I've finally managed to finish this Trilogy, once and for all. I hope you guys enjoyed it, and please don't forget to add reviews afterwards. And now, on to the Finally!

Release pt.5

The now Taelia-possessed Xana swayed to and fro before lifting up it's head and letting loose a monstrous bellow that echoed throughout Lyoko.
"Oh, we are so in trouble" Odd muttered, staring up.

Taelia grinned down at them, and started laughing.
"Man, this has got to be the most pathetic sight I've ever seen" she snickered.
"You're all so teeny weeny now, hardly worth the squashing"
"So what, you're just going to ignore us and take over Lyoko and the world?" Yumi shouted upwards, fists clenched in anger.
"Well, sort of..." Taelia said, resting her head on her hands.
"But I was thinking more along the lines of ignoring you, and destroying the world"
"What?" Yumi and Ulrich gasped.
"You can't be serious!" Odd said, gaping at her.
"Note serious face" Taelia grinned. "Besides, taking over the world's too much work.
But destroying it, and everything and one my sister loves on it, well, that'll be much more enjoyable".
"And now, if you'll excuse me..." Taelia glanced up at the sky, closed her eyes, opened her mouth and started singing one clear constant note.
"Woah" Odd muttered as the digital sky above them started to quiver and turn black, white bolts of lightning-like energy streak across the surface until, with a massive tearing noise, a seam opened up and grew open wide fast.
Through the hole stars could be seen, the sounds of cars and planes and people screaming in terror drifted down to them as the hole kept on widening into the world.
"Hello, world" Taelia smiled, before commanding Xana to rise up into the sky, and fly up and out into the real world above with one clap of it's mighty wings, the gust of air flattening the gang to the ground where, helplessly, they watched the mechanical beast soar off into the night sky.

After a few minutes of silence, Odd was the first one to ask:
"Ok, so, now what?"
Yumi and Ulrich glanced at each other.
"I... I don't know Odd" Yumi said.
"Well, obviously we're going to have to go and fight here, right?" Odd asked.
"No!" Elisabeth said, before Yumi or Ulrich could reply.
"You're not going to fight her!"
"Uh? Why?" Odd asked, stunned.
"Hello? Didn't you just see what she did? Didn't you see what she's become?"
"Yeah, so?"
"So you still want to fight her?" Elisabeth asked, with tears in her eyes, "Even though she could... she could kill you?"
"Yep" Odd said, nodding.
"Why? Why Odd, why?" Elisabeth asked, crying. "Why do it? I just don't under-"
Odd placed a finger against her lips to quiet her, and then said:
"It's not because I want to fight her, it's because I have to"
"Why?" Elisabeth asked again, sniffing.
"Because we're the only ones who can" Odd said, hugging her to him.
"But-"
"Shssh, I know" Odd said, "I love you too"

As Odd and Elisabeth hugged Yumi and Ulrich quietly walked away to give them some time alone. "So, uh, got any ideas?" Yumi asked.
"Only one: Fight, fight, fight some more. Only this time, I don't think fightings going to be enough for us to win this time" Ulrich said, staring down at the ground as they walked. "Yeah, somehow I don't think Taelia's going to go down easily. Well, that only leaves us with one other option"
"Yeah, but only if she's up for it" Ulrich said, glancing over at Aelita sitting next to the still out cold Jeremie.
"Leave it to me" Yumi said, and started to walk off.
"Yumi?"
"Yes?" Yumi said, stopping.
"Uh, I just wanted to say-" Ulrich grabbed her and kissed her, hugging her as tightly as she hugged him.
"I just wanted to say" Ulrich said as they pulled away, "In case we don't make it..."
Yumi smiled, blushed, and kissed him. "I know"

"Hey Aelita, how's he doing?" Yumi asked, kneeling down next to Aelita.
"Oh, hi Yumi" Aelita said gloomily, staring down at the sleeping face of Jeremie.
"He's still out. I've tried waking him up, but nothing seems to be working.
It's like Taelia sucked the life out of him..." Aelita sniffed, and a small tear went down one cheek.
"Hey, don't worry, he'll be ok" Yumi said, putting a hand on her friend's shoulder.
"Yeah..." Aelita said half-heartedly.
Yumi stood up, dusted off some snow from her knees and said.
"Uh, Aelita, I know this isn't the best of times, but we need your help"
"You're going to fight Taelia, aren't you?"
Yumi nodded.
"Then you should know I don't think we'll win"
"Why not? We beat them last time, didn't we?"
"No, we beat Xana and Taelia last time. This time it's them both at the same time, only Taelia's the one in charge, and she's more dangerous then Xana could ever be"
Aelita's head slumped down.
"If we go head-to-head, we'll get killed"
"Hey, that's not the Aelita I know" Odd said, walking up.
"But it's tru-"
"No, it's not" Ulrich said, walking up, "We don't know it until we try"
"But-" Aelita said, staring up at them with wide eyes.
"You know they're right Aelita" Yumi said, smiling.
"Plus, since they're boys, you know they're stubborn, so they won't give up until you help" Aelita closed her eyes and smiled.
"Well, you're right on that one"
"Hey!" Odd shouted.
Aelita laughed and stood up. "Ok, let's do it. Everyone, hold hands"
"Here we go" Aelita said as they stood, hand in hand. She closed her eyes, and started glowing a brilliant white that flowed away from her and over her hands to the rest of the gang until all four of them were glowing like stars.
"Super powers activated" Aelita said as they let go.
"So, everyone ready for the fight of their lives?"
"Ready" Yumi said, holding Ulrich's hand.
"Almost ready" Odd said.
Turning around he walked over to Elisabeth standing by Jeremie, her cheeks sparkling with tears in the light around Odd.
"Gotta go" he said, taking her hands.
Elisabeth gave him a small smile, and then hugged him fiercely against her.
"Please, come back safely, ok?" Elisabeth whispered.
"Promise" Odd said.
They pulled away slowly, and as Odd walked back to the group Aelita walked up to Elisabeth, took hold of her hands and asked: "Look after Jeremie for me, Ok?"
"Sure" Elisabeth nodded.
Aelita kneeled down beside her sleeping love, stroked his hair, and then kissed him.
"No matter what Jeremie, I'll always love you"
She stood up and walked back to Odd, Ulrich, Yumi and Odd, and then, as one, they took off into the sky.
And on the ground, Elisabeth watched them go, while next to her Jeremie lay still...
... until his eyes twitched slightly.

"Ah man this is fun!" Taelia laughed as she sent a massive laser cutting across and through several buildings, most of exploding, all of them toppling to the ground, tons of debris crashing down on hundreds and thousands of innocent people.
"Let's do that again!" she shouted gleefully, cutting down another set of buildings.
Moving on she made a brief stop at the Hermitage, and took a few minutes to completely destroy it, before heading on towards her real target: Kadic High.
"Jim, hurry! Get those kids moving!" Principal Delmas shouted as he and the other teachers hurried to get the children to safety.
"Come on! This way! Run!" Jim shouted to the kids, as the giant metal monster slowly slithered closer and closer.
"Oooh goodie!" Taelia grinned. as she loomed over the school.
"Looks like school's out... permanently!" she cheered as Xana fired it's massive laser down at the school, everyone down below staring up in horror as the crimson death streaked down towards them, only to be diverted at the last minute by a small purple streak using an larger purple shield.
"Oh great, pests" Taelia sighed as Yumi, Ulrich and Aelita flew up to join Odd.
"Pests? Us?" Odd asked, innocently.
"Well, we do float like butterflies" Yumi grinned.
"But we sting like bees!" Ulrich finished, swinging his sword in an arc to send an arc of energy flying straight up at Xana's head.
"Rwaaoor!" Xana cried out as the beam struck, smacking it to the side.
"Oh yeah!" Odd cheered as the beast slammed into the ground. "How do you like us now?"
With a rumble of rubble falling off, Xana's bulk rose back up into the air, growling angrily. "I don't know about Xana" Taelia said, "But I'd like you dead"

Down the hole in Lyoko, Elisabeth watched anxiously as the sky above shattered into a storm of explosions and lightning, every now and again illuminating the four tiny figures flitting and fighting against the giant monstrous machine.
"Odd..." Elisabeth closed her eyes and prayed, her shoulders shaking as the explosions on top rolled across the skies with thunder, the flashing of the blasts shining even through her closed eyelids.
"Oh God, I feel so helpless" she thought, nervously chewing on her lower lip.
"If only there was something I could do..."
And then Jeremie, groaning, opened his eyes.

"Take this! Laser Arrows!" Odd shouted as he fired volley after volley of exploding arrows at Xana's body.
"Oh wow... not!" Taelia sneered as she threw up a shield, blocking the shots only to get hit from the side by another of Ulrich's sword slashes.
"Get lost!" Taelia hissed, sending a criss-crossing web of energy at Ulrich, which sliced through him only to reveal that it was one of his triplicate copies.
"Aah!" she grimaced as Aelita blasted her from behind before flying of to safety.
Taelia growled and readied herself to attack when someone shouted "Heads up!" from behind her. "Wha-?" Taliea twisted around just in time to see Yumi releasing her telekinetic hold on a large building top to send it crashing down unto Taelia.
"Heh, and I thought this was going to be tough" Odd said as a large cloud of dust exploded upwards as the hunk of debris slammed home.
"Rawr!" Taelia and Xana roared as they shot upwards, smashing their way out from underneath the slab of concrete. "DIE!" Taelia shouted, flinging her hands outwards and sending streamers of lasers and thick chunks of rock at them in one massive cloud of destruction.
"Odd!" Yumi shouted as the cloud engulfed him before her could dodge out of the way.
"AAAH!" Odd shouted from inside the cloud as it battered and smashed at his shield.
The cloud won the struggle, and smacked him out of the air to go smashing into the ground. "Odd! No- Ugh!"
"Yumi!" Ulrich swooped down and sliced at the tentacle gripping Yumi tightly, squeezing her mercilessly. "Let go!" he shouted, slice at it over and over again.
"Let her go- Ah!" he cried out as another tentacle swooped in and wrapped around him, threatening to squeeze his ribs in.
"Oh no..." Aelita gasped, staring at the sight in horror.
"Ah, the two little lovers" Taelia grinned, bringing them closer to her.
"Damn but you two made me sick with all your lovey dovey stuff!
Well, not anymore" she sneered, and started tightening the tentacles when a small white ball floated up to her face.
"What the- AAH!" she screamed as the thing went off, flashing like a sun, blinding her with a searing light.
"Ack!" she coughed as something struck her, hard, in the stomach, knocking the wind, and Yumi and Ulrich, away from her.
Grimacing, rubbing fiercely at her eyes, she squinted out at the blurred landscape, willing her eyes too focus.
"Oh no" she muttered as Jeremie and Elisabeth came into view.
"Oh yeah" Elisabeth said, forming another white ball in her hand and flinging it at Taelia. Instinctively she closed her eyes, only to grunt in pain as Jeremie slammed her with his weapon again. As her eyes flew open, the little ball that had been patiently waiting next her popped and flared.
"Why you little-!" she growled.

"Elisabeth? Jeremie? How did you guys get here?" Yumi asked as they flew up to join them. Before Jeremie could answer Aelita came swooping in and grabbed him, hugging him close to her as she kissed him.
"Oh Jeremie, Oh God I was so worried-"
"Sorry Aelita, I tried to stop her, but I couldn't con-"
"No, don't apologies, it wasn't your fa-"
"No, it was, and now I've got to make amends f-"
"Ahem?" Yumi coughed, her and Ulrich staring at them with eyebrows arched.
"Oh, yeah, right. Well, I woke up in the Arctic Region, and Elisabeth filled me in on what Taelia had done. We both wanted to help, but where stuck down there when suddenly Elizabeth's hands started glowing. The glow wrapped up both us, and then we flew up here" "But where did you get- Aelita, did you do this?" Yumi asked.
Aelita nodded, smiling. "I gave her the power just as we were leaving. Just in case she needed to protect herself and Jeremie"
"Uh, sorry guys, but where's Odd?" Elisabeth asked.
"Oh Odd!" Yumi gasped, staring down, "I think he might be hurt-"
"Might be nothing!" Taelia shouted, suddenly looming up behind them.
"Yee-hah!" she shouted, and unleashed a barrage of blasts at them.
"Get back!" Aelita shouted, and formed a shield around them.
"You can't keep that up forever Sis" Taelia grinned, and pumped more energy into her attack. Aelita started sweating as she tried to keep the shield stable, but quickly felt herself weakening. "Elisabeth!"
"On it" Elisabeth said, and shot up three balls.
Bamf! the sky went white, Taelia turning her head away and shielding her face with her arms.
"Hah, nice try- Hey!" she shouted in anger as she found herself alone, the gang completely gone from her site.

Down on the ground Aelita, Jeremie, Yumi, Ulrich, Odd and Elisabeth hid and rested, catching their breath while trying to figure out their next plan of attack.
"Well, attack her head on hasn't worked well so far" Odd said, grimacing at a large bump on his head.
"Yeah, she's too strong for us too take down physically" Ulrich agreed.
"Aelita, do you think we could trapped them, like you did with Xana before?"
"No" Aelita nodded, "Taelia would just break it to bits even before I could fully form it"
"Hmmm, could you separate them at all?"
"I could, but that wouldn't do any good" Aelita said, "Even separated Taelia would still be more powerful since she's absorbed all of Xana's powers. Even if I'd absorbed all of your powers we'd still be evenly matched"
"Well, we'll figure something out. Together, we'll find someway of... of...
Aelita, why are you grinning like that?" Jeremie asked.
"I think I might have an idea"
"Care to share?" Odd asked.
Aelita shook her head, still smiling, and said "Nope. You'll just have to trust me"

"Ah, here they come" Taelia sighed happily as she spotted five figures flying towards her. "Oh, but Sis isn't with them. Must've really drained her with my attack. Heh" she grinned. "Taelia! You monster!" Jeremie shouted at her as the gang got closer.
"You hurt Aelita with that last attack. Now we'll make you pay!"
"Bring it!" Taelia shouted gleefully, readying all her attacks, when suddenly the air was filled with not five, but five hundred Odd, Elisabeth, Yumi, Ulrich and Jeremie's.
"What the-?" she gasped as the swarm of heroes flew down towards her and started attacking from all sides.
"Ok, wanna play it rough?" she growled as she deflected the attacks, some real, some fake, all of them ticking her off bit by bit.
"Take this!" she shouted, and unleashed a massive wave of energy that spread out and slammed into every single one of the flies swarming over her.
"Wha-?" she gaped, staring at the completely empty sky.
"Where'd they-?"
"Right here!" Odd shouted as the five of them popped up from over Xana's noise and charged at her.
"Oh yeah!" Taelia screamed, raising her hands and flinging them down.
Or trying to.
"You!"
"Me" Aelita said as she clutched Taelia's hands tightly. "Now guys, like I told you!"
"Fire!" Odd said, and as one they all shot their most powerful blast down into Xana's head. With a massive Boom! it's head blew to bits in a cloud of smoke and fire, the destroyed bulk crashing down to the ground even as Aelita used her powers to separate Taelia from Xana's body and sped up into the sky.
"Aelita?" Jeremie shouted in surprise.
Sorry guys, but this is the only way Aelita's voice came into their minds.
"What... what're you going to do?" Jeremie asked.
The one thing I can do. I can't beat Taelia, Taelia can't beat me, so I'm going to have to change that
I'm going to merge us back together as one
"What?" they all gasped.
"Aelita, don't! If you do, you'll be gone-"
This is the only way Jeremie.
"But- but I don't want to lose you" Jeremie said, tears at his eyes.
I know. Just remember: I'll always love you
Suddenly a massive white light flared up into existence in the sky, turning the night into day. On the ground everyone stared up in awe at the new sun in the sky.
Up in the air, five friends watched in tears as two silhouettes got sucked up into the light, and disappear.

Later, after a while of mourning and grieving, the five tired heroes marched down the street towards the factory, walking past the houses and cars on fire.
Once they stopped at the Hermitage, Jeremie's body wracked by new sobs as they stared up at the pile of blackened splintered planks and bricks.
Once at the factory they went down into the control room.
"I still can't believe she's really gone" Elisabeth said as they rode down in the elevator.
"Yeah, I keep on expecting to see her at any minute" Odd said, one arm holding her against him.
The doors hissed open, and they walked into the room, the computer up and ready.
Jeremie sat down in the chair, and just sat there.
After a few minutes Ulrich stepped up and patted him on the shoulder.
"I'm sorry Jeremie, but she had to do it"
"I know, but I still don't get why?" Jeremie said.
"There must have been another way-"
"No there wasn't" Ulrich said.
"This was the only way she knew for sure that would save us. Save you"
"She did it for you Jeremie" Yumi said, standing at his other side.
Jeremie sniffed, rubbed at his eyes, and typed up the return trip program.
"Aelita..." he sniffed, "I'll always remember you"