Whoo! I updated! Chap. 5! And it's long!
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Odd slammed open the door to the principal's office with such force the foundations rattled. Sissi's father looked up sharply as Yumi, Jeremie, and Ulrich skidded to a stop behind him. "What is the meaning of this?"
Samantha was sitting on a chair in front of his desk. A tall man Odd didn't recognize was leaning against the wall to her left, and Jim was on her right.
"She didn't do it!" Odd blurted out. The dark skinned girl turned and smiled at him.
"Samantha, is this who you spent your one phone call on?" The tall man asked, focusing his gaze on Odd. "I don't see how this young man can prove your innocence."
"Principal Rivera, I told you I was with Odd and his friends yesterday. I was in school all morning. I wouldn't have been able to travel all the way over here to steal a computer."
"Yes, but that doesn't explain what your picture was doing in it's place." The Kadic High principal skid a 2x2 photo across the desk. Samantha picked it up and looked at it, recognizing it as one she had given to Odd around a month ago, when they first met. She looked over at Odd, whose eyes went big as he checked his back pocket. His photo wasn't there.
He tried desperately to recall the day's events. He remembered having it after class, but lunch...Sissi! It had to be, when she leaned over to whisper to him. Which meant she had to have stolen the computer!
Pleased with his deduction, Odd turned to look back at his friends. "You guys," he whispered, "I think I know who stole the computer, but I'm not sure. I'm going to need some help."
"Sure." Jeremie nodded, but Ulrich and Yumi stared straight ahead at Samantha's principal, who started to speak again. "Samantha, you are a very nice girl. You get higher marks then anyone else in gym, receive straight A's in technology class, and excel in music. However, after this incident, I'm afraid Paris City High will have to expel you."
Samantha hung her head. "Wait!" Odd said. "When did you discover the computer missing?"
"Around twenty minutes ago." Jim said. "We called up her school with the information listed on the back of the photo."
"That would have given Sissi enough time to take it." Odd muttered.
"You will clean your dorm out and have all of your things cleared out by tomorrow morning, when we ill contact your parents. Now, if you will be so kind as to tell us where the laptop is?"
Samantha raised her head slightly. "I don't know."
"We've already gone through this, Miss Mitchellson. Return the computer immediately." Sissi's father said sharply.
"I said, I don't k-" a file cabinet in the corner tipping forward cut her off. It fell onto the carpet with a crash.
"What the-" Principal Rivera started forward, but collapsed on the ground. "I can't move!"
Jim fell to the ground. "Neither can I!"
"You guys, I'm having trouble moving!" Jeremie said, leaning against the doorframe for support. "We have to get out of here!"
Samantha managed to pull herself out of her chair, which immediately toppled backwards. Her body felt heavier than usual. "What's happening?"
"There's something wrong with our gravity!" Yumi cried while trying to straighten herself out.
"It's got to be Xana!" Ulrich said, taking a small step foreword. "He must be increasing the gravity in the school!"
"Wait!" The Kadic High principal yelled as he struggled to get out of his chair. Come back!"
They ignored him as they made their way into the hallway. "The south exit is closest. We have to head that way." Odd said. He took a small step foreword, as far as he could go since the gravity had been turned on high.
They began walking, their legs getting heavier and heavier with each step they took. Finally, when Samantha though she would collapse, Ulrich used his remaining strength to open a door marked EXIT.
Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, Samantha and Jeremie tumbled out of the school into a normal gravital setting. "Whew! Good to be out of there." Odd said, flexing his legs. "Odd, would you please get off of me?" Ulrich grumbled.
"Heh. Sorry." Odd stood up and offered a hand to his roommate, who grasped it and allowed himself to be pulled up. Yumi was already up, and Samantha was holding her hand out to Jeremie.
"Hurry up! We've got to get to the factory." Yumi said, once they were all standing.
"The factory?" Samantha asked.
"We'll explain on the way." Odd said, grabbing her hand. They took off running, with the rest of them in tow.
"Odd..I just noticed something." Samantha said after he finished explaining "the Factory" to her.
"What?" He asked, looking sideways at her.
"Your hair...looks really funny."
"It was true. The extra gravity from inside the school had pulled on the ends of his hair, making it limp and into an umbrella shape on top of his head, so his hair looked like a vegetable. He heard laughter behind him and he blushed. "Shutup."
They reached the sewer. Just as Odd grabbed his skateboard, he realized something. Jeremie seemed to read his mind.
"Don't worry, Odd. She can ride with me."
Odd felt a twinge of jealousy as she accepted Jeremie's invitation and put her arms around his waist, but shook it off.
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Samantha stood next to Jeremie, looking up at the screen. Xana seemed exceptionally generous with his monster today. Ulrich, Yumi and Odd were getting thrashed. Samantha bit her lip. "Isn't there anything we could do to help them?"
"I'm afraid not." Jeremie sighed as he turned to look at her. "It's not like we could send another person-" He stopped. "What's that?" He asked, gesturing to Samantha's jeans. She looked down and pulled at a card that was sticking out of her pocket. "What, this? It was something I found the other day. I kept it because it had my picture on it. I don't know why, though..."
Jerimie grabbed at the card. His eyes widened. It was an avatar card! "Samantha, do you know what this means? We could actually stand a chance! Are you prepared to go into Lyoko?"
Yumi caught her fan as it returned to her, only destroying one monster, and there were at least ten more. "We're going to have to develop a plan!" She yelled. "Odd, you take the ones to the left. Ulrich, the ones to the right." They nodded. Ulrich jumped up into the air and stabbed a blockhead in half, then sliced another. Bt as he did, it shot a laser blast at him. The force of it sent him a couple of paces backward.
Yumi's eyes widened as Ulrich fell backward off the digital cliff. "ULRICH!"
He reached up on instinct and clutched on to the edge of the cliff. His fingers began slipping. "Help!"
And help came. In the form of the opposite end of a mace.
He looked into the chocolate brown eyes of Samantha, whose hair was falling into her face as she held out the other end of her weapon to him. "Grab on!" She said.
Ulrich reached up and took a hold of the mace with both hands. She pulled him up back onto the surface. "You saved me...Samantha." He said.
She grinned. "You would've done the same for me."
"Samantha! Glad you could join the party!" Odd said as he and Yumi ran up to her, with Aelita following behind them.
Samantha noticed the pink haired girl behind them. She held out a hand. "Hi! I'm Samantha."
Aelita smiled warmly. "I'm Aelita." She shook Samantha's hand.
A red laser beam separated them. Ulrich turned to look at the monster. "C'mon guys. Let's do this!"
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