DETAILS CHANGED IN LIGHT OF SEASON 3!!!
And, welcome back to the Wonderful World of Danny! (Tinkle Bell (not Tinker Bell) flies by and poofs the screen)
SamandMax0569 - Shh... Ricky doesn't know I put that in his profile.
Yumi52IshiyamaQ - Trustworthy... trustworthy... hmmm...
katfish xX - (breathes like Darth Vader)
Jeremie: (rolls his eyes) Get a life!
HYPOCRITE!
Jeremie: Hey, I have a life!
Yeah, in front of the computer.
Jeremie: Same to you!
lyokobattler - Cliffhangers. You can't live with them, you can't--aw, you get the idea.
purplelover - Hey, Jimmy leaves his inventions lying around.
Jimmy Neutron: (offscreen) That's a flatout lie! You mess around with my inventions, and then you leave them lying around!
killerpurplekitten - That's all I need.
Mewberries - Just read and see for yourself.
nestrama mind of steel - Nice to recieve a new reader.
Kitty - Again? And again? Well, OK then.
My Cousin, Ricky
Chapter 8: I don't want to forget - Part 1
As the elevator made its way down Ulrich glanced at his cousin and he looked back. Although, he couldn't help but notice an awkward tone in Ricky's expression. "You OK?" he asked.
"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm fine."
Ulrich looked a little unconvinced. Then again, Ricky never really was that good of an actor.
One of the Blocks had been taken out a minute or so ago. Aelita backed up from a duel between Yumi and the second Block, which consisted of Yumi shielding herself from the monster's hits with her fan. However, she didn't notice a Krabe charging up from behind her.
"LOOK OUT!" Fortunately, Odd did. He pushed her aside just in the nick of time. "Careful next time, OK, Princess?" he said with a smile. She returned the smile just before a hit landed on Odd's back.
Jeremie checked the damage inflicted by the Krabe. His LP level was decreasing rapidly. "Your loosing too many life points, Odd!"
As if on cue, he heard the hiss of the lab doors opening. "We're here, Jeremie," said Ulrich, stepping out. Ricky also stepped out. He stared all around him, in complete awe at his surroundings. "How are things on Lyoko?" Hearing the mention of the strange, fantastic virtual world Ulrich had told him about before, Ricky tuned his sensitive hearing on the two older boys, but didn't stop looking all around him.
"Not too good," he said. "There's still a Krabe and a Block left, and Odd's life points are dangerously low." Jeremie glanced in Ricky's direction, figured he wasn't listening, and said softly to Ulrich. "I still don't think it's a good idea having him around."
"Relax, Einstein, it's like I told you before," Ulrich responded, equally softly. "All we have to do is keep him here, and when you launch the jump back in time, our memories are preserved, while his isn't."
It was like a record needle had scratched from a sudden stop of a record player in his brain. A jump back in time? He wouldn't remember? Ricky was a little shocked at the idea. No, I want to remember... I don't want to forget...
Jeremie contemplated this, and then slowly nodded. "Fine. Get to the Scanner Room, Ulrich. I'll start up the process."
With a nod, Ulrich speedily went to the elevator. Before stepping in, however, he turned to his little cousin and said, "Ricky, I need you to promise me you'll stay in this lab, until this whole thing is over, OK?" Ricky paused for a moment, and then he nodded. "Good, 'cause someone's gonna have to keep on eye on the reincarnation of Einstein," he added with a chuckle.
Ricky giggled along with him.
"Over here, blockhead!" The Block turned around and faced its challenger. "LASER ARROWS!" It was too late to retaliate; two arrows stuck its eye. Two seconds later, it exploded and disintegrated.
Odd raised his paws into the air in celebration. "Oh, yeah! I'm bad! I kick virtual butt!"
"ODD! BEHIND YOU!"
Before Odd could respond to Jeremie's panicked cry, the Krabe had smashed its leg into a nearby, leaning tree. It toppled over, flattening Odd.
It felt like he'd been crushed into a living piece of paper! The next thing Odd saw was a blinding flash of light, and then he was suddenly clamoring out of the scanner, gasping for breath. Next moment, he was face first down on the Scanner Room floor.
A moment after Odd vanished, Ulrich landed a foot or two away from the spot he'd been killed. Instinctively, he pulled his saber out and blocked several shots from the Krabe.
"Odd, are you there?" Jeremie asked into the Scanner Room speaker program. His only response was a soft moan. Tapping into the security system, he selected the desired camera and focused in on Odd's scanner. There he was, spread out and belly-down on the floor.
"Odd!" Jeremie hopped from the computer and turned to Ricky. "Odd's not doing too well, so I'm going down to get him. Keep an eye on things on Lyoko, while I'm gone, and, whatever you do, don't mess with anything. Got that?"
Ricky stared at the now vacant computer. His cousin said their memories would be preserved. Is there something set on the Super Calculator that keeps their memories intact? I wonder...
"Ricky, did you hear me?"
"Oh, right," he said, snapping out of his thought. He folded his hands behind his back and smiled. "Don't mess with anything. OK."
Jeremie stared at him, as if wondering if he could trust him. Finally, he just gave in and stepped into the elevator, going down. He never saw that the little genius had his fingers crossed behind his back.
"SUPER SPRINT!" The Krabe suddenly found itself surrounded by a yellow ribbon of light.
"Are you OK?" asked Jeremie, rushing over to Odd's side.
He moaned and said rather weakly, "Now I know what a piece of paper in a heavy textbook feels like."
While the Krabe was distracted, Yumi jumped up on the tree that had killed Odd and used one of the branches as a springboard. "HIYA!" With a strong flick of her wrist, she sent her fan flying into the Krabe's back. This was the second bit of damage the Krabe took, and the remainder of its life points has been taken from him. After a small explosion, the monster's legs fell to the ground, and then vanished.
Jeremie re-entered the lab with Odd leaning against his shoulder. Odd took one good look at who was hanging at the side of the computer chair. "Ricky?"
"Long story," said Jeremie, who let Odd lie down on the floor with his back against the wall. "How are Ulrich and Yumi doing?"
"The last of your arch nemesis's evil minions are taken care of," he said, hopping down to the ground.
Jeremie just chuckled and sat down. Placing the earpiece on, he said, "You guys are alright in there?"
"Better than alright," responded Ulrich. He glanced over at Aelita making her way for the tower.
The little, virtual girl walked across the platform in a same-old, same-old routine. As she approached the center, the rings she stepped on lit up and beeped. When she reached the center, she concentrated on the top of the tower and rose up.
Back at Kadic Academy, the firemen were still struggling to keep the fire under control. "Geez, what's feeding this thing?" asked Jerald, one of the men.
Mrs. Clark looked on with concern. "Oh, dear. I hope Ulrich and his little cousin made it out OK."
Just as Aelita stepped onto the upper platform, the translucent interface appeared at the center. She approached it and placed her hand on the screen. "AELITA" typed itself across the screen, welcoming her to the Lyoko database. Her name flashed twice, and then was replaced by the word, "CODE".
"L…
Y…
O…
K…
O"
After awhile, the fire seemed to be dying down, under the firemen's efforts. It was almost as if whatever was feeding the fire had been killed off.
"Tower deactivated," said Aelita, as the bright screens around her fell into the data stream below. A second later, a bright burst of light shot its way up the tower.
Jeremie struck the enter key, having entered the return trip coordinates. He watched a sketch of the Earth, on the screen, rotate on a green background as he shouted his famous catchphrase, "Return to the past, now."
Ooh... Did you see that? Ricky doesn't seem to trustworthy in this chapter. (holds up a pizza box eagerly awaiting the flying pizza to... well, fly in his direction)