Chapter 20: Un-Human
okay this is going to be a weird chapter...and also if you want an idea on what Mason looks like...send me a letter so I can give you a link!
It was now January 2. The Lyoko gang was only gone for a few days and came back just last night.
"Anything happen while we were away?" asked Ulrich.
"Mason's hand got stuck in the vending machine, and was acting emo all the time you were gone." smiled Cam.
"And Cam slipped off the step face first." gleamed Mason.
"That was an accident!" barked Cam.
"Oh yeah my ass!" barked back Mason.
"You want to start something!" snapped Cam.
Soon they were bickering about the most random of things. While the others completely shunned them and their arguing.
"What of the replicas?" asked Odd.
"I ran a full sweep and there was nothing!" whined Jeremy in shock.
"Can't we run a scan on the S.C.?" asked Ulrich.
"We'll try." smiled Aelita.
"Yo Mason! Were heading to breakfast!" called Yumi.
"Okay." responded Mason.
"See ya Cousin! My folks are picking me up today." explained Chamael.
"Bye!" said Mason high fiving Cam.
At breakfast Odd sucked his food down, as usual, while everyone else picked at their food.
"You know since your dating and all you should start acting like it." commented Odd shoving eggs in his mouth.
"Due to a certain "Diary Incident" that came up." smirked Mason.
"What do you mean?" asked Ulrich blushing.
"Easy he means that you should......hold hands, kiss, or something like that." said Aelita.
The look on Ulrich and Yumi's face and was priceless and they all started laughing ,accept for Ulrich and Yumi. Meanwhile Mason was now lost in his own little world. He had a blank stare on his face as he looked down at his eggs.
"Earth to Mason!" smiled Odd.
I can't believe Emily is....afraid of me..." mumbled Mason scratching around his eggs.
"Huh?" asked Yumi.
"Uhhh nothing!" gasped Mason waking up from his fantasy.
"If your not hungry..I'll take your food." grinned Odd with a hungry look in his eye.
"Yeah sure." moaned Mason.
Odd sucked in his second filling of food while Mason strolled outside. Mason let in a breath of cold air and kept walking.
"I can't believe it......" mumbled Mason.
Mason walked by a small tree and pressed his head against it. He left his jacket inside but he didn't care....he just wanted to get away from it all right now. Besides he had some thinking to do.
"I made a girl cry......how lame is that." said Mason banging his head against the tree.
Mason knew he had a really bad temper, but he never went overboard like he did then. worst of all he made someone cry because of it. Mason kept banging his head against the tree until his head started hurting. It soon started snowing and Mason gave a sigh as he strolled back to Kadic.
"You were gone for about twenty minutes." said Aelita.
"Yeah I had to do some.......heavy thinking." sighed Mason.
"You hit your head pretty good." said Jeremy.
"Ehhh....." moaned Mason.
"Right now we got ourselves a replica to check out." smiled Odd.
"A whosie what?" perked Mason.
"Its like another Super Computer but XANA uses it to collect power." explained Jeremy.
"Ahhh..." said Mason although he wasn't paying attention.
"Are you even listening?" asked Jeremy.
"Y-yeah super computer yeah...." stuttered Mason.
"Let's go!" smiled Odd.
Soon they were in Lyoko and were transported to sector 5.
"Wow....this is..... just plain amazing!" commented Mason.
"You haven't seen nothing yet!" said Jeremy.
They went to the Skid's garage. Mason stared at it in awe.
"Your hiding me from all the good stuff?" asked Mason.
"Well, we never had to use it." explained Jeremy.
"So what do we do one these replicas?" asked Mason.
"We have to destroy the infested computer." explained Aelita.
"Get going!" instructed Jeremy.
Everyone got in the Skid and then they headed off.
"Wow...this is awesome!" smiled Mason.
Even though Mason has in high spirits, his thoughts of depression kept gnawing in the back of his head. Mason let out a small frown and sighed.
"What's wrong Mason?" asked Odd.
"Ehhhh....nothing." said Mason.
"Come ooooon....." whined Odd.
"No Odd leave me alone!" barked Mason.
"No reason to yell at him Mason." scorned Yumi in her "mother" voice.
"Your right......I'm not in a pleasant mood today....sorry Odd." sighed Mason.
"It's okay." replied Odd.
"Hey! Enemies straight ahead!" warned Jeremy as the whole sea went red.
"How do we attack?" asked Mason.
At that moment the mini skids were launched at high speed towards the enemy. Soon the warriors were dodging left and right and firing torpedoes at the monsters.
"Why haven't I gone yet?" asked Mason.
"Sorry Mason but the Skids are a bit difficult to maneuver, how about watching for the first time?" mentioned Aelita.
"Ok.....I don't care." replied Mason.
Soon all the monsters were destroyed and the warriors reattached to the sub.
"More than usual." noticed Yumi.
"Was also like that when we came to Lyoko." commented Odd.
"Probably something XANA doesn't want us tampering with." smirked Ulrich.
"All the better reason to find out what." claimed Jeremy.
"I've been thinking.......what is XANA up to?I mean he almost kills us but then chickens out at the last second, a program was installed onto the super computer,and also XANA has hardly been attacking." mentioned Mason in a serious tone in his voice.
"Your right Mason....we'll have to deal with the replica later...right now we need to know what XANA is planning." decided Jeremy.
"Where are we going to go then?" questioned Aelita.
"Hold on I'm picking up readings in the Desert Sector." announced Jeremy putting in the coordinates.
"Rodger Dodger!" smiled Odd.
Soon the Skid was piloted to the real Desert Sector where they all got out of the Skid.
"Well....it's a bit roomy." commented Mason staring out to the distance of the almost empty sector.
"Just look around and see if anything is fishy." commanded Jeremy through the crackled static of the head set.
They all looked around for a few minutes, fighting several monsters on the way of course, when they came up to a tower.
"Looks like there's nothing here but monsters." sighed Odd.
"How about I get some information from the tower?" smirked Aelita walking into the tower.
"Ehhhh.....I dunno...it doesn't feel right." warned Ulrich.
Aelita went in the tower and started to get the information.
"That's strange, theres files on human anatomy." said Aelita searching through the files.
"Why would XANA want to learn about humans?" pondered Jeremy.
Suddenly there was a flash of light on the scene in Lyoko.
"What the hell was that?" asked Mason.
"I'm pulling you all in!" said Jeremy with his hands flying across the keyboard.
Everyone was devirtualized and brought onto the scene where the whole factory started to rumble and lights started to was flung down to the scanners while the other tumbled to the ground
"XANA attack?" asked Odd picking himself up.
"No not likely." moaned Jeremy.
Soon it stopped shaking and the lights were switched back on. The screen popped up with a loading bar which suddenly disappeared and replaced with the red exclamation mark, and then a green check mark.
"Huh?" asked Jeremy.
"That was weird." said Mason.
"You guys need to come down here NOW!" yelled Ulrich from the scanners.
Everyone jumped off the ladder and crowded around Ulrich.
"Dude you hurt?" asked Odd.
"N-no but look!" stuttered Ulrich pointing his finger in the direction of the scanners. They turned around, and to their horror they saw two boys laying in the scanners. One had a blue-ish hair color while the other had a chestnut brown.
"What.....?" whispered Jeremy.
"Come on we need to help them up!" said Yumi picking up the smaller boy.
Mason pulled the other one into the elevator.
"Unbelievable......unfricking believable." huffed Mason placing him on the floor.
They pulled them onto the first floor of the factory.
"This was what XANA was working on......two people?" questioned Odd.
"We can't say anything yet.....after all they could have been prisoners." warned Jeremy.
Soon they both woke up. One of them jumped off the floor while the other slid up.
"Where are we." yawned one of the boys.
"I don't know...." moaned another.
"Yo!" smiled Odd.
Soon a fist went flying into the jaw of Odd. Soon the boy was off and about to run out of the factory.
"Hold on were your friends, we helped you get out!" yelled Odd.
The one in the blue/gray hair stopped.
"Wait....your the Lyoko warriors?" he asked the others.
"Yep...nice to meet your fist." smirked Odd rubbing his jaw.
"Sorry I thought XANA came to get us." said the younger boy.
"Do you have any names?" asked Aelita.
"Nope never have." smiled the younger one.
"Apollo..." said Mason.
"What?" the others asked.
"I just like that name...... it means "destroyer", even though it probably doesn't suit the younger one." mumbled Mason pointing at him.
"I like that name too!" Apollo smiled.
"Ok...Apollo it is then." said Mason.
"What about me then?" questioned the other one.
"How about.....Samson?" asked Ulrich.
"Sorry but no." said the boy.
"Hmmm.......how about......Maximilian meaning "greatest"....Max for short." suggested Aelita.
"Yeah...that's cool." smirked Max.
"Okay Max.....and Apollo!" smiled Yumi.
"Yep, that'll work!" smirked Max.
"Hmmm..we are going to need then enrolled so we can keep an eye on them." said Jeremy.
"I'll ask my uncle and see if he'll help us out." suggested Mason.
"I'm Odd...and that's, Ulrich, Yumi, Aelita, Jeremy, and Mason!" introduced Odd.
"Nice to meet you!" smiled Apollo.
"Good now YOU HAVE TO STAY HERE!" warned Ulrich.
"Why?" asked Apollo.
"Well you don't have experience with our world yet...and we will probably need to help you." smiled Odd.
"Sure we'll stay here for tonight." said Max.
"Wow...look at the time... goodnight." yawned Mason leaving the factory.
"We should be leaving too!" suggested Jeremy.
"Goodnight!" said both of the new earthlings.
That night Mason got a hold on his uncle and asked him the question.
"Sure thing Mason a friend of yours is a friend of mine!" laughed his uncle hanging up.
"Good now I can....oh now who is it?" asked Mason picking up the phone when his ring-tone went off.
"Uhhh Mason?" mumbled he familiar voice on the other line.
"Huh Emily? Why are you calling me?" asked Mason.
"Well...uhhh this is embarrassing, but my parents have been called for emergency reasons, so I need someone to pick me up from the airport tomorrow. Could you do it?" sighed Emily.
"Uhhhh....y-yeah sure! Give me your information so I can get there, and do you have any luggage?" stuttered Mason.
"No, only my gym bag.I come in at 12 o'clock pm in that time. My plane is Air France, and my flight number is 77765 at bay A15." said Emily as Mason scribbled down notes.
"Okay see ya tomorrow!" smiled Mason.
"Your a life saver Mason." blushed Emily in embarrasment.
"O-okay goodnight!" blushed Mason.
"Actually its 11 in the morning over here." laughed Emily.
"Oh then......good morning!" laughed Mason hanging up his phone.
Mason flipped off the light switch and soon fell asleep.