Chapter 7
"Odd, is everything alright on your end?" Jérémie asked as he typed away at his computer. On the screen he could see Ulrich, Yumi, and Aélita heading straight for the tower. In front of the tower were five red triangles. "Look out, five Kankrelats heading for you at 12 o'clock."
"Thanks Jérémie." Ulrich said as he pulled out his saber from the side of his Overbike.
"Oh, everything's hunky dory over here." Odd said, trying to crack a joke. "I mean, besides the knife aimed at my head."
"Got it, Odd." Jérémie said, knowing how over dramatic Odd could be at times. "We're going as fast as we can."
"Well go faster!" Odd ordered. "A kitchen is not the place you want to get in a fight!"
"Guys, if you don't hurry it up, Odd's gonna end up as Swiss cheese." Jérémie said, ending Odd's call.
"Well, at least it's food." Yumi said. "There's those Kankrelats."
In front of them stood the five Kankrelats, ready to protect the tower.
Yumi pulled out her fan as they started to shoot, shielding herself and Aélita behind her.
"Energy Field!" Aélita cried, shooting at the lead one and killing it.
"Rrreaaaa!" Yumi cried, throwing one of her fans as she moved the Overwing to avoid a shot.
Yumi's fan cut threw two of the Kankrelats, killing them. It turned back and flew back to Yumi for her to catch it. "There you go, Ulrich. You can have the last two." Yumi said, smiling to the boy beside her.
"Oh Thank you, Yumi." Ulrich said, pretending it was a great honor and bowing to the best of his ability while driving his Overbike.
Yumi smiled as he zoomed up closer and dragged his sword on the ground, greeting the last two Kankrelats with the blade of his katana.
"The cost is clear." Jérémie said, looking at his screens. "Just watch out for the Scyphozoa. You know how much Xana loves destroying sectors."
"To bad Xana can't take a holiday." Aélita said as they flew over the purple mountain pass to the activated tower surrounded by a wall.
"Then we'd be out of a job and have nothing left to do but go to school and get good grades for once. What a bummer." Ulrich said, shaking his head.
"Ya, we all know that if you get good grades in class that Xana hasn't been activating towers." Aélita said with a smiled.
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Odd looked at the knife in April's hand and slid to the right as she plunged it down.
Odd opened his eyes and saw that the knife had plunged into the dry wall, right next to the window and his head. April tried to pull out the knife, only to find she had put it in too deep.
Odd took his chances and dropped down. He pushed himself forward, in-between April's legs, and grabbed her from behind.
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"And here is your tower." Yumi said as she lowered the Overwing right next to the roots of the tower.
Aélita got off and was about to go in when a wall of red stopped her in her tracks.
The three turned towards what had made the wall to see that a mega-tank had joined them.
"Jérémie, warring next time would've been nice." Ulrich said.
"What, oh sorry." Jérémie said, typing in something else.
"What are you doing over there, sleeping?" Yumi asked as she got in front of Aélita with her fans and stopped the wall before it hit Aélita. Yumi turned her head and said to Aélita, "Go! I've got it!"
Aélita nodded her head and ran for the tower, slowing down as she walked through the roots. She walked into the tower, getting to the center of the eye of Xana on the floor. She looked up as she felt the gravity slip away and shoot her upward, up to the second platform.
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April turned her head all the way around so that she could see Odd, molding her body so that it could follow her head, and smiled as she sent electrical currents throughout Odd's body.
Blue/Purple electricity went up into his purple-brown eyes, electrocuting him from the inside.
-.-.-.-
Aélita landed on the platform and walked to the center, a blue screen appearing in front of her. She placed her hand on the screen for it to read, "AÉLITA".
It blinked clear before typing in "CODE".
-.-.-.-
Odd fell limp in April's arms as she continued to shoot electricity through his body, making the two start to glow brighter than the lights in the cafeteria.
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"LYOKO"
Aélita looked downward as the tower's binary code changed. "Tower deactivated."
"Return to the Past NOW!" Jérémie ordered, pressing "enter".
The tower of white light came up from the holospear, taking time and the world with it. It went over the school and Odd, whose eyes were now rolled back into the top of his head as death came closer. April laid beside Odd on the cafeteria's floor, unconscious after Xana's ghost had left her.