To protect the one he loves

By- Mika Kun

Chapter Three- How much more can she take?

The next day during third block class, Jeremy's laptop beeped. "It is Xana," he told his friends. They asked to be excused and ran to the sewers. Aelita went before Jeremy.

He stepped on her fingers hard. Aelita yelped in pain and let go of the ladder. She fell to the concrete below with a sickening thud. She lay perfectly still. "Aelita!" Odd and Jeremy yelled at the same time. They ran over to her. Odd propped her head up in his lap and she slowly blinked her eyes open. "Are you ok?" Odd asked her. "Yes, I'm fine. I just slipped," Aelita told him. She stood up and got on her scooter, following the others to the factory. "Scanner, Odd. Scanner, Ulrich. Scanner Aelita. Transfer, Odd. Transfer, Ulrich. Transfer, Aelita. Virtualization! Scanner, Yumi. Transfer, Yumi. Virtualization!" The four landed on Lyoko, ready to fight.

"Augggggghh!" Aelita screamed as am electric shock coursed through her body. "Aelita! Are you ok?" Yumi asked the elf, running over to her. "Yes, Yumi. I am fine," Aelita said with a weak smile. How she longed to shout that she was not alright, Jeremy was hurting her. She knew, however, that if she did, Jeremy would just hurt her worse. Odd watched in silence. He thought it was Jeremy, but he would have to ask Aelita to be sure, and Jeremy could hear anything they said on Lyoko.

Jeremy, sitting at the computer, smiled evilly. His plan had worked. Aelita would get an electric shock every minute and the less she reacted to it, the more powerful it got. Jeremy knew it was risky, because he was just about the only one who could do that and all his friends knew it, to an extent.

"How much more of this can she take before she dies or losses it?" Odd asked himself as he rode the overboard to the tower. The nekko boys elfish passenger screamed in pain as she was shocked again. Just then, a squadron of hornets came behind them and opened fire. Aelita used her energy blast to take out one and Odd used his arrows to take out another one. "Lets finish this!" Yumi said, taking out her fans. She threw them at the last hornet and it exploded. "There are some monsters right ahead of you," Jeremy informed the group. Odd and Aelita took the lead on the overboard. "What in the world?" Odd said. There were about twenty creepers around the tower. "Jeremy, what are creepers doing out of sector five?" Yumi asked. "I have no idea," Jeremy answered.

Aelita knew another shock was coming. She had an idea. "Odd, can you get us over to the creepers?" she asked. "No problem," Odd told her. He glided over to the monsters. Just then, the shock coursed through Aelita. "Energy ball!" Aelita screamed. She tried her hardest not to scream, and the electricity was absorbed into her energy ball. "Energy blast!" Aelita screamed when she couldn't take the pain anymore. All the creepers were destroyed and the shock stopped. Aelita went into the tower and entered the code.

The four children stepped out of the scanners and went up in the elevator to the control room. Jeremy joined them and they went back to the school. The last two classes were over in a flash.

Aelita once again found herself alone with Jeremy. He stripped her and pushed her down. He pushed himself on her fallen body. She moved quickly and grabbed her underwear. She quickly put it back on and ran out of the room, putting on the rest of her clothes as she went. "Help me! He's going to rape me!" she screamed. Odd and Ulrich heard her screams and ran to meet her. She ran straight in to Odd, who held her protectively. "Odd, get Aelita out of here!" Ulrich told him.

Odd and Aelita ran to the principles office and told him what happened. They led him to the spot where Jeremy and Ulrich were. "Belpois!" Mr. Delmas screamed. "I know what you have done. You have best surrender or I will use force!" Jeremy ran away faster than any of the rest could. He hid and when they were looking in other places, he snuck to the factory and activated a return to the past. Everyone's (except Team Lyoko's ) memories were erased.

Odd thought he and Aelita should have gone to Mr. Delmas before now, but he did not want to force Aelita into anything, especially after knowing how Jeremy treated her. He was worried about what would happen now, but he still had hope.

A/n Xanarific gave me an idea for the story. Origionaly, XANA was not to be behind Jeremy's behavior but now, he will be. Everyone will see when the next chapter is posted, I hope twomorrow. This will be about five or so chapters, just so all you readers know.