Disclaimer: Do I have to do this. I don't own the show, the characters, or anything Lyoko related. Happy.
I wrote this before typing it and felt too lazy to check for mistakes.
William saw Nexas sitting alone on the bench. She sat cross-legged under the shade of an umbrella.
"What's the matter?" he mocked sitting down next to her.
He couldn't tell if she had looked at him or not. " I don't sun well. I'm... a real creature of the night." Was that a joke? " Ahem. I've been meaning to ask." He raised an eyebrow at her. " Are you in love with Yumi?"
"I guess so." Surprisingly he wasn't shocked by her question. She however was.
"Why? She's in love with someone else you know."
"I know," he replied practically brushing her anger away. His face brightened. " But it doesn't stop me from being in love now does it."
Her head sunk deeper into the shade of her umbrella. " Pointless enthusiasm leads to a broken heart."
"Aren't we Miss Sunshine."
"I just..." She had no real answer.
Trying to change the subject. " You and Odd kiss and make up?" She smiled.
"They all think i hate him but outside we're good friends." She looked up thoughtfully, Thinking back to their trip in Lyoko. " He has bad aim though."
"Huh?"
Another subject change. "Sissy's been spreading rumors about me being a psycho and stuff."
"Ignore her. She acts like that cause she's lonely and upset 'cause... Because she can't get the one thing she wants." He relaxed his shoulders and smiled. Like he understood what was going on in the principal's daughter's head.
"You speak from experience."
"No it's just that Sissy can be nice when you get to know her.
"You must be really close than." William looked to the ground, blushing. She watched him blush at her sentence and had a major change in mood. "Anyway, I might as well be psycho because I've been alive for oh so many years and I still haven't found out what kind of person I am. I guess that makes me..." She stood up and began to walk away. '' Stop bothering with Yumi before you end up empty just like me. Interference only makes them love each other more.
"Hey. You've only been here a few days what would you know about..."
She began running before he could finish telling her off. "Fine let your heart be broken!" she yelled back. "I'm not picking up the pieces."
William stomped back to the showers. He made it extra hot and stood under it. No real need for soap. He let it run down his body. "What does she know about Yumi. Nothing. Yumi's too good for that punk Ulrich. Nexas shouldn't talk about my relationships. She barely has any of her own. Why does she care so much?"
As his thoughts continued Williams never noticed Xana's ghost coming from the pipes. It swirled around his feet mixing into the steam. As Williams took in a deep breath and turned off the water Xana entered him.
----- Back in Nexas' Room -----
Nexas sat cross legged, back to the wall. In her lap was a book
KNOCK! KNOCK!
She turned to the door but did not answer. William or rathe Xana fazed through the door.
She became terrified but held her cool. " How'd you get in? Whatever. i don't want to talk right now. Stay if you like." nexas got up and began walking out of her room. He grabbed her hand and squeezed it hard. "Please stop." She said trying to break his grip and free her hand. " It hurts." He let her go only to grab her shirt collar and force her into a wall.
Insolent pest." Xana's mark pulsed in place of his pupils. "Stay away from the towers. From Lyoko."
----- Cafeteria-----
" Hey Odd where's Nexas?"
"I don't know but she had the right idea. This foods enough to kill a person." As he said that the lunch-lady put a spoonful of ... er stuff in his tray. Some splattered and hit his face.
"Hmph." she says. Odd smiles and hurries to the table where Yumi, Aelita and Jeremy are seated.
"Hey guys you seen Nexas?" Yumi questioned as Ulrich sat down next to Odd.
"Who cares about Nexas. Have you seen the food?" Odd poked at his food.
"There he goes again. Thinking with his stomach." They all laughed at Ulrich's joke.
"But guys this is serious," said killjoy Jeremy. " I need to figure out how she upgraded Odd. Maybe it can help with the anti-virus."
"You can't just expect her to come at your will." said Aelita knowingly. "She has a life. She is probably caught up in something important right now."
A loud scream was heard and then quickly muffled. " Well speak of the devil," said Odd rising in his seat. " Looks like we found our little cheat code."
----- Nexas' Room -----
While pinned to the Nexas attempted to scream for help but that sorta backfired. Her feet met up with his chest as she kicked him into a wall. Seeing her chance Nexas ran out of her room and out of the dorms. She pulled out her phone and called Jeremy while running nowhere in particular.
"Jeremy! I was attacked!"
"By who?"
"William. He was trying to kill me. I kept beginning him to stop but he acted like he couldn't hear me. And his eyes...! They were messed up."
On the other side of the line Jeremy brought the phone down from his face. "Oh no guys. I think William's possessed."
Ulrich relaxed deeper in his seat. " Well. Had to happen sometime." He was given a dirty look by Yumi. " I mean oh no. We have to help Nexas."
Jeremy returned to his conversation on the phone. " Go to the factory. Ulrich will head William off."
"I will?"
"Well Ulrich, you've been trying to give him a piece of your mind for months. Here's your big chance." Odd laughed at his own joke. Yumi swiftly grabbed him by the arm and practically dragged him out of the door.
"COme on. We have to get to Lyoko."
----- Virtualizaton process -----
They landed in the mountain region of Lyoko. " Okay guys the tower should be ahead of you. I'm loading your vehicles now. Nexas you take Ulrich's ride."
As the hopped onto their vehicles they were met by a swarm of hornets.
"I'll keep 'em busy. You guys go ahead," Odd ordered. Yumi through her fan between two hornets aiming to miss. THe monsters cleared out and the kids used it as a chance to zoom by.
"Laser Arrows!" Please be seekers. please be seekers. The hornets dodged the arrows but were shocked when they turned around to hit them dead on. "Woo hoo." Odd was jumping for joy but his celebration was cut short by a hit to the arm.
----- In the Dorms -----
Bring me the girl." Sparks were flying around William's hands as furniture rose and crashed against opposite walls. Ulrich shielded his face from the shattering wood.
"William, I've wanted to do this for a long time." A well placed kick sent William flying into a pile of debris. William got up without scratch. Ulrich took a step back . I hop the others get to the tower soon. "Ahh!"
-----Lyoko-----
The girls arrived to see no tower but two tarantulas.
"Jeremy! Where exactly is the tower?" shouted Yumi.
"You don't see it. It should be right there."
Yumi was immediately shot at. " Why did it have to be tarantulas." It was more of a complaint than a question.
"Set one!" The spikes flew from Nexas' hands. One was destroyed by a laser the other hit the icy wall.
"Nice try." Yumi threw her fan. " But you don't have enough ammo for 'nice tries'"
"Set two!" Another miss. "I can't seem to concentrate. I had a fight with William. It was about..." She looked at Yumi.
"What was it about?"
Nexas shook her head. "Nothing important. I was just wondering: Xana may have control over him but do you think William actually wants to hurt me. I was attacked first. ahh" She was hit in the arm
"Course not." Yumi jumped before Nexas an shielded her from the blows with her weapons. "Xana attacks us based on who is easier to reach. Now get up."
Nexas nodded and rose on one knee. " I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"For being jealous of you."
----- Dorms -----
william had thrown Ulrich into the bookshelf and watched it fall on top of him. Knowing very well that Ulrich wasn't dead he walked out the room and ran outside.
"Don't I feel special."
----- Lyoko-----
Jeremy's eyes could have popped out of his head. " What's going on out there. Nexas, your point are dropping quickly and you're not even being attacked." He took a look at the new window that had popped onto the screen. "Yumi it looks like you're being challenged by a tarantula."
The beast got a step closer to Yumi and Nexas. " Back off of my friend you beast!" She threw her deadly fan and watched as it caught fire. Though it narrowly missed its target the tarantula was still set ablaze.
"Wow!" shouted Jeremy. "I think she upgraded you."
"Ya think?" sarcasm.
The second, almost forgotten, tarantula came charging at Nexas. Nexas turned her head swiftly. " Target locked. Set three." Her voice almost electric. This time she hit her target dead on but not before getting hit herself.
"Jeremy where is the tower?" Aelita asked urgently.
"In front of you."
"That can't be. unless..."
"Xana's just pulling another trick on..." just than William walked into the room. He grabbed Jeremy by the collar.
"Jeremy?" Aelita said. " Jeremy!"
The electricity he generated was shocking Jeremy. "Where is she?"
"Who?" Jeremy managed to choke out. He must want Nexas. Why isn't she back from the scanner room. Electrical charges pulsed through Jeremy. He was near passing out. The elevator door opened again and Nexas ran out tackling the possessed William.
" Hands off my friend!" she yelled while on top of him.
He gave her a menacing smirk. " Nice of you to come into the light."
-----Tower deactivation -----
While Nexas was being electrocuted Jeremy ran to the super computer. "Return to the past now."
----- In the past -----
"No it's just that Sissy can be nice when you get to know her.
"You must be really close than." William looked to the ground, blushing. She watched him blush at her sentence and then stood up. '' I don't really approve of you being in love with Yumi. But if that's how you feel." She bent down and kissed him on the cheek. "Than this is how I feel."
"Aw Jeremy doesn't young love warm your heart." Odd said to Jeremy who was doing some serious thinking.
"I think it's cute," said Aelita to Yumi and they both started giggling.
"This is serious guys." More killjoyness from Jeremy. "She didn't saw it."
"Say what?" the others said in unison.
" Upload complete. Have your ever noticed that after your computer downloads something a message screen tells you download complete. And when you interrupt the download a warning message comes up." The others nodded. " Nexas never acknowledge the completion of her upgrading. She could still be in her upgrade mode."
Realization hit Yumi. "When she's in upgrade mode she looses energy fast. Who knows what will happen now that she is in the real world."
I was inspired when i went offline and didn't let my computer finish downloading a game. This warning symbol popped up next to it. Course nothing bad happened to my computer but you can be sure that bad things will happen to Nexas.
I realize that Aelita is almost not present in this chapter.