I have treated you like shit Aelita, and I never should have. You're AELITA!!! You're like my precious gem. You should never be scratched or get dusty, and because of me you have. Because of me. And I'm so so sorry Aelita, and I hope that you can find some kindness in your heart to forgive me." He said all this, blood mounting in his face, knees shaking.

Aelita blushed, shocked and unsure what to say at first. Finally she found words, "Jeremy," she began, "I do forgive you Jeremy. It was me, I strayed from your trust, I became too independent, but the truth is I need you Jeremy, and I think you need me too." It was just what Jeremy had been wanting to hear since forever.

"So Jeremy," Ulrich said, walking over, dressed in his good old samurai outfit, "Truth or dare?"

"Truth," Jeremy replied.

"Pal... friend.... buddy.... do you love Aelita?"

"Of course I do Ulrich, and I always have." And Aelita and Jeremy kissed right then and there, virtual form and all.

"Well this is all good and nice," Chandra said, "But I believe we've got a tower to deactivate." And they set out, full of confidence and love. But It wouldn't be easy. With X.A.N.A. nothing was ever easy.

"That's so romantic," Sissy's voice cut through the peace of the air.

"Sissy?" They all asked at once.

"That's right. Now tell me what's going on!"

"Long story."

Well there you all have it yay everything is fixed!!!!!!!! (I was kinda wondering how i was gonna fix it. Plz no I wouldn't permanently screw up the show ppl) Well I really hope you all enjoy this chapter.

RAVEN'S WOLF