Ch. 5 Nightmare turned Massacre
William and the Lyoko Warriors walked out of the elevator with William leading them. He and the gang walk out of the factory to the manhole of the bridge. William looks down at the manhole cover, then looks over to the gang.
"You!", William pointed His sword to Odd. "Lift the lid."
Odd said nothing did as he was told and lifted the manhole cover. William climbed down the ladder first, then the other followed suit. The gang walked through the sewer until they reached Kadic's manhole entrance. William climbed up the sewer ladder and lifted the lid just a little, peeking through the slit to make sure the coast is clear. Once he was sure no one else was out there, he removed the lid and climbed out. He stood by the manhole waiting for the others to climb out. When everyone came out, they started walking back to the Academy.
As the group walked through the forest, Aelita felt a strange feeling. She tried to ignore it due to the fact that she and her friends are trying to finish a mission they were forced into. No matter how hard she tried, the sensation grew stronger. The feeling continued to grow stronger when the group was nearing the edge of the forest. She swore there was something about this place that just didn't feel right, but what? Aelita looks up and sees the school grounds was in full view. Her heart beat increased and the feeling had reached its peak. She closes her eyes and take a deep breathe for a few seconds. She opens he eyes only to be met be a disturbing sight of blood and corpses. She steps back from the school ground gasping at the sight with horror. Suddenly, she felt a hand being placed on the shoulder.
"Aelita?", Yumi's voice rang.
She slowly turns her head to the bloody hand. She continues to turn her head to be met by Yumi's melancholy, blood splattered face. She was left utterly speechlessness at the sight of her face.
"Aelita?", Yumi called again.
Aelita darts her eyes toward the boys. All of them, except Jeremie, had blood splattered all over themselves as if some painted them poorly in red paint.
"Aelita."
She looks back at Yumi and saw that her face was clean and free any traces of blood.
Are you okay?"
Aelita was still breathing heavily. She looks around the and sees the rest and the gang and William looking at her. None of them hadan drop of blood on any part of their body. She turns to head towards the school grounds empty and clean, no signs of death. Realizing it was all an hallucination, her heart rate and breathing returns to normal.
"I'm fine. I thought I saw something, but it was all in my head."
"What was it?"
"Nothing. I'm fine."
"You sure?"
"Yes. I hope."
The two girls walk back to the group and caught up with the boys and continued on with their mission.
Back at Kadic, Jim was waiting for Headmaster Delmas outside the school. Classes were almost over and Delmas said he would meet with him at this time. The school door opens and Delmas walks outs out and over to Jim. Sure Jim had spoken to him many times before to talk to him about Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, Jeremie, and Aelita skipping class and hiding secret. In the end, Delmas never believed him.
"Jim. You needed to talk to me about something?", asked the headmaster.
"Yes, it's about Della Robbia, Stern, Ishiyama, Belpois, and Stones."
"Oh, not this again. Jim, if I hear about this nonsense one more time, I swear I'm going to..."
"Quiet!"
Jim pulled Delmas into the corner of the building. He had just spotted the William and the Lyoko Warriors walking out of the forest.
"William? What's he doing with them? When did he leave? And why are they in costumes?"
"Jim, what's the matter...with...you?", Delmas kneels down and peeks out of the corner and sees the group dressed in their Lyoko outfits.
"Are you seeing what I'm seeing?", asked Jim.
"Yes, and look at Odd. His tail, it's moving, like it's part of him. And look at the swords William and Ulrich are carrying. They are the most realistic swords I've ever seen."
The principal and the gym teacher saw that William and Ulrich carrying swords. William was carrying a giant bladed sword and Ulrich, a Japanese samurai sword.
"Wh..why are they in costume? What are they up to?", Delmas wondered.
William walks to the middle of the school grounds and stops. He had a feeling that he and the gang were being watched, but by who? He turns his head to the corner where Jim and Delmas were hiding. Both men retracted their heads before anyone could seem them. Even though William didn't see anything he still had a feeling that he and the gang were not alone and he didn't want leave just yet. He didn't want to take a chance at that.
"All of you, spread out and keep watch. I feeling we're being watched. Remember, if anyone ever sees you, kill them. They're better off if they don't know a single thing about this. Now go!", William commanded. The gang ran off to different areas of the school.
"Oh and one more thing; the powers and abilities you had on Lyoko can be used in reality. So Odd and Aelita, there is no excuse to allow anyone to live."
"As for you, we are going to your room and download that program.", he said as he grabbed Jeremie by the arm while his friends left. The poor boy struggled against the enemy's grip as he was being dragged by him to the dorms. Jeremie gave up and walked along side William since there was no escaping his grip.
Jim and Delmas just about heard everything from William. After Ulrich ran past the corner where the two men were hiding, they quickly ran back to the school door and entered inside. The two sat on the side of the walls trying to process what jus happened. Delmas looks at down on the ground in disappointment.
"How? Why? I can't believe their doing this. They were such good students.", said Delmas in great sorrow.
"Sir, I know it's hard to believe. I'm sorry that..."
"No, Jim. I sorry, sorry that I didn't believe you earlier."
Both men sighed.
"What do we do now?", asked Jim.
"The only thing we can do: call the authorities.", Delmas said sadden as he took out his cellphone and dialed for help. "They're going to kill someone if we have to do something."
"Sir, think about it, did you hear how William was speaking to them and the look on their faces. Maybe they're not doing this on purpose. If you ask me, I don't think they have the heart to kill off a person."
"Dammit Jim, don't you think I know that? Lives are in danger. Whether this is by will or by force, someone is going to get killed, and the must be stopped."
"Do you really believe they would do something like this by will?"
Delmas gave a moment to think. Jim was right, these kids would never purposely put lives in danger for whatever reason. To harm the lives of others, much less their own, was too out of character for any of them. Then again, he had no choice, but to call them. Delmas dials the number and the operator immediately picks up. "Hello, police. We have a major emergency and we are in need of help."
In the dormitory halls, William and Jeremie have arrived at Jeremie's dorm room. William stood to the side and kept an eye out for any unneed guests and Jeremie unlocked his room door. Once unlocked, the two boys entered the dorm. Jeremie sighed as he walked to his computer desk and started search for the program William needed to retrieve fir his master. What used to be the very thing that helped Jeremie create a program to free Aelita was now a tool used to free an evil being.
William watched Jeremie clicked in and exited out of various programs until he found the right one. He places a blank CD disk into the motor, started downloading the program from the computer. Under the loading bar it showed the estimate time for download. 5 minutes.
"This should be ready shortly.", said Jeremie.
On the Kadic school grounds, Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, and Aelita, had met up to check in on each other's progress.
"How's the cafeteria?", Ulrich asked Yumi.
"Clear. What about the gym?", Yumi asked Ulrich.
"No one in sight, thank God. Odd?"
"Nothing in my area.", said Odd.
"Same for east wing as well.", Aelita reported.
"Where's Jeremie? He really needs to hurry up downloading that program before someone sees us, otherwise..."
"I'm sure Jeremie's giving all he's got to download the program as soon as possible. In the mean time, let's head to Jeremie's room and see how far he's gotten."
With that, the warriors head for the dormitory.
In one of the classrooms, a teacher was grading papers as the students were finishing up the last questions of their test. Even the silence was starting to bore him. It was a slow school day. He finished grading the last of the tests sighing that his head and hand needed a break. Her looks out of a window, looking at the forest that surrounded the school, wondering what's as in that forest. Out of the 3 years he had been teaching here, he never really went inside the forest.
He looks down at the school ground, then something catches his eye. Four students dressed in strange costumes were walking by the building. A geisha, a samurai, a cat, and a elf. Though, even when they were in their "costumes", he still recognized them as Yumi Ishiyama, Ulrich Stern, Odd Dell Robbia, and Aelita Stones. Curious, the man got up and started walked out the classroom and to the school grounds.
In Jeremie's room, the computer had just finished the last five seconds of downloading time on the the disk.
"Done." Jeremie removed the disk from the computer and put it in his lower pants pocket. "Now all we have to do is go back to the factory and upload it, am I correct?'
William nodded. Jeremie gets up from his computer and walks past William to the door. He opens the door just a crack and checks both sides of the hallway for anyone coming their way. Once the coast is clear, the boys walk out of the room and lock the door. The boys then head outside to meet up with the rest of the gang.
Outside...
"Let's hurry up before some one sees us.", said Ulrich leading the way while the others followed.
Just as they saw the dormitory in their sights, the teacher walked out in front of the with his arms folded. The others stopped as right in front of him.
"Can someone explain to me why any of you are not in class? And why are you all dressed like that? Don't try that "We're just preparing for Halloween" excuse because Halloween doesn't arrive not for another three months." The four warriors hung their heads with sadness knowing what must be done to the witness.
Ulrich stepped out of the group drawing his sword as he walked toward the teacher.
"If you value your life, run. Don't make this any harder than it has to be.", Ulrich warned the man as he raised his sword to his stomach. However, the man was not impressed nor showed any signs of fear.
"Do you really think you can scare me with a plastic sword. If anything, you all will be getting a suspension or even expulsion for not only cutting class, but for threatening me with a toy sword."
Jeremie and William had just walked out of the dormitory door to meet up with rest of the credooWhen they got out, they saw the gang being scolded by a teacher. Ulrich had his sword out and pointed at the teacher's stomach. Surprisingly, he did not show fear nor was he begging for his life. William decided to walk over towards to group to give them a simple reminder.
"Ulrich!", William called out his name. The warriors and the teacher adverted their attention to the servant.
"William, not you, too.", said the teacher.
"Ulrich, remember what said about witnesses and what we do to them."
"Okay, is this some kind of sick joke because if it is, it's not funny. You know what, all of you, with me to the Delmas's office, right now! I bet you Delmas will suspend you butts for this.", he said with fury.
"Ulrich, it's either you dispose of him now, or else you say goodbye to your family."
Ulrich clenched his teeth at the threat. His heart sank pitying the man he was about to kill.
"What is he talking about?", the teacher asked.
"I'm sorry.", Ulrich said as he looks up at the man with a apologetic look. He takes a deep breathe, then stabs the man in the chest piercing his heart. The teacher released a blood cuddling scream in pain.
In the building, the teacher's screams echoed through the hallways if the school. Both the students and the teachers heard it from their classrooms causing them to wonder what it was. One the teachers walked out the classroom and into the hallway looking for the source of the noise.
Outside, the man was gasping for air as blood pour from his mouth. His skin was beginning to pale, his eyes were glazed, breathing slowed, and any movement became sluggish. Soon, gasps turn into gurgles and within a few minutes, the man died on the spot. Ulrich released his grip on the sword handle and let the man fall to the ground onto his back. The samurai pulls out his sword for his corpse. Ulrich looked down at the man with melancholy. The man was fairly young, about 26 years of age. How could he cut a life short?
"That's one thing taken care of.", William said looking at victim unsympathetically. "Let's go before someone else sees us.",
Ulrich's blood was now starting to boil at the fact that he was force to kill a young man. He felt helpless, he felt weak. At that moment, he had one thing on his mind: kill William. Ulrich started breathing rapidly and his narrowed in anger. Odd noticed that his friend's cool demeanor was disappearing.
"Ulrich? Buddy? You okay?"
"Monster.", Ulrich whispered.
William stopped and turned around not sure if he heard the boy correctly, "Excuse me?"
"Monster!"
Ulrich roared as he super sprinted towards William and started striking his sword at William wildly. The two soon engaged in a sword fight. William blocked each attack that Ulrich stroke. The others rushed in to break up the fight between them. Yumi and Odd pulled Ulrich back from the fight causing all three of them to fall to the ground.
"Ulrich.", Yumi tried hard to calm the boy down.
"I'm gonna kill him.", Ulrich hissed with vemon in his voice.
"No your not."
"I'm gonna kill him."
"Ulrich, you are not. Now calm down.", Yumi was starting to become frantic.
"I'm gonna..."
"Ulrich!", Yumi snapped as tears began to form in her eyes. Ulrich looked at her still breathing heavily. "Please, don't do this."
"Yumi, don't you see? We are nothing more than pawn to this guy. That's all we are. Nothing more than freaking pawns!", Ulrich yelled at his love interest with pure anger still in his voice. Tears started rushing down Yumi's eyes, afraid that his action might have dire consequences on their families and other people.
"Don't you think I know that? You're acting like your the only one whose effected by this, but you're not the only one. We're all dancing to X.A.N.A.'s tune right now, but this is the only way to save our families. I don't like it anymore than any of us do, but please... just don't."
Ulrich looked at the geisha's face. Tears were falling from her eyes and teeth were clenched. He knew that Yumi rarely cried and the closest thing he seen to her crying was having tears fall from her eyes. Ulrich had just realized that for a moment, he had turned into a wild animal attacking anything that moved. As the samurai and the geisha got up, he places a hand on her cheek and takes a deep breathe. "Yumi. Yumi." Yumi looks up at Ulrich. "I...I don't what got over me. I was so angry. I should've thought what I was doing before..."
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH", a woman's scream filled the air. William and the gang turn their attention to the crowd of student and teachers.
"No.", Yumi sighed as she saw the huge crowd gathering up around the body. As if killing a young teacher was bad enough, but children as well, and some of them were good friends with them.
They saw the man's bloody, lifeless body on the ground with a pool of blood surrounding his corpse. The crowd was frightened at what they saw. One of the teachers looked up and saw William and the gang standing there and watching. They see Ulrich's sword in hand with the blade covered in blood as well as his hands.
A student looks up in points at the group. He immediately recognizes the person holding the sword was Ulrich. "Ulrich? You killed him?"
All the other students and teachers looked up at the gang in fear and anger. "Muderers!" "Someone call the police." "I told you they were weird." "Jim was right. They did have a secret. They're psychopaths."
The gang stood in fear of the large crowd. Not because of the size of it, but for what they had to do to them. Jeremie turns to William and pleads to spare their lives. "William, we don't have to this. I got the program you needed. Here, take the disk." Jeremie took the disk out of his pocket and placed it in William's hand. "Just insert it into the supercomputer and upload it. You can just leave, go to the factory, and be done with."
William sighed, "I agree with you 100%. Finishing off these people is a waste of time and energy and it's not even a challenge. But, by X.A.N.A.'s orders, there can be no witnesses. If you refuse, you can say goodbye to your families."
The gang look down in sadness, unable to avoid the inevitable. William walks over to the gang and looks at their faces.
"Well, Lyoko Warriors, what's it going to be?"
The warrior, except Jeremie, readied their weapons and turned towards the crowd.
Outside the gate, Reginald had just regain consciousness and was now leaning on the wall of Kadic Academy.
"Ugh, what happened? Where am I?", the reporter rubbed his head trying to remember what happened. Reginald looks up and sees he was next to the school gate. "Kadic Academy? What am I doing here?" He looks at his hand and saw a video camera in his hand. "Hmph, I must of past out while trying to record something, but why am I am this school?"
A series of screams suddenly fills the air. Reginald looks past the gate and sees a young geisha throwing fans at a crowd of adults and children.
"What the...?", it was all Reginald could say.
Next to her, to his surprise, a female elf throwing pink balls at the crowd causing their bodies to explode into bloody vapor. Then, he sees a samurai slicing and stabbing various people, a cat-human hybrid shooting arrows out of his wrist at the crowd, and a black hair, black armored boy with a giant sword striking a single group of people in one slash.
Reginald quickly turned on his camera and started recording the event going on. Kids in costumes attack an inoccent group of people, adults and children trying to defend themselves, but are failing, powers and abilities that only existed in fiction come to life in the real world. Reginald felt amazed and terrified at the kids and their powers as he rolled the film. Luckily, no one noticed him since they were distracted with killing witnesses.
Yumi threw two fans at the crowd. Slicing bodies and limbs off their owners. Most of the people in the crowd started screaming and running from the warriors. A majority of them were herded into the gymnasium. Some started finding objects to use as weapons to defend themselves. They started throwing rocks and stones at the warriors, but that didn't slow them down. Aelita charged two energy spheres in both hands and started blasting them at the crowd. Their bodies either exploded, or had body parts blown off.
"Laser arrow!" Odd had shot arrows at several students and teachers, piercing their vital organs which as the heart and lungs.
Aelita was charging another energy sphere, she didn't notice a student running towards her on the side. Before she knew it was tackled to the ground. The boy started punch her multiple time in the face and bashed her head into the ground. Unbeknownst to the boy, he didn't notice Aelita charging another engery sphere. Before the boy could throw one final punch, Aelita released an energy sphere at the the boy's stomach creating a gigantic hole in his midsection. She got up and ran to the others who were ,too, done with their part of the fight.
When Aelita caught up with the gang, took a look at the school grounds. The blood covered grounds, the dead bodies, her friends covered in blood. Her mind started replay the nightmare she had last night. Only it wasn't a nightmare, it was a vision, much to her horror. William's voice snapped Aelita out of her thoughts.
"Looks like were done here. Unfortunately, that's not the last of them.", said William as he and the others looked at the gymnasium.
With Reginald, he had just enough of the footage for his story. He stopped recording and was about to leave until he heard sirens in the he distance. "Maybe I'lI stick around. This could be my scoop."
Students and teachers were growing frantic. Some people started calling the police, others their friends and families either telling them what's happening to them, or to say their final goodbyes. Many started to cry as these would be their final moments of life and went searching for friend, sibling, love interests to die beside them. However not all of them sought comfort. Some were preparing to fight against the "Lyoko Demons" as they now called them.
"There's no way I'm dying. Not like this.", said one boy in the group.
"I hear you.", another boy confronted. "If I going down like this, I wanna go down fighting. In fact, why shouldn't we? We should be fighting for our lives, waiting for them to take it. There's an old phrase: fight or take flight. Meaning if anyone want to take my life, they'll have to fight me for it. Warriors my ass, more like demons."
All of a sudden, a loud bang cane from the iron doors. Everyone became terrified as they saw outward dents rising from the doors. The door was hit three more times, then silence followed. The heart rates of teachers and students increased as terror built up inside of them. The very last second was the most tense. Students and teachers held their breathes prepared for what was coming to thewas that last five seconds was so quiet that you could here a single heart beat in the gym. Lub-dub...lub-dub...lub-dub, lub, dub, lub...lub...dub...lub...
The double doors flew off their hinges leaving a cloud of dust behind. The dust cloud quickly disappeared on to leave five Lyoko Warriors in its place. Odd had taken the first few steps inside the gym shooting laser arrows at every person he saw. The crowd screamed in horror and started to run to the other side of the gymnasium trying to escape the madness, but were cut off by William and Ulrich swords out and ready to strike. Yumi, Aelita, and Odd were the of the crowd slaying students. However, some decided to fight back. Two students with fire extinguishers ran into the crowd. Out of the three warriors they had in their sights, the two choose Yumi as their first target and ran towards her. Yumi was so distracted in the chaos, see didn't see the boys coming. One boy pushed came behind and spartan kicks thengeishe in the back. Yumi stand her ground and starts to get in a martial arts fight with her. The second boy rans up to the girl and sends a powerful kick onto her side causing her to fall to the floor and hard. Now down on the ground, the two started to beat her kicking and stepping on her sides.
"Yumi!", Aelita and Odd yelled in unison. Both pointed their arms at the students, one each., then blasted an arrow and and energy sphere at them. One student was shot in the left lung arrow Odd's arrow. The other was shot in the chest by Aelita's energy sphere. Yumi slowly got up still hurt from the attack, continued to slay the crowd along with Aelita and Odd.
Outside the gymnasium, Jeremie was outside waiting for them to finish. He closed his eyes and covered his ears with his hands trying to block out the screams of pure terror coming from the gym. After a few long minutes, a long moment of cold silence.
Jeremie opens his eyes and uncovers his ears noticing that no noise was coming from the gymnasium. He gets up and walks into the gym and to his horror the walls and floors were painted red with the blood of the innocent. Dead bodies, severed limbs and body parts, and organs laid on the floor, some piled on top of each other. Some still had weapons in their hands. The air carried the sent of blood. The gym had become a grave for the innocent. Out of the six warriors, four of them remained in shock what have done. Faces and clothing splattered with blood, they hung their heads in shame, and their hearts sank for they have killed many to save the few they cared deeply about. Normally, some people who had killed a person for the first time sometime feel guilty for what they've done, traumatized even. For the four warriors, the effect is much greater. Not only it was the first time they killed another human being, but they killed an entire crowd. On top of that, a majority were children. The hopes and dreams of the dead had died with them never to be fulfilled. They could hearntheir friends andnrelatives crying for them, cursing their names. They wouldn't be surprised if some of them swore vengence for their deaths. In the end, all five warriors think to themselves, "Was it really worth it?"
On the side lines, William, however, felt a strange feeling like sorrow, then guilt, then unexpectedly anger. out of nowhere, his head started hurting as if someone had hit him in the back of his head. "What is wrong with me? What is this I'm feeling? Why do I feel this way?"
"First of all, what you feel is called a headache. Second, the sorrow, guilt, and anger are called emotions.", said a voice.
"Who said that? Show yourself!", William commanded looking around the gym to find the source of the voice.
"I can't. I'm in your head."
"What? No are you and how did you get in?"
"It's me, the real William. I've been trapped in here ever since X.A.N.A possessed me."
"No. How did you returned?" William was held head in both hands as the pain slowly increased.
"Hey, William.", William turned his head to Odd who was looking at him as if he was crazy. "Who are you talking to?"
Then headache suddenly vanishes at sound of Odd's voice. William shook his head as he focuses his attention back to the present. He answers to Odd, "No one. Just no one. Let's get going. We've already wasted more time here than we needed."
William and the Lyoko Warriors left the building and headed for the forest. Little did they know, a young boy, a sole survivor, was hiding under the bleachers, waiting for the group to exit the building. When all of them exited the gym, he ran to the opposite direction towards the exit on. The boy felt two things that day. One, he was relieved for he had survive the massacre and would live to tell the tale about it. The other was sadden at the fact that the one of the people he knew had participated in such action. That sole survivor was the brother of the geisha demon: Hiroki.
After Hiroki was a good distance from the gym, tears began rushing down his face and he started to cryhe he finally stops to wipe the tears from his face. Then he looks up to the sky and thinks to himself, "Why, sis? Why did you kill all those people?"
William and the gang were still walking to the forest. No one said a word along the way for they were still trying to forget the events that took place in the gym, but effort were futile. As they got near the forest, they suddenly heard a twig snap as if it came from the forest itself.
"Did you hear that?", said Odd as he aimed his wrist at the direction of the sound.
"Yeah. I have a bad feeling about this.", said Ulrich drawing out his sword.
Yumi quickly took out her fans and William and Aelita stood Jeremie side by siden protectively. If they were going to complete this mission, Jeremie has to upload the program into the supercomputer and free X.A.N.A.. For him to do so, he needs to be brought back alive. All of them kept quiet to try and listen for any other noises. Suddenly a gunshot broke the silence followed by a scream.
"Gah!", Jeremie screamed as he fell.
"Jeremie!", Aelita called out. She and William ran to the boy and saw that his leg was heavily bleeding. In his wound was a sniper bullet. Yumi throws a pair of fans in the direction of the gunshot. Blood splatters onto a tree indicating some one was there. A blood puddle starts to form in front of the bushes. A man crawls out of the bushes with a sniper in one hand. Then man looks up at the warriors revealing that his throat was slit by one of Yumi's fans. The next minute, he was dead.
"Guys. Jeremie's been shot in the leg. We have to get..."
"FIRE.", a voice ordered.
Another gun was aimed fired at William, but was deflected by his sword. A third was shot at Aelita only to be blocked be Ulrich's sword. Odd sees the sniper on the roof top and shots an arrow at the man, causing him to fall off the 3 story school building. Another sniper was hiding in the archway of the main building. He targets Yumi and fires at her. Unable to dodge the shot in time, shot bullet hits Yumi in the ankle.
"Yumi. You okay?", asked Ulrich voice full of concern.
"Yeah, I think. Ah!", Yumi yells in pain as she tries to move he ankle.
Aelita spots Yumi's shooter and charges an energy ball in her hands. The sniper's next target was Jeremie again, but time going for a heart shot. The man sees Aelita charging a pink, shining sphere forming in her hands and looks up from his scope to get a look at the phenomena.
"What the hell?", it was all he could say. Once fully charged, she releases the energy sphere at the man. Before it could hit him, he dodges the blast. The sphere hits the wall and a cloud of smoke and dust covers the area. Inside the blast, the sniper drops his watch so that they would believe he's dead. He runs from the sight and enters the building, hides inside, and takes out his talkie, and radios for back up. Soon a group of officers starts running invwith guns out ready to shoot.
Ulrich looks to the right and sees large squad of police officers coming their way. "Looks like we've got company."
Aelita looks back and sees a group of policemen shooting at them. Aelita charges two more spheres in here hands and blasts them at two officers blowing holes in their chests. She quickly charges two more in her hand.
"Laser arrow." Odd was shooting his laser arrows at squad. Many of them with shot in the vital organs, some experienced body shots. They either died of blood loss or were unable to get up. There was a couple that needed a few extra shots to slow them down at least.
"Triplicate.", Ulrich yelled as two clones of him appear. The police group were stunned by what the just witnessed and started to shoot at the Samurai and his clones. "Super sprint." Ulrich and his clones ran at high speed towards the squad as they shot at him. One clone was shot in the heart, but disappears. The offerices were once again stunned by what they've seen. The two remaind Ulrich ran into the group. One sliced two policemen in the midsection and stabs two more in the the stomach. The other kills one by stabbing him in the heart and decapitates another policemen. Seeing what has happened, a few retreated to call for stronger forces. "Fusion." Ulrich and his copy fuse back into one Ulrich and run back to the gang. "We better get out of here if we want to stick around for round 3."
"Let's go to the main, there's a secret entrance there. C'mon!", Odd ordered. The group nodded and ran while William lifted boy and slung him on his shoulders and follwed the gang as he carried the boy. Ulrich picked up the injured Yumi and supported her as the walked along the way
Hidden snipers didn't dare take any shots at the warriors in fear of getting killed by their powers. On of them takes out a radio and reports to the chief, "Sir, I have the suspects in my sights. They are running towards the main building. Repeat, they are running towards the main building."
"Okay, I'm sending special forces to the location right now.", the chief responded. He looks back at the group of special forces officers he himself grabs a couple of guns. "Alright, all of you. One of the snipers have spotted the suspects headed for the main building. Search the building for them. Beware, for I was inform that they have some strange powers. Don't know if it's true or not, but I'm better off nothing finding out. Okay, let's move out!" He leads tthensquad onto school grounds and moved in on the main building.
Odd, the first one to make it to the double doors of the main building, opened it up for the others entered the building leaving Odd the last one to enter. All ran down the hall until they reached the boiler room. William and Ulrich sets Jeremie and Yumi down on the floor, respectively, to give Aelita a chance to get a closer look at the wound.
"We need something to tie the wounds.", Aelita said looking at Jereime's wound. Jeremie sits up and takes off his shirt. Despite him being a stereotypical nerd, he actually had a lean, but muscular body.
"Use my shirt.", Jeremie said gaving his shirt to Aelita. Aelita takes the shirt and folds the midsection of the shirt up, wraps it around the wound, ties the sleeves together.
"What about Yumi?"
"Got it covered.", said Ulrich bandaging Yumi's wounded ankle with his bandana. Ulrich helps Yumi up and she leans on him for support. "We have to get going. They can't be too far behind."
Aelita ran down the room and opened a hidden, red door. She run back and helps Jeremie up and lets him lean on her as thet walked. The pair were the first to go in followed by Odd. They hastily ran down the stair and towards the factory. William quickly closes the door moments before the special forces group came barging into the boiler room.
Even though Lyoko Warriors were safe from further harm, events form earlier that day was still utterly distributing.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!