A / N: Sorry it took me so long to post this chappie. With homework and punishments it barely left me any time to use the computer. So sorry to all the people who have been waiting so long. Anyway, I hope everyone liked the last chapter. I would like to give a special thanks to ededdneddy345 for giving me a lot of ideas in his reviews. Also, another special thanks to Lyoko Duelist (who is now the new Team Sonic), Kiko Kamia, Black Wolf Pup Priestess, and Kadesh for also sending great reviews. And trust me, I've read all of your Code: LYOKO stories, and I love 'em all!
And once again, I'm sorry you all had to wait so long.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sega, antefilms, etc.
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Last time, Jeremy and the others reached the factory, and Sonic and Aelita found the yellow emerald surrounded by monsters. Everyone was able to take care of them, even the 4 blocks that came as reinforcements. But then Xana transported 3 of Eggman's latest Beacons. Just when the last Beacon was about to shoot Aelita, Sonic grabbed the second emerald and destroyed the beacon. Then, Sonic was materialized, and Tails, Knuckles and Amy got a fix on the Chaos Emerald's signal and are headed towards the signal right now.
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Chapter 4The Green Emerald
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THE FACTORY
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The gang and Sonic took the elevator to the supercomputer room.
"Whoa……." Sonic looked in amazement at he supercomputer and hologram
of Lyoko. "Tails would love it here……."
"Ummmm, Sonic?" said Jeremy.
"Huh?"
"Can you let me see one of the emeralds for a sec? A need to do that power scan a mentioned earlier."
"Oh, yeah." Sonic handed him the emerald. Jeremy put the emerald where the hologram usually is and a magnetic field formed, suspending the emerald in mid-air.
Sonic stared, wide-eyed, as a bunch of data screens surrounded the emerald.
"Hmmmmmmmmmm………." Jeremy was typing non-stop on his keyboard. Finally, he said, "What?" everyone looked at the screen. All they could see was ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞, on and on and on.
"Um, Jeremy?" Odd asked. "What is that symbol appearing all over the screen?
Yumi sighed. "How expected of you, Odd. It means infinite."
"Oh, yeah." Odd smiled, embarrassed.
"Hey, I remember Tails saying that the emeralds had infinite power around the time that this thing called Chaos 0 showed up."
"Why didn't you tell me that?"
"Ummmmmmmmmmm, I…forgot? It took place a few years back."
"Oh."
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THE FACTORY: NEARBY AIRSPACE
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"There's where the signal is coming from!" shouted Tails. He pointed to an abandoned-looking factory.
"What would Sonic be doing there?" asked Knuckles.
"I don't know, but we gotta go get him!" shouted Amy.
Knuckles jumped off and punched a hole through the ceiling. Tails set the Tornado 2 to autopilot and he and Amy followed. As soon as they got through 2 floors, they saw Sonic standing by 4 kids, looking to be about 12-15.s.
"Get away from MY Sonic!!!" Amy yelled, taking out her Piko Piko Hammer. She charged right at a boy with blonde hair and glasses.
"Any! Stop!!!" Sonic yelled as he grabbed the hammer and pulled it away. The gang looked horrified, and Tails, Knuckles and Amy all shared a surprised look.
"I guess we should start explaining…"
Tails told of how they found and emerald at the wrecked base, how they tried to use the tracking equipment at the workshop until Amy showed up, and they got a signal when Amy was about to break their necks.
Jeremy told about Lyoko, Xana, Aelita, how they met up with Sonic, and how they got the yellow emerald.
After this was done, Amy, who wasn't paying any attention, ran up and jumped on Sonic, hugging him. Sonic fell back, in a desperate attempt to break free, and he failed. Miserably.
"Um, Amy?"
"Yes?"
"Can you please stop hugging me? You're kind of, um…choking me." Sonic was gasping for air. He was starting to turn blue on his face where he wasn't already.
"Oh, sorry!" Amy hurriedly got off of Sonic. Still, he was choking for a bit longer.
Tails started noticing his surroundings. He noticed the supercomputer.
"Whoa…" Tails stared in amazement.
"What did I tell ya?" Sonic smirked.
"This is amazing…" Tails took out his wrench.
"Tails?"
"Yeah?"
"No reconfiguring." Sonic pointed at the supercomputer.
"Awwwwwwwww……."
Knuckles, the only one of the newcomers who seemed to be making any sense, asked Jeremy more about this Xana. As he was explaining, the supercomputer started beeping wildly. Everyone rushed over to the screen.
"Another Chaos Emerald has been located!"
"Well?" Sonic ran over to the elevator. "What are we waiting for?"
"We don't have enough scanners to send everyone in."
"Well, then, transfer us three at a time!"
"Oh, yeah." 'Why didn't I think of that?'
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SCANNER ROOM
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Sonic, Knuckles, Amy, Yumi, Ulrich and Odd arrived at the scanner room (Tails stayed at the supercomputer room to help Jeremy). Yumi, Ulrich and Odd went first.
"Okay you guys, you're off to the forest region." Jeremy's voice boomed over the scanner room's speaker. "Aelita will meet you there."
"Transfer, Yumi. Transfer, Ulrich. Transfer Odd." The scanner's doors shut as Jeremy called out the names. " Scanner, Yumi. Scanner, Ulrich. Scanner, Odd." They were floating in mid-air as their annex programs finished uploading. "Virtualization!"
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LYOKO FOREST REGION
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The 3 teens landed from yet another 20 foot drop. A few minutes later, Sonic, Amy and Knuckles were scanned in. Sonic was able to land, Knuckles glided, and Amy ended up falling on her behind (Ouch!). After Amy recovered, they all met up with Aelita.
The newcomers introduced themselves to Aelita, and Jeremy gave them the coordinates of the emerald. When they got there, they all hid behind a few trees. They could still see the monsters guarding the emerald. There was at least 30 of them this time. There were 7 hornets, 10 roachsters, 4 crabs, 6 blocks, and 3 megatanks. There was a nice open landscape, which was very unusual in the forest.
"This is NOT good…" Odd didn't look too well.
"Well, at least we got two more people on our side." Ulrich said.
"Good point." said Yumi.
Ulrich was explaining how to beat the monsters to Knuckles and Amy this time. As soon as they understood, Amy took out her Piko Piko Hammer and Knuckles cracked his knuckles (that can get confusing!).
"You guys ready?" Sonic asked.
"You bet!" everyone shouted at the same time.
"Let's go!" Everyone (except Aelita) jumped out from behind the trees and charged straight at the army of monsters.
"Yah!" Yumi threw her fan, destroying one of the hornets.
"Laser Arrow!" Odd shot 4 arrows, destroying 2 hornets. The other 4 started shooting at everyone else. They could barely dodge them, and Odd got hit.
"Odd, you just lost 20 life points!"
"Hey, over here you stupid bugs!" The hornets looked over at Sonic, who was the one who yelled. One shot acid at him.
"Come and get me!" Sonic yelled, running away from the green liquid. The hornets went after him, shooting their lasers rapidly. Sonic jumped up about 10 feet and started grinding on a very long branch. "Yahoo!" Sonic crouched and started to go faster. Up ahead he could see a thick tree lying horizontally on the branch. The hornets were gaining on him. Sonic got an idea. He crouched even lower, and he and the hornets went even faster. Then, at the last possible second, he jumped to land on the branch on the opposite side of the tree. The hornets were going so fast that they couldn't stop or change direction. The slammed right into the tree, and exploded.
"That was too easy." Sonic jumped off the branch, rebounded off a tree, and landed right back on the branch, grinding back to the battle.
"Triplicate!" Ulrich duplicated himself and all three of them charged at the crabs. Each one landed on a crab. "Impact!" All three Ulrichs shouted at the same time as they stabbed their swords into each of the crabs. They all jumped off as they exploded.
"Take that!" Amy used her hammer to flatten 4 of the roachsters. All of a sudden she was hit from behind by a block.
"Amy, 70 life points left."
Knuckles caught a megatank that hit one of Ulrich's duplicates off guard and punched it right in the target. But another roachster hit him in the back.
"Knuckles, 10 life points lost."
At this point Sonic jumped in and landed on the roachster that hit Knuckles, killing it.
"Yeah!" Sonic was having fun as he wiped out another megatank with his regular Spindash, but then he was hit by a roachster, twice.
"Sonic, you have 80 life points left!"
Ulrich's last duplicate was hit as he was running toward a block. "Impact!" He stabbed the block with his sword, destroying it. The megatank hit him in the back.
"Ulrich! You just lost 50 life points!"
"Take that!" Odd fired 3 arrows, destroying 2 blocks, but was hit by a megatank.
"Odd! 30 life points left!"
"You know, Einstien, I think we've all learned by now how much damage a megatank does by now."
Yumi jumped up and threw her fan at a crab. On contact, the crab exploded. "Direct hit!" She blocked the lasers fired by a block, and Ulrich ran by and destroyed it. Yumi was hit by a roachster.
"Yumi, 70 life points left!"
"Laser Arrow!" Odd destroyed a block, but another block fired right back at him. Odd started to fade, and was devirtuilized. Odd appeared in his scanner, breathless.
"Triangulate!" Ulrich started running around in triangles around the last megatank at great speed that rivaled Sonic's. The megatank was confused and shot at one Ulrich. It was a duplicate, and it vanished. The other two Ulrichs ran away, but the megatank was quick and shot the other dupicate. The real Ulrich jumped up, bounced off about ten trees to gain speed, and sped right toward the megatank. He held his sword right below him, pointing it straight at the target. "Impact!" Ulrich flew right above the megatank and landed behind it. He wasn't holding his sword. It was in the center of the megatank's target. For a few moments, nothing happened. Then, the megatank exploded. The sword flipped through the air, and Ulrich caught it by the handle.
"Okay you stupid bugs, show me what you got!" Sonic sped right toward the crabs, Crystal Ring in hand. The crabs fired their lasers rapidly. Sonic jumped up, started spinning, and destroyed the last few crabs.
Knuckles stopped beating the heck out of a block to see Yumi stuck in a crossfire between 2 roachsters. Knuckles glided toward one of the blocks, landed on top of it, and punched it right In the target.
Amy was running toward a block, hammer at her side. She flipped wildly over the block with her hammer out. She looked like she was doing a spindash with her hammer, only a wider one. She went over the block, and the hammer hit its back. The block went flying into a tree, exploding. "Home run!" Amy shouted, but was then hit by another block. She fell down, and Yumi's fan destroyed the block on it's side.
"Nice hit!"
"Amy, you've got 40 life points left!"
"Don't sweat it, Jeremy." said Sonic. "We only got a few…more…" Sonic stopped in mid sentence to see a swarm of 50 hornets coming toward them.
"Umm, we're gonna need back up." Sonic told Jeremy.
"Okay. You got it."
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SUPERCOMPUTER ROOM
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"Tails, head for the scanners."
"Okay, but first, will you be able to load me up with a weapon?"
"Good idea. How about projectiles?"
"That's fine. Can you make them explosives?
"Fine. Head for the scanner room."
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SCANNER ROOM
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Tails ran out of the elevator and right past Odd, who had recovered. He ran into the scanner as Jeremy uploaded a new weapon for him.
"Transfer, Tails. Scanner. Virtualization!"
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LYOKO FOREST REGION: NEAR BATTLE AREA
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Tails was virtualized near the area where the battle was taking place. He didn't know about the 20 foot drop, so he flew at the last possible moment. He had devices on his wrists.
"Jeremy? Are these the weapons?"
"Yup. They got 10 explosives in each." A hornet was flying towards him. "Hey, there's a hornet! This is a good chance to test out your weapon!"
Tails dodged some lasers and acid and fired an explosive while flipping. "Power Missle!" A missile came out of his wrist gun. It looked like a lot a miniature rocket from the Cyclone. It homed in on the hornet, destroying it. Tails, underestimated the blast radius from the missile, and just barely got out of the way. "That's some explosion!"
"Hey!" yelled Odd. "Those are like my Laser Arrows, only better!"
"You'd better hurry, Tails," Said Jeremy, ignoring Odd. "The hornets are almost at the battle area. I'll try to reload Odd's annex program."
"Ok, gotcha." And Tails flew toward the battle.
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LYOKO FOREST REGION: BATTLE AREA
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Sonic, Knuckles and Ulrich managed to wipe out the last few roachsters without losing any life points, but the swarm of hornets was almost on top of them. Soon enough, the hornets practically encased them in the swarm, including Aelita, who was forced out by acid shot by some of the hornets. As the hornets were about to fire, there was an explosion that came out of nowhere (which took out about 10 hornets), and there was an opening. Tails could be seen at the other end.
"Don't just stand there! Come on!" Tails shouted.
Sonic grabbed Aelita by the wrist and ran for the exit and toward a pathway. Having done this before, Aelita didn't scream (as much!). Everyone else just sprinted. As soon as everyone passed by, Tails gave chase. Sonic and Aelita ran for a tower (Mostly Sonic, Aelita couldn't even keep her feet on the ground), and everyone else got ready for battle. Amy, who was too eager to start, ran and used her hammer to get above the swarm without even being noticed. As she descended, she went right through the swarm and swung her hammer wildly. She was able to take out about 4 hornets, and got hit by 2 lasers.
"Lucky for you guys," said Jeremy, "though there's a load of these guys, they're fairly weak. 10 life points per hit. Also, I've reloaded Odd's annex program. He'll be coming in a few moments."
"Well, hurry! Said Ulrich, barely dodging lasers and blocking a few with his sword. Some of the reflected lasers killed some hornets. Three, to be exact. "It's getting rough out here!"
"Okay you guys. Help is on the way."
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SCANNER ROOM
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"Okay, Odd," Jeremy's voice boomed over the scanner room speaker. "We have to hurry! And, Odd?"
"Yeah?"
"Try not to loose your life points in 5 seconds flat."
"Hey!"
Jeremy sighed as he virtualized Odd…
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LYOKO FOREST REGION: BATTLE AREA
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Odd was virtualized right in the midst of the battle. As soon as he landed in his usual graceful form, he had to jump out of the way of about 11 lasers and 4 spurts of acid.
"Whoa!" Odd yelled as he was still in the air. He fired four arrows while upside down. All of them hit their mark.
"Nice shot Odd!"
Ulrich jumped up and slashed through three hornets with his sword. He was hit by two lasers.
"Ulrich! 30 life points left!"
Yumi threw her fan at the swarm, and the fan cut right through eight hornets. But, before it returned, she was drenched in acid. Thankfully, after she was devirtualized, her fan was able to cut through the three hornets that fired the acid before disappearing.
Knuckles climbed on a tree and did a drill drive right through the swarm. He took out five hornets. In return, another four hornets hit him with their laser, once each.
"Knuckles! You've got 50 life points left!"
Tails fired a Power Missile at a hornet. The hornet evaded the attack, but the missile hit a tree. The tree fell down and hit three hornets. And Amy.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!!" Amy screamed as she was flattened and devirtualized.
Sonic, who had returned from the tower, was jumping off trees and branches wildly toward the battle. He went straight through the swarm, taking out four hornets. Sonic was barely able to dodge some acid that was shot from behind him. "Whew! That was too close!" Then he remembered the emerald. He sped off towards where they all previously fought to look for it.
Tails shot a Power Missile, taking out one of the hornets. Sonic was able to find the emerald on a tree trunk and started to head back. As he got back, Ulrich had to jump off a lot of trees to get as high as the hornet. He stabbed the hornet right on the Lyoko symbol. One thing he didn't count on, however, was the 200-foot drop below him. Thankfully, Tails caught him by the wrist. By this time, Sonic came back with the emerald.
"Well, Jeremy, I got the emerald and we destroyed all the hornets. So can we go back to Earth yet?"
"Um, well, sorry Sonic, but you didn't destroy all of them. There's one flying away from the battle."
Sonic looked in one direction to see a hornet about 50 feet away. There was something light blue and shiny dangling from it's stinger. "Hey! He does NOT have my…" He double-checked his supply. The Crystal Ring wasn't with him.
"Hey! Give that back!" Sonic yelled as he gave chase. But before he could reach the hornet, a strange black and blood red vortex appeared out of nowhere. The hornet flew in and vanished, along with the Ring. Just before he reached the vortex, it disappeared. "What the?"
"That vortex must be Xana's doing. But there's nothing we can do now. And look on the bright side; we got the emerald! Get ready to be logged out."
Ulrich, Odd, and Sonic were logged out first (there's only three scanners!), and Tails and Amy went after them.
"We'd better put the emeralds somewhere safe…" Jeremy started.
"My workshop would be the best place!" Tails cut in. "From what you told me, Xana can only infect things around your area?"
"You got it." said Jeremy.
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"This has a reasonable power level." The strange black figure snarled. "This could give just the upgrade my monsters need to destroy Aelita and her friends." Xana laughed evilly as he drained the power from the Ring. "At last, I will be able to begin my plan for my vengeance…………….."
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What is Xana planning? Will The CL gang and Sonic pull through? And what other hardships will they face in the future? Find out in the next chapter: Xana Takes it to the Next Level!!!
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A / N: Longest one yet, right? Over 3,000 words, 9 pages. Anyway, I hope you all liked it! I understand you will not be able to review till Tuesday due to going to read only mode, but heck, I can wait! I'll need about 20 review to post the next chapter. 'Till then, ta ta!!!