Wow, there is literally nothing to do at my house, even when I have it completely to myself. So I'm writing this next chapter. And I was wrong when I said that there were only going to be three or four more chapters a few chapters ago. From this chapter there will probably only be three chapters left. Just clearing that up. Lol, so here's chapter ten. Hope you enjoy and review! XD

Chapter Ten

Yumi and Ulrich stood in front of the tower, staring down the pathway that Odd and Ulrich had fought on just ten minutes before. Yumi clutched the two new fans that Jeremie had programmed for her while Ulrich had his katana tightly held in his hand. Everything was completely quiet, and that worried Yumi.

"Jeremie, are you sure that there are no monsters heading our way?" Yumi asked the sky. Ulrich looked over at her.

"Yes, Yumi, I'm positive," Jeremie answered. "No monsters at all coming your way."

"It's just too weird," she murmured. "Why wouldn't XANA send us any monsters and try to get rid of us?"

"Maybe he's just too concentrated on the spiders that are guarding the interface in Sector Five," Jeremie said.

"Spiders?" Ulrich asked, turning his attention to the yellow sky. "Since when does XANA have spiders?"

"Um…since he created them," Jeremie replied.

"Thanks for being specific, Einstein," Ulrich said.

"I have nothing better to tell you. You talk like you expect me to know this stuff."

"Well, you probably should…"

"Uh oh guys. Looks like XANA has decided to send you guys some visitors. There are three Krabes coming your way."

"From where?" Yumi asked.

"Behind the tower. Take care of them, and protect each other and yourselves. I have to help Aelita and Odd right now though."

"Just go, Einstein," Ulrich said. "We can take these Krabes no problem."

"Be careful though. Any trouble let me know."

"Yeah, yeah. Go, go." Jeremie let out an exasperated sigh before turning his attention back to Odd and Aelita. Yumi and Ulrich ran around the tower and both instantly saw the three Krabes marching towards them on another pathway. Ulrich held his katana up in front of him and Yumi held her fans up in a ready-to-throw position.

"Be careful Yumi," Ulrich whispered, looking earnestly in her direction. She rolled her eyes, turned to look at him, and opened her mouth to speak. But when she saw the look of content in his chocolatey brown eyes, her throat ran dry and nothing came from her mouth. They merely stared into each other's eyes for a moment, until Ulrich whipped his head forward again and locked his gaze on the Krabes. Yumi shook her head out of her trance and also looked back at the oncoming monsters.

"You too," she managed to rasp, but she knew that it was much too quiet for Ulrich to hear, for she barely managed to hear it herself. And then, quite suddenly, Ulrich took off towards the Krabes with a bright beam of yellow light trailing out behind him. Yumi stared after him for a few seconds, before realizing that one of the Krabes was right in front of her. She took her fans and whipped them both into the air.

Odd dodged another laser and then finally had a clear shot to run back down the way he had come. He ran as fast as he could back down the dark passageway, and watched the spiders and the web immediately disappear as soon as he crossed the invisible border.

"Geez, XANA must have a lot of free time," he muttered to himself, scratching the back of his neck and walking back to where Aelita was still standing.

"You're back?" she questioned, her eyebrows rising.

"Well, you never came to join me," he replied. "And, there are monsters in there that I have no idea how to defeat."

"New monsters?" Aelita asked, her green eyes widening. "Like?"

"Spiders," was all Odd said.

"Maybe I can help you with that little problem," Jeremie's voice rang out around them. They both instinctively looked up towards the ceiling.

"Can you?" Odd asked.

"I don't know. I can try." Inside the lab Jeremie's fingers flew across the keyboard, and several different windows popped onto the Computer screen at the same time. His blue eyes skimmed each one, closing out of it as soon as he realized if it didn't hold the information he wanted. He finally came to one window that had very little information printed inside of it. He read through it in less than a minute.

"Ok, so their weak points are the bottom of their bodies, but the big one in the center of the room is different," he reported.

"Like how?" Odd asked.

"Its weak point is on the inside of its body. If you hit it anywhere on the outside it'll just deflect off of it and shoot right back at you."

"Well that hardly seems fair," Odd scoffed.

"Also, every hit of their lasers will cost you at least thirty life points. The big one doesn't have any weapon, so all you have to do is find out where its weak point is and defeat it."

"Easy for you to say," Odd said.

"How hard do you think that will be?" Aelita asked.

"I have no idea," Jeremie replied. "Probably very hard. I have no data or information or anything on it."

"Well, we had better find out more sooner than later," Aelita stated. "Come on Odd." She rounded the corner and began walking down the dark passageway with Odd right by her side.

"Don't be fooled by the room's appearance," Odd told her, cocking his arm. "There's an invisible border we have to cross that will make the monsters appear." They continued forward, and Aelita gasped when they crossed the border and the spiders came into view.

"Oh my goodness," she whispered.

"Told ya," Odd murmured. They both cart-wheeled in opposite directions to dodge a sudden barrage of lasers.

"Odd! Destroy as many as you can and make your way to the large one!" Aelita shouted. "I'll do the same!" Odd nodded, and ran up to one of the spiders that we standing on the ground. He jumped to the side to get out of the way of another laser, and then slid across the ground on his back. He slid right underneath the monster, shooting two laser arrows from his wrist into the bottom of the spiders' body. He pushed himself onto his feet when he came to the other side and turned to watch the spider blow to pieces. He smirked, and then ran towards another one.

"Be careful guys," Jeremie cautioned. "And hurry. Yumi and Ulrich are dealing with their own fight right now."

Yumi caught the fan in her hand just as the third Krabe blew apart. She slid the fan into the yellow sash on her back to join the other one as Ulrich ran up to meet her.

"Nice throw," he commented. He had been able to take out two of the Krabes within ten seconds, but the third one had been claimed by Yumi's fan before he could get to it.

"Thanks," Yumi replied. "Nice…sword handling." Ulrich grinned.

"Thanks," he said. Yumi smiled back, then looked up to the sky.

"How are Aelita and Odd doing Jeremie?" she asked.

"Um…well, they're getting through the monsters…but they might take longer than expected. They have sort of a mystery to solve about one of the monsters."

"A mystery?" Ulrich questioned.

"It'd be way too hard to explain to you. You'd have to be there. How are you two doing?"

"We got rid of the Krabes easy," Yumi reported. "Now it just seems like things are calm." Just as she said it a red laser shot towards her. Ulrich noticed it when she didn't, and he pushed her out of the way to take the laser himself. He skidded across the ground, blue electricity skipping across his upper arm where the laser had hit.

"Ulrich!" Yumi yelled, getting to her feet and running over to him. She looked around the tower to the pathway that Ulrich and Odd had fought on earlier, and saw three Kankrelats marching down it.

"Those will take ten seconds to take down," Ulrich said confidentially, the blue electricity gone, and apparently so was the sting of the laser's impact.

"Ulrich, you have seventy-five life points," Jeremie told him. "And Yumi, just twenty. Be very careful."

"Don't worry, Einstein. We're used to this," Ulrich told him. He got to his feet and stood beside Yumi as the three Kankrelats approached. His katana was out of its sheath and clutched tightly in his hand in a second, and Yumi's fans were out shortly after. Before Ulrich could take off Yumi whipped both fans through the air, and they sliced through two separate Kankrelats. The third continued forward as if nothing had happened.

"Nice one," Ulrich commented. Yumi grinned triumphantly, and then Ulrich bolted forward. The monster blew up seconds later, and Ulrich skidded to a stop halfway down the pathway and ran back to where Yumi was standing.

"Nice one," she repeated, calmly putting her fans away in her sash. Ulrich smiled at her and slid his katana back into his sheath. It was out and in his hand again a second later when he spotted the group of five more Kankrelats coming down the same pathway.

"What's with all these Kankrelats?" he asked. Yumi then noticed another group of four Kankrelats marching down the path that the Krabes had taken earlier.

"There are more behind you," she told him. He turned his head to see the four other monsters, then turned back to face the other five.

"You take those ones, I'll get these five," he murmured. "Be careful. Twenty life points."

"You to," she whispered back. "Seventy-five will go quickly."

"Not nearly as quickly as twenty. Don't worry about me, please. Worry about yourself and let me worry about you." Before Yumi could even react to his comment, Ulrich took off towards the oncoming Kankrelats.

Aelita managed to blow up another spider, which miraculously left her and Odd with only the large one in the middle of the room.

"You both somehow made it through all of those monsters without losing a single life point…" Jeremie said breathlessly. "How is that even possible?"

"We rock," Odd simple pointed out. "That should be obvious."

"Now we just have to rock long enough to find out what that last spiders' weak point is," Aelita said.

"Let's go," Odd said enthusiastically. He ran forward to the giant metal spider web and began to climb up it, towards the giant spider. Aelita followed him.

"Don't fall, Odd!" Aelita yelled up at him. "You'll lose a lot of life points, if not all of them!"

"Don't worry Aelita, I'm not going to fall!" Odd shouted back down to her. He had reached the giant spider by now, and he observed the bottom of its body. Nothing was there, but as soon as Odd reached out towards it the monster immediately moved away from him across the web.

"Aw come on! Are you serious?" Odd yelled at it. He began to climb across the web towards it, but stopped when the whole room began to shake.

"Odd!" Aelita yelled. She wasn't far below him now, and when Odd looked down at her she was hanging onto the shaking web by only one hand. The room stopped shaking, and Odd looked back at the spider. There was a bright red, glowing XANA insignia on the front of its head, and that was staring right at Odd. Suddenly the insignia glowed even brighter, and right as it did the room shook again. Odd lost his footing on the metal bar he was standing on. He caught onto another metal bar before he could fall far, but he heard Aelita call his name again. He looked down at her again, and saw her dangling by one hand still, but one level lower than she had been earlier.

"Aelita!" Odd screamed. "Hang on!"

"I don't…think I…can!" she yelled back. Odd saw her hand slowly slipping, and felt his own hands slipping as the room continued to shake uncontrollably. Odd knew that he had to protect Aelita, but he also had to protect himself. An idea suddenly sprouted in his head.

"Jeremie! Can you attach a long rope to one of my arrows? Make it like a Clawshot…sorta?" he yelled towards the ceiling of the room. Jeremie's eyebrows rose in surprise at Odd's question.

"Um…I can try," he replied. "Why do you need it?"

"Just upload it! Quickly!" Jeremie still was confused as to why Odd was requesting something so strange, but he instantly went to work.

Odd looked down at Aelita again, just as the room stopped shaking. She had managed to grab the bar with her other hand again, and was hanging onto it tightly. Odd looked back at the spider, and saw that it was still staring at back at him. He saw the insignia gain more glow, and then the room shook again. Odd tightened his grip on the metal bar, but after only seconds he heard Aelita's loud, bloodcurdling scream.

"Aelita!" Odd shrieked, watching her lose her grip on the bar. He instantly let go of his own bar, turned so that he was facing the ground, and pushed off of another bar with his legs down towards her. He reached her in seconds, snaked his arm around her waist, and aimed his clenched fist up at a high bar.

"Jeremie!" he shouted. Jeremie frantically finished the program and practically broke the keyboard when he pressed the ENTER button.

"It's done!" he screamed into the headset. Odd fired the laser arrow and watched as a long, thin rope followed after it. The arrow and the rope attached to it wrapped around the bar that Odd was aiming at and caught, stopping Odd and Aelita's fall ten feet above the ground. They swung back towards the web, and easily caught onto a bar and got their balance as the room stopped shaking once again.

"Thanks Odd," Aelita gasped, catching her breath. She sounded as if she had had the wind knocked out of her. Odd smiled and nodded his head.

"You know I would never let anything happen to you, Princess," he told her. She smiled at him. He looked up at the spider, and saw the insignia glow brighter.

"Hang on tight," he warned her. "The room's about to shake again." As soon as the words left his mouth the shaking began. Aelita got a firm grip on the bar, and kept her balance on the one she stood on. Odd, on the other hand, grabbed tightly onto the rope that still was connected to his paw and the metal bar up above them.

"Odd, you're a genius!" Jeremie praised, just then realizing what Odd had used the Clawshot laser arrow for.

"I know, I know," Odd said. "But I'm not finished with it yet. Aelita, stay here. And whatever happens to me, I don't want you to do anything. Just keep a firm grip on this bar and don't fall." All Aelita could do was stare into his eyes and nod hesitantly. Odd, satisfied with her answer, tugged up on the rope and pulled himself upwards. He continued to climb up the rope, happy with himself that he had aimed the arrow at a bar near where the spider was located.

"Odd, what are you doing?" Jeremie asked. Odd didn't answer as he continued to pull himself up the rope. After a few moments he reached the bar that the arrow was wrapped around. He swung himself onto the bar and then continued climbing up the web with the rope still attached. The spider was staring down at Aelita when the room's shaking ceased. Odd stepped onto a bar that above the spider and looked down at it. He saw the large hole in the top of its body, though the spider's side was what was facing him. His eyes narrowed as he examined his target, and after a few seconds he launched himself into the air.

"Odd!" Aelita shrieked. Before the spider could react, Odd slammed his feet into it, instantly knocking it off the metal web and towards the ground. The rope caught on Odd's wrist ten feet above the ground while the spider continued to fall and crashed into the ground.

"Woo hoo!" Odd yelled in triumph. Then he reached up with the hand that didn't have the rope connected to it and used one of his claws to slice through the rope and fall to the ground. He easily landed on his feet, and smiled when he noticed that the spider had landed on its stomach. He bounded over to it and climbed on top of it.

"Odd! What are you doing?" Aelita called. Odd didn't answer as he jumped through the hole on top of the spider and into its body.

"Whoa," he said as soon as he was inside. Located on the inside of the spider's body, were multiple wires, computer screens, and other technical objects. On every computer screen was a XANA insignia, and Odd started with punching through every single one. Then he started yanking at every wire he could get his hands on. Sparks began to jump out at him, but he continued his work.

"What in the world…" Aelita murmured. She slowly and carefully began climbing down the web, towards the ground.

"Take this…and this…and this, too!" Odd yelled, utterly destroying the spider from the inside. When he thought his work was done, he pushed himself out of the whole and jumped back to the floor. He walked around to the front of the helpless spider, and saw the red XANA insignia beginning to dim. Odd took aim, and then fired three laser arrows right into the center of the XANA eye. Sparks erupted from inside the monster, and Odd took a few steps back. After a few seconds, the creature blew apart and completely disappeared.

"Odd, you're a genius!" Aelita celebrated, running over to him once she reached the ground.

"Yeah, I've been told that," Odd replied, turning to face her.

"How did you know what to do?" she asked.

"I didn't. I was actually, kind of just winging it." Aelita's eyebrows rose.

"You were winging it, when you knew that your life was on the line?" she asked incredulously.

"Yup. That's how Odd Della Robbia does things. I'm a daredevil."

"You sure are," Aelita murmured. Odd smiled.

"Come on. We have to deactivate XANA's virus," he told her. He turned towards the spider web and began walking towards it. Aelita stopped him with her arm, making him step back to her side. He looked at her in confusion, and she pointed towards the web. Odd followed her finger, and saw the web slowly beginning to dissolve into thin air. A few seconds later, it was completely gone, and a small interface floated in the middle of the room to replace it.

"That's our interface," Aelita said happily. "All we need to do now is find the right data to give to Jeremie." They both smiled at each other, and then took off towards the interface.

"Good work guys!" Jeremie yelled through the headset.

"Hey, I'm the one who took out that spider!" Odd shouted as he ran. Jeremie sighed.

"Good work Odd," he muttered.

"Thank you," Odd replied. Jeremie shook his head. Odd and Aelita slowed to a walk when they were closer to the interface, but right before the reached it, the section of floor that it was hovering above suddenly launched upwards, creating a large pillar in the middle of the room. The two Warriors looked upwards and could still see the interface floating above the pillar.

"Aw, come on!" Odd groaned.

Wow, this chapter took a long time to write. Mostly because my brother and sister were watching the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious which is such a good movie! It's also very distracting and the TV just so happens to be in the same room as the computer…

Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Please, please, please review! Thanks you lots! XD

~Taylor