Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko. I own this plot and Xenon.
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Xenon was practically ran down the street from Sissi's house. Odd was at her heels and he felt out of it. Xenon had said there a huge problem, he had just been punched to the ground, and Sissi had told him that their child was a girl. All these things buzzed around in Odd's head as Xenon continued the way down to the central part of Paris where they could catch a bus or more preferably a taxi back to school.
It's Xana, but has he done? Odd asked himself as he glanced sideways at Xenon as he jogged a little to keep up. Xenon's face was ghostly white with worry. She had a pained expression on her face almost like she was going to be sick.
Xenon and Odd reached part of the main part of Paris. They looked for a taxi and when Xenon saw one, she waved it down. A yellow taxi stopped by the curb in front of Xenon and Odd. Odd opened the door and held it for Xenon, Xenon got in, and was shortly followed by Odd.
"Where to?" The driver asked. He was a balding man in his forties. He smelled of cigarettes, dogs, and something that Xenon couldn't put her finger on.
"Kadic academy." Odd said, still looking slightly at Xenon who still seemed very shaken from the events at Eleanor's house.
"Where's that sonny?" The driver asked, looking back at Xenon and Odd and lifted an eyebrow at their almost all purple clothes.
"Boulogne-Billancourt." Odd replied. The driver pulled out into traffic and headed in the direction for the highway which would take them to Kadic. "So, what happened?" Odd whispered as he didn't want the driver to over hear them as they talked about Xana.
"Xa--" Xenon stopped herself. She looked at the their driver who was staring at the pair of them through the rear view mirror. As Xenon stopped herself, the driver quickly put his eyes on the road. Xenon leaned toward Odd and lowered her voice down so much Odd only caught some words, "He's out of the computer. Or it's a clone. But he's hurt at the very least Aelita and Ulrich. I don't know anything else except that," Xenon stopped and pointed to her watch that was around her wrist, "I didn't know about it." Xenon leaned back and sat there thinking about what Xana was planning and what he was doing at that very moment. Had he killed Aelita and Ulrich? What about Jeremie and Yumi? She had heard Jeremie shout to warn Aelita that she was about to be hurt, but what happened after? Did Xana hurt him too or worse?
Odd too was thinking. The feeling of uncertainty washed over him. He wondered what Xana was setting out to do. What would he and Xenon find at Kadic? Did he even what to know? Could they destroy the polymorphic clone by deactivating a tower? If it was Xana then it would be impossible to defeat him just by deactivating a tower. He didn't know if there was a way to defeat Xana once and for all. Many people would probably die if they ever did accomplished it.
Each in their own thoughts about the situation that Jeremie, Aelita, Yumi, and Ulrich were dealing with at or near Kadic. The taxi was traveling too slowly for comfort through the city as all Xenon and Odd could think about how everyone else could be hurt. The taxi made a left and was heading for the ramp that would pour them out onto the highway. The taxi made it way on it and drove through the traffic.
Xenon turned her head and looked the the cars around them. Everyone was going five miles per hour and, at that rate, it would be too late. Xenon listened as she heard a weird sound. What is that? She asked herself. She looked at Odd who was also confused by the sound. It was a crunching sound then after a few seconds another ear shattering crunch. Through the crunch that was the constant shrill of screaming coming out of a hundred, or so, mouths. Xenon stood up, forgetting that she was in a taxi, and hit her head on the roof of the vehicle.
"Oi! You alright miss?" The driver asked as Xenon rubbed the top of her head. Xenon didn't respond but opened the door and stepped out. Odd mirror her move. "Hey. Where do you think you two are going?"
"Xenon?" Odd asked concerned as Xenon stared straight in front of her. Both she and Odd could now see where the crunching were coming from. It came from a figure in front of them it was indistinct in the distance but was becoming quite clearer. Even so, Xenon did not need the figure to get closer to see who was jumping from car to car, denting the hoods and roofs of car by several feet before jumping to the next car. The figure was heading in their direction.
"It's Xana." Xenon said as she recognized Xana all too well. With his black pants and combat boots to his red shirt over laid with a black leather jacket and his fiery red hair. Xenon couldn't see from the ever decreasing distance between her and Xana but she knew that his blood red eyes were focused on her.
As Xenon stared at the figure, it seemed to get bigger and it was getting big pretty quick. Xenon felt sick as she stared at Xana who jumped car to car, coming closer and closer to her. She was unable to take her eyes off of Xana and unable to think about anything but to wait for what would happen. Xenon was less than twenty feet away from the despised computer virus, which was determined to ruin everyone's lives and take over the earth.
Xana made the final leap to their taxi cab. He landed on the roof of the car causing the yellow painted roof to cave in many feet. The driver cried out as the metal pierced his shoulders and head. Xenon jumped back as Xana got off the taxi. Xenon's eyes widened.
In Xana's arms was a person. The person's hair was matted and dirty. Their face was red from sunburn from the exposure to the sun for a vast distance between Kadic and a highway in Paris. The person hung limply in Xana arms and their feet dragged on the ground. On a larger scale, it looked like Xana was a child and the person he held as simply a rag doll. The 'rag doll' was Aelita whose pink jumper was ripped in several places.
"Aelita..." Odd said softly in shock.
"Xana, let her go." Xenon demanded. She was sick and tired of Xana and this was the last straw. He had hurt Aelita really bad. She looked practically dead out in the pale sunlight of April in mid-afternoon.
"What are you willing to exchange?" Xana asked while looking having a smirk on his face and looking with a certain look to it. Xenon raised an eyebrow and Odd was furious. People in the cars around them were scared to death or wondering why these two teenagers who were dressed in purple and had blond hair mixed dyed purple were conversing with this monster. A monster that had probably injured and even killed other innocent human beings in the the cars that the monster that was Xana had crushed on its way here.
"Nothing." Odd responded angrily before Xenon could come up with an answer. I'm not going to let Xenon repeat what happened before. Xana had screwed up everything and I had to go back in time to try to fix it. Odd thought.
"'Nothing?'" Xana repeated. He raised an eyebrow and smiled at Odd's comment. "Well, unfortunately for you, it's not your decision, Odd. It's my precious Xenon's." Odd scowled at Xana.
"Xenon's not yours!" Odd shouted. Xana rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Well, Odd. I have known Xenon longer than you have. By what? Fourteen years or so. I wold say I know her better than you do, by far." Odd was about to interrupt but he glanced sideways at Xenon and saw her slowly backed away and take a deep breath. "Also, you already have someone don't you? If I'm not mistaken her name is Sissi Delmas. Am I wrong?"
"There's nothing between us." Odd stated. He didn't look at Xenon again as Xana might follow his glance and find put what Xenon was doing.
"Nothing?" Xana scoffed as he rearranged Aelita's limp body in his arms. "I may not be human, but, from what I understand about your Earth, I think creating a child means there is something between two people."
"Well, that may be true, but I love Xenon."
"Love? For you pathetic humans, love conquers all." Xana said sarcastically. While Xana and Odd talked, Xenon had slowly been making her way backward to hide behind a car. She got behind it without attracting the attention of anybody.
Xenon took a deep breath and then took out her cellphone. She wondered who to call because for all she knew everyone could be dead. She called Yumi's cellphone but she didn't answer, neither did Jeremie. Her escape plan to get away from Xana to call people at asked on the status of everything had been in vain.
Xenon sighed deeply. Xana will notice I'm missing. Xenon thought. How will Odd and me get to the factory? Xana just won't let waltz to the factory to put him back in the computer.
The ringing of a cellphone brought Xenon out of her thoughts. She picked up her cellphone and answered it, but the ringing had brought Xana to his senses.
"Where's Xenon?" Xana fumed. He looked at Odd who held his firm position in front of Xana. Xana walked up to Odd and roughly pushed him aside with his shoulder. Meanwhile, Xenon had answered her phone.
"Hello?" Xenon said softly. She waited a second for a reply but it felt as though hours had gone by. Her heart pumped rapidly as, for all that she knew, Xana would find where she was. She didn't know what he would do.
"Xenon?" A voice asked. Xenon recognized it.
"Aelita? How? How?" Xenon stuttered. Her hand struggled to keep a firm grip on her phone.
"Xana just hit me with—with well something." Aelita explained. "I sprained my ankle but I'm fine. Everyone is heading to the factory besides you and Odd of course."
"Oh thank god you're alright." Xenon breathed in relief. "But," Xenon switched to a serious tone. "Xana's over here. We don't know if it's a polymorphic clone or not, but he has a replica of--"
"Oh so there you are." Xana said coming around the car Xenon was hiding behind. "I'll just take that." Xana, like a polymorphic clone, sped up so Xenon didn't even see that he had already gone in front of her, took her cellphone, and was back in his original position. In his right hand he held Aelita by her left arm which made her look more like a rag doll than ever. In his left, he held Xenon's purple cellphone. "No need to talk to other people. You've got me and Odd I suppose." With this he crushed Xenon's cellphone into a million tiny pieces and let them fall onto the road of the highway. Xenon glared at Xana and wondered what had happened to Odd. No one was around besides the three of them. There were cars and the highways, but everyone had left their cars at the sight of Xana standing before them and talking almost normally in front of Xenon and Odd. Even their driver who had so pretty nasty cuts but still could get out. "But that depends on how long I'll let him live." Xenon still glared at him not knowing what to say. "I could kill him and Aelita at the same time. That would made the perfect day, eh?" Xenon still did not say anything. "Not going to talk?" Xana question in an almost eerie friendly manner. "Well just the same I suppose."
Xana fell to the ground with a thud and 'Aelita' fell to the ground with him. Odd had kicked Xana in the back of the head, much to Xana's surprise. Xenon was shocked to suddenly see Xana fall to the ground with Odd standing innocently behind it with a mixture of anger blended in.
"Come on Xenon." Odd said picking up Aelita. Strangely, Xana stayed on the ground and didn't get up after Odd's assault. Xenon was dazed, but she still got up and following Odd through the maze of cars. Then Xenon remembered.
"Odd, let go of it!" Xenon said realizing that Odd was holding a Aelita-shaped figure. Odd turned and gave Xenon a confused look. "That's not Aelita." As if on cue, 'Aelita' got up and cracked her neck. The green eyes rolled back in their sockets.
Xenon looked scared because the body really did look like Aelita but the body was disheveled. 'Aelita's' head was now at an impossible angle and it rotated to look at the both of them. After this, it let out a ear-bleeding shriek signaling to Xana where they were. Then it tackled Xenon and pinioned her to the ground.
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"Virtualization." Jeremie said as he sent Aelita and Yumi to the mountain sector.
"Do you think they'll be alright?" Ulrich asked. He hadn't gone because Jeremie insisted that he shouldn't. After Xana had gripped his arm he fractured a bone in his arm. He wrapped his arm in his jacket although that did nothing.
"Ulrich, you need to go to the hospital for your arm. We can hold up." Jeremie said without looking up from the screen.
"I know, but we're going to have to a return to the past anyways. And what if Xana comes to attack you. No one will be here. Might as well stay." Ulrich shrugged. Jeremie shook his head as he disapproved of Ulrich's decision against getting medical help but was thankful that someone would be there should Xana come around.
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"Jeremie, where's this tower?" Yumi asked as she got on the overwing. Aelita was getting on a vehicle herself, the overboard. They weren't moving, but they were alert in case blocks or a swarm of hornets showed up.
"I—I don't know." Jeremie admitted. He knew that the answer to getting rid of Xana of Earth was on Lyoko, but he didn't know exactly how to do it. For all his experience of Lyoko, Xana always activated a tower to have some control on Earth, but it hadn't always been the case since Xenon came into their lives, and into Aelita's life again.
"You don't know?" Yumi repeated. She put a hand on her hip. "If you don't know, then why did you send us to the mountains?"
"Look," Aelita interrupted. "We'll go to sector five and then get full access to the supercomputer and Xana's data. Xana has got to have something about what he's doing right now." Yumi nodded and then headed to the edge of the sector with Aelita. Jeremie typed in 'scipio', the transport orb came, and engulfed Yumi and Aelita.
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"We've got to get out of here." Xenon stated obviously as the creature, 'Aelita,' held her down while still screeching its head off. Odd was trying to pry the thing off of Xenon but with no avail. The creature dug its fingernails into Xenon's neck and Xenon cried out.
"Stupid bitch." Xana said to 'Aelita' just as Odd was about release a killing blow to its head. "I told you to attack the blonde guy. Not girl. Can't you tell the difference? Or did Odd look so much like a girl and you couldn't tell the difference?" Xana smirked and then looked Odd straight in the face who glared back.
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Yumi and Aelita entered the main arena that was sector five. It was in a state that Yumi nor Aelita had never seen it: there was no traps set out at all. The key was straight across the room with nothing barring the way. Yumi and Aelita stared at it suspiciously.
"There's no traps." Aelita stated.
"Which means there's traps." Yumi said, taking out her two fans. She threw one out into the arena. It cut threw the air spinning, reached almost to the key, and then came whizzing back. Yumi was confused as she caught it. She narrowed her eyes. "Stay here." She yelled at Aelita over her shoulder as she ran through the empty arena. Nothing came down to crush her, nothing shot at her, nothing did nothing at all.
Yumi reached the key and pressed it. The three minute countdown stopped and the regular door, that led them outside of the dome, opened. Yumi waved all clear for Aelita, and then they both caught the elevator that took them directly outside of the dome to the screen which had access to everything in the supercomputer.
Aelita knew it was her turn and ran up to the screen and started searching through the supercomputer for a sign of what Xana was doing and how he was on Earth.
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Xana pulled up 'Aelita' by her matted pink hair. 'Aelita' didn't make a sound as Xana roughly pushed her away and she skid on the ground.
"So, trying to run?" Xana asked, as though he didn't do anything to 'Aelita.' "But where would you run to?" Xana asked sarcastically. "Xenon's parents' house? That's a laugh. Xenon calling some random people who couldn't even reproduce, her parents." Xenon didn't change her glare, but Odd was even angrier. He lifted his arm to punch Xana but Xenon grabbed his arms.
"No Odd don't..." Xenon muttered.
"Smart move Xenon." Xana said. "Funny, when you a little girl, I always thought you would end up with a smart guy and not this dumb ass here." Odd clenched his fist and gritted his teeth. "Because, I'm mean, doesn't it piss you off a little bit that--" Xana paused. "Wait a second." Xana ran off at what could possibly be the speed of light in one direction and, true to his word, he was back within the second. He returned with Sissi who he gripped onto her upper right arm. Sissi seemed wiped-out. She was sweating and with her free hand she placed it on his lower stomach. "OK. Xenon, doesn't it piss you off that Odd has done it with this girl instead of you?"
Xenon stared at Xana for a moment. "No, it's doesn't 'piss' me off--"
"Oh come on." Xana complained. "Odd and Sissi have something you don't. A baby. Doesn't that affect you?" Xenon stared unchanged at Xana. Odd glanced from Xana to Xenon to Sissi. Sissi was merely trying to calm down and calm her heart, which was difficult because some man in black and red had grabbed her out of thin air and dragged her to god knows where.
"No, it doesn't--"
"Arg!" Xana yelled in frustration. He grabbed Sissi's long black hair and pulled it back; Sissi screamed. Her hair didn't rip out, instead it involuntarily pulled her neck backwards. Her neck went back and back and Sissi kept on screaming and screaming. Odd wiggled his arm out of Xenon's hold and ran towards Xana.
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"Find anything yet?" Yumi asked. Ten minutes had past and she was uncomfortable because sector five seemed dead from the lack of monsters and obstacles.
"Nothing." Aelita responded. "Wait what's this?" She had opened a file. Yumi looked over her shoulder.
"It's just a bunch of zeros and ones." Yumi commented.
"It's binary code." Aelita said. "Jeremie I'm going to send you this file. Can you translate it?"
"Of course." Jeremie said into the microphone. Aelita send the file and Jeremie used the supercomputer to translate it. Ulrich looked confused as he looked over Jeremie's shoulder. "It doesn't mean anything."
"Nothing?" Aelita questioned.
"Here I'll send you the translated copy." Jeremie said sending it back to Aelita. Aelita looked at the file she received from Jeremie.
#¸ºTUv,UUYUU)IU#-BJUwJ‰RJIUJ")zu)DRT‰UW•U+UUj
It was like this for the whole file. Its binary code made no sense. Aelita discarded it and deleted it from the supercomputer.
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Sissi's neck gave a sickening crack and Xana gave one more tug on Sissi's head. Odd gasped and Xenon froze. Words failed to describe what they feeling. Sissi's eyes glazed over is shock. Xenon did the first thing that popped into her mind which was to reach for her cellphone. She whipped it out and dialed Jeremie's number. Xenon heard it ring once and then twice.
"Why is Jeremie taking so fucking long?" Xenon said. She couldn't breathe and Sissi wouldn't last long.
"Hello?" Jeremie answered.
"Jeremie do a return to the past right now. Hurry!" She yelled into her cellphone.
"But we haven't beaten Xana he's still out there--"
"I don't give a fuck. Jeremie do it now. Sissi could die in less than thirty seconds!" Xenon screamed. She heard rushed typing and it seemed agonizingly slow.
"Return to the past now." Jeremie said hurriedly. Time froze and the familiar white light washed over the world and sent them spiraling into the past. Only, Xenon thought, hope it's not to late. With that thoughtthe light covered the scene.
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EDIT: This chapter was written more than a week ago. It was not posted because FanFiction kept having problems when I tried to load it(which was like 100 times). The next chapter is postpone because I didn't have time to write it(four page history essay). It should come next Sunday. But maybe not because my birthday is Saturday.
A/N Leaving you guys with a bit (or a lot) of drama seems to become a habit. So, has laughing at nothing and getting really distracted when trying to write. Which is sort of why this chapter is a very days late. Review!