Well this is the last chapter for a few days if not a week. Please wish me luck on my finals they could be bad. On a much happier note, there is some U/Y fluff in this chapter and a new twist. Yeah I know how could I twist it anymore, well you'll see. Please read and then review.
The knock at the door made Yumi jump. It wasn't that she was surprised by Ulrich showing up on time, it was the fact that they were going on a real date for the first time in ages. Yumi opened the door.
"Hey Ulrich, come on in," Yumi said smiling at her best friend.
Ulrich walked inside and after shutting the door gave Yumi a hug, "I hope you enjoy tonight."
Yumi sighed happily, "Ulrich, whatever you have planned will be fine, I just want to spend time with you. So where are we going?" Yumi asked excitedly.
"You know that new restaurant that opened up, well I made a reservation for us."
"Ulrich that place is expensive, I can't let you take me there."
Ulrich just smiled, he'd expected Yumi to say that, "Yumi, it's ok, I've been putting a little money away for the past two months just to take you out."
Yumi wrapped Ulrich up in another hug and kissed him. "I love you Ulrich."
Ulrich's heart skipped a beat, "I love you too."
The two left the house and headed for the restaurant.
Jeremy was in his room watching a movie with Aelita when his computer started beeping an alert from Lyoko. Jeremy clicked on the alert, and Xana's misty face appeared on the screen.
"If you don't hurry to the factory you fools all is going to be lost."
"What are you talking about?"
"Check the tracking device, you should see a few more blips."
Jeremy looked and was shocked; another five operatives were in the area.
"Can't you just return to the past?"
"The operatives have already dismantled part of the computer, I stopped two of them by materializing three crabs, but they won't last long, gather up that feline friend of yours and come."
Jeremy didn't wait for the screen to disappear; he was already calling Odd and running for the factory with Aelita on his heels.
Odd answered the phone and jumped up at the news, "I'll call Ulrich and …."
Jeremy cut him off, "Odd there's no time, you need to get here fast."
"What about Kasey?"
"Have her stay, we can't worry about her and fight the operatives at the same time, they might grab her and flee."
Odd agreed, hugged Kasey goodbye and sprinted to the factory.
The three friends arrived to find only one crab left in one piece and five operatives, reloading their guns.
"So now what?" Jeremy asked.
"I have a plan, you two get to the computer and fix it."
Jeremy and Aelita slid down the ropes and sprinted for the elevator. The operatives looked up from their hiding spots and opened fire. With bullets flying everywhere the two dove in and shut the doors.
"Xana, if you can hear me, could you send me the overboard."
Odd waited a minute and then sighed, "Some help you are."
Just then the elevator opened and the overboard rose to its master with a note attached.
Odd read the note
You kids better do your job, especially you feline brat
Odd frowned, "I'm not a brat!"
He picked up a broken off piece of pipe and jumped on the board. "Here goes nothing."
Odd drove the board over the edge and soared down at the operatives. They never expected an attack from above. On the first pass, Odd knocked three of the operatives out with solid swings of the pipe and then he soared back up to safety. The remaining two hesitated then retreated to the back of the factory.
"That should give us some time" Odd said to himself.
Back in her room, Kasey heard the door open and turned around expecting to see Odd.
"Hey…oh." Kasey gulped at the sight of William with a gun pointed right at her.
"You stupid kids forgot one important detail." William said with a sadistic smile.
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about my orders you idiot, I didn't need to receive them again, I still remembered them."
"Shit!" Kasey exclaimed as she realized that the same side effect of the injection that had allowed her to remember the return to the past had left William's memory intact.
"Unfortunately, I've been ordered to kill your friends too, not knowing where they are, we'll have to wait for them won't we."
Kasey stared at the boy with pure hatred, "Just kill me you bastard, leave my friends out of it."
"I can't, they know about the Cluva, you sentenced them to death the day you told them."
Jeremy and Aelita were working furiously at the computer.
"Ok I think that's it. Try it now."
"What ever you did it didn't work, try again you idiots."
Jeremy sighed, Xana's name calling was getting them nowhere, thought he didn't blame the virus for once, he was probably facing the idea of death for the first time.
"Oh, I see," Aelita exclaimed as she unplugged two wires and swapped them out.
"Now try."
A white light enveloped them and moved out over the city towards the school.
Ulrich and Yumi looked out the window of the restaurant, the night had been perfect.
"Is that what I think it is?" Yumi gasped.
"It is," Ulrich sighed, "I guess this is goodnight." He leaned over and kissed Yumi as the light hit them.
William saw the light coming, "Not again, no, I…" He stopped as he had an idea. "Well I'll make sure you return dead" and he put the gun to Kasey's head.
'It's now or never,' thought Kasey, as the light approached she dropped to the floor and kicked at William, catching him by surprise. The gun fell away and she dove for it grabbing it and whipping herself around.
"Now die!" Kasey screamed as she pointed her newly acquired weapon at William who was pointing his second gun at her.
The two pulled the triggers and the bullets leapt towards their targets. They never made it, the light enveloped everything and they were all returned to the past.
Odd and Ulrich found themselves dropped off at William's mailbox again.
"So what happened?" Ulrich asked.
Odd started explaining but was interrupted by his cell phone.
"Hello?"
"Odd, it's Kasey, we need to get everyone to the factory now."
"Ok let us get William's orders real quick."
"Don't bother, he remembers everything like me. The injection is effecting him too."
"Alright just go to the factory and we'll meet you there."
The two boys called the others and rushed to the factory.
"It's going to be a long day." Odd said
"Well what do you expect," Ulrich laughed, "It was long the last time we lived it."
Odd sighed, "You know, sometimes I just wish these return to the past things could drop me off in bed so I could get some sleep."
Well I hope you liked it. I realized William would remember about halfway through writing this chapter. I put that the others forgot about Kasey remembering because of the injection, because frankly I forgot and, heck I'm writing this, LOL, anyways I like the twist and hope you do too, please review. And remeber, if I don't update for several days, it's finals, not a lack of interest or care, but reviews always inspire me to come back quickly.