I do not own Code Lyoko or any other reference made or thought made.
Yumi POV
X.A.N.A. glowed on the ceiling of the gymnasium. Though it was made of black electricity, it had a white glow around it. Though it didn't move, the students could feel it looking at them. It seemed to scan all of them, but not finding the one it wanted.
After X.A.N.A. had appeared, Jeremy, Aelita, Ulrich, Odd, and I grabbed William and hid behind the snack tables out of sight by their enemy in the sky. Samantha had stayed with Sissi.
"How is this possible?" Odd whispered.
"We killed it, how is it back?" I asked quietly.
"It doesn't matter how," Ulrich said, "What matters now is that we deal with the situation."
"Ulrich is right." Jeremy agreed. "We need to get the students out of here before X.A.N.A. begins to attack while searching for us."
X.A.N.A. suddenly acted. Lightning shot from the center of the eye and struck the walls and floor and some even stopped in midair. The light grew so bright we had to cover our eyes. When we looked again there were monsters everywhere.
On the walls were the spider-drones that we faced in the Amazon base, hovering in the air were the spheres that were in the satellite base and along the walls were the humanoid-robots that we fought in Siberia. The spiders jumped on the grounded and shepherded the students toward the Siberian robots. They in turn scanned each student with a red light on their face; once it scanned a student a sphere would come and move them away.
"They're scanning the students trying to find us." Aelita said. Luckily the machines didn't think to look behind the table with cake and drinks.
"But at the cost of weakening X.A.N.A." Jeremy said, he was staring at X.A.N.A. in the air, the green visor in front of his eyes showing data tables and calculations. That thing is a working computer. I thought. Jeremy was also typing something into his robotic arm which had a small keyboard in it. "Whenever X.A.N.A. creates a monster," Jeremy started, "it depletes itself of energy to create it. But when it isn't making monsters, it's recharging."
"Way to go Einstein." Odd chirped behind us, he was helping William who was starting get up.
"But to get the energy it needed to make itself into the form that it's in now would mean that it was charging up for some time now. Maybe a day or two."
"The exact amount time that it's been since we reactivated the Supercomputer." Ulrich said.
"GUYS!" I screamed quietly. "We have to get everyone out of here so we can fight."
"Right," Jeremy said, "I got a plan…"
About three minutes later, Aelita and I were near the main exits, the machines were nearly done scanning all the people. Odd was still in our regular hiding spot. Jeremy, Ulrich, and William were about to jump out on the other side of the gym.
"Be safe Ulrich." I whispered to myself.
They jumped out. Jeremy began swinging his staff like a cave man and began crushing the spiders, Ulrich pulled out his swords and started cutting down the robots, and William had found a pole and was swing it like a bat and knocking down the spheres. Odd jumped up and began shooting his laser arrows at X.A.N.A.'s eye, drawing his attention. The other robots began moving towards the guys to fight back. Me and Aelita busted down the locked doors and got the kids to evacuate.
Once everyone was out, we ran towards the fight. Odd was shooting the spiders on the walls that were jumping everywhere waiting to find an opening to attack us, Aelita ran to help him, energy fields already in her hands. William and Ulrich were cutting the Siberian robots in half with their blades without getting hit by their lasers. I began helping Jeremy, who had summoned the red laser orb in his staff, shoot down the spheres which had become spike balls and were trying to hit our heads.
The fighting lasted maybe ten minutes before we killed them all.
"That can't have been it." William said.
"It wasn't." Odd said, pointing towards X.A.N.A.
X.A.N.A. was glowing a silvery-white color now, and it was looking right at us. More lightning shot from its center ring, and landed on the ground just beneath it. When the light dimmed, X.A.N.A. seemed to glow less and the rings came a little closer to each other. On the ground, though, were about twenty kankerlots, twenty bloks, and ten hornets in the air. They didn't move, and neither did we.
"Don't get hit." Ulrich warned.
"Most kills is the winner?" Odd said.
"Deal." William said. Then we charged. And lasers were flying everywhere.
Odd ran up ahead and fired his arrows at the ground and hit three kankerlots before he jumped into the air, dodging a few lasers, and landed on a blok, which began spinning with him firing at random. Aelita took to the air with her wings, weaving between the hornets causing them to fire uncontrollably to try and hit her. The hornets destroyed two of their own before deciding to chase after Aelita around the gym. Ulrich and William were back to back deflecting lasers that came at them from the bloks, some of the lasers they got to bounce back and hit a monster. Jeremy had just stabbed a blok with the bottom tip of his staff. He turned to find kankerlot about to shoot him before he dodge rolled to the left. After standing up, he swung his staff and hit the kankerlot like a golf ball and sent it into the opposite wall where it exploded. The blok Odd was on finally threw him off and we fly across the gym and crashed into Ulrich and William. While they were on the ground, another blok prepared to hit them with its freeze ray. A flying disc came flying through the air and cut right across its eye, causing it to explode instantly. Yumi was spinning like a ballerina while moving across the room, she was throwing her fans only a small distance to try and hit monsters, and this allowed them to return quickly for her to defend herself.
"This might take a while," Odd said as the three boys stood up. Odd raised his shield to block the attacks coming for the three. They had already been fighting for a while and they appeared to have done nothing to cause severe damage to the force fighting them. Odd let his shield down and the three hopped out and quickly took down the monsters that had surrounded them.
An explosion behind William made him turn to seem the remains of a kankerlot that were radiating pink energy. He looked up to see Aelita smile a moment before flying away from the hornets that had taken advantage of her pause to catch up to her. Two hornets flying close to each other were charging their lasers to attack, but they never got to fire those lasers as William swung his blade and sent a spinning disc of energy at them to take them out.
"I didn't know you could still do that." Jeremy said as me moved over to William after dodging some falling acid from a hornet before shooting It down with a laser from his staff.
"Neither did I until I actually tried to use it." William admitted sheepishly.
"Heads up!" Ulrich called to William and Jeremy. They turned a saw a blok firing lasers at him, but another blok near him had its face glowing orange. It began releasing fire rings at them. William and Jeremy rolled away, but the rings began a fire in the back of the gym. The rings began chasing Jeremy as he raced around the gym. He was forced to blast kankerlots that appeared in his way, but he was able to shoot them before they had enough time to fire back. The fires created by the rings began causing some problems, while many hit the stone wall and dissipated, some hit the cloth mats against the walls, setting them ablaze.
Aelita banked left and shot an energy field back at her pursuers who were getting better at predicting her moves and were getting close at hitting her with their attacks. Her field hit one, causing it to explode, and this explosion caused another to become disoriented and fall to the ground. This hornet crashed into a kankerlot causing them both to explode. Using this reprieve, began moving towards the blok firing at Jeremy. She created three smaller fields in her hand and focused on connecting the three with strings of energy to make a three point star. She grabbed the center and then began swinging her energy bolo in the air before throwing it at the blok. The spinning attack caught the blok and the three fields engulfed the blok and destroyed it.
Yumi and Odd were back to back now, and they were surrounded by kankerlots and had some hornets above them. They were forced to go on the defensive as the enemy numbers was too high to get in any attacks with making themselves vulnerable. Ulrich saw his friends in trouble.
Wondering if Jeremy had done more with the latest upgrades, Ulrich took a stance he hadn't used in a while, but one he had never forgotten.
"Triplicate!" Ulrich cried focusing on separating himself into three. He focused on the monsters in front of him and thought of seeing them from three different angles, three different set of eyes. After this he felt a ripple of energy move down his body as it felt like his arms were trying to separate farther than they actually could, but the feeling suddenly vanished. Ulrich could see through three different set of eyes, was thinking with three different minds and yet sharing the same thoughts. He looked to his left and right and looked at his two doppelgängers, figures he thought he'd never see again. They all smiled at each other. This process, that seemed to have taken a long time in his mind, had actually happened in only a few seconds. They then focused on their targets, the three able to figure out which monster the other two would be going for to ensure that they each had a different monster to attack.
"Well boys," Ulrich said.
"Let's…" Ulrich said.
"…go." Ulrich said. And with this they ran and began circling the monsters surrounding Odd and Yumi and cutting them down from behind. With the kankerlots distracted, Yumi and Odd began firing at the hornets that had begun shooting at the Ulriches.
William was doing well with taking down the bloks, the giant cubes defenseless against the boys giant blade. Jeremy saw a kankerlot silently moving up behind William without him noticing. Jeremy ran for William, but before he could call to him, the tiny roack-like creature fired a shot right at the middle of William's attack.
"ARGH!" William cried falling to the ground. Jeremy ran up and used the three prongs of his staff to grab the tiny monster and throw it at the blok that began moving towards the fallen William, causing them to both explode. Jeremy moved to William who was still writhing on the ground, warning Jeremy that something was wrong. While the lasers did cause damage to them, the pain should not be so severe. Another thing that worried Jeremy was that actually blood was welling up around the fist sized scorched hole in Williams back.
"Get over here guys!" Jeremy called. Ulrich reunited himself and moved to Jeremy with Yumi, and Odd and Aelita came up behind them and threw up a large enough shield to make them in a secure bubble that the few remaining monsters began firing at constantly.
"What happened to him?" Ulrich called as he looked at the wound on William, he never thought he could be this worried for the guy who had for so long tried to steal Yumi from him.
"He got hit by a kankerlot, but…" Jeremy started but didn't finish as his green visor began scanning the fallen ally.
"Monster attacks shouldn't be this effective even when we're in the real world," Yumi began, gathering some fallen napkins and water bottles from the destroyed party to tend to the injury. "Even when we got hit, all it would do was cause us to become like static; not suffer real injury."
"That was because back then you didn't have a virus that was blocking your connection to the Supercomputer." Jeremy answered to Yumi's confusion.
"What? What are you talking about Jeremy?" Aelita asked as she continued to hold up the shield with relative ease.
"From my scans of William and a general scan of the rest of us, X.A.N.A. has damaged our connection to the Supercomputer, causing us to suffer from the attacks as if we weren't in our avatars. And because of this all our injuries will be as real as anything." Jeremy said with fear and worry in his voice. "I can still get a reading on life points, but now they have become our actual 'life' points, and William just lost 15 of his with that attack from the kankerlot, but that seems enough to cause severe physical pain."
"Jeremy?" Odd called his voiced filled with terror, "What happens then if we lose all of our life points?"
Jeremy was silent for a moment as all his friends stared at him as his next few words could quite possibly be the dictation of their short and grim future.
"Where I thought it would simply mean that you'd return to the Supercomputer, I'm now sure that loss of all of our life points will mean that we'd disapp…" Jeremy stopped himself, he hated to say that they'd disappear, so he decided to use the true term that they needed to hear, "We'll be killed if we get hit too many times."