Yumi was still fighting the blocks and kankerlauts. Even with the giant standing over her, she wasn't going to give up. "Heeeyaaah!" she threw her shurikan at another block.

"Watch out Yumi!" Someone brushed past her. She heard a loud crash before she could turn around. Yumi quickly spun around and saw two hornets on the ground. They exploded into smoke. She stood face-to-face with a guy holding a broken tree branch. "William!" she exclaimed.

"You know, you should really watch your back." he smirked.

"Why should I when you can do that job for me?" Yumi walked over to the spot where she had killed a block and picked up her shurikan.

"Only if you watch mine."

In all this commotion, Aelita had been forgotten about. Jeremie was standing frozen out in the open, trying to find someway to help. He hadn't seen Aelita for a while and he was getting worried. Kiwi got up from his nap and walked up to him. "Can you find her?" Jeremie asked him. Kiwi whimpered and hung his head.

"There!" Jeremie yelled, "The skipizoa! It has Aelita!"

Aelita was surrounded by the skipizoa's tentacles and couldn't move. "I thought this was over." she managed to whisper.

Ulrich had finally gotten the hang of the manta and had gotten as close to his target as he could. Odd was almost to his so he tried to wait a few extra moments. He looked down, hoping to find Yumi. He saw her and William fighting Xana's monsters back to back. It was hard for him to fight off his jealousy. "I wish I was down there with her." he mumbled. At that moment, something hit William. He wasn't quite sure if it had been a hornet or a manta. Whatever it was, it had hit him so hard that he flew about thirty feet and smashed into a wall. (Must have been a ray.) Within seconds, Yumi realized what had happened and dropped her guard for just a moment. (BAM!) A crawler shot her in the back.

"Yumi!" Ulrich screamed and watched her fall to the ground.

"Ulrich! Now!" Odd yelled and strung about five arrows in his bow.

Ulrich jumped off the mantaray and stabbed his sword into the target on Kalosis.

The giant froze and started to fall over. It fell right into the power lines and electricity shot out everywhere. Before it hit the ground, Kalosis vanished in a giant puff of smoke.

Ulrich flew threw the air but managed to land on his hands and flip forward onto his feet.

"And he sticks the landing!" Odd joked when Ulrich's sword flew out of the sky and stuck into the ground beside him. Odd was sitting on the ground surrounded by a whole bunch of his arrows. "I think we earned a nice long rest." he fell back and stared at the smoky sky.

Ulrich was about to do the same, but then he remembered, "Yumi!" He ran. Faster then he could ever remember running before. Yumi was still lying in the same spot that he had seen her fall to. He skidded to a halt on his knees beside her. Yumi..." he grabbed her hands. "Wake up. It's almost over." he shook her lightly. "Odd and I beat the Kalosis." Tears began to stream down his face. "Please Yumi!" Ulrich pulled her closer and placed her head in his lap. His tears hit her face as he brushed her hair out of her eyes. "You can't give up now." Ulrich cried.

"Hmmm..." she started to stir and her eyes slowly opened. "Ulrich?" Yumi whispered.

Ulrich hastily tried to wipe off his face with his sleeve.

"Where's the....Kalosis?" she tried to sit up but flinched.

"He's gone." Ulrich managed to choke out.

Yumi smiled up at him. "You and Odd did it."

Ulrich helped her stand up. She couldn't stand by herself so she leaned into him.

"Don't ever scare me like that again." Ulrich whispered. His heart was still beating super fast and Yumi was so close to him, she could feel it.

"I won't plan on it." Yumi leaned in closer to kiss him. But as always, something had to interrupt them. Odd and Jeremie were running to them almost as fast as Ulrich had run to Yumi.

"It's not over yet." Odd yelled.

"The skipizoa had Aelita and now she's headed to the factory!" Jeremie huffed and puffed when he finally got to stop running. "I think she's going to turn the super computer back on." Kiwi walked up to them, dragging Aelita's shoe. Jeremie bent down and took it out of his mouth. "This is bad." he wiped sweat off his forehead.

Yumi stopped leaning on Ulrich and managed to stand up by herself. "You go with them." she said to Ulrich, "I won't be able to keep up."

"But--" Ulrich touched her shoulder.

"I'll stay with Jim and the rest of the teachers and try to help William finish off Xana's monsters." She looked over to where William was emerging from a pile of rubble. "Go stop Aelita." she smiled.

Odd and Jeremie took off running and Ulrich began to trail after them. But after a moment of running he turned back to Yumi and kissed her on the cheek. He whirled back around and raced after Jeremie and Odd toward the factory. "You better be here when I get back." he thought. He caught up to them easily and yelled, "So does this mean that Xana really isn't gone?"

"It appears so." Jeremie was still holding Aelita's shoe. When they made it to the manhole, Jeremie flipped out his laptop. "Oh no! We're too late! Everything is already back up and running!"

Odd and Ulrich pushed back the hole cover and climbed down. "Come one Einstein!" Odd yelled.

Jeremie stuffed his computer in his bag along with Aelita's shoe. "We need to hurry. There's no telling what Xana has planned for Aelita next."

Odd and Ulrich jumped on their skateboards and Jeremie grabbed his scooter.

"I think that's the last one." William sighed and tossed down his broken tree branch. "I've never been so exhausted in my life." he sat down on the ground.

"You're telling me." Yumi stared out at the trees. "I wonder how the others are doing."

"You know what I think." William rolled onto his back, "If this Franz guy's codes couldn't destroy Xana, that must mean he's indestructible. We'll never get rid of him."

"Yeah," Yumi hugged her knees, "And now that Hopper is really gone for good, we won't be getting any more help from him." She stood up and wiped off her pants. "I'm going to help." she pulled out her cell phone but the service was out.

"Well, then I'm coming too. Even if you guys act like you don't want me, I know you need me." William nodded.

"Right. Let's go."