~The Lyoko Warriors~
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Code Lyoko, the preview image,or any of the characters
used. I only own the storyline...somewhat atleast. Anyway, on with Chapter 5!
Chapter 5:Close Call
It was 11 at night. There was nothing to light the dark streets of the small
suburb of Paris. The only light in the abandoned Renault factory on the
artificial island downtown was a faint glow from the computer screen. Then, the
glow faded to black. A red symbol appeared brightly on the screen.
The sun shone brightly down on Kadic Academy. It had been an entire month
since XANA attacked. It was a free period, and the group of four friends was
gathered by the vending machine. Ulrich had a few minor burns visible, from the
electrical thing that had chased him. Yumi was leaning on a crutch, her sprained
ankle and broken arm completely healed, although her knee was not yet healed.
"So what's this thing you guys were talking about-Lyoko?" Yumi asked.
"Yea, we'll have to bring you there," Ulrich said with a smile. He couldn't help
but blush a bit when she smiled back. Nobody seemed to notice.
"Sometime is now, look at this," Jeremie said. He had been on his laptop. He
flashed the screen-there was an activated tower.
"What's his attack this time?" asked Odd.
"I don't know, but I'm gonna find out," Jeremie said. He began typing on his
laptop. At that moment, a shock ran through the school's power line.
"You guys go to the factory-I'll take care of things around here," Odd said,
running off.
"Jeremie we need to take the tunnel in the gym," Ulrich said. Jeremie almost
questioned it, but then his eyes caught the cast Yumi's leg was in.
"Right-let's go," Jeremie said. He ran for the gym, with Ulrich running and Yumi
keeping up surprisingly well behind him.
Odd walked through the school, headed for the roof where the antenna was.
When he got there, he saw the gym teacher, Jim.
"Wha-who let you up here, DellaRobbia?" he demanded.
"Only myself, sir. What's going on?" Odd asked, acting innocent.
"It's just a power glitch. I was up here working on it," Jim replied.
"Maybe I can help," Odd offered.
"It's far to dangerous-" Jim started, but was cut off by a small shock to his
finger. Odd looked at him expectantly.
"Fine, you can help," he admitted.
"Awesome! So now that that's over, maybe you can tell me what's really going
on?" Odd asked.
After a little while, Jeremie, Ulrich, and Yumi were at the factory and in
the elevator, descending. When they reached the lab, Jeremie punched in the
access code, and the elevator opened into the lab.
"You two go to the scanners, I'll let Aelita know you're coming," Jeremie said,
sitting at the computer.
"Okay Jeremie," Yumi replied, and Ulrich punched the button to descend.
"What do you mean, DellaRobbia?" Jim demanded.
"Oh that's right-I probably know more than you do," Odd saîd. Then he took out
his phone and dialed Jeremie.
"Hello? Jeremie...yea it's Odd,who else?...right. So did you figure out what
the attack was?...what do ya mean you're busy?...oh that's right. Never mind.
But we need to know... Mhm. Okay. See ya," Odd said, then hung up his phone.
"What was that?" Jim asked.
"Uh...nothing," Odd replied nervously. Jim gave him a suspicious glare, but set
to work on the power lines.
"Alright Jeremie, we're ready," Ulrich said after Yumi and himself were in the
scanners.
"Ok let's go," Jeremie said, typing in the codes.
"Transfer, Yumi...Transfer, Ulrich...Scanner, Yumi...Scanner, Ulrich..."
Jeremie said, still coding. Then he pressed enter.
"Virtualization!" he shouted.
Ulrich landed on his feet this time. Yumi did not have such luck. She got up
and looked around curiously, limping the slightest bit. Then she looked down at
herself-she was wearing a Japanese Geisha costume-complete with the half-black,
half-red dress-shirt, a yellow band around her waist ending in a bow on her
back, and black leggings and black heels, with white bands halfway up each leg.
"What...where..." she stammered. They were in the ice sector of Lyoko.
"Jeremie, we're in! Where's Aelita?" Ulrich asked.
"She should be in that area, she gave me the coordinates to send to you,"
Jeremie said, his voice emitted from nowhere.
"Yumi, just follow my lead, okay?" Ulrich said. Yumi nodded. The two ran. Then,
at that moment, two krabs came into view. They charged towards the two standing
there. Ulrich held out his sword. Yumi looked herself over for any weapons.
The krabs began firing. Ulrich blocked their lasers. One of the krabs shot
Yumi square in the chest. She was thrown back, and slammed into an iceberg.
Ulrich charged at them, slashing both straight through across the bottom. He ran
over to Yumi. She blinked her eyes open, and held her chest in pain as she got
up.
"That's gonna leave a mark..." she muttered. Aelita came running out.
"Are you okay?" she asked Yumi. Yumi just waved her off.
"I'll be fine," she insisted. Her hand left her chest as her pain left her.
"Don't you have a weapon?" Aelita asked.
"Not that I know of..." Yumi said. Aelita spotted something and pulled it from
behind Yumi's bow. It was a small brown stick.
"What's this?" Aelita asked, and she handed it to Yumi. Yumi took it, and
flicked her hand. The brown stick opened into a tessian fan.
"Well that's promising..." Yumi said sarcastically.
"It's better than nothing," Ulrich pointed out. Yumi shrugged, and slid it back
behind her bow.
Odd's phone rang. He smiled and answered it.
"Jeremie!" he exclaimed.
"Did you find out the attack?... WHAT?... How do you...whatever. How are
we supposed to stop it?...yea...alright... ok. See ya later Jeremie," Odd said
to his phone, then clicked it off.
"What was that?" Jim shouted. He was on a ladder and up by the power lines.
"Uh nothing Jim...say, do you think we can cut the power completely?" Odd asked.
Jim gave him a strange look.
"Why would you wanna do that?" he asked.
"Oh, uh, no reason, just to make sure no accidents happen," Odd stammered. Jim
shrugged, but he went ahead and completely cut the power. Odd smiled, a
victorious glint in his eye.
"Try to beat THAT, XANA," Odd said under his breath.
Yumi ran behind Ulrich and Aelita.
"It's convenient how Lyoko ignores real-world injuries," she remarked. Aelita
laughed a bit and Ulrich nodded with a smile.
"Jeremie, ever figure out what XANA's attack was?" Ulrich asked.
"Yea-he's prepared to use the power lines and electrocute anyone using an
electronic in the entire school! It's a good thing Odd got Jim to cut the power,
but there's no telling what XANA will do now," Jeremie said.
"Alright Jeremie," he replied.
"Hey, look over there!" Yumi shouted.
"Wha-shit...what are those things?" Ulrich exclaimed.
There were three huge gray spheres rolling out.
"According to the database, they're called megatanks," Jeremie said.
"Whatever, let's just take care of these things," Ulrich said. Then one of them
opened up.
"What's it doing?" Yumi asked. A huge mass of energy in a solid flat sheet was
quickly emitted from it. It was headed straight for Yumi, and was a direct hit
in her chest.
"Careful Yumi, that's 50 life points down!" Jeremie exclaimed.
Yumi groaned. She slowly rose, and the megatank closed. Then it advanced
towards her, the other two close behind it. Ulrich jumped in front of her.
"I think I know how to beat these things! Pull out your fan, hit them when they
open up!" he said. Yumi nodded, grabbing the fan from the bow on her back. All
three of them opened at once, hoping to catch the two people at the intersection
of the blasts.
"NOW!" Ulrich shouted. A t that moment, he sprang forward, and sunk his blade
into the eye of XANA.
Yumi hesitated, but threw her fan. It spun like a blade, hitting both of the
other mega tanks in one shot.
"Nice Yumi," Ulrich remarked as he jumped back, and all three mega tanks
exploded.
"Thanks," Yumi replied with a smile.
Odd watched Jim working on the power line. Then, a shock ran through it,
knocking Jim from his post on the ladder.
"Oh, fuck you, XANA..." Odd muttered. Jim would've fallen off of the roof, but
Odd caught his leg. He watched as he pulled Jim back up-XANA turned the power
back on. Odd climbed the ladder and tried to turn the power off, ignoring the
shocks now running up his arm. It didn't work, and Odd pulled away from it
panting. He grabbed his phone.
"Jeremie!...yes, there's an emergency!...XANA turned the power back on!...of
course I'll try to stop it, but it's harder than it sounds...right. Just hurry
up and deactivate the tower...see ya Jeremie, hopefully," Odd said, and then he
hung up the phone and set back to work.
"Aelita, there's the tower!" Ulrich said, pointing to it up ahead.
"Right," she replied, and took off for it, with Ulrich running ahead of her and
Yumi behind. Aelita ran into the tower. At that time, another mega tank rolled
up behind Yumi and devirtualized her with a direct hit. A few krabs walked up
and devirtualized Ulrich from behind.
Odd failed at cutting the power, and yet could not pull away from the shock,
or do anything about the fact that the shock was moving through the power lines.
Yumi stumbled out of the scanner, grabbing her crutch she'd left sitting
outside.
"Damn, those megatanks pack a punch!" she muttered, holding her chest where the
last one had hit her.
"Tell me about it," Ulrich said, panting as he stepped out of the scanner.
Aelita stepped onto the platform, the rings lighting up one by one as she
passed them. When she stood in the center, she stuck her arms out and leaned
back. She was lifted info the air, soaring up the tower.
The shock moved through the power lines and to the cords of electronics. The
shocks then began to move to the hands of people using them.
She did a few flips before landing on the top platform. An interface popped up.
She laid her hand on it. The words popped up, their letters one by one.
'AELITA. CODE:LYOKO.'
Then, all the screens on the side of the tower went down.
"Tower deactivated," she said.
The shocks stopped. Odd fell to the roof nearly unconscious. Mr. Delmas burst
the door leading to the roof open.
"What's going o-huh?" he asked. He saw Jim passed out and Odd collapsed.
Yumi followed Ulrich to the elevator. They went up to the lab.
"So what's up Jeremie, did XANA's plan work?" Yumi asked.
"Yes to it would've worked. No to it didn't succeed," Jeremie reported.
"Well that's good news," Ulrich said, standing beside her.
"Yea, it is. Now c'mon guys, we'd better go check on Odd," Jeremie said. The
others nodded as Jeremie stepped into the elevator and the three left the lab.
Author's Note:That part at the beginning?Yes,it IS important. XANA has access to the supercomputer. There's a lot of ways that could go...
Anyway, Yumi's almost all healed and has gone to Lyoko!Yay! And Odd didn't get killed, double yay!
I hope you enjoy reading this. I also post them to
My username there is LyokoWarriorEmber(shocker,huh?lol)
Anyway please comment review fav or whatever...bye for now!
-Ember