Yaaay! So anywhoo, I'm glad you all like my story so faar. Well, some of you do anyway! Haha, so I'm really glad you found my story dreamer(). I was really worried that you wouldn't seeing as how you wanted me to write it SOOO bad, lol! So anyway, here's Chapter 2! Oh! & thanks for reviewing I-Breached-Ur-Security :D
Disclaimer: I own nothing in this story except, Mannie Diazdeleon, Mickey Knox, Celestine Diazdeleon, Xavier Narako(Diazdeleon), Avril Taisley, and this story line.
'lalalala' – lyrics
"lalalala" – talking
(Lalalala) – me talking :D
'lalalala' – thinking(yes its different than the lyrics. That's italicized)
Chapter 2: The Sacrifice
"Why are you so mad at him Mannie?" Mickey asked her friend as they sat down on a bench.
"I… I don't know. I mean... he got that girl pregnant! He shouldn't have done that..." Mannie sighed and slumped further into the bench. Mickey laughed.
"It's none of your business anymore. I know you dated him and stuff... but you broke up with him.. or separated from him or whatever you wanna call it. So.." Mickey pushed the hair out of Mannie's face.
"…I know it's just that I thought that just maybe they'd all welcome me back with open arms… but why was I stupid enough to think that… you know what? I wanna show you something." Mannie stood up and pulled Mickey with her.
"Woah! Where are we going?! To the boys locker room?!?" Mickey said excitedly.
"..hmm not exactly. Just watch! You'll see!" Mannie turned and smiled at her friend. She started running, and Mickey followed in pursuit. Eventually the two girls were in front of the old-not so abandoned factory.
"Woah! What is this place?" Mickey started walking up to the building.
"It's an old factory. But this isn't what I wanted to show you, and what I am about to show you, you can't tell anyone about. Okay? Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, Aelita, and Jeremy already know about it though. You'll more than likely meet the others later. So, don't worry." Mannie smiled as she walked to an elevator. "Come on."
"..Are you sure it's safe?" Mickey asked her as they climbed into the elevator.
"Would I do anything to hurt you?" Mannie looked at her and smiled and pressed the lever upwards.
"You pushed me down the stairs one time and broke my leg." Mickey grumbled.
"Oh that was so not my fault and you know it! Andrew pushed me and I ran into you! So blame it on him, and not me!" Mannie laughed and walked out. Mickey followed and looked around in amazement.
"…What is this place? It's amazing!" She ran over to the supercomputer.
"Don't touch anything! You'll mess up the program.." Mannie looked at the computer. Nothing had changed all the lights were still flashing and everything. But there was an unusual light she had never seen before. She got out her phone, and dialed a number she hadn't in a really long time. 'Jeremy.. it's Mannie… thers a weird lite on sprcmptr. Cum 2 factry now!' She texted him. "Okay Mickey I'm gonna go down to the Scanner Room, and go into Lyoko… I need you to put on these head phones. I know it's a lot to take in.. but do whatever I ask… okay? I know how to work this and you can't do anything I don't ask you to. Soon a boy with blonde hair and glasses should be up here. His name's Jeremy… tell him I'm already in here working on whatever the problem is. You should be able to hear me.. so yeah..See you later!" Mannie walked to the ladder and waved to her friend, then she climbed down. Mickey put the earphones on shaking..
'I hope I don't mess anything up..' Mickey frowned waiting for her friend to speak to her.
"Mickey! Can you hear me?" Mannie yelled. Mickey nodded.
"Yeah Mannie, what do you want me to do?" Mickey asked looking at the huge keyboard.
"Okay, look at the right screen. Do you see the big cylinder things?" Mannie asked her.
"Yea.. I do!" Mickey smiled. Mannie walked up to one of the scanners and stepped into one of them.
"Did the first one light up?" Mickey nodded.
"What do you want me to do now?" She was ready to do anything.
"Touch the screen where the cylinder lighted up, then on the middle keyboard type in 'VIRTULIZE: MANNIE' in all caps, then hit enter twice." Mannie crossed her arms getting ready for the transfer. Mickey did what she said, and Mannie was finally being pixilated and sent to her favorite place in the world.
"Wow.. it hasn't changed much…" She observed.
"H-hey! Who're you! I know what this looks like but-" Jeremy started to try to explain the whole situation.
"Jeremy! It's me, Mannie! She's fine! That's my friend Mickey. She helped me get on Lyoko." Mannie tried to calm him down.
"Yeah dude, I'm cool. The name's Mickey Knox." She smiled.
"Jeremy, did the others come with you?" Mannie asked. She was walking through the ice sector.
"No they didn't, you didn't ask me to bring them." Jeremy said matter-of-factly.
"Well, could you tell them to come please?!" Mannie asked. There were already monsters coming after her. She suddenly heard some clapping coming from behind her.
"Very good Mannie, very good. You've gotten yourself stuck here with me by yourself. And guess what? XANA's gotten a new power. Yeah, the scanners are locked. No one can get in or get out. It's just you and me, little Mannie. Well, and all of these three-hundred and fifty-two monsters of course. But I don't really count them, because they're not as important to Xana as you and I are." William started laughing.
"J-jeremy…!" Mannie started running toward the opposite direction of William.
"I'm on it… Odd! Get Ulrich, Yumi, Aelita, and Avril. We need you down at the factory, pronto!" Jeremy hung up his phone. "Don't worry Mannie, it's probably just a virus or something. I'll fix it, we won't let you be stuck in there." He was typing furiously, and had completely forgotten that Mickey was there.
"What do you mean 'stuck in there'?" Mickey asked him running over to the computer looking at the many screens trying to help him figure out.
"Well, if we can't get the others in there, then Mannie's basically stuck, because three-hundred and fifty-two monsters are too much for her to handle. No matter how strong she is… she's still just human." Jeremy said frustrated with himself, and everything that was going on; when suddenly an unexpected face appeared on the screen. Odd, Ulrich, Samantha, Yumi, Aelita and Avril all ran in simultaneously huffing.
"What is it?" Ulrich asked, angry. Jeremy pointed to the screen shaking.
"J-jeremy! What's going on? What is it?" Mannie asked, scared. She was still running for her life.
"Mannie?!" Odd asked. He walked toward the ladder.
"Where are you going Odd?" Sam asked him.
"Odd, you can't go in there." Jeremy told him still staring at the screen.
"What? Why not?" He came back over and looked at the screen. "Who's that?"
"…XANA.." Jeremy whispered. "XANA, what do you want?"
"I'm giving you the chance to shut Lyoko down, once and for all." The computer virus, wasn't a computer virus at all. He was a dark haired man with wrinkles, and the look of a father.
"Okay, but why are you trapping Mannie in there? Wouldn't you need Aelita too?" Jeremy asked him.
"Jeremy! I need my vehicle." In Lyoko, the monsters and William were gaining on Mannie and she definitely wasn't prepared to fight all of them by herself. Jeremy typed in the keys without even looking at the keyboard, and sent in Odds' skateboard. Mannie hopped on it and jetted to one of the towers.
"Not exactly, you figured it out before right? How to shut down Lyoko? So, having Mannie in there we could just do it right now. I overrode the virus, so right now it's trying to fight its way back into the mainframe to overtake me again. I don't know if we'll ever get a chance like this again, to be able to do something like this. Because when he takes over me again, he'll be much stronger than before. But it's your choice. I'm willing to give my daughters' life, but are you all?" Xavier asked them.
"How are we supposed to make a decision like that, in such a little amount of time?" Yumi asked, looking at them all.
"What are you guys talking about? We're talking about a human being here! A celebrity! And I'm pretty sure she's impacted all of your lives big time. Sure, she left you guys to become a star, but from what she told me, you guys told her to because there 'might never be a chance like this ever again'…and sure she didn't call you or text you or email you or anything, but that's because she didn't want to hurt you. But she just ended up hurting herself. They overworked her like crazy. But she inspired little kids, teenagers, and adults around the world. She helped out so many charities… and Odd, I know you don't want her to die, no matter how much you 'love' this Samantha person. I know deep down that you love her more than anyone else, because you we're just about to jump into Lyoko before anyone else did to save her. You didn't even know what was waiting. Do you really want to give that all up?" Jackie yelled at them, and they all just stared at her.
"Yes, but we're talking about millions of people's lives here. Do you even understand this? Lyoko is a virtual world to fight and get rid of a computer virus that's stronger than any other machine or virus in this world. The only reason any of us are alive today are because we fought that virus and held it back from doing anything too drastic to the world. Mannie knew that once she set foot into the world of Lyoko. She made that choice that if she needed to sacrifice herself for the good of the world, she would. No going back." Ulrich looked at Jackie, and explained to her roughly.
"Plus, what good has she done for us?" Sam spoke up. "All she's done is broke Odd's heart, and almost got us caught by the government. She hasn't really gotten us anywhere in the Lyoko world. So if she could get rid of that monster machine, then that'll be the first real thing she's ever done for the world." She nodded.
"Guys- if it'll save the world… then I want to do it." Mannie spoke up from the screen. She was in one of the towers, and her face showed up on the screen. "If it were Aelita, she would do it. Same with any of you, I know it. That's the whole reason I was called back here, to end this all…" Mannie smiled at her friend. "Thank you for trying to defend me Mickey.."
"But Mannie! What about all the stories you told me? About wanting to be a mom, and a wife, and you still have to release that album, and what about all of your fans, and… and…" Mickey's eyes started tearing, "and you still have to be my bridesmaid, and we have to go climb the Eiffel Tower together, and we have to go shopping in Paris, and what about your mom? She'll have lost two of the most important people of her life to… this.. what am I supposed to tell her?"
"The truth. Once this is all shut down.. There'll be no reason to hide it anymore. And how are my fans going to be disappointed if they're all dead. And how am I supposed to be your bridesmaid if you're dead.. I have a chance to be a guardian angel here, and that's what I want to do. So, don't hate me for this…" Mannie smiled.
"Mannie, I'm sorry.." Odd said quietly. "For everything I've ever done and said to you.. I'm sorry for cheating on you when we were together(that was before What Have You Done, btw. They dated before… it all explains it in the story! Go read it if you don't remember!) I really am. That was the worst mistake of my life, and I'm slowly realizing (Oh, and btw. If you wanna get the full feel of what I'm feeling while I write this, go listen to the song Pushing Me Away by Linkin Park. It totally describes this situation, I think, oh and start it from when Mickey was yelling at them about Mannie..)what a stupid mistake that was. I've loved you since I first met you. No one else…" He looked up at the screen.
"I love you too Odd.. that's why I came back here.. for you. But that's all too late now. More important things are in store for me. And for you. You have a baby on the way. Cherish it." Mannie nodded towards Sam. "Okay Jeremy, what do I need to do?"
My best friend gave me the best advice,
"Okay go back outside, I'll have the transporter waiting for you, you need to go on it and go to Sector Five." Jeremy typed in his computer to get the Transporter to come.
He said each day's a gift and not a given right.
"Is William waiting for me?" Mannie asked as she logged out of the screen and on to the elevator.
Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind,
"No, I don't know where he is." Jeremy frowned. Mannie cautiously walked out of the tower and ran into the transporter that waited for her.
And try to take the path less traveled by.
That step you take, is the longest stride,
If today was your last day, and tomorrow was too late.
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last,
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime you had?
If today was your last day.
Mannie was watching the world of Lyoko, because she figured it was the last time she'd see it. If she weren't virtual right now, she would probably be crying. But now wasn't the time for that.
Against the grain, should be a way of life
What's worth the prize is always worth the fight.
Every second counts, cause there's no second try.
"Okay, I'm here.." She got out of the transporter and looked around Sector Five. She got a sudden uneasy feeling. 'This feels weird..'
"Okay, now you remember where you went last time you were there right? Well I need you to go there last time." Jeremy told her. Odd was frozen with disbelief.
'I can't believe I'm going to lose her again.. after I just got her back, and I was so mean to her. Maybe this is a sign from God or something that we're meant to be apart.' He frowned. "But there has to be some way.." He said aloud accidentally. Avril and Ulrich were hugging each other, and Avril was on the verge of crying.
So live it like you'll never live it twice.
Don't take the free ride of your own life,
Mannie ran up to the elevator, and jumped on it in perfect timing. There were many monsters waiting for her and she shot every single one perfectly. Mickey was staring at the screen, trying to find any way she could to help her friend win this battle, because, if she was going to give up her life for the whole world, Mickey wanted it to be meaningful.
"There has to be some way for what?" Aelita asked Odd. She was calm, as usual.
"So she doesn't have to die." Odd said quietly.
If today was your last day, and tomorrow was too late.
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last,
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime you had?
Would you call old friends you never see, reminisce in memories
Would you forgive your enemies?
"There isn't…" Sam looked at Odd.
"I don't want to hear anything from you." Odd glared at her. "You're the whole reason we're in this mess. I know you got her that contact with that record producer, I know you're one of XANA's slaves; I know that all you've been trying to do is mess with me and Mannie's life. And congratulations Sam. You won. You got what you wanted. But I'll be damned if I let you ruin my life anymore. Because, you've already done that. You've already ruined it more, than it can be ruined." Odd frowned.
"Sam's right Odd. She has to stay in the room with it, or else the whole shut down won't work." Jeremy looked at him sadly.
"Are you really going to let her do this?" Odd walked over to him, and asked him.
"We don't have a choice…" Jeremy started.
"What if it were Aelita? I don't think you'd have nearly as easy of a time pushing those buttons. Actually I think one of us would have you do it for you! You're only letting Mannie do this, so Aelita won't have to, aren't you?!" Odd was so close to punching Jeremy. Ulrich and Yumi got up and grabbed him.
"Odd, it's okay. I know this is hard. It's hard for me too.. cause I really just want to see you. But it's too late for all of that anyway." Mannie sighed, while running up some stairs and fighting off some monsters.
"Something I've learned over the past couple of years, is that it's never too late for anything." Odd said quietly. "There's always a way to stop or intervene with something. And I think Jeremy knows how, but he just won't tell us!" Odd was struggling really hard to break free.
"Okay Odd, you're just being like this because of Mannie, you need to calm down." Ulrich made his friend look at him.
Would you find that one you're dreamin' of,
Swear up and down to God above?
That you finally fall in love,
If today was your last day.
If today was your last day,
Would you make your mark,
By mending a broken heart?
Cause it's never too late,
To shoot for the stars.
"But I just can't… I don't want to lose her." Tears finally started falling out of Odds' eyes. Ulrich hugged his friend.
"It'll be okay Odd. It always has been.." Ulrich told him.
"Okay Jeremy, I'm at the room I was at before… when we found out XANA was my dad.. where do I go now?" Mannie asked him looking around. 'This room is waay too quiet…' She closed her eyes, but there were no minds close enough to her for her to read so she just opened her eyes.
"See the spiraling staircase, looking thing?" Jeremy asked her. Mannie nodded.
"Yeah.." She ran up it, guessing that's where she was supposed to go.
Regardless of who you are,
So do whatever it takes.
Cause you can't rewind
A moment in this life.
Let nothing stand in your way,
A familiar dark figure was standing in the middle of the platform.
"William…" Mannie said quietly, patting her sides and she got two handguns. She ran at him and started shooting. He dodged each attack and hopped on a Manta. She kept running and jumped over a ray that the flying monsters sent after her. "This is the end William, you may as well give up."
"Even if you do close Lyoko down XANA will find ways to come back you know." He told her swinging his sword ferociously at her. She dodged every attack, because he was filled with unease.
"If you're so sure of it, why do you sound so nervous?" She shot him twice and he fell to the bottom of the pit. Surely not dead, but he wasn't making any responses, so Mannie kept running.
Cause the hands of time are never on your side.
If today was your last day,
And tomorrow was too late.
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime you have?
"What is the thing I'm looking for Jeremy?" Mannie asked him. She saw a layer of platform and ran faster. 'This is it..'
"It's a big ball of light. It should be flashing different colors… green, blue, pink, orange, yellow, red.." He listed.
"I see it…" Mannie walked over to the ball of light. She raised her hands and closed her eyes.
Would you call old friends you never see?
Reminisce in memories?
Could you forgive your enemies?
Would you find that one you're dreamin of,
Swear up and down to God above.
Jeremy saw a miniature screen pop up that read, 'Would You Like To View?' He typed in 'Y'.
"Odd come over here!" He yelled. "Everyone!" They all ran over to him. They could see Mannie with her eyes closed standing in front of the big ball of energy. Her body was lifted up to the top of the building and a big ball of white was being made in her hands.
That you finally fall in love,
"This is all over XANA." She clapped her hands together and sent the energy toward the bigger ball of energy.
If today was your last day..
Before he knew what he was doing, Odd pressed the 'ESCAPE' key on the keyboard, and all of the lights turned out in the factory, and Lyoko shut down.
"Odd! What did you do?!" Jeremy yelled.
Okaaay! There's Chapter Two! I really hope you liked it! I'm really proud of it! Mucho grande :D & i worked on it uber hard! until 2 am last night! i promise, & i had a big test today & i almost slept through it! that's how dedicated i was to it. so show me how dedicated you all are! AAAAHH! R/R! & tell me what you thought! Oh! & the song in the italics was 'If Today Was Your Last Day' by Nickelback(: Oh, and while reading the lyrics (you may want to reread it again with the song playing) when they're talking, or I'm telling the story, just imagine the guitar playing or something(: that's what I did to get the full effect! I hope you like it!
I just thought the song really fit! & it did! Hah! R/R everyone!
Amber