Hotel Lyoko
by NeoDude
Disclaimer: I don't own CL, The Eagles, or Hotel California. But thanks for caring.
Rated K+ for a word that may be considered slightly offensive... in the song.
o o o
"Guys, Aelita's feeling pulsations in the Forest... I'm going to send you there. Be careful." Jeremie called out his routine pre-flight pep talk into the headset mic as he sent the gang out. "Scanner, Ulrich. Scanner, Yumi. Scanner, Odd. Transfer, Ulrich. Transfer, Yumi. Transfer, Odd." All their data, normal, came onto the screen as he went. "Virtualization!" Three bright flashes went off downstairs. "And now that that's done..." Jeremie opened a music program on the supercomputer, selecting a song from the database of millions.
"Nothing here, Einstein. We're going to head to the tower now," Odd called up.
"OK, go ahead. Looks clear from here." He switched off the mic and settled in for a short ride to the tower, and a shorter trip to the past. XANA had attacked by possessing several cartons of toilet paper and opening them to get to the rolls inside. While this wasn't nearly as lethal as some of his other plans, it still called for action. Meanwhile, the music started playing through the factory, and Jeremie considered how odd it was that they fit...
On a dark desert highway
Cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas
Rising up through the air
He pulled up a web browser and had it look for the definition of "colitas" while his friends ran on in a minimized window. But they had other problems than a lack of guidance.
"Whoa... Megatanks!" Ulrich called, spotting the five silver globes. "Everyone, scatter!"
Up ahead, in the distance
I saw a shimmering light
Yumi failed to get out of the way, and was hit by the five red blasts. She broke into a wireframe and disappeared.
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night...
Jeremie's search result came back with sites to buy drugs, so he closed the window and found Yumi gone... but not downstairs. "What in the world?" A chime alerted him that she was... in a tower somewhere?
There she stood in the doorway
I heard the mission bell
"That can't be right... and yet..."
And I was thinking to myself,
"This could be heaven or this could be hell..."
He heard a voice in his headset speaker. "I'm sorry, Jeremie..." Yumi turned and walked away.
Then she lit up the candle
And she showed me the way
A message popped up on the screen. "Fool. I am in control now."
Jeremie paled. "XANA..."
There were voices down the corridor
Thought I heard them say...
Meanwhile, his song had reached the chorus... and realizing that what was going on was eerily similar to the words of the song, he listened more closely, trying to remember the lyrics.
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
There's plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year
You can find it here
For lack of dangerous lyrics, he opened up the window on Lyoko to find that the two leftover warriors were taking care of the Megatanks, but it didn't look like it was going well. There were two of them left. "Guys! I think this might be bad..."
Her mind is Tiffany twisted
She got the Mercedes-Benz
Jeremie thought of Sissi... she fit the profile, though the car was a bit out of her reach. He wouldn't put it past Principal Delmas to have one, though, what with tuition being as high as it was these days, and teacher salaries as low.
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
That she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard
Sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember
Some dance to forget
Jeremie was set that this was Sissi. But back at the school, the girl in question was sleeping peacefully. She was dreaming about having finally convinced Ulrich to be with her, and the two were dancing in the gym, and she was about as happy as she could possibly be. However, her father was trying to wake her up, but wasn't responding to him at all, not even when he tried shaking her or dumping water on her. He called for Dorothy right away as he began to panic...
So I called up the captain
Please bring me my wine
And he said,
"We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"
"Jeremie! Jeremie!" Ulrich called frantically.
And still those voices are calling from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...
As the chorus played again, Jeremie snapped out of his trance. "Yes, Ulrich?"
"I think we have a problem..."
Jeremie glanced at the screen to find the two in an empty field, surrounded by an army of Blocks, with Aelita between them. "Yeah, that's a problem..."
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They're living it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise
Bring your alibis
"This is it... it's all up to you, guys!" Jeremie called out to them. Aelita put up a shield of solid rock for 50 HP, and the other two charged, firing and slashing in every direction.
Mirrors on the ceiling
Pink champagne on ice
And he said,
"We are all just prisoners here
Of our own device"
In the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can't kill the beast
Indeed, Odd and Ulrich were in trouble, and Aelita was about to lose her rock of protection.
Last thing I remember, I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Relax," said the nightman,
"We are programmed to receive"
Jeremie could only watch in horror as Odd and Ulrich were knocked off the side of the arena, and Aelita took about 20 lasers in the chest. And at that moment, Jeremie remembered the last two lines, and fell to one knee in defeat.
"You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave!"
o o o
Yes, crappy, I know. But enjoy anyway... leave a review so my next one is better. And no, if you're from LF, this is not related to the thread in the Games forum. Anyway, I'm Neo, and this is WNEO...