Finally, another chapter! I decided to rename the fic, because the old name sucked. I'm thinking of re-writing the earlier chapters somewhat to make it seem more realistic, and to add more detail etc. Now here's an action-filled Chapter 11, and once again, breaking the record word count with over 2,500 words. :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko.
Claimer: I own Mia, Kyle, the Scyther, the man in black that appears in this chapter, and all the new powers apart from Energy Field and Teleport.
Chapter 11
The group sat around Jeremie's dorm at school. There was a long silence, which Ulrich finally broke.
"Okay everyone, I think we should get over this now," he started. "We've got three problems. One, how do we explain Jeremie's death; two, what should we do with Kyle; three, XANA is stronger now, but by how much?"
"I can answer number 2," Kyle said. "I can stay on Lyoko. I can be devirtualized properly, so that's no problem, and like Aelita, I can deactivate the towers."
"That means I can stay on Earth to operate the supercomputer when XANA attacks," Aelita said.
"I have an idea about the death," Yumi said. "If we return to the past to some time when Jeremie was sleeping, it won't bring him back to life but at least we can say we found him like that, on his own."
"Or we can let somebody else find him," Mia added.
"Well let's go," Odd said. "I'll go with Aelita to the factory, in case XANA tries anything." He and Aelita leave the room, so Yumi, Mia, Kyle and Ulrich are left.
(At the factory)
Aelita sat at the supercomputer and was about to activate the return to the past when she noticed something.
"That's strange..." she said. "Something doesn't look right on my profile."
Odd walked over. "Hey, are those... wings?"
"I guess so, that's what it looks like, but I can't see in much detail on the character card."
"Think we should go to Lyoko to check it out?"
"No, it's better to launch the return to the past first, and check it out afterwards. Return to the past now."
(At the dorms)
"Jeremie, are you in there?" Jim was standing outside Jeremie's room, banging on the door. He looked through the keyhole and saw Jeremie "asleep" on his computer keyboard.
Aelita ran towards the room, seeing Jim. "Jeremie, get up and open this door right now!" Jim wasn't having much luck.
"Jim, I can open the door for you," Aelita said, opening the door with her spare key. She and Jim walked in, and ran over to Jeremie.
Jim raised Jeremie's head, and noticed there was something wrong. He checked his pulse, but found there was none. He looked at Aelita with concern.
"What's wrong with him, Jim?" Aelita said, faking concern as she knew exactly what was wrong.
"He's... dead. I don't understand this at all. He just went into his room ten minutes ago. I followed him because he was skipping class again. Wait, that's a good point, what are you doing here Aelita? You should be in class."
"I came to see where he went. He's being acting weird lately."
"Well, anyway, I'm going to take him to the hospital to see what happened. YOU are going back to class. This reminds me of when I worked as a hospital assistant."
"You worked as a hospital assistant?"
"Yeah, but I'd rather not talk about it."
(In the factory)
Kyle had just stepped out of the scanner. "Next time Aelita, try not returning to a time when I was on Lyoko," he said to himself. He took the elevator up to the control room. "Now to see what happened about that sphere." He sat down in the computer chair, opening up various programs. "This does not look right." He opened the telephone program and entered Aelita's number. "Hey, Aelita, have you seen what happened to our profiles?"
"Yes I have, I think we should all go to Lyoko as soon as possible to see if everything is alright. But me and the others are in class now. We'll come once school is over. Wait for us, okay?"
(Back at school)
"Hey Ulrich, something weird happened to the supercomputer," Aelita said quietly. "I noticed before we returned to the past. We should all get there after school is over."
Suddenly, as if to agree with them, the bell rang for the end of the day. "Hmm," Mrs Hertz said, having lost track of time. "Okay, dismissed, but don't forget tomorrow's end of topic test."
"I guess that's our cue," Ulrich said. "I'll get Yumi and Mia. You two head for the factory early."
(At the factory)
The elevator doors opened into the control room, and Odd and Aelita walked out. "Where's the others?" Kyle said.
"They should be here shortly," Aelita said. "We should get to Lyoko to see what happened. All three of us should go."
Kyle started the self-transfer countdown, and then the three went down to the scanner room.
(On Lyoko, Mountain sector)
"Well, notice anything different?" Odd said to the others.
"Yes, we do," Aelita and Kyle said simultaneously.
"Well, what is it?"
"We have new powers." Aelita said.
"I thought this would happen," Kyle said. "After the sphere's power was released, XANA, Aelita and myself got stronger."
"The scanning process subconsciously told us what our new powers were." Aelita continued.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Tell me what's new!"
"Okay. Flight!" Aelita and Kyle said, again simultaneously. A pair of giant white wings (A/N: They look like the wings of Pegasus Knights in Fire Emblem, which is a great RPG so you should play it!) appeared on their backs, and they took to the skies.
"Hey, no fair!"
"That's not all," Aelita said, spotting a group of four Bloks who had been scouting the area. "Energy field!" She launched two balls of pink energy at the Bloks, destroying two of them.
"Remote attack!" Kyle said. He punched the air, and a semitransparent white mark could be seen around another of the Bloks. It exploded. The last Blok ran off.
(In the factory)
Yumi, Mia and Ulrich arrived in the control room, and were surprised to not see anyone there.
"Where'd they go?" Ulrich asked.
"Hang on," Yumi said, noticing the holomap on the computer. She put the headset on. "Aelita, are you there?"
"Yes, with Kyle and Odd. Can you devirtualize us? I've got something important to show you."
"Okay, I should be able to do that," Yumi said, devirtualizing the three of them.
After a minute, they arrived in the control room. "You've got to see what they can do," Odd said. "I'm jealous!"
"Well, what can you do?" Ulrich said, wanting to know what was happening.
"I've got an idea," Aelita said. "I can extend the power of the sphere to the rest of us, so we will all be upgraded."
"So how do we find out what our new powers are?" Yumi said.
"You'll know when you get scanned next. The scanning process will transfer it to your mind."
Aelita sat at the computer. "This should only take a few minutes," she said.
"Okay, it's done. I'll transfer all of us to Lyoko. Kyle, Yumi and Mia can go first." They went down to the scanner room. "Transfer Yumi. Transfer Mia. Transfer Kyle." She loaded up their profiles on the screen. At the same time, the super scan picked up. "Great way to interrupt the process. Activated tower in the forest sector. Scanner Yumi. Scanner Mia. Scanner Kyle. Virtualization."
They appeared in the forest sector. Once the scanners re-opened, Odd and Ulrich got in the scanners, and Aelita restarted the virtualization program. "Transfer Odd. Transfer Ulrich. Scanner Odd. Scanner Ulrich. Virtualization."
(On Lyoko)
"Hey guys," Aelita's voice came from above. "XANA interrupted me by activating a tower. Try and find it."
"No problem," Odd said, seeing two Tarantulas in the distance. "Where there's smoke, there's fire..." The group ran off towards the tarantulas.
"I see what you mean now Aelita," Ulrich said, pointing his saber at a Tarantula. "Saber beam!" A beam of energy flew out from his saber, frying the Tarantula and making it explode.
Odd ran up beside him. "Stun claw!" Using a similar long-range attack, a chain came from under his glove, attaching to the other Tarantula and electrifying it until it exploded.
Ulrich and Odd looked at each other. "That was pretty easy."
"Not for long," Aelita said. "There's a Megatank and three Krabs approaching you from the right."
(In the factory)
Suddenly, Aelita saw that there was activity on one of the scanners, and then heard the elevator rise. However, it didn't stop at the control room. "That's weird," she said. "Nobody got devirtualized." She opened up the security camera window, noticing someone walking out of the factory. She had never seen the person before. He had black hair and was wearing black clothes as well, and looked quite tall. "I think we might just have found our XANA attack..."
(On Lyoko)
The Megatank fired before Ulrich and Odd could even turn around, hitting them both. "We'll have to be more careful next time. Laser arrow!" He tried to hit the Megatank with an arrow, but it closed up, and rolled towards them.
"Hey, watch out," Yumi said. The three Krabs were approaching them from all sides, and shot at the three of them simultaneously.
"Shield!" Mia said, bringing up her shield, deflecting the shot, and it hit the ground. She charged at the Krab, and destroyed it in a green explosion.
Yumi blocked her shot with her fan, then threw the fan at the Krab. It hit and the Krab exploded.
"Flight!" Kyle jumped out of range of the shot, and flew into the air. "Remote attack!" He aimed for the Krab and kicked the air. The third Krab exploded.
The Megatank had now turned towards them, and opened up, preparing to fire. "Teleport!" Yumi said, taking Mia and herself out of the range of the Megatank.
"Saber beam!" Ulrich shot a beam at the Megatank, hitting it from the other side, and it exploded.
"It shouldn't be too far to the tower now," Aelita said. "Follow the path to your left."
(At Kadic)
Sissi was walking to her dorm, and passed Jeremie's dorm. The door was wide open and the room was trashed. "I wonder what happened," she said to herself. She carried on walking, and saw the same had happened to Ulrich and Odd's dorm. She got to the stairs at the end of the corridor, and went up to the girls' dorms. When she passed Aelita's dorm, she noticed a tall, black-haired, black-clothed man in the room.
"What are you doing there?" she said to the man. He turned round, and his eyes flashed the Eye of XANA. He walked towards Sissi, picked her up and threw her across the end of the corridor, then went back in the room. Sissi got up as soon as she could and ran down the stairs and out of the building as fast as she could.
(On Lyoko)
"Hey look, more monsters!" Mia said, as they ran towards the tower which was now in sight. There were a group of five Hornets and three Mantas.
Yumi quickly thought of a plan. "I'll stay here with Odd and Ulrich to fight the monsters. You take Kyle to the tower."
"Got it," Mia said. She brought a shield around her and Kyle. "Come on." She grabbed his hand. "Veil!" The two instantly disappeared.
"Where'd they go?" Ulrich asked.
"Probably a new power," Yumi replied. "Now we've got some cleaning up to do." She threw her fans at the Mantas, and hit one of them. It exploded.
"Stun claw!" Odd said, taking out another Manta with his new power.
"Saber beam!" Ulrich said. He waved his sword at the hornets, and the moving beam destroyed them all one by one. Suddenly the saber devirtualized. "Hey, what gives?"
"I think your saber beam has limited power," Aelita said. "I'll try to program you another one."
Suddenly, another Megatank rolled from behind them unnoticed, and did a horizontal attack. It hit all three, and Ulrich and Odd devirtualized.
"Too late Aelita," Ulrich said from the scanner room. He and Odd got the elevator up to the control room.
"I'd better finish this then," Yumi said, and threw her fan at the Megatank, which exploded. The remaining Manta fired at her, and she devirtualized.
(At Kadic)
Sissi had just got to her father's office. "I'm telling you daddy, there's a big man in Aelita's room and I have no idea what he's doing there! And he threw me across the floor!"
"Hmm, well, we'll have to see what's going on." Her father walked with her back to Aelita's room.
When they got there, the man was gone, and the room was left trashed. "How strange. Who would do such a thing?" Mr Delmas said to himself. "Is there anything we can do?" Sissi asked him.
Suddenly, the double doors at the end of the corridor opened and Jim flew across the floor. The man was standing in the doorway, with the Eye of XANA in his eyes. Mr Delmas bent down over Jim. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah I think so," he replied, standing up.
"That's the man that was in Aelita's room!" Sissi said.
The man walked towards them. "Who are you?" Mr Delmas said to him.
He didn't have any time for answers. As the Eye of XANA flickered in his eyes once more, he pushed the principal out of the way, walked down the stairs and exited the building.
(On Lyoko)
"Unveil!" Mia said, and she and Kyle reappeared right next to the tower, only to be attacked by the Manta. "Remote attack!" Kyle did an uppercut, attempting to strike the Manta, but it flipped out of the way and attacked Mia again, devirtualizing her. He tried again, and managed to destroy the monster. He entered the tower, and entered CODE: LYOKO.
(At Kadic)
The man's eyes reverted to normal. He didn't faint, though. "Foiled again," he said to himself. "But the war is just beginning..." He ran off into the forest.
(Elsewhere)
"So, do you have any idea what the attack was?" Yumi asked, as the group walked through the park back to school.
"All I know is a man was walking out of the factory," Aelita said. "He was devirtualized in the scanner room.
"That's it!" Kyle said, stopping. "XANA must have used the sphere's power to exit the supercomputer! He devirtualized himself, and then only used the activated tower to possess himself so he could become more powerful."
"That would make sense," Ulrich said. "But we have no idea what he could have done."
And that's it. I'm begging you to review! I got absolutely none last chapter!