Sissi the Mechanist

The team was asleep in their dorms. Xavier was in a tower fiddling with it. "Maybe if I can do this and put this here," he thought out loud. Then a beeping came up. "I did it!" Aelita was sleeping soundly in her room. Then she heard something. "Aelita, Aelita."

"Xavier, it's two in the morning. Can it wait till sunrise?" Aelita said trying to focus her eyes. Then she shook herself awake. "Wait, Xavier?! Is that you?"

"Yes, it is." Xavier replied.

IN THE MORNING

"That's incredible! So you made a specter of yourself and transformed it to here? Incredible!" Jeremy said.

"Yeah, so now I can interact with you guys," Xavier said about to high five Odd, but his hand phased through, "Somewhat. I'm still a specter, though."

"Well, it's good to see you face to technical face," Lion joked.

"But now, we must figure out the code to finally get you back to Earth," Kiwi said, "Right, Jeremy?"

"Oh right!" Jeremy said returning to his work. William sat on Jeremy's bed worried.

"What is it, William? Afraid Kiwi's going to bite you?" Ulrich teased.

"No," William said waving it off, "I'm more worried about Sissi."

"She seems to be doing better," Aelita pointed out. "In fact, she's eating a lot more than Odd on an empty stomach. If that ever happens."

"Yes, but still I'm worried," William said.

"You like her?" Ulrich smirked.

"Ulrich, I'm just...worried. She's never fainted before. Why now?" William said wondering. Ulrich got up.

"Well, how about Yumi and I go over and check out if she's okay?" Ulrich offered. "You coming, Yumi?"

"Sure," Yumi replied. They walked down the hall.

"Man, I hope she doesn't flip over when she sees me," Ulrich hoped.

"Nah, she says that she's over you now," Yumi said smirking a little.

"She told you that? How did that conversation pop up?" Ulrich asked curiously. Yumi just chuckled. When they got down to Sissi's room, she was in her bed miserable.

"Oh hey guys. What's up?" Sissi said staring at the ceiling.

"How are you doing?" Yumi asked.

"Well, if you count the fact that I have mandatory stay-in-bed after school and trips to the stress specialist? Then I'm great," She said sarcastically.

"So you're not doing well?" Ulrich guessed. Sissi got off her bed and was on her knees.

"Please get me out of this place! Please!" She begged making the two laugh. "The only happy thing about this is that I have my computer with me."

"Maybe you should slow down a little. Relax a bit," Ulrich suggested.

"You got jokes," Sissi muttered. Then something popped into Yumi's mind.

"Sissi, have you ever trained for fighting?" Yumi asked.

"Well, yes, it was more to impress Ulrich, but after a while I actually liked it," Sissi replied honestly.

"So you still train?" Yumi asked.

"Of course, I just don't talk about it because I like surprising people when they try to attack me," Sissi smirked.

"Hmm, interesting," Yumi said. Then something beeped on Sissi's computer. She growled as she dragged her hands down her face.

"It's 7 o'clock in the morning. No one attacks at 7 freaking o'clock in the morning! That's an unholy hour!" Sissi exclaimed in anger.

"What's that?" Ulrich asked.

"Um...nothing just an online checkers game." Sissi said trying to get them away from the computer.

"I've never seen a checkers game with," Yumi gasped as she realized something, "a Way Tower?" (A/N:Is it 'way' or 'wade'?)

"I have no idea what you are talking about," Sissi said guiltily. Then their watches beeped.

"And there just so happens to be an activated tower," Ulrich said looking accusingly at Sissi. "Mind explaining." Sissi sighed.

"Okay fine, I'm the Mechanist. I know that it's hard to believe, but I am Lion's Mechanist," Sissi said shocking Yumi and Ulrich. Sissi got to her computer.

"The others are not going to believe this," Ulrich said. "So what's the tower suppose to do now?"

"Uh Oh," Sissi said, "Um... you know that data that you guys got for transporting you straight into Lyoko?" The two nodded. "Well...it seems that Platon figured out how to do the opposite."

"What do you mean?" Ulrich asked. Suddenly, there was an explosion followed by a horde of screams. Yumi looked outside.

"Kankerlots!" She exclaimed.

"That's what I thought. Fortunately, Platon doesn't seem to have enough power to transport anything bigger than a block, but that can change," Sissi said getting up. "We have to get to the factory." She put on a watch that looked a lot like the Lyoko watches. "I'll explain later, okay." They ran out the door.

MEANWHILE

"Go away, you infernal little spiders!" Lion said burning the Kankerlots to a crisp.

"Don't say that. You'll hurt their feelings," Odd said shooting his laser arrows. They had the students safely outside in the open in a circle.

"Energy field," Aelita said. The Kankerlots kept coming. Then Lion got a message from the Mechanist.

"Get to the factory or use your watches," Mechanist said.

"We can't. We're holding up the base here. Even Xavier's specter is helping. Where are Yumi and Ulrich?"

"They're with me," She replied. This made Lion stop for a while in confusion. "Yes, they figured it out. I'll go in with them. Just make sure the students are fine. We'll take care of the tower. Tell Xavier to get out the tower so we can deactivate the other one," she said signing off.

"Looks like we're on our own, comrades," Lion told the gang, "Show no mercy. As Odd would say..."

"BANZAI!" the group shouted.

"Okay, new plan. We use the watches. The tower's in the Mountain sector. Ready?" Sissi asked. The two nodded. "Let's go." Soon they were transported to Lyoko. Yumi and Ulrich saw that Sissi was blue from head down. Fur all over. She looked more like a blue ape but human-sized.

"Um...that's unexpected," Yumi commented.

"They also call me the Beast's daughter," Sissi explained. "Come on, we got to get to the tower."

"It's right over there, but a couple of Blocks are protecting it," Xavier said. Everyone looked over the rock to see a horde of eight blocks.

"Whew, that's a lot of blocks," Yumi commented. Sissi clenched her fists.

"We can take them," Sissi replied.

"So what is your weapon?" Ulrich asked. Sissi lifted her hands.

"You're looking at them," Sissi said. "Now come on, I don't know how much longer the others will last." She said charging at the blocks. The team was right behind her.

"And you have me at the controls," Kiwi's voice sounded.

"Well, if it isn't the mangy mutt," Sissi smirked dodging the fire from the blocks. She jumped onto one of the blocks and punched right through it. Yumi and Ulrich were stunned.

"Wow," they said.

"You can be amazed on your own time," Sissi said.

MEANWHILE

"Make sure that they don't get behind us," Lion commanded lifting the ground behind the group to form a wall.

"I hope the others get to the tower soon," Aelita said blasting another Kankerlot.

"I hope that we see the light of day again," Odd added. The students behind us were completely scared.

"Where are Hiroki and Johnny?" Jeremy asked comforting the students.

"They're okay," Lion assured.

WITH JOHNNY AND HIROKI IN THE WOODS

"On the bright side, we got our daily shooting exercise in," Johnny said shooting his arrows at the big blocks.

"Less talking, more fighting," Hiroki reminded throwing his metal stars.

IN LYOKO

"I'm on it," Xavier said entering the tower. He rose up to the panel and placed his hand on it, "Tower deactivated." All of a sudden, the monsters came to a stop. Lion breathed a relieved sigh.

"That was close. Now, we go back to a happier time," Lion said. Kiwi typed in the code.

"RETURN TO THE PAST NOW!"

"Wait, you mean that it was her that was the Mechanist the whole time?" Odd said amazed. The team was in the factory. Lion nodded.

"Yep. Elizabeth 'Sissi' Delmas, AKA The Mechanist, AKA the Beast's daughter. Speciality: skilled in advanced sciences, and hand-to-hand combat. Weapons: Fists. Superpower: Going Big, which allows her to maximize her size to that of the Kolossus. Transportation: her feet which can jump over long distances.," he replied.

"But how? Wasn't she possessed by XANA several times?" Yumi asked.

"Yes I was, but I was able to remove the protection ability from being Lyokoized in order to throw off suspicion," Sissi said as she gently scratched Kiwi in her lap.

"Right a bit," Kiwi moaned happily.

"So you're saying that you removed whatever anti-XANA protection you had so that we wouldn't think it was you?" Aelita guessed. Sissi nodded.

"But Lion, why did you pick her?" Jeremy asked. Before Lion could answer, Ulrich spoke.

"It's simple really. Lion needed someone that was in a high position at the school to oversee the activity there. He knew that he couldn't use Delmas because he would call the police and was not adequate to do the job. He also needed someone that was skilled in hand-to-hand combat. He needed someone who was skilled in advanced technology and sciences of all kind. But most of all, he needed someone to sell it. Be an actress and do whatever it took to play the role, even if it called to be a snobby brat, no offense. And he got all of that in Sissi. That's why he chose her," Ulrich explained. Everyone was silent for a while.

"Yeah...sure...let's go with that," Lion said shrugging.

"You mean you didn't chose me for that?" Sissi asked.

"I just chose you because I felt like it," Lion said flatly.

"Well, that throws my explanation in the toilet," Ulrich said defeated. Then Sissi punched him in the arm as he flinched .

"That's for kissing me on the bridge," Sissi retorted.

"You remember that?" Aelita asked.

"Like my birthday," Sissi said smirking. Ulrich rubbed the back of his head.

"No hard feelings?" he said.

"Don't worry, all that mushy over you stuff was to sell the act," Sissi said.

"So you don't love me? Well, I feel hurt," Ulrich said making everyone laugh.