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"I don't understand. I told you type in Schaeffer, you spelled it right?" Jeremy asked, slightly confused.
"Yes S-c-h-a-e-f-f-e-r. I'm not an idiot Belpois." Laura shot back.
"I don't under-"
"Look Belpois! I can see your friends now!" Laura yelled, interrupting Jeremy mid-sentence.
"Odd did you just hear that? Some girl's in the lab!" Aelita exclaimed.
"Einstein you fixed it!" Odd yelled excited.
"Yeah, thanks to Laura and your father of course Aelita." Jeremy answered proudly. "Listen Laura and I are sending William in for back up. We need to find Ulrich and Yumi. Be careful guys."
Aelita and Odd could simply nod in agreement since they were processing all the news Jeremy had just shared with them.
"Transfer William, Scanner William, Virtualization!"
William landed on Lyoko, glad to be back. "It feels good to be here, but Belpois, why am I in the ice sector? Nobody's here." He asked confused.
"I was supposed to send you to sector 5, I don't know why you're there." Jeremy replied confused. "Go to the way tower, it's about 15 feet from where you're at."
"Alright." William answered making his way to the tower, but just as he was about to enter it, something or someone crashed into him full force.
"William? I thought the scanners were offline!"
"ULRICH!" William and Jeremy exclaimed together.
"Yes it's me. William we've got to get outta here. Jeremy you need to get Odd and Aelita searching for Yumi." Ulrich rambled on after violently gasping for air.
"What are you talking about Ulrich?" Jeremy asked.
"Wait you can't see something following me on your screen?" Ulrich asked, confusion evident in his tone.
"Um no. Did you hit your head or something?" Jeremy asked.
"NO! X.A.N.A was trying to kill me. I don't think I can get devirtualized even with the scanners back online. He's got Yumi, he said he was going after Aelita and Odd once he was done with me." Ulrich finished.
"Uh, Stern, I think you need to lay down or something. There's nothing…. Nevermind. Belpois can you see it now?" William asked as X.A.N.A walked in. It was still in Yumi's form but the look in its eyes assured William that it was not Yumi and that Ulrich was saying the truth.
"I can't see anything you guys. I don't understand." Jeremy mumbles slightly irritated.
"Listen Einstein, Dunbar and I will hold this imposter while you and Mrs. Einstein over there fix whatever the bug on the computer is. Tell Aelita and Odd to search sector 5 for Yumi and hurry up. I don't know how much longer I can stay alive." Ulrich ordered, although he was trying to hide it, he was scared. Not just for him, for his friends, for Yumi, for the world. If they failed, it was all lost, X.A.N.A would finally take over, there'd be no way to stop it, no way to save the world.
"Okay Ulrich William, be careful." Jeremy agreed.
"We always are." William and Ulrich said in unison.
"Odd Aelita, search the sector, Ulrich thinks Yumi's somewhere there."
"Okay Jeremy." Aelita replied, agreeing for both her and her feline friend.
"Be careful guys." Jeremy warned them, "Monsters aren't appearing on my screen, and neither are your life points so I may not be of much help, at least not until we find out what's wrong with the computer."
"Don't worry Einstein, we're a team, we'll pull through." Odd assured his genius friend. All Jeremy could do was smile, he had to admit, he could see why Aelita felt how she did, Odd was a great guy, a bit of an idiot, but he had a heart of gold.
"Well Odd where should we start?" Aelita asked, concern evident in her tone.
"I don't know. If I were X.A.N.A though, and I caught Yumi, I'd probably put her in the core, that's where the most monsters are, it makes sense dontcha think princess?" Odd asked.
"Wow, that's a great idea! Let's go!" Aelita yelled excitedly before taking off. She had to admit, Odd could be smart when he wanted too.
"Hey princess wait for me!" Odd yelled trailing after her.
"I see you guys are done. You know it doesn't matter what strategy you use. Your stupid supercomputer isn't of much help. Jeremy had to go to a girl that knows nothing of Lyoko for help. You and Dunbar cannot work together. Yumi's still lost, and the poor fools on sector 5 have no idea what's really going on." The demon like voice taunted William and Ulrich.
"Funny how you don't know any of that for sure." William shot back.
"Oh we've got a smart mouth over here." The demon like voice replied, sounding annoyed.
"Not a smart mouth. I'm just practical. Since when does a stupid computer program know anything about feelings, relationships, you can travel the past but you can't tell the future. Why else would you be trying to take us out individually?" Satisfaction filling William's face when all X.A.N.A did was growl.
Ulrich catching up, joined William in his game. "I know why he won't take us individually. It's because he can't. He knows he'll lose. We're stronger than he is together. Heck I think you and I can take him." William simply smirked.
"You stupid kids I'm far more powerful than all of you put together. Why do you think Franz had to take me out? Why do you think he went against me and I had to save this AI in my disc? Sure you don't think X.A.N.A survived on its own?" The figure before them angrily ranted on.
"Wait what?" Ulrich and William exclaimed. "X.A.N.A's not alone?" Ulrich asked.
"Of course not, and now I tire of talking, let's see what you're really made of." The figure stated before shooting lasers out of its eyes at them. Catching them both by surprise, it hit them, one on Ulrich's arm and the other on William's chest.
"Why does that hurt so much?" William asked Ulrich as they took off through the sector. X.A.N.A was right on their tail, and all that could be heard was its maniacal laughter.
"Something's wrong with the scanners. We need to either get a hit on him, or keep running until Jeremy fixes this." Ulrich answered.
"I don't think we can keep jumping from sector to sector. I kept X.A.N.A's super smoke, maybe you can distract it and I'll surprise attack it?" William suggested.
"Never thought I'd say this, but that is a great idea, we'll work as a team." William simply nodded, glad that Ulrich didn't put up the tough guy front he always did.
"Alright, I'll take a left at the end of this tunnel, you take a right, we'll meet after circling the ice glacier, hopefully it follows you." William instructed.
"Good luck!" They each said, parting ways. Ulrich was running full speed, dragging his sword in an attempt to allow X.A.N.A to hear him.
"Stern I can hear your sword. Are you getting tired, you know it won't be as much fun to catch you if you give up." X.A.N.A teased. It shot lasers at Ulrich nearly hitting him every time. Luckily, to Ulrich's advantage, his super speed made him way faster. Finally, the glacier was in sight, noticing his lead, he began to slow down. X.A.N.A took this as its chance to finally catch him and sped up, just as he was within reach though, Ulrich yelled, "NOW!" Swiftly moving out of the way, William appeared stabbing it right in the back. The figure fell straight to the ground, and began to liquefy.
"Well that's weird." William stated, "That was easy."
"Too easy." Ulrich added, "C'mon let's get to the way tower."
As they were both running, the sector began to split, and the once liquid figure began to take in a bigger form, it had three heads, and claws.
"Told you." Ulrich said as he and William began to see the sector breaking off. All that could be heard was growling and the sector cracking in half.
"Well this sucks." William added.
