One
"Yumi get down!" Ulrich shouted over the sound of X.A.N.A possessed robots, firing their guns at the rock four of the Lyoko warriors hid behind.
They were at a replika, but, since the Skid had been destroyed, they now had to go to the replikas in person, until Jeremie rebuilt the Skid. He had some good news, though. He had just found a chip that would help rebuild the Skid.
But, it wouldn't help if they all died here. Which seemed like exactly what was going to happen.
"Jeremie! Jeremie, please answer! We're stuck, we can't get out! They've surrounded us!"
"Hey, help me with Yumi!" Ulrich shouted.
The group had lost contact with Jeremie, Yumi had been shot badly in the arm, and Aelita's ankle was sprained.
"We're going to die!" Aelita shrieked, putting her phone down.
"A little help here!" Ulrich was trying to staunch the bleeding in Yumi's arm.
"We're going to die!" Aelita's out-of-her-head panicked voice brought Odd back down to Earth.
"We're not gonna die, unless you freak yourself to death," he joked.
Ulrich glared. "Quit joking, Odd. Do you see away out of this?"
Odd did, in fact. He saw several ways out.
"I'm on it," he tossed back.
Odd grabbed a pocketknife and quickly adhered it to a pole.
Then, he leaped out from behind the shelter, sprung into some complicated twisting acrobatic, and began leaping over the robots, which tried to shoot at him. Flailing, twisting, flipping, and spinning, Odd lithely made his way to the supercomputer that powered the robots.
Ulrich watched, horrified, as Odd continued to just avoid the lethal shots.
Finally, he landed at the supercomputer and deftly struck his makeshift spear into it.
Odd flipped off, just in time, as the supercomputer exploded.
He landed next to Ulrich.
"See, nothing to it!"
Later, back at the factory, Jeremie was scolding Odd loudly for being so reckless.
Odd watched Jeremie, with a zoned out look on his face.
"Yeah, yeah, Einstein, I get it. 'Don't act recklessly', next time I'll just let them blow us to smithereens."
Jeremie sighed.
Aelita watched them argue, then turned to Ulrich, who was bandaging Yumi's arm with uncharacteristic gentleness. They were talking quietly, and Aelita turned away as to not eavesdrop.
As they walked back to Kadic, Ulrich and Yumi were talking about the mission.
"I thought we were going to die right then! I was trying to aim my last shot- Don't look at me like that, Ulrich! I have perfectly good aim."
"Yeah, unless you just got your arm shot off!" He laughed back.
"I knew what I was doing," Yumi grumbled.
Odd and Jeremie were talking quietly.
"I ran into Belladonna the other day," Jeremie said. "Still in the biz I guess."
Odd laughed.
"Belladonna?" Aelita asked. "As in Atropa Belladonna, the plant?"
"Yeah," Odd said. "Kiwi keeps eating the berries; their making him sick."
"Yet another reason why you should be more careful Odd," Jeremie said, meaningfully.
Odd frowned, then shrugged. "Hey princess, could you help me and Ulrich with our work later. I know he needs help, and I need help with math and science."
She sighed, "If you weren't so busy working, Jeremie, I'd ask you to help. What does Ulrich need help with?"
Odd shrugged. "I don't know. Why don't you ask him?"
Aelita sighed, and walked ahead to talk to Ulrich. As soon as she was out of earshot, Jeremie hissed to Odd, "Nice one, genius, if a dog the size of Kiwi ate more than one or two berries, he'd be dead. Try to think next time."
"Alright, but still, tell me more about Belladonna."