Hey guys. This is my apology for not updating in almost 2 and a half months. Here goes. I'm so sorry I haven't update since April. I swear to never go that long again. If I break this promise, you guys can smack me with a wet toupee. Got it? Okay, now that that's taken care of, on with the story.
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Ulrich ran breathlessly to the top of the hill. Yumi was up there, that's for sue. But she wasn't in Guardian. Ulrich shrugged as he thought to himself "fine with me".
He kneeled beside her. He gently pulled her into his arms. Then something caught his eye. Near the neck-shoulder area, there were odd shaped bruises. He pulled down a part of her shirt to see them better. They were bruises in the shape of a hand. He gingerly ran his fingers over them. As he did, he felt a surge of anger rush to his head, knowing this was Xavier's doing. He gritted his teeth as he imagined himself ripping Xavier to shreds with his bare hands.
He then stood up. He looked down, and saw that there were still tons of monsters left. "Jeremie!" he shouted.
"What is it? We're kind of busy!" Jeremie shouted breathlessly.
"How many life points do I have, and how many do you guy have?" Ulrich said worried.
"Well, you have 260, Lanie has 250, Aelita has 240, I have 210, and Odd has 190. You better get down here as soon as possible," he said before he stopped.
Ulrich nodded, and he was about to run down the hill, when Xavier appeared out of the ground. "Aw, it's cute little Ulrich, trying to save a girl he never had a chance with," he said.
"Shut up," Ulrich said, trying to keep a cool head.
"Come on, kid, did you honestly think that she loved you? She loved that Wyatt kid more than you!" He said.
Ulrich laid Yumi on the ground on the side of the hill. He then walked over and faced Xavier. "You're such a wimp," Xavier said.
That was it for Ulrich. He yelled as he lunged towards Xavier. Xavier simply moved. Ulrich landed facedown on to the ground. Xavier chuckled before he pulled out his swords. With one in each hand, he stabbed Ulrich twice.
"You're so pathetic. You know that Yumi never loved you, right? She was so in love with me, even though she was under mind control. It's a shame you had to break us apart. But I'm surprised that it took you guys so long to notice. You must not care about her that much," he said.
Ulrich felt the anger explode within him. "Oh, and you cared about her so much, right?" he said.
Xavier quickly grabbed and stopped the fist that Ulrich threw at him. "Actually, yes. I loved Yumi, and I always will, no matter what happens. We'll never have a chance, because she hates me, but I will still love her. Especially that body of hers. She so delicate, so exotic. I've always hoped she would be mine. She's very sexy."
This guy is disgusting! Ulrich thought to himself. "How can you love Yumi when all you know about her is that she's pretty? You have no idea what's on the inside, what she's like. I'm the only person who knows everything about her," he said.
"Really? So, you know that she was scared of being alone? You know that she always feels like no one cares about her? You even know that her "father" used to hit her before they went back to Japan? I didn't think so!" Xavier yelled as he punched Ulrich in the head.
Ulrich flew backwards. His whole body ached. He struggled to sit up. But when he did, he found his nose parallel to Xavier's sword tip. He looked into it. "You're worthless, and you know it. You're a waste of a life. To everyone else except for yourself, you're air, vapor, or dirt. She deserves someone better than you. If you truly loved her, you'd want her to be happy. Which means, you'd let me destroy you," Xavier said with a smile. "You do want her to be happy, don't you?" he said.
Ulrich looked up at him. He was right. He wanted Yumi to be happy more than anything in the world, even if that meant he wasn't a part of her life. He then stopped, and dropped his head.
"Ulrich! Don't listen to him!" he heard someone yell. He looked up. He then saw Yumi struggling to pull herself off the ground. "Don't even think about giving up. Ulrich, I love you. You're what makes me happy. I want you in my life!" Yumi shouted.
"Shut up!" Xavier said walking over towards Yumi. She pushed herself off the ground.
"You can't do anything to me. I'm not virtualized in Lyoko form! You could hit me all day, nod nothing would happen!" she said.
"No, you are still virtual in the form I created when I brought you here in December. You are virtual though, which means you have life points, which means you can run out. And when you run out, times up for you!" Xavier said, knocking the wind out of her.
Yumi sat up dazed. Xavier then drove his sword through her stomach. He stopped when he felt a sword being shoved into his neck. "Leave her out of this," Ulrich said coldly into his ear.
Xavier turned, and cracked his neck. "Very well then. This is between me and you, got it?" Xavier said.
"No," Yumi said as she stood up and stood by Ulrich.
"He backed away with her. He turned to face her. "Yumi, I can't let you do this. We have no idea how many life points you have!" he said.
Yumi shrugged. "That's never stopped me before. Why should it stop me now? Ulrich, I can't sit back and watch you fight him, knowing that the only reason why you are is because of me. I have to help you."
"No. I won't let you," he said, clutching her arms. "You have to go and help the others. I'll fight Xavier."
"Why won't you let me help you! You want me to go down there and help the others while I have no idea if you're…well, dead, up here? Not going to happen!" she said, her voice rising along with the anger building up inside of her.
"Yumi, the only reason why I'm asking you to do this is because I'm not strong," Ulrich said softly.
"WHAT! You're saying you want me to go down there because you're not strong. That makes no sense whatsoever!" Yumi shouted.
"No, that's not it. I'm not strong enough," he said.
"So, you're going to fight him to do what? Show me that you're strong? Is this just a strength thing for you?" she cried.
"Just be quiet! I can't risk losing you again. I'm-I'm not strong enough," Ulrich said dropping his head.
Yumi stopped short. She felt a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. She gently grabbed his chin and pulled his face up to hers. "Ulrich, you'll never lose me, because I won't let that happen. But I can't risk your safety either. I wouldn't be able to live without you in my life," she said softly.
Ulrich smiled. "Hey, Sappy Club, are you almost done preparing each other for your deaths?" Xavier shouted.
The two friends looked at each other, and smiled. They were ready.
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Jeremie, Lanie, Odd, and Aelita finally defeated the monsters. They were ou8t of breath, but there life points were still somewhat high.
"All right, Einstein, give us the lowdown on the life points," Odd said.
"I have 150, Odd has 110, Lanie has 200, Aelita has 180, and Ulrich has 230," he said.
"And we have no idea about Yumi because she wasn't virtualized in our computer, right?" Lanie said.
"Not exactly. We just have to find her, or at least get a good view of her. Jeremie can find out the life points of any creature in Lyoko in his helmet, even Xana," Aelita said.
The other three nodded. "We better find her then. The power draining stuff must have been killer on her life points. I suppose that Xavier gave her more so she wouldn't devirtualize while he was doing it, but she must have really low ones." Jeremie said. And with that, the guys went to join the other warriors once again.
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Yumi and Ulrich fought mercilessly with Xavier. By the time that they stopped for a moment, they were all out of breath.
Xavier began to think to himself. "These two pose more of a threat than I had expected. I'll never finish them off, and if their friends show up soon, I'm done for. What could help me? ...Oh…that'll definitely work," he said with a sly thought working it's way into his mind.
He faced the other two. He then smiled deviously.
"What's your problem?" Ulrich said confused.
"I have a…bargain for you," Xavier said, tapping his fingers together.
"What kind of bargain?" Yumi said suspiciously.
"Simple. I will leave you alone, and you will get something you have missed all for one thing," he said.
"What kind of thing is that?" Yumi said worried.
"The thing I want? Him," Xavier said, pointing to Ulrich.
Ulrich backed up in surprise. "Why would you want me? I thought you were in love with Yumi?" he questioned.
"Oh, I am. But I also realize that she'll never love me the way I do."
"You got that right," Yumi muttered under her breath.
"That doesn't mean I don't want to make her life a living hell. If I can't have her…no one can," he said.
"What makes you think you'll be able to convince me to agree to that?" Yumi said, stifling a laugh. "I'd never give Ulrich up for you leaving us alone. You're just trying to get Ulrich to agree to that because you know that he loves me. You're also scared that someday we will get rid of you, and that'll leave you with nothing; no power, no monsters, no Naxa, and especially no me. Well get this, buddy, you'll never have me, s stop dreaming!" she said.
Xavier stared at her. He then slapped her across the face…hard. She gently placed her hand onto her cheek, but still held her head high.
"Fine, you want to make this hard? Well, I think I'll change my bargain a little. I will leave forever, let you turn off Lyoko, return the thing you've missed, and destroy the factory once and for all, to let you know that I won't play any tricks. All you have to give me is Yumi."
"Nice try, but you can keep your special ideas." Odd said as he walked up, and stood beside Ulrich and Yumi. He was soon followed by Lanie, Aelita and Jeremie.
Jeremie looked at Yumi, and a number soon popped up in front of his eyes. He looked at Aelita and caught her eyes. "She only 80 left," he mouthed.
He then turned towards Xavier. "He has 130," he mouthed once more.
"Then I guess you don't want it," he said.
"What is the thing we've missed? I'll make you happy and take the bait you've been trying to get us to take for the past zillion minutes!" Yumi said aggravated.
Xavier grinned. "I'm glad you did, especially you Yumi. I mean, it was your fault that you lost it in the first place."
"Shut up. That was an accident, and you know it!" She yelled.
Xavier shook his head. "Still, it was your fault."
Yumi chewed her bottom lip. He couldn't do that, could he?
"Yumi, what is her talking about?" Ulrich said.
"I-I didn't mean to. It was an accident. I never meant for it to happen. You know that, right?" Yumi said.
"Yumi, they don't know what you're talking about. Fine, I'll just show it to you," he said.
He raised his arms high. Soon, white lines appeared and wove themselves together until it formed the silhouette of a body.
Yumi crouched over and buried her head under her arms as she began to cry. The other four mouths opened widely as they saw it. He laid there, his head limp to the side, with one arm lying by his side, and the other on his stomach.
"How did you do that?" Ulrich whispered scared.
Xavier said nothing. He just smiled, knowing he had hooked them. They wouldn't be able to let Wyatt go once again.
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Didn't see that on coming, did you? It took me a while to think of that, but once I did, everything fit together. I hope you enjoyed that. It'll come together soon. I know it seems like everything is all over the place; but somehow, I'll get it to be a story. I'm hoping this story will get more than my other Code Lyoko stories in this trilogy. Head Over Heels only got 32, and New Kids got 37. Anyway, thanks for reading. And remember, R&R. I love hearing from you guys!
Oh, and the whole part about Ulrich not being strong enough. That doesn't belong to me. Yes, I stole it from Mr. Incredible from "The Incredibles" movie. That is an awesome movie. If you haven't seen it yet, go see it. (I had to take this chapter off Fan Fiction because I forgot to put this in)