You know what; I'm not going to rant for to long here because I'm sure that you're all ready to get on with this chapter. I really hope you enjoy this one because it was really fun to write. I'd have to say that this is one of my favorite chapters thus far in the story. I think that there is a nice balance between action, comedy and suspense.
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top20fan13: Thank you, you know I always enjoyed reading suspense stories, so it's really wonderful that I can keep people on the ends of their seats.
jingy11: Thanks, it's always nice to meet a big fan. I wouldn't exactly say great writer, but I think I'm pretty good. You think I did a good job with making Aelita evil? Thanks, because it's really hard to picture her evil.
Flying Star: You were right, it got the better of him and it's looking like he may pay the price for that, maybe.
dantheman7777: Yeah, you're right, now that I think about it it's more hinting of fluff. Yeah, it is pretty funny, but wait till you see what I have in store for them now.
Disclaimer: Come on, print... print. Oh man, a paper jam and I'm out of ink. I guess I still don't own Code: Lyoko.
Let's get on with the story.
Yumi landed in the same spot that Odd did. She looked around. 'Everything seems to be the same as the last time I was here.' She looked down and saw the smashed up flower. 'Yep, Odd probably did do something stupid.' She started to run to the factory.
When she got to the bridge she saw Odd fighting himself. 'Oh great, Odd's fighting himself.'
Odd was throwing punch after punch at "Odd", but "Odd" blocked almost every shot that Odd made. 'There's got to be some way I can beat this guy, but how. Maybe the element of surprise?' Odd looked over to his side and saw Yumi coming towards him from the forest. 'Oh great, another one, and this one looks like Yumi.'
"Odd, do you have this imposter under control?" Yumi asked "Odd".
"Yeah, he's not too tough. What are you doing here anyway?"
"What do you mean not too tough! Are you forgetting who's winning this fight?!?" Odd yelled at his imposter.
"The master sent me here to keep an eye on the other one. Is he still in the factory?"
"Yes, but I don't think he suspects anything yet."
"Very good." Yumi headed into the factory while Odd and "Odd" continued to fight. Yumi swung down the ropes and landed safely at the bottom. She looked around to see if Jeremie was anywhere around.
Behind her Jeremie was hiding in the shadows. He slowly snuck up on her. He was about to grab hold of her to make sure it was really Yumi when she turned around and looked face to face with him.
"You know Jeremie, you were never too good at sneaking up on anybody."
Jeremie quietly whispered to her, "We need to talk as low as we can; the walls have ears if you know what I mean."
"Right." She said in an equally low voice.
"So I heard from Odd that if the tower gets deactivated then we're killed, is that right." Yumi shock her head up and down. "I was afraid of that. What was XANA's attack anyway?"
"He took control of a wreaking ball and is destroying the factory. And if he destroys the main floor of the factory"
Jeremie interrupted her, "All of the rubble will be to much for the floor to handle and it will all fall down onto the lower floor, onto the super calculator."
"Yeah, and there's only on way for us to get out of here."
"Yeah I know."
"How did you figure it out?"
"Let's just say it came to me in a dream. The only problem with that is if XANA suspects us going to do that then he'll no doubt stop us."
"So how do we do it?"
"I have a plan, but we have to follow it exactly as I say."
"Aelita, how's it looking?"
"Not to good, were down to 9 minutes."
"Great. Those three better hurry up; I don't want to lose them."
All of a sudden the tower started to shake. "Ulrich, something's attacking the tower. You need to protect it."
"Okay Aelita, I'll do my best." Ulrich ran out of the tower to face his new foe.
Odd and "Odd" had separated from each other to take a breather. Both of them were standing dangerously close to the edges of the bridge. 'Man, there has to be some way I can beat this guy.' Odd thought. 'I do have one last card up my sleeve, the element of surprise.'
"Are you ready to finish this?" Odd asked the imposter.
"Don't get too cocky Odd, you never know what I've got up my sleeves."
Odd charged at "Odd" ready to strike him with his fist again. "This again." "Odd" said, a little too overconfident. He got ready to strike Odd in the back again.
"LASER ARROW!" Odd yelled.
"Odd" lowered his fists, "Don't you know that you can't do that here?"
Odd continued to run towards "Odd". "Yeah I know, but I just wanted to see if you knew." Odd again caught "Odd" with a punch to the face, knocking the imposter over the edge of the bridge and into the water.
"Never lower your guard, that's one of the first things that Ulrich taught me about fighting. Now to get to Jeremie before that Yumi imposter can hurt him."
"That's pretty risky Jeremie, but that's the only way we'll be able to get down there."
"Yeah, are you ready?"
"Don't worry Jeremie, I'll save you!" Odd yelled as he came down a rope.
"Odd, what are you doing here?" Yumi asked him.
"I think I should be asking you the same thing impostor."
"Odd."
"Hold on Jeremie."
"Odd, listen to me." Jeremie lowered his voice back down to a whisper, "That's no imposter, that's the real Yumi."
"Yeah Odd, now keep it down, we don't want XANA to hear us."
"Odd, what did you do with the fake that you were fighting?" Jeremie asked.
"I knocked him off the bridge and into the river."
"Yumi, he's going to compromise our mission if he stays here with us. One look from XANA and he'll know right away what our plan is."
"Hey, what plan? Aren't you going to tell me what the plan is?"
"Sure Odd." Jeremie said. "The plan is for you to stand guard at the front of the factory and make sure that no one else comes in here. You got that."
"Yeah, I got it."
"Remember Odd," Yumi said, "nobody."
"Nobody else in the factory, got it." Odd then proceeded to his post.
"How much time do you think we have to do this Jeremie?"
"Well, according to my calculations, about five minutes."
"We better get down there before XANA comes for us." Yumi and Jeremie walked into the elevator.
Ulrich stepped outside the tower and saw what was attacking it. "Oh great a mega tank just what I need. Just one shot from this guy and it's all over for me."
Ulrich ran right towards the mega tank and yelled, "TRIANGULATE." Ulrich formed a triangle around the mega tank making it appear that there was one Ulrich at each end of the triangle and that he was running between the three Ulrichs.
The mage tank, now confused about which Ulrich is the real one, took aim at the Ulrich at the head of the triangle. It shot its powerful beam and destroyed the first Ulrich. The other two Ulrichs jumped up towards the mega tank. Still confused, the tank shot at the one on the left, instantly destroying it. The real Ulrich landed On top of the mega tank and stuck his sword right into the XANA symbol. Ulrich jumped off the tank and ran back into the tower as the tank blew up.
"Aelita, how's the factory looking."
"Not too good, the wreaking ball has destroyed two thirds of the factory."
"Have you heard anything from the others?"
"No, I'm sorry Ulrich but it's not looking to good for them."
'Hurry up guys.'
Jeremie and Yumi landed on the bottom floor of the factory. In the center of the room XANA's hardware came out of the ground. Jeremie walked over to it. The main power switch appeared.
Jeremie went to grab it, slowly because he still wasn't sure what exactly it was that he was doing.
"Jeremie wait!" Aelita yelled from behind him. Jeremie and Yumi didn't seem to notice that she had just appeared there.
"Aelita, is that really you?" Jeremie asked her.
"Yes Jeremie, it's me. Where you really going to shut XANA down?"
"Jeremie that's not Aelita, that's XANA. He's just playing a trick on you."
"I don't know."
"You wouldn't shut Lyoko down with me still there would you?"
"Jeremie, listen to me. Shut it down. We're almost out of time."
"How much time Aelita?"
"Two minutes."
"Aelita... you know I'd never do anything to hurt you."
"That's my boy. Now step away from the switch."
"Jeremie don't listen to her! We need to get out of here or else we'll all be dead."
"One minute Ulrich. I'm sorry Ulrich, but I don't think they'll make it."
"We have to wait as long as we can, we have to."
"Jeremie, back away from the switch."
"Sure Aelita, anything for you."
"Jeremie, don't you know what you're saying? This is XANA that you're talking to. Pull the switch now!"
"Ulrich, we're out of time."
"Can't we wait just one more minute?"
"No, if we wait any longer the super calculator will be crushed."
"Okay Aelita, do it."
Aelita placed her hand on the screen.
AELITA
The wreaking ball destroyed the last part of the factory. The support beams holding up the ceiling over the super calculator began to buckle.
CODE
"I'd do anything for Aelita." Jeremie said as he placed his hand back on the switch and pulled it down.
"NOOOOOOOO!" Aelita screamed as the world around Yumi, Jeremie and Odd began to disintegrate.
'I'll miss you guys, especially you... Yumi.'
LYOKO
The pieces of rubble stopped inches above the super calculator.
The screens in the tower slowly descended down the tower and then they came back up. This activated the time reversal program. A white light came out of the tower and engulfed Lyoko and Earth.
Will they make it? I don't know. Who knows, maybe it takes more than the few seconds they had to get out of there safely. Man that was an evil cliffhanger; I don't think I can leave it there for to long. So how about a little sneak preview?
One of these days we will succeed, and he will pay dearly for what he did to us. We will show him no mercy. He will never again be able to torment anybody, and I will finally be able to put my past behind me.
I hope that doesn't give away to much info, but could that be from the real ending or the alternate one?
Well I've gotta go now. I'll see you soon.
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