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A/N: I feel like I have not updated in awhile, sorry about that! I have been really busy with work and always coming home fried, and finals are coming up as well. I will try to update with at least two chapters this week to make up for things! Just in case anyone is/gets confused any time there is an "X" throughout the story (unless signaling the end of the chapter) it means I have switched to another sitaution.
Happy reading! xoxo
Confusion
Chapter 7: I'm Begging You
Ulrich had been lifted into the air by none other than Jim, who as the teens could tell, was also possessed by X.A.N.A.
"Huh? Jim what are you doing? Let go of me!", Ulrich struggled to get out of Jim's grasp.
Yumi stared at Ulrich unable to move. She had thousands of thoughts flying through her head all at once. Finally she latched onto the thought to get her brain to tell her muscles to move.
Yumi lunged towards Ulrich, when X.A.N.A quickly lifted him higher into the air. It was as if X.A.N.A was taunting Yumi. She had missed and stumbled over her feet to quickly about face.
Finally the X.A.N.A-fied Jim looked over to Yumi, he gave an evil smirk, a harsh laugh, and looked back up at Ulrich.
He grabbed the boy by his arm and flung him into one of the support beams of the factory.
Yumi gasped and ran towards Ulrich.
Yumi held him in her arms and brush away his hair. She put one hand on his cheek and begged him to open his eyes.
Yumi began to sob into Ulrich's chest. She could not bear to get up to even try to call for help, she didn't want to leave Ulrich. She continued to sob, dampening the boy's shirt.
"Please Ulrich... wake up... please I am begging you..."
"Please Ulrich... I need you..."
"I love you..."
She began to sob harder, pulling the boy closer to her.
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Jeremie breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Odd say that Aelita had made it safely to Lyoko and that she knew exactly where she was.
Odd had just gotten through quickly briefing Aelita on what was going on. Her headache had almost completely gone away.
"Alright, let's waste no time getting to the tower guys, I haven't heard from Yumi and Ulrich in some time, I'm starting to worry.", said Jeremie adjusting his glasses and looking over to Sam who had kept checking her phone every few seconds.
"Got it Jeremie!", said Aelita with a quick wave of her hand over her star bracelet. Suddenly Aelita's beautiful pink digital wings sprung from her back side.
"Hey can you send over my board?", said Odd looking to the sky.
"One overboard coming right up!", Jeremie began clacking away at the keyboard.
Odd quickly jumped on his overboard that had materialized before him and they were off for the tower.
X
Jeremie leaned back in his chair, "I wonder where they could be?", he said looking over at Sam.
"They should be here by now Jeremie. The plan was to get Aelita down here and then come down as soon as the elevator made it back to the first floor." Sam looked away worried.
"Well, Yumi and Ulrich have always been able to handle things, I am sure they just got caught up with something minor, they will be here soon." Jeremie tried to hide his worried expression from Sam, but she could read her friend like a book.
"Ugh! No!"
Jeremie and Sam snapped back when they heard the scream coming from the super computer. Sam jumped to her feet and ran up next to Jeremie.
"I've got you Odd!", the teens could hear Aelita yell.
Sam looked at Jeremie, "What's wrong, what happened?"
"Odd's overboard was hit by a krab, thankfully Aelita caught him before he took some damage."
Sam quickly let out a sigh of relief and continued to analyze the computer screen trying to make sense of everything showing on it.
X
"Thanks Aelita, but keep heading towards the tower, I will try to hold them off.", said Odd his purple cat tail flicking behind him.
"Odd you can't hold off four krabs for very long by yourself!", Aelita said looking at the purple suited boy.
"Just go okay!, I can handle a little seafood, Ulrich and Yumi need us."
"Fine... just please be careful Odd."
Aelita took off for the tower again, looking back once more.
"You guys will go great with a side of butter!", scoffed Odd with a smirk.
Odd pulled back on his paw, and aimed.
"Laser Arrows!"
*click*
"Huh? What?"
Odd pulled back on his paw a few more times.
*click* *click* *click*
The four krabs looked at each other and then back at Odd. They began to get closer to him, firing their lasers.
"Jeremie!", Odd panted as he began to sprint and dodge the lasers from the krabs.
"Reload me, I'm never gonna-"
A krab had hit Odd in the back and it projected him forward about three feet.
"Odd I'm on it, but take cover, one more hit and you're done.", said Jeremie ringing through Odd's ears.
Odd jumped behind one of the jagged rocks on the sector and waited for Jeremie to reload him.
The krabs continued to shoot at the rocks trying to break them down to find out which one Odd was behind. Odd's ear began to twitch as he picked up on a sound coming from behind him.
"Alright Odd, you're reloaded!"
Odd heard Jeremie's words from within his ears.
He pulled back on his paw once more and this time turned around towards the noise he picked up on.
"Laser Arro-"
"Oof! Ugh, no!"
Before Odd knew it, a stray kankrelat had surprised him and shot a laser right at his chest, devirtualizing him.
Lucky enough for Odd, he managed to get out a laser arrow and take out the kankrelat at the same time.
Aelita turned back around and noticed the krabs were following her. She knew that Odd had been devirtualized. She pushed forward.
X
Odd found himself in the hollow emptiness of a scanner, the door slid open and he grabbed the sides holding himself up. He slammed his fist against the scanner.
Odd stumbled out of the scanner when he heard Jeremie over the loud speaker "Odd quick, can you go up to the main floor and see if you can find Ulrich and Yumi?, Aelita could use some back up."
"Yeah, you got it Einstein.", said Odd, still clearly irritated.
Odd entered the elevator and pressed the button that took him to the main floor.
X
Once getting out of the elevator Odd had walked out and stopped for a moment and listened. He heard a noise that he couldn't quite make out, then he realized exactly what he was hearing.
Odd ran and finally stopped to find Yumi curled up with Ulrich in her arms still sobbing. She looked up to Odd, and sobbed harder bringing Ulrich even closer to her.
"He... He won't wake up..."
Odd dropped to his knees and looked at his best friend, his body appearing ever so lifeless and fragile in Yumi's arms.
Odd's eyes began to fill with tears.
"Ulrich...", Odd slammed his fists into the concrete of the factory.
"Ulrich, you gotta wake up, I can't lose my best friend...", Odd lowered his head as a few tears streamed down his cheeks and dropped to the floor.
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A/N: Wow this chapter was on an emotional rollercoaster! I know I focused more on the Aelita/Odd situation, but that just means the next chapter will be mainly Yumi/Ulrich/Odd. Things are really getting intense. Hope you liked this chapter. Thank you so much for all of the views, reviews, and feedback I have received so far with this story. I've really enjoyed writing it!
Thanks for reading! xoxo
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