I kinda decided 'what the hell, i'll write another one.' So I did. Two chappys in one day, i'm happy. YAY!

(Ulrich P.O.V.)

I get to the factory and immediately head for the scanners telling Jeremie to virtualize me right away. He does and I land deftly in the Desert Sector. The battle is raging around me and I waste no time. Pulling out my sword, I run over and stab the nearest crab. It explodes but some of the shards hit me.

"That's five life points lost Ulrich." Jeremie's voice booms in the sky.

"Thanks Jeremie, but who's counting?" I reply.

"Obviously me. Guys, I think XANA has just created a new monster."

"What is it, and how do we kill it?" Odd replies, finishing off one hornet.

"I don't know, but it only has five life points."

"Five, is that it?" I reply. Why would XANA create such a weak monster?

"Yah, but there's a line of code that isn't in any of his other monsters."

"Which means?" Yumi asks before slicing through a block.

"Um, I'm not sure. Wait, here it is… Oh my god! Guys, this is a kamikaze monster. It will sacrifice itself just to kill you, it explodes on contact. It has a blast radius of ten feet."

"A kamikaze monster? What does it look like?" Yumi asks, blocking a few shots from a roachster.

"I don't know, I don't have a visual."

"I do Jeremie. And it looks like a cheetah." I say, looking warily at it. It does indeed look like a cheetah, just much skinnier, with the XANA symbol on its chest, right in front. It's just standing there, waiting for something. Then another one is materialized next to it. And another. Another one appears and then they seem to stop.

"This new monster is built for speed and agility. It is faster any of the vehicles and it can jump 50 feet."

"Jeremie, there's four of them." I say, finishing off the last megatank with a quick stab.

"One for each of you. And I figured out what XANA is doing, just not why."

"What's he doing?"

"He has control of a cargo jet, a fully-automated one. He plans to crash it into the school. It will hit the auditorium in less than ten minutes."

"Someone has to go warn the school, I don't think we can finish this in ten minutes." Yumi says.

"Jeremie, call Macas. Don't tell him how or why, just tell him he needs to make sure everyone is out of the auditorium." Aelita suggests.

(Macas P.O.V.)

My cell phone rings while I'm in my dorm, working on my computer programming homework.

That's weird. I haven't told anyone I even have a cell phone.

"Hello?" I answer.

"Macas, this is Jeremie. I need you to do something for me. It's extremely important!"

"Sure… Jeremie how did you-"

"Not now, I'll tell you later. You need to make sure everyone is out of the auditorium and surrounding area, a plane is going to crash full on!" I sit there bewildered for a second… then-

"Sure Jeremie. I'll do that."

"You have less than nine minutes to do so. Hurry!" He says and hangs up.

I race down the he auditorium and check my watch. Six minutes. I run inside and take two minutes to check and see if anyone is there. All empty. I run outside and check the grounds. Two minutes left, I can hear the roar of the engines as the plane approaches. No one is around. That's good luck. I run as fast from the auditorium as fast as I can when the plane hits. The result is the most ear-shattering, ground shaking, loudest thing I have ever heard in my life hundredfold.

(Ulrich P.O.V.)

I have just finished off the last crab, and those jaguars haven't moved since they were virtualized. A booming voice sounds from the sky, not Jeremie's.

"Humans, I have corrupted your devirtualization program. You will still be devirtualized, but when you are, you will feel all of the wounds you have sustained here. My new monsters will have enough power to kill any of you on contact. When you are hit, you will return to your world, dead. I must thank you for a most enjoyable few years. Everyone else who has fought against me has perished, and no one has been able to materialize Aelita. Good-bye. I shall honor you when I rule the world as the most worthy opponents I have ever fought."

"What was that Jeremie?" I say to him, ready to fight against these new monsters, I think I'll just call them jags.

"I think that was XANA guys. But what are we going to do?"

"We have to get devirtualized, but not by these new Jags." I say. "It'll have to be one of us."

"Are you saying we should kill each other? That would still kill us." Yumi says.

"No, XANA has just managed to corrupt the program a few seconds ago. Any blow that wouldn't kill you in the real world will not kill you here." Jeremie says.

"I'll kill us. I can easy enough take out these new Jags." Odd says, ready to try anything.

"No Odd, getting shot would kill us in the real world. As well as getting sliced in half by a fan. It will have to be me." I say, bowing my head.

Losing Yumi would tear my heart in half. I love Odd as I would a brother, as well as Jeremie and Aelita. But Yumi… Yumi is different. I love Yumi. Not like a friend, but something more…

"No, I'm sure there must be some other way…" Aelita says.

Sweet Aelita. You are always so kind. I know I will die here. There is no way I can beat four Jags. But if I can get Aelita to the tower, the rest of the world will be saved.

"Watch out, here they come!" Yumi yells, and we all dive out of the way. The jags speed past us, and turn around for another attack. Holy shit, they are fast. Faster than anything I have ever seen before. My overbike looks slow compared to them.

(Macas P.O.V.)

I turn and stare as the whole auditorium collapses in flame and smoke. There is a small child behind me, he stares too. He must have been playing in the park. I stare in horror as I see thousands of glass shards flying in every direction, including the boy and me.

"Watch out kid!" I yell, but too late, there's no time. I dive in front of him to stop the glass from tearing him limb from limb. I scream in agony as every single shard hits me in the back and arms, my legs and head, every part of me is yelling out in pain. I fall to the ground in front of the kid, he is crying.

"Don't worry, everything is going to be alright…" I say soothingly, trying to keep my voice from shaking. My blood is running off of me, I can feel it. The grass underneath me is getting stained red.

"Can you do me a f-favor?" I say, choking up a bit.

"W-w-what you want?" He says quietly.

"If you ever meet a guy named Ulrich Stern, tell him Macas said thanks for everything."

"Okay."

"You promise?"

"I promise."

"Thank you" I say and I black out, knowing I will die soon.

(Ulrich P.O.V.)

"Guys, I may have a solution. I can devirtualize you, but it will take me some time." Jeremie says.

"How much Jeremie?" Says Yumi, throwing her fan at an approaching Jag, only to miss.

"About 5 minutes." He says, we can hear the sound of his typing from here.

"We don't have that much time!" Odd says. Luckily he hits one of the Jags full on, making it explode, killing its partner.

"There's no time Jeremie." I say, standing useless.

There is only one way to save them. I have to save them, even if it kills me!

"Good-bye guys, I'm not going to make it out of this alive." I unsheathe my sword and pull into ready stance.

"Ulrich what are you-" Odd says but never finishes.

I have just sliced Yumi and Odd on the arm, taking away the rest of their life points, devirtualizing them. I didn't want to hurt them, so I hit them where it would hurt the least: Their arms. They can handle having sliced arms… right?

"Ulrich! How could you do that? If you had hit them anywhere else it would have killed them!" Jeremie yells.

"I had no choice Jeremie. I will not let Odd and Yumi die because I was unwilling to make a sacrifice." I say grabbing Aelita, and running off at supersprint towards the tower.

"Ulrich, they're catching up!" Aelita yells at me. I look back, and sure enough, they are gaining on me. And quickly too.

"Ulrich! I have an idea!" Aelita says quickly.

"Anything Aelita, just hurry." While I am running, Aelita sings. That pure note that can change the face of this world. I look back and a wall has just appeared. One of the Jags has too much momentum, and slams into it, exploding instantly.

"Good one Aelita!" I yell, taking off again.

The other one actually jumped over the wall and continued its pursuit towards Aelita and me. Luckily I arrive at the tower. Unfortunately, XANA has put it at the top of a fifty foot cliff.

"Aelita, materialize some stairs for you to walk up, I'll distract the Jag long enough for you to get up there."

"But Ulrich, just run me to the top!"

"I can't the Jag will just jump up there, I have to lead him away." I say. All of the sudden I get this horrible feeling in my chest, it feels like my heart having a chunk sliced out of it… Macas has gotten hurt. I can just feel it.

"Go Aelita!" Aelita quickly materializes the stairs and takes off running. I run off in another direction, leading the Jag away from Aelita.

"Jeremie, can I talk to Yumi on the headset really quick? I have to tell her something…" I say as I run. The Jag is getting closer, I don't have much time.

"I'll put her on, but you have to hurry, the plane has just collided with the school!"

You're a little late Jeremie…

"Ulrich?" Yumi says.

"Yumi, I should have told you this a long time ago. I love you. More than a friend, more than a sister, more than anything I can describe. I wanted you to know that knowing you, even as a good friend, has made my last couple years the best in my life."

"Ulrich?"

"Yes Yumi?"

"Do you- do you really mean that?"

"With all my heart Yumi."

"I love you too… you can't die like this!" I can tell she is in tears, just from the sound of her voice.

"Yumi, good-bye." I said mostly to myself, but right there that I decided there was no way I was gonna let some son of a bitch Jag kill me and take me away from Yumi! Feeling an incredible warmth that must be Yumi's love, I got an amazing burst of speed, so fast that the landscape would be just a blur to anyone else. But to me… I was loving every minute of it. I could see every detail as if I was walking. But I was so fast, the Jag was crawling compared to me. There was just one little problem. This super-supersprint was wearing me out, fast. I was so grateful when Aelita finally reached the tower. I flew past the jag and sliced it in half, running out of range before the explosion could kill me.

"Yumi, I need you to put Jeremie on." I say. I'm exhausted. If I'm not careful, I could fall unconscious, lose the rest of my life points and die. I would most likely wake up in a coma in the scanner room.

"What's up Ulrich?"

"I felt something. I don't know how, but I know Macas is hurt. He was hurt while saving someone."

"How could you know that?"

"I don't know."

AELITA

"I think Macas might be dying." I say before I just collapse. I can't move, I'm exhausted. I just lay there.

CODE:

"Let's hope you're wrong Ulrich." Jeremie says. I feel myself getting weaker, and look down to see my body slowly devirtualizing. Hurry up Aelita!

LYOKO

"Return to the past now."

I give a great sigh of relief as I see the great white light envelope me.

Muahahaha. Evil cliffy. I like cliffys. Well, i hate it when i'm reading a story, but I love putting them in! Muahaha, you're all going to hate me now!