Chapter Six: Confusion
"Let's head to the factory, maybe Jeremy has some answers." Ulrich suggested. Yumi nodded her head and they ran over to man-hole. They ran all the way to the factory and went down the elevator. When the doors opened Jeremy, Aelita, and Odd were starting at the computer screen. Jeremy turned around.
"Good you made it, come over here for a second," Jeremy said. Yumi and Ulrich walked over there. "Okay, nothing is wrong with the super-scan, or Aelita and her way of deactivating towers. My theory is that X.A.N.A just controlled William twice to mess with us." Jeremy said. Everyone nodded their heads.
"Well then should we head back?" Aelita asked.
"Yea, there is nothing else to do here." Jeremy said. Everyone climbed into the elevator and sent it up. They started to walk back to school, through the sewers.
"So did he hurt you two?" Aelita asked.
"No, almost, but no." Yumi replied. They reached the man-hole and climbed up. Jeremy went first followed by Aelita then Odd, then Yumi. Ulrich was waiting for her to get up a small distance. When he suddenly heard a noise. Yumi had crawled out the entire way, and Ulrich was half way up. He heard a scream and suddenly someone was falling towards him.
What Happened Up Top-
Jeremy, Aelita, Odd, and Yumi climbed out and waited for Ulrich.
"Watch out!" William screamed falling from a tree above them. William fell on top of Odd. Odd fell backwards and hit Yumi. Yumi had just reached the top, when she lost her balance and fell back inside.
"YUMI!" Everyone screamed. They rushed to the man-hole and looked down to see Ulrich had caught her.
"Well now, hi." he said.
"Hi, thanks," Yumi replied. Ulrich guided her to the ladder and let her climb up. She climbed up and then Ulrich followed her. He closed the lid.
"Nice catch," Odd commented. Jeremy nodded his head in agreement.
"Sorry, about that. So what were you guys doing down there?" William asked.
"We uhhhh…well you see….we," Odd and Jeremy tried.
"Odd found this yesterday and wanted us to see where it led. He thought maybe it led under the school. I think he was hoping to use them to ditch class, but he denies it." Yumi stated. Everyone smiled and agreed with Yumi.
"Oh, well did it lead under the school?" William asked.
"No, it kept leading south, so we got bored and came back." she replied casually.
"Oh too bad." William said. He then grabbed Yumi's hand. The gang tensed thinking X.A.N.A might have controlled him again. Ulrich was the closest and was ready to spring on him. "So Yumi, how about you and I go to the movies?" William asked. Yumi tried to get her hand free but she couldn't, not without making a scene. She could see Ulrich out of the corner of her eye.
"He looks ready to kill him. I should be fine." Yumi thought to herself. "Now if only he would leave me alone."
"Sorry but, I really don't want to. Can you let go of my arm please?" She asked. William didn't let go. Ulrich took a step closer to them. William looked from Yumi to Ulrich and slowly let go.
"Alright then, I'll see you guys later." He called, slipping off into the woods.
"Thanks," Yumi said blushing.
"No problem," Ulrich replied.
"That's two saves in one day! I think you owe him," Odd said slyly. "I think a date would be the perfect way to…" Odd tried.
"Odd, Yumi doesn't owe me anything." Ulrich stated. There was an awkward silence.
"Hey, I'll race you guys back," Aelita said.
"Aelita, I don't really want to." Odd said.
"1,2,3!" Aelita screamed running off. Odd and Jeremy took off after her.
"But he will always goes." Yumi said.
"Yea he loves a challenge." Ulrich replied. "Well I'll race you."
"You're on, ready 1,2,3!" Yumi shouted and ran off. Ulrich laughed and ran to catch up.
Back on Lyoko- A slimy black substance slowly crawled into a tower. He slithered up top and saw sucked into the real world, causing the tower to turn red. The black blob appeared in the real world as set out to find its target. It looked through a bunch of kids, and even sneered at a group of five racing towards the school. Then it finally found its target.
"Now tonight, we get them. We get them good. We will kill off the raven haired girl, and get the pink haired girl to Lyoko. We will finally succeed." It thought jumping on a boy. William looked up with a red-mark in his eyes.
"Tonight, I end it all." he said evilly.