Part 8: Last Effort
Jeremie and Aelita ran down a road somewhere near the school with XANA chasseing them from behind. Because of XANA's enormous size he still stayed a good distance away from them but still closing in from behind. "Hurry Aelita" said Jeremie as he still ran holding Aelita by the hand. They took at path that was on the side of a road that took them down into a running rush of water with a large side walk for them to run on, (If you don't know what im talking about its that stream of water that runs out from a reservoir. It had on the sides of a riverbank with concrete and a large path of concrete so workers can move through). They continued running as fast as they could still try to get away form XANA. XANA stood on the bridge looking out at Aelita. He kneeled down and with a sudden burst of energy catapulted himself off the bridge onto the floor, which shook the floor causing Aelita and Jeremie to fall to the floor. Jeremie got up and watched as XANA drew closer with every step pounding the floor. "Aelita please get up," said Jeremie with much fear in his voice. XANA came within reach of Aelita and Jeremie. He reached down to pick up Aelita but before he could, a motorcycle flew off the bridge at full speed. It simply stayed in the air not coming down by an inch. Jeremie and Aelita looked up with amazement as the motorcycle was up with such height. The driver leaped off the seat pushing the vehicle down into XANA. He took out a pistol, turned and fired at the gas tank of the motorcycle causing it to explode blowing XANA off the side into the large stream of water. XANA slowly disappeared under the rush of cold, clean water. The biker landed a few feet away from Aelita and Jeremie who were still pretty shaken up from the recent experience with XANA. The biker removed his helmet form the top of his head revealing that it was Night. "Hi guys," said Night. Night extended his hand out at them and smiled. "Night you seize to amaze me" said Jeremie. Then from out of nowhere XANA's hand came from behind of Aelita and scooped her up into the air. "Oh no, Aelita" said Jeremie looking as the love of his life's fate was in the hands of a crazy computer. XANA opened his scanner that was in his chest and threw Aelita inside. The doors slammed shut with Aelita still inside. A bright light flashed the entire area and once again Jeremie lost Aelita to XANA. "No Aelita" said Jeremie as he began to whimper at the loss of Aelita.
Night dropped to the floor and began to speak in a whisper "I didn't do anything t deserve this fate; I tried as hard as I could to save her but it still wasn't enough to stop him". "Night are you ok" said Jeremie placing his hand on Night's shoulder. But as soon as he did his hand was instantly shocked. "Ow" said Jeremie as he drew his hand back towards him. "Jeremie get away from here now before he breaks out" screamed Night as he held his head pointing his face to the ground. "RUN NOW"! Jeremie spent no time to contemplate what was going on so he ran as fast as he could until he reached a far enough distance to se what was going on. Night got up but his posture changed. His skin changed form peach to a very pale white color and his eyes were completely changed. Now they were completely red with one of his eyes covered but some white hair that suddenly grew on the front side of his head. His mouth smiled with an insane smile as if he was psychotic or disturbed with fangs hanging from both sides of his mouth. His eyes opened wide with rage. The symbol on his right hand changed from a glimmer of light now to a surge of light that could be seen through his entire arm. Night charge forward so fast that not even XANA was able to see his moves and was punched down into the floor. Night jumped an amazing distance onto XANA's front and looked at his former master. Night flipped back a few yards away form XANA. The mechanical giant slowly got up with much difficulty. XANA raised his fist into the air and punched the floor raising the floor upward as if it was a tidal wave of some kind. The wave of concrete flew down the pathway raising everything underneath. Night leaped upward into the air dogging it with no trouble what so ever. But to his surprise he saw Yumi and Ulrich coming up from behind him near the bridge. The wave of concrete drew closer with ever second launching rocks and trash that had been kept lying there for quite some time. Rocks started to fly straight for Yumi as if they were only drawn to her but just at the last minute Ulrich came from the side of Yumi and blocked all of the debris form hitting her. One rock hit his right arm shattering the bone itself knocking him down. The wall still drew closer and closer until it was directly in front of them. Night came from the side of them and grabbed their shirts hoisting them up into the air and jumping right at the last minute before impact. He set them down on a platform that was right across from the stream of water that flowed down the pathway. XANA stood there simply waiting and preparing for Night to return to the battle he was waging against XANA. He let go of their clothes, walked over to the edge of the wall, and placed his foot on the edge facing XANA. "You guys shouldn't be here you could have gotten killed you know" said Night still looking outward. "We couldn't just leave you guys to fight XANA especially without us in Lyoko anymore we might not even stand a ghost of a chance against him" said Yumi holding Ulrich in her arms as he held his broken arm. "Aelita's gone so now there's nothing left but that vicious creature to fight. Now get to a safer location now". He then leaned forward and jumped off the ledge heading directly at XANA. He yelled t the top of his lungs and grabbed onto his watch yanking it directly form the core o the robot. The robot's body dropped to the ground shattering and shaking the ground that it stood on. Night landed a few yards away with XANA in his hands. He threw the watch to the floor placing his foot on top. He lowered his head down and XANA began to speak. He said, "You dare to defy me. I am the one who created you, the one who brought you life and power. You should worship me and only me, now obey". "I do not care who produced me, I do not care who created me. I am my own person not a puppet for you to control. "NOW, GOOD-BYE FATHER!" said Night stomping and crushing XANA's watch shattering him into a thousand shard and pieces of mechanics.
The sky became dark and cloudy, thick with rain clouds. It began to rain and the rain came down heavily on the sidewalk that Night and Jeremie stood on. Ulrich, Yumi and Jeremie stared at Night as what he had done to XANA. He picked up his foot and placed it down standing as he usually did. Jeremie said in a whisper reflecting on what had just happened to him, That Aelita was gone and she is not coming back as long as there is not any Lyoko to activate a tower so that all of the damage that XANA has done to their world. Night turned around and walked forward until he was right beside Jeremie facing the opposite direction of him. Jeremie could feel a cold breeze that felt as if it was coming strait from the artic. It was coming straight out of Night and kept coming and coming. Night began to speak with a different voice that was a lot more serious and deeper that made Jeremie quiver in fear. He said "Jeremie, I'm very sorry for your loss and you know dearly that this shouldn't have been the way that everything should have gone, but I know how I can make everything right with the world and with the future my home." "How," said Jeremie. Night quickly grabbed Jeremie's wrist and began to run towards the fallen XANA robot that now laid sitting down against the wall. Night stooped in front of XANA and looked up talking as directly as he could. He said "When XANA absorbed all of the pieces of Lyoko from the factory he absorbed Lyoko into his body so now Lyoko is real and Aelita is just inside along with towers that can be used to bring everything back to normal. So now I need to get back into Lyoko and find Aelita to activate a code Lyoko so that will return everything back to normal, I hope." Jeremie took out his laptop and took a connector that was close by and connected it to his computer hoping that XANA's body was still able to be used. Jeremie received a connection to Lyoko and began to work on restoring Night's card back to normal so that he can be virtualized once again. A scanner opened up with a light shinning out of it. Night jumped up and entered the scanner waiting for transfer into Lyoko. "Transfer Night, Scanner Night, Virtualization". A flash shot out of the scanner that seemed to stretch for miles and miles' alerting every one of what was going on around them. Not long after hundreds of policemen showed up at the bridge heading down trying to reach the fallen robot. A screen appeared above the robot which made anyone simply stop in their tracks to witness what was going on. An image of Night's card appeared on screen showing him inside of Lyoko. It was a live broad cast of what night was doing in detail. He was virtualized and landed in the mountain region. He lifted his hands off the floor and clenched his fist at the sight of the dozens of XANA monsters that surrounded him getting ready aiming at him. He didn't flinch or move he wasn't scared any more as the fear of permanently losing Aelita made him made his fears go away. Night spread his arms and thought more and more of how he transformed last time to destroy XANA and began to think harder and harder as his body grew colder and colder. "Ahhhhhhhh" screamed Night, creating a shockwave throwing all of the enemies deep into the digital void. He paced his hands on his side and jolted forward creating multiple images of himself. He shouted out in a voice that resembled when he defeated XANA and said "Copycat." He took out a cyber sword just like Ulrich's and charged it us getting ready for something to come but nothing was on screen. Everything grew quiet as everyone watched the screen as Night stood there grasping his sword. He slid his foot to the left and jumped in to the air backwards and swung his sword forward stabbing a monster that stood right behind him with invisibility ability. His clones backed toward each other and began to swing left and right hitting many enemies that were invisible to everyone. They were similar to chameleons that had camouflage except they were in human form and three times stronger. Night threw one into the air throwing the sword directly into the center destroying it. It exploded in mid air and the pieces disappeared into dust. Night's copies come back together and returned back into Night. He placed his hand in the air and again said "Copycat." A fan similar to Yumi's appeared into his hand with an eerie blue glow. He placed it close to his face covering his mouth and began to hum similar to Aelita. Night saw a vision similar to Odd's when he received a vision of the future. It showed Aelita held up in the air by a guardian in the forest region. Night opened his eyes and started to run forward towards Aelita. He leaped forward closing the fan in his hands and leaped into the digital void. He disappeared off screen and reappeared in the forest region onto a forest region platform near a tower that was deactivated. "Night, what happened to you. You went into the digital void but your still here." "Yes of coarse, I was created from the digital void so there's no problem with me entering the void." "Night, look out behind you." Night jumped and barley dodged the acid from the hornets. He threw his fan forward at them destroying one of the hornets and hitting one of the other's wings. He landed a bit of yards away and closed his fan putting it away in his cloak. He got up and yelled once again "copycat". His hand became purple in a mere second. He held his wrist with one hand and shouted out "Laser arrow." Three laser arrows came spraying out in three directions out from the top of his wrist. The hornets dodged the arrows but they bounced of a few trees and destroyed them from behind. He lifted his hand down letting go of his wrist as the purple color dispersed from his hand. "To easy" said, Night. A shot came from the side of Night passing right in front of him missing him by a hair. "Bad aiming" said Night.
Night looked to his left and saw 5 mega tanks coming down a narrow pathway with one turning back to a normal mode. Night took out his daggers and attached them to his hands. Night took a deep breath before he stood forward and faces the mega tanks that continued towards him. His body tempter decreases rose as he thought how to destroy them all without losing any life points. Then it hit him what to do. Night extended his hand out ward along with his dagger that grew to about 10 yards long. Night snickered quietly and swung his dagger straight through the ground causing the floor to become cut off dropping down rapidly down into the digital void. One of them opened up the center of their core and fired out one more shot before completely disappearing. The shot headed straight up hitting night back into the air. Night came crashing down on the platform. He was injured but it wasn't too serious. "Night are you alright," said Jeremie over the intercom. "Yes," Responded Night getting up holding his arm. Aelita should be close by, her signal is very close and no monsters either so you should be fine," said Jeremie. Night looked up and saw a guardian that shined in his eyes causing him to squint. "Found ya," said Night holding his arm over his eyes. Night ran forward towards a tree and leaped into the air smacking against a tree flipping back and began to bounce against trees that surrounded him until he jumped far enough to reach the top. His feet quickly slammed onto a large trunk of the tree with his hands in a cross formation. He started to proceed forward toward the edge. He edge was to far away from the floating guardian that contained Aelita inside. Night kneeled on the floor and gave out a noise similar to Aelita made when she warped he environment. Suddenly but slowly the tree extended forward towards Aelita and stooped right next to he. Night got up and stated to again walk forward looking out for any enemies around him. He stopped and was now over head of Aelita looking over at Aelita who was asleep deep within. Night looked with evil eyes at her as if he was not happy to see her at all as if he were going to kill her. He took out his large dagger that resembled Ulrich's cyber sword. It began to glow bright blue with binary flowing through it. He stepped back and threw it up into the air. He lifted his arm and hand up into the air grabbing the glowing dagger by the handle stabbing the guardian with static flying out left and right. The guardian burst into thousands of light shards across the treetops dropping Aelita down. Night leaped after her with his arms out trying to grab her before she fell to the ground. He just caught her at the last minute before collision with the ground. He looked at her face staring deeply into her as she slumbered deeply. Her eyes opened wide with much shock as she awoke to Night looking over her smiling. "Night" said Aelita. Night kneeled down and placed her on the floor of the cold, bright surroundings. "What happened to me, Night?" asked Aelita. "XANA caught you by surprise and you were transported into Lyoko once more. So now since so much has happened I'm going to need your help just like before ok, Aelita." "Sure Night." A barrage of laser fire came from the side of Aelita coming at alarmingly high speeds swiftly moving through the air. Night stood in front of the fire and took in every one of the shots himself saving Aelita. "NIGHT" shouted Aelita covering her mouth. Night fell to the floor with one eye closed. "Nice try." Said Night. Aelita grabbed onto Night's shoulder keeping close. "Night you only have 40 life points left be careful." Said Jeremie, still listening from the safety of his personal laptop outside.
