Chapter 1

season 2

"Rra!" Yumi cried, throwing her fan as she cartwheeled out of the way of the block's laser.

The fan crossed over the eye of Xana, killing it.

Yumi righted herself, raising her hand to grab the fan as it came back to her.

"Is Aelita any closer to the tower?" Ulrich asked as he pulled out his sword from the last block.

"No. Odd's still got one krabe." Jeremie's voice said. "Look out, Xana's sending you some frelions."

Ulrich and Yumi turned around, hearing the steady hum of their wings.

"Dones Xana want us to stay here all day?" Ulrich asked, deflecting a laser, killing the bug that had shot at him.

"Looks like it." Yumi said, jumping onto the overwing and flying around the three remaining freloins.

"Huh, hey, what's going on?" Yumi asked as the frelions started to fly away, leaving them in an empty mountain battle feild.

Yumi went back down and looked at Ulrich, her face full of questions.

Ulrich strugged as he put his katana away.

"This is weird. The tower's deactivated itself." Jeremie said.

"You searious?!" Ulrich asked, surprised.

"Ya, I'm going to get you all back now." Jeremie said, typing in the rematerilization codes.

Yumi disappeared from Ulrich's sight.

A minute passed, causing Ulrich to start worrying.

"Anything wrong, Einstien?" Ulrich asked, looking up.

"For some reason, I can't get your program to open." Jeremie said. "Give me a moment. I'll have to use a back door."

Ulrich looked around, realizing how longly it was to be on Lyoko by himself, causing him to flashback to when he was a child. He closed his eyes and let the memory flow over him.

Ulrich found himself back in his house that he had lived in back in Germany. He looked over the railing and down to his father and mother. He remembered that they had to leave to go to a meeting and couldn't wait for the nanny to get there.

Ulrich's hand clenched the teddy bear tighter as he realized he was all alone in the big house.

It wasn't the fact that his parents wasn't there that scared him. He had gotten used to them leaving him alone with just the buttler and their one servent.

It was what the buttler and servent would do together. He could hear their chanting starting up.

Ulrich hurried to his room and shut the door behind himself, his arms hugging his bear.

"Ready Ulrich?" Jeremie asked, forcing Ulrich to open his eyes, bringing him back to the mountains.

Ulrich looked up and said, "Been ready."

"Materilization Ulrich." Jeremie said, typing in more comands than normal.

Ulrich disappeared from Lyoko only to find himself gasping for breath as soon as the scanner doors opened.

"Ulrich!" Yumi exclaimed, watching him fall to his knees, his hands gripping at his chest. She ran over to him, consern writen on her face.

"Yumi, is Ulrich alright?" Odd askedm hearing Yumi's cry in the lab with Jeremie and Aelita.

Ulrich looked up, his breathing better. "I'm fine, Odd." a smile across his face.

"You need help?" Yumi asked as she helped him stand.

"I'm fine." Ulrich said as he felt sweat dripping down the side of his face.

Yumi noticed and put her hand to his forehead. "You're burning! Are you sure you're fine?"

"It's nothing." Ulrich said, getting out of Yumi's grip. He walked over to the elevator and turned to look at her. "You coming? We've got to get back to class."

Yumi walked over, stepping inside the elevator.

Ulrich pushed the button, shutting the iron curtain.

Yumi glanced over to him, consern writen over her face.