I am so sorry this took so long to update. I have been kicked off the internet, but not the computer. I have actually had this chappy written for a while, but I couldn't update it. I dedicate this chappy to Am I Odd, because they were my 100th reviewer! Whoohooo! Yippee! I'm being stupid again, plz enjoy.
(Macas P.O.V.)
I wake up in the morning to someone knocking at my door. I quickly sit up, for I had been laying down with my head resting on my keyboard. I had stayed up as long as possible last night trying to find a way to convert this program from finding activated towers to finding people. I'm not nearly as good as Jeremie. I open the door and Ulrich is standing there.
"Hey, why weren't you at breakfast?" I do a double take.
I missed breakfast?
I look at my clock, and it's 7:32. School starts in twenty-eight minutes.
"I was working on the superscan."
"You woke up early to do that and skipped breakfast?"
"No, I stayed up late and slept in." I say and laugh.
"So, how's it going?"
"Well, it's more complicated than it sounds. I transferred the program to my computer so we can take Jeremie's laptop back."
"Okay. How far have you gotten?"
"Well, it doesn't scan for towers anymore."
"That's good."
"No, now it scans for nothing."
"That's not good." I grab Jeremie's laptop and we head for his room. As we drop it off, I realize something.
"If Jeremie's CD was gone, that means XANA must have possessed someone to take it."
"Yah, you're right! We'll tell everyone else later. Right now we have to get to class. If I get caught being late again, I'm in detention for a week."
"Okay, let's go." We run off to our respective first periods. School goes as normal, except for the missing Jeremie. After school we meet at the bench that I first met the gang at.
"I miss Jeremie." Aelita says.
"I do too. Computer Programming was boring without him. Usually we race to see who can finish first, but this time I was bored. I was done first, so I worked on the superscan a little bit more." I say, leaning against a tree.
"How's it coming?" Odd asks.
"I managed to get it to scan for things, I just need to tell it what now."
"I think you should be worrying about other things than that right now." Yumi says.
"Like what?"
"Your trial is tomorrow. If anything, you should be trying to finish what Jeremie started."
"Oh shit, you're right… how can I though? Jeremie said the program would take a couple of days to work, but now its tomorrow and we have nothing."
"I have an idea." Aelita says.
"What's that?"
"Use a return to the past."
"No, you know why we can't do that," I say, "but I might have another idea. Use the supercalculater to run the program. Using it, it should only take a couple of hours."
"Now that's an idea! Let's go try it right now." Odd says.
"But we still don't have Jeremie's program." Ulrich says.
"Well, we can still check it out." I say. We all head over to the factory. I have got to get a skateboard of my own; I had to run this time. We head down to the supercalculater room and I sit down in the chair.
"I need Jeremie's password to enter. Do any of you know it?" I ask. Everyone shakes their heads but Aelita.
"I think I might know…." She types in PRINCESS AELITA.
ACCESS GRANTED.
"Nice going. I should have guessed." I quickly scan through the files.
"Oh HELL YES!" I shout.
"What?" Everyone crowds around.
"Jeremie made backups of all his files on his computer the night when he was taken. I have the program right here!" Everyone is happy except for Ulrich.
"But, what about the CD? If I don't give it back, I'll get suspended." He says. Everyone quickly becomes downcast because nobody wants Ulrich expelled.
"I might have a solution…." I say slowly. "I could be possible to re-create the CD. I have all the files right here. I just need the exact same brand of CD to put it on."
"What about Mr. Delmas' signature?"
"I don't know. Could we possibly steal a copy of it? Write it ourselves?"
"It's possible. Maybe. But we would have to sneak into his office and steal a document."
"I'll do it." Odd says immediately. He takes off into the elevator before we can say a thing about it.
"Well, there's no stopping him now." Yumi says. "We can only hope he doesn't get busted."
"Odd is good at this kind of thing. Don't worry, he'll make it out in one piece." Ulrich says.
"Well, nothing left to do but wait. Actually, I can start the program." I turn to the computer and press a couple of keys. The computer beeps and the program starts running full speed. We wait for about thirty minutes, not talking much. The elevator starts up and everyone jumps up anxiously. The door opens and Mr. Delmas walks out with Sissi, Odd and Jim behind him. We all stare in surprise.
"Sorry guys. I got busted." Odd says and looks directly at me. He mouths something that looks like return to the past. I nod and turn to the computer, typing frantically.
"Mr. Keloly, get away from that computer. You are all in serious trouble." Mr. Delmas says. I quickly search for the controls to the program.
"Hey, Mr. Delmas said stop!" Jim says and starts walking towards me. I found the program and frantically start it up.
TIME COORDINATES?
I type in a couple of random numbers and today's date. I am just about to push the return key when Jim's hand grabs mine.
"Come on now, get out of the chair." He pulls me away from the chair.
"I'm sorry Jim…." I say apologetically. I sweep my legs underneath his and he falls hard. I jump over and press the return key just as Mr. Delmas grabs me.
"Return to the past!" I yell and the white light envelops us all.
"Yes Mr. Keloly, could you tell me the answer?" Mr. Johnson says pointing at me with his ruler. The RTTP obviously returned me back to my Math Class earlier today.
"Um… could you please repeat the question?" I say and everyone else in the class sniggers.
"Please pay attention. The question is what is the quadratic formula?" He says obviously annoyed at me.
"It's um… oh yah. It's negative B plus or minus the square root of B squared minus 4AC all over 2A."
"Yes, and how does that help us with parabolas?"
"It give us the exact coordinates of where the parabola intersects the X-axis."
"Very good." He turns away and start babbling about something else. I lean over to Yumi.
"What do you think happened to Odd?" I whisper.
"I don't know. I don't know why he would lead Mr. Delmas and Jim straight to the factory. Odd would never betray us like that." I pull out my phone under the desk and text message Odd.
What happened?
-M
"Mr. Keloly, what is that?" Mr. Johnson says to me. I sit back up quickly.
"Nothing." I say quickly. I put my phone in between my knees and hold it there.
"Show me your hands." I hold up my hands showing there's nothing there.
"Well, pay attention. This is important." He says and starts talking about his favorite college football team and how they are all the best. (A/N: My math teacher does that.)
The rest of the class went uneventful except for one thing, Mr. Johnson smashed one of those mirrors that girls carry around with them with a hammer. (A/N: My math teacher does that too.)
The rest of the day goes uneventful too. Jim gives no mention of anything during P.E, meaning that the RTTP was successful. Odd did not text message me back all day. After P.E, we go to lunch. Spaghetti and Meatballs, if you can call it that. Odd still stuffs himself.
"Hey Odd, why did you lead them to the factory?" I ask as soon as I sit down.
"Oh no reason. I just thought they ought to know."
"Odd, that's not funny." Yumi says.
"Look, I don't want to talk about it okay?" Odd dumps his tray and walks off.
"Oh shit. I'd better go apologize." I walk out after Odd. I see him leaning against the tree over by the bench where I first met him. "Odd?" He sees me and looks away.
"Odd. I'm sorry man. I was just wondering, I never thought you would bring them back to the factory."
"It's okay. I think I may have overreacted."
"Can you tell me why?"
"Mr. Delmas threatened me."
"What? He threatened you? With what? I mean, it's not like he can lower your grades for not telling him."
"He threatened… he threatened to tell my Mother." Realization dawns on me.
"Oh. I understand. I'm sure everyone else will if we explain it to them."
"I know. I just don't want anyone to think I was scared."
"There's nothing wrong with being scared. My dad used to scare me all the time. Then I realized something."
"What?"
"There's nothing to be scared of. I just had some old stupid half-conscious delusional guy swinging his fists at me. If I kept my cool and thought things through, I would usually get away with only a couple of bruises. When I was scared, I couldn't move because of it, and I got clobbered."
"I guess you're right. I was being stupid."
"Nah. So how did you get caught?"
"Well, actually I was being stupid. I decided the best way to enter the principal's office would be to go through the window. It's on the first floor, it wouldn't be too hard. I check inside, there's no one in sight. So I carefully open the window and climb inside. It so happens that Mr. Delmas chose that moment to walk inside."
"Yah, bad luck there."
"So, he basically threatened to tell my Mom that I broke into his office. After that, everything was a blur. I just remember walking out of the elevator saying I got busted."
"Don't worry about it. I'm sure no one blames you. We just have another day to see if we can find Jeremie. Come on, let's go back to lunch." We head back to the cafeteria. At lunch, no one mentions Odd's mess up, and everything goes smoothly.
Immediately after school, I head for the factory. I check up on the extractor program, it's about three quarters done. Everyone else shows up shortly after, they seemed to know I would come here.
"So, how goes the program?" Aelita asks.
"Actually, it's going great. It's about three quarters done. It should be done by tomorrow easily."
"But… the CD…." Ulrich says. Odd doesn't look like he's up to trying to steal it again.
"I don't know Ulrich. But it looks like it's going to have to wait." The computer flashes a message to me:
ACTIVATED TOWER IN FOREST SECTOR
"XANA's up to no good again. Time for you-who-it's-us again." Odd says. I look at him weirdly.
"That's what I call it. Basically we go in there, say 'you who, it's us!' and kick XANA's butt. Aelita deactivates the tower, we go home."
"Okay then… let's go." We all start for the elevator. "Wait a minute, who's going to transfer us? Jeremie isn't here, and Aelita has to go to Lyoko."
"Don't worry, I can set it to scan us in automatically." Aelita says. Everyone else, including me, heads for the elevators. "Wait a second Macas, I need to talk to you." I stop and turn around. The others go ahead and go to the scanners. Aelita scans them in while I wait, and then sets it to scan us in.
"Okay, what did you want to talk to me about?" She turns to me.
"I had a vision."
"Okay… what kind of vision?"
"When I was first materialized, I had visions of this old house called the hermitage, but they stopped. A couple of days ago, I had a vision where I actually read XANA's files, his personal thoughts."
"What was he thinking about?"
"You."
"Why me?"
"Franz Hopper was the creator of Lyoko. Before XANA destroyed him, he made a prophecy that someone would come and destroy him. You match that prophecy perfectly."
"Well, that explains some things. Like the fact that I knew subconsciously about Lyoko."
"Yah it does."
"Well, lets go, the others are waiting for us."
"Wait, aren't you scared? You have to face XANA, possibly alone, and kill him."
"Sure I am. But now's not the time to worry about it."
"Well, XANA knows about the prophecy, he's after you."
"Okay."
"Be careful, XANA will do anything to destroy you." I smile.
"I will. Now let's go kick XANA's virtual ass." She smiles back and starts the timer. We head down to the scanners and step inside. It virtualizes us and we drop down in the forest sector near Odd Ulrich and Yumi.
"Okay guys, we don't know what the attack is, so we have to hurry up. We have no clue what XANA is doing out in the real world." I say.
"Right. Looks like we never got a chance to really test out your combat skills, did we Macas?"
"No time like the present!' I say and run off towards where the tower should be. We stop and see no monsters.
"Hey, what gives? Is this the right tower?" I say stopping.
"Yah, it's got the red aura around it. Strange there's no monsters." Ulrich says looking around suspiciously.
"That probably means XANA is doing something really bad on the outside world. Aelita quickly, to the tower." Yumi says and points. Aelita runs, and I get a vision of Aelita being hit. I quickly throw my sword; it blocks the laser and flies off. A block steps out from behind a tree. My sword twists in midair and flies back to me. I catch it and block an incoming shot.
"Woah, cool feature. I never knew I had that." I say and rush off. As it turns out, this entire setup was an ambush. XANA knew we didn't have Jeremie to warn us of incoming monsters, so he set about fifteen blocks and about ten crabs in hiding around the tower. We fight hard, but I'm inexperienced against so many enemies. I lose life points quickly. Odd and Yumi aren't doing much better, but nothing seems to hit Ulrich.
All of the sudden, the fighting stops. All lasers stop firing and everything halts. Then, simultaneously, all monsters turn and open fire on Ulrich. Even he can't block so many lasers and is devirtualized quickly. I take advantage of their distraction and kill three blocks. Odd follows suit, destroying four crabs. Unfortunately, all monsters turn to Odd and fire upon him. His shield is no use, he too is devirtualized. Now, only Yumi and I are left to fight about ten monsters. Yumi does a backflip and lands on top of a crab. Using one fan, she destroys it while throwing the other to the crab next to it, destroying it as well. All the crabs are gone except one, and only six blocks are left. All the remaining blocks turn towards Yumi.
"Yumi! Buy me some time!" I yell as I destroy another block. Yumi does this cool flip off the crab she just destroyed and pulls out her fans in midair. She twirls around fast, she's like a blur, with her fans as a shield. She lands and keeps twirling, deflecting laser bolts back towards their owners and destroying them.
"How's that for buying time?" She asks. I see her vanish into the wireframe, she was devirtualized by a shot to the head from the last block. I throw my sword at it and the block is gone. I smile as the sword returns to me.
"Aelita, now's your chance, go for the tower!"
"Ulrich, any signs of what's happening in the real world?" I ask as Aelita runs.
"Nope, everything's fine. Aelita's entering the tower. As far as I can tell, there's no need to return to the past. Hey, watch out, there's a large red dot on the screen, coming towards you fast. Too fast…." I see a silvery blur streaking towards me along the forest path.
"Macas, watch out. This is a Jag, a kamikaze monster. One touch and is detonates destroying itself and you."
"Oh shit!" I jump out of the way just before it would have hit me. It turns on a dime and comes towards me again.
"What's taking Aelita so long?" I ask desperately. I have to do a front flip to avoid it this time.
"XANA tried to buy himself some time, he put a small firewall around the tower's code. It will only take a minute for Aelita to get through it."
"Has he ever done that before?"
"No, I think he knew Jeremie could hack through it in seconds."
"Well, I'm kind of running out of tricks here, could she possibly hurry up?" I say as I jump over it, slashing at it while in the air. I missed, and the Jag ran past again. This time it jumped off the path, hit a tree, and jumped back on again running towards me, I just barely manage to jump out of the way. It comes again, I throw my sword at it. Of course the Jag dodges and the sword returns to me. I have only one trick left.
"Ulrich, I'm out of ideas. If this doesn't work, I'm screwed."
"She's going as fast as she can. Can't you just destroy it?"
"I don't have superspeed like you, or projectiles like Yumi and Odd. I'm kind of stuck. Here goes nothing!" I set my sword blade flat against the ground, facing it towards the oncoming Jag. I wait patiently as the Jag comes nearer….
Just a millisecond before the Jag were to hit me, I flip my blade up, literally catapulting the Jag over my head, into the air and off the side. It falls into the empty space beyond the land and I see an explosion.
"Ulrich? What happens when you fall off the side?"
"It's called the digital void. Anything that falls into it is deleted permanently."
"Okay. I'm making a mental note to avoid at all costs."
"Good idea. Aelita finished, she's deactivating the tower. Wait a second…."
"What's up?" I ask.
"What the hell?" He says. "Aelita's coming back now, the tower's deactivated. There's another dot on your screen, but it's not a monster. I looks like another player. It might actually be XANA." He says.
"No Ulrich. I can see him. It's not XANA."
"Did XANA get some kind of henchman?"
"Yah. And his name is Jeremie…."
Muahahahahahaha. Evil cliffy. I guess you all found out what happened to Jeremie now. I've got to thank you all who reviewed. All those 4s made me feel like some people actually liked my writing. Wait for the next chappy, you get to see what I would make Jeremie look like in Lyoko! (Don't be surprised if it's something stupid. My brain thinks up some weird things.) This was my longest chappy yet, over 3,000 WORDS! That's like, a lot of words. Until next time, heres a couple fun quotes:
"Why isn't phoenetic spelled how it sounds?" -me
"Track is completely pointless. No matter how fast you run, you always end up back where you started." -me (Don't kill me if you like track. I just thought it up when we were being forced to run laps in PE)
"There are 3 kings of people in this world. Those who watch things happen, those who make things happen, and those who wonder what happened." -a friend