Story of My Unfortunate Life – Chapter 9 Part 2

Sero felt like a killing machine on Lyoko. Aelita and Ulrich watched as Sero dashed through the air on his emerald-green wings, taking out the monstrous swarm of Hornets guarding the activated tower. “This is awesome! I almost want XANA to attack more often!” Sero gladly said as he threw his scythe at the swarm, taking out three of them before the scythe circled back to its owner.

“You’re crazy Sero! You know that, right?” Ulrich shouted to Sero. Ulrich was angry because he is unable to help the group with his katana. “Let him have some fun, he doesn’t get an opportunity like this often.” Aelita said, watching Sero as he slowly thinned down the swarm. Odd was having some fun, taking potshots at the giant mass surrounding the Way tower. Moments later, the remaining Hornets fled, puzzling the group. “Where did they go?” Sero said, landing near the tower. After walking around the tower, he found himself face-to-face with the Scyphozoa. This was the first time that Sero ever saw the Scyphozoa. “And what are you supposed to be?” Sero asked mockingly to XANA’s creation, which only looked at him. “Sero, stop the Scyphozoa before it gets to Aelita!” Sero heard Jeremie say from the Supercomputer.

“Why? It looks pretty harmless to me-umm what is it trying to do?” Sero said with some fear as he back-stepped from the Scyphozoa, which was advancing towards him while trying to grab him. Sero readied his scythe before it suddenly vanished into thin air. Quickly glancing around to find his weapon, he didn’t see the Scyphozoa grip him with its tentacles. Unable to escape, Sero could only stare at the Scyphozoa as it took something from his brain. “Odd, do something!” Jeremie said, barely containing his emotions. “Sorry Einstein, I can’t get a clear shot!” Odd said, surrounded by the leftover Hornets which blocked any possible shot from him. Odd took a chance and ran through the Hornet-wall and made a lucky shot, slicing several tentacles. The Scyphozoa fled after letting go of Sero, who fell to the mountainous ground.

“Aelita, go deactivate the tower!” Odd shouted to Aelita, who was already running to the tower. Aelita started to deactivate the tower as Sero silently crawled into the tower, losing consciousness. “Tower deactivated.” Aelita said, not noticing that Sero was in the tower. “Nice work guys, I’m bringing all of you back now.” Jeremie said, entering the codes for materialization.

Jeremie and Yumi anxiously waited for the scanners to open, making sure that everyone came back ok. Odd, Ulrich, and Aelita were the first ones devirtualized but Jeremie was starting to worry about Sero because it has been a minute since the others were back on Earth. “You don’t think that the code went wrong Jeremie?” Aelita said to him, who was getting worried. “He would’ve been back by now, the code for materialization has always worked…” Jeremie said, making his hands into fists. The Scanner decided to now open to show… “No one? Why would the scanner open up as if someone was in it?” Ulrich said in confusion, staring at the empty scanner.

(Sero’s P.O.V)

As I exited the scanner, my friends simply looked at me with slight depression, most notably in my boyfriend. “No one? Why would the scanner open up as if someone was in it?” Ulrich said, staring at me in confusion.