Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko, or the songs "Imaginery" by Evanescence and "Numb" by Linkin Park. I also do not own Cassie, Brooke, and Zoey. I do own Musa, Cascada, this story's plot, and any other character that wasn't in the show.
To Jump and Fly is Good, but to Jump and Fall is Even Better- Part 2
20 Years Ago
She sat alone in the white sterile room being observed from behind a one-sided window where the scientists were watching. She knew they were there. She knew they were watching but why not give them a show?
In my field of paper flowers,
She drummed her fingers softly on her swollen stomach, kicking her feet back and forth since they barely touched the floor in the chair she was sitting on while singing to herself….and the life growing within her.
And candy clouds of lullaby
She felt a thump from her lower abdomen and smirked as she continued. She imagined everything she was singing, putting pictures to her words.
I lie inside my self for hours,
And watch my purple sky fly over me
She turned to face the window where she could feel their stares on her and gave them a smile and wave that hid so much anger and pain.
Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos, your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape
The door to the room opened as a bespectacled man entered with a clip board. "Hello," he greeted though it was more of custom than politeness. "Singing are we?"
"Hello, Mr. Schaeffer," she greeted, "and yes, I am singing," she said tilting her head impishly to the side with a grin. "I thought my onlookers," she said nodding towards the one way mirror, "would like it."
"I see," the man nodded before performing the usual check up procedures.
Meanwhile, behind the window….
"D-d-did you see that?" one of the newer scientist asked shocked.
"We all saw it," Professor McArnald, one of the veteran scientist replied, in awe. "We saw her illusion and she purposely showed it to us."
"Why after months would she finally show us willingly?" the green horned scientist asked in confusion.
McArnald frowned, crossing his arms. "To make her threat to us perfectly clear."
CODE TWILIGHT
Terran was leaning against the balcony rail. Though he couldn't actually see what was around him he put pictures to the sounds he heard.
"Musa looked beautiful," he thought remembering the vivid description he had made Nyx tell him.
The orchestra was slowing down, about to end their song so the band could play, meaning he would have to go back in there and perform about two to three more songs before a long boring talk from the head of Lycoris Incorporated before maybe one more song from the band and then the long night would be over.
He sighed, running a hand through his messy white hair before blowing his bangs out of his sunglasses hidden eyes though it wasn't as if it affected his vision. "You look stunning tonight…Sitara" he murmured softly, turning his head towards the girl who let out a squeak of surprise. Yuki turned around, leaning on the rail, facing in the general direction where he knew the girl was standing hesitating. "Come here," he said extending out his hand to her.
He felt a small hand placed in his before enclosing his larger one around hers. He tugged her gently forwards before guiding her other hand to his shoulder and then placing his on the small of her back. He felt a shiver run up her back as he began to lead that had nothing to do with the chilly night. He felt her stumble as she tried to match his pace and in the end, he settled for just swaying.
When the music ended, he regretfully pulled away. He was about to speak when he felt a shiver run up his body. "They've begun," he whispered before rushing away from the confused and saddened mute.
CODE TWILIGHT
"Okay, rewind. Where did you say the others were?" Ken asked.
"Bathroom,"
"Eating,"
"Bed," Aelita, Ulrich, and Yumi replied simultaneously.
The producer groaned tiredly. "What about Terran or Nyx? Do you know where they are?"
"I only saw him when he was dancing with Nyx," Aelita said. "Other than that I have no idea where they could be."
Ken sighed looking over at Chris. "Well we can't just cancel the show. Emeric McArnald and Lycoris Incorporated have already paid us for a show. I really wished Ozzy hadn't called in sick," he sighed, running his hand through his hair. "I guess since Chris is playing drums it wouldn't hurt for me to go up too and play base or something."
"You?" Ulrich questioned skeptically.
"Hey! I used to be the best guitarist out there before I became a producer!" Ken defended.
"Okay, okay, sheesh," the samurai warrior said putting up his hands. "Though we're changing the song order."
"Then what are we playing?" Chris asked.
"Song number 13."
Ken looked at the brunette. "Who's singing it?" he asked though he already had an idea.
"I am," Ulrich replied.
"I guess it's to be expected, especially with the current situation," Ken thought glancing at Evan who was in a deep conversation with a fellow business associate. "Okay," the producer said aloud. "Let's get started before they start throwing stuff at us."
"They don't really do that in real life do they?" Yumi questioned.
"Believe me," Chris said. "It's real. They will throw things if they get upset. But don't worry!" he grinned. "It'll be fine."
The teens nodded before going on stage. Chris took the drums, Aelita stood behind an already set up mixing table, Yumi took base guitar since it was fairly easy, and Ken took up lead guitar. Ulrich, hands stuffed in his pockets, walked over toward the piano. He had taken lessons for a few years due to his father believing that it would help him academically somehow. The brunette teen even played keyboard for awhile in Odd's first band. It was funny. One of the things that his father made him slave over was actually going to help him release his frustration when any other time it just caused more.
He sat on the piano's bench, playing a few keys to get the audience's attention before speaking into a microphone that was placed on top of it.
"Um…excuse me? Yeah, I'm Ulrich Stern," he said unnerved by all the eyes staring at him.
"What is he doing?" Evan hissed angrily, it was bad enough that his son was in a band to begin with, it was even worst that he had identified himself as his son to any of his potential clients.
"I think…" Maria said, appearing next to him, "he's trying to get a point through to you." Evan looked at the woman confused, but she wouldn't say anymore.
"Anyway," Ulrich continued, "neither Odd nor Musa is here so yeah, you got to deal with me." A soft chuckle went through the audience before nodding towards Aelita.
The pink hair girl nodded, beginning to making a doting nose on the mixer before the rest of the band came in.
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface,
"The tower you're looking for should be 3 kilometers from where you are now."
"Got it," William nodded jumping onto the overbike.
"Be careful," Jeremy warned. "I'm picking up a very big signal by the tower and a smaller one closer to you. Be on the look out."
"Alright," the sword wielder said before taking off.
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
Ken: Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow
Terran growled as he stood up from his knelt position. He had found Musa unconscious on the ground in a dark corner of another balcony. He heard a nearby rustle before a whoosh and the sound of static. "Polymorphic clone," he thought before bending back down and leaning Musa against a wall. "I'll be back…hopefully," he murmured before rushing away.
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
Ken: Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow
Cascada heard the music, but she didn't feel like dealing with William or the others. She scoffed. "I prefer to be by myself then with mindless, selfish, immature idiots anyway," she murmured.
"Maybe that's why Tall-Dark-and-Handsome left you. You're not really a 'people person' are you?" a snide voice said. The plant A.I. spun around, coming face to face with an auburn hair woman wearing a turquoise dress with red and gold.
"And hopefully you're color blind," Cascada smirked. "Esen, I presume."
The woman smirked despite the earlier comment. "Yes and you're Cascada Hikaru. Project R.O.S.E., Titan Division of Project Carthage."
"I think someone who may be an associate of yours mentioned something about a division too. Mind filling in the blanks?" Hikaru asked.
"Poor little plant A.I. You can't remember anything about the true nature of Project Carthage, do you? What did they tell you? That it was basically a military computer program composed of groups of three artificial intelligences that job it was to screw up enemies' computers?" the paper manipulator laughed. "How naïve, but I do pity you to some extent. You'll never know the truth about your past since this," she said raising her arms, indicating the surrounding snow cover courtyard of the hotel they were in, "is where you'll die."
"Someone's optimistic," Cascada said holding the necklace around her neck. "Energize!" she murmured turning into her Lyoko form. "I guess I have to beat reality into you."
Esen's smirk grew even wider as she held a paper flower in her hand. "Here," she said before throwing it at Cascada. "A beautiful flower for an annoying weed." The paper flower burst, turning into smaller, sharper pieces heading straight towards the plant A.I. "And candy clouds of lullaby," she sang softly before throwing another paper flower.
I've become so numb!
I can't feel you there,
I've become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do is be more like me
And be less like you
William stopped a few yards away from the tower, getting off the overbike. "See anything on your end?" Jeremy asked.
"Nothing," the older boy replied.
"It's really depressing when a guy like you doesn't even notice girls like us," a voice moaned sadly. William turned around to see a tall girl wearing a white hooded high collar dress trimmed in black with matching boots and fingerless gloves. A black visor was placed over her eyes. She reminded William a lot of the other woman who was with the paper manipulator, Esen, at the night club.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" the shaggy hair teen asked, summoning his large sword from smoke to his outstretched hand.
"Well if this is the type of reception we knew we would get we would never have come."
"You shouldn't have come here period and what's with talking in plural?" William asked slowly etching towards the activated tower. According to Jeremy, all he needed to do was get inside and start up the process, the computer whiz would do the rest.
The girl laughed. "Have you ever heard of the saying 'Together we stand, divided we fall'?" she asked tilting her head slightly, exposing the mischievous smirk that had been hidden behind her high collar.
"What about it?" the boy asked puzzled.
The mysterious girl smirked. "Well, in this case, Together we stand, divided," she said as a white glow surrounded her going from red to blue to green before the light and the girl split apart into three forms, three hooded girls one of them being the fire manipulator from the club, "we kick your ass," they said together.
Can't you see that you're smothering me?
Holding too tightly; afraid to lose control
"The roof?" he thought remembering the hotel's layout as he entered the faculty stairs to the roof. He quickly made his way up the stairs, sensing the specter nearby when he was caught off guard by a whizzing sound. He ducked just in time, sending a punch towards the whizzing mass collection of digital pixels. He wasn't expecting a simple punch to cause much damage but it was a distraction well enough.
He ran through the specter while it was still trying to collect itself, speeding up the stairs.
'Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you
Ken: Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow
Maria took another sip of her water, looking unsure at Emma as she glanced back at Evan who was clutching tightly to the glass of wine he held, anger evident on his face as his son continued to sing about him. The fashion designer had only met the man a few times in her early years of her marriage with Ken.
While she had worked with many high class and famous people, none had been so personally distant than Evan Stern had been the last time they met. While movie stars rambled on about their numerous children that they had adopted while she was tailoring an outfit for a movie premiere, Evan would barely say a word even in the most relaxed of environments. She wondered how his wife liked living with someone so unemotionally responsive.
But…when Maria really thought about it and the exact reason why he was so closed off, so demanding of his son, she pitied the man. He had spent so long closed up and now, when it was really important to be open with his son before it was too late, he couldn't.
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
Ken: Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow
And every second I waste is more than I can take!
Esen shielded her eyes with her arm as her paper projectiles were rebounded back towards her. She flicked her wrist causing the paper to stop its path towards her, the white sheets falling down to the ground slowly and harmless. She turned her gaze back on Cascada who was slowly down from her rapid spin.
The plant A.I. had used her lotus blades as shields, reflecting the, at the time, deadly paper from giving her one heck of a paper cut. She had seen Yumi use a move similar once when deflecting lasers from a hornet.
"Recycling my weapons, huh?" Esen questioned. "I guess that's only acceptable from Mother Earth."
"Hm. I'd make a horrible mother," the plant A.I. commented.
"I couldn't agree with you more," the paper A.I. said taking out several small slips of paper in one hand. In the other hand, she took out a small lighter. "Heard you smoke," she grinned as the other female's frown etched deeper. She dragged the lighter against the ends of the paper, setting them on fire. "Need a smoke?" she taunted, throwing the papers at her opponent. Before they hit though, they burst into smoke, obscuring Cascada's view.
She tried to listen for her opponent, but her ears weren't as good as Musa's so she wasn't prepared to the punch in the gut followed by her legs getting kicked out from under her.
"Smoking isn't good for your health," Esen said stumping her foot on girl's stomach, a reflexive gag escaping Hikaru's lips.
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
I've become so tired, so much more aware,
I'm becoming this
All I want to do is be more like me
And be less like you
"William!"Jeremy called out as the boy was tossed further away from the tower by a rupture of earth, followed by a wave of flames that, despite it being only digital pixels, did a lot of damage to his life points. "Damn," the computer whiz cried. William life points were going down fast; it would take the others too long to make it to the lab before the still unknown purpose behind the tower's activation caused some damaged.
He scowled. Throwing his headset at the wall where they landed in front of the taunting gleaming scanners. There was only one option and he knew it. He got out of his chair and made his way to the scanners. He paused in front of them.
"I can't do this," he thought taking a step back.
"Everyone knows that the real Jeremy wouldn't step foot into the scanners. He'd be much to frightened," the boy remembered Xana disguised as himself saying once.
Jeremy's hands gripped tightly at his sides. "I've done it before," he thought to himself. "I have to get over this. I need to help. I can't just stand here!"
And I know I may end up failing too,
William groaned as he pushed himself off from the ground, before he was pinned back down by icicles.
"Having fun?" the Earth A.I. smirked over him, the other two grinning behind her. The boy growled, looking at his discarded sword that was a few feet away. He just needed to concentrate and then…
"Aaaaahhhhh!" a voice cried out, grabbing everyone's attention. They all looked as a boy fell from the sky and landed in an ungraceful heap on the ground. The boy wobbly got up to his feet, looking at disbelief at the area around him and at himself.
He wore a blue bodysuit with wires running along his arms and legs, concentrating on the palm of his hands into circular like disks. On his back was some kind of pack where all the wires connected. A blue visor covered his eyes connected to a helmet that also had wires running across it.
"Where the hell do these costume design come from?" the ice A.I. murmured.
"William!" the boy gasped, finally noticing that he wasn't alone.
"Jeremy?" the older boy asked shocked.
"One of your friends, eh?" the fire A.I. asked taking a step towards Jeremy.
"Stand back!" the blonde computer whiz said nervously, holding up his hands towards her. When nothing happened, he got nervous.
"Don't know how to attack do you?" the Earth A.I. questioned.
"This will be quick," the ice A.I. murmured before making the ice below Jeremy turn to slippery ice as he took a fearful step backwards causing him to land on his back. Digital earth enclosed itself around him, keeping him down. "Now, sit back and relax. We're almost done here," she said turning her back away from the two boys as she and her companions began walking towards each other with outstretched hands. Before their hands could touch, though, they were knocked back by a cloud of smoke.
"I thought your icicles were holding him down," the fire A.I. said from her position against the ground as she looked over at William.
"They are!" the ice manipulator growled.
"She's right," a voice chuckled, "but Willy boy isn't the only one who can manipulate smoke."
"What the-" the ice A.I. began before she and her comrades were attacked with an onslaught of blows.
But I know you were just like me with someone disappointed in you
Sitara had been walking when she heard sounds of a struggle and voices, one of them sounding like Cascada's. She found herself running towards the sound and was caught off guard when she saw two strange dressed girls fighting, one being held against the ground by the other's foot.
"Hm, you don't seem so high and mighty now," Esen sneered before turning her head at the small sound of a squeak. She caught sight of Sitara and growled. "Leave…NOW!" she yelled.
The mute looked frightened but she wouldn't leave when it looked like someone was in trouble. She had to do something.
"Ugh!" Esen groaned angrily. "You're so annoying!" She raised her hands, paper flying up before she flicked her wrists sending them towards the shocked and surprised mute.
"Hey, you're still fighting me," Cascada growled as she threw Esen's foot off her, causing the paper manipulator to loose control of the deadly paper. The white sheets flew up in the air before raining back down with great speed as sharp projectiles.
Taking her lotus blades, Hikaru threw them up in the air, circling around the paper and causing them to head towards Esen. At the last moment, the paper A.I. gained control of the paper, swirling them around her body like a protective shield.
"You two both annoy me," she said forming a sword out of the paper. "I can't wait to kill you both!" she smiled sadistically as she ran towards them at full speed.
Cascada got in front of Sitara, ready to block Esen's attack when it came, when suddenly, the auburn hair woman stopped in mid attack, cocking her head to the side as if listening to something. She frowned but let her sword dissipate back to a pile of papers.
"It seems like I have to cut this meeting short," the woman said snapping her fingers as the paper swirled around her again lifting her up into the air. "But I will kill you both," she said before leaving. "You both deserve it."
Cascada continued to look in the direction her opponent had left till she realized she was no longer there and collapsed to her knees holding her side. "Damn it!" she growled. "That little brat! I think she broke some ribs." The light on her necklace began to flash and with one final beep she reverted back to her human form, the pain still there more or less. She turned to Sitara who looked surprised at this turn of events. "You can keep a secret right?" Cascada asked. The girl nodded. "Good," Hikaru sighed looking up at the night sky. "What's that?" she frowned pointing to the roof.
Sitara followed her gaze to the roof where she saw a few figures standing, one quite close to the edge.
"Is that Odd?" Cascada gasped.
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there,
I've become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do is be more like me
And be less like you
William grunted as he was released from his icy shackles before Jeremy was also released. The fire, earth, and ice manipulators had all had their life points taken down to zero, sending them back to wherever the came from.
"You guys okay?" their savior asked.
"Y-yeah," Jeremy said standing up with William for support, "b-but who are you?"
The person grinned. "Easy. William, but," he said cutting off Jeremy who looked like he was about to contradict that, "more specifically, I'm Leon."
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there;
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Terran finally shoved his way through the door to the roof. He dodged just as an attack was aimed at him. "Odd?" he questioned realizing it was the blonde goofball attacking him. "No. He's possessed," he thought avoiding trying to hurt the boy.
He was so busy fending off Odd's attacks that he didn't even notice a polymorphic clone sneak up behind him, grabbing him.
The possessed Odd smirked as he walked towards the edge of the roof. "ODD! STOP!" Terran shouted as he heard the boy's foot step retreat further towards the roof edge.
The blonde turned around before continuing his walk, backwards towards the edge of the roof. Once he was an inch away a black substance wound itself from his mouth, reforming back in front of him. Odd, no longer possessed, looked disoriented as he wobbled at the roof's edge. The substance that had spewed from Odd's mouth began to take form, finally stopping when it looked like an exact copy of Musa. The copy smiled wickedly as it raised its hands towards the boy's chest, softly resting it there.
Terran struggled with his captor before creating sparks of electricity to shoot from his hand towards the specter, causing its pixel's to separate, not able to keep a solid form. Free, the boy ran towards the side of the roof where he could tell that Odd was wobbling at.
The Musa clone smirked before lightly pushing Odd, causing the boy to tilt off the side of the roof, falling. Terran jumped after him grabbing the boy's hand and a carving that stuck out from the hotel's side.
Screams and shots were heard from below as some guest members saw the two boys hanging off the side and the girl above who looked exactly like Musa Utada who had pushed them.
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Ulrich didn't realize he had stopped playing until the sounds of applauds were almost deafening. He looked at the crowd smiling sheepishly before his gaze met with the heated and angry ones of his father. Ulrich didn't break his glare, just held it. "That was for you dad," he thought before a scream was heard.
The guest all looked frightened for a few seconds as the all tried to speculate what happened until finally Ulrich heard something that was quickly spreading through the room.
"On the roof! All three of them!"
"That girl and those two boys!"
"That beautiful singer? I don't believe it!"
"Well believe it! She did it she pushed them both off the side of the roof and then just ran off! I saw it with my own eyes!"
"Who are you talking about?" Ken asked the man who had just spoken. Apparently he and the others had heard too and they didn't like what they were hearing.
The man who had spoken turned around revealing that he was T.J. Carom, one of the journalists who had been at the interview. He looked hesitant at Ken before sighing "that singer of yours, Musa Utada, I believe, she pushed that blonde cone hair shaped guitarist off the edge along with Terran Yuki."
"What?" Yumi and Aelita gasped.
"Yes," T.J. nodded. "The paramedics have already been called and the police too. That girl ran away as soon as she committed the crime. Now the hotel's security and the police are after her."
"Musa wouldn't do something like that!" Ulrich defended his friend.
"You three!" Ken said in an eerily firm voice. "Chris will take you back to your rooms now. Along with that Sissi girl."
"But what about-" Yumi began.
"GO!" Ken yelled, startling even Chris.
"Come on guys," the drummer said steering the teens towards the doors.
Aelita looked over her shoulder back towards Ken. He was still talking to the journalist, both of them looking like they were in a heated conversation. Suddenly, T.J. nodded giving a quick salute to Ken before walking off. Aelita looked perplexed. The salute didn't look like it was in mock, more like out of respect reminding her greatly of a soldier saluting a general or something.
"Come on, Aelita," Chris called to her. "We need to get you to your rooms before any journalists swarm in and start asking questions." The girl nodded following the man upstairs with Ulrich and Yumi.
"Musa didn't do it," she thought. "She wouldn't…."
CODE TWILIGHT
Musa groaned, rubbing her head. "Kuso. It feels like a truck ran over my head," she groaned shakily getting up to her feet. She leaned on the wall for support, running her hand through her now loose hair. "I-I don't remember what happened," she murmured to herself before she heard voices.
She wasn't going to pay them much notice until she heard a voice within her say, "hide!"
Strangely she listened pressing herself against the wall, covered by shadows. Soon enough, two of the hotel's security walked pass.
"I can't believe this," one of them, an older man said to his young companion. "What is happening to kids today? Just pushing each other off the roof like that. What is this world coming to?" he sighed shaking his head. "Lucky that Yuki kid was there when he was, though I'm surprised. He is supposedly blind after all.
"She must be mental," the younger guard said. "I mean the guy she pushed off was supposedly her boyfriend. No, wait, they broke up I think."
"Oh, so she pushed him over the edge because she was angry that he broke up with her," the first guard sighed.
"No, actually she was the one who broke up with him."
The older man sighed, shaking his head. "You know, I would kind of understand the motive if they were married. There would be lost of explanations, affair, abuse, and gold digging being the top, but…they're just kids! I'm not opposed to young love but…this is just out of control."
"Yeah, well, the poor guy is in the hospital with injuries believed to be sustained from the suspect. What's really weird is that the injuries he received were all internal. The doctors are sure that he'll make a full recovery but, it's so strange. I wonder how she could have done that to him," the younger male pondered.
"Don't try to understand these people. Our job," he said putting a hand on his partner's shoulder "is to find the suspect, Musa Utada and turn her over to the police for her crimes against Egen Della Robbia."
The younger man nodded and soon they left, turning the corner just seconds before Musa collapsed to the ground.
"W-what?" she questioned, eyes wide. She looked at her hands. "I-I pushed Odd... Egen, off the-the…" she bit her lip, unable to continue. She once again shakily got up to her feet. "I-it can't be true! I didn't! I would never!" She shook her head. "I need to see if he's okay. This is probably just a dream, or a really cruel joke. Yeah," she thought, but she didn't believe herself for a minute.
CODE TWILIGHT
Cascada shoved her way through the reporters that had gathered in the hotel's lobby with Sitara's help. The plant A.I. clutched her side, leaning heavily on the smaller girl. The plant A.I. was never one much for crowded spaces and was becoming easily agitated. It didn't help that the reporters seemed to recognize her as the "sister of the suspect" and were bombarding her with questions.
"Oh, how peacefully silent it would be if I just killed them all," a dark thought surfaced in her mind before she shook her head.
"Just get out of my way," Hikaru groaned trying to push through the crowd of unrelenting journalist but found herself weaker than she thought from her fight with Esen as the world around her begin to spin as she swayed on her feet.
Suddenly, she found herself being picked up, held protectively in someone's arms. "I got you," William's voice rang clear through the noisy chatter the paparazzi were creating. She looked up at him, forgetting for a moment the fight they had earlier as she let herself relax in his arms.
William, followed by Sitara and Jeremy, made their way to the elevator, the shaggy hair teen withering the interviewers with his unusually harsh glare. Once inside the elevator, the William's posture slumped a little, clearly exhausted.
"What happened?" Jeremy asked looking through the see through walls of the elevator back down at the journalist below them. "Why are there so many interviewers?"
Sitara fidgeted nervously, tucking her mocha color hair behind her ear, her caramel eyes lowering to the ground.
"Musa," Cascada murmured in William's arms, rubbing away the headache that was beginning to throb. "Musa… is suspect for pushing Odd off the roof."
"What!?" Jeremy asked in disbelief.
"Don't yell," Cascada winced before looking up at William. "I think I can stand on my own." He looked down at her. He wanted to apologize but…he didn't know how. He set her on her feet just as the elevator's doors opened. Sitara helped guide Cascada out.
Before Jeremy could step out though, William put a hand on his shoulder stopping him. "Don't tell the others about what happened on Lyoko," William said in a deeper voice.
"Is William telling me this or…is this Leon?" the computer whiz questioned, giving a pointed look at the older boy.
William released his grip. "Both," he said in his normal voice.
"Fine, but you'll have to tell Cascada and Musa…when we find her."
William was silent as he led the way back to the girls' suite where the others were waiting.
CODE TWILIGHT
He watched as the man before him removed the red sweat shirt that he was well known for wearing in exchange for a black shirt before putting on a black, leather, trench coat.
"Don't you think you're bringing out the big guns a little too early?" Ken asked as Jim removed the sweatband that he had on his head before putting on a pair of black sunglasses.
"You know better than anyone that I don't want to," Jim murmured hesitating before taking out a black metal suitcase. "But it has come to the point where I have to take action."
"But you know she didn't do it!" Ken yelled angrily.
"I'm sorry," Jim sighed, "but this is the life we chose. We can't allow the mistakes that they made to get back at us."
"Even if that means sentencing the girl that we worked so hard to free to her death?" the music producer questioned.
"I don't want to do it," Jim murmured. "I don't want to do that to Utada. She seemed happy for a time, but I guess it was only a matter of time before her true, original nature showed through. She must be terminated." And with that, the gym teacher walked out of the room with the case in hand.
"Damn it!" Ken yelled throwing a nearby vase at the wall
CODE TWILIGHT
She stared, her face tear stained, at her only son who at the moment was unconscious, recovering from his emergency surgery.
Maria lightly squeezed Odd's hand, visibly shaking. "You were wrong, Cascada," she murmured, taking Odd's hand with both of hers as she wiped the tears that were staining her beautifully made up face, "so, so wrong."
"Ma'am," a nurse said softly entering the room. "Ma'am, if it's not too much trouble the doctor would like to go over what some things with you."
Maria gave one last long look at her son before getting up from her chair that was placed by his bed and smoothing out the purple dress that she was still wearing from the party. "Okay," she nodded wiping the last of her tears away, "I'm on my way," she said following the nurse out of the room.
As soon as Maria was out of the door a figure jumped in through the window that was on the ninth floor. The figure walked hesitantly to the unconscious patient.
Musa stared tearfully down at Odd. How could this have happened? He was lying in a hospital bed deathly pale, braced on his arms and legs! She wrapped her arms around herself, clutching her arms so tight that her nails left imprints on her skin as she fought to hold back a sob, but still, tears fell silently.
She didn't know how long she had been standing there but suddenly the light came on and the wolf A.I. gasped as she spun around towards the door where Maria stood shock. The woman's shock quickly turned to anger as she looked from Musa to her son who was in a medicine induced coma. "Get out," she whispered.
"I'm-I'm sorry," Musa begged. "I-I never meant for this to happen. I-"
"GET OUT," the woman screamed throwing a vase full of flowers at the girl. Musa brought up her arm to block the object as it collided against it, the sharps shards sending blood rolling off her arm like small rivers, outlining the veins from whence it came from. "SECURITY!" Maria shouted out into the hospital.
Musa panicked pressing the button on her necklace before transforming into her Lyoko self. "Guitar Riff!" she cried fleeing the room.
When she exited from the riff she tumbled out into the girl's suite where the rest of the gang plus Sitara and Sissi were in.
"Ah!" Sissi screamed. "Who's that?"
"Musa!" Cascada said kneeling down next to her sister, ignoring but still answering Sissi's question. Musa hugged herself tighter, reverting back to her human form.
"She's bleeding!" Aelita gasped.
"Go to the bathroom and get some damn bandages!" Cascada ordered.
Sitara nodded deciding to help instead of staring with confusion at what was going on before her like Sissi.
"It's my fault," Musa whimpered softly.
"No, no, no," Cascada said taking her sister's head in her hands so she was looking at her. "It's not. You would never do that. We all know that."
"Yeah," Yumi, Ulrich, Aelita, Jeremy, and William agreed.
The wolf A.I. looked at them with a quivering lip, about to say something when the door slammed open. A smoke bomb was thrown inside filling the room as a large group of black suited men entered followed by Jim who looked incredibly slimmer, the men's guns pointed at the kids.
"Jim? What the-" William questioned standing protectively in front of Cascada and Musa.
The man held up his hand. "I rather not talk about it."
"Jim!" a voice shouted as Evan and Emma pushed themselves into the room. "What are you doing?" Evan yelled. "They're just kids! They don't know anything."
Jim looked regretfully at Evan and Emma and then at the kids before straightening up. "I'm sorry but she," he said pointing to Musa, "is under arrest."
CODE TWILIGHT
He had appeared in the bathroom where he found Sitara looking fearfully at the closed door. He placed a comforting hand on her shoulder that at first startled her but she soon calmed down when she realized it was only him. "They're here, aren't they?" he asked though he already knew the answer. "Stay here and don't make a sound," he told her though it was highly unlikely that she would. She always did as he said without fail. She trusted him, if only he was worthy of his trust, he thought before pressing his ear to the closed door to hear what was going on outside.
"What the hell do you mean, Jim?" Cascada questioned angrily, quickly getting to her feet which caused pinpoint size red dots to land on her as the men holding the guns pointed them at her, but she didn't look frighten, just angry.
"I mean what I mean," the man said putting his hands behind his back. "As officers of the Hommes dans le Noir, the Parisian sector of the MIB, the Men in Black, we take it upon ourselves to hold Musa Utada, Project L.A.N.A. of the Titan division of Project Carthage, under arrest."
"There you go again," Cascada murmured gripping her hands into fist, "talking about stuff that doesn't even make any sense!" she growled as her hands sparkled with green electricity. With a flick of her wrist a whip of electricity flung out at the men holding guns, knocking them out of their hands. "Musa!" she shouted over her shoulder "Run!"
The wolf A.I. looked shocked and unsure but before she could say anything, Jim pulled out a gun like object from his pocket shooting it at Cascada who fell limply to the floor.
"Cascada!" the others cried as Jim aimed the gun at Musa. Before he could pull the trigger a shrill sound was heard, shattering the mirrors and glass and causing everyone to cover their ears as a fierce wind picked up within the room.
Void knelt next to Musa taking her in his arms. "I spared your life once," he said towards Jim, "next time, I won't hesitate to kill." Jim and the other members of the Hommes dans le Noir tried to rush him but he was gone in the speed of sound.
Jim growled angrily as he ordered some of his men to search the surrounding area for the mysterious boy A.I. He turned his gaze back on the teens just as William tried to aim a punch at him but surprising the teens in the room, Jim caught the boy's fist in his hand before twisting his arm slightly, forcing William to his knees.
"You killed her!" the shaggy hair teen growled cradling his wrist to his chest.
"No, honey," Emma said kneeling next to her son. "Cascada isn't hurt. That gun Jim used was made to only stun A.I.'s when it was likely they would attack."
"How do you know that?" Aelita asked tearfully. "Why are you acting so cruel Jim?"
The man grunted wiping his fist under his nose before turning to one of his remaining officers. "Stun the boy," he said nodding towards William, "and handcuffed the rest of 'em. We're taking them to headquarters." Jim turned to look at Evan who was holding Emma back while William was stunned unconscious. "You two, are ordered to head to headquarters too for your mission briefing."
"Dad?" Ulrich looked at his father confused but the man wouldn't look at him.
"You know I was never a fighter," Evan said to Jim, ignoring his son.
"I know," Jim agreed, "but we'll need your strategies in order to get Utada back," Jim said before walking out of the room.
"Dad! What is going on?" Ulrich yelled at his father.
The man sighed as he continued to hold back a struggling Emma from knocking out the man who had just stunned her son. "I'm not sure, but most likely…we're looking at a war between humans and machines…"
CODE TWILIGHT
Musa opened her eyes once she was sure that whatever form of transportation Void used had ended. She looked up at the boy to actually have to look down when she realized that he was kneeling. She was about to question him before she realized where she was. Lucas's house. "W-why am I here?" Musa asked not liking the idea of being in a dead man's home.
"Why, for your safety, my dear Lana," a voice chuckled. Musa looked up the stairs, where the voice was coming from, to see the copper hair man from the park. "But let me properly introduce myself. I am Emeric McArnald, Project H.E.B.I. of the Titan division of Project Carthage," he suddenly appeared from the top of the stairs to right in front of her, taking her hand and kissing it as his amber eyes stared up at hers. "Welcome home."
Longest chapter ever!
I just want to say a few things before people start sending me threatening angry reviews. Yes! Musa and Odd are going to get back together! Do you guys really think I would work to create a great relationship between them only to break them up and never have them getting back together? Anyway, hopefully that will cool you down a little.
Yep, Jim's part of the French Men in Black. You have no idea how close I was to having him called "Agent J" but then that may have been pushing it. Anyway, a total 180 personality wise don't you think? Don't worry, he still the loveable Jimbo we all know, he's just trying to act tough in front of his peeps. LOL!
Sorry if Jeremy's Lyoko form was a little...unimaginative. Originally, I had planned to base his outfit off of the Angel doll Wiz from the anime Angelic Layer but then I was like "that look would be too cool fro Jeremy!" and yeah...so...
More about the organization will be explained next chapter, Odd will wake up, and hopefully, if everything goes as planned the momment that I've been planning for since even before Code Moon was over will happen! LOL! I'm so excited! But remember, things have to get much worse before anything can get better. You've been warn. LOL!
Anyway, updates might start slowing down after this week because I'll have to start going to this music program that I signed up for in hopes of improving my flute playing. Hopefully, this camp will help me get into the advance band for school, you know, the band that actually plays songs that people like and not the crappy ones like the intermediate and begginning band people get. So, yeah, for three hours a day, five days a week, for the next five weeks I'll be busy practicing my fingers off to get into the good band. Wish me luck and hope that I don't embarass myself in front of these freakily talented kids. Ugh, it'll be sad if they put me in the lowest band because I can't sight read music to save my life...
Nothing more to say so...PLEASE REVIEW!