Heart of a Warrior Series AA/D slightly OT X-over WIP

[Sithking Zero]

Summary: Megaman Battle Network/ Code: Lyoko Crossover.
After fighting with Megaman at the end of Battle Network 3, Bass stumbles through a warp hole into a strange, new, and familiar land. Can he figure out what happens before XANA takes action against him? And why is everything so familiar?

Heart of a Warrior: Drama/Action/Adventure. Rated T for violence, some language (probably not enough, but better safe then sorry!), and because Bass is that FREAKING AWESOME. Story Completed.

Heart of a Warrior II: Trials of the Warriors: Drama/Action/Adventure. Rated T for violence, some language, Dark themes. Story Completed.

Heart of a Warrior III: Warrior's Redemption: Drama/Action/Adventure. Rated T for violence, Seriously evil dudes, mild language, being really, really cool. Chapters 2 and three in progress of being written; story in progress.

Heart of a Warrior
Heart of a Warrior II: Trials of the Warriors
Heart of a Warrior III: Warrior's Redemption
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^__^ WOW! And I only read page one. Iss good! It's really good! Must...keep...reading...
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Heart of a Warrior 3 Chapter two is now up!
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Heart of a Warrior 3 Chapter three now up!
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Heart of a Warrior III: Warrior's Redemption Chapter Four is now up! READ IT OR DIE!!!
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Chapter Five: Something Wicked this way comes, Is now up! READ IT OR I WILL DESTROY YOU!!!

... please? it has Bass in it...
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CHAPTER SIX IS NOW UP!!!


Please, for the love of all good, it has protoman and Serenade in it. Please, somebody post something here!
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Chapter 7 now up. I'll give you a dollar if you reply...
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Nice Stuff! I'll keep reading!
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[HeatShadow]

Easiest buck I'll ever make...

Ok! So I haven't really taken the time to do much reading, and as such, I'm a tad behind on your story. But I've read plenty to give you some honest feedback.

The good news is that it isn't a bad fic, not at all. It just isn't exceptionally good either. Sure, it's an EXE/Code Lyoko fanfic, so it's something new and fresh, but it doesn't really do much aside from that. Bass is an impossibly powerful bad-ass, check. Bass also somehow manages to be related to one of the crossover's main characters, check. The related character also teaches Bass to change his human-hating ways, check. It's just so formulaic that none of it comes as a surprise. It can be entertaining for some, but for everyone else it just doesn't get you into the story.

Probably one of Heart of a Warrior's biggest problems is that you can't seem to decide whether you want the story to have a humorous tone or a serious tone. One minute, Bass is in torturous pain or contemplating an attempt on his life, the next he's cracking jokes. I can understand it if that's the part of his personality that you're going for, but unless there's some mention of it in the story, it just comes off as inconsistent. And it's certainly not limited to Bass himself, I'm talking about the whole thing in general.

Also, most of the dialog needs work. One general suggestion I've seen is to read the dialog aloud; if it sounds silly out loud, it probably sounds silly in the reader's mind.

Oh yes, and why did you make one sequel only 3 chapters and then move on to the third installment? Wouldn't it make more sense to merge the first sequel in with the first and third stories?

Aside from that, the plot's certainly solid and many of the plot's elements help to move the story along nicely. I'm looking forward to see where you go with it.
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Stuck In The Middle With You; a Metroid and Halo crossover
Devil May Cry: Renegades

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Thank you for replying. As per one of my earlier posts, I owe you a dollar.

Yeah, I kinda know it's formulaic, but it fit well for what I had in mind at the time. Also, I thought it up on a camping trip, so my opinions were SLIGHTLY skewed at the time.

And yes, the dialogue does suck. It's one of the things I'm trying to change.

Thanks for pointing that out about the serious/humorous viewpoint changes. I wouldn't have noticed that on my own. EDIT: If it's in the third story, there is actually a reason for it. I just can't tell you yet.

Oh, and the reason that number two was three chapters long was because it was it's own little micro-plot bubble that didn't fit in with the end of Heart of a Warrior and HOAW III: Warrior's Redemption. It's just it's own little story, isolated from the other two by a sense of closure from one side and the opening of a new plot from the other. Trust me, there WAS a purpose of it, and trust me, things WILL get a little more original... I hope, at least.
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Chapter Eight: Shadow of a Shadow of a Doubt is now up!
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This isn't EXACTLY Heart of a Warrior Related, but check out the sig that Carth on the Lyokofreak forums gave me!

Cool, huh?
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Okay, my first chapter being entirely POSTED. Here goes nothing!!!

Sithking Zero: All characters and concepts (Save Cadence, the Replicons, and the general plot of the story) belong to me. XANA’s design is based off of SylentNyte’s female XANA designs. I used them with her full permission.

Well, I’m starting to write this 6/10/07. AKA June 10, 2007. Finished on 6/30/07. Three days until the ultimate GIANT ROBOT RUMBLE!!! TRANSFORMERS RULE!!!

But I digress. On with the show!


Heart of a Warrior III:
Warrior’s Redemption
Chapter 9:
Shadow of a Shadow of a Doubt
Part II


At lunch, (approximately four hours ago), our heroes (Sans Bass) had been discussing why XANA was bothering to go to all the trouble of draining the city of power, with explanations ranging from “Using the power as a superweapon, just like before,” to “Causing us to get sick without power and running water.” However, one thing was certain: discussing it would get them nowhere. And so they had made the decision to sneak off after school, when they would be less likely to be caught (due to the lack of power in buildings, it was easier to get hurt or have looters come in and try to hurt someone, so security had been ramped up greatly.)

And so after fifteen minutes of jogging through the park, climbing into a sewer, riding along the thin sidewalk alongside the river of god-knows what, and into the factory, everyone was on the floor of the factory.

Odd reached out and hit the button to summon the old freight elevator.

It didn’t come.

After waiting for a minute or so, he felt compelled to say, “Hey, what’s going on! Why isn’t it coming up?”

“Well, the power’s out, so it’s probably not running.” Stated Yumi.

“But how come XANA and Lyoko still work? Don’t they-”

“No, Odd.” Came Jeremie’s voice. “Lyoko has its own internal nuclear battery. That’s why the power’s staying off, instead of flickering on and off repeatedly.”

Ulrich gave Jeremie a strange look. “Care to explain how you came to that conclusion, Einstein?”

Jeremie nodded. “Well, if XANA turned off the power, she’d shut herself off. Then the power would come back on, because XANA wouldn’t be turning it off anymore. But then XANA would turn back on and shut the power off again, and so on and so on…”

“Can we just deactivate the tower already?” Aelita interrupted.

Yumi looked at Aelita, a little shocked.

“You feeling okay?”

Aelita looked at the hole where the elevator was supposed to be.

“The last time I went to Lyoko, I was beaten up and nearly killed by XANA. I… if it wasn’t for Bass…”

Odd placed a hand on her shoulder, grinning cheerily.

“Don’t worry, Aelita. We won’t let anything happen to you.”

He took his hand off and mimed blasting something with it.

“And if she tries anything, I’ll give her a Laser arrow between the eyes!”

Ulrich rolled his eyes before beginning to climb down into the abyss. The rest of the gang quickly followed him down into the hole and into the scanner room and lab.

Jeremie, with the practiced ease of one who does this every day, quickly typed in the codes with the following words:

“Scanner, Aelita. Scanner, Yumi. Scanner, Ulrich. Transfer, Aelita. Transfer, Yumi. Transfer, Ulrich. Virtualization!” he then turned his attention to Odd. “Scanner, Odd. Transfer, Odd. Virtualization!”

One by one, the four heroes turned into wire frames and dropped to the slippery ground of the ice sector in the middle of a platform ringed by gigantic ice boulders and mini-waterfalls.

Jeremie spoke into the com set, “Okay. I’m doing a scan of the area… the tower is thirty two degrees north by northwest, about twelve monsters between you and the tower, and Bass is heading towards your position. He should be there right about… now.

As Jeremie said this, the former messenger of darkness floated down to land directly behind Odd, looking angry.

“Well, it’s about time that you guys showed up. XANA’s doing something weird, and I don’t like it at all. I can’t contact your news networks and see what’s going on at all…” his voice trailed off. “How bad is it on the surface?” he finished.

“Pretty bad,” Jeremie admitted after a moment. “There’s no power, so a lot of our society that relies on electricity for basic necessities like food, water, and lighting. There’s cases of looting and robberies, not to mention disease.”

“In that case, we should probably get moving.” Ulrich stated practically, drawing his sword from it’s sheath.

“Right, as I said, the tower is north by northwest. Take the first left through the system of caves over there. Be careful.

“What, us, act recklessly? Why, I never! Such an accusation, Jeremie. How dare you!” Odd cracked, and grins spread on the faces of the warriors.

And with that, the force moved out. Across the thin walkway, they dashed as fast as they could, until the first branching of the walkway, when they turned left onto a path that lead directly into the core of a mountain.

For a long way, the tunnels got narrower and narrower, and eventually, there came a point where the Lyoko warriors had to go single file for a while before it became wide enough to go as a group again.

Odd turned to his left, looked at Bass, and opened his mouth.

“No.”

“But-” Odd protested.

“No. I know what you’re thinking. I won’t just ‘Blast our way out.’”

“Bu-”

“Because that could cause the mountain to cave in on us. No.”

As if XANA was waiting for an opening like that, the tunnel started to rumble.

With a series of thundering crashes, the ice of the cave began to fall to the floor. Bass, acting quickly, grabbed the nearest person to him and threw them out of the way, then dove after them, barely dodging blocks that would have hurt, even for him.

Soon, the dust cleared, and there was a calm for a few minutes. Then Bass groaned and lifted his head up off the ground.

“Odd?” he whispered, afraid of causing another cave-in. “Odd, are you there?”

A groan and a shifting cone-shaped object revealed that the jokester of team Lyoko was, while not unharmed, certainly not out of the fight just yet. Though he had taken a bump on the head, and he was now down forty life points, he was essentially all right and ready to fight.

Bass strained for a second and pulled his leg out from under an ice boulder, then began moving some of the larger chunks off of his weaker companion.

With a moan, Odd pulled himself out of the wreckage, swaying unsteadily on his feet for a moment before acquiring a sense of balance.

“Uhh…” he groaned, holding his side with one hand and clutching the wall with the other for support. “What happened?”

Jeremie’s voice crackled through the celing.

“XANA caved in the tunnel in an attempt to devirtualize Aelita and kill Bass.” He replied simply. “I can see it failed on both accounts, as Aelita’s still alive. She’s heading towards the tower as we speak with Ulrich and Yumi in tow.”

“That’s good to know,” Bass said, gratefully.

“Yeah, except for one problem,” Odd muttered glumly, looking around the room.

“What?” Bass looked at Odd quizzically.

“Do you see a way out of here?”

“… Crap.”

Bass’ cuss was totally warranted, as indeed, there was no way out of the cave they were trapped in. The smooth wall of the cave had them trapped in on one side, and the rockslide had trapped them in on the other.

Odd sighed. “Jeremie, we’re kinda stuck. Could you help-”

“Not now, Odd. Ulrich, Yumi, and Aelita are in the middle of a swarm of monsters. I’ll be with you in a minute.”

Bass leaned back against the ice wall, fins keeping his head leaning forwards slightly.

“Does this situation seem familiar to you?” he asked Odd.

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ELSEWHERE ON LYOKO…

Ulrich slammed his Katana down onto the red Eye of XANA on the Krabe’s back, then flipped off just in time to escape the blast radius as the Krabe exploded.

He turned in time to see Yumi’s fans slice through a Blok and another Krabe, while Aelita blasted the head off of a Tarantula with her new energy manipulation powers.

“I think that’s the last one, Jeremie,” he reported to the sky, aware that Jeremie could hear him quite well, no matter how loudly he talked.

“Just in time, too. XANA’s activated another tower! Hurry up and get to the tower as fast as you can. I’ll try and materialize Odd and Bass, or at least get them out of that cave…”

“Got it Jeremie,” Ulrich responded quickly. “Any monsters?”

“Not that I can see…” Jeremie muttered as his hands flew over the keyboard like a master playing the piano.

Suddenly, and with barely a warning, a storm of electricity engulfed the screen, flinging Jeremie out of his seat and knocking him against the wall.

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IN THE ICE CAVE…

Bass and Odd were relaxing on opposite ends of the wall, resting and waiting to be brought back to the real world in order to escape.

Or, at least, they were, if they had not been startled out of their inattentiveness by a shrieking, wailing roar.

Two huge bundles of tentacles phased through the wall, snaring the two warriors before either could move or resist. As one, the tentacles glowed red as the bodies of two Scyphizoa followed the appendages through the walls, freezing the two before they could struggle.

Odd felt three pulsating mandibles pressed against his forehead, squeezing all thought and will out of his mind, pulping thoughts, wisdom, and anything that had been in there before.

In it’s place, Odd ‘saw’ a mental image of a flame. The flame was bright white, with multicolored bands crisscrossing their way through it.

Suddenly, an ooze climbed up the flame, blotting out the light with tendrils of darkness, until the entire thing was entirely black.

He was utterly alone. There was nothing there anymore.

With a whooshing noise, a massive purple flame exploded into existence, engulfing the area in a sickly light.

For a moment, nothing happened.

Then, three hot-pink lines appeared at thirty-degree angles to one another in the flame.

Another moment passed.

Then, the three lines expanded into hot-pink eyes, which seemed to bore into Odd’s very soul.

The flame opened its dark mouth, sickly black smoke leaking out.

“Welcome to the Darkness.” It rumbled.

Then, Odd felt as if he was dissolving, the familiar sensation of floating, then of waking up in the scanner tube, a cold sweat on his face.



Aelita stepped into the Forest tower just as Ulrich disintegrated in a brilliant flash of light. She stepped briskly towards the center of the Eye-of-XANA platform, then began to sing. As she sang, she rode the current of energy to the upper platform of the tower, where she walked to the center, typed In her name, and completed the time-honored tower deactivation sequence:

NAME:
AELITA

CODE:
LYOKO

She glanced at the floor.

“Return to the past now.”

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XANA saw the bubble of time-alteration racing towards her.

She knew that her plan to suck the city dry of energy had failed.

A replicon, standing somewhat behind her, and hearing strange sounds coming from his mistress, glanced fearfully up at her to see if she was crying.

She wasn’t.

Her laughter, long and dark and full of sinister plots and plans, continued right up to the point where the bubble engulfed her.



Sithking Zero: Well, that’s Chapter 9. I am evil. Deal.

Oh, and for fans of my sister’s work, I hope you caught the reference to my sister’s first big story, “Light in the Darkness.”

For fans of the Megaman anime, what just happened to Odd should be clear. For others… well, let’s just say I got PLENTY of storylines to milk from this…

Please read and review!
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Presenting the Heart of a Warrior Character Biography! Complete with all sorts of cool info and stuff.


We’ll start out with the dear, sweet, kick-ass Lyoko Warriors, starting with our favorite hero/anti-hero, BASS!!!

-Name: Bass.EXE
-Date of Birth/Creation: August 2, 1993
-Gender: Male
-Height: 6’0
-Appearance (Earth): Black denim pants, grey shirt with yellow stripes on the sides, Black+Gold shoes, purple hair, purple stripes under eyes, red eyes.
-Appearance (Digital): Black Jumpsuit with white lightning bolts up the sides, circular crest bisected from right shoulder to left hip, Black helmet with large golden, swept-back fins on the sides, golden gauntlets and boots with white gloves and black tips (boots), Brown tattered cape, two foot-long golden ridges on back, red eyes, purple marks under eyes.
-Special powers: Get Ability, Flight, Heart of a Warrior program, Aura Shield
-Attacks: Earthbreaker, Gospel Cannon, Banishing World, Air burster, Heatblade.
-Theme Song: Headstrong (Trapt)/Welcome to my Life (Simple Plan)
-Likes: Some rock songs, his cloak, reading, being alone, Aeltia.
-Dislikes: Humans, net navis, You, XANA, people who threaten his little sister.
-Biography: A Net Navi (interNET NAVIgator) computer program designed to protect Lyoko from viruses and exterior threats. Gets mad easily, but is able to control his emotions well. Angry and hateful of the world in general, he’s a scary guy, but has a small soft spot for Aelita. He’s an almost unstoppable being, and fused with the Gospel beast, and with the Get Ability Program, his power can only increase. He was pressed into service early when he and Aelita teamed up to stop the evil XANA when she first reared her head on Lyoko by ingesting the Heart of a Warrior Program, fusing them together into Cadance. XANA was defeated, but when she did strike again, Bass’ creator, Dr. Cossak, erased his memories of Lyoko and deactivated his Get Ability program. He was reprogrammed to become a Net Navi, and was introduced at Scilab, Japan, as the world’s first “Solo Netnavi,” capable of acting totally on his own without an operator. His first mission was to defend the new, developing network. He took his job seriously, and ended up destroying many “defective” programs that could have caused problems later. The head scientists decided to lock him away and give him limiters designed to decrease his great power. When XANA attacked the core of the internet, Bass was blamed, and nearly killed by security programs, at least until Dr. Cossak intervened by reactivating his Get Ability and deactivating his limiters. Bass left, leaving a trail of dead security navis in his wake.
Years later, a man named Dr. Wily offered him a chance to get revenge on the humans by helping him resurrect Alpha, the same system whose rebellion Bass had been blamed for. Bass agreed and stole Alpha from Megaman, and on Skull Island, Bass nearly fried Dr. Cossak when the doctor used a “Pulse transmission system” to send himself into the network. He then faced off against Megaman, lost, and was absorbed by the reborn Alpha. Before being totally consumed, he merged with the remnants of the massive Gospel beast, and became Bass GS, gaining the Gospel cannon and Banishing world attacks. Fleeing to the Secret net to gain power, he fought against Megaman once more, and like before, he lost. Hiding in a secret part of the Undernet, he spent time licking his wounds until XANA, in an attempt to destroy him on her own turf, opened a portal to Lyoko next to him, and he went through. A short time later, Bass met up with the Lyoko warriors, demanding that they listen to him and answer his questions, or, as he put it, “We need to talk.” Over the next few months, Bass aided the warriors off and on, ignoring them for some XANA attacks, providing unconscious backup (such as sending an aura remotely to Aelita), or interfering directly in a XANA attack (Protecting humans and fighting off captured viruses). It was finally revealed (through Franz Hopper’s Diary) that Bass and Aelita were actually related (Franz actually had adoption papers) as brother and sister. Bass explained his backstory, then stormed off in a huff. The next day, he tried to betray the warriors in order to get at Aelita’s missing piece, only to find that Alpha was back once again. XANA then devirtualized the other warriors and absorbed Aelita using Alpha. Bass fought valiantly, but it was all for naught, as Alpha and XANA teamed up and absorbed him. Inside Alpha, he met up with Franz and Aelita, and Bass and Aelita re-fused into Cadance. After a pitched battle, Cadance defeated XANA and destroyed Sector 5 utterly and completely. In the process, the three defused, and Bass, after a long period of thought, took the two exhausted humans back home. After relaying the details of their adventure, he went back to Japan to speak to his father and apologize. Shortly after that, he went back to France to go through Lyoko and go home. Upon arriving at his cave, he had rested for a scant few hours before strange beings, called “Replicons,” began to attack. Bass realized that these were servants of XANA, and dispatched them quickly. He also gathered that- DATA INTERRUPTION, FILE CORRUPTED FROM THIS POINT ON.

-Name: Aelita Hopper
-Date of Birth/Creation: March 10, 1982.
-Gender: Female
-Height: 4’9’’
-Appearance (Earth): Short pink hair, pale skin (hey, YOU spend ten freaking years inside a quantum supercomputer and let’s see how bronze YOUR skin is!), green eyes, long-sleeved pink T-shirt, long maroon overalls/dress thing with two pink poofballs and long red boots.
-Appearance (Digital): Same hair, pointed, elfin ears, cloth sleeves covering her forearms only. Pink miniskirt, Pink vest, cream-colored undershirt and pants with pink straps wrapped around the legs, no shoes (Feet wrapped in maroon straps).
-Special powers: Creativity (manipulation of the fabric of Lyokospace), energy field creation, ingenuity.
-Attacks: Energy Field (micro earth breakers), manipulation of Lyokospace (can make rocks fall on monsters, imprison them, or make them fall into the digital sea)
-Likes: Techno music, DJing, Jeremie, romance novels, her father, friends, flowers.
-Dislikes: Bullies, XANA, overworking, obsessive-compulsive people.
-Theme Song: Dare (Stan Bush)/ Bring Me to Life (Evanescence)
-Biography: A normal girl who was the daughter of Franz Hopper, she is considered Bass’ sister. She was the first of the group now known as the “Lyoko Warriors,” and is considered one of the team’s leaders. She’s a sweet, angelic figure, coolly logical, yet possessing a sense of almost childlike wonder. Teamed up with Bass over ten years ago to destroy XANA, but XANA forced Franz’s hand and he virtualized himself and his daughter into Lyoko, where both were captured by XANA. Franz became her prisoner, while Aelita escaped with no memories at all. Ten years later, Jeremie reactivates the supercomputer, and with the help of his friends, brings Aelita to the real world after many battles with XANA. XANA had, however, infected her with a “Virus,” which was later revealed to be XANA withholding Aelita’s memories of the real world. Either way, if XANA died, Aelita also died. Then, Bass came, and with him, a trickle of memories and realizations came with until the decoded diary revealed that they were brother and sister and that Franz was the dad. Aelita went into depression because she couldn’t accept that the crazy computer genius who designed the computer suddenly turns out to be her father, and that Bass was… well, her brother. So, in order to prevent any more disasters from happening, she deactivated the supercomputer, killing herself in the process. Jeremie, discovering a broken connection from his laptop to the supercomputer, went to the computer to find the problem and found Aelita. Turning the computer back on, Jeremie and Aelita shared a beautiful kiss until Bass interrupted them. Later that night, Bass betrayed her and tried to steal her fragment (memories), but XANA had cleverly disguised the core of the Alpha internet system as her memories. The system quickly absorbed Aelita, and Bass followed. They were fused into Cadance, and vaporized sector five. A month or two after the destruction of sector five, She went on a date with Jeremie, and was one of the first Lyoko Warriors to receive news that XANA was indeed back, in the form of her father being possessed and kidnapping her. Once back on Lyoko, she was attacked by XANA herself, had a vision of being Bass, and gained a new attack. She was saved by Bass, and she activated a return to the past after deactivating the tower. Her father, upon the return, revealed that when she had fused with Bass, part of his DNA/ coding had gotten mixed with her own, resulting in slight changes to her physiology. She went downstairs for a scan, but she came back with Bass, who revealed some interesting information.

-Name: Jeremie Belpois
-Date of Birth/Creation: December 5, 1991
-Gender: Male
-Height: 4’11
-Appearance (Earth): Blue Turtleneck, Khaki Capris, shoes, black glasses, blonde hair, slightly pale.
-Appearance (Digital): No Data Avaliable.
-Special powers: Runs the Supercomputer, so has data on most of Lyoko. Can activate towers, make vehicles, program viruses, virtual genius at coding and decoding.
-Attacks: No Data Avaliable.
-Likes: Computers, logic, learning, reading, saving people, Aelita, techno music, forests.
-Dislikes: People disrupting his work, inefficiency, Sissi, sleep, XANA, waking up with the keyboard impression on his face, a good portion of Odd’s musical tastes and jokes.
-Theme Song: Blinded me with Science/Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Daft Punk)/
-Biography: Jeremie is a computer genius, easily on par (or a little lower) then that of Franz Hopper himself. He is the one who coordinates the Lyoko Warrior’s missions against XANA, and he doesn’t do any of the fighting himself. He is good at decoding and creating viruses and programs, and has created multiple programs for the Lyoko Warriors, from the Marabounta to Franz Hopper’s diary decoding software. It was he who finally decoded the diary, he who told Bass and Aelita about their relations to one another, and he who took Aelita out on the ill-fated date where XANA reappeared. He is currently trying to find a way to track XANA across the internet.

-Name: Odd Della Robia
-Date of Birth/Creation: June 15, 1991
-Gender: Male
-Height: 5’2
-Appearance (Earth): Blonde, cone-shaped hair with a purple splotch in the middle; Purple shirt, purple bell bottoms.
-Appearance (Digital): similar, but with cat paws instead of hands, a circular logo showing his dog, Kiwi, urinating; cat tail.
-Special Powers: Shield, precognition (removed), excellent aim.
-Attacks: Claws, “Lazer Arrows,” fast moving arrowheads that act like bullets. They are fired out of his wrist. Unlike other Lyoko Warriors, his attack has limited ammo, so once he’s out, he can only rely on claws.
-Likes: Dates with pretty girls, his friends, his dog (Kiwi), pranks, insults, stuff.
-Dislikes: Sissi (occasionally), Jim (most of the time), XANA, monsters, Bass.
-Theme song: Bad Reputation (Halfcocked)/ Dare to be stupid (‘Weird Al’ Yankovick)/Break, Break, Breakdance (himself).
-Biography: A slightly crazy young male, Odd grew up with four older sisters who used to use him as a model for their clothes. He is the Lyoko Warrior’s resident prankster and tension-reliever, which can get him in trouble sometimes. Has a secret crush on the Principal’s daughter, Elisibeth “Sissi” Delmas. Can act reckless at times, jeopardizing missions and such. When Bass first appeared on Lyoko, Odd had the honor of being the first Lyoko Warrior to attack him, with an infected arrow, no less. He also had the “honor” to find that his attack did didly-squat, as Bass merely snatched the arrow out of the air. Abandoned the Lyoko Warriors in order to save Sissi from a Scyphizoa. Was the first to fall in the defense of the tower that was decoding Franz’s diary. Recently, during XANA’s newest offensive against the Lyoko Warriors, he was trapped in a cave with Bass, and was then attacked by a Scyphizoa.

-Name: Ulrich Stern
-Date of Birth/Creation: March 4, 1991
-Gender: Male
-Height: 5’1
-Appearance (Earth): Olive green baggy pants and a dark yellowish-green top with a green jacket over it. Brown hair.
-Appearance (Lyoko): A karate headband and a katana, as well as a drawing of an Oni on the back of the vest. He wears tabi over his feet.
-Special Powers: Triplication (cloning himself twice), Super Sprint (moving extremely fast), Triangulation (traps victim between three Ulrichs moving at high speed.)
-Attacks: Impact (slams sword into Eye of XANA), Triangulation (see above). Utilizes a katana.
-Likes: Yumi, video games, hanging out with his friends, Not William, peace and quiet.
-Dislikes: Sissi, William, Odd (sometimes), chaos, XANA ruining his ‘moments’ with Yumi.
-Theme songs: Bad Reputation (Half-cocked)/Kryptonite (Three Doors Down)
-Bio: Ulrich stern is a troubled soul. He has enormous amounts of pressure exerted upon him by School, his hard-to-please parents, and Lyoko (with a certain cyber-demon inside). He is one of the most effective (and strongest) of the Lyoko warriors, and many monsters have fallen to his blade. However the pressure gets to him, and is sort of moody and angsty. He has a massive crush/is in love with Yumi Ishiyama, but is too nervous to tell her. Whenever William Dunbar, who holds similar feelings for her, comes around, he always gets depressed and angry. He was one of the party that first met Bass in the forest sector, and later fought alongside him when defending the tower that was decoding Franz’s diary. He was actually the last of the warriors (save Aelita, but she was in the tower at the time and did no actual fighting) to fall in the tower’s defense, and it was only because they took him by surprise after he defeated his polymorphic clone version of himself. He was devirtualized by XANA in the final battle, but he made an epic comeback during the deactivation of the towers that were keeping Kadic in a blackout, destroying many monsters while Odd and Bass were trapped in an ice cave.

-Name: Yumi Ishiyama.
-Date of Birth/Creation: September 1, 1989
-Gender: Female
-Height: 5’5
-Appearance (Earth): Black turtleneck sweater that has long sleeves and exposes her navel. She also wears black pants, and a pair of boots.
-Appearance (Lyoko): A geisha-like outfit with a short flowered dress over red tights and boots that go up past her knees.
-Special Powers: Telekinesis. Can pick up and move objects on Lyoko. This takes time and energy to do, however, and prolonged use can result in her fainting.
-Attacks: Two iron fans that act like razor-edged boomerangs. She can guide these with her telekinesis for more accurate attacks.
-Likes: Japanese food and culture (it is her native one), Ulrich, her friends and family.
-Dislikes: William, Odd (Sometimes), Sissi (mostly), her little brother’s teasing.
-Theme songs: Me against the world/Girl in the band
-Bio: The cool, soothing voice of reason among the Lyoko Warriors. She’s the oldest member of their group (except Franz and Aelita) and as such, is looked up to by some of the others. She has a unique perspective on things, often able to boil down something to a point. She’s in love with Ulrich Stern, but difficulties, such as Elisibeth Delmas and William Dunbar, keep popping up everywhere. She took part in all the major battles in the Heart of a Warrior saga, but played a special role in Bass’ history with the Lyoko warriors. She was the one who found him after he was infected by XANA, and thusly helped make sure that he owed his life to them. She also fought alongside Ulrich and Aelita in the battle to deactivate the two towers that were draining the power from Kadic and the surrounding town.

-Name: Franz Hopper
-Date of Creation/Birth: March 4, 1945
-Gender: Male
-Height: 6’0
-Appearance (Earth): White lab coat, blue jeans, black shoes.
-Appearance (Lyoko): Unknown; appeared the same while inside Alpha.
-Special Powers: Unbelievable programmer, greater then or equal to Jeremie and Aelita. Knows all sorts of access codes and programs that allow him to manipulate Lyokospace like Aelita.
-Attacks: None that have been seen yet, but at bare minimum has combat skills of an average human.
-Likes: Order, safety, peace, his daughter, Bass, Jeremie.
-Dislikes: XANA, danger for his daughter.
-Theme song: A World Without Danger (Noam)
-Bio: Creator of the Supercomputer. A shy, almost modest genius, who’s willing to do almost anything to stop XANA from hurting anyone else. He was a science teacher at Kadic Academy before working on the Supercomputer. It is not known how he got into it, but he was also part of a top-secret government research division in charge of creating a weapon code-named "Project Carthage." The project was a weapon designed to disrupt enemy communications, but for some reason Franz protested against it, creating Lyoko as a way to destroy Project Carthage. However, apparently midway through the project, Franz shifts his attention from destroying Project Carthage to making a world safe for him and his daughter. It's unknown what happened to his wife. After working for a long time, he finally discovers how to do a Return to the Past, and reportedly redoes the same day over two thousand times, inadvertently making the Supercomputer more powerful in the process. This gave rise to XANA, and Franz contacted his old friend, Dr. Mikhael Cossak, in order to create a super defense program for Lyoko. This program became Bass, and Franz installed the Heart of a Warrior program into him in order to defeat XANA. Bass fused with Aelita, and they formed the mighty Cadence. XANA, nearly defeated, hacked into the government files, saying that they (Franz, Aelita, and Dr. Cossak) were terrorists. Franz and Aelita fled to Lyoko, while Dr. Cossak and Bass fled to Japan. Once on Lyoko, XANA attacked Franz and Aelita. Franz was taken prisoner, his Key to Lyoko stripped from him, and Aelita survived, minus her human DNA and her memories. Later, during the battle to decode his diary, Franz overrode XANA’s corruption, allowing the diary to decode at super speed. He later was fed to Alpha, and saved Aelita and Bass when they were absorbed. He attached himself to Cadence when Aelita and Bass turned into her, and hitched a ride out of Alpha. He was the first possessed by XANA after she came back, and revealed that some of Bass’ coding/DNA had slipped into Aelita’s.

-Name: XANA
-Date of Creation/Birth: Unknown.
-Gender: Female.
-Height: 5’11
-Appearance (Earth): Unknown. Probably same as Lyoko, but mostly appears as specters, which look like black clouds of smoke/mist.
-Appearance (Lyoko): It’s been described as: “black samurai armor. Her legs had less of the black armor, but instead had a short skirt made of it and gray pants that went down to her knee-length black and red boots. On her breastplate, armor skirt, and the back of her palms, the being’s logo was proudly displayed: A red bulls-eye with one stick coming out the top, and three shorter sticks coming out of the bottom.”
-Special powers: Lightning, hacking, can control any electronic device, able to turn into smoke/mist/spectre, activation of towers, summon/control of monsters, regenerative abilities.
-Attacks: Lightning, Possession, Earthbreaker, sword, laser beam, others.
-Likes: destruction, irises, death, chaos, her father, when things go her way, suffering of others.
-Dislikes: You, Humanity, the Lyoko Warriors, Bass, most of earth.
-Theme songs: I hate everything about you.
-Bio: A mysterious program, she has her own agenda that she shares with her father. She first appeared over ten years ago, in the midst of the Lyoko Project, attempting to destroy it. After Cadence defeated her, she spent time framing the Hoppers and the Cossaks. She succeeded, but all parties survived. After capturing Franz and erasing Aelita’s memories, she infected Alpha, core of the internet, framing Bass and sending him down a spiral of hate and rage. She later was reactivated, and began trying to destroy the Lyoko Warriors, until she realized that Bass was close. She brought him to her world, until realizing that he was about a billion times more powerful then anything she had. So she infected him with a virus and attacked several more times, including with several Schyphizoas in the real world. She also summoned two polymorphic clones to Lyoko in order to destroy Ulrich and Bass while they defended the tower decoding the diary. She also lost the battle against Cadence, though she won initially. She bode her time and brought back her father, and has teamed up with a Dark Bass clone named Forte to destroy the Lyoko Warriors and some other ulterior motive.
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[Sithking Zero]

Heart of a Warrior III
Warrior’s Redemption
Chapter 11:
R, R, and R:
Rest, Relaxation, and Rage


IN SECTOR 5 AKA “CARTHAGE…”

“I’m sorry, father. The warriors managed to deactivate the towers, and now they have power back to their facilities.”

The old man sighed and rubbed his hand across his brow.

“Well,” he began, on the plus side, we did get eighty-six percent of the power we require… and that has pushed up our timeline for success greatly… So no real harm done. Too bad we weren’t able to get total success…”

XANA smirked. “Oh, I wouldn’t say that that was all we accomplished, father…”

Her father perked up. “What’s that?”

“You do happen to realize that I was able to implant a darkchip into one of their members, correct?”

“Into a human?”

“Yes.”

“… nice work. In fact, I have just the plan where this sort of thing would be excellent…”

“Really, father? What is it?”

“All in good time, my dear, all in good time. In the meantime, how’s Forte doing? Are your sync rates comparable?”

XANA scowled at her father’s image. “Yes, we’re doing admirably. I would estimate that we are at a sixty-two percent sync rate. And Forte is being… himself. He’s wondering why he has to do, in his words, ‘Such menial, degrading work suitable for a Mettaur.’”

She took a breath, then burst out, “Father, why do we have to ready ourselves for implantation? I was able to fight off Cadence alone last time, why can’t I just-”

“I WILL HEAR NO DISOBEDIANCE!!!” roared the old man. “I did not spend so much time working hard to copy so many of Hopper and Cossak’s stupid programs to have my efforts wasted by the likes of one naysayer.”

“And if you’ll recall,” he shot at her sharply, “Cadence nearly DESTROYED you the first time. And the second time,” he gave her a look of rage, “Cadence was rusty and didn’t even know what she was capable of, not to mention YOU knew what you were facing this time, and you STILL lost! If it were not for my own skill and your natural defenses, you would be junk data floating on the breeze! You still think that you do not need the Heart of Darkness?” he cried.

XANA winced visibly. “N…n-no, father, of cou-”

“Good,” he interrupted. “Now, what we are to do with the human-” but his watch interrupted him. “Damn,” he muttered, “I’ll just send you the plans later. By the way…” he added, almost as an aside, “Make sure that you launch an attack sometime in the next twenty four hours, and make sure that you send lots of monsters against the dark human.”

With that, he terminated the connection, leaving XANA embarrassed and fuming.

Didn’t that crazy old man ever think that maybe, just maybe, she would be sufficient to destroy the Lyoko Warriors? After all, she could take on each and every one of them in single combat and win.

Still, that annoying little voice in the back of her head replied, You did fudge the last time you fought Bass.

‘No way!’ she thought. ‘I won that fight fair and square.’

Yeah, by having Alpha distract him and then stabbing him.

‘Shut up,’ she mentally muttered, rubbing her arm and side, tracing the outline of the massive scar that was the physical reminder of where the energy blast of Cadence had ripped her open.

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Odd woke up with a small cry, drenched in sweat.

Ulrich turned over, still about eighty percent asleep, but caring enough to mutter, “Wasgooenon?” (What’s going on?)

Odd turned and replied shakily, “Nothing. Nothing at all… just a bad dream… a really bad dream…”

Ulrich, however, wasn’t even awake enough to understand, he had gone straight back to sleep right after he made his barely intelegable remark.

Odd closed his eyes. The dream- nay, nightmare, he knew, had been so unbelievably vivid…

It had started off nice, with Sissi, and the ice cream parlor… but then a Krabe had stormed through, impaling people on it’s sharpened legs, blasting holes in people with its three eyes. Odd tried to push Sissi behind him, but her head exploded in a pop of steam, boiled brains, and flesh as a laser boiled through her skull.

A Scyphizoa’s tentacles wrapped around him and raised him up through the roof to witness the destruction of the city.

As soon as they were at roof height, it pressed three tentacles to his head, which pulsed once, then released him. He immiediately found that he was not in control of his body, and he found himself a mere passenger, whereas before he was in control. He walked forwards, stepping onto a manta, then crouched, letting the manta carry him to one of it’s brothers, upon which XANA was watching the destruction in all her glory.

Odd had to admit, albeit grudgingly, that she was sort of pretty, her raven hair flowing and snapping behind her like a cape, the sun glittering off of her armor.

He gingerly stepped off of his manta so that he was standing next to the ultimate manifestation of all that was evil in his life. She sighed contentedly.

“Isn’t it beautiful?” she asked lovingly. “I’ve waited so long for this moment…”

Odd stared down at the ground, far below. Monsters were lurching out of the factory in a steady, unbroken stream, dividing and conquering. He watched as civilians fled before their advance, some falling behind and were destroyed. Heroes, or the civilians that were trying to fight, suffered a worse fate- monsters would swarm upon them, not even bothering with their lasers, and used simply their claws and legs to rip them apart, disemboweling them, rending them limb from limb, and listening as their screams of final agony and their death rattles filled the air.

The monsters were now making a strategic pincer movement, herding the civilians who had fled into a large group, cutting off escape for the thousands of men, women, and children, all lscared, pushing, shoving, trying to escape, but finding that the monsters of XANA had other plans.

“Look over there,” XANA murmured in his ear.

A team of anti-terrorism operatives (the French equivalent of a SWAT team) were setting up positions behind sandbags, hastily set up, their high-powered weapons trained on the oncoming mass of monsters.

As one, the operatives began to fire, coordinated with their hidden rooftop snipers. The bullets whizzed through the air, impacting multiple times against XANA’s monsters, causing little-to-no damage whatsoever.

Until, that is, one member got a shot on a Blok’s eye. The creature exploded in a bright flash of light, and the man waved his gun in the air, screaming of their new weak point.

XANA growled, and twitched her hand slightly.

The snipers on the rooftops immediately began to score kills against many monsters, especially the Krabes and Tarantulas, who had top-mounted Eyes.

That is, until XANA’s hand twitch took effect.

Four hundred Hornets, buzzing like a hive of killer bees, descended upon the snipers, their lasers cutting into their ranks. Though the snipers made several kills against them, they fell to superior numbers of XANA’s creatures. The soldiers below, without cover fire from the snipers, were unable to hold off XANA’s relentless advance, and met the fate of so many of the civilian heroes before them. Odd tried hard to turn his head away from their fate, and found that, surprisingly, he could. He managed to turn his head enough to look directly at the survivors who had not escaped the monster’s pincer move.

They had been herded into a park, wide, and open, but the place was now pockmarked by laser blasts and craters, with the survivors huddled in the center, terrified of the bizarre beasts that had driven them from their homes.

For some reason, the creatures began to withdraw from the park. Odd could imagine what it must be like for the refugees: Total confusion, suspicion, and fear that the creatures would come back.

Odd knew better. He could see that the monsters had not retreated, but had merely gone back about three hundred feet each, edging themselves away from the trapped humans.

It happened in an instant.

One moment, the refugees were starting to get up, and edge towards the edge of the park, brightly colored flowers flowing in the breeze, and then, there was a huge flash of light.

It was unbearable to look at. The light outshone everything- the sun, the lasers of monsters still fighting the police and army reinforcements, even the fires in XANA’s eyes.

When Odd turned back, it took him a few moments to find the park.

It was horrible.

In a half-mile radius, based on where the center of the park had been, there was nothing but a massive crater, and a huge plume of smoke rising from the center.

A small speck rose from the center, flying up, higher and higher, before angling towards the Manta that Odd and XANA rode on.

The cloaked figure rose up until he was eye-level with XANA, and then bowed.

“Milady, I live to serve.”

XANA reached out and patted him on the head, as one would a dog.

“Excellent work.”

As the figure rose, the sun, already dimming due to the smoke from a thousand fires, shone on the golden fins on the figure’s head.

The violet eyes pierced into Odd’s soul.

“Welcome… Brother.”

The dream ended there, leaving Odd to ponder its meaning.

Why had Bass killed all those people? Wasn’t he supposed to be a good guy? And what was the deal with Bass calling him brother? Why had he even had the dream at all?

All Odd knew was that these nightmares had started just after the Scyphizoa had attacked him about a week ago. After the fourth night, he had gone to Jeremie, but it seemed that nothing was wrong or had changed about him, according to the scanners.

Odd sighed a deep sigh. He then pulled his covers over himself and fell back into a fitful sleep, plagued with visions of purple flame and a dark, menacing voice…

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In the most remote part of the desert sector, a tower rumbled as a new source of power entered it, charging it with power.

Almost immiediately, the area around the tower swarmed with monsters, each with the same objectives:

STOP AELITA.

ENGAGE ODD.

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In the darkness of the Undernet, just beyond the Forest Sector Gate, the hunter waited.

The shadows themselves seemed to quiver in fear of the hunter, but still, he was patient.

He could wait for all eternity, if need be.

He had seen Replicons scurrying out of the portal, and he knew more would soon.

He couldn’t open the portal himself, so he waited.

And the instant that the portal opened…

XANA would die.
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