Authors' note
well I suppose I should apologize, it's currently been 9 days since the last chapter was published and well college is taking my time, and I have things to deal with but I hope you enjoy.
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The elevator opened and Dallas walked out, he wasn't wearing his jacket nor his wings, it was mainly in fear of either getting destroyed, he had a spanner in his left hand and his sawn off holstered on his leg,
"The amount of those spectres I've dealt with" said Dallas, Jeremie looked at him and shook his head, Ulrich smiled as Dallas handed him the sawn off, "reload that will you" he said as he removed the holster and chucking him the small bullet bag, Ulrich pulled forward the front, "ow" he said, "Careful it's hot" he said as he noticed Ulrich had burned his hand, he quickly placed his jacket on, whilst on Lyoko Aelita was running towards a tower, "careful Aelita, Yumi's only got 10 life points left" said Jeremie, Aelita had deactivated the tower and Dallas had managed to stop the Spectre and had allowed them to avert the usage of a return to the past, "get ready girls I'm starting up the Devirtualization option" said Jeremie as Aelita passed into the tower, Jeremie quickly typed and began the program, he turned back to face the others, "activated towers, Lyoko battles, danger, aren't you guys starting to get sick of all this" said Ulrich, the others smiled and said "no" in unison, Ulrich sulked slightly saying "sometimes I wish we were just done with all this", Odd walked over to him and placed his arm Ulrich's shoulder, "You've missed an episode Ulrich, Aelita's infected with a virus that links her to XANA, bye, bye XANA, equals bye, bye Aelita" said Odd as the door opened, Jeremie rolled his eyes, "and I don't know how to create an anti virus, I mean not just yet" he said, everyone looked grim at the reminder, Dallas grabbed his crossbow and slung it over his shoulder, "I have an idea, why don't we explore that new sector we discovered" said Aelita breaking the silence, Dallas and Jeremie looked towards each other before looking at the others, "Sector 5?" asked Jeremie, Dallas shook his head and said "We haven't done a data run yet, well only a brief one, Jeremie are the upgrades ready", Jeremie looked down and sighed, "yeah but we don't know what's in it" replied Jeremie, Odd opened his hand and began counting off of his fingers, "sure we do, Creepers, Potentially dangerous traps, and the Scyphozoa as you call it out to steal Aelita's memory" said Odd, this did nothing to reassure anyone, "you're right, but what if something else is there, such as information relating to XANA, we have to go back" said Aelita, it wasn't much but it managed to sway the warriors, "good idea, all four of us will go" said Ulrich, Dallas wasn't overly keen on the others going and risking themselves, "the five of us" said Aelita, then they looked towards her, "I wanna be apart of this expedition" added Aelita, Jeremie shook his head and stood up "with that Scyphozoa sneaking around, no way" he said firmly "what if there's a tower to deactivate I have to be there" said Aelita, Odd placed his hand on her shoulder, "Come on Einstein with bodyguards like us, she has nothing to worry about, and I promise to be careful" said Odd, Jeremie knew he was more or less out voted by the others, he sighed and said "okay Tomorrow night exploration", they smiled and entered the elevator ascending to the factory floor, they quickly climbed the ladders and Yumi noticed it was close to pitch black outside "oh fuck, it's so late, my parents must be going crazy, bye see you tomorrow" she said as she ran off, Odd looked at his phone and said "as for us we missed dinner again", Dallas rolled his eyes as Odd said "and when it was spaghetti and meatballs", Jeremie and Aelita climbed down the hatch, "Odd you think your suffering, I'll take the bullet outta my shoulder, and that'll show you suffering" said Dallas as he began his descent.
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Yumi snuck up to her house, the lights were out so her family was asleep, she opened and closed the gate as she silently entered, she quickly moved up the stairs and unlocked her door, before entering and locking the door again, she shut the door, she quickly turned thinking she'd been caught, there was no one there, she quickly started walking down the hallway when suddenly the light turned on in the living room, she turned her head to see her parents sitting on their sofa and chair,
"Yumi, we need to talk" said Takeho, as he raised his arm towards the kitchen, Yumi quickly walked towards it knowing she was in trouble, her mother pulled a bowl of noodles out of the microwave and handed her some chopsticks, Yumi was starving having not eaten anything in almost 12 hours, she quickly scoffed down the Noodles, "you come home late every single night" said Takeho as he walked around the table, Akiko sat down opposite Yumi, "This is the last straw, it's past 10 o'clock and you didn't even bother to phone us" said Takeho as he stopped moving and looked down at Yumi, "you haven't eaten anything either, and when you do you seem to crave noodles, if you have a problem you know you can tell us" said Akiko, in reality for Yumi it wasn't easy, even before Lyoko she'd been growing distant from her parents, Lyoko just complicated matters, "No really everything's fine, I was studying maths at Monika's house" said Yumi, Takeho looked towards her and Asked "Monika decoya", Yumi nodded as she finished her second bowl of noodles, "that's strange when I called she was studying, by herself" said Takeho, Akiko shook her head, "you're lying to us sweetie that's unlike you, what's the matter with you, I worry about you tell me what's the matter" said Akiko reached her hand out towards Yumi, "Everything's fine, why are you worrying about me you saw my last report card everything's great" said Yumi as she stood up and stormed off to her room, she shut the door and fell onto her bed and fell asleep almost instantly, Akiko walked up the stairs and opened the door, she looked at Yumi sleeping, she shut the door and walked towards her room, "I'm concerned Takeho" said Akiko, the aforementioned loosened his tie and began unbuttoning his shirt as he said "We're going to have to get a lot more strict".
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Whilst Odd had fallen asleep with Kiwi atop of him, Ulrich laid on his bed, unlike Yumi and his room mate, he'd been unable to sleep he'd noticed Yumi had been slightly different since the two had been intimate with each other, but unlike what he'd been told where it make things weird for a while, that hadn't happened nothing was awkward between the two, they'd been closer in fact, but he couldn't help but notice she'd been acting slightly weirdly, he looked towards the sleeping Odd and said to himself,
"Has what happened between me and her ruined everything" but luckily Odd wasn't awake to answer or even ask questions about what had happened, this was one moment when asking for advice was a horrible idea, he was gonna have to tackle this one alone.
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The next morning came after what felt like the longest night for Ulrich, but the morning was even longer for Yumi as her Parents where walking with her to Kadic,
"it's nice of you to come with me, but I'm big enough to go to school really I am" said Yumi as she walked a few steps behind them, "you are huh, if you are, you'd stop lying to us and tell us why you come home so late at night all the time" said Takeho, Yumi sighed as she looked towards her mother, "and you're just gonna watch me 24 hours a day, am I in prison or something" she asked knowing that prison conditions would probably be favourable to this, "we're just trying to understand and protect you" said Akiko, they quickly approached the school grounds Yumi laid her eyes on Sissi and her group standing there talking, but they stopped as they noticed Yumi, "oh wow, the entire Ishiyama family" said Sissi in a mocking tone, Yumi looked down sighing as she said "I bet that you'll be picking me up as well", Takeho was quick to respond as he said "We'll be waiting here at 5oclock I advise you not to be late", Yumi walked through the gates as Sissi said "oh isn't that adorable", Yumi quickly feigned scratching her forehead as Sissi's hair suddenly began to get tugged all over the place causing her to scream.
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Yumi found the others standing by the vending machines, they had heard from Yumi's text to Ulrich, they looked at her grimly,
"Bad news" said Aelita, Yumi nodded as she said "yeah, they're not gonna ease up, what a mess, the worst thing is I hate lying to them", Odd smiled "just explain to them that we're fighting in a virtual universe against a demonic artificial intelligence, that outta reassure them" he sarcastically suggested, Dallas rolled his eyes, "yeah and replace me as a poster child for a section 8" he said, Yumi was clearly hurt by the lying aspect of the double life they all lead, "you've gotta earn back there trust, I think you should stay away from Lyoko for a while" said Jeremie, Yumi looked back towards him, "huh what about exploring sector 5 it is for tonight isn't it" asked Yumi, she was upset she was easily the 4th most fascinated by this new area, "don't worry Jeremie will give you a play by play update" said Ulrich as the bell began to ring, "Promise" said Jeremie as they began to walk towards their respective classrooms "come on guys it's time to go to mrs Hertz's class" said Odd, Jeremie smiled as he asked "did you study for the marine biology test", Odd laughed "of course I did, fish are remarkably adapted to water, what's more they can swim" he said, Dallas and Ulrich shook there heads as Jeremie said "you're so lame", Yumi looked onwards towards them as she walked towards the dorm building for her English class, "hey Yumi" said William as he walked up behind her, "William" she said, the aforementioned smiled, he'd been at Kadic for only three weeks and Yumi was the only proper friend he had, everyone else was just nice because he was a rebel, "You ready for class" he said as he placed his hands behind his head, "nope" she said being more upbeat, "me neither if anything I'm fucked" he said, Yumi smiled at the comment knowing that she was in a completely different neck of the woods, "I could help if you wanted" said Yumi, she knew that she'd played into what William wanted but she knew he needed the help, "Yumi you bitch" said a voice, Yumi would have expected such a phrase from Sissi but she had gone to her class, she turned around to see Evelyn, whilst she didn't directly know her, Dallas had in fact warned her that she was the second agent, "just leave me alone" said Yumi she knew that Evelyn wasn't stupid enough to start a physical confrontation in public, "what can't I say hi" said Evelyn in a mocking tone, she placed her hand on Yumi's shoulder as the latter tried walking away, suddenly she was pressed against the wall by William, "hey she said Leave her alone" said William, Yumi smiled at William's gesture, Evelyn tried pushing Williams are out of the way but she couldn't move his arm, he finally moved it of his own occurred when she gave up, Yumi walked away followed by William "Thanks" she said, William nodded and said "no problem".
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The punching bag was knocked backwards and forwards as numerous blows were dealt towards it, after 5 and on Sunday the campus was more social to borders, and the gym was freely open to any student who wished to use the facility's, whilst regulation stated that 12 oz boxing gloves be used when using the punching bag, Dallas ignored this entirely being that boxing wasn't his choice of fighting, it was more kick boxing and various forms of Mix Marshall Arts, wearing nothing but his tracksuit bottoms he would train any time he could get, the design was dark blue with a single white stripe down the legs with a red stripe around knee area he jumped raising his left knee into the bag knocking it side ways,
"Impressive" said William as he walked towards Dallas, Dallas wiped his forehead and brushed his hair backwards, "William isn't it" asked Dallas as he grabbed the bag and stopped it swinging, William was wearing a vest and similar tracksuit bottoms but were pure black, "yeah, Dallas am I right?" said William, Dallas smiled as he turned back to face William, "you knew that already other wise you wouldn't have come looking for me" said Dallas as he turned doing a 180 spin kick with his left leg into the punching bag, "I've been told by our mutual friend Yumi that you know some things" said William, Dallas smiled and sat down on a bench gripping his left knee "What because I'm built like a brick shithouse" said Dallas, then William cringed at the audible crunch of Dallas's knee, "yeah more or less" said William, Dallas stood up surprising William as he walked towards the punching bag without any form of limp, "first what's the reason" asked Dallas, William was confused "the reason" he asked, Dallas grabbed the bag "the reason you want to train" he replied, "does it matter" asked William, Dallas let go of the bag and walked towards him "I may fight with a violent style but its for defence and for charity fights" said Dallas, it was true he'd only fight if someone else started the altercation and he couldn't talk them down, "because despite the fact I might seem like a rebel, I'm actually a target for a lot of harassment" said William, Dallas nodded knowing the feeling, "by any chance was it an idiot with short brown hair and a buzz cut at the sides with a few gray hairs at the top" asked Dallas, William nodded "and a girl with long brown hair, maybe b cups and is a total bitch" he added, Dallas laughed and grabbed the bag, "grab some gloves 12 ounces" he said, William smiled "only fight for defence understood" added Dallas, William threw a punch towards the bag smiling.
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Hours passed and the warriors minus Yumi had snuck out to the factory, it was now dark outside, Dallas, Ulrich, Odd and Aelita stood outside a scanner whilst Jeremie sat down in his chair, He quickly started typing,
"Off to the forest sector" he said as he loaded a window, "Transfer Ulrich, Transfer Dallas, Transfer Odd, Transfer Aelita" said Jeremie as they respectively stood into their scanners, they closed as Jeremie hit enter saying "Scanner Ulrich, Scanner Dallas, Scanner Odd, Scanner Aelita" as the four warriors began to spin and rise "And Virtualization" said Jeremie as the others felt the blast of air, their blue squared outlines appeared and gained texture before dropping to the floor "everything good" said Jeremie, the warriors quickly looked around "yeah the monsters must be sleeping, they're gonna need all the sleep they can get after all the grief we've been giving them" said Odd, Jeremie smiled the operation might go smoothly "you've gotta get to the other end of the sector to take the transporter, I've gonna materialize your rides" said Jeremie as he programmed the Over-Board, the Over-Bike and the baton of the Over-Rider, "Aelita ride with Ulrich" said Dallas, Odd quickly stepped on his board "why" asked Odd confused Dallas smiled as he said "because you're the most likely to get her killed".
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A few minutes later Dallas was glad he'd made the call as Odd was flying recklessly through the trees, Ulrich and Aelita were riding across the ground, Dallas followed Odd through the trees,
"Odd you promised you'd be careful" shouted Ulrich, then Odd flew lower towards the two as he started to do a handstand on the board, "ODD" said Ulrich, then he started Laughing as Dallas flew into view, he was laying on his side with his feet towards the handles and his head in his hand, Odd's jaw dropped at Dallas's movement, "go ahead and hurry up before the monsters get there" said Jeremie, Dallas quickly re adjusted himself and at the same time he and Ulrich quickly sped up, they quickly found themselves at the edge, Dallas retracted the Over-Rider into the baton whilst the Over-Board and the Over-Bike devirtualized, "we made it Jeremie" said Aelita, Jeremie smiled as he said "okay I'm entering the code, Scipio", he quickly type the code in, and the white sphere appeared and engulfed the warriors, on the screen a new window opened Yumi was phoning Jeremie, "Jeremie is everything okay" she asked as she sat next to her steaming bath wearing her towel, her clothes were discarded on the floor next to a discarded box, "are they okay" she said, he smiled as he said "yeah they're in the transporter, all is well", Yumi looked down before cracking a smile, "tell them I'm thinking about them" said Yumi, she was about to hang up when she quickly added "tell Ulrich I need to talk to him when he gets back", Jeremie was confused "want me to pass on a message" he asked, Yumi quickly replied "no" as she hung up, placing her towel and her phone down she stepped into the bath and began to relax.
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The sphere opened up and the Warriors found themselves in Sector 5 they looked around at the dome structure,
"happy campers" said Jeremie, Ulrich nodded as he said "yep I'm beginning to get used to these little trips, "not me I shouldn't have had that 5th desert at lunch" said Odd as he held his stomach, Dallas smiled "all right it's best I now run you two through the modifications" he said, Odd and Ulrich were confused "what modifications" asked Odd, Dallas looked up shouting "JEREMIE, I TOLD YOU TO TELL THEM", he sighed as he looked towards them, "if you two look at your left arms you'll notice one of these" said Dallas as he extended his left blade, "cool" said Odd as he extended his own and quickly retracted it, "Yumi will have one as well" said Dallas, then they looked at him "what about you, you already have two" said Ulrich, Dallas smiled as he extended his right arm blade, "gentlemen I give you the Hook blade" said Dallas, as they took in the design it was clearly longer than his old blade, at the edge it was curved inwards like a hook, "awesome" said Odd, then Aelita said "Jeremie the walls about to open", Jeremie quickly opened the timer window, "right that means the countdown is about to start" he said, then as the holo-map changed to sector 5 he quickly thought to himself, "we've got to find a way to deactivate it, that must be the way to exploring further" said Jeremie, the warriors watched as the dome began to slow down the gyrating before stopping as a section began to rise and reveal the exit, "everything will be fine, Odd promised to be careful" said Ulrich as they ran through the exit, "Might as well shoot me now" said Dallas, suddenly the timer window started ticking down, "The timer's started you know what'll happen if Aelita loses her life points" said Jeremie as he began to sweat into his chair, "Don't worry Jeremie we have no intention of losing her" said Ulrich, they stopped and watched as the wall opened up to reveal the pathway, they started to run down it, "last time there was a big room at the end of this hallway" said Aelita, they exited the corridor and found themselves in a room that was larger and starkly different from the last time, "I have a feeling the architecture changes every time" said Jeremie, the warriors stopped as they looked around "that's great for finding our way around" said Odd sarcastically, Dallas looked up and noticed a platform with several ridges around the sides each was an inch apart, "what're you doing" asked Odd, Dallas smiled before running up the wall and extending his hook blade and latching it into the ride, the others watched as he began to scale the pillar, "what're doing" asked Ulrich adding to Odd's question "well, at least I can get a look of this place" said Dallas as he reached the top, "oh I see other wise we wouldn't be exploring" said Ulrich, Dallas looked around, "there's another arch, on your right" said Dallas as he looked down towards, them Ulrich quickly started running followed by the others towards the exit to the room, Dallas jumped off the pillar towards another lower one landing on it and rolling off onto another before jumping down to the others, "look out you've got two creepers on your tail and a warrior ahead of you" said Jeremie, Dallas quickly charged forward towards the Warrior, it drew it's sword, but it did little as Dallas grabbed the right side of the warrior as it held its weapon on it's left hand, Dallas jumped and dug the hook into the creatures neck section and as he placed his feet on the ground swung his arm lifting the warrior off its' feet and throwing it towards the wall head first, the other Lyoko warriors passed through the arch as Dallas drew his tomahawk and smacked it into the back of the warrior, he pulled it out and followed the others as the Creepers gained ground on him, the monsters opened their mouths and fired lasers towards Dallas, "laser arrow" said Odd as he fired his arrows back towards them, he quickly ran down the corridor with the others "there's only three minutes left on the timer" said Jeremie, the warriors exited the corridor to find themselves on a ledge, luckily it was big enough so they could all stand, "This way" said Ulrich as they followed it around a corner towards another corridor, "come on" said Ulrich as he ran down followed by Aelita and Odd, Dallas grabbed his crossbow and followed looking back, they quickly followed the path through a larger room, but as soon as they exited they found themselves in another room identical to the one that housed the ledge, "Haven't we already been here" said Ulrich, as they took in the exact similarities of the room, Dallas looked down over the ledge, "how should I know, everything looks the same in this place" said Odd, they quickly followed the path into the corridor at the opposite end of the room, "this way" said Aelita as she moved down first, but she was struck by a laser and knocked backwards, Ulrich grabbed her as Odd and Dallas moved to the sides grabbing the ranged weapons, "wow forty life points in one hit, those Creepers sure are powerful" said Jeremie, whilst back on Lyoko Dallas and Odd stood either side of the corridor entrance, "on three" said Dallas then they nodded and moved into the creepers firing range, they quickly fired towards the creature destroying it, the organic section exploded leaving the metal section of the beast which faded into nothingness, "they're powerful and really ugly too" said Odd, Ulrich looked at the room confused by the resemblance of the two, "Jeremie any ideas" he asked, Jeremie looked at the screen then at the holo-map, "No but I've got bad news for you, you're in a labyrinth, make a left at each fork, and leave a mark there, if the way is already marked make a right" said Jeremie, Ulrich drew his sword and slashed into the wall of the arch, they quickly started moving through into the next room, again like the last two was completely identical aside from the mark which Ulrich quickly placed into the exiting archway, "This is incredible we'll never get out of this thing" said Odd, Jeremie was starting to get nervous, "You'd better, you've only got two minutes to find a way to stop the countdown" he said beginning to grip into the sides of the chair, the warriors quickly exited the corridor from the arch, they found themselves in a new room, it was different from the last, unlike the last few it had a path to the other side, it was broken and split but a small hop would be required the walls consisted of blocks poking out in random intervals, "we made it Jeremie, we're out" said Aelita, Odd smiled as he said, "Nothing like having a little luck on your side, Hey Einstein why complicate things huh", the warriors quickly started running towards the other end of the room, Dallas looked around expecting trouble, but there wasn't any monsters, "this is almost too easy" he said heavily unnerved by this fact, "oh, ah great now what do we do" said Ulrich as they stopped, they had reached the exit of the most inner sphere, "Jeremie, can you see anything from your end" asked Odd, Jeremie smiled as he opened another window, "ah so you need me again huh, go back to where you were, I've spotted a mechanism on the wall, times running out hurry" replied Jeremie as the window showed a button type mechanism, the warriors quickly doubled back and looked around when Aelita suddenly said "there" as she spotted the button, it was the shape of the XANA eye, but the centre circle stuck out, with the middle one also sticking out but not as far, "let me at it" said Odd as he rushed towards the wall and began climbing, Dallas followed suit and extended his Hook blade as the two began to traverse the wall, "14, 13" said Jeremie as he watched the timer, Odd was getting closer towards the button, "12, 11, 10, 9" said Jeremie as Odd jumped up getting closer towards the button, "9, 8, 7, 6" he added as Odd jumped to smack the button, but he was suddenly struck by a creeper blast, knocking him away and causing him to devirtuallize, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO" screamed Ulrich, Dallas looked towards the direction Odd's body fell as Jeremie said "2, 1", he was out of time, he quickly jumped down from the wall as the timer expired, the Creeper that had taken Odd out moved towards Ulrich, before he could draw his sword he was struck by a hail of lasers, he slowly began to devirtuallize, "Ulrich" said Aelita as he screamed in pain, "Come here you son of a bitch" shouted Dallas in mid air with his Tomahawk in both hands raised above his head, "careful the countdown is over, the room is bound to change" said Jeremie, then suddenly a wall arose between Dallas and Aelita, Dallas hit it knocking him into a newly opened gap in the room, he was gone from Aelita's sight, the Creeper backed away, as walls arose from around "Aelita are you okay" asked Jeremie as he began franticly typing "Well no more Creepers" said Aelita, Jeremie becoming even more worried, "I can't locate Dallas his signals gone, but I can't tell if he's been devirtualized" added Jeremie, then he noticed something even worse, "Oh no, Aelita, Odd and Ulrich didn't come back, it's possible Dallas might have bestowed the same fate" said Jeremie, Aelita was shocked "what, that's impossible, are they lost" she asked, Jeremie didn't know what it could be as he looked down at the keyboard in utter confusion, "for the moment they are" said Jeremie stuttering the words he didn't want to have to say, "so there's no re-materialization from sector 5" asked Aelita, Jeremie looked up "sure there is once we find the right program" he replied, Aelita had a small bit of hope "do you think you could find it" she asked, Jeremie placed his head into his hands "it's probably as easy as finding your antivirus" said Jeremie, he looked at the screen as he said "don't worry I'm gonna do the impossible".
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After spending a few hours soaking in her bath, Yumi had gotten dressed and was sitting in her living room with the remainder of her family, her mother was sitting reading 'the diving pool' at the table, Hiroki was sitting near her playing on his Game boy (because fuck you that's why, I refuse to update this classic piece of hardware) with the sound on full blast,
"Hiroki, could you make some more noise please" said Yumi sarcastically, she already had a headache and he wasn't helping, "sorry Yumi the volume is as high as it goes" replied Hiroki not understanding she was being sarcastic, "Hiroki" said Takeho in a strict voice, and Hiroki knew that he had to leave the room, he groaned as he stood up and walked out up to his room, Yumi heard her phone vibrate as she looked down to it seeing the factory number, "I pass" said Takeho not noticing Yumi's phone or the quick slight of hand trick she pulled as she placed it in her pocket "me too I pass" she said seemingly throwing the game, "then the game is over, I have 5 more points than you" said Takeho happy with himself and that his daughter wasn't lying to him, "on the goban yes, don't forget I played whites, with komi I win by half a point" said Yumi crushing his dreams, "oh" said Takeho confused by his defeat, Yumi quickly gave a half fake yawn, she was both tired and trying to leave the lounge as quick as possible, "well it's bed time, good night" she said as she stood up and walked out of the room, "good night my dear" said Akio as the door shut, Yumi quickly moved up to her room as she answered the phone, "Jeremie how's it going" she asked, "to hell in a hand basket, head for the factory" replied Jeremie, Yumi looked out her window and quickly opened it before climbing down the drain pipes.
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Back on Lyoko Aelita was looking around the changed layout of the room; suddenly she heard a strange roar, one that she had heard before,
"Jeremie can you hear that" said Aelita as she looked back, Jeremie looked at the screen as an unknown icon moved towards Aelita, "it's the Scyphozoa, stay calm Yumi's coming" said Jeremie, Aelita looked as far wall began to slide open.
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Yumi's mother opened her door looking into the almost pitch black room, the only light was from the corridor,
"Yumi can I come in" said her mother as she looked at Yumi's bed, "I wanna talk to you for a minute" she added as she moved towards the bed, she moved back the cover and was shocked at Yumi's absence and the placement of a stuffed creature, she yelped as she backed away, "Yumi" she said as she looked out the open window, Yumi however was outside the factory rushing along she quickly ran into the factory and grabbed the ropes sliding down them instead of swinging as she usually did, she quickly ran into the elevator and pressed the button, she pulled out her phone saying "Jeremie I'm in the elevator" she felt weak but she knew she had to continue, "head straight to scanners, you have to get to sector 5, the Scyphozoa is there" said Jeremie coming close to panicking, "what about Odd, Ulrich and Dallas" she asked, Jeremie sighed and said "do you want the best case scenario", Yumi was worried as she looked towards her phone and replied "yes" Jeremie quickly said "I've got a 1 in a million chance of finding the right code to bring Odd and Ulrich back, and I can't locate Dallas anyway", Yumi was worried as the door opened to the scanner room.
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The Senior Ishiyama's stepped out of there car to Delmas and Jim standing outside the front gate of the academy, since they lived on the campus neither were dressed appropriately Takeho wasn't overly happy about having to see Delmas but it was necessary to find his daughter,
"We're sorry to disturb you head master Delmas" said Akiho, Takeho spoke up and said "we're understandably very worried", Delmas nodded in agreement "yes I understand but its quite possible that Yumi is somewhere on campus" he said as he looked towards Jim, "why sure, she's probably hanging out with her gang of friends come on" said Jim as he lead them towards the dorm building, whilst on Lyoko Yumi had been virtualized and was speeding on the Over-Wing through the mountain sector towards the end of the region, "you're on the edge of the territory now Yumi, better be careful XANA's gonna do all he can to stop you taking the transporter" Said Jeremie, and sure enough two Kankrelots spotted Yumi and began to open fire on her as she sped past them, they managed to hit and devirtuallize the Over-Wing, Yumi fell forward grabbing the stomach as she started rushing towards the end of the plato, "Jeremie enter the code" she said as the lasers passed by her, Jeremie quickly typed in Scipio and Yumi was quickly engulfed by the transporter, "Yumi" said Jeremie as he lost contact with her.
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"hmm no ones here" said Jim as he looked at Odd and Ulrich's empty room, "no one in here either" said Delmas as he opened the door to Jeremie's and Dallas's room, "looking for someone" said Sissi as she stood at the end of the hallway, she was less than appropriately dressed wearing a see through nightie with her bra and panties underneath, Delmas was less than pleased, then he noticed Adam missing his shirt quickly opening his door, "Do you know where your friends, Stern, Belpois, Della robia, Ishiyama, Marshal or Stone, might be" said Delmas angry and giving Sissi a look to say she was in trouble for what she had been up to, "probably up to no good as usual, I don't know where, but their little mascot can find them" said Sissi as she opened Odd and Ulrich's door, "mascot" asked Delmas confused, "what mascot" he added as Sissi walked towards Odd's cupboard, she then opened the top draw to reveal Kiwi, "Ta Da" she said, Jim's eyes shot open at the fact that Kiwi had slipped through his watch "A mangy flee bitten mutt" he said, Delmas looked back towards Jim with a similar look he gave to Sissi, Delmas was shocked at the revelations he was being exposed to, "uh" said Sissi as she held up one of Odd's socks, Kiwi started sniffing it, "hey little puppy where's your master huh" she said, Kiwi grabbed the scent and started rushing off out of the room, "get em" said Sissi as the adults looked down at the dog as it shot off down the corridor, "lets follow him" said Akiho, Sissi looked on in delight, Adam quickly exited his room and said "I'm coming too", Sissi looked at his hands which he'd taped in a boxing style.
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"Hang on Aelita, Yumi's on the way" said Jeremie, "I hope so" replied Aelita as the wall opened up fully, "Yumi can you hear me" asked Jeremie, he was glad when he heard "yes I'm in the arena, the transporter got to me just in time", Yumi had made it, the wall of the arena opened and Yumi rushed as fast as she could into the corridor, "listen you have to get to the corridor and find the mechanism before the countdown runs out" said Jeremie, Yumi was already rushing through the corridor "if I'm right about how the core zone functions, my plan should work" added Jeremie, whilst back in the forest the search party stopped as Kiwi sniffed the man-hole, "huh" said Jim as he reached down and looked at the cover, "what's the matter with that hound" he added, then it clicked as he moved the cover, "oh I don't believe it, this reminds me of when I used to work in the sewers" said Jim as he began descending into the tunnel, "you used to work in the sewers Jim" asked Delmas, Jim then realised he'd said too much and replied "I'd rather not talk about it" as he dropped out of sight, back in sector 5 the Scyphozoa moved towards Aelita, then it stopped as Evelyn moved into view throwing Dallas onto the floor, it was clear he was weak, his hood was down and his weapons were gone, "Call this insurance XANA" she said as the Scyphozoa continued it's advance, Dallas tried moving forward but he heard a click and looked to see a musket pistol pointed at the back of his head, "fuck" he muttered under his breath, further down the zone, Yumi quickly exited the corridor into a room where numerous lasers blocked the corridor, "Only two minutes left" said Jeremie as he became increasingly worried, Yumi started moving towards the lasers flipping forward between them, suddenly she lost her footing and her hand was caught on one of the lasers, she screamed at the pain, "down to 10 points Yumi this is not the time to mess up, Dallas is being held at gun point and the Scyphozoa is with Aelita" said Jeremie as Yumi slid underneath the next few lasers, she stood up and began to carefully move between them, she looked as she wasn't any further than half way.
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Back in the sewers Jim inspected one of the skateboards, he looked at the design realising it was Odd's
"That's weird" said Jim, then he realised Kiwi was tugging on his slipper, "Jim we're wasting time" said Delmas as Jim wrestled for the slipper, Delmas was clearly angered enough already that night he didn't need this as well, "will you let go of that slipper, you flee bitten… come on" said Jim then both him and Kiwi lost their grip and the slipper was thrown into the water, whilst back in sector 5 the Scyphozoa grabbed Aelita and wrapped its tentacles around her and began draining her memory, "I wouldn't move if I were you" said Evelyn as she looked down at Dallas, the later looked back at her angrily, "Yumi this is no time to drag your feet" said Jeremie as he watched the process from the screen, Yumi quickly moved out of the wire field and rushed towards the button as Jeremie said "I've located the mechanism it's on your right", Yumi quickly rushed forward and pressed the button, it began to collapse in on itself as, then the wall next to Yumi opened up, "it works Jeremie" said Yumi as she moved through the new passage way, "The whole zone is being configured, back in the area with the Scyphozoa the floor began to rise between the creature and Aelita, it dropped her as it lost connection to her, Evelyn looked up, Dallas seized the opportunity and moved forward onto the platform to which Aelita was located, Evelyn looked down ready to shoot, but Dallas stood up and grabbing her legs and sweeping her down, she dropped the musket as Dallas started brutally punching her in the face, Aelita couldn't help but watch in horror at this violent act that was being carried out by Dallas, with each subsequent blow to Evelyn's head she slowed down to a point in which she stopped moving, Dallas stood up looking at his hand, he then looked towards the near traumatized Aelita, "I'm sorry it had to be done" he said as he grabbed her forearm blade and strapped it around his own arm, "Dallas" whimpered Aelita as she picked up the Musket and walked towards Dallas, the later grabbed Evelyn's sword and sheathed it, before Aelita handed him the Musket "one shot" he said as he inspected the weapon before sheathing it, "we did it, you two take the access behind you" said Jeremie, Dallas and Aelita quickly started running towards the opening in the wall, whilst in another section Yumi reached the end of a platform, she looked as the wall was about 5 feet away, then suddenly a moving platform shot past "wow it's some kind of elevator" she said in amazement, "you know what we do with elevators right" said Jeremie, Yumi quickly took a step back before jumping onto the elevator as it returned, "we ride them" she said as she felt the break neck speed of the platform, suddenly it stopped and began to change the axis to which it was moving, it then began to ascend, Yumi looked up to see Aelita and Dallas standing and watching as she shot past, "try and get Aelita as you go by" said Jeremie, the platform changed axis again and began to move along towards Aelita, Yumi extended her hand and Aelita did the same, Yumi quickly grabbed a hold of Aelita and pulled her on as Dallas jumped on after her, "were are you taking us" asked Aelita, Yumi shrugged her shoulders and replied "I have no idea", then suddenly the platform stopped and the three warriors moved towards the wall adjacent to them, suddenly it opened up to reveal the exterior of Sector 5, they took in the great open area to which formed the centre of Lyoko, Yumi looked down as she took in the area then she noticed a screen "there's an interface" she said, Aelita moved towards it saying "maybe I can get in", she started to access the controls, "incredible" she said, Jeremie quickly looked towards the screen as he said "what", it didn't take long for Aelita to reply "the interface it keeps access to XANA's own data, sector 5 is where XANA lives" said Aelita, then she heard Dallas say "that doesn't look good" they all looked up as they noticed sections of the wall begin to crease and warp out of the smooth texture, "XANA isn't a very good house keeper, there is some weird shit hanging around this place" said Yumi, Aelita was overcome with joy "I've got access to all kinds of data it's crazy" she said, Jeremie was also desperate to seize the opportunity but he knew Odd and Ulrich were a priority "look for a virtualization code for sector 5, if we find it we can rescue Odd and Ulrich" said Jeremie, Aelita quickly looked for the data, suddenly numerous manta ray type creatures began to burst through the walls surrounding sector 5, "Jeremie we're gonna need our vehicles" said Yumi, Jeremie quickly started typing "uh oh, I'm locked out, when Aelita's working, I'm unable to do anything on my end" he replied, the Manta rays moved closer, Dallas drew the sword he looked as it felt weird holding the different weapon, "I think I've found it, I'm transmitting the codes now" said Aelita, Jeremie smiled as he said "Okay I'm taking over now".
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The search party looked at main area of the factory, they took in the area shocked by the fact they had been lead there,
"What would a nice girl like Yumi be doing here" said Delmas as they looked for a way down to the factory floor, whilst back in sector 5 the Manta rays started to circle around the warriors "Jeremie our vehicles" said Yumi, Jeremie quickly typed and said "there on the way", Dallas sheathed his sword as his baton appeared, Yumi and Aelita hopped onto the Over-Wing, Dallas quickly ran off the edge of the platform and expanded his Baton giving him a speed boost as he sped up after Yumi and Aelita, "Jeremie how do we get out of here" asked Yumi as she moved the Over-Wing to the side to avoid a laser blast, "there are some tunnels" said Aelita, Dallas quickly moved up behind the Manta ray, he quickly drew the Musket and aimed as best he could towards the moving target, he pulled the trigger, but smoke exploded from the barrel and sparks shot from the hammer, he looked at the misfired weapon before throwing it away, "tunnels" said Jeremie, Dallas looked up as he moved closer to the manta ray, "Better hurry up Einstein" he shouted as he drew the sword and sliced into the top of the creature causing it to scream, "what if they correspond with the arena" added Jeremie as he began to franticly type "Yippee it works" said Jeremie, suddenly one of the data streams began to cease from Sector 5 and left a tunnel in the wall, "nice one Einstein" said Yumi as she moved towards it with Dallas following closely behind "Lets go" he said as he shot forward, suddenly the remaining Manta rays moved in front of the exit and shot at Yumi, she was struck and thrown from the Over-Wing and devirtualized "Yumi" said Aelita as she quickly took the controls, "Shit" said Dallas as he looked back, he quickly looked forward ready to attack the manta rays, but strangely they didn't attack Aelita even though she was defenceless, Dallas quickly shot forward before the Creatures had any chance to react, "Jeremie we get out through a way tower" said Aelita as she and Dallas exited into the mountain sector, "okay get to a neutral tower and I'll bring you in Aelita" said Jeremie as he devirtualized Dallas, Aelita quickly entered a tower as Jeremie activated the code earth program, Aelita exited the scanner as Dallas grabbed her to stop her falling over, "It's okay Jeremie I'm here, what about the others" she said as the two of them looked at the three remaining scanners, "I'm entering the new code, Materliazation Yumi, Materliazation Odd, Materliazation Ulrich" said Jeremie as he typed franticly, "now all we can do is hope" said Jeremie as he rushed to elevator to join Aelita and Dallas in the scanner room, without even knowing Jeremie and Aelita took each others hands as the scanners opened to reveal the others along with a lot of smoke, "yeah" said Jeremie, Aelita smiled as she added "we did it" Jeremie and Dallas moved over to Odd, Dallas grabbed him as he appeared in a bad shape, "Odd, how do you feel, say something" said Jeremie, Odd duly replied "Something" prompting Dallas to let him go, Yumi looked towards Ulrich and smiled before she tried moving towards him, but she was too faint, "I suggest we get you guys some rest" said Dallas as he grabbed Ulrich and helped him into the elevator.
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Half of them were beat and tired, but all of them stressed the elevator ride seemed to take forever as they ascended to the factory floor, they stopped and as the grate began to open Kiwi snuck underneath when there was a big enough gap, he jumped into Odd's arms,
"Kiwi" said Odd, then they noticed the adults "Yumi what're you doing here" said Her farther, Dallas then noticed Adam standing ready for a fight, "where's my sister" he asked, Ulrich looked at Dallas and nodded "Her heads been reduced to a walnut" he said, Adam was angered by the comment, Dallas, Ulrich, Odd and Aelita rushed from the elevator as Jeremie slammed the button, whilst Takeho and Akiho tried moving for Yumi in the elevator Ulrich took a dive moving them away, Jim managed to get into the elevator as the grate closed, Adam tried throwing a few fists at Dallas, but was knocked out as Dallas jumped and spinned his kick into Adam's chest knocking him out, "tried to outsmart me huh" said Jim as he looked at Jeremie, he quickly grabbed and restrained him, but let go as the door opened to show the computer room, Jim was taken back in awe as he looked at the area, "but what is this place" he said, Jeremie smiled as he walked towards the computer console, "nothing rings a bell Jim, because you've been here before" said Jeremie taking the piss out of Jim, "what are you talking about, I've never been here before, although it does seem familiar" replied Jim, Jeremie smiled as he said, "well yes and no, Return to the past now"…
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Yumi had snuck out to Kadic a few minutes before her parents had awoken; she left a note saying she'd left so as not to worry them, she moved towards the other warriors, Ulrich was slightly angry as Dallas clap, clap hugged snapped with William, the day having been reset Dallas took the opportunity to offer training to him, rather than being asked,
"You okay Yumi" said Odd as she walked over towards them as Dallas joined them, "yeah I'm fine" she said, then she looked at Ulrich "hey umm Ulrich can we…" she started then suddenly the bell rang signifying the beginning of the day, "sorry Yumi, maybe later" said Ulrich as she watched the other warriors run off towards their class.
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Authors note
Well fuck me, that took longer than expected, well I suppose I'd better explain, Burnout which I've suffered from even now is when you have a lack of motivation, topple that with college it's a pain in the arse, also yes the ending was changed, and for once this wasn't me facilitating it, the Yumi segments of a great day literally contradict this entirely, so yeah it was changed and also a happy birthday to gamePyscho11 sorry its about 24 minutes late for the date but cut me some slack this isn't easy.