Chapter Nine: Night Time

"Seriously Ulrich, your kidding right. It's a…" Jeremy started only to be interrupted.

"We know Jeremy," Ulrich said.

"No I don't think you do, It's a…" Jeremy tried again. Odd interrupted.

"It's a human heart!" Odd exclaimed. Yumi gently rested her hand on Ulrich's shoulder.

"It's…"Jeremy tried again, but Aelita interrupted him.

"It's kind of gross." she said.

"STOP! It's not a heart! Look!" Jeremy exclaimed shinning his flashlight on it. "It's a gummy heart, like gummy bears. The blood is strawberry syrup. Blood is thicker, this stuff is runny. See look." Jeremy said pointing to it. Odd grabbed it and took a bite.

"Yum, hey he's right." Odd exclaimed, he has strawberry syrup running down his chin.

"I saw we call it a night," Ulrich said. Everyone nodded and headed for their rooms.

"Night," They all replied in turn. It was 11:30pm and everyone was asleep.

In The Factory-

"Master, we have thirty minutes until they wake up and come here. Are we ready?" Stan asked.

"Yes, we are ready. Now we wait until the moment is precise. When they get here I'll erase Aelita and Yumi's memory. Then I shall make Yumi my personal servant and Aelita will be yours. They will pay for almost destroying Lyoko every time I was in it. It will hurt Yumi, cause she will be mine. It will hurt Ulrich cause he loves the fair maiden. It will hurt Jeremy cause his precious Aelita is gone. It will hurt Odd because that gummy heart will make him thirsty for weeks!" X.A.N.A exclaimed laughing. Stan joined in as the clock counted down.

11:59pm-

The clock suddenly switched over to midnight, Aelita and Yumi sat up in their beds. They stood up and walked towards the door. They were wearing their normal clothes, they were too tired to change into their pajamas. They walked by Odd who was getting a drink.

"Hey, where are you two headed?" he asked. Yumi and Aelita didn't answer they just kept walking. "Umm, hello?" he said. They kept walking, they went down the stairs and out the door. Odd ran back to Ulrich.

"Dude, wake up. Seriously!" Odd exclaimed shaking Ulrich.

"Let…..me…..sleep. Go back to bed Odd," Ulrich murmured, throwing a pillow over his head. Odd thought a moment then said.

"Yumi is going out with William!" he exclaimed. Ulrich shot up in bed.

"What?" he asked.

"Just kidding, but I did see Yumi and Aelita leave. If you look out the window you might catch them." he said. Ulrich jumped out of bed and looked out his window, he saw them slip away into the trees.

"It might be X.A.N.A or something," Ulrich said throwing on his real clothes. "Go wake up Jeremy, I'll try to catch up and stop them." Odd nodded his head and ran off towards Jeremy's room, while Ulrich headed off downstairs and towards the woods. He ran through some trees and came to a man-hole, he saw the cover slip on. Ulrich pulled it off, and climbed down. He closed the cover and almost jumped the whole way down. He heard wheels and saw Yumi and Aelita, on their skateboards and scooter, disappear around the corner.

"Man their fast," Ulrich thought as he grabbed his skateboard and took off after them. He made it to the end and saw Aelita's foot as it climbed up the ladder. Ulrich chased after them. Aelita and Yumi were walking towards the factory when Ulrich caught up to them. He grabbed Yumi, thinking that Aelita would stop walking. He didn't notice when she kept going.

"Yumi, what's gotten into you? Why are you and Aelita going to the factory without us? If something is wrong or X.A.N.A has attacked we should know." Ulrich said. Yumi blinked hard then saw Ulrich.

"Ulrich, where am I?" She asked then fainted in his arms.

"Aelita, what is she…..Aelita?" Ulrich asked looking around. He saw Aelita enter the factory. Ulrich picked Yumi up and ran after her.

"This is not my day," he said. Aelita slid down the cable. Ulrich got to them and set Yumi down,

"You'll be safe up here," he whispered. Then he took off after Aelita. He grabbed her right before she walked into a dark corridor.

"Ulrich, what happened?" She asked. Aelita didn't faint. Ulrich took her back up to Yumi.

"Can you walk with out me holding onto you?" he asked. Aelita nodded her head yes, so Ulrich picked Yumi up and walked out of the factory. They got to the second ladder, when your coming from the school, when Odd and Jeremy popped out.

"Aelita!" Jeremy exclaimed. Jeremy ran over and gave her a hug.

"Is Yumi alright?" Odd asked.

"I don't know, all she said was, Ulrich where am I?" Ulrich replied.

"I don't even remember why we are here." Aelita said. Odd helped Ulrich get Yumi down into the sewers, with Aelita and Jeremy right behind them.

"Drat it all," Stan said, once the lid was shut. "We were so close master."

"Yes, but I fear Yumi's dose is not strong enough, she will be easy to control but she will know everything. She will tell them what she knows, including that she was coming here to meet me and you." X.A.N.A said.

"Then I should beat them back to school, then I can ask what happened when they get close to my room, it will throw me off suspicion. Then I can try and cover for you still master." Stan said.

"Good, now go," X.A.N.A said. Stan ran off through the night.

Ulrich and the gang were walking towards his room. Stan slowly stepped out of his room blinking.

"Hey Ulrich, I'm headed off to the bathrooms, and hey is she alright?" Stan asked.

"Um, yea she's just tired." Ulrich answered. Odd opened the door and they all went into Odd and Ulrich's room.

"Night Stan," Aelita said, closing the door.

"Good night," Stan thought to himself. Laughing inside he walked towards the bathrooms.