Mind over Matter
Chapter 5: Finally talking.
By: Raven612

Yumi sat in the park on a wooden bench swinging her legs mindlessly.
"Hey," A familiar voice called, "What's up?" Ulrich asked walking up and sitting next to her.
"Um, Ulrich what are you doing here?" She asked turning cold.
"I was just passing by and saw you here alone so I decided to say hi." He said rubbing his foot in the dirt.
"Why aren't you with Sissy?" Yumi asked coolly.
"I well I uh, she I guess we really don't see eye to eye." He tried to smile.
"Ulrich how come you don't try and help Od, Jeremy, and I stop Xana?" She asked.
"Because I see nothing wrong." He said coolly with a smile.
"Ulrich you were with Sissy you kissed her and you're asking me what's wrong." She screamed at him standing now.
"What's wrong with me asking you I was just curious if you've found the activated tower yet?" He said dryly.
"How would you know we've even been searching you've been with Sissy." She seethed.
"I can't help it she's just so amazing." He breathed leaning back into his hands.
"Look Ulrich I'm sorry I know you can't control yourself right now we think its Xana." Yumi said sitting down again next to him.
"What are you talking about I'm fine I just chose not to be with you guys anymore." He said.
"Well then fine I choose to end this conversation and I don't care if it's Xana there's still a part of you in there and he's feeding off of that, may be there is a part of you that wants Sissy and a part that loathes Od, Jeremy, and I." Yumi said her eyes filling with tears.
"Maybe and if it is Xana well then I'm glad you found out about the other parts of me." He hissed in her face.
"Ulrich, when we do find the tower I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive you for that." She said sadly crying freely now.
"You know what you are," He asked turning to her, "you're an annoying little girl that has to be the center of attention and you need to act like the big brain of everything and try to make it look like your cool calm and collected but your not you just an insecure little twit." He spat in her face.
"Is that what you really think or is that Xana?" Yumi asked through her tears.
"You figure it out." He snapped and stacked away.
She turned and ran home her tears fogging her vision, she vowed there and then to put all of her effort into finding the tower and fast before Xana decides to do something. She ran further and cried harder she tripped three times on her way home. She pulled her door open and ran up the stairs. She almost stepped on Lightning who was now starting to gain strength and walk around a little.
"Lightning," She sniffed rubbing her nose on her sleeve and looking down a smile forming on her face.
He answered her with a happy mew.
"I'm glad you have enough strength to walk around now." She scooped him up and walked over to her bed but when she bent her knee she hissed in pain and tears of pain clouded her vision. "Great," she breathed looking down and finding she had ripped her jeans and blood was running down her leg. She set Lightning on the floor and went to her bathroom. Her forehead was scratched and a little bloody and her elbows were scraped and her knee had a deep gash the stung and wouldn't stop bleeding.
She mended herself as well as she could and went to call Jeremy.
"Hello, Jeremy can we go to the factory I really want to find the tower and fast I miss Ulrich." She sighed.
"Yumi it's late," He sighed into the phone.
"I don't care it's a weekend and we need to do this fast I have a feeling that Monday will be when Xana launches his attack." She said hastily as she lay on her floor lazily pulling a string for Lightning to chase.
"I'll call Od and meet you up there." He sighed admitting to defeat.
They all met on the front lawn of the factory.
"How far have you got on your program?" Od asked yawning.
"I'm about half way through it." Jeremy answered scratching the back of his neck.
"Well hopefully tonight you finish it I'm sick of Ulrich hanging on Sissy." Od said making a disgusted face.
"You can say that again." Jeremy answered as they entered the old abandoned factory and went into the elevator.
"Just hurry please." Yumi pleaded but stopped dead in her tracks as she watched Ulrich tearing apart Jeremy's main computer.
"Ulrich stop that!" Yumi and the rest screamed running at him.
"Get off of me." He roared shoving them all away as he turned to the computer just as Aelita appeared.
"Oh hello Ulrich, where's Jeremy?" She asked looking around.
"Oh he's around, but he won't be able to save you or Lyoko from me anymore princess." He said rising the heavy metal club, Yumi say her chance and took it if anything were more important than her own life it was the world, Lyoko, and her friends. She flew in front of the computer and felt the cold metal hit her forcefully on the head. She rolled away just as darkness enclosed her.
"Yumi," Od screamed running towards her.
"Aelita," Jeremy screamed running towards his computer.
"Jeremy Yumi's hurt bad and all you care about is the computer?" Od asked looking up and smoothing back her hair and pulled his hand back as it struck something sticky, he looked at it and it was full of blood.
"Grab Ulrich," Jeremy instructed noticing the totally insane look in his eyes and the small twitching smile he wore.
"I have an idea, I'll bring Yumi to the school and get Jim to bring her to the hospital, and you try and restrain Ulrich until I can get back." Od yelled rushing away carrying a limp Yumi to the school.
"Jim! Jim!" Od screamed running up to the entrance.
"Od?" He looked around startled.
"Jim I need you to take Yumi to the hospital." Od rushed his sentence and ran away setting her on the ground in front of him.
He arrived back at the factory to find that Ulrich was successfully restrained and Jeremy had a large bump on his head and his glass's were eschew he also had a few cuts and bruises on his face.
"I'm ready to go to Lyoko now, get that program finished fast." Od said as ran to the scanners.
"I'll do it in the name of Yumi." He said under his breath as he worked furiously on the program.
It was around 1 in the morning when Jeremy punched in the last few digits to his code.
"Okay Od I've finished it now I'll upload it and locate the activated tower." Jeremy said.
"Hurry!" Od yelled as 4 crabs approached.
"I got it!" Jeremy yelled and pressed the enter key.
"Good now princess you stay out of the line of fire." He told her as Jeremy loaded in the program.
"Okay its 70 degrees north and 50 degrees south." Jeremy said.
"Okay don't worry we'll make it." He said.
"I'll try to run for the towers just take care of yourself." Aelita yelled as she ran in the direction of the tower.
"I'll be there in a bit, Laser Arrow!" He shouted taking out the last one.
He ran to Aelita and protected her from the rest of the crabs that had showed up but he was shot and his life points were gone before he could make sure Aelita reached the tower safely.
"Jeremy! Jeremy did she make it?" Od asked running out of breath to where Jeremy sat watching the screen intently.
"I don't know yet there's three crabs surrounding her and she's trying very hard to get to the tower..." Jeremy trailed on turning back to the screen.
"Jeremy, I have to warn you of something," Aelita said suddenly, "you will not be able to return to the past, your program is too huge to let Lyoko to allow you to return to the past." She said nearly dodging an energy blast from a nearby crab.
"Well I suppose that's alright no one really has anything to suspect." Jeremy replied scratching his chin.
"I just wanted you to know that, well here I go." She said stepping through the tower.
"Be careful Aelita." Jeremy warned.
Jeremy was interrupted by Ulrich's screams.
"No, no stop it; it hurts, no, no!!" Ulrich screamed clutching his temples and rolling around the floor screaming.
"Ulrich," Od screamed running towards him.
"It's okay Od I think Xana is leaving Ulrich's mind and it must be painful."
"Will he be okay?" Od asked his hand supporting his head.
"He should be, what about Yumi?" Jeremy asked bushing up his glasses.
"I had Jim take her to the hospital we'll take Ulrich and we'll all go to see her first thing in the morning." Od replied closing his eyes tight as another one of Ulrich's screams pierced the air and a single black tear fell from his eye and he passed out.

A/N: Okay just warning ratings may go up after the next chapter and I hope you all really liked this chapter and it seemed to me that I got a little OOC in a few parts of the story but then again sometimes good stories need a bit of shaking up huh? Well I hope you enjoyed this and I'm thinking of adding some chapters to my other story "Just a Thought." A lot of people want me to so I might do that well R&R as usual!!!!!!! !!!