Code X

Chapter 20 – Making Headway

The battled between the four continued on. The mysterious Maverick continued to try and slice his claws through the three legendary warriors.

"Protoman!" X shouted as he watched his opponent dash towards the red robot. He quickly threw up his shield, blocking the attack. He then smirked as his body flew forward. He then slammed the shield downward, throwing the Maverick into the ground. He quickly jumped back to his friends, buster pointed at the fugitive.

"Very good. Now tell me, what do you think you're doing? Have you ever stopped to think 'Maybe I can do this without fighting.'?" He then boomed out with laughter.

Megaman and X both stopped as they had always thought that. Fighting always seemed like the only option so they had always taken it. X especially had wanted more than anything to stop all the fighting.

"Guys snap out of it!" Protoman shouted as he fired a fully charged blast at their opponent. "This isn't the time to be dealing with your idealism. Ready your weapons!"

The Maverick laughed hysterically and pointed his right claw at Protoman. "Yes. Keep that leadership. You might need it. I'll be off while you deal with your philosophical issues. But I'll leave you with this. My name … is Enimul." He then seemed to have teleported out of the area.

Protoman continued to stare out into the distance where Enimul had once stood. He then quickly turned to his allies to make sure they were alright.

"P-Protoman … I'm sorry I was too weak to fight," Megaman had said apologetically. Protoman merely shook his head.

X and the others then rejoined the group. Odd quickly gave them a congratulatory cheer. "Way to go guys! You made him leave!"

Yumi and Ulrich nodded in agreement.

Commander Signas grew angry. "I'm getting tired of all these intruders on our base. I say, we find their base of operations and take them out."

Everyone quickly turned their heads to the commander in shock.

"He's right," Spider chimed in. "If we want to end this, we have to hit them at the heart."

"But where could that be?" Aelita asked confusedly.

"She's got a point you know," Alia agreed.

It seemed that the negative outlook was begging to become contagious. However, Jeremy slammed his spear's bottom onto the ground, causing everyone to look at him.

"I think I know where they might be. Think about it, if they are working with X.A.N.A. and William, don't you think they would be at the factory in France?"

"But remember, Zello said it himself," X started, "The only way we're going to be able to fix everything is if we kill this X.A.N.A. thing. Do you guys have any idea how to kill it?"

The Lyoko Warrior's silence was answer enough.

"Wait! What if we create a weapon that could destroy X.A.N.A.? Kind of like an E.M.P.?" Layer suggested.

"If we do that, we'd have to make sure none of us are caught in the blast," Spider interjected.

The group was silent for a moment. Then, Odd laughed. "Well, I guess this means the Magnificent Odd has to go in and take them down."

The group laughed for a moment, thinking he was only joking. Then, they stopped and realized he was right. Only the Lyoko Warriors could use this weapon since they were all humans.

"That's great! Now we know we can use it! Now … the question is, how do we make it?" X exclaimed happily.

Jeremy then said, "Why don't we work on feeding the five of our weapons with the energy? That way, we can all work together to take him down."

"Great. Then let's get to work on it right away. Lyoko Warriors, you will stay out of battle so that you may remain in top condition for the assault. If anything comes up, let X and the others take care of it." Commander Signas stated.

With an agreeing cheer, they all began working on the new weapons.