Chapter Seven: First Strike
As Yumi and Ulrich walked up to her door she could tell that something was not right.
"I have a bad feeling." says Yumi
"Don't worry; nothing bad is going to happen today. You might have some fun instead." replies Ulrich with a smile as he opens the door to Yumi's house
"What do you mean by that?" asks Yumi as she walked inside
"Surprise!" yelled everyone as they jumped out from behind various pieces of furniture
"Oh my god…thank you so much!" yells Yumi as she hugged Ulrich
"Hey he wasn't the one who set this up you know." says Odd
"We all helped. Well except for those two." says Aelita with a laugh as she pointed to John and Dave
"Hey I had to pick this guy up. Wasn't my fault." says John
"Real mature John" says Dave, "by the way the names' Dave."
"Yea right, this is coming from the guy who crazy glued his head to a helicopter as it was taking off." says John
"You were the one who put the crazy glue on my head in the first place. Then you paid the guy to fly around for about two hours while I was still stuck!" says Dave
"Wow…a real battle of wits." says Odd
"It was pretty funny though." says John with a laugh
"Yea it was." replies Dave with a smile
As the two of them laughed over their own stupidity Jeremy says: "Ok, does anyone want some cake or something. Cause this is a party you know."
"How about we put some music on." says Odd as he ran over to the stereo and put a CD in
"Break, break, break dance…" comes out of the stereo
With that everyone stairs at Odd until he asks: "What's wrong this is good music?"
"That's not good music. Wait was Dave just hitting on Aelita?" asks Jeremy
"Yea why?" asks Ulrich "Oh."
Just then Jeremy walked up to Dave and punched him square in the jaw. And then walked away.
"Not sure I deserved that." says Dave as he turned to John
As he finished his sentence Aelita walked up to him and slapped him. Then walked over to Jeremy.
"Pretty sure I deserved that." says Dave
"Look on the bright side usually you get hit like fifty times at a party." says John with a laugh
"Party's not over yet." replies Dave with a smile
Just as they began to laugh people started dancing.
"Come on lets dance." says Yumi as she dragged Ulrich on to the dance floor
"Uhhh…" was the only thing Ulrich managed to say as he was being dragged on to the dance floor
Just as Yumi and Ulrich began to dance an explosion came from the front door.
"What the…" says Jeremy as a menacing figure walked through the smoke
"You five have been a thorn in my side for far too long! You will not escape me this time!" exclaims the figure as the smoke cleared revealing a robot
"XANA…here how?" exclaims a puzzled Odd
"Doesn't matter. He'll go down just like all the rest." says Dave as he drew a sword and charged forward
"No wait!" yells John
"Fool." says XANA as he punched clean threw Dave's body
It seemed as if time slowed down as if to mourn his death. As everyone looked on in horror as XANA pulled his metal fist from Dave's body.
"Who's next?" asks XANA with a laugh
"We've got to get to Lyoko to fix this. XANA must have activated a tower. It's the only explanation." says Jeremy
"But how are we going to get by XANA?" asks Yumi
"Do what you need to. I'll distract him…" says John with a hollow voice
"You'll be killed." says Odd
"Don't worry just do what you have to do to shut him down. I'll make sure he doesn't follow." replies John as he drew his own sword
"Come on we can't let more people die." says Ulrich
As everyone ran out the back door Aelita stood there for a second and says, "Good luck," before running out.
"Looks like it's just you and me now. You won't get away with killing my friend you know." says John
"We'll see who gets away with what." replies XANA
With that the battles of the century began. And one of the sides had a huge disadvantage.