The girl moved her sword, Ulrich didn't see it, up and blocked his. Ulrich backed up into his friends, "She has a sword?" Ulrich murmured.
"Guess so," Yumi replied.
"Ulrich, maybe she doesn't mean any harm," Odd and Aelita were next to Yumi and Ulrich now.
Ulrich sheathed his sword, "Then, why'd she try to hit me?"
"Hey if someone came up and tried to hit you with a sword what would you do?" Odd looked at Ulrich like he was crazy.
"I'd defend my self."
"Maybe that was what she was doing?"
"Defending herself?"
"Well duh, you think she's doing it for sport?"
Yumi folded her fan, "Notice she only yelled triplicate after Ulrich said it?"
"Well yeah," Ulrich was so confused.
"She hasn't tried to attack us," Aelita pointed out.
Ulrich wished they'd shut up, "Well yeah."
"And..." Odd was cut short by Jeremie.
"Are you guys going to kill that tank or sit there all day and just look at it?" Jeremie studied his screen, the tank was just sitting there, and so were they, neither party trying to rid themselves of the other, weird.
"Jeremie, there is no tank, only her," Back in Lyoko Odd gestured for emphasis, she perked up realizing she was being talked about and crossed her arms, her decoys had disappeared.
"Her? Wha-"As Jeremie started to doubt his friend's sanity a new character came onto the screen.
She was in what looked like Ulrich's pose, except mirrored. Her auburn hair was left alone, her bangs were held back by a yellow headband. He went and looked at her statistics, her weapon, Digital Saber, "Interesting," Jeremie thought, "That's Ulrich's weapon too, her's is stronger though." Her specialty was replication, "Gee, is this a joke?"
Jeremie looked at her player card, life point, five, vitals, normal. "Wait wait, was that five, life points, five!" Aloud he asked his computer, "Why pull a stunt like that?"
"A stunt like what," Yumi asked.
"Yeah, a stunk like what, your leaving us hanging," Odd joined in the conversation, completely oblivious to the conversation's topic.
"That girl has five life points but never mind that, get Aelita to the tower!" Jeremie wished he knew.
Back on Lyoko Ulrich suggested his grand plan, "Maybe we could just walk by her?"
"And if she thinks she's got better plans?" Odd replied flatly.
"She's got five life points, my sword takes ten, one jab and she's gone," Ulrich said waving his sword for emphasis.
"If she decides to "jab" you back?" Jeremie asked Ulrich.
"Only ten points of damage, no biggie," Ulrich quickly dismissed any danger.
"It's not ten, Ulrich, it's twenty," Jeremie reported.
"You're kidding," Ulrich sarcastically stated, "You just want me to be careful."
"No, Ulrich," Yumi delicately pushed Ulrich's sword away from her, "You need to be careful, you have no idea of her tactics tucked up those, big, floppy, long sleeves of her's." Which was true, the strange girl's sleeves did fit the description, "Tell me something you just realized about her."
Ulrich turned and looked, she kept her hair down, keeping it back with a yellow headband like his, it's ends floating freely in the breeze, she kept her scabbard on a belt that hung loosely around her waist a single pocket that sat next to the scabbard. He felt the ends of his own band floating in the breeze, she seemed harmless enough.
"She's looking at me cross-eyed," Ulrich pointed out to Yumi.
"Now she's not,' Yumi replied.
"Point."
"Did it ever occur to you she means no harm?"
"Is this a trick question?"
"No, really."
"Where'd that come from?"
"Well, if she was working for Xana wouldn't she have attacked by now?"
"Yeah, I guess."
"The only time she did any action against any of us was when you attacked her."
"So we walk around her?" Ulrich pushed his sword back into it's scabbard.
"This will be fun," Odd commented.
"Walk on my friends walk on," Aelita's smiling face appeared behind Odd.