Well This officially breaks the record on any of my other stories I've never gotten to chapter 7 on anyone of my stories so… yea… in any event here's the 7th chapter
Ch7: The only easy day was yesterday part 1
As a new day dawned, everyone would be able to relax, for today was one of the best days of the week. Saturday. Most of school was still asleep but for one student the morning sunrise couldn't come sooner. He sat alone atop the roof of the dormitory building, he had gotten through the lock easily since friend of his taught him to pick locks many years ago. The sun was just rising over the cities horizon, the reflection from the many skyscrapers glowed for many miles around. This, to him, was the second best sunrise he had ever seen. A small cough escaped from him, for the last few months he had been feeling sick, but never to sick to be out for long. Today was just another one of those days. Swinging his legs back over the ledge he left the roof with little haste. As he approached his dorm room he noticed something handing from the door. Hanging from his door was a folded over peace of notebook paper. Taking it off his door he entered while opening it.
'Well lets see what it says...oh wait it can't say anything it doesn't have any lips' he let out a small chuckle. He looked down and read.
'Mike. With in the past week have you experienced any type of Déjà vu, if so meet near the only manhole cover in the forest outside the school at 1300 hours for answers to any and all of your questions, if you don't care just throw this in the garbage. Signed…an ally.
He read the note over again; he couldn't believe what he was reading it was almost to good to be true. It seemed that someone or something knew about the dreams and flashbacks he'd been having, either that or someone was playing a trick on him, either way there was a time and a place, and it gave him all the more reason to check it out.
'If I go out there I'd better be prepared, camo gear only. He quickly changed into a full array of camouflage pants and a sweatshirt. He stuffed a hunting cap into his lower pocket as well as a black object from a hidden draw in his dresser, with a small click it was in place. He left his room, locked up and walked to the café. He grabbed a bite to eat and sat near the doors. Half way through his meal two trays set down in front of him, he looked up to find odd and ulrich just sitting down.
"so what are you two doing up so early" he asked. A third tray set down to his right but he didn't look.
"I could ask you the same thing mike, were up because we've got morning classes, thankfully there's only two we'd be done around noon."
"hmm morning classes huh, well that sucks its Saturday, at my old school we had Friday saturday and sunday off, now that was a school where you could actually look forward to a weekend."
"sounds like it" odd replied. Mike finally swung his head round and found both aelita and yumi had sat down he smiled.
"Morning you two" he said. The girls replied with simple a 'mornin' he turned back to odd to tell him about the letter when a ringing sound interrupted his thoughts.
"woops that's the warning bell. We gotta go mike, see ya" with that everyone got up and walked off to there classes leaving mike alone again. He returned to the line one last time, getting more food he left the café with his pepsi and muffin and walked out into the forest to play a little 'hide and seek' with who ever left the note.
(Mike's P.O.V)
A few hours later and ten feet up, I sat in a tree above the steel manhole-cover that led to who knows where, I had used some old rope I'd found and the empty bottle of pepsi, to mock up a type of early warning device, a simple rope, stretched across two trees low enough so as not to be seen but high enough to be effective. The bottle along with some loose change became the noisemaker near the base of the tree. If the rope were tripped the bottle would fall and alert me. It had been set for near an hour and so far nothing. The trip wire was set near the main pathway, then again there were many different ways to get here so who knows how well it would work. I take out my ipod and look at the time. 12:55, there was only five more minutes until who ever it was would meet me here. As time slowly passed, I could hear faint voices in the distance, a good sign that he or she or they, hell If I knew, would make good on there word. Then my warning device went off, they had gone the same way I had. As there foot steps grew louder, my anticipation grew, who was it. My answer came in the form of five familiar friends. I could only laugh to myself, it looked as if I'd been set up, but before I could jump down a loud beeping interrupted me, down below I could hear jeremie saying something about a tower and an attack. I could see odd removing the manhole cover and start his decent. I took the opportunity to jump down then, scaring the crap out of everyone, so much so that I had to block a kick thrown by Ulrich, the impact was surprisingly strong I was nearly thrown back. After recovering from the blow I said.
"Most impressive Ulrich, that's the first time in many years that I've been knocked back, your quiet strong. The others lowered the guard but not enough to look relaxed.
"you gave us one hell of a scare mike, you could have warned us you were coming down." Ulrich replied. "now follow us, and we'll explain on the way". He continued.
"Explain what, my Déjà vu, or the attack on a tower thing?" by now everyone else besides Ulrich had clambered down into the hole. He gestured to the hole I shrugged and started the climb down. At the bottom I found my self in a sewer. Dark, smelly, out of sight, my kind of place. By now Ulrich had landed down next to me a skateboard in hand.
"try and keep up" he said I smiled, "I'll see what I can do." He took off down the pipe riding at a decent pace. He looked back and he was surprised to see me sprinting along 10 feet behind. Soon we reached a ladder to which I had no idea where it led until we surfaced reveling an old factory, massive is scale and probably as empty as it is old. Ulrich had already raced in and disappeared. I charge in and immediately wish I hadn't seeing as I was now free falling, and the ground was coming up fast, thinking fast I tuck and roll, hitting the ground for a normal person would hurt like hell most likely a broken bone would be a definite, but I'm a different story. I hit and rolled off the floor, recovering fast, I jumped back to my feet and looked around. Ulrich with a look of pure shock just motioned to follow into an old elevator. As the door closed he turned to me and asked
"Mike are you ok, you nearly fell a full story and you haven't even blinked" I look to him and attempt a smile.
"no my shoulder's messed up, and I'm uses to the pain, I've popped my shoulder many times before" as I finished the main door reopens reveling a massive room filled with electronics. And sitting at the helm was Jeremie.
"good, you two are here, Ulrich head down to the scanners the others are having a hard time and could use the back up." I exited out as the massive doors close again. Still in awe I walk to the center of the room and look into a giant rotating sphere. The world that floated in front of me was nothing I'd ever seen before. Jeremie was talking to the others, at least I think he was but I was to distracted to really take notice, only when the elevator opened again reveling odd did I decide to take action. I walked past odd into the elevator with nothing said but three words.
"Send me in" before they could respond the door was closed. When they re-opened I saw three massive tubes easily twice as tall as me. As I looked at them jeremie's voice boomed through the room most likely from hidden speakers.
"Mike if you truly want to go through with this you need to promise one thing before you go" as he was saying this one of the tubes opened up in front of me, my ticket in, he continued
"you need to promise never to revel this secret we are the only one's who know about this" I smiled yet again one thing ran through my mind
' this is definitely more fun than my old school'
"Yes Jeremie I accept your terms, I'm gonna guess I have to get in this thing then"
"Yes mike enter the scanner and we'll send you in". With that I entered into the 'scanner' as I turned to face the elevator, the scanner doors closed, locking me in. at first it was dark, then it lit up so bright I closed my eyes so I wouldn't be blinded. Soon after a gust of wind lifted me up and off the floor, then I blacked out.
(Normal P.O.V)
After jeremie's pep talk mike had entered into the scanner and was ready to go.
"Transfer mike" he attempted to load a new character card, but an error symbol came up, the card immediately jumped back to when he was first virtualized onto lyoko by xana, and It got worse xana had hacked the virtualization program and was auto loading mike in, not only that but he would most likely trying to take mike over again. There was nothing he could do xana had completely locked out.
as mike dropped into lyoko he felt strange, he didn't feel anything, for the moment he couldn't move, something was wrong, from his dream or he guessed now reality, he was able to move at near impossible speeds and now he couldn't move at all. He felt another presence around him, he felt it pushing into his mind, he blacked out
(Xana's p.o.v)
I entered into his mind once again, it was slightly hard than before since he had now been virtualized twice, any more and it would be impossible to take control again. His mind projected a forest most likely from one of his past memories and it was quite and peaceful. Each tree showed something different, I could read his every though, see every memory, an unfortunate past this one has had especially when…
"Hey" I turned towards the new voice, a female around the warriors' age, walked out from behind on of the trees. She wore an over sized sweatshirt and jeans, not exactly threatening.
"What are you doing here, this is secrete ground, leave at once." She looked behind her as if looking for someone.
'she must be one of mike's sub-concise minds, strange.' The landscapes around us begin to change from a peaceful forest to a baron wasteland surrounded by fog. In the distance a low thunder rolled over the land. Lightning flashed closer and closer every second the fast. Out from the shadow seven figures approached the hollowed grounds. The first, in the middle of the formation, stepped up next to her, the two exchanged a quick hug before turning back to me.
(Normal P.O.V)
Back in lyoko thing had taken a strange twist, the tower itself was deactivated but now a full battalion of Xana's strongest monsters circled around the unconscious form of raptor er mike, xana must have been determined to do something with him, Unforchantly Ulrich and Aelita were the only ones left, yumi had been blasted away by the now lead Mega-tank that defended mike along with three other mega's and half a dozen krabs. For the moment it seemed impossible to defeat them all. Jeremie had told them that both yumi and odd's profiles would be fully reloaded in ten minutes, so they would stay hidden until the time was right. Soon after odd and yumi dropped back in landing a dozen or so meters from the others, the time to attack was soon, they could only hope that xana couldn't corrupt mike, or this battle would be much harder than last time.
(Mike's mind his P.O.V)
This was the second time I had been this close to her in many years, but the reunion was bitter sweet, we had a fight on our hands. In front of us a projection floated, he was almost ghost-like, but a lightning bolt from above showed other wise, even though it wasn't a direct hit I could see that he flinched.
"Xana? Right. Well you've entered my mind for the last time we end this here and now" my arm blade shoots out and sets it self at about two feet. To my left my friend get her hands up to block any incoming threats. Behind me six other blades extended out with a sound only described as steel cutting steel. 'Music to my ears' I charged forward leveling my blade with its neck, I reel back and take a heavy swing but my blade passes right through with no resistance what so ever. 'He truly is a ghost'
"DAM IT" I swing around again this time my blade glows and increases in length
"STRIKE CLAW" I slash again going for his chest and again my blade misses it mark, going strait through with no effect.
"What the hell, why can I hit you" the specter did not speak but it did act, two shadow blades materialized in its hands. It flew right at me, I barely got my blade up in time to defend myself. But as fast as he was coming at me, she got in front taking hit after hit, he outfit was torn in many places until one strike sent her flying, she fell to the ground in a crumpled heap, she didn't move. Now there was nothing to stop him from finishing me off. He raised his blade all I could do was get mine in his way. He swung down…
Nu Nua Na, looks like mike's screwed over. Will he ever just had a normal day or will he be hunted down until he's dead , none of that and not much more on the next chapter of the untold story.
R&R