Everything froze. The knives halted mid-stream, mid-air. Ulrich opened his eyes. He looked at the floor and whispered in pain.
"Way to go, Einstein," he smiled, clenching his teeth.
He looked back up at Yumi. She was stunned. Her eyes were wide and watery.
"Are you okay, Yumi?" he asked.
She didn't speak. She couldn't speak. Instead, she merely nodded. Ulrich caught a glimpse of light outside the window.
"Ready for a trip into the past?" he asked.
Unexpectedly, Yumi lunged at him and wrapped him in his arms. She looked at his face. She wanted to kiss him so bad and she decided she was going to. But before she did anything, the bright white light engulfed them both.
Ulrich ran over to Odd in the forest region of Lyoko.
"Jeremy! Odd! We did it! We finished off XANA!" he yelled panting.
"Boo yah!" Odd yelled.
"Nice going guys," Jeremy said into his mic.
"Hey, we couldn't have done it without you, Jeremy," Odd said.
"Odd's right," Ulrich stated.
"Thanks you guys," Jeremy said.
They all laughed. Something began to ring.
"What? What is that?" Odd asked.
They looked around.
"I don't know," Ulrich said.
"Ulrich?" Odd said.
"Ulrich?" he asked again.
Ulrich didn't reply but kept scanning the lands of Lyoko.
Ulrich's eyes shot open. He heard the ringing he had heard in his dream. His cell phone was going and going, again. This time, he didn't wait for his eyes to adjust to the dark to answer the call. He seized the phone.
"Hello? Yumi? Are you okay? Why are you calling again?" he asked hurriedly.
"Uh, it's Jeremy,"
"Oh, hey," Ulrich said, a little embarrassed.
"I was just calling to make sure you and Yumi made it out all right," Jeremy said.
"Yeah… we're fine," Ulrich said, recalling the pain he felt when that tip penetrated his back.
"Good. Um, I was going to say something, but now I forget. Well, I'm going back to sleep. Maybe this time I won't have to worry about being smothered by feathers," he said.
"Okay, night," Ulrich said and hung up.
"I'll call you if I remember what I was going to say,"
Ulrich clicked off the phone and looked over at Odd, fast asleep. He set his cell back down, but it immediately began to ring.
"Yes, Jeremy?" he said.
"It's Yumi,"
"Oh! Yumi!" Ulrich said and sat up in his bed. "Is everything okay? Why are you calling again?"
"Well, you know how I was going to watch a movie before I hurt my leg and XANA and all?" she asked.
"Yeah…"
"Well, I was wondering, I mean, if you want too, it is in fact late, but I was wondering if you wanted to come over and watch it with me?"
Ulrich was taken back by this request.
"Uh, yeah, sure, cool," he said, not so smoothly.
"I'll see you in a few minutes?"
"Yeah, you will," he said.
He got up and got dressed. This time, he wasn't in a rush to get there. Well, he was in a bit of a rush…but not for the same reason… He knew she was all right. She knew Hiroki has left his skateboard lying there. He arrived at Yumi's in a matter of minutes and knocked on the door.
