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Chapter 19-The One Irene of Lyoko

Aelita looked at her new self. Her hair was a darker pink and was so long it brushed against the very bottom of her back. Her hands were less girlish and more womanly, with slender fingers. Even her outfit had changed! The little sleeveless, midriff cut brown jacket had changed to a red-pink color matching her hair and was lined with lace. The matching skirt had changed in that way too, and had lengthened to her ankles. The long sleeved green shirt underneath had changed to a pretty sky blue color. Then she raised her hands to her head. Something was around her head. She slipped it off and held it out in front of her and gasped.

It was a tiara! A golden taira, lined with rose topazes. "Wow," the new Irene said, then gasped again. Her voice! It was no longer girlish. It still had an innocent tone, but it had become more womanly. She stood and took deep breaths for a minute.

"Calm, calm..." she chanted as she placed the tiara back on her head.

She walked gracefully across the platform.

"Ae- er, Irene?" asked Jeremie.

"Yes?" Irene answered.

"How... how do you feel?"

It was Jeremie's turn to gasp as a screen flashed on the computer and Irene showed up on it. It definitly wasn't Aelita. Her face hadn't changed too much, but it had changed nonetheless. It looked knowing but beautiful. Her cheeks were flushed with a rosy color and her long, iride-scent pink-red hair flowed around her face. Her emerald eyes shined. What surprised him most was the gold tiara on her head.

"I... I feel... fantastic!"

Just then Yumi stepped off the elevator behind Jeremie. She wasn't alone either: a whole throb of people were following her!

"Now, just what the-" Jeremie started.

"The monsters were invading the town!" Yumi said. "I had to get these people to a safe spot, and I know the factory will be safe for a while!"

Jeremie sighed. "OK! But when the computer room is full, start filling the supercalculator room."

Yumi nodded and willed everyone in with hand gestures. They followed and seated themselves, even with the questions pounding in their heads. Then when everyone had come in, Yumi took the elevator up to get more people.

"OK, Irene, you have to stop White Noise Day! Before it's too late!" Jeremie said.

"OK," Irene said, but then a screen flashed onto Jeremie's computer. It was Helo. He was obviously in Carthage, judging from the setting behind him. He hissed and gave Jeremie a message.

"Irene, I need you to translate something for me," Jeremie said.

"Something from Helo?"

"Yup." Jeremie read off the numbers to her and she translated. "Irene must come outside of tower to see Helo."

Irene said, "OK. I guess I'll go."

So, she pushed herself through the walls of the tower. There, in front of her when she emerged, was Helo. "The One Irene of Lyoko," he addressed her. "Allow me now to give you knowledge of how to stop White Noise Day. I couldn't do it before because I was only programmed to give the One Irene that information."

Irene inhaled a deep breath as Helo pressed a tentacle to her forehead. Aelita closed her eyes, and when she opened them a short while later, Helo stood in front of her waving his tentacles again. "Go now and do what you were to do," he told her.

Irene looked at him. "You know what?" she softly said. "I never thought I would say this, but you've been like the family I never had on Lyoko. A little. Thank you."

And Irene walked back into the tower, Helo staying still and watching her as she went.

Back at the factory, Yumi had filled the supercalcutalor and computer rooms with people. Odd and Ulrich's group of civilians were stuffed into the west wing of the factory. And yet, there were still a good many people left.

"Alright," Jeremie said to the two boys and Yumi when they came into the computer room requesting assistance. "Try getting everyone else in the north wing."

Yumi's lips formed a tense line, then frowned. "You said yourself, though, that the north wing was fragile and sometimes dangerous."

Jeremie turned around. "What choice do we have? It's the safest place we can put more people. They either have a dangerous place or a less dangerous place."

"O...OK." They sombered out to fetch the rest of the people. But Yumi didn't let the elevator go down until she had said, "But hopefully, Irene will stop all this before it can happen!"

Jeremie looked down, then stepped to the computer. "Irene," he said into his microphone, "are you in the tower? We need to hurry and do this."

"I'm ready," Irene said. She stood in the center of the bottom platform of the tower.

Suddenly, Jeremie jerked around in his seat at the sound of a huge BAM!

"What was that!" he yelled. The people in the room were startled at the sound, and when they had really registered the sound, they screamed.

BA-BAM!

"Uh-oh..." Jeremie mumbled. He swiped something from under his chair and ran to the elevator, yelling to the people panicking in the room. "Don't worry! Everything will be fine!"

He rode up to the front of the factory.

BAAAAAAAAAM!

It was much, much louder now. Jeremie yelled at the sound of it, but continued on. When he reached the bridge, chaos was seen awaiting outside the gate. "AAAAAAHHH!" he shrieked.

For by the mesh fence, such a huge army of XANA's monsters were there, it was never imagined such a huge army existed! There was so many of them, that out all the way to the horizon, he could see nothing but the tops of monsters! A far as the eye could see, there was only a sea of monsters! Echoeing from them were the same incessant words:

"WHITE NOISE DAY IS UPON YOU! PREPARE FOR ANNIHILATION!"

What was more, they were pushing and firing lasers at the gate! Odd fired his lasers arrows at them. He destroyed many, but once one was gone another just appeared in its place. Ulrich and Yumi pushed the few terrified townspeople on the bridge to get in the building.

"Jeremie!" Odd exclaimed. "Am I glad to see you! Y'know, I just realized something. If they're really XANA's monsters, just not under his control, they would still come from the scanners, right? So, why aren't they, like, attacking us from within the factory?"

Jeremie's horrified expression turned to a frustrated one. Odd was right. That was pretty strange. But he had more serious matters than figuring how White Noise Day was working. He had to help Irene stop it.

"I don't know," he said. Then he looked at Yumi, who was struggling through a group of people to get into the factory. "YUMI!"

She turned and looked at him. Her dark eyes flashed at him with the same frustration he had just experienced. "Take this!" he yelled. He took the item he had had under his chair, which was now clenched in his hand, and threw it at Yumi.

A blazed through the air, flying with a loud an dalmost robotic whir, and left a trail of rose-red color behind.

Yumi caught instinctively, then stared at it. "My Lyoko fan!"

"Use it! I have things to do," Jeremie said. He ran past her, pushing through the crowd. He continued on, knowing the real destruction of White Noise Day would be soon. The time to stop it was now. He kept going until he had reached his computer room, then threw himself into his chair and stared at his screen.

"Irene!"

"I'm here. I know what to do. Should I do it now?"

"Yes! Now! Hurry!"

Irene heard the worried tone in his voice. She knew from that alone she had to do it as quickly as possible. She stood in the center of the platform, right on the green lit dot. She floated up, eyes closed, singing a melodic song that lifted her up. On the upper platform she stepped onto it and pulled up the screen, then entered her handprint.

And this time, Aelita was not the name that flashed across it. Not even Irene.

The name was The One Irene of Lyoko.

It immediatly went to a database such as the Aelita within Irene had never seen before. She explored through it and didn't go far until she was given the chance to stop White Noise Day.

'Do you wish to delete event?' it said simply, as if it were nothing big. She stared at the 'Yes' and 'No' on the screen.

Outside the factory, Odd stopped firing and Yumi and Ulrich, who were either absorbing laser fire to protect them with the blade of a sword or throwing a pink, red, and white fan at the monsters, had stopped firing.

"Oh no!" Odd screamed.

The ginormous army of XANA/WND monsters had infiltrated the gate. They were now cascading through, like water seeping through a crevice. And they were stampeding right for the three and the factory!

Irene, for some reason was hesitant. She stood with baited breath and stared at the 'Yes' icon. She knew she wanted press it. So why couldn't she bring herself to do it?

The monsters were only inches away from Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi now...

"Hurry Irene! Now!" Jeremie yelled.

"Ha!" screamed Irene as she jabbed a thumb at the 'Yes' icon. Everything stilled in the real world, frozen with the stopping of time. Only Jeremie sat squirming in his seat. The monsters were just millimeters away from the faces of the three kids of the Lyoko gang on the bridge and they weren't coming any closer. The white programs that had sat against the green walls now fell. The green around her wavered and started to transform to the normal blue.

The walls turned to bare green, as the programs at the sides had fallen to the very bottom of the tower. "The Return to the Past!" Irene yelled. "Jeremie, the Return to the Past!"

Jeremie just nodded slowly, then thrust his finger down on the Return to the Past key. As white light started to flood the room, he said the familiar words he always said, but this time with a smile on his face.

"Return to the past! NOW!"