E.L Origins

Chapter 9

The boys landed in sector five when the room stopped spinning the guys entered one of the many rooms of sector five "ok guys I'll place markers you just follow them and I'll lead you to where you need to go" Simon said

The three of them followed the markers as they slowly navigated the passage ways of sector five "hey Simon where are we heading" Rory said but there was no response "Simon" Rory noticed a marker up ahead something must of been wrong with the headset as the three got closer they noticed that the room they were now standing in was the same one where xana truly lived in sector five "where do we go now" Sam said noticing that there were no more markers

"you go nowhere" a voice said, the team recognised it as the voice of xana

"didn't Simon say that Xana wouldn't notice us so why would he bring us through here" Sam said no slightly worried

"he didn't he left the farm house ages ago before you even got here" Xana said taunting them

"but that means he tricked us that Simon wasn't the real one" John said

They were right the real Simon had been at his house but he noticed that a tower had been activated and headed for lyoko when he arrived he got a shock by seeing him self sitting in the computer chair and was now fighting against a clone in the computer room

"ok you may look like me but lets see how you fight" Simon said as he pulled out his staff and attacked his clone

He kept swinging at his clone just missing as it darted out the way and tried to attack him but he blocked it they were evenly matched until the clone grabbed the staff and sent a charge of electricity down it shocking Simon the clone yanked the staff away from him and was about to strike him when it stopped and dropped to the floor behind it was Charlotte

"you really should be able to handle one clone" Charlotte said helping Simon up

"how do you know I'm not the clone" Simon said

"well when you see someone's hands glowing with electricity you know who isn't real"

"you better get to lyoko who knows what has happened" Simon said as he sat in the computer chair and Charlotte headed to the lower floor

"guys are you there" Simon said quite worried about what must of happened with that clone at the controls

"who's talking the clone again" Sam said not sure if they could trust the voice that was speaking

"don't worry me and Charlotte took care of that impostor also she's on the way to help"

The same program that had picked up John from the tower with the transport orb when the tower collapsed was now working it's way through sector five it landed quite close to the boys and Charlotte appeared

"that trip is not as smooth as the one that goes to that platform" Charlotte said

"I wouldn't expect it to be since it takes a while to get out all the bugs" Simon said

"then you will be glad to know that this will be your last trip to lyoko" Xana said

Xana summoned four guardians that captured the group back on earth the elevator opened up and out stepped Grant "sorry I'm late is the team ok" Grant said Simon just gave him one look which Grant understood he quickly turned around hit the elevator button and went in one of the scanners "I'm sending you now"

Grant landed in the ice sector and quickly ran to the end of it Simon typed in the sicpio code and sent Grant to sector five "now to stop you from bringing any reinforcements" Xana said the computer fizzed and crackled electricity running through it Simon screamed as it ran through his body he was sent flying

"Simon can you hear me what was that" Grant said when he got into sector five

Grant looked around not seeing much except a marker he moved towards it an spotted more he slowly moved forward looking for the next one as he reached the last one he ducked behind a pillar looking around seeing the rest of the group locked in guardians

"ok lets see the team is locked in a load of guardians Simon isn't responding" Grant looked around seeing not much only a small ball of light it was strange since nothing like it had been seen before Grant walked up to it, the ball moved quickly away Grant followed it not sure where it was leading him it stopped in front of the interface "now what" Grant asked the ball

The ball went into the interface and a message came up "hello Grant it's John I sent out a small portion of my powers to help you when I realised what was going on it will allow you to work the interface I hope you can do something to help us Simon should be able to help you"

"yea like he will be any help at moment"

Grant accessed the interface and tried to find something he did manage to find something it was a sort of power core it was linked to sector five he had realised that he could use it to power down sector five he slowly lowered the power Xana noticed that he could not control everything any more especially the guardians they were using to much power he was forced to destroy them releasing the team Grant ran into the room watching the guardians break up and let his friends go free

Xana realised what had happened and undid what Grant had done "now I've got you all trapped"

"nice try but I think we'll be leaving" John said as the transport came around and picked them up they arrived in a tower John devirtualized the team one by one when they arrived back on earth they headed to the computer room finding Simon on the floor when they checked his breathing was shallow they could barely hear it and his pulse didn't seem good at all

"John activate the return to the past quickly" Charlotte shouted down the headset

The white light filled the room and Simon found himself back in the chair of the computer room "what am I doing back here" Simon said looking at the screen

"well we had to activate the return to the past you almost died you have been brought back to the time just after you got here I suggest you head home" John said

"yea can you get a message to the rest of the team and tell them I won't be here to get them to lyoko" Simon said standing up

"sure already done I'll see you later" John said watching one of his friends leave again he was annoyed that he had been tricked by Xana and started working on a way to beat him

The next day everyone met up everyone was happy with Grant for what he did in lyoko Grant didn't know whether to be happy or slightly stressed no one seemed to of fully realised that it must have been really stressful what had happened in there the fact that t was down to just him to save all of his friends if he had taken anymore time Simon could of died even though he only knew that after they were in sector five

Grant stopped walking his friends turned to face him "guys I want to leave the group I want I don't want to fight in lyoko any more"

Everyone looked at him as if he just said that he wanted to side with Xana "what how can you say that" Sam said quite shocked

"yea how could you say that we need you in the group" Rory said

"Grant how dare you say that after what happened yesterday you saved all of us" Charlotte said possibly crying a little

"fine Grant I know how we can do it" Simon said everyone was now looking at Simon he would have been the last person to say anything like that "Simon what are you joking that's not even funny" Rory said

"I'm not if he doesn't want to save the earth anymore then he can leave" Simon said he didn't look at the others he didn't want too see their faces he could tell what they would look like

"I want everyone to meet me in the computer room of the farm house after school" Simon said

The rest of the day was spent with a dark cloud over everyone's mood the day went on slowly the rest of the gang kept trying to convince Simon to help them convince Grant not to leave "no he wants to leave" Simon just kept saying

Each lesson seemed to go on twice as long Grant stayed out of the way of the rest of the team he didn't want to know he hated the fact that it always seemed to be him doing something dangerous or had to help the others

The day ended and the guys slowly went to the farm house when they arrived Grant slightly didn't want to be there Simon told Grant to get into the scanner and then scanned him and removed his code from the super computer

"ok this is what will happen by removing Grants code from the super computer it will remove the memories he has of lyoko I have made a program that will help this along since he doesn't want to go in lyoko anymore the program will remove the memories and insert fake ones that will make him think that he had an argument with the rest of the team

"thank you Simon I'd like to say to all of you that I had fun but I don't want to do this anymore"

The team looked at him even John from the computer screen Simon activated the return to the past to the beginning of the day the group came together but this time without Grant "Simon you git why did you do that" Charlotte said angrily

"because I thought that he would change his mind but he didn't"

"so what now we are one man down" Sam said as the group went into School without their full team for the first time in a while

Ok I know what your thinking how could I do this well do not worry fans I had this planned form the beginnings and we know it must end up good since Grant is with them in Time for a change of scenery