Chapter 9: UnLeAsHeD
"Scanner Odd, scanner Aelita..." Jeremy said into his headset, typing feverishly at the keys and then hitting enter saying "Virtualization!" as he did so.
The 2 landed down upon their virtual world, Odd shivered "The ice sector. Man this place gets old fast, running is twice as hard on the ice!" he complained.
"Relax." Jeremy said "I'm sending you your hoverboard."
Odd smiled as he saw his board digitally form in front of him and quickly jumped on. He smile disappeared however once he saw Aelita still hadn't received the overwing.
"Uh... Jer?" Odd mumbled.
"What?" The heard Jeremy respond
"Jeremy, where's the overwing?" Aelita asked.
"The overwing?" Jeremy repeated confused "Why don't you just hop on with Odd on the hoverboard?"
"Well... I" She mumbled, before Odd snatched her hand and helped her up rather forcibly onto the board.
"Come on Princess we don't got time to waste." Odd said effectively dropping the subject with a rather valid excuse.
Meanwhile Ulrich was having a tough time dealing with the World Heavyweight Champion.
Swing! Swing! Dave's might fist just kept narrowly missing Ulrich. The fight had been pretty much like this for a while, with Ulrich continuing to work upon his defense knowing that one blow from the muscle-man would surly knock him out if not kill him.
"STAND STILL!" Dave yelled out frustrated, taking another swing and miss.
Ulrich saw his opening to make and attack and he went for it, charging at the big man... and running right into a spinebuster on the concrete.
The adrenaline was now controlling Dave's mind not Xana. As if he were actually wrestling in the ring the pysched up animal walked over the railing of bridge and grabbed it and began to shake as if 1,000 vaults of electricity where flowing threw his veins.
He turned his attention back to his fallen enemy and picked up Ulrich unconscious body and had him bend over. Dave then reached down and pick him up high over his head and drove him into the ground with a devastating sit-out powerbomb.
Mentally, Aelita could feel her palms sweating profusely as she held her hands tightly around Odd's waist. Granted on Lyoko such a thing wasn't possible but it still didn't change the fact she felt that uncomfortable riding behind him. She was starting to desire it again, but a different desire this time. Not for the kiss or for another moment of passion really... What she wanted now was to some how to get caught.
Let them do it again, right her on Lyoko in a tower. Sure, she figured, it would hurt Jeremy initially but he'd get over it. He was a nice handsome kid with a bright future ahead of him.
"Guys!" Jeremy's voice startled her away from her sinful thoughts "Watch out some crabs are guarding the entrance to the tower."
"Right." She said automatically.
What was she thinking? She loved Jeremy didn't she?
...Didn't...She?
The elevator doors began to open, Jeremy cursed. Obviously Ulrich had failed in distracting Xana long enough and now Xana was sending his puppet after him.
Dave stepped out from the elevator and dropped and unconcesius Ulrich right next to Yumi. He looked at Jeremy and smiled a sickening smile and laughed and evil laugh. For once Xana was going to win and kill them all. And not only that he would mind-fuck Jeremy before doing so.
"Well then... It seems you meddling humans are finally going to be out of my way. Soon I will have everything I need to take over the world. I will have what I need from Aelita's brain and my superior mind will no longer be chained to the factory. My virus will spread like a viral STD!" Dave smiled as he reached into his coat pocket and pulled out his last grenade. "The only thing standing in my way right now..." Dave continued, walking towards a scared stiff Jeremy and then grabbing him by the shirt collar "Is you."
"Lazer Arrow!" Odd said, firing his gun from the flying hoverboard destroying one of the crabs. "one down, two to go." He snickered and began to circle back around for another sweep before the board got hit and both he and Aelita crashed down on the ice.
"So..." Jeremy said, swallowing down his saliva "Why haven't you yet?"
Dave relaxed his grip on Jeremy's shirt. "Let me ask you something, kid" Dave said showing a bit more personality than for someone under Xana's control normally would. "How well do you really know that slut of a girlfriend of yours?"
Jeremy tried to rise his fist to smack Xana across the face but Dave held him down. "Don't you ever call her a slut again!"
Dave chuckled "But that's what she is, after all I over heard her telling your little friend Odd about how much of a better kisser I am compared to you."
"Liar!" Jeremy yelled "Aelita would never do something like that! She'd never hurt me by saying that! She would never even consider a kiss from you to be great at all!"
"Fine. Believe whatever you want to believe then. Your gonna die either way." Dave said, suddenly grabbing Jeremy's leg and snapping it half. Jeremy screamed violent and fell to the floor.
"Aelita!" Odd said, firing arrows at the enemy crabs. "The tower is right there! Go for it!"
Aelita looked around, she was just coming to after the fall. Quickly she sprung to her feat and ran into the tower and began feverishly working on the comp.
Meanwhile Dave had just entered the elevator. He had pulled the pin on the grenade and left it on the computer keyboard. Just out of reach of Jeremy, who was now struggling threw the intense pain trying to make it to the keyboard.
"AELITA" flash on the screen, followed by the all to familiar "CODE LYOKO"
By miracle, Jeremy just managed to hit the enter key before the grenade went off. "Return to the past... now" He forced himself to say before collapsing back down to the floor.
One big flash of light later, and they where all back in the courtyard they where in not to long ago. Jeremy, his leg now not broken, was once again sitting on the bench drinking a Pepsi.
"Whoa..." Yumi said, who just suddenly come out her drugged state do to the time warp. "Did we just go back in time? What happened?"
"Well apparently at the concert William-" Odd began to explain before Ulrich cut him off.
"Yeah... Yumi about that... I think we should go for a walk. Come on." Ulrich said walking away and grabbing her by the hand.
Leaving just Jeremy, Aelita and Odd brung a awkward silence among the group. It last for a minute that felt like an eternity before Aelita finally spoke.
"He used guns." She said sitting down besides Jeremy "He actually tried to kill us with a weapon."
"I know," Odd joined in "How whack is that."
Jeremy merely looked down to floor for a moment and took a deep breath. Quickly then he threw his Pepsi can into a nearby wall and stood up.
"You guys can save the whole routine!" He yelled.
"Routine?" Aelita said confused "What are you talking about?"
"What am I talking about!" Jeremy said enraged "I know it! Okay, Aelita! I know you and Odd's dirty little secret! I know all about the kiss! I know everything!"
Aelita suddenly felt her heart sank into the pit of her stomach.
"Jeremy..." She muttered, her eyes beginning to tear "Jeremy I'm... I'm sorry..."
Jeremy's eyes widened. He had hoped Aelita would denie it up and down but she wasn't. She was doing the exact opposite.
"It was a mistake! I feel so bad." She cried
"Jeremy..." Odd said looking down at his shoes "How did you find out?"
"Xana told me. He saw you guys at the school." Jeremy said, now angry with himself as well now that he had opened his own Pandora's box.
Odd looked up both stunned and confused "Xana saw me and Aelita having sex?"
"What!" Jeremy said shocked, confused and angry all at the same time. "Xana only told me that he saw Aelita tell you about how much she like his kiss! He never mention you two... Oh you son of a bitch Odd! I'll fucking kill you!"
Jeremy went to jump forward but Aelita managed to get up and hold him back "Jeremy! Jeremy stop it!" She said trying to hold him back.
"Odd!" Jeremy yelled "I swear I'm gonna fucking kill you! I'm gonna-!" His frustration with Aelita at this point was pushing him past his breaking point. He snapped "Get your hands off me you stupid sluty bitch!" and slapped her.
Aelita, in shock and pain feel to the ground. Almost instantly Odd was on the ground with her making sure she was okay.
Jeremy stood for just a mere 5 seconds starring a the scene in front of him. Everything he had loved had just been destroyed in front of his eyes.
He took the only option he had left. He ran.