"Hopefully we will make it in time." Yumi thought to herself. They waited for the door to open and then headed out.
"Remember you have a time limit, find the key." Jeremy's voice came from above. They raced through the hallway when the heard laser fire. They all doubled their speed and headed towards the noise. They saw Aelita was trying to outwit a couple of Creepers.
"Laser Arrow!" Odd screamed doing a flip onto a wall. He flipped off the wall safely and kept climbing up to the key. Two Creepers were left. Ulrich and Yumi charged forward. Aelita ducked and rolled out of the way as Ulrich and Yumi finished off the remaining two.
"Got it!" Odd exclaimed pushing the key in, then the timer stopped and the room returned to normal.
"What were you thinking!" Yumi exclaimed walking over to Aelita. "You could have been killed." She finished grabbing Aelita by the shoulders.
"Come on Yumi," Ulrich said grabbing her hands to release her grip on Aelita's shoulders. "It's not that extreme. She would have just lost some life points like always no big deal.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that whoever virtualized us also messed with the super computer, it hurts when we loose life points. If we die it's game over permanently." Yumi said with a straight face, allowing Ulrich to take her hands off Aelita's shoulders.
"She's right, but it appears to only have affected Aelita and Yumi. Odd and Ulrich appear to be fine." Jeremy said casually. "I can fix it though give me a mi…nut…e, there done. Your both as good as new."
"Funny detail to miss," Odd said, walking over to them.
"Come on we have to get the information, so we can unblock the superscan and find the towers." Aelita said.
"But we know where they are." Odd said
"But once we type in the code and get back to the real world the superscan will still be messed up unless we fix it now. We won't know ever again if X.A.N.A attacks." Aelita replied heading for the door. The others followed her out.
"Aelita, Yumi, if X.A.N.A is still controlling that one guy that kidnapped you then won't he come after Jeremy, or the factory? I mean why didn't he or she stop us." Odd asked.
"Yumi didn't you tell them? It was Wil……" Aelita began.
"Well of course I didn't I mean we really don't know who did it right?" Yumi said interrupting Aelita. Yumi knew that if Ulrich found out he would freak. Better he didn't know then to have him be angry. Aelita looked at Yumi curiously and then realized why she didn't want her to tell. Ulrich and Odd looked from Yumi back to Aelita.
"Alright, one of you knows something and I'm not leaving until you tell me." Ulrich said stopping.
"You might have to do that later, you're nearing the pass." Jeremy's voice came from above. They waited for it to come around and jumped on. They rode it until it came to a stop. While Aelita worked to get Jeremy back in control, He brought up their vehicles.
"Hurry Aelita the Mantas are coming in 5...4...3...2...1... now!" Jeremy's voice rang out in urgency. Just then the manta rays burst form the walls and were set to attack them.
"You two go ahead and get them, I'll stay here this time and guard Aelita." Odd said looking at Ulrich and Yumi. They both nodded and jumped onto their vehicles. They both headed straight for the manta rays. As the Mantas started to lay their mines out Ulrich and Yumi were forced to split up. They ducked to avoid mines, but they also had Mantas on their tails. Yumi was having trouble with two on her tail, while Ulrich was managing with one. Trying to duck from the them and the mines took so much concentration that they didn't notice X.A.N.A had them trapped. The Mantas had led them into the middle of all the mines and then left, trapping them. One wrong step with their vehicles and it was a massive explosion. Ulrich and Yumi were trapped and the Mantas were headed to Aelita and Odd. Ulrich and Yumi looked at each other hopping the other had an idea.
"Hey, I've got an idea. Jeremy can you have me vehicle devitalized when I give the signal?" Yumi asked looking down.
"Well, yea but you'll fall straight into the mines Yumi. Either way you falling won't help us." Jeremy answered confused.
"Right, but if Ulrich jumps onto my vehicle and, Odd catches us we can help him defeat them. Then we can find a way to get back to Ulrich's vehicle and we still have two vehicles, which is enough to get us out of here.
"Fine by me," Ulrich said getting ready to jump onto Yumi's vehicle without trying to hit any mines. Yumi tightened her grip and moved as far forward as she could. Ulrich jumped and landed, barely rocking the vehicle. Ulrich tightened his arms around her waist, that way it would be easier for Odd to catch them both.
"Just be careful." Jeremy said from above.
"I know and don't worry we will." She answered watching as Odd drew closer. "Ok Jeremy on 3.…..2.…..1.…..Now!" She shouted. A split second they were falling. They had to maneuver carefully, with one wrong move the bombs would trigger all the way back to Ulrich's vehicle and their ticket out of here. When they were through, Odd was ready below to catch them. Yumi landed gently on the back of his board grabbing onto Odd's waist. Ulrich still holding onto Yumi landed gently on the back of the board. Odd, after making sure Yumi had a good grip and Ulrich was on, sped back to Aelita.
" We have to hurry Aelita is probably is probably having a party without us." Odd said maneuvering around a stray bomb. As they neared where Aelita was hiding they saw she had come out of hiding and was trying to finish what she was doing. While, also, avoiding the Mantas. Odd increased their sped to the maximum. When they got close enough Yumi jumped off and blocked a bomb from hitting Aelita, while Ulrich knocked out one of the Mantas and Odd guided the board to Aelita. Yumi stayed with Aelita this time while Odd and Ulrich hoped onto the overboard and went to get the other two Mantas.
"Almost done," Aelita said when Yumi had walked over to her. "Shouldn't we tell them who X.A.N.A is controlling. What if he comes after Jeremy?"
"I hadn't thought of that" Yumi admitted. " We can tell him now that way Ulrich and Odd won't hear about it."
"Jeremy what about the person X.A.N.A is controlling. What if he comes to the factory." Aelita asked. "We know who it is."
"Yea, so do I William's in the tunnel." Jeremy answered. Yumi and Aelita glanced at each other. Then Aelita hurried back to her work.
"Done," three voices replied. Odd and Ulrich had finished destroying the Mantas, and Aelita had finished
"We even got my vehicle back. Odd's board can maneuver more easily than mine, so we got all the way to mine and then zoomed out triggering almost all of the mines." Ulrich said with a smile.
"Great," Aelita answered jumping no the back of Odd's vehicle. "We have to hurry, William is being controlled by X.A.N.A and he's almost to Jeremy." Ulrich looked at Yumi while she jumped on the back of his vehicle. Yumi just gave him a half apologetic smile. Odd took off for the passage that Jeremy had set up. Ulrich followed and they disappeared.
"It looks like there are more monsters in the desert region. Ulrich, Yumi you to head there and clean up. Odd and Aelita can handle what's at the mountain region. Odd turned to the nearest tower and disappeared down the vortex to the mountain region.
"Let's hope this tower is the one used to control William." Odd said coming out of the tower.
"Odd, Aelita head west, that's where you'll find the tower. Careful though a few Hornets are guarding the tower." Jeremy said.
"That's ok, I have a plan," Odd said winking at Aelita. Aelita just laughed.
Arriving at the tower, Odd ran up on foot to get the kankerlots attention. Aelita was on the overboard a little ways away, waiting for Odd's signal.
"Hey fellas, ready for this? Laser arrow! Laser arrow!" Odd shouted taking out two of the three Hornets. Odd ran the other direction away from the tower, and when he saw the Hornet was following him he waved Aelita to head towards the tower. Aelita zoomed over towards the tower, and while Odd was watching to make sure she made it safe he got hit once by the Hornet and another time by an oncoming Block.
"Hey Jeremy, thanks for the heads up." Odd said ducking and rolling out of range of another laser blast.
"Sorry, but, watch up you only have forty life points left. You took a major hit there." Jeremy said nervously above. Odd ducked and shot another laser arrow at the Hornet.
"Direct hit!" Odd shouted as the Hornet disappeared.
"Odd behind you! You still have a Block to deal with!" Jeremy shouted as the Block charged up to fire. Odd turned around and shot another laser arrow but missed as the Block fired. It hit Odd in the arm. Not a direct hit, but still a hit.
"Odd careful, only twenty life points left." Jeremy said.
"No big Einstein, that's more than enough." he answered. Meanwhile, in the tower Aelita was typing in the last letter of L.Y.O.K.O.
"Tower deactivated." she said. As the tower returned to normal and out of X.A.N.A's control Jeremy analyzed which of the things X.A.N.A had messed with was back to normal. Aelita stepped out of the tower and ended up in between Odd and the Block. It turned its attention towards her and charged to fire. As Aelita stood frozen not knowing what to do, Odd leaped in the air doing a summersault and landed in front of Aelita. Odd charged forward in a desperate attempt to knock out the Block only to get hit himself.
"Ten life points left Odd." Jeremy shouted at him worried.
"Aelita get on the board and head over to Ulrich and Yumi." Odd said aiming to hit the Block. "Just in case I miss." He said with a hint of laughter in his voice. As Aelita ran over to the over-board Odd and the Block were in a stare down match. As the Block fired Odd did to and at the same time they were both dematerialized.
"Head for the desert region Aelita, they are almost done with the monsters there." Jeremy answered watching as Odd rematerialized back on Earth. As Aelita headed off Jeremy checked the cameras, and saw William had entered the factory.
"Well I guess the super scan is back to normal then." Jeremy said watching as William drew closer..
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