Chapter 13:This test is Harder Than a Final Exam

Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko, Ulrich, Odd,Yumi, Aelita, Jeremie, or any of the other characters seen in Code Lyoko. I do however own Shinrai Flare, and Krista Flare.

BTW, Props to Demon Daughter, Rycr, AlmostInsane, and Kairu Souseiki.

Please look at Code : Changes and Living up to a Legend by Rycr . He is one of the best writers I have ever seen. Please look at my other friends story, called MidgardAwakening by Kairu Souseiki .

(My stepdad is getting a microsoft word program soon, for some reason, the one we have on, the spell check don't work)

"So... What do we do again?" Shinrai asked as he grabbed a sharp metal rod, the tip of it having been broken by either an accedent or something years before. As he stepped forward, the crabs began to move some, the long legs of them twitching slightly. He heard a small whiring and dived out of the way of a blast coming from the crab.

"What the HELL? It can shoot us?"

Yumi began looking for a weapon, but as she did, her cellphone began to ring. She dived behind a post as she pulled out her phone and answered it.

"Yes Jeremie?"

"One of the scanners has been destroyed, I am reading the data on it, but it seems that when the scanners were destroyed, the same program used to Materialized the monsters, gave you your powers, just focus on your template and you should change. I think it is one of Franz Hopper's last request,"

"Thanks Jeremie, this evens the odd's quite a bit,"She looked over to Shinrai and called out, "Shinrai, concentrate on your Lyoko character, you should be able to change into it, this is the only way to destroy the monsters!" As she began to concentrate on her character, a Red light began to engulf her, a blue light now beginning to do the same with Shinrai.

The two lights began to grow brighter, one a dark red, the other a dark blue. The light began to dim slowly as Yumi slowly landed back on the ground. She looked almost exactly like her Lyoko character, except for a long green scarf around her neck, and her fans were a dark green.She looked to one of the Crabs and yelled as she spun around, throwing her fan at it, hitting it's mark perfectly, a large slice appearing on the symbol of XANA. She used her other fan to block a strong shot from the other Crab.

Before she could throw her fan, the Crab began to deactivate and shut down. Standing on top of it was Shinrai. He had a trenchcoat on with his normal Lyoko attire, but his spear was an aquamarine blue, with soft pulsing yellow jewels around it. His white hair slowly flowed down to the top of his eyes as he bowed to Yumi, "I owe you one Yumi," He said before jumping down onto the bridge, the carcasses of the shut down creatures blocking the normal way into the factory. He laughed some until he turned to Yumi, who's face was in pure shock.

"Yumi... What.." He stopped as he saw what she was looking to, on the way to the factory were : Four Crabs, Two Blocks, and Two Tarantulas.

"Shinrai, what do we do now?" Yumi asked, gripping her fans tight enough that her knuckles were white. SHinrai began to groan in annoyance before pointing to the edge of the forested area.

"There, that is our only chance for right now," He replied.

"Sissi, it is our job to protect Aelita in Lyoko, you can't die, but you can be devirtualized," Jeremie's voice rang in the scanner room as Sissi stepped into the scanner, Aelita doing the same for the next one. Krista was to be virtualized after Aelita and Sissi.

"Transfer Aelita, transfer Sissi." Jeremie said, typing fast on the keyboard.

"Scanner Aelita, scanner Sissi. Virtualization!" He called out as he finished putting in the code. Sissi gasped once as the air began to rush through the scanner. All that could be seen after a second was a white light...

"Hey, here come the stragglers!" Odd called out as he leaned up against a rock. Sissi landed on her feet and began to stumble, much to Ulrich's, Odd's, and Aelita's amusement.

"I feel sick..." Sissi said before looking at Odd, sending a look of anger at him before calling out. " Why the hell didn't Jeremie tell me about this?"

"Sorry Sissi, I was busy Virtualizing Krista..." As Jeremie said it, Krista landed right by Sissi, almost ontop of her. Sissi jumped out of the way, her agility being very fast. Sissi's outfit was a bright yellow gi uniform. At her side rested two large knives, about half the size of Ulrich's swords. She still wore her bright yellow headband as well, much to a laughing Odd.

"You are a bright yellow! You won't be able to hide! " Odd said with a gleeful laugh. Krista walked up behind him and slapped him in the back of the head before sighing. Krista's outfit was different. Her outfit was surpisingly plain to a point. She had a light blue gown that went to her knees. Amazingly, she could move very quick in the gown. Around her shoulder was a Longbow that was pulsing a soft purple and then a bright blue.

"I can't virtualize the vehicles right yet, there is something wrong with the program, so you have to run there, The tower is in the far end of the desert sector. From the looks, it is in a very large crater," Jeremie explained to them all. Everybody nodded as they followed Aelita down a path quickly, within a few seconds, they surrounded Aelita. Ulrich and Odd on the sides, Sissi in front, and Krista behind them. 'Sissi is handling this pretty well, it might be because she has been in our group for a year,' Jeremie thought as he began to scan the sector quickly, hoping no creatures would show. "Be careful everybody, mostly you Aelita..."

"Don't worry Einstein, no one is taking our Princess," Odd said with a laugh, he panted once and looked behind to Krista, calling out, "Are you ok Krista?"

"Shut up, thank god this is the last mission, this gown is annoying!" Krista called back to him as they ran.

"Uh guys.. I am sorry to say this, but, Blocks are coming your way! There are alot of them!" Jeremie's voice rang out. Ulrich nodded and ran forward, looking at the Blocks, there were about 3 of them so far. 'There will be more of them soon, more than enough for everyone to take if they stay,' Ulrich thought. Her stopped and unsheathed his sword before looking to Odd.

"Help them out," Ulrich said as he stood in his stance.

"You get to have all the fun? Oh man," Odd said as he pulled Aelita. Krista and Sissi back into following them quickly, changing places to where now Odd was in front and Sissi and Krista were running alongside Aelita.

"Is Ulrich going to be ok?" a concerned Sissi asked out as they ran. The other three nodded quickly as they ran, still far away from the tower.

"Do you know what Guerilla tactics mean?" Shinrai asked as they reached the inside of the forest. The creatures, instead of heading to the factory, decided to follow Shinrai and Yumi.

"Yes, are we using them?" Yumi replied as she jumped onto the handle of Shinrai's spear. He pushed up with the spear, launching her onto a tree branch.

"Yep, only thing to do, attack them from the trees," Shinrai said as he stabbed his spear into a tree and used the handle to climb up onto the branch beside her. As he pulled his spear up, the two blocks began to enter the area of the forest where they were.

"On three?" Yumi as as she pulled her fans out silently, not to alert the Blocks. Shinrai nodded and mouthed the words slowly before calling out.

"Three!" He called out and they both jumped from the branch, each hitting the mark of XANA with their weapons and jumping back onto another branch before the machines shut down.

"That was surpisingly ea..."Shinrai said before a Tarantula's shot hit the branch and his foot, causing the branch and SHinrai to crash to the ground. Before the Tarantula could initate the final shot, Yumi's fan shot from a high branch and hit the Tarantula's CPU. The other Tarantula was now entering the area, only to be met by Shinrai's spear. He looked up at Yumi and smirked, "Now I owe you two...Thank god this isn't poker,"

"I'll collect it by money, either I or Ulrich will," Yumi replied as she hung upside down and held out her hand to help Shinrai back up onto the thick branch. When they were up on the branch, they looked to the forest line, the Crabs being too large to enter the forest. "Hey Shinrai, are you thinking what I am thinking?"

"Crabs can't shoot up, a race?" Shinrai laughed out as he jumped near the Crabs, Yumi right beside him.

"Lets run and destroy," Yumi told him as they got ready,

"You go first, I'll bat cleanup, if you will," Shinrai said as he gripped his spear tightly in his hands.

"Ulrich, how are you doing?" Jeremie asked, having to use two of the nine screens, one to watch Ulrich, the other to watch Aelita, Odd, Sissi, and Krista.

"Uhhh, I don't know... These Blocks are almost infinate! How is my lifepoints," Ulrich told him, frustrated as he spun around and leaped through a cirlce of fire by one of the Blocks. He spun the blade around and sliced up, destroying another block. Every block he destroyed, another came to take it's place.

"You have 50 lifepoints left, Aelita and everybody is doing ok, I don't know about Yumi and Shinrai yet," Jeremie replied.

'Damn it Yumi, please be ok... Please,' Ulrich thought as he leapt forward, "IMPACT!" The blade stuck in the eye of XANA and the Block exploded. He looked around and began to run to where Odd and Aelita were, not able to hold them off here. "Supersprint!" As he ran, the Blocks began to get small and small in view.

"Ulrich, the group is to the Northwest of where you are," Jeremie said as he then called out, "Krista, Odd, Sissi, there is a duo of Crabs blocking your path, take them out!"

"Ulrich, the group is to the Northwest of where you are," Jeremie said as he then called out, "Krista, Odd, Sissi, there is a duo of Crabs blocking your path, take them out!"

"Right Einstein, don't worry about it," Odd said as Krista stopped and took aim.

"Sniper Shot!" She called out as an arrow shot from the bow, hitting it's mark perfectly. She shot another one and it destroyed the other Crab without even trying.

"Holy Sh..." Odd said, eyes widened in surprise. Before he could say anything else, a Hornet shot at him, hitting the ground next to him, "WHOA!" Two more Hornets appeared behind the first one. Odd growled some and began to shoot arrows at them. After destroying two of them, the third one shot him in the arm.

"You have 70 lifepoints Odd, here comes Ulrich. Unfortunatly, Tarantula's are coming as well!" Jeremie called out, hitting the keyboard frustratedly. As Jeremie said it, Ulrich began to grow bigger before jumping onto a rock and bringing his blade down at a diving Hornet, causing it to explode. As he landed on the ground, a laser caught him in the chest, devirtualizing him.

"ULRICH?" Sissi called out as she ducked undera shot quickly.

"It is ok, he is in the factory now, take out the Tarantulas!" Jeremie told her quickly.

"Right... I hope," Sissi replied before pulling out the two knives. Her training in the martial arts as well showed how to use them without problem. "How do you destroy these things again?"

"Hit the symbol on them!" Odd yelled as he rolled to the side, sending two arrows into a Tarantula's symbol, destroying it. Krista turned around and held her bow sideways, hitting a Tarantula, tossing it back to infront of Sissi. Sissi spun around and brought her knives around quickly, the tips of the blades appearing from the top of the Tarantula's head a second before the Tarantula exploded.

"Nice one..." Aelita said shyly before seeing it was clear and began to head to the tower. When they reached it, Aelita entered it slowly and went to the second level.

AELITA...CODE...LYOKO

A beeping began happen as Aelita looked at multiple screens appearing.

"JEREMIE! Something is wrong with the computers!" Aelita screamed out.

"It is something to do with this tower!" Jeremie called back, beginning to type furiously. Ulrich appeared in the elevator and Jeremie snapped to him, "Help Yumi and Shinrai, Shinrai just called and said they are back at the bridge after doing something called 'batting clean up',"

"Uhh Jer, we might have a problem..." Krista called out. the 3 were standing outside of the tower, but they wern't alone. A form of Ulrich, Yumi, and Shinrai was standing infront of them, all three of the forms had a strange red aura emmitting from them.

"They are not friends, hold them off and destroy them! It is XANA!" Jeremie called back as he began to scan the tower.

"Ulrich, thank god, we need some help here," Shinrai said as he used his spearblade to block a laser blast by one of the Crabs. Yumi sat behind large post, trying to catch her breath as Shinrai fended off from the Crabs, destroying them when they got too close.

"How are you..." Ulrich began but Yumi called him over to her.

"Focus on your character template and you should change your form," She told him before standing up again and tossing her fans, destroying one, but grazing another. Ulrich nodded and moved behind the post as he began to focus intently on his character. As he did, a strong green light surrounded his body, engulfing him in the light. Shinrai ran forward under a Crab, stabbing upwards through it before it could attack. Panting, he returned back to where Yumi and the now transformed Ulrich stood.

Ulrich's normal green headband was gone, but now was replaced with a dark red headband. Shinrai laughed and clapped Ulrich on the shoulder.

"Well, lets take them out!" Ulrich yelled before supersprinting at one of the Crabs. He used one more step and used a Draw slash technique to shut down a crab.

(A/N: Draw Techniques are when you unsheathe a sword and attack in one fluid motion, I have used them once or twice.)

"Where are they materializing from!" Yumi asked as she threw her fan at a Tarantula, using her other to block a shot from a Cockroach.

"I don't know, but there isn't enough time to ask Jeremie!" Shinrai replied as Yumi jumped into the air. Shinrai spun his spear low to the ground, in a circle. The spearblade hit the Cockroaches beginning to surround Yumi and caused small explosions to happen. "There, thats one!"

"You still owe me one more!" Yumi called back as she did a frontflip through a ring of fire emitted from a Block. 'Former Block,' Thought Yumi as her fan hit the block with pure accuracy. Ulrich jumped backwards, his blade blocking one of the shots from the slowly advancing creatures.

(I am sorry for the last chapter being short, I hope this makes up for it, please review, please please please review, the people who review on this chapter will get props and be mentioned in my stories.)