Code Lyoko: Burning desire

Ulrich woke up in his dorm, it was time for class. He headed into Ms. Hertz's class and sat down. The topic was on math which he was not very good at. He didn't care for the lesson. As he slumped into his chair, he thought back to last night.

"Well Ulrich, you're 21, that means you can drink with the rest of society"

Ulrich corrected her

"Yumi, the age in France is 18, in the United States, it's 21"

"My bad, 18 heh" said Yumi with a laugh

Ulrich left the classroom and went to the factory. The others were waiting.

"Let me guess, another beer dare?" asked Ulrich. He looked at Jeremy for confirmation.

Jeremy nodded and poured a red substance into a cup. It looked like fire and had the picture of a devil on it.

"Bottoms up," said Jeremy. Ulrich reached for the beer glass, but Yumi swiped it from him with a playful smile. "You know the rules babe, you get nothing to sooth the pain, you need to last 45 seconds ". Ulrich looked at the red liquid, pondered the thought in his head and knocked it back. At first things were fine, then his vision became blurred. As he looked around, he noticed that the light hurt his eyes. Eventually Ulrich found that he could hear his own heartbeat and he had a sense of impending doom. Then the burning started but it wasn't a normal burn, no. it was like Satan had French kissed him in the middle of the night. His throat hurt and his head began pounding. He looked at his hands in horror, they were melting. Bits of flesh fell to the floor as he let out a pained scream. He turned to the group, blood dripping from his stumps.

"Help me" he gasped, before collapsing in a pool of blood. Yumi shot a death glare at Jeremy.

"For your sake he better be alright!" she seethed.

Ulrich groaned and got up. Yumi's jaw dropped. He was healed, but that was impossible. The blood was right there and yet not a scratch was on him.

"Does it still hurt?" she asked him. Ulrich couldn't speak, his mouth was dry.

Yumi took a step towards him, a look of worry creasing across her forehead, Ulrich gagged from the pain and reached for anything that would stop the burn.

"3.2.1, ok he can drink now" said Jeremy as Aelita and Yumi glared at him. Ulrich sprang for the cans of beer, heedless of the damage to his liver. The burn was leaving a trail of pain in his stomach. Ulrich felt a knot in his belly and vomited a stream of blood, falling to his knees from the pain.

"IT HURTS! HAND ME A BEER! IT BURNS!" he yelled.

Yumi gave him a beer.

Ulrich downed the can, then another and another. Now too drunk to move, he stumbled into the elevator wasted. As luck would have it, that's when XANA attacked.

"Scanner Yumi. Scanner Aelita, Scanner Odd"

Ulrich had to be dragged into the scanner by Jeremy, leaving a blood trail.

"Scanner Ulrich, Virtualization"

All four of them landed on their feet. Jeremy opened his bag and procured a bottle of bleach. He got to work.

"Feel any better Ulrich?" asked Yumi. Ulrich didn't move, he just stared into space.

"Jeremy, what did you do? Ulrich is completely out of it!"

Ulrich began to glow a bright red and fire burst from his fingers.

Odd noticed it first. Ulrich's eyes were blood red from the pain.

"Ulrich?" asked Odd

Ulrich smiled and turned around. Odd saw the fireball in his hands.

"YUMI LOOK OU-"

The scanner opened, Jeremy asked what happened. A punch sent him flying

"You stupid Motherfu-"

She didn't get the chance to finish. Odd came out next and proceeded to lay into Jeremy, hurling him against the wall. His face was bright red.

"What was in that? One moment he's fine, the next he's slinging fire at both me and Yumi. Care to explain Einstein?"

Jeremy did a quick search. The entire time, Yumi had to be held back by a worried Odd. Aelita walked out of the scanner. She locked eyes with Jeremy.

"It was a Pran-" Jeremy began to say but Aelita sent him flying as His body gave out from the pain. She sat down and looked up the drink.

"It's called Devil's kiss. Somehow the Vigor ended up on earth. The only way to get it out is to get help from a "Little Sister".

An avid Gamer, Odd protested at the fact, having been among the first to get a copy of Bioshock.

"Have you played Bioshock? Do you know what happens to people? She takes the needle and sucks it out. Right before that, this metal behemoth kills you. Under no circumstances are we to- guys?"

The others stared as a woman and a man stepped out of a portal

"Elizabeth, this isn't Paris, this is...where are we?"

The group introduced themselves.

"i'm Aelita, this is Odd and the withered mass over there is Jeremy."

"Ulrich has been infected with something called Devil's kiss, can you remove it?"

Elizabeth smiled and opened another tear. A little sister popped out.

"May I borrow your needle?"

The little sister nodded, and Elizabeth jammed it into Ulrich's stomach.

"SONOFABI-" yelled Ulrich before passing out.

Elizabeth extracted the plasmid and gave it to the little sister. The girl drank the resultant concoction, screamed as she lit on fire than exploded into a pile of ash.

"oops" Elizabeth said.

Booker and his daughter left, leaving the group clueless.

Ulrich woke up in the infirmary.

"Oh, my head" he moaned.

He went back to the factory with a drink of his own. Jeremy took a sip and bolted as fast as he could for the men's restroom. He came back fifty pounds underweight. The toilets were smashed to pieces with bits of cubicle everywhere. Yumi laughed and informed the now livid Jeremy. Elizabeth had slipped Bucking Bronco into Jeremy's drink. Ulrich had simply added a laxative. It didn't activate until after Jeremy sat down. The rumbling started faint, then grew loud enough to be heard three blocks away.

"What in god's name?" exclaimed Delmas.

"EARTHQUAKE!" yelled Jim, ducking under the desk.

Meanwhile Jeremy was holding onto the toilet for dear life. It was rocking back and forth violently in time with his bowel movements. The students on either side of him were smashed into paste before they could pull up their pants and leave. Finally, the rocking stopped, and Jeremy got up.

He opened the door and was immediately given eight hours of detention. It was going to be ten, but Delmas deducted two hours out of fear for the library restrooms. He ordered the toilets be rebuilt using Solid steel. No one was to use them during the rebuilding. A lottery would be implemented from now on. Elizabeth reappeared and left a bunch of Mithril on the ground. There were no more accidents as Mithril is as strong as a modern-day tank.

To pay for the destroyed property, Jeremy was forced to do 100 hours of community service. The devilish Vigor wasn't done with him yet and it activated yet again one day in Woodworking class. The teacher was holding a chainsaw to give a demonstration when Jeremy farted by accident. The chainsaw cut a perfect line across the students.

"We're down to fifty students. Apparently, there was an accident in Mr. Jones's class. Some sort of earthquake?"

Delmas immediately expelled Jeremy, reinforced the school with a mithril shield and drove Jeremy as far as possible.

"Sorry to do this my boy but we can't take any chances. This school must maintain its pride"

Delmas knocked out Jeremy and drove off. Jeremy accidentally burped and Delmas's car was destroyed in a rockslide,

Dragging his beaten carcass back to class, he was tied down and buried under ten tons of concrete by an enraged Aelita. There were no more accidents from that day forward.