"Ok-"Yumi bent over double as if she'd been punched.
"Yumi?" Aelita asked.
"I'm O.K., but there's a void in front of the tower," Odd looked at her funny, "Be careful."
Odd and Aelita started running past the girl, en route to the tower, Ulrich and Yumi started running past the girl too. The red head stopped them and pointed in front of her. Right at seven crabs. Ulrich turned and assessed the situation, so did the girl, Yumi unfolded her fan.
"Triplicate!" Ulrich and the girl screamed cloning them selves.
Odd escorted Aelita to the tower, she could walk the rest of the way. Odd looked at the void to see a cat warrior leaning over the edge. He started walking over, "Need some-"
"Clarice, hold on," the girl whined straining to pull "Clarice" who looked like a mirror image of Aelita, except more blue.
"Eva, it's O.K., Aelita will deactivate the tower." The blue haired girl confided.
"But we come here, kick Xana's monster's butts, making it easier for them, then they act like we never helped, send Aelita to the tower she deactivates it, they return to the past, and they never know we exist."
"Eva, you guys make it possible for them to succeed, and their strong point is just getting Aelita to the tower."
"Clarice," The girl tried to pull her up again, "You look like a blue mirror image of Aelita, I look like a female version of Odd, and Kat looks sort of like Ulrich and holds her saber with the opposite hands, Lee looks like Yumi's male twin. We're useless, Clarice, useless."
"Your not useless, your not, sorry," Clarice gave Eva one last smile and let go, allowing herself to fall into the void.
"Clarice!" The girl leaned over looking ready to leap in to follow her.
A crab locked it's lasers on to Aelita, she froze and slowly pivoted to face it.
"No!" Odd screamed running to try and save Aelita.
"No!" Eva screamed running after Odd.
The redhead landed in front of Aelita's shot.
"Kat," Eva called.
"Eva, this is not the time," Kat told her then later fell to the ground and de-virtualized.
A bit of the crab blinked for a while then blew up.
Without any encouraging Aelita ran to the tower.
"Jeremie, the cat's in the bag," Odd said.
"Is Aelita in the tower?" Jeremie replied as Yumi and Ulrich walked up.
"Yes chief," Odd retorted.
"Don't call me that!" Was Jeremie's sharp reply.
Jeremie heard some one de-virtualized into a scanner, "Yumi? Odd? Aelita? Ulrich?"
"Aelita's in the tower," Ulrich droned.
"What chief?" Odd asked.
"Yeah, Jeremie," Yumi folded her fan.
"Oh, some one just de-virtualized into Ulrich's scanner and I was curious who," Jeremie replied flatly.
"You mean Ulrich, it's his scanner, although it could be Yumi and Ulrich," Odd smiled sweetly amidst their protests.
"Well it's not Yumi or I, or us together since were still with dogface Odd" Ulrich emphasized many words.
Jeremie turned to look at the elevator, "I think I'll go check it out."
"No, your going to return to the past, right?" Odd asked Jeremie.
"Right," Jeremie turned to his computer, "Return to the past now."
The bubble encased the city with it's light covering the city returning it to how it was before Xana attacked.