I took my first final today, and I'm happy to say I passed colleg physics with an A. To celebrat I wrote you all a chapter. Now please enjoy and let me know what you think.
Odd came running into the control room just behind Ulrich. Everyone was gathered. The room was very somber for a moment, and then the computer beeped.
"Ok, Xana is listening so we can begin." Jeremy said.
"I'm still not used to him, how can we trust him, after…everything… you know." Odd said.
"We have bigger problems right now Odd, we can't defeat the Cluva cause they keep remembering the return to the past."
"I have an idea!"
All eyes turned to Kasey.
"My dad said that the injection would have one side effect, it could receive signals as well as send them out."
"Perfect, we send them a virus." Xana said, "We kill them all."
"No!" Odd screamed at Xana's wavering image, "If we do that then Kasey will die!"
"Odd, it's the only way, I'm ok with it." Kasey said somberly.
"Well I'm not, you aren't going to let this happen are you Ulrich? Yumi? Jeremy?"
"Odd, it was her idea, she said it's the only way." Ulrich said as the others nodded sadly.
"Bullshit, I can't lose you Kasey, let them get the data, I can't let them take you."
Jeremy walked over to Odd and put a hand on his shoulder which was swatted away. "Odd, if we don't do this many will die including Aelita and Xana."
"So Aelita is more important to everyone than Kasey? And screw Xana, let him die!"
Odd stormed out of the building and Ulrich left the others to comfort his friend.
"Jeremy is there no way to alter Kasey's signal?" Aelita asked.
"None that I know of, Xana?"
The image wavered for a moment and then the virus that had caused them so much trouble smiled sadly. "There is one way to save Kasey."
"How!" They all gasped at once.
"She must be virtualized and I will have to remove the injection virtually, the only problem is that I may accidentally change her DNA and then she will be stuck in lyoko."
"It's an option at least," Jeremy admitted.
Outside Ulrich finally caught up to Odd in the park. He walked next to his friend in silence for a few minutes. Ulrich's heart was breaking for his friend. 'I can't imagine the pain of losing Yumi.'
Odd sat down on a bench and sighed, "It just isn't fair Ulrich, why does every girl I fall hard for have to die?"
"It has nothing to do with you…it's just…hell I don't know." Ulrich let his attempt to
comfort Odd float off with the gentle breeze that was picking up.
"I mean how can we trust Xana, what if he only kills Kasey or worse takes control of her permanently."
Kasey stepped into the scanner and gasped as the doors closed. She felt herself lift into the air and would have gasped if she weren't already in a million pieces. She appeared in a forest and fell from the sky. Three krankelats met her and bowed before her.
"Guys what are these things?" Kasey said tripping and falling as she backed away.
"These are my creation." Xana said offering his hand to the girl who now looked completely different.
Kasey looked at herself and laughed. Her red hair was flowing down her back and she had elven ears. She was dressed in a flowing emerald robe with a golden rope tied around her waist. Slung over her back were a bow and a sling with twenty arrows in it.
"Come to the tower and I'll try to save you."
Kasey followed Xana into the tower and floated up to the platform. Xana disappeared and Kasey was all alone.
"You must remain still."
"Ok, I'll try" Kasey said nervously as she floated into the air.
Odd stood up and looked at Ulrich. "Let's go back so I can say goodbye."
"Yeah…come on man, maybe they figured something out."
The two entered the control room to find everyone except Kasey.
"You didn't, I didn't even get to say…."
Yumi grabbed Odd and shook him for a moment to get his attention. "She's in Lyoko, Xana's trying to remove her injection."
Odd collapsed from the shock of thinking he'd lost Kasey and Yumi caught him before he hit the ground. Ulrich helped Yumi carry him to a corner and Aelita found some water.
"I think he just got emotionally exhausted." Jeremy said, "We should let him rest."
An explosion was heard at the ground floor of the factory.
"They're here!" Yumi gasped.
"Xana, we don't have any time are you ready?" Jeremy shrieked.
"I'm sending the signal out now."
The operatives stopped in their tracks and fell dead. It happened so fast that no sound of surprise was even uttered, they just fell dead.
"Now hit it Jeremy." Xana commanded.
Jeremy hit the enter key and the return to the past program was run returning them all to the past including the operative who remained dead.
Odd woke up in his bed, "What happened?" he asked a wide-eyed Ulrich.
"We ran the program and…well…we killed all the operatives."
"Kasey!" Odd exclaimed and rushed out the door and ran down the hall in his boxers to her room.
Ulrich grabbed Odd's pants and shirt and ran after him. He found Odd in an empty room crying. "She didn't come back, she died, just like Sam she's…gone."
Ulrich forced his friend to dress himself. "Come on, we don't know for sure." Ulrich added hopefully.
Odd's phone rang, "Hello?"
"Odd it's Jeremy, grab Ulrich and meet me at the factory, Xana wasn't joking about ending the truce, he's attacking."
The two boys rushed to the factory and entered the scanner room.
"Guys Yumi is on her way and Aelita is almost here, I'm sending you in to clear the path."
"Good, I can take it to Xana for once." Odd muttered.
The two boys dropped out of the air in the virtual forest and looked around. The tower was in plain sight up ahead. The two warriors rushed forward. An arrow leapt out of the trees to the right of the tower and impaled Ulrich in the head. He fell to the ground and was materialized before his virtual body hit the ground.
"Einstein, what was that."
"Odd, I don't know, find cover."
Odd didn't move, he couldn't move. Out of the trees jumped an elven girl with long flowing red hair. She pulled an arrow out of her quiver and placed it to the string of her bow.
"Kasey!" Odd gasped.
"Yes Odd, it's me." With that she unleashed the arrow and Odd took it in his already broken heart. "NO!" Odd screamed as he was devirtualized. He found himself in the scanner.
"It can't be!" Odd screamed.
The others rushed to him.
"Who was that?" Ulrich asked.
"It was my girlfriend Ulrich." Odd said and brushed past his friends and walked out of the factory.
Back in Lyoko, Xana smiled down at Kasey. "Well done Kasey."
Kasey looked up from her kneeling position, "I serve you Xana."
"And you will be my most loyal servant."
"Unquestioning, Xana, Loyal to the end."
Xana laughed and faded, leaving the girl to relish in her first victory.
Well just when you thought you knew where I was going with this. I'm going to chase this way for a while. I hope you like it, please review so I know i didn't totally lose anybody. Please review and thanks for reading.