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Claimer: I do own Tianna and everything associated with her.
The gang headed towards the factory so that they could program Tianna into the super computer. They did it late so no one would follow them. On the way, Odd tried to get Tianna to laugh by telling her jokes but, they didn't work. They got her scanned into the memory on the super computer.
"I don't know if you'll be the same when you're virtualized by the super computer," Jeremy told her.
"I'll figure something out. Oh, by the way, I thought you might want to read this." She handed him her notebook. "It's all the data I've ever collected about LYOKO and the internet."
He flipped through it. "I don't have a lot of this data. This'll really help us out! Thanks Tianna!"
"No prob. What are friends for?" she replied.
"Hey, I got to go. My parents will kill me if I'm late for my curfew again," Yumi said.
"I'll walk you home," Ulrich offered. With that they left.
"We should get back too. Jim will kill us if he knows we've been out this long," Aelita said.
"I can get us in," Tianna told them.
"How?" Odd asked.
She focused. Her henna turned silver and she started disappearing. She took Odd's hand and he started disappearing too. "I can make us all invisible so we can get in."
"Cool," Odd said.
She turned back to being visible, and so did Odd. They headed toward the elevator and they headed back. They were halfway back when she realized she was still holding Odd's hand.
"Umm, Odd?" she said.
"Yeah?" he replied.
"You know we're still holding hands, right?" she asked, blushing a little.
He glanced down and turned a shade of red. "So we are…" He let go of her hand.
She got them inside the dormitory and they went to their rooms.
Odd stared up at the ceiling. He couldn't believe they had held hands. He sighed, wishing he had the guts to ask her out. Normally, he wasn't nervous about asking girls out, but for some reason, Tianna was different. Whenever he saw her, he couldn't form words and had no clue what to say her. He pet Kiwi, his dog, as he thought. The door opened and Ulrich walked in.
"You look down. What'd you do, ask Tianna out and she said no?" Ulrich asked.
"I can't even work up the guts to ask her out," Odd replied sadly.
"Just ask her out, what harm can it do?" Ulrich asked as he flopped down on his bed.
"It could ruin our friendship," Odd answered miserably.
Tianna threw the covers off her. It was Monday, her least favorite day of the week. She groaned as she looked at the time; it was 7:30. She ran to the bathroom, brushed her teeth and brushed her hair. She changed back in her room into a pair of dark blue jeans, a silver studded belt, white and black sneakers, and a black t-shirt with silver sparkles on it. She ran to the cafeteria to meet her friends. They already were at a table, everyone but Odd was finished eating. She grabbed a muffin and a thing of OJ and headed over to their table.
"You're late," Odd remarked.
"I slept in," she replied.
"Tianna, some of the data you had was confusing. Would you mind explaining some of it?" Jeremy asked, passing her some papers.
"Oh, that's the data for my newest project, a program I can launch when someone is in the scanner. It makes them immune to all of X.A.N.A.'s attacks in the real world," she replied, taking another bite of her apple muffin.
"So what does it make us immune to exactly?" Aelita asked.
"Being possessed by X.A.N.A.'s specters and I'm working out a few glitches so that you can't be hurt by any polymorphic clones or people possessed by X.A.N.A.. But there's a lot of glitches, so it might take sometime," she answered, taking a bite of her apple muffin.
"That would be a major help with dealing with the attacks," Ulrich commented.
"If you need help, you can always use the super computer," Jeremy told her.
She finished her muffin and sucked down the rest of her OJ. "I think I might cut first and second period to work on it. Can you tell the teacher I'm at the infirmary?"
"Sure," Odd said as they got up and threw their lunch trash away.
"Thanks. See you guys later!" Tianna called as she headed for the dormitory.
Tianna hit the last few keys on her computer. She hit the enter button. 'Please work…please…' she thought as the program rebooted and started up. She leaned back in her chair as it loaded. 67…73…89…95…99…The computer slowly loaded. She held her breath. 100…Program loaded successfully. "Yes!" she exclaimed. She burned a copy of the program onto a disk and slid the disk into its case and then into her third period math book. She gathered the rest of her things and headed for her third period.
Tianna walked to her third period math classroom. She stopped at one of the columns of the building, waiting for the others to come by. She spotted the group walking nearby. She watched Yumi join the group. Tianna waved for them to come over. The spotted her and came over.
"Did you finish the program?" Jeremy asked right away.
"Yep. Here's the disk." Tianna handed him the disk labeled: Immunity
"What's this program?" Yumi asked, clearly confused.
"A program I can launch when someone is in the scanner. It makes them immune to all of X.A.N.A.'s attacks in the real world such as being possessed by X.A.N.A.'s specters and I'm worked out a few glitches so that you can't be hurt by any polymorphic clones or people possessed by X.A.N.A.," Tianna told her as the group headed for their classrooms.
"We should launch this as soon as we can. How about our free period after lunch?" Jeremy suggested.
"Sure," everyone agreed.
Tianna, Odd, Ulrich, Jeremy, and Aelita sat bored in math class. Tianna was aimlessly writing notes for a vehicle for herself in LYOKO, Odd was drawing a picture of Kiwi, Ulrich was trying to ignore Sissi, who was sitting next to him, Jeremy was answering questions occasionally and anxiously tapping his pencil, and Aelita was looking out the window aimlessly. Tianna noticed Ulrich passing a note to Odd. Odd snickered and showed Tianna the note.
Hey Odd, Sissi's making me play spin-the-bottle with her and some other kids later because if I don't she'll tell the school some nasty rumor about Yumi and I. You think you and Tianna could join me so that I don't feel like an idiot. Please?
Tianna giggled as hard as she could without alerting the teacher. Odd wrote back on the note I will if Tianna will then handed it to her. She wrote You guys will drag me if I refuse so I guess I have to. Odd laughed when her read. He passed it back to Ulrich.
It was after lunch and the gang was heading towards the factory. Jeremy sent everyone down to the scanners so they could run Tianna's program.
"Try it on me first to see if it'll work. If there's any hidden glitches, I don't want to be responsible for any of you guys getting them," Tianna said as she stepped into the scanner.
"Okay then, I'll start it up," Jeremy said. He hit a few keys. "Scanner: Tianna. Launching program…it's a success!"
Tianna stepped out of the scanner. "It's good to go!"
The others quickly got themselves scanned, including Jeremy.
"Well, now we don't have to worry about X.A.N.A.'s attacks in the outside world anymore," Yumi said as they walked back to school.
"That's a relief," Aelita agreed.
Odd and Tianna started to fall behind, seeing as they were talking more than the others.
"Hey Tianna?" Odd started to ask.
"Yeah?" she replied. Odd looked in her eyes.
"Ulrich dear, come on you said you'd play," an annoyingly high-pitched voice, Sissi, squealed.
"Er…right. You guys coming?" Ulrich pleading asked as Sissi attempted to pull him away.
"Unfortunately," Tianna said as she joined him.
Odd looked disappointedly at Tianna as she walked ahead of him.
Sissi led them to a group of kids sitting in a circle with a root beer bottle in the middle. Sissi dragged Ulrich over to where she was sitting and had him sit next to her. Tianna took a seat on the opposite side of the circle next to Odd.
"Okay, my turn!" Sissi exclaimed as she reached for the bottle.
Ulrich looked like he wished he could turn invisible. Tianna caught his eye and winked. He relaxed a little then; he understood what Tianna meant. He knew that Tianna would make sure that the bottle didn't point to him. She would do everything in her "power." Sissi gave the bottle a good spin. Tianna imagined the bottle spinning a few times, then having it point to someone like Nicholas. She was concentrating on the bottle when a headache hit her. A image of an activated tower in the mountain sector floated to the front of her vision. She shook her head and the image disappeared. She rubbed her forehead for a minute, completely forgetting about the bottle for a moment. She heard a couple of gasps and snickers. She gasped to when she realized where the bottle pointed. It pointed at Odd.
Sissi had a look of horror, but then she had an evil smile. She looked at Tianna's shocked face and smiled even broader. Tianna shot her a death glare, but Sissi just ignored it. Sissi got up, walked over to Odd, and then kissed him full on the lips. Odd looked surprised, really surprised. Sissi went back to her seat and said, "Your turn Tianna."
Tianna's cell vibrated. She checked her new text message; X.A.N.A. was attacking. She nudged a still shocked Odd. He looked at it and then looked at Ulrich and nodded. All three got up.
"I'd love to take my turn, however, something far more important than this has come up and we must go," Tianna said as they started to leave.
As Tianna, Ulrich, and Odd were leaving the room, something growled from outside. Tianna glanced out the window. There were hundreds of squirrels outside, surrounding the campus.
"Uh, guys? Good thing we're immune to X.A.N.A.'s attacks," she said, gesturing outside.
"So, are we just protected from them or do we have to do something?" Ulrich asked.
"We can just walk outside," Tianna replied as she opened the door.
They walked out the door slowly and cautiously. Several of the squirrels tried to attack them, but they seemed to hit an invisible barrier. As soon as they were sure they wouldn't be harmed, Tianna, Ulrich, and Odd started running for the factory. As they headed for the scanners, Jeremy told them that Aelita and Yumi were already fighting the many mega tanks and tarantulas X.A.N.A. sent. There was no sign of William…yet.
"I'm sending your vehicles," Jeremy told them as they virtualized on LYOKO in the mountain sector. "Yumi already has the over-wing so Tianna, you'll have to ride with Odd or Ulrich."
Ulrich motioned for Tianna to ride with him. As they headed for Yumi and Aelita, Ulrich asked her a question.
"What made you have the bottle point to Odd?" he asked.
"I get these…visions…when X.A.N.A. activates a tower. I just happened to get one when I was controlling the bottle. I lost my concentration and it pointed to Odd," she answered.
"Oh," he replied.
"Hey depending if Jeremy launches a return trip and where it lands us, could I ask you a favor…" She whispered her plan in Ulrich's ear.
Tianna, Odd, and Ulrich were greeted by a barrage of laser fire. Tianna jumped off of Ulrich's vehicle and fired two quick stone daggers at a tarantula. They both landed in the eye of X.A.N.A.. The monster blew up. There were still three mega tanks and three tarantulas left. Odd fired a couple of laser arrows at a mega tank that was charging and destroyed it. Aelita took advantage of the distraction the trio had caused and sent one of her energy fields at a tarantula. Yumi got hit again by another tarantula and was devirtualized. Tianna formed two more daggers and went for one of the mega tanks. Ulrich had one of the tarantulas triangulated. Odd flew on the hover-board between the last two monsters, trying to destroy them but losing a lot of health points in the process. Aelita decided to head for the tower, but she was still a good distance away from it. Tianna leaped away from the mega tank's fire and fired one dagger at it and the other dagger at the other mega tank, which was charging up. Odd got hit again and was devirtualized. Ulrich destroyed the tarantula he had triangulated. One tarantula was left.
"Guys, Aelita is being attacked by William! He's trying to push her in the digital sea!" Jeremy cried.
"I'll head over if you want to destroy the last tarantula," Tianna offered to Ulrich.
He nodded and headed for the tarantula.
"Jeremy, I'm going to need a vehicle if possible," Tianna said as she started running.
"I'm going to have to give you Odd's hover-board," Jeremy replied as he virtualized it.
Tianna jumped on it and headed for Aelita.
Aelita was teetering on the edge of one of the platforms. She was extremely close to falling. William had his sword at her throat. Suddenly, a stone dagger slid by, so close to William's throat that it made him jump back.
"Darn it! I almost never miss!" Tianna exclaimed as she flew by.
"Tianna!" Aelita happily cried.
"The one and only," Tianna cockily said as she jumped off the hover-board.
William growled at Tianna. He lunged at her then. Tianna instantly had two daggers protecting her from William's sword. William's sword grated against her daggers, creating sparks and an eerie sound.
"Aelita! Get to the tower, now!" Tianna shouted.
Aelita ran for it. William pushed harder with his sword, causing Tianna to start to slide back a little. She gritted her teeth; she knew she could easily lose this battle since she didn't have the element of surprise. She tilted her body a little to the left. Then she did a back flip, kicking William's chin and causing him to stagger back. He glared at her as he readjusted his grip on his sword. Tianna knew an attempt to move him or move something else at him with her mind would be suicidal. (A/N: This whole time Aelita is still running for the tower…must have been a far away tower or she ran really slow…) Her mind started to hurt with her confusing thinking. Her henna spun around in colors, it had no idea what it should do. It finally decided on a dark violet with crimson swirled in it. Tianna felt a weird wave wash over. Her eyes began to glow the same color as her henna. William took advantage of her lapse of fighting and swung his sword so that it struck her side. A shot that normally would have devirtualized her did absolutely nothing. Even William seemed surprised. He took another swing, but this time, Tianna blocked it. She pushed the sword away from her. William staggered back from her newfound strength. She twirled her daggers in her hand, then shot two pairs of daggers, each one hitting William in the chest.
"Holy cow Tianna! You just made William lose eighty life points!" Jeremy exclaimed.
Jeremy's voice broke Tianna out of her trance-like state. Her eyes returned to normal and her henna turned back to it's normal black hue. She felt extremely exhausted. William saw the change in her and grinned evilly. He charged at her. She barely had enough time to form daggers and block him. He pushed her down to the ground; she didn't have enough strength to both block him and stand up. He raised his sword, ready to plunge it into her.
"Impact!" she heard.
William dissolved into black smoke; he was gone. Ulrich held out his hand to Tianna. She took it and tried to stand.
"Thanks," she said.
"Anytime," he replied.
"I'm bringing you in," Jeremy told them.
"I think you discovered a special ability: temporary invincibility," Jeremy told Tianna. The gang was in the factory. Jeremy had yet to launch a return trip yet.
"I have no idea how I activated it though," Tianna replied.
"Well, you can work on it next time you go to LYOKO. Return to the past now," JEremy said as he hit the enter key. The whiteness enveloped them.
"Your turn, Tianna," Sissi said.
'Darn it Jeremy! You had to send us here!" Tianna thought as she spun the bottle. She looked at Ulrich and he nodded; the plan was still on. She nudged the bottle a little with her mind as it slowed to a stop. She looked at Sissi's face. It was a pure look of horror and anger. Sissi looked at Tianna. Tianna smirked and got up. She walked to the guy the bottle was pointing to.
"Thanks for doing this for me," she whispered to him.
"What are friends for?" Ulrich responded. (A/N: o.O Wasn't expecting that were you? Well…maybe you did…I made it kind of obvious…)
They kissed for a few seconds. She heard a collective amount of gasps and one "umpf" from Sissi. As they broke apart after a few seconds. Out of the corner if her eye she saw Odd with the saddest face she ever saw and then he got up and left. 'Oh yeah! I totally forgot about Odd!' she thought. 'I need to go talk him!'
Just wait until word get's around to Yumi! XD Sorry so long. I'll have the next chapter out ASAP. Please pretty pretty please review...