Sithking Zero: I’m back! Did you miss me?

Code Lyoko and Megaman don’t belong to blah blah blah you know the drill.

Chapter 9:

XANA’s Foulest Hour

It was one day after Jeremie started to load the Decoding program into the Supercomputer’s restricted section.

In the meantime, it was a lovely day at Kadic Academy.

There were birds singing…

The flowers were blooming…

The glass was shattering as massive otherworldly creatures from beyond space and time attacked a high school…

Run that last one by me again?

To fully explain, we must go back three hours, to the beginning of Aeilita and the others’ science class.

“Well, another boring chem class, about to begin,” commented Odd, who stretched his arms over his head and yawned loudly.

“Don’t you remember, Odd?” asked Aeilita quizzically. “Today’s the day that we’re making Ice cream with Liquid Nitrogen.”

Odd spun her around to face him.

“Are you serious?”

“Yes; now please let go of me.”

Most of the class went by fairly uneventfully. After about ten minutes, the class separated into pre-assigned groups; fortunately for our heroes, they were able to score a group together (Yumi is a grade ahead, for those who didn’t know.)

They worked diligently on the soon-to-be frozen dessert; especially Aeilita, who had only discovered the frozen delicacy a few weeks ago.

Finally, Mrs. Hertz came over to each group, making sure that they were ready before pouring several cups of liquid nitrogen into each group’s bowls.

The change was immediate. The bowl immediately began spewing out huge amounts of steam, which overflowed quickly and began spilling onto the floor before they dissipated in clouds of misty vapors.

Working deftly, each group stirred the rapidly freezing mixture, trying to get the right amount of air into the treat.

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Within the very bowels of the supercomputer in the factory, dark forces brewed and rolled.

Inside the cybernetic world known as Lyoko, a dark figure stood near the unconscious figure of Bass.

Its four minions knew their task. They knew who to destroy. What to annihilate. When to do it.

The time was now.

The dark figure collapsed in on itself, then vanished entirely. The four giants moved with deceptive slowness, before they, too vanished in a burst of light.

Instants later, in our world, all three scanners opened up at once, and long tentacles snaked out.

In Lyoko, however, the ice plain we left was far from barren.

The unconscious Bass stirred.

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In our world, the great work of our heroes was finished.

With a sense of triumph, Aeilita scooped out her second helping of the delicious frozen delicacy, savoring every bite.

Another idyllic day.

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.

Meanwhile, Ulrich, Odd, and the rest had discovered the danger that Sissi was becoming familiar to.

A mass of electric-blue tentacles, each about thirty feet long, was extended through the front door to the science wing. Now, this would be cause for fear and panic on any normal day, but to our brave heroes, it was especially frightening considering the creature on the other end of the said tentacles.

XANA had materialized Skipazoas in the real world.

Sithking Zero: Sorry for the shorter chapter. I have big plans, and this was merely the setup.

Quick question: what’s the plural of Skipazoa?