Chapter 10: Glitch

Now in Aelita and Yumi's room, Yumi is tossing and turning in her bed as she shoots awake.

I can't sleep. Maybe a walk will clear my head.

She looks over at Aelita who is sleeping comfortably.

At least she is sleeping peacefully.

She then moves her feet out and puts on her slippers as she walks out the door.

A little later as she I walking down the halls, she sees Sword Hunter walking out of her room with an annoyed look on her face. Then she sees Yumi and says. "My roommate won't turn off her computer and go to bed, the glow was bugging me. So why are you out here?"

"Couldn't sleep," she replied coldly as she continued to walk by.

"Let me guess, you and samurai have been up all night," Susan mentioned with a mischief grin on her face.

"What are you talking about? Yumi asked as she looked back at the Team Sin member.

"What, he didn't confess his feelings towards you yet, even with that extra help I gave him yesterday at the gym. He must need a few more tips."

"Wait, hold up! What do you mean you helped him at the gym yesterday?" Yumi asked.

"Oh it was nothing. I was just showing him how to tell how he feels towards you. He was so nervous, it was adorable the way he acted," Susan giggled as Yumi had a shock look on her face.

So that's what he was doing with her the other day, and I... oh I completely blew it. He was trying to... oh man I screwed up.

"Yumi, are you ok?" Sword Hunter asked with a confused look on her face.

"Yeah I'm fine, I just got to get back to my room," she replied as she walked off and Sword Hunter thought with a grin on her face.

Love, such a strange thing it is.

Now with Jeremy, he is flipping through the pages of information and he thought.

I can't believe this, everything about Aelita right in my hands. But using it would be wrong, yet on the other hand I could just use it to help with a few surprises for Aelita.

Now the next day, the team besides Yumi is at the Food Court and the team is a bit nervous about their match up later today. "Well, we have to hope we are ready," Jeremy said.

"We might have been complete screw ups in the training Einstein, but we will give it our all when it is needed," Odd replied.

"Yeah, don't worry about us. We will beat Team Hyper," Ulrich added.

"I hope you are right you two. Are you ready Aelita?" the team's Controller asked.

"Yeah, I'm ready," she replied with a smile on her face.

"Hey Princess, where is Yumi?" Odd asked as he eats his mash potatoes.

"I tried to wake her up but she fell right back asleep. She must have gotten to sleep late last night."

"Maybe they will let me have her share," the strange teammate thought aloud.

"I will go check on her," Ulrich offered as he walked off.

He then walked into the Hotel entrance on his way to the elevators as he remembers what Yumi said to him and he thinks.

Maybe she has calmed down now, I need to get all of this cleared up.

But just then, he bumped into someone and said. "Sorry," then he looked up and saw Will and added in shock. "William, what are you doing here?"

"I came here to cheer on Yumi and the rest of her team, just yesterday I took her out for lunch."

Ulrich's hand turns into a fist at what Will just said. "Well I am going to go now," he replied in a dark tone as he walked off to the elevator.

Now Ulrich walked up to her room and knocked on her door. "Yumi, are you up?"

Yumi then shot up from her bed and thinks.

Ulrich, oh I hope he isn't to mad at me right now.

She gets out of bed and heads towards the door. When she opens it she sees no one in sight.

I'm guessing, he is mad at me. I wouldn't blame him.

Now at the stadium, Team Kiwi and Team Hyper are ready to go as the Announcer says. "It's another great day for a Lyoko Tournament, am I right!"

The crowed cheers as Ulrich sees William drinking a soda in the stands and the brown hair teen's hand turned into a fist by his side.

"Now are you ready for the next match?"

The Announcer calls out as the cheers get louder. "Now this isn't just any match, since both of these teams have one loss this is, a Termination Match. No matter what happens, one of these teams will be disqualified for the rest of the Tournament and have the disgrace of being the first team to lose for this year's Championship. Now let's get this match started!"

The cheers get louder as the Controllers head to their stations and the team heads to the pods. The Towers then activate as the Announcer says. "Begin!"

"Scanning, Transfer, and Virtualization!" the two Controllers announced as the pods close and as all of them transfer, error comes on their screens and complete looks of shock come on the Controller's faces.

"What is going on here?" Jeremy asked as he looked over the transfer program. "What a mess."

"What did you do Team Kiwi!" the Controller of Team Hyper shouted out.

"Oh right, I messed up my own program as well," Jeremy yelled back as he got on his headset. "Aelita, there was a problem with the Transfer, is ev..."

"Everyone is fine and accounted for," she replied as Jeremy took a sigh of relief.

"Well, there is something wrong here, head to a deactivated Tower so we can check the system," Jeremy instructed.

"Folks, we seem to be having technical difficultly, the Teams are going to find out what is wrong and we will get back to the Tournament," the Announcer said to the audience.

Now with Team Hyper as Twister wearing a strange armor that has small twisters around her body parts says. "Just great, we have a chance to wipe the floor with that team and we have to work on a computer."

"The game has only started, we will have them beaten by the end," Poker wearing a full body armor suit made of poker cards replied as many cards float around him.

"Well, let's get this done so we can have a real thrill," Reality said as he placed his hand on the ground and a Flying Mantis appeared with an R where the eye should be in front of him and he jumps on its back. "You ready Destruere?"

The young girl in a white dress nods her head with a smile on her face. "Yes, I can't wait to have fun," then she jumped on the Flying Mantis, Poker used his cards to make a platform below him to float while Twister made a tornado below her and they head off.

Now with Team Kiwi as they arrived at the Tower. Aelita walked into the tower as the rest relaxed outside.

She floated up to the platform. "I'm in Jeremy," she said as she was searching through the files. "That's strange. The Transfer Program doesn't usually have the Lyoko Monster's in it."

Now with the team, they are sitting or pacing back and forth as Yumi walked over to Ulrich. "Ulrich, I need to talk to you."

Ulrich looks at her and replied. "Like what you said last night, save it."

Yumi jumped back a bit from his actions towards her and replied. "I know I deserve that and probably more, but I just wanted to apologies for how I acted yesterday."

Ulrich seems to ease up a little. "Thanks."

Now back in the tower, Aelita keeps searching as a shocked look appears on her face. "I just found out what is going on Jeremy, somehow a virus got into the Transfer Program. We can't Transfer back until the Tower is deactivated."

Now outside the Tower, a Roachsters walks over as Ulrich says. "You get it Odd, your closer."

Odd gets up and aims his arm at the creature just as Jeremy informed. "Watch out guys, a virus has infected the Transfer Program. Losing all of your life points can prove fatal."

Just then, Odd fired as the creature fired as well. The creature was destroyed but Odd got hit right in the chest. "Oh no, Odd just lost fifty life points already. At this rate he will..."

"Calm down Jeremy, we will get through this," Ulrich replied calmly. "I bet the scientists are already fixing this problem, but in the mean time, is there anything we can do about it?"

"Yes there is," Aelita replied as she walked out of the Tower. "When we shut down the Activated Tower the Virus will shut down as well."

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Odd asked. "We still have a tournament to win."

Now back in the real world, the audience is shocked from what is happening as the Announcer says. "I have just gotten word that the Scientists are working as fast as possible to fix this problem before any harm comes to our two teams."

And when that is going on, I will try a few things of my own.

Jeremy thought as he brings up a few other screens and types in endless streams of computer codes.

Now back in Lyoko as our heroes are hiding behind a rock and on the other side is the activated tower. But as they look over they see between the rock and the Tower is two Megatanks and three Krabs. "Do you feel like someone is out to get us?" Odd asked.

"Well, we have to get Aelita to the Tower, so let's get this done," Yumi replied.

"Guys, I can't have you risk your lives like this for me, you don't have to do this right now," Aelita pleaded.

"Sooner or later those creatures will find us and besides, if you are devirtualized so is the rest of us," Ulrich replied.

"Besides, Jeremy would feel horrible if we let anything happen to you," Odd said as Aelita blushed.

"What makes you say that?"

"No reason, I just like seeing you blush," he then smiled as they got ready to take on the creatures.

Then they jumped out as the creatures focused on them. Yumi throws her fan at the middle Krab and it hits the mark and it returns back to her hand then used her other one to block the shot from another Krab.

"Triplicate," Ulrich yelled as three of him surrounded one of the Megatanks as it tries to track where he is but Ulrich jumped and said. "Impact!" and plunged his sword into the eye and jumps back just as the Krab fires twice and hits his clones and fires again but blocks it with his sword.

Now Odd is being chased by the last Megatank as it focuses and fires. Odd jumped to the left just in time, circled, and jumped on the sphere. "Laser arrow!" he yelled as he fired right at the eye, jumped off as the tank rolled back and blew up.

Now Odd signaled to Aelita to make a break for the Activated Tower as Ulrich leaps up in the air and stabs the Krab right through the head and blew it up.

Then Yumi threw her fan at the Krab as it fired at her. The fan hit the eye as the laser hit her right in the chest and she flies backwards towards the edge of the ground as Ulrich calls out. "Yumi!"

She just missed the ledge as everyone watching was on the edge of their seats.

Just at the last second, Ulrich leaned over the edge and grabbed her arm and everyone took a huge sigh of relief.

Ulrich pulled his teammate back up. "Thanks Ulrich," she said as they look at each other and slowly move closer.

Now in the tower, Aelita floats up to the platform and places her hand on the screen. Her name appears and she inputs the code as right outside Yumi and Ulrich stop right before their lips met and the screen says. "Game over, Team Kiwi Wins!"

Now in the Rec Room at Kadic Jr. High, everyone is cheering at the victory as Sissy looks as if she is about to rip someone's head off.

I can't believe it, he still went with her! Well I will have to think of a way to change that.

She thought as she stomped off out of the room.

Now back at the Stadium as William crushes the can in his hand and walked off out of the room, not noticing someone who followed him out.

Now as the teams appear in the pods. Team Hyper are ticked at their loss as Yumi and Ulrich have bright red faces.

"Well, even with all of problems we still had a great match and Team Kiwi came out victorious!" the Announcer said as the crowd cheers but he adds. "Also for the Lyoko Couple of this year's Tournament, Ulrich Stern and Yumi Ishiyama!"

Their faces grow a darker shade of red as Ulrich said. "I can't believe we did that right on national television."

"We must have, just got caught up in the moment," she replied.

"Team Hyper, better luck next year but let's get on with the present time and find out who will be facing off tomorrow!" the Announcer said as the screen behind him randomizes the Teams and Location and shows. "Our next match will be Team Shadow at the Desert Region VS Team Sin in the Ice Realm!"

Now outside the building as we see William punching the wall and mumbling to himself.

"Why did she have to have feelings for Ulrich?"

Just then he hears a voice off to his side. "William Dunbar, age fourteen, currently has feelings for Yumi Ishiyama and attending Kadic Jr. High because he was kicked out of his other school by distributing love notes all over the campus, luckily they don't know the whole reason you were kicked out."

William has a shocked look in his eyes as he focuses on Shadow from Team Sin. "Who are you, how, how do you know about that?"

"My name is Shadow, and it is my job to know. I wonder what would happen if the truth happen to appear in the emails in all of the students at your school," Shadow asked as William's hand turned into a fist.

"So what is this about, are you blackmailing me?"

Shadow just holds up a disk in a case and William asks. "What is that?"

"This, this is Yumi. Her life, her favorite things, even her childhood, I think something like this would be very valuable to you."

William is in shock as Shadow continues. "Now by getting here you must have money to spare, I was going to offer this to Ulrich but I see that he doesn't need it anymore. Think about it Will, with this you will make Ulrich look like a complete fool as you sweep Yumi off her feet. And all I ask is three hundred dollars, a discount of my normal fee."

Without hesitation, Will gives Shadow three one hundred dollar bills and Shadow hands him the disk.

"I hope it is everything you want," Shadow said as he walked off and thinks.

Hmm, with his past it looks like I just gave a loaded gun to a serial killer. But like if I give a care. If they have the money they can do what ever they want with it.

To Be Continue

Well Ulrich and Yumi are finally together, does this mean they will live happily ever after and I will no longer torture them? LOL Not by a long shot! Read and review.