9:39 P.M (Factory)
"Einstein, hurry it up! I'm surrounded!" Ulrich screamed
"Ulrich hold on the overbike is coming, until then cover Aelita, she needs to deactivate the tower." Jeremie explained.
"Geez. No pressure huh?" Ulrich examined his surroundings; he was currently in the forest sector, the only sector that X.A.N.A hadn't destroyed yet. That added along with the usual pressure he was sure 'on edge'. Fighting airborne enemies was always a pain and three hornets made things even more annoying. 'I need something that will give me a edge' Ulrich thought "I don't think I can wait for Jeremie to send the over bike. As he took note the three impending hornets. 'Guess I'm going to wing it until the bike comes or I think of something.' Ulrich thought. The Three hornets loomed over his head shooting lasers at him as he tried to distract them from Aelita who was hiding behind a hollow tree waiting for Ulrich's signal to advance. 'I hate dealing with these guys. How am I going to take these guys down?" Ulrich pondered in his head for an answer until he saw a huge tree and an idea was born. "Alright looks like a plan then, Super Sprint!"
Ulrich Sprinted up to the trees, stopping for a second and leaping off of it performing several barrel rolls while swinging his swords into the incoming hornets. The surprised hornets tried to move out the way, but two of them were caught by the flurry of slashes. The last hornet was able to weave out of the way and fired a laser at Ulrich's back, with no time to react Ulrich was hit in the back, letting out a grunt of pain he flipped his body in the air and threw one of his swords at the hornet hitting it right in its X.A.N.A Insignia destroying it. Landing on his feet he grinned, caught his falling sword and sheathed them. 'Looks like I didn't need the overbike" His grin stretching even wider.
"Ulrich you're awesome!" Jeremie exclaimed then pausing he spoke again "Alright Aelita it's safe for you to go inside the tower now." Jeremie said clearing his throat from his earlier outburst.
"You heard him princess, get going." Ulrich said with a smile. Aelita didn't say anything but nodded and ran into the tower. A minute later the tower was deactivated and Aelita came out.
"Tower deactivated, bring us back in Jeremie." She said.
"Gotcha, I'm bringing you two in now."
10:02 P.M
The gang had just left the factory and were walking across the bridge trying to get back before they got into any trouble.
"Hey Einstein, why didn't you just launch a return to the past? It would've saved us a lot of trouble." Odd said a little bit depressed.
"You're just saying that because you want to eat breakfast again." Ulrich said with a laugh.
"Hey leave me and my stomach alone," Odd said defensively, then grinning he said "And why are you bothering me? Shouldn't you be drooling over Yumi right now?"
"Now Odd it isn't nice to make fun of Ulrich because he's too scared to ask out Yumi" Aelita said then gave Ulrich a look meant to console him.
"Shut up Odd, and I'm not scared! I'm just uh, waiting for…the right time you know!" Ulrich said flustered.
"So the right time is when exactly?" Odd still grinning said.
"I still haven't figured it out yet, so just butt out." Ulrich said starting to feel his blood boil.
"I'm sorry Ulrich" Jeremie began "But I'm going to have to agree with Odd on this, Your constant mood swings because of Yumi aren't helping anyone. Just talk to her and tell her how you feel. It's pretty obvious she likes you back already anyways.
"I could say the same to you Jeremie." Ulrich said smirking while Jeremie was dumbfounded.
"Yumi likes me?" Jeremie said starting to turn beet red.
"What? No! I meant that you're in the same boat as me with the whole thing you have going on with Aelita." Ulrich said
"Well then Ulrich I'll let you know that I already told Aelita how I felt about her and she agreed to go on a date with me." He said in a matter-of-factly-tone "Anyways, this isn't about me, it's about you. I felt the same way as you and it all worked out for me." Jeremie said putting his hand on Ulrich's shoulder while Odd and Aelita both gave him cheerful nods. "So just go talk to her."
Ulrich started to feel a bit more confident about the situation then turned around breaking into a jog. "I'm going to go tell Yumi how I feel right now, I'll let you guys know how it goes tomorrow!"
11:07 P.M
Odd awoke to Ulrich coming back into their dorm room and heading straight to bed. At first he didn't think much of it till he realized that Ulrich didn't even change into his pajamas.
"Hey Ulrich good buddy of mine, how did it go?"
"I'll tell you in the morning" Ulrich said with no signs of emotion
'Uh oh Odd though in his head, looks like tomorrow weather forecast for breakfast will be cloudy and a sulking Ulrich.'
8:10 A.M Cafeteria
Odd got his tray of food and headed towards the usual table where Jeremie and Aelita were seated. He plopped down on the opposite side of the table and greeted them both.
"Hey Odd any news from Ulrich about what happened last night yet?" Jeremie asked.
"No not yet, when he came back he just went straight to bed so be prepared because he might come here and have a Ulrich moment,..again."
"Well since we haven't heard anything yet it might have worked out." Aelita said optimistically.
"Oh wait there he is." Jeremie said pointing at the cafeteria doors
Ulrich walked into the cafeteria and went to the breakfast line just to end with the usual slop, he figured he spaced out since he heard Odd yelling at him.
"Hey Ulrich over here! YooHoo, Earth to Ulrich, anybody home?"
With a sign Ulrich walked over to the table figuring he might as well tell them now and get it over with.
"Hey guys." he said. Sitting down next to Odd "How's it going." He said flatly.
"Not to rush you or anything but how did it go last night Ulrich." Jeremie said expectantly.
Ulrich remained silent just playing with his food.
"You want your food?" Odd said cheerfully hoping that Ulrich would cheer up a bit and kind of because he was hungry
Ulrich remained silent but pushed the tray over to a now very happy Odd. After a few minutes of silence Aelita decided to break the ice.
"So Ulri-"She started before she was cut off.
"She rejected me okay!" Ulrich screamed causing everyone in the cafeteria to look over at the group and start whispering. Ulrich then stomped out of the cafeteria leaving everyone in the table stunned at his sudden outburst.
"Soooo, you guys want your food?" Odd said in a comedic tone trying to cheer them up a bit.
Ulrich stomped into the hall and back into his dorm room remembering the events that aspired last night.
-Flashback-
Ulrich had just made it to Yumi's house, panting since he ran there from the factory but he was just that excited. 'Alright Ulrich Stern, this is it just climb up that tree knock on Yumi's window and confess. Just 3 easy steps.' Ulrich thought and began climbing the tree that would lead him up to Yumi's balcony. Upon getting to the top he knocked on her window. Only to see that it was open, climbing in he saw something he didn't want to remember.
-End Flashback-
Shaking his head Ulrich continued walking back to his dorm. On his way he noticed Emily, a girl he briefly sorta hooked up when him and Yumi were fighting, but since then him and Yumi had made up and they just had a falling out afterwards. 'Time for a change. I can't keep sulking over Yumi, it's time I moved on' Ulrich thought.
Ulrich grabbed Emily's arm and looked at her with a smile and said "Hey Emily."
That's the end of chapter one I guess, I don't have anything really important to say. Although I would appreciate it if you were to give me a few ideas and some harsh criticism on what I can improve along with pointing out grammar and spelling mistakes. I want to make this a lot better than it already is and plan on doing about 3000 words plus for the next chapter. I will say that this fic won't be very long less than 10 chapters I can say for sure, but then again who really knows.
-Ragnorockia AKA Jason