Ch. 2 Phase 2
Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko or anything in it.
Sorry, I wanted to post this last night, but it ended up getting deleted and I had to start over. As frustrating as it sounds, I think the second time I typed this, it was better than the first. Hope you enjoy.
The gang ran inside the factory and into the elevator. The elevator descended to the lower depths of the factory. The first stop it made was to the supercomputer room. Jeremie was the only one to get off on this floor. He headed for the supercomputer and turned to his friends. "You all know the drill."
The Lyoko Warriors nodded and descended down further into the scanner room. There was only three empty scanners four the four of them. Aelita was the first to take a scanner as usual. The remaining three looked at each other to see who's going next.
"I'll go.", Ulrich volunteered. He immediately walked inside the scanner and turned back seeing whether the next person was Odd or Yumi.
Yumi looked at the odd haired boy waiting for him to go. "Lady's first.", Odd gestured with a smug smile. Yumi walked into the third scanner. The scanner doors closed with the three inside. Jeremie's voice came over the intercom.
"Get ready guys.", said Jeremie as he typed in the codes for the virtualization process. "Scanner Aelita. Scanner Yumi. Scanner Ulrich."
A beam of light descended on their bodies sending the data to the supercomputer automatically choosing their player cards. "Transfer Aelita. Transfer Yumi. Transfer Ulrich. Virtualization."
The three were transported into a highway of wires taking them to their virtual destination, Lyoko. Three figures formed as their bodies were virtualized into Lyoko. All three warriors landed on their feet and took a look around for X.A.N.A.'s monsters.
"Your turn Odd.", said Jeremie as he typed in the codes.
"Way ahead of you." Odd has ready entered the scanner.
"Scanner Odd. Transfer Odd. Virtualization."
Within seconds, Odd was virtualized. He landed in all fours and caught up with the gang. "Okay, Einstein we're all here."
"Great, now head for the tower and hurry."
"Where?", asked Odd.
"Uh,...", Jeremie ran a scan for the tower's location. The computer located the tower's postition. "2 miles due 90°E."
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's do this.", said Odd getting a head started like he was in a race. "Bet I can blast more monsters than you guys."
"Your on, Odd.", Ulrich accepted The cat boy's challenge. Ulrich, Yumi, and Aelita headed east for the activated tower. After a few minutes, Yumi felt something was wrong with this picture.
"Hey, Jeremie, do you see anything after us? Seems a little too quiet for my taste.", said Yumi.
"I don't see anything. I advised caution. X.A.N.A has pulled this trick in the past.", said jeremie look the monitor. He watched as they closed in on the tower, 12 red triangles appeared in the computer screen. The belong quickly warned the warriors, "Hey, guys. There's four crabs and kankerlet coming your way."
"On it.", said Ulrich as he withdrew his sword.
"Super sprint!",the samurai ran towards one of the crabs at high speed. The crab started blasting lasers at the group, particularly Ulrich. He dodged the lasers and jumped into the air. He then stabs the crab in the Lyoko mark. Ulrich quickly jumps up into the air as the first crab explodes and threw his sword at the second crab. The sword sliced its way through the crab and landed blade first into the ground. The crab stumbles for a few seconds and finally explodes. Ulrich lands on his feet and runs to pull his sword out.
"Two crabs down, one to...gah!", Ulrich was hit in the midsection and falls to the ground.
The supercomputer screen showed where Ulrich. Jeremie saw Ulrich's avatar's showing the damage he had taken by blanking red in his midsection. The boy genius spoke into his headset and checked on Ulrich, "You've taken heavy damage. You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Good. Be more careful you've got a swarm of kankerlets coming right at you."
"We're taking care of it.", said Yumi as she threw two fans at a couple of kankerlets. One dodged the fan while the other was sliced in half and exploded. The fans, like boomerangs, returned to her hands. The swarm started firing at the warriors.
"Laser arrow!", Odd shouted as he shot arrows from his wrist. The arrows flew through the air and hits two kankerlets. The kankerlets kept shooting at the warriors.
Aelita took cover behind a boulder. She charged a pink energy sphere and blasted it at a kankerlet. Within an instant, that kankerlet was killed. the swarm resumed shooting and she takes cover once again. Aelita charges another sphere and see Odd firing at the kankerlets, but was hit on the side by a laser. "Odd!", she ran after Odd as she blasted an energy ball at the kankerlet that shot him.
Odd saw Aelita come his way with one ready to fire at her. Before it could, Odd shot an arrow at the insect. "Aelita, head for the tower, we'll hold them off." Aelita did as she was told and ran to the tower. Odd got up ready to battle again. "Alright, if its a fight you want, its a fight you get." He ran at the remaining kankerlets of the swarm.
Aelita ran to the tower unaware of a infamous creature hiding behind the tower.
Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi were all done fight all of X.A.N.A.'s monsters. "That's the last of them.",said Yumi.
"AAAAAAHHH!"
A scream came from the tower's direction. The three sees Aelita wrapped around the tentacles of none other Scyphozoa.
"Aelita!", Yumi shouted as she ran towards the jellyfish monster.
"What's going on?", Jeremie asked watching the monitor.
"The scyphoozoa, it has Aelita. We're closing in on them.", Yumi answered.
"Hurry!" ,Jeremie commanded.
The three raced towards Aelita. Though, they were too late. The scyphozoa had downloaded all it needed into her mind. The monster then dropped her off gentley as if she was a delicate rose. Due ti past experience, Ulrich and Yumi kept their distance, but Odd kept running.
"Odd don't!", Ulrich tried to warn him, but the cat boy kept going.
Odd turned Aelita over to her back and lifted her head. "Aelita?", Odd said to her as if she was dead. Unaware, Aelita charged an energy sphere in her left hand under Odd. By the time Odd noticed, she released the sphere which caused him the fly back and instantly devirtualize.
"ODD!", Ulrich and Yumi called his name in unison as the drew there weapons preparing to battle X.A.N.A.-fied Aelita.
On Earth, Odd returned to the scanner and came out gasping for air.
On Lyoko, Aelita was throwing energy spheres at the samurai and geisha. Yumi dodges one sphere and Ulrich blocks the other. Yumi threw her fans at the elfin. Aelita dodges both, but as the two fans turned back to Yumi, one fan misses Aelita and returns to Yumi. One however hit Aelita in the back and returned to its owner. Aelita runs back towards the activated tower.
"Keep her away from that tower.", Jeremie warned.
"What do you think we're doing?", said Ulrich.
Back on Earth, Odd enters the supercomputer room watching the screen with Jeremie. "What's happening?", asked Odd.
"Aelita's been X.A.N.A.-fied and is trying to get to the tower and Ulrich and Yumi are playing keep away."
"Do you know what gets me? Why would X.A.N.A want access to an activated tower? I mean if he wanted to deactivate it he can, can't he? what happens if she does get to that tower?"
"I don't know, but we can't let her get to the tower. Who know what X.A.N.A.'s up to."
On Lyoko, Aelita was already hit a few times. All three Lyoko Warriors were already holding on a thread with their last remaining life points. Just one more hit and it will be all over. Aelita charged up two more energy spheres and shot both at Ulrich. He able to dodge one, but was hit with the second and devirtualized. On Earth, he was returned to the scanner. Upon exiting, he groaned in defeat. It was now up to Yumi to stop Aelita.
Aelita shot another sphere at Yumi. She misses the geisha. Yumi threw both fans at Aelita, but the elfin used her energy spheres to block the fans. Aelita made a break for the tower. Yumi runs after Aelita as well as picked up her fans. Yumi looks over to the side and spots a boulder. Suddenly, a lightbulb went up in her head. The geishe stops and closes her eyes and places two fingers from each hand on her temples.
On Earth, the boys saw that Yumi had completely stopped chasing Aelita. "Why did she stop?", asked Ulrich.
"Yumi, what are you doing? You're letting Aelita get away. Yumi? Yumi?", Jeremie called her name but no response.
A whitish aurora formed on the outline of her body. Nearby, the boulder too shone a whitish aurora. The boulder began to float up and headed towards Aelita. Aelita was just a few metres away from the tower. She suddenly sees a boulder hovering over her. She sees that she was almost to the tower and tries to out run it. Fortunately, before she could step foot in the tower, the boulder dropped right on top of her. Aelita moves out of the away. The boulder landed in front of the tower blocking the entrance. Once that was done, Yumi resumed chasing after Aelita.
Aelita tried to find another way in. She turns around and saw that Yumi had caught up to her. The girls engage in a staring contest. Aelita charged another energy sphere and Yumi drew one fan. Each prepared to attack. After a few more seconds of silence, both exchanged attacks at the same time. Time slowed as the fan and the sphere passed each other side by side. As time sped up once again, both girls hit by their weapons and devirtualized within seconds. Just like that, the battle was over.
The boys sigh in relief. All three ran to the elevator and descended to the scanner room. There, they meet up with then girls who just got out of the scanners.
"You guys okay?", asked Ulrich.
"Yes, we're fine. Thanks, Yumi.", Aelita thanked her Japanese friend.
"No problem."
In Lyoko, the activated tower automatically deactivated.
"I don't believe it. X.A.N.A. just deactivated the tower himself. Why did he do that?",Jeremie wondered out loud as the gang stood behind him watching the montior.
"Maybe he realized that this plan sucked. I mean what was he trying to accomplish? Nothing weird happened to us or anybody. If you ask me, a total waste of time.", said Odd.
"We can figure this out later. For now let's just return to the past.", said Ulrich.
"We can't. Since Aelita didn't deactivate the tower, I didn't get the codes for Return to the Past. Everything will stay the way it is.", Jeremie explained. "Let's get back to school. We don't want to be late for our physical test."
"Agreed.", said Yumi.
The Lyoko Warriors exited the supercomputer room and ascended to the first floor of the factory. All left the building and went back into their sewer shortcut.
Hidden in the park, the X.A.N.A. possessed reporter stopped recording everything he needed. The possessed reporter went inside the factory and picked up all the hidden spy cams. He palces them back in his host's back pack along with his remote. The reporter then left the factory. He headedmfor the park entrance. As soon as he was near a few bushes, X.A.N.A. left his host's body, letting fall behind them and left the man temporarily unconscious. The ghost quickly slithered back to the lamp post from where he came from and back to his domain.
A few minutes later, the reporter woke up rubbing his head. "Ugh. What happened? Why am I laying behind the bushes?", the reporter tried to remember as he got up and left the park. He soon shrugged it off and went back searching for a story.