Hey fans. Sorry that it took me as long as it did. You would not believe all the shit i went through since my last update. Anyways, this chapter is going to get into Scott's abilities on Lyoko.
Time for annihilation to progress!
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When they arrived in sector 5, Scott almost laughed at how little scenery there was. It was not very decorative.
"Come on," Aelita said. "The tower is this way."
All four of them ran down the first hallway and kept going.
"Why are there no monsters?" Scott nearly ran into Yumi, who had stopped right in front of him. "What the hell Yumi? Why'd you stop?"
She didn't answer due to the fact that she was staring at a very large creature that was in the room they had just entered. It was three times taller than Scott, had red skin, was covered in scales, had spikes sticking out of it's spine, a long tail, claws, wings coming out of it's shoulder blades, and no eyes. To everybody in the room, it looked like a dragon.
"Son of a-," Scott started. Before he could finish, the dragon had swung its tail, hitting everybody and devurtualizing Yumi. Elise quickly stood up and began to run in circles around the thing hoping to distract it. Scott got the idea and jumped onto it's back holding onto it's wing joints.
"Run Aelita. Go get rid of that tower." Elise began to punch the ground, producing more spikes protruding from the ground. It didn't seem to be having any affect on the thing apart from being distracted. Aelita ran to go find the tower as fast as she could.
"Pound on it," Elise screamed at Scott. He began to punch it as hard as he could, but the scales were so solid, it felt like hitting a brick wall. The dragon turned it's head and shot large fire balls at him.
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Outside, Yumi had joined the fight with the specter. Even with it being powered by only one tower, it was still strong. Ulrich began to swing at it with a pipe, while Odd and Yumi threw large rocks at it's face.
"This isn't working that well guys," Odd yelled.
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Scott got hit in the chest by the fire ball, knocking him onto the ground.
"Scott," Jeremie said, "you're only down to a sigle life point. One more hit and your out."
"Then I better get serious," Scott said standing up. He faced the dragon, looking straight at the spot where it's eyes were supposed to be. He began to fill with rage again, just like when he had fought against the first spector. But this time it was deeper. His pupils dissipated. His hair began to shake violently. And his heart rate began to sky rocket.
"What the hell?" Jeremie said as he watched the screen on the super computer glitch.
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"Found it," Aelita exclaimed. She entered into the tower.
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Elise shielded her eyes as a bright white light shown from Scott.
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The spector threw Odd into Ulrich knocking them both out. He grabbed Yumi by her neck and crushed her esophagus blocking her breathing. She had only seconds to live.
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Elise opened her eyes and saw the light was gone. Scott was out cold on the ground and the dragon was gone.
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"Jeremie," Aelita yelled. "Tower deactivated. Do a return to the past."
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"Return to the past now."
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White light passed over Yumi as she closed her eyes and went limp.
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"Hurry up Stern," Jim shouted. "Your losing your touch if the new people can out run you."
"Believe me sir," Ulrich shouted back, "there is no way I can get as fast as those two."
"And no we don't want to be on the track team sir," Elise said as they finished the race. "What happened Scott?"
He held up a finger to tell her he had to catch his breath. After he did so, he straighted up and looked into the sky.
"I don't really know but I'm guessing that Jeremie activated his return to the past progam. It's a precaution for just in case we really need it."
"So we went back in time?"
"Yeah. Pretty cool huh?" Odd ran up to the two.
"Hey," Odd said. "Do you know where Yumi was at this time of the day?"
"No," Elise answered. " Why?"
"Because she got beat up pretty bad by that clone and Ulrich figured that we should check on her."
"Ok. Lets go. Class ends in five seconds anyways." The bell rang. "See. Womens intuition."
"Or you forgot that Odd also was in that return to the past," Jeremie retorted. They all laughed. Scott hadn't smiled this much in so many years.
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When they reached the usual hangout spot, they saw that Yumi was already there, sleeping on the bench.
"Wake up sleepy head," Elise said, shaking Yumi lightly.
"Let me sleep a little longer," Yumi replied sleepily. "After getting my throat crushed I think I need to rest for a little bit." The group was stunned. Xana had never gotten that far into hurting any of them.
"Well," Jeremie said. "While she is sleeping, I would like the new guys explain what happened on Lyoko. I didn't see what really happened. The super computer's screen just glitched. So something big had to have happened."
Elise and Scott looked at each other, then looked at the group.
"I don't know," they answered at the same time.
"All I saw was a bright light coming from Scott," Elise said. "It was so bright I had to put my hands up to block it out."
"All I remember is getting knocked off of the dragons back and blacking out," Scott said.
"Hmmm." Jeremie was deep in thought. "Let's get down to the factory and see if we can scan your body for any abnormalities."
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Scott stepped into a scanner.
"Scanning for anything that is unusual inside of your body," Jeremie informed him.
On the screen, all of Scott's information popped up. Brainwave scans, blood pressure, blood type, skin color, hair color, and even all his measurements. The girls all turned red and giggled at one measurement that designated his crotch.
"Now that is big," Elise wispered to Yumi. The screen read 8.
"That's wierd," Jeremie looked at the brainwave scans. "I have two readings on this brain wave scan. Is there a bug or something small in there with you Scott?"
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"Nope," Scott replied. "Just me." At that moment, he blacked out again.
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"That is the weirdest thing I have ever seen." Jeremie continued to stare at the screen when they heard a noise come from the scanner room. "Pulling up scanner room camera."
The scanner had been pryed open and Scott wasn't inside it anymore.
"Where is he?" Elise had just asked the question that everybody else was thinking. Scott was gone and he couldn't be found with any of the cameras in the entire building.
"I have no clue," Jeremy said. "Everybody go look for him while I check his scans some more. I think I have an idea on why the reading was weird. I just hope that I'm wrong." He began to type again.
"Okay guys," Ulrich said. "Time to go. Odd, look around the factory some more. Yumi, check around the school grounds. Elise, is there anywhere that Scott liked going to alot since you met him?"
"Yeah. The park." She put her hand to her head. "I think I'm getting a headache. I always get one when something bad's about to happen."
They all went their separate ways to try to find Scott. As Elise got to the entrance to the park ten minutes later, her phone rang.
"Hello?"
"It's Jeremie. I just finished looking over Scott's scans for the last time. I know why the reading had two brainwaves on it."
"Well?"
"He's a schizophrenic. He has a second and maybe a third personality inside his head. This reading couldn't tell me if there were more. Try to reason with it and see if he will be willing to come back."
"I'll try my best but no guarantees on it. By the way, how did you get my number?"
"I kinda stole it from Scott's phone." Before Elise could inquire further, he had hung up.
She walked into the park, looking for signs that somebody had been here recently. It was so quiet that she could hear the water flowing in the direction of the mini water fall that the lake had. She looked at the ground and saw a shoe print with size ten printed in the middle of it. It was going in the direction of the woods. Looking into the woods, she saw Scott sitting on a branch a few trees in.
"Scott?" Elise asked cautiously. "Is that you?"
"No." The voice coming out of the mouth wasn't Scott's voice, that was a sure thing. Scott's voice was nowhere near as deep. "I am not Scott."
"What's your name then?"
"I have no name. I am just a soul trapped in a body. Nothing more."
She stopped a few feet from the tree. "What are you doing then?"
" Why would you care?"
"Because I like Scott and every part that belongs to him. You are a part of him. As he is also a part of you." She noticed that his eyes were a different color. Scott's were blue. His were brown.
"I never thought of it in that way. But that still leaves me as a nameless soul. I have nobody to call friend. Nobody to call family. I have nothing."
"Then we will name you. We will be your friends and family. I'm sure that Scott, if you were to find some way to talk to him, would be a friend to you."
He considered those thoughts for a moment. Then he jumped down and started to talk.
"You should know then that I was the one that killed that thing in that place. It was Scott that fought against the man that was trying to kill that boy and girl. I am the key to unleashing that strength at will."
"Thank you for that information. Come with me to meet your family."
"I have a better idea." His eyes changed back from brown to blue. Scott collapsed on the ground, exhausted from the other mind having control. Elise pulled her phone back out and hit her redial button.
"Jeremie. tell the others to come to the park. I can't carry him all the way back to the factory on my own.
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"And that is when he passed out." Everyone was back at the factory and had listened to her story. Scott was holding his head in his hands, rocking back and forth, with Elise's arm around his shoulders. "He didn't seem like a bad guy to me. What do you guys think?"
"This really has me confused," Odd said. "How is there a second guy in Scott's head?"
"I have no idea," Jeremie said. "Sometimes after a traumatic event some people become like that. Other people are born that way. We need to communicate with it to find out more about it, but that could be dangerous if what he told Elise is true."
"I don't know what to do," Scott said, almost speaking in a whisper. "I have him in my head. I don't know if I have some kind of control over him. I don't even know if I can communicate with him."
"That," Jeremie said, "I may be able to help with. If you go into the scanners again, I may be able to help you create a way to communicate with him." Scott looked up at Jeremie.
"Let's give it a shot then." With Elise still holding her arm around his shoulder, he went to the elevator and hit the down button. When the door opened again, he walked away from Elise and stepped into the nearest scanner.
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"Scanning brain waves," Jeremie announced. The others watched him hit many buttons for about five minutes, before he yelled "Eureka!"
"You found a way?" Ulrich asked.
"Yes I did. Now just to download the information into Scott's subconscious." He hit a few more buttons. "Done. From this point forward, Scott and the other will be able to communicate freely." The intercom made a crackling noise.
"If you want to get to know me, then you should give me a proper name instead of calling me the other one all the time."
"Oh my," Jeremie exclaimed. "Did Scott let you out to say that?"
"Yes he did." "And I agree with him. You guys have to pick the name because I suck a picking names out."
"Well," Aelita said, "now that was a surprise. Anybody have a good name in mind?" They all thought for a little bit. While they thought, Scott and Elise came back up in the elevator and were sitting in the same spot as before.
"How about Jim?" Odd said.
"No way," Ulrich said. "There already is a Jim around here. I was thinking more like John."
"No," Jeremie replied. "Way too common. What about Evan?"
"I don't like the name Evan," Yumi answered. "I like Mark."
"That's my dad's name," Elise said. "Let's call him Steve."
"That is a nice name," Aelita answered. "But I think I would prefer to call him Bobby."
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Finally done with this chapter. I need your help to name Scott's new "Friend." I wan for you guys, the readers, to Decide what his name would be out of all the ones I provided in this chapter. In a week I'll put up the next chapter with the results and give props to all the voters that I can. Seriously. Please vote. Thanks.
