This chapter was written by me and edited by Undeadmonkey8. Disclaimer: Code Lyoko is copyrighted by MoonScoop. I do NOT own Code Lyoko.
I only own my OC Lila. AeroJester203 created Mary and owns her.
Author's note: Hope you like the long chapter! Enjoy!
What's wrong with Yumi?
Lyoko's Ice Sector
Yumi, Aelita, and I are running down a long path in the ice sector.
"You should see the tower soon, it'll be thirty degrees north. The tower should be in sight now. You should be coming up on it anytime now."
"Yup, we see it. There's no way we could miss it," Yumi says. Approaching the tower, I look around noting the lack of activity
"Be careful all the same."
"This is strange..., nothing's going on..." I say.
Yumi points to the tower and Aelita nods, she starts walking to the tower. She stops at the "doorway" and phases into the tower. Looking up at the tower, my eyes widen at its blue aura.
Something's not right here. It should be activated! I think. Feeling something hitting me from behind, I start falling to the ground and blackout.
Afterwards
I'm not sure how much time has passed, but I feel something shaking my body. Opening my eyes, I see a shade of pink and realize its Aelita. My vision returns to normal. I ask her:
"Aelita? Ugh... what happened?" Aelita slowly helps me up, and she starts to explain the situation.
"Jeremy I've found Lila. But Yumi still isn't here," Aelita informs.
"Huh? Yumi's missing?" I ask.
"Yes, she is. Jeremy, did you hear that? Lila's here," Aelita says. Looking up, Aelita and I for whatever reason don't hear Jeremy's voice. I start to get a strange feeling.
"I think something's wrong, Aelita, please take my sword and devirtualize me," I request, unsheathing my sword and handing it to her.
"Are you sure?" Aelita asks.
"Yes," I answer. Aelita looks at me, then nods. She takes the sword and gets into a stance, swinging the sword at me she strikes. I close my eyes.
Back in the scanner room
The light from the scanners hitting my eyes, I open them. The scanner opens, revealing Jeremy inside a scanner. He is next to an unconscious Yumi.
"Yumi! Wake up!" Jeremy exclaims, trying to shake her awake. I run to them.
"Let me check her vitals," I say. Jeremy nods. Moving to the side, I lower Yumi's sleeve and place my fingers on her wrist. Feeling a pulse, I look to Jeremy:
"She's alive but her pulse is weak… I'm not sure why. We need to bring her to the nurse's office,"
"I'll call Ulrich and Odd," Jeremy says. Taking out his phone, he then looks at me.
"What exactly happened on Lyoko?"
"I'm - I'm not sure. Something knocked me out," I answer.
Outside the nurse's office
Ulrich and Odd are carrying Yumi by her feet. I am carrying her, holding her from the waist up. Jeremy directs us to Yolanda's office. He knocks on the door and she answers. Looking at us with a shocked look, she moves to the side and allows us to bring Yumi to a bed.
Inside the nurse's office
Jeremy walking in says:
"That's it, nice and easy."
Ulrich, Odd, and I gently place Yumi on the bed. We step to the side.
"How did this happen?" Miss Yolanda inquires.
Jeremy rubs his hand on the back of his head,
"During break... she started to get sick. She… just fainted."
"She's always studying too much, with all the homework our teachers give us," Odd adds.
Ms. Yolanda nods not in agreement of what Odd has said, but because she understands the situation. "I'll take good care of Yumi, now please leave and go back to class." Looking at Yumi on the bed, Miss Yolanda looks at us.
"I'm going to take good care of her. Please leave, she needs her rest," Miss Yolanda says.
Nodding, we take one last look at Yumi and start walking to the door.
Afterwards
Outside on the steps
Sitting down on the steps outside the nurse's office, Jeremy sighs.
"What could have happened on Lyoko to cause Yumi's condition? And why weren't you affected Lila?"
Shaking my head I say,
"I have no idea. "
"You two could have been hit by a Megatank," Ulrich surmises.
"I'm not sure Ulrich... I would have felt the laser. Whatever hit me, knocked me out as if it were human," I explain, "If it was human… it's plausible it could have been someone's weapon. But I'm not sure what hit me."
"Is that even possible?" Odd asks.
"I'm not sure... Aelita's the only life form who lives on Lyoko," Jeremy replies. "Yumi had all of her life points when she was devirtualized. How did you do it?"
"I had Aelita devirtualize me," I explain.
"That would make sense. Furthermore, I would have noticed if there was a monster it should have appeared on the monitor," Jeremy adds.
I nod, agreeing with Jeremy:
"This just keeps getting weirder and weirder..."
Rubbing the back of his head, Ulrich gives a loud sigh.
"This definitely is weird, I'll give you that Lila..."
"Usually, return trips are a piece of cake," Jeremy says.
Odd turns and looks to Jeremy, "It's you think it's that easy Einstein, you should try it some time."
"My mistake..." Jeremy rubs the back of his head, sheepishly.
Ulrich turns to the right and he gasps, "Is - is that Yumi?!" he exclaims.
Jeremy gets up from the stairs, and we run to her.
"How are you doing, any better?" Odd asks.
"You really had us worried," Ulrich says.
"That's for sure," I nod.
"Can you tell us what happened on Lyoko?" Jeremy insists.
For some reason, she turns away from us. Ulrich walks up to her and he places his hand on her shoulder.
"Are you sure you're feeling okay?" Ulrich asks.
"I'm fine!" Yumi replies quickly. She puts her hand near her head, she seems to be in pain.
"Why were you the only one devirtualized on Lyoko?" Jeremy asks, "Please tell us. Don't you remember anything?" Turning to us, she lowers her hand from her head.
"I don't. Let's just go to the factory," Yumi replies.
"With the way you're feeling? That's crazy," Ulrich remarks.
"Besides, there are other things that are more important. And eating is one of them," Odd smiles laughing a little. Yumi with an annoyed look and starts walking away from us and in the direction of the cafeteria.
"Uh..." Odd trails off, the then starts running to catch up to her. Looking at Yumi, who is opening the door to the cafeteria, I can't help but have a strange feeling that something is wrong.
"Do you think Aelita will be safe?" Ulrich asks.
"I told her to remain in the tower for right now. She should be safe," Jeremy answers.
"Good," I nod.
In the cafeteria
Odd takes a bit from one of his meatballs. I start eating my crescent.
"You really can't remember anything?" Jeremy asks.
"Nothing at all," Yumi replies Looking at her plate of food which consists of just a crescent and some tea. Her tea must be getting cold now because she hasn't taken a sip of it yet.
"Maybe there was a bug in just her scanner," Ulrich surmises.
"I'm not so sure. I'm sure it happened on Lyoko after I was knocked out," I explain, taking another bite out of my crescent.
"Maybe Xana's trying a new method of attack," Odd suggests, and he starts to dig into his second meatball.
"There's no way of knowing. I just hope the scanners aren't causing health problems," Jeremy worries.
"I'm sure they aren't," I try to reassure him, then drink a bit of my tea.
"Whatever it is, we'll find out what happened," Jeremy says.
Sissi walks up to us with her tray of food. Sniffing the air; Odd coughs a bit.
"What's your problem?" Sissi asks, annoyed. Odd stops coughing.
"Is that fish I'm smelling? No wait, that's just your cheap perfume," Odd jokes.
"You're hysterical Odd," Sissi says, rolling her eyes at him. Turning her attention to Ulrich, she looks at him and smiles.
"Would you like to hang out together after school, Ulrich?"
Ulrich puts his hand on his chin, rubbing it as if he's thinking about the answer.
"Hang out? With you? No thanks."
All of us except for Yumi starts laughing at Sissi. Using his fork, he takes a meatball from his plate and starts eating it.
"You're only saying this because Yumi's here," Sissi looks at Yumi, and places her hand on the table. "After all, Miss Mademoiselle likes to keep the competition to herself."
"You're wrong," Yumi says looking at her and then turns to Ulrich. "You should go with her you know. She's pretty."
Ulrich, and Odd drop their utensils in shock of what Yumi just said. I drop my crescent and it falls onto the tray. Jeremy's eyes widen in surprise.
"You're not trying to make fun of me are you?" Sissi asks. Yumi looks at giving her a blank stare. She turns back to us.
"Wow, thanks a lot Yumi," Sissi smiles happily, turning to Ulrich. "We'll see each other after school Ulrich, meet me by the park. Ciao." Sissi walks away.
Looking at the table nearby, I catch a glimpse of Herb looking at Ulrich with a jealous look. He notices me then turns away. Turning back to my table, I look at Yumi. Still unsure why she would say such a thing to Sissi.
"What are you trying to do? Are you mad at me or something?" Ulrich asks.
"I'm not. Just go out with her already, she's been waiting for such a long time," Yumi reminds him. A hand grabs Yumi's hand out of nowhere, looking up we see it's Mr. Delmas.
"Miss Ishiyama, report to my office immediately," he demands.
Afterwards
Opening the door, we leave the cafeteria, having decided to finish our lunches earlier than planned.
In the courtyard
We start making our way to the dorms.
I can't help but feel somewhat responsible. I was knocked out rather easily and if I were more aware of my surroundings, I could have protected Yumi.
"What's wrong with Yumi? She's never acted like this before," Ulrich says.
"Yumi must be suffering from some sort of traumatic experience," Jeremy surmises.
"That's for sure. Whatever happened on Lyoko was meant towards Yumi, not me," I say.
"Stern!" Herb exclaims and angrily walks up to us with his Nicholas.
"Why are you going on a date with Sissi?" Herb asks and gets in front of Ulrich. Jeremy puts his hands between them, trying to push Herb out of the way.
"We don't have the time for this, if you want answers I suggest you ask Sissi," Jeremy tells him.
Jeremy pulls Ulrich to the side and we look at Herb and Nicholas. Looking back at us, they huff and walk away. We turn away as well.
"Your love stories aside, I'm going to go and check on the supercomputer. I've got a psychopathic computer to feed," Jeremy says.
Afterwards
In Lila's room
Walking into my room, I close the door behind me. Mary is typing on the copy of my father's computer.
"How's everything going today?" Mary asks.
"A bit strange honestly," I reply.
"Why?" Mary asks, she stops typing and turns her chair facing me. "What's wrong?"
Walking to my bed, I sit on it with a sigh.
"Yumi... she's acting strange," I reply.
"Strange? Strange how?"
"She's distant. She's not herself and she told Ulrich to take Sissi out on a date."
Mary's eyes widen. "She did what?!"
"I know it's surprising. It all started on Lyoko too. I was knocked out by something. I'm not sure what it was."
"How bizarre. Perhaps a phenomenon of some kind? One that I haven't found in your father's video diaries yet?" Mary asks.
"Perhaps. But, I better meet up with the others just to make sure everything is okay. I'll see you later Mary."
"Okay. Please keep me informed on the situation," Mary says and she turns her chair, going back to typing on the computer.
On the boy's dorm floor
Spotting Ulrich and Odd, I run up to them. The three of us make our way to Jeremy's room. Reaching Jeremy's room, Ulrich opens the door. He stops with a shocked look, Odd and I enter the room, we gasp.
Inside Jeremy's room
"Jeremy we should get-" Ulrich starts but his face turns to anger. Yumi is leaning to kiss Jeremy, who no longer has his glasses on and is blushing profusely. Yumi stops her attempt at kissing Jeremy, and they are both in shock. Ulrich turns away, his head down and he walks out of the room.
"This isn't what it looks like!" Jeremy exclaims. He walks out and follows him.
"Please, wait Ulrich!"
"Well done," Odd says and walks away. Yumi looks at me.
"You know something's seriously wrong with you," I glare at her.
"Out of all of us Lila... you're the strangest one," Yumi remarks.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Yumi doesn't answer me. She just smiles at me.
Could she have figured out that I'm a time traveler? I think.
Turning away from Yumi, I walk out of Jeremy's room and run to catch up with the boys.
Later
In Mrs. Hertz's class
After Jeremy failed to convince Ulrich and Odd, that the kiss was a mistake, we needed to go to Mrs. Hertz's class. I'm sitting next to Jeremy because I believe in him and his story, that Yumi isn't emotionally well. I listen and continue to write down notes throughout Mrs. Hertz's lecture.
Afterwards
Looking at the clock, we're now approaching the end of her lecture.
"Some animals and insects in certain cases have been known to use a process called Genesis. This phenomenon is well known, and it acts as a sort of natural cloning. Meaning, the original animal gives birth to a new and identical replica. There are no noticeable differences, between the replica and the original. This process has even occurred with rabbits," Mrs. Hertz explains, writing down her lecture on the blackboard.
Jeremy looks behind Odd and Ulrich. Ulrich looks understandably upset as Odd takes his tongue out and motorboats at Jeremy.
"Tomorrow, we'll finish this lesson," Mrs. Hertz says looking at the clock. The bells ring, signaling class is over. Jeremy, and I grab our materials, and place them in the bags. We walk out of the classroom first. Our classmates start walking out of the classroom.
Outside
Spotting Ulrich and Odd, who are exiting the classroom, I grab Ulrich's arm and bring him to the side. Odd and Jeremy follow me.
"Let me go Lila," Ulrich says.
"No. Just give Jeremy a moment to explain."
He sighs then nods and I let go of him.
"There's something wrong with Yumi. She's isn't emotionally well," Jeremy reasons. "Whatever she experienced alone on Lyoko, must have been very traumatizing."
Ulrich looks in Jeremy's direction a little.
"Let's go back to my room and connect with Aelita. She can tell if this is Xana's doing."
"I... guess we can go," Ulrich says.
On the boy's dorm floor
"What kind of phenomenon do you think this is anyways?" Ulrich asks.
"I honestly have no idea. Aelita is checking it out to see if Xana's up to anything," Jeremy says, then he takes his key out. He puts the key into the keyhole.
"I must have forgotten to lock the door," he says, taking the key out of the keyhole.
Putting his hand on the door's handle, he pushes it down then sighs. He opens the door, then we gasp.
Inside Jeremy's room
Jeremy's room is a complete mess, his computer and other electronics, including his keyboard, are all destroyed. Bits and pieces of the keyboard are on the floor. Jeremy walks over to the keyboard, kneeling he holds it close to his chest.
"All of my equipment…"
Odd walks over to him and bends down. He pats Jeremy on the back, who is completely heartbroken.
"Maybe Sissi did this?" Ulrich asks.
Jeremy looks at Ulrich with a confused look, still holding the keyboard.
"She wouldn't have a reason to. Why would she?"
"True..." Ulrich agrees.
"It could have been Herb, he was mad when we saw him earlier," Odd reminds us.
"That's true. But I don't think Herb did this," I say. Jeremy turns and looks at me,
"Wait a minute...who was the last one to leave my room?"
"Well - I was, technically. But - Yumi left after me," I say, stammering a little
Drifting back to earlier, Yumi's words echo within me.
Flashback
"You know something's seriously wrong with you," I glare at her.
"Out of all of us Lila... you're the strangest one," Yumi remarks.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Yumi doesn't answer me, she just smiles at me.
End of flashback
Snapping back into reality, I then say:
"It was definitely Yumi."
"That can't be, Yumi wouldn't do this," Ulrich disagrees shaking his head. Odd and Jeremy look at each other.
"She has been acting strange all day," Odd reminds him.
"Okay, maybe that's true. Yumi has been acting strange, Xana's still the enemy. Jeremy, you're right it looks like Xana has launched an attack," Ulrich says.
"Whatever is going on here... may be a way to distract us from protecting Aelita."
"Oh, Aelita! She's all alone on Lyoko and I told her to check out the situation! And now we can't communicate with her right now!" Jeremy exclaims with worry.
"Does that mean we're going to the scanners?" a voice asks. Turning to the voice coming from the doorway, we look to see its Yumi in the doorway. Odd, Ulrich, Jeremy, and I give her a look, staring at her Jeremy gets up and places his keyboard on the ground. Fixing his glasses he then nods,
"Yes, we're going," Jeremy agrees.
Inside the freight elevator
The freight elevator is going down. Ulrich, Odd, Jeremy, and I look at Yumi again. We stop looking at her and try to focus.
I know what Xana's capable of and if for some reason, Xana possessed Yumi earlier in the timeline… we're going to be in a heap of trouble, I think.
The freight elevator stops, and Jeremy presses the button. The freight elevator's doors open and Jeremy walks into the lab. I press the red button, and the doors starts closing. The freight elevator starts going down.
Inside the scanner room
Ulrich, Odd, and I walk into the scanner room. Ulrich takes the right scanner, Odd takes the middle scanner, and I take the left scanner. Looking at Yumi who is leaning against the elevator, she is looking at us with an annoyed expression for some reason. Turning back to the scanner Odd says,
"We're ready when you are Jeremy," Odd says. Turning to Yumi, I ask her:
"Yumi, would you like to go first? I don't mind,"
Shaking her head she replies,
"No. Just go."
I raise my eyebrow, and once again turn to look at the scanner.
Something's not right with her… that's for sure
"I'm starting the process," Jeremy informs. I step into the scanner, Ulrich and Odd step into the scanners as wells. The scanners doors close. Closing my eyes, I ready myself for virtualization.
"Transfer: Odd, Transfer: Ulrich, Transfer: Lila," The scanner starts spinning.
"Scanner: Odd, Scanner: Ulrich, Scanner: Lila," The scanner continues to spin and then starts humming.
"Virtualization!"
The familiar gush of wind and bright light engulfs me, billowing my hair and time machine necklace. I'm virtualized to Lyoko.
Ice Sector
Opening my eyes, I look to see Ulrich, Odd, and I are descending to the ice sector. Landing perfectly on the ice, we look up and wait for Yumi to land.
A minute or so passes, and we still haven't seen Yumi land for some reason.
"Jeremy, did you start the transfer yet?" Ulrich asks.
"I did. Don't tell me she's not with you," Jeremy worries.
"She's not," Ulrich says.
Hearing lasers from a distance, the three of us turn to the direction they're coming from. Aelita is running away from a group of Kankrelats.
"That way!" Odd exclaims.
I start running to Aelita. Ulrich and Odd are following behind me. Aelita slides to us panting heavily.
"It's okay; we're here," I say, trying to reassure her. She smiles.
A Kankrelat charges its laser and fires it. Ulrich super speeds in front of Aelita and I, he starts blocking the lasers with his Katana. Helping Aelita up, I start chanting in Latin.
"Exardesco!" I exclaim. My amulet starts glowing and taking out my staff I jump into the air, Swinging my staff, I unleash several Fire Bolts flying to the three Kankrelats, One by one, each Fire Bolt hits the Kankrelat, causing them to explode.
"Lila, just remember you still have a limit on your Fire Bolts. Odd, same goes for you. Unlike Lila's, I can reload your Laser Arrows, Odd. I'll re-load you as soon as you're out."
"Understood Einstein! I've got the last two!" Odd exclaims. Cocking his arm, he begins running to the Kankrelat and fires off two lasers arrows. The laser arrow flies to the first Kankrelat, making an impact, the second laser arrow flies into the Kankrelat, the Kankrelat explodes. in the different directions. Ulrich and I sheathe our weapons, Odd lowers his paw. The three of us walk to Aelita.
"We've got to hurry so that we can free Yumi," Aelita informs.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"Yumi's back on-" Ulrich starts, but Aelita shakes her head.
"Our Yumi has been on Lyoko," she explains pointing to a tall glacier, "Xana created a clone. Jeremy whatever you do, don't go near Yumi. Do you understand?"
Looking at the sky, for some reason, Jeremy isn't responding.
"Jeremy, can you hear me?" Aelita asks.
Continuing to wait to hear his voice, Jeremy for whatever reason doesn't speak.
"Something must be wrong, we need to hurry!" I exclaim.
"She's right, let's go!" Ulrich exclaims we start running.
Afterwards
Reaching the top of the glacier, we walk to what looks like a small ball of energy floating just a few feet above the ice. Inside the small ball of energy, Yumi is encased within. There is a single Kankrelat guarding the ball of energy. Ulrich starts walking to the Kankrelat, he stops and unsheathes his sword. He closes his eyes and readies his sword. The Kankrelat turns to us and begins charging its laser. Firing the laser, Ulrich yells then swings his sword. The laser hits his sword, reflecting off it and sends the laser bouncing from one ice wall, to the Kankrelat. The laser hits the Kankrelat and it explodes. Aelita and I walk up to him.
"It's a guardian. A sort of digital jail adapted to the body imprisoned in it," Aelita explains.
Walking up to the guardian, Ulrich swings his Katana and impales it. Electricity is sent throughout Ulrich's Katana. Taking the Katana out of the guardian, he turns to Aelita,
"I can't destroy it with my weapon."
"I'll create a false representation of Yumi, we can try and convince the guardian he's mistaken," Aelita says.
With a concerned look; Ulrich looks at Yumi. Nodding to Aelita, he says:
"Okay let's go."
Aelita kneels on the ice and folds her hands. Starting to sing, her creation abilities start forming the image. The image of Yumi is in a fighting position and her fan is open. The Guardian starts rumbling and it explodes, a gush of heat billowing us. The heat evaporates. Ulrich walks to Yumi, lifting her waist so that she can look up, at him. Looking at her with a concerned look, he asks:
"Yumi? Can you hear me?"
Blinking a few times, Yumi groans weakly.
"What's going on?"
Odd leaps to an ice wall, landing in a crab position.
"Sorry, no time explain. We've got to deactivate the tower," Odd says.
Aelita gets up and looking at the sky, a concerned look is forming on her face. She then looks at us.
"Jeremy's still not responding. I don't understand. I've got the feeling something is wrong," Aelita worries.
"He's probably with the other one," I say.
"And if she's successful in destroying the scanners, it's all over," Ulrich grimaces.
"Who are you talking about? Who wants to destroy the scanners?" Yumi asks.
"Yumi... it's another version of you," Odd replies.
Yumi's eyes widen. She slowly pulls herself back on her feet and looks at us.
"If something happens to Jeremy and we can't deactivate the tower in time... we'll lose him forever. This is bad, someone should go back to reality," Yumi says.
"I can go," Ulrich offers.
"For all, we know Ulrich, I could have five life points left. I won't be helpful here, and if there's another me out there, then I need to take care of her. It's a fight between me and me," Yumi explains.
"Okay, now the only problem is to figure out how to devirtualize you," Ulrich says.
"You have a Katana," Yumi reminds him. Looking at his Katana, Ulrich steps back a few feet. He starts to unsheathe it.
"Are you ready?" Ulrich asks.
"Yes," Yumi replies.
Ulrich swings his Katana and strikes Yumi. Yumi's body begins to di-pixelates and she devirtualizes.
Afterwards
The four of us manage to make it to the lower ground without a problem. Aelita is hiding behind an ice glacier, that's near us. Noting that Xana, has always sent monsters in the past to the guard the tower, I ask Odd:
"How does the tower look?"
"Let me check," Odd replies. He starts running on a nearby ice wall and buries his paws on the ice and starts climbing it. He reaches the vantage point.
"Uh-oh… we've got company," Odd exclaims.
"Odd, watch out! On your right!" Aelita warns. Turning to his right, a Kankrelat fires a laser. Without enough reaction time, the laser hits Odd throwing him off the wall. Running to him, Ulrich and I take defensive action. Rolling to the ground, we roll in front of Odd and unsheathe our weapons. Looking behind me, we're just a few feet away from the digital sea.
"Guys be careful. We need to make more room, and go in for an attack," I say. Chanting the word Exardesco, my amulet starts glowing.
The Kankrelats start charging their lasers and launches their attacks. Odd places his hands on the ground and cartwheels away. I start running in the same direction, trying not to break my concentration on the spell. For some reason, it's taking longer for my staff to charge its magical power. However, the incoming lasers fire at Odd and I. Odd is thrown back onto the ice, as I fall face flat onto the ice, my amulet stops glowing.
Ugh… stupid move, I think.
Super speeding our way, Ulrich quickly takes out his Katana and readies a defense. The Kankrelats start firing off their lasers, and he blocks them with the blade. Getting back up on my feet, I start chanting my Fire Bolt spell again. Hoping I can still use them, and that the Kankrelat didn't cost me any just now.
"Odd, you wouldn't happen to know how many life points we have left?" Ulrich asks. Taking out my staff, my amulet starts glowing.
"I don't know, but it's got to be less than ten right now," Odd replies.
My amulet stops glowing, and I swing my staff. Two Fire Bolts flies straight ahead to one of the Kankrelats, the first one engulfs the Kankrelat with fire. The Kankrelat explodes. The second Kankrelat charges its laser and fires twice at the Fire Bolt, it explodes. I frown.
"Dumb cockroach."
In return, the Kankrelat starts charging its laser again. The second Kankrelat to the right fires at Odd. The laser makes an impact, and Odd nearly loses his balance again. But he quickly regains it, by cartwheeling over to Aelita.
"I didn't devirtualize? Well, I guess I was wrong," Odd says.
"Math is your worse subject," Ulrich remarks.
"And I wasn't keeping count," I add.
"True, and Ulrich because of you I know how to count to three," Odd jokes.
Ulrich starts running to the Kankrelats. "Triplicate!" Ulrich exclaims, running in a triangle he makes two more versions of himself.
The Kankrelats fire at one of Ulrich's clone. The clone is hit by the lasers and the two remaining Ulrich's jump in the air. The Kankrelats begin charging their lasers again. The two Ulrich's land back on the ground, and use their Katana's to reflect the lasers, back to the Kankrelats. The Kankrelats explode.
"Fusion!" Ulrich exclaims, his clone returning to him. He puts his Katana away, and I sheathe my staff. Odd walks up to us.
"It's your turn now Aelita," Ulrich says.
"Please make sure Jeremy and Yumi are safe," I say.
"I will," Aelita nods, then she starts running to the tower. She runs into the tower, easily phasing into it. Looking at the tower's aura, I see it turning from red to blue.
A big white bubble appears engulfing us all, sending us back in time.
Earlier that day
Back in Jeremy's room
Aelita's window is open on Jeremy's monitor. Ulrich and Yumi, are sitting on his bed. I sit on the ground with Odd.
I can't help but wonder why Yumi's clone thought I was the strangest one in the group? There's no way she can know I'm a time traveler! If she knows that means Xana knows! I think. Aelita decides to speak up, breaking the silence.
"It's amazing don't you think? Xana created another version of Yumi and managed to materialize her to Earth. This proves one thing: Materialization really is possible," Aelita says.
"It's almost as if Xana's trying to help with our research for materialization," Yumi says.
"Better get back to work Einstein," Odd smiles.
Aelita's window disappears, turning to us Jeremy smiles.
"It'll be a piece of cake. I can start now."
"Why not just ask Xana? He seems to know all of the answers," Odd jokes.
Scoffing, Ulrich replies:
"Forget it, I wouldn't trust him after the Yumi he sent to us."
"Come on, she wasn't too different from our Yumi," Odd defends.
"She totally was," I say.
"That's for sure. I wasn't fooled at all, I knew she wasn't the real Yumi the second she started to flirt with me," Jeremy says.
"And how do you know, I'm the real Yumi? I could be another clone," Yumi says. Getting up from Jeremy's bed, she starts walking to him. She takes Jeremy's glasses off and he starts blushing profusely.
"Um..." Jeremy trails off. "What do you think you're doing?" he asks, Yumi smiles.
Getting up from the bed with an annoyed look, Ulrich walks up to Yumi. He places a hand on her shoulder.
"I definitely can't deal with that again," Ulrich tells her, "Once is enough."
Letting go of his hand, Yumi then turns to Ulrich. Jeremy puts his glasses back on.
"You're not jealous, are you Ulrich?" she asks,
"Um..." Ulrich trails off.
"I think he is," Odd smiles holding his thumb up.
Winking at Ulrich, he can't help but frown at Yumi. Yumi, Odd, Jeremy, and I laugh at Ulrich's annoyance.
Don't worry Ulrich... one day you and Yumi are going to be married. And this time... you and her will live a long happy marriage. I'll make sure of it. I think.
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