~The Lyoko Warriors~
Before I begin...
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Code Lyoko, the preview image,or any of the characters used. I only own the storyline...somewhat atleast. With that out of the way, here's chapter 4!Hope you like the story do far!
Chapter 4: Getting the Hang of It
Yumi blinked her eyes open, realizing the small hospital room had gone completely dark. She turned over and saw the symbol of XANA on the monitor. She tried to get up, but recoiled in the sharp pain from her legs. All she could do was cry out in pain as the machine took its toll.
"What?" Ulrich exclaimed.
"We're sorry to inform you this way, Stern...but we thought you'd like to know,"
John-Pierre Delmas said.
"What do you mean she's worse? She's in a hospital, there's no WORSE!" Ulrich shouted. His eyes pooled with anger, and he looked about ready to destroy anything that stood in his path.
"It was just a glitch with the machinery..." he said, trying to calm the raging adolescent in front of him. Ulrich sighed, calming himself on the outside.
"Of course...Yes, Mr. Delmas," he replied.
"Good. Now off to class please," Mr. Delmas said, gesturing Ulrich out of his office.
"So what did he want?" Odd asked. He and Jeremie had been waiting on Ulrich to finish up.
"He told me about Yumi," Ulrich reported.
"What? What happened?" Jeremie exclaimed.
"She's worse than before. The machine apparently glitched and was shocking her for a full 3 hours. She was nearly dead," Ulrich repeated, unable to meet his friends' wide eyes and shocked faces.
"We have to get to Lyoko," Jeremie declared.
"Yea it sounds like this XANA thing's not giving up so easily," Odd said.
"Let's go," Ulrich said. His two friends nodded, and the three of them took off running.
"What's wrong with her?" a doctor asked. He and another doctor were standing over the bed of the adolescent girl who had been electrocuted.
"Her heart rate is a bit irregular..." he reported, watching the machine monitoring her heart rate. Ironically, the electric shock she had received made her even more dependent on machines. She had slipped into a coma since the accident, and a few processes in her body were going wrong. Her heart rate was irregular, and her mind had been affected by the shock, which was what pushed her into the coma in the first place
"What do we do to cure her?" one asked. The other just shook his head.
"I have no idea..." he said.
"Uh guys?" Ulrich asked. The three were at the tunnel through the gym.
"Yea?" Odd replied.
"Can I go see if Yumi's okay?" Ulrich asked nervously. Odd and Jeremie smiled to each other.
"Sure, good buddy," Odd said.
"Go on, Ulrich," Jeremie responded. Ulrich nodded, and ran off the opposite direction. Jeremie opened the door and he and Odd headed for the factory.
"Excuse me, miss? Can I see Yumi Ishiyama?" Ulrich asked. He was at the hospital already, and was addressing a young-looking sandy-haired attendant at the front desk.
"She's in a coma currently, but you may drop by if you want to," the attending responded after checking her records. Ulrich nodded, and walked past the front desk.
Odd ran just ahead of Jeremie across the bridge. The two each grabbed a rope and swung down to the ground level of the cathedral hall. They walked into the elevator, and Jeremie entered the access code as they reached the lab.
The doors opened, and the two boys strolled into the dimly-lit room made of metal with wires snaking everywhere. Jeremie woke up the supercomputer, triggering the holomap to flick on in the center of the room.
"Odd, head to the scanners," Jeremie reported after a minute.
"What sector of the digital world will we be visiting today, Einstein?" Odd asked, humor in his voice.
"Try the coldest place that comes to mind," Jeremie replied.
"Aw, not the ice sector!" Odd whined as he climbed down the ladder into the room lit in the center with three cylinders called scanners, with sites snaking out of each of those and all on the ceiling and a few on the walls. Odd stepped into
a scanner.
"Ready, Jeremie!" he called.
Jeremie began typing in the program.
"Transfer, Odd...Scanner, Odd...Virtualization!" Jeremie shouted. The scanner closed and Odd was lifted up, scanned, and virtualized.
Ulrich opened the door slightly, peeking in. Then he slipped into the room.
It looked the same as it had the last time he was here, except for Yumi was no longer awake, and he noticed scorch marks around the electrical sockets.
Ulrich looked Yumi over. She looked as if she were only sleeping. She began to murmur and her eyelids began flickering.
"Yumi?" Ulrich asked. She stopped moving then, although she was still making sounds.
"Yumi..." Ulrich called. He kneeled next to the bed, worried for her. But he knew she was only dreaming.
Yumi looked around. She was in that strange virtual world again. She had no idea what it meant. She then spun around and saw that boy...William, if her memory served her. He laughed a demonic laugh, and swung his shadowy glaive straight for her. She had no time to dodge before it slashed her arm. She cried out in pain, but she dodged the next one. He seemed to be backing her up, but she had no idea where. That was, until she stepped back onto nothing. William smiled, swinging his glaive one more time, knocking her off the edge, as she plummeted toward the digital sea below.
Ulrich looked at Yumi worried. She had begun to cry out. Never waking once, she seemed to be put in more pain by an invisible force.
"Yumi!" he shouted, but to no avail. Then, she began screaming. Ulrich stood shocked. He backed up a bit. Then she went silent. Ulrich looked at her curiously. She hadn't woken, through all of that. Ulrich decided he needed to stay, in case she began screaming again. He pulled a chair up next to the bed and sat patiently.
Odd landed on the terrain of the ice sector. He swished his tail as he glanced around.
"Alright princess, it's time to come out to play!" Odd called. A few seconds later, he heard a voice behind him.
"Hello, Odd," it said. Odd whipped around.
"Oh, it's only you princess," Odd said with a sigh of relief.
"Who did you think it was, a block?" Aelita asked with a smile. Odd shook his head.
"Whatever, let's just go find that tower before XANA decides he wants to be done with Yumi," Odd declared. Aelita nodded, and the two took off running.
Ulrich had fallen asleep, with his head on the bed. At that moment, her mother eased open the door.
"Yumi?" she called. Then she noticed Ulrich asleep and smiled. She realized her daughter actually did have friends, and that they actually cared. Then she was disturbed by something. Yumi began to murmur, and twist around. The boy sitting there jerked awake at this. He began to try to wake her up, it seemed.
"Yumi!" he shouted, shaking her. She only stayed limp, and then tensed up, and she began screaming. Ulrich shook her again.
"YUMI!" he yelled. It had no effect, and he continued shaking her. Her mother decided to join in.
"Yumi!" her mother shouted. Ulrich hardly looked up. It seemed as if this might be the only time they could wake her up. It was for nothing it seemed, for all that happened was that she went silent and still. Ulrich sighed.
"Hello, Mrs. Ishiyama," Ulrich greeted with no expression in his voice.
"Hello," she replied a bit coldly. Ulrich sighed again, uncomfortable under the mothers glare.
"I get it..." Ulrich said. He sighed as he turned to walk out. He saw the mothers eyes widen, and whipped around. He saw Yumi begin to breathe shallower as the monitor he had turned to face went black and the eye of XANA appeared.
"Run!" Ulrich shouted. She nodded and took off. Ulrich stood to face the computer.
"I'm more of a threat to you than she is, so back off you stupid A.I.!" Ulrich shouted. He instantly regretted it. Shocks began to move through the cords, headed straight towards Ulrich, although he noted that Yumi's breathing had gone back to normal. He began running, an electrical current following him directly behind.
"Okay guys, the activated tower should be 30 degrees north of where you are now," Jeremie reported.
"Alright Einstein, we're on our way!" Odd shouted. He took off running after
Aelita did. As they ran, he took out three blocks with a laser arrow.
"Sweet-hey, there it is!" Odd exclaimed. Aelita nodded, but three of the cockroach-like monsters called kankrelots came into view and began firing.
"Go do your thing, I'll hold them off," Odd said.
"Right," Aelita replied.
Ulrich had no time to notice the faces of the people he passed. He kept running. He told himself he was doing what anyone would do, but in his heart he knew he was desperately trying to save Yumi.
"Hey kid watch where you're-" a man shouted at Ulrich, but was cut off as he saw the electric current. Ulrich tripped, and the current quickly covered the distance between himself and itself. He kept running, but the current got a boost of power from an unknown source, and soon it was at his heels.
Aelita sprinted towards the tower. Odd was holding off the three small monsters behind her. She slowed as she neared it, and let herself be sucked into it. She walked to the center of the large eye of XANA, a ring lighting up for each step she took. When she reached the center, she threw her arms out, and was lifted off the ground. Meanwhile, Odd had eliminated two kankrelots. Aelita did several flips as she floated to the top of the tower. She landed on the top part, and a screen appeared. She put her hand on it, and it read: AELITA.
Ulrich stumbled and fell to the ground. He cringed as the electric current floated over him, about to electrocute him.
Then the screen flashed- Code: Lyoko.
"Tower deactivated," Aelita reported. The small data screens inside the tower went down as she spoke.
"Great job, Aelita!" Jeremie congratulated her. Odd had taken care of the last kankrelot.
"So how am I supposed to get off Lyoko?" Odd asked.
"I dug up a human devirtualization program-I can bring you in myself now,"
Jeremie reported.
"Sweet, let's do it!" Odd shouted.
"Devirtualization-Odd," Jeremie said, entering the codes.
A few minutes later, Odd emerged from climbing up the ladder.
"Great job Einstein, that could really come in handy. Although if there's a real emergency going on, it's way too slow," he reported.
"It's better than nothing," Jeremie said.
"You got that right! If Ulrich devirtualized me with that saber of his I'd lose
my lunch-and that's saying something for me," Odd said, and the two laughed.
Ulrich sighed in relief as the electrical current disappeared. He ignored the many stares as he got up and dusted himself off, and walked back to Yumi's hospital room. When he walked in, she was still out. Then, she blinked open her eyes.
"W...what happened? Ulrich?" her voice sounded weak as she spoke, but she looked over at him.
"It's a long story, Yumi. What's important is that you're safe now," Ulrich said with a hint of a smile on his face.
"Ulrich, I...thank you," Yumi said smiling. She fell asleep again, but knowing it was only sleep made Ulrich not worry.
As he stepped out of the hospital room, Odd and Jeremie ran up to him.
"So, how is she?" Odd asked.
"She's alright now," Ulrich replied, still smiling. The three boys walked out of the hospital and headed back to Kadic.
Authors Note:Wow my shortest chapter yet...why do I feel like so much happened in it though?Yea I know I only make my chapters 5 pages or so but since I'm posting a chapter every few days as opposed to every few weeks, it's not that bad. I don't think I'm taking this too far-I've seen XANA do way more devastating attacks in some fanfics. Anyway still outlining my fav couple...lol I wrote this chapter a bit more like an actual episode. So I hope you like it!
-Ember