When the second wave of monsters was dropped from the UFOs, the students fought back with extraordinary zeal. But even as the monsters fell, more came to replace them, and as they slowly shot to pieces the defenses they had put up, it became clear that they were fighting a losing battle.
With the safety they had built for themselves crumbling and the piles of rocks diminishing, many of the students took to hiding behind the decaying walls of debris, fearing for their lives, instead of continuing to fight. And Sissi's encouragement, while a good intention, was not helping.
"C'mon, you!" She shouted at a huddled group. "Are you pathetic losers going to stay there and let those ugly aliens walk all over us? Are you!"
"Sissi," Said Odd, who was standing near her, firing at monsters, "I think they might be a little more encouraged if you don't insult them."
"Shut your mouth!" She retorted. "William, do you know where we can get more rocks?"
"Umm.." Said William, uncertainly.
"I'll get them." Said Yumi. She put her hands to her head, and her entire body took on a soft, white aura.
The rocks that had already been hurled and were lying strewn about the courtyard rose up into the air, and started flying back towards where they were, many of them flying right through monsters in the process. They settled back into the piles they had made.
"Whoa." Said William, wide-eyed. "I didn't know you could do telekinesis."
"Only here in cyberspace."
"Wait. How do you know we're in cyberspace?"
"Ummm..." Yumi said, a little afraid that she may have said a little too much. "Ummm... I'd better go help Ulrich! Be back later!"
Ulrich was in front of the walls the kids were hiding behind, deflecting lasers away from the other kids with his sword. He smiled and nodded when Yumi ran up next to him and started using her fans to block the lasers along with him. William and Sissi, watching them, were clearly impressed.
"You'd think they had done this together before." Said William. "And those weapons look like they were designed with defeating those aliens in mind."
"You sound jealous." Said Sissi, mockingly. "And its not of their skill, either."
"Don't you start. I can see you're jealous too." This made Sissi turn bright red.
Odd get out his cell phone and held it to his ear with one hand while firing arrows with the other. He called Jeremie, who was still in the dorm room.
"Jeremie! Things are getting really hot around here! Are you almost done with those vehicles? Because they could really help down here!"
"They're almost ready, Odd. Just a few more codes."
"Ok. keep us posted." He hung up, and then ducked to avoid a laser. He fired back, destroying the kankrelat that fired it.
It was then though that the two flying saucers came back, with a fresh load of monsters to unload and packing the heavy artillery. Two megatanks rolled into position, and then fired their elliptical lasers, resulting in two neat gashes in the walls that the kids had built.
"We're never going to make it!" Yumi shouted to the others behind the walls.
"Wait!" Shouted Aelita, who had been up to this point been throwing rocks with the other kids. "I've got an idea!"
Aelita dropped to her knees, closed her eyes, and let out a long, high note. The monsters' half of the courtyard began to disappear, as it lost color, turned transparent, and then the terrain grid underneath disappeared. This, unfortunately for the monsters, left a good number of them without any ground to stand on. They plummeted downward into the void, screeching all the way.
"Nice going, Aelita." Said Ulrich. "But that is most certainly not the last of them." Ulrich was right. The monsters which had not fallen into the hole were regrouping, and starting to fire again. But they weren't going to be firing for very long.
Odd's cell phone rang, and he picked it up.
"Odd!" Said Jeremie on the other side. "I've done it! The vehicles should be materializing behind you right now. Hold on down there, I'm coming to meet you."
"Guys!" Shouted Odd to Ulrich and Yumi. "Lets go! The vehicles are ready!" Yumi and Ulrich ran back behind the walls, and hopped on. The three of them flew up into the air and started attacking the monsters from above. They were totally unprepared for the attack, and were soon all gone except for a single kankrelat. It turned and ran, only to be kicked over by Tamiya, who then picked it up and banged it repeatedly against a tree until it was scrap.
The schoolyard was quiet. Until some hurried footsteps and panting sounded, and Jeremie ran outside.
"Did we win?" Asked Jeremie.
"And where were you?" Asked William, a little angrily. "We were fighting for our lives out here!"
"I was... um.. I was.." Jeremie never got to finish the excuse. At that moment, a laser blast fired from the sky, and blasted the section of dormitories Jeremie had been a few minutes earlier into a fiery wreck.
"The flying saucers are back!" Someone cried, pointing into the sky.
The cannons on one of the two saucers powered up again, letting loose a blast that smashed through the roof of the administrative building. The teachers of the school had been totally unaware of the battle that had been just fought outside, and had been spending the entire time doing various things with a telephone, a computer, and a TV set in an attempt to contact someone from Earth. Their efforts had not been entirely unsuccessful; their SOS calls had been coming out of the supercomputer's speakers, but of course there was no one there to hear them.
Now they were running out of the building, coughing on the smoke.
"Do you think that there are more monsters inside the saucers?" Asked Yumi.
"Probably." Said Ulrich. "But given the fact that we beat all the monsters they sent down earlier, they're probably going to stick with firing down from the sky, where its safe. Jeremie, do you have any bright ideas?"
"I do!" Shouted Odd. He jumped on the overboard and took off, heading straight for the saucers, while the kids and teachers on the ground watched in disbelief.
"Hey..." Said Mrs. Hertz. "Where'd he get the flying surfboard?"
"Odd!" Shouted Ulrich. "Have you gone completely bananas?"
Odd flew directly up to one of the saucers. He found a window on one side.
Peering in, he saw an unfamiliar humanoid monster- an automaton- sitting at a control panel. He waved to it.
"Hi there!" He said. "Catch me if you can!"
He flew upwards, and the cannons turned to follow him. They shot through the air at him, but it was like trying to kill a fly with a shotgun. He flew around the ship in circles, and then flew over and waved to the automaton inside the other ship. Now both ships were firing at him, with disastrous results for both of them. Odd flew between them, they fired, missed, and instead blew each other to pieces.
The kids and teachers on the ground looked upward in stunned silence for a while, and then started cheering. Odd landed back on the ground, a big grin on his face.
"Odd," Said Ulrich, with a smile on his face. "Sometimes I have no idea if you're being really brave or really stupid."
"Well guys," Said Jeremie, walking up. "It looks like things are all clear here for now. We should go."
"Go? go where?" Said William.
"There." Jeremie pointed to the form of Lyoko, floating peacefully in the sky.
"To the alien home world?" Said William, questioning them.
"I guess you could call it that. Don't worry. We're going to get the school back to Earth. I don't have time to explain, but trust that we can do it, okay?"
"Got it."
"The 'aliens', as you call them, may attack again. Can you defend the school while we're away?"
"Don't worry. We can handle it." William gave a thumbs up.
"Alright then. Let's go, guys."
Jeremie and Ulrich hopped onto the overbike, Yumi and Aelita on the overwing, Odd on the overboard, and took off into the sky. Before long they were mere specks against the background of the void, heading fast for Lyoko.
"So long, and good luck!" Shouted William after them, waving along with the other kids.