Disclaimer-I do not own Code Lyoko. I think that moonscape does.
Hey all my faithful readers. Or the two who read the last chapter. I really wish that you guys would favorite and review my story. It would mean alot. But onto the note. I'm betting on the last chapter that you were thinking WTF? Well so was I when I wrote that. But I liked it so I kept it. Truth be told, the last chapter and this chapter were one when I first wrote them. But I had to shorten and edit. The Sissi part I found funny. Well please read and review this one.
Let the annihilation progress
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Will ran out of the elevator to the computer next to Jeremie.
"What the fuck was that?" Will said.
"I have no idea," Jeremie replied. "You saw more than I did. All I could see was their stat cards glow like a christmas tree. It was nuts."
"I looked at them and they glowed when they shook hands. I got out before anything else happened. Ulrich and Aelita are both out cold in the scanner room. So they can't help."
"Oh shit," Jeremie said. "Xana is on his way back."
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"Welcome to existance Leo," Peace said. He held his hands in front of him like a monk would with his fingers interlaced.
"Same to you my bretheren." Leo's eyes were solid gold. Unlike Jaden's hansome grey eyes. Behind him, Xana was literally flying at them at fast speeds with a pissed look on his face. And he was followed by somebody else. A man with blood red hair, a blue ninja outfit, and a full face ninja mask on his face. "Let's finish this bothersome bastard."
"I agree. Time to use the full extent of our powers." He held his hands together like he was holding a large softball. A white striped sphere appeared in his hands and began to spin. (Writer's note: Think naruto's rasengan) After charging it for a second, he threw it at Xana. Xana continued to charge not knowing what would happen, but the masked ninja ran to the side to avoid it all. The ball landed in front of Xana and expanded, consuming him, then it imploded. When the dust cleared, Xana stood on weak knees and was covered in scratches and bruises.
Leo ran to the side to meet the ninja face to face. He grabbed the two cylinders on his hip and they extended into a 5 foot long staff. (Like nami's staff from one piece.) The ninja pulled out his tonfa, and begun to spin them around on the side bars like shields. Leo swung and the ninja blocked with one weapon, and swung the other one to hit him in the side. Leo spun his staff catching the second weapon. The ninja let go of his right weapon and grabbed a kunai. He thrust it at Leo's open gut. Leo jumped back and took stance preparing to block any next attack.
"I'm impressed boy," the ninja said. His voice was not very deep, but had that fatherly tone to it. There was an echo when he talked. "You're the first that has improvised so well against my change in weapons." He picked up the dropped tonfa and put them both back on his sides. "You must have trained for years to master a staff weapon. But I still have the upper hand!" He took off his belt and threw it into the air. It expanded until it was the size of a large tarp. "Infinite death blades!" It floated above Leo and began to spin.
"What the-?" was all that Leo got out before hundreds of kunai and shurikens began to rain from the belt. He moved the staff as fast as he could to block them but could not stop them all, little by little his life points drained down.
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Xana walked in a circle with Peace imitating the same action. Little by little, his injuries were mending.
"So how is it you know how to use that power?" Xana spun around a black ball in his hand as he spoke. "By my knowlege you shouldn't even know that you could do that."
"I know it because I know everything that you took from this head a short time ago," Peace replied. "I learned everything you learned and more." He formed another sphere, then elongated it into the form of a two foot long tonfa. He pointed it at Xana and shot mini spheres out of it as if it were a gun. Xana bent backwards and barely avoided them. Peace kicked him in the crotch wondering about what effect it would have. Xana grabbed his crotch and rolled into the fetal position. "That's pathetic man. Very pathetic." He turned his head over to see Leo was losing his fight.
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During the fight, Jaden came back to his senses and Leo left. Jaden had no idea what was going on but moved as quickly as he could, having better luck at dodging than blocking, being as he had never used a staff style weapon of any kind. His life points were almost gone when the blades quit raining down. He looked and saw that the belt was back to a normal size. He turned his head again and saw that the ninja was blocking punches from who he thought was Scott but was really Peace. He was punching as fast as he could go, but his opponent pushed his fists away every time, proving that he was the better of the two. But no attempts were made by the ninja to attack.
"Why do you not attack me you viral servant?" Peace threw an upper cut and accidently ripped off the face mask. What he saw caused him to freeze, and allow Scott to resurface.
"Now you know why I am not hurting you," came the answer. Scott nearly fainted.
"That's the forest guardian," Iane said, standing up. He had regained conciousness to see everything that had happened after the belt stopped raining. "He is program number 042090, Junction Adapting Key Enhancer. In human terms he is-"
"His name is Jake," Scott said. "Jake... Oscar... Barter. My father." His fists dropped to his sides. "What the fuck is going on right now?" The program in front of him had every last detail of Scott's father on him. Too accurate to be a copy of him.
"Retreat back to your charging station worm," Xana yelled before teleporting away. Jake turned and ran in the direction of a distant tower.
"Wait!" Scott ran after him while Jaden stared at Iane.
"What do you want child?" Iane growled as he sat on the ground to collect his thoughts.
"What is your full name?" Jaden asked. "And don't lie to me and say that it's only one word. I know it's not."
Iane sighed. "Well I might as well turn off my voice modifier." His voice had an American country style accent. "I was hoping that you would never know about what I truely was. But the past always comes back to bite us in the ass, my son. Sit." Jaden sat, confused as all hell about what was going on. "Now let me explain our pasts."
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Scott followed Jake through a tower into the forest sector. Hornets appeared behind him. But he was oblivious to that fact. He ran as Jake jumped from tree to tree.
"Dad! Come back! Please. Come back! We're not the enemies!" At that moment, a laser hit this side, knocking him off the edge, towards the digital sea. After about a second, he realized the reality. Jeremie and the others had explained to him what the sea did if you fell in it. Scott was scared for a moment. Then calmed down fast. "So this is how i die? Not how I would have thought. But at least I was able to be happy in my short life." He closed his eyes, and prepared for impact. "Good bye Elise. I love you."
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"He's going to fall into the sea!" Jeremie said.
"No," Will said. "This can't happen."
Right before he hit the sea, a blue energy ball hit him in the stomach, enveloping him in an red coating. Then he hit the sea.
"I saved your life son," Jake said from a tree branch. Now I hope that the others can find you before you lose your mind." He ran to find his hiding place.
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"We were created many years ago," Iane began. "We meaning the guardians of Lyoko. each of us were made by different people. My designer was named Evelyn Stoners. She had me call her Eve. Your mother. Her boss was a man that I never really liked. He was the designer of Lyoko. He provided the original design of an AI named Xana. He was the first. I was fourth made. After a few years of learning about humans, we all had developed human emotions and thoughts. We were an experiment to better human-computer understanding. To make computers more human. At first it was working. We were appointed to the sectors and were allowed to live how we wanted. Then the head designer created a way to bring humans to lyoko and after some more time us to earth. The human world was amazing for us. we had all sorts of new senses. Like taste." Iane laughed. "When I first ate a piece of candy, I flipped out and almost destroyed the candy store for more. After a few times into the real world, I began to feel strange towards Evelyn. I didn't understand it at first. Then I learned it was love. After a while, we got married. As did all the other guardians with their creators. Except Xana. He fell for another women that wasn't in the project. All of us had a child. I never really remembered any of thier names. But that alone, concieving children, was a miricle. You were all born around the same time. Every once in a while, we had to go back to lyoko to preform minor experiments and tests. Nothing really that big. But one time, Xana started to act like he had a secret to hide. Jake was the only one that noticed out of all of us." He put his hands to his face as if he was ashamed.
"What happened?" Jaden asked.
"Jake told us but no one thought any thing of it. Then he dissappeared. I suspected that Jake had been right. I tried to confront Xana, but he denied it. The next time we went to Lyoko, I had Eve run a scan on him with out telling anybody. The scan showed that he had been infected with a virus. Xana had been the most compasionate of us all. The most humane of us. He had been taken over, about a year before this. We tried to detain him. We almost had him. He was strong enough with the virus in him to fight almost evenly with us. But then Jake came. We were amazed and happy to see him, but then he helped Xana fight us off. He had been infected with a small strain of the same virus. The virus needed to be recharged after so long. Xana himself told us this after we all were defeated. Jake left, Xana went to the human world. He intened to kill every human on the project. He killed one. Jake's wife. The government made a move to try to arrest the lead designer. He went to Lyoko to get away from it all. Xana went there to kill him, but he didn't count on Hopper shutting down the computer. That froze us all, but it seemed worth it to stop Xana. But then your friends turned it back on. Now we're doing what we can to stop him. But by what I have seen, Jakes boy has strength that rivals even his dad and Xana. He may be the key to stopping Xana."
"Wow," Jaden said. He lay down on the ground. "This is so much to take in."
"I'll bet it is," Elise said. She walked over to them. "I saw the whole thing since the forest guardian showed up. What do we do now?"
"You bear a striking resemlance to the desert guardian," Iane said, "Lina."
"I've noticed," Elise replied. "But it doesn't mean anything."
"Guys?" Jeremie said over the intercom. "Scott's gone. He fell into the digital sea."
"WHAT!?" Elise screamed before she fainted.
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Two hours later
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"Do you think she'll wake up soon?"
Elise recognized Yumi's voice fast. Her eyes were closed, and she had just woken up.
"I don't know," Jeremie replied. "I mean, she just found out her boyfriend fell into the digital sea. I wouldn't be suprized if she didn't for a few days." He clicked a few key on the computer. "But to get back to the other thing. Iane told you he was your dad and that you were a half AI. And apparently Scott was too."
"Yeah," Jaden said. "For most of my life, I thought he was dead. Now I know that not only is he alive, but he's a computer program, and fighting a virus."
"I just thought of something," Will said. "If all of the Guardians had kids, who the fuck is Xana's kid?" Silence filled the room. Elise opened her eyes to let tears stream down her face. "She's up."
Elise looked around and saw that they had set her next to the elevator. Yumi came and sat next to her and put her arm loosly around Elise's shoulders. "I'm sorry Elise," Yumi said. "He may be gone, but his spirit will live on in our memories." Elise cried on Yumi's shoulder for a few minutes.
"I know how feel," Odd said with a small smile, hoping to cheer her up.
"No you don't!" Elise yelled. She got up and charged at him grabbing his collar, shoving him into the wall. Her arm revved back, and went towards his face.
"No!" Yumi screamed. Elise's hand rammed into the wall, cracking the solid steel next to Odd's head. The look on Odd's face was a mixture of fear and amazement. Elise's eyes teared up more. Her face turned red, and she rushed out the door, taking the long way out of the factory. "Nice going Odd," Yumi said as she followed her.
"What did I do?" he asked.
"You never," Aelita said, "tell a girl that you understand how she feels when somebody they cared for died. Especially since it's her boyfriend. You have never had a girlfriend for more than a week so you can't know how she felt."
"But they've only been dating for a few hours. How is that different?"
"Because she loved him you dumbass," Ulrich said as he got into the elevator. Jeremie, Will, and Aelita followed him leaving Odd all alone in the computer room.
"Why can't I ever get anything right?"
Sissi, who was hiding in a heating vent, cryed silently.
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Elise ran through the sewers, avoiding the smelly waters. She was in the most emotional state she had ever been in. It had been bad when she was five and had to go to her mom's funeral. But this was worse. Her heart literally felt like it was breaking.
"Why did this happen?" She asked. She sat down against the nearest sewer ladder. "Why?" She put her face into her hands and let the tears flow. Yumi jogged around the corner and nearly fell into the water. She walked over to Elise, sat down, and put her arm back around Elise's shoulders.
"I'm sorry for Odd," Yumi said. "He doesn't know how you feel. But I do know someone who does know." Ulrich came slowly around the corner.
"By that," Ulrich said, "I think that she means me." He sat down on Elise's other side. "A while ago, we were fighting Xana. We were all doing different things. I was fighting the thing that Xana had put out. When I got the chance to get to Lyoko, Odd told me that He saw Yumi falling into the digital sea. Odd used to have his Lyoko ability at that time. He could see the future but never could control when the visions came. I ran as fast as I could to get to her. She was hanging off a cliff when I got to her. But by the time I reached down to grab her hand, she dropped. I saw almost in slow motion as she fell into the water. It was the worst thing ever for me."
Elise looked up at him. "What happened after that," she sobbed.
"At that time we had a 'one time only' program that saved her life."
"I wish we had that now." She put her face back into her hands. "Thank you for trying to help."
"Anytime for a friend in need."
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On Lyoko
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In a blank area, land began to form in the air from nothing. The ground was solid red. It shaped into stalagtites poking out of most of the ground. A volcano erupted from the center of the sector. A tower appeared at it's base. Several creatures crawled from the ground. Uria flew in from the sky.
"Lord Xana will be interested in this area," he said. "A whole new sector appearing from nothing. And it is continuing to expand."
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Over the course of the next few days, Scott was said to be at his families house, an Elise sat in her room with the excuse that she was sick. She didn't respond to anything anybody said or did. She only ate when Ulrich brought her food, but only two or three small bites. She went with Aelita when she had to go to the bathroom. Jeremie had brought her a few books, but they remained untouched. Jaden had his dvd collection put into her room. She watched a few of the movies. No one had been able to cheer her up, so they were all taking turns checking up on her every once in a while. It was Ulrich's turn, but Odd found a way to make it his turn. Nobody had let him see her at all. He entered the room and closed the door behind him.
"Hey," he said. "I wanted to see how you were." She made no noise. "Look. The real reason why I'm here, is because I wanted to aplogize. I had to lock Ulrich in the hallway closet to get a chance. They didn't want me to, cause they assumed I would make things worse. I want to say I'm sorry for thinking that I knew how you felt. And for smiling. It was the wrong time for a joke of any kind, even though I didn't even say it yet. I need to stop rambling. Sorry again." He put his hand on her shoulder. "I'll do anything you want until you feel better. You got my number." He went to walk back out the door when he heard Elise talk.
"Thank you Odd. But next time, just an I'm sorry will do." She made a half hearted laugh.
"Ok. Next time." He walked out into the hall and nearly hit Sissi. She had been standing outside the door. "What are you doing?"
"I was looking for Scott," she said. "I thought I would find him here. I need to ask him something."
"He's at his parents house right now. He'll be back later."
"Thanks." She walked towards her room.
"What's up with her? She's never this kind."
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Will was at the outdoor drink machine. He put in his change and got a coke. He sighed as he opened it up. "My first time back on Lyoko, and the closest thing I had to a best friend dissappears for ever." He took a drink right when his cell went off. It scared him so much that pop shot out his nose. "Fucking cell phone." He took it out of his pocket and saw a number he didn't recognize. "Who is this?" He hit the green button. "Hello?"
"Record this phone call kid. Scott's life depends on this." Will hit the record button. "There's a new sector on Lyoko. In the one tower, there is a button. If it gets pressed, your friend Scott will live. You have 24 hours from now before the button self destructs, and Scott will be gone forever. Here's the instructions on how to get to it."
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"I hope you didn't upset her again Odd," Ulrich said. Odd had let him out of the closet, and he had pinned Odd to the ground and was wrenching his arm up to the center of his back.
"I didn't. I said sorry. No jokes. Please stop. You're going to break my arm!" Odd was crying.
"Five more seconds." Ulrichs phone rang. It was Will. He flipped it open. "What's up?"
"Emergency. Factory. Now. Get Odd. Don't tell Elise." He hung up.
"Will saved your ass this time Oddball." He let go of Odd.
"I think I pissed my pants." Ulrich looked and saw that Odd indeed peed his pants.
"Well That's not my fault now is it?"
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half hour later
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"Now that you're all here," Will said, "I have some very strange news for you. Scott may be alive." He pulled out his phone out and played the message on his phone on loud speaker.
"There's a new sector on Lyoko. In the only tower, there is a button. If it gets pressed, your friend Scott will live. You have 24 hours from now before the button self destructs, and Scott will be gone forever. Here's the instructions on how to get to it. You take the craft known as the skid, and fly it directly north from the forest sector. When you get there, head to the volcano. The tower is at the base of it. The button to save him is inside at the top. Beware of the creatures that are there. The green ones spit an acid like substance. The red ones turn invisible. And Uria is there observing for Xana. Please children. Save my son while you can." Will picked up his phone and hung it up.
"Who's up for a game of I spy?" Will said with a smirk. He Hit a key on the computer. The screen showed a sector of land that nobody was familiar with. In the center there was a large volcano. At it's base, the ground was covered in large spikes. Several pathes between the spikes lead from the outer edges of the sector, to either the tower or the top of the volcano.
"What did you do?" Jeremie asked.
"I looked right where Jake said to look. I have been paying attention on how to us this thing. Now if we were to go now, we have a better chance of getting him back. Who's with me?" Will looked at the others but saw no hands rise in agreement. "What's going on?"
"Will," Jeremie said. "To tell the truth, we still kinda don't trust you. I mean, why would an AI on the bad side call you, and why would you be able to use this computer to this extent? This really doesn't help out with anything." Sissi, who was hiding in the vent again, wanted to punch him in the nose.
"You really don't believe me?"
"Sorry Will. I'll admit that there is a new sector. But I don't think that Scott can come back that way." He walked into the elevator followed by Ulrich, Aelita, and Yumi. "You coming Odd? Jaden?"
"I'll be there in a few minutes guys," Odd replied. "I just got a few things to say to Will." The door closed and the elevator went up. "Will?"
"What?" Will sat in the chair, depressed.
"We believe you,"Jaden said.
"And we're willing to go with you," Odd added. He held out his hand for a high five.
"You got to be kidding me," Will said. "We need at least one more person to make a team that will do it."
"I can help there." Sissi came out of the vent, into the computer room. "I have known about this stuff for a while, and want to help save Scott." Odd was speachless. Jaden didn't know what to think since he hadn't really met Sissi yet. Will fell from his seat.
"Oh...My...God," Will said. "This is some kind of a dream man." He rubbed his eyes thinking he really had passed out. "Can somebody hit me?" Jaden punched him in the back of the head, knocking him flat on his face. "Nope. Not dreaming."
"I'm really here to help you out. Please accept it." She put out her hand to shake.
Odd as the senior team member, reached out his hand. "Fine. But you screw up in any way, I will leave you on Lyoko." Jaden began typing on the computer.
"So who is this girl to you guys?" Jaden asked.
"She's an annoying girl with a big crush on Ulrich," Will replied. "And she has caused more trouble before the return to the pasts. I haven't ever seen these incidents, but I've heard many stories from Odd and Jeremie."
"Like the time her teddy bear became a giant," Odd added. "And destroyed the schools dance that night. Not your fault directly, but it was your bear Sissi."
"What?" Sissi said. "What are you talking about?"
Will thought for a moment. Then decided to answer. "This computer has a program in it that allows the user to return a day into the past. It has been used a few times to erase damage that has happened on the outside world. Then we do what we need to change it. But unlike you, I was having dreams about all the occurences. I somehow remembered. So they let me in."
"Done," Jaden said. "Get into the scanners and I'll join you in a minute."
Will and Odd grabbed Sissi by the elbow and guided her into the elevator. Once the door closed, Jaden began to put in the stats for them to go to sector five and for them to use the skid. "Odd," he said onto the speakers of the elevator and scanner room, "once we're there, you won't be able to get any refills for your arrows. And nobody is going to know their hitpoints." He hit one last button and ran to the ladder to the scanners.
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Odd was the first to land on Lyoko. He looked around and saw that Jaden had landed him almost right at the skid. Will landed next to him on his right, and Sissi on his left. Sissi was wearing a black bikini top, a red skirt that barely covered her hips as it was very short, black high heels that had strings that wrapped up to her knees, a black spiked dog collar around her neck, and four tatoos on her body. One was a black dragon on her entire back. A second was a whip wrapping around her left wrist. Another was a skull on her left breast. The last one was on her right wrist. It was a scythe, with a blade on each end of the staff pointing in opposite directions. Her hair was in a pony tail, held up by a red hair tie.
"Holy-" Odd got out before Sissi slapped him for staring.
"JADEN STONERS!" Sissi yelled. "GET YOUR ASS HERE NOW!!!" At that second, Jaden materialized. When he landed, she punched him square in his nose.
"What the fuck?" He said, grabbing his nose.
"Um, Sissi?" Odd said. "He didn't design your costume. The computer did it based on your personality." She swung the back of her left hand at him, missing him. But a whip followed soon after, smacking him in the cheek. They all stared at it. Her tatoo was gone from that hand. The whip was six feet long.
"I think I know your powers," Jaden said. "You can maybe animate the tatoos on your body. We got to get going before the skid leaves withot us." He took off before anybody noticed.
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On the new sector
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A red lizard, the size of a dog, was climbing up the volcano. On the edge of the brim, it was blown up by a blueish energy ball that came from inside the volano.
"I hope that I can leave soon," came Scott's voice.
"I agree. I'm sick of this place." Lee sounded board.
"But why leave when it's so peaceful here?"
The three of them climbed out from the ledge they were on at the inside of the volcano.
