Code Lyoko Episode 143: Upgrade
Author: James the Lesser/The Bunnyman
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own These Characters! Moonscoop Does!
A/N ALL PEOPLE WHO SAY I SPELLED XANA WRONG. READ MY OTHER STORIES, 53-142 PLUS THE OVA FIRST SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!! Actually, I probably don't need this anymore since Xana is Xana…
Jim and Sanne had called a meeting in the Hermitage. The kids were depressed and the two adults knew it. They had fought Xana, they had gone all out with Sissi, Ulrich, and an entire army of monsters, and lost. The kids weren't seeing an end to this war. The kids were ready to give up after trying the best they could and losing. Aelita tried to stay cheery but her friends brought her down. "Kids, we want you to know that we are still in this. We hurt Xana and he was weakened. Next time we might be able to do it."
"Jim's right. We hurt Xana. Aelita, you said you saw something in Xana, what was it?"
"The, the three orbs. Mine, yours, and Franz Hopper's."
"They were exposed and give me an idea. If we can get those orbs it would weaken Xana greatly."
"Put that in the fat chance department." Odd rolls his eyes. "We fought him and we lost. Hurt him? How? Maybe we made him use his powers more then usual but hurt him? It's pretty clear we can't." Odd has been on a roller coaster of emotions the past couple of months. Losing his friend then losing another friend. Being given a world where he was free from danger, and then losing his girlfriend the love of his life. His mind was suffering and the loss against Xana hurt him even more.
"We hurt him. It's been nearly two weeks since he last attacked. He was hurt Odd believe me." Sanne pleads her case but Odd and the others are skeptical.
"Sanne we tried! I, I've been going to Lyoko. I never thought I'd step foot let alone fight as a warrior on Lyoko." Jeremie was just as lost as Odd was. He never thought things would get this bad.
"I, I lost Ulrich because of this. I, I want to save him but Sissi, she's to strong. We'll never win against Xana and I, I," Yumi stops. She was depressed as much as the others, even more then the others. They all had someone to lean on while she didn't. Jeremie and Aelita had each other for strength. Odd and S.S. had each other as Samantha had William. But Yumi was alone. She could probably go to Mike, she knew he liked her, but he wasn't Ulrich. "I don't think I can keep doing this."
"You can to and you will!" Sanne decides to get firm with the kids. "We don't have a choice. Go ahead, go home, cry, but realize Xana is still out there. You unleashed him you will put him back! If you need to cry do it and get it over with!" Sanne feels bad for yelling at the kids. They were only teens yet were dealing with an evil like Xana. They had done so well but now they were falling apart. "Hell Yumi I know it's been hard on you kids but you have to keep together! I was once your enemy. I know what you dealt with. You were only thirteen then Yumi, you're sixteen now right?"
"No, I, I will be soon." Yumi had to think for a few seconds to realize her birthday was less then a month away.
"For nearly three years you've fought Xana you can't give up now!" Sanne stomps her foot. "You're just kids I know and you've fought long and hard but you can't stop now! He, he had to destroy the Mountain Sector to get power, to win that last fight. Do you think that's a good thing for him?" Sanne's assumption that Xana destroyed the Sector is wrong and brings up a good question.
"He wants to destroy the Sectors so he can escape, and why didn't he do it before?"
"I don't know. I think it's because he is bound to the Core and that means destroying a Sector hurt him in the long run. He was able to get more power for that time but now he is probably weaker. I can't think or find any benefits of destroying a Sector."
But how wrong Sanne was. The loss of the Mountain Sector meant the Super Computer had more power. And what will Xana do with this power? The gang would soon find out.
Later that day Samantha was going to the Factory through the sewer passage when she sees a skateboard already at the end of the sewer passage. "This looks like Yumi's skateboard. I wonder what she is doing here." Samantha climbs up the ladder and goes to the Factory. She takes the elevator down and is surprised to not see Yumi in the Control Room. She goes over to the chair and tries to contact William but he doesn't respond. "William? Hey, William, Yumi?" Samantha wonders if maybe Yumi went to Lyoko. Yumi seemed ready to cry and maybe she was going to Lyoko. Samantha knew feelings didn't hurt as much on Lyoko. Feelings didn't affect you as much on Lyoko so maybe Yumi went there to get away. "William!" She yells into the microphone and now gets a response.
"Hello? Sorry, I, I was helping Yumi." William sees Samantha. "Oh, um, I forgot you were coming over today. Yumi, she, I don't know what happened on Earth but she's hurt."
"Hurt?" The way William said it made Samantha think Yumi was hurt physically.
"What happened? She said something about a meeting but won't talk to me. She was crying when she was at the control panel but now she's here and can't." William was worried about Yumi. She was a friend. He still had some feelings for her but knew he couldn't have her. Samantha had distracted him but when Yumi came to Lyoko and came to him he had to fight the urge to kiss her. He liked Samantha, he might even love her, but to have Yumi come to him put something in his head that reminded him of past moments with her that he couldn't stop.
"We had a meeting at the Hermitage. Sanne and Jim called for it and pretty much yelled at us to stop acting like the weak losers that we are." Samantha had been hit hard by the loss to. She talked to William and he tried to tell her she and the others weren't weak losers. They had saved him from the Digital Sea, they had brought Aelita back, they were heroes. They were fighting an evil by themselves and only recently did anyone over eighteen come into the group. Samantha had been the newest but was hit the hardest. She was dead to the world, she couldn't go out and do things or someone might recognize her. S.S. was dead but Sandra Morales could go out and go to school, movies, eat out.
"Ok Samantha, I, whoa." William feels a rumble. "Pulsations."
"What?" Seconds later the Super Scan comes up and beeps. "Oh, an attack." Samantha gets her phone out and calls Sanne. "Sanne, activated Tower."
"What? The other kids are at school, we need them, especially Aelita."
"Well, we have me, William, Yumi, and you. We could probably do it."
"No, it's too dangerous to go there with so few. Wait, Yumi?" Sanne figured Yumi went to school with the others.
"Yeah, she, it doesn't matter. Um, Sissi and Ulrich, they would be a big help and wouldn't hurt our group."
"Good thinking, but we still need Aelita. I, I know I'm low on time I can spend on Lyoko. Aelita's time was reset after her deletion so she could go there for another decade and be fine but me, it wouldn't be good if I got to the Tower only to run out of time."
"Ok, um, well, you're her mother, call the school and get her out or something while I call Ulrich."
"Ok Samantha." They hang up and make the calls. Luckily the kids were between classes and weren't interrupting classes.
"Hello?" Ulrich saw it was Samantha's number and wondered why she would be calling.
"Attack, Xana is attacking."
"Ok, I'll tell Sissi and we'll be there in a few seconds." Ulrich hangs up and goes to tell Sissi when she sends a psychic message to him. "I know, I'm dealing with it, go there without me. I'll tell you whether or not we need a return." Ulrich sends a message back and then turns into a black mist and leaves the school through an electrical outlet and appears at the Factory seconds later. "When is everyone else getting here?" He sees Samantha in the chair.
"I, I don't know. I called Aelita and…" Samantha stops when Ulrich breaks apart into the black mist and leaves the Factory. Moments later he comes back with Aelita. "I guess she will get here now. I'm waiting on Sanne and Jim. The others can't get out of classes so it will be a small group."
"What about Aelita? How is she able to get out?"
"Her mom called a family emergency. Jim is able to get out I think since he was a teacher."
"Well, I didn't even think about it. Sissi said she found the attack and is fighting it. She'll tell me if we need a return or not." Ulrich wonders if he will get in trouble. He was just skipping classes, so was Sissi. The teachers knew he was with Sissi now and would probably assume they ran off together to do something other then studying. "I, I might get in trouble then. I think I should go back."
"Ulrich we need you." Samantha grabs his hand. "I, I'm sorry but we need you. Where's Sissi?"
"Like I said she found the attack and was fighting it. She'll tell me if we need a return or not."
"Oh, um, well, sorry. I'd say I wish you weren't put in this position but I'd gladly take your place. You get to go outside of the Hermitage and the Factory." Samantha did take walks in the woods but she had to make sure to wear a hooded sweatshirt and make sure no one saw her.
"Yeah but then you'd have to do what I do with Sissi and trust me it's not fun." Ulrich turns to the screen. "Hi William, how have you been?"
"I'm good Ulrich. Yumi, she misses you. I know you can't talk to her because of Sissi but know she still loves you and will take you back as soon as you can break away from Sissi." William knew Ulrich wanted and needed to hear this. Yumi wanted to hear Ulrich tell her he still loved her but knew Sissi would hurt him if he tried and he wouldn't be able to. William liked Ulrich, he was a good guy, and he sacrificed himself for Aelita and knew Ulrich deserved Yumi, they needed to be together. He had a lot of time on his hands to do nothing but think and wonder about his friends. "And she knows you still love her even though Sissi makes you do things."
"Thanks William. Wait, where is Yumi?"
"She's here with me. She, she needed someone to talk to and I was the only one available."
"I'm glad she could come to you." Ulrich knows William had to still have feelings for Yumi. Ulrich knew he could never stop loving Yumi even if she had gone with William. At least Yumi would have someone if he never escaped from Sissi's hold, or so he thinks. He doesn't know about Samantha and William trying to work things out even though William was on Lyoko and had no way to get out until Sanne, Aelita, and Jeremie figure it out. "Let me get Sanne and Jim this is taking to long." Ulrich breaks apart into a black mist and gets Jim then Sanne and takes them to the Factory.
"Thank you Ulrich but I was doing well on my own." Sanne has flashbacks to when she was Xana and traveled as a black mist. It unnerves her but she pushes the memories away as she gets to the computer chair and sits down once Samantha gets up. "I can send you now, just…" Before Sanne finishes her sentence Ulrich turns into a black mist and takes the group, minus Sanne of course, to Lyoko.
"Ulrich." Yumi walks out of the Tower and wants to hug him but figures Sissi would shock him and hurt Ulrich. "Um, where's Sissi?"
"She's fighting a monster on Earth. She'll tell me if we need a return or not." Ulrich looks around. "Sanne, the Tower is in the Ice Sector." They were in the Forest Sector where William and Yumi were.
"I'll send the Transporter." She sends it and as the group is taken to the Ice Sector she whispers to herself. "Glad I'm needed for something."
"Whoa." The Transporter drops them off at the Ice Sector. "Where do we go Sanne?"
"South from there, hurry, I don't know what is going on with the attack."
"I do, Sissi's taking care of it." Ulrich and the others see the vehicles appear and take off as Sissi does take care of the attack.
"New paint job, go down as easy as the old ones." Sissi wipes blood from her mouth. The Assassin got a lucky shot in. "Wonder why he gave them new paint jobs." Sissi walks away from three destroyed Assassins, one destroyed Dragon, and two destroyed Blocks. They had appeared from the air like they would have on Lyoko. Xana's power was more then enough to send them directly to Earth no longer needing the Scanners. The group on Lyoko would find out why they had a new paintjob very soon.
"Hey, is that a Kankrelat?" Ulrich flies past the group using his powers and sees a weird sight. One type of every monster in front of the Tower. Even weirder they all seemed to have been gone over by a crazy six year old with a box of crayons. The Krabes were vibrant blood red, the Kankrelats were bright Orange, the Assassins were bright neon blue, the Mega Tanks were as black as you could get, the Blocks were now purple and the Hornets were dark olive green. The weirdest though was the Tarantula. It was bright pink. Another thing Ulrich noticed was the Eyes on them seemed to be smaller.
"Ulrich what happened?" Yumi and the others had caught up to him.
"I don't know. Xana seems to have gone Technicolor with the monsters." Ulrich looks at the different monsters. "He's obviously doing something big or he wouldn't be doing this."
"That's right." The group looks around and sees Xana flying down from the sky. "My troops did well. They fought the traitors, the Lyoko Warriors, and an entire army of mutated monsters and won. So I gave them an upgrade. I would send Lynnette but I want to see how my new monsters do." Xana laughs. "I would have liked all of you to be here though."
"You shouldn't have attacked us during school then." Ulrich gets his swords out. "I don't care what you did I'll destroy these monsters and get Aelita to the Tower."
"I'll watch and see." Xana floats away as the group gets ready to fight the monsters.
"Too easy, Triplicate!" Ulrich splits apart. "You guys probably won't have to do anything." Ulrich charges the monsters and finds they really did get an upgrade.
"Ulrich, we'll help!" Yumi gets her fans out when amazingly the Kankrelat moves incredibly fast and dodges Ulrich's attack. "Hai!" She throws her fans and misses the Kankrelat when it dodges them.
"This is going to be fun." William runs forward being hit by lasers. He ignores them since he was already dead and didn't need to worry about life points. He charges the Block and is hit with the Ice Beam. "Damn it, I didn't think about that." The Hornet flies up from behind and sprays him with acid. "Aaaa!"
"William!" Samantha throws daggers as fast as she can but the Hornet dodges them easily.
"Thunder Clap!" The energy wave knocks the Tarantula back but doesn't hurt it. "Is it just me or did the Eyes get really small?"
"I noticed that to." Aelita was watching from the Overwing as her friends went after the monsters. "They're moving to fast for me to use my Creativity." The Mega Tank rolls and spins firing the semi circle beam as it moved, something it couldn't do before.
"Aaaa!" Yumi is hit by a laser from the Krabe and an immense amount of pain goes to her brain. The lasers hurt before but not like this.
"Yumi!" An Ulrich clone runs over to her using a Super Sprint. Seconds later Sissi appears. She knew what was going on in Ulrich's mind and wasn't going to allow it.
"Back off Ulrich!" Sissi flies over and pushes the clone away. "What is going on?"
"Sissi, they've been given an upgrade." The clone points to the Tarantula that rolls out of the way of a Sonic Boom and fires lasers faster then normal.
"I dealt with these monsters on my own quite easily." Sissi takes her axe out. "Time to destroy his pets." Sissi flies at the Tarantula and cuts a leg off. "Not so fast now are you?" She swings again destroying the Tarantula and is hit by the Mega Tank. "Aaaa!" She is knocked backwards and is hurt. "No, how can I be hurt by that?!" She floats back up to her feet. "Die!" She flies at the Mega Tank and swings her axe. It closes up and her axe bounces off the shell. "Open up!" She sticks a hand out and blasts it with an energy blast. It rolls backwards, opens, and fires faster then normal. She dodges the blast and it continues hitting the Tower.
"I need to help!" Aelita hated this. She could fight but was being kept in the back round as her friends fought. "Maybe, come on." Sissi goes to attack the Mega Tank and it closes up. She closes her eyes and starts to sing. The ground under the Mega Tank disappears and the Mega Tank drops into the Digital Sea.
"Good job Aelita. Can you do something about this?" William still had his foot frozen to the ground and was being hit by lasers from the Hornet and the Block.
"I'll try." Aelita runs towards the Block and it fires fire rings. She jumps through them and rolls shoving a claw into the Eye destroying the Block. The Hornet turns towards Aelita and fires lasers at her. It goes to fly towards her when William reaches up and grabs it.
"Goodbye!" He crushes it with his hands. "So, Aelita, a little help?" She goes over and uses her claws to break the ice holding his leg in place. "Thanks." He runs towards the Assassin that was currently dueling with Ulrich as Samantha and Jim fought the Kankrelat while Yumi fought the Krabe as Sissi went after the Dragon.
"Sonic Boom!" The energy wave knocks the Kankrelat back and allows Samantha to run over and grab it. She holds it away from her body and destroys it with a dagger.
"Come on Jim let's help Yumi." They run over to the Krabe that was firing lasers faster then normal at Yumi. She can't do anything but block the lasers but Jim and Samantha were now there to help. "Jim, throw me."
"At the Krabe?"
"No at Yumi," She rolls her eyes. "Yes the Krabe!" Jim picks her up and throws her at the Krabe. Samantha flies through the air and as she gets near the Krabe she creates a dagger and stabs the Krabe on the back. Normally it would be destroyed but now with a smaller Eye the dagger hits nothing important.
"Thanks but no good!" Yumi continues to block lasers from the Krabe.
"I noticed." Samantha creates two more daggers and jumps into the air. She throws the daggers but the Krabe rolls over onto its back so the daggers miss the Eye. The Krabe remains on its back. "How do we hit the Eye now?" Samantha makes more daggers as Jim runs over to the turned over Krabe.
"Like this!" He raises his hands and is ready to slam them into the Krabe when its stomach glows and it fires the laser on its stomach. "Aaaa!" Jim is knocked backwards.
"Wow, been a long time since I've seen that used." Ulrich was keeping an eye on Yumi as he fought the Assassin. "William, take this sword." Ulrich, one of his clones, throws a sword to William.
"Thanks man." William charges the Assassin and is hit with lasers but he was already dead and didn't care. When he gets close the Assassin fires a red orb from its mouth at William. "Aaaa!" He is knocked backwards when it explodes.
"We have to beat this thing, it's ridiculous that one Assassin is fighting me off! Super Sprint!" Ulrich runs at the Assassin blocking lasers with his swords but when he gets close the Assassin uses its claws to fight close combat. A clone comes to attack but the Assassin uses its claws to strike the clone and destroy it. The claws are glowing as it swings at Ulrich but William grabs the arm.
"I'm glad I'm dead already or that would have hurt." He pulls the arm back and Ulrich shoves a sword through the front of the Assassin and puts it through to the other side to hit the Eye. He jumps away as does William when the Assassin explodes.
"I have to help Yumi." Ulrich runs over to the overturned Krabe. "Impact!" He shoves his sword through the stomach of the Krabe and hits the Eye on the other side destroying it. "Aelita you should be clear." Ulrich turns around and sees the Schipizoa! "Aelita!" He uses a Super Sprint to run over to her as the Schipizoa attacks Aelita from behind. "No you can't have her!" Ulrich slices through the tentacles and the Schipizoa drops Aelita.
"Thank you Ulrich." Aelita gets up and runs for the Tower when lasers fire in front of her. She looks up and sees the Dragon. Sissi was still fighting it when it flew away and went after Aelita.
"Got you now!" Sissi throws her axe at the Dragon and it cuts off the wings on the right and the Dragon falls to the ground. The Dragon fires more lasers but is unable to aim at Aelita as she gets into the Tower. Soon the Tower is deactivated and the Lyoko Warriors are taken back to Earth. William runs into the Tower since the Way Tower was far away and he didn't think it was a good idea to stand around where Xana could get him.
"Good job group." Sanne smiles at Yumi and the others. "I knew you could do it."
"Yeah, they were tough though." Samantha rubs her back. "They were stronger and faster then before."
"Xana gave them an upgrade." Sissi was floating in the air like she was lying on a bed. "I fought them on Earth and they were weak. He tricked me." She looks over at Ulrich who was staring at Yumi. "Ulrich!" He immediately looks at her. "I know what you think. I'll let it go, for now." Sissi smiles and turns into a black mist leaving the Factory.
"Yumi I…" Ulrich is shocked by the collar. "Sorry." He breaks into a black mist and leaves the Factory.
"I, I better get back to school." Yumi goes over to the ladder. "Anyone else coming?"
"We are. I had to set my class off to come here." Jim goes over to the elevator as does Sanne. "Samantha, are you staying here?"
"Yes Jim, I'll be back for lunch Sanne." Samantha waves to them as the doors close. She goes over to the computer chair and sits down. "William?"
"Yes Samantha?"
"I kicked ass." She smiles and laughs as does William.