We open to Jeremie's room where he is working on his materialization program once again.
"I'm sure it's going to work this time." Jeremie said.
"So do I. I really hope you succeed this time. When you have them ready, I'll get the whole alliance together and we'll throw a little party for her." Jexi said.
"Thank you. That means a lot. Now for Plan Alpha." Jeremie said as he made the call to Yumi, who planned to make it okay for her parents to allow Aelita to stay in their home.
The next morning at school…
"Very well then. What is your cousin's name, Odd?" Delmas asked.
"Aelita" Odd said.
"Aelita. And where does she come from?" Delmas asked.
"She's from Holland." Odd said.
"Hmm. Well, the papers are in order and your parents have recommended her highly, so I see no reason on why she can't attend school here. Let me know when she arrives." Delmas said.
They soon left the office and then gave a little celebratory noise before they ran into Jim.
"Okay, what are you up to? You know this area is off limits to students." Jim said.
"We had an appointment with the principal. About Odd's cousin attending school." David said.
"What a lame excuse. What kind of idiot do you take me for?" Jim said.
"Well…" Odd said.
"Don't answer that. You think I'm not on to your little pranks? You disappear in the park like magic. You plot in your rooms with those other guys." Jim said.
"It's not a crime." Odd said.
"Maybe not. But you listen up. One of these days, I'm going to find out what all of you are hiding. And now to the cafeteria. Hurry up!" Jim said.
"Uh...we'll take them." Vector said arriving with Franky as they escorted them off. "So...how's it going with Aelita?" he whispered.
"Almost there." Hiyoko said.
"I'm getting worried that Jim might be onto us." Mahriu said. "If he continues to investigate us, he might end up finding the secret passage to the factory."
"Then we just have to keep on our guard." Mark said. "Just stay the course."
"I wouldn't worry too much. Even if he does find out, we'll use the RTTP and it'll be like it never happened." David said.
"He's right. Jim is not much of a threat." Frisk said. "A bit nosy but no threat."
Later the whole group converged in Jeremie's room where he began to run the program. As soon as the program finished, a green plus appeared on the screen.
"It...it works! I can't believe it." Jeremie said.
The group then cheered as soon as they saw the results. Jeremie then copied the program onto a disc. He then contacted Aelita.
"Jeremie?" Aelita asked.
"I don't know how to say this but...we're waiting for you." Jeremie said.
"The key to materialization? It's really here?" Aelita asked.
"Yes. It's on this disc. I need to set up the program in the supercomputer and Aelita will have to get to the passage tower in Lyoko's forest sector." Jeremie said.
"I'm off to the forest right now." Aelita said.
"And we'll be in class. Then afterwards, the factory." Jeremie said. "Then after that, we'll head to that party on the Sunny."
"See you soon, my friends." Aelita said logging off.
As Jeremie packed the disc into his bag and the group exited the room, Jim, Vector and Franky encountered them.
"Up to no good again, are you?" Jim said.
"No way. We were uh….studying?" Natsu said.
"Studying my foot. Now stop lying and tell me the truth. And we can stand here all day if we have to." Jim said.
"Jim! What is the meaning of this?" Delmas demanded as he walked down the hall.
"I'm glad you're here, sir. These kids are up to no good and I intend to find out what it is." Jim said.
"I see what's going on now." Delmas said. "Another one of your absurd stories about insane plots and secret passages? Or perhaps some of these students have unusual abilities like, I don't know, some sort of quirk or a power granted by a magic fruit or magic?"
"Uh...yeah. Nothing like that here." Izuku said laughing nervously.
"Now listen here. You are a physical education teacher, not a detective. Do not bring this up with me again." Delmas said as he walked off.
"Grrrr." Jim growled before looking at them. "What are you standing around for? Get to class! All of you!"
Everyone then got moving.
"That was too close." Hope said.
"To be fair on Mr. Delmas' part, he wasn't that far off on that last part. And that's what worries me a little bit." David said.
"If he were a little brighter and more inquisitive, we'd have been found out long ago." Gemini said.
"Yeah...let's keep that in mind because we have at least one more redux chance in this timeline max." Hope said.
"The very last one, right?" David asked.
"Yeah. And unlike this and the last one, I was actually there for the last one." Hope said. "Trust me, it gets crazy."
"If I researched it correctly, it was against the Pillar Men. However, thanks to all of the changes to this timeline, it's hard to tell if we'll be fighting them again." David said.
"Yeah. And that was during a weird time when the timeline was all screwed up. It likely won't even happen this time around." Hope said. "Good thing to. I don't know if I want to face Kars again."
"I pray to whatever god can hear us that we won't." David said.
They soon went off to class before getting a distress call from Aelita before running off.
"So what's going on?" Yumi asked.
"XANA." Ulrich said.
"He knows the end is near and he's not giving up without a fight." Odd said.
The group then headed down to the sewers just as Jim was about to catch them. The group then arrived at the factory. As soon as they arrived, Odd, Ulrich and Yumi were virtualized and on Lyoko and started fighting towards the tower.
"Okay. I'll put on Jeremie's program now." Miu said putting the disc in before appearing on the screen was a strange music video featuring Odd.
"Oh no…" Mahiru said.
"What? What's wrong?" Kazuichi asked.
"This isn't the program." Miu said.
"This is one of Odd's stupid music videos." Usopp said.
"I have to get back to the dorm." Jeremie said, removing the disc.
"You came up with a music video?" David asked.
"Yeah. And it's pretty good." Odd said.
"What's the title?" Ulrich asked.
"Break, Break, Break Dance." Odd said.
"Not to sound like a critic, Odd… But I can come up with a better one. I just don't think this world is ready to see it yet." David said.
"Enough fooling around. We have some cleaning up to do." Yumi said as she, Ulrich and Odd went after the monsters as Aelita ran for the tower.
Meanwhile at Kadic, Jeremie had gone to his room and retrieved the program. But before he could leave, he encountered Jim.
"Playing hooky? Now, you're going to tell me what you have been planning since the beginning of the year. And this time, the principal and those two aren't here to help you." Jim said.
Jeremie then quickly ducked through Jim's left and ran down the halls with Jim chasing him. He then began to run down the stairs, but tripped and landed at the bottom of the staircase.
"Oh no. Jeremie." Jim said coming down as Vector and Franky arrived.
"Oh this doesn't look good. We gotta take him to the infirmary." Vector said.
"Jim...you took things too far this time, man." Franky said.
Meanwhile on Lyoko, as the group waited in the tower, a megatank arrived with Flux in tow.
"Well...the Lyoko trio is here. Just what I was expecting." Flux said jumping off it.
"And right now...it's going to be a family bonding experience." Arthur said jumping down beside him.
"Lost Thieves again? We told you already, we're after the same thing, why do we have to fight?" Yumi asked.
"Sorry, but we need to keep our word." Flux said, knocking her aside. "Besides, this is the finale...and every finale needs an exciting final battle!"
"So...we decided to have a little fun." Arthur said snapping his fingers as a large mass of people marched down the path. "What fun would it be if it were just us...when we can have our whole family backing us."
"Oh this is not good. Guys...we need backup...now." Odd said.
"Don't worry. Help is on the way!" Miu said.
"Wait, who's going?" Kazuichi asked.
"Everybody!" Hope said.
"That's not possible. It only sends in three at a time." Miu said. "Oh, where is Jeremie?" she groaned.
Meanwhile in the infirmary…
"Does it still hurt?" the nurse asked.
"I feel fine now, Dorothy. I can walk." Jeremie said.
"Walking isn't something you will not be doing. It will take a week for that leg to heal up. And if you complain, I won't give you a pair of crutches to get around with." Dorothy said.
Outside the infirmary…
"Jim!" Delmas shouted approaching him. "You've gone too far this time. Your actions have gone and injured a student."
"I'm...sorry." Jim said.
"So am I. I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you go." Delmas said shocking Jim.
"You're firing him?!" Vector said.
"I have no choice. He's been warned too many times." Delmas said.
Meanwhile on Lyoko, the tank began to attack along with the Lost Thieves against the heroes.
"Now this is even more exciting than the last time. Time to die, heroes!" Flux said.
"Yeah. Over our dead bodies." Natsu said jumping right at him.
"Heh...nice try." Flux said as a bracelet on his arm glowed before he pulled a punch of his own, defeating him and devirtualizing him. "That was enjoyable but sadly, you aren't who I'm waiting for."
"Only one punch and Natsu's down?" Ulrich asked.
"Yep. That's the power of a Law, boys and girls!" Flux said. "Law of Balance. If an opponent is stronger than me physically, it drains their strength and gives it to me until we're on an equal level."
"He gave away his secret...but it's not like it matters in the end." Arthur chuckled. "My brother...he's always been one to put on a show."
"So...are we winning?" Hope asked.
"We've gotten a number of them taken down but...there's still so many of these guys!" Glimmer said.
"We need to wait for Jeremie to come back with the materialization program. I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to buy a little more time." Miu said.
Back at the infirmary…
"Can I go to the bathroom Dorothy?" Jeremie asked.
"Sorry, but the doctor insists you stay off your feet. I'll get you a bedpan." she said. As she she left, Jim showed himself in.
"Jeremie, I wanted to say I'm sorry. I was just so sure that you kids were hiding a big secret from me." Jim said before looking out the window. "I deserve to get fired. I went a little crazy cause I thought you guys were hiding something. I'm gonna miss all of you. Especially you, Vector. Franky. Heck, I'll even miss Ishihara."
"Jim! You're not as crazy as you think. Me and my friends have been keeping a secret from you." Jeremie said.
"Then that means I was right all along. Let's hear it." Jim said.
"Jim. If you help me, I'll tell the principal everything. You'll be off the hook and he's bound to give you your job back." Jeremie said.
"Great. Shake on it." Jim said as they shook on it.
"Since we're exposing secrets, I should tell you that I'm a cyborg and Vector is a real crocodile and Ishihara is some half moonman guy." Franky said.
"I think the proper term is Lunarian." Jeremie said.
"Yeah but it's always hard for me to remember, so I've been calling him moonman." Franky said. "Well...not to his face."
"We should go." Vector said as they jumped out the window and went to the park, through the tunnel and arrived at the factory as Jeremie explained.
"And this super powerful virtual thing called XANA and this evil genius named Flux and these others called the Lost Thieves want to destroy us. Only Aelita can deactivate the towers and our job is to help her out as much as we can." Jeremie said.
"And she's on this thing called Loco, right?" Jim asked.
"It's Lyoko. The only way to destroy XANA is to unplug him. But first, we have to materialize Aelita, which is what we will do today." Jeremie said as they headed down into the computer lab.
"Whoa...who would have believed this." Jim said.
"So, I take it he knows everything?" David asked. "Since Jeremie told you about this place, I guess I may as well say it now… All of us… Well, except for Jeremie and the others, are from a different timeline entirely."
"Whoa...any other bombshells you wanna drop on me?" Jim asked.
"Unfortunately, what Jeremie said is all true. And materializing Aelita is the only way we'll get back. I'm… I'm sorry we kept this a secret from you and everyone else in the school. We feared that if anyone were to find out…" David started.
"Hey, you don't have to worry. I just got fired today." Jim said.
"Okay…I'm not gonna ask. It must've been rough." David said. "Though, I think Mr. Delmas was pretty close to figuring it out himself."
"He will when you guys tell him the truth after all this is over." Jim said.
"Oh right. About…" Vector began before they saw one of the scanners active. "What the heck?"
"Flux is causing massive casualties on our end with that new Law of his. So I asked for some expertise in that area." Miu said.
"Okay, let me see…" David said getting out a handbook and going through the pages. "Ah, here it is! The Law of Balance. It is said that whoever wears this will be able to drain the opponent's power level to equal his upon being attacked. Since he's not much of a fighter, I'd say it fits him really well. But now that Jeremie is back, I think it's time to bring in the big guns."
"He's just arrived." Miu smiled.
On Lyoko, Flux smiled and laughed seeing the Lost Thieves overtake the heroes. "Hmm...on top of the world, heroes losing...strange. This is normally the part when something gets in my…" Flux said before being hit from behind. "Yeah. Like that." he groaned before seeing Jexi standing there. "I've been waiting for you."
"Same here. I've been itching to fight you for awhile. And since everyone else is busy...time for a beatdown." Jexi smirked.
"Heh. I don't know if you heard, but I've got…." Flux said before Jexi slugged him. "Ow. That stung! Why didn't his strength get drained?"
"You already used it on Natsu. It takes an hour to recharge on the next target!" Arthur said.
"You could have told me that sooner!" Flux said before he started matching Jexi blow for blow. "Okay...you can do this. You just have to...Ow! Ow!" Flux said being hit in the face repeatedly.
"Flux...I'm going to pay you back for everything you've done to mess with everyone." Jexi said entering his Burst Form.
"Oh god." Flux said.
"Here we go!" Jexi said as 13 stars appeared from the armor as he attacked. "13 stars...of Justice!" he shouted as all of the stars struck Flux before taking him down and devirtualizing him.
"I told him it was a bad idea to show off." Arthur said. "Well, if you want something done right…" he said notching an arrow. "Gotta do it yourself."
"Oh...my eyes are on you too!" Jexi said lunging at Arthur before taking the arrow and landing at hit on him.
"He acted so quickly, I couldn't even use my law fast enough." Arthur thought as he landed on the ground. "All thieves...forget the heroes. Focus on destroying the tower!"
"Crud. He's changed his objective." Jexi said before standing before it as he started to take each hit, one after the other.
"Don't worry. Help is on the way." Jeremie said.
"Geez… Always sending us in waves. These guys clearly aren't pulling any punches this time." David said as his, Sectonia's, and Cheetah's scanners all closed.
"In you go." Miu said sending the three right in. "Remember...just keep the tower protected long enough so Aelita can be materialized."
"Got it. We'll buy some time." David said.
The thieves continued to try and attack the tower as Jexi continued to take hit after hit.
"How is he still standing?" Bloody Rose said.
"Don't forget...this is the same kid who took down the Dragon Master, Drake. He's no ordinary person." Cricket said.
"Doesn't matter in the slightest. I'm about to play our trump card." Lan said. "I'll sacrifice Sun Dragon, Inti and Moon Dragon, Quilla and summon...Earthbound Immortal, Wiraqocha Rasca!" he said as a large condor with violet lines appeared in the sky. "He can stand there as long as he wants. This monster's strong enough to destroy him and the tower!"
"Better make it fast. Cause he's about to get reinforcements." Mach said seeing David, Sectonia and Cheetah heading their way.
"Whoa… That's a big one." David said. "We won't be able to destroy it like this. The best we can do is distract it, and keep its focus away from the tower."
"I think we can handle that." Sectonia said firing a lightning bolt at the creature, nabbing its attention.
"Oh...this will be fun. Wiraqocha Rosca! Destroy them!" Lan ordered as the monster flew right at them.
"Here it comes. Get ready, everyone!" David said.
Wiraqocha Rosca then came swooping down as it actually started taking out a few of the trees as it flew low to the ground.
"It's charging right at us. Hold it… Steady… Keep your stance… Now!" David said.
The three of them jumped before landing right on its back.
"What in the?" Lan said.
"There. That should keep this thing away from the tower." David said. "Keep a solid hold on it. If it shakes us off, it's all over."
"Heh. Big deal. All I gotta do is tribute it and they'll be goners and...are they turning it around?" Lan said.
"Oh my god...RUN!" Mach said as the thieves started to scatter.
"We've got this covered. Miu! Launch the program! Do it now!" David said.
"Done." Miu said. "Here goes. Code Earth."
They continued to keep the thieves at bay as Aelita floated inside the tower. After Jexi fell from the final attack, Aelita was soon gone from the tower.
It wasn't before long, after bringing David and his group back that they greeted the newly brought back Aelita.
"She's here...welcome to Earth." Jeremie said, taking her hand.
It also wasn't long before they were brought onto the Sunny for a special celebration.
"Welcome!" every member on board shouted.
"So Aelita, how does it feel to finally be in the real world?" David asked.
"I'll admit...this place is strange but...I like it." Aelita said. "This air, the sea breeze, even this ship...all of it is so new and exciting to me."
"Don't worry. You'll see more sights than this." David said.
The team then began to party like there was no tomorrow. While they partied, we see Sissi, Milly and Tamiya hiding on the ship.
"I always knew they were weird like this." Sissi said.
"This is going to be our biggest scoop yet." Milly said.
As they all continued to enjoy themselves, they were unaware as Lavenza made her way to the time machine. "I hate to bring those from the past into the present, but given the circumstances...we have no choice." she said activating the machine before the Sunny launched itself through a hole in time and space.
"What the heck?" Connie said.
"The time machine...someone's activated it!" Tails said.
"Everybody hang on to something!" David said.
They all hung on tightly before they found themselves landing in a large blue room.
"What in the?" Jexi said.
"Hold on… If I've played any Persona game ever...this must be…" David started.
"Correct." a voice said as they saw Igor sitting with Emi, Zexi and his group, Theo and his guild and the Lost Thieves. "Welcome...to the Velvet Room. Now...we have much to discuss."
To be continued...