AN: Sorry it took so long. I got few reviews and started to lose interest. The next chapter will be typed and up soon, I promise, as long as you give me reviews and advice. I am trying to do a Jeremy/Aelita pairing too.

"Whatever X.A.N.A. used to hurt Yumi must be what's draining life points from her now," Ulrick guess as he slammed his blade into the last block. Odd destroyed another hornet, leaving one hovering above them.
"I've got this one," Yumi said through clenched teeth. As she drew her arm back to throw her fan, she flinched as a fresh wave of pain struck her and caused her to miss her target. The hornet took the opportunity to fire a laser at Yumi, striking her left arm and taking away 10 life points.
"Yumi!" Ulrick cried as he lunged forward and stabbed the hornet.
"Careful, Yumi," Jeremy cautioned, "You only have 80 life points left. I'm going to try to calculate the rate at which you're losing life points so we can figure out how long we have."
"The tower is this way," Aelita said, running ahead. The rest of the group ran behind her with Yumi doing her best to stay with the group. Ulrick slowed down enough to run beside Yumi and he noticed she didn't look as though she was hurting as badly.
"Is X.A.N.A. giving you another break?" he asked her quietly. Yumi nodded and tried to pick up the pace.
"For the moment anyway," she replied.
"Yumi, you've lost another five life points," Jeremy announced, "If I start up the new program to give you 50 more life points, you should have 25 minutes to find the tower as long as you don't get hit." (That's 5 life points a minute and 1 life point every 12 seconds)
"Good," Yumi said, "That should be plenty of time."
"O, I've loaded the program and you all now have 50 more life points," Jeremy announced, "Odd, that means you have 130. Ulrick, you have 120, and Yumi has 125."
As the team ran on, Yumi was struck by another bout of pain. This time X.A.N.A. focused most of the assault on her head. The suddenness of it made her stumble.
"Are you ok?" Ulrick asked, slowing down to help her.
"The-pain-should-let-up-in-a-minute," Yumi gasped, stopping and holding her head, "Go-ahead-with-Odd-and-Aelita; I'll-catch-up."
"Are you sure?" Ulrick asked worriedly.
"Just-go," Yumi replied.
Obeying her wishes, Ulrick sprinted ahead, glancing back once as he caught up to the others.
"You've lost five more life points," Jeremy said.
"Ok," Yumi replied, "Is there any way you can cancel out X.A.N.A.'s affects on me?"
"I don't know," Jeremy admitted, "but I'll try."
"Thanks," Yumi said, standing up as the pain began to dull. She took a deep breath to steady her now shaking body and began to run after the rest of the group.
"Maybe you should just leave this to Odd and Ulrick," Jeremy suggested.
"Would you give up if Aelita was in danger?" Yumi asked.
"Of course not," Jeremy replied, "but that's different."
"How is it different?"
"Because - uh..."
"I love Ulrick and you love Aelita. That's why we won't give up."