Chapter 2
At Kadic Academy – Gymnasium
"Thank you for the nice lesson kids, now go and change."Ulrich said to the boys of the 8th grade. He though at his time in 8th and the adventures he and his friends went through. Because he deep in his memories he didn't his wife sneak up from behind "Hey, Mister dreamy!" Yumi teased him, that was why he married her. "What were you thinking about?" "About that these kids are so care-free and we literally had the weight of 2 worlds on our shoulders" he said. "But without that we never would have met" she answered. He wanted to say the they met before, but she had a point, they learned to know each other after they discovered the factory.
"Mister Stern?" Michael asked. "Yes" "Can I tell you something?" "Of course you can" Ulrich answered. "I meant alone." Michael looked to Yumi, he only knew her from the lunch guard she had ones in a week. Yumi got the message and left. " Sir, Andreas is teasing me." "But teasing isn't that bad is it?" Ulrich said. "But Sir there's something else too!" he yelled because Ulrich was already walking away. "What else?" Ulrich asked pretty annoyed. " I woke up and you know that I'm rooming with Andreas?" "Yes, I'm aware of that" " When I woke up I saw something in his eyes, a sign." Michael said. "A sign huh, it probably will just be your imagination." Ulrich said comforting Michael, but with every word he said he felt more nervous . "A sign, A sign, what sign, not that sign, it couldn't be we destroyed it, I must talk to the others." He though kind of panicking.
He took his phone and searched a caller ID, he hadn't seen the guy in years, he hoped he still had the same number. He heard the phone going over. And the voice he hoped to hear.
Odd : "Hello, you got Odd Della Robbia!"
Ulrich: " Odd! How are you?"
O: "Do I know you? Who is this?"
U: " It's Ulrich Stern, you stupid scrawny cat! Your best friend!"
O: "First of all I am not scrawny, I am svelte! And second of all hi, I'm fine."
U: "Did you know I'm a P.E. teacher at Kadic?"
O: "No, I didn't. did you know I'm an artist?"
U: "No, but after the lesson, Michael came and asked if he could speak to me."
Ulrich explained to Odd what Michael said.
U: "And he finished with saying that he saw a sign in Andreas' eyes."
O: "And I suppose, that you think it was XANA's sign?"
U: "Exactly, I think we should check out the factory, and check it out."
O: " You sound like Jeremie, we shut down the computer and XANA's dead. That's it, the truth. Or do you want that XANA's back?"
U: "Why would I want that?"
O: "Look Ulrich nothing's wrong just the kids imagination, that all. If you want to go to the factory, then call someone else, I'm sorry Ulrich but I can't believe that you think he would return. Goodbye."
U: "Yeah, goodbye. Why doesn't he even want to see the supercomputer for sure."
"Why would have to go see the supercomputer?" Yumi asked confused. "You know Michael wanted to speak to me?" "Yes, of course" "He told me that earlier this morning saw a sign in Andreas' eyes." "Him too?" Yumi asked. "What do you mean him too?" Ulrich asked now really panicking. "Before we started Sofie came and said she had seen a sign in Andreas' eyes." Yumi said. "I thought about it and was about to Aelita. When I realized she probably was teaching , so I decided to do it later and forgot about it." "Don't you think it's a little weird that 2 students saw it?" Ulrich said now almost yelling. "Ulrich, calm down. Yelling the students to the Gym isn't such a good idea." Yumi said trying to calm him down.
In the teachers' lounge
"Ulrich are you sure he said that?" Jeremie asked very serious. " Yes, I know what I heard, Jeremie." Ulrich said really furious. "Ok, for safety I will go check out the factory at lunch." Jeremie said trying to calm Ulrich down, which wasn't such an easy job, sometimes even Yumi couldn't do it.
The closer lunchtime came the more nervous Ulrich became. Yumi had decided to teach boys and girls together for ones. Because in the state Ulrich was it wasn't safe either him or the kids being in the same room together.
At the factory – lunchtime
" It looks it's still of Ulrich, and I don't think it's safe to put back on." Jeremie said after his normal geeky explanation. "Ok, but Jeremie than how do you explain that." He said, pointing to a point behind Jeremie, Aelita and Yumi. Aelita and Yumi let out a little scream not because they were scared but because they didn't expect to see that behind them. What they saw was …
" A tarantula !" They pulled Jeremie out the line of fire because he didn't seemed able to move. They walked back until they couldn't go further. Ulrich felt something behind his right feet. A metal pole! He grabbed it and jumped with the yell of a warrior on top of the tarantula and hit it right at the 'eye'.
Kadic Academy – teachers' lounge
The ex-lyoko warriors were still a little pale and scared. Their worst fear had just come true :
XANA had returned!
They decided to call Odd, because he was the in most danger, he was alone for crying out loud. The were kinda safe, they were with 4.
" Hopefully, he'll pick up." Ulrich said to the others.
O: "Hi, Ulrich back with your stupid theory's ?"
U: "Odd, not stupid theory's, the horrible truth."
O: "Ulrich, what do you m….? Oh, no!" Odd yelled. "Odd what's happing over there?" Ulrich yelled thru the phone. "It's … XANA… A block!" Odd yelled in pieces. " I'll come as fast as I can!" Ulrich yelled so he'd be sure Odd heard him.
"Jeremie, Aelita get your kids. Yumi get our kids and warn Sissi to get hers, I'll go and help Odd. Oh , and warn William as well." Ulrich said very fast. "Ok, Ulrich but be careful." Yumi said now getting worried.
At Della Robbia Residence
Odd was jumping up and down and sideways which was pretty difficult because he was hit on his left knee. He heard that someone was breaking his front door. "Odd, where are you!" he heard his best friend yell. " In the atelier!"he yelled back. Ulrich came in with a metal pole in his hands.
Ulrich spotted the block shooting at Odd who was pretty beat up. Ulrich ran to him and reflected the laser, the laser that would have surely been hit and would have killed Odd. Who didn't seem able to move. The reflected laser hit the block in XANA's eye. "Odd, Odd ! Say something !" Ulrich said worried, never seen his best friend so beaten up. " Something." Odd said in nothing more than a whisper . " Dork, can you stand up?" Ulrich asked. "I think so, but what happened, how can XANA materialize a block? The scanners are offline." Odd said getting his strength back, ha was getting up when Ulrich said "That block wasn't materialized, it was transported, otherwise it wouldn't have vanished." "Transported, but means Lyoko isn't deleted?" Odd asked now really confused. " The supercomputer was off, XANA must have found another one." Ulrich said while he was thinking of the time XANA got out of the supercomputer.
At the beauty salon
"Well goodbye Milly nice to see you again, I'll tell Odd you said hi." Sissi said to Milly when she was walking away. Sissi heard her phone go off and she picked up saying : "Hello, with Sissi Della Robbia."
Y: "Sissi, are your kids with you?"
S: "No, they're at school, why?"
Y: "You now Odd told you about XANA?"
S: "Yes, he did the night before we married."
Y: "XANA's back. Get your kids and get to the factory."
S: "Ok, I'll get them."
"XANA back after all Odd told me that's terrible news." Sissi thought while she turned the sign from 'open' to 'closed' than closing the door and starting up her car.
At principal's office
William Dunbar was thinking of the 2 boys he just punished. They let him think of the time he and Ulrich got in a fight over Yumi. He always thought she was the one but then he met Melanie his beautiful wife, the only thing he did miss were his own kids. The phone rang. Wondering who it would be he said. "Hello, with principal William Dunbar."
J: "William, XANA's back get your wife and meet us at the factory."
W: "Ok, but. What! XANA was dead."
J: "No time to explain, I'll explain everything at the factory!"
W: "Ok, just one little problem, Melanie doesn't know."
J: "Drag her by force if you have to, bye."
authors note : i now it's a long chapter i'll try to make the next one shorter
