Authors note
not much, just like to say Curse you antefilms you may be gone, but you've still forced me to rewrite another open and close chapter.
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Early morning for once wasn't filled with a load of students in bed wishing it was night time, and considering the big event that was taking place, Delmas cancelled all lesson for that day, this allowed the Kadic soccer team to train as much as they physically could, watching them were Dallas, Jeremie and Odd, whilst among the team was Cameron in the goal, Gareth and Mike were in midfield, Theo and Jenny were in defence, whilst in the striker position was team captain Ulrich, the uniform of the team consisted of Blue shirts and shorts with white stripes, whilst Cameron's goalie uniform consisted of a black long sleeved shirt and shorts with yellow stripping, the team was passing to each other except for Ulrich and Cameron who were at the goal,
"come on guys you haven't even worked up a sweat yet, lets go" said Jim as he stood watching the team that he had carefully chosen train, he was proud of them and they in turn were proud of him for choosing a great team, they had made there way to the finals thanks to Jim, who had now lost his incompetent at everything reputation,
"Ready" said Cameron as he placed on his gloves, Ulrich looked at him dead eyed, then Jim rolled a ball towards him, Ulrich stepped back before running and kicking the ball with his left foot towards the goal, Cameron dived towards his right just missing the ball as it crossed the line and entered the back of the net, Jim rolled another ball, Ulrich again ran up to and kicked it, this time he aimed for the back left of the net, Cameron dived again he missed it, Jim rolled another and Ulrich kicked it in the top right corner, Cameron dived but was only a second too late, Jim looked at his stopwatch estimating the time after each goal, Ulrich speeded through each of the balls, and each of them Cameron failed to save it had gotten to the point Cameron just stood at the side of the goal, as each of the balls went in, "yeah" said Jim as he was impressed by Ulrich's scoring skills, the rest of the team stopped and observed Ulrich, the aforementioned kicked the second to last ball towards the centre right, Cameron dived managing to block it, but unfortunately for him, due to the force of Ulrich's kick he was thrown back into the net, Cameron decided he needed to see what Ulrich was truly capable off so he waved his hand and started to mock him, Ulrich signalled for the last ball to be rolled towards him, Jim kicked it towards Ulrich who then kicked it into the air, Cameron then realised he had underestimated Ulrich as the aforementioned jumped and kicked the ball in a reverse round house kick manoeuvre, the ball bounced off the crossbar, then it went into the opposite corner of the net, Cameron was shocked at the move, but impressed non the same, the rest of the team cheered, "okay guys, great warm up session play like that in today's game and you'll whip Lincoln junior highs arse in the final today, all see you all in the locker room after lunch for a final briefing, and remember a soccer team is like an army, it needs a good general who can lead it right, and now break ranks" said Jim in one of his caught up in a speech moment, "some days I wonder if he has PTSD" said Dallas as Jim walked towards Ulrich, the latter was on the ground stretching his legs "Hey Ulrich, working out to stay in shape, Hey listen kid I'm gonna be honest with ya, you're my key to winning this afternoons game, I know we got a great team but Lincoln's got this striker a Matt" said Jim, Ulrich had heard of him, "yeah he's a nasty piece of work, they say he grew up without his farther, and has had several run ins with the law, but don't worry Jim, I won't disappoint you" replied Ulrich as he stood up, "I'm counting on you kid, we're gonna pulverize em" said Jim, Ulrich walked towards his friends,
"Hey there champion, if Lincoln never gets the ball we're gonna be board out there" said Odd as he threw Ulrich the towel, "Thanks it was nice of you to come" said Ulrich as he wiped his forehead, "we were here this morning, and we'll be here this afternoon" said Odd, then he stood up "not for you of course, we can't wait to see Sissi cheer leading with her baton and all, that's why we're coming" said Odd, then Dallas looked at Jeremie who nodded, Dallas then slapped Odd around the head, "speak for yourself" said Jeremie, whilst in the forest the aforementioned Sissi was walking practicing her routine
"One, two, three, four, come on team give us more" said Sissi, she then stepped to the side spinning her baton, "five, six, seven, eight, Lincoln we're gonna seal your fate" she said before she span around and threw her baton into the air, she had hoped to finish the routine with catching the baton, but as she stood there with her arm held towards the sky it became apparent that it wasn't coming back, she looked up in confusion as the small object span away from her into the sky, she stood looking at it she was shocked, even she knew that wasn't meant to happen, whilst behind her the lights began to flicker.
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An hour later, Yumi was walking down the same path; Sissi had cleared off trying to understand what had happened, suddenly despite it being midday, the lights began to turn on, initially Yumi didn't notice, when suddenly she felt herself began to rise, she began to move around in the air, waving her arms and legs as if she was trying to swim, then the lights stopped flickering, and Yumi fell to the ground, she looked around not knowing what had just caused that strange moment, then she looked at the lights which flickered again before she ran off, hoping to avoid being caught in the same problem twice.
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"yes it disappeared I tell you, it never came down, it just… flew away" said Sissi to two girls who were in the above year from her, one was blonde and wearing red trousers that were rolled up at the base, with sandals and a yellow sleeveless shirt that stopped at her stomach exposing her cleavage, the other was more smartly dressed, she was wearing a light brown blazer, with grey trousers with red shoes and chestnut hair, "yeah sure its up in the sky somewhere right, or maybe it came down and landed on someone's heard" said the chestnut haired one whilst the blonder one wiggled her finger next to her own head suggesting Sissi was crazy, "but I tell its true I swear I tell ya, my baton just disappeared into thin air" replied Sissi as the two girls just walked away, then poking out from behind the pillar to which the two girls had just been standing in front of, Herb and Nicholas said in unison "we believe you Sissi", then Herb went on to correct himself, "even if scientifically it's impossible" started Herb, but he was cut off as Sissi placed her foot below his chin, "listen if I said a supernatural thing happened to me, it's because it's true" said Sissi so loudly that everyone could hear her scream at Herb, the warriors watched from a distance, "Sissi telling the truth" said Jeremie, then he looked at the others, who each replied in a sarcastic tone "saying she hasn't had a nose job" said Odd, "me and her dating" said Ulrich, "stuffing her bra and pretending she's a D cup" said Dallas, they then nodded in agreement "why is it, this seems the most likely" asked Jeremie, then they heard Sissi shout again, "you got that knuckle head, a baton that flies off has to come down, and if doesn't something's wrong seriously wrong, and I wanna know exactly what it is" yelled Sissi.
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Only 20 minutes later, everyone was in the cafeteria getting there lunch, Sissi had just been given her food, but the incident had brought her nothing but mockery,
"Hey look it's the mysterious girl, Hey Sissi eat your steak and French fries fast before they fly away" said the chestnut haired girl, Sissi had an angry look on her face, as she passed the warriors table they looked at her,
"I don't know about you, but someone whose lying wouldn't get that mad" said Dallas, as he had another gulp of his coffee, as usual he had given most of his food to Odd, keeping only his fries, then he and Jeremie noticed Yumi run into the room, Yumi ran towards there table, then Jeremie stood up as both he and Yumi said "we gotta talk right now".
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Having retreated to Jeremie's and Dallas's room, the warriors sat down whilst Dallas locked the door, Jeremie quickly loaded his computer and connected to Aelita on Lyoko,
"Yes, I know what you're gonna ask Jeremie, I have located an activated tower in the mountain region, why have you noticed anything going on in the real world" said Aelita upon appearing, "You know just the usual things, Batons that fly into the air and don't come back, and Yumi suddenly becoming air born" said Odd, "it was weird the lights started to blink and a second later I was floating in the air I couldn't believe it" added Yumi, Jeremie knew exactly how this happened, "a break in the field of gravity, causing spontaneous and localised weightlessness" said Jeremie, Ulrich looked up something else was obviously on his mind, "what's the connection between weightlessness and electricity" he asked, Jeremie looked back at him, "a magnetic field, it could be the effect of a very powerful electro magnet that XANA's using to offset the traction of the earth" said Jeremie, the others took a moment to understand what he had just said, "how dangerous is it" asked Yumi, Jeremie thought for a second, "it's not if it's in the limits of space and time, but if it's on a larger scale, look what happened to Sissi, her baton never came back" answered Jeremie, Dallas nodded and said, "shall we assume it's the latter", the warriors sat in silence for a brief moment before Yumi spoke up "we can't afford to take the risk, we have to go to Lyoko and deactivate the tower" she said, then they were shocked when they heard Ulrich say "well count me out" they all looked back at him, "huh you gotta be kidding" said Jeremie, Ulrich didn't have the nerve to look at them "no I said count me out, I'll go when the games over" said Ulrich, Jeremie stood up and started to walk towards Ulrich, but Dallas grabbed his arm, "you're gonna abandon us for a soccer game" said Jeremie, Ulrich still hadn't looked up "I don't believe it, Wake up Ulrich this is about saving the world, Not to mention Aelita whose surely in danger" said Jeremie, then he pushed Ulrich, "but you'd rather kick a ball around" added Jeremie, Ulrich stood up he was angry as it was he didn't need Jeremie making it worse, "you heard what I said, I can't go and that's that" said Ulrich as he stormed out of the room, "somebody else say something will you" asked Jeremie, but everyone remained silent as Ulrich unlocked the door and walked out, "he's dropping us like a smelly sock" said Jeremie, but again everyone remained silent, "look I'm really sorry" said Ulrich as he stood at the door, "that's all you can say, you're sorry, you'd rather please the crowd huh, all those admiring fans are more important than your friends" Said Jeremie, Ulrich heard him as he walked down the corridor, "leave him alone, he's got his reasons" said Odd, Jeremie turned back to face Odd, "his parents are coming to the game this afternoon, have you ever met Ulrich's dad, if you're not first in everything, then you're nothing in his book, and because Ulrich's report card is kinda disastrous, the only way to make him happy is" added Odd, then it all clicked in Jeremie's mind, "when he plays soccer" said Jeremie, "yeah exactly, that's why he's been training so hard for weeks now, he's gonna play like his life depended on it" said Odd, Dallas folded his arms, "It's the reason Ulrich feels alienated from his folks, he's the youngest of 4 kids, and since they are all over achievers he's treated as the rotten apple" added Dallas, Suddenly Jeremie felt harsh for berating Ulrich, he knew he was the only one in the group with a sound relationship with his parents, Odd didn't see his enough, Yumi had a very estranged one from she had told him, Dallas's were dead, and he now knew Ulrich's parents thought very little of him.
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A few minutes had passed and the remaining warriors had left the school and had made there way towards the man hole,
"why couldn't he have just told us the reason" asked Jeremie, "Ulrich give away a secret" said Yumi, she was tempted to laugh but thought against it, then they stopped at the man hole, "he's a stubborn bastard, I think he may have got that from me" said Dallas as he knelt down and extended his blade, "anyway, Ulrich will win the game, and we'll save the world" said Odd, then Dallas removed the hatch and started climbing down, "we'll just have to do without him this time, and besides you got me don't you" said Odd, Dallas looked at him and said, "I'm not sure we got a bargain on this one" Odd then gave him a funny look "hey Dallas" he asked, Dallas looked up "yeah" he replied, "how deep do you think the man hole is" asked Odd, Dallas looked down and started to say "I'd say about…" then Odd kicked his hands causing Dallas to lose grip and fall to the bottom, "10 seconds, it's 10 seconds deep, and I deserved that" shouted Dallas, the others smiled knowing Dallas didn't mind the push.
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In the locker room, Ulrich sat down on the bench the only sound to fill the room was the clock ticking and tocking, his team got changed and ready, Gareth had tied his long hair, with Jenny asking for pointers on how to do so, Jim then entered the room,
"Alright guys, the big day is here" said Jim, then Ulrich noticed the other team who had been changing on the opposite side of the room, then one of them stepped forward, the jersey of Lincoln junior high consisted of red shorts and a red shirt with a white collar, Ulrich noticed the one who he had been warned about Matt, his hair was a light brown and was military cut on the sides of his head, but atop it was long with a bit down on his forehead, but Ulrich couldn't help but think he looked rather familiar.
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Whilst many of the people who had come to see the match sat and watched from the stands, Millie and Tamyia were standing next to the pitch with their camera,
"Testing one, two, one two, here we go, Hello everyone this is Millie and Tamyia reporting to you live from the pitch, it's a big day today the 10th grade interschool final is about to begin, even though our school is favoured to win, a lot is resting on our own Kadic striker Ulrich Stern, we're really counting on him today and now everybody it's soccer time" said Millie, Then Tamyia closed the camera as everyone waited for the game to begin, standing atop of the seats were Nicholas and Herb whilst standing between them was Sissi,
"Go Ulrich" she shouted, then she noticed something, "hey wait a minute where's Adam" she asked, Herb looked up and shrugged his shoulders.
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Back at the factory Yumi hit the elevator button, the door closed and the crate descended to the factory, Jeremie quickly walked over to his chair whilst the other stood at his side,
"When Ulrich gets here, cut him some slack, he's gonna need it" said Dallas, then Jeremie took a deep breath "okay, but I feel really bad" said Jeremie, Dallas smiled and rubbed his head.
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Jim took a deep breath before blowing into his whistle, Matt and Ulrich stood in the centre ready for the ball, Jim then threw it up into the air, Matt was standing slightly crouched ready to jump at the ball, Ulrich saw this and quickly used it to his own favour he ran and quickly elevated himself off Matt's leg and hit the ball with his head Passing it towards Gareth, Matt was dumbfounded, he looked at Jim and shouted
"IS THAT EVEN LEGAL?", Jim shook his head, the move had never been done before so weather or not it was legal was anyone's guess, Gareth quickly ran and dribbled with the ball, but two of Lincolns defenders stopped him and tackled the ball of him, before they passed to Matt who made a charge towards the goal, he kicked it, but fortunately for Cameron, Matt was a lot slower than Ulrich and as the ball approached the centre of the net, Cameron jumped and placing his legs together as if it was a scorpion tail kicked the ball back out into the field, the crowd roared in excitement,
"As you have just seen, our goal Keeper Cameron 'Pride' Black has just scorpion kicked the ball away saving us from going one – nil this early in the game" said Millie as Tamyia zoomed in on Cameron.
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On Lyoko Aelita was sitting cross legged in the mountain sector when she heard Jeremie's voice call out
"Aelita do you read me", she opened her eyes and her window opened on Jeremie's screen, "I'm here Jeremie" replied Aelita, "Aelita, it's XANA he's attacking, he's trying to take over the city's electrical network" said Jeremie, as he looked at a map of electrical plants of every kind that he had traced XANA's presence in, "But why" asked Aelita, Jeremie quickly typed replying, "I don't know but I'm gonna try and find out", then he opened another window and selected a pre rendered program "I'll get the spy program started" he said, then another map opened before locking in on another position this one wasn't a power plant, "with the data flow so dense, there out'a be traces of it on the net" said Jeremie then he found something "bingo that's XANA alright, how predictable" said Jeremie, whilst on the other side of the room Dallas and Yumi were sitting down against the wall whilst Odd had walked over to help Jeremie,
"it's obvious by the way" Said Dallas, then Yumi looked at him confused "what do you mean" asked Yumi, Dallas smiled and return the looked at her, "you and Ulrich, they may not see it, but I pick up on every minor detail, it's obvious you and him" said Dallas then Yumi placed her hand over Dallas's mouth "one more word" said Yumi in a half serious tone, then she let go of Dallas's mouth, he then replied "I have nothing to gain from telling them, and nothing to lose if I don't", Yumi smiled and placed her arm around his shoulder and whispered "thank you" into his ear.
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Back at Kadic Ulrich had taken possession of the ball and was making a charge towards the opposing goal; Matt was slowly catching up behind him, but this was a problem, the main problem was an Asian student from Lincoln running towards him, the Lincoln student then slide tackled towards Ulrich, but the latter grabbed the ball between his feat and jumped of the legs of the Lincoln student, Ulrich then passed the ball towards Gareth as Matt got closer towards him,
"Incredible, we knew Ulrich was in great form, but what he's showing us today is beyond even our wildest dreams" said Millie, as Matt went in and slid tackled Gareth, he unlike his team-mate succeeded in the tackle but Gareth managed to pass the ball across the air towards Ulrich, the ball came down at his feet, Ulrich almost instantly delivered a powerful kick and sent the ball towards the goal, the goalkeeper dressed in Black kit with a red collar dived in an attempt to save it, but he undershot and the ball went above him into the net, the members of the crowd supporting Kadic roared with cheering, "a fantastic Goal, and Kadic makes it one to nothing after only 5 minutes of play, Lincolns going to have to find a way to stop Ulrich if they are going to win this game" said Millie, as the ball was carried towards the centre of the pitch by Matt who gave Ulrich a rather strange stare as he passed him.
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"okay guys we don't have much time, are you ready to go" asked Jeremie as he looked at the screen, whilst in the scanner room below the warriors stood outside a scanner each, "no problemo" said Odd, then as the warriors stood into a scanner, "better hurry because if not XANA will be able to create much more powerful magnetic fields" said Jeremie, then the scanners closed, "Transfer Yumi, Transfer Dallas, Transfer Odd" said Jeremie as he selected their Id cards, "Transfer Yumi, Transfer Dallas, Transfer Odd" said Jeremie as the warriors began to spin and rise inside the scanners, "Virtualization" said Jeremie as he hit the enter key then the three warriors felt the blast of air, next thing they knew their blue squared outlines appeared before they gained texture and dropped to the ground, "the tower is situated at 30 degrees west" said Jeremie, then the warriors spotted Aelita and started to run towards her, "I see it Jeremie" said Aelita, then her window closed as the warriors arrived at her, "Over here" she said to them, before pointing to the tower in the distance, it was unguarded, "this might be easy" said Odd, then Dallas looked closer, "always calm before the storm" he said, before pulling up his hood/
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Back at Kadic, Ulrich kicked the ball and scored another goal, the crowd cheered for him as he looked towards them as they stood out of their seats and waved, then he looked towards his parents and smiled at them, and to his surprise they smiled back,
"Theirs no stopping Ulrich, he's amazing to watch, the score is two nothing, and it may get out of hand if Ulrich keeps this up" said Millie, then Tamyia said "He looks so handsome when he runs" whilst she forget that they were broadcasting live to other students who weren't there and that she was slowly zooming in on Ulrich's backside, "well thanks Tamyia for that expert commentary on the game" said Millie breaking Tamyia out of her trance.
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Back at the factory, Jeremie watched as the map zoomed in and then he realised XANA's target,
"Oh no, he's ready to attack the school" said Jeremie then it clicked in his head "now I understand" he added, whilst on Lyoko Dallas ran at a elevated path that stood in the warriors path, he then grabbed the top and pulled himself up before helping the others up onto it, "fill us in Einstein" said Odd as he was helped up onto the platform, "if not for what happened today with Yumi and Sissi, we'd have all gone to the game, and that's where XANA wanted to trap us and that was his plan to concentrate all his energy on the science building, and if we don't finish fast theirs a good chance Ulrich will finish the game outside the stratosphere" said Jeremie, the warriors stopped and looked at each other before looking around "no monsters for the time being, but we're still far from the tower" said Yumi, whilst back in the lab Jeremie began to panic slightly "this is awful, I gotta find a way to gain some time", then he looked at the screen the map showed the position of the lights outside and those positions began to flash, "you asked for it XANA, I can hack a network you're not the only one" said Jeremie, then he opened another window and began typing at an extreme pace.
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Back at the school Matt was making an all-out aggressive charge towards the opposite goal,
"Go on stop Matt" said Jim, then Jenny and Mike ran towards Matt, before they could intercept him, he jumped between them, he got ready to kick, but Ulrich quickly jumped in and tackled the ball, Matt fell to floor but no foul was called, Matt looked angry as Ulrich kicked the ball across the pitch,
"Fantastic, Ulrich is as good on defence as he is on attack" said Millie, whilst watching from the bench Jim was cheering himself, "Go Ulrich, go, go" he said as Ulrich ran past him in an attempt to chase the ball, Matt stood up and ran as quick as he could, no one could miss the obvious curled up anger on his face, "there goes Matt, living up to his rough reputation" said Millie as the aforementioned ran past her.
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On Lyoko, the four warriors ran along a platform that was slowly coming to an end, Aelita jumped off first followed by Odd, then by Yumi and lastly Dallas who skidded and grabbed onto the edge of the platform before kicking his way off to land on the ground and carry on running, whilst in the lab Jeremie hit enter closing the window of code he had just written,
"This program should allow me to counter any of XANA's attacks of the science Building" said Jeremie then he leaned back in his chair, before he noticed that the defence was already being broken down, he quickly typed phoning Ulrich saying, "Ulrich do you copy", but there was no reply, whilst at the school his phone vibrated,
"That's the end of the first half" said Millie, as all of the players returned to their respective benches for a brief rest, "Kadic has a commanding two – nothing lead, Lets see if we can get some comments first hand" Added Millie, as she and Tamyia ran towards Ulrich, "Ulrich I imagine you're confident after dominating Lincoln for the past 30 Minutes, what do you think" said Millie, Ulrich didn't want to do this interview he wanted to see his parents, "Lincolns in the finals so that means they're a good team, in the words of our coach Jim, it's our motivation that'll make us winners, I honestly think that…" said Ulrich before he looked at his parents, his farther had short hair and a clean shave, he was wearing a pale yellow suit, whilst his mother had slightly darker hair held back in a pony tail, whilst she was wearing a brown jacket and a red shirt underneath, "I've gotta go now, talk to you after the game" finished Ulrich, then he started to walk off "I better relax a bit before the second half, and see what Jim has to say" said Ulrich, then he noticed his phone ringing, before even seeing it he knew who it was he contemplated it as he heard Millie and Tamyia interview Matt, "What do you think of the game" asked Millie, but she was shocked at the rough response she got from Matt "I don't care about the Bull shit team of yours all I care about is mine winning" said Matt, before he barged through the two young reporters, who both looked at each other shocked at his conduct, whilst back in the lab Jeremie was starting to become inpatient,
"Answer your phone Ulrich please" he said, then Ulrich answered his phone "what do you want" asked Ulrich, Jeremie placed his hand to his headphone to make sure Ulrich could hear him, "Ulrich I've been trying to reach you for 10 minutes now" said Jeremie, "I can't play with a cell phone on my hand sorry" said Ulrich as he looked back at his team, "listen I know about… Odd told me why this match is so important to you, but there's an enormous and serious problem, I can't go into details there's not enough time, XANA's gonna put the school into orbit" said Jeremie, Ulrich was shocked and replied "what was that", Ulrich ran his hand over his head he was confused, "it's true I swear, he doesn't have enough power yet, but he's gonna try and get it from the science buildings power generator, You gotta make sure that nobody is in the building" said Jeremie, then Ulrich found himself caught between Jeremie and Jim as the latter yelled "hey Ulrich second half's starting", Ulrich turned back "No problem, everyone's at the game" replied Ulrich, "are you absolutely sure" asked Jeremie, then Ulrich grabbed his blue tooth earpiece and placed it in his ear and began to move towards the field, he observed the crowd, inspecting everyone who was there, "Mrs Hertz isn't here" said Ulrich, "oh no, she's probably in her classroom, You gotta go and get her out" said Jeremie, Ulrich's eyes shot open he knew he couldn't do that, Jim blew the whistle, and Jenny passed the ball to Ulrich, "Ulrich" said Jeremie, then Ulrich started to dribble the ball but stopped placing his hands on his head saying "Jeremie, don't ask me to do that", Matt came in for a slide tackle, he took the ball and began to run towards Kadic's goal,
"What's wrong, what's wrong" asked Millie as she watched the event unfold, "I'm sorry Ulrich, you've got to leave the game" said Jeremie, Ulrich stood motionless as his team mates ran past him, "I'm sorry Ulrich you're the only one who can save her" said Jeremie, "oh the crowd is numb, everyone including yours truly is stunned, why has Ulrich just stopped" asked Millie as Tamyia recorded Ulrich standing motionless, "it must be the pressure" suggested Tamyia, the crowd looked in a mixture of confusion and horror "it's a matter of Life and Death Ulrich" said Jeremie, Ulrich had begun to cry at the decision that was tearing him in half, then he turned his head and watched as two Lincoln students passed the ball back and forth between each other before kicking it in the air towards Matt, who bounced it off his head into the goal, the Kadic crowd both booed and panicked "Its unbelievable the Lincoln team has just cut our lead in half, Matt himself can hardly believe it himself" said Millie, "Ulrich you gotta…" started Jeremie, but Ulrich pulled the piece out of his ear exclaiming, "Please Jeremie just shut up, just shut up", Jeremie watched as Ulrich's phone window closed, whilst back on the pitch, Matt was again running with the ball, Ulrich ran up along side him, "I'm gonna stop you" said Ulrich as he moved for the ball, "we'll see about that you son of a…" started Matt, before he tripped up Ulrich in what appeared to be a deliberate move towards him, Ulrich skidded across the floor having landed on his leg, Jim blew the whistle, "Oh no it can't be what awful luck for the Kadic team, Ulrich looks hurt after that Violent Tackle by Matt" said Millie, Ulrich was on the floor screaming in pain whilst holding his left knee, "Come on I didn't even touch the fucker" said Matt, then Jim walked over and before he inspected Ulrich, he held a yellow card and blew his whistle, booking Matt for the foul on Ulrich and the use of language, "yes it's true" said Sissi as Jim helped Ulrich to his feet "Oh no Ulrich I can't believe it" said Jim as Ulrich limped away, "absolutely incredible our superstar striker is leaving the field with a knee injury" said Millie as everyone watched in pure shock at the violent display, "I wonder if he'll be replaced or if he'll return to the game" said Tamyia, however whilst most of the people watching were shocked, Sissi was unconvinced however, and said to herself "I don't believe it for a minute, and I'm going to check this out", then she crouched down towards Nicholas and Herb, "I'm leaving as well, tell me everything that happened whilst I'm gone" said Sissi, Nicholas and Herb were shocked "Sissi you're a cheerleader" said Nicholas, "their won't be a lot of cheering without Ulrich, besides if we score a goal replace me, just dance your head off, the crowd will love it" Replied Sissi.
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Back on Lyoko, The warriors stood watching the tower; it sat in a bowl, with a long narrow thin path that led towards it,
"Jeremie objective sighted, theirs a welcoming committee but it's manageable I'll take care of them in no time at all" said Odd as he watched three hornets fly around and circle each other, "Okay I should be able to neutralize XANA, but only for a few minutes so you gotta work fast" said Jeremie, the warriors nodded, then Dallas stood up pulling down his hood, "okay with the three of them, and the four of us, we have them outnumbered, but I have a feeling…" said Dallas, then he stopped and looked over his shoulder, "a feeling about what" asked Yumi, Dallas looked back at them "Nothing" he replied, Odd looked at the towers defence, "we gotta move" he said Yumi crouched down ready to run "ten seconds to attack time" she said, before she ran off into position, Dallas drew a bolt from his crossbow and placed his foot in the front and pulled back the string, and loaded the bolt "Lets fuckin go" shouted Dallas as he pulled up his hood and drew his tomahawk, then he, Odd and Yumi ran down the narrow path, the Hornets moved to intercept, the monsters fired a barrage of shots from behind the warriors each of them missed, Dallas turned around and fired a bolt striking one of the hornets, the monster exploded, "nice shot" said Odd as they carried on running but the victory was short lived as another Hornet joined the swarm, then Odd and Yumi jumped, the latter threw her fans whilst the former fired an arrow striking two of the Hornets, the third flew in front of them before moving dead towards them, but Dallas moved to intercept smashing his tomahawk into the creature, the blast sent him backwards knocking into the others, "pretty sharp, since when did they grow brains" asked Odd, they quickly stood up, "at least we got them" said Yumi, then Jeremie noticed trouble of the screen "negative a new swarm of about a dozen are on the way" said Jeremie, the warriors looked around the clouds covered the approach but they could still be heard, "Okay new tactics, this time we'll try diversion" said Yumi, Dallas signalled towards Aelita with his hand and shouting "STAY BACK IT'S NOT SAFE", Aelita got back behind cover, then the Hornets appeared through the clouds, "Odd I've reloaded your arrows for you, but they may not be enough" said Jeremie, Odd quickly ran forward as three Hornets approached him, he fired an arrow destroying the centre monster, "laser arrow" said Odd as he fired another, missing, the but the Hornet struck him in the shoulder, then as he held the pained area another shot him in the back, Aelita panicked at the sight of the slaughter, Dallas quickly fired a shot from his crossbow with his right hand, he then dropped it and grabbed his left arm firing a shot from his wrist mounted launcher, "Your turn Yumi" said Odd, then Yumi came walking forward her hands on her forehead as several rocks began to float and encircle her and the other warriors, Odd and Dallas began to fire towards the Hornets with varying degrees of success, the Hornets fired back with a massive barrage of lasers, "they just keep coming theirs no end to them" said Odd, Jeremie quickly typed and tried to think of another idea, then he heard Ulrich speak into his ear piece "Jeremie I've left the match" from Ulrich's tone it was obvious he was angered by the fact he had to do this, "thanks Ulrich" said Jeremie with a sigh of relief, "what you're doing is" started Jeremie, but Ulrich cut him off "Yeah I know, I know" interrupted Ulrich as he ran towards the science building, "I'm on my way to the science building now" added Ulrich he felt weak, he didn't have enough energy to safely super sprint so regular running was the best he could do, whilst on Lyoko within the floating rocks Dallas crouched reloading his weapons, whilst noticing Yumi's condition was failing, "what do we do now" asked Odd, "the best defence is a good offence" replied Yumi, then Odd and Dallas looked at the number of Monsters there were, "yeah but it depends on the number of enemies" said Odd, Dallas looked around for an opening, "fuck, nothing, we'll be shot into oblivion if we attempt to run to the tower" said Dallas as he raised his crossbow ready to fire.
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Ulrich stood outside the science Building,
"its okay Ulrich, I made my own electric field to create a short circuit" said Jeremie, Ulrich opened the door and stepped into the building, "but XANA's bound to get ahead of me again soon, so be very careful I don't know how long it's gonna last" Added Jeremie, Ulrich looked around, "what If I destroyed the generator" he asked, Jeremie thought for a second, "That might work" he replied, Ulrich smiled before seeing the door that led to the electric generator, he quickly opened it to see the massive machine, he looked in the tool box grabbing a socket wrench he walked towards the Generator before he raised the wrench and then he smashed it into the top of the machine, before he continued to do so until it stopped, he walked out of the room, then the lights began to flicker again, he looked up "what" he asked, then he looked back as the generator suddenly began to spark with red coloured sparks, "Jeremie bad news, the Generator is being powered externally" said Ulrich into his ear piece, "what" asked Jeremie, then suddenly the gravity in the building switched, Ulrich was thrown to the roof landing on his feet, whilst Mrs Hertz was thrown clean to the roof landing on her back, watching from outside the building was Sissi, suddenly the gravity changed again and Ulrich was thrown against the wall, he tried grabbing onto the door handle but it was useless, "you have to hang on for a few more seconds, once you've secured mrs Hertz, I can move into action" said Jeremie, whilst on Lyoko Yumi had started to move forward this meant the rocks followed her, Dallas and Odd were moving around trying to hit as many of the Hornets as they could, "you've gotta hang on, until Aelita can get through" said Jeremie, "are you guys okay" asked Jeremie, Odd nearly got hit but one of the lasers, Dallas turned and fired his last bolt hitting a Hornet, he then threw down his useless crossbow "Yeah we're cool" said Odd, then suddenly Yumi got hit in the back, she stumbled forward but quickly started to levitate the rocks again, "come on" said Dallas as he looked in his pouch for his arm mounted pistol, there were very few pellets left, whilst back in the science building, Ulrich had climbed the stairs but before he could open the doors and run to Mrs Hertz classroom, the doors swung open and like a vacuum sucked him into the corridor where the gravity had been shifted onto it's side, Ulrich grabbed onto Mrs Hertz's classroom door before opening it, he then noticed his teacher on the wall unconscious, he quickly climbed in and jumped onto a desk before lowing himself down until he reached Mrs Hertz, "Jeremie's it's okay I got Mrs Hertz go on do your stuff" said Ulrich, Jeremie smiled and replied "Okay here we go", whilst outside the science building Sissi walked in
"Ulrich" she asked, whilst two floors up Ulrich was dragging Mrs Hertz out of the classroom, "sorry about this" said Ulrich, as he placed her next to a section of the wall that stood out for piping to run in, "Ulrich" said Sissi as she reached the top of the stairs, suddenly the lights flickered again "Jeremie what's happening" asked Ulrich, whilst in the computer room Jeremie quickly typed, "I don't know everything's becoming impossible to control" said Jeremie, then suddenly Ulrich felt himself being thrown against the wall, he didn't fall very far, then suddenly he heard Sissi scream, he quickly looked up and as Sissi fell to his level he grabbed her arm exclaiming "I gotcha", he then pulled her up onto the wall which was now doubling as a platform, "Ulrich what's happening, what's going on" asked Sissi as she began to shake with fear, "It's too complicated, Jeremie where are you at" asked Ulrich, Jeremie quickly Typed "okay I'm back in control" he replied, "be careful it's gonna rock" he added, before he hit enter, then suddenly the lights smashed sending glass to the end of the corridor and then Ulrich, Sissi and mrs Hertz fell to the ground normally, "Hey Jeremie do me a favour and tell it's gonna calm down" said Ulrich, unfortunately Jeremie couldn't lie, "I'm afraid not, for the time being it may get worse, hang on tight anyway you can" replied Jeremie, then he switched communication, "Odd, Dallas, Yumi what's happening" asked Jeremie, whilst on Lyoko the morale of the warriors was running low, "it's horrible, I'm almost outta arrows, Dallas is out of projectiles and telekinesis has exhausted Yumi , and the more Hornets we kill the more there are" replied Odd, Dallas quickly drew his tomahawk, "what good will that do" asked Odd, Dallas looked at the Hornets, "I might be able to pick them off, if they come closer" he replied, Aelita looked from behind the rock, the Hornets had failed to noticed her, "Here I go" she said.
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"Ulrich do you mind telling me what's going on" asked Sissi as she helped Ulrich carry Mrs Hertz into the class room, "yeah I do mind so keep quiet" replied Ulrich then he heard a rumbling, "hey Jeremie what's that sound" he asked, then Jeremie looked at the screen, "I don't know" he replied then he zoomed out the map, "oh no, XANA has managed to take over 50 power stations" added Jeremie, "Ulrich whatever you do don't leave the building, stay inside" said Jeremie, then Ulrich walked towards the window he observed the game, Gareth had moved up to take the attacking position, then Ulrich noticed the flickering lights, whilst back on Lyoko Aelita stood watching the Hornets attack the other warriors,
"Hang in there Yumi we're almost there" said Odd, but all three of them knew that they wouldn't make it to the tower, "hang in there Yumi" said Dallas as looked around "come on Yumi concentrate, give us just a few more seconds" said Odd, but suddenly Yumi collapsed due to exhaustion, "I can't do it… I'm sorry" said Yumi as she fell forward, Dallas and Odd crouched down and inspected her; the rocks hitting the path temporarily confused the Hornets then all three of them noticed as Aelita began walking towards the tower, her voice was being projected as she created a new path below her feet, "Aelita it's too soon" said Odd, whilst back at the school the Kadic supporters watched in shock, as a small foul had been committed and Matt was taking a free kick,
"Now Matt has the opportunity to tie the score with this free kick" said Millie, then as Matt ran up to kick it, he found himself flung into the air, suddenly Cameron felt himself become weightless as he ascended into the air only being caught by the net, Matt grabbed onto the goal post, but Cameron Grabbed his arm and pulled him into the net, "The stadium" said Ulrich as he observed the events, suddenly all of the players began to fly into the air, some managed to float into the nets but others weren't so lucky, upon seeing this several of the spectators fled from the pitch, they managed to get out side of the zone whilst others didn't get the opportunity to and began to fly upwards, whilst on Lyoko, the Hornets moved towards Aelita, who almost in a trance like state kept walking towards the tower, "hey Aelita you're crazy" shouted Odd, the Hornets moved in and began firing a barrage of shots towards Aelita all of them hitting her, but she carried on regardless, whilst back on earth Ulrich stood into the hallway before running and jumping through the window, smashing it he cut his body, but he didn't care he quickly grabbed onto a window, and made his way towards his parents, "I don't believe this" said Odd as he watched what was certainly Aelita walking towards her death, several more hits struck her, but she still didn't react "Aelita turn back" said Dallas, but she didn't listen, suddenly a Hornet flew in from behind and fired a shot, it hit Aelita in the back causing her to fall forward, the path stopped growing, "NOOOOOOO" shouted Dallas as he quickly summoned eagle sense and jumped into the air, he landed on the platform in an attempt to grab Aelita's leg before she fell into the sky below, but he was a second too late, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" screamed the warriors, the Hornets followed Aelita as she fell to her demise, Dallas rolled onto, the sudden jump had caused his hood to come down, he looked into the sky above him, he had failed, "Aelita" said Jeremie as he watched the commotion on the screen, Yumi and Odd looked down, "as soon as you're finished crying let me no" said a voice, then Odd and Yumi looked to their left, whilst Dallas looked up towards the adjacent platform to see Aelita standing there, "You were just luring them" said Yumi, "of course" said Aelita as she smiled, then Jeremie yelled "AELITA YOU ARE THE GREATEST", Dallas smiled and jumped over the other platform, whilst back on earth Ulrich's father was beginning to lose his grip on the stands, his hand let go when suddenly Ulrich grabbed it,
"Ulrich" he said in shock, Ulrich felt as if he was being torn in half as he held onto the stands and the weight of his parents, Aelita quickly passed through the tower walls, but it was cutting it close as Ulrich was losing his grip on his farther, "goodbye Ulrich, I'm proud of you really I am" said Ulrich's farther, then he lost his grip letting go of Ulrich, the latter screamed as he watched his parents fly into the sky, whilst in the tower Aelita reached the top platform, it illuminated below her feet, the blue screen appeared, she placed her hand on it the word AELITA typed out followed by CODE, whilst on earth Ulrich lost his grip and began to fall into the sky, then the word LYOKO typed out and the blue screens descended into the black void, Jeremie Hit enter saying "return to the past now"…
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Earlier that day Jim took a deep breath before blowing into his whistle, Matt and Ulrich stood in the centre ready for the ball, Jim then threw it up into the air, Matt was standing slightly crouched ready to jump at the ball, Ulrich saw this and quickly used it to his own favour he ran and quickly elevated himself off Matt's leg and hit the ball with his head Passing it towards Gareth, Matt was dumbfounded, he looked at Jim and shouted
"IS THAT EVEN LEGAL?", Jim shook his head, the other warriors sat and watched the game, whilst Aelita managed to see it by contacting Jeremie directly, then Dallas asked
"is it me or does that Matt look like Jim", the other warriors looked at him, "what are you crazy" asked Odd, then they laughed but after a moment they realised that Dallas had a point.
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Authors note
My god I hate this chapter so much, I felt it was shit to begin with and even with the minor changes I could put in because it was to open and shut, hopefully the next chapter should be better.