Authors note
This Chapter is difficult for me to write, as I previously mentioned my Friend passed away after being bullied into suicide, and that has hit me quite hard, me and him were close and after I got the news that he'd passed 5 days after it happened, I'd spent that week hoping he was okay and I woke up one morning and I found out he was dead, I feel like a part of me went with him, and as such I'm finding it difficult to focus, so please don't be too upset if this chapter falls bad in some places I apologise, this chapter as with the original version deals with Odd and Yumi swapping bodies and this is a bad time for this chapter to be written as Jamie, my friend, was transgender and as such I feel like this was poor timing.
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It was late at night in the factory, Jeremie was still sceptical towards Dallas and had requested the others to the factory to work out what the details of what he was,
"Are you sure you want to do this" asked Yumi as she placed her hand on Jeremie's shoulder, he moved and said "We need to work out how this thing works" he said, Dallas rolled his eyes over the past few days Jeremie when out of public would refer to him as it or that thing, "off with the shirt" said Jeremie with his laptop on the table, Dallas pulled off his jacket and then lifted his shirt to reveal an exact duplicate of Dallas's frame down to muscles and scars, Aelita flirting whistled to annoy Jeremie as revenge for Dallas, "Okay so skin duplication is exact down to minor details" said Jeremie as he looked at Dallas's body, "Jealous Jeremie" said William, the others chuckled but Jeremie paid no attention as he covered his eyes, "we need to look underneath the skin" he added, Dallas looked around then Ulrich walked up and extended his blade, "This might hurt" he said, Dallas rolled his eyes saying "I doubt it", Ulrich then cut a hole around Dallas's stomach section and tore it off revealing the endo skeleton, to his surprise there was no blood, "Jesus" said Odd feeling queasy as turned away about to puke, Aelita patted him on the back, Jeremie walked up with a pen and looked at the endo skeleton, "have you consumed anything over the past day" asked Jeremie, Dallas looked down at him, "Just water" he said, Jeremie used the pencil and lifted a small section of skin to look inside, "it appears that the human skeleton and a number of organs have been replaced by the X-800 endo skeleton but the head from previous viewings has human teeth and even a duplicate tongue and eyes" said Jeremie as he walked over and typed it in, "we know the skin grows but we don't have any idea how quickly" said Odd as he looked up, "Better keep your shirt on, if they realise you're not Dallas we could be in trouble" said Jeremie, Dallas looked at him as he reached into his jacket pocket to grab some bandages, he began wrapping them around his mid torso, then they heard a beeping on Jeremie's laptop, "XANA's attacking" said Jeremie as he shut the lid, "you two watch it" said Jeremie as he looked at Ulrich and William.
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Odd, Aelita and Yumi had been virtualized to Lyoko, the other Dallas was escorting them due to a gutted defensive line, most attacks they usually had a 4 man escort, but since Jeremie wasn't trusting Dallas, Ulrich and William had to keep an eye on him, they were sitting in the scanner room, Dallas was throwing a baseball at the wall and catching it, Ulrich and William were watching him from the other side of the room, they had the sawn-off beside them and a deck of cards,
"Any 7s" asked William as he looked at his hand, "Go fish" said Ulrich, William picked up a card from the pile, "Any 9's" asked Ulrich, William tossed him the three 9's he had in his hand, "typical" said William, then they heard Jeremie say "Tower deactivated", Dallas looked towards the scanners and heard the smack of the sawn off chamber as Ulrich held it up and pointed it towards him, he rolled his eyes as he looked away, Ulrich pulled out a coin and said "heads it's Yumi, Tails it's Odd", William looked at him and shook his head, then the scanner opened, Yumi appeared to be standing there, but she looked ill and weak as if something had just drained the energy from her, "Yumi, are you okay?" asked Ulrich then he heard Yumi say "What am I doing over here", they turned around to see Odd standing there, Yumi looked down and said "Christ I thought I was done with this" with Odd's voice, Dallas's eyebrow raised.
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The warriors joined Jeremie in the computer room, Ulrich was still holding the sawn-off at Dallas just in case he made any move, William was standing beside him as an extra precaution, Jeremie loaded up the window and was looking at the damage, the window beeped as it showed a dematerlization failure,
"Well" asked Odd, Jeremie shook his head and pushed his glasses onto his head, "I guess there's a bug in the re materialization program" he replied sheepishly, "You call this a little bug, we can't stay this way" said Yumi angrily then it occurred to them, they all looked at Odd, "Where's the embryo" said Dallas, Jeremie seemingly ignored that he was the one who asked the question as he covered his ears for a second, "Um I feel normal" said Odd, Yumi looked down noticing she felt no different, "I think I know where it is" she said, everyone looked at her, "so the baby is inside Odd" asked William, Jeremie began to panic and typed as quickly as he could, "in the current state of whatever the fuck is happening, we can't afford to move the baby into Yumi's body" said Jeremie as he began to hyperventilate, "well we can't leave it in Odd's body" said Ulrich angry and close to hyperventilation that his child was dying, "What about me" said Aelita everyone turned and looked at her, "is it even possible to move the embryo" asked Dallas, Jeremie once again ignored him directly covering his mouth as if he was stopping himself from shouting at him and responded "I Can try and move it via the scanners but this means I could jeopardise its health, not to say what it'll do to Aelita", the room fell silent but Aelita stepped forward, "If it stays inside a male body it'll die, we have to take the risk, Yumi you made me the god mother and I think it's about time I took that role seriously" she said, Yumi took a deep breath, "Ulrich, Odd stay here with that, Yumi, you Aelita and William, head to the scanners" said Jeremie nervously.
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Jeremie was franticly typing as Dallas was being forced away by Ulrich, Jeremie was sweating as Aelita and Yumi stepped into a scanner each,
"Get ready" said Jeremie, Aelita was slightly nervous as was Yumi "I'm sorry there's no crash course I can give you" said Yumi as the scanners closed, Jeremie took a deep breath and said "begin transfer now" he hit enter, the two bodies were scanned, Odd watched as the Embryo dematerialized from inside his body and was rematerialized inside Aelita's womb, the scanners opened "Did it work" asked Yumi, then she felt weird, similar to how she felt 15 weeks prior, "Aelita are you okay" asked Yumi, Aelita looked at her and said "My hands are tingling", Yumi sighed in relief and shouted "JEREMIE THE BABYS ALIVE", everyone else sighed in relief Ulrich bigger than the rest.
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They returned to the computer room and it was an icy mood, everyone looked at each other, Odd and Yumi were in each other's body, Aelita was carrying Ulrich and Yumi's child, Dallas had been replaced with a cyborg duplicate that no one trusted, Jeremie hated the thought of him, and William was on the outside, the warriors hadn't been this far apart since they all first met,
"So what do we do now" asked Odd as he looked down at Yumi's body feeling uncomfortable, Dallas looked around and stepped forward with the Barrels of the Sawn-off poking into his chest, "right now neither Odd nor Aelita can go back to Kadic, Odd because Yumi no looks pregnant, and because Aelita currently she is pregnant" he said, Ulrich looked up into his eyes and for the first time didn't see the cyborg but a faint trace of his friend, "I hate to admit it, he's right only me, him, William, Jeremie and Yumi can go back" said Ulrich as he lowered the gun and flicking the front forward, Jeremie however shook his head, "I'm going to have to stay here and try and fix this mess" he responded as he carried on typing, "so what's the plan" asked Yumi, everyone fell silent again, "You, Ulrich and William can head back to Kadic, Jim isn't an idiot if he doesn't any of us, he'll get suspicious" said Aelita, but Jeremie was quick to cut in, "William stay here, Ulrich you take that with you I don't want it here" he added with a hint of frustration, Dallas didn't say anything as he walked towards the Elevator, Ulrich and Yumi followed him as the door closed, Jeremie became more relaxed at Dallas's absence.
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Adam dismounted his bike and walked as fast as he could to Evelyn, she was standing on the platform in sector 5, she smiled as she looked at the spherical wall of data,
"you summoned me" he said as she turned around, "We have a problem" she said as she brought up the control screen, "Turns out the Marabounta wasn't the only booby trapped subroutine" said Evelyn as she showed the window showing the corrupted Materlization, "So, shouldn't this be working into our favour" he asked, Evelyn shook her head, "If it wasn't Yumi, then yes, XANA is concerned with the timeline remember as you seem to talk so much about it" she replied as she began to work at the screen, "So all we need to do is repair it and send them the info" said Adam, then suddenly they heard "-.- - ..- / ..-. - - .-.. -..- / .- . / -.-. .- -. / ..- ... . / - ... .. ... / - - / ... . - / .- / - .-. .- .-.", Adam looked up and asked "what do you have in mind", he was answered with ".-. . .-. .- .. .-. / - ... . / ... ..- -... / .-. - ..- - .. -. . -..- / .- . .-. .-.. .-.. / ..- ... . / .. - / .- ... / .- / -.. . -.-. - -.—".
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William appeared in his flash of black smog with a bag full of food and with a drink holder with a three soft drinks and one coffee for Jeremie,
"Is there anyone I can give the receipt to claim as a business expense" said William jokingly, only Aelita and Odd found it funny, "Hope mine doesn't taste of engine grease" she said as she took a bit out of a chicken nugget, William handed Jeremie the Coffee, "thanks" he replied as he stopped typing and pulled his glasses off his face to rub his eyes, "You know you're being hard on him" said Aelita as she stood up and walked to Jeremie, "I meant the thank you" said Jeremie confused as he took a gulp of the Coffee, "I mean Dallas" said Aelita, Jeremie looked away from her, "As far as I'm concerned he isn't my best friend" said Jeremie, leaving Aelita to shake her head as she carried on eating, "God being pregnant makes you hungry" said Aelita as she sat down next to Odd and William, "yeah you try having breasts that feel sore and swollen" said Odd as he felt uncomfortable "I'm sure I'll feel it sooner or later" said Aelita trying to make him feel better, William took a gulp of his drink, "Is this just an average day for you guys" he asked, Odd shook Yumi's head and said "surprisingly this is one of the lighter days".
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Ulrich and Yumi were sitting outside the cafeteria, Dallas had returned to his room so as he wouldn't get any more hassle from anyone, Ulrich was again flipping a coin, mainly to try and keep his mind sane after the strangeness that had been that day
"How do you feel" asked Ulrich, Yumi looked up at him and frowned, "It feels weird, it doesn't feel any different being Odd" said Yumi, Ulrich found it weird he loved this woman, but he was having to look at Odd, "word of advice…" Started Ulrich but Yumi hugged him and said "I love you" but as she as Odd Kissed him, he had the most shocked expression possible, then there was a flash "The scoop of the year and I got it" said Tamiya as she had a picture of Odd kissing a shocked Ulrich "What no Tamiya" said Ulrich as he stood up, but all they heard was her saying "Odd Loves Ulrich" on repeat as she skipped away, "Shit" said Yumi.
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On Lyoko Dallas was speeding through the desert sector on the Over-Rider, the speed was kicking up the sand below the engines, he noticed Adam's Bike, he slowed down and pulled over, pulling up near towards it, he walked slowly towards the bike and grabbed the crowbar from his holster, he looked at the bike suddenly Adam burst from within the sand, pointing his musket at him,
"Stay there shit head" said Adam, Dallas rolled his eyes and raised his hands, "drop the crowbar" said Adam, he then reached forward and grabbed the Sawn-off from the holster, "I know you're only one half of the bastard, but I could get used to this" he added as Dallas stood there silently, "I suppose the other half has all the wit, what does that leave you" said Adam mockingly as he kicked Dallas in the left leg, as he fell down grabbing is leg, but unbeknownst to Adam, Dallas had a trick up his sleeve, or rather down his boot, he pulled a small knife and turned stabbing Adam in the leg, he fell over with Dallas pinning him down holding the knife to his throat whilst using his leg to hold down his shoulder, "you fuck" said Adam as his leg twitched Dallas was about to slice his throat, but Adam screamed "WAIT, WAIT I CAME HERE TO TALK", Dallas stopped in motion, Adam let out a sigh of relief, but stopped as Dallas grabbed his collar and held him close, "Talk" he said, Adam looked at the anger in his eyes and realise what this side was, "XANA had nothing to do with what happened with Odd and Yumi" said Adam, Dallas looked up and huffed saying "Crap" he was about to slice Adam's throat, "WAIT YOU FERAL IDIOT" shouted Adam, Dallas looked into his eyes, "If you devirtulize me XANA will stop the repairing of the Materlization code, it'll be finished tomorrow, tell that to you masters" said Adam, Dallas let go of him and grabbed his weapons, "they can get the Data from sector 5 tomorrow morning" said Adam as he grabbed his injured leg, but Dallas didn't respond as he rode off.
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The sun set and after a long day of trying to explain that Odd wasn't in love with Ulrich, he and Yumi returned to Ulrich's room, she was nervous as she looked at him getting changed,
"Come on you've seen me naked" said Ulrich chuckling slightly, but Yumi was still nervous, "yeah but have you seen Odd Naked" she asked, Ulrich shook his head, he was lying, Odd occasionally slept naked a sight he never liked, "can you turn around" said Yumi as she raised Odd's shirt, Kiwi was growling slightly so Ulrich grabbed him which calmed him down, Yumi took off Odd's shoes when suddenly she got a nose full of a foul smell, "fucking hell that's gross" she said as she put his shoe back on, "I tried warning you" said Ulrich as he laughed at her discomfort then stopped as he was hit by a massive whiff of the smell himself.
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Jeremie was half asleep but was still determined to work out what had gone wrong with the scanners, Aelita wasn't sleeping very well, he back was hurting and was starting to feel the effects of the pregnancy, Odd was shaking Yumi's head as he smiled at her minor irritation, suddenly in a flash of smog William appeared with a mattress folded up in his hand,
"Jesus Christ" said Odd as he moved back shocked "What Aelita needs something to sleep on" said William as he placed the Mattress down for her, "you need to lay off the…" started Aelita as she laid down, "Super-smoke" he asked finishing her question, "Is that what you call it" asked Jeremie rolling his eyes, he never understood why everyone named what they could, "It will damage your health if you carry on limit the jumps" said Jeremie as he looked back at them, suddenly Dallas's window opened up, "I'm busy I haven't got time to…" started Jeremie but Dallas raised his hand to signal for Jeremie to stop, "According to one of XANA's agents, XANA isn't responsible for what's happened" said Dallas, everyone else stood up looking towards the screen, "What" asked Odd, Dallas's eyes darted towards his direction hearing Odd's voice made him raise an eyebrow, "Apparently XANA's repairing the code as we speak" added Dallas, Jeremie shook his head and turned his chair so he could face the others as well, "It seems like a trap" said William, the others looked down knowing that this was more than likely the case, suddenly Odd felt weird, he looked down as he felt weird they all panicked as Yumi's arms began to lose quality as if a TV was losing signal, "What the fuck" said William as he backed away, "Jeremie" said Odd as Yumi's hands returned to normal, then the phone window opened on the screen, "Jeremie we got a problem, Odd's… uh Yumi's hands just began to" started Ulrich, but Jeremie turned and cut him off "Yeah we know the same thing just happened to Odd" he replied, Jeremie looked down before looking up as William said "We may have to venture into the lion's den".
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Although it was a 5 to 1 vote Dallas at Ulrich's suggestion sat watching Yumi for the night keeping an eye out in case she exhibited any more fluctuations, he didn't have any weapon on him, his point in being there was almost pointless as Ulrich couldn't sleep knowing that he was watching her, he trusted Dallas but was still worried in case he was wrong, he turned over and looked at Yumi, he still found it weird that it was her in Odd's body,
"If you're gonna be awake all night I should go" said Dallas not even looking towards him, Ulrich looked at the cyborg, "How do you do it" he asked, Dallas turned his head and looked towards him, "do what?" he countered, Ulrich sat up and shook his head, "it's clear no one trusts you because you're not him, you're a fake" said Ulrich, Dallas said nothing, "you look like him and you act like him, but beneath that skin you're something that tried killing me and probably succeeded in doing so to him" added Ulrich, Dallas looked down, it was getting to him knowing that his friends were talking about him referring to him as both someone they missed but hated what he currently was, Ulrich shook his head not getting an answer and laid back down trying to get some sleep.
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The morning came and despite them having lessons only Dallas remained behind he tried persuading Ulrich to as well, but he was only concerned with Yumi's safety, the two exited the elevator and joined the others
"That thing with you" asked Jeremie, Ulrich shook his head as they all looked at each other, "Now that you're here its best we filled you two in" said Aelita, Dallas appeared on the window, "According to Adam, XANA isn't responsible for the scanner foul up" said Jeremie as he rubbed his glasses, "So what does that mean" asked Yumi as she stepped forward, "from what Adam has said, it means XANA has repaired the code, all we have to do to is collect it" said Jeremie, Ulrich rolled his eyes and in said "what doesn't he deliver", they looked at each other, "what's the plan then" asked William, Jeremie looked at them, "I say we rendezvous with Dallas and get the code from Sector 5" said William, Jeremie turned around and began typing, "either Ulrich or William stay here, just in case that thing shows up" Said Jeremie, Ulrich looked at William and said, "you stay here, I got a personal stake in this", William nodded and smiled "Can't argue with that logic" he said as he moved towards Jeremie, Yumi smiled knowing that's how much he loved him, "Head to the scanners, Dallas meet them on the edge of the ice sector" said Jeremie as he turned around and began typing closing Dallas's window.
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"Okay guys I'm sending you to the ice sector, Ulrich I'm sorry but the pressures on, you're the only one who can be devirtulized" said Jeremie, Ulrich looked up worried at the news, "shit" he said under his breath, Jeremie selected their ID cards, "Scanner Aelita, Scanner Ulrich, Scanner Odd, or would that be Yumi?" said Jeremie starting to stumble over his words William folded his arms and shook his head, "Transfer Aelita, Transfer Ulrich, Transfer Yumi or is that Odd" said Jeremie again stumbling causing William to laugh, "Virtualization" said Jeremie, on Lyoko the blue squared outlines of the four appeared and gained detail before dropping to the ground, Dallas was sitting against the Over-Rider, "Great we're still stuck" said Yumi as she looked down at Odd's avatar, "let's go" said Ulrich, Jeremie typed and the vehicles appeared, "Aelita ride with Dallas" said Odd as he wobbled towards the Over-Wing, Dallas sat down as Aelita sat behind him she placed her arms around him prompting him to look down for a second, "Let's go" said Yumi as she sat down on the Over-Board, Ulrich led the convoy, with Yumi and Odd in the middle with Dallas and Aelita behind them, Jeremie moved away from the screen he rubbed his head and looked at William, "You think they're gonna be okay" he asked, Jeremie looked down for a second, "If I know Ulrich and Dallas, when they're working together they can be deadly as all hell" he replied, William noticed how Jeremie was upset when he mentioned Dallas, "you still blame yourself don't you" asked William as he folded his arms, "I turned this machine on, I cursed him, I sent him to Lyoko and I nearly killed him, now we've got two of him, one on Lyoko and that machine abomination I have living in my room" said Jeremie, William shook his head, "You don't hate it because it's a possible weapon XANA, at least not entirely, you hate it because you created it, Dallas is back on Earth represented by that machine, and you hate yourself because you feel responsible for his condition, and you're projecting that onto him" said William, Jeremie looked at him knowing that it was true and would be bad to deny it, "how do you know" asked Jeremie, William smiled and said "I had this great uncle Sidney, he was a Psychiatrist in a war, I learned a few tricks from him growing up", Jeremie smiled knowing that someone understood him.
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The warriors arrived at the edge of the sector, they all moved off their vehicles with Aelita helping Odd as he was still uneasy in the high heels, Yumi couldn't help but laugh at him,
"How do you manage this" he asked struggling, Yumi shrugged his shoulders and said "I have no bloody clue", Jeremie shook his head and began typing, "Okay guys, I'm calling your taxi" said Jeremie, he quickly typed in SCIPIO, the transport arrived, suddenly a Mega Tank appeared, Dallas turned and drew his shot gun pulling the trigger, but instead of firing there was a spark, Ulrich Drew His Katanna but was struck by the Mega Tanks shot and was devirtulized, "ULRICH" screamed Yumi as the four were engulfed by the sphere, Ulrich appeared in his scanner and collapsed "shit" he said to himself, whilst in the computer room William moved towards the ladder, "Jeremie you better send me" he said, but Jeremie stopped him, "there's no time" he said with worry, Ulrich climbed the ladder and coughed at the top, William grabbed him and helped him up, "Thanks" he said, whilst on Lyoko the sphere arrived in the centre of Sector 5, the sphere opened and instead of Yumi falling over feeling ill it was Aelita, "how do you manage that" she asked, Dallas flipped forward the shot gun and pulled out the spent shell flicking it out, he reached into his jacket and replaced it, "How do you know that one's not a dud" asked Odd, Dallas looked at him and didn't say anything as he holstered the weapon, "get ready guys the walls about to open" said Jeremie, Dallas grabbed his crowbar and moved towards the others, "Hollosphere activated" said Jeremie, suddenly the wall opened and the warriors rushed out of the opening room, onto the bridge section, Dallas stood at the front as the wall began to open up, he switched the crossbow into the over hand and drew his sawn-off, the wall finished opening leaving the next corridor a spiralled mess of angled floors, the four quickly traversed across them being careful not to slip, "guys the countdown has started, be careful of the Scyphozoa" said Jeremie, the room had large with a massive drop of at least 15 stories the only floor was a single bridge, they rushed across it as quickly as possible, unbeknownst to them a creeper was following them from below the bridge, it quickly turned onto the top path, the warriors dropped down from the bridge onto another platform and carried on along the new path, more creepers appeared but again they were ignorant, they exited the room via a small door, but the next room was worse than the last, the path came to a sudden end, the room was empty with a massive drop with the next platform either at the end of a 20 foot drop or the other side of the room, "Jeremie we got a problem here" said Aelita as she backed away from the edge, "XANA's a lazy architect, he forgot to put in a bridge" said Yumi, then they looked around and Dallas noticed the key and pointed at it clicking his fingers, "the key" said Odd, Yumi rolled her eyes and said "great anyone know how to fly", suddenly they heard the slimy movements of the creepers from behind, Dallas turned and placing the sawn-off to its head he pulled the trigger, it exploded leaving only the metal tail left to fade into nothing, "Well looks like the one half of him is just as unstable" said Adam laughing atop of a balcony overlooking them, he turned and looked at Evelyn "shall we have some fun sister" he asked, she smiled and drew her musket pulling the trigger down at them just missing Yumi's foot, "That was close" said Odd as he backed away, he moved again as another Creeper walked through the doorway, Dallas turned and pulled the trigger again, but there was a spark, once again his bullet was a dud, "Of course, he's a glitch" said Jeremie, Dallas looked up as the creeper fired and struck Odd, he was knocked off of the platform and instead of falling to his death, he floated, "Odd" said Yumi as she turned around raising his Arm and saying "Laser Arrow" and striking the creature, everyone looked at Odd as he swam like a fish in the air, "XANA's modified the gravity in this room" said Jeremie as he and William were stunned at what was occurring, then there was another shot from a musket, Dallas looked up to see Adam reloading, "GO" he said as he began climbing up the wall, Odd moved back towards the platform, he then kicked off it in a back stroke motion, "the keys guys" said William loudly into the mike, "Behind you" said Odd as he noticed that whilst Yumi and Aelita were preoccupied with watching him a Creeper had snuck up on them, it growled but Yumi turned around and fired a laser arrow at it destroying it, she grabbed Odd's shoulder she wasn't used to the kick back, "Odd move it, we're coming to the end of the countdown" said Jeremie, Ulrich was becoming more and more nervous, but Odd found himself not moving despite making a breast stroke movement, "Shit, I didn't get enough momentum" he said, Yumi shook Odd's head, "what're you doing" she asked, Odd turned around about to speak but Another creeper had snuck up, Yumi turned and fired another laser arrow the creature exploded, Adam and Evelyn laughed at the mess, Yumi had an idea, "Odd how many life points do you have left" she asked, Jeremie quickly typed and looked at his life card, "He's got 90" said Jeremie, William and Ulrich looked at each other, Yumi then fired a Laser arrow at Odd knocking him forward, he quickly pressed the button and as it moved into the wall the wall at the far end of the room opened up revealing passage way, "wait a minute, where's the feral beast" asked Evelyn, but she got her answer as Dallas dropped down behind her and attacked her and Adam, he whacked the crowbar into her leg, but Adam turned and kicked him smacking his foot into the side of his head knocking him down, "so you're not his acrobatic side" said Adam, Dallas looked up and tackled him to the ground, he began to punch him in the face, Evelyn grabbed him and threw him back punching him in the left eye, Odd kicked off the wall and arrived at the exit of the room, "LOOK OUT" he shouted, Yumi grabbed Aelita and fired off with the laser arrow the Scyphozoa was hit several time whilst the numerous arrows propelled the two forwards into the room, it flinched as it moved away but didn't leave, suddenly Adam fired his musket and fired at Yumi, she was propelled away Aelita leaving he stranded floating in the middle of the room, "Aelita no" said Yumi, Odd looked at himself as he and Yumi began to fade out again, "oh shit, not now" said Odd, the Scyphozoa moved towards Aelita, the creature wrapped its tentacles around Aelita and began draining her memory, "AELITA" screamed Jeremie, Adam and Evelyn watched from the Balcony and were laughing, Odd threw one of Yumi's fan but it only managed to slice through on of the tentacles, it was still draining the her memory, Dallas was on the balcony, his eye was swollen shut, and he had his arm over his side, virtual blood was trickling down his head, he grabbed his shot gun and flipped it forward expelling the spent shells, he reached into his pouch and pulled out his last shell, he inserted it and shut the barrel, he aimed it towards Adam, then he heard William shouting "guys do something", Dallas stood up and charged forward pushing Adam and Evelyn off the Balcony, Odd and Yumi watched as the three fell, Dallas pointed the sawn off forward and as they drew level with the Scyphozoa he pulled the trigger, instead of sparking as the previous shell had down, the bullet raced from the barrel, it punctured the dome of the Scyphozoa before exploding out the other side, the creature screamed as its tentacles let go of Aelita and began to move around wildly, "Great going Dallas" said Jeremie showing more appreciation for this Dallas than the one they had, "You okay Aelita" asked Yumi, Aelita smiled scared as she watched the creature descending screaming, she noticed that Dallas was floating looking exhausted, whilst Adam and Evelyn fell along with the Scyphozoa, he gave a thumbs up as he cracked a small smile, suddenly Odd did a run up and jumped propelling himself towards Aelita, he didn't get very far before Yumi moved behind him and kicked him further towards Aelita, he passed her before kicking her towards Yumi before kicking her into the exit, "here I go" said Aelita as she rushed towards the moving platform, "Jeremie every time we lose sync it gets longer and longer" said Yumi, Jeremie shook his head and began typing, "Aelita better be fast" said Jeremie, whilst Aelita exited as the moving platform whooshed past, she timed it before jumping onto it, "Aelita what's going on" asked Jeremie as he was struggling to keep a lock on her signal, "its fine Jeremie I'm nearly there" said Aelita as the platform stopped and the wall opened and she ran out onto the exterior of sector 5, the screen appeared and she began to move the required information, "Quick transfer the data, and don't hang around too long" said Jeremie as he tugged at his collar.
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Yumi moved towards Dallas as he appeared to be passed out,
"Yumi what're you doing" asked Odd as he felt weird from the constant moving in the low gravity, "He's still one of us" said Yumi as she grabbed Dallas, "Hurry Aelita" they heard Jeremie say, "He's not…" said Dallas as he was barely able to speak, Yumi quickly kicked off from the wall and pulled him towards the exit, "shh, it's over" said Yumi, Odd caught up to her and said "stop mothering him", Yumi rolled his eyes at him, "He's me… don't forget that" said Dallas as he cracked a smile before struggling to get up, Yumi looked at him as he limped towards the elevator, she realised what he meant, suddenly she and Odd began to DE sync again, "Jeremie" said Odd, Jeremie quickly typed "Aelita it's getting messy" he said, suddenly the two disappeared for a second before reappearing, "that's it done Jeremie" she said, but suddenly Odd and Yumi disappeared, and failed to reappear, "I hope it's not too late" said Jeremie, he quickly typed and said "I'm sending you the Over-Bike", but Dallas grabbed Aelita's shoulder, "If it's all the same to you I want to be the one to get her out of here" said Dallas, Aelita looked at his beaten up complexion, "Dallas you couldn't drive a wheelchair" said William looking at his stats, then suddenly the wall began to crackle, "Mantas" said Ulrich as he looked at the radar, Dallas extended the Baton and slowly mounted it, "get on" he said, Aelita quickly mounted the Over-Rider, the Manta's burst through the wall, "Jeremie we need an exit" said Aelita, suddenly the Manta's began firing, Dallas flicked a switch and instead of shooting forward the vehicle dropped and gained speed as he pulled up with Aelita screaming, "Okay I've got there signals, but its deteriorating" said Jeremie as he opened the passage way, Dallas and Aelita quickly flew through.
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Ulrich rushed down into the scanner room as William followed him, the first scanner opened and Aelita rushed out holding her still pregnant belly,
"You okay" asked William as he grabbed her, she smiled, "Here goes nothing" said Jeremie as he hit enter, Ulrich turned towards the scanners, suddenly they opened and Odd and Yumi fell out both having passed out, William grabbed Odd whilst Ulrich grabbed Yumi, he rubbed her face, "Yumi… Yumi" he said as he rubbed her hair away, she looked up and smiled at him, "Ulrich" she said as she hugged him, "JEREMIE THEY'RE OKAY" shouted Aelita, Jeremie sank in his seat and sighed in relief as Dallas appeared on the screen "they made it" he said, Dallas cracked a small smile, then they heard Aelita shout "I THINK WE NEED TO PUT THE BABY BACK", then it occurred to everyone, "I'M STARTING THE PROGRAM" shouted Jeremie, Yumi stood up slowly and hugged Aelita, "thank you for carrying our child" said Yumi, Aelita returned the hug as Ulrich joined in, William and Odd looked at each other and hugged each other for no reason.
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Having everything returned to normal the warriors returned to school, William grabbed a coin from his pocket and inserted it into the vending machine,
"It's never a dull day with you guys" he said with a chuckle, "You sure you're not scared" asked Odd, then they heard Millie and Tamiya, "Special newspaper" said Millie loudly, suddenly a shiver ran down Yumi's and Ulrich's spine, Dallas looked at them weirdly, Odd grabbed the newspaper and then looked at the front page as he saw the photo showing him kissing Ulrich, "YUMI" shouted Odd as he made sure Millie and Tamiya were out of sight, Ulrich quickly grabbed the back of Yumi's neck and disappeared leaving the others laughing except Dallas as he noticed something that the others hadn't.
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Authors Note
Well I'm sorry that this took so long to write, as previously mentioned my friend took his life and I'm blaming myself for not being able to save him, this chapter is far from my best work, I don't like it, I would try and polish it, but I just want to be done with the chapter and never have to look back at it, because I just want to be alone with my ideas the next chapter will be an original one, I hope you enjoyed this fucking mess of a chapter.
For Jamie.