Wow! I got like…counts on fingers…a whole lot of reviews! My review count after I posted chapter 4 almost doubled! Thank you so much! As for the poll a while ago, it will actually mean something, but not for another few chapters. I can promise you that there won't be any divorces. You'll just have to wait and see!
Disclaimer: Okay, the owners of CL probably don't write fanfics about it, since they can just put it in the script for the show itself. So put 2 and 2 together and don't sue me!
Claimer: Okay…I own Kirsten, John, Rena, Eric, Amy, Dan, Nina, and this story.
Now, on to the chapter that you have all been waiting for…
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Chapter 5 – Once a Hero, Always a Hero
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All of the adults took off running, with their kids hot on their heels. Ulrich, who was still the fastest, turned the corner and skidded suddenly to a stop. He froze and his mouth fell open. Yumi was right behind him, and she stopped as well.
"Oh my god…"
Everybody else rounded the corner and gasped as well. There were large craters all over the courtyard, and people were screaming and running for cover. There, in the middle of the courtyard, were at least twenty monsters. They looked like something out of a sci-fi movie.
Unfortunately, these monsters were very familiar to the six adults who had just spotted them.
"Oh…great…tarantulas…" Ulrich put his face in his hands.
Jeremie just stared, muttering under his breath. "How? We…it's gone…how?"
Yumi was the first one to snap into action. "Okay, Ulrich and I will take care of them. You guys get to the factory. You know what to do."
Aelita nodded and dragged a stunned Jeremie after her. Kirsten and Odd soon followed. Ulrich and Yumi turned to the kids, who were staring at the monsters with mouths wide open.
"Kids, get into that classroom and hide." They slowly nodded and ran inside. They gathered at the window to see the spectacle.
Ulrich grinned at Yumi. "Just like old times, huh?"
"Yeah. Let's take care of these." She then grinned. "I bet you I can get more!"
Ulrich laughed. "You're on. Code Lyoko!"
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The six kids saw Ulrich and Yumi say something, then the strangest thing happened.
Of course, after seeing giant robotic four-legged tarantulas with lasers, not much will surprise you.
Anyway, the two ex-warriors of Lyoko began to glow. Ulrich was green, Yumi was red. Then they floated up in the air. There was a flash of light and they landed back on the ground.
But, they were different. Ulrich looked like a Japanese samurai, with two swords sheathed on either side of this waist. Yumi looked like a Japanese geisha. She had a giant bow on her back, and from it she pulled two metal fans.
The kids were astonished, especially John and Rena. Their parents were definitely far from ordinary.
Ulrich and Yumi nodded at each other and began to fight. Ulrich muttered something as he bent down and made a sign with his hand. Suddenly, he took off, leaving a bright yellow trail of light behind him. He sped under one of the tarantulas, thrusting his sword up through its head. It exploded, but he was already gone, working on another tarantula.
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Jeremie and the others jumped in their cars and drove to the factory. They almost went through the sewers out of habit. Their skateboards were still there, but were probably not in good shape, after years of sitting there and rotting.
They pulled up at the factory, running inside and swinging down to the factory floor. They ran into the elevator and pushed the button for the supercomputer level. They arrived and Jeremie ran into the room and stopped next to the silver panel in the floor.
He waited for the computer to come up through the hole in the floor.
He waited…and waited…
Finally he sank to his knees and pounded the panel in frustration.
"AARRGGHH! Stupid XANA!" He calmed down and collected himself, then turned to the others. "We have no choice. XANA changed something so I can't get to the switch. I'll try to shut it down from the control room, but you guys are probably going back to Lyoko."
Odd grinned. "Great! I missed it! The landscape…the architecture…the wildlife…the scenery…the action…the––"
All three of the others interrupted him, saying "Shut up Odd."
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Ulrich and Yumi were still fighting the tarantulas. They decided to finish it a little faster.
The kids watched as they stopped for a moment and muttered something, then started to glow again. This time, the glow seemed to move from them and center on two spots in front of them. There was another flash of light, and a one-wheeled green motorcycle appeared in front of Ulrich, while a silver hovercraft appeared in front of Yumi.
The kids, of course, were surprised once again. They watched in astonishment as the two adults mounted up and took off. The story was actually true!
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Jeremie had been unable to turn off the supercomputer, so he sent Odd, Kirsten, and Aelita down to the scanner level.
"Transfer…" He highlighted each character card individually. "…scanner…" He hit a key and three wireframe images of their characters appeared and slowly filled with color. They finished and he hit the enter key. "…virtualization!"
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Odd and the others appeared in the mountain region and dropped to the ground. Odd looked around slowly.
"Ah…I missed this place…" Aelita heard him and looked at him with a strange expression on her face. She shrugged as Jeremie spoke.
"Okay, here are the overboard and overglider. Aelita, I can't program the overwing or overbike, which means that Ulrich and Yumi are probably using them now, so you'll have to ride with Odd."
"Okay." She jumped up on the overboard behind Odd and they took off towards the tower.
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Ulrich sped under a tarantula, but missed its head with his sword. He pulled a trigger and the wheel retracted as he took off into the air. He circled around and barely scraped the symbol as he flew over it, pulling the trigger again and landing back on the ground. Luckily, a scrape was all that was needed, as the monster collapsed to the ground. Another tarantula fired a well-placed shot and destroyed the overbike. He jumped off as it dissolved into the air.
Yumi had just hit another tarantula when her overwing was devirtualized too. She swore as she tumbled to the ground. She lifted herself up to see Ulrich triplicate and run at one of the last five tarantulas. It fired at one of his supersprinting selves, and miraculously hit it. Unfortunately, it wasn't him, and it disappeared in a puff of smoke as the real Ulrich stabbed it from behind.
Yumi got up and looked at the four remaining tarantulas and had a great idea. She put her hands on her temples and closed her eyes. She glowed with a soft white aura. One of the tarantulas floated up a little, then shot into two others. All three of them collapsed as she smiled at Ulrich. There was only one left.
The final monster collapsed as a fan sliced through the symbol on its head. Yumi caught the fan and closed it. She and Ulrich transformed back to their normal clothes and smiled at each other. Yumi was the first to speak.
"Well, that was a lot of fun! I haven't had that much exercise in years!"
"Yeah, I needed the practice. Anyway, I got eleven of them. How many did you get?"
She smiled at him. "Fourteen! Hahaha! I won!"
Ulrich rolled his eyes. "That's only because you used your telekinesis on those three over there…"
"Well…you used supersprint and triplicate. It's all fair…uh oh…come up with a story fast!"
Ulrich turned and saw the six children running towards them. He tensed for a moment and thought.
"Dad? What the heck happened! That was so cool!" John was the first to reach them.
He had a sudden inspiration. "Um…oh! You guys finally…uh…woke up! You…fell asleep in that classroom over there. We decided to…to let you sleep…"
John rolled his eyes. "Uh-huh…then tell me why this place looks exactly like my dream. There are broken robot monsters everywhere!"
Ulrich smacked his forehead and swore quietly as he remembered that monsters didn't explode and disappear in the real world like they did on Lyoko. "Well…uh…"
Yumi tried to help, but ended up joining in his stuttering. "Well…you see…"
Ulrich looked towards the factory and saw a bright flash of light. He smiled and nudged Yumi. "Never mind. You won't remember any of this anyway."
Yumi caught his drift and looked behind her at the approaching sphere of white light. She smiled as the light engulfed them and brought them back in time.
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Well…that's a sorta-cliffie…
Anyway, good chapter, no? As most of you can tell, this will be much longer than Code : Changes. I mean, the whole plot of the story pretty much got started in this chapter, and we're already on chapter 5!
So, don't forget to review!
Okay, once again I had plenty reviews, but I'm not giving you a preview because I want to surprise you on this one.