Dedication: To Fai D. Flourite from Tsubasa. If you've read/heard of chapter 155. Then you know what I mean.
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko. I do claim rights to the character Xenon and the plot of this story.
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Aelita and Xenon resurfaced from the digital sea in the ice sector. Xenon made her disc appear out of thin air before gravity had a chance to pull them back into the digital sea. Xenon got to the ledge of ice and collapsed.
"Are you alright Xenon?" Aelita asked concerned. Xenon coughed and grabbed at the sides of her stomach. "Xenon?" Aelita said, really concerned now. She dropped to Xenon's side. "What's wrong?" Xenon let out another raspy cough.
"That just took a lot out of me." Xenon stated, hoarse. "The trip to get out of the digital sea. I--"
"Relax." Aelita said. "Jeremie?" Aelita asked, hoping Jeremie would be on the supercomputer and hear her. "Jeremie are you there? Jeremie?" She received no answer. Aelita sighed and turned back to her sister. "Are you sure you're alright? Shouldn't the power be helping?"
"Well, I want to save it as much as possible. I only used some to get us here and right when we came out of the digital sea I stopped using the power. Xana has control over the other replika and, when the time comes, he'll be at full power." Xenon explained, still raspy. "So, Jeremie's not there--" Xenon was interrupted at a laser flew past narrowing avoiding her head. "Can't even get a five minute break…" Xenon muttered, getting up. She opened her hands and balls of fire appeared.
The attacker had been crab and it had four other friends, which were crabs also. They crawled quickly towards where Xenon and Aelita were.
"Aelita, on three run to the tower to the left. It's a little of a distance, but Xana's just not going to leave us alone today even if he wants to conserve power." Xenon told her sister. "One…" The crabs were still coming, "Two three!" Xenon said quickly. Aelita took off toward the said tower. Xenon turned her attention to the pair of crabs who immediately turned to follow Aelita. Xenon threw the fireballs and they hit their target on the crabs' legs; the crabs exploded.
The other three crabs had taken this opportunity to shoot at Xenon. The lasers hit Xenon in her legs and arms. Xenon recoiled and fell to the ground with the splitting pain.
What the hell? Xenon thought at she gritted her teeth. It's shouldn't hurt this much unless Xana had… Xenon gritted her teeth more in frustration now. Xenon got up. She waved her right hand, putting her newly gained power into it, and the crabs exploded. Xenon didn't even take a second to relax. She created her disc and sped off to find Aelita. Xenon followed a steep hill and then through a twisty tunnel that leveled out to a straight away to the tower. Xenon spotted Aelita running without anything chasing her or anything to ambush her. Xenon descended.
"Aelita hop on." Xenon said and Aelita did. "OK, so, were going to go to sector seven from a tower. I'll have to rewire and do and bunch of stuff to make it work and then deactivate it right as we about to enter sector seven."
"OK." Aelita said. Xenon reached the tower and entered it. She went to the second story. The screen popped up and Xenon placed her hand on the screen so it could identify her. Xenon started to work. After nine minutes, Xenon was done. She went back to the first floor where she saw Aelita sitting.
"Ready?" Xenon asked. Aelita nodded. They stood on the edge of the floor that was in the shape of Xana's symbol. The sisters stretched out their hands and leaned forward, falling forward. At the flick of the Xenon's wrist a split second before they were leaving the tower, Xenon deactivated the route to get to sector seven to prevent Xana from following.
Xenon and Aelita reached another tower and they exited it. They had arrived in sector seven, leaving one of the four gigantic towers. The place was peaceful. The grassy plain glimmering by the nonexistent sun and swaying by the wind. Flowers were littered around the sector. If the four gigantic towers and the one tower that was even bigger weren't there it could have past for being a normal place.
"Well, we should be able to contact someone using my tower." Xenon said taking in a breath of fresh air it felt nice to be somewhere that was almost like Earth. When Xenon did not get an answer she turned to Aelita. Before Xenon could even ask, pink electric sparks came from the palms of Aelita's hands striking Xenon with an electrical current. Xenon fell to the ground, limp.
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Aelita woke up with her body aching. She was lying on a smooth patch of ice. Aelita got up and looked around quickly, only to cause a major headache to spout up.
"What happened?" Aelita whispered, as she tired to find a trace of where Xenon was. Aelita remembered.
(Flashback)
"One…two three!" Xenon yelled. Aelita ran toward the tower that Xenon had said was to the left. Aelita easily ran quickly. She heard crabs explode behind her as she crossed over a hill of ice that had a tunnel that led down. Instead of running downward, Aelita sat down and slid down. The tunnel twisted and Aelita gained speed. At the end of the tunnel, Aelita saw herself standing there. The clone smiled evilly and shot out an electrical current like the ones Xana often equipped to polymorphic clones on Earth. Aelita blacked out before she could even try to defend herself.
(End Flashback)
Aelita looked around. Surely Xana attacked Xenon or pretended to be me or something. Aelita thought.
"Jeremie, where are you?" Aelita called out, kicking at a pebble of ice.
"Aelita?" Jeremie's voice said from somewhere overhead.
"Jeremie?" Aelita answered quickly.
"Are you alright? Here, I'm going to materialize you." Jeremie said.
Aelita came out of her scanner, exhausted. Jeremie caught her as she almost fell to the ground. Jeremie had red-rimmed eyes from hours without sleep. His blond hair needed to be brushed and he probably was in a desperate need of a shower. But Aelita didn't care, she hugged Jeremie tightly.
"Aelita…" Jeremie said softly. The last time he saw Aelita she was in a depressed mood and wanted time alone. He was glad that she wanted to be near. He didn't show his happiness due to that fact of Aelita's unhappiness; Aelita was crying. "What's wrong?" He asked, holding Aelita tightly.
"Xenon's al-alright, I--I mean, she was. Xana—he came because of the power, but we escaped. He ha-had a polymorphic clone and he stunned me. I don't know if he did anything to Xenon." Aelita said, quickly and shakily.
"Wait, slow down. What?" Jeremie said.
"Basically, I need to find Xenon now!" Aelita said, jerking out of Jeremie's hold. She went to the elevator, Jeremie barely getting in before the metal door clanged shut. Jeremie didn't look at Aelita. So much for that moment of time together. Jeremie thought bitterly as the elevator doors opened again and Aelita got in front of the supercomputer. Aelita scanned Lyoko for any trace of Xenon and she didn't find one. "Maybe she's in sector seven but the only way to check that is with her laptop." Aelita turned to Jeremie sticking her bottom lip out and blinked her green eyes. When she saw his expression, she stopped. "What's wrong?"
"Hmm…I wonder what?" Jeremie said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
"Jeremie…"
"Aelita, I feel like you've been ignoring me. It's always Xenon this, Xenon that. I'm trying to be there for you, but you just keep pushing me away." Jeremie said angrily.
"Jeremie." Aelita said shortly. "Xenon's my only family member alive. My father and mother are gone. Xenon's my only family. Don't you understand?"
"I've tried comforting you, but you just push me away." Jeremie repeated.
"Look, I don't want to deal with this." Aelita said getting up out of the supercomputer chair. "I'll get Xenon's laptop myself." Aelita started toward the elevator; Jeremie grabbed her arm.
"You don't want to deal with the problem between us or you don't want to deal with me?"
Aelita looked at Jeremie in the eyes and then at his hold on her. "Both." Aelita said. Jeremie loosened his hold but before he had the chance to let go, Aelita tugged her arm away. Aelita glared at Jeremie as the elevator doors closed. "Oh my god, what did I just do?" Aelita asked herself. As she left the factory, Aelita took out her cell phone. She dialed Odd's number.
"Hello?" Odd answered.
"Odd, it's Aelita. Where are you?"
"I'm in my room packing--"
"Odd can you do me a favor?" Aelita interrupted as she climbed down the manhole. She saw only Jeremie's scooter. Aelita grabbed it and headed back for the school.
"Yeah sure."
"Can you go into Xenon's room and grabbed her laptop and meet me in the park?"
"Xenon's?" Odd asked reluctantly.
"Odd, it's important. Xenon's out of the digital sea and I think she's in sector seven, but the only way to know is from her laptop. I also think she's under Xana's possession."
"Xana's possession?" Odd asked, locking the door to his and Ulrich's room.
"Yes, hurry." Aelita said. "Oh no…"
"What?"
"I just remembered something Xana said…"
"Which was?" Odd questioned.
"Like he was going to kill someone if Xenon didn't give him the power." Aelita said.
"Do you think he meant Xenon?" Odd asked, picking up speed. If Xana was planning on killing Xenon, then he needed to hurry. Odd didn't want lose Xenon for good even though he thought that he had.
"I don't know." Aelita said stopping a ladder and dropping Jeremie's scooter next to her, Ulrich's, Yumi's, Odd's, and Xenon's skateboards.
"Got it." Odd said, locking Xenon's room.
"I'm right outside the entrance in the park." Aelita said.
"OK, I'll be there in a minute." Odd said and then hung up. He ran across the courtyard to the school. He was exempted from classes for the day because his mom was going to pick him up in a couple days and he needed to pack. Thank god though that Xenon's alive, if Xana didn't do anything to her. Odd thought. If we get through this and save her, I can see her tonight.
Odd's cell phone rang. Odd shifted the laptop to his left hand has he entered the park. He grabbed the cell phone from his pocket. He flipped it open.
"Hello?" Odd said.
"Odd…" The voice was crying.
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A/N Sorry for delay. End of the school year and then first days of vacation I always like doing absolutely nothing. I wrote this chapter fast, must have missed writing a lot. Anyways as always, Review!