Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko. I do own Musa, Cascada, this story's plot and anything else that wasn't in the show.
Unsure
21 years ago
She sat in the corner crying as pain ripped through her. The air around her was thick with static and the lights above flickered uncertainly. Burn marks scuffed the white floor and walls around her. "It hurts," she sniffed as the tears that were welled up inside of her fell relentlessly. Her body felt awkward and her mind fought with different ideas and mindsets. She felt so alone, so used, so torn. This wasn't how it was supposed to be.
"Don't cry," a voice said softly. "Don't."
She sniffed looking up at the red hair boy who stood above her. They had never talked too much to each other even though they had been in the same situation for years, but she didn't care. The other two of their group had been taken away to another room. He was the only one left, the only one to comfort her. "It hurts," she cried again.
The boy hesitatively sat next to her, wrapping his arms around her. "I know," he murmured into her hair as he felt a prickling sensation come from her.
"I hate them," the girl cried into his shoulder.
"I do to, and that's why they'll soon die for what they did to us."
"I don't think I can kill them, even though I want to."
"Don't worry," the boy sighed rubbing her back. "Leave that up to me."
CODE TWILIGHT
"Okay, so we can do this the easy way or the hard way, Hikaru."
"Can you stop with the good cop, bad cop thing? It's overly used and it's really sad when you only have one cop doing it. Makes it seem like you're some kind of multi-personality loon who watched too much Law and Order and CSI and hides in his room fondling himself," the plant A.I. replied smartly with a bored expression.
The interrogator's eye twitched as he stared at the girl before slamming his fist down in frustration which he immediately regretted as a throbbing pain went through it. He also could have sworn he felt a shock too.
"Careful, sir," she said with an obviously fake smile. "Don't want to hurt yourself."
The interrogator huffed before leaving the girl with the four armed guards. He left the room and stepped out into the hallway where Agent Morales was waiting. "Anything?" he asked hopefully.
"That-that girl is practically a sealed vault," the interrogator said fuming.
Jim sighed as the man walked off. "That was the seventh one and he was the best of the best."
"Maybe I can help."
Jim cocked his head to the side as Emma walked over towards him. "How are you doing?" he asked.
"The best any mother can do when they're son is locked up in a containment field like some kind of monster criminal," the woman said narrowing her eyes.
"He's not being accused of anything Emma," Jim sighed. "We just put him there because that is the only room that'll be able to keep him from escaping. We need to ask all of these kids questions. The higher ups' orders."
"They can go-"
"So do you think you can talk to her?" the man asked cutting her off.
Emma sighed. "I'll try but I wouldn't hold anything against her if she doesn't tell me anything," she said looking through the two way mirror where the girl sat tauntingly glaring at the guards, testing their patience. "This reminds me of how she was before."
"No," Jim said shaking his head. "This is a paper cut compared to what she was like before." He pushed himself off the wall before walking down the hall. "See what you can do with her. I'm going to check over the others," he said over his shoulder.
Mrs. Dunbar took in a deep breath, squaring her shoulder before she walked into the room where the plant A.I. was waiting.
"Mrs. Dunbar," she smiled though Emma could tell that anger and hurt hid behind the smile, "sit down. We have much to talk about don't we?"
"Yes," Emma sighed taking a seat. "Yes we do."
CODE TWILIGHT
"Are you going to answer me?"
"No," the brunette said crossing his arms and sending a glare that would wither any other person but alas, he was going against his father and it would take a lot more to intimidate Evan Stern.
"Why are you being so stubborn? Do you want to be linked as an accessory to a crime? To a criminal?" Evan Stern asked furiously.
"Musa's not a criminal. She's one of my best friends. She wouldn't hurt a fly unless it was possessed by some evil A.I." Ulrich said defiantly.
"Friends such as her will only hold you back in life, son, and-"
"Don't."
"What?" Evan asked.
"Don't. Don't call me son. Don't tell me what to do," the samurai warrior said glaring at his father. "You don't understand me, you never did, and you never will because you're not willing to. Didn't you listen to the song?"
"Yes, I listened to the song," Evan said readjusting the tie he wore. "And I thought it was childish of you. If you wanted to get something through to me you should have just said something like an adult."
"I have!" Ulrich yelled getting up so fast from his chair that it tipped over with a loud thud. "Every damn time I see you I try to talk to you but you never listen! It's always about what you want! You never listen to anyone else but yourself!"
"You will not speak to me in that tone again. I am your father! I deserve respect!" Evan yelled.
"You'll get respect form me when you respect my life and my friends," the boy retorted, keeping his voice low.
Evan stared at his son, neither breaking the gaze until a guard came in. "Sir, Agent Jim wishes for all of the teenagers to report to the main interrogation room. He also requested your presence too, sir," the guard said quickly instantly feeling the tension in the room.
"Make sure he doesn't get lost," Evan said as he walked out of the room.
CODE TWILIGHT
She awoke to find herself in a warm soft bed. She wouldn't have suspected anything if the events from the previous evening hadn't flooded back into her mind. She clutched the fabric of the night gown over where her heart was in pain. What had she gotten herself into?
She bit the inside of her cheek, holding back a sob as she drew her knees up to her chest. She really wanted to die now. She wasn't even sure if Odd would survive, but she couldn't go back. Not to her friends, her family. She was a criminal.
"But did I really do it?" she wondered before snapping her head to the side when she heard a sound. She looked to the left of her bed to see Terran asleep in a chair that was pulled closed to the bed. He slept in an award position that was surely going to give him some pain when he awoke.
Musa sighed. She had learned a lot of unexpected things last night…
Flashback
"Home?" the girl questioned the man, Emeric McArnald.
"It's all right if you don't remember," he said letting go of her hand as he stepped back. "These things take time to remember."
"Remember? Remember what?" Musa asked.
"You've been having strange dreams, haven't you?" the man asked with an all knowing smiling. "But like I said, don't worry about it. Now, you must be tired. My son will show you to your room."
"This way," Void said getting up from his kneeled position. As he did so, his form disappeared going into what she assumed was his Earth form. What she wasn't expecting was for Terran Yuki to be standing there.
"Y-you're Void?" Musa asked shocked.
"Is something wrong with that?" the boy asked coolly.
"No," Musa said shaking her head. She had seen weirder.
"I'll leave her in your hands," Emeric said placing a hand on the boy's shoulder before walking away. Musa stared after the man before she realized Terran had already began walking up the winding stairs. She quickly caught up with him matching his pace.
After a silent, uneventful walk they stopped in front of a door. Terran opened the door revealing a comfortable looking room. "You can sleep here," he informed her, allowing her to step in. He was about to leave when Musa grabbed his hand.
"Can you stay? I don't think it'll be easy for me to sleep. Not with everything that, you know, happened."
"Okay," the boy replied walking into the room. He took a seat that was next to a table while Musa plopped on the bed.
"Sooooo…you're an A.I. too?" she asked unsure.
"More or less."
A brow was raised by the wolf A.I. but she decided not to question his answer. "And Emeric, I mean, your father is he-"
"Yes. He's an artificial intelligence too."
"He looks really young though, to have a kid I mean," the girl thought aloud.
"With the help of a supercomputer, an A.I. could speed up or slow down his/her growth. He's in his thirties but he looks eighteen at the most," Terran replied uninterested.
The room was filled with silence as Musa tried to think of something to say and Terran looked bored, uninterested in talking.
"You really surprised me," the girl said suddenly.
Yuki turned his head towards her. "How exactly?"
"Well…before, when we fought together you were really good. So it's hard to believe that you're really blind."
"So you're saying that blind people are incapable of fighting or anything else that could possibly be tedious?" he asked.
"No!" Musa said raising her hands in defense before lowering them when she heard the boy chuckled. He shook his head removing his glasses before turning towards her. The wolf A.I. held back a gasp as she stared at his milky red pupil-less eyes.
"Startling aren't they?" Terran smirked sadly. "I'm not totally blind. With these," he said pointing to his eyes, "I can tell the difference between an A.I. in whatever form, a human, a polymorphic specter, or someone who has been in contact with energy from a supercomputer."
"So you can see me?" Musa asked quietly getting up and moving around, watching as Terran followed her every movement.
"Yes, but only an outline that distinguish you as an artificial intelligence. I can't see any details like how you specifically look. I can just tell different people from each other by the energy that surrounds them. Yours an electric blue, fitting for you," the boy shrugged.
"So you see auras basically?"
"Yes, but the electrical energies surrounding humans are low so that's when I'm truly 'blind'," the boy explained.
"Wow. That's cool."
"Not really," Yuki said putting his glasses back on. "It gets tiresome. I think a painting is a good comparison. While everyone else sees colors and details I only see a blank canvas."
"But that's what makes it even more amazing," Musa stood up walking towards him. She placed a hand on his shoulder and smiled down at him. "While everyone else is forced to see what they're being shown, you see what you want to. You're the artist. You see things that other people may not be able to see themselves. You're not blinded by the lies of the world around you."
"You would make an excellent inspirational speaker," he chuckled.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
"Not for your comment," Musa said shaking her head. "For helping me keep my mind of bad things and…for saving Odd."
The boy shifted in his seat, turning his head slightly away. "You said before that he was important to you."
"He is," she nodded.
"Then that's all that matters," the wind A.I. said. "You should go to bed. I know you had a long day."
"Will you stay with me? At least till I go asleep?" the wolf A.I. asked fearful of being left alone.
"I was going to stay either way. I don't trust him."
"Who?"
"My father."
End Flashback
The wolf A.I. was pulled from her thoughts when she heard a knock on the door. Getting up from bed, she walked over to the door opening it, revealing Emeric, his eyes shining like liquid amber.
"Mr. Emeric!"
"Just Emeric will do fine," the man smiled. "Anyway, I was wondering if you would like to join me for breakfast. After, I'm hoping you would agree to let me show you around."
"Why are you doing this for me?" Musa asked confused. "We just met and I'm sure you heard about…"
"What happened on the hotel's roof? Yes, I know about that and I know you didn't do it," he smiled. "Besides," he tilted her chin up towards him. "This isn't the first time we met. We used to be…close. Really close. I know what you are capable of doing and purposely pushing someone off a roof is not you."
Musa smiled her thanks though her stomach twisted painfully. Something was right but she couldn't figure out what.
"So, would you like to have breakfast with me?"
"What about Terran?"
"He wore himself out yesterday. Let him sleep."
Musa nodded, unsure before following the man out of her room. As she left, she didn't even notice as Terran's figure flickered before reverting into smoke.
CODE TWILIGHT
"No," she replied with a tone of finality.
Jim sighed, running his hand through his hair. "You do know that I'm actually letting you off easy. The higher ups want you dead."
"I rather be dead then practically handing over my own sister," the plant A.I. hissed. The rest of the Lyoko, minus Odd and Musa obviously, and Emma and Evan kept silent as they watched Cascada and Jim argue between each other, neither letting up.
"So because of your own stubbornness," Jim said crossing his arms over his chest as he propped his feet up on the table, "you're willing to let your own sister die?"
The room was silent as the strawberry blonde stared heatedly at their gym instructor.
"What is expected of me?" Hikaru sighed in defeat.
"What you do best as an A.I." Jim said simply. "Infiltration."
"Wait," William said getting the nerve to jump into this conversation. "Who are we even talking about infiltrating?"
"Emeric McArnald," Emma said staring down at her coffee that she held in her hands. "Project H.E.B.I. Hacking Eternal Bypass Illusionist."
"No! That snake!" William cringed as Leon roared with anger within his mind. "If he even lands a hand on my little sister…I'LL KILL HIM!"
"What? Emeric McArnald is an A.I.?" Jeremy asked shocked all over his face.
"Yes," Jim nodded. "He's also the cause of many deaths of the scientist who worked on Project Carthage."
"What's going on?" Sissi asked confused.
"So this was all a trap?" Yumi questioned.
"B-but why?" Aelita asked.
William grabbed his head, gripping tightly to it as he growled in pain and frustration. The guards in the room pointed their guns at the boy. "B-because…" William said, his voice changing from normal to a deeper more commanding one as if he was having some kind of internal battle, "HE WANTS MUSA!"
CODE TWILIGHT
"You idiot. You knew you would be punished for interfering with the plan!" The bruised and beaten form of Terran Yuki stared unseeingly at her. Nyx growled angrily wiping back angry tears. "You won't even remember why you did what you did that got you punished so what's the point!? Why do you do such stupid and foolish things that will only speed up your deletion?"
The bloody white hair boy finally seemed to notice the spiky hair brunette in front of him.
"I-I do whatever is for the good of our kind," he whispered before coughing up blood and then going unconscious.
"Idiot," Nyx murmured again as she lowered herself to her knees by his bed. "Am I really that bad? Would you rather die then be with me? Would you rather be with that human instead?"
CODE TWILIGHT
"Come on. You need to rest," Ken said forcefully guiding his ex-wife out of the room.
"B-but-!" Maria tried to argue.
"No," the man said sternly, his usual cheerful expression no where in sight. Maria had only seen Ken in this mood only a few times and it was just best to do as he said.
"Fine," she gave in.
"Good," Ken nodded, his face lightning slightly. "Let's go to the cafeteria. I'm starving!"
"You must be if you're willing to eat hospital food," the woman murmured as she allowed herself to be dragged away from her son's room towards the cafeteria, not aware of what was going on inside of the room.
A dark figure stood at the foot of the bed, staring at the still unconscious boy. "You're taking too long to heal. A battle will start soon and you'll be needed," they murmured softly while rubbing their soar throat. "You may be the only one to bring her from the depths of her depression and the doubts of her other half," the person said as they took out a pocket watch on a long gold chain. The watch began to swing slowly around in a circle before picking up speed so that it was nothing but a blur. "Reverse Clockwork."
A projection of a clock face came from the still circling hovering over the unaware blonde. The hands on the clock ticked forward before they stopped, the minute hand ticking backwards. The second hand began to spin fast like a needle of a compass as the other hands of the clock began to move counterclockwise.
The machines in the room hummed with discontent, blinking in and out of working order. The heart monitor began to emit a piercing beep that went on for a few seconds before the hands on the projected clock slowed along with the circling pocket watch.
The person snatched the pocket watch up, stuffing it into their pocket making the projected clock disappear. Odd moan slightly in his sleep, shifting over to his side, the most movement he had made in hours.
"Noting is written in stone. Time has no master but the choices you made in the past and the ones you will make in the future. Odd, will you be able to help clear the dark ominous cloud that I foresee in the future?"
The boy groaned, his eyes slowly opening to find himself alone in a hospital room. "What are you talking about?" he asked drowsily. "I don't know what you've been through but jumping off a roof is…sui…cidal…?" he stopped noticing that he was no longer on the hotel's roof but in a hospital bed instead. He paused in his confusion as he looked down at his hand which was clutching on to something tightly. Odd raised the object up to his face, his expression further contorting into confusion. "An old pocket watch?"
Yeah! Odd's alive!
Odd: She was almost about to kill me off.
Me: I was not!
Odd: Were too! Have you seen her Soul Eater fic? That's depressing. She's kills off everyone in that one. (whispers) She has some major issues.
Me: No I don't!
LOL! I'm arguing with a fictional character. I do have issues. Wow, it's like midnight where I'm at and I'm still hyper. I really need to get to go to sleep earlier or I'll be a mess in band camp.
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Okay, so for those of you who have been on my profile I have a poll on whether or not their should be a third story and such so, since I have a potential story idea in my head for if I do decide to have a third story I decided to give you guys a preview! I haven't fully developed all the characters out yet. Just have a basic idea of their personality. Remeber this isn't definite and is still in the plotting process.
A new generation...
"What's this place called again?"
"Kadic Academy."
"So this is where it all began."
"And where it all could end."
Old faces...
"Do you remember a girl who probably made the biggest mistake of her life at a skateboarding competition?"
A laughing smile. Teasing flirting. A selfish heart.
"Sam?"
"Hey Odd."
New Faces...
"Welcome to Hell! Where the teachers are just waiting to kill you in your sleep, where the ditzy populars throw crap down on you, and where guys can't even find a decent girl to get laid."
"Excuse him. He doesn't know how to deal with members of the opposite sex"
"Like you do? Can anybody say future 40 year old virgin?"
Opposites like dark and light.
"You're an arrogant jerk!"
"And you're just deeply in denial."
"Of what?"
"Of your true feelings towards me."
"And I'm the one in denial?"
"Why are we expected to live up to what our parents did? We're our own individuals, not their clones or something."
Family Secrets...
"Let's check out that old factory that my dad owns."
"What is this place?"
"DON'T TOUCH THAT!"
"What is this-this power?"
"It's been building up for years. If too much is used...it could mean total destruction."
"Why didn't you tell us?"
A Deadly Game...
"Welcome to Xanadu! The goal is to fight your opponents untill you reach the highest level...LYOKO!"
"We can beat them!"
"I think this stopped being a game long ago."
"Who knew mom could kick butt!?"
"I'll still beat her."
"No one has beaten the eight Lyoko Legends!"
"Then call me No One because I'm about to."
The Fear of Exposure
He rubbed her back comfortingly as she clung on to him tightly, tears running down faster than any river.
"They'll find us."
"No they won't"
"They did before and we don't have the return trip like we did."
"Everyone always compares us. I'm tired of living in her shadow. I know she's far from perfect but still...what am I good for?"
"My mom...my mom" sigh "my mom has hit rock bottom more times then I can count. We're always taking care of her."
Human vs. Machine
"Déjà vu, anyone?"
"We must put an end to this contamination! They have lived amongst us, teaching our children and running our government. How long will it take till they are totally in control? How long will it be till we, humans, have our god given rights taken away from us by the machines that we created? We must purge the world of any A.I. once and for all!"
A crowd cheering in agreement.
"The United Nations have teamed up to get rid of this new threat."
"Typical. Man builds machine. Machine gets freedom. The ignorant townspeople try to kill machine. Total Frankenstein."
"This is the end of an era. It's over."
"What about the mighty Lyoko Gang? Together, you could do anything!"
"Those days are long go. It's time for a new generation to pave the way. Besides our bodies aren't what they used to be."
"I don't know if I can do this alone."
"Then you shouldn't be worried. You're not alone."
"Welcome to..."
"We'll fight for out freedom! Our children! We'll fight for une monde sans danger!"
Code Horizon: The Next Generation...Are you ready for what the future holds?
"Do you think you can handle it?"
Smirk. "Just try me."
Coming soon to a FanFic near you!
LOL! That totally reminded me of some kind of movie trailer!
Anyway, like I said, this is still in the plotting process so if I do do this story then a few things may be cut out for the sake of the plot. At the end of this story I'll have another poll which'll decide whether or not there will be another story.
Nothing more to say so...PLEASE REVIEW!