Chapter Four: The First

Ulrich and Yumi were having a difficult time knocking out the monsters on their own. They had already gotten rid of five Krabes, two Kankerlats, and a few Blocks, but their were still four Krabes left and a Mega tank on the way. Two Krabes for Ulrich and two for Yumi. Ulrich was on his vehicle heading to one of the Krabes, while Yumi was on foot flipping out of the way of a laser blast. While Ulrich tried to get to the top of the krab to sink his sword in it, he didn't notice the other one was going after Yumi. Yumi had just gotten to the top of one when another Krabes blasted her in the leg throwing her off.

"Yumi sixty life points," came Jeremy's voice. Ulrich had just gotten to the top and sunk his sword in when he looked over and saw she was up against three Krabes. Ulrich jumped off onto his vehicle and zoomed over to help her.

"Darn it, I thought my other one was behind me still." Ulrich said almost wanting to kick himself in the head. As Yumi jumped out of the way of another blast of fire onto a Krabes, she had to jump off again or else another round of fire blast would have gotten her.

"This is crazy," she thought silently to herself. "Where is Ulrich?" Almost as if hearing her wish he zoomed over on his vehicle cutting the leg off of a Krabes. Yumi saw her chance and took it she threw one of her fans at the one, with a missing leg, and watched as her fan had a direct hit.

"Two left." Jeremy said. Ulrich pushed his engine to maximum to head for Yumi. Yumi grabbed onto his arm and swooped aboard behind him. Ulrich turned around and headed for the two remaining Krabes. Yumi stood up on the back of the vehicle and jumped off when the Krabes was close enough. She landed on top and sliced her fan through its armor. As she jumped off it exploded.

"One more to go," she thought watching as Ulrich ran his vehicle under the Krabes legs. He stopped right after he came out. Ulrich jumped off and started to run around the Krabes screaming,

"Triangulate," While the krab was tying to figure out which Ulrich was the real Ulrich, they all jumped out onto it and sliced it. Ulrich landed and looked over at Yumi.

"Nice job," she shouted.

"Thanks." he answered back, "Hey is that Aelita?" he asked looking past Yumi. Aelita was on her way to them trying to avoid the Mega tank that Jeremy had said was on the way.

"The Mega tank!" Ulrich and Yumi shouted together. Ulrich grabbed his vehicle and drove over to Yumi. She got on and they headed for Aelita. Once they neared her Yumi jumped on the back of the over-board to deflect any oncoming lasers, as best as she could. While Ulrich set out to battle with it..

Back At The Factory

Odd was coming up the elevator while Jeremy was watching Ulrich and Yumi heading over to Aelita.

"Hey did I miss much?" Odd asked stepping off the elevator.

"Not really but William is almost here he's at the elevator now." Jeremy answered nervously. Odd jumped back on the elevator right before the doors closed.

"Well then, I'll have to buy them some time." Odd said to himself. As the doors opened William was surprised to see Odd.

"Oh did you miss me that much?" Odd asked sarcastically kicking him in the stomach. William landed a few feet back, but ready to fight. "If only I would have brought my boxing gloves," Odd said sighing. .

Back In Lyoko

"Yumi, get Aelita over to the tower. I can handle this." One of the Ulrich's said. Yumi had trouble keeping track of which one was the real Ulrich, until he talked. As Yumi took off for the tower one of the three Ulrich's got blasted away by the Mega tank.

Ulrich was trying to get close enough to impact his sword on the Mega tank, but wasn't having any luck. Then he had a plan while his other self kept it busy, Ulrich ducked behind a rock. "Once he gets blasted he'll head off for Yumi and Aelita, then I'll come out from behind the rock and impact my sword into him. Ulrich thought while trying not to make to much noise. It took a while but when the other Ulrich got destroyed the Mega tank looked around. Ulrich thought it would start to roll away at any time, when he heard it fire. Why is it firing there's no one out there, Ulrich thought. When he heard a noise,

"Hiya!" Ulrich peaked out from behind the rock and saw Yumi trying to finish it off. Ulrich jumped out from behind the rock and tried to swing his sword into the tank, with no luck.

"Hey, I thought you got devitalized?" Yumi said throwing her fan again.

"Well I was going to hit it once it thought I was gone, but then you showed up." Ulrich said diving out of the way of another blast.

"Hey you two hurry up, William and Odd aren't exactly having a party up there." Jeremy said interrupting.

"Got ya" Ulrich said jumping onto the top of it while Yumi had its attention. "Impact!" He yelled sinking his sword into the top of it. As he jumped off the Mega tank exploded.

"All done Jeremy, and Aelita should be almost done to." Yumi said grabbing the over-board.

"I am, Jeremy how is Odd doing?" Aelita asked.

"I just got a call from him. He says he and William are fine, so we shouldn't need a return to the past." Jeremy answered. "Get ready to come back to Earth."

Back At The Factory

Ulrich and Odd picked William up and carried him onto the sidewalk outside. When William woke up he looked around him and saw Ulrich, Odd, Jeremy, Aelita, and Yumi standing over him.

"What happened?" He asked them standing to his feet. They all looked at each other wondering what to tell him when Yumi spoke up.

"We ummm all went for a jog around town. Jim told us to, and…you um got dehydrated and fainted." She finished.

"Then why are they here with us? There aren't in out grade." He asked rubbing his head. Everyone looked at Yumi, hopping she knew what to answer.

"They skipped P.E. and Jim made them come with us." Yumi answered casually.

"Oh well, I guess we should head back to school then." William said. They all started to walk back when Ulrich grabbed Yumi's hand causing her to stop.

"I'm glad you're ok. You had us worried." Ulrich said slightly blushing.

"Thanks," she answered kicking her shoe at the ground.

"Yumi I wanted to tell you something," Ulrich said nervously.

"Yea?" Yumi asked looking up.

"I…" he started only to be interrupted.

"Hey are you guys coming," William asked walking back over to them. Ulrich was ready to kick him, but instead calmly answered,

"Yea we are coming." Ulrich smiled at Yumi then walked off back towards school..