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Inside the lab
POV Lila's
I look at Mary, completely shell shocked from all of this. This is... it's so much to take in. I'm not sure how to process all of this and I start crying, my tears dropping onto the floor of the lab.
Mary turns to me and gives me a hug, a much-needed hug.
I hope you understand now… Future Xana trails off.
I do… thank you. For everything. For what you and Mary have done for me, I tell him.
Mary lets go of me and wipes my tears away.
"Xana, I think it's time," Mary says suddenly. I look at her.
"Time?" I ask her. She nods.
She's right… it is time I go. I must fuse with Mary to help heal her. We must separate… for now, Future Xana says.
"I understand. Please, go to her and help her recover," I say.
Very well, Future Xana says.
My head pulls back and my mouth opens. Future Xana expels himself out of my body and I see his true form. A huge yellow spectre slowly exits my body. My body shakes a bit, almost as if I'm having a seizure, but it subsides as Future Xana fully expels himself from me.
Future Xana then flies into Mary as he fuses with her. I look at Mary as her body starts to shake violently. It does so for a few more seconds than it did with me, but then her body subsides and stops shaking.
I see Mary's skin, hair, and eyes, become much livelier, and she's starting to look much healthier altogether.
"That's a bit better," Mary says in relief.
"I'm glad. Is he still there, in your mind?" I ask.
Mary nods. "He is."
"Okay… so then I still have a few questions."
"I would imagine, go ahead," Mary nods.
"How… how old am I? Really?"
"15," Mary answers. "You'll be turning 16 this September. Although technically you're turning 26."
"I see… so I should really be in Yumi's classes then."
"You should be yes."
"So then... my anxiety started because I met classmates that were older than me?" I ask.
Mary nods. "That's correct yes."
"And eventually I caused myself to faint at a carnival because my anxiety grew over time and I didn't tell Odd?"
Mary nods.
"Yes, that's right. While it was the only time you fainted, it wasn't until Future Xana erased your memory of Lizzie Jones that caused you to forget her and in return your anxiety went away completely. Admittedly it may not have been the best move… but Lizzie's death would have been hard for you to move on from. The anxiety would have stayed with you too," she explains.
"I think I understand that. I get now why you had to lie to me about the paradox causing my father's death way back when."
Mary nods, "Yes, I did a lot of that back then. And I lied about the paradox to protect you from the truth like Future Xana wanted me to. When you first told me about your memories coming back… I was concerned that you would find out the truth. I was concerned for your well-being. You were too young back then and I'm not sure how you would have handled everything."
"Okay so wait if I ultimately forgot about Lizzie and my anxiety spells were gone, then why did I have them when I first entered the timeline? What changed?"
"Future Xana did," Mary answers. I raise my eyebrow.
"What do you mean?"
"The moment we entered this timeline Future Xana woke up. He wasn't supposed to, and that along with your anxiety of meeting the students at Kadic, caused you to faint. He was weak admittedly, slowly but surely through the many times the you and the group used the return to the past program, his power continued to grow. It wasn't until on one Tuesday, that Future Xana's power was nearly back completely. He tells me you fainted before the return to the past was set off?"
"I did," I nod.
"That happened because of Future Xana's power affecting your body. Even after that first return trip was set off, you lost control of your powers on Lyoko because his power continued growing. It wasn't until at the end of the day, his power was fully complete. In truth the current timeline Xana sensed Future Xana's power," Mary explains.
"Now I get why the current Xana implied that he knew something about me," I say. I raise my eyebrow. "So then… the lotto ticket then?"
Mary chuckles nervously. "That well um… that was a matter of a predictive algorithm I have."
"Ah," I smile slightly, I then raise my eyebrow. "But wait there was the matter of me forgetting a memory that night Jeremy first told Ulrich and me about everything."
"That… was actually a side effect of time travel. Sorry, I had to play along… my memories are still in my data bank. Like I said… I had to lie to you a lot. Even faking my own memory loss," She says, rubbing her arm sheepishly.
"I see… I still can't believe I was born in Sector Five and that biologically I have both Jeremy and Aelita's DNA. So, if Future Xana was inside my mind this whole time… how did you know he was awake?"
"I sensed him. Even though your body was reacting negatively to his power, there was an up side. From day one you had access to Future Xana's mind and that's how you gained your visions. He allowed you access to his memories, which for the most part almost always came in the form visions," Mary explains.
"That makes sense… so most likely I won't have visions anymore from this day forward."
"No you won't," Mary says.
This really is so much to take in. And from what I understand… Future Xana was awake during everything that happened with Future Aelita and our Cameron. I hope he doesn't tell Mary about that, for her sake... I think.
"Mary um… let me ask you something about yourself now. You look better healthier I mean. You were trapped inside the Scyphozoa's mind for so long... do you remember what happened to yourself?"
"I do. I had little access to Xana's memories while inside the Scyphozoa's mind. It's how I knew he was going to attempt to kill Jeremy. Unfortunately… I remember a lot about the physical and mental torture he put me through, trying to gain full access to my mind, but he was never successful. He most likely accessed a bit of information, I have no doubt about that," she replies.
"He did unfortunately… and I take it then you didn't know what was happening to all of us after you warned me about Xana planning Jeremy's death?" I ask, needing to confirm this.
Mary shakes her head.
"No I didn't, why do you ask?" she asks.
She doesn't know that I died and that Future Aelita died. Thank goodness… that means Future Xana hasn't told her anything... yet, I think.
"No reason is all, just curious," I reply. She looks at me and raises her eyebrow. "I just wanted to make sure, with Future Xana helping your recovery… are you going to have any well, side effects from being trapped inside the Scyphozoa's mind for so long?" I ask out of concern.
"That's a good question," Mary replies. "Honestly… I'm not sure. Anything is possible. I feel fine right now, but I'm not really at 100%. Tomorrow could be a different story."
"I see... um, tomorrow then I'll bring over MB's laptop and my notes. This way you can start entering new combinations in it, to crack the passcode."
"Okay. And, I suppose I'll go into a sleep mode of sorts. It's true spectre's never sleep, but it'll be part of my recovery," she tells me.
"Right," I nod. "I should be going back to mine and Aelita's room. If Jim hasn't already found out I'm missing, I should get back before he does. Have a good night Mary."
"You too Lila," Mary smiles. I smile back slightly and start making my way to the freight elevator.
A few days later
Inside the lab
Yumi, Ulrich, and I exit the freight elevator. We enter the lab. Jeremy is typing on the keyboard, we hear a blaring alert on the computer screen. He sighs in annoyance. Mary is sitting on the floor of the lab against the holosphere display case.
"You'll get it right one day Jeremy," Mary says, trying to reassure him as she's still working on entering more numbers for MB's laptop.
"Hey Einstein," Ulrich says.
"You look awfully down today. What's the problem?" Yumi asks. Ulrich, Yumi, and I walk up to the computer. I can see the exclamation point on the window.
"I've been spinning my wheel for days now on Aelita's antivirus and Franz Hopper's diary."
"Jeremy, you're one of the brightest people we know. You'll figure it out in time," I say.
"You think so?" Jeremy asks.
"You'll succeed, just give it time as Lila said," Mary tells him. She stops typing on MB's laptop and gets up.
"But Mary… even with the data we've collected from Sector Five, I haven't moved ahead one micron. What if… what if I'm just not good enough?" Jeremy asks.
"Uh oh okay," Ulrich says, putting his hands on his hips. "I think I know someone who needs to air out his neurons a little. And here's how to do it: tonight, Odd is screening his short film."
"Anyone seen any of it?" Jeremy asks.
"He wouldn't let us," Yumi replies.
"Do we know who's in it at least?" Jeremy asks.
"Yeah, we do. Odd, Sissi, and William," I reply.
"Interesting. Well… alright, I'll go," Jeremy says. He turns to Mary. "How are you doing with the passcode for MB's laptop?" he asks.
Mary picks up the laptop. She reveals she's got two new numbers, along with the numbers I only managed to decode. 04 3 4
"Wow, that's great. You're halfway done," Jeremy says.
"I am, yes. With my predictive algorithm, I say within a few days time, possibly sooner, I'll have it cracked," Mary smiles.
"That's great. But how can you keep track of so much information?" Yumi asks.
"Simple. A spectre's memory like myself is pretty much data. I can store data like it's stored on a computer," she explains.
"Ah okay," Yumi nods.
I'm still hurt that Mary faked her own memory loss just to keep me from finding out about everything. But, it was for my protection I suppose… I think.
Afterwards
Inside the gymnasium
Jeremy, Aelita, myself, Odd, Ulrich, Sissi, and William are all sitting down in chairs, along with the rest of our teachers, students, and classmates. All of them are watching Odd's short film.
I have to admit, it's pretty good. William is the crazy ex-jealous boyfriend who locked Sissi upstairs in his room. Odd is Sissi's knight. In the film, he's currently getting Sissi and himself off the boy's floor, from outside on the roof. I'm not even sure how Sissi and Odd convinced Delmas they'd get down safely. But they manage to.
With William not far behind them, they start running away from the building, hand in hand. I smile at that, it seems Odd has really taken a liking to Sissi. But if I'm being honest, I haven't entirely been focusing on the movie. My thoughts keep going back to Mary and Future Xana.
I just can't believe everything I was shown. Or rather maybe… I don't want to. My dad died… and Future Xana protected me all those years after his death, with Mary posing as my father. I mean… I don't blame them for doing that. Not even close. Future Xana truly changed from the one we know now. Even he was devastated by our father's death. I guess that's what happens when a virus bent on world destruction gets close to his enemies, to consider them family. All in an attempt to actually kill us… and eventually becoming humanized. I still can't believe he split himself! Ugh, there's so many details of my past I wish I hadn't learned… and most of all I can't believe William was the leader of a group of people who went into one of my dad's company buildings. Why would they risk their lives to do that?
Now I get why dad never wanted me involved in the war, because it was Mary in reality, who knew all too well what his other half was capable of. The war wasn't even a war, it was all over by that time. I'm not sure who Mary made that promise to… If I had to guess... it was probably to my father, to his memory.
And Lizzie... now that I remember you... I think I really liked you. I mean like... I had a crush on you. It makes sense why I was so upset over your death. To me... you were more than my best friend. You were everything to me. And Jones... of all of the names in the world why did you have the same last name as Cameron? I don't recall you having a brother... but I'm sure there are a lot of people with the last name Jones out there. Can't be more than a coincidence right?
On that matter... did Future Aelita learn all of this? I'm not sure if she did... but if I died what happened to the Future Xana that was living within me? Did he try his best to keep me alive before Cameron killed me? And if he did... did he die with me? Or did he find a way to escape somehow? I suppose we'll never know... I wonder if I should tell the others, any of this? I think.
A piercing scream in the film brings my head back up. William is now standing all high and might like over Sissi and Odd. Odd is holding Sissi's hand, and I notice whoever the camera person is, they're in the woods. William is holding a nerf gun.
"Please my dear! We're meant to be together!" William exclaims.
"I told you, Jeff, we're done! Just leave me and Odd alone!" Sissi exclaims back at him. William's character Jeff sighs at Odd. He aims the nerf gun at Odd's stomach.
"You've gone too far this time bub," 'Jeff' says. He pulls the trigger on the nerf gun. A nerf gun bullet flies out of the nerf gun. It "hits" Odd through the stomach, causing him to fall to the ground completely. 'Jeff' runs off in the opposite direction, and the camera person focuses on Odd as he starts "coughing."
"Sissi my darling… I'm sorry. Before I go… could… I get one kiss?" Odd asks. Looking around the gymnasium, I can tell that there are some students that are actually into this film. I can even see Jim crying.
He must be really into these type of movies. What would this be classified as? Romantic? And what exactly is this nerf gun thing? Is it a brand? I think. Sissi "cries" and bends down at Odd.
She kisses him fully on the lips, as Odd then "dies" his "breathing" seems to have stopped. Sissi stops kissing him and looks at him. She's about to say something when the projector screen stops and the lights turn back on. All of us turn to Mr. Delmas, who seems infuriated? No, but something does seem off about to him.
"Sir – are you okay?" Jim asks, getting up to check on Mr. Delmas. Mr. Delmas looks at us, specifically at Jeremy and Aelita. Ignoring Jim, he walks over to us. Rather than going to talk to Odd, he goes over to Jeremy and Aelita. He starts speaking in a very strange language.
"Daddy, are you okay? It was just a movie honest," Sissi says, getting up from her chair.
"Alright everyone, let's call it a night. I think our principal is in a bit of a shock," Jim says. Some of the students start to murmur amongst themselves. Jim goes over to Mr. Delmas and helps to bring him to the nurse's office.
"Nice going Odd. I think you broke the principal," Ulrich chastises.
"I didn't mean to!" Odd exclaims. Some of the students chuckle lightly, as they don't think it's serious.
"I'm sure he'll be okay Sissi," William says, trying to reassure her.
"I… I hope so…" Sissi trails off and sits back in her chair. Yumi turns to us.
"Do… do you think it's Xana?" she asks, whispering it so William doesn't overhear her.
Inside Jeremy's room
Odd is on Jeremy's bed, I'm sitting on it too. Ulrich, Aelita, Yumi, and Sissi watch Jeremy as he is typing on his keyboard. He's launching a super scan, to see if it can locate any activated towers. So far, it hasn't.
"Nope. No activated tower. Xana's got nothing to do with it," he answers. Yumi opens the door.
"Sissi, Miss Yolanda said your father is fine. He received an electric shock, but there's nothing to worry about," she informs.
"Thank goodness," Sissi sighs. She sits down on Jeremy's bed.
"I was really worried about that kissing scene Odd. I knew we shouldn't have put it in."
"Sissi, it was just the electric shock. Our kissing had nothing to do with your father's breakdown. And besides, how do you think he would react if we were to ever date?" Odd asks.
"I'd say he'd kick you out of the academy," Ulrich jokes.
"Haha very funny," Odd says sarcastically, he rolls his eyes. Sissi, Ulrich, Aelita, Yumi, and Jeremy laugh at that. I however don't, because I'm still concerned about what I've learned.
"You okay Lila?" Yumi asks.
"Yeah, just a lot on my mind. Plus with Mary holding it up in the lab, it's just a lot of change I need to take in," I reply.
"You know Lila I could talk with Principal Delmas when he's better and ask him to room in with Sissi," Aelita offers.
I shake my head.
"No, no. That's okay. I'd never ask you to do that Aelita. I'll figure something out."
"Okay if you're sure," Aelita says. I nod.
"I am."
"Anyways, I better get going. My parents are going to get worried if I stay any longer. Night," Yumi says.
"Night." we call back to her.
The next day
Early in the morning
I wake up to the sound of Aelita's cell phone ringing. Looking down at my desk I see it's Jeremy's calling and Aelita wakes up too. She rubs her eyes and grabs the phone from the desk. She clicks the answer button.
"Yes Jeremy?" she asks. There's a pause. "Okay. We'll be there." She ends the call and puts her phone back on the desk.
"He needs us to meet in the lab," Aelita informs.
"Right. I figured as much," I say.
Afterwards
Inside the lab
Jeremy finishes explaining the situation, my eyes widen, and I look over to Mary. She nods, and I look back at Jeremy.
"Are you sure? A message written in code?" I ask.
"And it was written by Delmas?" Ulrich asks.
"Uh huh," Jeremy replies. He types away at the keyboard. "I ran the supercomputer all night to translate it."
"And…?" Sissi asks. Jeremy finishes typing. A small window pops up. It shows the coded message, which is now translated by the supercomputer.
"And look at what it turned up," Jeremy says. The message is brought into a new window. It's a bit garbled at first but…
"I want to – I want to get in contact with you. I can help you," A voice speaks.
"I can help you?" Yumi asks.
"It must be a trap by Xana. He must have found a way to possess Delmas without activating a tower," Ulrich surmises.
"That's impossible Ulrich," Mary tells him. "Xana has always attacked the real world by using towers."
"And besides Ulrich, Delmas would have tried to get Lila and me out to Lyoko. So that the Scyphozoa can steal my memory and take whatever it's looking for within Lila." She walks over to Jeremy and goes to his left side.
I'm not so sure the Scyphozoa will go after me now, especially since it was probably trying to get Future Xana all along... I think.
"Aelita's right. If you ask me, someone or something wants to contact us through Delmas. But it's not Xana," Jeremy says.
"Well then, who is it?" Odd asks. Jeremy gets off his chair.
"No idea, to find that out we'll have to talk to Delmas again," Jeremy answers.
"Well, I think it should be easy to bring my father here. I'll just take him out for some fresh air, and then tell Yolanda I lost track of time. Who wants to join me?" Sissi asks.
"I will, I'm your man Sissi. I mean – you know what I mean," Odd jokes.
"I'll go too," Yumi offers.
"I better take a look around Lyoko and make sure Xana isn't setting up a trap for us. If he is, we'd better be prepared," Ulrich says.
"I'll go with you," Aelita offers.
"With the Scyphozoa around? It's too risky," Jeremy says.
"Jeremy, stop worrying about me. Hm?" Aelita asks.
Jeremy still seems a bit concerned.
"Jeremy, Mary and I can go too. I'm sure Mary can take a break with the laptop. Right?" I ask, looking at it on the floor by the holosphere display case.
"Yes. With the four of us there, it'll be fine," Mary says, trying to reassure him.
"Okay…" Jeremy trails off.
Inside the scanner room
Mary has gone inside my cell phone, which is in my pants pocket. I step into the middle scanner. Ulrich takes the left scanner, and Aelita takes the right scanner.
"Transfer: Ulrich, Transfer: Lila, Transfer: Aelita," Jeremy starts.
The scanners doors close. I close my eyes. The scanner starts to spin. It starts to hum.
"Scanner: Ulrich, Scanner: Lila, Scanner: Aelita." The scanner continues to spin and continues humming.
"Virtualization!"
A bright light and gust of wind engulf me. My time machine necklace lifts off slightly from my neck, and the wind also billows my hair. I'm virtualized to Lyoko with Mary after such a long time.
Lyoko's Forest Sector
Opening my eyes, I see Ulrich, Aelita, and I fall to the ground. Ulrich's Overbike and my broomstick are materialized, just as we land safely.
"Great timing, nice work Jeremy," Ulrich compliments.
"Thanks. Okay, make it fast. It's just a reconnaissance mission."
"Understood. Are you all set Mary?" I ask her.
Yes. I think I have some energy to help you, should the need arise, Mary tells me.
"Right, sounds good," I say. Ulrich and Aelita get onto the Overbike, I get onto my broomstick. Kicking the broomstick into the air, I have it above the ground slightly. Revving up his Overbike, Ulrich speeds away.
"Hey hold up!" I exclaim. Kicking my broomstick into the air, I urge my broomstick to go as fast as it can and it does. It soon catches up to Ulrich, and I fly the broomstick in a normal speed.
"Good job catching up. Say, Mary, do you think you can come up with a faster vehicle for Lila?" Ulrich asks her.
Tell him it would depend on many factors. I'm not sure what sort of vehicle you would have, besides this broomstick honestly, Mary says.
"She's not sure, it depends on certain factors," I relay.
"Ah," Ulrich nods. Ulrich, Aelita, and I continue driving as we soon see something weird…
"Ulrich, Aelita, Lila. Everything okay with you guys?"
"To tell you the truth, I have no idea," Ulrich replies, shaking his head.
"Has the super scan picked up an activated tower by any chance?" I ask.
"No. Still nothing. Why?"
"Well hang on," Aelita replies. "I'll send you a visual." Aelita sends the visual of the tower we're seeing. A tower with a white aura… a few seconds later Jeremy asks:
"What the heck is this white tower supposed to mean?!"
"I was about to ask you the same thing," Ulrich says.
Mary… any idea what this white tower is supposed to be? I ask her.
Yes. This is the first time Franz Hopper is trying to get in contact with the Lyoko Warriors. We need to protect it, at all costs! Mary informs.
I nod.
"Guys, Mary is telling me this white tower is important! Whatever happens, we need to protect it!" I exclaim.
"What? Why?" Ulrich asks.
"We just do! Let's hurry up!" I reply. Flying our vehicles to the white tower, we get off them. Ulrich takes out his katana, and I take my bow out.
Two Megatanks roll down our way.
"Megatanks! Ugh! We haven't seen them in a while!" I exclaim. Taking two arrows, I put them on my bow.
"Aelita stay behind us," Ulrich says. The Megatanks open as they start charging their laser waves. I pull my drawstring back. I focus my arrows on one of the Megatanks. I release the arrows, and they fly at the Megatank.
The Megatank closes, the arrows hit the shells. It's friend releases its laser wave. The laser wave is now flat and is spreading much further than I remember. Ulrich, Aelita, and I start running as we're unable to guard the tower in time. I put my bow back on its hook.
The white tower takes a hit from the Megatank, and the other Megatank focuses on me now. It opens, and I quickly grab my hunter's knife from its sleeve. Charging it with yellow electricity, my amulet glows and engulfs my hunter's knife with yellow electricity. The Megatank unleashes its laser wave and I hold my ground. Ulrich and Aelita are behind me.
"Triplicate!" Ulrich exclaims. Ulrich forms two clones as he orders them to deal with the Megatank. Using Super Sprint, they run at the other Megatank.
I push the laser wave with my hunter's knife, as I start to gain the upper ground. Channeling more electricity into the hunter's knife, the laser wave is pushed back to the Megatank. The Megatank immediately closes its shell, but the laser pushes it back and makes it roll off the ground and into the digital sea. A blue spiraling light of energy is released. It then evaporates.
"Nice work! But I've got bad news… Xana's activated a tower! Ice Sector!" Jeremy informs.
"Great! What do we do?" Ulrich asks. His clones continue to distract the Megatank. Without hesitation, Aelita starts running toward my broomstick. Seeing her doing that, I follow her. Getting ahead of her, I put my hunter's knife back into its sleeve and I get on the broomstick. Aelita gets on with me.
Kicking the broomstick into the air, we take off and looking down the Megatank opens. Ulrich's clones take advantage of this as they take out their katana blades. They stab the Megatank in the eye of Xana, and super sprints out of the way. They back off and the Krab explodes. They cover themselves from the exploded pieces. Those pieces disappear and the real Ulrich looks at me.
"Go, we'll help guard the tower!" Ulrich says.
"Okay!" I say.
Broomstick, mach speed! I let my broomstick take control and it flies at mach speed toward the way tower. This causes Aelita to yelp a little and she wraps her arms around my waist. Reaching the way tower, we fly into its "doorway."
Lyoko's Ice Sector
Finally reaching the Ice Sector, we fly out of the way tower.
"That's such a weird experience," I shudder.
"I know what you mean," Aelita says. "Hey Jeremy, we've arrived in the Ice Sector. Do you have the tower's exact location?" she asks. Looking up,
"Due north! Please be careful. Delmas is here now... He's going to be deciphering the message he left for us. Sissi and Yumi are dealing with a possessed nurse, and if you need help I'll send Odd," Jeremy informs.
"Sounds like a plan," I say and continue flying the broomstick toward the direction of the tower.
Afterwards
Finally seeing the tower in sight. I fly the broomstick towards it. It's at least a good number of yards away.
"Aelita! Lila! Watch out!" Jeremy warns. A laser comes out of nowhere. It hits the broomstick, causing it to fall. Aelita and I scream on our way down, as we were high up. Crashing onto the ice, the broomstick breaks. It dematerializes into pixels. Aelita and I slide against the ice, as we get further away from where the broomstick was.
We finally stop sliding and try to get up, but we see one Krab heading towards us from the left side. The Krab gets closer, so Aelita and I get up and using the right side we try to get away from the Krab that's about to reach us. However, on our right side another Krab gets in our way, The two Krabs block us off.
Looking back, we start to back away but then a third Krab gets behind us. The three Krabs move closer to us, as we're now completely blocked in by them. The Krabs growl, and then we hear the Scyphozoa's drone, as the Krabs make room for it to enter.
Aelita and I back away in fear, but the Krab behind us gives us a warning shot with its laser. The Scyphozoa moves in on Aelita first, raising it's two front tentacles when… several Laser Arrows and three spades are launched. The Laser Arrows hit the Scyphozoa, and the spades cut the Scyphozoa's tentacles off. It screeches in pain. Looking up, we smile in relief as we see Odd is on his Overboard and Sissi on her Overbike. They're flying to us.
"Odd! Sissi!" Aelita exclaims.
"Thank goodness!" I exclaim.
They made it just in time! If I only I had more energy, perhaps I could have helped more, in some way. It seems the last time we fused on Lyoko consumed more energy than I initially thought... Mary trails off.
It's okay Mary. It's not your fault, I think.
Cocking his paw, Odd fires off more Laser Arrows. Sissi takes her baton off its holder. She presses the button and it extends twice its size. She swings it in a vertical position. A gush of wind is released and flies right at the Krab. The Krab is tossed over on its head, it's legs are moving. It can't get up.
"Run you two!" Sissi exclaims.
"We'll take it from here!" Odd exclaims.
Nodding, Aelita and I start running to the tower. Taking my bow off its hook, I make sure I ready myself so that if there are more monsters, I can defend Aelita all the way to the activated tower. Hearing firing coming our way, Odd and Sissi drive over to us.
"Get on," Odd says to Aelita.
"Come on Lila," Sissi says. I put my bow back on its hook. Nodding the two of us get onto our friend's vehicles. I get on with Sissi's Overbike. She revs it up, and all of us take off. Holding onto Sissi's shoulders we fly higher in the air. We look to see one more Krab from before. Seems it managed to get up and a new Krab is following us, while they shoot lasers at us. Taking my bow off its hook, I grab an arrow from my quiver. Putting the arrow on the bow, I pull the drawstring back and I try to focus it on the new Krab. Sissi drives her Overbike in the air. I focus it just enough and release the arrow.
The arrow flies, and to the new Krab. It hits the target eye of Xana. The Krab wobbles its legs. It then explodes, causing the Krab next to it to fall down. Putting my bow back on its hook, we finally touch down on the ground. Getting off Odd and Sissi's vehicles, they fly back to the Krab. Looking at them, Odd is ahead of Sissi.
He and his Overboard are shot by the Krab, and devirtualizes in a cloud of pixels. Sissi and her Overbike are next, she's not able to react in time. Sissi is pushed off her Overbike and devirtualizes. Her Overbike dematerializes just as Odd's vehicle did. The remaining Krab tries to focus on Aelita and me but misses us thankfully. There's no time to react to Odd and Sissi's devirtualization.
Nodding to Aelita, she walks up to the tower and slowly phases into the tower's "doorway."
Taking my bow off its hook, I put another arrow on it. Channeling electricity into it, my amulet glows, letting me know it's ready. My arrow is engulfed with yellow electricity. Pulling the drawstring back I steady my aim. The Krab fires several lasers at me. With its target eye in view, I release the electrically charged arrow. It flies to the Krab and hits the Krab's target eye, shocking it and the lasers hit me at the same time.
Being pushed off my feet, I'm devirtualized in a cloud of pixels. Just as I do, I see the tower's red aura to turn to blue and hear the Krab exploding into pieces.
Later that day
Inside Jeremy's room
Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, Sissi, Aelita, and I are all back in Jeremy's room. Odd and Ulrich are sitting on the ground. Aelita and I are sitting on Jeremy's bed, while Yumi is standing. Sissi is sitting on the side desk Jeremy has.
Mary is back in the lab with Jeremy. Even though we were still fused together when we were in the scanner, she easily expelled herself out of me. She helped Sissi bring Delmas back to the Hospital, and after that, she went back to working on MB's laptop. At least I know now she can be devirtualized with me. With Future Xana helping her recover, he couldn't lend any extra power to me but I'm not sure he can do that while inside Mary too. It's a good thing she's a spectre. She doesn't need to eat, or sleep a lot, or do anything us humans have to do. She can work on MB's laptop 24/7 if she really wanted to.
Looking at the door, it finally swings open. Jeremy closes it and is holding a CD case.
"Well… how did it go?" Yumi asks.
"The supercomputer deciphered all of the lines Delmas spoke while he was spellbound," Jeremy replies.
"That's great," I nod.
"So what did you learn?" Sissi asks.
"Tons of interesting stuff! And a whole lot of elements that are going to help me find the antivirus for Aelita," Jeremy says.
"And… do you know who this mysterious entity, who wants to get into contact with us is?" Ulrich asks.
"Well… take a look," Jeremy replies. He walks up to his computer and presses a button. His disk player pops out. He opens the CD case and he puts the CD in the disk player.
"I'm warning you. This is completely… crazy," Jeremy says. He presses the button again, and the disk player closes with the CD inside of it. He starts typing on his keyboard, and the computer turns on. The CD starts playing the message, as all of us go to him. The message is still garbled, but while typing he starts making it clearer.
"I can help you. I want to enter into contact with you now," the voice says.
"Wow! I can't believe it!" Odd exclaims.
"I am Franz Hopper. I am Franz Hopper."
My eyes widen.
"I am Franz Hopper?" Aelita asks, shocked.
Grandpa Schaeffer… so this is what you sound like… I trail off.
Author's Note: Yes Lila is bisexual. This will be confirmed in season 3. If you have rude comments about this please keep them to yourself. My editors and I work hard on this fanfiction. Please do not shame my OC because of her sexuality. Please remember this is a work of fiction.
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