Sithking Zero: CL and Megaman are not mine. I will go Zero on you if you sue me.

AUTHOR’S NOTE! If you were to look back two chapters, you would see that at the beginning of chapter ten, Odd ran away from the rest of the group to save Sissi from a Skipazoa. This chapter shows what he was doing during that period of time. Now, some of you may want to hurt me for neglecting Odd, but it was necessary in order to set up the plot. This, on the other hand, is just for fun. I’m also a fan of the pairing Odd/Sissi, so this is just my way of practicing for future fanfictions.

Sithking Zero is me. All rights reserved. This story is for external use only, any attempt at internal use will make me laugh really, really hard.

Chapter 12

Odd’s Heroics

Or

The rescue of a Sissy

Just then, the bell rang, and everybody packed their backpacks to move to the next class.

The last one out was Sissi, who, due to her lack of proper safety techniques, had a chunk of her hair break off after getting liquid nitrogen spilled on it. As a result, she received a two-hour detention on Saturday.

And since she was the last one out, she was also the first to see the horrors about to commence.

As she was putting away her copy of “The Supernatrualist,” She heard a faint sound of a window opening.

Understandably, she turned, if only to see what the noise came from.

It is said that the following scream caused Kiwi to howl in pain and glass to shatter.

In the main hall of the Science building at Kadic Academy, a single blond-haired boy, who at the moment had just witnessed a cluster of tentacles, attached to an otherworldy monster, drag a freshman girl away.

His friend, Ulrich Stern, had grabbed a nearby fire axe and had handily sliced through the tentacles like they were nothing.

All this time, the short, scrawny (or, as he would say, svelte,) boy had not been truly and undeniably afraid. He had his friends, he knew how to fix the problem, and he was able to outrun Skipazoa any day of the week. Besides, the Skipazoa was never really his problem. Not specifically. It never targeted him, but it had targeted his friends before. And, he thought, it was his responsibility to help keep them and everyone else safe.

It’s not like anyone else could, he mused.

However, his musings were broken by a high-pitched shriek, emanating from the science classroom that he had just left.

For reasons that Odd DellaRobia could not accurately explain, that one shriek scared him more then the Skipazoa. No, a hundred Skipazoa.

It filled him with a nameless fear, something primordial and terrifying that he could not describe in a thousand years. It felt almost like an icy hand, risen from some long-forgotten hole, had reached out and clutched at his heart, squeezing out all emotion but pure logic.

Acting without thinking, he dashed down the way he came, ignoring his friends’ cries for him to stay put while simultaneously calling out the name of the Damsel in Distress.

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The Damsel in question, however accurate that term may be, was silent.

Now, considering her position, one might expect her to run, or to shriek in panic.

However, considering that she was completely enveloped in tentacles, and that one of those tentacles was securely wrapped around her jaw to keep her from making any noise, it’s really quite understandable that she was only capable of making panicked grunts.

The Skipazoa, its “prize” securely stowed away in a cocoon of tentacles, had just reached the treeline of the park, when Odd skidded to a halt in front of one of the doors to Mrs. Hertz’s science classroom.

Gripping the door handle firmly, he gave it a sharp tug, expecting it to come open easily. It didn’t.

Looking through the window of the door, he saw that an unusually large pile of debris was piled up against the door, preventing access.

Odd glanced through the window, and, upon seeing that two more doors were blocked, uttered a curse that would have made a sailor blush.

Nevertheless, he raced along the hallway, slamming repeatedly against the doors, searching desperately for a way to get into the classroom. On the first few tries, the doors were as solid as brick walls. On the fifth try (the third door he tried), however, the door gave way quite easily, causing Odd to fall comically flat on his face.

One good thing did come out of his comic slip-up, though. Odd turned his head to see if anyone had seen, but after a moment he forgot all about that. When he had slammed into the door, he had knocked it back into the Restricted Cabinet. The resulting impact knocked it open, and revealed its’ deadly contents. This was where all the most dangerous substances in the entire school were held: dangerous poisons, horrible acids, liquid nitrogen, and various other chemicals.

Grinning maliciously, Odd grabbed one flask, then another, of the deadly substances. Placing them gently into his pockets, he then turned to the devastation that XANA’s tentacled friend had wrought upon this school.

Odd surveyed it briefly, then grabbed a long, thin steel pole that had once held electrical wires. Fortunately for our hero, the wires had been yanked from the pipe, rendering it safe for him to hold.

Holding the dangerous chemicals in one hand, and the steel pole in the other, he contemplated XANA.

XANA was a monster. He thought that just because he could do something, that meant that it was okay to do it. His monsters had attacked Earth three times now: once with Kankrelots, once with Krabes, and now with Skipazoas.

Odd glared out at where the monster had vanished. He was going to make XANA pay VERY dearly for every moment he spent on Earth…

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Sissi was still struggling against her fearsome captor’s tentacled grip, even one mile away from the school. It was now officially one hour since the school was first attacked by the horrible monsters, and everyone but Odd was in Lyoko by now.

However, just because he wasn’t in Lyoko doesn’t mean he was out of the fight. Not by a long shot.

Finally, after an hour of traveling, the horrible creature unwrapped Sissi slightly and moved her into an upright position. Maneuvering three of its tentacles, it placed them at points equidistant from one another on her skull, and almost instantly, a reddish-blue fluid began to move upwards through the tentacles and into the large sack-like organ inside of its clear dome. The sack quivered and pulsed as pure data was pumped from the poor girl’s brain and into XANA’s personal information storage bank in sector five.

This went on for almost a full minute before a slight interruption occurred in the form of a golf cart slamming itself into the Skipazoa.

This, at the minimum, got the monster’s attention, as it would with any other creature. Stopping its task of sucking a young girl’s brain dry, it cast a new, weary eye around the whole clearing, taking into account every detail, no matter how insignificant or minute.

Reaching several tentacles into the ground, it burrowed the manipulators down, finding rocks and stones of various sizes, then re-hoisted them up to the surface, holding each one in a separate tentacle.

This, however, was no match for an insane, cat-like boy with a steel pole and a vial of chemicals.

With a shriek, Odd raced into the clearing, throwing the first of his three flasks at the monster, with it’s effects being obvious.

As soon as the flask broke against the monster’s flank, it began to howl and scream in agony. The substance inside of the flask was actually eating away at the monster’s side, melting it like it was ice underneath a blowtorch.

However, Odd didn’t get much time to celebrate his victory, as the monster began to throw its rocks as fast as it could, and these boulders were now whizzing past his head fast enough to make a sound like an angry hornet when it came close enough.

This deterred Odd not in the least; in fact, it spurred him to fling his second flask, this time missing and hitting a tree. From the liquid sprung an interesting spread of crystals.

Odd then raced for the nearest tree, scaling it as easily as if he had his Lyoko claws. Within seconds, he was safe in the foliage of the tree.

The tentacled beast gazed up into the treetops. Unconsciously, it tightened its grip on its final stone, readying itself for… well, it didn’t know what.

However, that was immaterial, as it was the last thing that the thing ever thought, because at that moment, Odd threw his last flask, impacting directly against the monster’s clear dome.

This was the last, and possibly the most devastating flask of all: Liquid Nitrogen, the coldest substance known to man.

The memory-sucking abomination of Hell shrieked as its gelatinous dome froze into a single, fragile dome, with about the same toughness as sugar glass.

Odd, shrieking like a man possessed, leaped from the trees, smashing his feet down into the dome, crushing the sack-like organ underneath his shoes. However, the job was not yet done, as he then spun around and slammed his steel pole like a spear into the XANA crest on its “Face.”

The monster spun around once, wobbled drunkenly, then exploded in a flash of light.

This had the unfortunate effect of dropping both of the humans that were on the creature directly to the ground.

Odd hit the ground and rolled, but Sissi hit the ground like a sack of potatoes.

He rushed over to her, picking her up in his arms- no small feat, considering their size ratios.

Gingerly, her eyes fluttered open, and she whispered, “Odd? What’s going on? Are you okay?”

He gave her a small, caring smile.

“Everything’s fine, Sissi.” He heard a slight rushing noise behind him, then added, before the gigantic white light overtook them, “in fact, I think that the day’s gonna get a bit better…”

Sithking Zero: This is the first time writing a chapter on my new laptop, which I love to death. This is also the first chapter without Bass in it whatsoever. I felt I had to explain what Odd and Sissi were doing during the last few chapters. Please Read and Review!