RP group story

[Ponic]

Alice jumped at Shroud, Shroud put his arm up, Alice's teeth dug into the metal cuff he had on his sleeve. He threw Alice to the wall, then ran towards her to drive a dagger into her. "Alice, watch out!' shouted Zach, he ran behind Zach and went to hit him across his back. Shroud turned around, Zach's sword went into Shroud's black cloak, but it was like it was a portal, "How'd you?" "I've gotten stronger also, since last we met!" Shroud then smirked, and threw some daggers at Zach, jumped out of the way. Alice dove on his back, and dug her fangs into him. Shroud pulled her off, "Your venom will have no effect on me!" he said, flexing his muscles he drove the venom right out of him. It went all over the floor, Shroud then jumped upwards, turning in circles up in the air, he threw daggers at Zach and Alice. Zach put his hand up, and shot a pulse out of it deflecting the needles, 2 kankralets then appeared behind them, and shot at Zach and Alice. They dropped to 1 knee, Shroud then threw needles at them, 20 to each, right into their backs. The needles made it too painful for them to be able to stand up straight, the door up on the ceiling opened up, Ponic fell through it, "Ow!" The two Blocks jumped down after him, and firing lazers. Ponic deflected them with his shadows right back into the Blocks, but Shroud shot needles into his arm. "Now, we can finish where we started before." Said Shroud holding 3 daggers in his hand, he then heard XANA call to him, "They are down for the count." 3 Krabes then walked out of the scanner, "I understand master." Shroud vanished in smoke, then disspersed up in the air. The Krabes then began firing at them. The elevator then opened up behind them, the others were there. "Get those Krabes!" Neon jumped upwards, and darkness came ontop of 1 Krabe's sign like a darkness blade, Halo turned into a Moth and fired lazers at the 2nd one, and lastly Skylos did the same as Neon but with light to the last. "We figured, something was wrong, guess we were right." said Skylos. "XANA has launched an attack, but we are having issues getting video and audio connection." barely said Alice, Skylos ran to the ladder and climbed up it to the lab. Skylos typed on the computer, "I got nothing!" Neon poked Skylos on the shoulder, "I'm sensing an extreme power, if this is XANA I'm not sure what he could do with it, stand aside." Skylos moved over, Neon placed his hand on the computer, and jolted electricity through it, bringing it back online, "Oh all of you finally a response!" said Aelita immediatly appearing, "I jammed the scanners, XANA is trying to materialize everything, but he'll probably just start materializing them through Shroud now, I need your help on Lyoko quick!" Skylos nodded, "On the way!" Rem, Yisha, and Neon got in the scanners. Skylos then felt a tug on his arm, Wrath smiled, "Can I go to Lyoko?" "I don't know Wrath." "Please?" Skylos thought to himself, "Well Wrath it's kinda-" "I'll take it!" he said running to the scanners. Skylos rolled his eyes, "Transfer scanner virtualization." They all arrived in the desert sector.

"Hi Aelita!" waved Yisha. "Welcome to our world! Oh what's your name?" she asked Wrath. "Wrath!" he said with a big smiling, Neon shrugged, "Long story." "Maybe another time." laughed Aelita, "XANA's tower is not far from here, look." she said pointing at the pulsations, "XANA's tower might not be far, but he's got plenty of monsters still around." warned Skylos. "We'll watch out for them" said Rem, they all headed off. Outside Halo was looking up into the sky, "Weird Keera." "What?" she asked. Halo pointed upwards, "That cloud, it doesn't look like a cloud, it almost looks like an object." Musashi looked up, "I can't make up squat from down here, let's go for a closer look...a little air?" Halo shrugged, "Alright." she turned into an eagle and began flying up, Keera summoned her and Musashi's shadows and lifted them up. The three of them flew upwards, Keera then pointed, "It's a fortress!" "Hm, big giant floating fortress in the sky? Oh that's not suspicious." An explosion was then went out from it, "That's definatly not suspiscious." said Mushashi sarcastically. They landed upon the fortress, and followed the path to a door, however it was glowing red, meaning locked. Halo looked at the pad, "Odd what does this thing mean? I can't figure it out it's so weirdly written!" Keera tried to send a telepathic message, "Ah! I've never felt such stress, I can't get it out!" Halo started messing with the computer pad, Musashi looked over the edge of the fortress, it was a long drop down to the next platform, and there were incredibly large pillars and objects holding it. He looked around, the fortress seemed to be devided into 3 platforms, all connected to a single centre large platform, which had an upper level attached to a glowing blue crystal, powering it to float. Musashi even felt saw some snow on the fortress, and a few flurries falling around. There were a few objects to far to make out scattered around the platform, the platform him, Keera and Halo were on seemed to have a large drop, if you survied you would land on a ledge under you that would have you slide to the centre platform's wall, then you would more the likely fall off that off the fortress. "Dang it's not working!" shouted Halo. Musashi turned, "Try smashing it." Keera's mouth then dropped when she looked at Musashi, she pointed, "What?" he asked. Keera kept pointing, Musashi turned, "WHAT THE!" He saw a huge tenticle behind him. "The Kraken!" screamed Keera. It dove to the centre platform. Musashi looked carefully, "That's a XANA monster." he pointed out, "Looks like they are fighting against somene...and losing, why does XANA keep churning out these losers?" Keera ran over and looked, a blue lazer then came at them, "Watch out." she tackelled her and Musashi to the side, the lazer hammered into the wall, leaving a large burn mark. "Graaaah!" The door opened, the being there was cloaked, but he was holding a glowing sword. "I got this sucker!" said Musashi he ran at him, his sword swung at the glowing sword he saw. Musashi's katana merely burned right to nothing almost down to the hilt, "Well that changes things...may I suggest everybody, that we...RUN!" Halo, Musashi and Keera jumped over the side. "Ah!" Keera called on their shadows, she flew them to the platform under them. When they landed however behind them on the platform were gun turrets, "No visitors" said one of the gunners, he fired his gun and so did his other partner. The guns didn't fire they shot lazers, Keera put up a shadow shield they disentegrated right through it, "Ah!" screamed Keera as the lazers hit her, the force pushed her off the side. Halo jumped after her, Musashi shrugged and jumped also. Halo grabbed a ledge, and grabbed Keera who grabbed Musashi. They hung over the edge, if Halo lost her grip they would fall. "Idea!" Musashi began swinging back and fourth.

On Lyoko the others were fighting against just a few megatanks, "I was expecting a worse force." said Rem. Wrath who at the time was fused with a large sand mountain and was destroying monsters with it then pointed, "What are those bowling balls coming?" Yisha turned, and was hit by a megatank lazer. "Ah!" "Yisha- ah!" the other one hit Rem, both were devirtualized. "Rem, Yisha!" cried Aelita. The megatank turned and fired at Aelita. "Ah!" Neon then wrapped a darkness chain around her and swung Aelita over him, he then put darkness around his hand and grabbed onto the megatank blasts struggelling to hold them back, "Anytime Wrath!" "Oh ok!" he said. Wrath pushed the sand upwards, knocking the megatanks upwards and into the digital sea. XANA then materialized two spiders infront of the tower. "One for each of us!" laughed Wrath. Neon rolled his eyes, "Whatever." The two of them went at the spiders. In the lab Skylos was typing on the computer "I wonder what the whole point of XANA's attack is..." He then felt a strong power, similiar to what Neon felt earlier, "What on earth?" Up in the fortress, Halo realized what she had grabbed onto, it was a tunnel, and it was beginning to glow, "Uh Halo, please tell me that's just a white light at the end of the tunnel!" asked Musashi, still swinging forward and backward more now. "No, that's a very large beam! If you are going to do something, DO IT NOW!" warned Halo.

[Ponic]

Musashi did a heavy swing, which caused everybody to flip onto the ledge, Halo changed into a Griffen, and flew everybody to the top platform, they landed. Suddenly blue lazers flew over their heads, "Intruders KILL THEM!" shouted one of the guards, "Intruders?! We don't even know where we are!" yelled Halo, they began firing. Musashi pulled out his other katana, "Well we got no other choice in it..." The others shrugged and ran at the guards. On Lyoko Wrath had blown up a sand wall, Aelita then sung it into a rock wall. Neon opened his hands, dark spikes came out of them, he used them to climb up the wall. He swung to the top, "Run now Aelita!" Neon swung over Wrath defused from the rock wall. Neon swung over, he commanded darkness to come out of the wall like a wave, a spider fired and hit Neon in the arm knocking him down, this knocked off Neon's wave of darkness causing it to just kill 1 spider. The other shot a web at Neon, it wrapped around him, "Damn" he said, trying to get the web off of him, the spider then walked up, it placed it's two legs on Neon, devirtualizing him, it then changed from it's usual brown colour to black. Neon walked out of the scanner, "There's that power again, what is it" Neon saw Ponic leaning against the wall, getting a bit better. Neon's tone was the usual, but he was concerened, well a bit, "You alright?" Ponic put his arm behind him, "A bit, Shroud's spikes have an annoying after effect, thankfully Rem gave me that potion!" Neon walked to Ponic and helped him into the elevator. When they arrived up in the lab, Neon looked, Ponic was standing next to Rem, "Neon, what's-" he noticed the Ponic Neon had next to him. Before anyone could speak, the Ponic next to Neon smiled sadistically, he then flipped Neon onto the floor, and went to punch him, "NO!" Alice ran tackelled the Ponic clone, Neon got up and out of the way. The Ponic clone was bitten by Alice in the arm, then threw her into the elevator wall, he then pulled out a dagger and threw it at her, Skylos at the same time grabbed the Ponic clone, and whipped it into the wall. The dagger still went into Alice's heart, she died, life eight used, Alice got up, "You little son of a b*tch!" "REVEAL YOURSELF SHROUD YOU DON'T FOOL US!" commanded Skylos. The Ponic clone got up, it changed to Shroud, but it digitized for a second, "It's a clone of Shroud, rememeber a strong hit on it devirtualizes it." pointed out Ponic. Zach then put in, "Easier said then done, even the clones are almost unbeatable!" Everybody ran at the clone, Skylos spoke into the mic, "Wrath, Aelita, hurry it up, where's the tower?" Aelita answered, "XANA has a sand storm, we can hardly see right infront of us." Wrath pointed, "There I see it up ahead!" The earth under them began cracking. "Ah!" screamed Aelita and Wrath. Wrath then quickly fused into the ground, and used himself as a bridge to each segment of land, Aelita began running. "Hurry up Wrath! Skylos, this will make things harder just hold on for a little while longer!" "We'll do our best!" answered Skylos. Skylos then got up and ran at the Shroud clone. The Shroud clone put his arm up then brought it down, and exploded a pulse that pushed everyone back. Neon pulled darkness out of the wall pushing the Shroud clone forward into Skylos. Skylos was about to hit him with one of his clawed gauntlets, however the Shroud clone brought out his sword, Skylos quickly exchanged the gauntlet for a light disc that he used as a shield. Ponic ran behind the Shroud clone, he jumped up and out of his fingers came little discs of shadow. The Shroud clone was hit in the back, but rather then digitizing he went black and fused into Skylos. "Hm, I like it in here." He said putting on Skylos' clawed gauntlets.

On Lyoko things were not going easier. Wrath got him and Aelita out of the storm, "There's that tower thing." he pointed. Poison then sprayed infront of them from a moth, Wrath placed his arm into the sand and sprayed the moth with sand killing it. A spider then came out of the sand storm also, it was black. When it opened it's mouth rather then firing blasts it used a darkness attack like Neon. The darkness came into a ball then went at Wrath, him and Aelita dodged it. "Run to the tower Aelita! I'll see what this spider's made of! Come on let's play!" he said laughing. "Wrath!" called Aelita, "Oh my gosh." she ran for the tower. Wrath fused into the sand, the spider leaked darkness into the ground, which pushed Wrath right out of the ground. Wrath rolled on the floor, the spider shot chains at Wrath. Wrath rolled out of the way, then seeing a rock formation behind him, he put his hand into it, turning it into a rock, he ran at the spider. The spider started shooting darkness chains, Wrath deflected the chains with the rock, then it became a blade, launching it off from his arm it went into the spider killing it. "Ya! Ah!" a Kankralet from behind Wrath shot and devirtualized him, thankfully Aelita already got in the tower. Aelita floated to the top platform, "Aelita...Code...LYOKO" "Tower deactivated" she smiled and said. On earth the Shroud clone possesing Skylos died and vanished, "Guies!" Rem put his hand up, holding multiple viles in them "Get em while your living!" he laughed, everybody had taken some bad hits from Skylos' gauntlets. Up in the fortress, Shroud, the real one, his army had faded from all around him. "No those idiots!" he shouted. The being he was fighting laughed, "Looks like you have more then just one enemy working against you." he spoke this in a dark raspy voice, he was wearing a black cloak which had an eye on it. The being then ran at Shroud his sword glowing. Shroud jumped upwards, "This is far from done!" Shroud jumped threw a dagger at his opponent, who deflected it, but it was just a distraction. Shroud broke the window behind him and dove out of it, his opponent ran towards the window. "I look forward to seeing you again..." Halo, Musashi and Keera noticed the window under them break and Shroud jump out of it. The fortress then began shaking, it first fired a large beam down at the Earth, then began shooting multiple different attacks at Shroud. Shroud was skilled and began dodging them, but this distraction gave the other's opponents the chance they needed to shoot them a few times. Then one of the larger opponents, hit the floor, sending a shockwave through it knocking everybody to the edge. Suddenly a machine, it had jets on the bottom, and the back, and was rather oddly shaped, it fired at Mushashi, Halo and Keera. "I can't open our shadows!" shouted Keera, "Then we better pray!" yelled Mushashi jumped and pulling the girls with him off the side of the fortress. The three of them began falling to the Earth with great speed. Keera then felt all her shadow powers reactivate, the ground was rushing up fast, Keera put her arms up, everybody's shadows opened, they landed inside them. Everybody then came out of them, they looked around and realized where they had landed, in a large crator that used to be the city. "Oh my gosh, this place was vaporized, so much death!" said Keera horrified, she simply teleported everyone back to the factory. When they arrived Keera walked out of her shadow and simply walked to Ponic and gave him a hug, "What happened?" he asked. Halo braced herself to tell everybody the story.

"A fortress?" asked Zach, "Up there?" he said pointing at the clouds, "What side show freak is doing that?" "We don't know" said Keera, she had been silent the whole time. "You ok?" asked Ponic to her, Keera nodded, "I'll have to be." Skylos placed his hand on his temple, "I can feel it a strong power." Neon put his arm up, "At it's minimum." he finished. Wrath then screamed, he was looking at the factory, everybody turned around, all they saw was eyes, they were Shrouds! Shroud ran out of the factory, he became a blacksmoke. He covered the area, no one could see, they all started coughing, when it cleared the saw Shroud holding Skylos with a knife to his throat and in a choke hold. Shroud then ran into what used to be the city, "Hey!" shouted Alice, coughing, "Get back here!" The others took off after him

[Ponic]

The group ran into the city, "HEY GET BACK HERE!" shouted Yisha to Shroud. Shroud jumped up onto the ruins of a building and started running across the roof tops. Neon, Zach and Mushashi followed him, the others kept running across on the ground. Except Ponic and Keera. When they walked into the city, suddenly Keera stopped she looked around, she couldn't move, Ponic ran back to her. "Keera come on!" he said pulling her arm, "So much death." she answered, but not really to Ponic, she was more speaking to herself almost thinking outloud. "No one saw it coming, so much death, people living. They had lives, they're dead, gone for good, all dead." "Keera!" Ponic put his hand on her arm, "Come on, we need to get after Shroud, I promise we will make it better again." Keera pulled her arm back from Ponic's grip, "You don't get it huh? They're dead, what's left huh? They're all dead!" she began backing up, "No! No, not here! Not me, not everyone in this city! No stay away! Get away, no!" Ponic put his hand up, "Keera...Keera" "No no no!" Ponic began walking towards her, "Keera, it's Ponic. Please don't do this, Keera I love, I don't want to see you go into a mental breakdown." Keera kept backing up, "Keera the river's behind you stop!" "Thousands dead, no no no! They can't they live! Not dead, no! No no no, I, no them, they live, no they wounded and, AH!" Keera fell into the river. "KEERA!" Ponic ran to the river, but it was too late Keera was swept away by the tide. Ponic put his hand on his temple, "I don't understand, why can't I sense her shadow? Keera no." Keera fell under the water, she was too much out of it to realize that she was in danger of drowning! The tide continued moving her away, her cloak thankfully got got on the side of the channel, it brought her head out of the water. Keera coughed, she still had a horrified look on her face, but was not saying a word just breathing, a firm hand then grabbed her out of the water. He looked at her, "What is your name?" he had on the same cloak as the people her, Musashi, and Halo faught up on the fortress. "What background are you? Do you speak?" Keera said nothing she just stood on her kness breathing. "Sir!" His superior came towards the man, he had an eye on his hood, he brought his hood down, he was also a darkness human! "What is your name shadow weilder!" he more commanded then asked. Keera said nothing, "Insolent swine answer!" he shouted bringing a sword to Keera's neck. She muttered something, "What?" he asked bringing his head closer to her mouth. "Thousands dead...no...no stay away...no one can fix it." "What should we do? Rike?" The darkness human, Rike looked at Keera. "She's had a mental breakdown, she probably hardly even knows where she is, take her with us Lucas." Lucas brought Keera to her feet he went to tie her up, "What are you doing? She's gone nuts, save it for someone who will put up a fight." Lucas nodded, he then just hoisted Keera over his shoulder. "Come, we still got another few square metres to cover." said Rike, beconing Lucas to follow. Keera just continued muttering to herself, "Dead, death, so much...no no no...we were life. Failed, alone...nothing...all failed...all gone..."

In the city Ponic appeared in Shroud shadow, but rather then coming up behind he came up infront, with his arm up, he clothes lined Shroud. Neon then got there he helped Skylos up, Ponic picked Shroud up, "What did your master do!" Shroud kicked Ponic in the chest, nearly pushing him off the roof, he then flipped backwards, everybody got ready to attack. "Relax" he said. Brushing his sleeve Shroud kept his smug look on his face, and continued, "I don't feel like fighting you all today, besides while I would love to slaughter you all I need to save it for the real onslaught." "Cocky little villian isn't he?" whispered Halo to Rem. "What do you want Shroud?" asked Skylos. "I merely stole you away over here to get your attention, look over there." he said pointing to the side of the building to the runied road. The whole area was desolate but two figures were walking, also wearing the same robes as the people in the Fortress and Rike and Lucas. Shroud didn't look, he was leaning against a support beam with his arm's crossed, not even looking at the group. "They're caled the Oreals. An ancient race of destruction, now they've come here, I had hoped to destroy them early on before they had done this. Master XANA also gave me an army to aid in this, but I suppose you all made certain that would not happen, now that you deactivated the tower, well you can thank each other for condeming the city. And that was their weapon at minimum power. At full they could whipe out this city and possibly even most of the country, not counting the secondary weapons they have up there and their army of followers." Rem turned to Shroud, "Enough cryptic talks, how do we stop them? What do we do?" "You stay out of my way." answered Shroud, "You wanna bet? If they are going to cause chaos that makes them our problems to!" shouted Alice. Shroud opened his eyes, "You mistake my motives and honesty for friendship and help. I did that once with the Izerion crisis, I don't want or need your help this time, I tell you this so you don't help them out and end up condemming this planet! Stay out of my way, the next time we meet we will still be enemies again. Do not mistake my intent for kindness, and don't be foolish and try to assault the fortress. I warn you, you back the Oreals into a corner, you will force them to unleash their super weapon one that will break utter chaos to us here." Shroud walked towards the edge of the roof, "Remember what I said." he then jumped off and vanished in a cloud of smoke dispersing in the air. Wrath tugged on Ponic's arm, "Where's Keera?" Ponic shook his head, "I don't know." Yisha put her hand on Ponic's shoulder, "Well, let's go find her." What no body was aware of however was Keera was up in the fortress.

Lucas set Keera down in a room, there was almost nothing there. It was just a light brown colour on the walls with some designs, around it, there were two candles infront of her and a door, it opened to a dark room. A being walked out of it, wearing a dark black cloak, it had a silver eye on the top, and a chain around the neck, on the chain was a green orb. He walked towards Keera, "Who is the shadow weilder?" he asked. Rike bowed, "We found her in the city, she has suffered a mental break down, my lord." "Very well leave us." The man put his hand under Keera's chin, "It's time for you to return now child." Keera turned her head away, she was tearing, the man smiled. "My name is Gycor, leader of the Oreals, and my voice is the true voice, the voice of reason, and the voice of truth. Follow me my dear."

[Ponic]

"I know Keera" said Gycor looking at her, he was on one knee looking straight into her eyes. "You feel broken, you've never seen such death have you. I know but the way of the Earth is a failing way my dear." he brought his fingers under Keera's chin and brought her head up to him, "Their ways are coming to an end, the Oreal way is just beginning." "But...you killed all them." Keera was starting to speak again but her sentences weren't perfect. Gycor shook his head, "I did nothing, they only did it to themselves, my target is one thing my dear. Though I may need to get through many to get to it, I do so only to gather up what I need." he leaned forward and gave Keera a kiss on the lips. She was still very much out of it, didn't delve into it, but didn't resist either. "Think about it, and know that I promise to give your life meaning, you will have a hand in all this." Gycor heled Keera to her feet. He then motioned two guards to come to him they walked towards Keera, "Take her to a room, with a view." They motioned Keera to walk forward but she had only a blank look on her face. As such one guard picked her up, they took her to a room, and layed her on a bed, "Sleep well" said one of them. They walked out of the room, "Master?" they asked Gycor. "What is it?" "Master, I thought you did not approve of shadow weilders." "I don't, I only keep the few in my company because I can't deny it they are powerful. Anything to get the job done, I will exterminate all the shadow weilders in my company when I'm done." The guards nodded, "You know the best master, we serve you till the death and beyond." Gycor nodded, "Excellent, but there is still those other few teenagers that are going to cause us trouble. I want them dead, and I might be able to use this Keera as a way to the heart. It will be difficult but quite possible. Though everything must be timed perfectly, you two have your jobs, good lucsk." Gycor put his hand on the wall then entered into another room. Ponic, Neon and Skylos were soaring around the skies. "I don't see here." said Neon telepathically. Skylos shook his head, "I don't sense her precense either." Ponic kept searching the area he was over, he was not saying much. "Ponic you alright?" asked Skylos. Ponic didn't answer. "Ponic?" "I see a few more Oreals out there." answered Ponic. Meanwhile in the factory, Rem typed a bit on the computer, "Hey guies I was thinking, if Shroud knows a bit about the Oreals, perhaps the intel will be in XANA's memory." he spoke to Alice, Zach, Mushashi, and Yisha. "Sector 5?" asked Rem. Alice looked at the moniter, "Ya let's get going." Rem looked at the moniter, "Uh, sure but how do I set up the virtualization?" Aelita came on the screen, "Listen to me very carefully Rem, I'll guide you." In the city, two Oreal soldiers were walking in the crater and the ruins, suddenly a rock wall hit them, Wrath jumped out. "Wow that was pretty fun!" One of the soldiers growelled, he then opened his hands and a creature came out of it.

Wrath jumped backwards, the creature that came out growelled at Wrath. It was on all fours, had rather large eyes and was extermely large teeth. It lunged at Wrath, Wrath then flipped backwards to dodge out of it's way. Wrath stuck his hand into the rock, and turned it into a large blade, he then went to strike the creature. The creature roared in pain, then swiped it's claw at Wrath. A darkness chain then wrapped around it's claw and pulled it up, a light whip hit one of the soldiers, and a shadow blast hit the other. Neon, Skylos and Ponic jumped onto the floor to help Wrath out. The soilders got up, and so did the creatures. Neon looked at Wrath, "I'll help you out Wrath." The two soldiers looked at Ponic and Skylos, "You two will pay for what your way of life has done!" said one of them, "You shall suffer shadow weilder!" shouted the other. They both pulled out their lazer plasma guns, and aimed them at Skylos and Ponic. The creature's eyes glowed and it growled at Neon and Wrath. It shot a green blast at them, Neon deflected it with his darkness, the beast then jumped behind them and fired it's last two blasts from behind. It caused Neon and Wrath to freeze up, unable to move at all. The creature then hit the two of them in the back, they fell forward, the creature then hit the two of them over and started clawing at them both. Skylos opened his hand, causing the light infront of him to turn into a bladed wheel, shot it at one of the soliders. "Ponic, Neon and Wrath are in trouble!" The Oreal soldier put his arms up, the the bladed light wheel hit into them, causing a large gash in his arm, but eventually it stopped spinning, he threw it back at Skylos. Skylos jumped onto it, then jumped upwards he brought the bladed wheel down at the soldier. The soldier shot his gun at Skylos vaporizing the wheel, he then started firing at Skylos. Ponic's opponent was large and strong, he shot his gun at him. Ponic summoned shadows around him, travelling behind them he ran at him. The soldier destroyed the shadow, but Ponic drove a shadow blade through his fist, then shot a shadow blast at the soldier. The soldier went back, but pulled the shadow blade out and crushed it in his hands, he started firing the gun again at Ponic, rapid shots. Ponic pulled up the soldiers shadow behind him, and had it start attacking him from behind. The Oreal soldier shot his shadow, Ponic ran at him then jumped upwards, and began firing multiple shadow blasts at the soldier. As a counter the soldier jumped up and grabbed Ponic's leg, he then whipped him into the floor, and started shooting Ponic with his gun. By now the creature's paralyzing effect on Neon and Wrath had worn off, but they both were rather hurt, Wrath dug his foot into the ground, causing his leg to come upward from the ground, and kick the creature back. Neon strained himself but got up, bringing the darkness up from the ground, he shot the creature upward then hammered it back down into the floor. The creature roared, "Ah!" Wrath screamed, Neon covered his ears. This distracted Neon, the creature ran at them, Wrath jumped ontop of the creatures back, and placed his arm, it was a rock at this point, inside the creatures mouth and began pulling back hard; Neon then coming to turned his hand in a circle, darkness shot out of it, it let out a strong attack making the creature fly high into the sky. Wrath jumped off and landed inside the floor. The creature then began falling to the floor, Neon shot two darkness chains at the creature, the creature clawed the chains to bits then landed upon Neon. Growling it went to claw at his face, Wrath jumped out of the ground and drove a blade into the creature's side.

Ponic had multiple burn marks all over him from the gun attack. His rib cage was also broken, the soldier then went to bring all his strength down upon Ponic's head, Ponic shot out 4 shadow tenticles out of his body, they wrapped around the soldier. Ponic flipped the soldier over him, the soldier went into Skylos' opponent. Skylos to had burn marks all over him, he barely got up. "Let's finish them off together." said Skylos, he put his hand up into the air and channelled the light all around him and combined them they dropped down like two bolts of lightning, but made of light, at the soilders. Ponic did the same on the floor but with shadow. The blasts converged the soilders were killed, but all was not well, all four of them took some serious hits. Neon, and Wrath fell on their knees, Neon was holding his stomach with one arm and Wrath was with two arms, "We need to get back to the factory and find one of Rem's potions, or we won't survive much longer." said Neon, rather calmy despite the danger. A large rumbelling sound was heard in the city, the four of them looked up, "More Oreals!" warned Skylos. Ponic strained himself and opened everybody's shadows, "Go...quick." Everybody got into their shadows quickly, and fell out in the city. Ponic was holding his arm, "I'm sorry guys, but I don't have the strength to move us any furthur." Above them in the fortress, something else was unfolding. Lucas walked into Keera's room and took her by the arm then led her into a room with a table lit by candles, and sat her down there. Gycor walked out of another door, "Hello Keera" he sat next to her, "I think you will enjoy the dinner I have planned for us."

[Ponic]

Two Oreals brought the dishes for Gycor and Keera. Keera looked at it, Gycor took his fork and wrapped it around some pasta, "Eat, don't be shy." There were dishes from various realms, the light, the shadow, the darkness, Earth, even some realms Keera had never even heard from. She decided to play it safe and went for some shadow realm food and some Earth as well. Keera was only partially recovered after all that happened, her mind was not all back yet, she was still in partial shock. After a silence, Keera spoke first, "They, um, you, we, no uh." Gycor stopped her, "I know what you want to ask, and the answer is perhaps." Keera put her fork down, Gycor stood up and walked towards her, "Keera dear, I'm offering you a completion in your life, you saw what the blade of the sword can be, I'm offering you your own sword. You can join with me, you can become an Oreal and fight the correct fight, with the correct way, we shall all rule together side by side." Keera stood up, and took a step back, Gycor walked towards her. "You've seen what humanity does Keera. Why follow their flaws? Why not fight for that which is correct? The perfect, the non flawed? Fight together with me my dear Keera, then when we are done you will not stand under but on my right side. I will offer you a completion beyond the scope of what you can find in your original life. Come I would like to show you something." He walked Keera to a window which overlooked the fortress, "Your home?" she asked. Gycor nodded slightly, "For a time, our home is coming. We shall bring it to us, Earth is our last stop until our home comes my dear. Let us fight together Keera, let us remain as one." he took her arm and brought her close. "I will be there for you where Ponic never was, I will bring meaning that you have never seen, I will promise you what you can only wish to have." He then turned and pulled out a sword in a hilt, "This is yours Keera, I will never harm you." Keera looked out the window, "You harmed them all out there." "I didn't touch anyone my dear, they harmed themselves, I merely cleaned up what no one was able to. Their imperfections stopped them from passing what should have been an easy test, has caused them to fail it. I see potential and an accomplishment in you, do not bind it back. Otherwise your imperfections may way you down as well, I would never want that to happen." Gycor's eyes were glowing at this point, his eyes were great and strong, as were his words, Keera was unable to just simply ignore it. It was far to difficult, "Come to me my child, let me offer you a cool drink." he held out a chalice that had a liquid within it. Keera looked at it, she saw in it herself, as an Oreal, and her past life, she put her hand on her head. "But the death-" "Shall be stopped Keera, together we will end the true death and only bring about a death that is not killing, but a true cleansing. They just do not see it." Keera didn't know what to make of any of this. Her mind was so confused, Gycor was so convincing, she did not know what to do, his words rang through her head, they were too difficult to ignore. She looked at the silver chalice Gycor had given her, she then almost lost her own ability to think about it, she drank the chalice. Suddenly a strong vision went through her mind, she saw the Oreals, their mission all they were to do, she felt a strong change, she felt Gycor's voice in her head low but very difficult to ignore, "Welcome to the family." She then snapped back to it, Gycor walked towards her and took the chalice out of her hand, Keera was almost frozen in spot from the vision. Gycor turned her head towards him, "Do you swear your alliegance towards me?" Keera nodded, "I do." "Then welcome to the fold." he then leaned forward and gave her a strong kiss on the lips, Keera this time embraced it. One of the Oreals walked into the room, holding a dark red cloak, "This is yours." said Gycor, "I've been holding it for somebody, and I've chosen you." Keera held it, "I shall wear it with pride master." Gycor held his hand up, "Go now my child, dawn it, and I shall give you your first task." He then gave her another kiss two on the cheek and one on the lips, Keera then walked to her room. After she left and was gone, Gycor wipped his lips, "Ugh, shadow weilder, it is disgusting." The Oreal soldier laughed, "Of course sir." Gycor looked at him, "Remember Dardan, the red cloak is not one who is important, but truly is the one who's blood must be spilt. When our task is complete, you are to spill her blood, and bring it to me." Dardan bowed, "Of course sir." Gycor then looked out the window, "In the mean time, I shall use her, to our advantage. Keera is the way to atleast one of that so called group's heart, bring him, and atleast a few of them will follow."

On Lyoko Rem, Alice, Yisha, Musashi and Zach were in sector 5 guarding Aelita as she was searching for memory that XANA may have on the Oreals. "I found it, but XANA has put some serious firewalls on it, I'll go looking for a way around it." pointed out Aelita. "Take your time, no hurry here." answered Zach. They all heard then heard a caw, "Super Mantas." said Rem sarcastically. Alice climbed up the sphere, when the Manta's came close she dove upon it digging her claws into it. "Alright, let's have some fun!" she bit into the Manta, it suddenly went violet, now Alice was able to control it with her claws. She began shooting at one messing up it's flight. It began to fall down, as it came back up, Zach stuck his sword out, the Manta came right up in Zach's sword devirtualizing it. Rem opened his hand, "Where's that last Manta?" Musashi pointed, "Right the-" a Creeper came out behind him from the Sector's exit and devirtualized Musashi. He walked out of the scanner, "Stupid bug eyed creeps!" he went into the elevator cussing to himself.

Back on Lyoko, things were beginning to look bleak, Rem did kill the creeper but more Mantas were coming out. Aelita kept going at the interface, "Aelita, what's up with those programs?!" asked Rem. Aelita kept typing but answered, "XANA has placed up almost like a firewall around the files, he's done it from all sides, so I need to figure out a way to break them, I'm getting close but I keep hitting obstacles." "How much longer?" "About...another 10-15 minutes." "Just 10-15?" Alice and her control Manta flew towards the others, "We can hold out, we just need to keep these Manta's occupied." Zach pointed to himself, "I can stay here and keep Aelita covered, Rem you can fly...well sorta, you go help out Alice." Rem nodded, he shifted into his twiglight wolf form and went after the Mantas.

In the city, Neon, Skylos, Ponic and Wrath were hiding from the four Oreals looking for them, they were trying to make their way bcak to the factory. Ponic peaked around the corner, "I see two of them, they'll head off eventually so we'll need to go fast." Wrath then fell down. Skylos and Ponic went to pick him up, "He's in a coma, the attack from the creature is too much." pointed out Skylos, he then dropped to one knee, and Ponic's right arm became weak, "Well these burns sure aren't helping." Ponic then got an idea, "Gimme your robe." Skylos took it off, Ponic took his cloak off, he wrapped his cloak around Wrath's wound, and Skylos then went to Neon and wrapped his cloak around Neon's wound as well. "What about you two?" asked Neon. Ponic shook his head, "Burns can't really be dealt with." Neon then took a closer look, "Ponic those may be burns, but there are little holes in the middle of them, whatever came out of that gun was extremly more powerful then a bullet." Skylos was still over Wrath, "Guies I think this is worse then just blood loss." Ponic walked over so did Neon, Skylos was looking at the wound, "I guess cause your older Neon it didn't harm you as bad, but Wrath's wound is infected. I don't know what it is but his lips are losing colour, the wound is too much and the dust in the air must have carried some kind of sickness with it. He won't last much longer." Ponic then fell against the wall holding his arm, Skylos felt light headed, Ponic strained to talk, "If we don't...get back to the factory...we won't last long either...I don't have the strength to use my powers." Skylos and Neon shook their heads, they didn't either. They began venturing through the city, looking for the remains of any road, to get them back to the city, there was almost nothing to mark the way and a thick fog had rolled into the city as well. Neon looked around, "Duck!" he shouted, everybody did so, a lazer shot from an Oreal gun whizzed over their head. Skylos gave Wrath to Neon and Ponic, "Go..." "You won't survive the Oreals." answered Neon. Skylos shook his head, "Go now!" he pushed Neon away from him, and forced himself to stand up, "Go before we run out of time!" The fog behind Neon and Ponic lifted for a quick second, "Neon, I recognize that...well use to be building. We take a right here, and we'll be on the right road to the factory." Ponic picked up Wrath, "Come on." Neon looked at Skylos, he then saw an old pipe on the floor, "Take this, you might need some form of a weapon." Neon and Ponic left. Skylos waved to them, "Live well cousin" Skylos then looked into the fog, he saw 3 Oreal cloaks flowing in the wind. They came into view, he didn't know who the first two were. They were both wearing dark indigo cloaks, and holding the Oreal lazer gun, the third one was in a red cloak, she brought her hood down, it took Skylos a minute to realize who it was. "Keera!" Keera looked at Skylos, she didn't say a word to him, just to the other two Oreals, "This one is mine." there was no emotion in her voice, and her eyes seemed almost souless.

[Ponic]

Keera began walking at Skylos. Skylos backed up a bit, "Keera, don't please." Keera looked at Skylos, she didn't say a word, her arms and legs began glowing with shadow. She then jumped at Skylos, Skylos just barely doged out of the way, Keera landed behind him then did a flip towards him, kicking Skylos directly in the back of the head. "You go no where, remember that!" Skylos took a swing at Keera with the pipe, "I've gotta make some power come out of this!" Keera grabbed the pipe, her shadow then bent it right in half. She took a punch at Skylos, Skylos blocked it, Keera put her other hand on Skylos' arm, and flipped him onto the floor. Skylos wailed, he had burns on his back as well, Keera then brought a punch into his stomach. It winded him, Keera stood up, "With no powers they are easy pickings, take him back to the fortress." Skylos finally succeeded in incasing one of his hands in light. He grabbed Keera's leg and pulled her down, onto the floor, she quickly turned over. Then using her enhanced strength from her shadow the flipped Skylos over her by lifting her leg up. Skylos held on tight to Keera's leg, he began squeezing, the light from Skylos would start giving off pain upon her. Keera then began channelling shadow down her, towards Skylos' light, "You're exhausted from your last battle. Your powers are werried while mine is fresh!" Skylos' light got extinguished by the shadow, Keera picked him up and threw him into a building, the other two Oreals then grabbed Skylos. He was unconscious, Keera commanded then summoned the shadows around them, and commanded them to take Skylos to the fortress, "You two will continue on alone, my job is with a certain someone." Keera then began running towards the factory.

On Lyoko, Aelita finally broke through the fire walls, "I got it, ok time to download." she hit the send button. "Rem, Alice, time to run now!" she called out. Zach blocked a lazer from a Manta, there were now three hatched nests out, for a total of nine, "That makes things easy, come on let's go!" A Manta then shot at Zach's back, "Ah!" Aelita jumped out of the way of another lazer. Zach jumped upwards, he landed on the Manta and drove his sword into it, it was destroyed, Zach began falling. But he landed on Rem, still in his twilight wolf form, Alice then flew towards Aelita, "Need a ride princess?" Aelita jumped on, they flew out of the arena. "Great job guies!" called out Musashi on the mic. After everyone arrived in the mountain sector from Sector 5, the others devirtualized themselves, Aelita then appeared on the screen, "The Oreals. By the look of it, their leader, Gycor, convinces others that his way is the best way. They just want to apparantly cleanse different realms of their inhabitants there, but the fortress, it's weird it seems to be not just a weapon but almost like a ticking time bomb. If the Oreals gain more power, they will only become more dangerous." Zach put his hands up, "Can we back up a bit?" Aelita stopped, "It seems with each realm they attack, they take something with it, a power of some kind, by the look of it Earth is their last stop, then that fortress will apparantly explode from all the power. Releasing a devastating power, that will kill life in all realms." "Won't they all die as well?" asked Rem. Aelita nodded, "XANA's data is limited, but from what we got from it, it looks like that is the plan, gain enough power and knowledge to understand how to trigger a strong enough reaction to destroy realms, once it's done they think their mission is done. The data also said that, they believe once all is finished, they will move onto something called, 'The Great Fire' not even XANA understood that. This is mostly just guess work, but, XANA believes The Great Fire is code for something, maybe the attack that the fortress will let loose, but what doesn't make sense is if that's true why is it they will move onto it?" Everybody shrugged, "Guess our pal XANA doesn't have all the pieces either, explains why Shroud was so vague with his 'explanation'" commented Alice. Aelita nodded, "There's not much I can do from this end, but if you need my help don't hesitate to call." Aelita then vanished from the screen. Musashi looked around, "We gonna stop those pyscho pathic freaks were gonna need to get into that messed up flying fortress and destroy it." "Oh ya." said Zach, "One problem...how do we get into a large, FLYING fortress, that I'm guessing is pretty well guarded!" Then above the lab, the others all heard an explosion.

Ponic and Neon were just outside the factory, the Oreals had followed them and were destroying the support beams holding the bridge up. Ponic looked at Keera, "Please Keera don't do this!" Keera looked at Ponic, she narrowed her eyes, "I don't care!" she reached to her neck and pulled out a chain that was under her shirt, it had an amulet on it, an amulet Ponic gave her. Ponic went through a brief flashback.

He was with Keera sitting out on a corner in the shadow realm they were both a few years younger, "Keera?" "Ya Ponic." Ponic wasn't sure what to say, he looked at her, "To be honest, I've wanted to do this for a really long time." he grabbed Keera and gave her a kiss on the lips, Keera blushed when it was over, then gave Ponic another one, "I never knew." she said, Ponic then reached into his pocket, out came a red amulet, "I got you something. It's an amulet of the shadow weilder Gricon." Keera smiled and held it up to her eyes, "I will wear it, and remember you every time I see it." she put it around her neck, then they held each others hands. Another flashback went through Ponic's mind, he was in the shadow realm again, he was sneaking through the streets, secretly getting towards a funeral procession. It was Keera's, she was lieing in a casket, her amulet was on a chain around her neck, she had her hand on it, there was some blood on it, but not much. Ponic looked at her as she was put into the grave, "Always, I won't forget you Keera, and I will find your killer." He snuck away from the funeral, so no one would notice, at the time there was many who believed it was Ponic who killed Keera, and that made it possible for Ponic's blood to be spilt as a payment. Ponic then suddenly returned back to what was happening, "You said, we would always be together, you said that this was a symbol of what we had!" shouted Keera, "And for a time, I thought it to be true, I was wrong!" she smashed the amulet onto the floor, Ponic's heart shattered inside him as well. The bridge's support beams then began snapping, "I'll wash you both away in the tide, and this will be the end of my old life and the start of my new one!" Keera then vanished in a shadow. The Oreals aimed at the last two support beams on the bridge, when suddenly Musashi dove at one, "Back off boy!" he shouted, he drove his katana into one of them. Halo changed to a cat, she dove ontop of the other Oreal driving her claws into his head. The Oreal's screamed in pain, so much they fell into the river and were swept away. Musashi and Halo weren't however, the bridge then began snapping Yisha burned the two grounds together, molding them as one. "Come on!" she shouted, "They won't stick together forever!" Ponic got up and ran to the factory, Neon grabbed Wrath and ran as well. They got there just in time to see the bridge snap and sink to the bottom of the river, Halo and Musashi jumped over to the other side, the group went inside the factory.

In the fortress up above, Keera walked inside the dungeon. Skylos' legs were shackelled to the wall, as were his hands but they had enough leaverage to move around. Keera looked at his cell, Skylos looked up at her, "Why'd you do it Keera?" Keera turned her head, "You wouldn't get it! I finally found a meaning Skylos, a meaning you all never were able to grasp. We thought we were-" "I didn't ask you to quote whoever made you think this, I asked why you did it." Keera looked at Skylos' cell, she created a shadow blade, "I could strike you dead right now!" "But you won't...Keera I know somewhere in there is-" "Save it, I'm one of the Oreals now, and I like what I am! You are the bait Skylos, to bring me Neon." "And do you not think you are going to be the beat to bring Gycor Ponic and maybe a few of the others?" he asked. Keera narrowed her eyes, there was then a small creeping sound in the dungeon loud enough to hear, but it was on the far other side. Keera looked in that direction, it was dark there, souly dark. "What is that?" asked Skylos. Keera shook her head, "Look I didn't come here to tortue you, yet. I came because I atleast wanted to give you a drink of water alright?" She had a shadow give it to Skylos, the water wasn't very clean or pure, but it was better than nothing. Skylos took a sip then before Keera left, he called out to her, "Keera, I don't think you were ordered to do this, why'd you bring me the water? Unless somewhere you don't believe in all this." Keera stopped at the door, Keera then answered almost silently, "Skylos things were never how you remember, there was always a question that I've finally had answered. And Ponic was an idiot to have believed otherwise." she closed the door and left the dungeon. Keera walked up the steps, she saw Gycor at the top of them, "I know how you are feeling." Keera bowed her head, "Forgive me my-" Gycor stopped her mid sentence, "I never said the path would be easy, but I saw what you did with your amulet, I know where your alliegance lies my dear." He began leading her to her room, they walked in and closed the door behind them. Gycor embraced Keera, he then stroked her hair, "My dear, I fear that we may never be able to remain as one until our task is done. It is a difficult one, but not impossible, however-" A dark voice was then heard, "Enough with the cryptic speech dip stick, it's making my want to puke." Gycor and Keera looked to where the voice was coming from, Shroud exited from the darkness.

[Ponic]

Shroud pulled out a sword, "If you thought you saw the last of me, you are more clueless then I thought amateur!" Gycor drew his two swords, "Do you really want to challenge me?" Shroud clenched his sword and pointed it at Gycor, "Yes I am!" an explosion was then heard from inside the fortress. Keera turned, "I will search for who did that, and will quell it!" Keera exited the room, to see Oreal forces going up against an army of XH's and XANA monsters. "No!" Keera's limbs all began glowing with shadow, "I will destroy you all!" she charged into the battle. Gycor and Shroud had already begun fighting each other in Keera's room. The two of them ran at ecah other, their swords coming together, clanging. Shroud sent a kick into Gycor, Gycor put his foot under Shroud's leg and pulled him to the ground, Gycor then quickly got up, his sword pointed at Shroud, he thrusted it down. Shroud placed up his arm, Gycor's sword hammered upon Shroud's metallic cuff, it deflected right off onto the floor, Shroud then turned over and got up. He went to drive his sword into Gycor's stomach, Gycor placed up his cloak, Shroud's sword went into it, but seemed to vanish in darkness, Gycor then grabbed on Shroud's arm, he brought his sword onto it. Shroud screamed in pain, "Your illusions will do nothing for you hear!" Shroud thrusted his sword deeper into Gycor's cloak, it hammered into Gycor's ribs. They both drew back their swords, then jumped upwards. Gycor began turning round and round with his two swords pointed out, he then went thrusting at Shroud. Shroud threw five daggers at Gycor, they deflected right off. Gycor's attack began hitting upon Shroud, Shroud's chest piece of his clothes however suddenly grew spikes, Gycor quickly stopped spinning, his arm had large spikes inside of them. Shroud then threw a few needles at Gycor, Gycor placed up his sword deflecting them, "You might have some skill, but this is far from done!" said Gycor. Shroud narrowed his eyes, then answered, "Thanks, your skill is inferior to XANA, bow to the inevitable!"

In the factory Aelita appeared on the screen, "Everybody! XANA's woken up, and launched another attack upon the fortress. Now's your chance! And I think I have an idea to help you out up there, but you've got to go right now." "You heard her, let's go!" called Alice, everybody started running for the elevator, "Wait stop." quickly said Rem. "Ponic, Neon and Yisha, where are they?" asked Rem.

The three of them snuck into the southern entrace of the fortress, Neon stood over the computer. "It requires a password, I'll get through it, give me a moment." he placed his hand over it and began channelling darkness through it. Yisha then leaned over to Ponic, Ponic asked, "Neon is here for Skylos, I for Keera, what of you?" Yisha looked whispered back, "I'm going to make sure you two don't go and get yourselves killed." Neon then pointed to the door, the door opened up, and the three of them all snuck into the fortress. The inner fortress at the entrance had an Oreal guard in the front, Neon had cloacked everyone with darkness so they couldn't notice them. Under the platform was a discarded energy sword and Oreal gun, behind the platform was a path that led down to a bridge, beyond that one's eye could never make up. On the path there were blue lines, they seemed to be of energy and the Oreal there was certain to make sure he avoided them. That is when Ponic overheard Keera, "Be certain the XANA monsters do not get any furthur in, alert the outer guards to his presence and, as for here you better make certain no one comes close!" Ponic ran for Keera, Neon whispered, "Ponic, get over here!" It was too late, Ponic dove up and landed on one of the Oreal soldiers, he hit his pressure point knocking him out cold. Keera looked around, she saw Neon and Yisha burst through the Oreal guards. "Keera! I've come to take you home." said Ponic. Keera looked back at Ponic, "Take me home, we never had a home. Look at yourself is this the best you can do? Fight for a race that is imperfect as it is!" Ponic created a shadow blade. "Stop this you two!" called out Yisha. Keera smirked, "If you all will harden your hearts to the truth! So be it!" The shadows around the fortress knocked Ponic on one of the blue lines, "Wow, AH!" he screamed, the blue lines on the floor gave Ponic a shock knocking him out, then they seemed to push him down the path and off the side missing the bridge. "Take care of them!" commanded Keera diving after Ponic. Neon and Yisha looked around as they saw 5 Oreal guards surrond them.

Ponic awoke in an isolated part of the fortress, he looked around. The walls seemed to go upwards and come over like a dome, but rather then meet at the top, at a point they suddenly went straight and upwards. There were four large crates around the area, they had blue electricity moving within them, atleast it looked like electricity. The room itself didn't seem to have anything special, there were hardly even patterns on the walls, no doors, no windows just a light from up top to keep the room from being in total darkness and shadow. Keera then exited from the inner shadow, "Hello." Ponic looked at Keera, "Keera, please." Ponic was then hit by a shadow blast, "Save it!" scowled Keera. "I don't need to hear anymore of what you are anyone else says, you shouldn't have come here." "But Gycor..." Ponic got himself up, "Gycor took advantage of your troubled mind, is this you or him speaking?" Another shadow blast hit him, Keera walked towards Ponic and kicked him in the ribs. Ponic panted, "I don't want to fight you Keera." "Hmm, well then this'll be quick." she said creating a shadow blade, Ponic quickly rolled out of the way. "But I will if I must!" Ponic fired a shadow blast at Keera. Keera deflected it into one of the crates, the blue electricity within it remained where it was but much stronger now in it's spot. An explosion was then heard from the outer fortress, "Who on Earth is that?!" said Keera looking around, she then looked back at Ponic and continued attacking. Within the northern side of the fortress, the others from the group had arrived.

"A XANA krabe!" warned Zach, it fired at them. Musashi deflected the lazer back at the krabe, "Now Krabes, I don't mind dealing with." he said. "Really?" asked Halo, "What about 3 mega tanks." she said pointing to the megatanks rolling ahead of them, "Come on, what if they lead us somewhere?" Everybody silently followed after them. Within Keera's chamber Shroud and Gycor continued their battle, Gycor then felt Keera speak to him telepathically, "There are many now, victory is possible but it is looking more and more bleak considering many of our soldiers are on Earth and are attempting to return." Gycor answered, "Yes Keera, I will place you incharge of this. If things get anymore dire, you have my permission to release them, you know what I mean?" "Yes, my master, I know exactly."

[Ponic]

Skylos looked up from the dungeon, Neon was unlocking the door. "Hurry it up called Neon!" called Yisha from up above the stairs. Neon's darkness broke the lock, he was about to step in when he stopped, "Too easy..." Neon was correct, suddenly Yisha fell down the stairs, two Oreal guards with their guns drawn ran down, one was actually another darkness human. "Neon, glad to see you again!" Neon looked at him, "What?" "Maybe you don't remember let me give you a refresher!" A dagger then drove into Neon it didn't kill him it just forced a memory to appear, freezing him in place for a moment, the darkness human grabbed onto Neon's arm at the same time so he two would be transported. The second Oreal guard looked at Yisha. Yisha shot fire at him, the Oreal guard shot it gun, it fired a beam that absorbed the fire, corrupted it then fired it back. "There's more to this fortress than it seems!" Suddenly everybody fell down, as the fortress began moving across the sky. It grew a large wall around it with spikes on it's outer spots, and flew through the air faster and faster and faster. "It has begun!" called out Gycor, as he threw one of Shroud's daggers back at Shroud. In the southern area of the fortress Keera smiled, she had Ponic held by three shadows, and a shadow blade in his stomach. "Your holding back!" A mega tank explosion hit from behind and burst open the wall, it prepared to fire at Keera and Ponic, when suddenly it exploded, Mushashi had a katana through it. "He might, but we won't!" shouted Zach, he jumped up and kicked Keera in the head. Musashi, Halo, and Zach killed the shadows, "You alright?" asked Halo helping Ponic up. Ponic shook his head, "Where are the others?" he asked. "Rem is looking for Neon and Yisha." Keera had gotten up by this point, "No one is going anywhere!" she said destroying the remaining crates. A blue explosion of electricity surged out of the room, and suddenly the fortress came to a hard stop. Everybody in it flung forward a bit.

The memory in Neon's mind was a strong one, he saw himself as servant of XANA, and when he attacked a city, there was a boy looking for his mom running away from XANAfied fire, spreading all over, and Neon was making sure as much chaos was happening at the same time. "Mom?!" the boy ran into Neon, "Ah!" Neon looked at him he prepared to strike the boy with darkness, the Oreal darkness human then spoke to the real Neon, "But you didn't strike me that day, no my age and helplessness at that time invoked something within you. Something unexplainable, but rather than call off your attack." The memory then showed Neon's attack instead fall on the child, "Ah!" Neon payed no mind to the boy's screams as he held his head grimacing, "You ruined my life that day Neon!" The memory continued, the darkness absorbed into the boy, then the child's mother ran and grabbed him, "Lucas! Run come on!" The memory then changed to black. "You ruined my life! Your darkness absorbed into me, turned me into a darkness human! By the time I realized what happened to me, it was too late! My family and friends dejected me, now you will pay!" "What ever happened, was unfortunate, but instead of trying to do good, you decided to join the Oreals to cause more chaos!" Lucas kicked Neon's chest, suddenly they were back in the dungeon, "I will not only kill you but I will give you worse choice!" He held a dagger to Skylos' neck, and the other Oreal guard held his gun to Yisha's temple. "Your cousin, or your friend?!" Neon looked, unable to decide, he couldn't risk saving them both, or else they could both end up dead. Then there was a creeping sound and another Oreal ran out of the corridor screaming, "They are unleashed, RUN! BLAH AH AH!" he ran up the stairs his arms out screaming. "Who's been unleashed?" thought Skylos. Suddenly extremly large bugs exited out the corridor, some of them looked like mega versions of cockroaches, and other bugs native to the Earth, others were by far not of Earth. The Oreal soldiers holding Yisha wet himself and bolted for the door, the other screamed out, "Oh my gosh!" and ran for the door as well. Neon quickly broke the shackles off Skylos, as he did he heard a locking sound. Yisha looked up, "They've locked us in here!"

"Keera no!" Keera was destroying the room they were in, "This barrier shall keep me safe, but you all shall be consumed by the flood!" she flew out the only exit and a powerful energy barrier went around it. Musashi looked up and threw his katana at the barrier it deflected right off, "Dang that this is powerful!" "Anyone else here that sound? It's the sound of...water!" The walls burst open in three areas and water came pouring in. Up in Keera's chambers, Gycor and Shroud were both on one knee, much blood was lost from both of them, it seemed their mastery in the swords were equal. Gycor looked at the door, two very muscular Oreal guards burst in, "What?" panted Shroud. "Can't beat me so you can't fight fair?!" "Wrong, I don't need to!" Shroud got up, forcing himself to raise his sword, "That's where you're wrong!" He said throwing a dagger at one Oreal guard, it moved so fast it went right into his neck, killing him instantly. Gycor took a step back as the other Oreal jumped at Shroud, hammering his fists into the ground, Shroud was hit with such force it sent him flying upwards, but an XH came in from the door at the same moment. It shocked the Oreal guard, and before Gycor could react, using it's electricity it sent Gycor flying to the wall as well. The wall however was weakened from the battles in the fortress, as Shroud and Gycor hit it, it collapsed and they began falling. Gycor and Shroud both scrapped onto the walls with their swords so they wouldn't fall to their deaths, then a turret behind them armed itself. Alice was at it, there were unconscious and poisoned Oreals all in a pile behind her. "Sorry boys, no stand by seats!" She fired the turret, Gycor and Shroud were unable to dodge it, "Ah!" they both screamed as they lost their grip and began falling. Alice sat back, "Heh heh, not bad..." two large bugs came, one was a pink creature when it opened it's mouth it had teeth all around it, and the other was a large tarantula. "Ew..." The tarantula destroyed the turret, Alice though dodged the attack, "They have me cornered!"

Down in the dungeon Neon had created darkness to keep the swarms of bugs from getting to them, "I hate bugs...done yet Yisha?" Yisha was burning the wall, to weaken it structurally, "Ya! Skylos, help me!" Her and Skylos sent a strong kick into the wall, a large hole appeared, "Run!!!" Neon, Skylos and Yisha jumped out of the wall, they landed on a large rock formation, from the fortress, but after looking more carefully they realized it was Wrath fuzed to the wall. "Bugs? Ah!" The 'Wrath wall' moved upwards quickly, "Where to now?" he asked. "I don't know, there are so many." said Yisha. Skylos then pointed, "No, the fortress may fire soon, we have to crash it, it will stop these bugs also! Let's find a way in!" Wrath motioned everyone to hold on, as he used his powers to fuse through the wall with everyone and they popped up inside the fortress. They were on an area that had rounded stairs, that led up the dining hall where Keera was 'converted'. They looked up the winding stairs Keera stood above at the top waiting for them, "Don't bother escaping, I see you down there!" she called down, "Come up here and face your fate!"

[Ponic]

Alice looked down behind her. One of the Oreal's spoke, "Two choices, jump off, or we kill you!" Alice smirked, "I choose jump!" she dove off the side but rather then jumping far she jumped to the fortress wall and scaled up it. "GET THAT HER!" They began firing their guns, one soilder had more then just a standard Oreal gun, it was a powerful rocket launcher. The rockets it fired were much quicker than a human rocket, and were actually green in colour, their explosions were much more damaging as well. He shot at Alice, Alice jumped up the wall, the rocket exploded a large hole in it, Alice opened her mouth and roared, then a corrosive acid came flying out, it hit the platform the Oreal soldiers were on, and corroded it. Causing it to lose it's structural integrity, and collapse, they both fell clear off the fortress. Alice jumped off the wall at one of the Oreal's the one with the rocket. She clawed at him, distracting the Oreal, "Don't think you'll need this!" Alice grabbed the rocket out of his hands, but the Oreal before he fell down, threw a dagger into her leg, "You will die!! My brethern is coming closer!" Alice belowed from the pain, and grabbed onto a large connecting pillar to the fortress and got herself up. She looked around, the fortress was on fire in some portions, and where we was, there was no direct access back inside, infact to cat crawl to the hole in the wall, would be incredibly difficult. Then the Oreals from Earth came into site, they were closing in on the fortress, "GRA!" they roared. Firing their guns, standard, and some new weapons no one had seen before, either way they were all very deadly. Alice dodged a few shots took aim then shot her rocket, knocking a few Oreals off their flight pattern, "There are too many!" The Oreals came closer.

Within the bottom of the fortress, more and more water was appearing. Everyone looked up, they were going to drown if they didn't think of something quick. Then the barrier vanished, Rem, in twighlight wolf form, had destroyed it, he shited back to normal. "Come on guy's hurry up there are friends here!" Rem then was attacked by 3 large scorpians. He jumped up on one of their backs and the Scorpian ended up stinging itself. Rem then fired an apai blast at the second scorpian, causing it to get the apai sickness, and quickly roared out of the way of the last Scorpian. Rem was getting ready to shoot another apai blast when a lazer shot by, it was a krabe from the XANA attack. Rem was cornered, that's when the others that were in the basement were finally high enough to climb out, Halo turned into a krabe herself and attacked the XANA krabe. Zach and Musashi drove their swords and katanas into the Scorpian. It quickly turned and flung them away, the Scorpian then jumped at Ponic who was on the floor. Ponic shot his shadow blast upward, it also had no effect! "What does it take to kill this thing?" The Scorpian landed ontop of Ponic pinning him to the floor then prepared to stab it's claw through him. Suddenly it died Rem was standing behind it, "You need to use apai on it, it's the best effect against those bugs!" Halo then killed the last krabe, "Let's keep moving and find the others before more of these bugs come!" It was too late the walls exploded, Zach and Musashi picked up their weapons. Then when the smoke cleared everyone saw, XANA's monsters on one side and the giant bugs on the other, "Run, that path there!" Ponic dropped everyone into their shadows, just before the fire fight broke out. He popped them out at an elevator, "Rem got some potion?" Rem went to grab it then felt the vile was cracked, "Only a tiny bit now..." Ponic drank it, "It'll have to do!" They looked behind them, there was an elevator, "Let's grab it!" They hit the elevator, it came up and they took it down.

Keera kicked Skylos down the stairs. Neon jumped up over him, "I won't show you mercy!" He said shooting a darkness chain at her, Keera placed shadow over her and grabbed the chain then threw him behind her, "Neither will I!" Wrath placed his leg into the floor, "Sorry." the floor under Keera came up, sending her flying upwards. Neon then dug his hands into the floor, darkness chains shot up and wrapped around Keera. Keera then dissipated in shadow, and came up in Neon's, she shadow punched him. Neon went backwards, blood came out of his mouth, the light in the room suddenly felt like blades to Keera, it was Skylos. Keera fired a shadow beam at the stairs, causing them to collapse, Skylos created a light disc and jumped on it, he flew at Keera, Yisha then shot fire at Keera as well. Keera jumped upwards and did a flip in the air, then called on their shadows to explode sending Skylos and Yisha together. Keera did a quick head count, "Where's Wrath..." Wrath jumped out of the wall, he punched Keera, she got hit but quickly flipped Wrath onto the floor, and created a shadow blade, Wrath screamed. This invoked a memory within Keera suddenly.

Keera suddenly found herself in the shadow realm up a tree. She heard an explosion and jumped down then quickly ran to it. Keera looked around, odd nothing seemed to have been destroyed just a few light exposure marks here and there, the light assasin then walked out of an alley. "I knew I'd find you here! Eventually!" Keera was Wrath's age at the time, and was not a powerful shadow weilder. Keera screamed as she ran, but the light that exploded up from behind her knocked her into the assasin. He then drove a dagger into her chest, "Ah!" Keera died, she then suddenly flashed back to the presant. Keera was shuddering her shadow blade over Wrath, Keera looked at her red cloak, "I can't do it!" That was when Gycor's lies had been broken in her mind. Keera dissipated her shadow blade and moved aside from Wrath, "I just can't do it!" she was tearing and wiped her eyes. Neon, Wrath, Skylos and Yisha stood up. Keera looked at them, "I know I've done unforgivable things, but still I hope one day you can all find a way to forgive what I did." she wiped her eyes again, and pointed to the door, "It's unlocked, in there lies a corridor, which will lead you directly to where the fortress is steared around, go there quick, as for crashing the fortress it's much more dangerous. I will do it." Keera stood at the edge of the winding stairs that didn't have anything under it, she dove off. "Wait!" Wrath cried out, Neon grabbed his arm, "Come on, we need to go now!"

[Ponic]

The Oreals came all around Alice, she was forced to hide out of their sight. She shot a few rockets at them, but it was not working, then suddenly one of the cannons on the fortress armed and fired at the Oreals, killing all of them. Gycor then flew towards where the attack was, Shroud was chasing after him, "I should have killed you shadow weilder while I had a chance!" Gycor smashed through the wall, and Shroud followed. After the coast was clear, Alice jumped to the whole in the wall, and climbed in. Gycor had a sword to Keera's neck, the pointed side at her, "I will kill you for your betrayel!" yelled Gycor "This is wrong!" answered Keera, not even pleading for her life, "No matter what your weapons are, no matter how powerful you are. The world can not live without love!" Gycor used his other sword an placed a cut on Keera's arm, "Your neck is next!" Shroud drove a dagger into Gycor's back, "And your life is mine!" Gycor pulled the dagger out and ran at Shroud, they locked swords, then Gycor kicked Shroud down, "Enough games!" A load of large bugs began coming in, Scorpians, Cock roaches, and non-earth worms, with huge teeth all around their mouths and mutliple eyes on their head. Keera screamed, Shoud continued attacking Gycor, Keera summoned the bug's shadows and had them attack each other, Alice then shot a few bugs with her rockets, "That's enough of that!" She called out running out of the dark hiding spot she was in.

Ponic, Musashi, Zach and Halo arrived in a hanger, and inside it was a large ship. Ponic raised an eyebrow and smirked, "Who wants to drive?" Musashi ran in to it first, everybody else got in, Zach pointed out, "There's a place for all of us to shoot out!" Halo frowned, "Well that kills my powers, I mean how will I be able to-" she dropped her hand into the slot, and out of the turret came a lion's claw which destroyed a pillar. Halo went wide eyes and blinked two times, "Wow, I'll keep it." "Alright guies, place remain seated and keep your tray tables in the upright and locked position!" called out Musashi accelerating out of the hanger, but while going out they hammered into the wall a few times. Zach glared at Musashi, "What I'd like to see you do better!" "Watch me!" answered Zach taking over, "Where to?" Musashi pointed ahead, "How about not into a pole?" "What are you talking ab-AH!" Zach quickly turned but broke the pillar anyways, "Get out of my seat before you hurt someone!" joked Musashi sitting back down. everyone laughed a bit, "We need to destroy the weapons on the fortress, to make it powerless." said Ponic "Where are they?" asked Musashi. Rem answered, "The main one is at the far base of the fortress, let's take care of it first!" They flew down there...

Neon, Wrath, Yisha and Skylos had gotten to the control room, there was holopanel, control centre with multiple buttons up front, and 2 Oreal guards. Neon wrapped them with chains and hoisted them to the wall. Then there was a creeping sound outside, "Mutated bugs, coming up here" warned Yisha, "Come on Neon, let's go get em" Neon shrugged, "Alright, Skylos, hurry it up in here." Skylos looked at the control pannel, without a clue on what to press, he then got an idea, "Wrath can you fuse to the control centre?" Wrath shrugged, "I can try." he ran in, and fused to it, you could hear Wrath inside, "Ohh, lots of wires, hey zappy things, HAHA RED BUTTON!" He came out up to his waist line, "Press this!" he hit a red button, suddenly all the bugs died, "Something the fortress gives off to let them live" Wrath said smirking, "And to steer, use this!" A holographic stearing wheel appeared, "And...nitro is this!" Wrath pressed a green button, and the fortress zoomed for the Bearing Sea. "Why the sea?" asked Wrath. Skylos was trying to keep the fortress straight, but managed to answer, "We've gotta destroy the fortress where it will effect the smallest amount of people, the nearest area is the Bearing Seaaaa- ah!" The fortress kept flying forward, "Whoo!!!" called out Wrath. Outside even though the bugs died, a few Oreals replaced them, and Neon and Yisha were fighting them now. Outside of the fortress, the others in the ship were rushing after the fortress, struggelling to aim, "Why did they have to hit turbo!" shouted Halo.

Meanwhile in the bottom of the fortress, Gycor's bugs were dead, and there were no Oreals around him, Shroud called out, "Destroy the generators while you have a chance!" "We haven't cleared a city yet." answered Keera. Shroud punched Gycor, "Then I'll take care of it!" 3 megatanks rolled in, Keera and Alice dodged out of way, "If they destroy the fortress now, everyone will in danger!" warned Keera. Alice nodded, and killed the 3 mega tanks with her rocket launcher, "Don't move Shroud!" commanded Alice, Shroud just returned a laugh. "Take a look at your ammo girl! You have only 1 shot left...and I guarantee it will be a miss!" Gycor then ran at Shroud, and drove a sword at him, Shroud blocked, "But I won't!" They continued sword fighing. Alice looked at Keera, "It's now or never!" The fortress suddenly came to a strong hault over the Bearing Sea. Keera looked at the generators, they were not actually functional by magic but by a powerful science and balance of anti gravity stabilizers and destabilizers. To prevent the fortress from crashing into the Earth, or floating shooting into outer space, all 4 generators had to be destroyed at the same time, Alice's rocket could kill 2 at once, Keera could shadow blast the last two. The two girls quickly did the deed, Alice's rocket destroyed the two stabilizers and Keera's blasts destroyed the destabilizers. A loud smashing and booming sound was heard in the fortress, and it shook incredibly hard, everybody fell down in the fortress, and the Oreal guards Neon and Yisha were fighting fell down a flight of stairs, Neon and Yisha just narrowly avoided the same fate. Gycor was first to get to his feet, he quickly drove a sword into Shroud, Shroud screamed, but before vanishing, "It doesn't matter, the job is done, you have lost and most of your army is dead now!" Gycor turned to Keera, he brought his sword up and prepared to strike her when Alice dove ontop of him and dug her fangs into him, Gycor shoved her off, so she didn't release the full venom into him, but she did get enough to make Gycor's legs go numb, "Run now!" called out Alice. Keera and Alice ran up the stais and out of the generator room.

There were Oreal guards all over screaming, unknowing of what to do, the fortress was about to explode, if they didn't hurry they would all die! It was already collapsing on itself, "We'll never make it out in time!" called out Alice. Keera looked around, "Then we will force a way out! Get behind me!" Keera shot multiple shadow blasts at the wall, carving a way for them out, but it was still taking to long! When a large green beam hammered into the fortress wall, destroying the rest of it, it was the ship the others had stolen, Musashi drove it towards them "Get in quick!" The door ontop opened, Keera and Alice jumped in, everybody else was already inside. "We're outta here!" They zoomed away from the fortress, as it's top collapsed on itself, then as little explosions came upon it, the entire fortress burst into flames blew up. The shockwave from it was so strong it knocked out the power systems for the ship everybody was on, and sent them hurtelling forward, which is why they never saw what happened next. Out of the smoke, and the rubble, were 5 Oreals, and Gycor, they were floating and took off in the opposite direction, "We shall return! One day, we shall return!" said Gycor as they all flew away.

The ship everybody was on, was hurtleing towards Europe, eventually the power systems came back, and Musashi drove the ship to France, until he got there and instead of landing more crashed it into the floor. Everyone struggelled to get out, Keera got out and was weeping, "There is still so much death around, and we can't fix it!" She turned, and suddenly her friends were gone, the forest was melting around her, then a loud beeping sound was heard, the fortest continued to melt around her, then she opened her eyes. She was back in the infirmiry back at Kadic, the beeping sound was the phone ringing. Ponic was standing sitting next to her, "Oh your awake! It's alright Yolanda! Keera's woken up!" Ponic called out, "Thank heavens!" she answered walking into the room, Keera looked around, "What happened?" "You were working on a lab in chemistry, a discharge from one of the lab equitment's electricity gave you a good shock. You passed out all day, and all night, we were about to get you to the hospital when you just awoke. Either way we sitll need to run some tests to make sure you're alright. But it's great that you've woken up, I'll be back." Yolanda smiled and walked out. Ponic looked at Keera and stroked her hair, "You had one crazy nightmare, we could see it, but we were unable to wake you up from it. You were really out of it." Keera grabbed onto Ponic's hand, "You have no idea, and I've never been so happy to be alive and see you all alive with me." Keera answered as she wept.

[Ponic]

"Rem! Where's Ponic!" Rem shifted his eyes as Jim barked the question at him, "Uh, Ponic is...elsewhere?" "And do you want to tell me where is elsewhere?" "In the infirmary..." Well it wasn't a total lie, Ponic was there he just wasn't sick he was sitting with Keera. Ponic sat next to Keera's bed, "Ya Skylos has been up there chattin with Aelita a lot, Neon had to practically drag him from his computer." "With or without the darkness chains?" laughed Keera. They both laughed a bit, then heard Yolanda's steps coming to the infirmiry, "I'll be back." said Ponic dropping into a shadow. Yolandia walked in, "What's so funny?" she asked smiling as she put her stethescope over Keera's heart. Keera smiled, "It's nothing, just a funny joke..." Yolandia took Keera's blood pressure, "Well this isn't a joke, you've made a full recovery, pretty fast also nice job. You'll be good by the end of the day at this rate, good job and congratulation." Yolandia said smiling as she left the room. Ponic came out of a shadow, "That's great Keera." Keera sat up, "So tell me more, before the whole Tom incident. You said Nick was trying to become your friend?" Ponic nodded, "I don't know, I have my doubts at times. I want to be his friend, but there is just something that keeps me at a distance at times, I can't figure it out, but I'm just not sure recently. It's odd, I never had this feeling till recently with Nick." "You know Ponic, you could give him a chance. Try not being so overly suspicious." Ponic shrugged, "It's who I am, I can't help it at times." Keera looked back at Ponic as he went to the window, she nodded, "Maybe, but if you never give people a chance, you'll never find out." Ponic shrugged, "I'm sorry, ya he's a good roomate, and I think he could a good friend, but like I said you know me." Keera shrugged, "Could be worse" "How?" asked Ponic. Keera chuckelled, "Could be a shadow warrior."

Skylos was up in his room talking to Aelita, she told him she had some bad news. "The return to the pasts, there was a bug in them lately." "What do you mean asked Skylos?" Aelita answered, "Time for some of you has been messed up, I don't know what effects it will have on everyone who has come to Lyoko." "Will it affect everyone?" Aelita shook her head, "Probably not, but there's no way to fix it, the good news is, whatever is going to happen won't be permanant. It'll be temporary, but you'll all still have to wait it out, I'm sorry." Skylos shook his head, "It's no prob, we'll be able to deal with it no problem." Aelita nodded, "I'll see if I can figure out what will happen, besides if I remember correctly, isn't it time for your math class?" Skylos looked at his clock, "Uh oh." he ran out the door, then ran back in and grabbed his books, "See ya Aelita" he ran back out. Aelita laughed a bit and vanished from the screen. As Skylos ran down the hall he bumped into Sissi, "Hey, watch where your going nerd!" Skylos rolled his eyes, "Sissi, I may be a bit more smart then most, but you are way stupider then others." Sissi glared at Skylos, "You need to get out more, I mean wow, how pathetic you sit all day playing on your computer. How do you plan to ever get a date, I mean wow how pathetic!" "Sissi, you know I have a question, you love giving people a piece of your mind right? Well I'm saying, but with so little to spare why would you want to spend the few cells you have?" Sissi eyes widened, "Grah!" Skylos walked off and Sissi stormed down the hallway, then bumped into Rem. "Ah what is this bulldozer alley?!" Sissi shouted rubbing her head. Rem got up, "Sorry, I'm in a bit of a hurry." Sissi then got up, "Well as long as you are here, I need to ask you a favour. I have an assignment in photography can I get a few pictures of you Remmy?" Rem raised an eyebrow at Sissi, "You might wanna know, stalking is illegal in this country." Rem then went out the doors. Sissi narrowed her eyes, "We'll see who gets the last laugh Rem!"

Neon was outside class when Rem ran up, "What took you?" asked Neon. Rem rolled his eyes, "Sisis patrol, wow she really needs to flip over a movie star or something. Why's no one going in?" Neon pointed at the doors, "Apparantly there's an outbreak of mice, someone forgot to put his food away." Neon rolled his eyes and looked at one random kid eating a cup cake, "What!" he called out. Rem shrugged, "Well I guess class is cancelled today huh?" The fumigator came out, "Well this will make you all feel sad." he said sarcastically, "This will take a day to get rid of, and another two days for the fumes to dissipate, so you can't use your class for these next few days." The kids cheered and ran off, Neon and Rem walked down the campus. "So how have you been after the whole craziness of Tom?" asked Rem as he walked with Neon. Neon shrugged, without emotion he answered, "I've had alright days, up and down." "A question, how did it feel? I mean the darkness, you don't need to answer." Neon looked at Rem a little confused, no one had asked him that question before, he talked a bit of it with Skylos but not to a large degree, unlike his cousin he didn't say much. Neon looked ahead at the sky, the sunlight was above, and it illuminated the trees infront of them, "It's like when the clouds come and block off the sun. The feeling and want of death, the darkness all comes and overtakes my better judgement. Then it starts to rain, that's when it's too much and it feels like you are falling into a hole, a hole that you can't come out of, that is only getting bigger and bigger. Soon you can't even see the surface because the darkness has covered over the sun and everything looks the same, that's when you either let yourself get consumed as you seem to be within yourself looking out, as someone else kills your friends. Or if you are going to climb out of the whole, move the clouds and look at the sun again." Neon was obviously speaking very metaphorically it was the best way he could describe it. Rem nodded, Neon then looked ahead again, "Ponic and Alice are coming up there." he said pointing.

Musashi was sittin in the forest with Yisha, Halo then came running to them. "Guies, we got a problem!" Musasih and Yisha got up, "What is it?" Yisha asked nervously. Halo held out Zach, but he was a baby, no older than maybe 3, Halo had him wrapped up in original clothes, he was way to small to fit them, and his disguise that was made by Skylos had faded off from the change. Musashi and Yisha widened their eyes, "How did that happen?!" Halo told them, "Me and Zach were just in the middle of our chemistry class, when suddenly after the bell rings we are walking to our next class, he says he feels weird. So he ran to the bathroom, I waited outside the door just to make sure he was alright, that's when it happened I heard a baby crying inside! So I knocked on the door, no one answered, and no one was around so I ran in." "You ran into the boy's washroom?!" Musashi laughed a bit, Halo narroed her eyes at him, "Shut it! Anyways I found Zach's clothes on the floor, I ran and found him in a diaper there! I grabbed him and ran out, no one figured out it was Zach but a few people were rather confused!" finished Halo "We better get to the others." answered Yisha. They all ran back to Kadic. When they got outside the doors, Yisha suddenly changed into a baby as well, "What the?" said Halo her eyes wide opened. Musashi looked at Yisha, "Heh, cute!" Yisha grabbed his nose and pulled, "Ow! She wants you." He said giving her to Halo, "I'm gonna go warn the others!" "Your ditching me?" "Use your maternal instincts!" before Halo could answer Musashi ran behind the gates. Halo narrowed her eyes, "Maternal instincts, I'll eat your liver!"

[Ponic]

Musashi ran to everybody in the school yard, "We got a problem! Yisha, and Zach, they are babies!" Skylos had come out by then, he thought to himself for a minute, "This must've been the mess up in the return to the past Aelita warned us about." "Mess up?" asked Musashi. Skylos nodded, "There was a bug the last time, Aelita killed it now, but it must have returned us to our past, our past of being a baby. It isn't permanant but we do have to wait it out." Musashi raised an eyebrow, "You've got to be kiddin! We've gotta wa-" Musashi suddenly shrunk down, he became a baby as well, "Aw how cute." Alice laughed going to his level, Musashi looked at Alice, then cried. Alice then got back up, "Wise guy." she said through her teeth. "Oh and, someone needs changing." Alice said pointing at Musashi. Everyone looked and almost gagged, Skylos waved his hands and head no, "Forget it!" Neon raised an eyebrow, "I'm not dealing with a babies stench." Rem took an step back, "Not me, nu uh, no way!" Ponic looked at the baby Musashi at his feet, "Anyone have a diaper?" he rolled his eyes, "Fine, but someone is paying me back for spending this cash." Ponic reached into a shadow with some money, when he brought his hand back he had a diaper in hand and left his $10 wherever the diaper was gotten. "Alright get over here." Ponic said grabbing Musashi and going being the wall. Keera then came out from the infirmiry, "Where's Ponic?" she asked, her answer was hearing Ponic scream, "AW! THAT'S JUST NASTY! SO NOT RIGHT!" Keera went behind the wall, "What are you doing?" "Changin his-" "No you aren't, a stick fixes nothing!" Keera put the diaper on and came out with Musashi, "Boy he needs to lay off the Mexican food." Keera joked, everyone laughed a bit. Ponic then came out of the wall keeping his hands rather far from him, "They touched stuff that should never have been touched." Neon then suggested heading to the factory just to see how long the effect may last, the others agreed and were off, Ponic looked as they headed out the gates, "What? I don't get a second to wash my hands even remotely?! What is this? This is something liquified and I don't mean water or spit!"

After everyone was done at the factory Skylos then told everybody what he figured out. "I got nothing." "You got nothing?" shouted Alice, "The scan didn't reveal anything, just that each of us it can effect but not who it will for sure, I'm not sure who." Keera looked at the babies she got to their level and started playing with them, "They're pretty cute." Neon looked at Keera, "Rather maternal aren't you?" Keera nodded, and laughed a bit, "Ya I am." Then a flash of white light came from Ponic, "Oh super..." he said then reverted into becoming a baby. Alice went to grab Ponic, "Wow, another-" Ponic jumped onto the keyboard and started hitting random buttons, "Hey Ponic get off of that!" shouted Skylos going to put Ponic off, Ponic then poked Skylos in his eye, "OW!" he said holding it. Ponic fell on the floor and started crying, "Aw" Keera went up, "Enough cryin- OW!" Ponic yanked on Keera's hair, Keera then felt a tug at her pants. She looked down and saw a baby Alice there, Keera went and picked Alice up, "Cute little cat baby." Neon looked around, "That's almost everyone, only Skylos and Wra-" suddenly they both changed also, "Great more babies-" Then a bunch of them started crying, Neon covered his ears, "Ah! Keera how do you shut this siren sound up?!" Keera had rocked Alice and Ponic and made them stop crying, "You just gotta give them some attention, try making a funny face to Skylos, he seems to still know you." Neon looked at Skylos, "Ok..." Neon looked at Skylos, then twisted his face around a bit, Skylos screamed and ran away. "Nice...I'm gonna go get them, take these two." said Keera going after Skylos.

Aelita then came on the screen, "So what hap-" Aelita noticed everyone as babies, she faught the urge to laugh a bit, "Oh..." Neon looked at Aelita, "Look it's harder than it looks." Aelita nodded, "I can imagine, I'm not a mother but I think you might want to notice that Musashi is going those wires, and Wrath is going after that mouse." Neon turned, "Uh oh. Musashi stay away from that!" he called out grabbing Musashi, "Wrath no playing with mice!" Neon picked Wrath up. "Wait a sec...Halo stop attacking Yisha!" Neon seperated them with darkness, and they started screaming. Ponic was playing on the keyboard again, he had typed out, most likely by accident, "Nice job daddy." Neon glared at the screen, "Wise baby." said Neon, he then began to smell something, "Not again!" This time Zach and Wrath needed changing, Neon put the other babies down but Yisha and Halo started attacking each other again. "Graaaah!" Neon screamed. Aelita laughed, "I'll make sure XANA doesn't try anything funny for the time being." "You don't plan to help me?!" "Oh no,I'm staying out of this one."

Outside the factory, Keera was looking for Skylos, "Come on Skylos, come here." Skylos was on the bridge clapping. "Skylos, come here." Keera said walking towards him, Skylos clapped and a small pulse of light shot out at Keera, "Wow!" she dropped under it, then came out in Skylos' shadow, "Don't do that again!" She said picking him up, "Give me your money!" said a raspy voice from behind Keera.

[Ponic]

The man was wearing black clothes, and sunglasses, he put a gun to Keera, "Give it up or drop dead." he commanded. Keera looked at him, "You don't want to do this." The man fired 1 warning shot into the air, Keera nodded, "Ok..." she put Skylos down, "Never try this alone Skylos." Keera then stood up and dropped in her shadow. "What the?!" the man was beginning to freak out. Keera jumped out of his shadow, she shot a shadow blast at his gun, he knocked it right out of his hand, when it hit the floor it fired. The man brought out a knife he lunged at Keera, Keera side stepped and created a shadow blade. The blade and knife hit each other, "What on earth are you?!" yelled the man. Keera's shadowblade went right through the dagger, breaking it in half, she then gave the man a punched he dropped it's remains. Keera glared at him, "Don't you have somewhere better to be?" The man nodded and ran away screaming, Keera called out behind him, "And for the record I don't let criminals go free!" She opened his shadow, then closed it on his legs and hands, "Ah!" Cop sirens were overheard coming, Keera picked up Skylos and they both returned inside the factory.

"Wrath, put your dang diaper back on!" Neon was chasing after Wrath, he had taken his diaper off to change it and Wrath got up and ran. Zach started screaming that he needed changing, Halo and Yisha were still attacking each other, and Alice and Ponic were hungary. "That's it!" Neon was actually angered rather than his usual bored face. He put his hand on the floor, darkness shot out and flew to all the babies holding them to the floor. Keera came out of the elevator, "Neon...don't ever go into parental therapy." Neon rolled his eyes, "Point is I got the diapers on." Keera laughed, "Hardly, and you missed one." She put Zach's diaper on. Zach then grabbed Keera's hair, "Ah, that's not helping!" Keera got Zach's hands off, then he grabbed on again, "Alright, point is, we can't stay here much longer, we should get the babies somewhere safer." Neon nodded, "Yes, but any ideas?"

Neon and Keera arrived in an old abandoned cabin in the forest. They put them down in the living room, "Bad news..." "What could be worse than a load of babies!?" asked Neon, almost pulling his hair out. Keera laughed a bit, "We need baby food." Neon was already at the door, "I'm getting it, your dealing with them." He walked out. Keera turned to the babies, "Oh boy..."

Neon was walking in the store looking around, he grabbed some of the baby food, "How anyone can like this bird food is beyond me." That's when Neon heard an electrical zap, the store's power then went out. Neon looked around, "What's going on?" On Lyoko, Aelita had the answer. "Oh no, not now, XANA's launched an attack!" Back at the store, Neon had run outside the doors, there was a rather large spectre outside. Neon took a step back, the spectre then roared and it's hands changed into what looked like blades and it started attacking the city. Neon jumped up on his darkness, and rose at the spectre, it roared again, grew a tenticle out of it's side and hit Neon with it. Neon flew very far back, and landed ontop of a building out cold. The spectre then prepared to destroy the building.

In the cabin, Keera could hear the explosions, "Ponic get off of Wrath! Halo give Yisha her toy back, Zach, Musashi stop breaking stuff!" Skylos had some toy blocks out, "Well atleast he's quiet" Skylos played with the blocks and spelled out, "Your in over your head." Keera glared at the blocks, "Wise guy..." There was then a knock at the door, Keera went and opened it, as she opened it she said, "Neon, please tell me you've-ah!" Nick was standing in the door way, he knocked Keera back clear across the room. Most of the babies started crying, Nick looked at them, he growled and the XANA symbol pulsed in his eyes.

[Ponic]

Keera got up from the rubble, Nick growled at Keera through his teeth. "That is what Ponic meant by a strange feeling, Nick is possesed!" "Nick, I don't want to hurt you, but I won't let you hurt anyone!" Nick lifted his hand up, then fired his electricity at Keera. Keera lifted her hand and fired a shadow blast at Nick. Meanwhile just outside the cabin, a set of eyes were watching the cabin.

The spectre brought it's arm down on the building sending electricity all through it. Neon quickly regained conciousness, just in time to get shocked by electricity, the spectre then picked Neon up it growled and went to crush him with it's strength, at that moment Neon looked straight into the spectre's eyes. Suddenly the strong piercing gaze that Neon put into it caused it to begin to depixalate, this gave Neon the oppurtunity he needed chains rose out from the ground filled with darkness, they went at the spectre. Neon then commanded the chains turn around and around and around the spectre, the Spectre put up it's arms, only to have darkness start exploding out of the chains leaving major gashes on spectre, causing it to pixelate. "I know your weakness XANA, my own powers can break your spectres in half!" Neon said. The chains then came around the spectre, and Neon jumped at it, with an extremly large razor of darkness right over his head, preparing to bring it down on the spectres.

In the forest, Keera and Nick were continuing their battle. The window smashed under Keera, Nick had hit her so hard she went flying through the window, Keera rubbed the back of her head it had cuts and gashes on it from the broken glass. "I really wish that Neon was here, he is the most effective against XANA!" Keera thought to herself. Nick walked out of the cabin, growling, he went to strike Keera with more electricity when a dirty diaper hit the back of his head. Nick turned just to see the babies with their dirty diapers, Zach had another aimed at Nick, and threw it. "Gah!" Nick screamed out, as it hit square into his face, "Grr!" By now, Ponic grabbed onto Nick's left leg, and Wrath onto Nick's right leg, they both bit them, Skylos then jumped at Nick's arm and Rem at the other, Yisha dove at Nick's face, then Yisha tabelled Nick. Nick growled and pushed the babies off of him, he then made a large electric ball in his hands, brought his arms up, then had another dirty diaper thrown from Musashi and Zach at him. Keera then grabbed Nick in a choke hold, "Everybody run! Run away ah!" Nick threw Keera against the tree, he then sent electricity through the ground at Keera. Keera at the same time fired a shadow blast at Nick. The shadow blast literally went right through Nick, and Keera was shocked by Nick's electricty. "How can you do that, my powers have no effect on you!" Shroud came out of the shadows, his arms crossed, "Your surprsied?" he said smiling evily."No! Nick is powered by Shroud, my powers will have no effect on Nick at all as long as Shroud is near by!" He went at Keera drawing his sword, when suddenly the ground under Shroud exploded upwards. Shroud got up and looked around he shook it off, "Who the!...you!" Shroud was looking at someone, he was in the shadows, Keera could only see a glowing hand, as well as burgandy eyes. From his height, the boy looked around 15 making him about two years younger than her. Shroud narrowed his eyes, "Look kid, I know of your kind, and I don't care!" He then looked at Nick, "Take care of him!" Nick ran after the boy in the shadows, they both dissipeared in the forest, Shroud walked closer to Keera and brought a sword to her neck. "Relax, I'm not going to kill you...atleast not yet." He had his eyes narrowed, and an evil smile on his face again.

Within the city Neon had landed behind the spectre, it was pixelating heavily now. Neon turned then the spectre brought it's fist into him, pushing Neon backwards into the wall of a building. Neon pushed himself up from the hole that was made under him in the wall, he rubbed the back of his neck, "Learn a new tactic XANA." Neon snapped his fingers, suddenly the chains all over the spectre began going into the ground, the spectre was pulled in and smashed onto the floor, pixelating and then dissipating. Neon raised his eyebrow, "Sad XANA, the bigger they are the harder they fall." Neon turned then saw all the babies, he put up a darkness wall and ran over to them, "Where's Alice..." Alice jumped from behind Neon and grabbed onto him, it startelled Neon a bit then narrowed his eyes, "Get off now kid!" He took Alice off, "XANA probably has more to his attack than just 1 spectre" "Alright, we go to the factory, I deactivate the tower, none of you piss me off along the way." Neon told the babies then using his darkness to help him grab them, walking off to the factory.

[Ponic]

Nick ran into the forest after whoever it was that interfered during the battle. He looked around the forest and used an electrical ball to illuminate the area. Nick growled, then the electricity went out when a bird flew through it, the ground under Nick then opened and closed on him, so only his head was outside of it. The same boy then jumped down, he placed his two hands on Nick then as a blue power went through it, Nick suddenly changed to normal. "Huh?" he asked, "Wha-what am I doing here? And who are you?" The ground opened, again and Nick floated out, "Wait, what's your-" before Nick could even finish his sentence the boy ran back into the shadows and his bird flew after him, only a silver feather that was black on the end was left over. Nick picked it up, the trees around him then cleared, as if to show him a path to walk, "This is just getting weird..."

Neon and the babies arrived inside the factory, Neon looked on the screen a virtualization was just done, it was Keera, and Shroud. Neon frowned, well more he was already frowning, "You want a fight Shroud." Neon looked at the screen "How the heck do I make an auto virtualization?!" Neon then looked at Skylos, "Hmm..." Neon picked Skylos up and put his hand on his forehead, "Well your memories and mind were unaffected...so...there we go." Neon read from Skylos how to make an auto virtulization, he then typed it on the computer, but before hitting activate looked at the babies. Neon dropped his head and did a sigh out, "Damn, it's too dangerous to leave these babies here, I gotta bring them with me..." After a few virtulizations everyone arrived on Lyoko, the mountain sector. Neon looked around, "Keera?" he called out she was out cold on the floor. Neon walked over to her, "Hello Neon!" said Shroud over the mic, a Mega Tank rolled in behind Neon, and two Krabes stomped out infront of Keera.

Neon narrowed his eyes and looked around, he put his left foot back, "This is going to be difficult." For about the first few minutes it was complete silence, Neon's hair and clothes blew a bit in the wind. The krabes made their growling sound, and the mega tank moved forward and backward a bit. A small piece of chain came out of Neon's hand, then it happened. Neon flipped backwards at the mega tank, he shot a small but sharp blade of darkness into the target, destroying it, the babies watched and were just having fun. Neon landed, the Krabes shot their lasers, Neon dodged one, only to get hit by the other. He opened his hands, and two chains came out and knocked out then grabbed the Krabes and pushed them over the side. Keera then vanished, "Shroud has her and that was a false program of her."

Neon had the kids on a darkness disc and had the disc following him as he ran through the sector. Thats when things got difficult, at that moment the path started shaking, as walls appeared all around it, a maze appeared, then a wall came up seperating Neon from the babies. "I've got to find them!" he said running, "Before they are devirtualized and then Shroud kills them!!!" Neon ran through the maze, there were poisonous puddles from the hornets all over, at some points Neon had to jump over them, the gas itself would shave off about 10 life points. Shroud typed on the keyboard, "Nice try Neon, but things are about to change for you..." Neon was running over the maze walls using his chains to balance him at this point, when suddenly they vanished. "My powers?" Neon fell down back into the maze, 4 kankralets surronded Neon and fired.

The babies were walking in the maze, when they came across a krabe. Alice spit at it, a venom came out that rotted its legs, the krabe fell down, Ponic shot a shadow blast into it, the Krabe exploded. Shroud narrowed his eyes in the lab, "Heh, the babies are impressive, but they are still just that..." Hornets appeared all around the babies, and devirtualized everyone. Shroud laughed under his breath, then typed to Neon could not devirtualize himself, he then walked down to the scanners. However when the doors opened, the baby effect had worn off, sure everyone was now in diapers, but they all had gotten older. Everyone walked out of the scanners and fired their attacks at once, Shroud cursed and screamed, "Damn!" After Shroud vanished, "Come on!" called out Skylos, "We got to help Neon out!" everyone ran into the elevator, Musashi then broke the silence, "Is no one else slightly confused to why we the only thing we have on are diapers?"

When everyone got up top, Skylos typed on the computer, "Neon?" Neon was running from a group of four kankralets, his life points were already at 10. "Skylos, thank you! Help me out quick!" Skylos nodded, "Don't worry Neon, your powers are back and so are the scanners!" Neon threw a wall of darkness up and devirtualized the kankralets, "Good job!" said Skylos, "Now all that's left is the tower." Neon nodded then walked in it, about a minute later he emerged from the scanner everybody was down there. Ponic spoke first, "Uh Neon, we were thinking and we have a favour to ask you..." Neon looked around, "Ya?" Everyone got on their knees and started begging at once, "Don't tell anyone you changed my diapers..." "I'll do your homework for a week." "I'll be your servant for a month!" Neon just raised his eyebrow and smirked to himself.

Meanwhile within Sector 5, Shroud was on one knee his head bowed down, he then stood up and a moniter appeared with a XANA symbol on it. "I was unable to kill them, master XANA. However I still have the girl, and with the proper motivation we can use her for anything that we want." Keera was behind there were chains around her hands and legs. Shroud let out a small evil chuckle then walked over to Keera, towering over her, he brought his hand toward her.

[Ponic]

Mr. Delmas got a phone call, "Hello?" Skylos was on the phone using a voice synthesizer so he sounded like a fully grown adult, "Hello Mr. Delmas, I am Keera's father, I feel the need to inform you that, my daughter will not be able to attend school for the next few weeks." "It's nothing serious is it?" asked Mr Delmas, "Oh, um, nothing life threatening, it's just..." Halo was behind Skylos, she whispered in his hear, "Phnemonia?" Skylos shrugged, "Phnemonia, were not exactly sure how long but sadly it may last longer than two weeks." Mr. Delmas nodded, "Yes, well um, give your daughter our best and let her know we wish her a soeedy and effective recouvery, good day sir." "Good bye, Mr. Delmas." he hung up. Skylos let out a sigh, "Whooo..." Halo chuckelled, "You make a good adult Skylos." she said smiling.

Yisha was lieing on her back in her room, "Great, it's Friday morning, and I have nothing to do for tommarow..." there was then a knock at her door, "Yisha open quick!" called in Rem, Yisha opened the door, Rem ran in, "I was coming to see you and Halo, and now I'm hiding from Sissi!" Yisha opened the door a crack, she could see Sissi running through the halls, "Oh Rem! Rem?!" Yisha closed the door, "I'd really like to light her butt on fire...hmm but I think I have an idea." she said going outside. Rem listened through the door, and then opened it a crack. "Hey Sissi." "Oh...Yisha, what do you want?" Yisha put her arm up on Sissi's shoulder, "I just wanted to tell you." "Hey unless you are going to get Halo to drop Rem like a rock, I don't want to hear it." she said side swipping back get Yisha's arm off her, Yisha then lit herself on fire, "BLAAAAH!" Sissi screamed, "Ah! Jim! Jim!!" she called out running down the hall and around the corner. Sissi ran into Jim, "Oh Jim! It's Yisha, Yisha lit herself on fire!" "What? Are you crazy?!" Jim walked Sissi back to Yisha's room he knocked then opened the door, Yisha was on her bed talking to Rem, Rem was sitting on a chair on the other side of the room. "But but but..." Sissi stuttered. Jim shook his head, "Sissi, your going to the infirmiry with me, and Yisha, Rem! Get to class now! You and your friends already miss it left right and centre, you better not be late!" Jim stormed out with Sissi, Rem just laughed, "Nice job!" Yisha smiled and shrugged, "It's what I do" she laughed also. A few hours later the whole group was in the cafeteria eating their lunch. Musashi smiled at Neon, "You know man, I'm so happy you didn't take advantage of our favours." Neon shrugged, "I wouldn't do that." Alice then brought Neon his homework, from history, everyone widened their eyes, Neon shook his head, "She volunteered it wasn't my idea." Everyone laughed, well except Rem, "What's up Rem?" asked Zach, "Usually Neon's the downer." Neon gave one of his strong glares at Zach. Rem cracked a smile at that, "It's Ponic, didn't you all notice he couldn't focus in history class?" Some of the others nodded, Rem continued, "It didn't change in Phys. Ed. either, I'm pretty sure he's worried about Keera." Alice got up, "I'll go talk to him." she went out of the cafeteria, but if she stayed a few minutes longer she would have seen Mr. Delmas and Jim walk in and call out, "Attention, may I have your Attention please? Yes thank you, I would like to introduce you all to a our new student."

Ponic was out in the gardens sitting with a paper plate next to him, about half eaten, "Good to see you haven't changed your eating habits." Alice joked. Ponic smiled then took a bite of his pizza, Alice sat down next to him, "Worried? About Keera?" Ponic nodded, "Well you two really do go well together." she said, Ponic looked at Alice, to say why with just his expresison, "This is where Keera sat when she was worried about you." Ponic smiled and nodded, he wasn't sure what to say, Alice then put her arm around Ponic's shoulder. About 10 minutes later Zach came running out from the cafe, "Guies, there's a new kid in school!" "What's it matter Zach, new kids join all the time." Alice answered, Zach nodded, "Yes but not ones with auras so powerful they almost make Skylos and Neon collapse when they come close." Alice, Ponic and Zach got up and ran to Skylos' room, unknowest to them however someone was listening, curious to find out what they were saying. Sissi and Nick came out from behind the tree, "I don't know Sissi, this seems kinda mean..." Sissi crossed her arms, "Do you want to know the answer to their secrets or not?" Nick nodded, "Then come on!" she said grabbing Nick's arm and pulling him after her.

Everybody met in Skylos' room, "There's no way a child with that strong of an aura has been in school that long. I mean, I sensed more power in him than us! What was his name again?" asked Skylos, Neon answered, "The kid's name is Niko." Skylos nodded, then typed on the computer, "Aelita?" Aelita waved, "Hello my friends. Hey Neon sorry I wasn't there when you needed to deactivate that last tower, the return to the past error froze me programs, but I'm good now." Neon shrugged, "It's no prob." "Hey Aelita, can you check if anyone's hacked into the Kadic records to enroll themselves into the school?" asked Skylos, Aelita smiled and laughed, "You mean besides yourselves, gimme a minute." after a minute Aelita then reappeared on Skylos' screen, "No nothing." Sissi then burst into the room, "You all what?!" Aelita vanished. Sissi yelled, "You all hacked into the school records and added yourselves!" Neon got up looking piercingly into Sissi's eyes, Sissi's memory then started to fade, "Um, uh..." "Now leave." Neon said in a very low and commanding voice, Sissi turned and walked away, Nick was behind her, Neon looked at him as well. Nick shook his head, "Forget this, but incase your all interested, Niko's room is just down the hall, next to yours and mine's, Ponic." He then turned and left. Neon crossed his arms, "He won't go singing that, Ponic can you find out anything about Niko?" Ponic nodded, "I'll do my best." he said.

Ponic was in a shadow in Niko's room, he then spoke telepathically to the others, "This has gotta be a crossing the line between a stalker and a creeper." Ponic joked, "There's no one coming in, I don't see anybody." Ponic finished. In Rem's room someone opened up his door, Rem got up from his bed, "Hey, who are you?" The figure walked in more, Rem got up, one of the gloves on his hands began glowing this was one moment when having a roommate probably would've been nice. The figure then came into view it was Niko! "Niko what are you?" Niko quickly put his hands around Rem's head, he then nodded and ran out of Rem's room, "Hey get back here!" Rem called out, he ran out after him.

[Ponic]

Rem bolted out after Niko, "Hey Niko!" Niko ran by Neon's room, when darkness came out from under the door and grabbed him. Niko fell down, then placing his arms up he began glowing, "Erase their minds!" Suddenly it was like the whole planet rewinded 2 minutes, Rem and Neon were back in their rooms and they had no memory of what just happened, Ponic was now hiding in Niko's shadow. Niko got into his room and went just sat on his bed, after about five minutes Ponic spoke telepathically, "Niko isn't doing anything, I'm returning to my room." Ponic then came out of a shadow in his room, careful not to wake Nick up, Ponic changed then went into his bed and fell asleep.

Saturday: 10:00 am. "Alright everybody who's going to the pool, listen up! Line up and we aren't going into the bus until I've counted all of you!" Jim called out. Musashi, Ponic, Zach and Rem were going to the pool. Niko was in that line also, they all went on the bus and it pulled away. Neon watched, with Yisha, "Why didn't you go?" she asked, "I don't like parties." answered Neon, "What about you?" Yisha shrugged then answered, "I don't like pools." Halo was behind Yisha and joked, "More like you can't swim." Yisha narrowed her eyes and tackelled Halo, Halo laughed, "Truth hurts!" then got up and ran. "OH IT'S ON!" called out Yisha chasing after her. Neon watched as they ran, then looked back at the bus turning the corner and dissipearing from site, "Keera..." a few memories of Keera flashed through Neon's mind.

Keera looked at the babies she got to their level and started playing with them, "They're pretty cute." Neon looked at Keera, "Rather maternal aren't you?" Keera nodded, and laughed a bit, "Ya I am."

Neon covered his ears, "Ah! Keera how do you shut this siren sound up?!" Keera had rocked Alice and Ponic and made them stop crying, "You just gotta give them some attention, try making a funny face to Skylos, he seems to still know you." Neon's flash back stopped, the wind blew around him, "I may not love you like Ponic, but I still care for you as my friend. You have to be alright."

At the pool, Musashi and Zach were having a race, winner raced Rem. Zach was the winner, Musashi grumbelled, "Beaten in the water by someone who uses fire." Zach smiled, "Well your next Rem..." Rem nodded, "Alright we go on 3..." Zach then went off swimming, "1,2,3!" he called back quickly. Rem narrowed his eyes, "Hey, that's cheating!" he shouted swimming after him. Rem was distracted by the race, to distracted to notice that Niko still didn't go into the pool, he was just eyeing Rem, sitting out on the chair in his swim suit. Musashi went over to Ponic, "Hey Ponic." he said, Ponic smiled, Musashi then continued, "Look man, your really down about Keera, I know but she was my friend also, now you've gotta enjoy your life a bit right now, come on, I'll kick your butt in a cannon ball contest." Ponic let out a small chucked and smiled, "You got it backwards, I'm gonna beat ya." They jumped off the diving board, and Rem beat Zach in the race. "Even cheating you lost" Rem laughed, he then turned and noticed Niko looking at him, not like a glare Neon gave but still a strong stare. Niko then got up and walked to the pool, he took off his shirt and dove in, when he came out he was stopped looking at Rem and looked out the window then back at Rem. Rem looked out the window and suddenly everything went dark. Rem didn't go into a coma, everything just went dark, Rem looked around suddenly he was in some new clothes, a long gold robe, and under it was a red shirt, Niko was at the centre of Rem's sight. "Niko what's going on?" asked Rem, then quickly Rem found himself back at the pool, back in his swim suit, like nothing changed, and Niko no longer looking at Rem, he was now standing on a boogy board balancing himself in the water.

After about 2 hours the bell rang, the swim for the school was over. Everyone went into the change room, put their clothes back on then were back on the bus. Rem was sitting with Musashi on the bus, "Niko's kinda a loner...he doesn't say or do much and he's been watching me almost all day." Musahi looked, "Maybe he was amazed at how you beat Zach's butt in the pool." Rem laughed, "I'm not sure, something feels weird." The bus pulled into Kadic.

When they got off the bus, Alice was waiting for everybody, she whispered to Musashi, Ponic, Rem and Zach, "Skylos and Neon think they figured out who Niko is. We're all in the factory." They all ran over to the factory. They got to an empty area and Ponic opened everyone's shadow and they arrived in the factory. They all got there, "Welcome back everyone." Halo said smiling. Skylos waved then spoke first, "Well, me and Neon were trying to figure this one out, and after we got Niko's aura..." Neon the spoke, "We figured out that Niko is human, but a magical human. His aura is so powerful because to use his powers he channels it between his mind and aura."

[Ponic]

It was 7:30 at night and the sun was beginning to set, Rem and Halo were walking out on the campus. Skylos and Neon were just sitting and talking in their room, everyone else was in the cafe at that moment grabbing some dinner. Rem and Halo had a feeling someone was following them, but there was no one in sight. "Ever get the feeling your being watched?" asked Halo, Rem nodded. They kept walking, "OH HEY A QUATER!" Halo screamed out and ran to grab it, Rem just laughed to himself, "Only Halo would run out for a quater." Then who was following them called out, "Hi Rem!" called out Sissi, Rem rolled his eyes, "Halo?" he whispered, "Can you get rid of her?" Halo laughed, "Yes, gladly..." she changed into a rabid dog and barked and ran at Sissi, after Sissi ran Halo shifted back and laughed, "Way too easy." Then everybody in the group got a telepathic message from somebody, "Musashi, Skylos, Neon, Rem, Ponic, Yisha, Halo, Zach and Wrath. Yes I know all your names, but don't worry about that I'm at the stadium, come over there quickly, I really need to talk to all of you..."

Everybody got to the stadium, Neon crossed his arms and looked around, "Who are we looking for?" After about five minutes, something finally happened, everything the school, the stadium, the stands, everything went blurry and froze in time. Niko then came out from behind the stands, "Time stopping, not something I would use in a large scale battle..." he said waving. Musashi ran at Niko, "Why did you just stop time!?" he shouted and demanded to know. Niko put his hands up, "It was just so we could talk without anyone interfering, I'll return us back to normal when we're done." Neon was glaring at Niko, "He's not lieing about time atleast, I can see it." Niko then continued speaking, "I need to ask one of you for some help." Niko said looking at Rem. Rem shifted his eyes, "Why me in particular?" Niko nodded, "Because, only one with magic can take this trip, and from what I gathered from your powers, that's only you." Ponic narrowed his eyes, "You'll need to back up how do you know so much about us already Niko? I mean we only just met you yesterday." "Would've been true if I had been born yesterday. I've been in hiding for awhile, until this day, and while normally I'd want to do this alone, I can't, I need Rem's help." Yisha put her arms out, "No deal, if Rem goes we all go." Niko rolled his eyes he then put his hand up, "I still have enough energy for stopping the rest of you." Ice shot out of Niko's hand, everybody forze in place, Rem looked around, "Why you!" He charged a star blast, Niko then aimed his hand at Rem, "Don't anger me Rem!" warned Niko.

"Unfreeze my friends!" commanded Rem, Niko shook his head, "Not until you hear me out." Niko and Rem both lowered their attacks, "There's a temple in the Pacific, the light sage's temple. " Rem nodded, "I know I've heard of it, they are ruins now." Niko nodded, "Your half right, someone has returned the ruins without returning the Light Sage, and he's planning to use the temples there to harnass enough power for himself. To unleash the power of those in the banished realm where he will be able to begin conquest on the world. Look, no one can go near the ruins who does not hold magic, due to the magical seal there. I need you to come with me. What do you say?" Rem looked at Niko, "I would say yes, but what is your part in this Niko?" Niko simply returned a smile, "You'll see." he said placing his hand up unfreezing the rest of the group. "Think about it Rem, we only have till mid day tommarow." Niko said placing his hands up then time resumed, Niko then turned and ran back to the dorms.

7:00 am, everybody started to wake up. Rem however had never gotten a wink of sleep during the night. There was then a knock at Rem's door, "Come in it's open." he called out. Everybody walked into the room, Halo spoke first. "Rem you aren't going to the light temple are you?" Rem shrugged and sat up then leaned on his wall, "I'm not sure Halo, I mean if it's dangerous and could affect us here I would rather get it now then later." Skylos shook his head in his opinions Rem only "had what Niko has told you. There's no telling what is over there." "And I'm not sure but something felt odd about Niko." Neon finished. Skylos then continued, "I've never heard about a magical seal, I don't know Rem." "You guies are all right." Rem answered, "But the only problem is if Niko is right, if the temple truly is dangerous I don't have a choice in the matter." Rem said walking to the door, "Wait!" called out Halo, Rem turned, "I'm sorry, look everybody I really truly care about all of you, and if you could come with me I'd take you all in a hear beat, but I can't." Rem dropped his head down, "Please guies understand it's not that I want to prove myself or something, it's that I want to keep you all safe, so I have to go and head off with Niko." he said leaving the room. Then walking to Niko's room he knocked at the door he knocked then opened the door. Niko was floating in the middle of his room meditating. Niko opened one eye, "You coming with?" Rem nodded, "I will go with you."

About 15 minutes later after Rem a bag and brought it with him Niko opened a portal in the stadium, Niko walked in, just before Rem did he looked back at everybody and gave them a thumps up then entered into it. "There's got to be a way for us to be able to follow Rem." Ponic said, "And if there is, we need to find it..."

[Ponic]

Niko's portal ejected them into a small raft just outside of Easter Island. Rem looked around, Niko was getting the rudder on the end ready, "There's a barrier around Easter Island, we can't just teleport in, but ironically we can sail through it if we do it the correct way." Rem asked, "What is the right way?" "No magic and a human sacrifice." Rem went pail. Niko then laughed, "Just kidding, well about the sacrifice, no magic till we get on there, none what so ever, we can fool the barrier into thinking we are normal humans just sailing to Easter Island." Rem nodded and looked towards Easter Island, dark clouds were gathering over it. As they approached Easter Island Niko pointed, "That is our target." Rem's eyes widnened, "Niko a volcano-" "Well in a way, just take it one thing at a time." The raft hit the sandbar, Rem got off, Niko didn't notice Rem getting off the raft atuomatically, when he did Niko quickly called out, "Rem stop!" It was too late, Rem had walked straight into an undertoe, it started sucking him under. Niko dove in after him.

Niko grabbed onto Rem, but at that moment the water started shifting, as a wave grew higher and higher, Rem and Niko soared to the top of the wave, as it crashed into the beach. Rem coughed out some water, "Come on, before it pulls us back in!" Rem pulled Niko up, they both began running, and the current started pulling them both backwards. "Grab onto me!" shouted Rem, Niko did so and Rem changed into a twilight wolf and he began running with great speed out of the current. They barely made it out, Rem changed back, they looked back and saw Rem's bag going out into the current, "That was all my supplies..." Rem said. Niko coughed a bit and brushed his hair with his hand, "I knew you had power but the ability to turn into a twighlight wolf? Few are able to do it." Rem shrugged, him and Niko then began walking down the island. As they walked Rem looked at one of the Moai's there, it was odd the Moai's "Have been here for years, sure their statues but do they always look like they are following you?" Rem thought to himself as he walked. Rem and Niko got to the base of the volcano, Rem looked around, "It's funny you'd think this island would be lush from the volcanic soil..." Niko shook his head as he put his hand on the volcano, "Looks almost like the trees were destroyed by drought, almost a defiance on itself. Ah ha here, help me out Rem put your hand right here." he said pointing. Rem did so, Niko then continued, "Now channel your powers through your mind and body into your hand." They both did so and the rock seemed to fade. They both took a step inside, Niko using his powers as a light so they could see where they were going. "Niko, who exactly is behind this?" "Behind what?" "Channelling the temples for their own goal you were a little vague." Niko's eyes changed to green from their usual burgandy, at that moment the light went out. "Niko?!" called out Rem, "Niko what's going ah." Rem was grabbed by the neck then gagged.

Back on Earth everybody who could teleport in the group was trying to figure out a way to get passed the magical seal. They were all in the park, and Yisha had gone off to get a hot dog. As she walked back she heard a twig crack behind a tree, "Hello?" She heard another, "Alright Halo if this is a trick you better not..." quickly a hand grabbed Yisha's shoulder, "SURPRISE!" "HOLY! AH!" Yisha threw her hot dog into the person that grabbed her. He wiped the mustard from his face, "Well I was hungry..." Yisha looked at who it was then screamed out, "SETH! WHERE YA BEEN!" She said giving him a hug. Everybody ran over, and when they saw Seth their eyes all opened wide. "Seth! Welcome back!" Ponic said smiling. Seth gave a thumps up, "Hey guys." Neon had his bored look on his face, but was sort of showing an emotion of happiness, sort of, "How long can it take you to gather up some masks?" he asked. Seth shrugged, "Not long, I actually got all the ones I wanted last month, but I stayed away longer cause check out what else I found." Seth pulled out a hover board and jumped ontop of it. He flew upwards grabbing hold of the top he flew up vertically, did a flip in the air, "Yaa!" he called out. Seth then flew forward flipped upwards and dropped off the board, the board flew under him, Seth grabbed a hold of it then landing he jumped off the board then he grabbed it. "Ta da" Seth said, everybody clapped, "Encore!" smiled Skylos. "So what's up guies?" asked Seth, "I count one person missing, where's Rem?"

Rem woke up in the light temple he looked around. The mysterious figure noticed Rem and chuckelled a bit, "You know your going to need to start communicating." he said taking the rope out of Rem's mouth. Rem was bound to a pillar, he tried to use his powers to get out, it failed, "What the, what's going on? Who are you?" The figure stepped out of the shadows he introduced himself as "Zalendor." "Your the one who wants to take over the-" Zalendor interuppted Rem mid sentence, "There's no such thing as light temple powers, it was a trick there's not even a magical seal I just needed you to get here alone, and my servant Niko played the part well." Zalendor said showing Niko, now standing almost like a zombie he had no emotion on his face, just standing there, awaiting orders.

Zalendor walked over to Rem and reached into his pocket, "This isn't personal kid, there are only so many shards around this planet, and this one just happened to be with you." he said taking it from Rem, the twighlight shard that Rem used to change himself into twighlight wolf form. "Bring in the other one." Zalendor commanded Niko, Rem then spoke, "Another one, what's going on?" Zalendor looked at Rem, "I'm not one of those idiots who tells his captured on everything about his plan. I prefer the mystery, look kid now that I have the shard I really don't need you anymore." He said placing the rope back in Rem's mouth. Rem glared at Zalendor, he simply returned a smug look. "I hope you can hold your breath." Zalendor said cutting the pillar Rem was tied to from the ground, he then dropped it into the ocean. Rem hit the ocean, then from the weight of the stone pillar sank, Zalendor merely stood there with a smirk on his face. Niko then came back to Zalendor, "The other one sir, E link, he's escaped."

[Ponic]

Rem couldn't get himself free he just sunk deeper and deeper into the ocean, soon he'd drown either from losing his breath or the pressure would crush him. Rem then looked up and he saw someone coming down to get him, whoever it was went down to Rem and used his own hands, mixed with powers, to be able to break the ropes. He then grabbed Rem and swam upwards, they got up to the cliff edge, and he swam himself and Rem over to the beach. He put Rem down and pulled the rope out of Rem's mouth then coughing, the person that saved Rem fell down onto his stomach. Rem got himself up but before he could say anything, one of the Moai's came to life and walked towards them, it grabbed them both. Zalendor was standing behind it, "E link, nice try but there's no escape from here, and Rem, I'll deal with you later." The Moai and Zalendor began walking to the volcano, "Everything is back on track, we're far from done." Zalendor looked at Rem, "While your utterly pointless to me now, it might be smarter to keep you nearby, just for now. Then I'll kil you."

On Earth Seth was in the park with everybody, they filled him in on what they knew about what happened to Rem. "Why don't we go to Easter Island first? Instead of just sitting here and planning, come on guies let's go." Skylos shrugged, "Well if there's a seal-" "Oh come on Skylos" interrupted Seth, "Stop thinking and let's get going." Skylos rolled his eyes and created light discs for everybody. They all flew to Easter Island, Halo yawned a bit and looked at the island, "How are we going to...uh oh..." Halo fell off her light disc, she quick changed to an eagle and landed on the beach, "What the...there is no magical seal!" The others landed on the beach, Ponic looked around, "I can't believe we fell for this...if they wanted to get Rem alone then it's obvious that this was a trap." "That's great..." answered Alice, "But there's still the question of where on this rock is Rem and Niko?" The Moai's infront of everybody came to life, and began stomping towards them. Niko was ontop of one, he still had no emotion in his face almost like a zombie. Musashi pointed out, "Uh...I think we found him."

Away at the Light Temple, Zalendor had the shard he gathered up from Rem in hand. E link was and Rem were tied by special ropes that nulled their powers, and the Moai's were holding them. Zalendor dropped the shard into the middle of a mysterious circle in the temple. The shard began glowing, its twilight powers were glowing out of it. Rem's eyes widened, "I've never been able to unleash that much power from my shard, or even wanted to!" The shard kept glowing and began unleashing a load of beams, Zalendor put out his hand and grabbed a few of the beams, then grabbed E link's hand. After a strong load of power was exchanged between both of them Zalendor let go. "Were done here, Moai, throw Rem over" The Moai did it then Zalendor tied Rem to a pole. Unknowest to Zalendor when he touched Rem, something happened, Rem's shadow infected Zalendor's shadow a bit with the escence of Rem. "Before you go, why? What do you plan to gain from this?" asked Rem. Zalendor just turned, "What part of none of your buissness don't you get anyways?" Zalendor said walking to Rem's back then Rem felt a sharp pinch, Zalendor then used the shard to create a signal, that the whole group would see. Niko noticed the signal also suddenly his eyes changed to burgandy and he went outcold, Zalendor then appeared on a cloud just above the group, "See ya kids, say hi to Rem for me." He said giving everyone a salute with his fingers then vanishing in the clouds.

Rem found himself running in the forest, he was looking around then came to a bright golden light. "What's going on? Where is everybody?" Rem went closer and closer to the light then when he pushed away some branches he saw the light increase, "Ah! I've never seen something so bright!" Suddenly a voice came from the light, "Rem..." Rem looked carefully at the light but it was so bright he had to shield his eyes, "You shall be consumed by the lost souls!" "Ah!" "Rem! Rem!" called Halo.

Suddenly the forest melted around him and Rem woke up in his bed sweating quite a bit, Alice and Halo were around him, "What happened?" Alice rolled her eyes, "Most guys would be happy to wake up to find two ladies over his bed side." Rem smiled, "Nice, ya better than being back on that island...wait." Rem ran out of his bed. Alice just pouted, "And most guys wouldn't go running out either." Halo laughed then said, "Well if it was Sissi, Rem would've upchucked then run away." Rem ran into the living room, Ponic, was there just enjoying the company of Neon and Skylos. Skylos and Neon were talking with each other on the couch. Ponic noticed Rem first, "Welcome up Rem." "Niko and E link where are they?" Neon answered, "Who E link? We only found you and Niko at Easter Island." Rem smacked his fist against the wall, "Damn! Zalendor must still have, ow..." Rem began to lose his balance, Ponic ran over and helped him keep it, "You alright?" Rem shook his head, "No really bad headache..." Seth then came through the door, "Nothin like a ride through the sky to start the mornin, hey Rem you feeling better?" Rem forced himself over to the fridge to get some water, "I will be...still where's Niko?" Skylos pointed downstairs, "We don't have enough room in the cabin, Niko is still out cold in the basement." Neon nodded, "I can sense brain activity, he's fine just not concious."

[Ponic]

Zalendor was sitting by the volcano on Easter Island the Moais were setting up stones around the area. "Those teenagers they are a bit unplanned for. Perhaps something that can throw them off the scent will be in order." "You rock brains continue working here, I'll return in a moment." Zalendor said flying away from Easter Island and arriving just outside the factory. "From what I hear your one of the best..." Zalendor muttered to himself as he set foot inside the factory and made his way to the elevator. It took him down to the computer lab, he typed on the computer a bit "A little bit of reprogramming...and your clone program belongs to me now XANA. Now to make sure you stay pacified till I'm done." A hand then came down on Zalendor from behind, it belonged to Shroud as did the blade at Zalendor's neck, "You dare to move, and I will kill you." Zalendor smiled evily, "You won't get that close...NOT IN ONE PIECE!" Zalendor shouted, flipping Shroud over him then attacking him. Shroud jumped at Zalendor also, they landed across from each other, Zalendor felt something, something he hadn't felt in years...pain...there were three slash marks across his side, "You're good...but not good enough." Zalendor said turning around and waving his hand. Shroud looked behind him, he saw 2 spikes explode out of the wall, he quickly dodged out of the way, as such they slashed his arm. "Are you trying to impress me..." Shroud said, Zalendor merely answered with a point below Shroud, Shroud looked then saw two darkness tenticles grab his legs, holding him in place. Shroud gritted his teeth as Zalendor ran at him, Shroud pulled out his sword and slashed the tenticles then felt a kick from Zalendor sending him into the wall. "Prepare yourself for oblivions embrace!" Shroud called out as he threw 4 spikes at Zalendor.

Skylos helped Rem lie down on the couch, Neon placed his two fingers on Rem's head, "I can sense something in you..." "What?" asked Rem, "Shh..." answered Neon. Continuing his search within Rem's mind he then stopped, "He's in there Rem...Zalendor is deep within your mind and at will, will call on you whenever he wants." "To do what?!" asked Rem, Neon answered in a low voice, "I don't know..." Rem then got up and went downstairs, "Why's he so desperate to find Niko anyways?" asked Ponic to the others. Niko was lieing down on a cot in the basement, Rem looked at him, "You know something...get up." spoke Rem, giving Niko a shake. Suddenly Niko's eyes almost exploded open, and he grabbed Rem's arm, "Wow calm down man!" Rem said, "It's just Rem." Niko got up and looked around, "Who?" "Rem..." Niko looked at Rem carefully, "I sense a tainted aura within you...you're his eyes..." Rem raised an eyebrow, "Who's eyes?" he asked. Niko kept looking carefully at Rem, then he relaxed, "Sorry, I'm being remiss, my name is Niko." he said with a bit of a bow. First time anyone had bowed to Rem before, he figured he might as well do the same and gave a bow to Niko, "Come upstairs with me." Rem said waving Niko to follow, they both went up the stairs to the others.

Zalendor's and Shroud's blades both met each other at the necks, "What's your buissness here?" Shroud said narrow eyed at Zalendor. "I want the same people dead that your computer master wants dead, and I have the real power with which to do it." Zalendor opened his free hand and an image appeared in it, "The Twilight Shard." "Yes that Rem has it, so what?" "I'm surprised you don't know, he whoever posseses this shard shall control enough power to break cities in seconds, but rather than take the short way I've figured out a quicker approach to use it, a secretive ability that not a single being alive today even knows it exists. You want their blood? So do I. You want their heads on a stick? I can get them for you." Shroud narrowed his eyes at Zalendor, "We shall see if you're worth the effort." He said putting his blade back in his sheath, Zalendor did the same. Shroud then walked over to the keyboard, placing his hand over it he took the programing Zalendor did and eliminated it. "Unlike yourself...we have someone with intimate knowledge of their..." Shroud then felt a blade drive into his back causing him to disintegrate, "Idiot...I don't need a partner." Zalendor smirked as he quickly continued typing, reprogramming XANA. Zalendor hit the enter key, the factory went dark for a minute then lit back up again, "Welcome to my fold..." Zalendor spoke lowly, letting out a small laugh.

"ZALENDOR'S GONNA DO WHAT?!" Rem shouted, Niko put his hand up, "Calm down man, ya he's going to be able to use you as his eyes, as time goes on he'll probably be able to do more to you." "And when will Zalendor be able to do this to Rem?" asked Ponic, Niko shrugged, "Whenever he decideds to trigger him, the bad news is there's no way to reverse it right now, after he makes it go active, if any of you can kill things in the mind, you'll be able to get rid of him." Halo nodded and began slapping her fist into her hand, "Man if he was five feet infront of me right now and here I swear I'd make him sing soprano for the rest of his life!" Musashi laughed and put his arm around Halo, "You're becoming more like me every day." Halo glared at Musashi, "When that day comes...I'll throw myself off a building." he joked moving to the side. Everyone laughed, then Skylos spoke, "One question what is Zalendor gonna do?" he asked. Niko shrugged, "I don't know too much, Zalendor didn't tell me much, but now that I think about it...Rem we might be able to use Zalendor's own trick against him." "How?" asked Rem, Niko simply stepped outside...

[Ponic]

Niko put his two pinkies in his mouth and let out a strong whistle. "Ow..." Seth said putting his hands in his ears, "Painful..." A white blur flew into the sky, Niko ran at one of the trees, he grabbed onto it, then launched himself onto the roof of the cabin, then from the roof of the cabin, he launched himself back at the tree, grabbing onto one of the branches he flipped up onto another. Then swung around, grabbing the branch above him with his legs, then swinging himself upward and standing up on the higest branch that could take his weight. He held his arm up, everyone just stood wide eyed at what Niko just did, Zach spoke first, "I could do that if I wanted to...I just don't want to." Yisha just gave a sarcastic look at Zach, "Ya definatly, you'd be able to defy gravity and pull that off." Wrath then ran passed them and climbed up the tree, similiarly also, Zach then crossed his arms, "How come everyone can do that...." A white bird, black crested at the bottom of some of their feathers and totally black feathers under it's wings landed on Niko's arm. "Hey old friend." Niko said stroking him on the head, "Cool" Wrath said going to pet the bird, it let out a strong caw at him, making Wrath quickly pull his arm back. "Hey, be good to him." Niko said to the bird, "Him and everyone down there are friends. Wrath this is Spirit." Niko said bringing him closer, Spirit moved his head closer to Wrath, so Wrath could stroke his head. Spirit then flew up and Niko and Wrath climbed down, Spirit then landed on Niko's arm again, "Hey guies meet Spirit...and part one of this."

Zalendor then began feeling a pull from Easter Island, he shut his eyes and sent a telepathic message to the Moai there, "Look, E link is a big part of this...keep him there...I'm gonna go play with the group right now." Zalendor then vanished form where he was.

Shroud then appeared infront of the group, everyone noticed and got ready to battle. "Do not shoot...AH!" Shroud actually screamed in pain, he must've been resisting the reprograming Zalendor had done, and it was causing great pain to him. "He is coming...Rem is his target again....AH!" "How do you know this?" Neon spoke, Shroud cringed and finally got as much as he could out, "He's got XANA as well...." Shroud couldn't resist any longer he simply vanished infront of everyone. Lightning and thunder was heard, and Zalendor shot down in a shard of lightning into the ground appearing infront of everybody. The shockwaves shot everybody backwards, without even stopping for the usual villian monologue Zalendor ran with a blade, a blade that belonged to Shroud, he stuck it to Rem. "Come on kid." By now everyone had gotten up, "He's not going anywhere!" shouted Ponic, preparing to shoot a shadow blast at Zalendor. Zalendor merely pointed to the mountain behind them, "That army says different." The sun was blotted out as an army of monsters ascended on everyone, open firing. Zalendor escaped with Rem during the chaos.

He dragged him into the forest, Rem threw Zalendor over him, "You have the twilight shard what do you want now!" Zalendor looked at Rem with piercing eyes, "I saw you have a great warrior within you, I want you to work for me." Rem just glared at Zalendor, "I would sooner die!" Zalendor shrugged, "Alright plan B" he said throwing something at Rem. Rem dove to the side and taking out his crystal sword he channeled ice into it, shooting an ice beam at Zalendor. Zalendor put out his hand holding the shard, infact it was two shard brought together forming the twilight crystal, the ice ceam literally just absorbed into it and shot back at Rem. Rem went to strike it with his sword but the sword absorbed the ice and sent it right into Rem freezing him. Zalendor walked up to Rem, tossing the same kind of object up and down, "This may surprise you but the twilight shards were just security, I knew there was one weak link that would have a connection to my ticket to success. I didn't realize it was you until recently." Zalendor then drove something into Rem, it grew into him, "We'll be in touch" Zalendor said dropping Rem onto the floor then floating up, he made a call out to the monsters, a bit of the army followed him, "The rest of you! BURN THE CABIN AND KILL THEM ALL!" he called out vanishing, returning to Easter Island.

The battle raged on all day, Skylos flew into the sky, commanding the rays of the sun at sun set to become concentrated, he shot the rays at his light robe, causing them to reflect clear across the area killing a few of the moths. As the sun set, more darkness arose, exactly what Neon needed, a wave of darkness shot at a mega tank, he rolled into it and fired, then when the darkness lifted, it's shot was sent at a line of monsters. Then a group of blocks came in on the cliff side, taking aim, they fired rapid shots at everybody. Skylos was caught off guard and shot out of the sky, Musashi ran at the blocks, jumping up off a tree, he shot a ring of fire at the blocks killing them. Ponic had 2 Krabes surronding him, "Well this will be over quick..." they fired at him, Ponic just dropped into a shadow as their shots collided with each other killing the Krabes, Ponic then came out of the shadow, "Like I said...it was over quick." he then ran at one of the mega tanks, then as if the sun went dark a large army of monsters came down from over the mountain, and began firing, everyone was hit atleast 3 times. "We can't hold out against all these monsters for much longer..." Neon said, "Let's get out of here, Seth we'll need a distraction." Ponic called to Seth. Seth nodded, he flew upwards on his board, putting on his Deku mask he fired a bunch of seeds at the ground, infront of the monsters, causing a large dust cloud, in the chaos everyone escaped. They arrived in an isolated part of the forest near the river, everyone went to the river to clean their battle wounds. Rem's shadow then came to Halo and grabbed her, "What the!" It began pulling her away. Dropping her in a small clearing a dome then went over her, there was a stump in the middle of the area and she was standing on an arena with two eyes on the sides of it, they seemed to be the kind of eyes that would follow you where ever you go and so strong they could pierce through your soul and were made of platinum with diamonds circling around them. The arena was circluar and made of gold, it seemed to be floating off of the ground, the person on the other side was hard to see, infact after Halo focused it seemed there were two beings infront of her. One of them stepped out, it was wearing the same clothes as Rem, but his eyes, they seemed souless, blood lusting, the other one then came into the light, it was Rem again, but this one was in chains. "How can there be two Rems!" Halo asked. The derranged Rem merely answered with a horrible laugh, "HA HA HA!"

On Easter Island Zalendor had finished what he was hoping to do, "E link time for you to do what you were best suited to do..." The Moai grabbed the unconscious E link, held him over the volcano, it dropped him in the pit to the magma.

[Ponic]

E link landed in the magma, and the area started bubbelling unbelievably, Zalendor stood over it, the magma shot up and a portal exploded open above the volcano, "My only regret was that, I didn't permanantly kill him...E link may have been the key to this portal with the power inside him, he's still the biggest weak link of all. Whatever, in three days it won't matter anyways." The portal began opening, E link was no where to be seen though, he seemed to be powering the portal open, the portal began lighting up as the spirits were seen inside. They began slowly exiting, Zalendor put his hand out, "You're to go to Lyoko, to the violet powered tower, now go!" The Spirits left the area.

They flew over the dome Rem and Halo were in, Rem pointed up, "Look the spirits are going, and soon you will join them." "What's going on!" Halo demanded to know. The evil Rem just looked at Halo and glared, "You won't be around much longer, so I might as well tell you, those are the spirits of the dead and the banished, and they demand revenge. Revenge that Zalendor will give, you will all be sent to them to feed their energy." "To use them as an army?! Kinda generic..." Rem laughed, "Wrong, we plan to use them as an army, and as a way of powering the tower, once it's done the world will change, Zalendor's new world will begin and you will all serve him!" The others had arrived just outside the door and tried to smash their way through, "Stop wasting your time!" Rem called out, "There's no way in, till someone here dies...this arena is a portal to the world of the spirits, I plan to kill you here and send you to join them." The evil Rem then pointed to the good one in chains, "I wanted the original side to watch, so he could see the one he loved get torn from him." Halo just glared at Rem, "Why are you doing this?!" Halo asked, Rem shot Halo back with a twilight blast, "Zalendor has opened my eyes, now get up, I will kill you right now!"

On Lyoko the spirits were converging on the purple tower, Aelita was hiddin behind a tree watching, "Something's wrong..." That's when a krabe appeared behind her, she turned, "Oh no!" and began backing up. But the Krabe did something odd, he bent down, to pick her up, "Hmm?" Aelita climbed onto the Krabe as it began walking to the edge of Lyoko, when it arrived the Transporter came into view, "The sector 5 transporter? XANA hates it when we go there, why does he want me to right now?" Aelita hesitated for a second, if this was a XANA plot she'd be walking into it, however she had to take the risk XANA himself was in trouble now, so Aelita went right into the transporter, she arrived in Sector 5, to find Shroud awaiting her, "Welcome princess." Odd thing was, Shroud was not fully solid he was kind of fading and dipixelizing at random, which would mean this was merely some kind of a digital recording XANA created to communicate with Aelita.

Rem and Halo had lightning locked together, when Rem powered it with twilight, knocking Halo back and against the dome, she was holding her chest, "Come on Halo, I'm barely breaking a sweat!" Rem created darkness in his hand, Halo shot time energy at Rem to slow him down for a few seconds and quickly rolled out of the way. She made it begin raining and threw using the water around her shifted it to ice and sent it at Rem,, Rem threw up light and darkness infront of it, in the perfect amount to make it void eliminating Halo's attack. "I'm invincible with all these orbs!" he said holding up his gauntlet, then lighting shadow in his hand, by mixing light and darkness preparing to stick them both together, "Rem are you insane! Void+shadow might kill us all!" Skylos shouted, Rem laughed, "Or it might just kill you, it's a risk I'm willing to take!" Thats when Seth came flying in from above with Niko, Seth shot ice onto the top of the dome, Niko then flipped forward, lighting aura on his hand he smashed through the dome destroying it. Everyone ran at Rem, he rolled his eyes, "Another time perhaps." exploding darkness everywhere he made his escape.

After a few seconds Halo said through her breath, "Rem, mentioned a tower..." "Lyoko!" shouted Skylos, everyone ran through their shadows and arrived at the factory. "What the why is Aelita already in Sector 5?" Skylos said. Aelita then appeared on screen, "I need you, quickly, come to sector 5!" she called to them

[Ponic]

About a minute later, Neon, Ponic, Halo and Seth arrived in sector 5. The Shroud recording continued to speak, "As I'm certain you probably have some bodyguards with you, greetings to you to warriors."

Alice whispered to Niko outside, "You know it's amazing how we are that predictable..."

The recording continued, "You probably saw a purple tower out in the forest sector with a bunch of spirits converging on it, obviously that's not good. What Zalendor seems to have failed to realize is we saw what he plans to do, the tower is somewhat like a way station. The spirits arrive there awaiting Zalendor, once he gets to the tower his power is increased 1000 fold, then using the tower he's gathered he'll be able to use any form of media, be it internet, tv, makes no difference, to send out a neural wave." Seth stared upwards, "Uh Skylos translation?"

Skylos chuckelled from the lab, "One sec..." he said typing, "...wow..." Seth then answered, "Ya wow, is kind of vague, for all I know you're wowing at Alice right now." Skylos glared at the computer screen, "I'm wowing because what Shroud pretty much said was Zalendor is combing ancient power of the spirits with the abilities of Lyoko pretty much. That neural wave, disrubts the thought processes of the brain, basically if Zalendor gets to the tower, it will only take seconds for him to take full control over the world." Everybody's faces seemed to pale at this thought. The Shroud recording broke the silence, "Yes yes, dramatic oh my gosh stance, look I'll contact you again, for now just follow the pathway." the recording ceased and the doorway opened, seems XANA wanted them to go in. "We'll go first, Aelita." Neon said heading in with Ponic and Seth, Aelita close behind them.

Not long after they entered into sector 5, where Shroud was awaiting them, he had an unconscious Keera beneath his foot, "Come now, don't look so surprised you were well aware that I had her in my posession." Ponic gritted his teeth, then pointed his hand at Shroud, shadow went all around it, "You better release her or I will kill you right now!!" Shroud put his sword over Keera, "She can't devirtualize unless I allow it, I'll kill your poor girl friend right now Ponic, I'm proposing a trade, we have a common enemy. I will help you eliminate Zalendor and return Keera to you right now, should you except." "What's in it for you?" asked Neon suspiciously, Shroud chuckelled, "Let's just say...I already have all that I need, deal?" he asked. Everyone was silent for a few minutes, "Deal." came Ponic's voice silently after all agreed. Shroud smirked evily, "Excellent." he placed his hand on Keera, some power went through him to her, she awoke a few seconds, later and on Skylos' screen her Lyoko card appeared. "You're free to go, call me for more fun times." he said sarcastically, kicking her forward to the others. Keera coughed and moved to the group, "Now, XANA has reprogrammed himself so we can now work without being noticed." Shroud said, "But I require, all of you to be here."

At that moment the screen began glowing in the computer lab, "What the?!" Niko exclaimed, but the brightness increasd around everybody, until it was blinding, afterward it vanished they were all on sector 5 with the others. "You just-" Seth began, Shroud rolled around, "If we keep talking then this will never get finished, follow me. He began heading towards the main terminal of sector 5, when they got there, Shroud pointed, "Aelita, I believe this is your department?" Aelita walked to the moniter and began typing, "It's a map." she said, "Showing another location in sector 5, a part we've never seen before, it's at the base of sector 5, the core of Lyoko..." she said, with that they all headed to the core.

The core room was blocky like all of sector 5 however the very core of it was incased in 2 shield layers a glowing sphere was within the middle and it was floating over a void (just like the show). Shroud walked to the key, he turned it around then pressed it in as a doorway opened, "This part of Lyoko is what allows our world to function with yours." he said, Skylos looked around, "Wow, thousands of calculations are being made every second, look those are what XANA uses to communicate with his XH's." Shroud chuckelled, "Yes, yes its all very lovely, but our target is a corrupted piece of data that Zalendor has altered allowing him to take control of the tower." he pointed forward, to a red screen that rather than having 0's and 1's running up and down it, signifying binary calculations it oddly had 0's, 1's and a 2. "Basically that is the piece of data that we can't rewrite remotely. It must be done manually, now look there." he pointed upward, there were a few thousand monsters on standbye there, "Those will wake at any second to eliminate us if we get to close, and the devirualization codes are no longer functional." "Wait, you said nothing about unactive virtualization codes!" Alice shouted, Shroud shrugged, "Opps, guess I left tut that little detail huh. Now getting back to your mission, we can't get there unless those monsters are deactivated, which is will some of you will come in. A small task force of you are going to another location of sector 5, where you are going to deactivate the Lyoko monster program, this will effectively kill all of Zalendor's army."

[Ponic]

"We are deactivating XANA's monster army?" Skylos repeated in amasement, "I've tried to do that for years I never-" "That's because we made sure you couldn't relax once we are enemies again we'll easily reactivate what we need to, for now though the end justifies the means." Shroud answered in interupption.

Aelita's voice then came in over a mic from the interface, "I can guide you to where you need to be." she said. However a few seconds later Zalendor appeared infront of everyone, he had his eyebrow raised, posessed Rem was right next to him, "You are never leaving this room alive." he said as the monsters woke up and open fired, all of them being creepers made for a very difficult job! Neon and Ponic threw up a shield, "Aelita do it!" called out Yisha, "Alright head out of where you are now and come back outside." she said, in the chaos Halo, Yisha, Skylos and Niko escaped from the attacking monsters and headed outside, they went outside and heading or Aelita.

"We need a distraction." pointed out Ponic. Seth nodded, "I'm on it!" he put on his ice mask and blew frozen ice infront of them, the monsters kept firing, shattering the ice wall a few seconds later, but everyone was gone. Zalendor looked around, "What the...FAN OUT FIND THEM!" he called out, but as he said this a few of his monsters were killed. He raised his eyebrow, "Hm, a shadow trick huh, so be it, I'll just have to force you out!" he thought to himself, he put his hand infront of him, then he put his trigger and middle finger into the floor, they were glowing, as soon as he touched the floor an explosive impulse shot out forceivly knocking everyone out of their shadows, "OPEN FIRE!" called out Zalendor to his monsters. They look aim and, all fired...

"Keep looking the doorway back in must be close." Aelita's voice echoed to the others, "The monster control terminal is still a way away so be careful." Everyone was flying around the outside of the sector 5 sphere searching for the way in, "Look out, incoming mantas!" Everybody stopped, Niko looked around, "Where I don't see them." A laser shot past his face at that point, "Wow!" the Mantas came flying in open firing, Yisha narrowed her eyes at them, "I'm really not in the mood for this right now." she flew upwards and fired at the Manta, it nulled her fire from with its laser. Halo then grabbed onto the Manta with her claws as an eagle, then shifted back to her normal storm/time demon form, "Houston we have a problem!" she said and fired lightning into the target, killing the Manta. Skylos flew at the Manta on his light disk, he put light all around him, in a sphere then fired it at the Manta, the Manta's destroyed the sphere and Skylos came out he punched it hard knocking off of its flight pattern. Then shooting the Manta with his light blast destroying it. Niko stood by Yisha on the sphere as the others battled, "Another 3 Mantas are coming." Aelita warned, "At this rate will never make it there in time." Yisha commented, "Alright, looks like we'll just need to make our own entrance." him and Yisha then smashed an opening in the sphere, everyone dove inside, the Mantas did not follow.

The group narrowly avoided the incoming lasers of doom, Ponic was battling with Rem. "Come on Rem, wake up!" "It's useless to try to wake him." Zach said as he killed a Creeper, "His two sides are seperated, we won't be able to save him the normal way." "Correction." Zalendor said as he kicked Shroud into the wall, "You won't be able to even save yourselves." A pulse hit him from Shroud's sword, Shroud jumped upwards and threw 4 daggers at Zalendor. Zalendor rolled out of the way. Shroud then looked up, he noticed Neon was cornered by 6 Creepers, "Musashi play with Zalendor." Shroud called out, then jumped up towards Neon. Shroud threw a dagger at one of the Creepers, then jumped next to Neon, "Shall we old friend?" he asked sarcastically, Neon glared at him, "We're not friends." Shroud grabbed Neon's two arms, and swung him at the creeper, Neon filled his legs with darkness and killed two Creepers, then creating a chain, him and Shroud impaled another 3. They missed one it was up and across the room on a platform, Neon shot a chain at the Creeper, Shroud threw a dagger into the chain, it collied with the Creeper killing it. "Hm, after this is over, you really should think of returning." Shroud said to Neon, almost like a job offer. Neon glared at him, took all his will to keep him from wanting the punch the snot out of Shroud at this moment.

"Aelita, the Sciphizoa has Halo cornered and we can't get to her." called out Skylos. "It's ok, I can help you from here." Aelita said as did a command on the interface, "Ok keep a sharp eye out." she warned, the room began shifting, the Scyphizoa was unable to grab Halo, infact it was smashed beneath between two of the walls. Creepers began coming out of the door, as hey walked over one spot, the laser defenses of sector 5 activated killing all them." "Nice job Aelita." Skylos said, Aelita chuckelled, "It was nothing." she said with a smile, "Ok I'm creating a door." The wall began shifting, "Take that as a short cut, it will take you to the elevator." Everyone headed through the door, and got to an elevator, the elevator began going down. More and more it started heading downward, Niko began looking around, "Anyone hear that?" Halo changed into a blood hound for a seconds then back to normal, "Ya, somehow there are Mantas in here." Skylos looked up, no Mantas, Yisha then looked over the side a laser pegged her arm, "Gah!" she held it in pain, "I think I found them!" "Yisha, that laser attack cost you 30 life points!" Aelita warned.

[Ponic]

The Mantas ganged up against namely Yisha, Yisha shot lightning above her. "We can help you out!" Skylos called out, he jumped on his light disc and flew upwards he began, light began coming out of him. He moved his hands up and down then bringing them down, Skylos began glowing, "Hah!" he grunted firing light all out from around him, they would turn into blades and stab the Mantas exploding them. He then flew down to Yisha, placing his hand on hers, he gave her 15 life points, however that cost him 15 life points, "You alright?" he asked, Yisha held her arm, "Now I know what being BBQed feels like." she chuckelled, and the elevator continued going down but the lights around them, they started to fade...

Zalendor had a blade to Shroud's neck, and Shroud was backed up againt the wall, as were the others, with Creepers gathering around them. Zalendor laughed, "Ha, look at you once powerful warriors? Ha so much for victory, now lets end this quickly, FIRE!" he called out, the Creepers shot, Ponic put his hand out, everyone dove into their shadows, they appeared in the creeper's shadows and killed them. Shroud appeared in Zalendor's shadow with a knife to his neck, "Tables have turned." he said, but before he could strike at Zalendor's neck, Zalendor grabbed Shroud's arm and flipped him over his head, Shroud however scrapped his knife across Zalendor's arm. "Gah!" he held it, "Impressive, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO LOSE!" Zalendor shouted, floating upwards, he now had a blueish glow to him, the same as the twilight shard. Rem started floating also,

"Aelita what's going on?" called out Seth, "I, I don't know..." Aelita said, Alice growled. "Only one way to find out!" she said running forward and diving at Shroud, but there was some kind of a shield over him, it deflected her right off. Zalendor laughed, "Since you seem to have no problem fighting your friend." he pointed to Rem at this point, "Then you probably won't mind me using him in a different capacity." Zalendor's glow increased as Rem started to fade, then he vanished, and Rem's power shot into Zalendor, "These orbs they will make for impressive weapons!" Zalendor said, dissipating the shadows in the area, slowing down time for everyone, and he grew claws, curtosy of all the demon orbs that Rem possesed. "Now you are all going to die!" he shouted flying at everyone and attacking them.

"AELITA HELP!" called out Niko, the others that were on the elevator were being attacked by the Spirits that Zalendor had summoned, the spirits could hit everybody, but you couldn't hit them back! It was only an amount of time before everyone's life points reached 0, then death would not be far away. Aelita looked on the interface, and she could hear Manta's coming for her, "No." she quickly scanned the interface for everything then she found something...an old program that Skylos however with the group's powers it became effectively useless so it was no activated recently. "The vehicles!" she said, materializing the Overwing, she jumped on it just as 3 Mantas came at her. "Ah!" she shouted, opening a tunnel she ran for the exit, she popped up in the forest sector. "They're all in trouble!" she thought to herself, "Where is that purple tower?!" she started flying as quickly as she could, and a laser shot past her head, Aelita looked, there were a group of Kankralets following her.

"Hah, ah!" she grunted as she was doding around the forest area to avoid the incoming laser fire, she then went behind a tree, the Kanrkalet group followed the platform to the over side but she was no where to be seen. Aelita then stood was up high and behind another tree, she got on her knees and sang the ground of that area out of existance. The Kankralets went tumbling down into the digital sea, "Heh." she giggled, then looked around, "The purple tower." she flew towards it, it was surronded by Zalendor's spirit army, "No I can't get in." Aelita looked around then saw a second deactivated tower, "yes!" she flew to it.

Walking in Aelita floated up to the top platform and began typing, "I hope this works." She began typing on the interface, "Reboot!" she said, at that second everything froze in place, including Zalendor, the Spirits, Aelita, the group, everything! About a few seconds later the tower began glowing stronger and stronger, as Lyoko went completly white, after the bright light dissipated Aelita woke up on the floor of the Sector 5 arena. She got up, "It worked...I still have to retrieve the memory though." Aelita ran through the door and was heading for the masterinterface again.

[Ponic]

After sneaking past a few Creepers Aelita got to the interface, the group, and sadly that include Shroud, appeared behind her. "Huh, what did you do?" Skylos asked. Aelita answered, "When I saw how much trouble you were in I rebooted the virtulization data, the result freeze framed everything and deactivated you till I brought you back with full life points." Seth raised an eyebrow, Aelita chuckelled, "Basically I took you out of reality then put you back in when everything was cleared." "Oh got ya." he answered laughing. "Alright." Ponic said from behind, "This is our last chance, one more attack, all or nothing against Zalendor." "However things have changed." Shroud said. "Zalendor probably is well aware his plans are comprimised so he's going to try to speed up the process, meaning he's likely returned to the tower, and we don't have time to try to kill his army." "Then we have no choice we must take him out once and for all." Neon put in, Aelita then spoke, "I'm coming with you, you need me to deactivate his tower, I have to be there." The others agreed despite the danger and they headed off.

Everyone arrived in the forest sector, "I can see them." Ponic said telepathically, "Zalendor has all of his spirits surronding the tower, I'm sure he's inside trying to get it to function quicker, and there is a large monster army arond the tower also." "What about Rem." Neon asked, "Do you see him?" Ponic looked around carefully, "No but after what Zalendor did in sector 5, I'm not to surprised." Ponic answered, then returned to the others, "Remember to stay out of sight Aelita, everybody else, ready?" he asked putting his hand in the middle, "Always." said Skylos, "When I'm done he'll want a sword up his ass." Musashi answered putting his hand in, "We'll get Rem back." said Neon, "He's nothing but a spoiled brat trapped in an old man's body, let's give him something to cry about." Yisha put her hand in, "He's gonna regret messing with us." Halo placed her hand in, "Hey no one can beat us." Alice's hand joined also. Shroud rolled his eyes, "Can we can the stupid we're gonna win lines, yes I get it you all need therapy, but we an enemy to eliminate." he dissipated in smoke. "Ok, Shroud will wait for our signal to move in." Skylos whispered, "So let's make this initial surprise count."

At the tower a block there walked towards the others, it went to the back of the pack of monsters then...began firing insanely! Killing a few monsters, the others then came charging in from behind the tree, Seth flew upwards, "Come on mega tank!" he called out putting his Deku mask on, "Show me what you got!" he began peleting the Mega tank with his seeds, the Mega tank attempted to shoot Seth but was killed when a seed hit its target. "Heh, sucker." A laser then pegged Seth's board, "Wow, GAH!" Seth fell onto the floor and collided with the tower, he rubbed the back of his neck, "No fair, having a tag partner, wow!" The spirits grabbed Seth and began draining his life points. Darkness came from up above as Neon flew in on his darkness disc, he moved his hands around and the darkness wrapped around Seth. Then with a swift pulling motion, the darkness yanked Seth away, "Watch where you fight." Neon commented flying by him then going after a krabe. Ponic and Yisha were back to back, "Ready?" Ponic asked, "Yes." Yisha said, Ponic fired a shadow blast at the 3 Hornets ahead of them, Yisha shot fire into the blast, effectively exploding it causing shards of fire and shadow to hit the hornets. That was the signal a dark cloud shot across the battlefield and went at the tower. Skylos wizzed infront of the cloud, he dropped a load of light onto the tower, which left an opening for Shroud to enter into.

Zalendor was on the above interface, "Damn it can this thing go no faster?!" he thought in a rage. Shroud then came in from the roof of the tower, he had his sword pointed to Zalendor, "Time to lie down and this time you will not awaken!" he said, pegging his sword into the ground, the shockwave sent Zalendor off the side onto the bottom platform. Shroud shouted and dove down after him, Zalendor rolled out of the way as Shroud landed with an explosive bang on the ground. "You don't even belong in this timeline!" Shroud shouted his sword was glowing, and he fired a shockwave at Zalendor. Zalendor put his hand out, the shockwave hit his hand and exploded around him rather than on him, "Your timeline is nothing but a screw up! I'm just fixing what you all messed up! And if I have to rip your world in two to accomplish this!" Zalendor took out the twilight shard that he got from Rem and E link, "SO BE IT!" Shroud widened his eyes, "No!" he dove at him to strike him wih his sword, but Zalendor embedded the shard into his chest by then, a shockwave rose around him knocking Shroud out of the tower.

"What happened?!" Halo asked noticing Shroud first, Zalendor walked out of the tower his eyes were glowing, then in a demonic voice, "I happened!" Zalendor began glowing more and more and more. He began to turn silver, and his eyes were glowing white, he got much stronger, and spikes grew out of his shoulders he roared. He then fired twilight lasers from his eyes. A patch of ground materialized over the others shielding them, curtosy or Aelia. Zalendor merely returned a laugh at that, "You may have been a minor threat to me before, but your fight like your lives is pointless. A simple elimination of one being throws your entire plan into jeapordy." Moths flew over Zalendor's head, "They're heading for Aelita!!!!" shouted Musashi, Zalendor fired another blast from his eyes to stop the group from going to her aid. Aelita screamed, "Ah, no!" she put her hand up to shield herself, and a pink coloured orb shot out of her hands exploding the moth in one shot.

[Ponic]

A sword went through one moth and a shadow blast destroyed the other, Aelita was looking at her hands, "How did I..." "It must be a new power." Zach said, "We got to give it a name...hmm...energy field." he said, Aelita smiled, "I like it." "All the same, stay out of sight Aelita, we'll deal with Zalendor." Ponic said, Skylos' voice then came calling out, "In that case get over here!" he shouted. Zalendor sent twilight energy down him, the result placed a bunch of cracks in the floor and destroyed the platform they were on! Ponic threw up everyone's shadows, "Everyone ok?" The others nodded, "Damn it how do we take down someone like that?" Neon commented, then a familiar voice rang through everyone's head's.

"Zalendor's power it is not unstoppable." It was Rem! "Me and E link are both his sources of strength, you have to seperate us from him." Rem's voice then faded, "How the hell do we do that?" Shroud asked but Rem's voice was long gone. "I have an idea, if you guys can give a distraction I can head into Zalendor's mind and seperate Rem and E link from him." The others nodded in agreement, "Worth a try, let's hit him all at once!" Niko answered, jumping on Spirit, Niko flew upwards and fired an aura beam down at Zalendor. Darkness chains whipped around Zalendor, then Skylos combined it with light to create void, didn't kill, but it hurt...really bad, as part of Zalendor was erased. Halo and Yisha then combined their attacks to a fire and lightning shot, Shroud and Zach shot a shockwave from their swords, Musashi, threw his katana at Zalendor. "Ponic go quick!" shouted Halo, Ponic combined with a shadow and shot at Zalendor. He was unsuccessful at getting in, "We need more power!" Aelita's voice then came out, "Energy field!" two energy fields smashed into Zalendor, "Like that!" Ponic shouted and headed in. Zalendor growled, "ENOUGH!" A loud explosion was heard, the spirits of the tower exploded out from the tower and combined into an arced beam, and shot at everyone, including Aelita who was only left with 50 life points!

"Aelita no!!!!" shouted Alice, she had her shadow shoot her forward infront of Aelita, "Ah!" Alice screamed as the beam scrapped across her back and drained her life points to 0. But without devirtulization...Alice ceased to exist! "YOU BASTARD!" shouted Neon unexpectidly, chains shot out from everywhere, darkness surging around them, and it was spiked as well, the chains wrapped around Zalendor, and Neon began to pull them tight, but they shattered against his body. Zalendor cackelled, "My little tool may have told you that I'm not unbeatable, but compared to me, your powers are feeble. You may have scored a single hit on me, but you are yet to do any real damage." Zalendor's pointed his hand to a tree a blade of twilight shot out collapsing it, it fell at the group. Yisha shot fire into it to melt it open, "He's right he's seriously powered, what are we going to do?" "We have to keep fighting." answered Halo, "We have to keep fighting till Ponic seperates Rem and E link from Zalendor." Niko nodded, "Alright, I can even the odds slightly." the others started glowing as their aura's increased amplyfing their powers. Niko then flew upwards with Spirit and they went at Zalendor, "Hey stop!" called out Skylos he went to put a light shield infront of Niko, Niko shot through it anyways, and dove at Zalendor, he grabbed him and started draining his aura. Zalendor shouted, "Gah!!!!" he went to grab Niko, Niko dove out of the way, Spirit fired Phoenix fire at Zalendor, flipping forward Niko continued to drain Zalendor's aura. A Moth then materialized behind Niko and shot poison on him, Niko turned, too late, "Ah!" his life points dropped to 0, he breathed in and out hard, "Win this!" he called out devirtualizing. He brought down Zalendor's aura, though, their powers would now have a better effect, now was the best time to attack.

Halo used her time energy and slowed down Zalendor's movements, "Hurry, with this twilight power I can't hold this for long!" she warned. Yisha made a huge fire ball and launched it in an explosive blast at Zalendor. "Neon!" called out Skylos, "Right!" he answered, him and Skylos joined hands, they began turning and a blast combined of light and darkness shot out. It wrapped around Zalendor, Shroud, Musashi and Zach flew forward and placed their swords into Zalendor. Seth on his bored, froze Zalendor's limbs and placed 3 glowing seeds on them. Aelita then took aim, "ENERGY FIELD!" she shouted, the resulting burst in energy ignited all the attacks, "Ah!!!!!!" Zalendor cried out in pain, then he stopped...Ponic exploded out of Zalendor's mind with Rem and E link. "No!" he cried out, the ground rematerialized, and Zalendor's twilight form shattered, he fell onto the floor on his hands and knees, breathing very hard. Rem and E link came to, "I...I was so close." Zalendor panted, "All together, like last time now!" called out Rem, everybody fired an attack, Zalendor shouted, when the smoke cleared all that was left were Rem's gauntlets, and a smoking crater, the rest of Zalendor had literally disintegrated from the attack. "Aelita you have a tower to deactivate." Rem pointed out, Aelita nodded, and ran into the purple tower, she floated up to the top platform the interface appeared, "Aelita, CODE...LYOKO" "Tower deactivated." she said and breathed out a sigh of relief.

A few minutes later the others were in the computer lab, Aelita was on the screen, "I'm sorry I can't get Alice or Niko back." she said with a saddened look on her face, "And there's more, while I was in sector 5 I found what Shroud took from your mind Keera, all of your weaknesses, in his next attack there's a big chance none of you will survive." Neon hit his fist against the wall, "It can't end this way." After a ause Skylos spoke, "There may be a way. Aelita and I, we anticipated this, in the event of an extreme danger like this we've created an override, like a large scale return to the past, but its so strong it will reverse everything, everything, including deactivating the super computer." "So...you mean we won't know each other." Ponic commented, Skylos nodded, "Basically it's a large scale shot back in time." "We have no choice." Rem said, "We have to, to save Niko and Alice and everyone else who could die should we fail." everybody agreed, "Alright." Skylos began typing, Aelita did on the tower interface also, "Are you ready?" she asked, "Yes." answered Skylos, "I'm sorry Aelita." said Halo, "It's ok, I'm just glad I was able to know you all, we should do this now." she answered, "Ok, 3...2...1" Skylos and Aelita hit their activate buttons at once, the computer glowed, "Return to the past now." Aelita called out, the entire world was engulfed by the white light and shot back years. As everyone went back years and years.

But, was this the end of the group, or merely a brief intermission between their work on Lyoko and their future heroics for the rest of the world?

The End