Chapter Five: Running

They all headed back to school. William walked away towards his room while the rest of the group met in Ulrich's room.

"Well now that was fun," Odd said, looking for an old candy bag.

"I guess you could call it that." Ulrich replied.

"So now what do we do?" Aelita asked. Suddenly Jeremy's computer started making noises everyone turned their attention towards him.

"We deactivate a tower," Jeremy answered. Everyone stood up and walked towards the door. Yumi opened it to leave, but William was standing there. He punched her in the stomach, causing her to fall to her knees. Ulrich tried to get her up, but William picked her up and started walking to an open window. William had Yumi over her shoulder so her stomach was on his shoulder. Her head was looking at his back and her feet were trying to kick him in the stomach. As William started to near the window Odd did a sliding kick, knocking William's feet out from under him. William fell backwards dropping Yumi. Ulrich caught her and pulled her behind him.

"Well we now know what the attack is." Odd breathed.

"You all head to the factory, Yumi and I will make sure he doesn't follow." Ulrich said. The others nodded and ran off. Ulrich grabbed Yumi's arm and started to run.

"What are we doing I thought we were keeping him busy?" Yumi asked.

"We are, but the moment he gets up he's coming after you. I figure if we keep him in sight, just barely, it give the others time to deactivate the tower." Ulrich answered. They stopped at a corner, and looked behind them William was just getting to his feet. William stretched out his hand. Ulrich guessing what he was doing pushed Yumi around the corner and held her against it. Right after he did that bolts of electricity flew into the wall next to them. Yumi and Ulrich started to cough, with the debris and smoke. Ulrich grabbed her hand and started to walk towards the stairs. They ran down them and out the door. As they exited out of the building, William tackled Ulrich to the ground. William started to blast electricity through Ulrich's body, but Yumi kicked William in the stomach. Yumi grabbed Ulrich's hand and they took off for the forest.

Meanwhile- Odd, Jeremy, and Aelita got to the factory and were already fighting on Lyoko.

"Odd, are you sure you can handle this all on your own. If you take too many risks and get devitalized Aelita has no one to protect her." Jeremy said.

"I know Einstein, I'll only take half the risks," Odd replied, winking at Aelita.

"Odd!" Jeremy bellowed. Odd and Aelita laughed as they headed towards the tower.

"Besides Jeremy, it doesn't look like X.A.N.A is putting up much of a fight." Aelita stated. It appeared Aelita was right. There were no monsters in the Polar Region, and they could see the activated tower. Aelita ran in and started her process.

Meanwhile With Ulrich and Yumi-

"Ulrich do you see him?" Yumi asked.

"No not yet." Ulrich answered. Suddenly as if hearing they had mentioned him, William jumped down from the trees and landed on top of Yumi. He started to send his purple lightening bolts from his hand into her.

"Yumi!" Ulrich shouted, running over to body slam him. When suddenly, William's eyes glazed over and he fell onto of Yumi. Ulrich pushed William off her and helped Yumi to stand. Yumi stood up next to Ulrich and looked at William.

"Maybe we didn't deacitvate the tower last time fully." She stated.

"Yea, hopefully we did it this time." Ulrich said..