~The Lyoko Warriors~
Chapter 2:First Attack
Yumi blinked her eyes open and got dressed,then walked downstairs. It was came face to face with her ,her mother,wore a ,her father,wore a disapproving frown.
"Yumi,I'd like to talk about your 'new friends',"Hakeo said grimly.
"They seem nice dear!"Akiko said.
"I'm fine with this I don't want you attached to this Odd kid,"Hakeo said sternly.
"Dad!"Yumi shot him a glare.
"Hakeo!"she scolded.
"I don't like the looks of him-he's certainly a troublemaker,"Hakeo said stubbornly.
"He's not,believe me!"Yumi was playing his video game.
"Hey!"he walked over to him.
"What did you lose the level?"Yumi joked.
"No it just froze!"he looked at the had gone completely black with a red symbol that resembled an eye and a target.
"That looks like..."Yumi started,and her eyes grabbed her phone.
"Jeremie!Jeremie pick up!"she begged.
Jeremie took out his phone as he heard it had been on his computer all night.
"Hello?"he asked.
"Jeremie!You remember that symbol at the factory right?"Yumi asked in a huff.
"Well yea...why?"he asked.
"It just appeared on my brothers video game...and now there's black smoke and...oh god damn,I don't like the looks of this..."Yumi cursed.
"Well what should I do about it?"Jeremie demanded.
"How the fuck should I know?
I-"Yumi cut off.
"Yumi?"Jeremie asked nervously.
"Shit it's coming for me...straight towards me..."Yumi said. Then Jeremie heard a scream,a thud, and the sound of footsteps. Then the line went dead.
"Yumi? Yumi!"Jeremie shouted.
He placed a call to Odd.
"Odd?"
Odd groaned. He picked up his phone.
"What is it Jeremie?"he yawned.
"It's Yumi! I think something happened that involved the factory!"Jeremie sounded worried.
"What? What happened to Yumi?"Odd asked. Ulrich looked at his roommate curiously at the mention of Yumi's name.
"Black smoke-what the hell, Jeremie?"Odd was shocked.
"I'm not kidding head to the factory now! i may be able to stop whatever's happening!"Jeremie shouted.
"Alright I'll be there as soon as I can," Odd said.
"What's up with Yumi?"Ulrich asked.
"Uh, nothing..." Odd lied.
"Anyway I'd better go I promised my friend something," he said walking out the door. Ulrich followed him at a distance.
Yumi ran down the street. She was running from a car that was driving towards her at full speed, despite the fact there was nobody in it. Others began to move out of the way in the nearly empty street in fear of getting hit. Nobody seemed to notice the car was chasing someone. The police came zooming down after it, sirens and lights on. The car slowed none, although Yumi was feeling like she couldn't run much longer.
"So what exactly is going on Jer?" Odd asked, walking up to his friend. Jeremie was waiting in the park.
"I can't exactly say-I'm a bit confused myself," Jeremie said nervously.
"Well what happened to-" Odd began, but was cut off. He looked over in the direction of the gates and onto the street. He watched Yumi run by, and she looked tired. He also watched a car with nobody in it speeding after her.
"Well I think I do!" Odd shouted. Jeremie looked confused.
"There's a car with no one in it chasing Yumi down the street!" Odd said.
Ulrich watched the pair from the other end of the park. He was confused.
"Cars with nobody in them? I don't believe this..." he muttered to himself.
"So Einstein, how do we fix this?" Odd demanded.
"I don't know-but maybe if we go to that factory we went to a few days ago, we can fix this!" Jeremie said. Odd nodded, and the two took off into the woods.
"Oh I really don't believe this..." Ulrich muttered, taking off after the two.
Yumi panted as she ran. She knew she couldn't go on much longer. She turned at the street she was at and decided to head to the factory.
Odd stood behind Jeremie at the supercomputer.
"So what's going on, Einstein?" Odd asked nervously.
"I don't know... Maybe we should ask Aelita," he suggested.
"Perfect time to talk to your digital girlfriend, Einstein," Odd said sarcastically.
"Aelita?" he asked.
"Jeremie, what's going on?" she asked.
"Well I was hoping you knew. Yumi's run into some trouble and the symbol we saw on things in here is what she saw," Jeremie recapped.
"Hm...Well I'm not sure what I can do," said Aelita.
"Well what's going on? I have no idea how to save Yumi!" Jeremie said nervously. At that moment, the elevator doors opened, and Ulrich Stern stepped out. He looked around the place.
"Bellpois, you've truly gone insane" he said although his eyes glinted with curiosity.
"You call it insane, I call it the power of a computer genius," Jeremie replied with a smile.
"Jeremie, I think I know," Aelita said. Ulrich walked to the computer and stared dumbfounded at the face.
"You programmed her, right?" Ulrich asked. Jeremie shook his head.
"Send your friends to the digital world! I think I need to go somewhere but I need protection," Aelita said.
"That's crazy!"Jeremie shouted.
"Send us there? That'd be awesome!"Odd said cheerfully. Jeremie sighed.
"Alright. Head to the room just below here and step into a scanner, I think they're called," Jeremie said reluctantly. Odd nodded.
"Awesome! Later Einstein!"Odd said. He ran across the small dim room and saw a ladder, then climbed down. He was let into an otherwise dim room with bright yellow light emitting from three cylinders, gray and black wires snaking everywhere connected to the cylinders. Odd stepped into one.
"C'mon Ulrich!" he begged. Ulrich had followed him down, and reluctantly stepped into a scanner.
"I hope I don't regret this..."he muttered.
"Alright, here we go…Transfer Odd, Transfer Ulrich…Scanner, Odd, Scanner Ulrich… Virtualization!" Jeremie shouted, typing the codes and pressing enter.
Odd landed on the ground with a thud. He looked down at himself. H was clad in purple still, but his outfit was different. He had large paw gloves- and a tiger's tail.
"What the hell is this place Jeremie?"Odd demanded. It seemed entirely made of ice, but the sky was dark and blank and there was no chill. At that moment,
Ulrich dropped down beside him. He looked at himself. He was in yellows, a type of samurai outfit. He then reached behind him and pulled out two long blades from sheaths on his back.
"Sweet,"he said swishing the blades side to side.
"So he gets to be a samurai and I'm just a big purple cat?"Odd said hurt.
"Yea yea whatever-just go find Aelita," Jeremie's voice sounded from nowhere. Ulrich sighed.
"Something tells me he's flipped for a virtual chic..." Ulrich said and ran into the open. Then he fell as a laser shot him in the leg.
Odd turned and noticed movement behind an iceberg. He ran over to it.
"You must be Aelita," he said. He had walked up to an elfin girl with pink hair and a single earring. She nodded.
"I am," she answered.
"So where are we going? What's going on?"he asked.
"We're in the virtual world obviously, and we need to get to that tower over there," she said pointing to a tower. Odd nodded.
"So what do you suggest we do with those guys?" he asked, pointing to Ulrich, who was holding his sword up to block the lasers that were being shot at him from things that looked like cubes on four legs with a circle with that symbol on it on each side facing out.
"Hit them in the eye of XANA," Aelita said.
"W-wait but-"Odd stammered.
"You'll know what to do," Aelita said. She dashed past the fighting Ulrich, with Odd running to him to fight off the strange cubes.
"I say we call them blocks, because they look like it," Odd declared.
"Whatever. Looks like she got to get to that tower or whatever she was talking about," Ulrich replied, looking over to the girl running into a tower and going inside.
"Weird...I didn't think it had any doors..." Odd said watching her. Ulrich was shot back and depixelized before Odd's eyes.
"Ulrich?" Odd shouted.
The scanner opened back on Earth. Ulrich stepped out panting and holding his side where the laser hit him.
"Ugh..." he groaned.
Odd watched the tower turn from red to blue. Aelita stepped out. Soon, since his guard was down, Odd was devirtualized as well.
Jeremie was watching the security footage of the bridge directly outside the factory. Yumi was running from a car that had nobody in it. As soon as the tower changed color, the car stopped dead, although Yumi landed on the ground because she had fallen off the type of balcony around the chamber. Ulrich climbed the ladder from the scanner room into the lab with Odd close behind.
"So that saves Yumi..." Ulrich said.
"Not quite. That was a long fall-Yumi is probably injured," Jeremie concluded.
"Alright, we'd better go check on her," Ulrich said.
"Yea let's go Ulrich," Odd said, running into the elevator. Ulrich followed, and the elevator closed as it ascended into the Cathedral hall.
"Yumi!" Ulrich shouted as the elevator opened. Yumi was laying on the floor groaning a bit.
"Yumi are you okay?" Odd asked, running up to her.
"Yea I'm fine...but I think I broke my arm...I can't feel it...and my leg hurts like hell," Yumi said.
"Alright, we'll get you to the hospital," Ulrich said.
"But I think the real problem is how are we supposed to get her there?" Odd asked urgency in his tone. Ulrich pulled out his cell phone.
"Maybe WE don't have to," he said.
"Calling an ambulance, huh?" Odd asked.
"Ulrich, I'm not hurt that badly," Yumi protested.
"Can you get up?" he asked.
"Well, no..." she admitted.
"Then you're hurt that badly," he declared.
"Yes hello?...my name is Ulrich Stern, and-...the emergency is my friend, she's-...no I'm not quite sure what her injuries are. She can't feel her arm and her legs hurt badly-...location? Uh the abandoned Renault factory-...we weren't here because we wanted to be ma'am... Please just come help my friend...alright, ok... see you then," was Ulrich's end of the conversation.
"They'll be here soon," he reported.
"Really Ulrich, I'm not worth their time..." Yumi protested.
"C'mon Yumi, don't say that," Odd said, trying to cheer her up.
"No it's true-I can get up myself. Watch," she said. She shakily rose to her feet, leaning on Odd, but soon collapsed, even before she let go of him.
"See Yumi? You need this," Ulrich said victoriously. Yumi sighed and looked up at him from her slumped position on the ground. Soon, sirens could be heard.
"I'll go tell them she's down here," Ulrich said, and he climbed out of the Cathedral Hall and onto the bridge to meet the medics.
Shortly after, a few men came down to the ground level. They tried to pick
Yumi up, but she cried out in pain. They set her back down carefully.
"Sorry sirs...I really am," she apologized. She got up shakily and leaned on
Odd, who was next to her.
"You sure about this?"Odd asked. Yumi nodded.
"Yea...c'mon," she said, her voice cracking a bit. She walked with Odd up the stairs to the bridge where the ambulance was parked, grunting in pain with every step.
"Alright I think it's time to lay down," one of the medics said to her. Yumi's face was pained, but it was clear she was trying not to show her wounds hurt her like hell.
"Alright..." she admitted, climbing into the ambulance. Soon after, she collapsed. Ulrich and Odd hopped into the ambulance.
"We're coming with," Ulrich declared. The men just nodded as they examined her.
"Are you sure you needed an ambulance, kid?" one of them asked.
"Well she couldn't walk and neither of us can drive so we thought it'd be the safest bet," Odd replied. Ulrich nodded in agreement. The man sighed.
"Whatever...but you do know you can't come into the emergency room," he said.
"Of course we do-right, good buddy?" Odd asked good-natured.
"Uh, right..." Ulrich said. He looked Yumi over. She was no longer moving, but he could see the rise and fall of her chest. That relieved him. He shook his head.
Why did this relieve him so much, that she was still alive? That she had a chance of making it completely unharmed? That he could be the difference between her life and her death?
Authors Note: This is not my favorite chapter is more of a transition than , Odd and Ulrich now know Aelita and have figured out that deactivating a tower can probably stop anything weird. I cut out Jeremie towards the end...he'll jump back in next chapter.
This is again to prove some points:
-Yumi knows kind of what happens when XANA attacks
-Odd and Ulrich know Aelita and have been to Lyoko
-Odd,Ulrich,and Jeremie know going to Lyoko and getting Aelita to a tower will probably stop strange events
-I've outlined my favorite couple of all time-UlrichXYumi
Although...they have no idea who XANA is yet. Aelira, who hasn't lost her memory in this story, will explain in the next chapter.
Anyway Yumi's off to the hospital now-that'll become a signifigant detail in the next chapter.
Also,I knew I promised a longer chapter...but this was one of the only moments of the week I can submit stuff,and I needed to wrap it up in a place that seemed fitting.
Basically at the end is when Ulrich realizes he's falling in love ~awwww~:3
-Ember