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Notes
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CONTINUE
[Show Jeremy in his chair. He hears the door to the elevator opening behind him.]
Jeremy: Odd finally! How long does it take to reject a girl. I know it's usually the other way around but-
[Sees it's Diva holding Odd in her arms. Odd's clothing on his back is dirty from where he was on the ground. Odd's hair is messed up, full of static and waving around. Diva's hair is sticking up like had a current running through her. She looks completely baffled at… well everything.]
Diva: I wanted to to bring him back to the school, but he was saying he had to come here. [looks around] Where is here?
Jeremy: What happened?
Diva: I don't know. There was a man attacking Odd. He had this weird glove on. I was able to drive him away, but he's been babbling ever since.
Odd: [thousand yard stare. rambling] The teddy bear. It knows kung fu!
Jeremy: Okay, I need you to take him back into the elevator, go down a level, and put him into one of the scanners there.
[Diva lifts odd up. Match cut to her setting him down into the scanners.]
Jeremy: Transfer Odd, Scanner Odd. Virtualization.
[A 3D wireframe graphic of Odd's avatar comes up on the screen. A line slowly traces over it. Symbols on the monitor start to turn green.]
Jeremy: Well it's definitely Odd and not a specter. If his memory is the problem, then I've literally got the solution open right now.
[Odd is virtualized in Carthage. It's a white steel labyrinth with translucent circuits drawn on the walls. All the walls, floors, and the ceilings were made of cubes and prisms of various shapes, lengths, and sizes. All of these tunnels and maze corridors were contained within a giant sphere. He falls to the ground limp. He sits up dazed.
His avatar had a purple-yellow color scheme. He had the same cone shaped blond hair with the purple mark in the middle like his IRL hair. He had purple triangle marks above his blond eyebrows. Purple slashes that go up from the bottom of his cheeks to near his eyes. He had purple paw gloves that went from his upper forearms that end in claws. They had yellow jagged stripes that run up his gloves. He had lilac pads on his palms that allow him to stick to surfaces. He also had purple bell bottom pants the same color as his upper body. It had split colors. The interior stayed the same, but the exterior was lilac. They were attached to his avatar by a metal belt. Purple kneepads and shoulder pads with a yellow liner around them. On his back, he had a purple tail with a lilac stripe pattern on it. He had yellow boots sticking out of the bottom of his pant legs. They each had 3 blades sticking out of the tip, like claws.
Something shifts, fizzles, and detaches from him. A smoking cloud flies away from him without him being aware of it. It exits the Carthage sphere. Then it goes underneath through a pulsating shutter in the south surface of the sphere. It flies up into a cylindrical room with prisms protruding from every space around the perimeter and randomly at every elevation. It flies up to a sphere, the heart of Lyoko, that runs the entire virtual world. And disappears into it.
A warning flashes up on the screen for an activated tower.]
Jeremy: What?! HOW! This fast? How did we get the worst-case scenario?
[In the white Carthage halls, show a white tower with a black biomass surrounding the bottom. Root like wires emerge from & dive into the ground around the tower, then slowly tamper off as they get further away from the tower until they are completely submerged in the ground. Inside the tower there is a circular platform floating in the middle of space with boxes of code running down the walls. There is no top; the sides just extend up to infinity. Show Aelita sitting cross legged on the platform.
Aelita had the same pink pixie hair as she did IRL. She had an emerald orb earring on her left ear, both of which were longer and tapered to a point. Pink marks under her eyes that swerved away toward her eyes and dropped to a point. Wore a dark pink gi with short sleeves that didn't even reach her elbow. It had transparent light green shoulder pads attached to it. She wore tan cloth bracers on each of her arms. The gi had light pink lines running down it in a circuit pattern down to the edges. She wore a white belt to fix the outfit to her. She wore leggings with dark purple along the outside and pink on the insides. On her right arm, she had a sort of watch that extended out over the back of her hand. It had a star pattern on it. She wore dark purple fingerless gloves. She had greaves over her lower legs. The upper half was the same tan color as the bracers on her arms, but the lower was dark purple.
There is a screen with a stream of data flowing into her forehead. It disconnects and vanishes.]
Aelita: Jeremy? Is there something wrong?
[As soon as she finishes speaking, the surface she is sitting on pulsates.]
Aelita: Pulsations?
Jeremy: Yeah, I'm stopping the process early. It's a partial restoration. How much do you remember?
Aelita: William got captured and possessed, destroyed Lyoko, and we're trying to find a way to get him back.
Jeremy: Oh wow. Um, I mean… that's a good amount. You know tower deactivation, energy fields, angel wings?
Aelita: [happy] Yep, I just got those right?
Jeremy: If by just, you mean it's been a long time then yes.
Aelita: [noticeably more cheerful than she was before she lost her memory] Awesome. Then I should have developed even more. I can't wait to see what else I can do.
Jeremy: Hang on. [Odd stumbles through the tower wall and collapses on the platform.] He needs a restore too.
Odd: [while lying on the floor] My hands. They're so HD.
Jeremy: Same verse, same as the first. Should go pretty quick since he has his memory, it's just messed up.
[Jim is rearranging the mats in the gymnasium from how Hiroki had moved them before for the dual.
Jim: Nonsense about nonexistent family tree. Stone is related to Della Robbia, but not this Tyron guy. And somehow, her mother doesn't know she had a child for 25 years or some nonsense like that. I haven't heard about a family tree this tangled up since I met those octuplets in Rahmatpur[hears something from the boiler room. The sound of something large and heavy breaking and falling down.] Now what could that be? I've told you kids time and time again I-
[He turns around to face the boiler room door…
And comes face to face with a giant metal tarantula.]
Milly: So, Ulrich was attacked by some man with the infinity gauntlet.
Ulrich: It was an electric glove! Journalists!
Tamiya: That's nothing. Apparently Aelita's entire existence was fabricated by Jeremy.
William: This is definitely a RTTP, right?
Ulrich: Ohhhhhh yeah.
Tamiya: Anything else I miss in the last two hours?
Milly: I guess the duel is being postponed.
Ulrich: Wait, what duel?
William: Ours.
Ulrich: Why would we fight. You just joined the group. Didn't you?
William: Oh wow. Just over2 years. You're missing a lot. The name Tyron ring any bells?
Ulrich: No. You call Jeremy to see what to do yet?
William: He's in the process of playing mad scientist. [sarcastic] I'm sure he won't mind a call.
[The phone rings once before Jeremy picks up.]
Jeremy: [phone] I was just about to call you, but you already know then.
William: I was calling you about Ulrich. He got attacked by a man in the trench coat with dogs apparently.
Jeremy: [phone] Oh that. Yeah, I know about that too. Odd was attacked. This girl, Diva, brought him. Say hi Diva.
Diva: [phone] Um hi?
William: So, we need to do a RTTP.
Jeremy: [phone] About that. XANA activated a tower.
William: Wasn't avoiding that the entire point of this plan? [sighs] What's the attack?
[XANA's monsters can be seen chasing students outside the Infirmary window.]
William: Never mind. [laser blasts can be heard in the background.]
Sissi: OMG, what are those things!?
Jeremy: [phone] Yeah, that's why I'm calling. We can't get a hold of Yumi, but she will know what to do.
Ulrich: Well, that's enough rest for me. [hops off the infirmary bed and shrugs on his jacket.]
Sissi: [concerned] No way. You need to rest.
Ulrich: Look, I may be missing a few, [sways a bit on his feet. Dizzy] [corrects himself] a lot of marbles, but this isn't my first rodeo with amnesia. I have enough left to understand the situation. Me and William are going to evac everyone to the gym for safety. You four better get going there while we clear out the dorms.
Sissi: And what if there are monsters in the gym? Call the police and everyone stays put.
William: [puts his phone on speaker] Jeremy, tell them what you just told me.
Jeremy: [speaker] [lies] I already did that. It will be ages until the police even arrive there.
Sissi: [frustrated] Mmmmmmm fine. You guys go clear the gym out first and I'll take care of the dorms. If you were ready to fight each other, you're the best bet we have to take apart these science project rejects.
Hiroki: [picking her words apart] Wouldn't turning in a working robot be a successful science project?
William: [ignoring him.] She's right you know. [sissi, Tamiya, Milly leave. William and Ulrich run out the door toward the other end of the hall.]
[Odd and Aelita are in the halls of Carthage.]
Odd: Okay Einstein, ready to be beamed up.
Jeremy: [embarrassed] You won't believe this. You know how we lost two sectors to turning off the-
Odd: Einstein, how many things are broken today?!
Jeremy: [shouting] I wasn't planning on turning this thing back off and on.
Odd: I get it. How do we get to the desert sector then?
Jeremy: The old way. Celestial dome, then take the data channel to the desert way tower.
[They both run down hallways until they reach a doorway that leads out into a curved chasm, the exterior shell of Carthage. Then a screeching sound can be heard. The elevator (Do not ask me to describe it in its entirety, watch the show and you'll understand.) is a platform, not an enclosed box. The two both take the elevator. It stops at a crack in the exterior shell. They run out onto a protruding platform in the sphere. They are now outside the sphere. They are surrounded by a dark black void painted with millions of screens of information; it's a second sphere surrounding the sector itself. Carthage is spitting out 4 data channels, cylindrical rivers of data positioned in the 4 cardinal directions; one toward each of the sectors. Jeremy summons Odd's overboard. Aelita activates her wings, Odd jumps on his overboard. Jeremy hits a few keys. One of the 4 channels exuding from the Carthage sphere stops sending data, allowing entry into the southern most rift in the dataspace around Carthage. Aelita and Odd sail into it.
They reappear by passing through the black wall of the way tower in the desert sector. They both fly over several plateaus. They spot something on the horizon. A huge mass of black clouds.]
Odd: Either XANA's really angry, or we've got a thunderstorm on the horizon.
Aelita: Well, its right on top of the tower, so we have no choice.
[They fly into the stormy clouds.]
[Graven is being pursued by a single kankrelat, a small 4 legged robot with a tan bulbus shell and single eye that doubled as a laser projector, shooting lasers at him every once in a while. Something slams into it. It goes sailing against the courtyard wall and bursts.
Graven turns around to see Yumi holding a janitor's broom. She grabs his arm and shoves him through the door into the gym.]
Yumi: [commanding] Stay here.
[Yumi posts her broom against the wall at an angle.]
Yumi: Now, since I saved your live, you mind telling me who attacked Ulrich?
Graven: How would I know that?
Yumi: Because he's your guy. He probably did the same thing that you did to Aelita.
Graven: [offended] I did no such thing. She faked a condition in order to prolong our discussion.
[Yumi slams her foot down on the join between the handle and broom head.
Graven flinches back.]
Yumi: [passive aggressive] Really? Because you were willing to kill four of us and held me against my will.
Graven: We were going to shut out your access to our systems, not kill them.
[Yumi slams her foot down on the join again. The broom cracks a little.]
Yumi: News flash. Shutting off a supercomputer means the world inside disappears. And then there's nothing for us to stand on and we fall into the digital sea. It may not harm your ninjas in green, but to anyone that was virtualized its lethal.
Graven: [surprised] I … I'm sure Mr. Tyron was aware of that and had additional measures in place.
Yumi: He was pretty clear he didn't.
Graven: As for your… [regains his composure. He restarts.] You were standing in the way of something that was going to ruin years of work. Look at it from a business standpoint.
Yumi: I am. What is worth killing kids over? What do you need the Cortex for that's worth risking letting XANA out?
[She slams down on the handle, clearly fueled by anger this time. It snaps at the join with a satisfying CRACK. She lifts her newly made staff. You can see the broken off broom head. She points the sharp end at Graven's face.]
Yumi: No more stalling. No more business talk. Just answers. Or I will use everything I know about beating humans and machines down until they're nothing left. All. [edges closer] Against. [edges closer] YOU.
Graven: I don't know who attacked Mr. Stern.
[Yumi hits Graven across the face with her staff. He goes down hard.]
Graven: Assault charges!
Yumi: You've got to understand. Your company was going to kill four of the people closest to me. There are monsters attacking. Something attacked my boyfriend and you might know what it is. So, I don't care how much I hurt you. You understand? {Yumi proceeds to spit hot fire.} Look at it from a business perspective.
[She prepares to hit him again.]
Graven: Grigory. I … it was probably Grigory. Always has his two rottweilers with him. That's where those tears on his pants might have come from. That and the boy's conditions match his MO.
Yumi: Thank you, for your "understanding".
[Yumi notices the door to the boiler room is bust open. From the inside.]
Graven: [trying to salvage his authority] Where are you going? This is the only place that's safe.
Yumi: If those things came from there. [points to the door] then not for long.
[She steps over the broken door and into the boiler room. She sees the door with a passage to the sewers.]
[Cut to the Kadic dorms, third floor. The girl's floor. In which boys, whose floor is numbered second, are not allowed. Girls are upstairs and boys are downstairs. Comings and going from upstairs to downstairs and from downstairs to upstairs are strictly forbidden. And if someone is caught going from downstairs to upstairs or from upstairs to downstairs, they are really going regret it stairs.
A Blox is scuttling down the hallway. (Is it allowed on this floor? You get to decide.) It's a… well, block, with an eye on each of its vertical faces. It has six legs on the bottom it uses to scuttle around. Each eye has a different attack, but it was currently using one with an ice beam, freezing doors shut with the students in there inside. They can be heard banging on the doors.
A door creeks open. Laura pokes her head out to see what's going on, with headphones dangling off one ear.
It spots her. Laura dives out of her room door just as a beam of ice freezes the spot where she just was. She somehow lands in a roll and ends up at the T-intersection of the hallway. She moves to behind the corner just as a couple of red lasers hit the wall and ground ahead of her. She gets up and looks to the side.]
Sissi: Hi.
[Sissi is hiding behind the other corner.]
Laura: What is going on!? [peers around the corner at the Blox] What's with that … [clutches her head] Blox?
Sissi: How do you not know what's going on?
Laura: I had my headphones on. Playing through Metal Gear Solid 3 studying its level design.
Sissi: Oh, great. That means you must know all about robots and their weaknesses.
Laura: Okay, one, computer science and engineering are NOT the same thing. And two, how can you not tell those eyes are its weak points after one glance? Now, what's going on!?
Sissi: Robot monster invasion. And our best chance of survival is Ulrich and William.
Laura: [that fact scares her more than the robot] Oh.
Sissi: I was about to leave, then this thing showed up.
Laura: Luckily for you, I've literally been stuck in this exact situation for the past hour. Since we don't have a flashbang, we need a distraction and an attacker.
Sissi: [unmovable pris] Fine. You go first and I'll go for the eye.
Laura: [unstoppable elitist] No, you don't know what to do. You be the distraction. I'm the only one who can take it down.
[The Blox has finished icing off the remain doors and is advancing on their position.
Laura cuts off the argument.]
Laura: Fine. Give me your phone.
Sissi: No [Laura gives her a "Are you serious? We are about to die!" look] Fine.
[Show the view from the Blox. Just as the Blox is about to turn the corner, two flashes from the girl's phones go off. It resets its targeting for a millisecond and the girls charge at it.]
[Back in the computer lab.]
Jeremy: Guys, I do not have a visual on the Holomap. I have no idea what is waiting for you.
Aelita: Well, that's not an issue.
[Starts to use creativity. As she holds out her hands, an angelic song voice fills the air. The storm starts to part.
Then something huge appears. A giant structure stretched out over the area around the tower.]
Odd: What is that?
Aelita: You don't know either?
[Then the thing moved.
Six giant eyes appeared. The supports over the tower start to move. They are actually humongous pincers. Then its body was clearly visible through the storm. It was a giant krab with a golden shell.
As more of the storm disappears, it reveals more regular krabs, monster with a giant red shell almost double the height of a person and 4 strong pinchers, on the ground. The ground around the tower is actually a crater. It's shaped like a straight cylinder cut out of the ground.
And then 6 giant lasers followed by dozens of tinier, but just as ferocious lasers streak toward them.]
Odd: [panic] Put it back! PUT IT BACK!
[Aelita, stops using creativity by choice & reverses its effect. The storm cloud density increases.]
[William and Ulrich reach the gym. They see the doors have been blown open and monsters are moving inside.]
William: What do we do?
Ulrich: I don't know. The only time I've faced anything worse than a kankrelat, there was only one at a time.
William: What did you do that time?
Ulrich: Assassination from a tree. You were the bait.
William: [Suspicious] Was this before or after I joined?
Ulrich: Before. And I had Yumi's family sword.
Hiroki: When did you have my family's Peacemaker?
[William and Ulrich look over to see Hiroki with wooden weapons.]
Ulrich: Where did you get those?
Hiroki: They were for round three in case things got boring. When did you use our sword?
Ulrich: [speaks the truth] In an alternate timeline. [takes a wooden longsword] Thanks for the weapons, now scram.
Hiroki: [wants to be there] How about the competition is now who gets the most robot kills and I'm the judge. I'll warn you if you're in danger too.
William: [takes a thicker sword than Ulrich] No, you could seriously get hurt.
Hiroki: I promise to stay back. You think I'm going to rush in the middle of battle with a giant robot just to get a better look?
Ulrich: [accidental sass] Alternate timeline me says yes.
Hiroki: Is this a reference to something?
Ulrich: No, now unless you have a great reason-
Hiroki: Someone said they saw Yumi going into the gym with that Graven guy earlier.
[The two older boys immediately rush into the gym.]
Hiroki: [smirks] Too easy.
Aelita: [finishes recreating the storm.] There. [the lasers stop going anywhere near them. Loss in accuracy.]
Odd: Okay, we dive bomb from above, and if we miss the super krab's legs and if the appetizer krabs don't shoot us down, the tower deactivation is a piece of cake in the bag.
Aelita: Uh two different expressi-
Odd: I know what I said. I'm hungry for takeout.
Aelita: Well besides, I have a better idea.
[The normal krabs advance beyond the edge of the storm and reacquire their targets.]
Aelita: If they won't let us fly in from above and we'll get crushed by the legs on the ground, then let's go below.
[they turn around and fly in the opposite direction.]
[William and Ulrich are running all over the gym. They are constantly dodge rolling and only getting the occasional hit in. Hiroki is watching by the door.]
Hiroki: Ulrich 2, Will 3.
PHLEW PHLEW PHLEW WACK
Hiroki: Ulrich 3!
William: How about we say Tarantulas are worth 2 points. They are tougher.
[He points to a giant 4 spindly legged spider with metal attachments on its front legs that it used to fire lasers. The legs attached to its squat, green body that was small in comparison to the legs. It had a metal muzzle on its head with the eye of XANA on it.]
Ulrich: [testing fate] Not once you get used to them.
[A tarantula backhands Ulrich across the room. Luckily, he is sent into a pile of mats that collapse. He is perfectly fine. A loud screech blurts out.]
AAAAAGH
[A Blox behind William shoots a fire ring that destroys his sword right before he's about to attack the tarantula. The giant arachnid knocks him to the floor.]
PHLAT PHAT
[Something hits and dents the tarantula's muzzle face.]
Jim: [holding a nailgun] I don't know what you are, but you are not allowed in the Gym without my permission.
[Jim also has a bag with sharp metal objects sticking out and a weed Wacker in his other hand.]
Ulrich: Stay back, they're-
[Jim fires at the tarnautula's eye destroying it. It collapses on William. William shoves it off of him.]
Jim: Eh, I've dealt with worse in Quebec. You should have seen the size of that platypus. Then again, the wild boar was-
[A Blox is about to shoot at the monologuing Jim, Ulrich throws his sword knocking the thing over. William grabs the weed Wacker out of Jim's other hand. He slices a gash into the top eye of the blox. A plume of smoke erupts from it and it goes still.]
Jim: Nice shot stern.
Ulrich: [has enough of Jim's shtick] One-time Jim. The one time you want to talk about something.
Jim: You kids got good survival instincts. I was just about to clear this place out and make a safehouse myself. I even stopped by Mr. Riley's shed to pick up a few things. [hands Ulrich a pair of shears] You seemed pretty good with a blade.
Ulrich: [grins] You. Have. No idea.
William: You also get hurt easily. How loud did you scream? You hit the softest thing in the room.
Ulrich: That wasn't me it was-
[They see Graven crawling out from under the mats Ulrich knocked over. He had been hiding behind them when Ulrich was thrown into them.]
Ulrich: You?! You have till the count of three to tell us what you did to Aelita.
Graven: As I told Ishiyama, I had nothing to do with that.
Hiroki: [having entered after the battle.] You saw where my sister went? BT dubs, final score. Ulrich 3, Jim 1, William 4.
William: [to Ulrich] Hah!
Graven: She went into the boiler room. The monsters were coming from there. She said she had to go stop them.
[A stream of students from the dorms run in. Milly and Tamiya run up to Jim.
Milly: We've got to barricade the doors. More of those monsters are coming.
Ulrich: We should go help Yumi.
William: And who will protect them? Trust her to take care of the monsters on that end. We'll take care of the ones here and meet up later.
Ulrich: …It's going to be a massacre.
William: You should have more faith in her.
Ulrich: [retort] I meant for the monsters.
[Show wreckage of monsters in the sewers. Some are half in the water. Some have multiple stab entry points. Among the wreckage are multiple creepers, robotic snakes with organic heads and arms, but metal tails. They shoot lasers from their mouth.
Yumi is bracing against a tarantula's arms, trying to keep the laser projector end away from her face. It's trying to push back so she would be thrown down. Just as she tips dangerously backward, she swivels, slides the staff up the monster's arms to the neck and spins the other end of the staff around to bat it in the back of the head. It goes tumbling into the dirty water. A shower of sparks flies up, then immediately subside.]
Yumi: Nice.
[Behind where she was battling the monster, there is a set of stairs. The stairway walls are scrapped, and the stairs have cracks in them from the weight of the monsters' steps.
Yumi: Of course, they would be coming from here.
[She steps out the ruined door at the top. She's in the side yard of the Hermitage. The monster guards, a squadron of 3 hornets, insects with six short wings with a stinger that fires lasers, and a Blox turn toward her.
Cut to Yumi leaping toward them with her staff in mid strike]
[Show a giant hole in the ground. There are three tiered rings inside cinching up the hole as it went deeper. But after the third ring there was no bottom. Each of the rings was connected by a ramp with no railings. If you fell, it was a straight shot for the digital sea.]
Odd: Oh wow. It's been ages since we used this route.
Aelita: Same on my end.
[Five Kankrelats zip out from the ramp to the first ring.]
Odd: [glee] Oh look. Target practice! I love it when they line up.
[He swerves to the side so he can line up 3 Kankrelats next to each other. He obliterates them all with one 3 arrow burst. Aelita throws an energy field at the other one. It explodes and sends its last buddy off the edge of the hole and into the center pit.]
Odd: Laser Arrow!
Aelita: Energy Field!
[Odd and Aelita start descending through the rings on their board and wings respectively.]
Odd: Remember when these guys were scary? And could actually kill us?
[Show a kankrelot hiding under one of the ramps. It fires a shot at him. It destroys his board causing him to fall off.]
Odd: AHHHHH
[And he stops. A hand caught his.]
Aelita: We can't leave you alone for two seconds can we?
Odd: Don't go stealing my jokes.
Aelita: [sass sass] I would only steal something if it has value.
[Aelita creates an energy field in her free hand. Odd takes aim.]
[The kankrelat is panicked. Looks left, right, then accepts its fate and jumps off the ring toward them trying to knock them off. Odd and Aelita attack it at the same time and destroy it.
Aelita sets him down at a hole in the side of the innermost ring. It's a tunnel.]
Odd: Thanks. Einstein is there anyway to keep my board around more? You know, so it isn't destroyed by one Kankrelat!
Jeremy: Well, I could always make it your weapon instead of your laser arrows. But good luck trying to destroy monsters with a half pipe grind.
[They start running down the tunnel. They banter as they run.]
Odd: Please, if anything it would be 360 kick flip
Aelita: What if you ollied under a krab's foot or a Blox and sent it flying?
Odd: Oh, even better.
[Cut to the gym where students are huddled in a corner while Ulrich, William, and Jim stand guard by the door barricaded with a Pommel Horse and a couple of the mats.]
Hiroki: This is so unfair. I'm gonna make a fortune and never have a chance to spend it.
William: What are you talking about?
Hiroki: The contest. You won.
William: I don't think we're counting that. What about the fortune?
Hiroki: [realizes he's said too much] Um. Oh well, it doesn't matter anyway so, I may have sort have run an Yumi pool where people could bet on the match.
William: [furious] Who knew?
Hiroki: [meekly] Everyone in the school except Yumi. And you two.
William: Well, he couldn't have had too many bets more than me.
Hiroki: He had all the bets.
William: What?
Hiroki: Nobody thought you were going to beat Ulrich. Sorry man. That's just how it is.
[William is dumbstruck. Holes in the walls burst open as the monsters open fire.
The students fight back. Ulrich and William are on the front lines. Ulrich has taken apart the shears to make two pointy swords. He runs by a trio of creepers and takes each one down with a light slash. He's having fun.
William lands a few hits with the weed Wacker, but no critical damage. He's clearly mad and trying to take out two enemies with each swing.
Graven is useless as he hides in the corner.
A Blox turns on Milly and Tamiya. It fires a fire ring at them. Hiroki shows up to push the two out of the way, but he gets hit in the back of his legs, burning him. William gets the Blox from behind a second later.
Jim defends some students by blowing up a couple of Kankrelats with his nail gun.
Ulrich kicks the legs out from underneath a tarantula. It goes down but aims its blasters at Ulrich's feet. The blast scorches Ulrich's feet and he falls to the ground, dropping a sword. The tarantula swipes at him and knocks away the sword in his hand. He reaches for the one he dropped and a creeper's laser sending it spinning cross the gym floor.
The tarantula about to finish off Ulrich …
…And suddenly turns to ice.
Show Laura and Sissi holding one of the parts torn out from the Blox in the dorms. Laura is holding the XANA eye from the Blox as an emitter and Sissi is holding a blue glowing engine-like piece attached to it that seemed to power it. They sweep it across the gym freezing most of the monsters or slowing them down allowing William to cut them down.
Ulrich and Jim each slash and fire to kill one more monster each.
The gym is empty of threats.]
Ulrich: [collapses back onto his behind in exhaustion] Woah.
Jim: [joyous] We did it. I have no idea what these things are, but they didn't stand a chance.
[Immediately cut to Yumi getting blasted through the front window of the Hermitage. Lasers continue to rain in from the broken window and decimate the wall behind her.]
Yumi: Okay, officially overwhelmed. Time to call backup.
[pulls out her crushed phone. Nothing happens when she presses buttons.]
Yumi: "Get a smartphone" Odd said. "We don't need solid brick Nokiasnow that we won't be attacked every other day."
[She hears the door burst open and she dives down the stairs into the basement before they see her. She's running through the basement's twists and turns. She spots more monsters, two creepers, around the corner coming out of a room. She hears scuttling coming louder down the stairs. She throws her staff at the two creepers, then jumps feet first into it. Her weight forces the staff down onto the Creeper's necks, crunching them against the ground.
She kicks her staff up into her hand and continues into the room the creepers just exited. It's a refrigeration room with hooks hanging from each side. She slams the door shut and locks it.]
Yumi: [panting] There... No way for you… to get in he-
[And then she sees the giant gaping hole in the wall.
Inside the hole is another room. It's obviously been trampled from the monsters passing through. The monsters busted the hole in the wall to allow them to pass through. Yumi sees a couch on the other side of the wall. She drags it over the broken wall and slams it against the door just as the scratching, laser fire, and slams from monsters hitting the other side intensifies. Yumi steps back and uses her staff to support her weight while she takes a couple deep breaths.
Then she notices something off to the side of the newly exposed room.]
Yumi: [Amazed] Oh.
[Cut to the woodland park in front of Kadic. All appears normal. The laser fire sounds distant and muffled.
Then the man who attacked Odd and Diva shoves his hand up into frame. Show a different angle. The woodland has scorch marks all over it. The ground is torn up. The man's two dogs are whimpering on the ground some distance away from all the damage, clearly hurt. The man himself is stuck under a tree that apparently cracked in half and collapses on top of him. Having just woke up, he manages to push the branches that had him pinned down away and sits up. He clutches his chest in pain.
FLASHBACK
Diva: [leans down to check on Odd] You awake?
Odd: [semi-conscious and babbling.] I don't know know can't tell
Diva: It's okay, we'll get you back to the school and-
PHT PHT
Diva hits the ground. The man has taken out a silenced Desert Eagle handgun and doubled tapped before either of them had noticed.
Odd: [doesn't know what's happening, but clearly terrified] …AH.
?: No witnesses.
[He reaches down to try to continue the memory snatching process on Odd.
Diva grabs his hand before he can try. Behind him, his dogs start barking fiercely.]
Grigory: [bewildered] How are you-
[The man's eyes lock onto Diva standing behind him.
With XANA symbols in her eyes.]
[Opening Theme plays]
Episode 16 end.