Hello to my readers, though I'm pretty sure there's only one who's actually reviewed. This case will be a decent attempt in trying to cross over House and Code Lyoko. Anyway: I don't own Code Lyoko or House in any way. Now on with the story
Ch.2
(Ulrich's Hospital Room)
Ulrich laid in bed, hooked into a dozen different things going on around him. He had a tube to his nose, a monitor for his heart, and lots of nurses coming around to check him. Life was only going slower for the poor samurai warrior. Occasionally, since there was nothing else to do, he would nod off. Ulrich was already there for about 3 hours, this meant that he wasn't getting out anytime soon and he knew it.
'Just my luck, I have something that nobody knows what it is.'
He suddenly felt a hand touching his face, he was half awake but opened his eyes. In his field of vision, he saw Yumi. She sadly smiled, glad he was alive but not that he was here. "How are you feeling?"
"I can breathe again, I still feel like crap cause my muscles ache a little. That's just cause of the soccer practices and lyoko I guess."
Yumi didn't seem to believe him, she wasn't convinced. She trusted him, since she loved him in all. Ulrich loved her too, but considering what was going on he didn't wanna tell her just yet. He wasn't going to make this a cliché.
Ulrich looked around the room and noticed where he was, seeing that he was in a hospital obviously. More closely, he saw that he was in the ICU of the hospital. 'Whatever's going on with me, that means that it's something serious.' He snapped out of his train of thought to see Yumi looking out the see-through glass of the room, seems like she's looking for someone. "Yumi?" She jerked her head over to me. "You looking for the gang, 'cause as far as I know school isn't out yet."
She shook her head 'no'. "I was looking for your doctor. They said his name was Dr. House, and that he walks with a cane. As for the gang, you're right school isn't over yet." 'I really hope that they find out what's wrong with you Ulrich.' Yumi thought pessimistically.
(In School) With the Gang
Odd, Aelita, and Jeremie were all sitting in physics class with Ms. Hertz. She was mentioning something about Isaac Newton in her lecture, but none of the Lyoko gang would know. Odd was staring at the board into space, his mind wandering towards his German roommate and how he was doing. Aelita and Jeremie were sitting together, occasionally Jeremie would take down notes but then he gave up.
"Psst, Jeremie?" Odd whispered. Jeremie turned his head to see a depressed Odd. "Do you think what happened to Ulrich is caused by Xana? I mean he has gotten Ulrich sick before, remember the amnesia virus it caused him to blackout."
Jeremie thought about what Odd said, it actually made sense. 'Wow, I guess Odd makes more sense when he's depressed.'
Before Jeremie could speak, Aelita cut in. "I think it could be Xana, it's hard to tell. Nothing showed up on the superscan yet, right Jeremie?" Einstein nodded in agreement, but he figured there was nothing wrong with a little insurance in a time like this.
"Nothing on the superscan yet. You guys go visit Ulrich see how he's doing, I'll go double check on the supercomputer and if anything comes up I'll call you guys. Okay?" They all nodded and turned their heads back to the board, just in time as Ms. Hertz turned her head around. Before she could make a remark about their chatting in class, the bell rang and the class made their way flooding the hallways.
The trio walked out into the open space of the campus and got to the gate. "I'll call you guys when I have some news okay?"
"Okay, good luck Einstein" Odd yelled. Him and Aelita ran towards the hospital, since it was only 20 minutes away. About halfway there, they had to start walking because it took a lot out of them. In case it was Xana, they'd also need to run to the factory from there. "Aelita, do you think Ulrich's gonna be ok?" Odd asked with a worried look.
Aelita took in a deep breath and placed a hand on his shoulder, "He'll be fine either way Odd. We always take out Xana."
Odd wasn't so sure this time, "But... what if this isn't Xana?"
She hadn't even thought of that, if Ulrich really was sick then he could be dead. "Ulrich's a fighter, he always has been and he always will be. He'll get through this one way or another." Soon enough they reached the hospital and walked in, asking the nurse for Ulrich's room number.
(House's Office)
"Alright, 13 year old male, passed out from no oxygen and has pain moving. Differential diagnosis, GO!"
"Could be hypothyroidism." Thirteen said.
"Or lupus." finished Kutner.
"Or... and I'm just thinking out loud here, he's got pain from soccer. Kid's the soccer star at his school, says the coach runs him into the ground more than anyone else." Foreman finished.
"Thirteen, get the kid's history. Taub, run his blood for lupus. Kutner, give the kid levothyroxine in case it's hypothyroidism."
The group all left the room as House looked more at the Ulrich's file. It wasn't very big. All that was in there was the basics from Kadic: from Germany, lives with biological parents, has been going to the same school for about 2 years.
(Ulrich's Room)
Thirteen and Kutner arrived, Thirteen with a clipboard in hand and Kutner with a bag for the IV. They walked in to see Yumi with her hand on Ulrich's head brushing up to the side of his face. He had just fallen asleep, but Thirteen needed this information. House needed this info, whether he thought so or not.
"Excuse me." Thirteen tapped Yumi's shoulder. With her warrior instincts acting up, she automatically swung her body around and had her hands in stance. Realizing there was no harm, and how close that her hand was to actually hitting the unknown doctor, she placed her hands down and bowed.
"Sorry, I almost took you out in a heartbeat." Her face reddened to the shade of a tomato.
Thirteen couldn't help but chuckle, "It's alright. I'm guessing from the stance and the instinct that either you take martial arts or you're naturally jumpy."
"It's the first one, I practice penchak silat with Ulrich after school." While they were talking, Yumi noticed that Kutner was adding a bag to Ulrich's IV drip. "What's that? That can't be medicine can it, you haven't even figured out what's wrong with him, have you?"
Thirteen walked closer to Yumi.
"Look uh..."
"Yumi." she finished for the doctor.
"Thank you, Yumi we are only covering the bases here. Right now Ulrich only has a few broad symptoms, which make it hard to diagnose what he has. I guarantee, if we think of what it could be we'll test and try to see how it'll go."
Yumi looked down, she wasn't really happy with the way that this would go. It was a 'throw stuff on the wall and see what sticks' method, but she figured it was better than nothing. Yumi just nodded, as she saw the Indian doctor leave the room.
"Yumi?" Thirteen asked. Yumi immediately turned her head again, as if it was illegal to watch Kutner leave.
"Since Ulrich is asleep, I was wondering if you could give me a hand with his history. If he has an allergy, any medical problems or something for us to be concerned about. Or even his family history, if you know anything."
"How is this relevant for him?" She asked curiously. She wasn't trying to be rude, she really was wondering how this is important.
"The more we know, the easier it is to diagnose him. That and if he's allergic to anything, we can avoid giving him an allergic reaction... things like that."
Yumi thought about it, As long as I don't have to give them any info about the factory, we should be fine. She nodded and sat down at a chair next to Ulrich's bed.
Before she could even get one word out, the silence was broken. "Hey Yumi, what's going on?" she heard the voice.
"Odd, don't yell. Can't you see Ulrich's asleep?" Aelita hit him over the head.
"Oops, sorry Aelita. So, Yumi, is this his attending?" Odd asked as he walked over to Thirteen.
"No, I'm Dr. Hadley. I assist Dr. House, he's the attending, we run test and do errands for him." Thirteen said.
Thriteen examined the kids that seemed to be the German boy's friends. A boy, extremely hyperactive and giddy wears only purple, Odd. Odd is definitely a word anyone would use. Probably his best friend if she had to guess. The other, Aelita, a more quiet girl, and with pink hair. And the other one, Yumi, wears all black seems to care about him a lot. Probably has a crush on him.
"So what was the question you wanted to ask me, Dr. Hadley?"
"Well, you have all your friends here, I think it can wait until Ulrich wakes up."
The three of them gave a look that seemed to scream 'thank you', Thirteen smiled as she walked out the door.
Just as Dr. Hadley walked out, Aelita's cell phone started to vibrate. She picked it up, it was Jeremie.
A: What'd you find out Jeremie?
J: Well, I ran a scan 3 times. Each one ended up the same.
A: You don't sound thrilled, but that could go either way.
(Odd snagged the phone away from Aelita)
O: So what's the deal Einstein, is Ulrich sick because of Xana or not?
I hate to be a jerk, but I'm gonna leave it there for now. Send me a review, answer this question. Is this a Xana attack or not? Either way, also if you have a guess to what Ulrich has, review, I'll PM you to say if you're right. PLEASE R&R , the more reviews the faster the next chapter goes up. Avoid the suspense if you know what's good for you.