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AnimexXxGoddess- AWWW! THANKS! I'm really glad that you are going to stick with me! It makes me soooo happy to know that you like my strorys. Also about the fight, if you still don't understand it then to put it simply, Kat kept dodging lasers, Odd came with another crab behind him, Kat rolled under her crab's foot, it tried to stab her with its foot, but she rolled out of the way, and it got its foot stuck in the ground, while it tried to get its foot out, Kat jumped on top of it and pushed her sharp pipe into XANA's symbol. And thats the simple version of the fight. AND HERES THE NEXT CHAPTER!
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Chapter 6: Explain, Before I Experiment!
We all stared at her and I was dying for an explanation. What was this about Lyoko? What the heck was that! I cleared my throat and every one turned to look at me as I brushed a strand of my shoulder length brown hair out of my face.
" Well, I'm just putting this as a side thought, but will someone please tell me what the heck is going on before I decide to investigate how many orifices I can stick my pencil in before you start screaming!" I took a deep breath then smiled sweetly. "Just a thought."
Ulrich laughed shakily, earning him a death glare from yours truly.
"I'm not kidding." I said darkly.
"You're right Kat." Aelita spoke up, " You have a right to know what's going on and how you've become involved."
I smiled my appreciation as the rest of the group nodded.
"But not here."
I turned to Jeremy again.
"We can be to easily overheard here, come on and we'll go back to my dorm."
I sighed, but nodded and we finnished our dinners and hurried to Jeremy's room. I sat down on the bed and looked at him expectantly. He rolled his eyes at my impatience but started anyway.
"Well," Jeremy began, " about a year or two ago I discovered an abandoned factory and with it, a super computer. After turning on this computer I discovered Aelita, an artificial intelligence, or so we thought at the time. However, when I turned on the computer I let out something that existed inside the super computer called XANA. The super computer was also home to a virtual world called Lyoko, where Aelita existed. A man named Franz Hopper was the man who created XANA and Lyoko. Apparently, XANA was made to help Franz fight against a goverment project called Carthage."
"But," Ulrich continued, " XANA turned against his master. When the government came to take Franz away, Franz went to Lyoko with his daughter Aelita to keep them safe. Upon fleeing Lyoko, however, Aelita and Franz were attacked by XANA. Franz tried to reason with XANA, and when that failed he shut down the supercomputer, with he and Aelita still on Lyoko, leaving it inactive until it was found nearly a decade later by Jeremy."
"When XANA was let out, he started attacking the real world by activating one of the forty one towers on Lyoko." Aelita explained. " Through these towers, he is able to possess things in the real world, whether it be inanimate objects or living things, and use them to try and gain world domination.
However, we can get to Lyoko using things called scanners and from there we fight virtual monsters who are sent by XANA to stop us from reaching the tower. All of us minus Jeremy go to Lyoko, he stays to operate the super computer. On Lyoko we have life points and if we run out, we are devirtualised and reappear in the scanners in the real world. But, if I get divirtualised, its bye bye for me because I was a Lyoko being before Jeremy virtualised me from Lyoko. We were going to shut down the super computer then, but XANA infected me with a virus that will keep me linked to him."
"On Lyoko we all have special powers that help us fight the monsters, except for Aelita." Odd went on, " When we get to the tower that has been activated, Aelita goes inside and deactivates it, being the only one able to do so, and the attack on Earth ceases. Although it's not too easy, that squid thing that attacked you, the Scyphozoa, is a monster of XANA's.
On Lyoko, it goes after Aelita because something in Aelita's memory is the key to XANA getting out of the super computer. And if that happens, shutting down the super computer wont kill XANA any more. And we can't shut off the computer now because the virus that links Aelita to XANA means that if XANA goes, so does she, so Jeremy is working on an anti-virus. Not to mention that we think that Franz is still somewhere on Lyoko, and we want to get him out."
I just stared.
What an utter pile of nonsense! Common Sense laughed inside my mind.
No. They're telling the truth, I can tell. Besides, its impossible to come up with a story like that on the spot! I should know whether something crazy is fake or not! Fred replied coolly. Again I sighed inside my head (I seemed to be doing that a lot lately.) Fred was winning way too much these days. Not to mention that the fact that I had given a name to a figment of my mind. I really was going crazy nowadays.
I realised that they all were looking at me worriedly. After about two minutes of silence I managed to stutter,
"So those crabs, and the squid? XANA sent those didn't he?" They all nodded.
"I can't say a word about this to anyone, can I?" They all shook their heads.
"It has to remain a complete secret, otherwise the adults will shut down the super computer forever, or worse they could take Aelita away." Ulrich explained.
"Come on Kat, lets get to our dorms. We'll explain more tomorrow." Aelita said. I nodded shakily. I was feeling a little bit faint, after taking in so much craZy information. As I tried to stand up though, my legs felt weak with the effort of staying upright. Odd was next to me in a flash, supporting me and thankfully not noticing my cheeks flush bright red.
He helped me out of Jeremy's room and when we got to his and Ulrich's dorm, Aelita took over. Odd took one last glance over his shoulder at me, then closed the door behind him.
I looked over at Aelita. "It's okay Aelita, I think I can manage on my feet now."
She smiled gratefully, but had a mischievous gleam in her eyes. I only found out why when we were two corridors away from Odd and Ulrich's room.
"You like Odd, don't you?" she said unexpectedly.
Completely thrown off by the sudden question I stammered,
"W-what! No, of course I don't! Besides, I've only known him a day!"
Aelita smirked, a very unusual thing for her to do. "Come on Kat, you blushed up a storm when he helped you walk, and I saw you kept glancing at him while we told you about Lyoko."
Fuming both from embarrassment and anger I said,
"Well what about you and Jeremy! You guys threw glances at each other all through dinner, and your eyes lit up a little too brightly when you saw him."
That shut her up.
"You can't hide from the question forever Kat." she mumbled.
"I can try."
I woke next morning long before Aelita and a glance at my alarm clock told me that it was 6:22am. I lay in bed and thought about the previous day.
Their story was crazy but… as I thought about it, I realised, it fit. But they still had to show me this factory as proof and I wanted to know why I wasn't affected by the return to the past. Looking at the clock again I saw that time wasn't going to pass any quicker lying about in bed.
I got up, consulted my map of the school and headed to the girls shower room to get freshened up. I was in there for about an half an hour before the rest of the girls came in.
I walked back to my dorm to find that Aelita had already left for breakfast. Or she's hanging out with Jeremy I thought, grinning. After getting dressed into my usual attire, a white and crimson shirt and a red skirt with coal black lining, I headed downstairs to breakfast.
"Well, well. If it isn't the new girl."
Halfway down the corridor I stopped dead and turned around to meet the haughty voice that was greeting me. It was a girl of my age with long raven black hair and a proud smirk upon her face. She wore a pink shirt with a sunflower yellow heart in the middle and a dark pink mini skirt over even darker pink trousers. Behind her walked two boys, one with black hair and covered in pimples, and one with blond hair and a dull expression on his face.
She walked towards me and my eyes immediately narrowed. I didn't want anything to do with a stuck-up child, obviously spoiled, who thought that she was better than everyone else.
"Everybody's talking about you. I don't see why they should, there's nothing special about you. They should be talking about me. After all I am the prettiest girl here. I'm Sissi, by the way."
I was always good at seeing people for what they really are. I thought as I put on a fake smile.
"Oh don't worry Sissi. They all talk about you alright. You're the centre of attention when it comes to talking about plant growth."
She raised an eyebrow. "What on Earth are you talking about?"
I faked surprise perfectly. "Oh, don't you know? They're planning an experiment. We'll dunk you in a whole load of soil, pour water all over you, and maybe at the end of the month you'll have grown a brain, and maybe you'll look a bit better too. No more split-ends." I added with a fake look at disgust at the imaginary split-ends.
She seethed, smoke practically pouring out of her ears, and stalked away, with her two cronies behind her, muttering incoherently under her breath. Smiling victoriously I turned around to find Odd grinning at Sissi's defeat. Remembering what Aelita had said last night I turned away to hide my furious blush. Odd's voice laughing out forced me to look back at him.
"Now that's what I call sticking it to the man! Or woman for that matter." he turned to me. " Come on slowpoke, it's 8:00 am and you don't want to miss the French toast that gets served here! I'll race ya!" With that he bolted down the corridor with me hot on his heels. We got to the dining hall in a dead tie.
"Your - pretty - fast - for someone - so - scrawny." he gasped, clutching his side.
I shot him a death glare. "Watch who you're calling scrawny."
"I am not scrawny, I'm svelte." he panted. Though what he said was true. I was quite small, but I was exactly the same size as Odd.
Once we had got our breath back, we walked into the dining hall, which was already half full. Jeremy, Aelita, Ulrich and another girl with black hair that looked about a year older than us who I presumed to be Yumi, were already waiting for us.
I saw Yumi and Aelita smile at me knowingly and I quickly hurried away to sit quite far away from Odd so as not to raise their suspicions. I walked over to this girl and held out my hand, which she quickly shook.
"Hi, I'm Katrina but call me Kat."
"Yumi. I've heard a lot about you from Ulrich." She smiled and sat back down in her seat, gazing a little too fondly, in my opinion, at the said German boy.
I was about to start on my toast, but at that moment Jeremy cleared his throat to get our attention.
"Well, after school today we'll take you to the factory. I'll explain everything there and I'll be able to tell you why you weren't affected by the return to the past."
"Wait! You mean you already know?" He nodded. "Well then tell me!"
He smiled. "Well I would but… 3 2 1..." The bell rang for class. I growled and walked with them to our first class of the day. We sat down in science as Mrs Hertz walked inside.
"Now class before we start I'd like to introduce our new student. Katrina, could you come up here please?" she asked kindly.
I stood up and walked to the front of the classroom where Mrs Hertz was waiting.
"Now Katrina where were you born?"
"Spain, in Madrid."
"Ah, yes I hear the accent. And what are your hobbies?"
"Singing, acting, and basically anything to do with music or drama."
"So you like music do you? Do you play any instruments or sing?" she inquired.
"I play the guitar and, yes, I do sing a little bit."
"Will you take part in the play this year?"
"Probably." I said simply.
"Thank you Katrina. You can go back to your seat now." I sat back down next to Aelita.
And the day continued as any normal school day did from there. Lessons, lunch (In which Jeremy was absent, but Ulrich said that he had gone up to his room to check some of his calculations, but he was really distant while explaining it, he was too busy fuming while watching Yumi talk to a tall boy with black hair) and finally, the bell signalling the end of school.
I had no idea of the situation i had gotten myself into.
Me: Well that's chapter three!
Odd: Is this figment of the mind you call Fred going to be mentioned alot in future chapters?
Me: Yes, yes he is.
Odd: Oh joy.
Me: Shut up.
Odd: No.
Me: Well then get out, you blew your last chance! Ulrich is now my new Authors Note partner!
Odd: NOOO!
Ulrich: Yes!
Me: HA!
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