Phase 3 by Dragon C. Chan
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Everything was black. Odd looked around… Nothing… WAIT! LIGHT! He ran toward it. He ran and ran until a figure came into view…
"Aelita…"
She didn't hear him, she looked around and then two tentacle like, bunches of wires shot out of the darkness and wrapped themselves around her.
"AELITA!"
Odd began to run towards her, but he found himself moving at a snails speed. Aelita struggled to free herself. From what Odd could gather Aelita looked as if she was shouting to someone, but he couldn't see who the wire tentacles belonged to. He ran and ran, Aelita struggled and cried. Then a third wire tentacle shot out of the darkness and went right through Aelita's stomach.
"NOOOOO!"
Time finally sped up for Odd in just enough time for him to catch Aelita in his arms, only to have her disintegrate into virtual particles; Gone forever and eternity.
"Aelita…"
He stared wide eyed at his paws; tears soon fell down his cheeks, she was gone… Then a sick laughter filled the air.
"She's gone Odd but, don't cry…. You can join her!"
Odd's head shot up only to see a wire tentacle shooting towards him.
"No…" His eyes widened only to find himself sitting up in bed inside the army tent. Right away he looked over to the bed next to his… Aelita was in it peacefully sleeping.
"She looks so beautiful." Thought Odd as he lay back down and tired to sleep, but one question haunted him; was what he just experienced a nightmare or a vision?
The Next Day
"And the terrified Ann was switched from being held in Kong's hand to his foot as Kong battled the two vicious t-rexes!"
Aelita walked in and spotted Sissy, "What's Odd doing?"
"Hi Aelita, he's entertaining a group of refugee children with his rendition of Peter Jackson's King Kong." Said Sissy as she ate her breakfast.
"But then Ann shrieked as a third t-rex appeared wantn a piece of Kong!"
The group of children collectively gasped and giggled with delight at Odd's crazy facial expressions.
"I liked that movie"
Sissy stared at Aelita, "You saw King Kong?"
"Yeah, Odd and I went with Ulrich and Yumi the day of the dance to see it." (For those who read The Dance they returned to the past after X.A.N.A attacked)
"The end made me cry."
"Wha? You cried! It's just a movie!" yelled Sissy
"Ah! But what a movie it is Sissy!"
"Huh!" Sissy looked to find Odd, Aelita, and the group of kids staring at her, "Oh alright! I guess some sniffles at the end are ok."
Just then Raul walked into the mess hall tent, "Everyone finish up your breakfast! Your escort out of here has arrived!"
"Awww!" Odd turned to the kids, "You should go find your parents."
The kids awed, got up, and scurried off to their parents. Then everyone except the soldiers, Aelita, Odd, and Sissy began to file out.
"You aren't going with them Sissy?" Asked Aelita
"No, I've wanted to be in your group for the longest time, and friends don't abandon friends."
"Thank you Sissy. I always knew you were a nice person deep down inside."
Sissy blushed, "That was one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about me." And Aelita just smiled.
"Hey you!"
Aelita and Sissy's attention was drawn over to where Odd was knelt down cleaning up trash, a soldier stood behind him.
Raul looked over and thought, "Oh crap! Odd don't make him mad!"
Raul knew the soldier, his name was Corporal Grey and he was famous for his hot temper.
"Listen kid you have to take that costume off and go with the other refugees out of here!"
Odd turned around, "Sir, one this isn't a costume, and two I'm here to fight X.A.N.A., you can even ask Raul if you don't believe me." With that he returned right back to work.
Grey couldn't believe how rude the kid was! How dare a civilian disrespect him! The kid hopped around picking up the trash left by the other kids. Grey decided he was going to have to teach the kid a lesson…
When Odd went to hop again, Grey brought his foot down firmly on Odd's tail.
"YEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWW!" Odd jumped up and in pure instinct he knocked over Grey with his physic might.
"Odd!" Aelita and Sissy ran over to the whimpering Odd who was cradling his tail in his paws.
Grey got up and noticed Aelita too "Wha, What are you?"
Raul waked up, "They are the ones who will defeat X.A.N.A." Grey turned around and stared at Raul, "Odd alone has probably taken out more monsters than this whole entire regiment."
Grey stared at Odd and thought, "Him! He's the new soldier everyone is in a buzz about? He's just a kid!"
BOOM!
An explosion rocked the mess tent as shrieks of horror and gunfire erupted outside.
"Oi!" Odd smacked his head, "X.A.N.A. just has to attack now!" Odd turned to Aelita, "Come on we've got to help!"
"Ok!"
They ran out of the tent with Grey, Raul, and Sissy in tow, to find a pack of hornets terrorizing the refugee convoy.
Odd looked at the pack of hornets, "7, 8, 9, 10! Only 10!"
"X.A.N.A. must be testing to see how much we've recovered!"
"Hum, test or not those hornets are dead." Odd cocked one of his arrow gauntlets and faced Aelita, "I don't know what new powers X.A.N.A. gave you, Aelita, but I need you to use your power of creation to protect these people while I take care of these overgrown pests! Board Appear!" The overboard appeared, Odd hopped onto it, and took off into the sky after the hornets.
Aelita stood ready to fight; this felt weird to her because she was normally the one who was saved.
In the air
"Hey ugly!" The hornet turned around only to be destroyed by a laser arrow, "Wow…" Odd whistled, "Is it me or are X.A.N.A's monsters getting even more stu, WOAH!" Odd barely dodged some lasers from behind, "Ohhhh! You want some huh?"
The hornet looked at Odd and made a noise that suspiciously sounded like aww and crud.
On the ground
Grey stared in the sky, the kid wasn't too bad.
Raul walked up, "Impressive huh?"
"Well, LOOK OUT!" Raul and Grey hit the ground nearly getting blasted by a hornet.
The hornet undaunted made a wide u-turn, and made a b-line for Raul and Grey. Grey then whipped out his gun and fired, missing each time, suddenly Grey heard the sick sound of the gun empty click. The hornet closed in and prepared to fire….
Grey winced to only have a streak of purple flash by and have the hornet explode into a million pieces.
"Just a kid huh?" Odd flew past the dumbstruck Grey and couldn't stop smirking.
"Well… WAIT! I thought that! How'd you…" Odd was long gone.
"He's physic."
Grey turned to Raul and blinked, "Wha!"
With Odd
"Now where's that pest?" Odd looked around, he'd taken out 9 of the 10 hornets and he wanted to make it a perfect 10.
"Ahh!"
Odd's head snapped to the right, "Ohhh! There you are!"
The hornet had two soldiers cornered behind a bolder. It didn't notice Odd coming from behind. Odd smirked and aimed for the hornet.
"Hey over here you overgrown house fly!"
The hornet whipped around and saw Odd, it panicked. Odd was about to fire but then familiar music filled his ears, causing him to smirk and lower his arm. The hornet looked at Odd in confusion, then side to side, and finally up in enough time to see the bolder coming down from the sky.
"Go Aelita."
On the ground
Aelita watched the bolder come down and destroy the hornet, but then she heard a familiar noise from behind that made all the color drain from her face.
With Odd
That was so cool! The hornet was there then… BAM! Aelita flattened it! He looked down to Aelita and his smile turned to a look of horror. Aelita was trapped in the tentacles of the Skithazoa!
"Aelita!"
Odd made a b-line for the Skithazoa but then out of no where laser fire dematerlised the overboard.
"Ahh!" He fell to the ground from 20 feet above but still managed to land on all fours, "Aelita!" He tired to get up and run to her but was shot in the back by laser fire from behind. Odd hissed to find himself being stared down by a krab. "No…"
The krab fired over and over again at Odd but he rolled and dodged each blast. He looked forward to check on Aelita only to see that the Skithazoa was dragging her farther and farther away and a tarantula had joined the Skithazoa…
They were taking her away, he wasn't going to loose her again…
And that's when he snapped…
"RAAAAOOOO!"
Purple energy swirled about and engulfed Odd completely, and the energy hit the krab behind him causing it to explode. The figure within the energy began to grow bigger and more powerful. The figure roared and the energy dissipated revealing that Odd had gone through a startling transformation. He was now covered with purple and black striped fur, he stood at a towering six feet tall, he was now more heavily muscled than before long sharp claws graced his fingers, large sharp teeth protruded from his mouth, the only clothing he had on was frayed purple and black pants. In his anger he had become a werecat and the only thing on his mind was to save Aelita. Odd took off at break neck speeds towards the Skithazoa, and in an inhuman growl he leaped into the air over the tarantula and delivered a deadly slash to the Skithazoa's body causing it to drop Aelita to the ground. Odd then with all the grace of the cat beast he had become twirled around and caught Aelita in one arm.
Aelita stirred awake in enough time to see the Skithazoa dissolve away, "It's gone…" Then she realized she was in someone's arms, she then gasped in horror when she saw what held her. It was a giant tiger man cat thing! But wait… the beast's fur was purple! No, could it be! "Odd?" the beast faced her slightly and she gasped in shock, the beast's eyes softened when he looked at her, the beast was undoubtedly Odd. He turned and stared forward, Aelita looked and saw the tarantula then she looked to the right. "Odd look out!"
There was a second tarantula…
Odd growled and gently set Aelita behind him. The tarantulas fired Odd motioned Aelita out of the way and ran at the tarantulas on all fours snarling all the way. He lunged at one and succeeded in snapping one of its legs in two. The other tarantula assaulted Odd's back with it's lasers, the feline grabbed the damaged tarantula and threw it at the one that was firing causing both of the tarantulas to fall down an embankment. The broken one hit a bolder and exploded into a million pieces. The second one got back up in just enough time to see Odd bearing down the embankment. It got up on its hind legs and fired on Odd hitting him several times but it didn't slow the werecat down the wounds just healed themselves. The feline lunged at the tarantula and took it down to the ground, he then grabbed its head and slashed the tarantula's X.A.N.A. mark and hopped off before it exploded. Aelita stood there in awe at the beast before her; he had saved her once more. The battle was over for today they could return to camp, but then she heard a noise behind her.
There was a third tarantula…
Aelita with out even looking back began to run, the tarantula chased after her firing again and again, but she kept on dodging, until her foot caught on a rock and she fell.
"No…"
The tarantula began to charge up and Aelita shook in fear…
"RAAAOO!"
Odd had planted himself between the tarantula and Aelita blocking the elf from harm. He stared the tarantula down and growled.
"Odd…" said Aelita softly.
The tarantula roared at Odd, but the feline in turn roared even louder and charged at the tarantula head-on tackling it to the ground. The mechanized monster struggled against the werecat's grip managing to get some laser shots to the chest making it so Odd had to release his grip. That only made him even angrier Odd tackled the tarantula to the ground and wrestled with it for control. The cat then managed to smash the machines head to the ground and he then proceeded to slash its symbol and hop off before the monster exploded. The cat beast roared in victory but soon a look of exhaustion came over him and the feline fell to the ground slowly transforming back to his kinder self.
"Odd!" Aelita ran to him and took him in her arms.
"He passed out"
The camp was so far away, she looked around, on one was in sight. She couldn't believe how far they had gone. She couldn't carry him the whole way, the trip would take hours. She then got an idea, if Odd could call up the overboard maybe she could too!
"Ummm… Board Appear?"
Like magic the overboard appeared right in front of her.
"Yes!"
She placed the unconscious Odd on the board and began her long trek back to the camp.
Later that night
The convey and Corporal Grey had long since left, the camp was quiet for the moment. Aelita sat on her bed, looking over at the sleeping kitty boy that had been her savior again early that day.
Aelita thought to herself, "He's always rescuing me. He always is happy around me; he gives up tons of time just to make me happy…" She gasped in shock, "Could he? No… He can't like me! Could he? That wouldn't be bad… WAIT! Did I just think that! I can't like Odd! This has got to be wrong!" She sighed, "Love is so confusing!"
Just then Sissy came into the tent, "Are you right Aelita?"
"Oh! Sissy, well I um… Want to ask you something."
Sissy sat by Aelita on Aelita's bed, "Ok."
"Um… Well… Is it ok to love one person and then to start love another?" Aelita suddenly found her fingernails very interesting.
Sissy gasped and stared at Odd and thought, "Aelita's falling for him!"
Aelita looked up to see Sissy staring at Odd and gasped, "Sissy no, please don't tell!" Her eyes began to water.
"Don't worry Aelita I swear I won't tell a soul! Secretes like this are meant to be kept secrete, and to answer your question people are allowed to fall out of love, but I'm confident that when the time comes you'll be able to choose who you love more."
"Thank you." Aelita sniffled
"No problem; now it's time for bed, and let's hope he…" Motions to Odd, "decides to wake up tomorrow."
"Yeah."
In sector 5
(In this story the episode The Key never happened. Just to let you know, so this next part will make more sense)
Jeremie just sat there, in his virtual prison, worried. He was worried about his friends, he had no idea where Yumi and Ulrich were, and he knew Odd and Aelita had escaped but he still worried about them, Aelita epically. Jeremie sighed to himself; he was the worrier of the group.
"Worrying again I see."
"X.A.N.A…"
"Now, now is that any way to treat an old friend?"
Jeremie growled, "You were never my friend."
Why was X.A.N.A being so nice?
Why did it sound so human?
These questions's plagued him.
"What's your problem X.A.N.A? Don't you want to rule the world?"
"In due time Jeremie, there's still a few things I need from Aelita."
"You leave her alone!"
"Such loyalty! Even thought Aelita's betraying you at this very moment. In fact she's been disloyal to you for a while now."
"What? You lie!"
"Wha? Don't tell me you haven't noticed! Well then I'll come down and show you."
"What do you..?" A figure materlized itself in front of Jeremie, "No way… No… this can't be right! You look so much like…"
"Aelita? Jeremie this is who I am."
X.A.N.A. looked just like Aelita only instead of pink there was black and instead of green there was grey and X.A.N.A. had tow X.A.N.A. symbols under her eyes instead of two pink tattoos.
"Stop gaping and look."
A screen popped out of nowhere and fuzzed on.
I've got everything you want,
Everything your heart desires,
Do you dare to have good time?
I was footage of the dance…
"I've already seen this!"
"Just watch."
Odd and Aelita dances together across the screen, and Jeremie cringed in jealously.
Ask yourself what you want,
Odd and Aelita stopped dancing and stared at each other, and Jeremie gasped.
Ask yourself what you want,
Odd and Aelita got closer and closer to each other…
Until their lips were about to meet….
Ask yourself what you want,
And they kissed!
Jeremie couldn't believe it! Aelita kissed one of his best friends!
He thought for a moment…
Odd was always saving her…
He always could make her laugh so easily…
He on the other hand had to work to get her to smile…
He was jealous of Odd…
X.A.N.A. saw this and smiled, Jeremie was to preoccupied with his thoughts to notice the black mist entering his body…
Later that night
Aelita tossed and turned on her bed. She was having another nightmare. There was a path before her that stretched for eternity, on one side there was a jungle and on the other was a city. She walked and walked until she saw a woman up ahead clad in a white dress. She ran to the woman and gasped… The woman was Ann Darrow! She looked very worried and distraught. Ann looked to the jungle, Kong stood there with his hand ready for her to get on, and then Ann looked to the city to see Jack Driscoll standing there ready to accept Ann into his arms. Suddenly all three vanished. Aelita looked to the jungle Odd in werecat form stood there, arm stretched out to her, and on the city side Jeremie stood there with his arm out stretched as well. Aelita looked at each, then it hit her, Ann had to choose between man or beast and she had a choice to make as well.
"Good morning sleepy head!"
Aelita stirred awake, "Odd? You're up? It's been less than a day since you blacked out."
"Really! I must be getting stronger! Well Princess, I've woken you up to tell you that you're to report to Sergeant Kitty Boy's demonic artificial intelligence slaying training camp right after breakfast!"
Aelita smiled, "Ok, Sergeant Kitty Boy."
After breakfast
"Ok now, it's time for roll call! Aelita are you here?"
"I'm here!"
"Think fast!" He threw a rock at her.
"EEEK!" Aelita put her arms up in defense and a pink barrier appeared around her deflecting the rock
"Mua Ha! My evil plan worked!" Odd began to laugh evilly.
Aelita uncharacteristically mad, "ODD! You!" a rock appeared in front of her and smacked Odd in the head.
"…" Odd was on the ground.
"Odd!" she ran over and knelt down and propped Odd's head in her lap, "I'm so sorry!" She went to check on the bruise that was developing on Odd's forehead and her hand glowed pink and felt really warm, "Wha?" she touched the bruise and it slowly disappeared.
Odd woke up and sat up, "Whoa! Did anyone get the license plate of that rock!"
"Odd I just healed you!"
Odd did a 180 and face Aelita, "Really! The plan worked better than expected! I discovered three of your new powers!" He grinned like crazy.
"Oi."
From then on they trained each other, they honed their new powers until one day Raul came; he told them of their plans… They were going to attack X.A.N.A's compound again…
The battle was on!
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