Sorry for the long delay. I was busy with school with finals and projects which took up half my time, and the other have was…I got nothing. Anyway, this chapter will be getting a bit dark (hopefully), and I hope you still enjoy it. I do not own anything.
"I wonder what's taking Odd so long to get back." William said as he leaned against the table while standing on his feet.
"He probably had to go hide once the alarm went off." Yumi replied with a shrug. "I doubt it would do him any good."
Ulrich got out of his seat and walked over to the door with his hands in his pockets. "What are you doing?" William asked getting off the table as Yumi got up from her seat.
"I'm going to go look for Odd. There's no point having us wait here for him when we know he would be gone for hours." Ulrich told them pressing the button to open the door only for the door to stay shut. He pressed the button again and groaned, "Great, it seems that alarm locked the door shut."
"I thought this place would leave the doors unlocked." Yumi said as she walked up to the door next to Ulrich.
Ulrich pressed the button again and sighed when nothing happened. "Maybe it isn't activated by a button." William suggested as he walked up to them.
"If the door was automatic, it would have opened up for us already." Ulrich replied back turning around. He leaned against the wall and muttered, "I hope Odd stays out of trouble."
"That's something we can only hope." Yumi crossed her arms and sighed, "Jeremy better stay strong enough for us to free him. I would hate it if something bad happens to him."
"If we're lucky…" Ulrich muttered.
"Why can't I drive?" Odd asked as the jet flew through the air towards their destination.
Hawkeye gave Odd a side glance and replied, "Do you have a license to fly or to drive vehicles?"
Odd groaned and leaned back in his chair in defeat. "Thanks for pointing that out."
"You're lucky that Fury is even allowing us to go on this mission kid."
Odd looked at Hawkeye and asked, "Why did you decide to help me? I mean; I'm no one special, and you don't know anything about me and my friends."
"It doesn't mean that the boy is in danger." Hawkeye replied back catching Odd off guard. "I heard about the virtual world kid. I might not know anything about it, but I do know it's bad if this scientist gets the information he needs from your friend."
"That's true." Odd muttered then looked at the gloves on his hands. "I wish Fury told me what these are."
Hawkeye looked at the gloves on Odd's hands and asked, "Was there anything particularly different about that virtual world you guys go to?"
Odd looked at Hawkeye and nodded, "Yeah, Jeremy told us that the supercomputer focuses on the inner part of our minds." He shook his head with a sigh leaning on his head on his hand with his elbow propped up on the arm rest. "I just happen to be given the costume of a purple cat." He muttered in distaste.
Hawkeye blinked then looked back out the window. "Um…Okay. Did you guys get any type of weapons?"
Odd smiled and leaned back in his chair with his hands behind his head. "Yep, I can shoot laser arrows from my wrists. I became the team's marksman."
"Well, I guess we have something in common." Hawkeye muttered with a shrug. "What else could you do?"
Odd tapped his chin with his right hand and said, "Well, I could climb up walls and run on all fours which I still find pretty weird, but eh..." Odd shrugged and looked at the glove on his hand.
"I probably would find it weird as well if I ever saw it happen." Hawkeye gave Odd a curious glance. "Did you have anything else while in the virtual world?"
"I use to have these visions that allowed me to see into the future, but Jeremy deleted that power since the team found it useless." Odd looked up and sighed, "Jeremy did try to program a new power that allowed me to teleport, but there were some bugs so I don't have that power either."
"I see." Hawkeye looked down at the gloves. "Has it ever crossed your mind that those gloves might work like they would in the virtual world?"
Odd looked at the gloves carefully and smiled, "Are you suggesting that these might be programmed like my laser arrows?"
"I wouldn't know. I'm just guessing myself."
"Well, time to see if it's true."
"Save it for the mission." Hawkeye said before Odd could point his wrist at anything. "We don't need you to randomly destroy something important."
"I can be careful."
"I doesn't matter if you can be careful or not. We don't know how those gloves work, but you're going to be using them anyway for this mission."
"Probably not my best idea." Odd said smiling sheepishly.
"Yeah, no kidding." Hawkeye looked at the screen to his left and said, "We're getting close. The scanner indicates we'll be at the base in ten minutes. You better get ready for this kid. This is going to be nothing like you have ever experienced."
"I beg to differ." Odd muttered narrowing his eyebrows. 'This isn't for me to enjoy though. If it didn't involve Jeremy then I would enjoy this mission.' He thought with a frown. 'Either way, I'm coming Jeremy.'
Tyron walked into the lab and watched the men hook Jeremy up to the machine. The men put the helmet on his head and strapped the boy down just in case Jeremy ever woke up during the procedure. "Professor Tyrone, it seems the machine's main function is to remove the boy's entire memory. Do you still wish to proceed?" The man at the supercomputer asked.
"Proceed with the transfer." Tyron told the scientist.
"Yes sir." The man nodded and continued with the procedure as the men finished connecting everything to Jeremy.
"Tell me when everything is done. I need to get that data." Tyron told the scientist before leaving the room. He walked down the hallway with his hands in his pockets and entered a room with an evil smile on his face. He sat down on a chair and pressed a button that made a figure appear on a television screen in front of him.
"Well, I see you decided to call me back after I gave you the machine." The figure said.
"Yes, it seems your machine should go beyond what I really needed, but the boy losing his entire memory does not really matter to me."
"It goes beyond that Tyron." The figure told the scientist making Tyron raise an eyebrow. "The machine will take the boy's entire subconscious and put it inside the computer. Once the boy's subconscious is inside the machine, his mind will belong to you forever making it impossible for the boy's mind to return to his body."
"Meaning the boy will physically and mentally die." Tyron summarized with an evil smirk. "I can reprogram his subconscious into an evil virus that can attack the world on my command."
The figure smirked, "Yes Tyron, but you should remember who you work for. Once the transfer is complete the boy needs to be disposed of."
"I already have everything planned for the body. I made those plans before finding out the true meaning behind the machine."
"Then you better make sure no one finds out about it. You're already on thin ice for the last two failures. One more failure will result in you losing everything including your life." The figure said before turning the screen off closing the conversation.
Tyron got up from his chair and left the room with an annoyed look on his face. 'They don't know what they are doing if they threaten to cut me off.' "I'm the one who introduced them to everything, and I'll be the one leading the project. Hydra will thank me for this once I have the last of the information I need from the boy." He smirked evilly and put his hands in his pockets as he walked down the hall.
Kitty leaned against the wall on the back porch watching Danny and Rogue talk to each other. She stares at them for nearly ten minutes then heads back inside with a sigh. 'Why is it so hard for me to get a boyfriend?' She thought crossing her arms. She walks into the living room to find Aelita organizing something on her screen. "Hey Aelita, you have a boyfriend right?" Kitty asked making Aelita stop and look at Kitty with a smile.
"Yep, I have a boyfriend." Aelita told Kitty. 'The downside is that he's being held captive by someone who wants my father's work.' She thought sadly. "Why do you ask?" Aelita asked as she closed her holo-screen.
Kitty rubbed her arm nervously and said, "Well, I've been watching Danny and Rogue talk to each other on the back porch and wondering why it's so hard for me to get a boyfriend."
"Well, that's probably because you think too hard about it." Aelita replied making Kitty raise an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?"
"I've known Jeremy for over three years, and we never rushed anything dealing with our feelings since we had other things that came first in our lives."
Kitty smacked the side of her head and muttered, "Oh yeah, the project you are keeping secret from us."
Aelita nodded, "Correct, but over time we did get together and are happy together, but things have become complicated."
"Like what, the long distance between you guys?" Kitty asked putting her hands on her hips while raising an eyebrow.
"Huh, I thought you knew." Aelita muttered getting up off the couch.
"Knew what?"
"My boyfriend was kidnapped a few weeks after I moved here by someone who worked with my father on the project." Kitty gasped in surprise. Aelita looked away sadly. "I keep an update on him to make sure he is okay. I do it to prepare myself just in case something bad would happen later on."
"When was the last time you checked on him?" Aelita widened her eyes and made a holo-screen come up in front of her. She typed quickly as Kitty walked up to Aelita's side to see what she was doing. "What are you doing?" Kitty asked cautiously.
"I'm hacking the security cameras in the facility holding Jeremy."
"Oh…wait what?!" Kitty shrieked catching everyone's attention.
"You heard me." Aelita said with a shrug as the security footage came up on the cell. She blinked when she found it empty. She switched security cameras for a couple seconds and stopped when she found Jeremy strapped to a table with a helmet on his head. She looked at the machine it was connected to as someone left the room. She brought the machine up on a separate holo-screen and saw what the name said making her widen her eyes. She turned her heard to Kitty who was babbling on about not hacking other public buildings. "Kitty," Kitty stopped talking when Aelita said her name, "I need you to warn the team."
"Why do I need to do that?" Kitty asked cautiously.
Aelita typed a few codes in and sighed when she saw a timer come up. "I don't have much time." She closed her holo-screens and ran off.
"Aelita!" Kitty yelled running after her.
Scott and Alex walk out of the elevator just in time for Aelita to run past them into the elevator with the doors closing behind her. "What was that all about?" Alex asked pointing at the door.
Scott scratched his head and shrugged, "I don't know."
Kitty ran up to the brothers and asked, "Did Aelita go into the elevator?"
Alex nodded and crossed his arms. "Yep, she ran past us into it right after we got out. Do you know what was up with that?"
"I only asked her about her boyfriend, and the next thing I know she's hacking the facility holding him then runs off telling me to warn the team." Kitty explained still feeling confused.
"I got a pretty good idea what it's about then." Scott said summarizing it up in his head. "We need to tell Danny."
"He's at the back porch." Kitty told Scott pointing over towards the back door. "Scott, what's going on?"
"I'll explain later." Scott answered before running off down the hall with Alex following him.
"Do you mind telling me?" Alex asked as they arrived at the backdoor.
Scott ran outside to find Danny and Rogue sitting on the stairs smiling at each other. "Danny, Aelita's boyfriend is in trouble."
Danny and Rogue got up immediately and look at Scott in surprise. "What did you say?" Danny asked.
Scott sighed and shook his head. "I don't have much time to explain, but we just saw Aelita run into the elevator, and Kitty said it might have something to do with her boyfriend."
Danny closed his eyes and sighed, "Oh man, I was hoping nothing bad was going to happen today." He gave Rogue a sympathetic look who sighed in defeat. He kissed her cheek and muttered, "I'm sorry."
"Just get back safe." She replied back. Danny nodded before running off with Scott and Alex following him. She watches them run into the building then sighs about the situation. Jean, where are yah? Rogue waits for a reply then sighs in defeat. She enters the building then turns her head to see Kurt walking down the hall with his hands in his pockets and a thoughtful look on his face. "Kurt, we got a situation."
Aelita ran into the hanger looking at the Blackbird with a smirk on her face. She made a holo-screen appear in front of her and pressed a couple buttons opening the hatch for her to get into the Blackbird. She started the Blackbird up with her manual override and kept on running towards her target.
Danny phased Scott and Alex through the ceiling into the hanger and dropped to the ground with them. "Ow!" Alex yelled as they landed.
"Sorry, I didn't have time to worry about the details." Danny told them before getting up onto his feet. "She's getting ready to board the Blackbird!" He told them before running off towards the jet.
Scott and Alex get up and run after Danny just as Kurt teleports into the hanger with Kitty and Rogue. "Logan isn't going to like zis." Kurt told them.
"Dawn's the only one who can keep him calm." Kitty pointed out.
"Let's just get on the Blackbird." Rogue said before anything more could be said.
Aelita sat down on the pilot's seat and typed the coordinates into the global positioning system. She grabbed the pilot's wheel and sighed, "Let's do this."
"I hope you weren't planning on going alone." Danny told her as he sat down in the co-pilot's seat.
Aelita glanced at him and smiled, "I'm glad you could make it, and I'm sorry for not giving a better explanation for the whole situation."
"You didn't give Kitty any explanation. Scott summarized what she said and figured out what this was about." Alex told her as he and Scott buckled up.
"Let's worry about getting out of here before Mr. Logan finds out we're leaving with the Blackbird." Kitty said as she, Kurt, and Rogue sat down in their own seats.
Dawn sat on the tree branch in her meditating state and opened her eyes when she felt Aelita's panic. She watched as everyone's auras start to go a bit different and gather together in the hanger making her raise an eyebrow. She focuses on Aelita's aura and widens her eyes when she sees three different types of aura. "What's going on?" She mutters.
"What do you mean 'what's going on?'" Logan asked.
Dawn turned her head to find Logan looking up at her with his hands in his pockets. "Aelita's aura is going crazy right now with her emotions. It's like something big just happened, and it can't be good because she has the negative type auras surrounding her right now."
Logan nodded, "Hm, I see your point even if I can't see aura. Do you know where she is right now? I'm not one for talks, but you make it seem pretty important."
"She's gathering with everyone else…in the hanger?" She finished as a question raising an eyebrow.
Logan frowned, "Why would they…oh no." He rubbed his forehead with his index finger and thumb and sighed, "Well, it seems they're going to be getting a long talk from all of us."
The pair turned their heads just in time to see the Blackbird leave through the side of the cliff and fly off into the distance. "Hm, I just noticed a little pink as well meaning it might have something to do with her boyfriend." Dawn told Logan.
Logan covered his face in annoyance. "Great, now I'm going to get a lecture." He mutters bitterly. He walks away from her saying, "I'm going out right now. Just stay out of trouble and say nothing about this until they come back."
Dawn said nothing back as Logan walked away. She got out of her meditating position and jumped out of the tree. She pulled her phone out of her pocket and looked through her list of contacts. 'I normally detest using electronics, but Kurt was right about me needing to have a phone.' She thought with a sigh.
Once the Blackbird was in the air everyone except Danny stared at Aelita's seat as she sat there quietly. Kurt looked at everyone curiously then back at Aelita. "Are you going to tell us vhat's going on, or do ve have to find out?" He asked Aelita.
Aelita turned her seat around and saw everyone waiting for her explanation. She sighed and got up out of her seat. "As you guys know, my boyfriend was taken captive a few weeks after I came to the Institute. I hacked the building where Jeremy is being held captive and found him in a holding cell."
"Wait, your boyfriend is being held prisoner?" Kitty asked widening her eyes.
"What happened to make you suddenly call the team together?" Scott asked making Aelita look at him.
"Jeremy was hooked up to a machine that removes the memories of the person whoever is hooked up to it. I delayed the process for at least a couple hours, but I'm afraid of what could happen if we do not get there in time." Aelita explained while everyone digested what she said in their minds.
"We'll save him." Danny told her while keeping his attention on flying the Blackbird. "You can count on it." The others nodded and voiced their agreement with Danny.
"Thank you." Aelita muttered with a small smile. "That means a lot to me."
"Even though you decide not to tell us about the project." Kitty muttered crossing her arms.
"Let's not start this conversation." Scott said turning his head to Kitty who sighed with a small nod. Scott turned his head to Aelita and asked, "What's the plan?"
Aelita made the hologram of the building come up in front of everyone. "This is what we're going to do."
Odd jumped onto the roof of the building behind the air vent with a sigh then looked at his surroundings. He looked around carefully and saw the camera looking around the roof. "Good thing it's facing away from me." Odd muttered before pressing the button on his com link. "We only have one camera on the roof."
"That makes getting easier for us. Where's your location on the roof?" Hawkeye asked as he stood in the shadows of the alley near the building.
"I'm right next to the air vent." Odd answered as he stared at the security camera. "The camera seems to be looking the other way from my position."
Hawkeye nodded, "That's good. Get in the air vent and check if there are any silent alarms in the air vents. We can't risk getting caught so quickly."
"I'm on it." Odd looked at the security camera then removed the cover on the air vent. He put the cover on the ground out of the camera's view and climbed into the air vent just in time to avoid the camera turning in his direction. Odd slid down the air vent and landed on all four groaning softly. 'This is my first infiltration mission, and I nearly fall on my bottom in an air vent.'
Hawkeye stood in his position for a few seconds then grabbed his bow and a sharp arrow. He shot an arrow up to the roof of the building he was standing next to and heard it connect to the brick at the top of the building. He pulled the string a couple times then climbed up the building while staying in the shadows. He climbed up onto the roof and removed the arrow from the side of the building. He turned his head back to the building to see the security camera Odd was talking about. "Hm, security is lousy." He muttered when he only saw that one camera. He fired the same arrow at the building and saw it connect with the side of the building next to a window.
"I'm in the air vent, and I'm not seeing any invisible red lines with this little scanning machine you gave me."
"It's an infrared scanner, but that's good. You go ahead and find the room where your friend is. Do not leave the air vent until I give the word."
"What are you doing?"
"You'll find out later. Right now, stay hidden and do not let anyone see you." Hawkeye turned his com link off then looked through the window to find the room empty. He pulled the window up and muttered, "Real smart idea." He entered the room and closed the window behind him. He looked around the room carefully and noticed the lack of security in the room. He saw the desk in the center with a file on top of it. He grabbed the file and opened it reading 'Memory Stealer Machine' as the headline. He closed the file and stuffed it into a secret compartment in his quiver. "This is starting to feel a little too easy."
"I agree." Odd said making Hawkeye look up at the air vent.
"What are you doing?"
"This is the first room I came across from the vent." Odd answered with a small shrug. Hawkeye gave the boy a hard stare who sighed in defeat. "I'm going."
Hawkeye sighed as Odd crawled away barely making any noise. 'He's just a newbie. He's never done this before.' He reminded himself mentally as he walked towards the door. He opens the door slightly and looks around carefully and sees a video camera making him close the door. "Great, one camera keeping an eye on the room inside the building, but there are no cameras anywhere outside except on the roof." He goes to the desk and turns the computer 'on' from its sleep mode. "Well, let's see where they're keeping the boy."
Odd looked down through an open vent to find the room with a supercomputer and a giant device that reminded him of the scanners. He removes the vent and puts it up against the wall in the air ducts. He pokes his head out to find the room empty then drops into the room looking around carefully. He walks up to the supercomputer and grabs a flash drive from his pocket. "Huh, who would have thought I would need to use this?" He whispered before connecting the flash drive to the supercomputer. He types a few things on the supercomputer and watches as the files copied onto the flash drive.
"Odd, where is your current location?"
Odd pushed the button on his com link and said, "I'm in a room where these people built their supercomputer to their virtual world."
"Good, we're going to need that information to see what they're up to later. Did you find your friend?"
"No, I just found the supercomputer." Odd watched as the supercomputer flash green for completing the download. "Yes." Odd grabbed the flash drive and put it in his pocket. "I'm heading out to find Jeremy."
"Don't worry. I got the location of the room, but it's in the basement."
"Why would they have Jeremy in the basement but keep the supercomputer on the second floor?" Odd asked raising an eyebrow. "That makes no sense."
"Actually, you're on the first floor. The room takes up two floors which is good, because you can get to the basement from your location."
"Cool." Odd looked around the room carefully and asked, "What am I looking for?"
"It's a secret flight of stairs, and you need to find a button or something to trigger the door blocking the flight of stairs."
"Great, puzzles were never really my strong point." Odd muttered distastefully.
"Then listen closely. The hidden door will be on the right side from the entrance. The hidden switch will be triggered by a book."
"Which book is it?" Odd asked as he walked in front of the bookcase. "It's weird that they'll install a bookcase in here though."
"We'll worry about their lack of security later…even if it is terrible." Hawkeye finished with a mutter making Odd smirk. "The book to open the door is green and…are you kidding me?"
"More stupid security?"
"It's the only green book on the shelf." Hawkeye told the boy with a sigh. "How they got your friend and all of this done is beyond me."
"Maybe their security is in their virtual world?" Odd suggested.
"Maybe…" Hawkeye muttered with a sigh. "I'll be right there."
Odd heard some voices nearby and jumps behind the nearest thing he saw. He glanced out from his hiding spot and watched as the men talked to each other as they walked to the bookshelf. He watched one of them remove the book and press the button making the secret door open up for the two men. Odd watched the two men walk through the secret door and nodded his head when he saw the door stayed open a few seconds later. He got out of his hiding spot and slipped through the opening right before the door closed on its own. "Talk about a close call." He muttered before walking down the stairs. He walks down the stairs and stops when he hears footsteps coming his way. He looked around frantically before climbing up the wall using the claws installed into the gloves.
"Are you absolutely certain?" Tyron asked as he and a scientist were walking up the steps.
"Yes sir, someone hacked the Memory Stealer and made it unable to do anything for two hours." The scientist told the evil scientist.
"How long ago was this?"
"We've been trying to do everything we can the past half hour sir, but we cannot seem to overwrite the person who hacked it sir."
Tyron anger became replaced with a large grin. "She knows." He mutters happily which made Odd gasp silently. "Get the ninjas ready. We're going to have some visitors."
Odd watched as the scientist left through the secret door with Tyron following him. Odd jumped off the wall and landed a few feet away from the secret door as it closed again. Odd pushed the button on his com link and said, "We got a problem."
"What is it this time?" Hawkeye asked feeling a bit annoyed with the teen.
"Aelita hacked the machine that was stealing Jeremy's memories and made it shut down for a couple hours."
"How long ago did this happen?"
"About half an hour, we got some time to think up a plan, but I heard one of scientists tell the other one to prepare the ninjas, and I do not like the sound of that."
Hawkeye winced at the name. "Ok, I'll contact Director Fury and see what Shield has on these ninjas. You get into hiding and find your friend."
"I'm on it."
Hawkeye came to the open vent and saw two scientists exit the room closing the door behind them. He waited for nearly a minute before jumping out of the vent having the air vent put back in place. He walked over to the supercomputer and brought the information up about the ninjas. "Oh boy, guess they're security isn't as bad as I thought." He muttered sticking the flash drive into the slot to download everything. "I better be careful of these ninjas though. Can't let anything happen to the kid, or Fury will have my head." He looked through the files carefully and stopped when he came across a file named 'The Scanners.' He opened the file only to find it empty. "Hm, if this file is empty then it must be what Tyron was after. I better make sure this gets back to Fury." He watched as the files downloaded onto the flash drive when he heard the door open.
"Now what would a man like you be doing here?" Tyron asked as he and four ninjas entered into the room.
Hawkeye turned around slowly to see Tyron standing in the center of four green and black humanized ninjas. "Well, I was here to steal your information about your virtual world and to get the kid out of here." He told the Professor as the files continued downloading into the flash drive. "By the way, are you guys seriously taking care of your stuff? Your security is terrible."
"I say my security is just fine." Tyron told the archer. "I don't like it when someone is trying to stop me. Be sure to take care of him and make sure nothing important is destroyed." He told his ninjas.
Hawkeye shot a smoke arrow at the ground and swiped the flash drive as the smoke covered the room. He shot an explosive arrow at the hidden door and ducked just in time to avoid a sword cutting his head off. He heard the explosion and ran off to the destroyed door firing an arrow behind him making goo shoot out and cover the two closest ninjas. He ran down the stairs to the basement knowing this fight was going to be interesting.
Odd entered the big room and stopped when he saw scientists nearly everywhere in the room trying to get the machine back online. Odd ran under a table and muttered, "Just great, everyone is in here trying to restart that machine. I just need to find Jeremy and get him out of here." He looked around from his hiding spot. "Where's that machine and table?" His gaze stopped when he noticed the wires hanging around the table he was under. He looked up at the table he was under muttering, "Huh, I guess I was closer than I thought."
"He's activated the ninja program." One of the scientists said making Odd look out at the scientists in the lab.
"I thought they were only in the virtual world we're creating?" Another scientist asked as he tried to crack the block put on the Memory Stealer.
"They are. The ninjas in our world are just prototype robots that are programmed to be almost exactly as the original ninjas from the Cortex."
'Who names a virtual world the 'Cortex'?' Odd thought raising an eyebrow at the name.
"Less talking and more working on cracking the block that hacker created." A third scientist said with a growl. "We don't want Tyron to have Hydra or those ninjas after us for failing to get the information we need to scan people into the virtual reality."
'Hydra, I should have guessed.' Odd thought while glaring at the scientists as they continued their work. He got up from behind the table and kept himself from being seen by the scientists. He looked at the wires connected to the helmet on Jeremy's head making him sigh. "I wish I knew a bit more about technology." He muttered as he looked to where the wires were connected to.
"I got it!" A random scientist yelled as he typed quickly. "I cracked the code!"
Odd widened his eyes as the rest of the scientists stopped what they were doing and turned their attention to the scientist on the keyboard on the machine. "This is not good." He muttered looking at the wires and the helmet. He undoes the strap holding the helmet onto Jeremy's head the pulls the helmet off gently. He set the helmet on the ground while the scientists watched the one scientist finish cracking the block on the Memory Stealer.
The man stopped typing then hit 'enter' only for the timer to disappear making the scientists cheer. "Let's get the machine running and tell Professor Tyron about the breakthrough." He told them. Everyone nodded and got back into their positions to get the machine ready only to find the boy gone and the helmet on the ground.
"This is bad." A scientist said.
"We need to find that boy and his kidnapper!" The head scientist told them as he got off his chair.
Odd watched most of the scientists run out the door from his hiding spot and kept his mouth shut when he noticed that not all of the scientists left the lab. 'Great, my new hiding spot will get revealed if I leave with Jeremy now. I need to find an escape route.' He thought looking around the lab. He stopped his gaze on the vent in the wall making him smirk, "Bingo."
Hawkeye jumped back avoiding the sword that the ninja swung at him then slammed an arrow into the ninja's head. He jumped back to avoid the explosion of the ninja's head making him sigh. "Great, they got me to move around too much." He muttered when he noticed he ended up on the second floor. "I head straight to the basement only to end up on the second floor." He shrugged it off. "Well, it could have been worse." He crouched down then rolled to the left avoiding two swords that were swung at him. He shot an arrow at the ninja without looking and heard it explode. "Skill will always be better than machines." He said with a smirk.
Professor Tyron watched as his robot ninjas were being easily defeated by the archer and growled in frustration as Hawkeye destroyed some of them without even looking. "He's making my work look like cheap plastic! How is this possible?"
"It seems your ninjas need an upgrade." Tyron turned around to see the dark figure on his main screen.
"My ninjas are working fine, but they're unable to access their full abilities unless they were in the Cortex." Tyron told the figure.
"…" The figure did not reply back making Tyron grit his teeth. "Just be sure S.H.I.E.L.D. does not find out anything about the project, or our contract is terminated."
Tyron watched the screen turn black and sighed angrily switching the camera to the lab in the basement. 'Things better not be getting worse…' His thoughts stopped when he saw no one in the room. "Where is the boy?!"
Odd winced as he carried Jeremy on his back in the air ducts. "Man, you're still not easy to carry around even though you're thin." He muttered to his unconscious friend. 'How much of his memory did they take?' Odd wondered as he stopped near an air vent. He looked through the cracks carefully noticing the vent led him to an empty room. He put Jeremy down against the wall out of view for anyone to notice him and grabbed the vent. He pulled the vent into the ventilation shaft and put the vent up against the wall next to Jeremy.
"Are you certain?" Odd heard someone ask as he dropped into the room.
"Yes sir. Someone has taken the boy, and we don't have enough memories for us to get the info on how Waldo Schaeffer created the scanners." The second person said as Odd looked around the room carefully.
Odd saw the window and smirked, "Ah, there's our escape." He ran over to the window and undid the locks holding the window in place. He pushed the window up and leaned out the window looking around carefully. 'No cameras, that's good enough for me.' He thought.
Danny flew the Blackbird through the sky right over Paris and said, "We're close."
Aelita brought the schematics up of the entire building and asked, "Does everyone remember the plan?"
"We break in, save your boyfriend, and get out quickly without causing too much trouble." Kitty said with a sigh. "I still don't see why they would want to take your boyfriend's memory. I mean why do that when they could…I don't know…torture him?" Everyone except Danny and Aelita gave Kitty strange looks making her smile and shrug sheepishly.
"The facility is closing in, and there's someone climbing the wall." Danny said making everyone look ahead as the four-story building came into view.
Aelita's eyes widen when she recognized the person climbing the wall and saw who was being carried on the person's back. "That's Odd, and he's got Jeremy with him!" Aelita told them. She brought up her holo-screen with Odd's Lyoko avatar on it. 'This better work.'
Odd stuck his claws into the wall muttering, "My Lyoko uniform is way better than these things." He removed his left hand to keep going up when he saw the glove become three different shades of purple with a yellow stripe. He smirks immediately and mutters, "Thanks Aelita." He put his hand back on the wall and starts climbing up the wall. He reaches the top of the building to find four ninjas and Hawkeye on the roof already. "Oh man, this is bad."
Hawkeye nodded, "You're telling me. I only have one arrow left."
"Luckily, I just got a special reload with my laser arrows." Odd fired the laser arrows from the back of his wrists and watched as the ninjas deflected every shot he fired at them.
Hawkeye glanced over at Odd and asked, "What are you wearing?"
"I'll explain later." Odd replied not wanting to give an explanation about how he got his Lyoko uniform. 'Jeremy and Aelita are better than I am at explaining things.' He fired a couple more laser arrows then turned his head just in time to see a jet coming close to the building. "Well, she made it on time."
"I'm guessing that's your friend to get us out of here." Hawkeye said pulling the arrow back on the string. "Well, let's make this day really worth it." He fired the arrow at the ninjas and ran to the side of the building with Odd following him while holding onto Jeremy. Aelita and Danny flew down and grabbed them before reaching the end of the building. The five board the Blackbird and leave the facility happy the mission went successful.
2 hours later
Odd stood right outside the infirmary with Danny as they watched Aelita try to see if she could find anything that happened to Jeremy. "What happened back at the facility?" Danny asked Odd.
"On my end, nothing really interesting happened except for me freeing Jeremy and escaping without being seen." Odd answered with a shrug. "I wish I got to fight those ninjas though. My laser arrows were useless against them."
"At least you saved Jeremy. That has to count for something."
Odd smirked, "Yep, no one can crawl through air vents like Odd Della Robbia." The two chuckle slightly at the statement. "Seriously though, I actually thought I wasn't going to make it on time. I was happy to find out Aelita hacked their systems to give us time, but I couldn't find out how much of Jeremy's memories they took."
"Well, I guess we'll find out later then." Danny turned around and walked away leaving Odd alone outside the infirmary.
"Hey guys, I'm back!" Evan yelled as he and his aunt walked into the front lobby. "Guys?"
"They're probably training with Logan in the Danger Room." Ororo suggested making Evan smile sheepishly.
"I wish that was the case." Scott said as he came out of the living room.
Ororo saw the sadness on Scott's face and asked, "Did something happen while we were gone?"
Scott sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Actually, something happened to Aelita's boyfriend."
"Tell me everything."
Aelita finished her fifth scan over Jeremy's mind and sighed in defeat when she saw the same results on her holo-screen again. She made her holo-screen disappear as the door slid open for Dawn to enter the room. "You didn't have any luck in finding anything out, huh?" Dawn asked as she walked up to Aelita.
"My scans keep telling me that his mind is empty, but that can't be right since the machine was barely used before I turned it off." Aelita replied truthfully.
Dawn looked over Jeremy's aura and gasped when she saw the color changing. She stared at the body a few seconds while Aelita was looking at Dawn worryingly. "His body is shutting down." She said quickly.
"What?!" Aelita turned around and started to connect wire to Jeremy's body to keep him alive. She stopped when she heard the heart monitor make one single noise. She looked up at the screen then back at Jeremy. "No! Jeremy!" She tried to connect the wires to start Jeremy's heart back up, but her tears covered he line of sight as nothing changed.
Dawn kept her eyes on Aelita then turned her head to Odd who was staring at Jeremy with wide eyes. She watched as Odd ran off then turned her head to Aelita who had her head on Jeremy's chest crying. Dawn walked on the other side of Jeremy's body and put her hand on his head. She turned her head to the machine connected to Jeremy then back to his face. "I'm sorry." She muttered then left the room leaving Aelita alone with Jeremy.
An hour later everyone was outside the infirmary watching Aelita, Odd, and Danny as they were gathered around Jeremy's body. "How did this happen?" Charles asked cautiously.
"Aelita mentioned that bad things happen all the time when it comes to the project." Logan reminded his friend. "I don't think it ever has gone this far though."
"She just lost her boyfriend." Kitty muttered sadly. "I can't even stand here to watch." She turned around and walked away with Kurt, Evan, and Rogue following her lead.
"Man, we left to go save this guy, but it wasn't good enough." Alex said glancing at his brother. "What do we do?"
"I don't know." Scott answered truthfully.
"All we can do is be there for Aelita." Jean told them.
In the virtual world known as the 'Cortex' a small orb was flying through the air looking around the virtual reality. It grew a bit brighter before turning human showing that it was Jeremy Belpois. "It worked, but I lost my body." He muttered distastefully. "I just hope my new plan works."
Yeah, not the ending I was going for, but it will do. I never intentionally meant for Jeremy to lose his body, but it has happened. Jeremy is alive, and the arc is not over yet. There are still a couple chapters to this story arc, and the others have not been in the action yet. Bottom line is that you just have to wait. Plus, the rescue scene took a bit longer than planned since I have to work now before heading back to college.
The scene dealing with Jeremy's 'death' lacked quite a bit, and I might change it to make it better, but for now it is what I made it. I never made a death scene before so I'm trying to understand it in many ways since I know this will affect the team (Lyoko) in certain aspects.
The relationships:
1. Kurt/Dawn- some people actually like this idea, and I'm glad that you guys are. I'm not going to get them together quickly because I felt that I rushed Danny and Rogue's relationship in my previous story.
2. Danny/Rogue/Aelita- some people do not like the whole idea, and to be fair I do not like it that much myself. The sad part is that I prefer Aelita over Rogue, because Rogue is the main girl we see Danny get together with from X-men Evolution, and I have nothing against it. I only prefer Aelita more because she is a different type of girl from what most people pair Danny up with now, but I'm sticking with this pairing for now.
3. Peter Parker/Kitty- Like this pairing back in the Ultimate Marvel universe, and I still love seeing it happen even though it will probably never happen again in the comics.
4. Jean/Scott- no comment
5. Give me your ideas for other pairings I would love to hear them
On a side note Jimmy Neutron and Stacy Hirano are still joining this story, and I actually want to involve the members of the original cast of Total Drama. The main thing is that I want to include at least one or two of them as mutants with one joining Magneto and the other joining Xavier. I'm letting you guys vote on who should it be. All I need is the name and the mutant power (please include good reason for mutant power and how it functions.) I am leaving that up to you guys, and you could say that I should just leave the show alone and make no one mutants. If that part wins then I'll just do nothing and move on with the story.
I am also updating the list of cartoons that might be involved in the story just for those who want to know: Kim Possible, Ben 10 (might have a bigger role thanks to someone I talked to), Xiaolin Showdown, My Life as a Teenage Robot, W.I.T.C.H., American Dragon: Jake Long, Monster Allergy, Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja, and Rugrats: All Grown Up.
Any questions for this list please PM me, because I do not want to reveal anything in the chapters to answer questions since it will take up space, and I do not want to spoil things for the people reading it. Yes, I did change my mind about Randy and Jake and put them in the list. I hope you guys enjoy your day and R&R.