Takings For the Win

Maya was stirring in her sleep. She was having another nightmare.

POV Maya

"Mister Puck!" a woman with pink hair exclaimed clutching onto a string rag-doll.

"Aelita, we need to go!" a blonde haired man with black round glasses yelled.

"What about Maya? Jeremy, she is our daughter!" Aelita exclaimed.

"We are leaving for Maya's sake, Aelita!" Jeremy saw his wife looking unsure of what to do.

"She is only 3! I wanted to see her grow up!" Aelita yelled.

"Maya will be okay! We will enroll her in Kadic Academy when she gets older. Sadly, she has to be a full time student."

"Stay strong, beautiful!" Aelita exclaimed looking straight at me.

I woke up with a jolt. I felt my cheeks and they were wet. Time to get ready for the day!

I met up with my three favorite boys for breakfast.

"Morning boys!" I exclaimed with a bright smile.

"Hey, Maya! This week has been a pain in the-"Rod started but I inturrupted.

"I know, we have exams, the two of us have the audition for the play, X.A.N.A is still on our tails, and-"

"Dungbar here is auditioning for the play with you?!" Joe-Joe spit tanked.

"Yeah, since you didn't wamt to, I thought-"

"When did I say I didn't want to be apart of this?" Joe-Joe asked as if he forgot.

"Well, you pressured me into Mr. Pochio's play!" I exclaimed.

"More like Mr. Pinochio!" Odd joked from out of nowhere.

Joe-Joe, Rod, and Trevor all laughed.

"Real mature guys!" I rolled my eyes.

Then I thought about it and started laughing myself.

"Look at what we have here, ladies!" An annoying preppy beach blonde screeched in my ear. "It's the three musketters! Plus one! Cutie," She pointed to Joey. "Hottie" She pointed to Rodrick, "Baby" she pointed to Trevor, "and Freak-o!" She didn't bother to point at me.

"Three boys and a freak... Why don't you three come sit with us?" Angela-the bully- asked.

The three boys sent me questioning looks.

"Go ahead! I have to go... Study, anyway! I will see you three later!

I got up, threw my trash away and ran to my safe haven, the factory.

~POV: Rodrick~

When Maya left, we all had no choice, but to go to the table.

"I don't think she went to go study..." Trevor-the genius(sarcasm)- pointed out.

"Really? Where do you think she went, Captain Obvious?" I asked with a ton of sarcasm.

"To the zoo!" Trevor exclaimed.

"This school is a zoo!" Joey exclaimed with fustration.

"She went to the f-a-c-t-o-r-y you i-d-i-o-t!" I yelled as Igot up and ran to the factory, leaving Trevor to find out what I just told him.

"Maya!" I called.

"You aren't going to find her!" A older, familiar, female voice called.

"How do you know, weird mysterious voice of the factory?" I called.

"Because she is in Lyoko!" A older, familiar, male voice called out.

"How do you know?" I asked.

"Because I just sent her!" The female yelled coming out of the dark shadows.

"Hey, aren't you Yumi Stern?" I asked.

"Yes, proud mother of Joey Stern and wife of Ulrich Stern!" She said.

"Who are you talking to?" The man- Ulrich Stern- came out.

"Woa, you look, just like your father!" He told me.

"You look just like your son, except he has Yumi's hair!" I pointed out.

"Mrs. Stern?" I heard Maya's voice call out.

"What is it, Maya?" Yumi asked.

"I think X.A.N.A just activated a tower!

~POV: Joey~

Trevor is still trying to figure out what Dungbar spelled out to him.

"Does it have anything to do with L-y-oko?" He abstent mindedly asked.

"REALLY?" I yell, took him almost 45 minutes to figure that one out!

Angela started acting weird.

"Hey Ang, are you okay?" Kimmy-one of her followers with red hair- asked.

Angela just snarled at her.

"Ang, stop doing this! You need to calm down!" Jessie-the brunett- exclaimed as she put her hand on Angela's shoulder.

Angela took her arm and flipped her in a flash!

"X.A.N.A?" Trevor asked.

"I think it is time to go to Lyoko..." I whispered as we ran away. X.A.N.A in Angela form, was following us.

~POV:Maya~

I am in the forest sector looking for a good place to hide from X.A.N.A's minions. They are bugs, but I can't do anything!

Run, baby girl!

Mommy?

Run Maya! Run to the tower!

Daddy?

I took their advice and ran. I ran until I tripped on one of the tree roots. The bugs caught up to me and I was tangled in the tree roots. I was going to go to the real world and the real world will be crawling with X.A.N.A viruses. I heaed them coming, so I prepared myself. I just needed to say, I will always have and always will love-

I heard the bugs going down. Then someone sliced up my tangled roots and freed me.

"Need a hand princess?" Joey asked giving me a hand.

"Oh, and here I was thinking you forgot all about me!" I joked as he helped me up.

"Hey, Maya!" The other two guys greeted me.

"Hi, in hind sight, it was a bad idea to come here alone!" I smiled.

"Yeah, from now on, no one rides alone, not even you, princess!" Rodrick winked and I giggled.

"Now, let's get you to that tower!" Joe-Joe and Rod said at the same time.

He's a keeper!

He breaks my little girl's heart, he is going to have a talk with me!

Jeremy, Maya can take care of herself!

Aelita, if anything it was my love talking!

Jeremy, you are stuck in-

I had to push all those conversations away as I ran to the tower. I got in and floated to the higher level.

Maya, we are so proud of you! Uncle Ulrich and Aunty Yumi are going to be with you for a long time!

Thank you mommy, but I don't think they can do everything for me and be there all the time!

They are the school's defense class instructors! Trust me, Maya, you need them when you come here!

Why daddy?

You could be virtualized and never turn back if something goes wrong! You neec to turn this off before it becomes a big problem!

Dad, is that what happened to you and mommy?

Yes, but we need to be kept here! Maya, if we go out, and you don't turn this computer off, we will loose the world!

But if I turn it off, then I loose you!

Maya, just go with it! Put in the Code and turn the supercomputer off!

Reluctantly, I put in my I.D for the computer. Then I punched in the code- LYOKO and did a return to the past.

I was in my room and it was midnight.

In the morning, she has to turn off the Super computer!

Jeremy, you know just as well as I do that she won't do it!

Why is that girl so disfunctional and stubborn?

Maybe because we were disfunctional and stubborn during our time?

I love you Aelita!

I love you too Jeremy!

I love you two! That is why I am not giving up on you two being materialized again!