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I don't own Code Lyoko, Halloween or any of the series where these costumes came from. MUST I PUT THIS IN WRITING FOR YOU GUYS TO UNDERSTAND!...oh wait. It already is.
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To all the people out there who love Halloween!
In the deepest darkest depths of Lyoko, XANA had summoned his top officials for an emergency meeting. Now, since no fanfic writer has yet to attempt a scene like this and since G-Force is too lazy to come up with an original idea for this scene. We're just going to say that this thing looks like the military meeting from Star Wars episode four with Darth Vader and all of military generals...it's been a long day people, please bear with us.
"Lord, XANA why have you called us here on such short notice?" a random officer who no one cares about asked.
A black gaseous cloud stood on his "feet" and snapped back. "To put it bluntly, we're getting our butts kicked too much! All of our attacks on Earth have been failing, not to mention our forces in Lyoko constantly get wiped out."
"Maybe that's because you based your minions off of Rubik's cubes, crabs, hornets, cockroaches and bowling balls…not the most threatening objects in the world."
"Are you mocking me?"
(Ideally there would be this really cool scene where XANA would choke the general by just squeezing his fist, however that bit was already done before and since the author does not want to be hit with another lawsuit, we had to cut it for legal reasons.)
Instead, watch as XANA shakes his fist...how exciting.
"We need to think of a good idea for an attack. I feel I like I've tried everything to get at those kids!"
XANA took a few seconds to brainstorm a few ideas in his head.
"I got it! How about I alter a restaurant's food supply so that they'll serve infected meals, thus putting the public in a grave health risk?"
"Sorry XANA, the humans beat you to that idea," a minion spoke up. "They call it McDonalds"
"Curses! Though, I don't understand why that fast food chain is still in business. Can someone tell me why this is happening?"
"Oh that's because you get a free toy with every kids' meal."
"Those humans are more devious that I thought."
In the sake of not having this particular chapter be weighed down with trivial jokes about McDonalds, the story progressed...somehow.
"I have an idea!" Said another random general that you guys won't see again.
XANA was intrigued, "What is it?"
"Why don't you possess a human on Earth and just go to Kadic and kick those kids' butts personally."
"No can do. I can't control humans yet. Remember?"
"Yes but Season two of Code Lyoko is already out and in that installment you can and since this is an intermission chapter you can bend the rules a bit as there is no such thing as continuity."
"You're a genius you know that! We'll attack tomorrow!"
"Hold it!" The first general that no one cares about objected. "Isn't tomorrow the human holiday known as Halloween? I heard Bob from accounting say that it's usually a bad idea to attack humans on that day."
XANA brushed the comment off. "Bah! What does he know?" XANA exclaimed. "I will attack Earth tomorrow. As for blending in, I have the perfect costume that will do that. Then once I get settled into their ranks, I'll give them the most horrific Halloween experience that they'll ever have!"
"I doubt that. Jim rapping in the school auditorium is a pretty tough act to follow."
XANA gulped in surprise as he knew there was no way he could inflict that much torture on the human race.
"Okay…maybe second-most horrific Halloween experience."
Now, what kind of evil secret meeting scene would be complete with out the good old fashion evil laugh from the main antagonist? This Halloween was going to be one that Team Lyoko would never forget...
Man who writes this garbage. The author is getting pretty lazy nowadays.
"Aniki, you ready?"
Jin put on the finishing touch to his costume, which was a pair of red Converse sneakers that he borrowed from one of his friends. The twins looked at each other at their outfits and smiled. As they made their way to the door, they slowly began to sink into their character's personas. Wouldn't the students of Kadic Junior High be surprised when they saw them?
"WOW! Maybe some gracious fan bought me a new microphone! Or a box of bandages! I really need those things."
To Jim's surprise the packaged yielded a leather trench coat. A very expensive looking on at that.
"Wow, that's a fine looking coat I have."
A hand written note fell from the jacket's pockets which was quickly snatched and read.
I know you miss your mother very much and I thought I should give you something nice as it's really cold over there. Now, when are you going to get a real job! We sacrificed too much in order to give you the best education possible and you turn around and become a P.E. TEACHER!
Also we hope you're not wearing that stupid bandage on your face like you did when you lived with your father and me before. That is such a tacky fashion statement. It would break my little heart to see your face with that thing on.
With love,
Your mom.
PS
Make sure you're wearing clean underwear.
(Crud, this is a fanfic I forgot. I can't show you guys the video…it's your loss really. Well, we now return to your regularly scheduled story.)
"Shoot, I better cover these cuts up. Don't want to be bleeding on this nice coat. Better bust out the bandages now."
"HEY, EINSTEIN!" Odd greeted loudly.
Jeremie lost all focus and dropped his prized machine to the floor causing it to shatter in a multitude of fragments. Now he was angry.
"Odd, how many times do I have to tell you to stay out of my la-bor-a-tory?"
The accused held up his hands and waved them in the air in a defensive manner. "Don't be so uptight. Man you're really taking your character seriously."
The costumed individual dusted his hands off his white lab coat and gave his intruder a once over.
"Computer, run a scan and tell me which character Odd is dressed as for Halloween."
A recording of Aelita's voice came through the speakers and answered the request.
"Database shows that companion Odd has yet to assume the identity of a fictional character."
"Geez man I could have told you that myself."
"QUIET, WOMAN!" Jeremie roared in a strange, German accent.
Odd was offended, "Hey! Just because I wear purple all the time doesn't give you the right to think of me as a girl."
Jeremie yelped in surprise and took a moment to recollect his thoughts all while looking thoroughly embarrassed.
"Sorry, it's the costume. I feel like I actually am the person I'm dressed as."
"Point taken," Odd said. "I felt the same way when I dressed up as Jim. Even up until now, I was fighting back the urge to wear a bandage on my cheek for no apparent reason." Odd smiled, letting the other boy that all was forgiven.
"By the way Odd, if you see Aelita, tell her that I've been looking for her all morning."
Now that was a weird request. How on Earth was he going to run into Aelita now? Either he missed a very important detail or Jeremie was showing symptoms of having a fried brain.
"Wait, why tell me this? Isn't she just on Lyoko?"
"No, she's been staying here for the past three weeks don't you remember?"
Three weeks? She was here that long?
"Hold it man! We haven't even gotten close to "Code Earth" and "False Start" in the Retelling Series, yet we still have Aelita enrolled as a student here?"
Jeremie shook his head side to side as Odd overlooked a critical detail. "Remember Odd, this is an intermission chapter. Continuity does not apply here."
"Why do I get the feeling that this will be an overplayed running joke?"
"Because the author doesn't have a single shred of creativity in his body."
Odd put on his most intellectual looking face after hearing that remark. "I believe you have a point there."
After their verbal attacks made on the author, Jeremie noticed that their little morning group was down a member.
"Hey, shouldn't Ulrich be here?" Jeremie asked.
"I was about to ask the same thing. I haven't seen him after he left to take a shower."
"Well let's just hope he doesn't get his butt kicked like last year."
"Hey said that too, I guess he's planning to wear some super cool outfit."
Jeremie looked at the digital clock in his room and made his way to the door making sure he didn't bump into the other occupant.
"I'm heading over to the gate to meet up with Jin and Yumi; you coming?"
"I still need to get my costume ready," the purple clad boy declined. "I have to get it out of its parking space."
Did Jeremie hear that correctly? What exactly did Odd have in store for this year's Halloween celebration? Oh well, all things would come in due time. No use bursting a brain vessel trying to figure out what the other boy was thinking.
"Aniki!" Yumi yelled out. "What the heck are you doing? Stop talking to yourself! People think you're some sort of crazy lunatic when you act like that."
Jin defiantly put his foot down and folded his arms across his chest. "Yeah right, stop exaggerating things."
Just then a well-to-do business man on his way to work stopped in front of the twin's path and drew out his wallet.
"Here," he said while fishing out a few dollars from the leather case. "Go by yourself some much needed medicine. Obviously your medication is running out."
Yumi had trouble holding back the urge to laugh with this gesture which only annoyed her brother even more.
What could I do now? Time wouldn't stop the laughs anytime soon so I had to act but then again doing so would not be a good idea. When you were a kid with a new face and one fingerprint checkpoint away from the expulsion committee, doing so could be academic suicide. Should I risk it all and beat this guy to a bloody pulp or play it cool?
"Aniki!" Yumi yelled for a second time. "You know people can actually hear you whenever you go into monologue mode."
Just to prove her point, the strange business man who had been standing nearby removed his wallet again and produced a few extra bills which he handed over in Jin's direction.
"Here kid, get yourself some medicine...lots of medicine. Clearly, you're off your rocker."
Now late for his meeting, the stranger ran off in the opposite direction as if nothing had happened. Yumi was still wearing her smug grin from earlier.
"This is why Miho is the coolest character in Sin City," Yumi said while holding the handles of her two katanas which she kept at her waist. "No pointless dialogue, just loads of butt kicking."
"Ah put a sock in it!" Jin said forcefully before he placed his hands in his trench coat's pockets and walked to school.
"Weeeeeee!" XANA said in glee as he waved the digits through the air. Fingers were fun indeed. Too bad he decided to have playtime in the middle of a four-way intersection.
"Hey, punk! Get off the road!" One of the drivers hollered at his direction. Clearly this man too loved to play with his fingers as he made a gesture that let XANA know that he was number one. The possessed human walked back to the sidewalk which ran alongside Kadic Junior High. His objective was in his grasp. Now all he had to do was get inside. Sure he looked out of place with the rest of the students, but that's where his ingenious costume came into play.
"Hey you, only students and faculty are allowed on the grounds during instruction hours," Jim said, wearing his brand new coat and a bunch of extra bandages on his face.
"But I am a student here," the XANA-controlled teenager said.
"Oh, really?" Jim glanced over the individual's body and was not buying the guy's story one bit. He didn't resemble any of the students at the school. "You think I was born yesterday? I've never seen you before."
"That's because I'm in costume."
"You're not dressed up! You're wearing a white tee-shirt and blue jeans for God's sake!"
XANA held the brown paper bag that he kept in his pocket this whole time and held it out for Jim to see.
"Why the heck are you holding a bag?" Jim asked in confusion.
"It's my outfit; I'm going as a trick or treater this year."
"A trick or treater…" Jim repeated.
"Yep!"
"That's the most brilliant costume ever! Come right on in!"
How could humans be so dumb? Really now, first William Hung becomes a professional singer and now this. With idiots like these as enemies it's only a miracle that they haven't lost the war yet.
"Well, what happened to all of your wonder friends, mister computer genius?" Sissi said in a very obnoxious tone of voice.
Jeremie gave the arrogant girl a smug grin, "You're just jealous because you're dazzled by the power...of science."
After their little outing as the Powerpuff Girls, Jeremie did not wish to even look at Herb or Nicholas fearing the worst. However, Jeremie did see that Sissi was still wearing her regular pink outfit, which meant that she was not dressed for Halloween which in turn spelled out that Herb and Nicholas should be in street clothes themselves.
"Thank goodness you two are wearing pants!" Jeremie yelled out in a joyous manner as if he won the Super Bowl or something of that extreme before acting like his normal self. "What's the matter, guys? Didn't feel like playing dress up?"
Sissi took it upon herself to answer that question. "We're just waiting for the right time to unveil our choices this year," she explained. "I don't want to waste an opportunity where I can make a dramatic entrance. I just hope that my Ulrich dear will be able to see me in my stunning beauty."
"If he's not blinded by your ego," Jeremie said underneath his breath.
Reinforcements came to the boy's aid as both Yumi and Jin had finally arrived on the campus of Kadic Junior High.
"OH, THANK YOU! SOMEONE ELSE I CAN TALK TO!" Yumi pleaded as she ran to Jeremie's side.
"Huh?" her befuddled friend said out of confusion.
"Aniki has been muttering to himself all day as if he was giving out some melodramatic narrative. It's driving me crazy!"
Hearing such comments against his character, Jin marched straight up to his sister and looked her square in the eye.
"Hey, I'm just trying to be cool. Having your own narration is the new hip thing with super heroes now-a-days. Besides, how are you going to stop me?"
Yumi quickly unsheathed the two swords she was carrying all this time and looked at her brother with murderous intent. Jeremie was able to predict what was coming up next and swiftly stepped in to stop her.
"Whoa! Chill out Yumi! You can't kill Jin here!"
"Why not?"
"Cause if you kill a comic relief character then you've forced to turn the rest of this story into one of those moody angst fics where everyone listens to Linkin Park and tries to slice their wrist open."
Yumi dropped her swords instantly after hearing that. She had to go to Plan B now. Thinking back to last year's Halloween, the Japanese girl removed a white index card from her kimono and handed it to her brother. Jin looked at the piece of stiffened paper in puzzlement and began to read it out loud.
"How to keep and idiot busy, turn card over..."
Yumi watched in satisfaction as her older half repeated the command over and over again. "Gets him every time."
Now if this was actually a part of the main series there would be some cool ominous music playing in the background accompanied by these really neat camera angles that make the scene look all intense and stuff. Of course, such things are not possible so XANA has to just settle for just showing up.
Jeremie was the first one to notice the strange person looking at him.
"XANA!"
Yumi and Jin looked at their friend dumfounded while Sissi, Herb and Nicholas just stood off to the side as everyone else forgot about them.
"Jeremie, why did you say this person is XANA?" Yumi asked, filling in the role as the voice of reason. "You kinda have a tendency to jump to conclusions needlessly."
"Just look at the guy! He has a glowing purple aura, electricity is shooting all over the place and the XANA symbol is on his forehead!"
Jin rubbed the bottom of his chin as he was a bit skeptical about the claim. "Those are good reasons to think that way Jeremie, but I'm not entirely convinced."
"Are you mad, Jin! Just look at him!" The costumed scientist protested.
Jin stole a glace at the suspect just in time to see him waving his hand in the air causing tiny sparks of electricity to shoot through his fingertips.
"Still not buying it. Just look at his shirt."
Yumi focused her eyes on the object in question so she could read the text printed on the cotton fabric.
"Not XANA," she said out loud.
"Oh please," Jeremie said in disbelief. "How can you guys not think that this person is XANA in disguised!"
Jin shook his head side to side and spoke, "Nope."
"Weren't you trying to find a way to keep an idiot busy?"
"Oh, yeah!" Jin drew his attention back to his index card and the endless cycle of reading and turning began once more.
"Hey Nicholas, got any threes?" Sissi asked as she looked at the set of cards she had fanned in front of her face.
Nicholas scratched his head for several minutes before jumping on his feet in celebration.
"Hey, I got Bingo! You guys think you're so smart, but I won! You're always laughing at me, but who's crying now!"
For some unknown reason, Sissi had an overwhelming urge to beat her dopey friend senseless with a really heavy, blunt object but held this urge back as she didn't want to break a nail at the moment.
"Why are you here XANA?" Jeremie asked in an authoritative tone.
"It's quite simple really. We're going to settle our little rivalry right now. No more little tricks such as controlling teddy bears and bulldozers. I'm going to settle my score with you little brats personally."
"Well XANA, I have something that I've wanted to say to your face for a long time and now that you're here, it's about time I've done so."
"Oh?" said an intrigue XANA. "Will this be some passionate speech about your undying live for Aelita and how she was worth all the hardships you endured just so save her?"
"Not really." Jeremie cleared his throat and prepared to use his unusual German accent again. "You are stuuuuuupid! You are stuuuuuuuipd! And don't forget...you are stuuuuuuuupid!"
Yumi stepped forward and entered XANA's line of vision. "XANA, you're forgetting something. It's Halloween. You should never attack Earth on that particular day."
XANA clutched his sides tightly as he was having the biggest laughing fits in his computerized existence. "One of my generals said the same thing and we both know that's hogwash. It's just the thirty-first day of October? What the heck can you humans do to stop me?"
What would normally be a dramatic standoff between the forces of good and evil quickly turned into something…awkward. As the deafly silence was broken in a blink of an eye.
"How to keep and idiot busy turn card around. How to keep an idiot busy turn card around..."
XANA felt a large sweatdrop form on the back of his head as he once again found himself questioning the collective intelligence of the human race. Jin soon found the tiny piece of paper he was holding disappear in front of him as it was destroyed by a well aimed purple projectile.
"There!" XANA said forcefully as he dusted his hands off. "That's the end of that running gag."
Yumi resumed the conversation as if nothing had happened. Yet another sight she would have to omit from her memory.
"You want to see what we can do on Halloween XANA?" Yumi said in a threatening manner. Before the possessed human can reply, the Japanese girl whipped out one of her swords and cut the tree that she was standing next to in half. XANA was stunned.
"On Halloween, people not only assume the likeness of the character that they dress as but also their abilities and physical attributes."
"Wow, talk about taking an artistic license with the Code Lyoko universe," XANA muttered to himself.
Yumi then removed her other katana from its protective sheath and pointed its tip in her enemy's direction. "You're going to need a whole army to stop us!"
Such an aggressive statement did not cause XANA to falter one bit. Something was amiss.
"An army you say?" He repeated adding a slight amount of arrogance to seep into his question.
XANA willed the body to snap his fingers, which was the signal for a massive army of Kankrelats to pour through the entrances of Kadic Junior High. The moving blanket of mechanized foes marched in uniform lines that stretched as far as the eye can see. XANA had defiantly pulled out all the stops for this confrontation.
Yumi rubbed her eyes just to see if this was all part of some horrible nightmare. "This is not right guys! G hasn't even gotten close to writing "False Start" in his story yet XANA is already able to materialize his monsters on Earth!"
"It's an intermission chapter," Jeremie and Jin said in unison.
Fed up with her oversight, Yumi completed the statement, "Yeah, yeah I know. There's no such thing as continuity."
Kankrelats had a nasty tendency to rudely interrupt conversations with laser fire. Today was no exception. The three Lyoko heroes managed to duck down in time to avoid the glaring red beams of light that were aimed at them. It was around this critical turning point did Sissi's gang return to their side.
"What the heck is going on!" Sissi screamed out as she was overwhelmed by this whole experience.
Jeremie adjusted his glasses then spoke, "Long story short, the school is being attacked."
"ATTACKED! What the heck are we going to do?"
Using his best Clive Owen impression, Jin laid out his own plan. "We stop them Dallas."
Just like in Lyoko, Jin produced two silver handguns from the pockets of his trench coat and began to open fire at the mechanical fiends mercilessly.
Yumi took the front position and began to issue out commands like an experienced war general.
"Aniki, we have to make sure that Jeremie is safe as I don't think he can defend himself from these things. The two of us will have to hold this position until Ulrich and Odd get over here!"
Sissi noticed that she was completely ignored by Yumi's battle plan and made that mistake known.
"Hey! What about me!"
"Go make yourself useful and find Ulrich, Aelita and Odd. We really need their help right now. Take Nicholas and Herb with you just incase."
"In case I get hurt?"
"No, in case I get desperate enough to use them as human shields! Last time I checked they're not too popular with the readers so losing them to the likes of XANA is no skin off my back."
Sissi nodded in agreement and stormed off in the opposite direction leaving Yumi, Jin and Jeremie to fend for themselves.
XANA was now in a taunting mood. Jeremie was not the most adapt person in the world in the realm of combat. It was time to bring this weakness to surface.
"What's the matter Jeremie? Don't you get tired of playing the scared wimp all the time? Why don't you step up and try to take me out with your cool powers? Oh wait—you're Dexter from Dexter's Lab...you have no powers!"
Jeremie raised his index finger and waved it side to side just like how Bruce Lee did in his movies. The gesture conveyed two drastically different messages. Message number one was that XANA was incorrect, plain and simple, while the second one was a warning that a serious beat down was about to take place.
"Who said that I was just Dexter from the animated series?" With that myth dispelled, Jeremie pressed a hidden button on his laptop which called forth a gigantic robotic exoskeleton to warp around his from and behaved as an extension of his own body.
"I'm sure you've read Bleedman's comics before, haven't you?"
Jeremie raised his robot's arms above his head and slammed then into the ground causing the very earth to pulsate underneath the pressure. The unfortunate Kankrelats that were nearby were turned into piles of rubble in the attack's wake.
"I will show you, XANA...the power of science!"
"Odd! Have you seen Ulrich or Aelita?" Sissi asked frantically hoping that the green clad soccer star was somewhere nearby.
The boy in question momentarily abandoned his search to address the question presented before him with a surprised look in his eyes.
"Wow…" he gasped, "that was the closest we'll ever get to sounding like a normal episode. You want me to begin the Sissi bashing as to remind people that they are reading a Code Lyoko fanfic even though all this random stuff has been happening?"
"There's no time for that!"
Herb and Nicholas had a brief game of Rock-Paper-Scissors to determine who got to say the next line as both of them hadn't said anything for a while. The match concluded with the smarter of the two emerging victorious.
"Some weird guy shooting purple electric bolts sent a bunch of these mechanical cockroaches to attack the school! Yumi, Jin and Jeremie are fighting them off. They need your guys' help!"
Odd gritted his teeth to show the slight amount of stress he was experiencing. "Not good, I haven't seen Ulrich all day. Run back and tell the others I'll be over there as soon as I get my costume out of here."
"You're costume?"
"Yeah, I had it moved to this area so that no one messes with the paint job."
Sissi and her group did not stay for the explanation and ran off to tell the others the good news. Odd removed a remote from his back pocket before pressing the giant red button that was in the center of the contraption. The very earth beneath him began to shake violently as a gigantic object shot straight into the sky reducing the garage he was standing in front of to be reduced to rubble.
"Uh, oh," Odd gasped as he realized his slight miscalculation. "My mom is so going to kill me."
Meanwhile, a tanned skinned guy wearing glasses and a tall haircut saw the destructive blunder made by the troublemaker and only had one word to comment with.
"Cool."
"This is just insane!" Jin yelled out. "How can we beat these things? There's too many for us to take on!"
Jeremie herd a set of heavy footsteps approaching him and turned around in response. "We found Odd!" Sissi said triumphantly. "He said he's going to come over as soon as he can."
Those few precious seconds that Jeremie took to avert his eyes was all the time XANA needed to assemble his largest squad of minions and have them gather right in front of his opposition. All six teenagers froze in sheer fright as they were now face to face with their impending doom.
An impending doom that would have happen if a gigantic, blue, robotic foot did not decided to stomp the ground and obliterated the tiny insects.
Being a fan of cartoons, Jin had to slap himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming. There was only one robot that had a foot that looked like that.
There sitting, in the front seat of the red convertible that sat on top of the robot's body was their rescuer Odd, who was stuffing his face with a Philly cheesesteak and washing it down with a Mega Slush big glug.
Yumi took the time to blurt out the obvious. "Odd's piloting Megas!" she yelled. "How come I can't shake the feeling that it's safer to be the bad guy right now?"
Nicholas had won the Rock-Paper-Scissors competition this time, and milked his single line for all it was worth.
"Where's Aelita? You said you'd bring her too."
From the cockpit's backseat emerged an attractive looking pink haired girl wearing futuristic battle armor stuck her head out the window.
"Hey guys!" The girl greeted cheerfully, waving her right arm in the air as she was having a great time. "Did we miss anything?"
Jeremie was beside himself. "Odd, where did you get this giant robot!"
The pilot took another bite of his sandwich causing his mouth to fill with food. "Internet," his garbled speech dictated. Odd then swallowed the morsel and focused his sights on the man leading the assault against Kadic.
"Odd, according to Megas' readings, the energy that this person is emitting is insane. This person has got to be XANA," the now materialized girl said in her best Kiva voice.
Now that his target was confirmed, it was time to deliver the "Three Reasons" to the possessed human. More than anything this was Odd's favorite part of the TV show and he was going to relish this for all it was worth.
"Listen up you pixilated, computer freak! You smashed...um...yeah! You're not so nice."
Then again, maybe this moment was not worth relishing after all.
Much to the dismay of the Lyoko warriors, there was another individual on campus who did not wish to indulge this moment as well.
"Mr. Della Robbia! What is that abomination you're controlling?" asked the irate school principal.
Not being the best person situated with talking himself out of a potentially dangerous ordeal, Odd just stated the obvious.
"A giant robot."
"You know the full rules here young man. No giant robots on campus."
"But chicks dig giant robots!" Odd protested.
"No exceptions, Odd. We must follow the rules set before us. If I start turning a blind eye now this entire place can fall apart!"
Now what was going to happen next was pretty obvious if you're a Megas fan and if you're not, shame on you. The now agitated Odd maneuvered his instrument of destruction right next to the main building of Kadic Junior High and began stomping the living daylights out of it. His psychotic laugher filled the skies as he willed the robot's mechanical foot up and down, turning the once prestigious center of learning into a collection of rubble. Once the stomping was finished, the wreaked area was pounded by Megas' fist before finally being fully obliterated by the blue machine's full arsenal of weaponry.
It goes without saying that the students who evacuated safely (which was all of them) all cheered their little hearts out.
This act of liberation was powerful enough even to stop the fierce confrontation that XANA and the others were having as the people involved stood dumfounded with what just happened.
"Odd, you idiot!" Jeremie screamed at the top of his lungs. "You smashed up the school! With us unable to get to the factory, how on Earth do you expect us to fix this!"
Aelita's head popped out of the back seat, un-phased with her co-pilot's "mistake."
"Don't worry Jeremie. Before Odd completed Megas, I got a hold of our time warping device and installed it into the system's mainframe.
Without a moment to spare, Aelita checked her holographic computer's schematics as a means of confirmation for herself that the deed was done. Imagine the futuristic girl's surprise when her search yielded no results.
"What on Earth!" She blurted out, in a well-deserved moment of OOCness. "Where's the time device?"
"Ummmm," came Odd's nervous reply. "About that..."
"Maybe we should just continue our fight as if nothing happened," Jin suggested.
"Agreed," the combatants, XANA included, answered at the same time.
The forces of good and evil resumed in their deadly stare down. On one side, fighting in the name of humanity, were Jin, Yumi, Jeremie, Odd and Aelita. Wielding swords, pistols and mechanical pieces of armor and human ingenuity; these were the only pieces of resistance they had. Compared to the limitless forces that were marching to the school, victory would be something that would not be easily obtained.
"Even with Odd here, XANA still has the upper hand," Jeremie said through clenched teeth.
"And without the time device for the Super Calculator, we can't undo all the damage he's causing," said an equally tense Yumi. "We need Ulrich now more than ever. How long can we hold out by ourselves?"
Just as the dramatic tension couldn't get any higher, a booming confident voice sliced through the air caring a sense of authority with it.
"Royal Flush!"
Fifty-two playing cards soared through the air and pierced into the monster's metal armor. The sharp sound of fingers snapping was heard a second later, and the cards all detonated a few milliseconds later. The attack kicked up a cloud of smoke giving the new attacker to casually stride into the battlefield.
"I'm so happy to see you!" Yumi exclaimed as she knew it was Ulrich making yet another late entrance.
The dust cleared revealing the Lyoko group's latest benefactor. Holding a titanium Bo staff and wearing a brown trench coat. The Asian boy held up another playing card which glowed a brilliant shade of purple.
"Good ole Gambit is quite happy that you're happy to see moi." William spoke in a fake Louisianan accent that was almost as bad as the author's attempt to transcribe the dialect into a written form.
Jin was the first person to react to William's presence and he reacted quite violently.
"How dare you show your face?"
"Well if it isn't my biggest fan."
"Biggest fan!"
William shrugged his shoulders and gave a smug grin. "Don't try to hide it. You admire me with all your heart. Why else do you look like me, dress like me and have the same taste in color as me as well?"
That latest comment resulted in a collective "Ooooooo…" from the onlookers watching this tense moment. Jin didn't let such words get the better of him.
"Listen up, Diet Jin. I was here first and I'm a lot more likeable than you are. You know what they say, sequels are never as good as the originals."
Again, if this was an actual chapter of the Retelling Series, a really cool fight scene would be depicted at this moment. However as since we're going for something humorous nature, a standard cartoon fight cloud would be sufficient.
It goes without saying that Yumi's attention was now drawn to this animated mass of flying stars and fists seeing how both her brother and newest friend were battling inside of it. XANA's keen eye managed to spot this small detail and saw a perfect time to retaliate. He lifted his dominant hand into the air and began to infuse it with his energy creating a giant purple ball of lighting waiting to be hurtled at its intended target. Right when XANA was going to release the obligatory evil laugh that's demanded of every television villain a sharp painful jolt shot through his arm. Looking down at the object that struck him, he was both perplexed and angered by what he saw.
"A rose!"
There, standing on the branch of a nearby tree stood Ulrich Stern, wearing a full tuxedo with a matching cape. He stood underneath the full moon's light; silhouette…
Yeah I know it's two PM where they're fighting but do you want the story to be dramatic or "realistic?"...That's what I thought.
"XANA, your existence on our planet ends now!" Tuxedo Ulrich said with authority.
Simultaneously, the hearts of every girl in Kadic Junior High began to melt. Seeing the local heart throb dress up as a character equally as attractive as him was a double dose of male goodness. Sissi immediately took noticed.
"Herb, Nicholas. It's time."
If one were to pay attention closely, they would be able to see the boy's acne covered face become several shades lighter after hearing that command.
"Sissi, do we really have to?"
"Yes, we do!"
If Herb didn't know any better, he could have sworn he felt the devil himself after that violent order. The yelling proved to be therapeutic for Sissi as she was a lot calmer now and was ready to make her grand entrance along with the rest of her group.
"Here we go!"
In unison Sissi, Herb and Nicholas began twirling in circles cuing a stunning sequence of bright flashing colors and pink bubbles to flash across the screen. Through the aid of a small magic crystal in their possession, the three teenagers channeled the inner strength they possessed to transform into something more power.
Standing before XANA, wearing modified Japanese school uniform for girls was Sailor Sissi more than ready to kick some computer butt.
"In the name of the moon, we will punish you!"
Behind the warrior of truth and justice emerged Nicholas and Herb, wearing costumes similar to their leader's…
"We will not let you get away!" Spoke Herb while Nicholas remained silent and stood in a cool pose.
If internet shorthand could be used to describe something this awkward, the phrase "WTF!" would have fit perfectly.
XANA looked like as if he took a sledgehammer to the stomach after seeing the transformation. His hands quickly worked up from his gut to his eyes as he staggered backwards and clutched at the two white orbs in his host's body.
"Herb in a dress...AGAIN! No wonder why they told me never to attack on Halloween. I thought they were talking about your extra abilities but they were really referring to this! GAH IT BURNS! IT BURNS!"
To describe the immense pain XANA was currently feeling imagine having metal toothpicks dipped in vinegar, heated to over a hundred degrees and covered in tiny barbs being shoved down your eye sockets.
With their leader now writhing in agony, the army of Kankrelats degenerated into a disorganized mob before self-destructing.
"Gah! That was so horrible to look at! I tell you want Jeremie, if you tell that pimple-faced kid to put some pants on for our sake I'll activate the time drive and stop this whole thing."
Jeremie nodded his head. "Deal."
"Are you okay, XANA?" asked Random General Number One.
"I had this terrible nightmare," he recanted. "In it, the kids could fight back on Earth, Odd had a giant robot under his control and Herb was wearing a dress...A DRESS FOR PETE'S SAKE!"
"It's okay, XANA, the thought of Herb in a dress scares even the most battle hardened of us. Now go to bed now."
The guard turned the lights off and XANA removed a tiny item stuff underneath his pillow and held it close to him.
"Nighty-night Mr. Puck."
No outtakes tonight as I think I gave you a humor overdose so for those of you expecting them sorry.
Yeah I know this chapter is a little more than late in terms of coming to the actual holiday but I thought you guys would like to have another Halloween chapter as the first one was so well-received; better late than never right? Many factors lead to this chapter's delay, mainly the fact I had to re-write "Girl of the Dreams" after it was deleted and college finals. I really pushed myself to get it done on time but my current schedule did allow this to happen.
Ok this chapter was slightly different than the previous Halloween entry. For one it's more "story" driven. I really did not like the random feel the first one had not to mention the costumes really didn't play any essential part into the story other than getting a reaction. The actual cast in this one was a lot smaller as I was more focused on the actual story then just playing dress up. The biggest roadblock I had was stopping myself from going into "Retelling Style" as I thought the humor was slipping in some moments and I really tried to keep the energetic pace up a notch.
Ok for those of you who haven't paid my website a visit in a while let me tell you of two important updates that have taken place. Number one, I uploaded a new radio play "Secluded Allegro" onto my deviantART page where it's MORE than ready to download. The second announcement is that I'm currently holding auditions for episode two of the Retelling Comedy Radio plays. I encourage all those interested in getting a role to audition and have fun.
I'll be taking a break from the Retelling Series, writing wise, to pursue a few audio projects that I've been dying to get done. Don't worry, folks; this fanfic is far from dead. I just wanted to tell you that it's going to be on ice for a while after this chapter. Please do not think I'm stopping work completely as quitting is the furthest thing from my mind. Before I conclude this section I need to give a special thanks to zeakari...I LOVE THE PICTURES YOU DREW FOR ME! … When you post them online please give me the link so I can comment on your wonderful work. Here's hoping you can draw more characters/scenes from my fic as I would truly be grateful for that.
Finally, you guys should thank Ari Rockefeller for proofreading this chapter. He did an excellent job!
As always, here's the master costume list...
Yumi - Miho (Sin City)
Jim - Marv (Sin City)
Jin - Dwight (Sin City)
Ulrich - Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon)
Sissi - Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)
Nicholas - Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon)
Herb - Sailor Jupiter (Sailor Moon)
Odd - Coop (Megas XLR)
Aelita - Kiva (Megas XLR)
Jeremie - Dexter (Dexter's Lab)
William - Gambit (X-Men)
