Nearing the end, for sure this time. Yes, I know, you're probably crying because you want this tory to never end... just kidding! Lol! Well, here's what seems like the 18,000 chapter... enjoy my fans: D
Chapter 18-Do the Impossible (Prt 2)
It was about eight o'clock. The Lyoko gang was braced for the worst. They knew White Noise Day would start up soon. So, they paced back and forth through the computer room where Jeremie was talking to Aelita and preparing to fuse her with Irene. If they weren't doing that, they were walking around outside the factory, searching for anything amiss.
As time passed, they were very aware nothing was really going on. It was like a normal morning, there was nothing out of the usual.
"Did WND chicken out?" Odd said.
But they hadn't even thought the destruction that would happen was actually possible.
At eleven, Ulrich and Odd were all sitting on the abutment outlining the factory bridge, searching the land they saw. Yumi was out on the town looking and, of course, Jeremie was inside the factory. That was when the unspeakable started.
At first, it was a ring on a cell phone. Ulrich answered his phone, seeing it was a call from Yumi.
"Hello?" he said.
"HELP! AAAAAAIIIIIII!" A terrifying scream emerged from the other line, and what Ulrich thought sounded like lasers.
"Yumi!" Ulrich exclaimed. "What's happening?"
Odd stared at him, frozen with expectancy of the worst.
Meanwhile, Yumi was hiding inside a building on the Main Street of downtown. She was in an ice cream parlor, behind the counter with all the other people who were on the sidewalk walking along and minding their own business minutes ago. Now they were cowering and whimpering with fear.
"You won't believe this! A huge army of XANA's monsters are on the streets downtown! They're multiplying by the second and shooting everything in their sight!" she said to the cell phone pressed to her face.
She gulped as she heard a laser fire and the huge glass window at the front of the parlor shatter and crash. A few young children behind the counter started crying and everyone screamed.
"OK, don't worry! It's all cool!" Ulrich said. They both knew it wasn't though. "I'm going to get Jeremie! Do all you can!"
Ulrich hung up and ran into the counter, Odd following.
Soon the two arrived, breathless, into the computer room. Jeremie looked at their fearful, ashen faces. "Oh no!" he said. "Is it...?"
"Yeah, and it's using a huge army of XANA's monsters!" Ulrich said.
"Uh.. OK..."
Jeremie turned to the computer. "Aelita, go up on the upper platform with Irene! Log both of yourselves in."
"OK," Aelita answered.
"Ulrich! Odd! Go downtown, find Yumi, and help her."
"OK!"
"Wait, before you go, I did something to make this easier before it happened."
"What's 'at?"
Jeremie smiled and pulled a sword and a pair of long purple gloves from under his chair.
"What!" Odd exclaimed.
"Those are our Lyoko weapons!" Ulrich said.
"Bingo."
Jeremie walked over to them and gave the weapons to the two astonished boys. "I found a way to materialize them," he said. "Longer explanation later. Go!"
Odd and Ulrich, dumbfounded, just nodded and ran off, Ulrich drawing his sword and Odd pulling on his gloves. "Can I test them?" Odd said.
"They probably work! If they do, save your ammo!"
"Awwww, alright!"
They scampered across the bridge like hamsters on a mad dash for a bowl of lettuce after three days of no food. Then they swooped through the sours and rapidly skateboarded downtown.
There they found utmost chaos. Buildings were either reduced to rubble or had taken serious damage. Glass shards and debris filled the cracked pavement of the roads. Screams and lasers were sounded off from all over the place. Smoke even billowed from some places. It looked like the place had been bombed!
"Oh. Crap," Odd mumbled.
"We've got work to do..."
They zoomed on and soon encountered the monsters. (A Krab, four Bloks, three Kankralots, and a Megatank, to be exact!) Odd finally got a chance to test his arrows. He pointed a straight arm to the symbol on a Krab's head and yelled, "LASER ARROW!"
Sure enough, a glowing point flew to the Krab and the tall creature was reduced to rubble, then he targeted the Megatank.
Meanwhile, Ulrich was slicing through the Bloks and Kankralots with his sword. After a while of attacking and destroying the menaces, the street became clearer though rubble from the destroyed monsters and scorch marks on the pavement remained. Ulrich could see the front of an ice cream parlor where a familiar face could be seen poking out from the huge hole in the glass window.
"Yumi!"
"Guys!"
Yumi emerged, stepping cautiously over the pointing pieces of glass on the window's frame. Many civilians, pale faced and slow with the weight of fear, followed her.
Yumi ran toward them. "We have to get these people to a safe place. And I'm sure they're not the only ones..."
Back at the factory, Jeremie was about to start the fusion program for Aelita and Irene.
"Alright, Aelita," he said. "Let me double check: are you and Irene logged in?"
"Yes, Jeremie," Aelita answered.
"OK, take her down to the lower platform."
"Roger."
Aelita, in the Carthage tower, instructed Irene on how to go down to the lower level again. She couldn't remember how many times she'd done this anymore.
"We're here, Jeremie."
"OK. I'll start the fusion program now. It'll be kind of like materialization, OK?"
"OK."
"Now, stand with Irene, back to back."
Aelita stood in the center of the platform. She ushered Irene to stand behind her, then they scooted up to each other, back to back as Jeremie had instructed.
"Alright. Close your eyes. This is it. Fusion, and then it'll be time for you to do the impossible."
"I'm ready, Jeremie. I'm ready to do the impossible."
Jeremie sat in his chair for a second, silent. He gulped. "Alright..."
He only had to press one key to start it. He knew very well what key it was. He just couldn't bring himself to do it.
"C'mon, Jeremie! We're ready. We can't choose keeping me the way I am over stopping the destruction of the planet!" Aelita encouraged him. "I'll be fine. Remember, I'll still be the same person, no matter what name I have."
Jeremie almost choked his next word. "OK." And he pressed the key before he could make himself hesitant again. "B-beginning... beginning the program."
Aelita felt herself grow lighter. She knew that a glow of blue light had engulfed her and Irene's bodies and they were slowly rising up. Aelita's hair started to softly blow upward.
Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd were running down the streets with a huge crowd of scared towns-people behind them. "We'll be at the factory soon! We'll be safe there!" Yumi yelled.
"Reading and matching DNA codes," Jeremie said. The wind brushing against Aelita and Irene grew stronger. Jeremie stared at his screen. Irene's short body and Aelita's tall one showed up on the screen as green lines curving to the contours of their bodies. A solid green color filled their figures as their DNA codes were being analyzed.
Meanwhile, Ulrich was slicing at the mesh on the fence in front of the factory, opening a hole in it. When he succeeded, the people flooded through it, then stopped on the bridge to await their preteen 'heroes.'
"Fusion starting," Jeremie said. In the tower, Aelita's eyes just popped open by themselves and she saw a whirl of white and blue in front of her. She got this immense feeling over her body, a hot, tingly feeling. Any stronger, and it would have been painful. She gasped with surprise as she felt something pull at her.
"Fifty-three percent complete..." said Jeremie.
The three kids on the bridge led the people to the ropes in the factory. Yumi instructed some people on how to slide down to the elevator on the ropes. Others who were too scared to or coudn't go down the ropes were led by the boys to a staircase leading to a huge room in the factory full of machinery.
"Seventy-five percent..."
Aelita felt the feeling get stronger. She was starting to be afraid an doubtful now, although maybe that was the horrible jumpy feeling in her stomach.
"Ninety percent..."
Her pain subsided and a calm feeling began to suffuse her.
"One hundred percent! Fusion complete! Program is now powering down."
Aelita sighed as her body regained its normal feeling. She did, though, feel herself gracefully floating back down.
Yumi was ushering people into the elevator. When there were as many people in there as possible, she instructed the others left over to wait for her to come back for them. Then she pressed the button and the elevator lowered to the computer room.
Aelita felt her feet touch the platform. She opened her eyes, and gasped. She really had been fused with Irene! She knew because Little Irene was no longer there. She had become the real, whole Irene.