Merry 4th day of Christmas with your 4 calling birds! XD Here's the responses to your reviews, and then the next chapter of my story.
Dlbn - You'll just have to read on to find out.
IAmTheBoss - I know I read about a "Lemonade-Bread Incident" somwhere, and it involved Jeremie and his siblings. Oh, well. I'm sure someone will remember it.
katfish xX - (sees a little 4-year-old boy run by without what the review randomly said) Little streakers that age are both freaky and cute at the same time.
SamandMax0569 - ...It's an elective.
aelitafan13 - Merry Christmas to all, and to all... oh, you know the rest.
TeiaRyku - Already done.
Donna - Would wings feed you if you ever don't have access to food? XD
Well, enough chit-chat. Back to the show.
Holiday Magic
Chapter 3: Killer Comet
"So, this is your brother?" Emily Leduc asked her friend, Heidi Klinger, who nodded.
"He'll be over with Mom, while she volunteers at the dance," she explained while the blonde-haired 9-year-old in an electric wheelchair smiled and waved.
"Well, it's nice to meet you, Roger," Emily told the boy.
"Likewise," he replied. "You know, if I can convince my parents, they may actually let me enroll at this school next year. I mean, Heidi will be here to give me any help I might need, right?"
"I guess that makes sense," she replied.
Roger then frowned and rolled his eyes. "Then, try telling that to Mom and Dad."
Heidi sighed and leaned down to her little brother's wheelchair. "Come on, Roger, I know they may seem a little overbearing to you, but it's just so much harder to raise a handicapped child, and they don't want anything to happen to you."
He smiled a little. "I guess you're right, sis."
"Hey, sorry if I'm interrupting anything," said Odd as he entered the scene.
"Not really," replied Roger. "You're... Odd Della Robbia, right?"
"The one and only," he grinned, striking a pose. "How'd you guess?"
The younger boy chuckled. "It was either the spiky hairdo or the scrawny figure."
"Uh, that's svelte," he corrected. "There's a difference." He turned his attention to the boy's older sister. "Anyway, Heidi, I was wondering if you had a date to the upcoming Christmas dance."
"Sorry, Odd, but I have to help my mother at the dance, so I won't have time for a date," she told him. "Maybe we could go out later in the year."
"Oh, OK then," he replied with a frown before turning to Emily who barked, "Don't even think about it!"
"Alright, fine! I won't ask you!"
As Odd left he met up with the Stern-Affeber cousins. The moment Ulrich saw him, he asked, "Hey, Odd, have you seen Jeremie lately?"
He shook his head. "No. You mean, you haven't either?"
"Not since he went to work on Hopper's diary at the factory four hours ago," he said. "I'm starting to worry, Odd. You'd figure we would've heard from him by now."
Ricky folded his arms and looked away bitterly. "Who cares?"
Rounding on him, his older cousin scolded, "Patrick, I know he really hurt your feeling a few days ago, but that's really mean of you to talk that way. What if something serious happened to him?"
The younger boy looked up at him in understanding. "You mean, something serious named X.A.N.A.?" He then smiled and said optimistically, "Don't worry. I'm sure Jerry's fine. Maybe he's working on something to make up for being such a Grinch."
At that moment, the girls appeared, and Aelita reported, "Still no sign of Jeremie, but the Super Scanner picked up an activated tower in the Desert Sector."
"And, according to the news, Comet from the Santa's reindeer display, came to life and started wrecking the mall," added Yumi. "Looks like Xanafication to me."
Quick as a wink, Ricky's optimistic temperament went bitter again. "Attacking with a holiday icon!? Does X.A.N.A. have no respect for even a holiday like this one!?"
"Whoa, easy with the mood swings," said his bemused cousin. "What, are you going through pre-puberty or something?" Ricky shrugged and said nothing more, so Ulrich continued, "Anyway, we better get moving on this one. Yumi and I will head for the mall to deal with Comet. Aelita and Odd, you go to Lyoko, and Ricky, you man the Supercomputer to help keep us in contact with each other."
Ricky grinned at Ulrich's choice of words. "Today... I am a man!"
As he and Yumi started to leave, Ulrich turned to say, "Don't kid yourself."
A mall employee had barely enough time to get out of the way as the rogue reindeer smashed his cocoa stand to the ground. Panicking people ran this way and that as the Xanafied Comet turned to look for something else to crush.
"Hey, X.A.N.A. You better watch it or else they may open deer season again."
Recognizing the voice of one of his enemies, Ulrich, X.A.N.A. turned Comet's head towards the mall entrance. There stood Ulrich and Yumi, so the reindeer charged.
Aelita watched as Ricky typed at the keyboard, referring to Jeremie's notes every 15 seconds. "So, you think you can do it?"
"Probably not as good as Jerry," he admitted. "But, it shouldn't be too complicated, right?"
"Hey, Mrs. and Junior Einsteins," called Odd from near the ladder to and from the passage corridor and Scanner Room. He looked up at a faint, orange glow from the corridor and asked, "Do you see what I see?"
"Way up in the sky, little cat?" Junior Einstein quoted the song.
Aelita stared at the glow and went to the ladder. "I see it too," she said. "I wonder what it is."
"There's only one way to find out," said Odd as he began to ascend the ladder. The moment he climbed over into the corridor however, the two remaining heard him cry, "Oh, no way!"
"What? What is it?" asked Ricky as he jumped from the computer and sprinted up next to Aelita.
"You guys better see this for yourself," they heard Odd call down. So, the two climbed up to the corridor and stood next to Odd. Aelita couldn't believe her eyes when she saw that the orange glow was coming from...
"A Guardian?" she cried.
"But, wait. There's more," said Odd, pointing inside the electric, sphere-shaped prison.
Ricky went over and peered inside. "It's Jerry!" He turned to the others and concluded, "I get it! Along with Xanafying Comet, X.A.N.A. used the activated tower to materialize this Guardian and trap Jerry, so we'd be have one less genius."
With this established, Aelita turned to the boys and said, "We'll have to get to Lyoko and deactivate the tower ASAP, then."
Ricky nodded. "Right. I'll get the procedure started then. As for you, TO THE SCANNER ROOM!"
Insert Super Friends spoofing swirling screen with a scanner zooming in and out.
"OK, I'm sending you into the Sand Region, a little east of the activated tower," Ricky told the two older kids below. "OK, off you go. Transfer: Odd. Transfer: Aeleetie. Scanner: Odd. Scanner: Aeleetie. Virtualization!"
As the two landed, Odd smiled and cracked, "Gee, you figure the tower would be in the Ice Sector for this season."
"Huh, good point, Odd. Hang on for a few seconds, guys," called Ricky's voice from the virtual sky. Three seconds later, a blue, translucent board formed next to their feet with a purple body forming over it. "One Overboard, hold the wheels. Git along, little dogies."
The two climbed aboard the board and took off in a westward direction.
Well, X.A.N.A.'s attack and Jeremie's wareabouts are now known. As for Roger Klinger, I thought I'd give him a little appearance before I officially introduced him. Anyone who looks at my art at DeviantART has already "met" Roger. As for the part between Odd and Heidi, well Odd still has to date her later in "XANA's Kiss", right?
So, will Odd and Aelita make it to the tower on time? Will Ulrich and Yumi hold their own against the killer deer? What's the capital of Donald Duck's home state, Calisota? Why do I keep asking silly questions along with the serious ones? Keep reading to find out! Well, not the last two.