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Rescue Mission?
Kiks appeared in Lyoko much higher than the others had, and her arrival was marked by a bright flash of light that flooded the computer world for a fraction of a second. Jeremie laughed to himself. "Yeah, you definitely have the element of surprise. Even I saw that!"
"Good." Aelita said as the flash of light faded away.
"Was that a 'good' as in the bright flashy thing is going to help us... or kill us?" Odd asked.
"I have no doubt that that was a 'good, it's coming to kill us.' Honestly Odd, how could Aelita say 'good' sarcastically?" Yumi answered.
"Yumi... a washing machine could be sarcastic when placed in this position!"
Still hovering in the air before her drop, Kiks looked down and surveyed the area, as well as herself. Everything was at she remembered it, except for she was now white instead of black. A pair of knee high white boots decorated her legs, a white peasant top shirt exposed her stomach and the burgundy tiger stripes on her hips. Her hair was the same as it had been, minus the white cat ears protruding from the top of her head. Two red stripes crossed her face under her eyes, and a white and red striped cat tail extended beyond her rear end. A burgundy wrap around skirt finished off her attire.
She turned her attention to the ground. There were more enemies here than she expected but she was still confident. Hit as many from the air as possible. If I can send my attacks straight down, they should hit them perfectly square in the eye. She decided. As her drop began, she crossed the threshold into a free fall. The same sort of free fall used to change position from inside a tower. She came down quickly, but not too fast for her to begin her attack. Falling head first, she placed her arms in front of her, aiming the bracelets on her wrists carefully.
"ACID RAIN!" She yelled, tons of sparks flying downward and hitting all of her targets, a fourth of the crabs. Landing gracefully on the ground like a cat, the crabs locked onto her, shooting lasers from all sides and forcing her to dodge the shots. She kicked one of the crabs out of her way and instigated the second part of her plan. Running away from the spot where the others were standing she used herself as a decoy to pull all the crabs to one side.
"Was that?!" Odd asked in astonishment.
"Don't worry about that now... just FIGHT!" Ulrich yelled, running past three crabs and pushing his sword into each of them.
Yumi had run ahead to give Kiks support. She knew exactly who it had been since Kiks had told her about her form all last night.
"Kiks?!" She cried, wondering where the other girl had gone.
"MULTIPLY!" Screamed Kiks voice, and within seconds 3 copies of the girl were dropping from a nearby tree. The attack didn't have much use, since all three of her copies were shot down as soon as they touched the ground. "WONDERFUL!" came the sound of Kiks' irritated and disappointed voice. "AHHH!!" She flipped herself up in the air and landed in front of a crab, causing the others to shoot at her. Before the laser hit her she jumped into the air again, the end result being one crab killed by the others.
"Take that you good for nothing creeps!" But she had spoken to soon, a moment later she was knocked out of the air by several lasers, sending her flying into another tree.
"KIKS! YOU JUST DROPPED ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 20 LIFE POINTS! BE CAREFUL!!"
Yumi ran in Kiks direction, throwing both of her fans, which sliced through the remaining crabs in their area. She reached the new ally as she reopened her eyes after the last blow.
"60 to 20 in a split second. I'm very impressed with myself."
"Come on, I'll help you up." Yumi said, taking her hand. "We need to get back and help Ulrich and Odd, they're still over run."
"You mean that all of those crabs didn't follow me?!" "Not all of them." "OH man!" The disappointment could be heard in her voice again. As they ran into the clearing where Odd and Ulrich were fighting to protect Aelita, it came to Kiks' attention that she hadn't even lured half of the crabs away.
"I'm SICK OF THIS!" She yelled furiously. She jumped into the air and thrust her arms out in opposite directions, leaning slightly back she began to glow. "Self destruct!" She exclaimed quietly as not to scare the other members of the group. Using an attack called 'self destruct' which causes me to materialize might not go so well with them. Despite her attempt to keep the attack quiet, Odd caught it immediately and stared up at her. Several crabs sent lasers straight at him, which he did not dodge wondering what Kiks was up to. A large glowing sphere appeared around Kiks body, and grew to thee point where it enveloped the whole forest. The crabs malfunctioned and stopped fighting immediately, and Kiks began to materialize.
"What was that!?" Odd asked in confusion. "Did she run out of life points?"
"Its her favorite attack. She's never been able to use it before though, I'm not sure why she used it now..." Aelita told him. "Every time I've seen it used, its made its user pretty weak."
"You mean she's hurt!?"
"Well... not necessarily. I've never seen her use that attack, Odd. But traditionally, if she were a Xana follower it would have killed us instead."
"She was made as a Xana follower... why didn't it?" Ulrich asked.
"I think Jeremie reprogrammed her for more than just a way to get in here. The last time I saw Kiaka; her outfit was black instead of white. She was probably purified."
"Remind me to praise Jeremie when we get out of here." Yumi said quietly.
"Aelita, you better run to that tower in case some more crabs decide to show up." Odd said, picking up a rock.
"What do you plan to do with that Odd?"
"Materialize myself."
"With a rock?"
"Yeah.. I'll hit myself in the head and knock off my life points."
"Jeremie?" Yumi said.
"Yes Yumi?"
"How many life points does Odd have left?"
"A remarkable 30."
"If you plan to knock yourself out with a rock.. you have a lot of hitting to do."
"I'll transfer you back Odd."
"Thanks." Odd said after hitting himself in the head once.
Odd reappeared in the scanner a moment later, with Jeremie standing in front of him.
"What's up?"
"Kiks is rematerializing slower than you all do. I'm still waiting for her to show back up."
"You don't think that anything's wrong do you?"
"No... I think she's taking a while to rematerialize."
After a few minutes of waiting, Jeremie's theory was proven. Ulrich and Yumi had already materialized and were standing with Odd and Jeremie when Kiks feet began to appear.
"She's coming back differently than us." "I had a feeling that she would. She's coming back just as she left Lyoko."
When Kiks' whole body had reappeared it fell forward out of the scanner. Odd caught her as she opened her eyes.
"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR!?!"
"Don't be so gracious for the help that I gave you, jeez."
She pulled her arms up with all of her strength and pushed him away from her. "Its not like I did that to save your puny computer life." With this she walked away and climbed wearily up the hatch into the lab.
"Good one Odd. I don't suppose you could have just said thank you." Jeremie said in an annoyed tone.
"I was just worried about her, that's all."
"You were worried because you like her, just tell her that and she won't be mad at you." Ulrich said.
Odd turned to Ulrich furiously. "What would you know about telling a girl you like them." Ulrich's face turned bright red. "That's what I thought." Odd said as he stormed off into the elevator.
"Where's he going?" Jeremie asked.
"To pout about how he got Kiks mad at him." Yumi answered.
"You have to admit, that was pretty awesome." Jeremie said.
"What?"
"She claimed that she had the element of surprise before I let her go in, and when that blast of light when off I was hitting myself in the head. But I have to give it to her, she did know exactly what she was doing."
"Yeah... Aelita wasn't lying when she said that Kiks had an advanced Odd form either! That was a really cool form." Ulrich added.
"Like queen of the jungle... I love it!" Yumi said gleefully. "I'm glad she's on our team!"
"So am I." Ulrich replied.
This is stupid. She gets mad at me for being worried? What's with that?! I thought girls liked guys to be worried. And what does Ulrich know. He's still going on about Yumi. The elevator came to a halt and Odd walked out. I have to apologize to her though. He might not be able to do it himself, but he has learned something from me at least.
He stopped at the entrance to the factory and leaned up against the doorframe. Outside, he could see Kiks sitting on the bridge with her legs over the edge, throwing rocks out into the water. She had taken her boots off and pulled her hair back over her shoulder, allowing the sunlight to hit her face.
She's so pretty. Odd thought as he watched her. Why would she ever like me? Especially when she could have strong samurai Ulrich or brainy Jeremie? What good am I? I'm just their comic relief.
Kiks turned and looked directly at Odd. She blushed and looked back out at the water.
And now she knows that I was staring at her. Great. Just GREAT.
"You could at least come over here and attempt to apologize to me." Kiks said, just loud enough to be heard, without looking away from the water.
Wonderful. Now I get guilt tripped by the pretty girl.
He walked over and sat down a few feet away from her.
"That..." He said uncertainly. "Yeah, I really didn't mean anything bad by that... you just... kindof worried me, that's all."
"Reasonable. I was actually hoping that you wouldn't see exactly what I was up to. With an attack like that, I knew you all might be a little concerned. But in all honesty, I figured it would help. Maybe I was wrong?"
"No!" He said quickly. "It did help. It just..."
"What?"
"I didn't like the side effects you had to go through to do it. You got all, weak and stuff."
"Hmmm." She thought for a moment. "I thought that you take risks like that for people you like."
"Well—"He began to speak, but then pondered what she had said. "What do you mean by 'people you like'?"
She turned her head away swiftly, putting her hand up to mask her face. "You know... people you're friends with..."
He nodded. That's it. Never mind any useless and pitiable feelings I may have had. She likes me. I know it. That gave it away. Good going Kiks. "Right. Well... you know, friends also go and do fun things together."
"Huh?" She said, turning back to face him.
"You know, do fun stuff. Not that there are many fun things to do here."
"Oh, right. Does Ulrich take Yumi to do the type of fun things you're talking about?"
Odd's mouth fell open, but he closed it fast. Darn. She caught me. "No."
"Oh."
"Ulrich doesn't take Yumi to do the type of fun things I'm talking about because Ulrich..."
"Yes?"
"Is a chicken who won't tell Yumi that he likes her." He finished.
"Are you trying to tell me something?" Kiks asked jokingly.
"No, of course not. Why would I?"
"Oh... to bad. I thought for a minute there that you... I don't know...liked me or something. Of course that would be insane right? I mean we just met each other yesterday." She said pulling her boots back on and walking a little ways down the bridge.
She is LOVING this torture... isn't she?
"That's really hateful."
"What?"
"' Oh, whoops. I'm going to pretend that I think you don't like me so that I can MAKE you say that you do.' It's hateful." Kiks giggled uncontrollably.
"Well you know what?" He asked, putting his arm around her. "I'm not going to."
"Really."
"Yep."
"You don't really like me do you?"
"Of course I like you."
"Yeah, you're not going to say it."
"Let me just make mention... Girls... are EVIL." She laughed again.