"Jeremie? Jeremie can you hear me?" Aelita called from Lyoko but there was no response, "Oh, no, I'd better try calling Re-Re."
In the cafeteria René's new sixth sense went off, Aelita was trying to contact her. "Re-Re, can you hear me?" Aelita asked in a worried voice. "Loud and clear Aelita, what's going on? Has X.A.N.A launched an attack?" She responded while wiping the ceiling. "Yes, I feel pulsations in the mountain region." Aelita answered a little panicky. "Well, I haven't felt or see anything unusual but, ok, call Jeremie and the others, I'll be there as soon as I can. I'm in a little trouble." René said calmly. "I already tried, no answer. What kind of trouble? Is there anything that I am capable of doing to assist you?" Aelita asked as she dashed into a tower. "Afraid not Aelita, unless you are capable of controlling a water pipe long enough to rinse down the cafeteria." René answered. "I can do my best" Aelita responded. "Ok, Give it your best shot" René said backing out of the cafeteria.
The pipes burst, spewing water everywhere, and cleaned the cafeteria. "Good job Aelita!" René exclaimed joyously, "Now I can help you on LYOKO." She rushed out of the cafeteria and to her dorm to prepare her transfer. She felt a soft rumble coming from the Earth as she raced across the courtyard to her dorm. "Aelita did feel pulsations, I'd better hurry!" she thought to herself and continued to run.
The gang along with the teachers felt the rumble. "X.A.N.A", the gang whispered to themselves almost at the same time.
"Why, what was that?" Mrs. Hertz questioned. "It felt like an earthquake!" Sissy shrieked. The class began to over react by yelling, hopping around and even crying "I don't want to die!" in Yumi's class things were no different. This gave the gang time to make their escape unnoticed.
René finally reached her room. As she opened the door Kisses was there to greet her. "Kisses! What are you doing here!" she said with a shocked tone in her voice she noticed on her purple bed spread there was a note from her brother Shawn, she sat on the bed and Kisses joined and rested her head on René's lap as she began to read:
"Hey little sis" the note started "I know that you're not allowed to have pets in the dorms but I was able to sneak off campus and get her for you. I put some of her food and treats under your bed, it should last a good three months. If they catch you with Kisses you can always blame me, but I'm sure you'll do a lot better than Fae would. Also I made Kisses a small bed beside her food, all you got to do is make sure she doesn't make a mess. I'll visit you in a week. Take care. Love, Shawn."
René smiled at the letter and petted Kisses as she got up to prepare her transfer to Lyoko.
The gang ran to the passage in the park, slid down the ladder, and did everything else they usually do. "Aelita are you there?" Jeremie screamed into the earpiece. "Jeremie! Oh, what a relief! I've been trying to reach you for a long time! X.A.N.A's launched an attack!" Aelita replied panting. "That's what we thought. I'm preparing the transfers right now." Jeremie sighed tapping the keypad. "Ok, Re Re's on her way. I contacted her when I couldn't contact you." Aelita said calmly. "That's fine Aelita they'll be there shortly. "Jeremie stated as Aelita disappeared from the screen and awaited the arrival of her friends.
Within a few seconds René appeared a few feet from Aelita in the mountain region. "Hey, Aelita!" She yelled happily while running over. "Re-Re! I'm glad you made it! The others shall be here shortly. I had finally gotten in contact with Jeremie. "That's great Aelita. I guess that I can leave" René responded preparing to leave. "No! I mean, what if we need your help?" Aelita said sadly. "Well I guess I can stay for your sake, after all you did help me back home, and it is partly my job to help you, so yeah, I'll stay for a while." She smiled jokingly. As soon as she finished that sentence Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi plopped down right behind Aelita.
"What's up guys?" René asked grinning, "It's nice to see you again." "You know who's right Re-Re." Yumi questioned. "Yes," René began, "It's easy for me to recognize you guys, for the most part the hair gives you away, well it gives Ulrich and Odd away. Yumi you hair is in a different style, but I can recognize your voice. I can't believe how different you guys look on Lyoko verses real life." She gave them a quick flash of her pearly white teeth. "So which way to the tower Aelita?" Ulrich asked. "That way" Aelita began, pointing northeast as she continued, "there's a few platforms that we have to go through, and the tower is a few feet away from there."
"Good, we could use the exercise" Yumi said with a slight grin as everyone chuckled. They began heading towards the tower chatting as they ran at the same pace.
"So, Re-Re," Odd began to ask Rene' as he took a breath, "what is it like where you're from?" "Well," René started as she jumped over a rock, "It's pretty nice the people there are nice, everyone knows me because of my parents." She stopped and took a breath, just as she did Ulrich started questioning her, "so what are your parents like?" "Well my dad works all the time and my mom… my mom-" René began, but stopped, she stood still for a second, and everyone stopped after seeing that she had fallen behind. When they looked back they saw her head hanging down and tears streaming down her cheeks, Ulrich knew he said the wrong thing.
"I'm sorry Re-Re I didn't know, I mean, I-I'm sorry." Ulrich apologized. René's head was still lowered, and you could still see tears on her cheeks. "It's ok." She started, "You didn't know, I never told you. I'm not even sure if she's dead, she just disappeared one day. We haven't seen her since." René wiped the tears from her cheeks. Her shirt turned a pale red to show that she had lightened up slightly. "Well, as much as I hate to end this moment," Jeremie intruded, "we've got a city to save! And I can feel X.A.N.A's earthquakes coming near the lab." "We're on it!" they yelled back and ran towards the platforms before reaching the tower. "Wait." René began as she threw her arm out in front of the others, to keep them from going any further, "It seems to easy." "Has anyone noticed that we haven't been attacked by any of X.A.N.A's creatures?" Yumi stated backing René up.
Everyone looked around. "I'll go on ahead and check for traps," René began as she spread her wings "you guys watch Aelita." "How are you going to check for traps?" Odd questioned stupidly. "Just trust me." With that René jumped into the air and flew as high as she could to get a better view of their surroundings. Looking back she saw five hornets and two tanks headed their way. "Uh, guys." She yelled, "We have company!" she floated back down. "What did you see!" Odd asked eagerly. "Guys five hornets and four mega tanks are after you!" Jeremie shouted through his earpiece. "I can take the lead hornet to start, can you guys handle the others of a minute?" René stated and flew off before the others could manage an answer. "Well let's get moving guys" Odd smiled.
René flew towards the hornets while the others watched before the tanks rolled near them. "Well she's a little bossy." Yumi stated opening her fan. "Yeah but she seems to have great powers, I'll give her that" Odd said defensively while loading his arrows. "You only say that because you like her." Yumi responded while opening her fan to attack. The tanks rolled up at the same time. "Take cover Aelita, we'll take care of the tanks." Odd said calmly as Aelita nodded and ran behind a rock.
René was attacking the hornets as best as she could while flying through the air, but they were still more skilled at flying. After a few shots of fire she destroyed the lead hornet. The others retaliated but one shot her down with a powerful blow to the stomach forcing her to hit the ground with a thud leaving her with 80 life points. Dust formed around her, as it cleared she realized on her right, only a few inches away was the void and she was at least ten feet from the others, she smiled to herself at how lucky she was to not have fallen any closer to the void.
A fifth tank rolled up and prepared to fire, rolling to the left she avoided the shot and blasted the tank. Getting up she hurried to the others. "Did I miss anything?" she asked with a smile as she saw there were only two tanks left. "No not much." Odd responded destroying a tank. "Is it safe yet?" Aelita asked popping her head out from behind the rock. Yumi and Ulrich looked at each other "Ulrich and I will take Aelita to the tower, while you two distract the tank." Yumi inquired as she dodged a blast from the tank and rushed off with Aelita and Ulrich.
René watched them leave, as soon as she turned back around, the tank shot a beam and knocked her into a nearby rock, leaving her knocked out with only 20 life points. Odd shot at the tank, but it closed before the arrow hit the bull's eye. It rolled around and prepared to hit René. As it charged up Odd ran and grabbed her, and they both avoided the blast. The tank prepared to fire again. Odd put his back towards it to protect René. "Wake up." He commanded as he patted her cheek, "Re-Re wake up." After a few seconds her eyes fluttered and she was awake, "Hmm, Wha-What happened?" she questioned while sitting up, as she did this, the tank fired and blew her and Odd back to the ground. They could clearly hear Jeremie's voice through his microphone stating that Odd only has 50 points left. While pushing Odd off of her the tank fired again, this time René unleashed her bubble shield as protection. "Shoot it Odd!" She commanded, "I can't hold for much longer!" Odd did as he was told and destroyed the tank then helped René up. René dusted herself off; when she was done they ran to catch-up with the others.
"So, Re-Re," Odd panted, "when are you moving to France?" "I'm moving between today and Sunday. Why?" She said with a quick glare of her teeth. "No reason, it's just- never mind." René frowned at the fact he didn't want to tell her, "Odd you can tell me anything, I mean, we're friends, right?" "Yeah but-" he stopped "Friends? You mean that you do trust us." "Of course" she began as she stopped and grabbed his wrist, "I consider you guys as my friends. Now please, just tell me." She dropped his wrist and he told her about René and how they looked alike. At this René chuckled, when he asked why she told him that it was she. She had wanted to keep it a surprise and asked that he not say a word to the others, she would tell them in good time. He smiled and vowed not to, and they continued on with the others who had already gotten Aelita into the tower. They talked for a minute and time rewound itself to when Sissy walked up to René.
Glad to be of assistance ADGENTTITANIUM
chap. 9 will be up tomorrow