Ch.6 Aftermath
Kadic Academy was in chaos. The school was evacuating every student in the school. Parents of both boarders and non-boarders went looking for their children seeing if they were safe from the tragedy. Sadly, the same can not be said for the families of the victims searching frantically for their loved ones. Some had already gotten the news of their child's death when they saw their bodies dragged out by authorities. The newscasts had entered the proximity moments after the incident, which they are now calling Le Kadic Tuerie (trans: The Kadic Massacre, The Kadic Killing). Detectives and investigators were observing the bodies of the massacre victims, identifying the victims as as clues to this case.
Coming out of the school gates along with the countless other students, Hiroki was still unable to believe that his sister and her friends have done such a violent act. Not only that, but the boy he looked up to, Ulrich, was part of it, too. He knew that Yumi was hiding something since she kept coming home late, but to find out that secretly she was a mass murderer was unbearable. All he wanted to do was cry. The visions of the innocent child has shattered like glass.
"Hiroki!", the boy turned his head to see his parents coming from the car and running up to him. Hiroki was about to walk up to his parents until...
"Hiroki!" Hiroki looked back and saw his best friend Johnny running towards him and calling his name. Since he and Johnny had separate classes, he was not part of the massacre group.
"Johnny?"
"Hiroki! Oh, I'm glad your okay." Akiko, Yumi's and Hiroki's mother, hugged the boy scared for her life of losing her one of her children. Johnny joins them shortly relieved that his best friend was alive and well.
"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Ishiyama."
"Hello, Johnny. Glad to see that your okay as well. Where are your parents?"
"Thyey're stuck in traffic. A lot parents have kids that come to the schwell after hearing what happened. All of them are trying get to the school, even those coming from neighborhood countries."
Akiko and Taeko were surprised at the information that Johnny had reported. They knew the situation was bad, but the amount of parents that are coming in even from neighboring countriThey the situation was even worst than they ever imagined. This was goingnmake a international news in Europe. Akiko notices that Hiroki's head was down and tears were falling from his face. "Hiroki, what's wrong?", asked as she lifts her son's face. She gasps at the sight blood droplets on his tear stained face.
"What happened to you? Did they get to you?", Taeko, the father, frantically asked his son.
"No, otōsan. They didn't get me."
"Then why do you have blood on your face?"
"This is somebody else's blood. I hid and watched as Yu...they did killed the other kids. I'm the only one left."
"That would make you the sole survivor.", Johnny concluded.
Taeko was stunned that his son, at such a young age, had experienced things that no child or adult should ever experience. Hiroki had seen and survived the blood shed and came out as the sole survivor. The poor boy started to cry at the memory of the event and Taeko could not help but hug his son and hold him tight. "Ā, watashi no mazushī shōnen. Shizukana ima, soreha subete owatta. The important thing is that you and your sister is safe."
"Speaking of your sister, where's Yumi?", Akiko asked.
Hiroki hesitated at his mother's question. How could he tell his parents that Yumi was amoung the killers? She would bring dishonor to her family, not to mention they would possibly disown her and they would be known as the family with the killer child. They might even assume that Hiroki would be the next killer to take his sister's place.
"Hiroki,", Taeko's voice snapped him out of his thoughts.
"Huh?"
"Where is Yumi?"
Hiroki spoke up giving them a simple answer. "I don't know." His parents frowned at his answer fearing the worst.
"Let's wait here and see if she comes out. I hope she's okay.", said Akiko.
"Me, too.", Johnny whispered.
Back at the factory, the Lyoko Warriors were climbing out of the sewers. Ulrich was helping Yumi and Jeremie out of the sewers. They began to walk back inside the factory and onward into the elevator and downward. Once they reach the supercomputer room, Aelita supported Jeremie as he limped towards the supercomputer, then helped him up the chair. The shirtless boy inserted the disc and uploaded the program into the supercomputer. He typed in the codes for X.A.N.A.'s materialization.
In the Mountain Sector on Lyoko, a tower is once again activated by none other. Surrounding it, almost every monster on Lyoko encircled around the tower.
Jeremie was just about done with the process. Before he could, he turns around to William giving him a cold, hard stare and asks, "You remember the our deal right?"
William nods with a smug grin on his face. Jeremie turns back to the supercomputer and pressed the enter key. In the scanner room, the scanners were starting to fire up as they were preparing to materialize another body.
On Lyoko, a white light began to glow around the outline of the activated tower. The monsters looked up and and started roaring like monkeys as the light grew brighter and brighter. Then, a white beam of light shot out from the tower and into the digital sky creating portal in the form of a white galaxy-like disk. One of the scanners started to roar violently. After a few long seconds, the scanner finally opened. Inside, a woman sat inside scinside and take a look at herself and the room and chuckles darkly.
"Finally, I'm free. Free from that virtual prison." The woman got up and walks out of the scanner towards the ladder leading to the supercomputer room. She starts climbing thinking of the looks on the gang will have on their faces when they see her.
"Did it work?", Odd asked as he stood next to Jeremie and looked at the computer screen.
"Only one way to find out.", Jeremie said. Just about when Aelita was about to support him he got up.
"No need."
Everyone turns around and gasps in the presence of the woman. She had pink hair exactly like Aelita's, only long. She had tan skin, Lyoko symbols on the middle her forehead and shoulders, and red eyes, a black dragon-like tail with red stripes, black claws, and her attire looked similar to Aelita's, but was red and black with red belly and shoulder armor.
William kneels and hangs his head down in respect and says, "Master."
"Woah, a woman? Did you give him a sex change before he materialized or what? I thought X.A.N.A. was supposed to be a guy.", Odd said in confusion.
"Odd, that's not just any woman.", said Jeremie.
"Mo... Mother?", Aelita whispered softly in horror. The woman's face did not change as she expected the reaction the Lyoko Warriors would have upon her arrival.
"So Anthea, you were X.A.N.A. the whole time weren't you? "
"Well, sort of."
"Why mother? Why are you doing this?"
"As you all know, originally, I was created by Franz Hopper to destroy Project Carthage by using the towers on Lyoko."
"That was until the Men in Black came along and ruined Franz's plans. You finally became self aware due to Franz's multiple return to the past which ended up in the ultimate betrayal."
"My, my, someone must be interested in me. Yes, I was initially created to destroy Project Carthage. I was given her appearance because Franz created me was based off Aelita's mother, Anthea."
"What?", Aelita shouted in shock.
"Yes, before you were born Aelita, your parents secretly worked on a virus to destroy Project Carthage. When Lyoko was successfully, he knew he needed to create guardian to protect Lyoko as well as use the towers to destroy Carthage. As he did, he experimented on the time reversion program. So he created me, an AI based off his beloved wife. After experimenting on the program repeatedly, I became more aware to the point I where I was able to communicate with them from the virtual world, the same way Aelita did when you first met. I was like her in terms of her looks and caring nature. Later, feeling that knew that I was going to need protection in case anything goes wrong, he successfully virtualized Anthea to Lyoko to protect me, similar to how you protect Aelita. Everytime we were on Lyoko, we would talk to each other and she would teach me about the world and how it was both a beautiful, but a terrifyingly world. We were sort of like sisters. When, the Men in Black caught on to you guys and took Anthea away, I was left defenseless and weak, as a result, the destruction of Project Carthage failed. However, in Franz's absence, I gain knowledge of Project Carthage and grew stronger at the same time to point I was able to betray Hopper and Project Carthage for my own later, when you and Franz fled to Lyoko, I trapped you two inside so you would not escape and foil my plans for world domination. When supercomputer was shutdown I was sent into a dormant state. 11 years later, when Jeremie turned the supercomputer back on, he awaked me and I resumed my project. Unfortunately, upon my discovery, you five kept getting in the way and I couldn't do anything about it until you guys were finished off. When I found the program you used to bring Aelita to Earth, I altered the data to work on me and sent it to Jeremie's computer so he can retrieve it and virtualized me."
"Makes sense. Now that we all know your life story, let's cut to tge chase and fulfill your end of the bargain.", said Ulrich impatiently drawing his sword.
"Not so fast. We're not done yet there's one more thing you have to do."
Everyone except for William was confused. They had did what they said for her only to find out there was more to it. Aelita was furious that this woman, this manipulative, cold-hearted bitch who forced them to do the most unthinkabthis the most unimaginable thing they ever done in their lives. How? How could she use a bunch of kids to do her dirty work?
"You. You bitch! If my father beased you on my mother, then tell me this: you held our families' lives hostage, forced us to kill how many innocent, young lives for a program so you can be materialized onto Earth, and now your telling us there's more! What do you else want us to do, huh? Kill more people, Fight each other to the death, what more do you want?"
X.A.N.A smirks as she looks down, then looks back up to the gang and says, "To free Anthea."
The Lyoko Warriors were confused at the answer they were given.
"What? Isn't Anthea dead?", asked Yumi.
"No, Anthea is still inside Lyoko and I need her. So, if you still value your families' lives, Jeremie, bring her in." She turns her head to Jeremie, particularly at Aelita who was glaring her. As soon as she took one step towards her, everyone took a battle stance in case she was up to no good. William holds his sword tight ready to fight. After X.A.N.A. stops after three mpfeet away from Aelita, she smiles smugly. "Don't you want to see your mother again? To see her face and have her wrap her arms around her body? To hear her voice again and for her to tell you...I love you."
Aelita was just about to throw the energy sphere at her, but she couldn't bring herself to do so. Her mind was full of pain, anger, and sadness. She wanted revenge for what the woman has done to her, her friends, her family, and countless others. Then there was her heart who was trying to stop her for making the biggest mistake she would ever regret. By doing this, she would risk the lives of her friends' families not to mention wanting to see her own. She puts her hand down and the energy sphere fades. Jeremy types the materialization codes for Anthea.
After a couple of minutes, Jeremie finishes the final process of materialization and presses enter. On Lyoko, the beam connecting the virtual and real world releases another blast into the sky. On Earth, the scanner once again roars violently. After a few seconds, the scanner quiets down and opens. There, sat a woman who looked identical to X.A.N.A. with pink hair, brown eyes, black claws, fair skin, and Lyoko symbols on her forehead and shoulders, she was wearing similar outfit to Anthea's, but was red and yellow outfit with black shoulder and belly armor, and had black stripes on her tail pink tail.
She wakes up and looks at the surroundings. "Where am I? This isn't Lyoko.", she thought. She got up and looks at her herself and sees that she was still in Lyoko form. The woman steps out of the scanner and looks around. Suddenly, she rubs her temples as memories of this place come flooding back to her head. She opens her eyes and realizes she was back on Earth after how many long years she was trapped in a question came into her mind, "Who freed me?". She walks towards the side ladder and starts climbing.
"It's done. If you want to see if the program worked for her, then you can check for yourself.", said Jeremie.
"Don't need to. I'm sure she remembers this place.", said X.A.N.A..
Anthea climbs into the supercomputer room and sees a bunch of unfamiliar faces. "Excuse me." Everyone turned around to awe at the woman as she climbed into the supercomputer room and stood in front of the Lyoko Warriors. "Are you the ones who freed me?", she asked.
No one says a word as they stare in awe of the woman before them. Aelita stares at the woman as ther eyes started to water. She started took a few steps from Jeremie towards the woman. "Mommy? Mother, is that you?"
Anthea looks past the group and sees a pink haired girl who looks like he daughter only older. Despite age, there was only one person she knows who as pink hair other than herself. "Aelita?"
The girls runs over to her mother crying tears of joy and hugs her. After being ripped away for how many years from her family, she and her mother has finally reunited. At least she has one of the parents back, her own family.
"Mom, I thought(hiccup)...I thought...", she tried to finish as she sobbed in the chest.
"Oh, thank God. I thought I'd never see you again."
"But how? How did you escape the Men in Black?"
"Yes, tell us, how did you escape, but more importantly, how did your get to Lyoko?", said X.A.N.A. as she went the supercomputer and started dragon woman glares and growls at the twin with anger bearing dragon like fangs. She was imprisoned in that world for years and trapped in Sector 5 for years on end.
"Well, we're waiting.", X.A.N.A. sang.
The woman takes a deep breathe being forced to relive the memory of the escape to Lyoko. "It started 18 years ago, a year after I was taken away from my husband and daughter."
Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Anthea is in a cell looking at a picture of her, Franz, and 5 year old Aelita. She missed them dearly and hoped that she and and her father were okay. For one year, she was slapped, beaten, and interrogated for information about Franz's virus by the Men in Black. When she arrived, they expected her to spill everything out about Franz's project the moment she got here, but they were wrong. The woman was much stronger than they thought. So far, she has told them very little about the virus and nothing more. Not about Lyoko, Franz, or Aelita.
"Alright Hopper, time to leave. We got to get you to Switzerland this afternoon. So move it.", said a black man with black and white suit and tie with shades. Two men came into her cell and handcuffed her. each man held a tight grip on the woman as they led her outside like a dog on a tight leash.
"When news got out that you and Franz had gone into hiding and any and all research papers were destroyed, things started get difficult. Since the I wouldn't talk, they said I would be stuck hear forever until I told them more information about Lyoko. Some thought of killing me, many of them were against it and saw that I was more of use to them alive than dead. So, instead of killing me, they forced me to work for them to make some improvements on Project Carthage in one of their secret labs in Switzerland.
The two men in black white and shades escorted her to a black car. They open the door acar tried shove her into the car, but she resisted.
"Get in there!", said one of them.
"Never!", she shouted.
"Hey, Francis, a little help here?"
The black man ran to the other side of the car and got it. He crawled over to the other side and grabbed wrapped around Anthea's waist. Her started to pull her in as the other man pushed her in. Finally she collapses inside and the other quickly gets in and sits next to her. Francis does the same. The MIB agent speeds off and drives down the road. As soon at they got on the gets on a highway, Anthea noticed that they were heading west instead of south to Switzerland.
"Hey, where are you taking us? We're supposed to be going Switzerland.", one of the men shouted. The man didn't respond and kept driving.
"McCarthy, you are disobeying orders. Stop this car, right now!", Francis commanded. McCarthy sslows down and stops the car on the curb. Françis takes out his cellphone and starts dialing the number for HQ. Suddenly this car door opens. He looks up and find McCarthy there looking down at him with an emotionless face."McCrathy, what the hell are you doing?"
McCarthy raises his hand at the man and shoots lightning out his hand instantly knocking him out. His takes out a gun and points it at the man.
"What are doing? How did you...aaahhhh!", the man was hit by McCarthy's lightning shots and fell unconscious. McCarthy then looks at the frightened woman sitting in between the two unconscious agents. McCarthy then removed the men from the car and set them on the side of the road. McCarthy walks back to the back seat of the car and looks at Anthea.
"What are you doing?", Anthea asked frightened at the man. The man aims his hand at Anthea and shoots lightning at her. She falls on her side unconsciously. He quickly gets back in the car and continued driving west.
"After I was knocked, McCarthy drove me to a small city called Boulogne-Billiancourt."
8.2 km later, the car reaches Boulogne-Billiancourt. Anthea woke up and sees it is night and the agent is still driving. They then come to a full stop by the park entrance. McCarthy gets out of the car and grabs Anthea, still weak from the shock. The man carries the woman to the park until he find a manhole. He lifts the lid and climbs down the ladder while carrying Anthea. He walks down the sewer towards the factory. At the factory, the man climbs out of the sewer and walks into the factory and to elevator. The elevator descends to the scanner room. The elevator opens up and the agents walks to one of the scanners and settles her down on bottom of the scanner. McCarthy walks back to elevator and ascends to the supercomputer room. Once the door opens, he walks over to the supercomputer and types in to the codes for virtualization, then starts the countdown. After that, the man's image fizzes out like a computer screen and disappears.
In the scanner room, the scanner closes and the roars. 10...9. Anthea uses the little strength she had regained to reach into her pocket and takes out the photo of her, Aelita, and Franz. 5... takes one last look at it as she came to realize by McCarthy's lightning shots and fell un 3...2...1...0. Anthea closes her eyes as she was finally virtualized into Lyoko for the next 18 years.
"I would've gotten out if I tried, but I was still too weak from the shock. You don't how painful it felt to know thayou would never, ever see you husand, or see your child again. To never see then grow up, to never again to be in the picture with your family."
Flashback ends~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"So it was one of X.A.N.A.'s spectors that got you out of there and transported you to Lyoko.", Jeremie concluded.
"So if you were on Lyoko, why didn't father and I see you when we arrived on Lyoko?", asked Aelita.
"When I arrived on Lyoko, X.A.N.A. had captured me using the guardian. So by the time you and Franz go here, I was already gone. When the supercomputer shutdown, we all went into a dormant later when you guys turned on the supercomputer, I woke up in a strange room. I didn't know where or why, but my instincts told me one thing, get out."
"Mom.", was all Aelita could say.
"Touching, but we got to get back to what we're doing, so I'll do this. I'll get rid of that horrid music and then we can move on. To delete it, all you have to do find the data and erase it. Simple as that.", X.A.N.A. instructed.
"How do we know your not up to something?", asked Anthea.
"Remember, much of my programming is based on you, so I am a keeper of my word."
"Makes sense.", said Odd.
Jeremie turns back to the supercomputer and searches for the killer music data. It took some time to figure out where to find it, but he managed to find data and deletes it.
"Done.", he said getting off the chair and limping to the others. "Let's go." The gang and Anthea walked to the elevator, but was blocked by William after he super smoked in front to them.
"Hey! What gives?", Ulrich turned back to X.A.N.A. with anger.
"You may not have heard me. I said I needed Anthea. That means she stays here, with me."
"For what purpose?"
The humanized program grins evil at the gang as she gave them her answer. " To create new monsters." The Lyoko Warriors stood wide eyed at the evil twin in shock. "You see, she was given the ability to create and cintrol monsters to protect us from danger. When I trapped her in Lyoko, I stole some of that data, but couldn't get all of them since I wasn't as strong back then. She knows the codes for creating new monsters. Monsters stronger, faster, smarter, and more complex than the ones I have."
"Your forgetting one thing, I've been stuck inside Lyoko for 17 years. Not only that, I only remember half of what what I know of the programing on the computer. Therefore, your plan's backfired.", said Anthea unaware of two tentacles coming up from the ground entrance to scanner room and creeping up behind her.
"Not necessarily.", she said as she typed in the codes for materialization. "I'm sure you remember the scyphozoa, do you?"
"Yes I do unfortunately. Why?"
All of a sudden a mass of tentacles wrapped around Anthea and quickly dragged her down to the scanner room.
"Mrs. Hopper!", Odd shouted running after the woman.
"Mother.", Aelita said as she followed Odd.
"William, go after them.", X.A.N.A. commanded.
William ran towards the ground entrance of the scanner room., but was grazed in the shoulder by a fan. He grunts in pain and grabs his shoulder, then looks in Yumi and Ulrich's direction to see Yumi with her fans out.
"Not so fast!", said Ulrich super sprinting towards William. The boys engaged in a sword battle for the second time today.
With Odd and Aelita, things weren't going well for them. Apparently, X.A.N.A. made sure the syphozoa came with body guards. A blok and a crab were shooting at Odd and Aelita while the shyphozoa was stealing Anthea's memory.
"Laser arrow!", Odd shouted as he shot a laser arrow at one the blok. The monster exploded on contact leaving only its legs behind. Aelita charged up another energy sphere and targeted her hand at the crab.
"Princess! Go save your mother, I'll take care of crab-cakes over here.", Odd ordered shooting more arrows at the crab.
Aelita obeyed and switched targets to the syphozoa. She shoots the spheres at the syphozoa's head. The monster released its grip on the woman and dropped her on the ground. Aelita charges two more spheres and fires them at the scyphozoa. The monster retreats to the other side of the room and away from the battle. Aelita runs towards her mother who laid there unconsciously. Without hesitation, she ragged her mother to the elevator door and pressed the button and waited form the elevator to open.
Odd had ran up the crab's leg to the top of its head. He shoots an arrow into the bull eyes. The crab falls to the ground head first. Odd jumped off the crab and ran to Aelita and her mother inside the elevator.
"Let get out of here. I've had enough of Lyoko for one day.", said Odd pressing the button in the elevator.
"Your not the only one.", said Aelita.
Ulrich was still engaged in battle with Ulrich. Yumi and Jeremie stood there and watched unable to help their friend. The elevator door opens behind them revealing Odd and Aelita with a knocked out Anthea. Aelita puts down Anthea for a moment and leaves with Odd to help Yumi and Jeremie into the elevator.
"Ulrich, c'mon.", Yumi called out. Ulrich turns his head to see the gang and Anthea in the elevator. He Sparta kicks William in the stomach and makes a run for it. William recovers within seconds and super smokes towards the elevator. He reappears from the floor with his sword out ready to fight Ulrich. He was just about to strike when...
"STOP!", the voice. The voice returned "I won't let you do this!"
William dropped his sword and grabbed his head with both hands. The voice, the headache, had returned. He startled to stumble away from the in pain.
"Get away from these people.", the real William's voice commanded.
"AAAARRRGGHH! Get out of my head! Leave me alone!", William screamed.
Ulrich took a battle stance as watched William watched losing his mind and walking towards him. As soon as he was sure he was unable to chase him, he took advantage of the moment and ran towards the elevator. Jeremie presses the bottom and ascend to the top floor.
"Fool, what are you doing? Your let them get away!", X.A.N.A. yelled in frustration. William only responded in screams of pain. "Not matter. We may not have gotten all the codes, but we have at least half of them. More than enough to create new monsters to crush those pain in the ass kids, capture Aelita and her mother, build an army that the world has not seen before. For now, let's just see how things go." X.A.N.A. chuckled as she walked back to the supercomputer and typing in the codes for her monsters to materialize on Earth.
On the top floor, the gang dashes out of the elevator while Ulrich and Odd dragged Anthea out following them. Anthea starts to stir and opens here eyes. Ulrich and Odd sets her down gently. The woman gets up and stumbles, but the boys support her on the way out. They make their way out of the factory and reach the manhole. The gang climb down to the sewers and start walking down the sewers taking their skateboards and scooters with them. After walking a good distance from the factory manhole, the gang decided to rest and think about the mess they were in and what they were going to do.
"Were out, but what do we do now? X.A.N.A. has taken control of the factory, we're no doubtly wanted by the law, and we have nowhere to go, not even our homes?", Yumi said sadly.
"There has to be some place we can stay.", said Aelita.
"But where? If you haven't noticed, your home is the school and I'm the only one who goes home off campus."
The gang sat there thinking hard of the few possible places they can hide from the authorities and X.A.N.A. A place close enough to the factory or school and somewhere where the police or Anyone could find them, especially X.A.N.A.. Jeremie gets an idea, but is unsure how well it could work.
"What about the hermitage? We can keep an eye on things here in Boulogne-Billiancourt and the hermitage must have something in there from Franz's research we can use against X.A.N.A.."
"Yeah, but you forget that the hermitage is near the school, so if someone sees us and gets suspicious. What would do then?", said Ulrich.
"I don't know, but for now we have to be careful about where we go."
"Are you sure, there are any other places we can hide?", asked Anthea.
"Well, it's either the hermitage, or the cabin in the mountains."
"Anywhere we can stay that's in this city?", asked Odd.
"We can search a few places, but we would be taking the risks of getting caught by the police. Plus, we need to be as close to this area or the factory as possible to make sure that X.A.N.A. doesn't do anything that would destroy the city."
"So the hermitage is the only choice we have."
Jeremie nods. "Yes. We can find another place we can settle if our hide out is compromised."
"What about Anthea?", asked Odd.
"She can stay with us. X.A.N.A. now has two people be chasing after and if one or both of us fall into X.A.N.A.'s clutches, who knows what she might do."
"So it's settled, we hide out in the hermitage and have Anthea stay with us until we can figure away out of this mess. Agree?", asked Jeremie.
"I'm in.", Ulrich voted.
"Count us in.", Aelita spoke for Anthea and Odd. She turns her head to Yumi who leaned against the sewer wall silently. "Yumi, are you okay with this?"
"Yes, I am, but I was just thinking."
"About what?"
"About my family. Yes I know they're safe now, but we killed those people and no doubt the police will find out it was us that did it. Sooner or later, they're going ot find out it was us and when they do, what will they think of us? Just a bunch of murderous kids? I don't want my family to think of me as such. I mean look at you Aelita, you have your mother while Ulrich, Odd, Jeremie, and I have not idea what they're go through if they find out that we were the ones behind the mass murder." The others thought about their families and how they will react if they ever discover it was them.
"Well, what can we do? If we go to them, who nows what might happen. Will they protect us, call the authorities?"
"What if we tell them everything about Lyoko and we we did what we did..."
"No offense, but that's a terrible idea. They'll never believe us. On top of that, what proof do we have?", said Ulrich.
"We still have our powers, right? If we use them, they are bound to believe us."
"It seem crazy, but it just might work. If they do believe us, it would ease their minds and the chances of them report us to the police would be slim.", said Jeremie thinking about Yumi's idea articulately. "'Sides, its better they know the truth sooner or later. This is something the time reverse program can't help us out of."
"I guess.", Odd rest nod their heads in agreement.
"Well, lets get to the hermitage, in case William is still searching for us."
The Lyoko Warriors got up and took the sewer path to the hermitage's secret passage. In just one day alone, almost their entire lives had shattered to pieces.
On the school grounds, investigators were looking for clues, trying to identify the suspects of Le Kadic Tuerie. Officers were searching the area for the gang and so far, no luck. The chief was in one of the classrooms trying to figure out whout was going on and reasons for why these children decided to kill these people. He pulls out talkie and checks in on the investigation. "Inspector, status report."
"Nothing yet, chief. With all this blood and these bodies, trying to find a simple clue would be nearly impossible."
"Keep looking. There are parents crying out there for the lost of their loved ones and are demanding justice to be done to the suspects."
"Yes, sir."
"Chief Barkley.", said a voice coming through the door. He turns back and sees Delmas and Jim standing at the door.
"Principal Delmas. I can't talk now, I'm trying to..."
"Figure out who the suspects are?", Jim said finishing his sentence. The gruff police chief sighs and looks back.
"Yes. Now please, I must get back to this case."
"What if were told you we knew who the suspects are?"
Jim has grabbed the chief's attention. The man turns around and walks over to them. "You know who they are?"
"Unfortunately.", was all that Delmas could say. He was still trying to except the fact that five perfectly good students turned into total killers.
"What do you mean?"
"The killers were actually kids that attend, I mean, attended this school. Good kids with good grades and character."
"So, you mean to tell me that, the suspects are students that attend this school and one day decided to kill a bunch of inoccent people?"
"Yes, sir."
The man was surprised to hear six supposedly perfectly good studensix were behind all this. His mind was trying to comprehend what the principal said. "But that doesn't make sense. Why would a group of kids suddenly decide to kill a bunch of other students and teachers? What's their motive?
Jim and Delmas looked at each other then turned their heads back to Barkely. Jim spoke for the bottom of them, "We don't know. There's got to be some explanation."
"Explanation or not, they are still criminals and like all criminals, they must answer to their crimes. They're lucky they're in Europe. Most countries, unlike America, oppose the death penalty." The chief took out a pen and notepad from his pocket and prepare to write down their names. "Now, what are their names?"
"Jeremie Belpois, Aelita Stones, Odd Della Robbia," Delmas listed off their names sadly.
"Then there was, Ulrich Stern, Yumi Ishiyama, and William Dunbar. All sixmof them.", Jim finished.
"Are you sure?"
"Positive."
The man wrote the names of the six kids on the notepad. He wonders to himself, what on earth caused these six kids to go out and kill a teacher then an entire crowd of kids and other teachers.
"I'm sorry about your students and the school. They sounded like such good students.", Barkely said a apologetically face. "Just understand, that I'm only doing my job. I have a city to protect. Honestly, I hate to see what happens to these kids after they are taken into custody."
"I know you do.", said Delmas.
Delmas looks down and nods. He turns around and walks towards the door. How could this happen and why? More importantly, how would this effect the school now that there were how many students and teachers that had been slaughtered at their hands. Jim stayed behind and continued to talk to the chief.
"He and I discussed that they don't even have the guts to kill a single chief. Makes you wonder if they actually because they were forced to, or by will."
Barkely was intrigued by the information given to him. "You don't say?"
"Yup. Yeah, they played pranks and got on my nerves like any other kid, but if look at them, do you really think they would kill anyone by will?", Jim said as he walked out of the room to leave the man alone to continue on with the case.
"Jim." Looks back at Barkely. "Tell Delmas to close the school for a few days or so. We're going to need more time investigate here."
"Will do, sir.", the coach said and left the room. Barkely thought about what Jim said about the Lyoko Warriors. If what Jim said about them was true, then why would they kill a bunch of people out of the blue? Would that mean there was more to this massacre than he thought? If so, what is it?
Notes
Ā, watashi no mazushī shōnen. Shizukana ima, soreha subete owatta.-Oh my poor boy. Quiet now, it's all over
Otōsan-dad
Fact: Most countries actually do oppose the death penalty. (That's why Edward Snowden is safe in Russia as a temporary asylum to avoid the possibility of a death penalty in America for releasing U.S. info to other might not come back.)