Chapter 3 Showdown
"Jeremie, I'm useless here unless you can reload me." "I'm examining the problem now, You can't reload, your file has been so damaged your weapon data corrupted. Most of your file has been overwritted with garbage data." "I'm really useless then." "No you're not, you can still escort Aelita to the tower, distract the monsters, and cover Aelita by jumping in front of lasers but...only when nessesary." "But Jeremie, you know as well as I do, if Odd's devirtualized he'l-" "Hold that thought, something's coming." "Monsters approaching! Seven hornets two roachsters!" "I can handle them..." "Are you crazy?" Odd and Jeremie exclaimed at the same time. Jeremie's screenlit up "Aelita Vs. Hornet and Roachster." Aelita knelt down. Glowing, her ability activated. The ground cracked and separated. A spiked wall slid up. "Aelita it's going too slow, you'll never make it!" The hornets were right above the crack. Suddenly, the spiked wall jerked upward piercing and destroying all seven hornets. The roachsters couldn't pass thanks to the new obstacle. "What were you saying?" Odd asked as if nothing had happened. Aelita still dazed by X.A.N.A.'s ambush replied, "Remember when X.A.N.A. disconnected the scanner from the controls?" "Yeah, we were gone for good if we were devirtualized." "It's the same situation here." "WHAT? JEREMIE! I COULD'VE GOTTEN KILLED?" "I was going to tell you..." "Jeremie, you told me to jump in front of lasers, with half of my lifepoints, and you knew I'd have died if I got devirtualized? You didn't even tell me!" Jeremie took his earpiece off. "Jeremie can you hear me? Jeremie are you even listening? JEREMIE!" The freight elevator's heavy doors opened. Ulrich stepped out. "What's going on in Lyoko?" "Odd's weakend, Aelita has halved her lifepoints thanks to her ability, they need you there..." Jeremie's voice was monotoned. "Where am I headed?" "Polar, I'll start up the scanner program...Don't get devirtualized or you'll be lost..." Ulrich went back to the elevator. Half a minute later a new voice came through Jeremie's earpiece, he put it back on. "I'm in Jeremie." "Virtualization..." Ulrich's perfect landing was followed by an ambush. Two crabs fired, he easily dodged and ran off towards Aelita, Odd, and the activated tower. The crabs continued firing. "Triplicate!" Ulrich split into three. "You know what to do." He continued running, worried about Odd's safety. The clones fending off X.A.N.A.'s abominations.
Outside the factory...
The manhole covering opened, and Yumi emerged. "A little help." Eddie's hand reached out of the sewer. Yumi grabbed it and pulled him out. "Aelita's the only one who can deactivated the tower X.A.N.A. has infected." "And X.A.N.A. is what again?" "X.A.N.A. is a computer virus that wants to destroy humanity." "Right, but he's a computer how can he do any harm?" The ground shook violently. "That's how, he can gain connection to anything electronic, he can do anything from turning on your blender to using sound waves to cause earthquakes and seemingly natural disasters." "What happens after we stop him?" "An advanced program sort of like system restore sends us back in time and our day starts over. No one else can remember what happened but us and any fatalitys cannot be reversed." "That's why it's so important to escort X.A.N.A. to the tower in time so Aelita can't kill any one." "It's the other way around, X.A.N.A.'s the virus not Aelita." "Whatever, so are we going to Lokeo?" "It's Lyoko, now you're doing it on purpose!" "Yeah, but I'm starting to understand this." The ground shook again. This time they fell into each other. They ended up kissing. Eddie pulled away. "Wow, this is awkward." They stood there blushing. "Eddie...the annual school prom is next week do you-are you going?" "I was planning on going for the free food because I don't have a date." "Do you-umm..." "Yes, I'd love to go with you. And about that kiss, I pulled away 'cause I thought it was a little to soon." Yumi didn't reply right away, her expression changed, it became serious. "We have to get to Lyoko." They ran inside. The ground shook once more and the factory's reenforced windows shattered.
On Lyoko...
"Odd! Aelita!" Ulrich ran up to them. "You can't get devirtualized," Aelita informed him. "I was told." "At least he told somebody." Jeremie shamefully ignored him. "Ulrich, your clones failed, X.A.N.A.'s regrouped. This time he's added another crab and a megatank." "Aelita, Odd, head for the tower." "You'll never survive alone." "Odd, who said I'd be alone?" They ran off just as the welcoming commitee arrived. "Triplicate!" He evened the score a little. "You two, go for the crabs." The clones jumped on to the monsters stabbing X.A.N.A.'s "eye." They exploded, taking out the clones as well. Ulrich circled around the megatank. It opened, charged it's desructive weapon and fired.
At the factory...
The ground shook more violently then ever. The elevator stopped without warning. Yumi and Eddie were thrown into the ceiling and gravity did it's job. They both landed on the floor. Eddie landed on his knees and Yumi on her head. Dispite the pain, he looked to Yumi. She was unconscience, her head in a pool of blood. Their cell phones shattered next to him. "Yumi...wake up." He knew he shouldn't move her. He had to be strong for both of them...
Meanwhile on Lyoko...
Ulrich jumped out of the line of fire. The crab was destroyed, it didn't have time to move out of the way. Ulrich wasted no time. He stabbed the megatank in it's weak spot and it was destroyed. Up with Odd and Aelita, they finaly reached the tower. "Go on Aelita." She walked into the tower.
At the factory...
"I was looking forward to the prom Yumi..." Yumi regained conscience "Don't move." "I was too..." Her pulse slowed. Code... Lyoko. "Ready for a trip into the past Eddie?" A soft white light enveloped them.
At the school before X.A.N.A. attack...
This time Eddie found Yumi first. "Hi, I'm Yumi, I invited you to sit next to me." "I'm Eddie nice to meet you. I met your friends, they seemed nice enough so I took their advice, they told me to find you." "You seem lost, do you need any help finding your way around?" "That would-that would be great." "Meet me after school, at Jeremie's dorm, here's the dorm number." Yumi handed him a slip of paper. "What if I get lost? I don't know where anything is yet." "Here's my number, just in case." Eddie programmed in the number and pressed send. "Now you have mine, I-I'm looking forward to your tour." They walked opposite ways.