So I think I’ll just post this one the way I originally posted my first fanfics years ago one chapter at a time and whenever I manage to finish typing each chapter. this is going to be one of those weird ones that has an introduction and a prologue. I know It’s unnessicary to have both. for the first couple chapters I’m planning on not telling you which dimension the chapter is takeing place in. you can feel free to guess whether any of these expository chapters takes place in the origional or reverse dimension untill such time that I start telling you which dimension is which but by that time you’ll know. anyway Here’s the introduction The prologue will come sometime.... soon... ish... depends on how much other stuff I have to do this week (looks like a lot as of right now) also this story is rated teen... so it will have some cussing.
Also just a quick warning. there may be spoilers to things that aren’t Code Lyoko in this story. I will not be hiding them using the spoiler tool because they are important to one of the sub-plots and it messes up the flow of reading if you have to stop and highlight something in order to see it. I’d just prefer to just list the video games that might be spoiled ahead of time. I may add to this list later If I notice more spoilers as i’m writing and I may remove things too if I notice that I didn’t actually spoil anything for that game. the list at this time it, Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II, Tales of the Abyss, Portal, Half Life, Portal 2, Final Fantasy X, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days.
Introduction.
Sara and Aubere stand in Mrs. Hertz’s classroom. Aubere is glaring at Sara. Sara leans against a desk smirking. Mrs. Hertz stands behind her desk with her arms crossed frowning at the two girls disapprovingly.
Aubere: Great! What did you do this time Sara?
Sara: I didn’t do anything. Besides If I did why would you be here?
Aubere: (Mumbles) Probably because this is a trap.
Mrs. Hertz: What was that?
Aubere: N-nothing . (I need to be more careful. This could be a trap but if it’s not we can’t have Mrs. Hertz finding out anything especially that we’re not from this dimension.)
Mrs. Hertz: Anyway neither of you are in trouble. At the moment.
Aubere: Then what’s this about?
Mrs. Hertz: I’m a bit curious about why the two of you as well as Jeremy, Aelita, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi are all skipping class so often?
Aubere: (Oh crap she’s on to us!)
Sara: I already told you about that the last time you asked.
Aubere: There was a last time? (Oh this should be good.)
Mrs. Hertz: Yes I remember you’re from a different dimension. You don’t have the ability to get home by yourself so they’re helping you.
Sara: Yes and sometimes something goes wrong and we have to shut down our tools that we’re using to try to send me home and fast before it goes out of control and someone gets hurt.
Aubere: (What the hell Sara! You’re saying too much!)
Mrs. Hertz: It’s just that something about that doesn’t add up. If they’ve been helping you since you came to this dimension then why were they always disappearing before that?
Sara: Wait what? They skipped class frequently before? I didn’t know anything about that.
Mrs: Hertz: I am not as easy to fool as you seem to think. I know that you’re part of what they’re up to and you’re going to tell me.
Sara: And I thought that Jim was the conspiracy theorist. I don’t know anything. And if you try to pseudo-threaten me to give you information that I don’t have again I will start trying to get you fired again. Same goes with Aubere. Well that or we could just have our dimension invade this one. Is that what you want? To be single handedly responsible for causing an invasion?
Aubere: (She’s insane! Convincing as usual but insane!)
Mrs. Hertz: I. I understand. I’ll leave you alone from now on.
Sara: That’s good. (leave the room dragging Aubere with her)
Sara and Aubere walk down the hall.
Aubere: That was reckless.
Sara: What? You mean Mrs. Hertz knowing about where we’re really from? She figured that out about a month after I got here.
Aubere: All of it. It was too risky. You’re not as smart as you want everyone in this dimension to think you are.
Sara: I know that.
Aubere: I’m done helping you make yourself seem smarter.
Sara: Is this really the place for this Aubere?
Aubere: No but there is no place for this conversation.
Sara: Ok fine make your point but hurry it up I have to be in detention in ten minutes.
Aubere: I’m not going to use the magic Hologram projectors to switch places with you. I’m not going to let you cheat off my tests I’m going to start failing them on purpose so you won’t be able to copy me because I still Don’t know how you’re doing that. And I’m not going to pretend that I’m an idiot in front of our friends anymore in order to make you look smarter.
Sara: Alright. Anything else?
Aubere: Just one more thing. You’ve been in this dimension long enough for your body to stop overcompensating for the amount of InterDimensional Energy. How’s that reduced strength handling you?
Sara: Part of that is the near death experience.
Aubere: How weak are you right now?
Sara: (Whispers) My imitation ability, the fairy thing all the other weird transformations are gone. I can’t use any of those powers anymore.
Aubere: So only your natural abilities are left?
Sara: Pretty much. (Whispers again) But because of the near death experience I don’t have the strength to open a portal if I needed to… if I could even remember how.
Aubere: (whispers in response) Again? Dang it. I’m sick of having to re-teach you that spell all the time. You’re the InterDimensional Guardian for crying out loud on a stick. What! Should I just teach Odd the spell so you don’t have to be bothered with remembering it? Damn it Sara learn to do your job right.
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Prologue
Sara walks into the library and sits down at the long table in the center of the room. Jim sits at the far end of the table reading a magazine.
Jim: You’re late Draconar. (turns page in his magazine)
Sara: Sorry Jim.
Jim: Where’s Della Robbia?
Sara: I don’t know.
Odd walks in His hair is smoothed back.
Jim: And just where have you been? You should have been here ten minutes ago. Both of ya!
Sara: What happened to your hair?
Odd: My roommate hid my hair gel somewhere and I can’t find it. (Sits down and lays his head down on the table)
Jim: (Puts down magazine and picks an air horn up off the floor.) Oh no ya don’t. (Presses the button on the air horn.) No sleeping in detention.
Odd: Ow my ears.
Sara: He’s been through a lot lately Jim. He can’t help that he’s exhausted.
Jim: Oh. Well. Maybe the air horn was a bit much.
Odd: Can I go to the infirmary I think my ears are bleeding!
Jim: Grow up Della Robbia it was just a little noise. (picks up his magazine again)
Odd: (lays his head back down on the table)
after a few minutes Sara does some subtle hand motions and Jim falls asleep. She checks to make sure that no one else is around then wanders around the room. Suddenly there’s a tap on the window. Sara looks over to see Aubere. Aubere says something but it’s inaudible through the glass. Sara nods and walks over to Odd and gently shakes him. He moans.
Sara: Come on Odd we have to get going. We’ve got work to do.
Odd: Just let me sleep. I don’t wanna go.
Sara: You know we need you. Now come on.
Odd: Ugh. Alright. (stands up) Let’s make this quick so I can go back to sleep.
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Chapter 1 My Chapter Title Guy Quit
Jeremy and Aelita sit in the factory waiting for the others. Ulrich and Yumi step out of the elevator.
Ulrich: So what’s Xana up to this time?
Jeremy: We don’t know yet.
Yumi: What do you mean you don’t know?
Aelita: He hasn’t done anything so far except activate a tower in the Desert sector. As far as we can tell anyway.
Jeremy: We have a huge dilemma on our hands. On one hand it could just be a trap and on the other hand he could be doing something on the other side of the world and we just haven’t figured it out yet.
Aelita: Or another Dimension via use of the IDCS…
Jeremy: …and we have no way to tell if he’s attacking in another dimension.
Ulrich: So even if it’s a trap we have to go to Lyoko
Jeremy: That seems to be the case. But to be safe we have to figure out how we’re going to divide the groups. One to stay on earth in case it is a trap. And the other to go to Lyoko and stop Xana.
Yumi: Why would we need a group to stay on earth even if it is a trap?
Jeremy: In order to help get us out of it if it does indeed turn out to be a trap.
Ulrich: So why ren’t we going to Lyoko yet?
Jeremy: We need Sara, Odd, and Aubere here before we can figure put how best to divide the groups
Aelita: That part actually doesn’t make any sense.
Yumi: No kidding.
Ulrich: Sara and Odd have detention. I have no idea where Aubere is
Aelita: We should just go now Jeremy. Who knows what kind of damage Xana could be doing.
Jeremy: Alright. Go to the scanner room.
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Chapter 2 To the factory.
Sara, Odd, and Aubere sneak through the grounds towards the park. As they near the Edge of the park Mewtwo appears before them blocking their way.
Aubere: Oh great what else could happen today!
Mewtwo: (Hovers closer to Sara) I need to speak to you.
Sara: Can’t this wait. I have something important to do.
Mewtwo: It can’t
Sara: Ugh. Fine. (looks over at Odd) You and Aubere go on ahead I’ll catch up in a minute.
Odd: What no way this could be a trap!
Sara: Odd. Just trust me on this! I can take care of myself.
Odd: But!
Aubere: Come on. (Grabs Odd’s Arm) This is a Pokémon Dimension issue. This is probably the only thing Sara really can handle by herself. (Drags Odd into the park)
Sara: (glares at Aubere)
Odd: Why’d you do that? What if Sara says something to piss him off. Wait Mewtwo is a him right?
Aubere: It’s one of the genderless ones. And don’t worry. Sara knows how to deal with Pokémon
Odd: But what if that was Xana’s attack.
Aubere: Xana attack or not Sara can still handle anything Pokémon related.
Odd: But she might do something arrogant and-
Aubere: Hold on. You know that Sara is arrogant?
Odd: Of course. If she wasn’t herself around me why would she be dating me?
Aubere: I have no idea. (Even if she is being herself I have no idea why she’d ever date someone like you.)
Sara: (runs up to Aubere and Odd just as Odd opens the passage to the sewer) What did I miss?
Aubere: Nothing. That was quick. What did Mewtwo want?
Sara: Oh it was nothing. He just had a question.
Odd: I told you Mewtwo was a guy!
Sara: Well actually He’s genderless everyone just calls him a he because the way his voice gets projected into people’s heads sounds masculine.
Odd: Oh…
Aubere: And that’s why she’s a Pokémon master. (That and becoming a Pokémon master is one of the easiest things a traveler of the multiverse can do. I’m actually a Pokémon master too but Sara’s ego needed a boost a while back so She doesn’t know that I’m one.) By the way what’s with your hair. Isn’t it usually pointy or something?
Odd: Ulrich hid my hair gel this morning and I can’t find where he put it.
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Chapter 3 Divergence.
Sara, Odd, and Aubere walk through the “sewer”. Odd walks a few meters ahead of Sara and Aubere who keep whispering things to each other. Suddenly William shows up behind them.
William: Hey guys!
Aubere: Not him again.
Sara: I’m afraid to turn around. Maybe if we ignore him he’ll go away.
William: I can hear you. Seriously guys can I help out this time!
Aubere: No! Go away. (Stops walking)
William: Come on! Please?
Sara: P-please just g-go away. (Stops walking as well)
Odd: You have got to be kidding me. (Stops walking, turns around, walks over to William and picks him up by the shirt) I’ve had enough of you. You are not one of us. How you even know what’s going on is beyond me! (Releases William) Now get lost before I kick your ass!
William: Alright fine. I won’t cause you any trouble. (Calmly turns around and walks away)
Odd: Man that guy pisses me off. (Resumes walking in the direction of the factory)
Sara: T-thank you for making him leave.
Odd: Shut up coward.
Aubere: You can’t say that to her.
Odd: You shut up too.
Aubere: (Whispers to Sara) What an ass.
Sara: (whispers)Still that guy that keeps bugging us… doesn’t the way he reacted to Odd’s tantrum seem strange to you.
Aubere: Now that you mention it he was almost like he knew that would happen.
Sara: Exactly. It’s like he planned the whole thing.
Aubere: We really need to watch out for him.
Odd: Quit talking about me behind my back and get a move on!
Aubere: We’re not talking about you jerkface!
Odd: Why do all you girls waist time gossiping! Hurry up!
Sara: A-alright. (hurries to catch up with Odd)
Aubere: I said it before and I’m gonna say it several more times. What an ass!
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Chapter 4 Are we sure Sara and Aubere aren’t evil?
Ulrich, Yumi, and Aeilta travel through the desert sector towards the activated tower fighting monsters along the way. Suddenly they’re surrounded by uncountable numbers or Krabs and Blocks. Yumi manages to lose her fans while fighting and is forced to use her telekinesis power to damage the monsters with rocks, until Ulrich gives her one of his swords to use so she doesn’t exhaust herself. This goes on for about ten minutes before Aelita changes the terrain to create a dome around the three of them, and tries to contact Jeremy.
Aelita: Jeremy can you see anywhere that me can break through?
Ulrich: Are Sara, Odd, and Aubere there yet! We really need back up!
Yumi: Hummm.
Aelita: …Something’s wrong he’s not responding.
Yumi: Maybe Xana’s blocking communication.
Aelita: Jeremy are you still there?
William: Oh will you all just shut up. He’s busy!
Ulrich: Shit! This was a trap.
William: That’s right and you idiots walked right into it! Why don’t you come back here and do something about it.
Ulrich: Gerr. Why don’t you come down here! If you’re not chicken!
Yumi: Stop it Ulrich! He’s trying to provoke you!
Ulrich: But.
Jeremy: (In background) Guys Don’t let yourselves be devirtualized! William just shut off the scanners!
William: Hey you! Be quiet over there!
The Lyoko Warriors hear the sound of someone being slapped.
Aelita: Jeremy!
William: Heh heh he- WAH!
Sara: How pathetic? You’re scared that easily? What are you afraid of butterflies too?
There’s a high pitched buzzing sound that lasts for about 2 seconds
Aubere: If a rubber spider is all it takes to send you running for the nearest hiding space then maybe it actually is a good thing that we have Odd on our team.
Odd: HEY!
Aubere: What I was kidding… mostly
Sara: By the way you do know that there are real spiders in that corner!
William: I’m not falling for-… AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Ulrich: Ok someone tell me that that was William screaming like a little girl and not Odd.
Odd: Hey I heard that Ulrich!
Aubere: So what should we do with the arachnophobe?
Sara: I have an idea!
There’s another loud scream followed about a minute later by a loud crash, a few more screams, a roar, and another crash
Jeremy: Was that last move really necessary?
Sara: I may have gotten a little carried away but he was asking for it so I don’t care. Here’s the head set hurry up and get back to work.
Odd: Wow Sara you dented the wall.
William: Forget the wall she broke my arm.
Aubere: Oh grow up you crybaby it’s just a spiral fracture!
William: Well that affects you guys too! What are you going to do when I tell the entire school that she broke my arm!
Aubere: You forgot about the time travel function moron! ...Hey Odd hand me one of your socks.
Odd: what no?
Sara: Just do it Odd.
Odd: Um. Ok.
Ulrich: (bursts out laughing)
Aelita: Is it me or do Sara and Aubere seem a little… sadistic?
There’s a snapping noise and another scream!
Yumi: I’m more worried that Ulrich finds all of this funny.
William: mey met miss mok mout my mouff moo mifch
Sara: Stop trying to talk unless you want to eat Odd’s other sock.
Jeremy: Um guys the Scanner’s are working now you should go to the scanner room so we can stop Xana!
Aubere: …… Hey Sara do you think we over did it?
Sara: Who cares! No one messes with my friends and gets off without at least a broken arm.
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Chapter 5 “Odd” gets his way
Sara, Odd and, Aubere walk into the factory’s lab to see the others. Aelita is standing in the corner texting, Ulrich is standing next to the elevator holding a remote of some kind. Yumi is sitting next to the floor doing homework, and Jeremy is crawling around on the floor.
Aubere: Uh what’s going on here.
Aelita: We couldn’t get to the virtual world without Sara working the computer.
Odd: Ugh bunch of slackers. (goes and sits down in the chair)
Aubere: What do you think you’re doing!
Odd: Sitting down.
Jeremy: Sara needs to sit there to work the computer.
Aubere: (Steps towards Odd something crunches under her foot) You need to move.
Odd: It’s about time she started pulling her weight with the fighting. I’m getting sick of doing all the work
Jeremy: Hey Aubere I think you just stepped on my contact lens.
Aubere: What? Oh sorry. (Glares at Odd) That’s ridiculous! You don’t do much of anything? How could you be doing all the work!
Odd: Look that wimp needs to fight every once and a while!
Ulrich: (Presses a button on the remote There’s a fart sound near Odd)
Odd: Grow up man!
Jeremy: That was funny.
Odd: You grow up too blindy!
Aubere: That is a crappy insult?
Odd: What. He needs to put his glassed on! Then again looking smarter won’t make him smarter.
Jeremy: Hey!
Sara: S-stop. There’s no need to harass others. If you want me to go to the virtual world this time then I’ll go.
Aubere: Are you sure about this?
Sara: I’m sure.
Odd: Great. Go to the scanners and I’ll work the computer.
Aubere: Not a chance bully! You’re not touching that computer!
Odd: (pokes the screen) Touch!
Aubere: Don’t be a smart ass! (Grabs Odd and throws him back into the elevator) I’ll work the computer.
Sara: No Aubere we’ll need you on the virtual world.
Aubere: You’re not seriously going to let HIM run the supercomputer are you!
Sara: No he’s one of our best fighters.
Aubere: well we need everyone else there.
Sara: Not exactaly. (glances over at Jeremy)
Aubere: You’re not thinking what I think you are.
Sara: (Puts Jeremy’s glasses onto his face) We need you to run the super computer please.
Ulrich, Aubere, and, Aelita: HIM?
Odd: You’re going to let the moron run the supercomputer? Hell why not just virtualize us over the digital sea yourself if you want to kill us!
Aubere: Sara I’m all for changing things around if that’s really what you want to do and you’re not doing this to prove yourself to anyone, but just this one time I have to agree with asshole.
Odd: Humph!
Aubere: For crying out loud on a stick!
Sara: I’ll set up the coordinates ahead of time. I already wrote down detailed instructions for everything else. It will be fine.
Aubere: Alright Sara I trust you. But I’m still pissed that the bully got his way.
Sara: L-let’s g-go
Odd: Scared already? How pathetic!
Sara does something with the supercomputer then the group of teenagers excluding Jeremy head down to the scanner room. Aelita, and Yumi get into the scanners. Everyone else just stands there. Waiting.
Odd: (looks at Sara) Well go on.
Sara: N-no that’s ok. Y-you can go first.
Odd: And miss watching you freak out? Not a chance.
Aubere: What are you planning you creep?
Odd: Excuse me?
Aubere: I don’t trust you! I don’t see how I can make it clearer!
Odd: (backs closer to the emergency exit) I see. That’s what you all think I bet.
Sara: (Looks around) No one else thinks that. Just Aubere.
Aubere: (Sara. What are you thinking? He treats all of us badly. You especially. Why defend him?)
Ulrich: Hey Odd why do you always go in the second group when we travel to the virtual world?
Odd: I don’t know! Shouldn’t you be more concerned with why none of us know the name if this virtual world when we’ve been fighting evil there for a couple years now!
Aubere: Don’t change the subject there admiral suspicious!
Sara: That’s enough. We’re wasting time. Ulrich please go with the first group the rest of us will go second.
Ulrich: Right (gets in the remaining scanner)
Jeremy: So it sounds like you’re finally ready.
Sara: Yes do exactly what the instructions say.
Jeremy: Alright… Transfer Ulrich? Transfer Yumi? Transfer Aelita?
The scanners close.
Sara: You’re doing great so far. Keep it up
Jeremy: Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Yumi. Scanner Aelita… Virtualization?
After about a minute the scanners reopen. Empty once again.
Odd: Looks like you haven’t screwed this up yet. Try to go faster this time so we’re not waiting in these stupid tubes for an hour!
Sara: So… T-this won’t h-hurt w-will it?
Odd: Oh it’ll hurt. A lot!
Aubere: Don’t listen to that bat coming out of a donkey’s butt!
Jeremy: Yeah! It doesn’t hurt at all. He’s just trying to scare you.
Odd: She’s afraid of her own shadow I don’t need to try to scare her!
Sara: (Swallows her spit then gets in one of the scanners)
Aubere: (Gets into one of the two remaining scanners) Hurry up donkey poop!
Odd: Shut up bitch. (walks towards the last scanner hesitates then gets into it.)
Jeremy: Are you all ready.
Aubere: Yes.
Sara: Y-yes.
Odd: Y-yeah just hurry up already.
Jeremy: Transfer Sara, Transfer Aubere, Transfer Odd.
Jeremy:.. Transfer Sara, Transfer Aubere, Transfer Odd!
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Chapter 6 Continued From Previous.
Jeremy: Scanner Sara, Scanner Aubere, Scanner Odd. Virtualization!
Jeremy:.. Scanner Sara, Scanner Aubere, Scanner Odd. Virtualization?
Sara, Odd, and Aubere virtualize in the desert sector inside the dome Aelita created earlier.
Sara: Did anyone else hear that weird echo?
Aubere: At least it didn’t say cookies at the end.
Odd: Don’t joke about food
Aubere: Oh what You’ll eat me?
Sara: Calm down Aubere
Yumi: Can we focus please.
Aelita: Yeah what are we going to do about the army of Krabs?
Sara: Hummm.
Odd: Let’s rush them.
Aubere: Hold on. If we’re surrounded by monsters why aren’t they attacking?
Ulrich: Hey that’s right.
Sara: That is a little weird.
Yumi: Only a little?
Aubere: This could be another trap.
Sara: (Peeks through a crack in the dome) Strange. It looks like they’re gone. This has to be a trap.
Aubere: Well unfortunately we only have one option. (Draws her weapon and cuts a door in the dome) … They really are gone?
Jeremy: That’s weird. The tower deactivated it’s self.
Aelita: Are you sure?
Jeremy: Absolutely. It makes no sense though.
Yumi: Why would Xana call off his attack?
Aubere: He got what he wanted. He wanted to get us all to Lyoko. We just have to get home before he tries anything else.
Jeremy: Um. That’s not going to be so easy. Something’s blocking my control. I can’t bring you all back at the moment. It shouldn’t take long to fix all of you should go hide in the tower until then.
Meanwhile Sara, Odd, and Aubere virtualize onto a tiny island surrounded by water. The others are standing around on the same Island.
Odd: Ugh I hate this sector. We always get stuck on the same damn island.
Sara: Um. S-so this is the virtual world?
Everyone looks at Sara.
Aubere: Yep.
Odd: (blushes)
Ulrich: Wow.
Aelita: You guys are staring.
Odd: (Looks away)
Ulrich: Well yeah. We stared at the rest of you ladies on the first trip. It’s a little startling that all four of you look so pretty.
Aubere: And it looks like we’ll be getting no chivalry from the brown-nosing knight today.
Ulrich: Hey.
Odd: So how do we get to the tower? It’s all the way on the other side of the archipelago.
Jeremy: Usually the vehicles are needed for transportation in this sector.
Sara: It’s fine. (Steps into the water towards the next island in the chain.)
Aubere: What are you doing!
Odd: Tch. I knew she was a coward I didn’t know she was insane too.
Aelita: Hey you need to shut up.
Aubere: No. He needs to leave… Or kill himself.
Ulrich: Ok that was a bit harsh Aubere.
Aubere: I was right no chivalry. Gezz! Worst knight ever.
Ulrich: Hey!
Sara: (Walking towards the next Island) Come on We have to get to the tower somehow! It’s not safe to swim in this sector and until I can program a submarine we can’t do anything about towers on the ocean floor but we can walk through the shallows safely!
Aubere: You mean the water isn’t part of the Digital Sea?
Sara: No not in this sector.
Odd: I doubt that.
Aubere: (Kicks Odd in his…extremely painful and follows Sara) Just stop talking.
Aelita: Seriously. (Follows Aubere)
Yumi: (Follows Aelita)
Ulrich: Hey man we better go too we don’t want to get left behind.
Odd: (already standing on the other island a few meters away from Sara) You’re the one being left behind dude!
Aelita: When did he pass us.
Aubere: I have no idea but he keeps doing that and it’s starting to piss me off.
Ulrich: (runs to catch up with the girls) hey wait up this armor is heavy!
Sara: One Island down four to go.
The group walks towards the next island when suddenly the water around them turns into sand. Nothing but sandy platform-like land masses hovering in the air.
Odd: Damn it! Where the hell are we! (looks at Sara) You got us lost!
Aubere: Did we wander into a different sector?
Sara: No this looks like a desert. There are only four sectors, Volcano, Ocean, Jungle, and Savannah. This is definitely a desert.
Aelita: Then we wandered into a different world?
Sara: If the InterDimensional Connection System had a glitch then that’s very possible.
Ulrich: The what?
Aubere: The Multiverse’s internet.
Ulrich: Um what?
Aelita: Guys we’ve got enemies! (Points three rows of Krabs walking towards them)
Confused yet?
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Chapter 7 “Who the Hell are you Guys?”
The Lyoko warriors walk through the door in the dome Aubere created only to find themselves standing in shallow water.
Aubere: What the heck?
Sara: Well that’s kind of weird.
Odd: Where are we?
Aelita: This doesn’t look like Lyoko.
Aubere: It better not be. We’re standing in the digital sea if it is.
Sara: Hey! I have an idea. (Takes a deep breath and dives into deeper water)
Aubere: And Sara’s lost it.
Sara: (swims to the surface) There’s a tower down there.
Aelita: Seriously?
Sara: Yeah and a bunch of sharks.
Odd: Did you get em?
Sara: Did it look like I was down there Long enough to “get em”?
Odd: No. (walks into slightly deeper water)
Sara: Then there’s your answer.
Ulrich: You’re both crazy. (Sits down on a nearby Island)
Sara: We may be able to find a way out of here down below as long as we sneak past the sharks and keep coming up for air. (Suddenly devirtualizes)
Yumi: What just happened?
A shark pops out of the water and shoots Yumi in the back. Devirtualizing her.
Ulrich: Yumi!
Aubere: Looks like the scanners are working. Let’s go home before something breaks them. (Stabs odd in the face Devirtualizing him) I’ve always wanted to do that.
Ulrich: (Throws one of his swords at Aubere)
Aubere: (Pulls Sword out of her leg) You’re gonna have to aim higher. (Get’s hit from behind and devirtualized)
Aelita: Maybe now we can find a less violent solution now?
Ulrich: (Stabs himself and devirtualizes)
Aelita: I hope this isn’t another trap. (Walks into the water waits about a minute and is soon devirtualized)
Aelita steps out of one of the scanners to find the others waiting for her. Sara is hugging Odd who keeps rubbing his face. Aubere is standing against a wall. Ulrich walks over and sits down on the floor next to Yumi. Jeremy climbs down the emergency ladder his glasses fall off. He picks them up and starts cleaning them.
“Jeremy”: Man I hate these things. I can’t wait until I have my contacts again.
Yumi: (looks at Aelita and silently says) Contacts?
Aelita: (shrugs)
“Jeremy”: By the way guys sorry about before the mic stopped working and I couldn’t get it working again… turns out it was just unplugged. (Puts his glasses back on) So what happened in the virtual world.
Odd: Uh you mean Lyoko?
“Jeremy”: What’s Lyoko? (Looks at Sara and Odd) Hey when did you guys get so close? I thought you hated each other?
Sara: Well none of us remember you ever wearing contacts lenses so looks like you’re brain’s broken.
“Jeremy”: When’d you get so mean?
Ulrich: When’d you lose half your brain? She’s always been a little bitchy. (stands up)
Sara: (Growls)
“Jeremy”: (Glares at Ulrich) Since when are you the grouchy one? I thought that was Odd’s Department.
Aubere: No annoying is Odd’s department. (everything about this seems wrong… wait this can’t just be Xana’s doing can it?)
Aelita: Jeremy. Why are you acting so strangely?
“Jeremy”: Since when have you cared about anyone?
Aubere: (No this isn’t possible. It takes a crazy amount of InterDimensional Energy for this kind of dimension to be created!)
“Jeremy”: The only ones of you who are normal right now are Yumi and Aubere!
Aubere: Leave me out of this I’m not talking to you.
Yumi: You are acting strangely.
“Jeremy”: Ok so now Aubere’s the only one being normal.
Ulrich: (Slams “Jeremy” against a wall) Look we’re not falling for your trap so you can just give it up.
Jeremy: (Escapes Ulrich’s grip moves behind him and sweep kicks his legs out from under him) Ok you guys aren’t my friends but you look like them… Who are you all?
Aubere: Relax. This is nothing you should be concerned about. We’re the ones trapped in yet another parallel universe because (glares at Sara) SOMEONE can’t do her job right.
Sara: Hey It’s not like I know any of this InterDimensional Guardian stuff. There isn’t even a book or anything!
Aubere: (You’re supposed to just gain the knowledge automatically. I guess that one is Team Rocket’s fault though. I shouldn’t be so hard on you… But still you make it so difficult by not even trying.)
Starting next chapter I will be telling you which dimension the story is taking place in also this chapter was brought to you by the Reverse Dimension,
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Chapter 8 The Other Side of Things.
The Reverse Warriors draw their weapons in preparation for combat. Reverse Sara tries to figure out what her weapon is failing at that she holds the laptop in her hands up like a shield.
Reverse Odd: You really think you can defend yourself with that piece of plastic? That doesn’t work in the real world why the hell would it work here?
Reverse Sara: I- I don’t know. But it- it’s all I’ve g-got and I have to do something.
Reverse Ulrich: Hey Odd! You have two guns let Sara borrow one.
Reverse Odd: (Spins one of his pistols around his right index finger a couple times then catches it) Not gonna happen. She’s never been in any kind of fight. I’m not lending one of my weapons to an amateur!
Reverse Sara: I-I can take care of myself.
Reverse Aeilta: Ugh. This is pointless! This isn’t OUR WORLD why are we bothering to fight here? Someone just stab me in the chest or something. I want to go home!
Reverse Ulrich: Ok (stabs Reverse Aelita)
Reverse Yumi: (Facepalms)
Reverse Aubere: Serriously? You might have just killed her.
Reverse Ulrich: What do you mean? She wanted to go home?
Reverse Sara: We might not be able to return home from here. It’s possible that running out of life points will cause us to disappear forever.
Reverse Odd: We have two morons and an idiot in our group. It didn’t occur to you to say something sooner?
Reverse Sara: I wasn’t given the chance. (Gets hit in the arm) Ahg!
Reverse Odd: (Moves in front of Reverse Sara and shoots a Krab in one of its laser shooting eyes.) Just stay out of my way.
Reverse Aubere: You ok?
Reverse Sara: I’m fine. (Runs up to the nearest Krab)
Reverse Odd: What the hell are you doing!
Reverse Sara: (Jumps up onto a Krab’s shell) I’m trying.
Reverse Ulrich: We better help her.
Reverse Odd: I don’t know she’s actually doing ok so far.
Reverse Sara: (Punches the Krab hurting her hand) Ow.
Reverse: Odd: Never mind. (Jumps up on a different Krab) Huum? Hey it looks like there’s a USB port on this monster’s back. Try plugging your lap top into the one you’re on. I’ll handel the rest of them.
Reverse Ulrich: Are we going to be stuck here? (Spontaneously devirtualizes)
Reverse Yumi: (Also spontaneously devirtualizes)
Reverse Aubere: Oh crud (Devirtualizes)
Reverse Odd: (Shoots the Krab in it’s weak point then jumps to the next one) What happened to everyone else.
Reverse Sara: It looks like someone is using a materialization program. (Untwisting the USB cable from around her wrist.) We should be safe if we run out of life points.
Reverse Odd: Good (Shoots the Krab and leaps to a nearby dead tree hanging upside down by his tail.)
Reverse Sara: (Plugs the USB Cable into the laptop then the Krab’s shell before she devitrualizes)
Reverse Odd: I wonder When It’ll be my turn?
Jeremy: I don’t like your attitude so you can just stay there.
Reverse Odd: You’re the one doing this? (Crosses arms) I thought we told you not to touch anything moron!
Jeremy: Insulting me isn’t going to get you and your friends home and it’s not going to help me find my friends so why don’t you shut up!
Reverse Odd: What the hell are you talking about Moron.
Jeremy: Like I said if you’re not going to change your attitude then you can just stay on Lyoko.
Reverse Odd: Oh like hell am I staying here!
Jeremy: Are you sure about that? You’re stuck there until I materialize you.
Reverse Odd: There’s more than one way to end up in those stupid tubes. (Aims Gun at a Krab’s leg)
Jeremy: Are you really willing to risk that.
Reverse Odd: I’d rather disappear forever then come back with six arms… actually that might be cool but coming back with two heads or five legs an almost equally high probability so I think I’ll pass. (Shoots the Krab in the leg) Hey! Robotic Crustacean! Look over here damn you! (swings on the tree a little)
Jeremy: Ugh. Fine then have it your way.
Reverse Odd: Oh no you don’t! I hear you typing I told you I’m not going back with extra limb! Just let someone who knows what they’re doing run the computer and don’t screw thing up worse than you already have.
Jeremy: You’ll figure out what’s going on eventually.
Reverse Odd: Probably faster than yo-. (Devitrualizes)
The reverse versions of Sara and Aubere sit in the scanner room waiting for the scanner that just closed not 3 seconds earlier to open for what they hope is the final time for the day. Reverse Sara sits under the keypad used to open the elevator doors. Reverse Aubere is holding a broken broom and is alternating between pokeing the reverse versions of Aelita, Ulrich, and Yumi, who are unconscious in the head and arms .
Reverse Aubere: So you said before that this is normal? How is this normal. I’ve come out of these Scanners before. I’ve run the computer before. There’s no way that this is normal.
Reverse Sara: Why are you so sure that we materialized into the dimension we virtualized from?
Reverse Aubere: But everything is exactly as we left it.
Reverse Sara: It- it might seem that way at first glance but there are subtle differences in the energy flow. Plus I left the communication line between the lab and the scanner room opened back in the other dimension. But here it’s closed.
Reverse Aubere: Come on Sara You’re being Paranoid.
The scanner opens and Reverse Odd stumbles out.
Reverse Odd: D-damn it. (collapses and loses consciousness)
Reverse Aubere: Well Donkey-Poop passed out just like the others. (Whacks Reverse Odd with the broom stick) Why are we still awake?
Reverse Sara: It’s likely because we’re the only ones who’ve traveled between dimensions before
Reverse Aubere: Now that you mention it… I did start to feel nauseous, just like whenever we travel to another dimension, the second I stepped out of the scanner. Could we really have gone to another dimension via the virtual world?
Reverse Sara: Only in the case of a Parallel Dimension. It’s the only possible explanation. Except maybe a virtual world inside a virtual world but that’s somewhat of a paradox and highly unlikely.
The elevator opens and Jeremy steps out.
Jeremy: Then you’d be surprised how many times my friends have been caught in that exact situation.
Reverse Aubere: How many?
Jeremy: Two.
Reverse Sara: I may have miscalculated the likelyhood of that specific situation.
Jeremy: Look none of you want to be here and I want my friends back. We’ll probably have to work together to solve this problem.
Reverse Sara: A-alright.
Reverse Aubere: Sara for a fradeycat you’re way to trusting of people. We don’t have proof of who’s side this dimension’s version is on. Much less proof that we’re actually in a different Dimension.
Reverse Sara: I’ll have to check the supercomputer to confirm all of that. It should only take about an hour at most.
Jeremy: Go right ahead.
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Chapter 9 Reverse Dimensions: How they’re made. Sort Of
The Lyoko warriors plus Sara and Aubere are in the reverse dimension. They are standing in the lab trying to find a way home Aelita is searching the supercomputer to try to get In contact with their Jeremy while Reverse Jeremy stands leaning against a wall. Aubere is texting and answering his questions.
Reverse Jeremy: So you’re all from a parallel world?
Aubere: Yep.
Reverse Jeremy: and the other me is actually smart?
Aubere: Yep
Reverse Jeremy: And You’re Dimension’s Odd Isn’t an asshole?
Aubere: …. That is yet to be determined.
Sara: Ignore her. He is not a… that word.
Reverse Jeremy: Asshole.
Sara: Cussing is the language of morons.
Reverse Jeremy: (Moves his lips to say. “Wow what a bitch.” Silently)
Ulrich: You’re lucky she can’t read lips.
Sara: (Glares at Ulrich) What did he say?
Ulrich: how should I know I wasn’t paying attention.
Aelita: Bad news. I can’t get into contact with our Jeremy.
Aubere: This is a relatively new dimension. It’s connection to the IDCS is a little sketchy still.
Aelita: (looks over at Sara) What do you think?
Sara: Just because I’m the interdimensional guardian doesn’t mean I know anything about the IDCS.I know it exists. Heck everything I know about my job Aubere told me so ask her from now on.
Aubere: (Wow. That was... unexpected. I didn’t think she’d start ending her manipulation ruse this quickly. I figured she’d ease into it.) Anyway. The dimension we’re in now is a reverse dimension.
Sara: Oh hey. My cousin told me about those. But I thought they took ridiculous amounts of energy to be created.
Aubere: Let’s see; we traveled through the IDCS releasing a huge amount of energy as we did, during an energy based Xana attack on the IDCS mainframe, immediately followed by your near death experience during which you unleashed all your InterDimensional energy built up over what six or seven years, as well as so much of your electrical energy that you almost caused your nervous system to shut down! I’m pretty sure that all that energy combined could create a reverse dimension.
Reverse Jeremy: What are you guys talking about. My head hurts!.
Yumi: Hold on. When did Xana attack the IDCS.
Aubere: When we were traveling through it to get out of that parallel dimension. Weren’t any of you just listening.
Ulrich: I don’t remember Xana attacking either.
Odd: You sure you’re remembering thing correctly Aubere?
Sara: (smirking) It does seem a little sketchy that you remember something that the rest of us don’t.
Aubere: (Glares at Sara) Do you have the manager of the IDCS in your phone’s contacts? No because you don’t have a proper phone so shut up.
Yumi: Was that who you were texting?
Aubere: Yeah he said his mainframe was hacked around the same time we were on our way home a few weeks ago. I’m guessing that it was Xana because he’s the only one powerful enough to get past enough of the security layers to actually be noticed. (phone beeps.) Hold on. (looks at phone) Oh you gotta be kidding me. He’s watching us? (phone beeps again) And apparently he’s been watching us the entire time. Man that’s annoying.
Sara: (Looks at Aubere’s phone) Why does it show the name as Obi wan Kenobi?
Aubere: He likes to keep his name anonymous. I told him I’d enter the name of a fictional character.
Sara: Ok but why are there- (Aubere’s hand covers her mouth)
Aubere: That’s enough questions now. So Aelita any luck contacting our dimension’s Jeremy.
Aelita: I stopped trying.
Ulrich: You have the phone number of the guy in charge of the IDCS. Why can’t we just ask him how to get home.
Aubere: Oh right. Good point. (starts to write the text but her phone rings. She checks the caller ID) It’s him? (Answers the phone) hello…. are you sure? Ok fine. (Presses a button) Ok you’re on speaker now. Everyone meet the Manager of the IDCS.
IDCS Manager: I can’t help you. If I do the InterDimensional Guardian Won’t learn anything.
Sara: I’m not going to learn anything I don’t already know anyway you might as well help us.
IDCS Manager: I was talking about the rightful InterDimensional Guardian Kiddo. You’re just the poor sap she passed her responsibilities, her curse to.
Sara: What’s that supposed to mean!
Aubere: (Face slowly starts to go pail)
Odd: Ok now I’m confused.
Reverse Jeremy: I still don’t know what’s going on. Who’s the guy using the voice changey thingy?
Ulrich: Is this guy screwing with us?
IDCS Manager: I am not “screwing with you” as Mr. Stern put it. I am pointing out facts.
Sara: This guy is crazy.
IDCS Manager: I am not crazy Ms. Draconar. And I suggest you think about those friends of yours next time you decide to selfishly put yourself in harm’s way. How do you think they feel about that Kiddo? You have your own lessons to learn during this little detour from destiny you’re taking.
Sara: I swear if you call me Kiddo one more time-!
IDCS Manager: You’ll what? Kill me? I know you wouldn’t do that. Even if you really wanted to you can’t get to where I am.
Sara: You have to be in this dimension since I broke the multidimensional adapter on Aubere’s phone trying to call my cousin.
IDCS manager: See you’re smart enough to handle this. You should get to work on that much needed character development there Kiddo. I have to get back to work. And Aubere. Don’t text me asking for help again until that mess of yours is fixed. (Hangs up)
Aubere: (Face is a white as a sheep that fell in a p ool filled with bleach and decided to swim in there for a few minutes) What the hell was he talking about?
Odd: That didn’t make any sense.
Sara: You got that right. He tried to say that I’m not the InterDimensional Guardian. That’s ridiculous… Right Aubere?
Aubere: Hua? Oh yeah. Of course.
Aelita: What did he mean your mess Aubere?
Aubere: Oh he’s talking about a mistake I made in the Pokémon Dimension a few months ago.
Ulrich: This is all really suspicious.
Yumi: Now’s not the time for us to dwell on what some stranger says for all we know he could have been trying to split us up.
Reverse Jeremy: It still bugs me that you actually talk. Anyway someone explain all this to me. Soon too if I miss any more classes I’m gonna get in huge trouble
Aelita: Won’t the teachers ask more questions if your friends don’t show up?
Ulrich: They might even throw you in jail.
Reverse Jeremy: S-seriously? Maybe you all could act like my friends until you find out how to go home. And if you could help me get the rest of my group back too that’d be great.
Aubere: You’ve got to be kidding. There is absolutely-
Sara: Fine we’ll do it.
Aubere: (Face goes from bleached sheep white to ladybug red) WHAT!
Sara: We’ve got nothing else to do. And we might need to move in this dimension without seeming suspicious anyway.
Aelita: That does seem like the best way to handle things.
Odd: I’m in if Sara’s in.
Ulrich: I don’t like the idea but we can’t stay in this factory the entire time either.
Yumi: this might be a bad idea. We don’t know how these other versions of us act. We could mess up and be discovered.
Reverse Jeremy: Well our Yumi doesn’t talk so you have the easiest one.
Yumi: What about at home?
Reverse Jeremy: I don’t know. I always assumed she couldn’t talk at all.
Yumi: See this is a bad Idea.
Aubere: Thank you!
Sara: You two can stay here if you want. I’m going to try it.
Reverse Jeremy: I’ll tell you all how my friends act and you can decide from there.
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Chapter 10: Things start getting hectic.
Reverse Odd is the last one to wake up on the floor of the scanner room. He climbs the ladder into the lab to find Reverse Aubere standing over him. Jeremy has just sat back down in his usual spot and begins trying to find away to get his friends home. The rest of the reverse group has dome off in their separate directions all for different reasons like gathering essential supplies and information, a search for a bathroom, a hunt for a “decent mirror”, and who knows what else. Reverse Aubere puts her foot on Reverse Odd’s head.
Reverse Aubere: Do me a favor and just go back to sleep for the rest of the time we’re in this dimension.
Reverse Odd: What the hell are you talking about? (Pushes Aubere’s foot out of the way and finishes climbing up) There was just a glitch with the tubes of death that knocked us all out, BECAUSE SOMEONE DIDN’T LISTEN WHEN WE TOLD HIM NOT TO TOUCH ANYTHING!
Jeremy: Please Don’t scream at me while I’m busy.
Reverse Odd: Get out of that chair you moron!
Reverse Aubere: You would have heard the explanation if you woke up on time.
Reverse Odd: What’s that supposed to mean?
Reverse Aubere: Look I know you’re too busy being a complete asshole to figure anything out for yourself so I’ll make this simple for you. We’re in to a parallel dimension a lot of things seem to be opposite in this dimension.
Reverse Odd: Well then I guess we’re lucky these people don’t breathe methane then.
Reverse Aubere: Ugh. You’re hopeless. Just stay out of my way. And I swear if you do anything that might sabotage our getting home I will kill you. We’re on to you. Eventually the one person who voted to keep you in the group will wise up and we finally won’t have to deal with you.
Reverse Odd: Quit talking like I’m the enemy you bitch.
Reverse Aubere: You are the enemy. Or at least you’re working with him, or it or whatever I don’t give a shit anymore. All that matters to me is making sure Sara doesn’t get hurt.
Reverse Odd: She’s not a baby. She can take care of herself. (starts climbing to the upper level)
Reverse Aubere: Yeah you just keep climbing donkey poop! And don’t come back for all I care.
Reverse Odd: (Looks down and spits on Reverse Aubere’s head. He keeps climbing)
Reverse Aubere: One of these days I am so going to kill that guy.
Jeremy: Well you do seem to be judging him a little harshly
Reverse Aubere: You’re just saying that because you’re used to your dimension’s version. The idiotic prankster. You haven’t seen our version in full force. He’s more of an asshole when there’s more people around.
Jeremy: Hum. Well No matter the important thing is I get my friends back and get all of you home.
Reverse Aubere: Thought if you could lose our Odd in the process no one would miss him. I am not kidding about that.
Jeremy: Your dimension’s Sara left a note saying to ignore you if you said things like that.
Reverse Aubere: She may be smart but she’s too trusting of people. She likes to see the good in people even when there is literally none. Trust me. It’s almost gotten her killed. A lot.
Jeremy: Maybe you should just leave me to my work.
Reverse Aubere: Fine whatever. I’m just warning you. The only one who voted to keep our Odd in the group was his roommate and that was only because he was scared.
Jeremy: Was the vote anonymous?
Reverse Aubere: Yeah.
Jeremy: Then how do you know for sure? You did just say that your Sara is too trusting.
Reverse Aubere: Yeah she’s trusting to a fault but she’s not stupid enough to keep the guy who regularly hits her around.
Jeremy: Ok this has gone on long enough. I need you to leave so I can get back to work. I’ve asked you to stop distracting me but you just keep ranting. The longer you bug me the less work I get done. Now go.
Reverse Aubere: Fine. I’m out of here. (presses the button and waits for the elevator to come back down) by the way what’s your elevator’s clearance code?
Jeremy: 1-5-0-6.
Reverse Aubere: Thank you I’ll be sure to tell the others.
Jeremy: I already told them but I’m sure Your dimension’s Ulrich will need you to remind him he seems like a scatter brain. Your Aelita will probably need a reminder too. And Your dimension’s Odd doesn’t know but it looked like he was avoiding the elevator anyway so he might not need it if he does I’m sure someone will fill him in.
Reverse Aubere: More like he’ll beat it out of them.
Jeremy: Just go!
Reverse Odd walks through the boiler room towards the machine room. He stops in an open area and stretches. He hears a loud crash in the next room and sneaks closer to the door to check it out. Once he’s able to get a slightly better view he sees William standing in the machine room with several metal objects floating around him some of them heavy, others not so much.
Reverse Odd: (Mumbles) Ugh him again? Does he follow us everywhere? Wait no that has to be this dimension’s version. What is he Magneto or something? Damn it pull it together Odd you’re talking to yourself again.
William: You’re pathetic. You’re not even going to try to fight back? I might be finished with this and out of here before anyone knows you’re missing.
Female voice: P-please. Y-you d-don’t have to do this.
Reverse Odd: (sneaks closer while mumbling to himself) Not good. Fight back Fradycat. You fought just well enough to survive back in the virtual world. Do that in reality. (staring at Reverse Sara{the female voice} but not doing anything to help)
William: (aims a screw at Reverse Sara’s forehead) Shut up chicken.
Reverse Ulrich: Hey what’s going on here? (walks into the room) Hey no fair you have super powers.
Reverse Odd: (Facepalm) Idiot. She’s being attacked do something.
William: Well so much for no chance of rescue. (Flings a metal box at Reverse Ulrich)
Reverse Ulrich: (Dodges and moves himself to between William and Reverse Sara) I’m starting to think you’re not on our side.
William: …. Was that supposed to be a joke?
Reverse Odd: (Sneaks into the machine room)
Reverse Ulrich: No.
William: You’re as pathetic as the rest of your dysfunctional little team. (Aims the rest of the nails and screws at Reverse Ulrich and Reverse Sara)
Reverse Sara: (Curls into a ball)
Reverse Ulrich: (Braces himself)
William: Oh by the way your fly is down.
Reverse Ulrich: What really? (Starts to look down)
Reverse Odd: (Grabs a crowbar from the metallic junk floating around William) HEY DUMBASS!
Reverse Ulrich: (Looks at Reverse Odd)
William: Hua? (turns around) Where-?
Reverse Odd: (Hits William in the face with the crowbar knocking him out) What an idiot.
Reverse Ulrich: … What the heck? Did you just save us?
Reverse Odd: I couldn’t just stand there. Hey coward. Get up It’s safe now but It won’t be if we stay here.
Reverse Sara: (Looks up at Reverse Odd) T-thank you.
Reverse Odd: Humph. (walks into the next room)
Reverse Ulrich: You’re supposed to say “you’re welcome” you jerk.
Reverse Sara: He did just save us.
Reverse Ulrich: I had everything covered.
Reverse Sara: He’s right though we should get out of here.
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Chapter 11 Acting Failures and Games.
A week goes by in both dimensions. Neither group making any progress with finding a way home. The Reverse warriors sit down at a lunch table with the exception of the reverse versions of Sara and Odd. Reverse Aubere begins showing concern. Wondering where Reverse Sara is and rambling about how suspicious it is that Reverse Odd is also missing. Finally annoyed with Reverse Aubere’s yapping Reverse, Yumi stands up and walks away. Reverse Aelita who barely ate anything but is already done has a compact mirror out and is putting on makeup. About five minutes later she’s still doing so as Jeremy walks up.
Reverse Ulrich: Ok are you really putting that stuff on your face or are you faking again?
Reverse Aelita: Shut up.
Jeremy: (sits down) Um. Hi guys.
Reverse Ulrich: I’m just wondering if you’re trying to look like a clown or not.
Jeremy: (Sighs) Guys act normal please. (tries to discreetly motion towards Sissy who’s staring over at the group of friends.
Reverse Aubere: (lowers voice) shouldn’t you be trying to get us home?
Jeremy: I needed a break.
Reverse Ulrich: So where do you think Sara and Odd are?
Reverse Aelita: No one cares.
Reverse Ulrich: Aubere seems to care and annoying her is fun.
Reverse Aubere: (Stands up) That’s it I’m going to look for them.
Jeremy: (trying to act like everything’s normal) Sit down Aubere. There’s no reason to freak out.
Reverse Aubere: (sighs) Fine sorry. (sits down)
Reverse Odd walks into the factory and looks around. He leans against a Pillar and pulls out a Nintendo DS. He puts on headphones the cheap kind not the good noise canceling ones and starts playing a game. Suddenly he hears something other than his game, takes off the head phones and puts his DS in his pocket.
Reverse Odd: (What was that?)
Someone: (Sneases)
Reverse Odd: Bless you. Wait now I know I’m not hearing things. (Looks up into the rafters and sees someone’s foot) Alright show yourself!
Reverse Sara: (looks down over the large support beam) Oh hi.
Reverse Odd: What are you doing up there?
Reverse Sara: Well – I was. Just um. I was trying to find a way home but I wasn’t making any progress and I do my best thinking in high places so… I figured I’d come up here and think.
Reverse Odd: (Notices that Reverse Sara is holding a thin black object) What’s that in your hand?
Reverse Sara: Well I got bored so I figured I’d take a break from thinking and. (the black object slips out of her hand) Oops.
Reverse Odd: (Catches the object and looks at it) This is a PSP. You play video games.
Reverse Sara: I was going to. But my battery died.
Reverse Odd: Hum. (opens the UMD drive and takes out the game to look at it) You play Dissidia?
Reverse Sara: Yeah.
Reverse Odd: Who do you main? (puts the game back in the system)
Reverse Sara: Zidane, Tidus, Firion, and… sometimes Shantoto.
Reverse Odd: (Facepalm) no that’s a list of who all you play as. Not who you main. Which one do you use the most.
Reverse Sara: I don’t know. I guess Firion. Or maybe Zidane. I don’t know. It’s been a while. I’ve been playing Tales of the Abyss lately instead.
Reverse Odd: You play “the Tales Games”?
Reverse Sara: Sort of. Just Abyss so far.
Reverse Odd: I didn’t think someone like you played video games at all.
Reverse Sara: I’m scared of most things. And I’m not….
Reverse Odd: Not what?
Reverse Sara: I have a weird condition that makes it unsafe for me to be physically active. The only way I can have any kind of adventure is through videogames. It’s kind of like-
Reverse Odd: Your escape from reality? Yeah I know the feeling. (Your weird condition didn’t prevent you from climbing up there)
Reverse Sara: You’re acting different than you normally do.
Reverse Odd: I don’t really like people in my space. It’s hard to deal with people when I’m trying to get them out of my space.
Reverse Sara: I see. Oh thanks again for saving me the other day.
Reverse Odd: Whatever.
Reverse Sara: Oh and thanks for saving my PSP.
Reverse Odd: Sure. You can have it back once you come down here.
Reverse Sara: That might be a while. I should really get back to figuring a way out of this.
Reverse Odd: I’ll hang on to this for you then. Is that alright? (There’s something strange about you. What is it? I’m going to watch you and try to figure it out.)
Reverse Sara: Yeah sure.
Reverse Odd: (puts Reverse Sara’s PSP in his pocket, puts his headphones back on and goes back to his game)
Meanwhile in the Reverse Dimension Sara, Odd, and Ulrich are standing in a class room in front of Reverse Jim who has a pissed off look on his face)
Reverse Jim: Would any one like to explain why my two best students are suddenly failing this class over night.
Sara: And that would be…
Reverse Jim: Not him. (points at Ulrich) His grades have actually gone up. (looks at Ulrich) Keep it up And I might have you placed back in the normal class.
Odd: (whispers to Sara) We’re his best students?
Sara: I guess so.
Reverse Jim: Be quiet! Now why are all of you acting so differently?
Sara: I don’t know.
Odd: We thought it would be nice to act differently for a change.
Reverse Jim: Enough lies.
Sara: (makes a few subtle movements with her hands)
Reverse Jim: I want a real explanation right n- (frozen in place)
Sara: Let’s get out of here.
The three teenagers leave the room and make their way to the park.
Ulrich: What the hell. You guys almost blew out cover again.
Sara: It’s not like we can just start getting good grades out of nowhere.
Ulrich: You were passing back in out dimension.
Sara: I was cheating off of Aubere.
Odd: How?
Sara: I used a magic object to read her mind. She found out so now I can’t do it anymore.
Odd: That makes sense.
Ulrich: See that’s why we’ve had so many close calls.
Sara: What are you talking about?
Ulrich: You’re supposed to be scared of everything and Odd is supposed to hate everyone and be a horrible person neither of you are doing that.
Sara: So you keep going back to your grouchy self. Heck Yumi’s the only one who hasn’t blown our cover so far.
Aubere: (walks into the park) Hey Sara you find the right portal spell yet.
Sara: No I’ve been too busy pretending to be afraid of everything.
Aubere: You’re the InterDimensional Guardian you have to take this seriously.
Sara: I’m going to go take a serious nap. (walks away)
Aubere: (looks at Odd) Oh darn you found some hairgel. I liked your other stupid hair cut better.
Odd: Don’t you have someone else to annoy?
Ulrich: Hey I’ve been meaning to ask. You know the IDCS Manager pretty well-
Aubere: He already said he wouldn’t help us.
Ulrich: That’s not what I was going to ask. Did you know he was watching us the whole time?
Aubere: No. I sort of suspected since Xana is a massive thread to the IDCS and he’d want to keep track of that. But I didn’t think he would go actually go as far as to spy on all us.
Ulrich: …. Why don’t I believe you?
Aubere: I don’t know. I don’t have any reason to lie.
Odd: Well what did he mean when he said Sara isn’t supposed to be the InterDimensional Guardian?
Aubere: I can’t read minds. How the hell should I know? Both of you just stop asking questions about that! It won’t get us out of here! (Walks away)
Ulrich: She’s hiding something
Odd: I know someone we could ask about that but. I don’t know how to get in contact with him.
Ulrich: You’re not thinking of asking the IDCS Manager?
Odd: No. I only know this guy’s name but I think he’s her boyfriend or something.
Ulrich: Aubere has a boyfriend?
Odd: Well I don’t know for sure that he’s her boyfriend.
Ulrich: What’s his name.
Odd: I think his name’s Maxwell.
A nearby tree shakes and there’s a thud.
Ulrich: What was that?
Odd: I don’t know.
Reverse William: (Steps out of the nearby bushes) Hi guys! What’ch do’in!
Odd: Nothing go away.
Reverse William: are you going to that place you always go.
Ulrich: What are you talking about?
Reverse William: I know you sneak off to that abandoned wear house or whatever all the time. I wanna come too.
Odd: Hell no!
Reverse William: Pfft. Well I guess I’ll just go by myself then. (Opens the sewer passage) I don’t need you wimps to show me the way.
Odd: We don’t know what you’re talking about!
Reverse William: (glares at Odd) You going to try to stop me you original dimension jackass?
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Chapter 12 Reverse William is Insane
Ulrich shifts into a fighting stance. Odd starts to take a step back but Reverse William grabs his shirt, pulls Odd close, punches him in the face, then throws him against a tree.
Reverse William: I can’t have you getting in my way now that the seal is gone.
Ulrich: (Tries to kick Reverse William)
Reverse William: (Catches Ulrich’s foot) I hope that’s not your best.
Ulrich: Ungh! (Pulls his foot from Reverse William’s grip losing his shoe and falling down in the process)
Reverse William: Pfft. You’re pathetic. Nothing can stop me from leaving this dimension especially not you humans.
Ulrich: Hey you’re human too. (stands back up)
Reverse William: You think I’m one of you? Ha! I am far from human. I’ll admit that this empty vessel I claimed as my own during the birth of this dimension has its limits but I am still an all powerful Immortal.
Odd: What the heck?
Ulrich: Xana was bad enough now we have to deal with some creep with a godcomplex?
Reverse William: You dare insult me? I was going to be merciful and spare your pathetic lives however I’ve reconsidered that.
Ulrich: (This guy is serious) Crap
Reverse William: I don’t think you worthless lower beings comprehend the gravity of the situation you’ve placed yourselves in. (Tosses Ulrich’s shoe aside)
Strange Hooded Man: OW! (comes out of the bushes rubbing his face with his right hand and holding Ulrich’s shoe in his left) Now it’s my turn to be pissed.
Reverse William: (Looks over at the strange man) Who do you think you are?
Strange Hooded Man: Well for starters I’m the one who sealed you into this dimension the second you found a useable vessel. What are you anyway? An ancient evil bent on destroying mankind? No not possible for this dimensional zone. It’s only 500 lontyars old. You’re too old for that. You must be a wizard who obtained Immortality but doesn’t understand how it works.
Reverse William: What did you say!
Strange Hooded Man: The idea that full Immortality is possible is a farce! Those who have obtained Immortality cannot die from, age, illness, or poison. All other means of death are possible. You can be killed by a average human. Now (raises his right hand towards Reverse William) the threat you pose will be put to an end. (Launches a sphere of energy at Reverse William Slamming him through eight trees, and a fence, then into a parked car.) Humph. That should hold him off for a long time. Are the two of you ok?
Ulrich: We’re fine.
Odd: Speak for yourself. My back is killing me.
Strange Hooded Man: Do you mean literally or is that just an expression?
Odd: What? Um I don’t know.
Strange Hooded Man: (helps Odd up) No matter. (releases a burst of blue light into Odd’s body) That should help either way. (Walks over to Ulrich) I believe this is yours. (Hands Ulrich his shoe)
Ulrich: Um. Thanks. Who are you anyway.
Strange Hooded Man: I am the man in charge of the IDCS.
Odd: …. Hey have we met before?
Strange Hooded Man: W-what? No you’re mistaken. (vanishes)
Ulrich: He sure left in a hurry.
Odd: I know I’ve heard that guy’s voice before.
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Chapter 13 Guess Who’s Back. Again
Reverse Sara sits in a tree in the park typing on Aelita’s laptop, she’s wearing regular Sara’s cloths. Suddenly the branch she’s sitting on is struck by lightning from below and she falls out of the tree. A girl that looks just like her only with black hair (thought it’s blond at the roots), and dark cloths.
Reverse Sara: A-Aras.
Aras: Hello Original. Bad news for you is I’ve gotten stronger since the stuff that happened in the parallel dimension. You won’t survive this time.
Reverse Sara: I- I’m not going to fight you Aras.
Aras: Good then this will be quick! (Charges Energy)
Reverse Odd: (Walking past on his way to the sewer passage. Stops) What the hell now there’s two of you? One chicken is enough thank you!
Aras: (looks over her shoulder at Reverse Odd) Not you again. Look just stay out of my way.
Reverse Odd: What are you her sister or something?
Aras: Hua? Wait you’re different. Is this another parallel dimension. I was sure I had the right coordinates. Oh well (returns attention to Reverse Sara) I have a full charge one hit and you’re dead.
Reverse Odd: (sighs) Yo! Evil twin chick? If you’re going to do something then quit stalling.
Aras: Excuse me! (Fires a beam of energy as she starts to turn towards Reverse Odd but misses causing Reverse Sara to scream) Wait a minute. She really is afraid? (Points over her shoulder at Reverse Sara) Oh I get it. (Looks back at Reverse Sara) You’re the other one. I don’t have a problem with you. You gotta dress different though. I can’t keep confusing you with the real one. This is what the seventh time.
Reverse Sara: It’s t-the eighth time.
Aras: Don’t correct me. Well no point in staying here (disappears)
Reverse Odd: Your sister is weirder than you are.
Reverse Sara: (mumbles something inaudible)
Reverse Odd: What was that?
Reverse Sara: Nothing. T-thanks for saving me again.
Reverse Odd: What are you talking about? I didn’t do anything.
Reverse Sara: If she had hit me with that attack-
Reverse Odd: Are you kidding me she was bluffing.
Reverse Sara: Thank you anyway.
Reverse Odd: Whatever. (continues on his way mumbling) That was suspicious. Then again almost everything about that girl is. I guess that’s just normal for her.
Meanwhile in the Reverse Dimension Aubere walks through the sewers to the factory to meet Sara and Aelita to see if they’ve made any progress when Odd sneaks up behind her. She turns around and punches him in the face.
Aubere: Why are you following me!
Odd: I wasn’t I was going to see how Sara’s doing and you just happened to be going to the same place.
Aubere: Whatever just go keep Reverse Jeremy out of trouble they guy’s a bigger idiot than you.
Odd: Yeah. Hey! Anyway I’m tired of being an asshole at least here I can drop the act for a little while.
Aubere: I guess it’s good that you’re better at acting than Sara is. Or we’d be in deep shit.
Odd: She’s not that bad at acting.
Aubere and ???: Yeah she kind of is.
Odd: (looks around) Who else is here.
Aubere: (shrugs)
Maxwell: (steps out of the shadows) Sorry to scare you It’s only me.
Aubere: M-Maxwell what are you doing here?
Maxwell: I was looking for you. Do you guys always hang out in the sewer?
Aubere: I Um It’s a shortcut to a pizza place.
Maxwell: Uh hua.
Aubere: OH look at the time I should be going now. Bye. (runs off towards the factory)
Odd: You’re not going to follow her?
Maxwell: Naw. I just wanted to freak her out.
Odd: Why are you here anyway.
Maxwell: Eh I got bored. I wanted to see how you were doing with your girl troubles.
Odd: (What’s with this guy?) Oh um things are going good. I’m dating the girl I liked now I didn’t really get to use your advice though. She actually asked me out.
Maxwell: That’s good. So what’s the girl’s name? You never told me that last time we talked.
Odd: Oh right. Her name is Sara
Maxwell: Ok then so how are things between the two of you?
Odd: Good other than being in a parallel dimension where we both have to pretend to hate each other when we’re around people from this dimension otherwise we’ll be in huge trouble. Oh speaking of huge trouble I actually ended up using both the magic save someone from near death stones you gave me. So thanks.
Maxwell: Both of them? I hope it wasn’t on the same person.
Odd: Actually…
Maxwell: It was Sara both times wasn’t it. I should have known. She and Aubere are always getting into trouble but at least Aubere’s careful in dangerous situations. Sara’s so reckless
Odd: Yeah but how do you know that?
Maxwell: I’m from the same town as Sara and Aubere. We’ve all been friends since we were little kids. They’re almost like my sisters.
Odd: Oh that makes sense. Oh hey we’re stuck in this dimension. Is there any way You could help us get back?
Maxwell: Sorry I’m sort of on Magical probation. Anywhere I go and my reasons for going there has to be approved by the IDCS manager. He told me I’m not allowed to help anyone in this dimension regardless of the situation. Which totally sucks because what if I saw a guy having a heart attack or choking or something I wouldn’t be able to help him. Anyway he obviously wants someone to do something on their own and doesn’t want me accidently preventing that. Though I suppose since your problem is that you’re stuck here, (pulls out a piece of paper and a pencil) I could draw you a map it probably won’t help you but looking at it may give you some inspiration on how to figure out your problem on your own.
Odd: That sounds good. I guess.
Maxwell: Ok (sits down on the concrete) Pardon my drawing Art’s not my best subject. And it’s just going to be a bunch of circles anyway. (looks up at Odd) You’re probably gonna want to sit down.
Odd: Oh right. (sits down)
Maxwell: (Draws a circle) This circle is a dimension parallel to yours. Actually this is the original yours was formed later. (Draws two circles) form this dimension formed another dimension that divided into two dimensions that were exactly the same in every way. That is until an outsider (Draws a star on the lower circle) Entered this one. This is your dimension. (Draws a circle off in a corner) this is the dimension that Sara, Aubere, and I are from. Now (Draws another circle that just barely overlaps the circle with the star on it) This is a dimension that was formed from an energy burst from yours. (draws another circle next to the upper circle) This is a dimension that’s starting to form parallel to your dimension’s twin It’s highly unstable and is actually not even in the same dimensional zone. Don’t ask about it because it’s not important to your situation and I’m not explaining it. Anyway I’m just going to Label this one EU DNE as in Extremely Unstable Do Not Enter. (hands Odd the map) There. Like I said It’s not going to help you but who knows it may give someone in your group an epiphany.
Odd: What?
Maxwell: An idea.
Odd: Oh thanks.
Maxwell: By the way that’s just a small part of this dimensional zone it’s not the whole dimensional universe. I better get out of here in case I did break the no helping anyway rule by giving you that map. Bye. (Disappears)
Odd: Hum. Ok. Now how am I supposed to explain this to the others. (takes another look at the sheet of paper) Oh good he left notes. (Continues on his way to the factory)
I swear that Odd and Maxwell’s conversation will make more sense once I’ve gone back and edited my old stories to make them better.
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Chapter 14 TV Makes You Into Zombie… Like Creatures.
Jeremy sits in the lab at the factory when the supercomputer starts beeping.
Jeremy: Uh oh. Activated tower. Alright Xana what are you up to this time? (Types something) Controlling the TV signals again? Whatever you’re up to I’ll stop it. (Types something) There that should slow you down until the others can get to the tower. Wait how am I going to get in touch with them. Wait no I’ll have to get their reverse selves to help I just hope I can contact them.
Meanwhile Reverse Odd gets a soda from the vending machine shack and begins walking towards the park when he notices a huge crowd of students just stumbling around.
Reverse Odd: Ugh. I can’t get through this way.
Reverse Aelita: Uhhhhng (stumbling towards Reverse Odd)
Reverse Odd: Hey you don’t look so good. You should go see the nurse.
Reverse Yumi: (Stumbles up behind Reverse Odd and grabs his arm) Unnnnngh
Reverse Odd: W-what’s going on here?
Reverse Ulrich: (Crawls up and Pulls Reverse Odd’s leg out from under him) Bwarrr
Reverse Odd: This isn’t funny! (kicks Reverse Ulrich and stands up)
Reverse Yumi: (starts Scratching Reverse Odd’s arm)
Reverse Odd: OW QUIT IT!
Random student: (Stumbles up and starts trying to rip Reverse Odd’s hair out) Uuuungh!
Reverse Odd: AHHHG! Get away from me. (Kicks his way out of the group of people and starts running blindly into the crowd) Get away Get away! (trips over someone one the ground) Stay away! You Zombies! (Kicks the person he tripped over)
Reverse Sara: OW! Please Everyone snap out of it.
Reverse Odd: You’re not one of them? Sorry. (Grabs Reverse Sara’s arm) Come on we have to go. (gets up and runs again dragging reverse Sara with him.)
Reverse Sara: Where are we going?
Reverse Odd: underground. It should be safe there.
The two Reverse Warriors head for the sewer passage. Once inside with the manhole cover sealed behind them they stop to catch their breath.
Reverse Odd: Damn it. huff . So. Huff. many zombies.
Reverse Sara: This is probably the enemy forming an army out of those poor people
Reverse Odd: Whatever it is it’s affecting the others. All of them even that narcissist that deactivated the towers.
Reverse Sara: Aelita’s not a narcissist she just has some slightly narcissistic tendencies.
Reverse Odd: Whatever.
Reverse Sara: It’s like how you’re not really a jerk. You just act mean to keep yourself from being hurt.
Reverse Odd: H-how would you know why I do anything! Bitch.
Reverse Sara: You’re right I barely know any of you except Aubere. I have no right to judge. Really I’m just giving you the benefit of the doubt.
Reverse Odd: I hope the zombies go back to normal soon. I don’t know how long I can stay down here.
Reverse Sara: Let’s go to the factory. Maybe there’s something we can do to help all those people.
Reverse Odd: Since when are you brave?
Reverse Sara: I’m not. I’m terrified right now. But If I don’t start trying to become stronger I’ll end up being so afraid of everything that I never leave my house. I’ll be like the crazy old ladies with the cats except in my early 20’s… and afraid of cats.
Reverse Odd: Well what about your condition that you never actually said what it does? We’ve been doing a lot of running.
Reverse Sara: Physical exertion won’t trigger my condition. It’s more if I’m in a fight or something the combination of exertion and damage causes my body to break down.
Reverse Odd: (She sounds like a robot the way she’s talking.) That’s normal for anyone who takes too much damage.
Reverse Sara: It’s not the same as normal for me. It’s complicated. Anyway let’s go. The sooner we get this over with the sooner we can get away from these rats that look like they want to eat us. (hides behind Reverse Odd)
Reverse Odd: (Pulls away From Reverse Sara) Were you touching me!? (Punches Reverse Sara in the stomach)
Reverse Sara: (coughs) S-sorry I- I p- panicked.
Reverse Odd: Whatever. Let’s just get out of this cramped drainage tunnel.
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Chapter 15 This Might Be a Problem.
Reverse Sara And Reverse Odd reach the factory only to find it infested with more zombie-people.
Reverse Odd: Damn it.
Reverse Sara: I-I guess we can’t g-go this way.
Reverse Odd: Guess not. Maybe if we wait here this attack will just end.
Reverse Sara: You know someone has to deactivate the tower in order for all this to end.
Reverse Odd: Well who’s going to deactivate the tower? The Narcissist is the only one who can deactivate towers and she’s one of THEM! (Points down at all the zombies who look up when he yells)
Reverse Sara: We’ll think of something. But we have to get there first. (Looks up then starts climbing one of the ropes hanging from the rafters)
Reverse Odd: Where are you going?
Reverse Sara: I can see the situation better from here. You should come too they can’t climb up here if we cut the ropes.
Reverse Odd: With what! You got a pair of safety-scissors you baby?
Reverse Sara: Not exactly.
Reverse Odd: I’ll pass. It’s cramped up there with all the support beams. Just cut the ropes so they can’t get to you and they have to go the long way to get to me.(Turns towards the entrance)
Reverse Sara: A-alright. But it’s not cramped up here at all.
Reverse Odd: Still pass!
Reverse Sara: (her hand’s turn into dragon’s talons which she uses to cut the ropes)
Reverse Odd: Wait how are you going to get down later? (Turns around)
Reverse Sara: (Hides her talons behind her back) I already have that planned.
Reverse Odd: What?
Reverse Sara: (Gasps) Odd behind you!
Reverse Odd: Hua? (Turns around) Aw Crap. (Backs up as a hoard of zombies approaches him trough the entrance) This might be a problem. (Finds himself almost over the edge of the upper walk-way and the lower main area of the factory with hundreds of Zombies below ready to grab and attack him) A really big problem.
Reverse Sara: (Releases her wings ripping the back of her dress in the process) Don’t move.
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Chapter 16 Um Stuff is Going Down. And They’re Doing Nothing to Stop it?
Having not heard Reverse Sara’s warning, Reverse Odd takes another step backwards as the hoard of zombies clogging the factory’s main entrance approaches him. He falls down into the even larger hoard of zombies below. The zombies immediately start trying to rip him apart. He tries to run but there’s barely any room to move much less run. He tries to fight but finds himself unable to free himself from the grip of the Zombies that are attacking him to even fight. As he begins to lose consciousness in the sea of Zombies Reverse Sara glides down before hovering just above the portion of the zombies who are attacking Reverse Odd. Using the air from her wings to push the Zombies back to make space she lands next to Reverse Odd who at this point has completely lost consciousness. She uses magic to generate a mini-tornado. With her and Reverse Odd safely protected by the eye she picks him up and flies back to the rafters of the factory just as the tornado disperses dropping the zombies it picked up injuring some but not killing anyone. She lies Reverse Odd down on the support beam, retracts her wings, and heals his injuries. During this process he wakes up.
Reverse Odd: Ughh. Am I dead? (Looks over at Reverse Sara) Oh you’re here too? So are we dead or what. If so what did you do to end up in hell?
Reverse Sara: Heh heh. We’re still in the factory. And you haven’t done anything bad enough to go to hell?
Reverse Odd: Seriously? You thought that was funny? Wait did you just say you don’t think I’m a bad person.
Reverse Sara: Yeah. You’re a good person you’re just mean to people.
Reverse Odd: What about all the emotional torture for the past few years.
Reverse Sara: Your dimension only formed a few weeks ago. Two point five weeks to be exact. All your memories before that time are real for you and people born with the dimension but people pulled into the dimension at the moment of its creation… Our memories of events that happened to us in there only go back to… To the beginning of that Dimension’s existence.
Reverse Odd: (sits up) What are you talking about the world was created over millions of years.
Reverse Sara: I Don’t doubt that. It takes millions of years for dimensions to naturally form but the dimension you were born and everyone in that dimension is a clone of this dimension and everyone in it.
Reverse Odd: And clones age faster. Ok that makes sense now. For a second there I thought you were rejecting scientifically proven fact.
Reverse Sara: It did kind of sound like that.
Reverse Odd: So Time moves faster in our dimension?
Reverse Sara: Not as fast as it use to. The Time Guardian slowed time down there so the dimension wouldn’t naturally collapse within a year when it usually takes millions of years for an entire dimension’s energy to cause a natural collapse Or at least I think she did. There’s no way to know for sure. Now it’s just approximately 21 hours faster than this dimension.
Reverse Odd: Cool. So. What exactly is your take on string theory?
Reverse Sara: Taking into consideration that Dimensions as defined by string theory and dimensions as defined by travelers of the multiverse are not the same thing... I really can’t say. I guess It’s possible that multiple strings could exist in an individual universe but other than that I don’t have enough data to create any more theories
Reverse Odd: I see. So you’ve been to a lot of other dimensions hua?
Reverse Sara: Yeah. Trying to find a place where I belong where I’m not in anyone’s shadow.
Reverse Odd: So you travel between different dimensions but you still can’t get us home?
Reverse Sara: This is a difficult situation the two dimensions overlap at some point so opening a portal between the two is not possible. The scanners seem to be our only option.
Reverse Odd: Can we take a longer route. Go into a different dimension then back to ours from there?
Reverse Sara: That’s extremely difficult. Long story short Aubere already tried that and she’s still lost somewhere. I’m sure she’ll be back here soon. I made her memorize this dimension’s signature something I wish we had done for our dimension.
Reverse Odd: Damn the tubes of death really are our only option.
Reverse Sara: Say Odd. Are you claustrophobic?
Reverse Odd: What? Where did you get that idea.
Reverse Sara: You try to avoid elevators as much as possible, you seem more irritable in the drainage tunnel any time we have to travel through it, You’re uncomfortable in crowds, and you keep calling the scanners tubes of death.
Reverse Odd: I should have known you’d figure it out. I wasn’t making any attempts to hide it but no one else seemed to notice. Or care.
Reverse Sara: I’m sorry for all those times you had to go to the virtual world.
Reverse Odd: It’s fine. It’s not like Aubere would let me stay behind if I had said anything.
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Chapter 17 Finally!
Reverse Sara looks down into the sea of zombies.
Reverse Sara: We have to do something. We’re safe up here but who knows how many other people are getting hurt because of this.
Reverse Odd: You’re right but what can we do? If we go down there we’ll be ripped apart. Even if we could get to the lab it’s probably overrun too.
Reverse Sara: We have to try.
Reverse Odd: I don’t know I like living.
Reverse Sara: If we don’t millions of people could die.
Reverse Odd: …. Damn. Alright. You got a plan?
Reverse Sara: If we can get to the elevator…
Reverse Odd: Which we can’t.
Reverse Sara: I could keep them away until the door closed. You could stay on the roof until them then you can drop down through the maintenance hatch.
Reverse Odd: How would that work?
Reverse Sara: Well you’d have to get in the elevator before it got low otherwise they’ll get in through the roof.
Reverse Odd: Not that. The you keeping them away part. Are you sure you can handle that?
Reverse Sara: Please just trust me.
Reverse Odd: But how will we get down there?
Reverse Sara: (Releases her wings) We’ll glide.
Reverse Odd: Whoa.
Reverse Sara: (Moves closer to Reverse Odd) I’m going to need touch you in order to get both of us down there. Is that alright with you?
Reverse Odd: (Holds out his hand) Alright let’s hurry this up.
Reverse Sara: (Takes Reverse Odd’s hand) If I carry you by just your hand I’ll drop you. I don’t have the strength.
Reverse Odd: (Sighs pulling back his hand) I was afraid you’d say that. (Stands up) Now we really need to Hurry.
Reverse Sara: Raise your arms please.
Reverse Odd: You’re confident all the sudden. (Does as he’s told)
Reverse Sara: (grabs Reverse Odd’s armpits using her elbows) Actually I’m terrified, But this is something we have to do. You can lower your arms now.
Reverse Odd: (lowers his arms) Do you need me to jump of the edge or what?
Reverse Sara: On three we both jump. One. Two… Three.
The two Reverse Warriors jump off the support beam and float over the zombies to the elevator. Reverse Sara Lets go of Reverse Odd once above the elevator. She hovers above for a bit giving him a chance to move before landing next to him. Reverse Odd opens the maintenance hatch and looks down into the elevator.
Reverse Odd: There’s a lot of them in there. You sure you’re up for this?
Reverse Sara: No but we don’t have a choice (uses magic to force the zombies out of the elevator then drops down into it)
Reverse Odd: Holy Cthulian puppies! What the hell did you just do?
Reverse Sara: (using wind to hold back the zombies) Cthulhu is actually a fictional multiverse-beast called Carlootose the Protector who was misidentified as a destructive monster by the beings of many dimensions due to his size, clumsiness and nightmarish appearance.
Reverse Odd: What the hell? Did you just make that up?
Reverse Sara: Nope. (Pushes a bunch of the zombies against the wall with a powerful burst of wind before she presses the button) Quick get inside. (pushes the next wave back with another burst of wind as the door starts to close)
Reverse Odd: (Jumps into the elevator and closes the maintenance hatch just before the elevator begins moving) That was amazing.
Reverse Sara: Thank you.
Reverse Odd: (starts breathing faster) Oh huff crap huff. (sits down) I forgot huff how huf cramped huff it was huf in here huff.
Reverse Sara: Careful! You’ll hyperventilate and pass out!
Reverse Odd: I need huf a distraction huf. Tell me huf about huf the huf Cthulhu huf thing huf again huf.
The elevator door opens into the lab.
Reverse Sara: No need. We’re here.
Reverse Odd: (Stands up and rushes into the lab moving as far away from the elevator)
Jeremy: It’s about time! While you two were discussing string theory Xana’s been having the zombies cause all kinds of damage. If things aren’t stopped soon someone could die.
Reverse Odd: (coughs)
Reverse Sara: Sorry.
Jeremy: So What happened to the others?
Reverse Odd: They were affected by the outbreak. (stands up regaining his composure) It’s just us.
Jeremy: This isn’t a virus like in some stupid game. Xana used television signals to gain control of almost everyone in the city. If we don’t do something he could do it again somewhere else. Or worse.
Reverse Odd: Would turning the super computer off for a few minutes be enough to stop this?
Jeremy: Maybe but If we do that we lose all the progress we’ve made trying to get you all home.
Reverse Odd: First of all. What progress! We’re not any closer to getting home. Second the only other way is to deactivate the tower that’s not possible. And finally it’s called saving your progress! Are you stupid.
Jeremy: I did save, but Xana planted a virus in some of the data we turn of the supercomputer and everything gets deleted. Including the program that runs the scanners. Turning the supercomputer off isn’t an option until I’ve gotten rid of the virus.
Reverse Odd: Well we can’t deactivate the tower. Only the pink haired narcissist can do that. Oh and I Guess your version can too.
Reverse Sara: We could try destroying the tower.
Reverse Odd: …. Maybe that could take hours we don’t have that kind of time.
Jeremy: If you both go to Lyoko and cut the tower’s connections that might be enough for me to be able to hack the signal and reverse it’s effects.
Reverse Sara: I’ll go. (moves hand to press the elevator button but Jeremy stops her)
Jeremy: We have a no solo missions policy here. You both have to go.
Reverse Sara: But. (Looks at Reverse Odd) um
Reverse Odd: Go ahead. He was watching us he already knows.
Reverse Sara: Odd’s claustrophobic. He just had an anxiety attack from being in the elevator. making him get in the scanners right away would be dangerous for him. We might not even need two people to go anyway. Let me go first see what I can do on my own. If we need to Odd can come help after he’s had time to recover.
Jeremy: I don’t know.
Reverse Sara: This is non-negotiable. (presses the button)
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Chapter 18 Back to Lyoko
Reverse Sara lands on Lyoko’s forest sector in a slightly altered virtual form. She’s no longer carrying the laptop she had before.
Reverse Sara: This is different.
Jeremy: Is everything alright.
Reverse Sara: My outfit is different and I don’t have anything to use as a weapon now.
Reverse Odd: Yes you do I went in and made a few changes. The USB cables are retractable now and built in to a device on your right arm that replaces the laptop. Tap the circle and a holographic screen and keyboard should come up.
Reverse Sara: Wow this is great but I’m right handed.
Reverse Odd: I know I meant to put it on your left arm but I messed up I’ll fix that with the next upgrade. Oh and you should still have a power cord plugged into your left shoulder. It can make the attacks of the monsters you plug into stronger but at the cost of some of your life points.
Reverse Sara: Thank you.
Reverse Odd: Maybe now you can be useful in a fight.
Jeremy: The tower is just south of your current position. Hurry and get to the tower.
Reverse Sara: Right.
Meanwhile on the Reverse Lyoko Sara, Yumi, and Aelita are inside a tower. Aelita is messing with the interface inside the tower.
Sara: How long is this going to take.
Aelita: The more we know about this dimension the easier it will be to find the point where the two dimensions intersect.
Sara: But using the towers? What good will that even do? There won’t be any data on the nature of the dimension’s energy.
Yumi: You’re the InterDimensional Guardian. You should have found that out by now.
Sara: Yeah but I haven’t figured out how to do that yet. Apparently I wasn’t supposed to be the InterDimensional Guardian. I can tell when a dimension is unstable because its energy will attack me and shorten the amount of time I have to live. I get temporary abilities from it. This dimension is stable that’s all I can tell.
Aelita: I think I’ve got all the data I can for the moment. At the very least Maybe we can open a line of communication between the two dimensions.
Aubere: (on earth running the supercomputer) That would have been easier if this dimension wasn’t cut-off from the IDCS
Aelita: That’s not something we have control over.
Ulrich: (Also on earth) It doesn’t help that the guy in charge of the IDCS hates Aubere.
Aubere: I wouldn’t say he hates me. He’s a bit peeved that I accidently did something to hurt his little sister but he doesn’t hate me.
Sara: You’re hiding something Aubere I don’t like that.
Aubere: Look It doesn’t matter.
Yumi: Whatever just get us back to earth already.
Back on Lyoko Reverse Sara is running low on life points. She’s a short distance from the tower but there are too many enemies for her to make a break for it. Reverse Odd slowly appears a few feet away in the air above her. He drops down landing on one knee one foot and one hand. He stands up and draws one of his weapons.
Reverse Odd: Damn. I was worried I would have to get in the tubes of death sooner than that.
Reverse Sara: Sorry.
Reverse Odd: Why are you sorry? It’s a compliment. Look out! (Shoots a tarantula in the spot on its head containing Xana’s mark destroying it)
Reverse Sara: (Plugs the end of a USB cable into a hidden spot on a Megatank and uses it as a shield)
Reverse Odd: The second we have an opening we’ll run for the tower and se it for cover. Maybe we can trick them into destroying it for us.
Reverse Sara: Right. (nods) I think I have a way to make an opening but I’ll need help.
Reverse Odd: (Looks at Reverse Sara) What are you-? Oh I get it. (walks over to Reverse Sara and ducks down behind the Megatank) so how are we going to do this?
Reverse Sara: On three I’ll unplug this thing then we push
Reverse Odd: Right let’s do this.
Reverse Sara: One. Two. (Grips the end of the USB cable) Three!
Reverse Sara yanks out the USB cable which quickly retracts into her wrist. The two Reverse Warriors start pushing the Megatank towards the group of monsters. Luckily there’s a slight slope and they don’t have to push long. The spherical monster rolls towards a wall of Bloks knocking several of them over the edge of the platform. The Megatank its self manages to recover stopping it’s self before it too can fall over the edge. Reverse Sara and Reverse Odd run tower. The Megatank Opens and turns towards them.
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Chapter 19 The Attack’s End but new problems begin
Reverse Odd looks back and sees the monster preparing launch its attack. He looks back at Reverse Sara who’s heading towards the back area of the tower where the wire-like things come up from the ground into the tower. He pushes her into the side of the tower the jumps in behind her.
The platform inside the tower shakes just as Reverse Sara stands up knocking her back off her feet.
Reverse Odd: Are you alright? (Stands up and holds out his hand to help Reverse Sara up)
Reverse Sara: Yeah. That was close.
Jeremy: (Yelling into his microphone causing a staticy noise with every word) Hey! If you guys are going to do something it has to be now!
Reverse Odd: What’s happening on that end?
Jeremy: It looks like Xana is gathering all the zombies near the river and on the roofs of buildings. If this isn’t stopped now the entire city could be forced to commit mass suicide.
Reverse Odd: There’s not enough time to go back out side and cut the connections.
Reverse Sara: I have an Idea. Could you slow Xana down for a couple minutes?
Jeremy: Maybe.
Reverse Sara: (moves to the center of the tower) Ok try it. I’m going to see if my plan will work. (floats to the second level of the tower) Honestly I think It’s our only remaining option.
Reverse Odd: Ugh this tower is too small.
Reverse Sara walks towards the interface inspecting the surface. She accidentally bumps it. Red letters appear across the screen. Error. Panicking she jams the end of the USB cable into the lower right corner of the interface. Lines appear across the screen making it look as if it’s cracked. Then they recede back to the USB cable. The message on the screen disappears. Reverse Sara brings up the interface and hologram keyboard that are built into her arm and begins trying to type. After a minute a new message or rather a name appears on the tower’s interface. WALDO. Reverse Sara Looks at the interface with confusion? Just before the name disappears and is replaced with a new word with letters slowly appearing undernereth it. CODE. L-Y-O-K-O.
Reverse Odd: What’s happening up there? Can we leave? Or did we fail in the least epic way possible.
Reverse Sara: I’m not sure a weird name appeared on the screen then the Words Code Lyoko appeared.
Jeremy: If that’s what happened then the tower should have deactivated
The strange data windows on the inside of the tower suddenly begin rapidly descending towards the bottom of the tower below the first level platform.
Reverse Odd: What the hell?
Reverse Sara: Oops I think I broke the tower. I’m so sorry.
Reverse Odd: No that’s what we wanted now the enemy can’t use it!
Jeremy: The tower’s not broken. I don’t know how you did it but you deactivated the tower. Uh-oh. Something’s wrong. It’s not letting me launch a return to the past. Just hand out in the tower while I try to figure this out.
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Chapter 20 Aubere’s Secret.
Sara, Yumi, and Aelita step out of the elevator and walk towards Aubere, and Ulrich. Sara moves quickly forcing the chair around and making Aubere look at her.
Sara: Stand up! (Grabs Aubere’s arm)
Aubere: Why? What the hell is your problem Sara!
Sara: I’ve just had enough. You’re coming with me (pulls Aubere out of the chair and drags her back into the elevator)
Yumi: What was that about?
Sara pulls Aubere out of the elevator dragging her out of the factory
Aubere: IS THIS REALLY NESSICARY!
Sara: The last time I asked you about this you bolted! Traveling into another dimension where I couldn’t follow you. I’m not letting you do that again!
Aubere: I can’t exactly leave the dimension this time.
Sara: I need you to tell me the truth. (lets go of Aubere’s arm) Let’s start with why you seemed scared when the IDCS Manager told me that I’m not supposed to be the InterDimensional Guardian.
Aubere: (sighs) To do that I’ll have to tell you the full story.
Sara: Then do it! (crosses her arms glaring furiously at Aubere) Now.
Aubere: Do you remember when Team Rocket kidnapped you to make clones to make themselves unstoppable?
Sara: I wish I could forget that! What does that have to do with anything!
Aubere: When Aras was created and immediately went rogue everyone evacuated cutting off the life support systems leaving you in the tube with no oxygen to suffocate. I managed to get in there just in time but no matter how much I tried I couldn’t break the tubes from the outside. The only option was giving you the strength to break the tube from the inside. Even with all my power I couldn’t break the tube. So I preformed a hastened version of the ritual that could send my fate and powers to someone else and sent my powers into you. Because of that you were able to break the tube on your own.
Sara: (un crosses her arms) What are you-… no way. You?
Aubere: Yes. I’m the rightful InterDimensional Guardian. But I never wanted to be. I planned on performing the ritual properly with someone who was willing to take the horrible job it’s why I had the IDCS manager teach it to me in the first place. I think he was hoping I would reconsider and that’s why he’s mad at me. The stuff about accidently hurting his sister was a lie. And the lie about the Pokémon Dimension the first time the others asked about it was only a half lie.
Sara: Is that everything?
Aubere: Yes.
Sara: Do you know any way out of this dimension.
Aubere: Not yet. The connection between dimensions must have something to do with how we got here. That’s all I can think- (turns back towards the factory) Did you just feel that?
Sara: Yeah. (Runs back into the factory) Come on! We have to help the others!
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Chapter 21 A Series of Confusing Events
Sara and Aubere rush out of the elevator to find their friends lying on the floor with varying levels of injury. Most of them are unconscious Sara walks over to Odd and sits down on the floor next to him. Aubere start’s checking the pulses of the other Lyoko warriors as well as Reverse Jeremy. Everyone is alive. Sara begins trying to wake Odd up, as Aubere starts trying to find out what happened from Yumi one of the two people who wasn’t unconscious.
Sara: Come on Odd wake up. (Places her hand on Odd’s shoulder and shakes him)
Aubere: Ugh he’s just out cold Sara he’s not annoying when he’s sleeping so stop trying to wake him up!
Yumi: Do you want to know what happened or not?
Aubere: Oh right. Sorry I got distracted. So what happened?
Yumi: Reverse William attacked us. He knocked out Odd, Ulrich, and Aelita. Used magic to trap Reverse Jeremy in the supercomputer’s wiring and to paralyze me.
Reverse Jeremy: Can someone get me down from here!
Sara: Odd hurry up and wake up already.
Aubere: In a minute just shut up for now! So where did Reverse William go?
Yumi: I’m not sure he did something with the supercomputer then he disappeared.
Aubere: I’ll try to see what he did (looks up at Reverse Jeremy) You up there! Don’t move!
Reverse Jeremy: Please get me down?
Aubere: I said don’t move! (walks towards the supercomputer and looks at the screen then stars typing) It looks like he sent himself to Lyoko.
Odd: Ugh My head.
Sara: Finally. (Hugs Odd)
Aubere: Why would Reverse William cause all this damage just to get to Lyoko?
Sara: (Let’s go of Odd and turns to look at Yumi) that spell should wear off completely soon so don’t worry about that.
Aelita: (Sits up) what happened?
Reverse Sara stands in the tower waiting for something to happen. Reverse Odd having become anxious from the small enclosed space has begun pacing around the tower occasionally stomping the platform or punching the air. Finally he breaks down and collapses to the ground punching the floor.
Reverse Sara: Are you ok? (starts to move towards Reverse Odd)
Reverse Odd: Stay away!
Reverse Sara: We better get you out of here. (kneels down next to Reverse Odd) Can you stand? You’ll feel better once we’re outside.
The two Reverse Warriors exit the tower Reverse Odd being dragged by Reverse Sara. They hear the sound of metal on stone. Reverse Sara turns around to see William sitting on the back of a tarantula digging his oversized weapon into the ground.
William: I don’t know what you did but you pissed off the wrong person. (stabs his weapon into the ground)
Jeremy: Xana is a computer program not a person.
William: Shut up! Tricking the tower into thinking you were Franz Hopper so you could deactivate it was cleaver. Unfortunately you have to die now. (pulls his sword out of the ground. Or tries to anyway) ugh. Damn it! It’s stuck.
???: I was not expecting you to be an imbecile.
William: (turns his head to see his reverse self standing behind him holding a staff almost twice his height his virtual form is the same as his from before falling under Xana’s control but with a strange ponytail. ) Who the hell are you supposed to be? (tries once again to pull his sword from the ground)
Reverse Odd: He’s you moron. (he stands up and dusts himself off using his tail)
Reverse Sara: (slowly shuffles backwards mumbling) This is bad. We have to get out of here now. This is going to escalate we don’t want to be here when it does.
William: (Manages to dislodge his sword from the ground but immediately gets it stuck in the tree) Are you kidding me! Seriously Xana! Some help would be nice right now!
Reverse Odd: Yeah cry to your boss like some whiney Team Rocket Grunt! That will get you somewhere.
Reverse William: Un believable. I sent a fraction of myself into that… that stick thrower? This is embarrassing!
William: Pfft! Oh yeah? I’m the embarrassing one? (Dislodges his sword from the tree) well this so called embarrassment is about to tear you a new one pal! (Evaporates into smoke and moves behind Reverse William)
Reverse William: (sighs and strikes his staff against the ground forcing William out of his smoke form he then turns and points the tip of his staff at William then raises it slowly levitating him ) You don’t seem to be receiving any help from this master of yours now do you? This being you call Xana? How pathetic that you can’t do anything without help.
William: W- what is this!
Reverse William: I wonder. Can you swim?
With a subtle gesture Reverse William launches his original self towards the Digital Sea with great force. At the last second a Manta flies up from below the platform. William smashes into it back first causing it to explode. The force of the explosion is barely enough to bounce him back on the ground of the forest sector.
Reverse Odd: …. (Maybe Sara was right. Something about this doesn’t feel right.)
William: Ungh. (Forces himself to stand up) L-lucky shot.
Reverse William: Humph. Lucky for you.
Reverse Odd: (looks around for a way out. [Hey. Where IS Sara?])
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Chapter 22 When One Problem’s Solved Someone Always Has to Throw in More Math
Reverse Sara rushes to the get to the second level of the tower. She franticly tries to stab her USB cable into the interface until she gets it to stay. She rushes to program something.
Jeremy: Hey I cut off communication with all of Lyoko except this tower. What exactly is going on.
Reverse Sara: It’s a long story. The short version is that an evil mage with no body claimed Reverse William’s body as his own at the moment this dimension was cloned by sending a part of his soul into the original. He’s probably here to take it back. If it’s not prevented He’ll destroy everything. I don’t have the strength to stop it. I can try to slow it down but to do that We need a return to the past.
Jeremy: I still can’t get that or the materialization to work.
Reverse Sara: I know it’s because the mage is preventing it. If I’m right I can make it so the two Williams can’t meet by trapping the Reverse Version on Lyoko and keeping the original from being able to ever return to Lyoko. It will take a minute. Never mind It’s done. You should be able to reverse time now. But hurry.
-Setting Shift Earth Original Dimension The Lab-
Jeremy: Right. (begins typing then presses enter) Return to the Past now!
Meanwhile on Reverse Lyoko Sara, Odd, Aubere, and Ulrich are searching the Savannah sector for Reverse William.
Ulrich: What the hell. It’s like he’s not even here.
Odd: Maybe Aubere was wrong.
Aubere: (glares at Odd) Hey Aelita confirmed what the data said. So if I’m wrong she’s wrong too.
Odd: Then the data was wrong.
Ulrich: I think Odd might be right on this one.
Sara: Unless…. (looks at Aubere) Unless he wandered into our Lyoko.
Odd: Is that even possible?
Sara: It’s how we got here. I feel really stupid why didn’t someone think of this earlier? The dimensions connect through Lyoko.
Aelita: I think I found some data that confirms Sara’s theory
Odd: Great it should be easy to get home now right?
Aubere: Finding the exact spot might not be as easy.
Sara: Though if I was the rightful InterDimensional Guardian and knew what I was doing I could sense the spot and we’d be out of this mess.
Aubere: You too? Really? It’s bad enough the IDCS manager is constantly making me feel guilty about that. What is it that pisses you off the most about it that it shortened your life!?
Odd: I’m confused.
Ulrich: I want no part of this conversation. (walks away)
Sara: The only part that pisses me off is you didn’t ask me about it when you first thought about passing on your powers. I would have helped you. and who knows if we did the ritual I might not have been captured and stuck in a glass tube filled with water for three weeks. At the very least I would have known what was going on when I suddenly developed magical transformation abilities that I had no business having.
Aubere: (sighs)
Aelita: Sorry to interrupt but it looks like the dimensions are more than connected through Lyoko.
Sara: What are you talking about.
Aelita: There aren’t two Lyokos. Instead there’s just one Lyoko that the dimensions share It’s split into two halves. Normally they’re connected through the corresponding sectors. The Desert on our half connects to the Savannah here, Forest to jungle, mountain to volcano, Ice to ocean. but Xana mixed things up and changed the connection points which is how we got to the ocean sector from the mountain sector. Even worse is that it looks like Reverse William forced his way into our half of Lyoko. Somehow doing that managed to weaken the connections. they’re too weak for us to find them and if we do using them is one way. We’d be home but our reverse selves wouldn’t be able to get back here. I can put the connections as they were if I could contact our Jeremy but…
Aubere: but we haven’t had any success with that.
Sara: I guess we’ll just have to convince the Guy in charge of the IDCS to help us. Hopefully he’s not too pissed at Aubere still.
Odd: Well this sucks. It’s just like school. When one problem’s solved someone always has to throw in more math. Seriously why do we need to know about avocado numbers?
Sara: I thought it was Avocado’s number.
Aubere: It’s Avogadro’s number.
Sara: That’s what we just said.
Aubere: You never listen to a word Mrs. Hertz says do you.
Sara and Odd: Nope.
Sara: Besides Jim is a better science teacher. Our dimension’s version. this dimension’s version doesn’t light his hair on fire
Aubere: ….. I have no idea how I’m supposed respond to that. (looks around) Well anyway we’re not going to get much done around here.
Aelita: Hey guys. What happened to Ulrich?
Aubere: He walked away earlier.
Aelita: It’s not showing him at all.
Sara: He probably found a Megatank or something and got devirtualized.
Odd: It’s probably nothing to worry about. Unless he fell into the digital sea.
Yumi: WHAT!
Reverse Jeremy: OW MY FACE!
Sara: Sounds like Yumi can move again.
Yumi: What about Ulrich falling into the digital sea.
Aelita: It’s fine. That didn’t happen but he’s not on Lyoko and the security cameras in the scanner room show that he didn’t come back to earth.
Sara: Well that doesn’t sound good.
Yumi: He just disappeared?
Aubere: Weeell. He’s probably not dead. So there’s that.
Yumi: PROBABLY!
Sara: If he’s not on Lyoko or earth there’s nothing we can do.
Aelita: His data is probably hidden somehow. We’ll find him. I’m going to bring the rest of you back so we don’t lose anyone else. It’s possible he wandered back into our half of Lyoko but I think I’d still be able to find some data to indicate as much like with Reverse William but there’s nothing like that at all. Until we find out what happened to Ulrich we shouldn’t go to lyoko.
Sara: This situation just got more confusing.
Odd: (moans) Great more math.
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Chapter 23 Distractions Distractions
Reverse Sara and Reverse Odd go back to the factory after the return to the past leaving the other Reverse Warriors behind. Jeremy who has only left the factory once since his friends were switched with their reverse selves is already there waiting for them in the entryway when they arrive.
Jeremy: It looks like what you did worked. At least for now. And thanks to Reverse William… Or rather your dimension’s William we know that the two Lyokos are connected or even two halves of the same world. Unfortunately we’d have to get past him to for you to get back there.
Reverse Sara: At least we’re on the right track.
Jeremy: I think I might be able to isolate the connection points, but it would take some time. In the meantime I need you two to make sure no one at school suspects anything about what’s going on.
Reverse Odd: No. I’m not pretending to be dating her (points at Reverse Sara) just so people will think things are normal.
Reverse Sara: You should go to class yourself instead of using a polymorphic specter as your slave.
Jeremy: Where did that come from?
Reverse Sara: Clones are people too. Everyone in our dimension is a clone of someone in this one. Watching clones being used as substitutes, or tools is unbearable.
Reverse Odd: (sighs)
Jeremy: Anyway making sure things seem normal is an even higher priority than before. Because now that this dimension’s William is stuck on earth someone has to keep him from causing trouble.
Sara: You should get to work on finding a solution for this problem. (releases her wings and flies away)
Reverse Odd: She really seems to care about clone’s rights. (Turns around) I guess I better go find her)
Jeremy: I’m going back to the lab. I’ll let you know if I find anything.
Reverse Odd: Whatever. (leaves the factory)
Jeremy turns and swings down into the main room and heads for the elevator. Once he finally makes it back to the lab he paces around the room and thinking. Finally he looks at the screens of the supercomputer, adjusts his glasses, and goes to sit down in the chair. At that moment Reverse Aubere is flung out of a portal face first into a wall. He rolls his eyes and sits down in his usual spot.
Reverse Aubere: Ugh. (stands up and rubs her face) I’m fine thank’s for asking.
Jeremy: I didn’t ask.
Reverse Aubere: I know I was being sarcastic. Jeeze what is your problem with me?
Jeremy: I don’t have a problem with you personally. It’s just that everything you’ve been doing has hindered my progress with getting my friends back and all of you back to your dimension. Well I guess you and Reverse Sara are from somewhere else but it doesn’t matter. I was getting close to opening a connection with the other Lyoko before Xana’s last attack. It’s hard enough with just Xana trying to stop me. I don’t need you getting in my way.
Reverse Aubere: Ok sorry. So I found a way to deal with my problem so I’ll leave you to fix yours.
Jeremy: Leave your Dimension’s Odd alone he’s one of the few things your Sara isn’t afraid of.
Reveres Aubere: That’s a problem. All he does is hit her and call her names plus I’m sure he’s working with the enemy.
Jeremy: Whatever you’re planning wait until you’re back home for that. And I know I’ve already explained this but I guess I have to say this again but stay out of my way. Actually It’s better if you just go to class and pretend to be this Dimension’s Aubere. And make sure No one else blows our cover.
Reverse Aubere: Whatever. (gets in the elevator and leaves)
Jeremy: Maybe now I can get something done. (begins typing then notices something strange on the map) Humm what is that? (resumes typing until he’s able to bring up a window showing an image Lyoko’s forest sector with a sphere that appears to be made of white fire floating above the ground.) So that’s what the forest sector looks like. I’ve only ever seen the desert in person. I know that’s not supposed to be there. Something about it seems familiar though. Let’s see if there’s a way to zoom in. (resumes typing yet again until he receives the desired result. he then adjusts his glasses and leans closer to the screen and sees Reverse William floating inside the sphere) Could that be a guardian? Strange. Aelita said they were reddish orange. Although… that was when Xana was still using them. Is this what Reverse Sara used to contain Reverse William? Wait. What am I doing? I’m letting myself be distracted again. I guess I have been down here too long maybe I should get some air and come back to this in a few minutes.
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Chapter 24 Aras Isn’t All Bad.
Reverse Sara wanders around in the woods trying to collect her thoughts. Without paying attention she runs into a fence and accidently gets her arms stuck. Once she pulls herself free she looks up and sees an abandoned house.
???: It’s haunted you know.
Reverse Sara: Wha? (Turns around to see William glaring at her) W-were you following me?
William: Duh! I had specific things I had to get done and you got in my way. Not that that matters I have a new task. (His oversized sword appears in his hand causing him to fall forward slightly until he holds it with both hands and regains his footing) You can deactivate towers and use magic. That makes you a threat that must be destroyed.
Reverse Sara: H-how can you do that on earth. (tries to back away but gets stuck in the fence again)
William: Don’t know don’t care. (Steps closer to Reverse Sara and raises his sword)
Aras: (walks up behind William) What are you compensating for?
William: (Turns around.) Ugh! What are you doing here? You hate her I’m going to kill her I don’t see what your problem is.
Aras: (completely ignoring William) Is it your lack or personality? Or something… else.
William: I have a personality.
Aras: You just admitted that you’re compensating and told me what you’re compensating for. It’s the first step to not being an ass. (walks over to Reverse Sara and Pulls her out of the fence)
William: Why are you getting in my way!
Aras: The other Sara is the one I want dead. I don’t have a problem with this one.
William: Ugh. Fine then I’ll get rid of both of you!
Aras: (Shoots a bolt of lightning at William) I suggest you leave. I won’t hold back this time.
William: Pheh. You’re weak. What could you possibly- …… she can?.... but she wouldn’t do-
Aras: (whispers to Reverse Sara.) What the heck is he mentally ill?
Reverse Sara: I think he may be talking to his master.
William: I can handle this…. Ugh Fine! (points at reverse Sara) You got lucky. (Runs off into the woods)
Reverse Sara: That was close.
Aras: You gotta learn to control your electricity.
Reverse Sara: I don’t have power over electricity.
Aras: Yes you do. (walks away) This is the last time I’m saving your butt. Next time You’re on your own.
Reverse Sara: Th-thank you.
Aras: Whatever. (Walks away)
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Chapter 25 Bad Ideas All Around.
Sara walks back into the lab from the elevator. Yumi sits at the chair looking at the screen. She turns to look at Sara.
Yumi: Did you find anything?
Sara: Where’s Aelita?
Yumi: She’s still held up at school she’ll be here soon
Sara: And Reverse Jeremy?
Yumi: …
Sara: They didn’t know anything about this did they?
Yumi: No. Aelita doesn’t think we should go to Lyoko until we know what happened to Ulrich. We can’t just leave him there though. It doesn’t feel right
Sara: You could have just told us.
Yumi: I figured you’d tell Aelita.
Sara: Why would I do that? Besides it’s not like she could be mad at you for worrying About Ulrich.
Yumi: I guess you’re right.
Sara: Well of course I’m right. By the way I didn’t find anything.
Yumi: Oh. So How are Odd and Aubere doing?
Sara: I don’t know you made us go off in different directions. Are they even still on Lyoko?
Yumi: Yeah. I think It says they’re still there.
Sara: This is getting too risky. Do you know how to bring them back?
Yumi: No.
Sara: Then You’ll have to call Aelita and tell her what happened. If we lose Odd and Aubere too It’s not going to help anyone.
Yumi: can’t I just send you back to Devirtualize Aubere. Knowing Odd he’ll get himself Devirtualized soon anyway,
Odd: Hey I heard that!
Aubere: That’s a reckless stupid Idea. Besides there’s a twenty four hour “cool down” period before anyone can be re-virtualized unless a return to the past occurs.
Yumi: Alright. (Pulls out her cellphone, dials Aelita’s number then holds the phone to her ear and waits for Aelita to answer) Hiiii Aelita..… Hey remember when you said we shouldn’t go back to Lyoko… Well I talked the others into going back to look for Ulrich and now I don’t know how to get them back to earth. ……No they’re still there. Sara already got herself Devirtualized, and I didn’t get Reverse Jeremy to help so it’s just Odd and Aubere there now. … Alright see you in a few minutes. (Puts her phone back in her pocket.) She said she’s on her way.
Sara: You said that earlier. And you were lying.
Yumi: I’m not lying this time.
Sara: I know. Just wanted to remind you that you lied.
Yumi: bitch.
Sara: What did you just say? (Glares at Yumi)
Yumi: Oh nothing.
Aubere: Hey Yumi. Um there’s a good chance that we can’t find Ulrich because Xana captured him and doesn’t want us to find him.
Yumi: If that’s the case then we’ll save him.
Sara: Yeah you said that about William too and he’s not even being controlled at this point he’s working willingly with Xana.
Yumi: Shut up Sara! (Shoots an angry glance at Sara)
Aubere: Sara does have a point for once.
Sara: What do you mean for once!? (Crosses her arms and Glares at the screen forgetting that Aubere can’t see her.)
Aubere: Ignore her she’ll run out of steam soon. Anyway if Ulrich was captured then Xana will probably hold him hostage for a little while and use him as bait for the rest of us. But we already know to expect a trap and we aren’t even sure that he was captured. Because of this-
the sound of the elevator moving is heard in the background.
Yumi: (Holds her head) I don’t think I want to hear this.
Aubere: Well you need to. This is something we all need to be prepared for. The fact is that Xana is going to take one of three actions. the first is setting a trap even though we’re expecting knowing that someone in our group would fall for it anyway.
Yumi: And if he doesn’t
Aubere: Assuming Ulrich Didn’t already escape Xana will either take control of him like he did William…
Yumi: Or?
Aubere: Xana will kill him. Ulrich seems harder to control than William so this is the most likely option.
Yumi: What? No. Xana would try to control Ulrich before trying to kill him.
the elevator doors open and Aelita steps out.
Aelita: It will be ok Yumi. Aubere’s just trying to prepare us for the worst case scenario. There’s no evidence suggesting that he was captured by Xana.
Yumi: (Stands up and walks over to the other side of the room.) Thanks Aelita.
Aelita: (hugs Yumi before going to sit in front of the supercomputer.) Alright Aubere, Odd time to get you guys back here.
Odd: (didn’t hear a word Aubere said) Good because I don’t know what the heck is going on. And I’m hungry.
Yumi: (looks down at the floor)
Aelita: Alright. (types something) Materialization Odd. (presses enter then resumes typing) Materialization Aubere. (presses Enter)
Sara: (Walks over to Yumi and pats her on the back)
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Chapter 26 Magic Doors.
Jeremy steps out of the elevator and wanders around the factory’s main room. As he walks around occasionally adjusting his glasses the air pressure starts to change. Finally he starts to return to the elevator. Suddenly there’s a small explosion in front of him that knocks him flat on his back and flings his glassed on to the floor. A swirling portal appears from explosion that warps and morphs in to a huge ornate door made of an unknown greenish-blue metal. The door swing opened and a strange figure, wearing a darkly colored cloak trimmed with what looks like the same strange metal, steps out of it towards him. With some flashy hand motions the figure seals the door and sends it back where it came from.
Jeremy: W-who are you? (Scooting backwards)
Stranger: Me? I’m the guy whose job you made harder! (walks towards Jeremy)
Jeremy: Y-you don’t scare me. (trying to move away from the strange cloaked man as quickly as he can without standing up. A small spot on his pants begins to become darker than the rest)
Stranger: That’s good. Or it would be if you hadn’t just wet yourself. (Continues walking towards Jeremy, but stops when he hears a crunching sound. He bends down and picks up the twisted metal and broken glass that used to be Jeremy’s glasses) No wonder your scared of me. Without these I must look like some terrifying monster to you. (Slowly moves his hand over the broken pair glasses magically repairing them)
Jeremy: (Finds himself up against a wall)
Stranger: (walks over to Jeremy kneels down, puts the glasses on Jeremy’s face then rests his arm on his own kneecap) There isn’t it better now that you can see?
Jeremy: N-not really.
Stranger: (Sighs) If I wanted you dead you’d be dead by now and I certainly wouldn’t waist my magic fixing your glasses if I was going to kill you.
Jeremy: Who are you! What do you want?
Stranger: I guess I should introduce myself. I am the Manager of the InterDimensional Communication System. I run and maintain the IDCS.
Jeremy: You said I made your job harder? What did I ever do to you?
IDCS Manager: You connected this dimension to the IDCS allowing Xana to escape. It took me weeks to force him out of my terminal AND I have yet to completely kick him out of my system.
Jeremy: Oh. I’m sorry. I never meant to create a connection to the IDCS much less unleash Xana into it. Wait. How do I know you’re not lying?
IDCS Manager: Hemm. Usually the door is enough. Um… Oh I got it. Aubere has my phone number in here cell under the name LordVader. Once she’s back in this dimension get that number and call it.
Jeremy: That’s no good. For all I know you’re one of Xana’s tricks.
IDCS Manager: In that case you don’t have to trust me. And I don’t need you to trust me. You see I’ve decided that you are the one who’s going to get Xana out of the IDCS. That sounds like a fair punishment for unleashing him in the first place don’t you agree?
Jeremy: I guess so.
IDCS Manager: And of course you’re allowed help.
Jeremy: I have to get my friends home first.
IDCS Manager: Try cutting the connections of the four surface sectors to their reverse counterparts. The two dimensions share one Lyoko split into two sets of four surface sectors and one shared sector. The one you call sector 5.
Jeremy: I don’t know that I can trust that info.
IDCS Manager: I want to get rid of Xana just as much as you do. You may not know this but I have been helping you from the background since you first reawakened Xana. Think about it and go back over your archives. (A watch on his wrist starts flashing) Ahrggg. (Covers his ears and falls to his knees)
Jeremy: Are you ok?
Some nearby dogs are howling in the background.
IDCS Manager: No Xana is trying to take control my terminal again and in order to warn me My watch is making a sound too high pitched for humans to hear. It’s really painful.
Jeremy: Hummm. (It’s good to know that he can be crippled by a dog whistle.)
IDCS Manager: (turns off his watch stands up, regains his composure then glares at Jeremy) I’m going to get back to my job now. I suggest you get back to yours (Summons the same ornate door he came out of) Otherwise. I’ll have to find someone to clean up the resulting mess. (leaves the dimension)
Jeremy: I don’t trust that guy but… I guess It wouldn’t hurt to see if he was lying or not.
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Chapter 27 A Pointless Argument.
Reverse Odd walks through the drainage tunnel trying to figure out what he should do next. Not very far through the tunnel he stops to calm himself down so he doesn’t have an anxiety attack. The remaining three Reverse Warriors walk around the corner. Reverse Ulrich is holding Kiwi’s leash. Kiwi stops every few seconds to gnaw at a dog sweater. Reverse Odd sighs leans against the wall and crosses his arms. Reverse Aelita keeps trying to look at her reflection in the water unsuccessfully. Every time she pauses to look Reverse Yumi lightly pushes her forward and motions for her to keep moving.
Reverse Ulrich: Yo! (Waves)
Reverse Yumi: (Rolls her eyes)
Reverse Aelita: (manages to stop to look at herself)
Reverse Ulrich: (Stops next to Reverse Odd) Hey do you mind taking the other you’s dog back to school?
Reverse Odd: Yeah that’s not happening.
Reverse Ulrich: Why not. Oh you just stopped to wait for us and you’re not going that way?
Reverse Yumi: (Mumbles something that no one can understand)
Reverse Ulrich: (looks at Reverse Yumi) You can talk?
Reverse Odd: You’re right he is an idiot. (walks away towards the school)
Reverse Ulrich: Hey wait. (turns to follow Reverse Odd) I’ll catch up with you guys later. Come on Doggy let’s get you back to the dorm. (Follows Reverse Odd) Hey Odd! Wait up!
Reverse Odd: Stop following me.
Reverse Yumi: (Continues towards the factory then noticing that Reverse Aelita isn’t following her she turns around yells at Reverse Aelita in Japanese then drags her towards the factory)
Reverse Odd continues through the passage with Reverse Ulrich and Kiwi walking behind him. once the cramped space starts to affect him he stops and leans against the wall holding his chest.
Reverse Odd: Ungh. D-damn it.
Reverse Ulrich: Dude are you ok. (puts a hand on Reverse Odd’s shoulder)
Reverse Odd: DON’T TOUCH ME!
Reverse Ulrich: (Pulls back his hand) Sorry.
Reverse Odd: (Collapses to the ground) Get away from me.
Reverse Ulrich: You look really sick man. Do you need me to get you to a hospital?
Reverse Odd: Just get away.
Reverse Ulrich: (takes a few steps back) You’re claustrophobic?
Reverse Odd: (nods) I need space please just leave me alone. The less people around the better.
Reverse Ulrich: (backs up some more) We need to get you out of this sewer.
Reverse Odd: It’s a drainage tunnel.
Reverse Ulrich: Whatever man. Let’s just get you out of here.
Reverse Odd: I’ll be fine just leave. And take that mutt with you.
Reverse Ulrich: What do you have against dogs?
Reverse Odd: I’m still trying to get over my insane sisters murdering my dog when he was just a puppy.
Reverse Ulrich: (sits down on the ground a few feet away from Reverse Odd) Dude that totally sucks.
Kiwi: arf! (licks Reverse Odd’s face)
Reverse Odd: Bad dog get down. (Looks at Kiwi’s collar) Damn it. Bad dog Kiwi get down!
Kiwi: (whimpers then walks over and curls up next to Reverse Ulrich.)
Reverse Ulrich: So you and Sara have been spending more time together.
Reverse Odd: So what. I’m just trying to figure out what her deal is. A lot of the things she says don’t make sense.
Reverse Ulrich: I know right! Why does she have to talk about the technical side of computers, and other dimensions and stuff!
Reverse Odd: Yeah but you’re an idiot. That’s not what I meant at all. She says she has a weird condition where she can’t be physically active while sitting in the rafters of the factory I guess now that I know she has wings it makes more sense but still.
Reverse Ulrich: Duuuude? WTH
Reverse Odd: If you’re going to say What the hell just say what the hell.
Reverse Ulrich: Sara has wings seriously?
Reverse Odd: Yeah. She’s not human.
Reverse Ulrich: So. Do you like her?
Reverse Odd: What? … no.
Reverse Ulrich: You had to think for a second.
Reverse Odd: Did not.
Reverse Ulrich: You totally like her.
Reverse Odd: I do not.
Reverse Ulrich: Dude you have to ask her out.
Reverse Odd: Hell no.
Reverse Ulrich: Come on. You know you want to.
Reverse Odd: No. She doesn’t like me I don’t like her we have a mutual dislike.
Reverse Ulrich: …Dude I’ve seen the way she looks at you. I don’t know if the likes you or not cuz I suck at dealing with the ladies but she definitely doesn’t dislike you. So you should totally go for it.
Reverse Odd: No. Why are we having this conversation?
Reverse Ulrich: It distracted you from your claustrophobia.
Reverse Odd: … I guess it did
Reverse Ulrich: The words you’re looking for are “thank you”.
Reverse Odd: Yeah fat chance. (stands up)
Reverse Ulrich: What’s your problem with me? I’m one of the two people who disagreed with Aubere’s little vote to kick you out.
Reverse Odd: Why?
Reverse Ulrich: I don’t know. I just thought you could use friends and if we kicked you out you wouldn’t make any. the only reason I changed my vote the second time around is because Aubere threatened anyone who didn’t change their vote.
Reverse Odd: Thanks. I guess. (starts walking again then stops at the nearest passage) I wonder where that leads It might be a way out.
Reverse Ulrich: Hey when we get back to our dimension I want to try to get the principal to let me change rooms.
Reverse Odd: Why?
Reverse Ulrich: because Jeremy hates you almost as much as Aubere and because Herve is a total ass I hate rooming with the school bully. You’re actually not a bad roommate as long as I stay out of your way.
Reverse Odd: I’m fine with that if they’ll let you do it.
Reverse Ulrich: Great.
Reverse Odd: Shh someone’s coming.
William: (Steps out of the passage) Get out of my way.
Reverse Odd: Not happening.
William: What are you gonna do to stop me? (grabs Reverse Odd and throws him into the passage which turns out to be a cramped set of stares carved from dirt and stone he then summons his sword and stabs it in to the ground in a way as to trap Reverse Odd in the passage then runs off in the direction of the factory)
Reverse Odd: Huff. Damn. Huff not huff again. (grabs his chest and falls to his knees)
Reverse Ulrich: Are you ok? (tries to move the sword)
Reverse Odd: Ngh. I’ll be fine. A panic attack won’t kill me. We can’t let him get to the factory. You have to stop him. I’ll catch up.
Reverse Ulrich: You got it. (Starts to run off then stops) remember what I said about Sara.
Reverse Odd: Whatever. Just keep him from getting near Lyoko.
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Chapter 28 Yay! We Win!
Reverse Ulrich Manages to catch up with William just as he enters the factory. He tackles him causing both of them to fall down to the lower level.
William: Ugh get off me.
Reverse Ulrich: Where do you think you’re going?
William: Just get off me you weirdo!
Reverse Ulrich: (Stands up and stomps on William’s crotch)
William: Mmmnnph (Whimpers then rolls onto his side and holds where Reverse Ulrich just stomped) You have no idea how much I hate you right now.
Reverse Ulrich: Hey my job was to keep you from getting to the scanners. I call that done.
William: I am going to kill you.
Reverse Ulrich: Not from that position you’re not.
William: Ungh. (Struggles to stand up) You will pay. (manages to get to his feet and lunges at Reverse Ulrich trying to punch him)
Reverse Ulrich: (dodges) Too slow.
William: Hold still damn you!
Reverse Ulrich: It’s not my fault you’re slow Wilma.
William: What did you call me! (makes another attempt to punch Reverse Ulrich)
Reverse Ulrich: (dodges) What it’s a Flintstones reference. You never heard of them? It’s an old cartoon based on a sitcom called-
William: (successfully punches Reverse Ulrich while he’s reminiscing about a cartoon that he has no business knowing about) Shut up. You’re pathetic. (electrocutes Reverse Ulrich)
Reverse Ulrich: oof! (falls to his Knees) Lucky shot.
William: Time to die. (prepares to zap Reverse Ulrich again)
Suddenly Reverse Sara, Reverse Odd, and Kiwi fly into the factory. Reverse Sara throws Reverse Odd at the perfect angle to kick William in the face and knock him flat on his back.
William: What the? (tries to sit up but finds that Reverse Odd is standing on his rib cage)
Reverse Odd: Man you suck.
William: Get off!
Reverse Odd: Not happening. I bet I could break a few ribs if I tried.
Reverse Ulrich: Great timing Odd.
Reverse Odd: Hey I told you I’d catch up.
Reverse Sara: (lands with Kiwi tucked under her arm) He got too close. (puts Kiwi down)
Kiwi: Arf! Arf! (runs over to William and starts chewing on his foot)
William: Get off me you mutt. (Kicks Kiwi)
Kiwi: YIP! (is thrown backwards a few feet by William’s kick) Hmmm hum hmm.
Reverse Odd: Hey! (Stomps on William’s Chest) Don’t kick him.
William: Ungh! What do you care? It’s not like he’s your dog.
Reverse Sara: (folds wings) We won’t let you go to Lyoko.
Reverse Ulrich: (staring at Reverse Sara’s wings) You can fly! Aren’t you scared of falling!?
William: You can’t stop me!
Reverse Odd: (Stomps on William’s chest again) good luck doing anything from down there.
William: humph. (Closes his eyes)
Reverse Ulrich: Yay! We win! (punches strait up in the air with both hands)
Reverse Odd: It looks like it.
Reverse Sara: No something feels wrong.
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Chapter 29 Boss fight against William phase 2
William opens his eyes his pupils are replaced with Xana’s emblem. He begins laughing. His laughter contains a deep electronic echo that doesn’t so much echo as it does overlap every laugh. Reverse Odd Looks down and sees William’s eyes. He stomps on William’s Chest again shortly before being thrown straight up by a burst of energy. He slams back first into the ceiling. He grabs a support beam and swings up and lands on top of it. Kiwi quickly hides in the elevator.
Reverse Odd: Damn. How’d he get so strong all the sudden?
William: (Stands up and Stretches) Who’s next?
Reverse Ulrich: (takes a fighting stance but begins shuffling backwards positioning himself behind Reverse Sara)
Reverse Sara: (Spreads winds and releases her tail) You will not pass.
William: (more of his own voice and less electronic echo) How cute the Chicken-Dragon thinks she’s Gandolf.
Reverse Sara: Make all the jokes you want. I have something far scarier than you trapped on Lyoko and I’m not letting you release him.
William: (Back to the deep voice and more echo) Just try to stop me. (Shoots lightening at Reverse Sara)
Reverse Sara: (Takes the hit) Ungh. (Flaps wings but can’t seem to fly)
William: You’re Pathetic. You can’t handle a little electricity?
Reverse Sara: (fires a jet of air at Willaim but he redirects it So that it hit’s Reverse Odd) What!?
William: Was that little bit of air the best you can do?
Reverse Sara: (Creates a small tornado and Launches it at William)
William: (Disperses it) Killing you may be easy after all.
Reverse Ulrich: (Moves between Reverse Sara And William then whispers to Reverse Sara) I’ll distract him get out of here while you can.
Reverse Sara: (Pauses for a second, nods then flies away)
Reverse Ulrich: Hey. I bet you can’t punch yourself in the face!
William: What.
Reverse Odd: (What the heck? I knew she was a coward but seriously?)
Reverse Sara: (hiding on another support beam nearby) Pssst. Odd.
Reverse Odd: Hum? (Looks over his sholder)
Reverse Sara: I have a plan. The rafter your sitting on should have a laptop sitting on it somewhere. find it and toss it over to me.
Reverse Odd: What If you don’t catch it?
Reverse Sara: Trust me I won’t drop it.
Reverse Odd: Ok um... (Looks around for the laptop finds it and tosses it over to Reverse Sara)
Reverse Sara: (catches the laptop using a small tornado then moves it closer to her) Alright now I need you to help Ulrich distract this Dimension’s William.
Reverse Odd: Right. I’ll need you to help me get down there.
Reverse Sara: (Grabs the laptop and sets it down next to her then jumps over and sits next to Reverse Odd) Give me your hands and tell me where you want me to set you down.
Reverse Odd has Reverse Sara take him about halfway down then throw him so that he can kick William in the head. Unfortunately they miss and Reverse Odd crashes feet first into William’s crotch twisting his ankle in the process. What’s worse is that William only flinches slightly from the pain.
Reverse Odd: (Falls to the ground) Ungh! (Grabs his right ancle) Xana Is defiantly in control for this fight.
William: Is that the best you can do?
Reverse Ulrich: (Runs over to Reverse Odd forces him to stand up then helps him hide behind a pillar) What do we do now?
Reverse Odd: We keep fighting.
Reverse Ulrich: How’re you supposed to fight with a hurt leg?
Reverse Odd: I have an idea. I need you to go run to the other side of the room.
Reverse Ulrich: why?
Reverse Odd: Ugh you’re hopeless.
Reverse Ulrich: How am I supposed to know what you want me to do if you give barely any info!
Reverse Odd: Well he’s headed for the elevator so you better do something.
Reverse Ulrich: (Runs to the other side of the room away from the elevator) Nothing’s happening.
Reverse Odd: Try taunting him
William: (waits for the elevator to come back up)
Reverse Ulrich: Hey dummy! I bet you want to kill me.
William: (Looks over his shoulder at Reverse Ulrich.) You’re no threat.
Reverse Odd: (facepalms) Ugh. this isn’t going well.
Suddenly a boy with purple and black clothes, Orange spiky hair and headphones appears out of nowhere. He looks around for a minute with a confused expression on his face. He pulls a phone out of his pocket and looks at it. William looks at the strange boy. A look of panic flashes across his face for a second followed by rage. He glares at Kiwi who’s growling in the corner then tries to enter the elevator but doesn’t quite make it. Two boys with dark red hair appear in the elevator. One with long hair and dark cloths the other with short hair light cloths and his bellybutton showing. William backs up.
Reverse Ulrich: Where did they come from. (walks over to stand next to reverse Odd)
Reverse Odd: This is impossible.
Reverse Ulrich: Why?
A strange girl with green hair and fancy looking robes appears outside the elevator near the two red haired boys. Reverse Sara glides down to stand next to her two friends.
Reverse Odd: What’s going on here Sara.
Reverse Sara: This is my plan. I’ll handle the rest of the fight. The two of you should rest.
Reverse Ulrich: S-serriously? You sure?
Reverse Odd: (Nods) Be careful.
Reverse Sara: (Walks towards the orange haired boy.) Excuse me.
Reverse Ulrich: Are you sure about this Odd? She’s not exactly the group’s strongest fighter.
Reverse Odd: She knows what she’s doing. Just watch.
Orange haired boy: What. Wait you can see me are you a player or one of THEM.
Reverse Sara: Neither. You’ve been pulled from the reapers game temporarily. I would like to request your help. it won’t take long.
Orange haired boy: I have to get back. My partner can’t do anything on his own.
Reverse Sara: I know how to send you back. but I can’t help you until I’ve dealt with my own problem.
Orange haired boy: Fine I’ll help. It looks like I have no choice.
Reverse Sara: Sorry about that um..
Reverse Odd: (Don’t say his name he’ll get suspicious and won’t help you fight.)
Orange haired boy: My name is Neku Sakuraba.
Reverse Sara: Thank you for your help Neku.
William: (Growls and tried to force his way into the elevator by attempting to push the red haired boys out of the way.)
Short Red Haired Boy: HEY!
Long Red Haired Boy: (Stabs William in the foot)
William: (Charges electricity)
Short Red Haired boy: Looks like this guy means business. (Takes a defensive stance)
Long Red Haired Boy: (Pulls sword out of William’s foot then kicks him in the stomach) He’s nothing.
Green haired “Girl”: Don’t underestimate him Asch.
Asch: Stay out of this Fon Master!
Short red haired boy: He’d right Fon Master Ion. It’s too dangerous for you here.
Neku: Are they helping too?
Reverse Sara: I haven’t asked them yet but It looks like I might not need to.
Neku: What do you need me to do?
Reverse Sara: We have to stop him. (points at William) Knocking him unconscious is preferred.
Neku: (Puts a hand in his pocket) Leave it to me.
Reverse Sara: (Nods) I know support magic. I’ll do what I can to help you.
Neku: Riiight. (Walks towards William who’s now being attacked by Both red haired boys.)
Asch: Stay out of my way Luke.
Luke(Short red haired boy): You’re the one who’s in my way!
Ion: Please Don’t fight each other.
Neku: (stops walking and looks at Ion) Before I help your friends I have one question.
Ion: Yes?
Neku: What are you.
Ion: I’m not sure I understand the question?
Reverse Odd: (Facepalm)
Neku: are you a girl or are you a guy in a dress.
Ion: I’m a boy. But I guess the cerionial robes I have to wear do look like a dress.
Neku: Ok that was bugging me for some reason. (Uses energy to slash William across the back)
Asch: what the?
William: Humph. (Turns around) Impressive. But not good enough!
Several blocks of various shapes and colors appear around the area.
Neku: Well this is convenient. (The blocks levitate and converge crashing into William)
Luke: Nice one.
Asch: Don’t compliment him dreck. We don’t know who’s side he’s on.
William: (Climbs out of the pile of blocks)
Reverse Sara: If you give up I’ll deactivate the tower?
William: Gerrrrrr.
Reverse Sara: This fight could go on for days you won’t win this one. I gave you an out. I suggest you take it Xana!
Willaim: (Closes his eyes for a full sixty-five seconds when he reopens them Xana’s emblem is gone.) Ungh. What. What the heck?
Asch: (Hits William with the hilt of his sword Knocking him out) Time to finish this. (Raises Sword to decapitate William)
Reverse Sara: Stop! You don’t want to do that!
Asch: If I don’t he’ll wake up and try to kill us.
Reverse Sara: He has half the power of an evil mage sealed away inside him. If you kill him the seal is broken and the mage will regain his full power and destroy the multiverse!
Asch: (Lowers his sword) Say something sooner next time.
Reverse Sara: I’m sending you all home now Hopefully there won’t be a next time.
Ion: I could reinforce the seal if you’d like.
Reverse Sara: That would be very helpful. Thank you. I’ll get started sending you home.
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Chapter 30 Off Shift Part 1 Explanations and Prep
Reverse Yumi, Reverse Aelita and Jeremy walk out of the machine room just as Reverse Sara sends Ion, Luke, Asch, Neku, and the pile of blocks away. Back to where they came from. She glides back down from the rafters holding her laptop.
Reverse Odd: What the heck was that?
Jeremy: I’d like to know what’s going too. Did you activate a tower?
Reverse Sara: Yes.
Reverse Odd: So those videogame characters? What was that?
Reverse Sara: Physical manifestations of characters from the three nearest videogame save files I could find.
Jeremy: So specters.
Reverse Sara: Sort of but it’s not the same as the polymorphic clones you use to get out of class. These "specters" remember world of the video game they came from and have their own minds. Once returned to the video games they came from they will remember what happened while they were in this world. They won’t say anything about it. The Game’s programming won’t allow them to but, their lives continue in their own world.
Reverse Odd: Hold on you used the save data from three games? I courted two games. Neku from “The World Ends With You” Luke, Asch, and Ion from Tales of the abyss. that’s only two games. What was the third one.
Reverse Ulrich: The bricks.
Reverse Odd: What? I thought Neku summoned those?
Reverse Ulrich: (Pulls an Gameboy Advanced SP out of his pocket.) I found this in the other me’s side of the dorm. Beat his high score. Huh? Hey I had this turned off!
Reverse Odd: Let me see that. (takes the game system and opens the screen) Tetris? Really Ulrich?
Reverse Ulrich: Hey It’s not mine it’s the other me’s
Reverse Odd: That explains the bricks then. (hands the game system back to Reverse Ulrich then Looks at Reverse Sara) Why didn’t you use anyone from Dissidia?
Reverse Sara: I um. I didn’t have it with me.
Jeremy: Why did you even need to do all that?
Reverse Sara: (points at William) He was trying to get to Lyoko. We stopped him the first time then Xana took over. We ran out of options. Is the other one still contained on Lyoko.
Jeremy: Yeah. Speaking of Lyoko I know a way to get you all home.
Reverse Odd: That’s great. What do we have to do!
Jeremy: I just need to remove the connections between the eight surface sectors. That will leave Sector 5 as the only remaining way to travel between the two halves that way Xana Can’t keep changing the connection points between our half of Lyoko and yours.
Reverse Sara: Sector 5?
Reverse Odd: There is no fifth sector.
Jeremy: It makes sense now. The communication hub between the two sides is sector 5 and you guys haven’t accessed it from your side preventing communication between the two.
Reverse Odd: Hummm I guess that makes sense. I wonder why we never found it.
Reverse Sara: I’m more concerned with why Xana is so intent on releasing the other William.
Reverse Yumi: (Says something in Japanese)
Reverse Odd: I guess that’s possible. (looks at Reverse Sara) Do you think Xana could control the other William?
Reverse Sara: He could try. But that William is too powerful there’s no way Xana could keep control even if he could gain it. What’s worse if the other William regains full power he could take control of Xana. Or worse destroy the multiverse.
Jeremy: All the more reason to keep the two Williams apart.
Reverse Sara: We can’t risk something like this happening again. We’ll have to watch him. (points at William again) And none of us can be alone. Not after what happened today. We’ll have to split into three groups.
Reverse Odd: Alright how should we handle this.
Reverse Sara: (looks at Reverse Yumi) Yumi would you mind pairing up with this dimension’s Jeremy. Aubere would just let get in his way and well We’re not sure how useful Aelita would be. (Looks at Reverse Aelita) No offense intended.
Reverse Aelita: (putting on makeup) Hum You say something?
Reverse Yumi: (Nods)
Reverse Sara: (looks back at Reverse Odd and Reverse Ulrich) since we handled this attacks we’ll need to rest. So the three of us will be the second group.
Reverse Odd: hummmm. (frowns)
Reverse Ulrich: I have no problem with that, but Aubere might.
Reverse Sara: I really don’t care what Aubere thinks. I’m sick of her acting like I’m her child. She’s younger than me by two years she shouldn’t boss me around.
Reverse Aelita: So Who’s group am I in?
Reverse Sara: Aubere’s
Reverse Ulrich: She really won’t like that.
Reverse Sara: Well that’s her problem.
Reverse Aelita: W-wait so being paired with me is a punishment? Then forget this! (storms out of the factory.)
Reverse Sara: Wait it’s not safe.
Reverse Odd: It will be fine. We’ll contact Aubere and have her meet up with Aelita.
Reverse Sara: Alright. (looks at Jeremy) How long will it take to disconnect the surface sectors?
Jeremy: (adjusts glasses) About ten minutes. Unfortunately it’s not quite that simple. My friends would have to be on Lyoko at the same time for us to make the switch and unless they access sector 5 on your side then there’s no way to contact them.
Reverse Sara: Otherwise things will be off balance and both dimensions could collapse.
Jeremy: Exactly.
Reverse Sara: We’ll find a way to get a message to them.
Reverse Ulrich: Looks like We’re Off shift. (Stretches) So what do you guys want to do.
Reverse Odd: (Looks at reverse Sara) There’s something I’ve been wanting to know. If you’re not from our dimension then… Where are you from?
Reverse Sara: hummm. I’m not sure we should leave the dimension.
Reverse Odd: Come on. We won’t be gone long.
Reverse Sara: People that aren’t used to traveling between dimensions often lose consciousness who knows how long it will take you both to wake up.
Reverse Ulrich: I’m cool with some nap time.
Reverse Sara: What if something bad happens while we’re gone?
Jeremy: I’m sure it will be fine. If we really need you we’ll send your Aubere to get you.
Reverse Sara: Fine. (Pulls a PS2 memory card out of her pocket) Here. (hands Jeremy the memory card) If things start getting bad and you need some extra help the program I used earlier should still be on the laptop. I’m sure any hero characters from the save files on this card would be willing to help. Just don’t lose it. Oh and be careful.
Jeremy: Ok.
Reverse Sara: Oh you can only extract 3 characters per game save file and only use one save file per device.
Reverse Odd: We should go get your PSP. If we leave Dissidia with him too he can use six characters. and have more options.
Reverse Sara: I can’t get in to my dorm.
Reverse Ulrich: Why?
Reverse Sara: There’s a um a really large mouse in my dorm.
Reverse Ulrich: So just tell a teacher.
Reverse Sara: It’s too big. There’s nothing they’d be able to do.
Reverse Odd: Man you’re pathetic. I’ll get your PSP. How big could it really be? (walks away)
Reverse Ulrich: Dude we’re supposed to stay in groups!
Reverse Sara: Go with him. I’ll stay here with Yumi and this dimension’s Jeremy. we’ll leave when you guys get back.
Reverse Ulrich: (nods and runs to catch up with Reverse Odd)
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31 Bad Decisions Part 1: Two
Sara and Odd sit in the lab of the Reverse Dimension’s factory waiting for the others. Finally Aubere, Yumi, Aelita, and Reverse Jeremy enter the lab.
Aubere: Ugh. Alright what’s Odd’s crazy idea this time?
Sara: He looked at that map he got from that mysterious guy, I still think that thing is a fake by the way, anyway he got it in his head that Ulrich wandered into one of the parallel dimensions on the map.
Yumi: That could have happened. We have to go check it out.
Aubere: It couldn’t have happened. Those versions of Lyoko aren’t connected to this one he would have had to go through the IDCS if they’re even connected.
Aelita: It does sound like it’s something that can’t happen. But it wouldn’t hurt if we look anyway. We may be able to find out how to get home once we’ve found Ulrich. are you able to open a portal Sara?
Sara: If I could we wouldn’t be stuck here.
Aubere: We’re not actually going through with this are we?
Aelita: I think we should.
Reverse Jeremy: I volunteer to go to the other dimension!
Sara: That’s not happening. Besides no portal no go.
Odd: Too bad we can’t use the scanners.
Aelita: (sits down in the chair) Actually we can. I’ll send you, Sara, and Aubere.
Yumi: I want to go too.
Aelita: No we can’t afford to have all four of you in another dimension. Sara and Aubere have the best chance of getting you all home safely.
Yumi: (Punches the wall)
Odd: You can go instead of me if you want?
Yumi: (turns around) No. Just make sure to bring Ulrich back safe if you find him.
Odd: (nods)
Sara: Alright let’s go.
Aubere: I don’t like this it’s a really bad idea but I guess we’re doing this.
Aelita: It will take a few minutes for me to set up the program. We don’t know what we’re going to find so try to prepare your selves. (turns around and starts typing) I want all of you to come back safely.
Over an hour of Reverse Dimension time later Aelita finally manages to send Sara, Aubere, and Odd to another dimension. The three teenagers find them self in a strange area surrounded by trees next to a bizarre concrete bunker. Aubere looks at Sara and notices that she looks strange.
Aubere: You look different somehow Sara.
Sara: (looks at Aubere then at Odd) Same to you guys.
Odd: (Already climbing on top of the bunker) Hey what’s this?
Sara: Odd don’t play with that you don’t know what’s in there.
Aubere: Please fall in.
Sara: You are just asking to get kicked aren’t you Aub- Ungh. (collapses)
Aubere: (looks down at Sara) What the Heck?
Odd: (jumps down from the bunker) Sara? Are you Ok?
Aubere: She’s unconscious she can’t hear you. But why did this happen? Why now?
???: Who are you?
Odd and Aubere look up and see three boys in standing in front of them a few meters away.
Aubere: (whispers to Odd) Are they supposed to be this dimension’s you and this Dimension’s Ulrich?
Odd: Looks like it. I’m guessing the third one is supposed to be William.
Odd-E: Answer Ulrich’s question already.
William-E: Hey one of them kind of looks like you Odd.
Ulrich-E: Except his hair is longer.
Odd-E: I knew I shouldn’t have cut my hair.
Ulrich-E: Why are there two of you?
William-E: The other one must be a specter.
Ulrich-E: Probably but isn’t it strange that he hasn’t attacked us yet?
Odd-E: Hey Specter. Who’s your cute friend?
Aubere: Was he talking about me or Sara?
Odd: I don’t know.
Aubere: You’re not the least bit concerned that they think you’re one of Xana’s toys?
Odd: Not really.
Aubere: (facepalm) Idiot. (Walks over to the parallel versions of her friends and enemy and holds a hand out towards them) Hello my name is Melissa. My friend and her boyfriend are from a dimension parallel to this one.
William-E: (reaches for Aubere’s hand but if stopped by Ulrich-E)
Ulrich-E: Don’t touch that William you don’t know where it’s been.
Aubere: You don’t have to trust us. Just tell us whether or not you’ve seen an extra Ulrich around here or not and we’ll leave as soon as my friend wakes up.
William-E: Thank god no. One is too many as it is. Not to mention Xana’s specters.
Ulrich-E: You’re telling them too much.
William-E: One of them is practically dead already. They’re no threat.
Odd: (Stands up) Don’t talk about Sara like that or You’re the one who will be Practically dead.
Willlam-E: (Crosses his arms) Was that supposed to be a threat?
Odd: You got a problem with that?
As the boys prepare to fight an ornate door appears in the area. It swings opened and a man in a sliver cloak trimmed with a strange blue-ish white metal steps out into the center of the conflict.
IDCS Manager: WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
Odd-E: Who’s this kook?
Aubere: Really? You’re wearing your dress robes? Aren’t those only for ceremonial events?
IDCS Manager: My regular robes were being cleaned. (Turns to Aubere and steps towards her) Tell me. Why do you insist on bringing your zone’s InterDimensional Guardian out of her jurisdiction. As Previous InterDimensional Guardian you should know the consequences.
Aubere: What are you talking about? There is only one InterDimensional Guardian right?
IDCS Manager: ...You really didn’t know did you? Even after every other time Sara Came back damaged from dimensions out of her zone. I had no idea that information wasn’t among that learned instinctively. Or maybe you never got the chance. No matter. (Turns towards Odd) Now. I sent someone who would help you get home. Let him think He was doing it secretly and manipulated him into pointing out an unstable dimension so no one would try to go back that way. Even worse this dimension drifted into a different zone after the map was made making it more dangerous. How could you even suggest coming here!
Odd: Hey I didn’t pick which dimension we came to.
IDCS Manager: But this was all you idea. The second Sara wakes up you all have to leave.
Odd: Wait do you know why she ended up like this.
IDCS Manager: (sighs and crosses his arms) It’s a failsafe. To keep two InterDimensional Guardians from meeting except on neutral ground. The multiverse is split into Zones of six to twenty separate Dimensions. Each Zone is kept stable by the energy emmited from the body or it’s InterDimensional Guardian
Odd-E: Hey Ulrich do you think we should go find the others while these guys are distracted.
Ulrich-E: Maybe but for some reason William seems pretty interested in this stuff. One of us should stay here and make sure he doesn’t do anything stupid.
IDCS Manager: It’s possible for InterDimensional Guardians from different zones to kill each other and take each other’s strength. Early in the time of my predecessor over a hundred eons ago there were wars to take control of territory and magical power. In order to stop this my predecessor made it so that the zone its self would attack any foreign InterDimensional Guardian. To further discourage fighting he fixed it so the closer two guardians were to each other location wise the damage would increase. He then killed any guardians who were not deterred by this failsafe. (Kneels down next to Sara and checks her pulse) For her to be in this condition this zone’s Guardian must be nearby.
Aubere: How close?
Odd-E: I texted Jeremy he wants us to find out as much as we can and meet him at the hermitage.
IDCS Manager: Couldn’t have been more than a few yards away at the time you entered this dimension. I imagine whoever it is, is still close by.
Ulrich-E: (Shakes William-E’s Sholder) Hey come on we have to go.
William-E: Don’t touch me.
IDCS Manager: Is there a problem here boys. (Turns towards the three boys standing behind him.)
Ulrich-E: No problem here.
William-E: (Glareing at Sara)
IDCS Manager: Your friend seems to have one. (Grabs William-E’s right arm and rolls up the sleeve) That burn on your arm came from the same situation as her’s (points at Sara)
William-E: Let go you psycho.
IDCS Manager: Seems your power hasn’t awakened yet. Still I’m going to ask you to help them until they’re able to leave your zone. I’ll return once (motions towards Sara) She wakes up to escort them back to where they need to be.
William-E: Humph. We don’t know who they are we can’t trust them.
IDCS Manager: I suppose ask wasn’t the right word for me to use. Different zone or not you are going to help them. Otherwise you’ll have to deal with me. You do not want to make me an enemy. I could destroy this dimension at the first sign that your Xana becomes a threat to the IDCS.
William-E: Ugh. Fine.
Ulrich-E: (facepalm)
IDCS Manager: Good then we’ve reached an understanding. (Points at Odd and Aubere) I’ll deal with your punishments once you’re safely in your Dimensional Zone. (walks back towards his door then stops and looks over his shoulder at William-E revealing part of his face) One last thing. Don’t let Sara die. Her zone is one of the larger ones and could take several others with it if it were to collapse. Including yours. (Continues through his mystic door which closes behind him and disappears)
Odd-E: We’re not going to actually believe that guy?
Ulrich-E: He could have been one of Xana’s tricks
William-E: We can’t take the risk that he’s not. We’ll leave this Decision up to the others and bring them along for now.
Ulrich-E: Who said you were in charge? That crazy guy? This is obviously Xana’s work.
Aubere: (Leans against the bunker) Get comfortable Odd this could be a while.
Odd and Odd-E: (point at eachother) Did you mean me or him?
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Chapter 32 Off Shift: Part 2 Bonding
Reverse Odd wakes up beneath a large tree. Reverse Ulrich is taking a nap under a smaller nearby tree. Reverse Odd stands up, stretches, then starts looking around for Reverse Sara.
Reverse Odd: Where’d she go?
Reverse Sara: Hey Odd. Up here.
Reverse Odd: (Looks up to see Reverse Sara sitting above him) Oh right I forgot you liked high places.
Reverse Sara: Come up here.
Reverse Odd: Why?
Reverse Sara: You wanted to see where I was born right? This tree has the best view of it.
Reverse Odd: Fine. But I’m holding you responsible if I fall. (starts making his way up the tree)
Once at the top of the tree reverse odd looks out at the horizon. A sea of trees with a town in the distance lies in front of him. He notices that Reverse Sara is facing the opposite direction and turns around. He sees an ocean in the distance.
Reverse Sara: This is where I was born.
Reverse Odd: (looks a little to the left) do you mean that town over there because if you’re from this tree or the ocean then I may have to drop you off at a mental hospital on the way home.
Reverse Sara: I actually meant this dimension.
Reverse Odd: Oh. Right. I feel stupid now.
Reverse Sara: Ok you’ve seen it can we go home now.
Reverse Odd: You don’t want to go see your parents first. Hopefully your weird twin isn’t there.
Reverse Sara: Aras isn’t that weird. She’s just… a little broken. Like me but in a different way. Anyway I don’t have parents.
Reverse Odd: Oh. Sorry. (Strange. She said she doesn’t have parents. Maybe she meant that they died? Maybe when she was little? No then she would have adoptive parents or foster parents or something. Ok I need to question this or it’s going to bug me all day.) Um so what about your grandparents do you want to visit them?
Reverse Sara: I don’t have any.
Reverse Odd: Oh. (I should have known that’d be a bad question. Why the hell am I overthinking this I mean the way she worded it was a little weird but I not that weird. I better change the subject before this gets anymore awkward.) So. Um. I guess once Ulrich’s awake we’ll go home.
Reverse Sara: Yeah.
Reverse Odd: So I guess we’ll play videogames in the meantime.
Reverse Sara: I left all my games in the other dimension.
Reverse Odd: Oh right. Oh that reminds me. That “mouse” in the other you’s dorm was a Raichu. It was really docile too. I don’t know what you were so afraid of.
Reverse Sara: Yeah Pokephobia is at the top of my long list of ridiculous fears.
Reverse Odd: That doesn’t really make sense but ok. So um list your top 5 favorite videgame characters.
Reverse Sara: Oh that’s tough. In what order.
Reverse Odd: most favorite last lowest of the top five first.
Reverse Sara: Ok um. Tidus, Zidane, Luke, Xion, and Fon Master Ion
Reverse Odd: Why them? I mean you have two womanizing main characters on the same list as a final boss with a tragic past a major NPC, and a spoiled noble who destroys an entire town!
Reverse Sara: Tidus isn’t really a womanizer.
Reverse Odd: Still why them?
Reverse Sara: I don’t know. I guess those are just the ones I relate to the most. What about you?
Reverse Odd: Oh um let’s see. Chell, Riku, Amarant, and Neku.
Reverse Sara: Do you relate to them? Or do you just enjoy those characters.
Reverse Odd: Yeah I guess you do.
Reverse Sara: So you relate to the tenacious silent bad ass, the misunderstood jerk, the mostly silent misunderstood jerk, and an anti-social kid?
Reverse Odd: Ok I get it. My list is weird too. (progress by ayumi hamasaki starts playing in the background.) Where’s that music coming from?
Reverse Sara: (looks down at Reverse Ulrich who looks like he’s still sleeping) Is he fakeing?
Reverse Odd: It’s in Japanese he must have stolen Yumi’s MP3 player again.
Reverse Ulrich: (yawns and his hand twitches)
the song changes to Morning Glow from the final fantasy X-2 vocal collection.
Reverse Odd: Ugh! Knock it off Ulrich!
Reverse Ulrich: Not happening. I’m providing the atmosphere you two just keep talking. (accidently presses a button on the MP3 player changing the song to brentalfloss’s final fantasy classic with lyrics) oops
Reverse Sara: Hey wait that’s my MP3 player.
Reverse Odd: Serriously why do you have J-pop in there?
Reverse Sara: Because it’s pretty.
Reverse Odd: (Bursts out laughing)
Reverse Sara: What’s so funny?
Reverse Odd: (what’s wrong with me why am I laughing? It’s not that funny.) It’s this song. (It’s not the song. It’s funny but it’s never made me laugh. At least not like this.)
Reverse Sara: (Glides down and takes back her music player) I’ve had enough of this place! We’re going back now! (opens the portal)
Reverse Odd: (“This place?” Did I drag up some memories I shouldn’t have?[starts to climb down but falls]) argh!
Reverse Ulrich: You ok man?
Reverse Sara: (Pulls Reverse Odd up) We’re leaving. Now!
Reverse Ulrich: Are you ok Sara you’re not acting right.
Reverse Sara: Just get in the portal.
Reverse Odd: (Something is wrong.)
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Chapter 33 Bad Decisions Part 2: One is Too Many
Aubere, Odd and the unconscious Sara sit in the living room of a strange looking version of the hermitage. That dimension’s William is sitting nearby watching them.
Aubere: So are your friends going to show up soon? And are you going to quit starring at us like a creep?
William-E: No and I don’t know.
Aubere: You don’t know if you’re going to stop being creepy? Ok that is really reassuring!
Odd: ( holding Sara’s hand) Just leave him alone Aubere. I think something is seriously wrong with Sara.
Aubere: As long as the scanners are still working in the Reverse Dimension I’m sure she’ll be fine. I hope.
William-E: Pfft. You people aren’t real. By the time Jeremy and Aelita finish analizing the data our twelve hour wait will finally be up and we’ll be able to stop whatever this plan is.
Aubere: Ugh. You’re in denial. The sooner that you accept that you are this zone’s guardian the sooner what’s actually going on will sink into your thick head!
Odd: (Stands up and walks towards the kichen)
William-E: (glares at Odd) and Just where are you going?
Odd: To get Sara some water.
Aubere: Odd this is the last time I’m going to tell you this but we’re in virtual form. Sara doesn’t need water.
Odd: Whatever. (Walks into the kitchen)
Ulrich-E: Why do I have to do it? Why can’t Odd?
Yumi-E: Because he secretly respects you. If we had Odd tell him there’s no telling how he could react.
Ulrich-E: Yeah right. Oh heads up the other odd is here.
Odd: So is your William always like that?
Ulrich-E: Pretty much
Yumi-E: Not really
Odd: Well which is is?
Ulrich-E: Anyway Jeremy managed to confirm that you guys are from another dimension.
Odd: Good now we just need to get back to our dimension.
Yumi-E: Is your friend Ok?
Odd: I don’t know. She’s still asleep.
Ulrich-E: Hopefully she’s not in a coma
Yumi-E: (elbows Ulrich-E) Ulrich.
Odd: It’s fine she’s not in a coma. She’s done this before. It’s how she keeps surviving near death experiences.
The sound of something breaking is heard form the next room.
Aubere: You’re wrong. You know that you’re wrong and if you say that I’m working with your Xana one more time the next thing I throw will hit you!
William-E: Oh sure that’s really convincing!
Yumi-E Ugh (Pinches the bridge of her nose)
Ulrich-E: I’ll go try to calm William down? (walks into the living room)
Odd: (Walks into the living room and grabs Aubere’s sholder) We shouldn’t pick a fight.
Aubere: He threw a cushion at me! He started it.
William-E: Hey you’re the one who threw the lamp!
Aubere: You’re damn right I threw the lamp!
Jeremy-E and Aeilta-E walk into the room.
Jeremy-E: Unbelievable we’re gone for twenty minutes and you’re at each other’s throats.
William-E: You guys are the ones who are trusting the enemy.
Jeremy-E: We checked their DNA. The data shows that they’re from a different dimension. By the way I found that our zone contains eight dimensions and theirs contains thirty.
Aubere: W-what! Thirty! That’s impossible. (There’s no way Sara can handle that. There’s just no way. )
The IDCS Manager’s Magic door appears and he bursts out wearing the same robes as last time. He glares at Jeremy-E with blue glowing eyes.
Odd-E: (Walks into the room from a hallway) Did his eyes do that last time?
Odd: Do you need some eye drops or something?
IDCS Manager: Shut up Odd. (Glares in the direction of Odd and Odd-E)
Odds: Which one?
IDCS Manager: Both of you! You simpletons! (Refocuses his attention on Jeremy-E) What is your problem. Why is it that every version of you seems to be intent on unleashing Xana on the IDCS! You’re lucky I was able to seal this dimension off from the IDCS Before your Xana noticed. One was bad enough I can’t have three Xanas infecting the IDCS.
Aubere: Three? What?
Odd: Did you count wrong or something?
IDCS Manager: Anyway. (Looks at Aubere) We have to get you all back where you need to be. Right now.
Odd: Sara’s not awake yet.
IDCS Manager: We can’t afford to wait. We have less time before the entire zone collapses than I thought. You have to go.
Aubere: Alright. then send us home.
IDCS Manager: Gladly. (Stabs Aubere in the stomach with a beam of light)
Aubere: N-no fair. (devirtualizes)
Odd-E: What the heck?
IDCS Manager: (Rolls up one of his sleeves revealing a set of claws) Your turn.
Odd: (takes a few steps backwards) W-wait a minute.
IDCS Manager: (Slashes odd actoss the stomach) There’s not enough time for that.
Odd: AAARGH! Hey that REALLY hurt!
IDCS Manager: Hum. How are you still-
Suddenly the IDCS Manager is hit with a blast of light covered in a black aura that slams him through the wall into the next room. Everyone stares in awe of what just happened. The IDCS Manager climbs out of the hole in the wall and begins dusting himself off.
IDCS Manager: (trying to remove as much dust from himself as possible) Damn it. These are my ceremonial robes. It’s going to take a month to get this dirt and oil out of these things. Why was there oil in there anyway what the hell is wrong with this place.
Odd: Holy crap!
Odd-E: What the hell just happened?
Jeremy-E: What was that weird light?
Ulrich-E and Yumi-E: (just staring at William-E)
William-E: (Holding out his hands towards the IDCS Manager. Smoke is rising from his palms) WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST DO?
Sara: (Eyelids move)
IDCS Manager: (Turns towards William-E) Well that’s the first time an InterDimensional Guardian has attacked me. (Magically throws William-E against the ceiling) Try that again and I will make you wish you were never born.
William-E: (becomes cloaked in a black aura)
Sara: (Becomes cloaked in a sapphire aura)
IDCS Manager: What?
Odd: S-Sara?
The two guardians’ auras grow and create a blinding light that quickly fades. The IDCS Manager’s watch makes a low pitched sequence of beeps. He rolls up the sleeve again so he can look at his watch. This time his hand is a normal human hand.
IDCS Manager: Aw what the hell? Alliance Treaty? What the heck is that. Damn it that little distraction wasted more time! (Turns his hand into claws again and stabs Odd in the head devirtualizing him) Now. There’s just one last thing. (pins everyone except Sara and himself to the wall) I can’t have any of you interrupting me again. (walks towards Sara) I’m sorry. (Stabs Sara in the stomach Devirtualizing her.)