A/N Sorry for the slow update. I got into playing a video game I haven't played in four or five years. Anyways…. It's worth the wait. So read on!
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The gang walked into the cafeteria and discovered lunch was mystery meat. Xenon had just finished answering most of the questions Jeremie, Yumi, Odd, Ulrich, and Aelita had wanted asked. They got their lunch and sat at their usual table. Everyone except Odd ate only the vegetables and the milk. They didn't feel like eating the "meat." Xenon took out her computer and turned it on.
"Wait, I forgot to ask, why does you computer need so much memory?" Aelita asked.
"Oh," Xenon said, looking up from her computer. She lowered her voice; "I have everything needed for Lyoko on my computer. All the codes, sectors, etc."
"Do you have anything for anti-viruses?" Jeremie asked with hope in his voice. He and Aelita had been working on her anti-virus for years and never had any luck developing one.
"Sorry, I don't have anything for Aelita anti-virus." Xenon replied.
"How do you know about her anti-virus?" Jeremie asked.
"Even though I checked out your pasts, do you honestly think I'd trust perfect strangers who could easily change?" Xenon asked. "As the super computer changes, so does mine. I know when someone gets sent to Lyoko. I know when someone travels to a different sector. I know when Xana activates a tower and which tower it is. I also know what Xana has control of."
"How can you know what Xana has control of?" Ulrich asked.
"I programmed my computer to look at, what I call Xana's Diary, which tells me what he has control of. I put this in my watch," Xenon said as she showed them her digital watch, "My watch tells me what he has control of, which tower, and," Xenon paused for a second, making everyone else what else her watch can do. "It tells time." Xenon clicked on an invisible folder on her desktop. It asked for a password for access to it. She started typing at lighting fast speed for a moment before hitting the enter key.
"How many characters long is your password?" Aelita asked amazed that someone's password was long.
"Two hundred seventy nine." Xenon replied as if it was a common thing. The folder opened to reveal 134 folders, which were labeled things that involved Lyoko.
"Two hundred seventy nine?" Aelita repeated. "How can you remember that?"
"It grows on you." Xenon said as she clicked on the ninety-fourth folder, which was labeled, "Plunge." The folder asked for a password too. Xenon typed in the correct one. "Only fifty one." Xenon said before anyone could ask.
It opened an application that showed a part of the desert sector. In the middle was a body of pure white. Xenon moved the white around with the arrows on the keyboard. Pulsations sounded and drifted away east from the white. A second later, Xenon's watched beeped.
"Seems Xana wants to rebound fast with me around." Xenon said. "He never really liked me because I'm a pain in the ass." They all got up when Jeremie's laptop went off. Jeremie knew it was the tower and didn't bother to get it. Xenon put her computer away.
"What does Xana have control of?" Ulrich asked.
"Something in Lyoko." Xenon responded.
"Couldn't you be more specific?" Jeremie asked. He was glad Xana wasn't attacking Earth but still wanted to know what he was doing in Lyoko.
"I don't know." Xenon said. "Earth is our playground, Lyoko is his. It's harder to know exactly what."
"You know I'm surprised Sissi didn't come to bug us." Yumi said as they headed to the park. They weren't in much of a hurry since Xana had control of something in Lyoko.
"Oh, yeah," Xenon said. "I told her to fuck off." Yumi smiled.
"Good job." They reached the manhole and one by one climbed down into the sewers. Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd grabbed their skateboards while Jeremie and Aelita grabbed their scooters. Xenon leaned against the wall. The gang looked at her and she smiled. She smacked her fist against the wall and it opened a secret cupboard the held two skateboards and a scooter. She grabbed a purple skateboard and the door shut.
"What?" Xenon said innocently. They sped down the pathway that led to a ladder. Ulrich started to climb the ladder, which led to another manhole, which was in the middle on a bridge in front of the factory. They walked into the factory. There were only five ropes.
"Don't worry about." Xenon said as they looked at the number of ropes and the number of people. Xenon jumped off the side and landed cat-like on the ground. Jeremie, Aelita, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi slid down the ropes and had a look of amazement on their faces. "Franz Hopper gave me loads of genetics. Being cat-like was only one of them."
They walked into the elevator. Yumi pressed the button for down and typed in the code. Jeremie got out. Yumi was just about to press the button to go down when Xenon stepped out.
"What?" Jeremie asked.
"I have to put in my Lyoko ID into the computer and I want to put a CD in--" Xenon was cut off by Jeremie.
"Ok anything besides Odd singing his song called, 'Break Break Break Dance.'" Everyone laughed including Odd. Xenon sat herself in front of the super computer. She took a CD out of her backpack and put it into the computer. She typed a few keys.
"Yes!" Xenon said happily. "It worked. I was wondering if it would."
"What would?" Odd asked.
"I just downloaded something which give us," Meaning Aelita, Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, and herself, "Twice as many life points." Xenon pulled her laptop onto her lap and pulled out a black wire out of the right side of her computer and plugged it in a small hole by the screen. A box appeared on the supercomputer screen that said, "Loading 1." Within three seconds it was at one hundred. Xenon pulled the wire out and put her laptop away. "Who ready to kick to some of Xana's ass?" They headed to the scanners while Jeremie opened up the virtualization process.
"Transfer Odd, Transfer Ulrich, Transfer Yumi, Scanner Odd, Scanner Ulrich, Scanner Yumi, Virtualization!" Aelita and Xenon stepped into the scanners while Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd landed on their vehicles. "Transfer Aelita, Transfer Xenon, Scanner Aelita, Scanner Xenon, Virtualization."
Xenon and Aelita landed in the dessert sector near the others who were on their vehicles. Xenon was wearing a karate outfit of blinding pure white. Her skin, hair, and flip-flops were also the same pure white color. Her hair was pulled back with white hair band. The only part of her with color was her purple eyes and she was wearing a purple sash around her waist. The others stared at her.
Aelita walked towards Odd to join him on his vehicle. "Have a vehicle?" Ulrich asked.
"Actually yes I do." Xenon said. "Thanks for reminding me, Ulrich." Xenon snapped with her right hand then with her left. A white disc, two feet in diameter, appeared in front of her. She hopped on and she took off in the direction of the pulsations east toward the tower. The rest of the group followed her. Odd got right along side of Xenon.
"What powers or weapons do you have?" Odd asked. He didn't see any weapons like fans or a sword.
"I have the same powers as Aelita and more. I can deactivate the towers and can also control the land like create something or take something. I also have different powers." Xenon said.
"And that power is?" Aelita asked.
"Now, you'll just have wait and see, little sis."
"How do you know I'm the little sis--"
"You're coming up to the tower." Jeremie's voice sounded. Xenon winked at Aelita and sped up. They reached the tower and saw no monsters. They looked around confused.
"What are you looking for?" An evil sinister voice asked.
"Xana." Xenon whispered. The others looked at her confused. "Jeremie devitrualized everyone!"
"No, we can't have that." The voice said. Xenon was lifted off her disc and, by the way she was desperately trying to break free, an invisible force was strangling her.
"Xenon!" Aelita screamed. Xenon said something inaudible.
A man materialized in front of them. He had fiery red hair and red eyes. His skin has a tinge of gray to it. He was wearing a leather jacket and pants. He wore black boots. His right hand was up and looked like he was strangling nothing but his hand was strangling Xenon from a distance. Ulrich drew out his sword, Yumi took out her fans, and Odd pointed his arm in the direction of the man's face.
"Hello, my name is Xana. And yours is?" Xana asked with an evil smile on his face. Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd glared at him. Aelita was behind them. "Not going to be polite to you're host? Fine." With his right hand, he moved it like he was playing baseball and threw something invisible. Xenon was thrown about fifty feet before she skid twenty on the desert floor.
"Xenon!" It wasn't Aelita who screamed out Xenon's name, it was Odd. Odd and Aelita ran toward Xenon who was a good fifty feet away. After five seconds, Xenon started to move and got up. Her once pure white karate robe now had red spots. Blood. Xenon had a deep gash on her right cheek. Yumi and Ulrich started to attack Xana.
"NO! DON'T!" Xenon yelled in their direction and kept running toward the tower.
"Very good, sister." Xana said. "Kill me, and I get materialized on to Earth. And I'll never return to this god damn place father called home and safety." Xenon was within two feet of the tower when Xana spotted her. He lifted her six inches off the ground and was strangling her again. Xenon bottled up her energy. When she had all the she could find, she jerked in the direction of the tower. She broke free of Xana's death grip. Xenon fell through the tower and landed on flooring which was Xana's eye symbol. Xenon took a second to catch her breath and she massaged her neck.
"Jeremie…" Xenon called out since he was the only one who could hear her.
"Yes?" Jeremie said worriedly. All this time, he hadn't known what to do. Xana's had set up something where Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, Aelita, or Xenon could not be devitrualized manually.
"Tell Aelita to come in the tower. For Xana, the tower needs both of us." Xenon said weakly.
"Ok."
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Xana was furious that Xenon had one broke out of his grip and got into the safety of the tower. He was now strangling Aelita and nothing Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd did, made him release Aelita.
"Aelita," Jeremie said. "You need to get to the tower."
"That's kind of difficult right now." Yumi said as she tired to pull Aelita down.
Odd thought of something. He wasn't completely sure if it would work but he had to try something. "Hey, Xana." Xana didn't show any signs of hearing Odd. "You're a piece of shit." Yumi and Ulrich looked at Odd like he was crazy. Xana blinked and looked at Odd with hatred. "Yeah, you heard me--"
"Odd…" Ulrich said.
"You're a piece of shit." Odd continued, ignoring Ulrich. "I mean that's what Franz Hopper – daddy -- thought of you. Didn't care about you enough to give you life like he had given to Aelita and Xenon." Xana dropped Aelita who hit the ground. She recovered quickly and ran towards the tower. Xana started to walk towards Odd. Odd walked backwards. "You want to have life so badly; to try to fit in with the family and be the son. Trust me, he never wanted you. I mean who would?" Odd crossed over the line. Aelita got into the tower. Xana started to strangle Odd. Oh, fuck. What did I just do? Odd thought.
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"Aelita." Xenon said as she entered the tower. Xenon grabbed her hand and the walked to the center of Xana's eye. The floated upward together. Then, landed on the floor. They walked over to the screen, which popped up. They placed one of their hands on the screen at the same time. Aelita the screen blinked her name twice and did the same with Xenon. Code Lyoko.
"Tower deactivated." They said in unison.
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Outside the tower, the red tower changed into its neutral blue color. Xana vanished and Odd dropped down to the ground, gasping for breath.
Jeremie saw the he could devitrualized them took his chance. First, he devitrualized Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd then Aelita and Xenon. Yumi and Ulrich came out normal but tired from the trip. Odd and Aelita nearly fell out of the scanners but caught themselves 's before they hit the ground. Xenon's scanner was the last to open. She was unconscious and had the gash across her right cheek. Ulrich and Yumi caught her so she wouldn't hit the ground. Aelita ran to her sister's side.
Aelita moved Xenon's blonde hair away from her face. Aelita felt for a pulse and found one. Aelita sighed. "Should we take her to the nurse at school?" Aelita asked the others as Jeremie walked in from the elevator.
"Probably, shouldn't." Odd replied. "I mean how could we explain how she got the injury?"
"Well, we can't just leaving her like this. She needs medical attention." Aelita said starting to cry. Jeremie rushed to be by her side.
They decided to take Xenon to the hospital. When they got there they immediately took care of Xenon. They covered her gash with a huge bandage. They put her in a temporary room to recover.
The nurse asked how she sustained the injury and Odd said they were climbing a tree and she lost her grip and fell. The nurse believed him. The real story would be harder to believe: We were trying to save the world from the demonic artificial intelligence called Xana who lives in a virtual reality world called Lyoko. Anyway, Xana saw Xenon, who he hasn't seen in four years, and tried to kill her. Even though it's a virtual reality he was strangling her and then treated her like a baseball and threw her fifty feet and she skid on a desert floor for twenty feet.
Which was more believable? Odd choose the first. After about three hours since Xenon had came out of the scanner, she opened her eyes. "Where am I?" Xenon asked.
"In the hospital." Aelita responded. Yumi and Ulrich went to the lobby because the nurse had said there were too many people in the room. The nurse walked in to check up on Xenon.
"Ah, your awake." The nurse said. "How are you feeling?"
"Fine."
"Think you're ready to leave?"
"Yes."
"And about the bill--"
"I'm paying for it." Odd said interrupting.
"Ok." The nurse and Odd walked out.
"Why did Xana call you sister?" Aelita asked. Xenon who was feeling more and more normal sat up.
"Well, Franz Hopper created him so technically he is our brother." Xenon said. "Kind of just like me." The nurse came back and double checked to see if Xenon was all right. Xenon was allowed to leave. Xenon, Aelita, Odd, and Jeremie left the room and went to the lobby to find Ulrich and Yumi. They found them sitting in two chairs watching the five o-clock news.
"Porfirio Della Robbia, the owner of the multi-billion dollar computer company, DRT, died yesterday at around three in the after noon. His will said that his only son would inherit the company…"
"What the hell?" Odd said. He took in the information they were saying. He grabbed his cell phone out of his pocket and walked out of the hospital. The rest of group followed him outside. He had his back to the hospital. "Why didn't you tell me he died? I know I hate him, but you could have told me he left the company to me. I mean he never gave a damn about me but leaves it to me…Ok that sounds good. I can still be normal for two years…Ok bye." Odd hung up and put the cell phone in his pocket. He turned around and saw Yumi, Ulrich, Jeremie, Aelita, and Xenon staring at him. Odd sighed.
"There's something I should have told you guys about a long time ago." Odd and the others headed back toward Kadic. "My father owns -- had owned DRT which stands for Della Robbia Technology. It turns out he left it to me." Odd sighed and they walked silently for a couple minutes. "My father and I were never close. The last time we talked or saw each other was before I came here to Kadic." They were quiet till they came to the cafeteria for dinner at six. It was spaghetti and meatballs.
"Odd, I just have to laugh." Jeremie said. Odd looked up at him.
"Why?"
"You in computers. You owning a computer company." Jeremie laughed and so did everyone else.
Once the laughter died down. "You know that's not funny," Ulrich said. "It's scary." They nodded in agreement and laughed some more. Odd joined in and didn't seem depressed anymore.
A/N Not as long as the first chapter but very close. Anyways, don't forget to review! Why? Because in one sitting I wrote about 1900 words. Also, if you go to my user look up you can find a goodie section that tells a little about the next chapter or the title. I also have a section that says how far I am in the next chapter. Don't forget to review!