Lord Maximus: I don't own Code: Lyoko.
Summary: What if Xana had managed to destroy Lyoko's Core while possessing Ulrich's body during Nobody in Particular? What if the battle was much harder than they would have guessed?
Ulrich logged back onto Lyoko for the night as he could get any sleep while living with the others in specter form. He only stayed during the day and then logged back onto Lyoko at night. Right now he doing his usual training routine in the Mountain Sector to keep himself prepared and ready if Xana decided to pull anything. Personally Ulrich favored the Forest Sector out of all the other sectors but sometimes he enjoyed the Desert Sector cause it was wider and easier to battle monsters.
However the Mountain Sector's rough terrain was the perfect area for training. His body moved fast and his figure was like a blur to the human eye if anyone was watching. However his mind was concentrated only one thing-Yumi.
Yumi sat on the dark ground of the Volcano Sector. Her thoughts wandered back to the last two battles. As soon as she got back she was ordered by Xana to enter a tower so he could do a scan on her. Whatever Xana was searching for he did not tell her.
During the battle Xana had ordered Yumi to attack Ulrich to stop him when suddenly she found she couldn't. As if it wasn't enough she went and saved the boy's life. It just didn't make any sense. Why would she save the life of one of her master's enemies?
She softly growled as next time she would make sure her master's enemies would fall.
Next morning Ulrich logged out of Lyoko and appeared in a cloud of black smoke before morphing into his human form. Odd jumped as he did this.
"You know no matter how many times I see I'm not sure I'll ever get used to it." said Odd,
"Well it's either or try coping with in the same room at night." said Ulrich.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Odd.
A few years ago Odd found out that Ulrich usually slept with ear plugs. Ulrich did say that he'd tell him why one of these days but never got around to it.
"Everyone, I think I may know how to fee Yumi from Xana's control. The answer to freeing Yumi is in the Volcano Sector." said Jeremy,
"So we have to take the Skid all the way to Volcano Sector where we will possibly face wave after wave of enemy monsters, Xana, William, so we can help save Ulrich's possessed girlfriend?" asked Odd.
Hiroki snickered as Ulrich blushed heavily.
"That's pretty much it, Odd." said Jeremy,
"Well than what are we waiting for?" asked Odd, throwing his fists into the air.
Later
The Skidbladnir flew out of the Digital Sea and entered the Volcano Sector. Nothing had changed since the Lyoko Warrior's last trip to Xana's sector. They jumped out of the Skid and looked around.
"Any sign of enemies, Jeremy?" asked Aelita.
"Nothing yet. It looks like Xana wasn't expecting us."
"That's sad. You should know Jeremy has no control here." said a voice.
A disk flew and slammed into Odd which knocked off his feet and landed on the ground hard. Everyone turned to face the source of the disk.
"Yumi." said Ulrich, drawing his swords.
"I'm so glad you're all happy to see me." said Yumi.
She stood on top of a Crab with two more Crabs behind her.
"Guys, what's going on? Why did Odd suddenly lose life points?"
"We've found Yumi." said Aelita.
Yumi smirked at the pink haired.
"What's the matter? I thought you would be happy to see me." said Yumi.
She grinned when she didn't get a response.
"I'll just have to greet since you won't say hello like a polite person."
On her silent command the Crabs charged their batteries and fired. The group jumped out of the line of fire. Yumi jumped off her Crab and preformed a mid-flip as she landed in front of the Skid which was the only way out of the Volcano Sector.
"Can't have you running away now can we?" asked Yumi, shaking her head.
Five Hornets and two Megatanks appeared around the Skid and kept a close eye on the Lyoko Warriors.
"You don't want to do this, Yumi." said Ulrich,
"Oh, but I think I do. You see in our last two fights for some reason I couldn't attack you. I don't know why but I couldn't. So now you're going to fight me here and now so I can find out why.
No one is going to interfere." said Yumi.
A large group composed of Kankrelats and Bloks started to make their towards the other Lyoko Warriors. The others were now surrounded. With the others occupied Yumi launched a disk and then herself at the samurai. Ulrich was distracted as he blocked the disk and was slammed by Yumi's tackle.
It was then an all out fight. Aelita tried to break up the fight but she was stopped by a hail of laser of fire that hit the ground in front of her. As if it wasn't bad enough William appeared out of a puff of black smoke and held out his sword. Yumi landed a hard uppercut which Ulrich countered by a punch.
The force of the punch managed to knock Yumi off Ulrich who then managed to get a few hits before Yumi punched him in the gut which had him double over. Yumi brought her knee up and slammed it onto Ulrich's jaw which knocked the boy off his feet. Yumi quickly stepped back and fired her disk launcher but once again she hesitated. Ulrich took advantage of her hesitation and used his sword to knock Yumi's weapon aside.
With his second sword he slashed it across Yumi's chest which sent her flying back. Yumi used momentum to roll into a crotch and fired a few rounds of disks. Ulrich was hit by the first one but managed to block the second one. The fight began to move across the sector as both Ulrich and Yumi used their speed to attack each other.
Yumi fired disk after disk and Ulrich kept blocking while trying to get close enough to slash his opponent.
"Thunder Blade!"
Ulrich swung his swords and released a blue wave of energy. Yumi ducked but she was distracted enough for Ulrich to jump over her and swing his blades down. Yumi rolled out of the attack and raised her arms again when she hesitated again.
"Why can't I attack you?!" she shouted.
To her surprise Ulrich lowered his swords.
"That's because we're friends." said Ulrich,
"No, we aren't! I don't know you! I would never associate with someone like you who is against Xana!" shouted Yumi.
She noticed Ulrich had a hurt look but ignored it.
"You're wrong, Yumi. You and I have fought against Xana for three years. You hate him just as much as we do." said Ulrich,
"Why would I hate Xana?" asked Yumi.
"Because he has tried to kill you and me for three years. This isn't you, Yumi, you're under Xana's control!" said Ulrich.
The monsters suddenly their eyes to Ulrich and fired.
"Ulrich!" shouted Hiroki.
Ulrich looked and jumped out of the barrage of lasers. William swung his blade before Aelita could move and devirtualized her. Odd, Sissy, and Hiroki moved to attack but the monsters opened fire on them. They were outnumbered and force back.
Yumi glared at Ulrich.
"I will not fall for your tricks. Now I will destroy you." said Yumi.
She raised her disk launchers to fire but she growled when she found herself hesitated. Ulrich could see the conflict in Yumi's eyes.
"Don't do it! You know who you are!"
Yumi gritted her teeth as her head suddenly started to have a pounding headache.
"Well, well, well, are having a little headache, Yumi?"
Yumi relaxed when Xana appeared behind her.
"Let her go, Xana!" shouted Ulrich.
Ulrich glared at the digital fiend that was controlling his body.
"Finish him!"
"You can fight this, Yumi! Fighting Xana is what we have been doing together for the last three years along with our friends! You saved me remember?" said Ulrich.
Yumi held her head as the pain increased ten-fold. Ulrich ran up to her and wrapped his arms around her.
"Fight his control, Yumi." said Ulrich.
" . . . . . . Ulrich?" whispered a voice.
She threw her arms around him and kissed him hard. Ulrich was completely caught off guard by this. Xana roared with rage as he lost control of his puppet. Yumi looked up and smiled at Ulrich.
"You know you didn't have to do that? You just could have said you were back." said Ulrich, looking down.
Yumi smirked and ran her hand through his hair.
"And miss all the drama? Never." said Yumi.
She was back. Xana growled and pulled out his sword.
"Lightning . . . GAH!"
Xana was cut off as Yumi spun around and fired several disks. Ulrich ran at him and slashed at him. Xana was suddenly on the defense as Ulrich and Yumi both pushed him back. They worked together perfectly.
They left no openings to be exploited. Xana was not a given a chance to attack. He suddenly found himself against a wall.
"It's over, Xana." said Ulrich.
"It's far from over."
Xana vanished in a flash of red light as did his minions. Everybody ran up to the Lyoko Warriors. Hiroki hugged Yumi's waist hard and Yumi held him close. They had just recovered their friend from their enemy.
