The Choice by Dragon C. Chan
Big important note you need to pay attention to: I revised Phase 3 and Friends vs. Friends so now when Odd gets mad he turns into a giant purple werecat instead of just being very feral. (It's time for you daily dosage of Kitty Boy!
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"Jeremie you need to listen to me, X.A.N.A. has you under their control! You need to fight it!"
X.A.N.A. decided to make their presence known, "That won't work Odd, he's mine now!"
The feline glanced at X.A.N.A. with a look of anger and disgust.
"So you're the one we've been fighting all along. You're uglier than I expected."
A gasp of shock could be heard from the elf behind him and X.A.N.A. just laughed.
"Are you really that dense? Have you not noticed that I look exactly like Aelita?"
"Like Aelita?" Odd laughed, "You've got to be kidding me! Your copying skills are even worse than your poly watchamacallits!" Odd's face became stern, "You don't look a thing like her."
X.A.N.A. just smiled and motioned for Jeremie to attack.
"Yumi watch out!"
The geisha had barely enough time to dodge laser fire from krabes below her.
"Thanks Ulrich!"
"It's ok but where do all of theses monsters keep coming from? I need to make more clones!"
"Hey wait! Odd said I'm a master ninja now so…"
"Now what are you up to?
"This Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
A big cloud of smoke erupted from nowhere and when it cleared 100 Yumi's stood there on overwings ready to fight.
"It worked!" she then turned to the fire samurai to find him wide-eyed in shock, "Ulrich are you ok?"
"Huh?" he snapped back to reality, "Yeah I'm ok… Oh! There's a manta I'll get it!" flies off.
Yumi rolled her eyes, "Boys." Then she flew off as well to fight alongside her clones.
Ulrich flew away from Yumi and tired to hide his blush, "I can't even handle one Yumi now there are 100 of them."
"Odd watch out!"
The feline boy gracefully dodged the incoming wire tentacles, only to have even more come his way. The elf's world was collapsing around her. She just lost her father and now the two living people she cared for the most were locked in deadly combat with each other. If this continued one of them was going to die. More wire tentacles were sent at the cat boy. Odd knew that he couldn't dodge forever, he needed a power boost or he would die and Aelita would be left alone… Then the beast within him began to awaken. Jeremie, with the sudden cease of motion, took the opportunity to wrap his wire tentacles around Odd's body.
"Nooo!" Cried Aelita
Odd's head suddenly jerked upwards and Jeremie was met by the eyes of an angry beast. Purple energy began to flow around Odd hiding him from view. Suddenly the wire tentacles cracked apart forcing Jeremie to pull them back in pain. The energy finally cleared and Odd stood there transformed. His cats eyes were burning with all of his were cat hatred. Aelita gasped in horror, when Odd was like this he had no control over himself! He only had the destruction of his enemies on his mind.
X.A.N.A. thought to their self, "This is getting interesting! As soon as they're done destroying each other I'll get what I need and I'll let that samurai and that geisha in so they can meet their destruction as well!"
Odd bared his claws, fangs, and gave off a deafening roar that filled all of Sector 5. The werecat charged forward trying to either slice Jeremie apart or crush him in his now big powerful arms. The wire tentacles all were aimed for the charging werecat were sliced to pieces. Odd bared down upon Jeremie, Aelita gasped horror, but then wire tentacles emerged from the ground grabbing the were cat from behind, flinging the beast away from their owner. Odd, undaunted, hopped back up and charged Jeremie once again. The possessed genius aimed the wire tentacles at the beast only to have him vanish and reappear behind him. Odd was nearly to Jeremie once again, Jeremie had no time to react! Aelita gasped in horror…
"Raaa!"
Ulrich destroyed another monster. They just kept coming! That was when it hit him… These monsters were only there to keep them from helping Odd and Aelita rescue Jeremie!
"Odd you can't die, or else everything will be lost."
Odd never laid his claws in Jeremie foe X.A.N.A. had wrapped its own tentacles around the werecat. Odd growled and got a quick swipe in before X.A.N.A. pulled him away from Jeremie. The brief contact between paw and head sent Odd into a startling new vision.
"Yeah!" yelled Odd on the phone with Jeremie
He was at the dance, but the only sounds he heard were his voice and Jerermie's voice.
"What Jeremie? I can't hear you!"
"Odd X.A.N.A.'s attacking! Take those Damn cat ears off!"
Odd's eyes widened in shock as the vision ended.
"Take those dawn cat ears off!"
Oh god…
"Take those damn cat ears off!"
"Odd!"
The werecat slammed into one of the walls of sector 5 and purple energy radiated off of him transforming him back into his normal self. Aelita ran over to Odd.
"Aelita… He saw us, he saw us at the dance."
A look of horror filled Aelita's face. That had been the first time either of them had mentioned anything about what happened that day, and it was all out in the open. Odd then slowly stood up and faced Jeremie; he now knew why he and Aelita couldn't reach Jeremie, and why Jeremie was so angry at them. It wasn't just the fact that X.A.N.A. had possessed him.
"Jeremie before you waste us I have something important to tell you."
Jeremie growled and wrapped a wire tentacle around Odd's arm.
Odd winced but still advanced looking down, "You're always saving Aelita and I wish I could do that…"
Another wire tentacle wrapped itself around his other arm.
Odd still with his head downward said, "You can make her laugh so easily…"
Another wire tentacle wrapped around his leg.
"On the other hand I need to work very hard to make her even smile."
Another wire tentacle wrapped itself around his other leg.
Odd finally looked up and smiled at Jeremie, "I'm jealous of you Jeremie. I really am."
Jerermie's eyes widened in shock, X.A.N.A. noticed this and became enraged.
"Jeremie! Don't listen to him! Strike him down! I command you!"
The possessed genius shook his head and shot out a wire tentacle at the paralyzed kitty boy, Aelita froze in terror, X.A.N.A. smirked with victory and Odd closed his eyes…
To a blow that never came. Jeremie couldn't bring himself to strike down Odd now, for in words unspoken Odd had told him that Aelita was his and his alone. With that the X.A.N.A. ghost that had possessed him left his body and dissolved into nothing, and Jeremie collapsed to the ground on his hands and knees. Aelita looked at the scene before her; she now knew who she would choose. It did come to her like Sissy had said.
"Jeremie!"
The elf ran to Jeremie's side and knelt down beside him.
"Ae-Aelita I-"
The pink haired elf silenced him with a kiss, and when she finished Jeremie looked at her straight at her with confusion.
"But what about you and Odd, you guys kissed and everything."
Aelita stared at Jeremie in shock, "I never kissed Odd, though we almost did at the dance."
"Bu- But X.A.N.A. showed you kiss-" The pieces began to fall into place, "X.A.N.A.!" X.A.N.A. had faked the footage!
"I don't understand you humans…"
Jeremie and Aelita turned to find X.A.N.A in front of Odd who was on his knees after the wire tentacles had released him from their grasp.
"Anger, fear, love, hate, you humans don't make any sense at all!"
Odd raised his head and met the burning eyes of the demonic artificial intelligence.
"I may suck at math and science but that's not needed to know that humans will never make sense, and that is what separates us."
That angered X.A.N.A. and in a rage the demonic artificial intelligence burst into black flames and became a specter with red glowing eyes.
"Now die you pathetic human!"
Two black tendrils flowed out from X.A.N.A. and wrapped themselves around Odd trying to crush him.
"Odd no!" yelled Aelita
Jeremie watched the scene before him, he knew there was only one way to stop X.A.N.A., and there was no other choice. Jeremie pushed Aelita out of the way and shot out his wire tentacles trapping X.A.N.A. within them forcing X.A.N.A. to drop Odd. Then Jeremie brought up a screen and started furiously typing at it.
"Jeremie what are you-?"
He had pulled the elf close so her face met his.
"Goodbye Aelita."
The elf's eyes widened in shock but before she could protest Jeremie deeply kissed her on the lips.
"I love you"
And that's all she heard before she felt limp in his arms.
"Odd get over here!"
The kitty boy shook his head, got up and sprinted over to the waiting genius.
"Odd I need you to take Aelita out of here, and take care of her for me."
"Wha-What!"
"You heard me! Franz Hopper created a virus geared towards destroying X.A.N.A. but it also destroys the activator! Now go!"
"But what of the virus Aelita has?"
"I learned a lot while connected to X.A.N.A. There was never a virus in Aelita, X.A.N.A. just stole her memories of her past life before Lyoko and when I kissed her I gave them back to her."
X.A.N.A. struggled to escape the wire tentacles.
"There's no other way?"
"No. Now take these with you." He threw two orbs and red, one blue to Odd who caught them in his paws, "You'll know how to use them but don't use the blue one till you find my parents!"
It was becoming harder to hold X.A.N.A.; Odd took Aelita in his arms and the overboard appeared. The feline turned around and boarded the board but stopped for his final words to his friend.
"I never told anyone because I didn't want to loose two of my best friends", and with that Odd took off.
Jeremie smiled and unitized the countdown to the virus release.
Out side the battle still raged on Yumi's and Ulrich's slashed, froze and burned their way through monsters trying desperately to get in.
Odd flew through the maze of Sector 5 with Aelita in his arms. Then he noticed that the walls were slowly dematerializing.
Yumi and Ulrich were almost to the tower when in a brilliant flash of light Odd emerged with the elf in his arms and he locked eyes with them for mere seconds but that alone got the message across.
Run.
Explosions rocked X.A.N.A.'s compound all of the monsters fell to the ground out of power, and everyone turned on their heels and ran. One final explosion eliminated any traces of the diabolical compound.
It was nearly sundown when Aelita finally woke up. She looked around and spotted Odd.
"Is he really…?"
Odd couldn't meet her eyes…
Jeremie was dead. The elf broke down crying. Odd then remembered the orbs and reached into his pocket and pulled out the red orb.
"Yumi! Ulrich! Get over here, its story time!"
"What are you talking about?" said Ulrich walking up with Yumi in tow.
Odd knew what he had to do. The feline concentrated and let energy enter into the orb activating it.
"Hello everyone."
The orb had produced a hologram of Jeremie! Aelita stared at it transfixed.
"I hope everyone's here. I just want to say that I'm going to miss every one of you and I wish X.A.N.A. could have been destroyed a different way. You guys are the greatest friends ever, and when this message ends a transformation program will be uploaded to you. With some practice you will be able to become your regular selves and live normal lives again." Jeremie paused for a moment and a sad look overtook his face, and he began to pixilated, "Aelita I love you. I told you I would stop X.A.N.A. from ever hurting you again and now X.A.N.A. never can."
Aelita watched as Jeremie disappeared and the orb disengaged uploading them with the program. Then she ran to the edge of the hill they were on, sat on a stone and cried. Odd frowned and walked over to join her. Yumi watched Odd go with tears in her eyes.
"He was always the caring one, even death he's helping us now. I can actually go back to my normal self now."
"But you look so beautiful."
The geisha's eyes widened in shock and she turned to Ulrich, "What?"
"You moron! You just had an Odd moment! I guess it's now or never." Thought Ulrich
"Yumi for the longest time I've felt these feelings for you and- and"
Yumi's eyes filled with hope.
"Yumi I-I I love you!"
Yumi didn't make a sound, Ulrich feared the worst, but then his fears were washed away when her lips met his.
"I love you too."
Some distance away Sissy watched the new relationship form.
"That's the boy you like isn't it?" said Raul walking up from behind.
Sissy sighed, "Yeah."
"You know there's plenty of fish in the sea."
Sissy turned to Raul and looked him in the eyes, "Your right."
Odd plopped himself down right next to Aelita. The elf was sobbing and it nearly killed him to look at her.
"It's not right, why did he have to die!"
"He died because he loves you."
Aelita faced him with angry tear filled eyes.
"That makes no sense!"
Her anger shocked him for a moment but the feline then placed his paws on her shoulders making her face him.
"As I told X.A.N.A. humans don't make sense, and love will never make sense either."
Aelita stared wide eyed at Odd, "Do- do you love me Odd?"
Odd blinked and smiled, "I do Aelita, and I do love you. Even if you don't love me I'll always be here. I promised him I would."
"Odd…"
She leaned forward and Odd took her in his arms.
"Should we leave you two alone?" Said Ulrich walking up.
"Were not the only ones to be left alone." Said Odd motioning to fact that Ulrich was holding hands with Yumi.
Ulrich blushed, "Well ahhh…"
Odd smirked, "You know you can't hide anything from me."
"Hey you guys!" Yelled Sissy walking up with Raul in tow.
"Raul, Sissy! Hey!"
Odd looked at the both of them standing next to each other and smiled knowingly.
"Odd?"
The feline looked at the elf in his arms.
"The suns going down."
"It is? Then prepare yourselves for a fantastic sight!"
The sun set in magnificent colors of orange, red, yellow. It set upon a world freed and a group of seven best friends.
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Next chappie: Epilogue
DC.C: Holy crap! The 20 years later epilogue is next! The Story is almost done!
Chibi Chibi Neko Odd: Meowwww! (OOOO!)
Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko or the shadow clone jutsu!