Code Lyoko: Son of X.A.N.A.
Hey all that are still reading this story, I didn't know I had worked on it earlier, so half of this chapter was already made when my writer's block stopped and I started up again :) This part focuses on my OC character, so go to my deviantart AyameHikari and just look under the Code Lyoko folder for his pictures and sketches. :)
Those are all the drawings and sketches I have of him, so yeah. ^^
Anyway, enjoy :)
Pairings:
UlrichxYumi
WilliamxYumi
SissixUlrich
OddxOC(female)
OC(male)xOdd
JeremiexAelita
Chapter Three: Opening Doors…
It ended up being a date.
Even Yumi labeled it as such, and Ulrich assumed it was even before Yumi explained it to him. He wasn't sure what to do; he was frozen and completely petrified when everyone told him about William and Yumi's date. Ulrich didn't believe it, until he asked Yumi himself.
"So I heard you have a date with William…" Ulrich said in a cool tone, trying to stay calm about it.
Yumi shrugged "So?"
And that was that. Ulrich and Yumi parted ways, and Ulrich hid himself in his dorm room.
And that's when he continued to think to himself…
It ended up being a date.
Ulrich felt like crying, but he didn't, he always had the ability to hold back his emotions from spreading onto his face, even during the worst of times. It was like a gift.
There was a knock at the door, and Ulrich immediately growled "Go away."
But then the knob was turned, and Odd came in first. Right after him was Aelita and Jeremy. They all smiled at Ulrich, and the brunette buried his face into his pillow and mumbled angrily into it. Odd sat himself down with the male on his bed, and Aelita and Jeremy took their seats on Odd's bed.
The curtains were closed, and the sight of Kiwi was gone.
It was dark out, which was the usual time when Ulrich shut the curtains; it was from paranoia of stalkers and peepers. And during the times when Ulrich was like this, he didn't want to deal with those types of people. Kiwi was no where in the room, Odd had sent him away to the Dog Hotel to be pampered and treated like a king. The dog wouldn't be around for three months…
Odd was sad about it, but Ulrich needed more help than he did, which caused Odd to push back his bad thoughts and focus on the good one's.
"Ulrich…" Odd said softly, and he made a weak smile "Cheer up, buddy… Yumi doesn't even like him like that."
Ulrich mumbled into the pillow, and Jeremy sighed "Well, hopefully they get caught. They aren't supposed to be out this late anyway; if they get caught then they get into trouble. Does that make you feel any better?"
Aelita nudged Jeremy, and the blonde shrugged his shoulders.
Ulrich mumbled into the pillow again, and Odd looked at Jeremy with a frown.
Jeremy was about to comment, until an alarm went off. It was a small beeping noise, and he looked at his watch. The watch flashed red, and in thick letters it read 'computer'. Jeremy smiled "At least I know my watch alarm works perfectly."
"Watch alarm?" Odd looked at the male with a curious expression, and the blonde haired male nodded "Yes, I made it so that I don't have to hang around the supercomputer all day and watch for bugs or people…the watch is an alarm that goes off if someone enters the lab, if the computer gets viruses, or if there's a problem with Lyoko."
He got to his feet, and he smiled at Ulrich who wasn't even paying attention "Ulrich, we might need you…come on."
Aelita got to her feet and nodded "Come on, Ulrich. This won't be too bad. It'll take your mind off of things."
Odd stood up and nodded as well, clenching his hand into a fist and making a wide smile "Come on, you helped me when I was in need…and now it's my turn to help you."
Ulrich slowly looked up from his pillow and towards his three friends, before he made a weak smile and shrugged his shoulders. He muttered something, before he lifted up in the bed and slowly stood to his feet "Fine, fine…I'll tag along just incase…"
Odd cheered happily, and Aelita smiled. Jeremy bowed his head "Good, now we need to hurry up, there's something wrong with the supercomputer, and who knows what it could be…"
...
Yumi could say that she was more into horror than action, now that she was at the movies with William.
A loud explosion sounded from the big screen, and William yelled just as loud "Wow! Go, man! Go!"
Yumi rolled her eyes as she leaned away from William as far as her theatre seat would let her. He was embarrassing, annoying, and didn't know what dating meant. Spending time with someone you care about, cuddling, dinner, nice movie, kiss goodnight…then home and going steady. William, on the other hand, didn't seem to understand.
Why would she do this with someone she didn't like? To get back at Ulrich, to make the brunette jealous…both of those reasons were serious and important to her. The male wasn't going to make a move, and the lady never make's the first move in Yumi's book…she was going to force a proposal out of Ulrich.
Sort of dark for her, but she was gothic after all.
"William, quiet down…" Yumi touched his arm and frowned at the male. William was silenced though, and he looked at Yumi and blushed "S-Sorry…I just got a little excited…"
Yumi smirked slightly "I could tell…" They both made a light laugh, before William moved his face closer. Yumi blushed deeply, unsure of what to do, but the only thing she knew.
As William closed his eyes, Yumi did the same, and they slowly pressed their lips together in a gentle kiss.
...
He opened his dark grey eyes, and with a plain expression, he held his arm up and mumbled "Go."
The mechanical creatures hurriedly scurried across the great grassy plains. It was a new world, the grass lands, something that Victory had thought up on his own and asked his father to create. XANA complied, only because it was an easy level to make; that and there would be no hiding places for the enemies to try and sneak behind.
Victory hovered in the air as his digital wings flapped behind him slowly, and he watched as the robots disappeared into the grass, and watched his fathers image float into the distance towards the large tower. The tower that controlled the grassland…his father mentioned how the towers were somehow connected to the world of the humans as well.
He watched his father vanish in the distance, and he watched the mechanical units disappear soon, and Victory watched. His father always added that he wouldn't be needed so soon, but there were times when Victory didn't want to wait…he wished he didn't have to.
"When will I truly be needed…?" Victory asked himself as he stared blankly into the distance. Something had happened that caused his emotionless persona to come out, not even XANA was sure how it happened, maybe sometimes he just switched without really a need to be hit on the head?
He looked curiously around, before he ran through the grassy plains of medium cut grass towards where the others were headed.
The cat boy landed on his feet, and so did Aelita.
Though, Ulrich ended up falling and landing on his butt, hard.
The male growled as he rubbed his butt and slowly got to his feet. Aelita and Odd met up with him, and Odd laughed "Dude, pay attention!" "I can't seem to focus at the moment…" Ulrich said with a small sigh. Aelita frowned towards the brunette, and then she realized.
"Jeremy?" She called and looked around "Where are we?"
Odd and Ulrich started to look around as well, and when they smelled the scent of fresh grass, and saw how the grass reached their chests, they wondered.
Jeremy's voice soon sounded in their ears.
"I-I don't know! This is a new area! This has never happened before, or at least I'm not sure…Aelita, while you were in Lyoko have new worlds been created before?"
Aelita shook her head slowly, her eyes were wide and she was nervous. It was all new, and strange to her "N-No…Never… my father made this world and everything in it, how could he be able to make another if he's-"
"Don't worry, I'm sure there's something else going on. Maybe this was a new area created by XANA."
Odd grunted "Another trick?"
"Most likely." Jeremy cleared his throat "It's called the 'Grassland Level', it's not a world, just a level of another world…underneath this small bit of land there should be the desert area."
Ulrich decided to check and make sure, though as he looked around he only saw plenty of grass, and of course the tower "Which way is the edge?"
"Whichever way you head, there'll be an edge, Ulrich. Just don't run too fast or you might fall off."
"Got it." And Ulrich started to jog towards his left. Odd and Aelita stood where they were in the grass, looking around curiously. Aelita was in total shock; as if she never knew XANA had the ability to create his own platforms. When Ulrich returned, he nodded to them as he breathed in deeply "Yeah, Jeremy's right…if we fall we land in the desert area; though I wouldn't agree with him to call it a 'small bit of land'."
"This place has its own tower though, and it says here that it's activated. Deactivate the tower before you do anything like jumping off worlds."
"No sweat, Jeremy." Odd laughed, and he scratched his purple streak with his long nailed claw "Alright, so we're off to see the tower…the wonderful tower of Lyoko?" He snickered, and Ulrich rolled his eyes.
Aelita frowned as she followed the two males, and they headed for the tower.
It was a silent walk, while Ulrich was worrying over Yumi, Aelita was worrying over her father's world. Odd was the only one whistling to himself as they walked through the grass. Suddenly Aelita stepped on something, like a rock, and she stumbled back. The two males stood in their place and looked at her, as the pink haired girl whined "Ow! What was that…?"
She kneeled down into the grass; and separated the blades until she saw XANA's eye on a medium sized worm. She made a small yelp as it leaped for her, and Ulrich quickly sliced with his blade. The mechanical insect soon disappeared, and Odd yelled "Jeremy! What the hell?"
"S-Sorry, but there's nothing appearing on the map…I can't tell if there are any enemies in the area."
Aelita gasped "So this is definitely something XANA is trying to do…"
"Yes, please be careful you guys…obviously there are critters hiding in the grass that can easily be activated if you stepped on them. Head to the tower as fast as you can, don't fight if you don't have to."
Ulrich and Odd looked at each other and nodded, before Ulrich took a hold of Aelita's hand "Alright, ready to sprint?"
Aelita nodded slowly "Not too fast, Ulrich…I can't run as fast as-"
Ulrich quickly ran, and Aelita was practically flying after him "Ah!" Odd laughed as he hurried after the two, first running on his legs before he went to all fours and started to leap to make sure he jumped over every earth worm robot he could.
Ulrich, on the other hand, was stepping on the worm like things and leaping off of them, causing them to get up and follow the group.
Ulrich started to breathe heavily "Looks like besides the worms its smooth sailing!"
Aelita smiled as she stumbled after Ulrich, and she turned her head to see the grass parting behind Odd "Odd! Be careful! There's something following you!"
Odd turned his head for a moment, and he tripped over something hiding in the grass and tumbled into the green.
Aelita gasped "Odd! Oh no!" "Keep going!" Odd managed to blurt out "Deactivate the tower!" He started to shoot his laser arrow at the enemies that started to slowly surround him, and he yelled "Jeremy! What are these things?"
"Hold on, Odd, I'll snap a shot and look it up."
Something flashed, and Jeremy's voice faded.
Odd continued to shoot, and he yelled "Jeremy?"
"I looked it up! They're really weak when there's one on its own, but in a large group they can be really annoying and hard to hit. Don't underestimate the little guys, Odd."
"Duh..." Odd mumbled as he shot his arrow again. The groups kept coming, to a point where red flashed on Jeremy's supercomputer screen.
He yelled in the lab "Odd! What's happening? Get out of there! Your upper back and mid torso are taking massive amounts of damage!"
Odd's breath quickened, he continued to fire as swarms continued to crawl towards him. The worms started to leap and hit him hard on his body, and as more were shot down and destroyed, more were heading Odd's way.
Odd yelled "Where are Aelita and Ulrich?"
"They're almost there! Just run for them! They might need you-"
One last hit on Odd's back, and he yelled out from the pain that went through his body. The worst feeling of Lyoko was the feeling of being digitalized…one had to embrace for the impact…it wasn't as easy as it looked.
The worms left Odd; and Odd watched as his legs and arms started to disappear. He breathed heavily, watching with wide eyes as he started to disappear slowly. It was a painful thing to go through, whether coming to Lyoko or leaving, either way the process was horrible.
"Hurry, Aelita!" Odd yelled his last cry before his neck disappeared. For a moment he was choking, suffocating, until in the blink of an eye he appeared in a very small circular room.
He gasped as he breathed heavily, trying to put air into his lungs, and he sighed "I hate losing! Dammit!" The scanner door slid open, and Odd stepped out and tiredly walked over to the supercomputer room with Jeremy.
The blonde adjusted his glasses, and the blonde with the purple in his hair crossed his arms "How are they doing?"
"They're still running." Jeremy said softly as he started to type "They'll be fine, they're almost at the tower area…" He scratched the top of his hair "That's strange, I don't see any enemies on the map, it's as if they don't exist on this land. What is XANA up to?"
"He's gotten smarter, hasn't he…?" Odd said in a dull tone as he watched the two dots quickly moving closer to a certain destination that Jeremy had locked on.
Jeremy only nodded, and the two blondes went silent.
Back on Lyoko, Ulrich and Aelita continued to run; their pace was slower so that Ulrich didn't have to drag Aelita any longer. Aelita and Ulrich were both tired anyway.
Soon they were at the tower area, and Jeremy's voice sounded.
"Ulrich, Aelita! Be very careful, unlike the monsters from before, I can see them on the map now! It's a trap, they're invisible so be extra careful!"
"Got it." Ulrich said and slowly pulled out his sword. Aelita breathed in deeply as she looked around, trying to pay attention to her surroundings…then she saw something strange.
A male with a black and white body suit.
He was peeking from behind the tower, and Aelita stared at him. She yelled "Who are you? Excuse me!"
The male gasped and disappeared behind the tower, and Aelita immediately reacted by hurrying forward "Wait! Who are you-"
"Aelita!" Ulrich yelled and suddenly the pink haired girl flew back from a shot on her chest.
Jeremy gasped "Aelita! Aelita! Are you alright, Aelita?"
"I-I'm fine, Jeremy…" Aelita said weakly as she sat on the ground. Ulrich quickly moved to her aid and helped her to her feet, then he looked up at the monster that revealed itself. The creature stood on its hind legs, and was holding its arms like guns. Ulrich glared, and soon the same type of monsters revealed themselves all around the tower.
Aelita gasped, and she spoke gently "Jeremy, there's someone hiding behind the tower, I'm not sure…but he looks human. Like he doesn't belong here…"
"Really? There's nothing on the map that says there's something behind the tower, only the five monsters in front of it…check it out when the monsters are gone, Ulrich…and Aelita when they're gone you deactivate the tower…"
"Alright." The two nodded together, and Ulrich immediately got into a fighting stance. He held his sword up and looked around, and Aelita held her hands to her chest, ready to form an energy ball.
Odd suddenly spoke up in Jeremy's place "Look out you two, they're surrounding you!"
Ulrich swiftly punctured the eye of XANA on the visible creature, and as it fell and deteriorated, Ulrich quickly span around and sliced at the air behind him, thinking it was a monster.
"To your left, Ulrich!" Odd yelled. And Ulrich bowed his head before taking a quick swipe of his blade to the left of him. The creature immediately went visible and fell, digitalizing into nothing.
Another turned visible directly behind Aelita, and she gasped as she slowly turned around.
"Watch out!"
"I got it!" Ulrich yelled and leaped, slicing off at the creatures power source. The monster fell and disappeared, causing the last of the monsters to show itself. It was a large crab like thing that walked on three legs. It hurried itself closer, and Aelita immediately made a pink barrier so the monster wouldn't get too close.
"I don't see the eye anywhere…" Ulrich grunted as he tried to look at the creature. Aelita continued to hold the barrier up with her hands, and she winced a bit as the creature slammed itself against it "M-Maybe it's behind him…?"
"It's on his belly." Jeremy said quickly "Ulrich, aim for the stomach."
"Alright." Ulrich said, and Aelita quickly removed the barrier, letting Ulrich slice at the thing. The creature was now scampering backwards and towards the tower. "He's trying to run!" Ulrich chuckled, and Jeremy grunted "Remember, sometimes the things are crafty, he must be retreating for a reason. Make sure to kill it now, Ulrich."
Ulrich continued to chase, and right behind the tower, he finally snuck underneath the creature and stabbed it. He slid the blade from under the monster up to the front, and let the creature fall backwards. It didn't land on the ground, it first hit some invisible thing, before it rolled off, fell, and disappeared.
"The hell?" Ulrich blinked and poked whatever the invisible thing was.
"Deactivate the tower, Aelita." Jeremy said gently. Aelita nodded, and in a running sprint, she slipped right into the tower walls.
"Jeremy, there's something here, can you see it?" Ulrich asked as he continued to poke the invisible object. He then pulled out his sword and nudged it a bit.
"Well, I can see on the map that it's harmless, I just don't know what it is."
The glowing tower slowly turned blue, before the glowing simply disappeared, and Aelita walked out from the tower walls. She met up with Ulrich "Maybe it's the one I saw before, remember? I thought I saw someone watching us from behind the tower."
"He's wearing a cloaking device?" Ulrich asked.
Jeremy sighed "I don't know, we'll find out as soon as I force the device to shut down."
The pink haired girl looked up and saw an orb of light zoom off into the distance. She tilted her head in curiousity, before she heard Ulrich's gasp. She looked down and noticed the digital being in the grass "Oh my…"
"Wow, it says he's actually human!" Jeremy said in an astonished voice "So it's a possibility that maybe he scanned himself in from another area of school?"
"Maybe even just another super computer somewhere on earth!" Odd added in amazement.
Aelita continued to stare, suddenly thinking about a long time ago, when Lyoko used to sigh and she heard baby sounds. She remained silent though.
Ulrich shrugged "Well, if so, we can't just leave him here, and he has no way of returning to his own scanner if he keeps this unconscious thing up."
"You knocked him out by killing the monster right over his body, and probably when it fell on him he went unconscious."
"Hey, it was the thing that ran over here for some reason…"
"Maybe it wanted us to find him?" Aelita suddenly spoke up.
Ulrich shrugged his shoulders "Well anyway, is there anything you can do?"
"It might take awhile… but…" Jeremy grunted as he paused to think, before his voice came up again "We can try the program we used for Aelita when we brought her out of Lyoko, maybe it will help his actual body from wherever he is reform where we are in one of the scanners."
"It wouldn't hurt to try." Aelita said with a small smile. Ulrich nodded "Alrighty then." He kneeled himself down and fixed the stranger so that the character was sitting up and leaned against the tower. Ulrich then sighed "Okay, we're heading back then."
"See you guys when you get here." Jeremy said, and his voice vanished.
"I don't recall my father ever mentioning another supercomputer anywhere." Aelita said gently. Ulrich shrugged his shoulders as he let out a small sigh "Well, I'm not entirely sure. What if he's just like you and was placed here?"
"That would be…" Aelita soon quieted down, and she shrugged her shoulders "Weird… I guess…Maybe there's a journal somewhere in the lab we haven't read…?"
Both of them closed their eyes for a moment, trying to ignore the pain as they were practically ripped apart by the digital world around them, and then as soon as they vanished, the world vanished with them. Ulrich and Aelita slowly walked out of the scanners they were in, and met up with Odd and Jeremy at the supercomputer area.
Odd turned to them as Jeremy typed away at the computer.
"So guys, what did he look like?"
"Well, if you're asking if he looked like a monster or not, he didn't." Ulrich said gently "But he did have the eye of XANA at the front of his body suit."
"Do you think he's suffering the same thing that happened to William?" Odd asked and looked at Aelita. The pink girl shook her head "I don't know… it's already really confusing to me…"
"Aelita thinks that maybe there was a secret journal somewhere around here that could explain the whereabouts of another supercomputer, or maybe even another person like Aelita being placed inside a long time ago." Ulrich said as he touched Aelita's shoulder. Jeremy stopped typing for a moment, before he turned in his seat "Well, I was thinking the same thing. I mean, I'm doubting that the man made an extra computer with the same link to Lyoko as this one has, but perhaps there is an explanation to how he got in there. We could ask him, but he's unconscious at the moment."
They all went silent, Aelita looked at the floor and Ulrich looked up towards the ceiling.
"Well." Odd stretched and let out a gentle yawn "It's super late, we have one more day of school before the weekened. I suggest we all just sleep." The other three nodded in unison, and smiles spread on their faces. The mention of sleep caused yawns to errupt in the room. Odd lead the way as Jeremy, Aelita and Ulrich followed.
"Alright, I'll work more on downloading the new person tomorrow." Jeremy commented before he shut down the lights and walked out last.
The monitor continued to show the world of Lyoko, and soon it zoomed in on a picture of the boy, leaning against the tower.
...
Yumi was already at the lab when finally Ulrich and Odd showed up.
She smirked at them "Well, took you two long enough."
"Hey, we don't have talking skills like you do, okay?" Odd said gently, catching his breath "It wasn't easy to avoid the teachers, we couldn't convince them of anything either."
"So Jeremy said something happened?" Yumi asked, and Ulrich nodded "Yeah, he said it had something to do with the guy we found Thursday."
Yumi and Odd nodded, and Yumi smiled and scratched her chin "Well, it'd be nice to see what's up about him, another person like Aelita is interesting. Alright, let's hurry this up."
The three of them quickly took the secret passage through the underground tunnels in order to get to the lab, by the time they got there, Aelita and Jeremy were already at the supercomputer. Jeremy was clicking and typing away, and when the elevator behind the three closed, he quickly turned in his seat "The guy disappeared. He's no where on any of the maps, and even the level we found him at disappeared. The grasslands have been completely wiped out."
"We think that XANA might of deleted the boy with the world he was on while he was unconscious…" Aelita said gently.
Odd and Yumi frowned, and Ulrich spoke up "Deleted? Did you ever get threatened to be deleted while you were on Lyoko, Aelita?"
"No…" Aelita said and looked at him curiously "But then again, I was never put under a state of unconsiousness. It's possible that while the male wasn't paying attention, he could have been attacked at by all sorts of things."
"But he had the eye of XANA…" Ulrich said.
Aelita went silent, and Jeremy nodded "That's right, you did mention that. I almost forgot." He looked at Yumi, then from her to Odd and Ulrich "Do you three think you can check the desert area for us? Me and Aelita will observe from here, but we should really help this person out."
The three of them nodded, and they smiled at one another.
They quickly hurried to the scanners, and as soon as they entered the world, Yumi and Ulrich noticed that Odd wasn't there with them.
Jeremy yelled "Odd's no where in Lyoko! I can't find him anywhere!"
Yumi and Ulrich's mouths were dropped open as they searched the desert region, Odd no where to be found.