More Work

"If you figured out a way for us to stop Platon, shouldn't you be happy?" Aelita asked worried.

"We would if we didn't know that we have a lot of work to do," Johnny replied. He and Hiroki sat down Criss-crossed,"We figured out that the end of the sector there's a large portal that lets monsters travel through. We saw it when we went over there. This way Platon doesn't have to use the power of the Supercomputer. And I can only imagine it's the same for the replica sectors."

"So how many are in a sector?" Ulrich asked.

"Four in each, and there are five sectors on Lyoko, so 20. Add that to the replicas. So there are six of them. 24+20 we got 44 portals, approximately," Hiroki explained. Odd groaned.

"So we have to destroy each of portals?" Odd asked regretting the answer.

"Not really," Hiroki said hopefully, "if we just destroy the replicas, then the portals should be taken care of. But we would have to destroy the portals on Lyoko first. Then destroy the replicas. So really we just have 20 portals. The good thing is that they can't be reconstructed after we destroy. Platon was hoping that we wouldn't be able to find them. But they're heavily guarded."

"Maybe I can figure out a way for us to destroy all the monsters in a sector, or Xavier can just make bigger monsters," Sissi offered.

"But in any case, we have work to do," Johnny said. "We better get back to training each other. If we're going to face Platon, we're going to need to be stronger." This made Lion grin.

"Time for training," He said over happy. Aelita, Sam, and Jeremy groaned. Sissi rolled her eyes.

"Well, while you're doing that, I need Ulrich, William, Yumi, and Kiwi to get some data for me. If we're going to fight Platon, we better get a head start. We'll go to the replicas and see what they have. Johnny and Hiroki will be in Sector 5 gathering some data for me too," Sissi explained," Okay, let's go." She said going out the house as the others followed.

"So what do I do?" Odd asked.

"You can stay and watch me, Odd," Sam said sweetly. Odd blushed as he quickly nodded.

"Well, we're gone," Kiwi said as they went to the Factory. When they got to the Supercomputer room, Kiwi sniffed. "That's weird," He said unsure,"the chair wasn't that way when we left here, and it smells like perfume in here." Sissi waved it off as she sat in the chair.

"It's probably nothing. Now get to the scanners and go to Sector 5. We're moving under the radar here, so be discreet," Sissi instructed.

"Ay ay, boss," Ulrich said, going down the elevator. Kiwi stayed with Mechanist.

"You're going to be going with Xavier to the outer sphere," Sissi said. The three stepped into the scanners. William's virtualization was fine, but..."Hmm? That's weird."

"What is it?" Yumi asked landing safely in the sector.

"Something went wrong in the virtualization with Ulrich and Yumi. I don't know what, but there's something going on. Do you guys feel okay?" Sissi asked.

"Yeah, other than the fact that we're on a virtual world with monsters out to destroy us," Ulrich joked. Will and Yumi snickered.

"Well, go and get the data. Until then, I'll try and figure out what's going on," Sissi replied. Sissi rubbed her head.

"What exactly is wrong?" Kiwi asked.

"The Supercomputer is saying that some energy is inside the two of them. That energy wasn't there at first," Sissi explained. Back in Lyoko, William, Xavier, Yumi, and Ulrich got to the entrance of the outer sphere, but two new Volkanoids blocked the way.

"We got a problem, Mechanist. Looks like we weren't discreet enough, and we got a new Volkanoid," Ulrich said trying to smash the monster, "and it has a shield."

"Great," Sissi muttered, "Use Triplicate to destroy the shield." And that's what Ulrich did.

"You're up, William," Ulrich shouted. Will plunged his sworded into the eye of the Volkanoid. They quickly took out the next one. "Well, that was fun. Xavier get to the panel and let's go home." With the mission completed, Yumi, Will, and Ulrich came back to Earth in one piece.

"Whew! You're still in one piece. Now everything's back to normal," Kiwi commented.

"Not quite," Sissi remarked, "That something came back up on the computer. I don't know why. Heh, anyway, we better get back to school. I'll work on the data there. Nice work guys. Um...Ulrich? Can you and William go to Lion for something for me? Tell him that we need more...Lion potion. It's a special thing for us Lion Warriors," Sissi fibbed, but Ulrich bought it. He nodded and they went, leaving Yumi and Sissi. "Will you tell him already?!" Sissi exclaimed.

"What do you-"

"Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. You've got to tell him sooner or later. But please, let be before I die," Sissi remarked.

"Look, I'd rather him tell me, first. He seems to be handling being just friends very well," Yumi replied.

"I hate being just friends with her," Ulrich muttered. William and Kiwi had gotten him to talk about Yumi.

"Well why don't you just tell her?" Kiwi asked.

"Because she said that she wanted to just be friends, and Yumi rarely changes her mind," Ulrich muttered disappointed.

"And you're just going to lay there and do nothing about it?" Kiwi questioned.

"Your point?" Ulrich asked.

"Ulrich, you have to get rid of your fear," William said resting his hand on Ulrich's shoulder as they went to the school. There they saw Jeremy, Aelita, Odd, and Lion outside on their bench waiting. "Hey guys, what's shaking?" William greeted.

"Nothing exciting," Odd muttered. Back at the Factory, Sissi just got an alert on the Computer.

"Come on," Sissi muttered, "Just give me a break already." she typed away. "Oh no. Lion's gonna be pissed." She said as she shuck her head in her hands.

"What's wrong?" Yumi asked, "What's Platon doing now?"

"It's not Platon," Sissi said lowly.

BACK AT THE SCHOOL

The team's watches went off like fireworks. "Hey Mechanist, what's up?" Lion asked.

"We have an activated tower," Sissi informed.

"Well, why didn't the watches beep on us?" Odd asked confused.

"That's because I designed them to beep when Platon activates a tower," Sissi replied.

"So who's attacking?" Lion asked.

"Pink," Sissi regretfully said. It was silent for a long time.

"But Pink's never attack before. So why now?" Lion questioned.

"The tower's encrypted. There's no way I can figure out what she's doing," Sissi stated. "Just have Odd, Aelita, Jeremy, and Hiroki go to Lyoko to deactivate it. You actually shouldn't have to face any monsters."

"Alright," Lion said, "You heard the girl. Get going, now. Scatter!" They were off. They all found secret locations and made it to Lyoko's forest sector. But...

"Oh no. Aelita's not there is she?" Sissi guessed.

"No, why? What happened?" Jeremy asked worried.

"Everything's okay. She simply didn't virtualize. Pink found a way to mess up the teleportation to Lyoko for Aelita. Something tells me she wants her."

"We should help her," Jeremy said.

"No, I'll tell Lion and the others to get her. She's still on Earth. Just get to the tower," Sissi instructed. Then she called Lion. "Hey Lion, we got a problem."

"SHE WHAT?!" Lion shouted catching everyone off guard. "Where is Aelita?"

"According to my calculations, she's still on Earth, but I'm going to need time to find her exactly on Earth. The Tower's encrypted," Sissi replied.

"Well, hurry up. We can't afford anything to happen to her," Lion said hanging up. "Come on guys, we got work to do." Meanwhile, Aelita was in the neck of the nearby woods.

"What am I doing here?" She asked.

"Because of me," Said a masked robed figure behind her. The stranger had on a pink robe. "I need to talk to you, Aelita."

"Who are you?" Aelita asked.

"Lion calls me Pink but-" Aelita instantly threw a energy field. "Your energy fields don't work on me."

"Then how about flames," Aelita said menacingly. She shot a ball of fire. Pretty soon the two were having a heated...and wetted battled, dodging each other's fire and water. Finally, Pink was able to stop her.

"I just want to talk," Pink said.

"There is nothing you can say that won't make a difference," Aelita said stubbornly.

"Well, how about showing you?" Pink said. She then took off her hood and Aelita gasped at what she saw.

"You?"

"We're almost there," Odd said, but then they were greeted by an army. "Huh? What happened to not going to be guarded?"

"Platon's trying to hack the tower," Sissi answered, "Deactivate the tower quickly. Before Platon steals anymore data."

"Charge!" Hiroki shouted striking the tarantula in front and jumping off to another one. Sissi then called Lion.

"How's the search?"

"Still nothing," Lion said, "What about you?"

"We're going to have to deactivate the tower first. Platon's trying to hack the tower. I don't have time to find her position now. Find Aelita," Sissi said hanging up.

"Easy for her to say," Lion muttered.

"We're deactivating the tower now," Xavier said entering the tower.

"Now, tell Lion everything I've told you. He'll understand. I'm sorry for what I've done to you Aelita. We'll meet again," Pink said kissing Aelita's forehead, "Oh and tell Sissi that that irregularity was a code Zon928." Then she dissipated.

"Wait!" Aelita cried out, but it was too late. Pink was gone. Finally, Johnny found Aelita in the woods.

"There you are, Princess. We were worried sick about you," Johnny said.

"Where's Lion," She asked impatiently and quite angrily. "I need to talk to him."

"Come on, I'll take you to him," Johnny said a little frightened. "I think he's got a lot of explaining to do."

AT THE HERMITAGE

Lion burst through the door. "Whew, we were worried about you," He said relieved. Aelita stood there with a stern look on her face. "What's wrong?"

"I don't know," Johnny said, "She's been like that ever since I found her. She wants to talk to you."

"What is it, Aelita? Did Pink hurt you?" Jeremy asked placing a hand on her shoulder. Aelita, still angry, gently removed it.

"I'm fine, but Lion has some explaining to do. Like for instance, who is Pink?" Aelita said.

"Why do you want to know?" Lion asked confused.

"Because I met her in person," Aelita said still mad.

"Well, Pink has a lot of disguises, Aelita," Lion said nervously.

"Yes, but I saw her in her true form. She had pink hair and looked a lot like my mother," Aelita stated, "In fact, she WAS MY MOTHER!" Lion sighed as everyone gasped in shock.

"I knew she would do something like that," Lion said shaking her head, "Aelita, listen-"

"Are there any other secrets you're keeping from me? Any at all! Maybe you're Platon, too," Aelita shouted in tears.

"Aelita, you know that's not true. You saw Platon yourself," Lion placed both hands are her shoulders. "Listen, let me tell you why I didn't tell you, or any of you guys. Don't you think I deserve to explain?" Lion could see the whole room was against him on this point, but Sam said.

"He does deserve that at least, guys." Aelita nodded as Lion sat down.

"When your mother was taken away from you, it was because of the government. Your father was working on a governmental virus for protection. That while you were at the winter house, but Carnage, the government's rival virus was crazy in Franz Hopper's eyes, so he refused to do it. They took his wife, thinking that he would break. Instead, he moved changed his records and everything and moved here to the Hermitage, vowing to destroy Carnage. At the time, Xavier tried to help him, but he told Xavier not to put it on his diaries. He thought it would keep him safe from being discovered by Platon. Unfortunately, the Xana Virus did destroy Carnage, but Platon rewired it to trap Xavier," Lion explained.

"But what about my mother," Aelita said calming down a little.

"When I figured out the whole story of my brother, I had to get your mother. So I figured out where she was, fixed it so that the government thought she was dead, and trained her to be a Lion Warrior for her own protection," Lion said.

"So why isn't she on our side?" Sissi asked.

"Because...simply, I'm moved too slow. The plan was to develop a anti-virus to free Xavier, Aelita, Franz, but then you guys turned on the Supercomputer. Pink and I debated about what we should do then. We decided to that you decided that you guys would be able to fight Xana, but at the end of the whole thing, Pink knew that this would take even more time. Sissi only had enough data then to keep Xavier alive while Jeremy's anti-XANA Virus went through Lyoko. So the whole thing didn't sit well with Pink. So, she tried to meet the others and try and recruit them for her team. It didn't work, they stayed loyal to me."

"But we didn't know who she was at the time," William clarified.

"So Pink came to me and said that she was through with this. She would finish the job herself. I didn't know what she meant by that until she turned on the Supercomputer. And that's the story. I didn't tell you guys, or even my team for that matter so that I could protect Pink. I'm sorry that I deceived you guys," Lion confessed.

"So my mother's alive. Because of you. I guess I should thank you," Aelita said hugging him. Lion hugged back. "Oh and um... Sissi. Pink said that she implanted a code Zon928 so that was the irregularity?" Aelita said unsure what her mother meant by that. Sissi's eyes widened.

"Oh GOSH DARNIT! I HATE THAT WOMAN! RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE," Sissi shouted in frustration.

"What's wrong? What does that code mean?" Ulrich asked. Sissi sat down still angry.

"Well, you two better get some rest," She said to Ulrich and Yumi, "Because you got to go to Leon and Aslan's training tomorrow because you are both Lion Warriors now."

"WHAT?!" The group shouted.

"Great, more work," Aslan muttered.

My bad for the mix up