Oh my god, I can't believe you people! I got no reviews whatsoever for the last chapter! How dare you betray me? Just kidding. Here's another chapter:D
Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko.
Claimer: I do own Mia. I also own the black monster, which will be given a name later on and is certainly NOT a Space Pirate (Metroid) or Kabutops Fossil (Pokémon). :P
Chapter 6
"Well, let's go," Yumi said. They headed towards the tower, and soon enough ended up in the forest region. The pulsations were visible, and Ulrich and Odd were appearing right then near to them. The five joined up and headed for the tower.
"You'd better be careful; XANA sent several Krabs and Megatanks to this one." Jeremie warned.
The five continued running, following the pulsations: Ulrich and Odd first, then Mia, Aelita and Yumi behind them. Waiting for them behind a pair of trees was one of XANA's Krabs. It patiently waited for the group to arrive and aimed its laser at Aelita. However, they had just turned a corner so it missed… but instead, hit Mia.
"What the hell was that?" she complained.
"Your first encounter with a monster, that's what."
Mia closed her eyes, and summoned one of her powers. She was soon floating, and wrapped up in a green ball. This attracted the Krab's attention, which now decided to fire another laser at her. Unfortunately for it, the laser bounced straight off of her green shield and killed the Krab.
"Hey nice work, not bad for a pacifist," Odd commented.
She took down the shield. "What was that? I can't hear a thing in here."
"That's a shame because you missed another rare case of Odd using a decent word," Ulrich joked. "Anyway he just said, not bad for a pacifist."
"That's okay. Sure I don't like direct fighting but hey. What I'm really glad of is that it doesn't cost me life points to do that."
"I think we should be moving on now," Aelita interrupted. "XANA has sent the rest of the welcoming committee…"
Three more Krabs appeared, along with five Kankrelats. The Megatanks were nowhere in sight yet.
"I'll stay here with Ulrich and get rid of these monsters. Mia, Odd and Aelita can hurry to the tower." Yumi stated, drawing her fan.
Odd took down two of the Kankrelats with his laser arrows, and Ulrich wasted no time with the nearest Krab. This having cleared the way to the tower, Mia, Odd and Aelita ran along it, while Ulrich and Yumi continued to fight the monsters around them.
"Is that a Megatank?" Mia asked, looking at some giant metal ball.
"Sure is. It's gonna open up and fire at you." Odd answered.
"And there's another one behind it." Aelita added.
Mia thought for a few seconds, and was prepared when the megatank opened up. She ran up to it, brought up her shield and jumped straight into the insides of it.
"What's she doing?" Aelita asked.
"Beats me, but it better be good," Odd said.
The megatank fired, missing Aelita and Odd who were closely watching it, and closed up again. From the join in the middle, green sparks were visible. Eventually, the tank blew up in a huge green explosion.
"Nice fireworks," Odd commented. "Now where did Mia get to?"
Within seconds Mia was back with them. "Right here Odd," she said.
"What happened to the other one?"
"Oh, it died. I must be too fast for these things. It's amazing what you can do without fighting at all."
The trio ran the final stretch towards the tower, which was in sight now. Yumi and Ulrich also caught up with them. But just before they got there…
"What? It deactivated itself?" Aelita said, shocked.
"Okay, XANA must be doing something very weird right now…"
The group were still facing the tower when suddenly a yelp was heard. They turned round to see some big, black monster carrying away Aelita. Another one of these monsters appeared, presumably to fight the group. It was about 1½ times Aelita's height, and certainly looked like a much more intricate creation than XANA's other monsters. It was a humanoid shape, although you could see their joints. Its feet were made up of three curved, spiked prongs – two small ones at the back and a very long one in front. Its arms, legs, body and head were roughly like that of a human, but of course less skin, more metal; the Eye of XANA was visible on its head. It had a long, highly jointed tail, coated with spikes. But most fearful were its hands; they merely consisted of two foot-long spikes: scratching and puncturing being the obvious intention of which.
Odd was the first two speak. "Okay, is that a Space Pirate or a Kabutops Fossil?"
"Odd, you play waaaaaaaay too many videogames," Ulrich responded.
"Oh yea? Well I think XANA's been playing them."
"Uh guys, I think we have someone to save here, so stop joking around…" Yumi commanded. "Jeremie, what're our life points?"
"Ulrich, 60. Yumi, 50. Odd, 80. Mia, 60. I have to warn you that that black thing, whatever it is, has a whole hundred as opposed to the rest of the monsters you fight…"
"Well here comes a fight, you big black hunk of metal!" Odd said, running up to the monster. It turned round to face him.
"Laser Arrow!" Odd fired two arrows at the monster. They were straight in line for its Eye, but the monster was too fast. It covered up its Eye, and the arrows hit its claws. Then it was the monster's turn. It ran up to Odd, and swiped twice. Once with its right hand, once with its left.
Odd was devirtualized.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAT?" Jeremie's voice came yelling from the sky. "That thing does 40 life points a swipe? It's lost 20 life points from Odd's attack, though…"
"Well, now we know slightly more about it," Yumi said. "We've gotta be careful with these things, that's for sure."
"I think I might have an idea…" Mia said.
"Go ahead, you've certainly dealt with the last two well…"
She ran at the monster like Odd did. But when she caught its attention, she brought up her shield. She now floated in the air, inside it.
"Come and get me," she said, while knowing that no one could actually hear her due to the shield.
It ran up to her, and tried to swipe. It couldn't, thanks to her shield. However, it wasn't going to be stopped so easily. It decided to squeeze her shield instead. Mia realized what it was doing, and somehow flied over into a tree, taking the monster with her. The monster, stunned a little by the impact, released her and she quickly withdrew. Sparks were seen from its claws, similar to the ones from the megatank earlier on. But the monster didn't explode.
"Too bad Mia, it's still got fifty life points left…" Jeremie's voice came.
"Damn it, there's no way I can kill that myself," Mia said. She ran back to the group, which now consisted only of Ulrich, Yumi and herself. "Sorry guys."
"Don't worry about it." Yumi said. "Ulrich, I think we may be able to do something here…"
"What do you want me to do?"
They whispered for a few moments. Luckily the monster was too occupied sitting against its tree doing god knows what to notice. Once they'd finished their plan, they both ran up to it.
On seeing them, it focused on Ulrich, and swiped him. He skilfully blocked the claws with his sword. Yumi threw her fan, aiming for the Eye, but similarly to Odd's attack, it was blocked with the claws. Yumi didn't need Jeremie to tell her that it was now down to thirty.
"Ulrich, your turn now!"
Instinctively, Ulrich brought his sword down on the metallic monster. Again it didn't hit the Eye but it dealt damage. This attack should have killed it, but…
"He's got one life point left!" said Jeremie, sounding extremely surprised.
"What the hell? Thirty minus forty is definitely not one." Ulrich said, equally surprised.
"Well it looks like you're going to have to get it to expose its Eye to finally kill it… WATCH OUT GUYS!"
While they had been talking it had come out of its post-attack stunning, and this time attacked them with its tail, devirtualizing them both.
"Oh my god I don't believe it," Jeremie said. "His tail does SEVENTY life points of damage!"
"Okay, I think you have lived long enough," interrupted Mia, who was running back to the scene, shield up and all. "Time for plan B."
"Watch out Mia, that guy's dangerous" Jeremie warned her.
"Oh don't worry about me; I know exactly what to do now."
She then dashed straight for its head, dodging the claws with immense speed. This time, the sparks came from its Eye. It finally exploded.
Seconds later, a similar explosion was heard above her, in the tree, followed by a scream that was easily identified as Aelita's. Mia quickly removed her shield and caught her. "You okay?"
"That thing was really, really painful…"
"Well, since you're all fine and dandy now, I'll just be devirtualizing you…" Jeremie said to them. They were successfully devirtualized, and a Return to the Past wasn't necessary here. (A/N: More importantly, I want to not have to write about Saturday all the time.)
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