p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""We lost 5 Defenders and have another 7 seriously wounded. We were able to blow the robot factory and trap and or destroy over 10,000 of XANA's robots," Lieutenant Weitzler says on the phone with Colonel Sofia./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""I'm afraid that this strategy is not viable in the long term. XANA has too many combat robots and he can build them just as fast as we can destroy them," He continues./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Colonel, what if we were to fight him from the network. I should be able to quickly program a little platform into our supercomputer that we can use to run a reprogrammed Skidbladnir- network submarine from. I also have the blueprints for the scanners, which we should be able to replicate fairly quickly. This way the Lyoko warriors can fight XANA and keep him busy while I create a program to free William and finally destroy XANA," Jeremie suggests./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""That seems awfully risky. Lieutenant Weitzler, what manpower would we need to launch an all out assault on each of the supercomputers?" Colonel Sofia inquires./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""I would recommend a minimum of 4-5 squads for each robot factory and teleportation computer, 8 squads for XANA's main base in Greenland, and then 2 squads for all the others. That would sum up to over 1000 squads, more than we have operational right now," Weitzler says grimly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Ok. I guess I have no other feasible choice. I am officially merging NY squad 7 and UNMISS 3 into Paris squad 3, and sending you 2 additional squads of Defenders. Once your program is ready I will send as many squads as we can spare to help take out XANA's main base," Commander Sofia says. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Yes ma'am," Weitzler replies crisply as he hangs up./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"_/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Sergeant D'Hondt. While I am working with the Lyoko warriors in the network, you are in command of this facility. Protect the computer and the scanners at all costs," Weitzler says, glancing at the jury rigged but functional tubes that are the scanners./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Yes sir. Good hunting,". Sergeant D'Hondt replies./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""OK. Are you ready to travel into the network?" Jeremie asks, as Weitzler enters the scanner./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Yes," Weitzler says stoically./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Transfer Weitzler," Jeremie says, typing away on his keyboard./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Scanner Weitzler," Jeremie continues, typing even faster./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Virtualization," Jeremie says as he pounds on the enter key./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"_/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"A white scaffold of a man forms in the air. A few seconds later, all the details are filled in and he drops to the ground, landing in a crouch. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Well Lieutenant, how do you feel?" Aelita asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Standing before the Lyoko warriors is a man dressed in blue pants and a green shirt with a thick combat helmet on his head. His helmet is decorated with 6 golden stars in a circle, and on his right breast is a golden badge that reads SPD 00. He reaches up behind his back and grabs a silver cylinder. Flicking the red button on it straight up, he ignites its 2 sickly yellow blades, twirls it around in his hand and says: "Ready to take on XANA,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Is this what Lyoko looked like?" Weitzler asks, as he surveys the small bright blue platform with the lumpy, black Skid anchored in the middle of it. Surrounding the platform is a shimmer of turquoise light./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Lyoko was much more complex than this. This is just a platform for us to anchor the Skid," Aelita says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Ok. If you're ready we can start our first mission," Jeremie's disembodied voice says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"The Lyoko warriors and Lieutenant Weitzler run towards the Skid docking area. They run behind one of the docking support struts and stand on a circular pad. Once everyone is in position, they are surrounded in blue light and transferred into the Skid. The second they are all in, Jeremie disconnects the support struts, and the Skid slowly drops into the digital sea. Once fully submerged it travels down a tube through the flood gate./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Wow. I never imagined that the internet would look like this," Weitzler says, looking at the blue blocks, white tubing, and network access ports surrounding the bright blue shell that is their base./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"With one flick of the controls the Skid converts into its horizontal mode and starts shooting across the digital sea. Once it reaches the nearest port it goes into vertical mode and then drops into its hypermatter fluid, heading for its first target. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"_/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Seconds later, it comes shooting out of another network access node on the other side of the network./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"As they shoot out of the network access port, Weitzler notes: "Why is everything red?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""That means XANA's monsters are close," Aelita says as she quickly brings the Skid to a halt./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Up ahead they can see 6 metallic piranhas with bright blue tails swimming around a metallic squid./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""The Kalamar!" Odd exclaims/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""I'm releasing the Nav Skids. Good hunting," Aelita says as she pulls the levers to release the Nav Skids./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Once released, the 4 Nav Skids float a few inches above the Skid and then blast away, towards the monsters, who start swimming towards them, shooting ruby red lasers from their eyes. Locking a target on the nearest Kongre, Weitzler sends a torpedo blasting at it. It dodges to the left and rockets past him, turning around and beginning to fire on him. He then begins to move his Nav Skid up, down and to the side randomly, to try to confuse its targeting lock./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""I've got 2 on me tighter than Melany," Odd shouts as he frantically tries to shake the Kongres behind him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Cognizant of the Kongre behind him, Weitzler states: "Odd, come about heading 265. On my mark, enter a right circle, and I will blast these 2 off you, and you can blast this one off me,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"As Odd complies and Weitzler comes up behind near him, he shouts "Mark,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Odd enters a tight right circle, bringing the 2 Kongres behind him into Weitzler's targeting brackets. He quickly shoots 2 torpedoes at them, causing them to explode into bright yellow flames. A surge forward tells him that Odd successfully destroyed the Kongre behind him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Weitzler, Odd, Aelita needs your help," Jeremie's disembodied voice says, cracking with stress./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Weitzler and Odd exit their circles and shoot towards the Skid./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"When they get there, it is frantically firing torpedoes at the metallic squid. As the torpedoes hit they explode harmlessly against the Kalamar's shell, and it lands on top of the Skid. The shields flare turquoise as it opens up and exposes its main weapon- a drill, and starts trying to drill through the shields. Seeing the approaching Nav Skids, Aelita activates the retrobrakes and slides back away from the Kalamar. Weitzler, Odd, and Aelita each shoot 6 torpedoes at it as it frantically tries to dodge them. In quick succession it is hit by 4 torpedoes and it explodes into a ball of orange fire. As it explodes their surroundings change from red to blue. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Ok. Everything looks clear. Return to the Skid and we can return to the Replika," Jeremie's disembodied voice says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Once all the Nav Skids have returned, the Skid starts gliding towards the nearby blue shell. Using her network access key, Aelita opens the floodgate and they enter into the Replika./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"As they cross through the translucent orange digital sea and start shooting up into the sky, they find themselves facing a brownish yellow data tube./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It looks like we have another sector 5 Replika," Odd states as they fly through the tube./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Looking out from his Nav Skid, Weitzler can see a massive, baby blue sphere suspended inside a chamber surrounded by what appears to be programs being run. The Skid then flies up to the North Pole of the sphere, and flies through it. Inside, they find a lone tower- a tall white cylinder surrounded by a white fog. As the Skid approaches the tower, its fog turns green and a solid pink tether forms between the Skid and tower./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""What is that?" Weitzler asks, looking at the pink light/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""That is the docking system- it is what allows us to connect to the Replikas," Aelita responds./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Weitzler, Aelita, Yumi, I'm going to send you to the supercomputer. Odd, Ulrich, you are on Skid Protection detail,"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanJeremie's disembodied voice says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"A few seconds later, Weitzler, Aelita, and Yumi disappear from the Skid./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"_ /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"3 balls of energy form in the middle of the ocean. From them, Weitzler, Yumi, and Aelita drop out. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Jeremie, I think you made a mistake- we're in the middle of the ocean," Yumi says as she treads water./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""What's that platform about 1000 feet in front of us?" Weitzler asks as he surveys the environment. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Give me 1 minute, I am working on locating you now," Jeremie's disembodied voice says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It appears that you are in the North Sea off the coast of the UK," he continues./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""The supercomputer must be in the Principality of Sealand," Weitzler exclaims./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""The what?!" Yumi asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It's a small semi-defunct micronation off the coast of the UK. Its entire land holdings consist of an abandoned World War II era defensive platform," Weitzler exclaims./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It appears that the supercomputer is on that platform- start swimming," Jeremie says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"The 3 warriors start swimming through the rough sea towards the platform. As they approach it, they can see a Tarantula sitting on top of a hut on the platform, with Creepers crawling all over it./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It looks like XANA does not want anything getting to the platform," Yumi says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"To avoid detection, they swim the last 500 feet to the platform deep underwater. Once they reach the 2 massive columns supporting the platform, Weitzler presses the red button on his lightsaber to the left, igniting just one of its sickly yellow blades. He then cuts a series of footholds into the column, as he and the other warriors climb up. Once they are immediately below the rusty platform, they swing on the exposed pipes until they reach the edge of the platform. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Once they reach the edge the 3 warriors catapult themselves onto the top of the platform. Weitzler ignites his second sickly yellow blade and starts blocking the red lasers that the Creepers are shooting at them. Standing behind him, Aelita tosses her energy fields at the Creepers, dropping them 3 at a time as Yumi throws her fans at the Creepers, slicing them in style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Lookout!" Yumi exclaims, as the Tarantula on top of the roof starts aiming at them. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"The 3 warriors dive out of the way, as the Tarantula sends a rapid burst of red lasers straight at where they were standing. Using his lightsaber, Weitzler deflects the laser bursts at 2 of the Creepers as he runs to an exposed rigging on the platform. Climbing onto it, he extinguishes one of the blades as he climbs up it until he is level with the Tarantula. Jumping from the rigging onto the hut, Weitzler reignites the second blade and charges the Tarantula. He swings his blade, cleanly separating the monster's head from its body. As he leaps down from the hut onto the platform, he swings his saber cleanly through the last remaining Creepers./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""OK Jeremie, the platform appears to be secure. Where is the supercomputer?" Weitzler asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It appears to be inside the hut," Jeremie says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""The door's locked," Aelita exclaims as she tries to enter the hut./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Stand back," Weitzler orders./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Using his lightsaber, he cuts through the metal of the door as if it is melting butter. As he shoves the remains of the door out of the way, a bolt of purple electricity shoots out. Using his lightsaber blade, he absorbs the electricity and goes rushing in, to find a lone man standing in front of the supercomputer with all its wires and randomly blinking lights. The man charges and Weitzler sweeps his saber through the man's midsection, causing it to pixelate. Yumi drags the man outside and stands guard on him, ready to stop him if he gets up to attack./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Stop!" Aelita shouts, as Weitzler was about to plunge his lightsaber deep into the supercomputer./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Why?" Weitzler asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Normally with supercomputers like this in facilities that have not been abandoned we try to not cause suspicious damage to the computer," Aelita answers/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""That should not be an issue. Sealand had its recognition as a nation revoked in the 90s. It is not a country, and if anyone asks any questions we can just say it was destroyed by UN Defender Command," Weitzler responds./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Weitzler then stabs his lightsaber into the middle of the supercomputer and pulls it out, leaving black hole in the middle of it. He makes 3 more of the holes for good measure before Jeremie translates them back to the Skid. The warriors quickly leave the Replika. As they travel away from it, its blue shell glows yellow as it explodes. Marking the first success of this new style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""I'm afraid that this strategy is not viable in the long term. XANA has too many combat robots and he can build them just as fast as we can destroy them," He continues./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Colonel, what if we were to fight him from the network. I should be able to quickly program a little platform into our supercomputer that we can use to run a reprogrammed Skidbladnir- network submarine from. I also have the blueprints for the scanners, which we should be able to replicate fairly quickly. This way the Lyoko warriors can fight XANA and keep him busy while I create a program to free William and finally destroy XANA," Jeremie suggests./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""That seems awfully risky. Lieutenant Weitzler, what manpower would we need to launch an all out assault on each of the supercomputers?" Colonel Sofia inquires./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""I would recommend a minimum of 4-5 squads for each robot factory and teleportation computer, 8 squads for XANA's main base in Greenland, and then 2 squads for all the others. That would sum up to over 1000 squads, more than we have operational right now," Weitzler says grimly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Ok. I guess I have no other feasible choice. I am officially merging NY squad 7 and UNMISS 3 into Paris squad 3, and sending you 2 additional squads of Defenders. Once your program is ready I will send as many squads as we can spare to help take out XANA's main base," Commander Sofia says. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Yes ma'am," Weitzler replies crisply as he hangs up./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"_/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Sergeant D'Hondt. While I am working with the Lyoko warriors in the network, you are in command of this facility. Protect the computer and the scanners at all costs," Weitzler says, glancing at the jury rigged but functional tubes that are the scanners./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Yes sir. Good hunting,". Sergeant D'Hondt replies./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""OK. Are you ready to travel into the network?" Jeremie asks, as Weitzler enters the scanner./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Yes," Weitzler says stoically./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Transfer Weitzler," Jeremie says, typing away on his keyboard./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Scanner Weitzler," Jeremie continues, typing even faster./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Virtualization," Jeremie says as he pounds on the enter key./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"_/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"A white scaffold of a man forms in the air. A few seconds later, all the details are filled in and he drops to the ground, landing in a crouch. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Well Lieutenant, how do you feel?" Aelita asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Standing before the Lyoko warriors is a man dressed in blue pants and a green shirt with a thick combat helmet on his head. His helmet is decorated with 6 golden stars in a circle, and on his right breast is a golden badge that reads SPD 00. He reaches up behind his back and grabs a silver cylinder. Flicking the red button on it straight up, he ignites its 2 sickly yellow blades, twirls it around in his hand and says: "Ready to take on XANA,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Is this what Lyoko looked like?" Weitzler asks, as he surveys the small bright blue platform with the lumpy, black Skid anchored in the middle of it. Surrounding the platform is a shimmer of turquoise light./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Lyoko was much more complex than this. This is just a platform for us to anchor the Skid," Aelita says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Ok. If you're ready we can start our first mission," Jeremie's disembodied voice says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"The Lyoko warriors and Lieutenant Weitzler run towards the Skid docking area. They run behind one of the docking support struts and stand on a circular pad. Once everyone is in position, they are surrounded in blue light and transferred into the Skid. The second they are all in, Jeremie disconnects the support struts, and the Skid slowly drops into the digital sea. Once fully submerged it travels down a tube through the flood gate./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Wow. I never imagined that the internet would look like this," Weitzler says, looking at the blue blocks, white tubing, and network access ports surrounding the bright blue shell that is their base./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"With one flick of the controls the Skid converts into its horizontal mode and starts shooting across the digital sea. Once it reaches the nearest port it goes into vertical mode and then drops into its hypermatter fluid, heading for its first target. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"_/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Seconds later, it comes shooting out of another network access node on the other side of the network./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"As they shoot out of the network access port, Weitzler notes: "Why is everything red?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""That means XANA's monsters are close," Aelita says as she quickly brings the Skid to a halt./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Up ahead they can see 6 metallic piranhas with bright blue tails swimming around a metallic squid./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""The Kalamar!" Odd exclaims/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""I'm releasing the Nav Skids. Good hunting," Aelita says as she pulls the levers to release the Nav Skids./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Once released, the 4 Nav Skids float a few inches above the Skid and then blast away, towards the monsters, who start swimming towards them, shooting ruby red lasers from their eyes. Locking a target on the nearest Kongre, Weitzler sends a torpedo blasting at it. It dodges to the left and rockets past him, turning around and beginning to fire on him. He then begins to move his Nav Skid up, down and to the side randomly, to try to confuse its targeting lock./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""I've got 2 on me tighter than Melany," Odd shouts as he frantically tries to shake the Kongres behind him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Cognizant of the Kongre behind him, Weitzler states: "Odd, come about heading 265. On my mark, enter a right circle, and I will blast these 2 off you, and you can blast this one off me,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"As Odd complies and Weitzler comes up behind near him, he shouts "Mark,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Odd enters a tight right circle, bringing the 2 Kongres behind him into Weitzler's targeting brackets. He quickly shoots 2 torpedoes at them, causing them to explode into bright yellow flames. A surge forward tells him that Odd successfully destroyed the Kongre behind him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Weitzler, Odd, Aelita needs your help," Jeremie's disembodied voice says, cracking with stress./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Weitzler and Odd exit their circles and shoot towards the Skid./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"When they get there, it is frantically firing torpedoes at the metallic squid. As the torpedoes hit they explode harmlessly against the Kalamar's shell, and it lands on top of the Skid. The shields flare turquoise as it opens up and exposes its main weapon- a drill, and starts trying to drill through the shields. Seeing the approaching Nav Skids, Aelita activates the retrobrakes and slides back away from the Kalamar. Weitzler, Odd, and Aelita each shoot 6 torpedoes at it as it frantically tries to dodge them. In quick succession it is hit by 4 torpedoes and it explodes into a ball of orange fire. As it explodes their surroundings change from red to blue. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Ok. Everything looks clear. Return to the Skid and we can return to the Replika," Jeremie's disembodied voice says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Once all the Nav Skids have returned, the Skid starts gliding towards the nearby blue shell. Using her network access key, Aelita opens the floodgate and they enter into the Replika./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"As they cross through the translucent orange digital sea and start shooting up into the sky, they find themselves facing a brownish yellow data tube./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It looks like we have another sector 5 Replika," Odd states as they fly through the tube./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Looking out from his Nav Skid, Weitzler can see a massive, baby blue sphere suspended inside a chamber surrounded by what appears to be programs being run. The Skid then flies up to the North Pole of the sphere, and flies through it. Inside, they find a lone tower- a tall white cylinder surrounded by a white fog. As the Skid approaches the tower, its fog turns green and a solid pink tether forms between the Skid and tower./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""What is that?" Weitzler asks, looking at the pink light/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""That is the docking system- it is what allows us to connect to the Replikas," Aelita responds./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Weitzler, Aelita, Yumi, I'm going to send you to the supercomputer. Odd, Ulrich, you are on Skid Protection detail,"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanJeremie's disembodied voice says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"A few seconds later, Weitzler, Aelita, and Yumi disappear from the Skid./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"_ /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"3 balls of energy form in the middle of the ocean. From them, Weitzler, Yumi, and Aelita drop out. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Jeremie, I think you made a mistake- we're in the middle of the ocean," Yumi says as she treads water./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""What's that platform about 1000 feet in front of us?" Weitzler asks as he surveys the environment. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Give me 1 minute, I am working on locating you now," Jeremie's disembodied voice says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It appears that you are in the North Sea off the coast of the UK," he continues./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""The supercomputer must be in the Principality of Sealand," Weitzler exclaims./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""The what?!" Yumi asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It's a small semi-defunct micronation off the coast of the UK. Its entire land holdings consist of an abandoned World War II era defensive platform," Weitzler exclaims./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It appears that the supercomputer is on that platform- start swimming," Jeremie says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"The 3 warriors start swimming through the rough sea towards the platform. As they approach it, they can see a Tarantula sitting on top of a hut on the platform, with Creepers crawling all over it./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It looks like XANA does not want anything getting to the platform," Yumi says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"To avoid detection, they swim the last 500 feet to the platform deep underwater. Once they reach the 2 massive columns supporting the platform, Weitzler presses the red button on his lightsaber to the left, igniting just one of its sickly yellow blades. He then cuts a series of footholds into the column, as he and the other warriors climb up. Once they are immediately below the rusty platform, they swing on the exposed pipes until they reach the edge of the platform. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Once they reach the edge the 3 warriors catapult themselves onto the top of the platform. Weitzler ignites his second sickly yellow blade and starts blocking the red lasers that the Creepers are shooting at them. Standing behind him, Aelita tosses her energy fields at the Creepers, dropping them 3 at a time as Yumi throws her fans at the Creepers, slicing them in style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Lookout!" Yumi exclaims, as the Tarantula on top of the roof starts aiming at them. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"The 3 warriors dive out of the way, as the Tarantula sends a rapid burst of red lasers straight at where they were standing. Using his lightsaber, Weitzler deflects the laser bursts at 2 of the Creepers as he runs to an exposed rigging on the platform. Climbing onto it, he extinguishes one of the blades as he climbs up it until he is level with the Tarantula. Jumping from the rigging onto the hut, Weitzler reignites the second blade and charges the Tarantula. He swings his blade, cleanly separating the monster's head from its body. As he leaps down from the hut onto the platform, he swings his saber cleanly through the last remaining Creepers./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""OK Jeremie, the platform appears to be secure. Where is the supercomputer?" Weitzler asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""It appears to be inside the hut," Jeremie says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""The door's locked," Aelita exclaims as she tries to enter the hut./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Stand back," Weitzler orders./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Using his lightsaber, he cuts through the metal of the door as if it is melting butter. As he shoves the remains of the door out of the way, a bolt of purple electricity shoots out. Using his lightsaber blade, he absorbs the electricity and goes rushing in, to find a lone man standing in front of the supercomputer with all its wires and randomly blinking lights. The man charges and Weitzler sweeps his saber through the man's midsection, causing it to pixelate. Yumi drags the man outside and stands guard on him, ready to stop him if he gets up to attack./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Stop!" Aelita shouts, as Weitzler was about to plunge his lightsaber deep into the supercomputer./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Why?" Weitzler asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""Normally with supercomputers like this in facilities that have not been abandoned we try to not cause suspicious damage to the computer," Aelita answers/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN""That should not be an issue. Sealand had its recognition as a nation revoked in the 90s. It is not a country, and if anyone asks any questions we can just say it was destroyed by UN Defender Command," Weitzler responds./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN"Weitzler then stabs his lightsaber into the middle of the supercomputer and pulls it out, leaving black hole in the middle of it. He makes 3 more of the holes for good measure before Jeremie translates them back to the Skid. The warriors quickly leave the Replika. As they travel away from it, its blue shell glows yellow as it explodes. Marking the first success of this new style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p