Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko. I do own Musa, Cascada, this story's plot, and anyone else who wasn't in the show not including Cassie, Brooke and Zoey.
Surprise, Surprise: When Crap Hits the Fan
"Everyone has abilities that can make the world a better place. They just have to try" the man said.
"But what if I fail?" the child asked.
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This was absolute TORTURE! "Oh you're good Cascada," Musa thought narrowing her eyes at the back of the plant A.I. who was idly swinging around one of her lotus blades with her finger.
It was later on in the day. The rest of the Lyoko gang were fully rested and had been anxious all day to test out their new toys. They had all been told of Musa's little "late night outing with the mysterious stranger" and none were too pleased with the wolf A.I., including Odd. It took the cat warrior most of the day to cool off from his frustration and worry. By that time, Jeremy had already collected any needed side effects from Musa but he needed to make sure that the others didn't have any other mysterious side effects.
At the moment, the group of teens was in a clearing far away from the hotel or any other signs of civilization for that matter. Musa sat next to Jeremy on a fallen tree trunk as she watched her friends.
"Hey! Why do Cascada and Musa get a new outfit while I still look like a giant purple cat?" Odd complained though he had long ago grown content with his Lyoko appearance.
"It doesn't really matter," Cascada shrugged. "Our appearance shouldn't be our concern." She wore a green dress that wrapped around her figure, going over one shoulder with dark pink shorts underneath. Around her waist was a pale green belt that hung slightly at an angle, containing her petals and leaf blades.
"Enough about clothes guys," Jeremy said. "Let's get started. The rules are simple. Since Musa is sitting this out," the wolf A.I. pouted at this, "we'll split you guys into three teams of two," he explained readjusting his coat around him. The wind was beginning to blow with a piercing chilliness.
"The teams will be," Musa continued, "Odd and Aelita, Ulrich and Yumi, and Cascada and William. There are really no rules. Just attack the other teams without, you know, killing them," she said giving Cascada a pointed look. She knew her sister could be competitive when she wanted to be.
"Okay," Jeremy grunted getting up from his seat. He readjusted his glasses before raising his right hand. "On your mark…"
Cascada sent a cat like smile towards the group's feline warrior. Behind that smile was a message: You're first. Odd gulped nervously, pulling at the collar of his suit, seemingly understanding.
"…get set…"
Ulrich's fingers flexed as he began to raise his hands slowly towards his sheathed swords. He could feel the warrior spirit within him rising towards the surface, waiting to be set free. He looked across the field at William, seeing the same fierce look in the older boy's eyes.
"GO!" Musa and Jeremy shouted and that was all that was needed.
Sparks flew as weapons crossed. William and Ulrich's swords met; steel against steel. Both boys pushed against each other for leverage but none were letting up. They jumped backwards, staring each other down before William turned into a cloud of smoke and Ulrich into a yellow blur as the two's swords met once again.
"Keep it up. Don't let him get an opening!" Leon urged within the depths of the shaggy hair teen's mind.
"I don't need a backseat driver," William thought back mentally while a scowl of frustration and anger was on his face.
"Already tired?" Ulrich smirked, a teasing glint in his eyes.
"Not even," William muttered swinging his sword down.
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Odd crouched to the ground underneath some underbrush. From the green foliage he saw his winged companion glide across the clearing, raining down orbs of pink energy down on the others below.
"Ulrich and William are busy fighting each other so they wont be expecting a surprise attack," he whispered to himself, a devilish smirk on his features.
"It seems like you weren't either," a voice said behind him. The cat warrior's face drained of color as he felt the underbrush he was using for cover suddenly begin to wrap around him, lifting him off the ground and face to face with a smirking plant A.I. "Looks like I found a lost kitty."
Earth wrapped around Hikaru's body forming a cocoon of solid rock to surround her and causing her to loose focus on the vines wrapped around Odd. The boy ginned, landing back on his feet as the surprised A.I. tried to free herself. "Thanks Princess," the cat boy saluted the winged elf girl who was still kneeled on the ground, head tossed upwards. "Sorry Cas," Odd said, "but I'm afraid you'll have to deal with a few minutes without my dashing handsome good looks."
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"Odd's not taking this seriously," Jeremy observed as the other blonde continued to taunt the plant A.I. instead of targeting his other opponents.
"This is Odd we're talking about," Musa laughed while pointing this out.
"That's not a good excuse," Jeremy said checking the progress of the virtualization devices on his laptop. Cascada was getting some interfering on her device but the boy simply concluded that it was a radio signal and the most it would do was probably play old country western songs in the plant A.I.'s ear.
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"Do they really expect me to not be able to escape from this?" Cascada thought to herself. She sighed letting her thought wander, keeping her mind free as she felt her body disperse into thousands of petals. The colorful petals created a small whirlwind around Odd, forcing him to shield his eyes. When the petals stopped, Odd only had a second to notice that Hikaru was free and standing right in front of him. It only took a second for Cascada to land a kick to his stomach, causing him to be pushed several feet back.
Cascada regarded Odd for a few seconds before doing a back handed spring, narrowly missing the geisha's warriors fans. The plant A.I. smiled as she took out her Lotus Blades, twirling each around one finger before releasing them towards Yumi, ignoring the static sound in her ear.
They cut through the air, making a low buzzing sound as-
-they arched in the air, circling around the retreating figures before cutting them like a knife through butter. The spinning four pointed blade returned back to its owner, covered in thick dark red liquid. She raised the blades up to her face examining the dropping liquid as she heard someone shout-
"Cas! Pay attention!" William yelled. The plant A.I.'s head snapped up just as several laser arrows were headed her way. She was slightly dazed and didn't move as the pointed objects came towards her. A black blur flew before her and the next thing she knew, William was standing in front of her, deflecting the arrows with his sword. "Are you okay? Why did you just stand there?" he asked angrily over his shoulder.
The girl for seethe angrily for some unknown reason even to her. She should be to blame for not paying attention to her surrounding but for some reason, a part of her felt-
-disgusted. But that part was the recessive part of her, easily and quickly pushed down by the more cold and dominant side; the side that had let go of all human reasoning and conscious. The feild she was in was surrounded by a two-hundred foot, five feet thick wall. She could easily break through it. In front of her coward men and women wearing torn and tattered clothing. Their beards were long and unkempt, resembling greatly of cavemen. Their skins were dark, from the sun, their unclean conditions, or their natural skin color she didn't know. What she did know was that they were prisoners; uncooperative prisoners that needed a little…encouraging in order to get needed and valid information out from them.
Only a few were needed and already chosen, being quickly taken out of the arena of death. The rest were of no use and with things with no use, they had to be taken care of. She took out her blades and-
-threw them at the approaching Ulrich. Though his speed was great, the velocity of the thrown weapons could easily out win him if he wasn't experienced with maneuvering at great speeds. "Cascada, can you try not to kill me?" he asked with a slight teasing tone but when he saw the look in the older AI's eyes he froze. They were cold, emotionless, devoid of all human thought. "William!" he yelled.
Said shaggy hair boy turned around just in time to catch the punch Cascada was sending his way. The force of the connection caused his heels to create little mounds of dirt as he was pushed back slightly. "Cascada! We're on the same team," he grunted, her fist still in his hand.
"She can't hear you," Leon told the boy. "Look in her eyes." The boy didn't need to be told; he had already looked into her dull eyes that held no human feeling in them what so ever.
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"What's going on?" Musa asked worriedly standing up from her sitting position in an instant. She turned to look down at Jeremy who was looking as pale as a ghost. "Jeremy what's wrong?" she asked grabbing his shoulders and bending down so that they were eye level with each other.
"T-there's an interference with Cascada's device," he stuttered shaking his head as if trying to clear it. "I noticed it earlier but I thought it was just a radio signal but now…" he said trailing off as he looked around Musa only to see Cascada moved on from William, who was on his knees nursing a wounded hand to Aelita who looked both determined and scared as she held a pink sphere in her hand.
"No," Musa gasped turning around to see Cascada heading towards their younger sister. She ran, running her hand over her necklace. "Energize" she said. She was now running towards Cascada in her new Lyoko outfit. "I won't let you do something you'll regret later, Cas," she thought.
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Cascada took swift steps towards Aelita, her hands glowing with green energy she raised her hand towards the pink hair girl and-
-she froze. Standing before her was a young child with dirty blonde hair. It was hard for her to distinguish whether it was a girl or boy under all the layers of dirt that was on the child's skin but it was a child and she was supposed to…she was supposed to…-
"Lightning Strike!" Musa yelled as she slammed her staff down several inches from where the plant A.I. was. Cascada jumped back as Musa stood in front of Aelita protectively. "I thought I saw something in her eyes," she thought as she stared into the lifeless green eyes of her sister, "something regretful." The plant A.I. took out eight leaf shaped blades quickly throwing them at the wolf A.I. "Shield!" Utada shouted while summoning a blue shield to protect Aelita and herself. "Aelita, hide," Musa said over shoulder at the pink hair girl.
"But what about you?" Aelita tried to protest. Unfortunately, Musa didn't hear her as she ran at full speed towards Cascada.
"I'll have to use hand-to-hand attacks," the wolf A.I. thought. "That's the only way not to hurt her. I know this isn't her." She aimed a fist at the green hair girl which was caught. Cascada twisted her sister's arm before crouching down and hitting her in the gut with her elbow. Musa gasped but quickly pulled her knees towards her stomach, momentarily suspending her in the air, Cascada still hanging on to her wrist, before using both feet to kick off the plant A.I.'s stomach. Using the momentum to flip over the girl's shoulder, she twisted her arm behind her back before using both feet once again to push on her back and cause Hikaru to fall forward.
Musa rubbed her sore wrist, figuring that it was practically useless at this point. She watched her sister, seeing if she was going to move from the snow covered ground. When she didn't, Utada took cautious steps towards the plant A.I.'s body. "Cas?" she asked unsure as she gently nudged her. It was then that the wolf A.I. realized her mistake.
The body before her disappeared in a flurry of petals and leaves and before she could even turn around, Musa was sent flying.
"Musa!" Odd yelled running to catch the girl. He ran up one of the bigger trees until her felt gravity pull him down. Before it did though, he pushed of the tree and onto another tree before pushing off that tree and returning to the other at a higher point. With one last push, the cat warrior pushed off the tree and into the air, arms outstretched as the musical warrior landed in his arms. He brought her close to his body protecting her and taking in most of the shock as the fell back to the ground.
"Super sprint!" Ulrich said as he became a yellow blur heading towards where Cascada was standing. The possessed plant A.I. saw the boy coming and merely raised her hand as a large stalk of vines sprouted from the earth raising her into the air.
She looked down at the ones below her before crossing her arms over her chest, forming an "X". "Petal Dance" she murmured as petals came from her and rained down on the warriors below, the petals' blades cutting into the trees.
Ulrich tried to block as many petals as he could but they were coming towards him at a speed that even he couldn't move in. Suddenly, the onslaught stopped and the samurai warrior looked around to see the geisha warrior walking slowly towards him, an unearthly glow surrounding her as she kept the tips of her finger on her temples, her face screwed in concentration. Ulrich and the others watched as she parted the clouds of deadly petals making a clear path to the plant A.I.
"G-go," Yumi managed to get out as she slowly fell to her knees but still keeping her concentration. Ulrich nodded before looking back at William. The two shared a quick look at each other, communicating silently. Then, without even a word, they ran towards the stalk of vines where Cascada was perched on top. They had no problem getting up as Aelita used her powers to create earthen stairs that wrapped around the group of vines. Several vines pulled themselves away from the stalk of the plant and tried to whip at the two sword wielding boys but they both easily cut through them making their way up to the top where Cascada was.
Ulrich chanced a look down to see how far up they were and immediately thanked whatever higher deity there was that he didn't get vertigo in his Lyoko form.
"That's a long way down," Leon noted, "and there's not much space up here. Keep your attacks small and not wide or else-"
"Shut up!" William growled internally. "I can handle this on my own!"
"Foolish boy," the male A.I. growled before becoming silent. If his clone wanted to get himself killed then it was fine with him. He had other back ups to keep Musa and Cascada safe…
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Jeremy felt his knees shake slightly. This was his entire fault. He wanted to up stage the two artificial intelligences so much that he forget to test and see if the devices were susceptible to outside interference. Now, the enemy, whoever they were managed to pinpoint them. "Haste makes waste," a voice snickered in the back of his mind. "What can I do?" he asked himself silently. He raised his hand, putting it on his chest, where through his jacket he could feel that outline of a chained pendant. "This may be our only hope," he thought nervously licking his lip.
He looked around the clearing. Odd was hovering over Musa who was laying against the ground, uncontrolled sparks sputtering from her finger tips as she tried to sit up. Yumi was exhausted, past out on the ground from using her powers. William was attacking Cascada, sword to sword since somehow she had obtained one of Ulrich's while said samurai hung from off the side of the tall vines. And Aelita. She was-
A frantic look suddenly filled the computer whiz's eyes. Where was Aelita?
"Energy Field!" the voice of his angel shouted out as she hovered above the vines, a large pink sphere held above her head. Cascada looked up from her fight with William at the pink hair angel. She grinned sadistically just as Aelita released the sphere. She turned back to William and forced him back slightly with her sword before her body broke apart in petals. "Oh no!" Aelita gasped just as her ball of energy was to hit William. For once, the boy froze unable to move as his doom came closer and closer to him…
"RETURN TO THE PAST NOW!" a voice echoed throughout the clearing as a white light swept across the land before William could be hit.
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The figure leaned heavily against a nearby tree as the blinding white light came closer. Before they were enveloped by it, they rubbed their throat sorely before collapsing on the ground.
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"I can't say that this went exactly as planned, but… it gave us some highly favorable outcomes nonetheless thanks to your contributions Esen."
Esen looked questionably at her leader before returning her gaze back onto the screens which were now either a bright light or just static. "I don't understand. I thought the purpose of controlling Program 7673 was to get rid of some of those humans," she said slowly, cautious not to offend the man with her in any way.
"And once again, I wouldn't expect you to understand the significance of the little things," he chuckled before he pressed a button on the keyboard in front of him. One of the screens rewind until he pause it at a spot. "What do you see?"
Esen looked at the screen. "Just the human boy who seems of no use to his companions whatsoever."
"Not him. Look closer at the trees behind him."
The paper manipulator leaned forward, squinting slightly aware of him watching her. She ignored it though and concentrated on the screen. At first, she didn't see it but when she looked again she saw the figure of a person hiding behind the trees a slight glow around one of their hands.
"Who is that?" she asked.
"An unexpected surprise that has basically just delivered itself on our doorstep," the leader chuckled. "We just need to urge it on a little, don't you think so Void?"
"Whatever is for the good of our kind," the boy replied emotionlessly.
"Yes," their leader nodded as the white light came over them. "Whatever is for the good of our kind…"
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"Do you feel that?" a female asked her male companion stopping him as they made their way to their hotel.
"Yes," he nodded as the he saw the white light sweep closer towards them. "I guess I'll see you in a few hours," he sighed before they were engulfed.
"I hate Déjà vu," the woman thought to herself.
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The man smiled down at the child. "When you fail, and you will, just…try, try again…."
Hey guys. Finally got this up. Anyway hope the part with Cascada going back from past to present wasn't confusing. This chapter was actually supposed to end differently but...oh well. Sorry for any grammatical errors. I'll fix those later.
Um... it's Memorial Day in the U.S. so remeber all the troops out fighting out there whether or not you're someone like me who doens't approve of the war and think that Bush is an idiot with too much power. Before I go off the Lyoko gang would like to say something.
Musa: May Peace...
Odd: May Peace...
Ulrich: May Peace...
Yumi: May Peace...
Cascada: May Peace...
William: May Peace...
Jeremy: May Peace...
All: Reign on Earth!
Corny I know, but what ever. May Peace Reign on Earth.
Nothing more to say so...PLEASE REVIEW!