"One must wonder what posttest you come. Not that I'm complaining." X.A.N.A. said as he brought Erin closer to him.
"I think I'm going to be sick." Erin thought. "Think of something, Think of something damnit … Got it!" "Some people are attracted to power … I happen to be one of them." Erin said while sliding her arms around X.A.N.A's neck. X.A.N.A. seemed to be intrigued at Erin's last comment.
At the Factory
Spikes eyes went wide (even though he has sunglasses on), everyone could tell this was slowly killing him. Suddenly Drak and Nova came in.
"We've got a score to settle dragon." Drak said.
"Bout time I need to vent." Spike growled as he tour away from the handcuffs (I don't know why he waited till now to do that).
"I won't hold back this time!" Drak yelled as charged at Spike and floored him with one kick. Ulrich ran to go help Spike but was stopped by Nova.
"Where do you think you're going samurai?" Nova asked her Sais at the ready. Ulrich took a fighting stains. "Ooo I'm real scared now." She said as she kicked Ulrich's feet out from under him. "This is too easy." Nova thrust her Sais downwards ready to stab Ulrich. Suddenly Yumi came out of nowhere and tackled Nova to the ground.
"Get away from him." She growled. Nova just grinned, kicked Yumi into a wall and held one of her Sais to Yumi's neck.
"Don't kill her Nova!" Drak yelled as he dodged one of Spike's attacks.
"Don't worry I wont." Nova replied as she pulled out a needle, drove it into Yumi's neck and injected a clear liquid. Soon Yumi fell to the ground unconscious. "That should keep her out of the way."
"Yumi!" Ulrich shouted as he ran towards her. But Nova stopped him.
"Calm down lover boy she's fine." Just then Lance and Griff came in. The hippogriff burst out of the elevator slid Yumi on to his back, on his way back to the elevator he slashed the button pad so no one would be able to follow them. Once the doors had closed Lance pressed the down button.
"Boy am I going to have some explaining to do later." Lance said as he looked at Yumi. "She's going to be alright right?" The hippogriff nodded. Lance looked down at the floor and a few of the walls, witch were now covered in blood from the animal's wound on his shoulder. "How's your shoulder?" Griff looked down to his wound as though he had forgotten about it. Whatever had hit him it had nearly taken off his shoulder and was almost down to the bone.
In the Lab
Lance laid Yumi down on one of the tables and went over to a near by computer and pulled up Erin and X.A.N.A.
With Erin and X.A.N.A.
"Alright X.A.N.A. I've answered your questions now you answer mine." Erin said.
"As you wish."
"Link said and I quote. 'He has many female followers, he could have just picked one of them instead of going to these grate lengths to meet you.' So why me?"
"There are so many answers to that question, but I can only tell you a select few. Your dark and I'm very familiar with you."
With Spike, Ulrich and Jeremy
Jeremy worked on fixing the elevator while Ulrich and Spike fought Drak and Nova.
Drak was thrown into the wall by Spike who now had his metal claws on.
"You okay Drak?" Nova asked as she dodged a punch from Ulrich.
"I'm fine focus on your own damn fight." Drak growled and looked back at Spike as he got back up. "Alright Spike you've forced my hand." As he said this Drak's shaggy brown hair turned white and a light strip ran down the middle. Soon after he began to morf in to a Japanese style dragon, with white fur and a light blue moe-hawk running down from his forehead to his tail. The dragon looked at Spike like he could kill him with one swing of his tail.
Meanwhile
Yumi was beginning to wake up. She slowly sat up and looked around till her eyes landed Griff.
"What!" She shouted. The shock would have caused her to fall off if Lance hadn't caught her.
"It's Okay Yumi he's harmless." Lance said calmly as he helped Yumi to her feet.
"You mean him? That's the same guys that tried to kill you!"
"At that time he did try to kill me. But he just saved my life."
Yumi was speechless there was know way Griff could have saved anyone, especially Lance who he had loathed not one weeks earlier. Suddenly the hippogriff began to sway. "Shit." Lance said under his breath as he ran up to Griff in an attempted to steady him. "Yumi push those two tables together, We've got to lay him down." Yumi did as she was told and pushed the two metal tables together. "Okay buddy this way."
"Buddy?" Yumi wondered. Things were becoming a lot more confusing.
With Ulrich and Spike
Drak grabbed Spike with his tail and began to slam him into a wall. After about ten times the dragon brought the now semi-conscious Spike.
"Do you have any idea how weak you are?" The dragon asked. Spike said nothing he just hung there limp in the dragons grasp seemingly in a dais. "You couldn't save her." Spike lifted his head, he grit teeth in both pain and anger.
"Shut-up." He growled.
"You lost it, and you lost her to your father."
"Shut-up!"
"He took it, and killed her … And it's all your fault." The dragon hissed.
"I SAID SHUT-UP!" Spike yelled as he drove both his claws into the dragon's tail. Drak howled in pain.
"My tail!" He shouted.
"Leave her out of this."
"Okay then how bout I tell everyone what 'IT' is then."
"Would you just shut up already!" Spike yelled as he tried to slash the dragon's head off.
With Yumi and Lance
The hippogriff lay on the two tables breathing heavily. Lance stood next to him hands on the animal's wound trying to stop the bleeding.
"This isn't working … Yumi there should be some bandages behind the computer over there … I need them."
Yumi walked over to the computer and found a box of bandages.
"Here." She said as she handed the box to Lance.
Lance looked at the box then to the wound.
"Damnit where's Erin and Spike when I need them." Lance took out a bandage and began to wrap it.
Once Lance was done he looked at it questionably. The dressing on the wound didn't look like it was going to hold long.
"I'm sorry but I'm not very good at this. It won't hold long." Lance said sadly.
"It's fine." Griff said as he turn back into his human form only now he had gray hair now.
"Didn't you have green hair last time?" Yumi asked.
"The longer we have our virt forms the more we begin to look like our human form on lyoko. I happen to have gray hair." Griff explained.
"Now, mind telling me how you got one of these?" Lance asked pulling out his silver cross.
"I think got it at a yard sale." Griff replied.
"Cut the crap … you got that from a priest."
"See you were able to answer your question."
"Okay mind telling me what's going on?"
"To get these crosses you would have had to have been an apprentice to a priest." Griff said.
"To be more specific to get these crosses the priest would have had to have been Hayate. But that's impossible Hayate died after he taught me he never had an apprentice before me either."
"That's because we trained at the same time."
With Ulrich and Spike
Both Ulrich and Spike were now pined down by there opponents.
"Ulrich catch!" Spike yelled as he tossed one of his gloves to Ulrich. Ulrich move as though he had been training for this moment his entire life. He grabbed the glove slid it on and ran the claws through Nova's stomach. She rolled off Ulrich clutching her wound.
Spike stabbed Drak in his chest. The dragon jumped off Spike and tried to remove the claws witch had had come off of Spike.
With Erin
"You weren't meant to have the phoenix Erin." X.A.N.A. said as he traced her jaw line.
"And how do you know that?"
"Because I know you, I know what you want, and I know what you need. And believe me you need me." He said as he pulled her into a kiss. Erin was surprised at first but then wrapped her arms around his neck.
With Ulrich
Spike stood there looking at the screen his jaw dropped. Drak saw his chance, he grabbed Nova and ran into the elevator (Jeremy just fixed it).
Meanwhile
"How come I don't remember you?" Lance asked.
"That's because X.A.N.A. wiped your memory clean of me." Griff replied as a look of terror played on his face (he heard his brother coming). Suddenly Griff turned into a hippogriff and kicked Lance against the wall. He stood over Lance claws at the ready. Lance tried to move but the wound Nova had given his earlier was beginning to take its toll. Just then the elevator door opened to revile Drak (in his human form) holding Nova.
"Come on Griff!"
Griff looked from Lance to Yumi and grabbed her arm.
"Forget about her for now!" Drak yelled.
Griff ran in to the elevator.
With Erin
"You have no idea how long I've been waiting to do that."
"Can't be to long we've only known each other for a short time."
"Actually it isn't that short. What … four years next month."
"What are you talking about?" Erin asked as X.A.N.A. ran his fingers through her hair.
"Ah yeah you don't remember do you…. It's me Erin the one who took your memories. The one who left you with that scar on your back." X.A.N.A. explained as he traced his fingers from Erin's lower back to her right shoulder blade. Erin pulled out her gun and shot X.A.N.A. in the chest.
"You should really thank the person that made your armor." Erin said.
"Don't worry I will."
"Well thank you for the lovely evening we really should do it again some time." Erin said as she walked away.
Just then link walked out of the bushes.
"You're not really going to let her leave are you?"
X.A.N.A. nodded.
"We'll wait till after winter break to make are move. Besides Spike is going to make things much worse."
At the elevator
Everyone walked out of the elevator to wait for Erin to return. Well all but Spike who began to walk deep into the factory.
"Hay Spike where you going?" Lance asked.
"Away from here." He said in a low tone
"Aw come on you don't want wait for Erin." Lance said with a smile as he grabbed Spike's arm. Spike quickly turned around and punched Lance in the face flooring him.
"Leave me alone"
Just as soon as Spike left Erin appeared. She began to slide down the rope but ended up falling. At the last second lance got up and caught her.
"You alright Erin?" Lance asked.
"Just a little tired that's all." She replied. "Where's Spike?"
"He's out back but I think you need lay down."
"I need to talk to him."
"Erin you need to lay down." He said trying to stop her, but all he got in return was Erin elbowing him in the gut. Lance sat down holding his stomach. "What is this pick on Lance day or something?"
Out Back
Erin walked outside to see Spike smoking by the river.
"Wonder how he got those back" Erin wondered.
"What do you want?" Spike asked in a cold tone.
"Wondering what the hell is wrong with you. After all you are one of the people that forced me into this."
"We didn't force you to like it though." He grumbled.
"What?"
"I saw something in your eyes I haven't seen in years."
"And what's that?"
"Light … I saw light in your normally stone eyes."
"So you saw that did you?"
"…"
"Well just so you know Spike. When I kissed him … I was thinking about you." Erin said as she left.
Needless to say Spike was surprised.
"Erin wait I …" But it was to late she was gone. Spike hung his head.
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Nice going Spike! Well just when you think your getting answers more questions arise. Anyway I'll be taking a month off for vacation. Oh yeah question do you think Spike's actions were justified? Later
