Showdown in Lyoko by Dragon C. Chan
You're not even going to read this part again either are you? (It's time for your daily dosage of kitty boy!)
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"What the HELL just happened!" Yelled Ulrich.
"I don't know." Stated Yumi, then she turned to the feline child, "Do you know Odd?"
"Let me try something." Said Odd, "Board Appear!"
The Overboard materialized out of thin air next to Odd and he then placed a paw on it and his eyes glowed a soft purple.
"You see something?" asked Ulrich
"Yes, the flash of light was just a distraction! X.A.N.A. sent something through the tower and pulled Aelita in it!"
Yumi looked confused, "What could X.A.N.A. of snatched her away with?"
"I don't know, it's really blurry…" Odd tried to concentrate just on what grabbed Aelita, "It kind of looks like a tentacle…" He squinted, "…Made of wires… WAIT WIRES? OH MY GOD!"
"What's wrong Odd?" Said Yumi
Odd turned to the both of them with panic filled eyes, "I had a dream a while ago where Aelita was captured within wire tentacles and a third came out of the darkness and…" The kitty boy trailed off with a look of horror and sadness on his face. He couldn't bring himself to finish but Ulrich and Yumi understood him fully.
"We need to get in there now!" Yelled Ulrich
"Agreed!" said Yumi
At that moment more monsters seemed to appear out of nowhere and they fired lasers at the gang forcing them to retreat away from the tower so they wouldn't get hurt.
Odd gritted his teeth, "Aelita hold on were coming."
Aelita slowly stirred awake. Where was she? The elf got up and opened her eyes. There was nothing but blue….
She was in sector 5!
Aelita looked around, "How did I get here?"
"That's easy…" said a voice frightening Aelita
A figure materialized itself and Aelita gasped in shock at the dark twin in front of her.
"I brought you here."
Odd cringed, X.A.N.A. had Aelita! Right now X.A.N.A. could be doing anything to her! Odd's mind wandered off on all the possibilities, Ulrich noticed Odd's panic and decided it was time for something drastic.
"Odd! We need to get a least one of us in the tower! I've got a plan but it's a little crazy!"
Odd looked at Ulrich, blinked and smiled, "I must say I'm surprised Ulrich, the plan your thinking of reminds me of something that I'd think up"
Aelita glared at her dark twin, "Who are you! Are you one of X.A.N.A's tricks!"
"Aelita, I am X.A.N.A.!"
"No Way… Why do you look like me!"
"That doesn't concern you, for you have something I want and I aim to take it!"
With a snap of X.A.N.A.'s fingers a very familiar sick sound filled the air.
"No… No! It can't be!"
The noise came from all directions Aelita glanced around noticing that the room they were in had many pathways leading to it. Then from behind X.A.N.A. a figure emerged from the shadows.
"Nooo..."
Aelita thought back to one of their earliest training days…
Aelita sang her heart out trying to refine her materialization ability when Odd walked up.
"Aelita?"
Aelita's singing ceased and she turned to face him.
"Yes Odd?"
"I need to talk to you."
"Ok."
"Well you see Aelita I've been practicing my physic powers and I had a physic vision and I saw you before the Skithazoa attacked, and you froze. You can't freeze like that in the fights to come."
"I won't anymore. Anyways you destroyed the Skithazoa."
"Uhhh…" Odd suddenly found his shoes very interesting.
Aelita sounding alarmed, "Odd what's wrong? It's gone isn't it?"
The feline looked at her square in the eyes, "I wish I could say yes but I can't lie to you…"
The Skithazoa advanced towards the pink haired elf.
"He was right!" thought Aelita
She stepped back in fear, and then she remembered something else Odd had said…
"You've got nothing to fear from the Skithazoa Princess, you're a whole lot stronger than it."
Aelita's eyes narrowed in determination and she began to sprint down one of the many pathways.
"There's no where to run, this is my domain!" Yelled X.A.N.A.
The Skithazoa followed Aelita out of sight down the path, there was a scream, and the Skithazoa reappeared with Aelita in its grasp.
"Now drain her my pet!"
The Skithazoa's tentacles moved to the side of her head and began to drain her of her memories…
But then a soft music emanated from the pathway and none other but Aelita herself emerged.
"What!" The "Aelita" in the Skithazoa's clutches dematerialized into nothing, "A decoy!"
The elf sang and sang, a giant bolder appeared above the Skithazoa and a hole opened up in the floor.
"No!"
The music ceased and the bolder crashed down upon the Skithazoa sending it straight into the digital sea. Aelita then turned to her completely fuming dark twin.
"You…you pesky little elf girl! How dare you destroy my Skithazoa! Now you'll loose something precious to you!"
X.A.N.A. motioned to the space in between them and a figure materialized. It was the man who plagued her mind with visions and even tried to destroy them once, it was Franz Hopper.
"Aelita I'd like to meet your father!"
"CHARGE!"
Several Ulrich clones on overbikes flew forward and kamikazied themselves into several waiting monsters.
Odd flew overhead on the overboard, "What I'd tell ya a plan worthy of my mind! Whoa!" Odd barely dodged a shuriken flying past his face to see it imbed itself in a hornet that was trying to sneak up on him.
Yumi with her arm extended frowned at Odd, "That's just what I need."
Ulrich flew up to them, "Odd get ready were about to break their line!"
"Alright!"
Odd stared downwards towards the entrance to the tower ready to fly when the pathway was clear.
Ulrich motioned to his clones, "Ok ten of you take the monsters to the right out! The rest of you take the monster to the left out!"
The clones all nodded and charged at the monsters. Krabes, Bloks, tarantulas, you name it fired back unsuccessfully as one by one the clones sacrificed themselves to clear the path into the tower. Odd followed soon after heading straight at the tower. Then a megatank rolled up out of nowhere and tried to take out the kitty boy but it found itself in the jaws of the Behemoth. Odd turned backwards slightly gave everyone a smile and a salute and disappeared into the tower.
"Whoa!"
The overboard vanished leaving Odd to fall on his face.
"Ow…"
Odd grunted and got up to hind that he was inside a tower only the platform covered the whole ground and the only place he could walk to was forward.
"There's no turning back now…"
The feline child went forward and fazed right out of the tower to find himself in the room outside of the arena only the tower was in the middle of it. The room spun and spun then opened up and Odd ran to the arena doors.
"And of course X.A.N.A. is making me run the gauntlet!"
The doors opened up revealing stairs. Odd proceeded to hop down them on all fours and entered he main room to find 50 creepers waiting just for him.
Aelita stared wide eyed at her Franz hopper, "Wha-What do you mean my father! He only created me, so he's really not my dad.
"Not true! He is your father because you not a computer program like me you're an imperfect human!"
Aelita gasped in shock, she's really human? It this really true!
The elf girl looked at Franz Hopper all confused and shocked, "Daddy?"
"Yes."
Aelita was shocked, "You're really… I'm really… Why are we here? Why was I stuck on Lyoko! Why does Lyoko even exist!"
"Aelita, my daughter, I'll tell you everything you deserve to know…"
"It all began when I was a scientist working for the government; I was an expert in computer technology. One day I was given an assignment of great importance, I was to create a program that would disrupt enemy communications. Accepting that assignment was the biggest mistake of my life, I labored for hours developing my program called Carthage, and I also created X.A.N.A. a virtual person modeled after you to run it. Rumors about the project got out and everything was halted, the programs were put under lock and key, and I was reassigned. However many countries wanted the programs for themselves, and since they couldn't get the actual programs they did the next best thing, they went after the one who made them. I asked for help but our government refused to acknowledge the programs even existed. So I stole the programs and fled with you and your mother. I needed them for I had a plan, X.A.N.A. and Cartage weren't just any old program, and they were highly advanced virtual programs. The programs existed in their own world a virtual world! I decided to expand the virtual world to accommodate the three of us. The idea seems crazy but X.A.N.A. was a living program so why couldn't we become living programs? We could live in the virtual world for as long as we wanted and we could escape the people after the programs! I couldn't bear to loose either one of you, so I managed to procure a home in the mountains and got right to work, but I wasn't fast enough. I had taken a job as a teacher at Kadic academy to earn us extra money, but one day I was followed home, I didn't know who they worked for but… They got her! They got Jasmine! I was barely able to escape with you! I had rented a home in the woods called the Hermitage. They apparently didn't know about it. After that I quit teaching to work on our virtual world; Lyoko as it's been dubbed. Lyoko took me another year to finish, but now we could live in peace! We would live there for 100 years the n emerge free, to live our lives in peace but I never imagined my greatest enemy would be of my own creation."
"X.A.N.A." Said Aelita finally interrupting
"Yes X.A.N.A. had done many things behind my back. I was going to destroy Lyoko when the 100 years was up and X.A.N.A. didn't like that. When were virtualized X.A.N.A. took me prisoner and left you on Lyoko by yourself. I never meant for you to go through such pain."
"Daddy…" Aelita went to hug her father but was stopped when X.A.N.A. made their presence known.
X.A.N.A. shook their finger, "Ah, Ah, Ah, Aelita have you forgotten? I said you'd loose something precious to you… AND YOU WILL!"
And that's when the floor under Franz Hopper disappeared…
"RAOOO!"
The feline boy in a rage slashed another creeper causing it to explode. He had eliminated half of them and was so close to the key.
"Just a little but more…" thought Odd
The creepers all moved in front of the key. Odd stared them all down, extended his claws, and charged.
"Yumi watch out!" Ulrich sent a fire ball at a hornet that was behind Yumi destroying it.
"Thanks Ulrich!" The geisha looked around, "Is it just me or are their not a lot of monsters coming at us?"
Ulrich's eyes widened, "It's because there after the Behemoth!"
It was true. Every monster was after the animal king!
"They're trying to destroy him!" Yelled Yumi in a panic
The Behemoth thrashed his tail and gnashed his huge teeth, but the monsters were relentless, without Odd to protect him with his shield every laser was able to hit him.
"No!"
"He's going down!" yelled Ulrich
The Behemoth roared in pain and burst apart into digital specks.
"AHHH!"
The feline child fell to the ground of Sector 5 clutching himself. He felt so weak and his heart hurt.
"The Behemoth has fallen…"
And with that all of the creepers were on him within seconds.
"Father Noooo!"
Franz fell further and further down to the digital sea. Aelita tried to sing up something to save him but out of one of the darkened paths a wire tentacle shot out and wrapped itself around her mouth silencing her. The elf girl could only watch in horror as white energy shot out of the hole signaling that her father had entered the digital sea. Aelita fell to her knees, the tentacle retreated back, and the hole in the floor closed back up.
"No…"
Aelita's world crashed around herself….
Her mother was gone….
Her father was gone….
She was alone.
X.A.N.A. smiled at her darkly, "Now since that's taken care of I can now get what I need from you. For you see your father had hidden materialization codes for him and you from me and I need them to leave Lyoko. Your father hid half of them within himself and he hid the other half…"
Aelita's eyes widened, "Within me…"
"Yes and I aim to take them and leave Lyoko forever!"
"But-But how! The Skithazoa's gone!"
"I have another."
"You have a copy!"
"No, I have something much better!"
With a snap of the fingers a figure with several wire tentacles coming off of it emerged from the darkness.
"Je-Jeremie!"
Jeremie stood there, X.A.N.A. symbols blazing in his eyes and on his forehead, he had no glasses and he wore long blue robes.
"Jeremie answer me!"
"It's of no use Aelita, he's mine now. Now drain her!"
Jeremie walked forward and Aelita froze in fear. He wrapped his wire tentacles around her, placed two by her temples, and began to drain her of her memories.
"RAOOOO!"
The tentacles snapped and Aelita fell to the floor.
"O-Odd?"
Odd stood there claws and fangs bared staring down Jeremie and X.A.N.A. with intensely feral eyes.
"You leave her alone."
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Yep I'm just evil I know.
Next Chapter: The Choice
Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko or the Behemoth.
Chibi Chibi Neko Odd: Meoooowww! (Bye Bye!)