Note: I do not own Code Lyoko or any characters regarding it. I simply modify and add my own characters to the story. All original ideas regarding Code Lyoko thus belong to Moonscoop, Taffy Entertainment, France 3, and Canal J.

Chapter 7

Siafu

About a week passed. HADES was being oddly quiet for a while and the group was getting rather suspicious of this.

"It's too quiet," said Ulysses one afternoon, "Sometimes I get the feeling that HADES is going to surprise us at any moment."

"You're right, Ulysses," said Jeremie, "Even I am getting that feeling."

The rest of the group couldn't deny that they were all feeling the same thing, but they didn't need to worry about that since they had full time to concentrate on their lessons. They all got the same gym class with the man who'd rather not talk about his life, Jim Morales, which was rather funny to go to since he occasionally did talk about his life, which made the students laugh and say that he would have been better off not talking about it anyway.

During gym, Carly practiced Kung Fu, Xana practiced Karate with Ulysses, and Ulrich and Yumi practiced Pencak Silat, while Jeremie, Aelita, and Odd watched. After their practice was over, Jim asked them if they would each like to do a one-on-one round with him. Ulysses went first and practically went Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on him, dodging each of his blows and jumping high into the air with vicious attacks, and by the end of the fight, Jim was on the floor clutching his arm.

"You call yourself a gym teacher?" said Ulysses as he rubbed his hands together, "Come on you should be able to take pain!" He performed a healer's hold on Jim's arm and sat back down.

Xana was the same as Ulysses, dodging almost every blow and reacting with fast and powerful hits. After Jim had congratulated her for her skill, she sat down and Ulrich and Yumi were up next.

Ulrich and Yumi passed the offer so that they could practice more, so it was Carly's turn to go against Jim. Carly just stood in front of Jim while he showed her his attack poses. She just rolled her eyes and signaled to Jim to come an fight. Jim charged at Carly, but highly skilled in Kung Fu, she zoomed out of his way and somehow he was on the floor. "Hey look everyone," said Carly, "It's Mister Karate Man!"

Everyone laughed at Jim's embarrassment. Ulysses and Xana just stared in shock at Carly's mastery of martial arts. After he got up off the floor, Jim started basketball practice. The whole group was a basketball team against another group of students which included Sissi and her gang. Jim tossed the ball into the air and Carly was the first to catch it. She was half-way across the court when Herb blocked her. "You want the ball?" Carly teased as she threw it to Aelita, "Go get it!"

Aelita was the first to score as the bleeding effect gave her perfect aim. Sissi had the ball and shrieked as Ulysses came charging at her yelling like a warrior. She threw the ball in a panic to Nicholas who was immediately ran into by Odd and Jeremie caught the ball this time. Jeremie scored and Ulrich caught the ball and threw it toward Ulysses, but Herb, in an attempt to steal, got in the way and the ball hit him in the face and landed in front of Yumi who grabbed it and slammed it on the floor and scored by the ball falling directly into the hoop. Nicholas was really furious and as Herb was heading toward the hoop he threw the ball with great force. Ulysses attempted to block it, but when he did, everyone heard a scream of pain. Ulysses was clutching his left wrist, growling angrily.

Jim stopped the game and sent Ulysses to the infirmary. When the game was over, the Lyoko Warriors winning, they went over to the infirmary to check on Ulysses. "What happened?" asked Aelita.

"I had forgotten about my accident three years ago," said Ulysses as he came out with his arm wrapped up, "My left wrist has been hurting ever since my bike accident three years ago. I lost control of my bike and crashed in the middle of the road on my way to school, landing on my left wrist and almost breaking it. I needed to take it easy on my arm, but it looks like it still hasn't gotten over the pain yet."

"Ouch!" exclaimed Carly, "I've kinda had accidents like that before. Except I always resulted in broken limbs."

Ulysses suddenly had a surge and Jeremie's computer alerted the super-scan. "Oh, Lord!" exclaimed Ulysses, "Not now HADES!"

"Well, let's get to the warehouse," said Jeremie, "And alert Franz Hopper in case HADES activates any towers on Lyoko."

Aelita called Franz to tell him that they were on their way to the warehouse and that he should keep an eye out for any tower activation. They got to the warehouse and Jeremie activated the super-scan. "The obelisk is located on the desert sector," he said.

"Clever move HADES," muttered Ulysses.

"How is that clever?" asked Carly.

"I based the desert sector on the planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert's Dune," said Ulysses, "The sandy terrain shifts, raising and sinking solid rock platforms, making us have to deal with the Wurms of the desert. The Wurms will only attack vibrations, meaning if we walk on the sand, they will swallow or hit us."

"Damn," said Carly.

"Well, we have no other choice," said Jeremie, "I'll start the procedure."

They got into the synchronizers and were sent to the desert. They were standing on solid rock platforms over a sea of sand. "How long until the sand shifts, Jeremie?" asked Ulysses.

"The sand shifts to cover the rocky surface three minutes after a previous shift and it shifts back after a minute," said Jeremie, "So you have two minutes and 45 seconds to locate that obelisk before you have to worry about the Wurms."

"Best get on it," said Ulysses, and they charged into the distance toward the obelisk. They were almost there when they heard a sort of skittering sound.

"What was that?" asked Odd.

"That better not be what I think it is," said Ulysses angrily.

"LOOK!" screamed Xana, pointing at what looked like an army of red ants.

They all started running. "Jeremie, HADES has managed to take over my Siafu program!" said Ulysses, "I can't deactivate the obelisk! Delete the program!"

Jeremie tried to delete the Siafu program, but it refused to respond. "I can't!" exclaimed Jeremie, "HADES has bugged the program! I can't delete it!"

Ulysses noticed the terrain shifting. "Stop moving!" he exclaimed to the others, who froze as the sand touched their feet. The Siafu charged toward them, but when they were upon them, a giant Wurm shot up from the sand and swallowed the Siafu whole.

"Is that all of them?" asked Xana.

"That's the problem isn't it," said Carly as she pointed to more Siafu surrounding them.

Carly, Aelita, Yumi, Odd, Xana, and Ulysses began using their projectiles to create as many vibrations in the sand as possible for the Wurms to swallow more and more of the Siafu, but they just kept coming. Ulysses had a sudden idea. "Jeremie!" he exclaimed, "Implement an extermination virus into my pyrokinesis, that way I can destroy the Siafu!"

"Good thinking!" said Jeremie as he started creating the extermination virus.

The terrain shifted again, making it safe to move. They ran toward the obelisk, but they couldn't get close because the Siafu had surrounded them. "Ready!" exclaimed Jeremie.

"Thanks, Jeremie!" said Ulysses as he built up fire energy, "Pyrokinesis! Flame Destruction!" The energy compacted and exploded like an electromagnetic pulse, destroying all of the Siafu within the blast radius, which was basically the whole sector. "Only one thing left to take care of before the obelisk," said Ulysses as he turned to face the Calibos guarding the obelisk. He simply stared at the Calibos and it screamed as psychokinetic energy vaporized it.

"Good job taking care of the Siafu," said Carly, "But what is it anyway?"

"It was originally designed as an anti-virus program," said Ulysses, "It would search my system and Wakusei for any malware activity and it would destroy it, but under HADES' control, it mistook us for the malware and started attacking us. Anyway, let's get this obelisk out of commission."

Ulysses headed for the obelisk and jumped inside. The obelisk opened the interface and Ulysses entered Code: WAKUSEI. "Obelisk shutdown!" he said as the obelisk reset itself. He jumped out of the obelisk and said, "Jeremie, get us out of here."

"Right away," said Jeremie. He activated the desync program and everyone got out, except Ulysses wasn't out.

Whoa, something happened during the desynchronization process. Why isn't Ulysses out? Find out later on...