A coin is flipped into the air as Ulrich catches it in his palm. He had recently been devirtualized and was waiting to see who would be next with Amy. He slams it down on his right palm. "Heads, it's Odd first for Amy. And for me, Tails it's Yumi." He looks at the side staring up at him. "Heads, Odd."
Yumi steps out first and Amy sighs slowly. Now she owed him five bucks. "Huh, Yumi. I win."
She looks at her hair strand, looking down at her hands. "Yumi, are you okay?" Ulrich asks in concern as Aelita and Odd exit the scanner.
"What am I doing over here?" It's Yumi's voice out of Odd's body, Amy's mouth opening in shock.
"Uh, I, uh, think we got a little problem here," Odd says out of Yumi's body.
"Huh...looks like I won after all," Amy looks back at Ulrich.
Jeremy looks at Odd and Yumi's DNA sequences, and the results don't look good at all. "Well?" Odd asks, crossing Yumi's arms.
"I guess there's a little bug in the rematerialization program," Jeremy comments to Yumi/Odd's dismay.
"You call this a little bug? We can't stay this way!"
"Well, what if we went back to Lyoko and devirtualized all over again?" Odd/Yumi wonders. There should be no problem in that, right? "Maybe everything will go back to normal."
"And what if the program messes up again and you don't have any bodies at all this time?" Jeremy looks at the red warning mark.
"Uh, okay. Bad idea," Odd/Yumi comments sheepishly.
"Uh, so what do we do then?" Ulrich asks. He certainly didn't want his friends stuck like this for possibly forever. It would be too weird.
"Gotta fix the program."
"How long will it take you? A couple of hours at the most?" Odd/Yumi asks him.
"Um, if I work through the night, it might be ready tomorrow morning," Jeremy replies, Yumi/Odd glaring at him.
"What?! You mean I'm gonna have to sleep in a guy's body?!" Not only that, but she couldn't go home to her parents like this, meaning she'd have to stay at the dorms.
With Ulrich.
Alone.
She knew that it wouldn't be that awkward since it's Odd's body, but still. Not exactly orthodox.
"Well I'm not gonna get any sleep at all, I'll have you know," Jeremy retorts back.
"Jeremy, you barely sleep at all to begin with," Amy rolls her eyes.
"If you haven't noticed, I have a dynamite body!" Odd/Yumi tells Yumi/Odd. "Isn't that right, my favorite girl?" Odd/Yumi puts an arm around Amy's shoulders.
"Uh, no," She gently pushes his arm off. "Touching me as Yumi is too weird..."
"It's still better than yours," Odd/Yumi scratches at something from the black sweater. "For example, something's itching in my back. It's, uh, I think it's the strap to your..." He realizes what it is, looking at Yumi/Odd. Amy sighs slowly, a hand on her forehead in annoyance.
"Don't you dare take it off, you hear! Or else Amy and I will make sure you regret it!" Yumi/Odd threatens.
"Why are you getting me involved?!" Amy gestures to herself in disbelief, Ulrich, Aelita, and Jeremy glancing at each other knowingly. The girls were silently on the sides trying to get Amy to see Odd as something more rather than a best friend, but Amy didn't seem to get what they were doing most of the time. They know that they can get to Amy eventually and have her admit her feelings. Odd had technically already done it as phase one, now it was time for phase 2...hopefully.
"Don't you guys worry about it. I'll be helping Jeremy tonight. Everything will be fine by tomorrow morning," Aelita calms them down.
"I hope so."
"Not as much as I do," Yumi/Odd mutters bitterly.
They exit the sewers, Yumi/Odd exiting first. "Okay, so what's my schedule for this evening?"
"Well, try the three B's: Bacon, bath, bedtime," Odd/Yumi counts off. "What about me?"
"Same here, but Japanese-style. Just try not to say anything stupid in front of my parents. Can you eat with chopsticks?" Yumi/Odd glances at him.
"Yeah, as long as they look like forks," Odd/Yumi stands up.
"Ha ha, very funny. Don't do anything stupid with my body, either," Yumi/Odd warns as Ulrich and Amy step out.
"Mine's still under warranty."
"I think you better brush your teeth and go to bed early tonight," Yumi/Odd suggests, as she didn't want him to do anything risky.
"Isn't it tonight the night you're supposed to break up with Magali?" Ulrich approaches Odd/Yumi. Amy frowns at the name to herself. She...was his friend, so the only thing she could do was support Odd in his decisions. Of course he'd never go out with her. He probably thought it was too weird to date his best friend...
She was sure in her decision, but it still hurt to think about.
"Yeah, that's right. And with Claire, too," Odd/Yumi glances at Amy. The real reason why he was breaking up with them is because of Amy. It felt...wrong to date other girls when he had true feelings for her. Then again, he never felt anything for any previous girls before...dating them was no harm done as long as nothing happened...
Right?
Maybe he should date other girls just to be sure that Amy is the one for him. That's what he'll do. He'll go through the rest of the girls and then focus on Amy. Of course he cared about her feelings too, but it was too soon to confess to her. He just had to get the other girls out of his system.
"You're going steady with two girls at the same time?" Ulrich gives Odd/Yumi a disapproving look. "I didn't know that."
"Neither do Magali and Claire. Up till now, that is."
Amy sighs in relief. She knows perfectly well that Odd is gonna go through the rest of the girls; she has known him for over a year. Well, except for Aelita and Sissi. He would never do that to Jeremy and Sissi was a never. More like he'd rather see Hospital of Horrors than to date her. And if that was his decision...
She supported it.
Granted, she is a little hurt by it, but it was his life.
She just wondered if he would ever see her in that way...
Ulrich flips a coin as Odd/Yumi is sitting next to him. "Hey. I've got a great idea. You're always too shy to ask Yumi out, right? Now you can practice on me!"
"Odd, that's not a great idea, it's a stupid idea. And anyway, I'm not that crazy about Yumi."
"Yeah, right. Tell me about it. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for you to give it a shot without really sticking your neck out. And this way, I could give you some pointers too." He's had a lot of ways of asking out girls, so Ulrich could really use one of them.
"Pointers? You? Need I remind you, Casanova, that you haven't told Amy your feelings yet."
Odd/Yumi grunts as he looks away. The last thing he needed was to be reminded about that. He just wasn't comfortable yet...
"Come on. Ask me out," Odd/Yumi encourages, avoiding the subject. "I'm waiting."
"Well, look who's here," Sissi walks up to them. "Romeo and Juliet."
"Sissi. I can't believe it. What a lamebrain," Odd/Yumi whispers to himself.
"My dear Ulrich, when will you understand that I am the girl for you?" Sissi asks hopefully. "What do you see in this stringbean anyway?"
"At least I don't have the mind of a vegetable!" Odd/Yumi retorts back and she looks surprised at the low tone in 'Yumi's' voice. "Give it a rest, Sissi," Odd/Yumi uses a more higher pitch, "Ulrich and I were made for one another. You got that?" He glances at Ulrich, who wonders what he's doing. 'Yumi' then places her head on Ulrich's shoulder lovingly.
"Why that-that...that's disgusting!" Sissi shouts in horror, storming off. Tamiya just happens to see them from inside the cafeteria, snapping a photo.
"Oh wow. The scoop of the year, I've got it!" She sees Yumi hugging Ulrich.
"What?!" Ulrich exclaims in disbelief.
"Hey, now I see why Sissi's so crazy about you," Odd/Yumi comments.
"Do that one more time and you're dead," Ulrich threatens, narrowing his eyes. Amy shows up and when she sees the two, her eyes widen, dropping the books she was holding. "Oh no...Amy, please don't tell Yumi."
"Trust me, I won't..." Amy murmurs as he storms past her, angry at Odd.
"Well! You try to do a friend a favor, and that's the thanks you get..." Odd/Yumi comments to himself.
"Um...Odd?" Amy asks slowly and he looks up, his eyes wide as he sees her. "What did I just see...?"
"Oh no. Uh, Amy, wait! It wasn't like that!"
"Yeah, uh...I'm just...gonna go now..." Amy slowly backs away and he pouts. Now it's gonna be awkward the next time he spoke to her...
Kiwi growls at Yumi/Odd, as he doesn't recognize her. She rummages through Odd's drawer as he asked her to find something for him. "No, that's not it," She throws a tube over her shoulder. "Cut it out, Kiwi. There's no reason to growl, it's me, Yumi. Ah," She holds up a green item. "This should be it. Time to go. See you later, Kiwi."
When she leaves, Kiwi runs up to the door, only to hit the metal, whimpering. "Be a good dog now. Goodbye, Kiwi."
"Odd?"
"What?" Yumi/Odd gets slapped by Magali.
"I know all about Claire. You are so despicable. I hope you and Amy are happy together!" She storms off, leaving her confused.
"Odd?" Then Claire shows up. "I know all about Magali. You sneaky rat!" She slaps the right cheek and Yumi/Odd stares in shock, wondering what just happened.
"Odd?"
Yumi/Odd holds an arm in front of her in case another girl decides to slap her. Sissi approaches her from behind. "You can tell Ulrich he'll have to beg for a date with a real flower once that stringbean veggie drops him." She only nods her head, watching Sissi leave.
"Hey," Ulrich opens the door. "Yumi. What are you doing? Did you find it?"
"Uh, yeah here it is," Yumi looks at the alligator stick she's holding. "Sissi just told me to tell you something. Something about veggies? I didn't get it. What's going on?"
"Nothing," He denies immediately. "Are you coming? Let's go to the cafeteria."
Tamiya snaps a photo, Milly right next to her. "Ulrich, do you mind answering a few questions for our Academy Gossip Column?"
"Yes, I do mind," He says, walking past them.
"What has gotten into you now?" Yumi/Odd whispers at his attitude.
"Ask that imbecile Odd," Is all he mutters as they approach Odd/Yumi and Amy. Ulrich rubs his neck sheepishly at how Amy saw them. Odd/Yumi managed to calm her down and explain what he was trying to do, so she was no longer uncomfortable.
"Well, did you find it? I've had it ever since I was really little."
"That's as much as time you've had Kiwi," Amy giggles at the thought of Odd being littler than he was now.
"Why, Yumi, what's the matter?" Mr. Ishiyama asks in concern. It's dinner time as Odd/Yumi tries to hold food in chopsticks...and then it falls into the broth, spilling some onto the table. He then remembers what Yumi/Odd said earlier.
"Only in case of emergency, okay?"
Food was an emergency, right? And Yumi could just convince her parents that she was just going through a phase...
He smirks and pulls out the alligator stick from Yumi's pocket. He opens it to reveal that it's actually a fork. The Ishiyama family stare in utter silence as Odd/Yumi laughs it, capturing some sushi in the fork. He takes a bite, humming as he tries to not drive too much attention to himself, but the damage has already been done...
"Uh, actually, I'm not very hungry, so I better go to bed," He stands up, saying something in Chinese and leaving.
"Why is she speaking to us in Chinese now?" Mr. Ishiyama wonders in confusion.
"It's love~" Hiroki teases, laughing. "Oh, Ulrich, I looove you."
"Hiroki!" Mrs. Ishiyama scolds him.
Odd/Yumi switches on the bathroom light, using his hands...or rather Yumi's. He looks up at himself, turning off the water. Suddenly, his hand flickers and becomes partially transparent. He stares at it in shock, but then it turns back to normal.
In Ulrich and Yumi/Odd's room, she pets Kiwi, calming him down as he was growling. Clearly he didn't recognize his master. "You'll see, you'll get used to me in no time. Nice puppy," She says and just like with Odd/Yumi, her hand becomes partially transparent too. She gasps sharply as she stares at it. Her hand turns back to its original state just as Ulrich comes in, having returned from the showers. He sees her troubled look.
"Yumi? Are you okay?"
"I-I thought my hand was disappearing for a minute...I must've imagined it," She decides to ignore it for now, hoping that it wasn't going to be a problem.
"Oh," He closes the door behind him. "Don't worry, you can tell Jeremy about it tomorrow morning."
"Yeah, I guess it can wait," She proceeds to remove one of Odd's shoes.
"Watch yourself," Ulrich warns, holding up a finger.
"Watch what?" Her question is answered a few seconds later. "Oh! Ohhh! Oh, gross!" She then faints from the smell of her body's feet.
"I warned you. Heh, it's more powerful than a laser arrow!" Ulrich chuckles at the thought. He honestly had no idea how Amy hasn't complained about it.
The next morning, Jeremy is still hard at work in the factory. He hadn't left all night. "I was right, Aelita. It's definitely a bug in the rematerialization program." He's confused when Aelita doesn't say anything, nor does he feel her presence. "Huh? Aelita?"
Turning his head, he sees Aelita on the ground. She had fallen asleep. He decides to let her sleep, as it was a long night.
Kiwi wakes up at the sun shining down, yawning. He walks up to Yumi/Odd. Ulrich had tucked her in early when she passed out. He starts licking her forehead.
"Oh, please, Kiwi," She pushes him away gently, though she was silently glad he wasn't growling at her anymore. Her hand disappears again and she gasps in shock that it's happening again. What did it mean? "Ulrich."
He wakes up at her voice and sees her hand being transparent. It stops, but it doesn't cease their concerns.
"I hope that Jeremy found the bug."
Coffee is being poured by drips at the Ishiyama house as Mrs. Ishiyama puts down some bread in the toaster. When she walks to the microwave, the toast pops out, some of it black. She stares at it, shrugging.
"Yumi, are you up? Could you give me a hand with breakfast?"
Odd/Yumi doesn't answer as he stares at his disappearing hands. "Uh, yes. If...if I had a hand to give you..."
His hands go back to normal. He really hoped Jeremy could make some sense of this, or else Amy won't have a best friend to hang around with!
"It only lasted a few seconds, but my hands completely disappeared," Yumi/Odd holds up her hand as she walks down the hall with the others. Odd/Yumi hadn't arrived yet.
"Strange. I'll be a lot happier when both of you are back in your own bodies. I fixed the program. We just need to restart it from Lyoko. We'll go to the factory at lunch time," Jeremy explains, glancing back at Yumi/Odd. Ulrich places a hand on her shoulder.
"See? Everything's fine."
"Uh, no," Yumi/Odd sees something horrible up ahead. "Everything's very bad."
They stare in shock at Odd/Yumi. He's wearing black pants with a Kiwi charm, an orange/green sweater, and a black hat with pom poms hanging from it, which has cat ears on top of it. Fingerless fishnet gloves are on his hands.
"Ni Hao!" He greets them.
Their mouths open in shock as they say nothing. Ulrich didn't even think Yumi had that kind of outfit. She normally wears black, not...that.
"First of all, that's Chinese, and second of all, what is with that outfit?!" Yumi/Odd demands angrily.
"Well, they're your clothes," Odd/Yumi reminds her like nothing was wrong. "Cool, huh? Looks really good."
"For you, Odd. Not for Yumi," Amy drags a hand down her face. "Did you forget that she wears all black?"
"You are so lucky that you're in my body right now," Yumi/Odd storms up to the idiot. "Or I will beat you to a pulp! Go home you hear and change before the entire school sees you!"
Tamiya just happens to come in and snap a photo, to Yumi/Odd's dismay. "Yumi Ishiyama!" Milly claps at the headline, "Transformed by love! Cool headline."
"It'll double our circulation," Tamiya says happily.
Yumi/Odd stares at them for a few seconds, whipping back around to Odd/Yumi. "What are they talking about with this love thing?!"
"Um, no time to explain." Yumi would absolutely kill him if she found out about the first school headline from yesterday... "I don't wanna be late for math class. Sayonara!" He sings, walking off. Yumi/Odd sighs in defeat. She'll let it pass for now since she did not want him to be late. But soon, she was gonna find out what was going on...
Odd/Yumi throws down the hat onto the table, William staring at her in disbelief. "Take out your pens, please. Pop quiz on linear functions."
He gasps in shock. He was already bad at 8th grade math, how was he gonna get through 9th grade math? Not only is he bad at math, but he didn't know anything about linear functions! Too bad Amy's not in this class, math is one of her strongest subjects besides art. He's seen her do 9th grade math on college practice sheets her father gives her.
Mrs. Meyer hands out the papers, Odd/Yumi staring at it. "Oh man. Not great. Yumi's gonna kill me."
"Do you always have conversations with yourself?" William asks in confusion. The Yumi he knows hasn't done that so far.
"Well, yes, they call it a split personality, but nothing to worry about," Odd/Yumi immediately dismisses.
"Hmm, right. Is that why you're dressed like that?"
"Well, um, kind of." He stares down at the quiz paper, just as his hand starts disappearing again. He gasps quietly in concern, standing up and raising a hand. "Uh, ma'am? I have a sore throat, can I go to the infirmary?"
"Uh, yes, of course, Yumi." Mrs. Meyer can obviously tell from Yumi's voice that she's not lying. "Go ahead."
Odd/Yumi leaves the room as quickly as possible to talk to Jeremy.
"And no one noticed anything in class?" Jeremy asks as they're walking in the park.
"No. They were all concentrating on the math quiz," Odd/Yumi tells him.
"Huh? There was a math quiz this morning?" Yumi/Odd asks in slight fear. She knows how bad Odd is at math. "Did you manage?"
"Well, if you mean sharpening my pencils and all that, yeah."
"What do you think the problem is, Jeremy?" Aelita changes the subject.
"Odd and Yumi have been rematerialized in bodies that aren't their own, and so they aren't stable," Jeremy opens the manhole cover.
"And?" Ulrich asks expectantly, hoping for a simple answer.
"What happens if they stay like this for much longer?" Amy wonders curiously.
"Well, if we don't take care of the problem immediately, their atoms might split," He starts climbing down the ladder.
"What do you mean, our atoms might split?" Odd/Yumi wonders, as he's not good at science either.
"Complete disintegration," Jeremy answers solemnly, Amy gasping in horror.
"Great," Yumi/Odd sighs slowly.
They enter the lab, Jeremy turning to them as he enters. "Get to the scanner room. I'm sending you down to the ice sector." He gets into the chair, putting on the microphone. "You'll have to get to a way tower due north from where you'll arrive. Aelita will reboot the program from that tower and the nightmare should be over. Aelita, Amy, and Ulrich, you'll go in first."
He wanted to make sure that nothing else happened if he sent the other two in there. The scanners close the three in. "Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Aelita. Transfer Amy. Virtualization."
They land in the ice sector on a plateau safely. "Transfer Odd. No, I mean that is, uh, Yumi, uh no, wait! Umm...oh, whatever. Transfer, scanner, virtualization," He quickly does the process before he gets even more confused.
The two land as Ulrich spins his sword. He looks at them as Yumi/Odd looks at herself. "And now let's hear it for Catwoman?" Being in Odd's body on Lyoko was just as weird as being in his body on Earth itself.
"Hey, just because you're in Odd's body doesn't mean you should crack jokes," Amy glances at her. Odd/Yumi tries to walk in Yumi's heels, but he trips, falling on his butt. They all laugh at him.
"There's the tower," Aelita points to it in the north direction like Jeremy said.
"Hurry up. XANA might wanna send a welcome committee."
Ulrich takes the lead, Yumi and Odd running like they normally would in their own bodies. Amy has definitely seen enough weirdness for one day...
Aelita also looks at Odd/Yumi weirdly, silently hoping she could find the right solution in the tower, and soon.
The tower glows blue as they reach it. The other four come to a stop. "Be right back," Aelita runs inside and disappears.
Yumi and Odd's bodies start disappearing just like with their hands. They gasp sharply, looking at themselves.
"Oh no, now it's all of you instead of just your hands," Amy says in worry.
"I hope Aelita makes it fast. This is turning into an emergency here!" Odd/Yumi comments, Amy hearing some noises behind them.
A laser shoots right past them and they duck, Yumi/Odd backflipping and rubbing her back when she lands.
"Kankerlots," Ulrich says, Odd/Yumi pointing his arm. "That's all we need."
"Gee, thanks for the heads up, Jeremy." He looks at his arm.
"Sorry, but watch it. Whatever happens, Odd or Yumi can't be devirtualized. If they go, it's bye bye for good."
"Oh, how swell," Amy deadpans, "How can this possibly get worse?"
"Laser arrow!" Odd/Yumi shouts, but nothing happens. It's only then that he realizes that Yumi's body doesn't have laser arrows, not like he would on his arm. "Hey...! Oh no, I forgot."
The Kankerlots attack again, Odd/Yumi ducking and sliding to a stop in front of Ulrich, who absorbs a laser with his sword. He giggles sheepishly at the samurai.
Aelita does a flip as she's almost at the top. She reaches it softly and goes to find what she's looking for.
The four are hiding behind a small ledge as the lasers shoot right past them. Ulrich jumps onto the platform.
"Super Sprint," He speeds over to block the shots away from his friends. Amy backflips and runs towards the Kankerlots. Yumi/Odd tries to fire the arrows, but she can't.
"Odd, how do the arrows work?" She asks, dodging a couple of shots.
"Well, you imagine you're firing. You concentrate a little bit and bingo, it fires," Odd/Yumi explains as best as he can. Yumi/Odd looks down at her arm, trying to do as he said, but it doesn't do anything.
Ulrich speeds over and jumps, slicing a Kankerlot and destroying it. "Like this?" It fires and zips right past Odd/Yumi's head and Amy, who was near the tower.
"Hey!" Both Amy and Odd/Yumi exclaim in unison.
"Oops. Sorry," She says sheepishly. Odd/Yumi silently calls her an idiot by twirling his finger against his forehead. Amy runs up to a Kankerlot and jumps, holding out her finger.
"Shattering Ice!" A dozen mini shards hit the Kankerlot, destroying it.
"Uh, Jeremy, we've got a big problem," Aelita says nervously, getting the boy's attention. "I can't do anything from here. The program's being run by inhibitors."
"We have to deactivate them. I'll try to find them," Jeremy types away, but he can't access anything to do so. "Oh no!"
Yumi/Odd narrowly ducks her head from a projectile, looking up at a stray Kankerlot that managed to slip past the others. Ulrich speeds in front of her and destroys it.
"Thank you for caring," He glances back at her.
"We're doing all we can, you know?" Odd/Yumi speaks up with a shrug. It wasn't his fault he's stuck in another body.
"Ulrich, they need to know each other's style of fighting," Amy walks up to them. "Preferably before either one of us gets devirtualized trying to help you two."
"Noted," The two say in unison.
They hear Aelita getting out of the tower as she runs up to them. "Hurry, we have to get to Sector Five."
"Huh? But what for?" Odd/Yumi asks in confusion.
"I'll explain on the way. I'm bringing up your vehicles," Jeremy materializes them.
Ulrich and Aelita take the Overbike, while Yumi/Odd sits on the Overboard. "Are you absolutely sure that we have to go into Sector Five?" She asks, Odd/Yumi flying the Overwing with seemingly no problem and Amy driving up behind her.
"We don't have time for to try and crack the millions of codes to find those inhibitors," Jeremy tells her. "Remember, if you don't get back into your own bodies quickly, it means disintegration!"
"I don't know about you two, but I don't wanna say goodbye while we're still teenagers," Amy glances at them.
"Aw, will you really miss me that much, Ames?" Yumi/Odd teases. "You care so much, it's tear-jerking!"
"Odd! Of course I care," Amy shrugs like it was nothing. "You and Yumi are my friends, after all. Do me a favor, though, don't call me any nicknames while you're still in Yumi's body." Her mouth turns into a weird frown. "It's kinda unsettling. Like earlier."
"Right, right. Sorry," He rubs his neck sheepishly.
"And what's more, seeing how you handle those arrows, you might accidentally kill Odd before then," Ulrich jokes, Aelita giggling.
"Are you ready? I'm entering the code Scipio," Jeremy types it in and the transporter arrives for the waiting Lyoko Warriors. Suddenly, a monster comes in behind them. Ulrich glances behind him and sees the Megatank.
"A Megatank!" He pulls out his sword, but gets devirtualized by the circular laser, also managing into destroying the monster.
"Ulrich!" Yumi/Odd calls out in concern just as the transporter takes them in.
The scanner opens and Ulrich groans. "I can't believe I could possibly be so dumb!" He walks off to join Jeremy.
Past the ice sector through the tunnels and down the path is the entrance to Sector Five. They enter the wall of codes and past the Celestial Dome, they arrive in the Arena. The room spins around as the room is online.
"Holosphere system connected."
The transporter lands, spinning around to let them out. Yumi/Odd groans, holding her stomach. "I think I'm gonna be sick..."
"Oh yeah, the transporter does make me feel like throwing up. Tough break for ya," Though, he is silently happy that he didn't have to experience it this time.
"Think of this way. You won't have to deal with it forever," Amy shrugs at Yumi/Odd.
The walls are slowly starting to come to a stop.
"Watch out, the wall is about to open," Aelita warns and the wall slowly opens. They run through and come to a stop to another wall. It opens up and spins, making it a hallway with platforms to jump on. They start jumping back and forth.
Ulrich enters the lab. "Well?"
"The countdown has started, so hurry it up! And watch out for the Scyphozoa," Jeremy warns them. They run into a room with lots of platforms, a Creeper crawling underneath the one they're standing on. The four jump down three times and continue to run, not noticing the monster following after them. Another one crawls on the ceiling as they race into the next room...but it's a dead end as the entire room is empty of platforms to jump on.
"Problem here!"
"XANA's a pretty lame architect. He forgot to put the stairs in!" Yumi/Odd looks down, confirming her theory. There's no way below them either.
"There's the key," Aelita points across the room to see it on the other wall.
"Great, anyone know how to fly?" Yumi/Odd asks sarcastically before smiling sheepishly. "Oh, right...sorry Amy."
"Blame the rules," She sighs slowly. Her wings could've been useful here if she was allowed to have them in Sector Five. "How are we gonna get across to press the key?"
A creeper arrives into the room and they turn around in shock. It fires Yumi/Odd slightly pushing Aelita out of the way. She fires at it, but misses.
"Great shot," Odd/Yumi teases, "You missed a creeper ten yards to the hallway?" He throws Yumi's fan, but it spins around back to him. He ducks his head, Yumi/Odd catching it with a chuckle. She throws it, but she also misses.
"Real nice aim," Amy deadpans to both of them, pulling out her spear. Before she can hit the Creeper, it crawls underneath, disappearing. Odd/Yumi looks around suspiciously, knowing that it wasn't destroyed. So where could it have gone?
He shrugs to the others, looking over at the front. The Creeper appears a few seconds later, firing at Odd/Yumi. He stumbles back and tries not to fall, but when the monster hits him, he goes flying over. Yumi/Odd spins around, firing and hitting the Creeper. Odd/Yumi mimics swimming.
"Wow, cool!"
"XANA's modified the gravity in this room."
"Well, at least we can get the key now without worrying about falling over," Amy watches Odd/Yumi. He pushes himself against the platform, trying to 'swim' over to the key. Another Creeper appears behind the trio.
"Hey!"
A laser fires right past them and Yumi/Odd turns around, destroying the Creeper with one arrow. Odd/Yumi tries to reach the key, but he doesn't have enough momentum.
"Odd, move it! We're coming to the end of the countdown."
"Darn, I didn't get enough momentum," He tries to move, but he can't.
"Odd, what are you doing?" Yumi/Odd asks impatiently. She didn't want to know what would happen if they didn't get the key in time.
"Can't you see?" He asks as another Creeper arrives. "I'm swimming through guacamole." He looks back at the Creeper.
"Shield!" Yumi/Odd throws her arms in front of her, creating a purple shield. Amy jumps into the air, spinning around and destroying the Creeper. "How many life points do you have left?"
"Lots. Why?"
Yumi/Odd fires, hitting Odd/Yumi in the back. This brings him closer to the key and he pushes it.
"Great job!"
"Yeah!"
The door opens. "Bullseye!" Yumi/Odd cheers, but nothing else happens to help them get across. Odd/Yumi goes over to the door, landing there carefully.
"Look out! Creepers behind you!" A Creeper fires and Yumi/Odd grabs Aelita, firing at the monster. They end up flying into the air as she tries to get a shot, but fails. When one of the laser arrows hits the back, the Creeper hits Yumi/Odd in the stomach, knocking her away from Aelita.
"Aelita! No!"
"Aelita, the Scyphozoa!" Jeremy calls out.
"Oh no!" Odd/Yumi exclaims as the two start disappearing again. "Not now!"
A Creeper arrives into the room and it hits Amy in the back. She turns around to deal with it. The Scyphozoa appears in the middle of the room in front of Aelita. Amy jumps away from the Creeper as it was firing at her, and she's right in the direction of the Scyphozoa. To Odd/Yumi and Yumi/Odd's shock, it grabs her AND Aelita, starting to steal their memories.
"Aelita!" Jeremy cries out, Ulrich's mouth open in shock.
"Why would it go after Amy too?" He asks, Jeremy holding his head.
"I don't know, but I don't wanna find out what happens to Amy if she loses her memory too!"
Odd/Yumi's body goes back to normal and he pulls out Yumi's fan, throwing it and freeing the girls. "Yes!" He ducks his head as the fan zips over him. Yumi/Odd fires at the jellyfish and it sinks towards the ground. Jeremy sighs in relief.
"You okay, girls?" Yumi/Odd asks in concern.
"Yeah."
"We're fine."
"Ames, push Aelita towards Yumi," Odd/Yumi orders and before she can, Amy is devirtualized by a Creeper. "Oh no!" He moves back and runs, jumping to Yumi/Odd. She kicks him towards Aelita. He grabs her with a laugh, kicking her towards Yumi/Odd. She swims over to Aelita and kicks her towards the door.
"Here I go." She runs off towards the Celestial Dome.
"Jeremy, every time we dematerialize, it lasts longer and longer," Yumi/Odd explains in concern.
"Aelita better find the code, and fast."
"Is Ames okay?" Odd/Yumi asks worriedly.
"I'm fine," Amy smiles into the microphone.
"That's really weird that a monster who's usually after Aelita would grab you too," Ulrich rubs his chin.
"...I know. And the Scyphozoa only attacked you in Sector Five, so that must be a clue."
"Why Sector Five, I wonder," Amy murmurs to herself.
"Careful, a Creeper!" Yumi/Odd points to the monster across from them.
Aelita reaches the room with the elevator. She watches for it and jumps off. It takes her downwards.
"Aelita, what's going on?"
"I'm almost there!" She runs through the open wall and finally enters the Celestial Dome. She starts using the interface.
"Quick, deactivate the inhibitors as fast as you can and don't hang around there too long. Things are gonna get messy."
Aelita nods, hoping that her friends can last that long.
The Creeper fires, the two narrowly missing it. Yumi/Odd prepares to fire, but their bodies start dematerializing again. While she's distracted, the Creeper hits her in the stomach.
Aelita is rushing as fast as she can. "Aelita, hurry! They're in the final stage of disintegration." Ulrich and Amy gasp in horror.
Aelita focuses on the interface and nothing else. She's so close to being done, she hopes that she can do it in time.
The monster hits Yumi/Odd again.
"Hurry up, Aelita!" Jeremy urges, not wanting to lose his friends. She manages to finish.
"That's it. Done, Jeremy. You can take over again now." She gives control back to him.
"Okay, I've got it. I'll transfer back to the rematerialization program." As soon as he says that, one final shot devirtualizes Yumi/Odd.
"Yumi, no!" Odd/Yumi cries out before he's devirtualized too.
"I sure hope the tweak on the materialization program worked," Jeremy says to the two.
"We're going to the scanner room." They walk off and arrive in time to see the two on the ground. The two gasp and run over to their friends.
"Odd...is it...is it really you?" Amy shakes his arm gently and he opens his eyes at her voice.
"Of course. What's the matter with you? Don't you recognize your own friends?" Odd says in his own voice.
"Dork," Ulrich chuckles at him. Amy just laughs in relief, engulfing Odd into a hug. He hugs her back.
"It's okay, Jeremy. We got full recovery," Ulrich reports to Jeremy.
"Great!" He smiles in relief.
Ulrich flips another coin as they're standing in front of the vending machines. "Heads, it's Yumi who shows up first. Tails, and it's Odd. Tails."
"Tails it is," Jeremy replies, Ulrich and Amy smirking at each other. Odd arrives a few seconds later.
"Yumi wasn't too mad at me in the end. I mean, about her parents, or the math quiz," He flips Ulrich's coin into his hand. "Or for the clothes or for taking a couple of slaps. She is really cool."
"I win again, Ulrich," Amy smirks in amusement.
"That's it, no more bets," He grumbles, giving her another five dollars. Odd inserts his coin and gets hot chocolate.
"You oughta go out with her," Odd winks at Ulrich.
"Why does that sound so familiar?" Jeremy whispers to Ulrich, who just smirks.
"Speaking of, uh, did you tell her what happened between us?"
"No way!" Odd denies immediately. "I plan on staying alive, good buddy."
"Why? What did happen between you?" Aelita asks curiously.
"Oh nothing," Amy, Odd, and Ulrich all say in unison.
"You know too?" Aelita asks in surprise. "What else aren't you telling your own roommate?"
"Aelita, even I have my own secrets," Amy winks at her, making the pink-haired girl laugh. Jeremy glances behind him to see Yumi approaching...holding the school paper.
"Hey, speaking of Yumi, look she's over there with the school paper."
"Uh oh," Odd says slowly, remembering that Tamiya caught them. Yumi comes to a stop, blinking at the photo of 'her' and Ulrich hugging. She looks up at the smaller boy. "I don't like this."
"Odd..." She replies slowly.
"Ulrich, Amy, help me!" Odd pleads with them.
"I warned you," Ulrich holds up a hand. "Sorry I can't give you any good pointers, good buddy."
"Hey, you made your own grave, now you'll possibly have to lie in it after Yumi's done with you," Amy walks away. She did not want one of her best friends being angry just because she witnessed it. She'd rather be alive.
"Don't leave me!" He tries to run after her, but an angry Yumi blocks his way.
"OOOOODD!"