This story, it is alive, I am back to being a warrior. I'll be working on the next one too. Meow, I own Jess, am Jess, whatever. I don't own MoonScoop, ENJOY
"Hey, this is weird, the scan picked up a tower, but only for a couple of seconds. I wanna send in one person with Aelita to check it out."
"Sorry Jer, can't. I got a bunch of homework and stuff. Ask Yumi or something." I said, hanging up and going back to my homework. It was math, and it was so very very frustrating. I'd have asked Einstein, but...I should've been able to do this on my own. There was a knock at my door.
"It's open." I said without looking up. The door opened. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see purple. "Oh, hi Odd, what's up?"
"Have you seen Jeremie? He was supposed to help me with a math test." Odd said.
"Since when do you care about math?"
"Since Mrs. Meyers threatened to send me to remedial math if I don't show some improvement." I stared at the math equations, at this point they were just symbols to me, foreign, awful symbols that hurt my brain. I punched the wall, hard.
"Whoa, Jess, what's wrong?" Odd asked. I mumbled so that he couldn't hear me. "What?" he asked again, making me look up.
"I'm just...such...an idiot..." I punched the book of math problems.
"Why don't you get some help from Einstein?"
"BECAUSE I SHOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH TO DO IT ON MY OWN!" I slammed my head into the wall. Odd pulled me away for the wall. "Besides..." I continued. "Jeremie is busy with Lyoko, he does enough. I shouldn't bother him with my stupid math problems and just do them on my own and succeed at it but I'm not. So I'm a failure."
"...Something else is wrong here...You don't just flip out over a little math."
"Just...stressed..."
"Wanna talk?"
"No, it'd waste your time."
"No it wouldn't. You're my friend."
"Whatever...just...no..." We were both silent for a second.
"Listen, ask Jeremie for help...it's ok. If he makes you feel stupid for needing help with this stuff I'll punch him for ya!"
"Nah, don't hurt people...By the way, he went with Yumi to check out an activated Tower he thought he saw."
"Thanks...You should stop for the night and relax."
"Heh...relax...what is this strange word you speak of?"
"It's when you lie down on your bed in the dark and not think about things that stress you out, maybe listen to some music or play video games or something." I sighed.
"Ok...I'll see you in the morning..."
The next morning Odd, Ulrich, and I were by the vending machine. Odd got some hot chocolate, then looked back at me.
"Did you ask?" he asked.
"No, I just got up...I will though..."
"Hm, what's going on?" Ulrich asked.
"Nothing, nothing." I answered. He looked at us for a second, then shrugged. Odd took a sip of hot chocolate and spit it out.
"Ugh, what's wrong with the hot chocolate today? It tastes like dirty sweat socks and an old pair of sneakers." Odd said.
"Ah the gourmet." Ulrich said, scratching the back of his head.
"Hey, better food than my old school." I chimed in, but my words were somewhat lost in Sissi yelling over to her Ulrich dear...She was coming this way, too.
"Whaddya know, it's your fanclub." Odd said in that 'oh no, here we go again' voice, as he threw his hot chocolate in the trash. Sissi walked passed Odd and I and flipped her hair flirtingly at Ulrich.
"Oh, I don't believe it, your darling Yumi has deserted you for once." Sissi said.
"Like your brain huh? It deserted you a long time ago!" Odd joked, we laughed. Ulrich's phone rang.
"Yeah Jeremie? What? Ok."
"I recommend the hot chocolate." Odd said, but Sissi had already walked away. Ulrich hung up and turned to us.
"Yumi devitalized for no reason and passed out in a scanner. We need to bring her to the infirmary."
Wait...Yumi...passing out...devirtualizing...disappearing...Image Problem...
"...Oh wait it's that episode..." I mumbled under my breath.
"What was that?" Odd asked. I looked wide eyed at them, realizing I'd said that out loud.
"Uh...nothing. Listen, I gotta go. Got some...stuff to do. Don't bring Yumi to the factory, bye!" I ran off. I wasn't about to be attacked by Xana-Yumi. My stomach had other plans however, and dragged me back to the cafeteria when lunch time came around...and who was there...Xana-Yumi. I was already at the normal table when they sat down.
"And you really can't remember anything?" Jeremie asked her. I just kinda glared.
"No, nothing."
"Do you think it could have come from the scanners? A new bug or something?"
"More like a new tactic of Xana's if you ask me." I said, glaring at Yumi, then I stood up. "I'm sorry but I don't want to be here right now. Odd you can eat my food."
"What's up with her..." I could hear Jeremie saying.
"I'll take care of it." Yumi said. I tromped outside, as soon as we were both a good distance she called to me.
"Jessica!" I spun around.
"What?"
"Why did you run off there?"
"Oh, cut the act, Xana."
"How? How can you tell every time!"
"I'm magic." I said sarcastically. "And you can't electrocute me or nothin." She punched me in the head, I fell to the ground. "But you can do that..." I faded out.
There was darkness and...I don't know...it was dark...It was like I wasn't having a dream at all, but aware of it, somewhat conscious. Then air was gone...life was gone...plunging, rushing...a thud...something...sharp pain...falling...
I woke up to see the digital sea rushing toward me. With no time to react, my instincts kicked in and I turned intangible. The digital sea slipped right through me, it was beautiful, and a shame it would be at least a year until anyone else actually saw it. I popped my head up out of the water and waited. Now that I thought about it...this was probably how Evil William could just dive into the digital sea. He couldn't turn intangible, but SuperSmoke was just as effective. I could hear a growl...somebody was mad I survived.
"Sorry to disappoint!" I shouted.
"Jess?" Jeremie said over the intercom.
"Oh, hi Jeremie! S'bout time you guys got here. By the way get ready to fight."
"Huh...this is weird...it says on my screen you fell..."
"In the digital sea? Yup, but I'm intangible, it only affects you if you touch it. Could you get people over here? I can't stay like this forever and I need Yumi's telekinesis to get me outta here up onto dry land."
"They're on their way."
A few seconds later Ulrich and Odd appeared in the sky.
"Hey, about time you guys got here!" I said.
"Huh...where...?" They both said.
"Down here boys!" I called. They looked down and jumped back.
"How are you surviving? Doesn't the digital sea delete you or something?" Odd asked.
"Intangibility is a wonderful thing!"
"Hey...where's Yumi?" Ulrich asked, looking around.
"She isn't with you?" Jeremie asked.
"She's in a Guardian, Aelita will show you. I believe you're referring to Xana's clone though. She's in the scanner room, about to unplug all the scanners. Also she knocked me out earlier and tried to get rid of me with the digital sea."
"Wha..."
Just then Aelita jumped over a rock and the sound of lasers were heard. Ulrich defeated one by reflecting it's own laser at itself. Odd defeated another with a laser arrow.
"Hurry, we've got to go and free Yumi." Aelita said.
"Yumi?" Ulrich asked.
"The real Yumi, the one who's here, on Lyoko." She pointed to the big orange fire bubble that was the Guardian. They all gasped.
"WHAT DID I JUST TELL YOU GUYS! I swear, nobody listens to me." I yelled, but everyone had already left. Great, just great. "OK, I'LL JUST...stay here..." Suddenly three Hornets appeared. "Ugh, NOT a good time you guys. I hate Hornets...Alright...time to follow a new master..." I closed my eyes and concentrated on controlling the Hornets, and felt myself get less intangible. Shoot, couldn't do both at once, t'was more important to survive though. So I kept intangible.
Yumi looked over the edge.
"Someone wanted me?" I smiled.
"Yes, get me out of here please!" Yumi used her telekinesis to get me up out of the sea. I turned tangible and shot all the Hornets dead. When I got up onto the platforms I hugged Yumi. "Thanks." I stepped away. "Now you want to get to the real world right?"
"Yeah. I have a score to settle."
"Haha, get her for me too!" I said, then pulled out my laser rifle and shot her, she devirtualized immediately.
"Hey, why'd you do that!" Ulrich yelled.
"Do you know of another way to get her back to Earth with Jeremie not here? Besides, I'm pretty you were gonna do that anyways."
"Let's get to the Tower, quick!" Odd said. We ran over to the Tower, but Kankrelats protected it. Odd got hit by one. Ulrich got in front and protected him.
"How many life points do I have?" Ulrich asked.
"Dunno, but it's gotta be less than 10 by now!" Ulrich replied. Odd did a series of flips to avoid lasers and still got hit.
"I don't even know what I have. I know I got hit at least once." I said.
"Huh, I'm still here?" Odd said.
"Guess you don't have a very good sense of lifepoints, Odd." I said. Then I did a back flip that was unnecessary but fun since I couldn't do that in real life, and stabbed a Kankrelat, destroying it. Ulrich ran and used Triplicate, a Kankrelat shot one of the clones but the other two kept going. One Ulrich destroyed another Kankrelat, whether it was the real one or the clone I didn't know. Then he fused into one.
"Alright, Aelita, head for the Tower!" I said. Aelita ran from her hiding place and into the Tower.
"Now we just have to wait." Odd said. A minute later white light washed over everyone.
We were in Jeremie room, talking to Aelita.
"This is great. The fact that Xana was able to materialize a clone of Yumi proves one thing. It proves that materialization is actually possible!" Aelita said.
"That's crazy! Xana's helping us with our research!" Yumi exclaimed.
"I've seen crazier." I said.
"Well, back to work then, Einstein!" Odd said.
"No problem! I'll start programming right now." Jer replied, turning around to type.
"Why bother? Just go to Xana, I bet he could give you some tips." Odd joked.
"I wouldn't trust him, just look at the Yumi he sent us." Ulrich joked. Then Odd looked at me, I sighed.
"Hey Jeremie, before you start programming...Can you help me in math? I...need a tutor..." They all looked at me, I guess it seemed rather sudden to most.
"Uh...hey, sure, of course I can. Tomorrow good for you? During the free hour?"
"Yeah, that works...Thank you..."
Hope you liked that...? Review please ^^ my eyes are all swollen o.e
I was in a play yesterday, It went well -nods- but the makeup remover
I think it swelled up my eyes