It was the Holidays at Kadic as Zinia arrived there. Everyone, including the heroes, had all gone for their holiday times except Twilight and Indigo and Aelita.
"Ah, Christmas holidays. Even after years of sleep, the thought of them still bring a warm fuzzy feeling to my heart." she said as she walked on campus. "Shame no ones here though."
"Ruff ruff!" a voice said as Zinia looked down to see Rockruff looking up at her with a panting tongue.
"Hi, little guy. Are you lost?" Zinia asked.
"Rockruff!" Twilight called out as he ran back to her. "Sorry about that. He ran off without my permission."
"Wait, is this a pokemon?" Zinia asked. "But… ive only seen 150 pokemon from Kanto."
"Wow. Someone is super slow on pokemon so you need a lesson." Rdex said.
"A talking Pokedex?" Zinia asked.
"Better than a Pokedex. I'm the Rotomdex! Now here's your lesson. Rockruff, the Puppy Pokemon. This Pokémon has lived with people since times long ago. It can sense when its Trainer is in the dumps and will stick close by its Trainer's side." Rdex said.
"So, how many are there?" Zinia asked.
"Guess you don't get out much. At least 800 different species of pokemon." Twilight said.
"800? Wow, ive been gone a long time. Oh, sorry. Thanks for the info. My name is Zinia." Zinia said.
"Twilight Sparkle. A pleasure." Twilight said as they shook hands.
"Twilight, hurry up! I wanna catch todays Pokemon! Its snowing, so that big saily brontosaurus Aurorus is next." Indigo said.
"Right right. I'm coming." Twilight said. "She's lucky the sun isn't out. Aurorus doesn't come out in sunlight. Say, this might sound crazy but, do you wanna join us on our hunt?"
"Sure. If Aurorus is a brontosaurus, its an ancient pokemon like Kabutops or Aerodactyl." Zinia said.
"Allow me to give you the information on this guy. Aurorus, the Tundra Pokemon and the evolved form of Amaura. The diamond-shaped crystals on its body expel air as cold as -240 degrees Fahrenheit, surrounding its enemies and encasing them in ice." Rdex said.
"But theres no need for that. They come from a very safe, cold area in the Kalos region, and dont have many enemies. But we still need to fight it to weaken it enough for capture." Twilight said.
"All right. You guys are the experts." Zinia said.
The three of them headed out into the woods where they saw the large and mighty Aurorus eating away at nearby tree.
"Its an Ice type, right? I can tell because of the info." Zinia said.
"Ice and Rock." Indigo said. "Go Passimian!"
"Time to show us some power, Dugtrio!" Twilight said as Passimian and the Alolan Dugtrio came out.
"That Dugtrio isn't exactly a normal one." Zinia said.
"Its from the Alola region. There, isn't not a solo ground type, its a ground and steel type." Twilight said.
"Let's get on with it! Passimian, use Close Combat!" Indigo said as Passimian rapidly attacked Aurorus with punches and kicks.
"Dugtrio, use Earth Power!" Twilight said as a small eruption happened that further damaged Aurorus. "And now…" she said throwing a ball at it as it went inside. It rolled for a bit before it dinged. "Capture complete!"
"Wow, pokemon have changed so much." Zinia said.
"Youre one to talk. Uh… are those limbs of yours metal?" Indigo asked.
"Indigo!" Twilight said.
"Sorry." Indigo said.
"I did notice them but I choose not to talk about them." Twilight said.
"Its nothing to get so down about to me. This is me." Zinia said.
"Well, we're happy to have you. So, I guess you're gonna be a new student at Kadic as soon as holidays are over?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah. But there is something I need to take care of first. A robot named Cosmoman." Zinia said.
"Oh I see." Twilight said. "Well, if you need help, we'll be happy to give it."
"Thanks. So uh, where are the others? Jexi, Hope, their teams? And the Lyoko Warriors, where are they?"
"You came at a bad time. They went home for the holidays." Indigo said.
"But we stayed to hunt down the prehistoric pokemon." Twilight said.
"But Aelita's still here. Shes holdin down the fort cause Franz Hopper, her dad, is kinda…" Indigo said.
"Stuck in lyoko?" Zinia asked.
"But how did you…?" Twilight asked.
"WHen I was undergoing the surgery for my cyber limbs, Doctor Crecacous Flux told me all about him and his history." Zinia said.
"Did you just say….Flux?" Indigo said.
"Yes. Do you know the doctor?" Zinia asked.
"We're more acquainted with his children then the man himself." Twilight said.
"Doc C did say he had a son who was more… eccentric.." Zinia said. "He saved my life in the New Mexico base. He made these Limbs with help from my father and authorization from the local general. And not just that, while he worked on me he would tell me these stories of his adventures with his son and studying different cultures and about his times as an assassin. Before he put me to sleep, he said that something in the future was going to happen and he was going to hide his notes with his fellow men of science. He also said that….if I ever met his son that his love for him is deeper than the earth itself." Zinia said.
"Wow. How long were you out for?' Indigo said.
"The base was abandoned since 1978." Zinia said.
Both of them gasped.
"You were out in that base for that long?" they asked.
"Yeah." Zinia said.
"But there's holes in that story. I know for a fact Flux isn't that old." Twilight said.
"Then, maybe his old man was a time traveler like we're doing right now." Indigo said.
"That seems like the only plausible explanation at this point." Twilight said.
"A time traveler." Zinia considered. "That does seem to make sense. He was always in and out."
"We gotta tell Aelita." Indigo said as they ran to the Kadic building and into Aelita room. "Aelita we…"
However, Kiwi was the only one in there.
"Huh. She's not in here." Twilight said seeing Aelita's computer still open. "Meet me on Lyoko? But he's suppose to be on the….we need to go now."
They ran to the factory to see that Aelita was already on Lyoko inside of a simulation bubble.
"Indigo, Zinia, head down to the scanners. I'm setting up virtualization for the two of you." Twilight said.
The two of them ran into the scanners and Twilight sent them in, both of them landing with thuds as they saw the large bubble before them.
"Okay, we both pop the bubble and all is well." Indigo said.
"Not so. The bubble is generating an illusion from Aileta's past." Twilight said.
"But what if it is Franz Hopper?" Zinia asked.
"XANA's pulled this trick with the warriors before. Hopper wouldn't risk something like this with his own daughter." Twilight said.
"So aelita needs to break it on her own." Indigo said. "None of its real."
"No. But I'm pretty sure he's real." Zinia said seeing Freezeman appear.
"Careful with that guy. Like Cosmo Man, freeze man's powerful. And hes a total blank robot. Also, don't touch him or else you'll freeze on contact." Indigo said.
"Why do you turn on your kind, cyborg? You could be fighting with those that understand you and not with them who are stunned by you." Freezeman said.
"Youre not my kind. Youre machine. I'm still human." Zinia said.
"Then you will freeze." Freezeman said as his ice moved quickly across the ground.
"Careful!" Zinia said as they jumped up as the ice moved past them.
"I will not allow you to interfere with lord XANA's plans." Freezeman said.
"SO it is true, you are just a robot now." Zinia said. "I bet he doesnt even know emotion or a smile."
"You don't even care about the comrades you forgot!" Indigo said.
"Well, he can't catch me. I'm the quickest thing around." Zinia said.
"Quickest….thing?" Freezeman said as a memory bubbled to the surface showing Freezeman with Quickman.
"Hey, boss, check this out!" Quickman said running around a track real fast. "See that? Beat an all time speed record. I can take down even that hedgehog. Call me the quickest thing around."
"Quick...man?" he said before holding his head as pain went through as he screamed in pain.
"You mustve jogged a memory, Zinia! Its not all gone, just buried deep underneath his psyche. We gotta do something." Twilight said.
Freezeman screamed as he quickly shifted into the ground and escaped from them.
"Too late, Twi. He ran." Indigo said.
The bubble then shattered as Aelita came out with Willam and a block.
"Aelita!" Indigo said.
"Indigo, thank goodness. But… whos this?" Aelita asked.
"Zinia. Kinda new." Zinia said.
"It doesn't matter. You'll lose no matter what, Aelita." William said calling out his sword.
"I bet we can...Gah!" Zinia said shot in the front by the block. Aelita tried to fly but it shot her too as William grabbed her with smoke.
"You wanna leave? Be my guest." William said lifting her over the digital sea. He then released as Aelita fell right into the sea.
"Oh no!" Indigo said.
"Wait, why are they waiting by the edge?" Zinia said noticing William and the Bloks still nearby.
Rising from the sea was a large bubble as William smirked. "Victory!"
"Uh, Twilight? What in the worlds is that thing?" Indigo asked as the bloks fired at it.
"Indigo, that bubble...is Franz Hopper." Twilight said.
"No way theyre taking him out, not when he and the doctor were so close!" Zinia said. "Engine!"
Her engines opened up and revived.
"Ah! That kinda attachment...Twilight, you seein this? I think she's got…!" Indigo said.
"Iida's Engine Quick. She's an enhanced!" Twilight said.
She revved to the bloks as she kicked each one and destroyed them. She then revved at William.
"Supersmoke!" he said becoming smoke as she moved right through the smoke.
"Oh, cheap trick." Zinia said as she focused on the smokes sound as willam popped up. "There!"
He became smoke again as she moved past.
"Great. She's fast but she can't stop quick enough." Indigo groaned as William reformed and struck Zinia with his sword. "Okay, I've sat back enough." she puded her fists.
SHe used her armors propulsion and jumped into the air, slamming down on William with a punch. As he was about to strike, he soon noticed that Hopper had vanished. He growled as he became smoke and went back into the sea.
"He retreated." Zinia said.
"We bought Hopper enough time to escape. He was their objective so he ran when he saw Hopper left." Indigo said.
Later back in Aelita's room…
"So, I think I've figured out why XANA wants to throw Aelita into the Digital Sea all the time. He's trying to force Franz Hopper out of hiding so he can destroy him himself." Twilight said.
"That explains a lot of things." Indigo said.
"As long as my father's alive, he'll always be a threat to XANA." Aelita said.
"So we gotta keep fighting and destroy that supercomputer in New Mexico." Zinia said.
"Yeah. Its about time we dealt with CosmoMan. We still gotta dish out hurt for what he did to us last time we did the time travel here." Indigo said.
"Then let's work together and deal with the problem." Zinia said happily as they joined forces.