Yumi and Ulrich Encounter

Chapter 3

The Catalyst

Yumi raised the giant energy weapon and aimed for one of the crabs taking post on the floor. What she didn't expect when she pulled the trigger, was that the output would not be a mild backlash, it would be a giant backlash that would destroy a 6 foot radius of the floor, henceforth creating a crater.

"What the fuck? Jeremie…. You left your mark in more ways then one. I hope your alright."

The chaos in Yumi's mind was interrupted by Ulrich.

"Yumi, we make to make it to the control room and shut down the scanners!"
"Ok"

"Can you make it down the floor?"
"Ya…"

"Yumi!"

"Yeah?"

"I love you"

"I know. I love you too"

Yumi ran to the elevator, and rode it down to the floor. She would be welcomed by more monsters ready to fire. But oddly enough they were hesitating, why? Yumi noticed movement behind the line of monsters. The front line separated to allow this person to come through. What proceeded to approach Yumi was of course a monster, but not one the warriors had ever seen before. It was made of pure energy, powerful and deadly to the touch. It wasn't hard to know who or what this was. It was XANA. What surprised Yumi even more was that it spoke first.

"You are… Yumi of the Lyoko warriors?"

"I am, and you are XANA."
"Correct. I have finally found away to exploit your systems to materialize myself in this world. I may tell you how, because you will not live long enough to tell anyone. Utilizing the electronic energy field generated by your equipment and the energy contained in your nuclear battery, I was able to construct a temporary manifestation of myself. Your mistake, Lyoko Warrior, was allowing my Schipazoa monster to acquire as much of Aelita's memory as I had. Using all the memory fragments from the sessions I was able to piece together a complete memory piece."

Furious, Yumi raised her weapon and aimed for XANA.

"It is useless Yumi, I am made of pure energy. As is the output charge of your weapon. Discharging into my body will only serve to help me grow and maintain my presence on this world longer."

"Where is Jeremie you bastard?"

"Jeremie, your operator?

"Yes. What the fuck have you done with him?"

"He is safe, for the moment"

"What do you want XANA?"

"A.I. such as myself do not concern ourselves with material possessions like you humans do. All I desire is the memory of Aelita."

"Why? Why the fuck do you want to take Aelita's memory?"
"So I can make my manifestation in this world permanent"

"That won't happen. We won't allow it to happen"

"There is not much you can do to stop me warrior, nor your predecessors"

"Predecessors? Wait! There have been others before us."
"Ignorant being, there have been dozens before you. Each group I have eliminated, I will give this group praise however, you have lasted the longest of all of them"

"We will also be the last you ever fight. Aelita's memory will never be yours."

"Very well, we will finish this now"

Ulrich where the hell are you?

Before Yumi could react, XANA began to charge. He then turned his arm into a blade made of pure energy and thrust it into Yumi's stomach.

"Oh my god" Yumi's voice was airy as her lungs were being punctured by the blade

"Your life is inconsequential Yumi, die knowing you lived to be one of the greatest Lyoko Warriors that I have ever faced."

Yumi's eyes rolled back into her head, and as she drew her last breath, she saw only one thing.

Ulrich.

Yumi fell limp still attached to the blade.

"Goodbye warrior"

End Chapter 3

(AN: To all Yumi fans, don't worry there's still more to come. Please review and please, no flames)

Yumi and Ulrich: Encounter

Chapter 4

Stand Up

Rated M for sexual situations, strong language, and violence

(Author's Note: Alright, I'm going to see where this goes. This is going to be in different POV for now. Seems to be working well.)

Previously in Chapter 3: X.A.N.A. materialized himself using the energy harnessed in various places around the factory. After speaking to Yumi and finding reasoning fruitless, he attacked Yumi with an energy blade, driving it into her stomach.

Ulrich POV

All of the sudden, Ulrich felt a sharp pain in his stomach, it felt like he was having a knife shoved into him.

"Yumi…."

He knew what he had to do, he had to turn back and help Yumi. But where is Odd?

He picked up his cell phone and called him. When he picked up, Ulrich was relieved.

"Not a great time now! I found Jeremie though, he was being guarded by two crabs."

"Is he alive Odd?"

"Yeah he's alive. Walking around just fine. We're working on shutting down the scanners."

"Good. I need to go help Yumi. Are you and Jeremie going to be ok?"

"Yeah go ahead."

"Thanks"

As Ulrich hung up, he wished he could use his Lyoko powers here.

When Ulrich got down the elevator, he saw Yumi laying on the ground in a pool of blood and a massive ball of blue light standing over her.

"NO!"

The monster standing over Yumi turned to face Ulrich.

"Another warrior…. Ulrich…."

"Who are you?"

"Alas, I do not possess an individual body of yet. A better question would be what I am?"

"XANA…"

"You will end up like your friend"

As he willed, XANAs monsters took aim for Ulrich and fired multiple shots.

Ulrich ducked behind a barrier and called Odd again.

"What Ulrich! I'm busy!"

"XANA's materialized. I need to destroy him"

"Hold on, lemme give you to Jeremie"

"Yes Ulrich?"

"XANAs materialized, What can I do?"
"Ah.. Not good. What is his form?"

"Light. A lot of blue light"

"An energy being. Alright hold on just a second."

"Alright I have an idea, there's a magnet on the floor that was used to move parts around when the factory was active. I might be able to control it from here. It may take a minute if XANA has taken control of the system"

"Alright make it quick!"

Then Ulrich hung up the phone again, wishing he didn't have to.

Jeremie's POV

"I need to get into the system" said Jeremie

"Good luck, if XANA has materialized, the first thing he'll do is take the system" Odd had no idea what XANA really could do.

"I know, but I have ways of getting past that."

Jeremie jumped into his chair and booted up his computer. Expectedly, XANA had taken the computer.

"Damn it. I have an idea…"

Jeremie practically built this system. XANA staying in control of it was like a spider trying to take over an ant hill. He started his laptop and connected the two hard drives then booted up his top of the line firewall, custom built. XANA won't get in here.

XANAs control program was simple. It was as if he didn't really care about controlling the system. The lines of code were primitive using an outdated A-20D hack program. Jeremie was able to break into the system with ease.

"I'm in"

"Good job Einstein. I knew there was a reason we called you that."

Jeremie chuckled and smiled as he took control over the security cameras on the floor and the magnet. When he turned on the magnet and watched XANA's energy manifestation flicker and dissipate, he remembered why he loved what he did.

End Chapter 4