Disclaimer: I do not own Code: Lyoko, Danny Phantom, or Alan Hopper. I am, however, one of the people that kinda sorta owns Cassie. She may be HoboLover's creation, but her look is mine in this story at least!
A/N: Howdy peoples of the fanfiction community! I'm betting that I'm leaving a lot of you confused about Cassie's relevance in this story…well I ain't saying for another couple of chapters at least. And I know that some of you liked the triumphant return of Cid! And all of you Family Guy fans out there loved the prank he pulled on Odd. Now then, this is a chapter that I've been planning on doing since about a week into this story. In fact, it was on of the things that I couldn't do until later on which caused me to go on my small hiatus on this story until I could figure out how to go on. Well, here we are! Something a few of you saw coming two chapters ago, but none of you have seen one of the things that GEVI is going to be doing! Anyway, let's move on to the chapter! Please R&R, or I will have to hurt you with this jump rope.
GEVI floated up to the opening in the sphere and quickly cracked the code. It opened up slightly, allowing her passage, before closing up behind her. She swam quickly through the digital sea until she surfaced, getting a underside view of the crags of the mountain sector. "Hmm, this was the easy part. Now just to figure out how to get into the core room," she thought to herself.
GEVI activated one of her viral abilities and a black ichor covered her upper back. It then grew until it was in the form of wings, which she used to fly up to the nearest crag. She looked at the landscape and caught sight of one of the various towers in the region. She smirked to herself as she walked up to it, a plan in mind to achieve her own twisted goals.
Kadic Academy, Ninth Grade Science Class
Franz Hopper was at the front desk giving a lecture on cellular mitosis. The class was apparently very bored by the topic, Yumi and William included, but then an oddly familiar noise rose up from Franz's computer. "…how in the hell did that happen," Franz asked nobody in particular rubbing his head, "Class is dismissed for now. Yumi, William, come with me. We have to go to the factory and deactivate a tower." Yumi and William both sighed before getting up and following Franz out of the classroom and straight to the factory. Within ten minutes, they had arrived at the computer lab. "Yumi and William, I want both of you to head down to the scanners. I will guide you to this infection as soon as you make landfall."
"Alright Franz," Yumi replied as both teens got into the elevator and rode it down into the scanner room. Once they arrived on their floor, they immediate stepped into the two open scanners before them. Once they were within the golden tubes, they were shut behind them and Franz silently virtualized them onto Lyoko.
Lyoko, Mountain Sector
"It feels good to be back in action after so long," William proclaimed", stretching out quickly.
"I know what you mean, but it is also kind of disconcerting," Yumi commented.
"I know, with the news that the others gave us the other day, this could be bad news," William stated.
"The activated tower is northwest of your current position," Franz declared over the intercom.
"Thanks Franz," Yumi proclaimed as her overwing appeared beside her, "Let's get moving!"
"Way ahead of you," William shouted from off in the distance from atop his sword. Yumi jumped onto her vehicle and raced to catch up with William. Within moments they were at the tower, and they saw a silver haired girl in leather clothing in front of them.
"From the information that we've received so far, I'm guessing that that's GEVI," Yumi stated.
"Very good assumption, But I'm guessing that you don't know exactly why I'm here," GEVI responded.
"You're trying to take over this supercomputer while the rest of the group is away, doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out," William sighed.
"Well…you're almost right," GEVI declared as they heard groans over the intercom.
"What's happening up there Franz," Yumi inquired concernedly.
"Scipio," Franz stated as the white orb came in and took the three of them to sector five.
Lyoko, Sector Five
They appeared in the central room, their various weapons drawn and facing each other. "What did you do to Franz," Yumi demanded, venom dripping from her voice.
"If you hurt one hair on his head, I swear, I'll kill you myself," William declared.
"No need to worry, I just took control of him momentarily using the tower," GEVI purred seductively, cracking her whip, "I just needed him there to get here."
"Well, you're here, now leave," William shouted. Next thing he knew, GEVI's whip was wrapped around his sword and there was now a second GEVI standing before them. This second GEVI just shook her head disapprovingly.
"Now, now; you really do need to learn how to keep your temper in check," the second GEVI tutted. The first GEVI then proceeded to electrocute the Lyoko Warrior. William cried in pain until his weapon was ripped from his grasp. 'Hmm, I fine buster blade if I do say so myself," GEVI commented before throwing the weapon, still coursing with electricity, back to William. William quickly dodged his sword and his eyes grew wide as the electricity flew off of it straight towards him. The second GEVI used her whip to ensnare Yumi as William dodged the bolt of electricity, allowing it to hit Yumi instead.
"AAHHHHHH," Yumi screamed in pain as the electricity hit her head on. GEVI released her grip on Yumi, allowing her to hit the ground panting.
"Pitiful humans," the GEVIs purred, "Out of all of you lesser beings there is only one that I have even a semblance of respect for. And she was once an AI before my former general made sure that she became a human. But, Ymir's usefulness to me has ended now that I have managed to escape Nysis, if but for a short time."
"Ymir," William gasped, realizing what this meant.
"Yes, but I think that you pitiful creatures might know him better as Damon," GEVI responded, watching the shocked looks on their faces, "I see that rings a bell. He came to me in search of power, and to make the pain stop while he was near my other generals."
"What did you do to him," Yumi growled as she forced herself back up to her feet, fans at the ready.
"I just gave him what he wished. I might just let him keep it, for now," GEVI grinned evilly. By now the entrance to the next part of sector five had opened and they both took off down the pathway.
"We have to go after her," William shouted as he ran down the hallway, remembering to pick up his blade along the way. Yumi went running after him, trying to make sense out of all of what GEVI had said.
They ran all the way to the outside of the sphere, just in time to see the black ichor cover both of the GEVI's upper backs and sprout wings. They jumped off of the platform and towards the lower part of the phere.
"Hop on," William proclaimed, his sword floating out in front of him. Both teens hopped onto the sword and flew in pursuit of GEVI. "Yumi, I'm going to try something, but you have to have complete faith in me."
"If we can catch up to that evil bitch faster, then I'm all for it," Yumi declared, gripping on to William as tightly as she could.
"All right, here goes…SUPER SMOKE," William shouted. The two warriors and William's blade all turned into a thick cloud of smoke and chased after the GEVIs. In this state, they were faster and managed to catch up to the GEVIs just as she went into the opening at the bottom. The GEVIs smirked as they saw the cloud of smoke right behind them. They fused into one GEVI just as they landed on the bottom level. Mere moments after they landed, the cloud dispersed, with Yumi and William both tumbling out of it and rolling on the ground.
"I see that you have an interesting power, human," GEVI proclaimed, spitting out the last word, "When I'm done here, I might just make you one of my generals."
"No thanks, I've already been under someone's control once. I don't want to ever go through that again," William cursed as both he and Yumi got up onto their feet.
"And before you even ask, I'm not interested either," Yumi declared as she threw her fans at GEVI. She just rolled her eyes as she dodged them lazily. Then Yumi started glowing green as she used her telekinesis power to control her fans. She sent them flying at GEVI, trying to coordinate her attacks to hit the evil AI. GEVI smirked as she started flipping and rolling to dodge all of Yumi's attacks. William decided to kick it up a notch by firing some of his arc blades in between Yumi's fans. GEVI's eyebrow rose as she analyzed their abilities. She barely managed to dodge one of William's arc blades in between two fan attacks. She could feel the energy coming off the arc blade and could only smile in response.
"Yes these two will do very nicely," GEVI thought to herself, smirking as she first sent a small stream of data crawling on the ground at William. Yumi saw this and before she could warn him, it had already hit him and snaked its way up his leg. It soon reached his neck and burrowed its way under his skin.
"AAHHHH," William cried out in pain as a black ichor started to cover his neck. Yumi scowled at GEVI and started speeding up her attacks, keeping an eye out for another stream of data to come flying at her.
"Catch me if you can," GEVI declared as she started running up the steps towards the Core of Lyoko. Yumi looked at William, who laid on the ground panting as the ichor started to cover more of his body. She swung her arm towards him, and the fans followed suit. As they got near his body, William pulsated with energy and deflected her attacks as he lay writhing on the ground.
"I guess that trying to free William is out of the question," Yumi sighed as she ran up the steps to give GEVI chase. GEVI was already halfway up the steps when Yumi emerged into the room. Yumi sighed and laid her fans on the ground. She stepped on them and started using her telekinesis power to lift them. They slowly lifted her off of the ground before zooming after GEVI. GEVI looked behind her and saw this, all she could do was smirk.
"Ah, this ones a resourceful one to use her ability like that," GEVI thought to herself as she continued to make her way up the steps, undaunted by Yumi being in hot pursuit. She pulled out her whip and readied it for Yumi's quick approach. She coated the tip of her whip with the same stream of data that she had hit William with earlier. She glanced up and saw the Core of Lyoko, but she quickly realized that that wasn't what drew her into this room. Instead she glanced at what was surrounding the core and grinned. She then felt something starting to make contact with her mind and her grin spread from ear to ear. "I guess that it is time to use a little bit of psychological torture on this one." Without pausing, she snapped her fingers, awaiting the one that she had just called forth. She was only forced to stop when Yumi floated right in front of her.
"I don't know what you're planning, GEVI, but whatever it is, you won't succeed," Yumi shouted. She stepped off of one of her fans and sent it flying at GEVI. She just yawned as she dodged the oncoming projectile. Yumi then back flipped onto the steps and sent her other fan after her.
"This again, you really need to think of some new strategies," GEVI yawned as she ducked and weaved through the fans again. She stopped, however, when the fans started to simply spiral around her. "Oh, this is new." The fans then started to spin in midair as they spiraled around the evil AI, causing an impenetrable wall of spinning and swirling air to rise around her. GEVI was actually fairly impressed by the human's ingenuity, as much as she hated to admit it. She reached her hand out to touch the wall and immediately pulled it back as it started to slice her hand.
"Just imagine, in the real world, you'd die of asphyxiation from this move," Yumi declared, apparently very proud of her self.
"As much as I hate to admit it, you do have some impressive skills…for a human," GEVI scoffed as a trail of dust crawled along the ground and ended up right behind Yumi. Out of the smoke, William rose with half of his body covered with the black ichor that had spread from his neck. Unfortunately, that happened to be the half with his sword in it. William back handed Yumi with his sword, effectively knocking her unconscious. Her fans stopped moving and clattered to the ground at GEVI's feet. GEVI stepped out of the area where she had just been ensnared, that now had a small circular groove in it, and snapped her whip at Yumi. The tip of her whip connected with the back of Yumi's neck and the same black ichor that was covering William started to cover her as well. "I said impressive, not insurmountable. Come with me human, we have business to attend to up there." GEVI and William ran the rest of the way up the steps and were soon in front of the well guarded Core of Lyoko.
"What is…it that you…wish of…me…my…mistress," William inquired with gritted teeth. He was obviously trying to fight back against whatever it was that was trying to take control of his body, but it didn't look like he was winning.
"Hmmm, it seems like you have some willpower to you. That could be useful," GEVI chided, "If the information that I've received is right, you have experience in taking down these shields. Is that true?"
"…y-yes…" William stated, wincing from the effort that it was taking for him to try and fight off the viral strain of data that GEVI had implanted in both him and Yumi.
"Then get to work," GEVI commanded. William's muscles tensed as he tried to stop himself from following her commands. His arms slowly moved to the stance that he took before swinging his arc blade before stopping completely. "I guess that the first dose wasn't strong enough for you." GEVI was obviously disconcerted by the amount of willpower that this human was showing to resist a strain of her own viral data's influence over his body. She coated her hand in the same black ichor that was creeping over William and grabbed his head. He screamed in pain as he tried to fight against the ichor that was already there to take GEVI's hand off his face to no avail. His screams suddenly fell silent as his muscles went slack under her grasp. The ichor had covered his entire body and had seeped its way deep into his virtual body. The ichor hardened around him, making a new outfit for him. He was now wearing a black jumpsuit with two light blue streaks on the shoulders and a light blue belt around his waist, grey armlets on both arms like those that he wore while he was under SAI's control, black fingerless gloves, and a black motorcycle helmet with a reflective lens to prevent others from seeing his face. On his back he had a curved light blue x with an omega symbol in the center of it emblazoned for all to see.
"I am sorry for the delay, my mistress," William stated monotonously, though his left hand betrayed how much he was still trying to fight against the force that had invaded his body. He brought the sword back again and swung it, releasing one of his arc blades. It turned the first shield red upon where it had impacted, but otherwise seemed to cause no damage.
"In time, my minion, you will cease to fight against my influence," GEVI purred, "And when that happens, your power will grow exponentially. Until that time, you will be injected with another dose of my essence everyday." GEVI then snapped her fingers to summon the container of her other strain of viral data. She closed her eyes and smirk smugly, for she had taken two of those meddlesome humans allies as her own. She suddenly gasped in pain as a fan hit her shoulder. She grasped where she had just been hit and looked at where it had come from. Yumi was standing there with her fans now in her hands, looking menacingly at the evil AI.
"It's going to take a little bit more than that to take control of me," Yumi cried out as she sent her fans to take GEVI down. She was surprised when William put his sword up to block the fans. "William, why are you helping her?!"
"I…c-can't…stop….myself…Yumi…r-r-run," William gasped as he tried even harder to keep in control of himself. GEVI just snapped her fingers and William was on the ground, writhing in pain.
"Now, now; don't you know that minions aren't supposed to fight against their mistress," GEVI declared, watching William writhe for a few moments before turning to Yumi. "I forgot that the intel that I received said that you had the most willpower out of the original five meddlesome humans that got in XANA's way. Apparently the files on you weren't wrong, so let's just cut loose and go all out against one another. Does that suit you human?"
"Fine by me," Yumi proclaimed as threw her fan at GEVI. GEVI just snapped her whip and sent the projectile flying away. Yumi threw her other fan at GEVI and started using her telekinesis to control her projectiles. She also decided to lift William's sword off of the ground using her Lyoko power, but just let it hover with the blade pointing at GEVI. Yumi then used the same impenetrable wall on GEVI that she had used earlier, but this time she shrank down the size to where GEVI had no room to move around.
"I'm impressed human, this move of yours is the ultimate offense and defense. You have already proven yourself more than worthy to become one of my generals. You have fought superbly, but I'm afraid that this battle is over," GEVI declared. She created a clone of herself on top of her own shoulders and waited for Yumi to release her spinning wall move.
"I was just about to say the same thing," Yumi smirked as she sent William's sword flying through her spinning wall and straight through the GEVI on the bottom. GEVI shrieked with pain as she was absorbed by the upper clone. "That should do it." Yumi released her move and called her fans back to her. She ran past the dying wall of wind straight to William. "Are you alright William?" She suddenly gasped as the back of her head was grabbed.
"That was a pretty good move that you used there; if I hadn't made a clone on top of myself, I would have been deleted," GEVI stated cheerfully, "Your battle skills are to be commended. And now…they will be mine!" GEVI sent more of the black ichor to cover Yumi's body from the head down. Yumi screamed in pain and struggled against her captor, trying her hardest to get free. "It's no use, you can't escape my grasp now that I've dug my fingers into you!"
"We'll see about that," Yumi cried out as she pulled out one of her fans and swiped at GEVI with it. GEVI was forced to let go to escape her attack. Yumi now had the black ichor on her chest and left arm while holding her fan in her right hand.
"Impressive," GEVI smirked as she made three copies of herself, "But can you handle four of us at the same time?"
"Let's find out, shall we," Yumi responded and threw her fan at the first GEVI. The evil AI just smirked as two of her copies brought their whips and smacked the fan to the ground. The last copy then stepped on it and covered it with more black ichor, pinning it to the ground. The three GEVI clones then ran up on Yumi and in the blink of an eye had her held down. One of the clones put her in a full nelson with her legs wrapped around Yumi's inner thighs while the other two were holding her arms.
"Now, let's try this again," the original GEVI smirked as she grabbed Yumi's neck and all four GEVIs started to cover her in black ichor. Yumi screamed in pain and struggled to escape again but to no avail. Within a matter of moments her entire body was covered with the same black ichor that had captured William. The ichor coalesced into her new outfit. Yumi now had a black jumpsuit with purple stripes running down her arms and legs, her face was left uncovered but she now had a black visor over her eyes and a black streak on each of her cheeks. The fan on the ground now had spikes on it and a purple version of the insignia emblazoned upon William's back. She also had the same symbol on her own back except this one had a circle around the omega symbol. GEVI's clones came back into the original's body and allowed Yumi to collapse to the ground panting heavily. "Welcome to my employ, my new general."
"I…will never…serve you," Yumi gasped, leaning her head up to glare at GEVI from behind her new visor.
"You've got spunk…I hate spunk, but I'll let it slide this time," GEVI stated as she knelt down and grabbed Yumi's neck. She then picked Yumi up off of the ground and injected more of the black ichor into her system. Yumi screamed in pain before falling limp. "I had to use a more concentrated dosage to try and subdue you. Now let's try this again…welcome to my employ, my new general."
"…n-never," Yumi spat as she hung limply from GEVI's outstretched hand. GEVI growled and injected even more black ichor into her system. Yumi screamed in even more pain as William lay on the ground, watching GEVI try to take control of Yumi. GEVI was now sweating from the effort that she was expending just to take control of these two teens. GEVI then threw her agaist the wall and turned her hand into black ichor before stabbing it into Yumi's chest. Yumi screamed in even more pain as GEVI injected her with the most concentrated dose of her essence as she could muster. Yumi then fell silent as GEVI pulled her hand out of Yumi's body.
"Have you had…enough yet," GEVI gasped. She was surprised at the willpower the human girl before her possessed. It was taking everything that she had just to try and make her start to follow her commands.
Yumi groaned, "yes…my mistress." William had to hold back a gasp at Yumi's response. He hadn't ever expected Yumi's will to be overwhelmed by any force.
"Now arise my servants and take out those four outer shields," GEVI commanded. William's sword returned to him in a wisp of smoke as his body started to move against his will again. Yumi used her telekinesis to bring her fan back to her and slowly got up, bringing her other fan out in the process. She flicked her wrists and sent her fans out, using her telekinesis to keep them spinning around the shield, grinding away at it, while William kept send his arc blades at the shield. The first shield couldn't take the pressure and exploded. Yumi and William kept on attack the remaining three shields like this until they were destroyed, leaving the three orbs completely unprotected. "Now, Yumi wasn't it, use your telekinesis and bring those orbs to me."
"yes…my mistress," Yumi whispered as she did as she was bidden. The three orbs that had been encircling the core this entire time moved over to GEVI. GEVI reached out her hands and grabbed them, sinking them into her virtual flesh.
"I've got what I came for, along with a little bonus," GEVI declared, "Let's head to your new home and my domain." Yumi and William simply bowed and set their weapons up to be used like vehicles while GEVI grunted and sprouted the black wings from her back again. "It looks like I used up a lot of my own essence just trying to take control of you two. But I should be just fine by the time we make it back home." They flew out of sector five and into the desert sector. They then dived into the digital sea to exit Lyoko. Before they left, GEVI snapped her fingers and deactivated the tower that currently had control of Franz Hopper. They proceeded out of the sphere and towards Nysis, where GEVI would have a very unpleasant surprise lined up for those that had meddled in her plans for too long.