Yumi's POV:
I nearly jumped out of my skin when my phone buzzed with a text message. Alita had been working for hours...
I stood, stretched, & walked over to where Alita was working. "Ulrick said they're heading back. Any luck?"
Alita nodded & scribbled her response in her notebook. I think so. I just need to use the scanner to run my program.
"Then let's go. We're only going to get one chance at this." I glanced back at my phone. "Use the ladder, not the elevator. Ulrick says they're here.
Alita disappeared down to the scanners in the nick of time. As soon as she dropped out of sight, the elevator doors opened.
"Yumi?" Jeremy asked, confused. "What are you doing down here? Why aren't you watching the impostor?"
"Jeremy, it's not what you think." I protested.
"Really?" the Other Alita asked. "Because I think you're letting her get away."
I had to buy Alita enough time to run her program. "Oh?" I said, simply.
"The only reason I can think of for you to let the impostor go is if you are also an impostor…yourself…" The Other Alita faltered over the last word. Her voice no longer sounded exactly like Alita's. The boys, who had been standing beside the Other Alita, now each grabbed one of her arms, holding her still. From behind them, the elevator doors opened.
"…Jeremy?" Alita asked. Her voice was back! It had worked!
"…Alita?" Jeremy asked. "That's…You're really you, aren't you?"
"I am." Alita ran into his arms, embracing him. "I have so much to tell you, but there's not much time. I need you to kiss me."
"…What?"
"I can't explain right now, but if you love me, if you want me to stay here on Earth with you, I need you to kiss me. Please before it's…"
"Too late." The Other Alita said as my watch started beeping.
Sunset.
It was over.
XANA Alita shrugged off Ulrick & Od's grasp, & yanked Alita away from Jeremy's arms.
"What's going on?" Jeremy asked, very confused.
"XANA offered Alita a chance to come to Earth, without her voice, for three days." I said. "But her time is up. She has to go back to Lyoko forever."
"Is that what she told you?" XANA Alita asked with a laugh. "Oh, Alita…You really should have read those terms & conditions before agreeing to them. You're not just going back to Lyoko…You're mine."
XANA Alita turned into nothing more than black smoke, & engulfed Alita. Alita struggled…but how do you repel smoke?
She eventually stopped struggling, & looked us all in the eye.
XANA's symbol was clearly visible in her eyes. She was under XANA's control now.
With the wave of her arm, she screeched, & released a wave of electric energy. She then turned & walked back to the elevator.
We were knocked off our feet, dazed. After a moment, we all slowly began to get up.
"So…we're going to go after her, right?" Od asked. Jeremy nodded.
"Head to the scanners."
"That…is a lot of monsters." Od commented. We were in the Forest Sector, hidden among the roots of a large tree. XANA knew we weren't letting Alita go without a fight. He had summoned almost every single one of his monsters…with Alita right in the center.
"Don't worry guys. I've been working on something that just might help." Jeremy said. "Ugh. No…no, no, no, no, no! Stop!"
"Something wrong, Jeremy?" I asked.
"I inserted the wrong CD. Instead of your upgrades, it was Od's stupid music video. Sorry guys, looks like you'll have to handle this one on your own."
"You made a video?" Ulrick asked Od.
"Yeah. It's pretty good, too." he said.
"What's the title?"
"BREAK BREAK BREAK DANCE! AH!" Od was cut off by a shot from one of the Hornets.
The battle had begun.
We ran out from our cover & attacked. We had no plan except to cut through this wall of monsters & rescue Alita. We fought hard, but there were just too many of them for us to handle. Jeremy kept reminding us about our life points, to be careful…but we all soon found ourselves down to our last few life points.
"Oh, you've gotta be kidding me!" Od said as a Blok froze his legs.
"We're not gonna make it!" I cried out. Some Hornets flew over my head, & I blocked their lasers with my fans.
"Jeremy, we could really use some sort of brilliant idea right about now." Ulrick said, fending off a horde of Kankrelats.
"Yeah, I know, I just…"Jeremy trailed off. "What is that thing? Are you guys seeing this? Some kind of major energy reading, rising from the Digital Sea?"
There was a large, white ball of energy floating over to the platform. It easily flew over the monsters, absorbing XANA Alita into it.
There was a big blast of pure white light. I opened my eyes to find that we were still on Lyoko…but the monsters were gone. The blast had taken out everything…except for us.
"What is that thing?" Ulrick asked.
"I don't know, but it sure packs a punch." Od said.
The ball hovered for a moment. It moved away, leaving Alita lying on the ground. We rushed to her side as the energy ball floated away, back to the Digital Sea.
"Alita?" I shook her a little, trying to revive her. Alita opened her eyes, which were back to their normal green.
"Get Alita to a tower." Jeremy said as we helped her to her feet. "She needs to recover her life points."
Next time, our final chapter! We've gone pretty far from the canon…so now it's time to try to tie this back to the canon timeline…
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