Vending Machines 12:20 PM
Odd put a coin in the new vending machine and got a double chocolate chip deluxe cookie for himself. Sam snatched it from him and smiled, while he groaned and started jumping to reach her hand and take back his dessert.
"Sam, give it back!" Odd screeched as he kept on trying to reach her elevated hand.
The girl retorted, "Odd, I was just joking, you big dork!"
"Ah, love!" William joked. "It has different levels for everyone."
Ulrich, Yumi, Jeremie, Aelita, and William started laughing at the couple, while Odd got his cookie back from her. She rolled her eyes and started to talk to Odd about their plans for the weekend which was four days away. Yumi took out a notebook and sat next down to William, while they helped each other with Italian homework. Ulrich saw Sisi walking by, but she quickly started to run in the other direction once she noticed he had seen her.
"Sisi, what's wrong?" Ulrich panted as he finally caught up with her. He and Sisi were the fastest sophomores in the school. "Listen, I'm sorry about this morning when I wasn't there, but-"
"You abandoned me when I had to do a presentation! You were supposed to give me your flashdrive for the World War II slides that you made at breakfast, but where were you?" Sisi ranted. "Yumi even told me she didn't know where you were!"
"Sisi, calm down!" Ulrich put his fingers over her lips. "I had to get Kiwi for a walk with Odd and Sam!"
"Really? I doubt you needed Jeremie and Aelita to escort you with the mutt!" Sisi started to lose her composure. "I can't believe you would be such a slacker!"
Yumi looked up towards Ulrich who was helpless after having have heard the whole thing. She whispered something in William's ears and started to pack up. William gulped and then started to run towards Sisi. Ulrich raised his eyebrows, but soon he heard a yell.
"I did it!" Jeremie gasped. "I've designed two more new vehicles for the agents! As for the skid, I'm in the process of regenerating its chamber in Sector 5. It'll take a few weeks though. Aelita, you're a genius!"
The girl blushed with her cheeks becoming the shade of her hair, but then remembered something.
"Jeremie, I checked all over Lyoko's core programs and could not find any sign of why the agents would be possessed by XANA. I think we should check out the computer camera from when XANA launched his attack," Aelita remarked. "By the way, James is now in the body of the Director and Kim with Lance came to meet us at the factory. She has the main flashdrive of the agency with her."
The warriors nodded, but then Odd remembered something and so did Sam.
"Oh yeah! Sam, we need to perform at the dance on Friday and the rehearsals are today!" Odd panicked.
"No sweat!" Sam replied. "Jeremie, we need to call out on this mission. Okay?"
"It's okay," Jeremie smiled. "While Ulrich, Yumi, Aelita, and Lance are in Lyoko, Kim can help me decipher the codes from the agency.
"Yeah, Ulrich and I can reschedule our date that was planned tonight," Yumi agreed.
Forest 12:35 PM
William came up to Sisi and called out her name once he found her at the base of a tree, crying her eyes out.
"Sisi, what's wrong?" William asked as he took a seat next to her. Soon he fell in love with her just by looking at her. Even when she was sad, she looked gorgeous. Wait a minute! Ew! Sisi was not gorgeous! He continued, "Listen, I know you have feelings for Ulrich, but you need to let him go. It wasn't easy for me, but once I found out that Yumi was happy with Ulrich, I just gave up and everything's better!"
The dark haired girl smiled and kissed him on the cheek, making him fall back on the ground. He laughed nervously, while she joined in hysterically and they started to have an actual coversation. They were the only teens in the world for any matter.
Factory 12:45 PM
"Transfer Lance. Transfer Ulrich. Scanner Lance. Scanner Ulrich. Virtualization!" Jeremie said as he sent them to the cavern sector which Aelita had sent him the coordinates to. "Aelita, I'm sending you to Sector 5, but William will be there soon so hold on. Yumi, are you ready?"
Yumi responded, "Yes, Jeremie."
"Transfer Yumi. Scanner Yumi. Virtualization!" he finished.
Yumi fell in the ice sector with her vehicle materializing in front of her. She jumped on it and started to explore the winter wonderland for any signs of subsectors. However, a few bloks were scouting the area for any sign of trouble.
"Jeremie, what do you think the subsectors have that are so important to XANA, anyhow?" Yumi asked as she stopped her vehicle behind an icy rock and jumped off.
"I don't know, but I'm going to find out," Jeremie said as he and Kim were reading over multiple fragments of data, multitasking. "For now, I'll text William to come to the factory. Ulrich, I'm virtualizing you some bags that have been transformed from computer file folders to hold virtual data. Theoretically, this virtual gasoline will be able to be held in this computer as an energy source for the vehicles that I just put gas tanks in."
"In English, Einstein?" Ulrich scratched his head.
"Since the folder is transformed it can now hold the oil from the new subsector," Jeremie impatiently explained.
Trees 12:55 PM
"And then, Odd told her that she stunk when she replied that he should be the one conscious of his own fink!" William laughed as Sisi joined in.
They were listening to Subdigitals songs on Sisi's iPod 2 which had just came out. Suddenly, William's phone began to vibrate in his pocket and his face became disappointed when he read the text to himself.
"What's wrong, William?" Sisi asked as she stopped the song, Angel of Mine, and looked straight into his eyes. "Something's up and I want you to tell me what's wrong as a friend."
"Look Sisi, I need to study with Yumi at her house!" William lied as he started to scratch his head continuously.
"Fine," Sisi cooled down. "See you later. I'll just hang out with Sam."
The girl awkwardly walked away and once William made sure she was gone, he lifted the manhole that was nearby and started to descend the ladder. Making sure that the lid was closed and the girl wasn't in pursuit, he grabbed a skateboard and started to ride down the sewer pathways.
Line for Tryouts of the End of the Year Dance 1:10 PM
"Hey, Hiroki!" Odd waved and grinned wildly as he saw his friend's sibling holding Milly's hand. "See I told you that it wou-"
"Cut it out," Sam whispered in his ear, while squeezing his lips together. "Don't embarrass them, Odd!"
"Alright, alright!" he whispered a little loudly.
"So, how's Yumi doing?" Johnny asked with his face becoming red.
"Sorry dude, I told you that you didn't have a chance because she's in love with Ulrich." Hiroki broke the news. "Don't worry, there's plenty of other girls in the school!"
"So, what brings you two to this line?" Sam changed the subject to destroy all the dramatic tension hanging in the air.
"Oh, Johnny and I have made some records!" Hiroki's eyes lightened up. "Aelita taught me how to use computers and I started programming the CD's and techinical things, while Johnny actually made the beats. See!"
He held a demo in front of the couple which made them smile. Soon, their attention was grabbed when Sisi started to run towards the four in deep conversation. Odd looked up in surprise and so did Sam as she slapped Odd right in the face. The boy looked up in confusion, surprise and anger at the daughter of the principal who was looking right into his eyes.
"Where were you, Odd?" Sisi questioned. "This morning when Ulrich wasn't here he told me he was playing soccer with you. Is that what he said?"
"Yeah, yeah! My buddy and I were kicking some go-," Odd was interrupted by another slap.
"I'll have you know he told me you were walking his dog! I thought we were friends! Are you hiding secrets from me again?" the girl was boiling in rage.
"Whoa, Sisi!" Sam took her from Odd's grasp. "Give him a break! So what if they have secrets?"
"Oh yeah! It's not only Odd, Jeremie, and Ulrich! They let everyone join their group whenever they showed up! First it was Yumi! Next it was that girl, Aelita, who joined them a year later! Next was William and then he started to act all strange! Why aren't you mad?" Sisi ranted.
"Well, you see-," Sam started to be cut off again.
"I get it! They let you join to! Everyone hates me! Why, I'm just the lame airhead who's the principal's daughter!" Sisi stormed off and started to cry as she broke into a run towards her room.
Hiroki and Johnny blinked a few times and tried to forget everything that had just happened. They awkwardly waited in the line as they heard a few more records and names called out.
Sector 5 1:20 PM
"Virtualization!" Jeremie yelled.
Aelita and William landed in the middle of the spinning eye of XANA to see both openings on either side open.
"So, why are we in Sector 5?" William asked as he remembered the jellyfish that had made him a slave of XANA.
"We need to find out what these subsectors are providing for XANA. Last time when we came to deactivate the tower, XANA had tried to destroy the mountain sector and he cut off the subsector. What really bugs me is that XANA wants us to not have access to that subsector and seems to be excavating it because the sector seemed to be vibrating. I think my father may have made it." Aelita explained.
William nodded and took his sword out of thin air, "So where do we need to go?"
"Follow me and don't ask any questions," Aelita ordered and William winced. "Sorry, William. I didn't mean it that way. Just stay close and after a while you can fight on your own."
They ran through the middle line of the end of the XANA insignia and saw the room which was rapidly spinning, changing, and moving in architecture.
"XANA must not want us to retrieve his data! He's using a lot of his power to keep Sector 5 as a heavily defended territory!" Aelita looked at the amazing room.
"Look, XANA's bodyguards have shown up!" William pointed at the creepers who were climbing up all the walls and could hold on because of their bodies which attached to any surface.
"William, activate the key and get to the dome!" Aelita yelled to him. "I'll try to get rid of those creepers."
William turned into smoke and travelled through the air and around the obstacles, until he reached the key.
"Five, four, three, two...one," Jeremie counted.
William pressed the key right when the countdown almost ended. The room became level and a different looking block from all the rest with wires running through it came down to reveal a path. Aelita gestured to him to follow and they ran to the edge of the pathway.
"Jump!" Aelita snapped and they both did manage to get onto the rapidly moving elevator.
Soon the elevator stopped and the two Lyoko warriors ran to the path at the edge of Carthage. William gasped as he saw all the panels of data that sustained Lyoko and had once supported XANA with Aelita. Soon some of them started to stretch out with weird shapes.
"I guess those must be where mantas come from!" William figured as the mantas hatched and flew towards them.
Aelita rapidly started to access data, while William jumped on the overboard and flew towards the three newly generated monsters.
Factory 1:20 PM
"I've found the footage!" Kim shrieked as she started the footage from the laptop.
Jeremie and Kim watched as the agents walked into the scanners and howled with fear.
"This is worse than I thought!" Jeremie muttered. "It'll take months for me to get them out of XANA's grasp. I need an antivirus like William's, but the spector corrupted and deleted all the files!"
Kim frowned and walked into the elevator, "It's okay. For now, virtualize me into the ice sector where Yumi is. I'll help her find another subsector, while you continue to try on Earth."
Jeremie nodded and looked at the camera, until she had reached the scanner room, "Transfer Kim. Scanner Kim. Virtualization!"
Kim landed on the icy floor of the polar region and glanced at Yumi who was eyeing the bloks that were shaking as they repeatedly scurried across the sector. She got annoyed with her puffy dress and once she lifted it she found out that she was wearing a blue zero suit underneath. The dress was heavy and after touching the ruby in the middle, it shrank down into a blue large shield. The lady gasped, but then tapped Yumi on the shoulder.
Yumi quickly turned around and almost threw a fan, but then smiled and put her fans away, "Oh, it's you."
"So, what are you doing?" Kim asked as she looked around for any larger threat.
"I can't let myself blow my cover to XANA, or else he'll find us and use his unlimited energy to virtualize hundreds of monsters!" Yumi explained as the five bloks continued to march around.
Soon a krabe virtualized a few steps behind Yumi and landed with a thud. Kim quickly took her sceptor and froze herself to look like an icy rock that was a part of the sector. Yumi used her telekenisis to make it look like the krabe was slipping and watched as it fell into the Digital Sea. The ladies jumped on the overwing and travelled under the sector to avoid being spotted when they saw a glowing cavern.
"Hey, I bet that's another subsector!" Yumi smiled as she jumped off the overwing.
Kim followed her as they jumped off of the surface and fell for thousands of feet, until reaching their destination.
"I don't get it," Yumi rubbed her head after their big fall. "This place looks just like the cavern sector."
Sector 5 1:25 PM
"Jeremie, I've found it!" Aelita yelled, while William swung his sword at the last manta.
He quickly depixelated as his body's gridlines faded away when gravity pulled it lower and lower. Aelita quickly jumped on the overboard and took the passage to get out of the sector. She sadly looked at the Digital Sea where her father had once managed to survive as she neared the mountain sector.
"Great job, Aelita!" Jeremie shattered her thoughts. "All I need to do is decode the firewalls. You are a mile away from the place the mountain sector once stood so you need to use your creativity to find a way into the cavern sector."
Aelita nodded and then had a flashback from her past.
"Aelita!" her father yelled out to her. "XANA is not listening to me so you need to stay in this tower. Once I'm done in the mountains, I'll be right back. I'm locking the cavern, burrow, swamp, and lake sectors."
"But why daddy?" little Aelita pondered as she played with her short sleeves.
"If XANA gains control to them, he'll not only have the keys to Lyoko, but also be able to access top secret military bases that were used in the Cold War. That is all I can tell you, sweetheart. Now don't move.!" Hopper warned as his essence faded out of the tower.
Naturally, Aelita didn't listen and went on an adventure to learn more about her surroundings. She looked at a blok that was in the distance and it started to stumble towards her. Aelita laughed and fell down on the forest floor, laughing all her tears out.
"You move, funny!" Aelita told the blok.
The blok seemed to be gesturing to the edge of the sector. However, soon the land that it was standing on vanished as the blok fell into the abyss below.
Aelita turned around to the voice of her father, "Aelita, I told you not to get out of the tower!"
"But, daddy," Aelita stuttered.
"No buts, young lady!" Waldo Schaffer exclaimed. "I dug up all the programs in your DNA and codes, but XANA would have to take a long time to retrieve them if he got the codes from you.
Ironically Aelita responded, "Of course, daddy. I won't let XANA get anywhere near my DNA!"
Franz Hopper led his daughter back to the tower and they had a conversation about her mother. They treaded the forest, unaware of the dangers they would face in the years to come.
"Aelita, are you okay?" Jeremie asked, while William looked over his shoulder. "You've been quiet for the last five minutes. You're over the cavern sector now. I'll warn Lance and Ulrich."
"I'm fine, Jeremie!" Aelita lied as she neared the submerged sector. "I'm starting to create a gap in the ceiling so I can dive in. I had a vision that told me vital information about it, but I'll tell you about it once I get to the caverns. First, I need to make a large section of land around it so a lot of the sea won't flood in."
Cavern Sector 1:30 PM
Lance filled the pouch with oil, while Ulrich tossed and caught a gem repeatedly, while with the other hand had his sword ready. Ulrich looked in the distance and thought he saw the silhouette of two figures in the distance.
"Jeremie, we have company!" Ulrich stated and drew his swords, while Lance tied the pouch and took out his own sword.
"Don't worry about it!" Jeremie replied. "Aelita's coming to explore the subsector, so I can devirtualize Lance and you."
"Wait!" Lance interrupted the conversation. "Since when has the sector became so huge?"
Aelita had been feeling the pulses and destroying the ceiling so after she heard what Lance said, she responded, "Jeremie, XANA's exacavating the sector with the DNA he's stolen from Yumi that was once mine! It all makes sense now, except for one thing. He wants to take control of Soviet Union and other countries' old labratories from the Cold War and World War II."
Jeremie scratched his head and looked at the map, "Wait, Aelita! Yumi and Kim are present in the cavern sector! Yumi was right and the outlines he saw were the ladies! I need to devirtualize them first."
Yumi who had been listening waited patiently as she and Kim broke away into many megapixels that disappeared after a few seconds. Ulrich and Lance also braced themselves as they were transported back to the real world.
"Okay, Aelita, now's the time!" Jeremie reminded her.
Aelita finally burst through the sector and quickly patched the hole before she could be "drowned" into the internet. She ran into one of the obsidian colored towers and felt the data panels move around.
"I've gathered some data, Jeremie!" she smiled at the feat she had accomplished.
"Great work! I'm going to devirtu-," Jeremie turned his smile into a frown when he saw the superscann start beeping. "Sorry Aelita, but XANA activated a tower in the forest sector!"
"Yes, my third sector in a long time," Aelita couldn't help, but smile as she remembered her old home where her father and herself had once lived.
"I'm calling Odd and Sam," Jeremie said as he started up the program of the computer that worked like a mobile phone.
Gymnasium 1:35 PM
"Great work, Mr. Della Robia and Mrs. Knight!" Mr. Delmas congratulated as one of the judges. "I wish your academics could reflect a better part of your potential, but, well that's a different story."
"Nice job, Odd!" Chris, the Subdigitals lead drummer, said. "You've done way better with Sam as your partner."
Sam smirked as Odd playfully punched her in the shoulder.
"Well, I guess its settled!" Jim smiled. "The DJ's for the Fall Social Dance will be Miss. Knight, Mr. Della Robia, Hiroki, Miss. Stones of course, and Johnny."
Odd looked down to see his phone vibrating and mouthed XANA to his girlfriend.
Factory 1:45 PM
"We can't perform another return to the past because we've done one already today! I've used a lot of the computer's resources so the only vehicle I can virtualize now is the overtruck!" Jeremie grumbled.
"Don't sweat it, Einstein!" Odd grinned. "We'll get rid of XANA before you can say Bonsai!"
"Bonsai," Sam mocked as they both walked into the elevator and started arguing playfully.
"Okay, you guys are heading to the forest sector! Aelita is going to the desert sector so that she can get into the waytower to get to the forest. Transfer Odd. Transfer Sam. Scanner Odd. Scanner Sam. Virtualization!" Jeremie multitasked.
"I'm going to the school," Yumi volunteered as Ulrich came with her.
"I need to, uh, study math," William gulped.
Yumi winked at him, but Ulrich looked at the two of them with confusion as the elevator door closed shut.
Soon, a video chat came up on the screen.
"You're arrested for commiting serious crimes!" James acted in a pretty strong actor voice. "As Director of the Secret Services, you must come to jail immidiately."
Kim rolled her eyes as Lance asked, "How's it going?"
"Fine!" James grinned from inside of the Director's body. "I've destroyed all the footage that XANA had gathered."
"Stay on watch, good buddy," Lance reminded him as the Director's wife appeared in the hall.
"Honey, are you coming?" she said in a sweet, tempting voice.
"Oh great!" James muttered. "I have to do it with a thirty year old."
"Honey?" she called again.
"Bye!" he whispered loudly as he shut off the chat screen.
Lance and Kim shuddered after having have heard the last part.
Einstein focused on the two maps on the screen with one displaying Odd and Sam, and the other one displayed Aelita.
"Aelita, you're almost near the desert! Keep heading southeast!" Jeremie congratulated her. "Odd, Sam, how are you doing?"
"Not that great!" Sam said truthfully as she kept on trying to throw her disks at the plentiful krabes. "On your side?"
"No news from William and the others," Jeremie said.
Sisi Delmas's Room 1:55 PM
Sisi was combing her hair when she heard a knock on the door and yelled out, "Go away! I don't want any sympathy!"
"It's me," William calmly said.
The girl panicked as she felt herself blush. She was supposed to be in love with anyone, but him and they didn't match. William was all about true love being at first sight, while Sisi believed in knowing each other. However, after hanging out with him, she had fallen in love with him.
"Come in," she said as normally as she could manage.
The door opened a little as Willam peeked inside, but finally he entered the dorm and sat next to Sisi who had moved to her bed and was trying to explain everything.
Crossroads Kadic Academy 1:55 PM
Yumi and Ulrich kept on looking for strange activity, until Yumi saw a wire flicker, and a smoke came into view, but disappeared towards the academy.
Their cellphones weren't working and had XANA's insignia pulsing on them.
"XANA jammed our cellphones?" Ulrich pondered. "Wouldn't that mean he's planning to use less energy on his main mission?"
"I don't know," Yumi started when suddenly they were wrapped by plants and couldn't move anymore.
"Didn't see that coming," Ulrich grumbled as the vines kept them stuck to the ground.
Sisi's Dorm 2:00 PM
Sisi fell on the floor in the middle of William's joke and he gasped as he saw the eyes of XANA, replacing Sisi's beautiful, hazel eyes. The girl snarled and stated to corner William, but after slaping her, he ran out of the girl's room. As he tried to catch his breath he started to dial Jeremie's phone number on his mobile.
"Jeremie, I've found out what the XANA attack is!" William panted.
"What is it?" the genius replied.
"Sisi is possessed by XANA and she's heading for the river! I think XANA's luring me somewhere! There's no sign of Ulrich and Yumi. Anything on your side?" William continued.
"Aelita has just arrived at western edge of the desert sector. Odd and Sam have their hands full with a seafood platter, and I haven't heard from the merry couple." Jeremie growled in frustration.
"I bet they're just doing something in secret!" Odd suggested with a grin.
Sam slapped him, "Odd! That's just- Whatever, we need to get rid of these disgusting shellfish!"
"Yes, ma'am!" Odd teased as he saluted.
As they drove into the clearing, Odd jumped off and repeatedly shot lasers arrows at the krabes in the front row. Sam threw discs as she quickly came under the weak "underbellies" of the krabes. The overtruck was grabbed by one krabe and was thrown into a huge tree.
Sam groaned as she rubbed her shoulder, "Sorry, Jeremie."
As she tried to get up and looked at the krabe in front of her, ready for devirtualization, the krabe suddenly glowed a mad color of pink as it wobbled and pulsed with electricity. Right where it once stood, was the princess herself with a small exhausted smile on her elfin face.
"You're not a great bodyguard," Aelita commented slyly.
"Hey, hey princess! Someone was exploring the magical caverns with an escort and Romeo, who guided the way!" Sam retorted.
"Ladies!" Jeremie interrupted. "Get back to the matter at hand. Ten krabes are left and, oh-Odd just destroyed one, but he was materialized by a sneak attack!"
"Oh, boys and their attitudes!" Sam yelled so Odd could hear.
Odd took the microphone from Jeremie who gasped in protest. "What did you say? The bigshot is one button away from devirtualizing you!"
Jeremie rolled his eyes and glued them back to the screen. "Aelita, the tower is past the bridge to the north. While Sam makes a diversion, you should get through the narrow bridge and find a way into the tower, now guarded by a tarantula and two kankrelats."
"Aye, aye Captain!" Sam yelled as she lured seven of the nine krabes away.
The last two spotted the damsel in distress escaping their clutches. As the red monsters headed towards her, she quickly destroyed all the land beneath their legs.
"I guess those ladies don't know how to swim!" Aelita laughed at her joke and continued towards the tower.
Sam looked behind her and smiled as she saw the land disappear for no way to access Aelita. Suddenly, the krabes were devirtualized into pixels and hornets were created in the air above.
"Five wasps!" Sam cried. "Really, XANA?"
Road Near River 2:15 PM
"XANA, what do you want?" William angrily announced.
XANA-Sisi smiled and looked back at the boy, "I want you to join me by jumping into the Digital Sea. Until then, I'll possess this strange girl you're attracted to. You can deactivate as many towers as you want, but one day Sisi will have a watery grave."
"Okay, I'll join you," he muttered in defeat.
Yumi hid behind a wall as she listened, but Ulrich who was now impatient ran straight into Sisi and caught XANA by surprise. William turned around in shock to see Yumi looking in disapproval.
"How could you even think about giving up that easy?" Yumi questioned.
William winced, but then his nostrils flared as he boldly stated, "I did it for Sisi. I-I love her!"
"Isn't this adorable," XANA mocked as he finished electrifying Ulrich.
Yumi suddenly became unconscious and XANA smirked.
"Let's play a game! It's called who do I save and who do I possess!" XANA smirked.
"Yumi, Ulrich, and Sisi are the options. You have to choose on of them to be thrown into the Digital Sea with you, one to be spared, and one for me to kill right now! The clock is ticking," XANA tapped her feet impatiently.
William winced as he looked at Ulrich with regret, but then turned to XANA with his eyes closed.
"This is boring so I'll never possess this female for this reason again. Just choose already, because your nice anxious expression is getting old." XANA continued.
Desert Sector 2:20 PM
"Okay Jeremie, I'm entering the tower!" Aelita exclaimed as she destroyed the last roachster.
From far way, she saw the two surviving hornets stray away from Sam and fly towards her. For fun, the girl waited for the hornets to approach her and melted into the tower so that the hornets could crash into the tower base.
"You're cruel!" Jeremie joked as she floated towards the next platform.
Aelita
William started to speak, "I want to kill-"
Code:
Lyoko
"Tower deactivated!" Aelita smiled.
William looked up to see Sisi faint onto the ground.
Chapter's done! I'll be updating a little more in May. Finally, Summer will come and with that season LOTS OF UPDATES will come! This is going to be a pretty long story with all the ideas I have in mind. Just message me with your opinions and leave a review because I want your input! Thanks!