This chapter was written by me, and edited by AeroJester203. I only own my OC. Lila. Mary was created by AeroJester203.
Disclaimer: Code Lyoko is the sole property of MoonScoop. I do not own it.
Author's note: Sorry for the wait on the new chapter! Life happens, but it's here at last! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Teddygodzilla
Inside the gymnasium
POV Lila's
I'm currently in the gymnasium helping Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi set up decorations for the prom. Milly and Tamiya, the school journalists, are filming us setting the decorations. Milly is a seventh grader with red hair that is tied into two ponytails with yellow ribbons. She has white skin and dark brown eyes. Her friend handling the camera, Tamiya, has dark skin and light brown eyes.
"Hel-lo, my dear classmates of Kadic Academy!"
Milly says into the microphone.
"Milly and Tamiya here. We have a special scoop, for you all today. Most of you must be aware by now, that tonight is a big night for our annual prom. Sadly, we aren't allowed to film where the big event will occur. From what it looks like, there is one girl who might be crowned our beauty queen, and that girl I mean, is the principal's daughter, Sissi Delmas," Milly speaks.
I see Sissi walking towards Milly and Tamiya, with her two friends Herb and Nicholas. A memory of a conversation I had with her in the future about her younger self stirs in my mind.
In Lila's Memory
In my memory, I'm about ten years old as Elisabeth drops me off quickly back to my father's. She had taken over running Kadic Academy after her father passed away, despite Xana blowing up random buildings, in different countries, every month. She didn't want the kids to live in fear; she wanted to make school fun and have them learn in peace. She didn't even go by her old nickname anymore, preferring "Lisa" in more casual settings nowadays.
The hover car stops at the house as Elisabeth opens the door, "You know… despite Xana ruling the world, it's given me a second chance to be better to kids."
"What do you mean?" I ask while taking my bag.
"Your father would never tell you this, but I was always mean to him and his group. Especially to little kids, too."
I blink, incredulous that Ms. Delmas could be mean to anybody with how kind and upstanding she is, "You were?"
She nods with a regretful look, "I remember this time when Milly, a seventh grader, asked Ulrich out. I laughed at her when she got rejected by him. Understandably, she was too young for him… but the way I went about it. I was cruel."
"Well you're a different person now. What's done is done," I say with a smile, thanking her for the ride home.
End of memory
My memory ends when I snap back into reality. I look at Milly and Tamiya, who are still talking to Sissi.
"-Give any comments?" Milly finishes. I stop decorating and open the door fully.
"Hey Milly, Tamiya," I interrupt.
"Yes?" Milly asks as her friend focuses the camera on me.
I smile, "How about I give you guys a special preview to tonight's prom?"
"What?! No way, you can do that?" Milly asks in amazement.
"No, she can't!" Sissi denies. "She needs to get permission from my father!"
"No worries," I lie. "My mom already got it."
"Thank you so much! Some other time, Sissi!" Tamiya exclaims as they go inside the gymnasium and I close the door on Sissi, Herb and Nicholas.
"Hey!" Sissi exclaims from the other side of the glass. I smile back with a shrug as they walk away with Sissi huffing. Once Milly and Tamiya go to film Ulrich, Odd and Yumi decorating, I discreetly take out my phone. Mary quietly expels herself from it and slips through the top of the door out of the gymnasium.
"Hey, Lila!" Tamiya calls, prompting me to jump slightly in surprise while pocketing my phone again.
"Yes?" I ask in a casual tone after calming myself and turning around.
Milly holds her microphone forward, "Can we interview you?"
"Um, I'm kind of camera shy," I admit.
"Just a few questions!" Tamiya insists with her camera ready. "Please?"
"O-okay," I stammer through, walking up to them as Milly holds the microphone in front of me.
"Being a new student do you think you'll be attending the prom?" she asks.
"I hope so," I reply. "It'll be my first dance ever."
"No way!" Tamiya exclaims. "You're so pretty, though!"
"Thanks, but my father was always busy with work, so I was sent to a private school in America. They weren't fond of dancing," I lie.
"That's surprising! What sort of music do you like?" Milly asks.
"Techno," I reply as my father had once shown me my mother's techno music, she had learned, while staying at Kadic. He even mentioned to me, she played with a famous band in front of the entire school… I believe it was called Sub sonics.
"That's surprising," Tamiya comments.
"Do you plan on going with anyone to the prom?" Tamiya asks with the camera still rolling.
"Um – um," I stammer a little. "I like going by myself honestly. It's easier."
"No plans to be prom queen? Maybe you can run against Sissi," Milly says.
"No plans," I shake my head. "Besides, I'm not into that stuff. Do you mind, if we end the interview there?"
"Sure! Thank you, Lila, for the interview!" Milly exclaims happily as she gives Tamiya the cue to end the interview.
The record light turns off on the camera, I ask, "So, speaking of the dance, who are you planning on going with Milly?"
Milly looks over to Ulrich as he sets up one of the decorations, her face starting to blush as she speaks up,
"Well, it's now or never," She appears to screw up her courage and walks up to Ulrich.
"Ulrich – I – I would like you to be my date tonight! Would you, please?" Milly asks stammering a little from shyness. Ulrich steps down from the ladder, and then bends down to Milly.
"Milly… I'm a bit older than you. And you see… I'd already promised Yumi, I'd go with her," Ulrich answers. Milly starts to cry.
"Milly…" Tamiya starts before Milly drops the microphone and runs out of the gymnasium in tears. "Milly, come back! Please!" she calls as she picks up the microphone and chases after her.
"Ulrich, you're a gentleman," I tell him sarcastically as Ulrich ignores me and gets back to work. He finds masking tape as he places it on the wires.
"Come on Ulrich, don't be too sad. I wouldn't have been mad if you said yes, I mean it's only prom," Yumi says. Odd swirls the microphone in his hands.
"Even if I took you to prom?" Odd asks in the microphone while Jeremy enters the gymnasium, placing a box on the ground.
"If Odd was your date, Yumi, something tells me Ulrich would be jealous," my father says jokingly.
"I– I would not," Ulrich stammers, blushing a little.
"Sure, you wouldn't," I remark as we can't help but laugh a little.
Later
Outside
Later, we finished decorating. We heard something had happened to Sissi. After rushing to her dorm, we stand under the arches to see a small crowd gathered around her and her father. Sissi's face is covered in powder as she is in a light blue bathrobe, appearing shaken as Mr. Delmas leads her along. Milly and Tamiya are also on the scene, the redhead writing in her notebook as her friend takes a picture of the scene with her camera.
"Please everyone, give her some room. There's nothing to see," Mr. Delmas requests while guiding his daughter.
Odd turns to the rest of us, "Let's make sure a certain little friend of ours isn't up to any trouble."
"Right," Yumi nods in agreement.
We're now outside of Sissi's room, as we scan Sissi's room. It looks like a whirlpool had turned everything upside down.
"So, what's the verdict?" Ulrich asks.
"Looks like she plugged all of her appliances, all at once. I think this is a short circuit, not Xana," Jeremy answers.
Yumi nods in agreement, "I agree. There's the highlights, a lady shaver… and I think that's a curling iron. All of them plugged in together? Seems like this was bound to happen eventually."
Jeremy looks at a complicated piece of machinery, "There's a brain stimulator here too. Though, something tells me she probably never worked out how to use it. It was probably a gift from Mr. Delmas. Come on, Lila, let's go."
"Okay, if you say so," I reluctantly agree, trying to remember anything about this incident from conversations in the future as we walk away from Sissi's room.
Later, Odd and I are crossing the courtyard where we spot Milly crying on a bench with Tamiya next to her, trying to comfort her. We walk toward them to see what is wrong, hearing the photographer's latest words.
"Come on Milly, these pictures are great," Tamiya reassures.
Odd and I stop in front of them as he asks, "Is everything, okay Milly?"
"What can we do to help?" I add.
Tamiya looks around and waves for us to lean closer. We bend down to listen as she informs in a low tone, "It looks like someone took her teddy bear."
"I'm positive, it was someone older who took it!" Milly emotionally states.
Tamiya continues shuffling through the pictures, stopping as she takes a closer look at one before her eyes widen in realization.
"Milly… you may be right!" Tamiya exclaims. Odd and I walk to Tamiya's side, looking at the picture. In it, we see Sissi's room before the mess occurred.
"This is a picture of Sissi's room," Tamiya says.
"Do you see that?" she then asks pointing to a specific spot.
Milly wipes her eyes, "Yeah! It's my teddy bear!" she shouts.
Looking closely, I see the teddy bear hidden underneath Sissi's pillow. For some reason, I can't help but think it's a little too conveniently placed.
"It's hidden right beneath her pillow! That's amazing!" the journalist
exclaims.
"Who would have guessed?" Odd asks. "She must enjoy, playing with dolls or something," he jokes.
"We can't go to the dorms…, we'll get into trouble if Jim catches us," Tamiya reminds her.
"Don't worry you two, I'll handle this with Odd," I offer as I take the picture.
Milly and Tamiya laugh, happy that we can investigate for them. More importantly, I want them out of the way since I'm getting a bad feeling about this missing doll.
In Sissi's room
Odd and I manage to get into Sissi's room without a problem. Strangely enough, the teddy bear is no longer in the room. Odd rubs his head in confusion as he wonders where it could've gone to, if Sissi hadn't returned to her room since being put in the infirmary.
For some reason, I can't shake my bad feeling about this, I think it's starting to look more like Xana's work now.
Once I split up from Odd, I make sure I'm alone and whisper, "Mary, see if you can find any signs of Xana in the city."
The wisp of her spectre form leaving my pocket and traveling into an outlet is all the answer I need.
Afterwards
Inside the gymnasium
Later in the gymnasium, Mary had come back to me just before I went into the gymnasium to help with the finishing touches for prom. For some reason, she didn't seem to detect any signs of Xana's activities, which only set me more on edge. It wasn't like in the future, where he didn't have to hide anymore. Finding signs of his attacks were easier, because they were frequent in the real world. My father didn't have access to the factory anymore and that made everything much more difficult. Especially, when it came to finding his troops, like the tarantulas, those were everywhere. One wrong move… and it cost you, your life.
Jeremy sets the records as he listens to them using his headphones while I place a few more decorations on the walls.
Eventually, he takes off the headphones to ask, "The incident with Sissi… was a bit strange, right?"
"You did say it was a short circuit," Ulrich answers while tossing a roll of tape between his hands. "Too many appliances plugged in, all at once. What, other reason, could there be?" he asks.
"I think you know very well what Jeremy means, Ulrich," I remind him.
My father shakes his head with a sigh, "Well, something about this is making me feel uneasy."
"We should keep our voices down. Let's not forget, that walls have ears," Yumi reminds us as Herb and Nicholas pass by us carrying boxes.
She then gets up from the steps to stretch before turning to us, "I should leave. I need to get ready for prom. Sometimes, it's a real drag, when it comes to being a day student."
"You shouldn't complain," Ulrich grumbles. "You never have to wake up at six in the morning. You always have hot water, and you don't sleep next to a roommate, whose feet smell."
Yumi smiles as she waves us goodbye and walks to the door of the gymnasium, "I'll see you later."
"Now that Yumi mentions it, I should probably get ready myself. It'll be my first prom," I smile.
Odd tilts his head in curiosity as he sets the box he was carrying down,
"Who are you going with, Lila?"
"I'm going by myself. I recently got out of a relationship… and it was a bit heartbreaking to say the least," I lie trying to make sure Odd does not fall in love with me. That would be creepy. He's like my uncle.
"Oh…" he says as I begin to walk out.
"Keep me updated about what happened with Sissi," I request as I walk to the door.
"We will," Jeremy reassures.
After leaving the gymnasium, I walk outside as I got to the girl's dorm. I walk to my room, as I enter my room.
In Lila's room
I put my hand in the pocket and reach for my phone. I take it out as Mary expels herself from the phone.
"Smart move," she compliments. "Not wanting a relationship because of a break-up is a good excuse to go to a dance alone. It'll be difficult to find one, if it's possible at all in this timeline without altering it. Do you think Odd will buy it?"
"I'm sure he will. And besides…I had to. Odd marries Samantha Knight, not be confused with Samantha Suarez. When Odd and Samantha knight got married, my father told me it was just before the future turns to hell. Even though Odd and Samantha haven't been reacquainted yet and won't be for some time, I don't want any of the guys to fall in love with me." I say as I plop into my bed tiredly. "It would just be weird and creepy. Odd and Ulrich are like family. At least this Jeremy is already in love with Aelita; that'd be even worse to deal with. My father told me he fell in love with my mother the minute he laid eyes on her. It was love at first sight. It's just… difficult being a time traveler."
"It is," Mary agrees. "While I was away getting permission for Milly and Tamiya film in the gymnasium, you didn't change the timeline, again did you?"
"Not drastically. I mean, I averted Sissi being mean to Milly and Tamiya. But future Sissi told me she was always mean to them. I assume because it happened multiple times, I didn't get anxiety or faint from the memory loss." I narrow my eyes as I think and recall the conversation, "In fact, it's… still intact, for some reason."
Mary walks over to the window as she opens it, "I see. That is bizarre. Maybe small things like that won't change the timeline, especially if it doesn't involve Jeremy, Ulrich, Odd, or Yumi. Anyway, I'm going to go out and get your dress."
Not wanting to ask Mary how she is able to afford the dress, I decide to anyways.
"Say, uh, Mary? How exactly are you able to afford everything I own? Including the dress, you want to buy me and the school's tuition?"
Mary seems to stiffen slightly and answers, "I uh… I won the lotto. About a half a million in Euros."
"You did what?!" I exclaim, remembering that the same sort of thing got my uncle Ulrich in trouble with the rest of the group.
"Well, gotta go!" Mary excuses as she transforms into her smoke from as rushes out the window.
I rush to the windowsill, but can't spot her again. Huffing, I think,
She is so dead when she gets back!
I walk around my room, as I look at my father's laptop.
"I wonder…" I trail off as I take my chair, and sit on it. I open my father's laptop, as I push the power button on. The laptop takes a while to load, but it finally does. I begin typing on it, as I try to find one of my father's old video diaries. Something to help search for clues, about the incident with Sissi, and a teddy bear.
Eventually, time passes, as I look outside my window. I notice the sun is starting to set. I receive a text from Jeremy telling me to meet him, Odd, and Ulrich under the arches. Leaving the window open for Mary, I open the door as I walk over to my door and open it, leaving my room. I lock the door behind me, knowing Mary will still be able to get inside without me being there.
Under the arches
I meet the others under the arches, as Odd reveals a crumpled and poorly drawn picture of an angry teddy bear that he had in his hand. Apparently, Jim was attacked and had drawn an image of his attacker. Mr. Delmas had dismissed the likelihood of the teddy bear attacking him and thrown away the drawing, but Odd had taken the drawing from the trash to show us.
Ulrich takes the paper in his hand to get a closer look. "Is this even possible? Xana taking over a teddy bear?" he asks skeptically.
"Could be," my father nods. "There's always that chance, we'll find him somewhere we'll never expect him to be."
"Let's decide. Who goes to Lyoko, and who stays here?" Odd asks.
"A solo mission, would be impossible. There's too much danger," Jeremy replies.
"I'll go," Odd raises his finger with a grin.
"Odd, did you not just listen to Jeremy? We shouldn't take on solo missions. It would be easier, with more of us," say.
"Do you two have a better idea?" he asks us. "Remember there's already been two incidents. The school needs to be guarded, and once we go back in time, we can't bring anyone back. No accidents, otherwise it's over."
"Odd right's. He and Lila, should go. I can stay here," Ulrich decides as he crumples the paper and throws it away in a garbage can. He reaches out and places one hand on Odd's shoulder and the other on my father's.
"I'll let you know if I find anything here. Now, go and say hi to Aelita for me," he says
"Right," Jeremy nods.
I take out my phone and pretend to text, "I'll have to inform my mom that I won't be making it to prom, then."
I should remind Mary to get a phone, I think as I stop "texting".
I put my phone away with a nod. Ulrich releases Odd and Jeremy as I follow them to the boiler room. Odd opens the door, allowing us to run down the tunnel ahead of him before he closes the door and catches up. We leap over the pipe while grabbing our new rides. Odd grabs a skateboard, Jeremy grabs a scooter, and I grab another scooter, one that Mary had bought me recently. Jeremy and I have a similar scooter, almost identical. His scooter is silver, while my scooter is the same height as his, and the color of my scooter is gray.
Odd runs at top speed with his skateboard in two hands before releasing it and jumping on it to speed ahead. Jeremy and I follow behind him, the three of us soon reaching the end of the tunnel. We get off of our rides, climbing up a ladder that leads to just by the bridge at the factory. Odd pulls the sewer cover open, allowing us to climb up, from the manhole, and reach the surface. Odd tosses the metal cover to the side as I notice it has gotten dark out. We run across the bridge to reach the factory and swing on the ropes, sliding down to the lower level.
Jeremy presses the button to take us down to the lab, exiting a moment later to go sit down on his chair.
Odd and I, meanwhile, continue down to the scanner room. The machines close once we're inside.
"Transfer: Odd, Transfer: Lila," Jeremy starts. The scanner starts to make a noise.
"Scanner: Odd, Scanner: Lila," he continues as the scanner spins.
"Virtualization!"
A rush of wind envelops me in the scanner, causing my hair and time machine necklace to billow in the gust as the familiar white light flares and eclipses my vision.
Lyoko's Desert Sector
I feel my sight returning as I appear in the sky over Lyoko's Desert Sector. I manage to land perfectly and notice that Odd had done the same. We look around as we see Aelita waving to us. Running over to her, I notice that she is beside a big gaping hole in the desert.
"Xana's going to become angrier, and he'll want to hurt his enemies. He'll want to hurt you,"
"Huh?!" Jeremy realizes.
Wait a minute… Yumi! I think with concern. Okay, stay calm. I'm sure Ulrich is going to get Yumi, and keep her safe
We walk closer to the edge of the cliff. I look down to see several lower levels, plateau's. I realize also see strange lake at the bottom of it. If I'm not mistaken, it's the Digital Sea.
"I'm sure the tower isn't far. Look at the pulsations," Aelita says as we look at them.
Odd looks down to the lower levels, and the digital sea.
"Can't be down there, that's for sure," he says.
"Perhaps, the tower is on one of the plateau's nearby," Aelita suggests as she points to several different plateau's up ahead.
Hearing skittering legs, I look to see five Kankrelats, which looks like roaches, moving towards us.
"We don't have time now," I say as Aelita gasps and Odd scowls at them.
"Odd, Lila. Please, keep Aelita safe."
"Always," I say as I take out my staff with one hand. Odd and I start jumping as we dodge the lasers. I make sure to guard Aelita, blocking the lasers with the hard point of my staff. I start chanting in Latin, to ready the my fire bolts, and unleash them at the curled head of my staff.
"Laser Arrows!" Odd exclaims.
"Fire Bolt!" I exclaim as I swing my staff at one of the Kankrelats. Two of them explode from our attacks as I give Aelita the okay to run. Aelita nods as she starts running to the first plateau she was standing behind. I quickly put my staff away, as I switch to my sword. One of the lasers hits Odd as I try to block the rapid lasers that are firing at me with both weapons. Unfortunately, my sword is knocked out of my hand and two lasers hit me in my open side as I fly backwards.
"Odd, you're down on another ten life points," Jeremy urgently reports. "Lila twenty for you!"
"No kidding!" Odd exclaims while cocking his glove.
Acting on instinct, I hold out my hand and pull the sword towards me, my eyes widening as it flies into my hand. Having no time to think about how it worked, I put it back into its sheath, and start running with Odd down the cliff. Taking shelter on the path that hugs the wall of the pit, the rocky edge blocking the lasers.
"Lila, Odd! I think we need to move, and quickly!" Aelita exclaims.
I nod, "Right!"
I start running with her, pulling ahead to make sure none of Xana's monsters come up from the front. I hear Odd gasp and look back to see that he's breathing hard as if in shock. But he starts to move as the kankerlats appear again. He runs behind Aelita. We continue running down the path.
Jeremy speaks again,
"Odd, you're down to fifty life points. Lila, you've got forty left."
My eyes widen
No way! I thought I had more than that! Is it my magic? But it shouldn't be draining me, unless… I looked at my sword. Did calling it to my hand really make such a difference? Jeremy must not have noticed since we were under fire
"Laser Arrows!" Odd calls from behind us as Aelita and I continue to run. We reach a lower level as rocks start to fall from above, dropping towards us. With Aelita in front of me, I push her to safety.
"Lila, no!" she exclaims as the rocks throw me off the edge.
I scream as I fall, but a blur of purple moves into my vision, Odd intercepting and grabbing onto my hand before using the momentum to tackle me towards the wall where he can grab onto the stone with the claws of his free hand.
Aelita moves carefully to the edge from the higher levels, "Are you two okay?!"
"We're good! Meet us down here," Odd says as Aelita nods and starts running down the winding path. I start to look down where we are as I notice a hidden path with cables pulsing red and electricity going through them.
"Hey… it looks like I found something," I say.
Odd looks and throws me to land there before swinging himself down to the hidden path, the two of us looking inside.
I take out my staff and hum as I try to concentrate, thinking as hard as I can. If I could manipulate my sword, then I should be able to do the same with my staff. Hopefully, without the lost of any life points this time.
Go pick up Aelita and come back to me with her, I mentally command as firmly as I can.
The staff starts to hover in my hands before it flies out and up.
"How'd you do that?" Odd asks incredulously.
I shake my head while concentrating on bringing the staff back to me,
"I'll let you know when I figure it out; I'm trying to focus."
Aelita comes in, yelping a little as the staff roughly carries her down into the hidden path, balancing her along its length from between her legs before it drops her to her feet and returns to my hand. Her eyes widen as she sees the pulsations, and I look at my staff.
So calling my sword back costs life points, but my staff doesn't cost anything? I muse. That's a little weird, but it also doesn't cost me anything to use Firebolts, when it costs me twenty to use fire in my sword… Magic is almost as confusing as time travel.
"You're right. It looks like you two did find something," Aelita says as she recovers from her impromptu flight, bringing me back to the situation at hand as I hold my staff in a ready position again.
"Odd, Lila. Ulrich's informed me that Teddy is on the move, and getting angrier by the second. You'll need to hurry," Jeremy informs.
Odd readies himself as well, "We will."
"The tower should be close by," Aelita surmises as she follows the pulsations carefully.
"The tower should be…" She trails off as Odd and I catch up to her.
From behind us, we hear something rolling. Turning to look, there's a big metal ball approaching fast.
"Houston, we've got a problem," Odd informs.
A Megatank! I internally curse. I'd know one anywhere, they were Xana's main troops in the future. Being the second most mechanical of his monsters on Lyoko, Xana was able to manufacture them relatively easily, along with the tarantulas, to put down any resistance in the real world, including armies. The metal shells of a megatank made them impervious to most attacks.
Aelita, Odd, and I start running to avoid being crushed by the rolling metal ball. The Megatank continues to follow, nearly hitting us as we jump out of the way. But the mechanical monster keeps going and rolls itself onto the platform where the tower is.
"Jeremy, we've located the tower," I inform while getting up.
"Good job. Now all you need to do is to deactivate the tower," Jeremy says.
"Don't worry, we'll take care of that tower. Lila and I, still need to deal with one of our friend's," Odd says while cocking his glove after he stood as well.
"You two should be careful. You only have fifty life points left Odd. And Lila, you have thirty life points!" Jeremy informs.
No way… that when I used my staff to bring Aelita down to the lower level… I lost ten life points?! Ugh…, I'll need to make sure not to use the attraction spell. That has a nice ring to it, I think.
"Don't let the megatank hit you," he warns.
The Megatank opens as it starts charging its laser.
Odd readies his Laser Arrows as I switch out my staff for my sword. Unlike in the real world, these virtual Megatanks have a weak point when they open to attack. I start to chant the spell to inflame my sword.
The monster fires its laser, a vertical disk of death, as Odd and I dodge the attack. I continue chanting as my sword starts to grow small flames around the blade.
"Talk about heating things up," Odd quips as he tries to fire his Laser Arrows. The Megatank closes, letting the projectiles bounce harmlessly against the metal shell before it focuses on him and shoots off another laser. The feline fighter dodges the attack as my sword fully ignites. Seeming to sense this, the machine focuses on me as it starts to charge its laser again.
"Jeremy!" Aelita calls. "Odd and Lila aren't going to make it on their own! Lila still needs more time to charge her attack!"
"They're going to make it. Odd, Lila, make sure to hit the target."
"It's ready!" I exclaim as I slash and unleash a crescent blade of fire at the Megatank. It unleashes its laser at the same time, causing the two attacks to clash together. I hold my sword by the hilt and press my other hand against the back of the blade as if blocking while I concentrate on focusing my fire power to channel it continuously through the sword.
"Lila!" Jeremy warns. "You just dropped to twenty life points from that attack and you're dropping one per second while maintaining it!"
"Odd, I'm giving you an opening!" I call as I brace my sword, feeling like I'm holding the laser myself from a distance. "You've got to do it now!"
"Lila's right! It's now or never, She's gone down to ten life points!" Jeremy urgently agrees.
I look to see Odd focusing his paws as he readies his arrows. He decides instead to run around our clashing energy on all fours since there is an eye in the front and the back. He leaps onto the back of the Megatank as he aims his hand.
"Impact!" he exclaims before firing his Laser Arrow at point-blank range into the eye, causing the machine to explode.
I throw myself to the side as I roll away from the massive energy wave mixed in with my fire power once I stop maintaining it. The combined attack launches behind me, making a loud explosion after a short time. Odd lands on the ground as he gives a thumbs-up to Aelita.
"Lila are you okay? Your attack and blocking it for that long cost you most of your life points!" Jeremy informs. "You're down thirty – five life points, you just have five life points left now."
Ugh…. I really need to remember not to use my fire sword except for emergencies, I think. If fatigue was real on Lyoko, I'd be unconscious or at least dead on my feet with five life points left.
Aelita runs over to me in concern, "Are you okay Lila?"
"Yes, I'm fine, thank you. Go to the tower, quickly," I say with a smile as I get up with a little help from my mother.
"Like she says Aelita. It's, your turn now," Jeremy urges, getting a nod from Aelita. She runs up to the tower and slowly slips in through the wall. Soon, we see the tower lose its red glow in exchange for a blue one.
"Ready for a trip in time?" Odd asks.
I smile back, "Always."
The return to the trip is activated a big white bubble engulfs us. It brings us back to early this morning.
Earlier the same day
Inside the gymnasium
I realize, I'm in the gymnasium as I look at Milly, and Tamiya.
"So, speaking of the dance, who are you planning on going with Milly?" I ask.
"Well, it's now or never," She appears to screw up her courage and walks up to Ulrich.
"Ulrich – I – I would like you to be my date tonight! Would you, please?" Milly asks stammering a little from shyness. Ulrich steps down from the ladder, and then bends down to Milly.
"Milly, I'll be more than happy to take you," Ulrich replies with a smile.
Milly smiles in return as Ulrich adds, "I'll meet you here at eight."
Yumi, Lila, Odd, and I can't help but be happy for Milly.
Milly beams joyously as Ulrich stands back up, "Seriously?! You will?!"
"I will," Ulrich replies, he looks to Yumi. "I hope you aren't mad at me Yumi."
"Not at all Ulrich," she smiles. "Besides, I'll have Odd take me to the prom. Right Odd?" she asks.
The spike-haired boy smiles, "That's right."
Later, I decide to go back to my room as I open the door, then close it. I see Mary sitting on the bed not looking happy.
"You forgot to bring me to Lyoko this time. What happened?" Mary asks.
"Well… I somehow gained a new spell. I dubbed it, attraction. I can bring my staff and sword, using a form of telepathy, like what Yumi will use in time. At first, I was only using the attraction spell with my sword, and it would drain my life points. I figured, using my staff with the attraction spell, wouldn't cost me in any life points. But, Jeremy confirmed later that even when I use my staff while using the attraction spell, I will lose life points. I came close to devirtualization," I explain.
"How many life points did you have left?"
"Five," I answer.
"Then I recommend using that spell in emergency situations only. Did anything else happen on Lyoko?"
"Not a lot. I didn't change the timeline drastically like you said."
"And I just thought of something… My time machine necklace wasn't detected in the scanners. Even though you weren't with me."
Mary puts her hand under her chin as she ponders, "That is strange. Perhaps it's not just my programming that is blocking it. Perhaps your time machine necklace also acts as a cloaking device in the scanners."
I take my necklace in my hands as I stare at it, as if it would give me answers.
"Yeah, maybe…" I look at Mary, "I've been wondering… am I going to get uranium poisoning?" Mary looks at me, caught off guard by that question.
"From the power supply of the time machine?" she asks.
"Yes," I nod.
"No, you shouldn't. If you look at your necklace closely, you'll notice the chain holding the transformed, miniaturized time machine, is encased with copper, but throughout the chain contains lead. You should be safe from lead poisoning, as every now and then, I'll clean the time machine necklace. Insuring, it doesn't rust," she explains.
I pull my chair out, as I sit on it. "Thanks. Also…"You'll be able to get the dress again right?"
"I believe so," she nods.
"And listen about the lotto ticket how did you do it exactly?" I ask a bit nervously.
"I accessed one of your father's video diaries. In the video entry, your father listed several winning lotto numbers," Mary explains.
"He said it was to be used for emergencies only. He also mentioned that the people who won, squandered the money… so, I mean, I didn't exactly harm the timeline either. In retrospect… I probably helped their lives for the better."
"I suppose," I reply as I open the window for Mary. "I don't suppose you mind getting the dress again?"
"Of course not. I'll be back shortly," Mary replies as she turns into her specter form drifting out the window. I open one of the drawers in my desk and take out my diary, deciding to write in it, this time, since I haven't written anything after my first entry. I take out a pen and begin.
Dear Diary… another successful mission on Lyoko today I gained a new, but costly spell. Mary revealed to me how she's able to afford my tuition and other expenses. I'm just glad it doesn't affect the timeline dramatically. I'm still getting used to living in a different timeline, then my own. I miss my father. I want to believe that the future Jeremy Belpois that I left in my timeline is still alive. That the Xana bots didn't obliterate him… But for some reason I feel he is most certainly dead. I can't help but wonder what my role is here. I'm just starting out as a Lyoko Warrior…. and I hope in time… I'll figure out the true reason why my father sent me back this early in the timeline. There must be a reason… There MUST be!
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Author's note: Sorry about the reupload!