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Look Before You Seek
Chapter 18
Ulrich was dialling numbers into his mobile while Odd, Aelita and Jeremie ran to the factory. The phone ran once, twice, three times. He started pacing.
"Come on, Yumi. Pick up," he muttered to himself. Finally, the phone clicked on.
"What?" Yumi obviously wasn't in the mood to talk.
"Activated tower," Ulrich said, in the same mood as Yumi. He didn't know why he had to be the one to call her. No, he did, he just didn't know how his friends could be mean enough to make him.
"Why do you need my help?" Yumi asked, in the same tone.
"Please, Yumi. We can disucss this later, but now we really need to do this," Ulrich was starting to sound desperate.
"Sorry, I can't come. I'm busy," She said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Busy?" Ulrich asked.
"I'm with William," she replied smugly.
"William?"
"He's a guy in my class, but I shouldn't have to explain to you. I do have my own life." And she hung up. Ulrich, enraged, punched the wall.
He heard a light knock on the door. Trying to control his heavy breathing, he made his way to the door. He opened it, and was surprised to see Minnie. Before he could ask her what she was doing there, she started jabbering.
"Have you seen my drink bottle? I don't know how long it's been missing for, but I'd really like it back. Have you seen it?" She was talking fast, and her breathing was shallow. He gave her a strange look, but retrieved her drink bottle from in the draw under his bed. She grabbed it. "Thank you," she breathed, and then gave him a funny look. "Why did you keep it?"
"I was going to give in back to you, but I forgot," Ulrich was avoiding her eyes.
"Well, thanks," she said, starting to leave.
"Wait," he called, reaching out to grab her arm, but pulling away just in time. He had almost forgotten how sensitive she was about being touched. He still didn't know why. "There's a tower activated in Lyoko. Do you think you could come and help?" Minnie thought for a few moments, and then nodded. "Okay, follow me," Ulrich said, starting towards the factory.
It took them awhile to get there, as Minnie was rather slow, and she wouldn't get on the skateboard with Ulrich, but they eventually got there. They reached the control room, where Jeremie and the super were. Odd and Aelita were already on Lyoko, and were having problems. Ulrich and Minnie quickly joined them. They were in the ice sector, and only a few hundred meters away from where Ulrich and Minnie virtualized. Odd was attempting to defend Aelita from three Krabs. It was strange to find Krabs in the ice sector.
Minnie watched in amazement as Ulrich morphed into three Ulrich's, and started fighting off the three Krabs. Minnie quickly got over this shock, and ran to protect Aelita. She formed a yellow force field in front of Aelita, trying to see if she could form it into a bubble, to protect Aelita completely.
"Odd!" Aelita couldn't help crying out as Odd was shot, lost all his life points, and devirtualized. Ulrich, who was fighting off a different Krab, was distracted by Aelita's cry, and hesitated, looking over his shoulder. The Krab he was fighting shot him off his feet, and he also devirtualized. Minnie let her force field down so that she could shoot the Krabs, although she was finding this hard to do.
"Shoot into the air," Jeremie suggested helpfully, so she tried it. And it worked. The flash of yellow flew up into the air, and then descended back down, hitting a Krab on its eye. Minnie quickly fired another shot into the air in the same manner, destroying it in the same way. She then collapsed from exhaustion.
"Minnie!" Aelita cried softly, unaware that the Scyphozoa was right behind her.
"Aelita, look out!" Jeremie cried. Aelita jumped up, and gasped as the Scyphozoa came closer to her. She started to move away, but then stopped. The Scyphozoa wasn't after her; it was going for Minnie.
Aelita watched, shocked at what was happening. Jeremie, watching from the super computer, was also shocked. Ulrich and Odd came out of the elevator just as Aelita asked what was happening.
"I don't know, but Minnie is loosing memories fast," Jeremie said, still shocked.
"What?" Ulrich and Odd asked at the same time.
"The Scyphozoa has got Minnie and is draining her memories. I can't figure out why." Jeremie was typing fast into his computer as he said this.
"What do we do?" Aelita asked from Lyoko.
"We get Yumi," Ulrich relpied.