Disclaimer: I own you. .. Actually I don't. But Kim does. Kim owns the world. .. Run. Run fast.
A/n Next chappie up and running. You'll love this chappie if you've been bugging me for fluff.
Nicole jumped over a small bush as the three headed into the park.
"I take it we're taking the tunnel," Dylan stated plainly. He was keeping up with Nicole with no problem. She didn't respond. Jason forced himself to catch up. He wasn't a bad runner, but Nicole was more in shape because of soccer and Dylan was just a strong runner.
"Meet you guys there," Dylan sighed and took the lead. Nicole let a low growl escape her throat as her cell phone rang.
"What?" she snapped at Jeremy. There was a loud thunder and the sky started to cloud up. Nicole shrieked and almost tripped.
"Xana's taken control of a experimental weather satellite. As you could probably tell, it's and electric storm. But for some reason, He's had to activate two separate towers. We have no idea what he's up to so keep an Eye out," Jeremy said as his fingers flew across the keyboard. He was getting ready to transfer everyone to Lyoko. Nicole hung up her cell phone and stuck it back in her pocket. They had slowed their pace and Dylan was now out of sight.
"come on. We have some work to do," Nicole said running towards the manhole. She went down the ladder first and quickly pulled on her roller blades. Taking off through the tunnel, the two made their way towards the bridge.
Factory
Jeremy ran another scan on the system. Xana really did have two towers activated. Checking his monitor, he seen Dylan come into camera 3's view and get into the elevator.
'Problem detected' Jeremy turned his attention back to the computer.
"oh great," he groaned mentally hitting himself.
"Xana's updated his polymorphic clones you guys. They're sensitive to light, hence the storm, to make it dark though. These things are strong. The lab shouldn't be in any danger. We still need to hurry." Jeremy said into his headset.
Lyoko
"Where are Nicole and Jason?" Ulrich asked as Jeremy transferred Dylan to Lyoko.
"On their way," Dylan answered as he landed next to Odd. Sam was bouncing an unopened light disk in her hand.
"where are the towers Jeremy?" she asked. Yumi was leaning against a tree to her left.
"Are they both in the same sector?" she added.
"One tower is in the forest, the other in the desert. Split up. One team go to the desert and the other take the forest," Jeremy responded.
"Aelita, you can't risk going that far," Odd said checking his arrows.
"Me and Yumi will take Dylan to the Desert, Sam and Ulrich will handle things here." Ulrich gave his friend a questioning look.
"change it up a bit. Besides, Yumi always gets to tell us what to do." The blonde grinned.
"Just hurry," Jeremy sighed. He called Nicole's cell phone again. Giving her the details about Xana's new fighter and telling her to hurry.
"We're almost there…Jeremy?" Nicole asked. She looked at her cell phone.
"Mine's dead too," Jason said in frustration they slid down the ropes to the main level. Nicole hit the button on the elevator. Nothing happened. She hit the button again. The elevator wasn't working.
"Great! How are we suppose to get into the lab if…"
"shh," Jason said waving her over to him.
"do you hear that?" He whispered. She shook her head. I black smoke came shooting up out of the elevator shaft and headed for the street, not seeing Jason and Nicole who were standing in the shadows.
"why didn't it come after us?" Nicole whispered. Jason looked around.
"Maybe it didn't see us."
"We have to hide. Jeremy said that think is out to kill us." Nicole whispered. Thunder crashed outside the factory.
"come on." he grabbed Nicole's hand and pulled her farther into the factory. (a/n they don't know there's a back way into the lab)
"that thing wants us dead," Nicole whispered sliding down the wall, onto the floor.
"It won't get us," Jason reassured her sliding down next to her. The storm outside was getting worse.
"How do we fight it?" Nicole asked. Jason sighed.
"We hide," he said closing his eyes. Something crashed in another room and Nicole scooted closer to Jason. He put his arm around her.
"It's gonna be ok," he whispered.
Lyoko
"Jeremy," Odd stated, grinning evilly.
"we have such a far distance to go. Why not send the vehicles?" He asked.
"I have the codes here somewhere…" Jeremy murmured looking through his journal.
"here they are."
"what vehicles?" Dylan asked.
"You'll see." Sam said with a daredevil smile.
The overbike appeared at Ulrich's side. As did the Overwing, and Overboard. Next to Sam was a red version on Odd's overboard. Aelita looked around at her friends.
"Uh.. Jer? "
"No Aelita."
"But…!"
"No! Remember what happened last time? You almost fell into the void," Jeremy argued.
"I can take care of myself!" Aelita defended.
"Fine. I'll virtualize it. But be careful!" Aelita nodded and a pink version of the overboard virtualized next to her. Dylan blinked.
"Why didn't we get to use these before?" he asked.
"we didn't have the codes," Aelita explained getting up on her board.
"come on Dylan, we're leaving for the desert," Yumi helped Dylan up onto the overwing.
Factory
Ten minutes had seemed like Nicole and Jason. The storm was getting worse and thunder was shaking the whole factory. Nicole shivered, still huddled against Jason. They were hiding in a small room towards the back of the factory. Xana's warrior could be heard tearing up the front of the factory looking for them. They could hear it getting closer.
Jason's pov
Nicole pressed herself against me harder as the crashes seemed to be getting closer. I don't think either of us have ever been this scared in our lives. We had no way of fighting back. Nicole let out a whimper as we heard a crash in the room next to us.
"We're moving," I whispered, pulling her to her feet. She was frozen with fear, eyes glued on the door.
"come on," I pulled her out the opposite door to go farther into the factory. We got as far back as we could, finally reaching a small dark room with a door on each side that locked. I locked both and went over to where Nicole was sitting with her knee's pulled to her chin. The crashing seemed farther away now. I was going to regret this if we ever got out of here, but I had the urge to comfort her. I sat down and pulled her into my lap and she cried against my chest and kissed the top of her head. She was breaking down, and so was I. By miracle, I heard my cell ring.
"Hello?"
"Thank god you're still alive. Where are you?"
"Hiding," I answered. Jeremy sighed in relief.
"where's Nicole?"
"she's with me. We're both…ok. Sorta."
"What about the polymorphic clone?"
"Looking for us." I heard my cell phone beeping.
"Jeremy, my cell is dead. I got to go. Tell everyone to hurry."
Lab
Jeremy hung up with Jason and turned full attention back to the computer.
"Running out of time guys. Yumi how close to the tower are you?"
"two platforms. The others?" she asked
"dealing with Krabs."
"No monsters here." Odd said, looking around the desert sector.
"Keep moving," Jeremy said switching over to Ulrich's character card.
"How's it coming?" he asked.
"Uh you tell us!" Sam yelled back as she moved out of the way of a krab's laser. Ulrich rode by it and sliced its front legs. It fell to the ground and exploded. Aelita zipped past Sam, grabbing one of the light disks off her side and threw it at the krab following her.
"Uh, shouldn't you be hiding?" Jeremy asked, brining up a visual on the screen.
"what fun would that be?" Aelita asked riding between to krabs, causing them to fire at each other and explode. Jeremy hit his forehead.
"Can you please just get to the tower babe?"
"Awww!" Sam and Ulrich laughed together. Even after all this time, they still made fun of each other for the smallest things. Jeremy cleared his throat.
"Tower please." The three headed towards the tower on the next plateau. Jeremy rolled his eyes and looked over at the holomap.
"Yumi, watch it. You have blocks coming up on your left," Jeremy said bringing up a second visual of The desert region.
"take Dylan Yumes, I'll take care of our little friends here," Odd said stopping his overboard to face the blocks. Yumi sped up and headed towards the tower.
Factory
Nicole had stopped crying. She now sat quietly with Jason's arms still wrapped tightly around her.
"how do you think they did it everyday?" Nicole asked wiping her tears on her sleeve. She leaned back against Jason. He rested his chin on her shoulder.
"I don't know. I have a feeling this isn't the worst of what he's done either," Jason answered. Nicole shook her head and closed her eyes.
"I just wanna go back home, and lay in front of the fire watching TV and do homework," she almost laughed.
"that wouldn't be so bad," Jason laughed.
"We're gonna get out of here," he whispered into her ear. She shivered, but nodded. There was a loud crash. It was in the room right next to them. Jason's eyes searched the room franticly. He spotted a box marked 'flashlights' (convenient!) in the corner.
"This polymorphic nightmare's afraid of a little light," he smirked. Nicole followed his eyes to the box. She smiled.
"imagine what a lot of it will do then."
a/n: uh oh! Will Nicole and Jason be able to survive? R&R
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