LF39: Meet the Fangirls pt 2

"Hey! You! Get over here, now!"
    "Huh?" Aelita turned to see Gwen staring her down. The pink-haired girl walked over to the Sasuke fangirl.
    "What is it?"
    "You guys are somehow responsible for getting me here; now, I want back!"
Beep, beep! Beep, beep! Jeremy's laptop urged.
    "An activated tower! I have to hurry-"
    "Not on my watch, Jeremy!"
    "But-"
    "No!" Lori glomped harder.
A grey blob seeped out of the electrical socket outside the gym. It flickered and formed shape, then took on colors. Now disguised as Hinata, X.A.N.A. walked aside the building.
Ulrich yelled, still being tailed by Allie, Rachel, Michelle, Katie, and Sandra.
    "Huh? That sounded like-" Yumi looked out her window and viewed the scene. "Looks like they're back," she said, leaving her room and stepping down the stairs.
"There you are, Hinata!" Aelita yelled, waving at who was supposedly her roommate. The pink-haired girl approached and added, "X.A.N.A.'s activated a tower, and I can't contact any of the boys! Come on, let's get to the factory!" The polymorphic clone nodded and followed Aelita.
"Will you guys stop bugging him already?" The fangirls as well as Ulrich stopped for a moment. "Oh, no!" Rachel shrieked. "Y and U! Y and U! It's true, it's true!" Katie joined in  screaming. "What the heck are they blabbering about?!" Yumi yelled over the increasingly louder group of fangirls. "Who knows?!" Ulrich shouted back.
"I can't believe this; Yumi's not answering her phone, either!" Aelita exclaimed, hanging up and dialing again. X.A.N.A. responded so as not to arouse suspicion.
    "Hmm."
"Aah!" Kiba's door was forced open by the fangirls, who charged in.
Aelita led the way into the sewers.
Oh, no! I can't hold up much longer! Shikamaru thought. "Look! Look!" Courtney exclaimed, "It flickered!" The shadow connecting the chunin and the three girls split in two.
    "This doesn't look good!" Courtney, Kailee, and Jordan squealed as they sprinted toward their prey.
"Hey, Kiba, your cell phone's ringing," Harriss commented, still petting Akamaru, whose eyes were closed at the moment. "Do I look like I can answer it right now?!" Kiba screamed back, trying his level best to escape the mob of fangirls.
Aelita climbed up the ladder and exited the sewer system, helping who she thought was Hinata out as well. "Aaah!" the girl screamed as electricity shot out the polymorphic clone's hand onto the human.
"Wah!" Kailee yelled, unexpectedly recieving a kick in the stomach. Got to get away from these guys, Shikamaru thought, trying to escape from the crowd of fangirls.
X.A.N.A. walked into the scanner room with Aelita in its hands. The unconscious girl was placed in one of the tube-like structures, and the polymorphic clone rode up to the computer room. After typing a sequence, X.A.N.A. virtualized Aelita.
Shikamaru was in the forest now, trying to get away from the obsessors. There! The sewer entry! I'll hide down there for now, he thought, quickly removing the manhole, jumping down, and replacing the chunk of metal.
    "Where'd he go?"
    "I don't see him!"
    "Well, he's got to be around here somewhere!"
X.A.N.A. typed in some coding, and the Overpod appeared near Aelita. It had not taken long for X.A.N.A to discover the new program Jeremy and the others had put in, and now was a very convenient time to use it. X.A.N.A. pulled up the distance maneuvering program and quickly scooped up an unaware Aelita in the Overpod. The vehicle was guided with its cargo to an area near a tower, where it sped up and abruptly stopped. Aelita was propelled into the tower before she knew what was going on.
Have they gone yet? Shikamaru thought, glancing up at the manhole above him. He started to reach up, but stopped himself. Let's play it safe and clear the area, he thought, taking the usual course to the factory.
At superspeed, X.A.N.A. typed in the paralyzation virus sequence, and Aelita froze, her limbs locked in position. Then X.A.N.A. began to enter a new code.
Shikamaru hoisted himself to the surface as his feet touched the bridge as opposed to where they were a second before, a rung on the tunnel ladder. There was a clack, shortly followed by a further away clunk. The chunin looked down to see his cell phone back on the sewer concrete.
    "Better get that." He jumped back down and retrieved the black phone.
    "A missed call? From who?" He checked.
    "Aelita? Huh. Looks like I showed up in the right place at the right time." He put his cell phone back in his pocket and continued into the factory. Shikamaru soon arrived in the control room. Someone was in the seat and typing something madly.
    "Hinata? What are you doing in the controls?" X.A.N.A. whipped around in the chair.
    "You're not-!" The ninja barely avoided an electrical blast.
    "Shadow Possession Jutsu!" Nothing happened. I still don't have enough chakra! he thought, dodging another attack. X.A.N.A. rushed forward and swiped at Shikamaru's neck. He ducked and swung his feet around in hopes of knocking the figure over, but the polymorphic clone flickered and evaded the kick. In the second Shikamaru took to recover, X.A.N.A. surged forward, and miniature bolts of lightning licked at the chunin's skin. He collapsed, and X.A.N.A. reclaimed its position in the chair. It resumed the typing of the program.
"Uh!" Jacie was forced out, and the door slammed. Kiba panted, still guarding and leaning against the door in case the fangirls came back.
The virus was set to settle in one minute. In that time, the previously implanted virus, the paralyzation virus, had to be lifted. Aelita could move again, but it would not do her much good.
The pink-haired girl realized she was no longer held captive by the virus and hurried out of the tower.
    "Jeremy? What's going on?" There was no response from Earth, nor was anything happening on Lyoko.
    "Hello? Anyone?"
"Come on, just let me go already!" Lori huffed and responded, "Fine, if you really hate me that much, haul your butt out of here." Jeremy sat up.
    "Really?"
    "No!"
    "Ack!" Jeremy flinched. Lori giggled.
    "You're so cute when you're scared!"
Shikamaru slowly gained consciousness, and his eyes bolted open. He jumped up and checked the control chair, but X.A.N.A. was gone. Something on the screen was counting down, with fifteen seconds left. Shikamaru slapped on the earpiece and tried to figure out what was going on.
    "Aelita? Can you hear me?"
    "Shikamaru? Is that you?"
    "Yeah, it's me. Do you know what's going on? There's some sort of countdown here, and I can't figure it out."
    "I don't know; I was leading Hinata to the factory since a tower had been activated-"
    "Wait!" The ninja madly typed random things on the keyboard, but it was too late. The countdown finished, and the screen showing it closed.
    "Did you figure it out, Shikamaru?"
    "No, it just stopped. Okay, what were you saying?"
    "Well, a tower had been activated, and I couldn't contact any of you, but I found Hinata across from the cafeteria, so I traveled to the factory with her. I stepped out of the sewers, something happened, and... I'm suddenly on Lyoko being hauled by the Overpod, I get into a tower somehow, and then I can't move, and then you show up."
    "Yeah, well, that wasn't Hinata. Let's leave it at that. In the meantime, you think you might want to try and get to the activated tower?"
    "Right. What sector is it in?"
    "Forest."
    "Okay, I'll take a tower there." Aelita entered the tower where she was previously held. She plummeted off the edge and arrived in another tower. She stuck her head out. "Lucky jump, I guess," she said, stepping out into the forest sector.
    "The tower's to your west, and you'd better hurry if you want to make it without any opposition."
    "Got it." Aelita sprinted toward the glowing red tower. But a few seconds until she reached it, she slowed. Soon she was atop the second level, where she entered "Lyoko" as she so often did.
    "Tower deactivated."
    "Return to the past, now!"
"And you couldn't stop the countdown?"
    "Yeah. I don't know what it was; I guess we'll just have to hope for the best."
    "At least we're not getting mauled by fangirls now." Shikamaru smiled.
    "Yeah. At least that."