Yumi was surprised when she heard what Dr Oliver had to say.
"I knew Ulrich was having trouble, I just had no clue he was…"
"You couldn't have known. Yumi, the symptoms are very difficult to identify if you don't know what you're looking for."Tommy said
"Dr. Oliver, why are you so interested in all of these things?" she asked
"Because I feel like I'm obligated to help my students thrive, and when I see a student struggling I want to know why and if there is anything I can do to help." he sighed "It's just who I am."
"I'll do what I can to help him."
"Good, he's lucky to have a friend like you."
"No, Dr. Oliver, I think I'm the lucky one... a while back when my dad lost his job Ulrich risked a lot to try and get my family some money so we wouldn't have to move back to Japan." Yumi explained, "I'd like to learn that heel kick myself."
Later that day, Tommy met up with the trio in the gym much to Jim's surprise
"I thought you were a science teacher"
"I am, but I've been studying the martial arts since I was younger than these four," Tommy explained.
"Okay, let's see how this goes"
After a while of work, Ulrich could tell that Dr. Oliver had a lot of experience, just as he had said. He was personally slightly impressed by the situation. Ulrich, Odd, Yumi and Aelita were present and within a few moments Jeremy even showed up.
"So you decided to come anyway, Einstein." Odd said.
"Yeah figured I might learn something here." Jeremy replied.
"Okay, Ulrich and Yumi I know you've been training, I'd like to see what you two can do." Tommy said.
Ulrich and Yumi went out to the center of the basketball court and bowed to each other before starting to spar.
Tommy was impressed, they were both very skilled, but the employed moves he wasn't familiar with. He figured it was a different style. He stopped them when they reached a stalemate. Yumi seemed to be losing at the moment and he saw a way out.
"Ulrich come here." Tommy said.
"Yes sir".
"Okay let's recreate that pin you had a minute ago."
"Okay but what are we doing?"
"I'm showing you a way out of that hold." Tommy replied simply.
"That hold is impossible to break," Jim said.
"Really?" Tommy said as he easily broke free and in the time it took to blink had Ulrich's arm held lightly behind his back.
"You're stronger than him." Jim scoffed.
"If Yumi knew how she could easily break that hold." Tommy said, "good job, Ulrich. You too, Yumi."
The Next Day
Yumi sighed, she had a dull pain in her abdomen but she wrote it off as nothing as she walked to school. She soon noticed her friends by the vending machines, Jeremy was nursing a cup of what looked to be coffee and Yumi figured he had been up all night again. A mild wave of nausea hit her but she pushed it down as she approached them.
"So no sleep again?" she asked.
"You mean Einstein, yeah... no I don't think he did" Odd said.
"Hey, I managed a few hours," Jeremy objected in annoyance.
Ulrich walked passed Yumi his hand brushing hers only to find it felt warm to the touch.
"Yumi, is something wrong" he asked stopping to look at the older teen, "your hand feels warm."
"I'm fine,"she replied.
Aelita got an irritated look on her face.
"Yumi if something is wrong you need to let us know, we're you're friends," she protested.
"I'm fine, really," Yumi replied getting irritated.
Ulrich had put his hand to her face to see if her hands might have just been warm and observed as she slapped his hand away that it too felt warm to the touch.
"Okay, but if anything changes go to the nurse, immediately or I will take you there myself... even if I have to carry you, and you know I'm perfectly capable of doing so." Ulrich said flatly, leaving the older girl little room for argument. He might deny it up and down but he loved Yumi and would do anything to keep her safe, healthy and happy.
She glared at him wordlessly, she knew the threat of carrying her to the infirmary wasn't at all hollow and that despite their size difference he was perfectly capable of lifting and carrying her. More so since his recent growth spurt put him practically nose to nose with her.
They split to go to class, she started out the day in math class. Things weren't too bad there. She went on through her classes fine enough. Lunch came and her classmates noticed that Yumi wasn't eating, not like normal. She just wasn't hungry.
After lunch she went to Dr. Oliver's class, but she was feeling worse by the minute. The nausea had kicked back in and by the middle of class she felt she was going to throw up.
Tommy looked up in time to see Yumi bail from the room.
"Hang on everyone, I'll be right back," he said and took out after her, his own stomach knotted with worry, she looked as if she was going to vomit. He arrived at the nearest girls bathroom and heard her inside doing exactly that. He sighed, he couldn't go in. A few moments later she came out, barely capable of standing and a new wave of fear hit the science teacher. She looked to be in a lot of pain and at that moment he had no idea what could be going on in her body.
Yumi was stunned when she felt herself lifted from her feet as soon as she got from the bathroom.
"Dr. Oliver, what's going on"
"That's what I was hoping you could tell me." he countered
"I... I don't know", she replied fear tinging her voice.
Tommy could tell she was running a fever because her skin felt warm to the touch. He had no idea what was going on and that was what scared him more than anything. He pushed his way into the infirmary and Yolande greeted him quickly instructing him to put Yumi on the bed in front of him and that she would tend to her from there.
Tommy returned to his class still worried about Yumi.
Yolande did some checking and sighed, this was beyond what she could handle so she called the doctor. He ran a cursory exam and then dialed for an ambulance.
"Doctor what is going on?" Yolande asked
"I'm not 100% sure, but with the symptoms she's presenting it seems this situation is beyond anything we can handle here." he said
The ambulance arrived and she was soon being transported to the local hospital.
Class ended a few minutes later, as Jeremy's super scan picked up a tower. He was able to get a hold of Ulrich, Odd and Aelita, but Yumi wasn't answering. They met by the vending machines and were stunned to see an ambulance on campus ground.
" Anyone know why Yumi isn't answering her phone?" Jeremy asked not looking up from his own phone.
"Jeremy, I think I know why Yumi isn't answering," Odd said.
"Why?" Jeremy asked.
"The fact that they just loaded her into that ambulance might be one reason," Odd continued.
"What?" Jeremy demanded in shock nearly dropping his cell phone.
"I knew there was something wrong!" Ulrich exclaimed, "I... I should have done something more."
"Ulrich there was nothing you could do," Aelita said gently.
"I should have dragged her to the infirmary when I first noticed she had a fever, I should have never let her go to class!" Ulrich growled in frustration, turning away as the ambulance drove off.
"Ulrich, we all know what that would have accomplished." Jeremy sighed.
"Yeah, it would have just made Yumi mad at me" Ulrich said
"Got that right, and for all we know her going to the infirmary earlier wouldn't have changed anything, if they're taking her to the hospital this must be serious."
"It might not have been so serious if she had gone earlier!" Ulrich protested.
"Once again we don't know that, come on guys let's make ourselves useful and stop Xana." Jeremy said.
Ulrich, Odd, Jeremy and Aelita headed for the woods to get to the factory. They were shocked when they were met by Tommy.
"Dr. Oliver I thought they would have called the staff for a meeting after what happened with Yumi." Ulrich said.
"They did that already," Tommy replied. "There will be more meetings for her teachers as more information comes in."
"What about your class?" Jeremy asked.
"I'm off this period," Tommy replied, "Do you need a third for Lyoko?"
The trio looked amongst themselves, they could always use as many as they could on Lyoko.
"Yeah, we could defiantly use the help" Ulrich said.
They headed down the tunnel unaware that another had seen them.
To Be Continued...