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Visit from the Past - Part 1

Musa's P.O.V.

From the moment I was able to truly call myself an A.I. – an artificial intelligence; a being that could think for itself – I always wondered what my purpose is in this world. Was I merely a tool for man or something much bigger than even my human creator could ever imagine?

Cascada's P.O.V.

I wondered if I was deleted, or died, if there was a place for me, a place for the creation of man. I mean, it is said that human's either go to the heavenly celestial skies above, amongst the angels and the almighty creator or down to the fiery pits of hell to agonize in the fiery brimstone. But what about me?

Musa

Am I an indirect creation of whatever heavenly body that may exist? Will my sins ever be forgiven when in the first place I probably should not have felt any regret?

Cascada

Will I ever be hopeful for the future? Will there ever be any redemption for me?

Both

What ever the answer is…right now, we're probably close to finding the answer way before out time...without even giving out good byes to the ones we love…

CODE TWILIGHT

Adrenaline and pure fear were the only things keeping Odd running down the halls, looking for anyone he could find that could help. It was maybe fortunate for him that the first person he ran into was Waldo.

Grabbing the man by the collar of his shirt in desperation, the boy breathlessly wheezed out, "help," before, without a response, pulling the man down the hall behind him as if being chased by one Xana's monsters from the past. Within seconds, the blonde found himself hovering over Musa once again, William still desperately trying to make the girl regain consciousness.

"I feared this would happen," Hopper murmured.

"You knew this was going to happen?!" a suddenly enraged Odd growled, taking the man by the collar and shoving him against the wall. The scientist didn't even flinch at the sudden movement, only staring calmly and coolly behind his eerie glasses.

"Taking your anger out on me will not help her or Cascada at all," the man said pushing Odd away from him.

"Cascada?" William asked worriedly.

Waldo nodded. "I can only assume that she is also in a similar state since she and Musa are so closely linked. You, as well should be in the same condition but maybe the fact that you're not the original Leon is what is delaying the effects."

The two boys' minds filled with questions but the unspoken words were delayed as the ground beneath them shook violently, the lights above going on and off accompanied by a shrill sound of metal being torn apart.

When Odd and the others pushed themselves off the ground the lights had dimmed, powered only by the back up generator that could be heard whirring throughout the building.

"What, what just happened?" William frowned

"Was that a rhetorical question?" Waldo grunted as he got up to his feet, one of Musa's limp arms dangling over his shoulder. "We need to move her and her sister back to the cabin," he grunted already making his way out of the room leaving William and Odd to follow.

In the hallways, various agents urgently ran back and forth as special emergency lights above flashed warningly. No one seemed to notice the three males and an unconscious girl make their way down the hall way.

"How is the cabin safer?" Odd asked as they stopped in front of the door to Cascada's room. The area inside was empty save for the other unconscious A.I. lying on the floor. William ran over to her, feeling for her pulse, and hefting Cascada up into his arms when he was sure she was still alive, if only barely.

"You both ask too many questions," the older man snapped, his cool and indifferent façade falling; he was afraid. Maybe he did have some tiny shred of humanity left in him.

The three quickly made their way back through the congested hallways, pushing their ways pass as scientist and agents of the building made their way to designated escape areas. Odd wasn't too sure what was going on but he got the gist when he heard "Emergency Evacuation", "Enemy Attacking", "Rogue artificial intelligences."

"And so the final battle begins," spoke Waldo, the world around them seeming to get much dimmer with each second.

CODE TWILIGHT

"Bait them out. Humans, do whatever you like with them. Kill them for all I care. They'll be dead sooner or later but leave Lana and Rose alive," Emeric ordered staring down from the mountain.

With little hesitation, Brooke, Cassie, and Zoey raced down the snowy slope, their eyes lifeless and inhumane.

CODE TWILIGHT

The loud blaring noise of the alarms seemed like an annoying buzz in his head as he made his way down to the medical wing.

"Ulrich!" he heard as a hand caught his wrist.

"Sissi, let go," he refrained from snapping.

"What's going on? Why are we being evacuated?" the girl cried. Ulrich sensed the fear that was coming from her. It seemed strange how unemotional he felt towards it yet how he knew he needed the feeling.

"Look," he said taking the girl by the shoulders as the people continued to push past them. "I don't know what's going on, but I know it's bad and you're probably safer evacuating."

"Then come with me!" the girl pleaded.

"Sissi, I don't-"

"I know you don't like me the way I do you!" Sissi suddenly snapped, pulling away from him. "But that still doesn't mean that I don't still have those feeling for you! I love you Ulrich, even if you can never love me back! I understand that, but you have to understand that I'm not going to just sit back and watch as you get yourself killed."

Somewhere in the back of his mind something clicked. The girl before him was no longer the whiny self-centered brat she used to be. She's kind of pretty, he thought in a non-romantic way. It was just self evident. She wasn't the horrid dim witted banshee the group claimed she was. Maybe, if they were different people, in a different situation, he would have fallen for her but they weren't. This was the reality they had been chosen to live in.

"Sissi…"

"Don't Sissi me! I'm not leaving you and that's that!"

Ulrich sighed. What a time for the girl to gain her courage when it was probably better for her to run for the hills. "Fine," he sighed. "But if something happens, if I say run, then you run. Got it? It has to be a deal."

He could see her whole body quiver in fear for their unexpected future but she nodded, eyes hardening with resolve. "Deal."

"We need to find Yumi and the others."

"Ishiyama already left," Sissi informed. "She was taken to the airport. Her family is going back to Japan."

Ulrich felt a wave of disappointment rush over him. Why hadn't she told him?

"It's good we found you," Waldo's voice suddenly interrupted. "You're needed."

CODE TWILIGHT

She never liked flying in planes to begin with, but the increasing feeling of something bad happening kept mounting within her.

"You ok, sis?" Hiroki asked her with a worried frown.

No, she wasn't ok. Not at all. She should have been. Her family was finally together again but…the increasing foreboding feeling with in her wouldn't go away…

Yumi stood up from her seat.

"Miss," the stewardess said coming over to the girl. "Please take your seat. We're about to take off." The girl looked from the slowly patient losing stewardess to the concern faces of her family.

"Screw this," she thought before doing the unexpected.

CODE TWILIGHT

Aelita tightly clenched her eyes, trying to block the shrill sounding alarm that was going on throughout the building. Jeremy frowned, ignoring the sound as he typed furiously on his laptop.

"What are you two doing just sitting in here?" Jim roared coming into the room followed by Elena and Maria. "We need everyone to evacuate now!"

"Hold on!" Jeremy yelled back. "I'm trying to hack into this place's security cameras so we can know what's going on outside. I don't have a good feeling about this. AH HA! Got it!"

Everyone in the room looked at the small computer screen as images from the few cameras that were still working showed what was happening on the outside. Aelita gasped in shock; Elena turned away; Maria heaved whatever contents of food were still in her stomach; Jeremy paled; and Jim closed his eyes, the years finally seeming to catch up with him before he closed the computer screen, but it was already too late. The mangled and torn apart bodies of those who tried to evacuate were already imprinted in his mind. This was worst then the war had ever been.

"W-what are we going to do?" Maria trembled.

"We already know what they're here for," Elena said tightly holding her daughter's shoulders. "But we can't give them to those…those monsters!"

"That still doesn't answer the question of what are we going to do," Jim grunted.

Waldo stepped into the room, followed by Odd and William, each carrying almost dead looking girls in their arms. "I believe I have an idea."

CODE TWILIGHT

It would be frightening for anyone to feel like they had just awoken from a dream – or maybe nightmare was a better term - , and to expect to find themselves in their nice warm beds only to realize that they had actually awoken on the cold ground of a windowless white room.

Sitara looked around the room, her eyes searching fearfully for any sign of escape but she couldn't even detect where the door to the room even was. She wasn't even sure on how or why she was in here. A few glimpses, like fragmented pieces that she remembered from a dream floated back to her as she rubbed her sore throat.

She looked down at the boy's head that was resting heavily in her lap. "Terran" she thought running a finger along his cheek, the movement feeling repetitive to her. Though the current predicament was still frightening she felt herself grow stronger, pushing down the fear. She couldn't be afraid now. This boy, Terran, she knew him all throughout her childhood. There was no mistaking that this was the same boy who watched over her all those years ago and even now. Now that he was in a position of need, she would do whatever was needed to protect him, just as he had always done for her.

"You are growing, child," an unnatural voice, yet one that was still oddly comforting, said within her with what felt like pride. "Keep your faith in this boy and you might be able to survive this…"

A nearby wall screeched as the unnoticeable doorway opened revealing an expressionless Nyx. "Come with me," she ordered dragging Sitara up to her feet while a cloud of paper petals lifted the unconscious boy off the ground.

Sitara looked worriedly at the carried boy but Nyx shoved her forward and out of the room. "I wouldn't be worried about him, if I were you," she said coldly. "It's your own life that you should be concerned about."

CODE TWILIGHT

"They're out there waiting to kill us," Waldo said matter of fact. "We need a distraction so I can get these two," he said nodding towards Musa and Cascada, "to the cabin. The lab there is only hope of reviving them."

"Then we'll be the distraction," Evan said walking into the room, heavily armed followed by Ken who was also armed.

"Dad," Ulrich began but he closed his mouth. There was nothing for him to say.

"Chris and Emma are already in the garage in identical vans," Ken continued. "Though it probably won't fool them for long, the decoy van should hold them up. Evan, Jim, and I will be in the van with Chris. Waldo, Elena, Musa, and Cascada will go in the van with Emma. The rest of you will stay here. It's safest."

"Guns won't do much against a group of artificial intelligences," Jeremy said standing tall.

"You're right," Evan agreed, "but it's the only weapon of defense we have."

"That's where you're wrong," Jim and Waldo spoke at the same time before they both looked at Odd, Ulrich, Aelita, Jeremy, and William.

"What? Them? They're just kids!" Maria asked in disbelief. "I'm not allowing my son to-"

"Mom," Odd said interrupting her as he pressed the button on his bracelet. A ring of light surrounded him and also the others as they pressed their own buttons on the fake jewelry, revealing their Lyoko forms. "We stopped being just kids a long time ago."

So I bet some of you never thought this day would come, but it has come! So now there's only two outcomes: no reviews at all or a truckload of death threats from angry readers. The only excuse I can give is school work and other personal stuff mixed with lack of interest for this story. But I hate to just leave a story unfinished (though it has happened with some of my other stories) so I'm trying to finish this. Wow can't believe it's already been more then a year since I started this story.

This chapter I did by myself. For those of you who responded that you were interested in being my co-author I decided to lengthen the deadline to April 12. If you're not interested anymore please tell me in a review or PM.

For your wait, here's another Next Generation bio just for you. :)

Lilian N. Dunbar (Originally I called her Olivia but I decided to change her name)

Parents: William and Cascada Hikaru-Dunbar

Age: 15

Appearance: dark hair and eyes like her father

glasses though sometimes she wears contacts

off the shoulder green and blue shirt

black skirt

shortest member of the group

Interests: reading, computers, art, hacking

Personality: Unlike her glamorous fashion designer mother, she's quite shy and very much of a "daddy's girl". Since she has little to no fashion sense her mother takes it upon herself to choose her clothing whether or not she's halfway across the globe for a fashion show. Her parent's have always been supportive of her yet she's unable to tell them what might be her biggest secret. Only her cousin, Jacob, has been able to get the secret of her let alone even notice that she was hiding something. She has been called this generation newest "Ms. Einstein", even helping her uncle, Jeremy, once or twice on a project. Though she's quite smart she's oblivious to Jacob's confused feeling about her and sometimes unknowingly sends him into small fits of depression when she treats him like a brother or worst...like one of the girls.

Personal Saying: "I know they've always love me but...what if they stop because of this?"

Well, nothing more to say other than...PLEASE REVIEW!