Here's chapter five.
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Chapter 5: The Deactivation, and The Unforgetable Night
"WHAT? ALL THAT... MAN.....and I only have 20 lifepoints left...." Slyzer muttered to himself. They arrived instantly. The tanks rolled up, the hornets were buzzing about, and the crabs scuttled along from different directions. Sword was out, fan was ready to deflect, lasers ready to fire, and discs ready to be thrown.
"Only five discs left..." Slyzer muttered. Fire time. The crabs sent multiple lasers, while the hornets covered the area in poison. Then they proceeded to fire. The mega tanks charged their blasts and...
"What idiots..." Slyzer said to himself, "Eveybody jump!!" He yelled, just as the tanks fired, the lasers crossed and each hit a tank on the opposite side, and one of the lasers going in the other direction hit and destroyed a crab. No time to celebrate though, the hornets were moving in.
All five of the virtual friends jumped out of the ring of poison. By now Odd had taken a hornet down, and Ulrich had taken a crab. Slyzer had less than ten lifepoints left and two discs. Just as he was shot by a hornet, he threw those last two discs, and they hit their mark, lowering the count of hornets to two.
"Not bad for your first time," Jeremy said as Slyzer got to the lab.
"Thanks... so... exhausted.... what happened...?"
"That's what happens when you're devirtualized. So, ah, friends?" Jeremy asked.
"Yeah, I guess so." They shook hands.
In the meantime, the hornets had taken more defensive manuvers, and Odd was devirtualized by the now growing pools of poison. It was just Yumi, Ulrich, and Aelita.
"Guys, the situation is getting worse!" Jeremy shouted. "There are more and more cases of brain damage! We need to hurry!"
"Ok.. Jeremy.." Yumi said between laser deflections. She was hit three times, devirtualizing her, but she threw her metal fan just in time. With a flash, the hornet was gone. Ulrich triplicated and took that last one, and then he and Aelita got out of the poison mess to head for the tower.
"Nice work guys," Jeremy said, back in the lab. "Let's just hope.. that we can make it in time.
"Ah NO NO NO!!!" Ulrich shouted in Lyoko. "More monsters? X.A.N.A.'s going all out this time!"
"Uh yeah, three blocks." Ulrich was rather angry at this point, so he and his two clones took out all three blocks with ease.
"Now that wasn't so bad was it?" Odd asked, still joking, even in serious times. Ulrich and Aelita got to the tower. Aelita went in, and with a flash of brilliant white light, they were in the past.
Ulrich and Slyzer were in Ulrich's room again. Jeremy, Odd and Yumi walked in just as Ulrich said, "Where were we again? Oh yeah, you liking Yumi."
"What were you saying about Yumi..?" Yumi asked.
"Oh, that? Nothing, no really, nothing," Slyzer said, successfully dodging the fact that Yumi almost found out about his feelings for her. The gang sat on Odd and Ulrich's bed. No one talked for a while. They just kinda looked at each other. Finally, Jeremy said, "Well, we were lucky, there were no victims."
"Good," Yumi said. They eventually started to talk about various things, and got to know Slyzer a little better. It turned out differently than the gang had thought, I mean the whole Slyzer thing. It wasn't so bad after all.
"Well it's late, I'd better head to my room," Yumi said.
"Would you like me to walk you to your room?" Slyzer asked, his hopes rising, "Because it's close to mine, and I'd better go too."
"Yeah, that'd be great, thanks," Yumi said, "Well, I'll see you guys in the morning."
"Yeah, see you," Ulrich said, a little jealous. Yumi and Slyzer walked out of the room.
"You did pretty good in Lyoko," Yumi commented.
"Thanks. It's pretty cool you know."
"Yeah."
"But the devirtualization, that's really something. It's like all of a sudden you're real again, it was quite a shock on my body. I'm worn out."
"Yeah, you gotta get used to that part I guess. Well, here's my room, thanks... actually, you wanna come in?"
"Sure," Slyzer replied casually. Inside he was exploding with excitement, nervousness, and other various emotions.
Meanwhile, Jeremy was in his room. He hadn't said much to Aelita since their little fight, even during the attack. He sat at the computer. He would start to contact her, then hesitate and cancel the connection. Eventually he thought to himself, This is stupid, c'mon Jeremy, you know you love Aelita, so apologize. You screwed up, big deal. You know that if she really cares for you she'll forgive you!! So he gathered up his courage and contacted her.
"Ah-hello Aelita," he said, embarrassed, thinking about the previous night.
"Hello Jeremy."
"Listen, about the other night... I'm really sorry Aelita, I was out of line, and I shouldn't have thought that I could... well, I sorry Aelita, I'm really sorry." It was at this point that she actually realized the great love she felt for Jeremy. She had to forgive him.
"No Jeremy, I'm sorry, I was out of line. I know what you said... well I understand what you really meant, and... I forgive you Jeremy.. and I'm sorry," she said all of this very quickly. They spent the rest of the night deep in conversation...
Meanwhile in Yumi's room, Slyzer and Yumi sat down on her bed. "Slyzer, there's something I've been meaning to tell you," Yumi said after a few moments of sitting.
"Yeah, I need to tell you something too Yumi," Slyzer said, looking down at his feet, unsure of himself.
"You-you go first," they both said at the same time.
"Uh, I'll go first," Yumi said. "Well, the fact of the matter is that Slyzer, I like you. Not just as a friend, but, I have real feelings for you, I care for you. Even though it's only been a day or two, I still have gotten to know you quite a bit, and I know you more than one would expect. But there's a problem..." She seemed to not want to say what came next.
"What is it..?"
"Well, Slyzer, I also have feelings for Ulrich, I always have, and I don't know how to pick." She finally said.
"Go with Ulrich. Yumi, what I was going to say is that I feel the same for you, but, you and Ulrich, it's just that you've been together for so long, it'd be pointless to break up. I really liked you too, but... it has to be like that."
"Thankyou, but Slyzer, I really like you too. I can't pick, not until I get to know you better," she said with a smile.
"Oh really, well, how do you.. you know, want, exactly... to get to know me....?" He stammered out. He was blushing and his cheeks were hot from nervousness. She leaned in slowly, and almost whispered, "Like this...." She kissed him softly on the lips. Then they looked into each other's eyes for what seemed like forever. Slyzer placed his hand on her cheek, and his other hand around her waist and they leaned together, and kissed until they had to stop for air. The kiss was surprisingly filled with passion for a kiss from two people that hardly knew each other.
Slyzer wanted the moment to last forever, but eventually they just got back to talking. They talked, getting to know each other, for hours. At 4:00 A.M. Slyzer was heading to his room when Yumi, for the second time that night, pulled him into a passionette kiss. Then they fell asleep together, sitting on the bed, leaning on one another with their legs hanging off of the end of the bed. It was a night they would never forget. And who knows, maybe more nights like this were to come?
Somewhere in the depths of Lyoko, X.A.N.A. was furious. His plan was stopped, and there was this newcomer who somehow managed to get to Lyoko. But he had a plan, a bigger, better plan. And it was about to be put into motion...
