Code Lyoko Episode 140: 20,000 Leagues Under the Digital Sea
Author: James the Lesser/The Bunnyman
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own These Characters! Moonscape Does!
A/N ALL PEOPLE WHO SAY I SPELLED XANA WRONG. READ MY OTHER STORIES, 53-139 PLUS THE OVA FIRST SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!! Actually, I probably don't need this anymore since Xana is Xana…
A/N Ok, starting the series back up. I'll be putting the Code Xana Episodes up still but remember they happen after 119 and not 119X. Everything after 119X does not happen in the Code Xana world! This is just me not being able to stop writing about our favorite Lyoko Warriors!
"Sanne Grimore," Sanne stops and thinks about her last name. She wasn't a Hopper. Never again would she be a Hopper. "Morales you are a genius!" She hits the enter key on the keyboard and her latest program is complete.
"Huh, what?" Jim rubs his eyes after coming out of a nap. He thought he heard his name.
"Jim I have a huge surprise for everyone." Sanne smiles at him as he walks over. He always came with her to the Factory when he could.
"What? What is it?"
"It's a surprise I want to tell everyone at once. Yumi will be really happy though." Sanne kisses Jim on the cheek. "You don't have to watch over me all the time."
"It's not hard to do when I have such a beautiful thing to watch. Reminds me of when I was a bodyguard for Jennifer Lo… I can't talk about it."
"Come on Jim another confidentiality clause?" He nods. "I won't tell anyone." Sanne smiles at him. She loved hearing his stories. She had been locked away by Xana for more then a decade. She had no life, Jim's life was amazing, she could live through those memories.
"Well, it's late the others are probably sleeping so you won't be able to tell them the big news until tomorrow. Ok Sanne, when I was working as a body guard…" Jim tells the story as they head back to the Hermitage. They are careful not to wake Samantha as they get upstairs. Not that they needed to. Samantha was staring out her window wide awake.
"They're happy." She watches the two adults get to the house then hears them go to Sanne's room. "I can't have someone like that. Everyone thinks I'm dead and Odd, he's with S.S." Samantha sighs. "I wonder how long I'll have to wait before I can go out and be myself." Samantha wouldn't be locked up forever she knew that. After a few years she would age, change, and if she went by a different name no one would know who she was. But that was going to be years from now. Until then the most she was allowed was to go to the garden Jim and her had started. It gave her something to do during the day when her friends were at school and Jim was at work. She liked that Sanne was always there and always ready to listen but there were some problems Sanne couldn't solve like a love sick heart. "Odd, I hope you're happy." A vacation was coming. Odd and the others weren't going home, except Aelita who was coming to the Hermitage to sleep in her room. But during the break Samantha doubts she'd see a lot of Odd or S.S. They liked being alone and since the alliance, truce, whatever it was Odd had moved back to his old dorm room. Ulrich was almost always with Sissi so Odd had the room to himself whenever he wanted it. Samantha hears noises and sighs again. "Those two have fun all I have is myself." Samantha goes to her bed and curls up under the blankets. "This sucks."
The next day was the last day of school before the week break. The teachers had given up trying to teach anything since everyone was excited about the break. S.S. and Odd sit next to each other. "So Odd what should we do while we have a whole week out of school?"
"Well I was thinking movies, eat out, at a restaurant." Odd's implied joke gets S.S. to laugh. "But maybe hang out with Samantha. She has to be getting lonely."
"What about Aelita? She's going to be there."
"Yeah. And when she isn't with Jeremie she'll be with her mom. If we didn't have to keep her identity a secret maybe could get her a date."
"Yeah, but we can't. Ok, maybe like do something with her then we can go to the movies. Well, if it's dark and she wears a hat or a hood she could probably go to the movies with us. We'd have to ask Sanne first."
"We would, and Samantha. Think she'd want to be there with us?" Odd wiggles his eyes brows getting S.S. to laugh again.
"She'd sit somewhere else."
Two tables over Jeremie and Aelita are talking. "At lunch we have to tell the others." Sanne had called Aelita that morning about a big surprise. "I, it can't be what I thought it was at first if they want everyone else there." Aelita blushes a little. She thought her mom and Jim were going to announce something major about themselves but Sanne said to get the others to the Hermitage. "Maybe they made a program to get Ulrich back or to lock Xana away."
"Maybe, wait until lunch then we can tell them."
"We could tell them now since it's pretty much a study hall."
"You can, I have something to study." Aelita leans over to see what book Jeremie had.
"Teach your baby Italian?" Jeremie closes the book. "Jeremie you didn't do that bad."
"I got a 37 on the exam. I didn't even get my name right." Jeremie laughs a little and opens the book back up. "Don't let Odd know ok? He'll make fun of me in Italian and I won't know what he's calling me." Aelita smiles and nods then goes over to Odd and S.S. to tell them about the meeting at the Hermitage.
Across campus Jim is teaching gym. "Yumi, come here." Yumi runs over after being eliminated from dodge ball. "There's a meeting at the Hermitage after school."
"What about?" Yumi sits down in the bleachers with other students who were eliminated.
"No idea. Sanne says it's a big surprise and that you'll be really happy about it." Yumi's first thought turns to Ulrich.
"Um, ok. I'll be there." Yumi waits for the next round of dodge ball and goes back in. She does poorly since all she can think about is Ulrich.
After class the group meets at the Hermitage. Yumi is nervous hoping it is about Ulrich while Aelita worries it is about her mom and Jim. When Sanne comes downstairs and sees everyone she decides it is time to tell everyone the news. "Hello kids, Jim, I have great news for you!" Sanne goes over to Jeremie. "Can I use your lap top?" He nods and gets it out. Sanne takes it and puts a disc in it. "This group is currently missing three members. One, Sissi Delmas, will not be allowed." She shows a picture of Sissi. "The second missing member is Ulrich who we will get back." Sanne shows a picture of Ulrich. "And last, one I haven't met as myself, William." She shows a picture of William. "He is the one this new program concerns." She shows three weird looking objects and a fourth smaller one. "These are what I would like to call submarines. William is lost somewhere in the Digital Sea. Normally one would be ripped apart into individual bytes of data. But William is different. He was dead, the Super Computer and the Digital Sea does not know what to do with him. Xana was able to bring him out easily as William basically floats in the Digital Sea. We should be able to do the same. You will take these submarines into the Digital Sea and rescue him."
"But, we, we will be ripped apart like anyone else." Jeremie isn't sure how Sanne could get around this.
"Normally you would, even the Over vehicles would. But these vehicles are specially designed to go into the Digital Sea. They have some hovering abilities so you can fly them up to a Sector but it is slow and if Xana detects it he could easily destroy it. I have a way that once you find William you can bring him to the surface and I will use the Transporter to bring him up to a Way Tower."
"How do we do that?" Samantha and Yumi are interested. William was a friend to Yumi and was a boyfriend to Samantha until he died.
"There are claws on all of the submarines that can be used to grab them. The smaller one," Sanne points to it. "Has lasers and is faster then the other three. I'm not sure what you will find in the Digital Sea but there could be monsters. If there are this one will defend the other three submarines. The larger submarines can hold three people each and the smaller one holds one."
"But, that's ten people."
"Yes, we might need help from our allies and I wanted enough room for them." Sanne was still unsure about Sissi and Ulrich but would accept any help she could get. "And I might need to go so that would make ten people."
"But, if you go, who sends the Transporter?" Aelita didn't want to risk her mother to the Digital Sea.
"One of you would destroy one of you and they would. My tests show the submarines do move through the Digital Sea but controlling them won't be like any vehicle you've ever controlled and you need someone to control the claws. I was thinking since we have a vacation you kids could work on learning how to control them then we could go on a mission to look for William and bring him back." The kids look at one another. Yumi wasn't planning anything, neither was Samantha. Odd and S.S. were planning on having fun over break. Jeremie and Aelita were hoping to spend time alone and with Sanne.
"Well, um, when would we start?"
"We could start now. Jim I want you to take the smaller submarine while the kids take two of the larger ones."
"I, well, ok." Odd looks at S.S. "We can do stuff later right?" She nods.
"Yes! Let's go now." Yumi and Samantha were ready to go to the Factory.
"Ok we'll go now. I think I set the controls up so you should be able to handle them but the claws will be tricky." The group takes the Hermitage Sewer entrance to the Factory.
Xana senses the group coming and wonders what is going on. Lynnette watches with him. "Master Xana I could attack them now."
"No Lynnette. Let's see what they are doing." Xana and Lynnette continue to watch as another group is alerted.
"Stop Ulrich." Sissi pushes Ulrich off of her.
"Don't need to tell me twice."
"Get dressed, they went to the Factory." Sissi finds her bra as Ulrich looks for his boxers. "I wonder what Xana is doing for his attack." Sissi doesn't know there is none. She just felt her connection she made to the Factory broken when the Lyoko Warriors went there. After they are dressed they turn into black mists and move to the Factory at the speed of light.
"Ok guys I'll send you to Sector 1 then bring up the submarines. Get in…" Sanne is interrupted when two black mists come out and form into Ulrich and Sissi.
"What is going on?" Sanne turns to Sissi.
"What? Nothing, we're just testing something out."
"No attack?" Sanne shakes her head. "I interrupt our love making for this?"
"There was no love involved." Ulrich gets this comment out knowing Sissi would use the shock collar.
"What are you testing?" Sissi looks over Sanne's shoulder.
"Something to help us look for William. If you want you can help us."
"What is it though?" Sissi sees the four vehicles appear on the screen.
"Submarines. They're going into the Digital Sea to find William. I made room for you two if you want to go."
"You made room for us?" Sissi is surprised. She knew the Lyoko Warriors, except for Odd and S.S., didn't trust her. "Well no point in wasting the space. Where do we go?"
"Ice Sector. I'll send the others then you can get on."
"No point in wasting time with the Scanners." Sissi and Ulrich turn into black mists and go down to the Scanner Room. Sanne sees through the security cameras that the two turn the others into black mists and take them to Lyoko.
"Thanks Sissi." Sanne brings up her new submarine program. She sends them. "Did it work?"
"Uh, we see them, man, they're huge." The three large submarines were twelve meters long while the small one was four meters long. The larger ones have two wings coming out with clear bubbles and two claws under them. In the middle is another bubble with no arms. The group figures out that the middle one is for the pilot while the two on the side are the controllers to grab William when they find him. The smaller one has a longer sleek bubble like a jet and has smaller claws. The major difference besides the size was the two cannons on the side.
"Ok, I want Samantha, Yumi, and Sissi in one, Ulrich, Jeremie, and Odd in the next one. Then I want Aelita and S.S. to get in the next one while Jim gets in the smaller one." Sanne's orders are given and the kids follow them. "Ok I think the control panels should explain themselves."
"I see something." Aelita pushes a button and the submarine drops towards the Digital Sea. "Aaaa!" Aelita and S.S. scream when the submarine slams into the Digital Sea. It sinks and sinks until the submarine is completely covered. "How do I make this work!" Aelita works the controls and hears a humming noise and then the submarine starts to move. "Ok, um, S.S. are you ok?" She gets no response.
"Aelita hit the green button." Aelita hears her mom and does. "This allows you to talk to the other ships."
"Oh, um, guys don't hit the red button."
"This one?" Odd reaches out and pushes it and now his submarine drops like a sack of bricks into the Digital Sea. "Woo! Let's do that again!"
"No Odd!" Ulrich lets go of the green button. "I should have been the pilot." Ulrich rolls his eyes.
"Ok Jim, Yumi, to go down slowly take the controls and push down." Yumi and Jim listen and calmly drive the submarines to the Digital Sea. "Ok to move forward there is a lever to your left. Push it forward to move forward, back to stop or go into reverse." Every pilot does this and finds the submarines moved like well, submarines.
"Ok how do we go to the next Sector?" Yumi pushes the lever all the way and finds while it took time to gain speed the submarine was picking up more and more speed.
"Wait Yumi you're leaving the others behind. To go to another Sector you just drive until you get there."
"Ok I'm slowing down." Yumi pulls the lever back. A minute later everyone catches up.
While the gang gets use to the controls Xana decides to add some fun to the group. "Oh crap Xana activated a Tower!"
"Well how do we get up to deactivate it?" Aelita pulls on the control and finds the submarine moves up.
"Um, if you come up to the surface I can bring you back to Earth then send you back to Lyoko when the countdown is over."
"Whoa!" Yumi feels the submarine shake then it shakes again. "Sanne something is going on!"
"I see something outside, it looks like a snake!" Jim moves the smaller submarine and tries to work the controls.
"A Digital Sea Serpent!" Odd turns his submarine towards Yumi's. "Ulrich, Jeremie, think you can use the claws to grab it?"
"Uh no." Ulrich tries to work what he thinks are the claw controls and hits Yumi's submarine with a claw.
"Sanne how do I work the laser cannons!" The group, all of them, was panicking. This was supposed to be a test and now they were under attack in the Digital Sea. There was no chance of escape!
"Um, there should be a hole for you to put your arm in. Put it in there and move the cannons around. Squeeze your hand to fire."
"Ok, I, sorry!" Jim hits Yumi's submarine. "Sanne we have to get out of here!"
"I can't get you out unless you get to the surface."
"Help!" Yumi feels the submarine shake again. She looks out and sees something coming towards the submarine. Jim said something about a snake but this definitely wasn't a snake it was new. "Jim help me!" She lets go of the green button and pulls the lever back to go into reverse. The new monster gets close and fires lasers at the submarine. When the new monster gets closer Jim fires a laser at it.
"I can't hit anything!" Jim fires again but the new monster dodges it. When it dives to miss another laser the group sees what it looks like. It is three meters long, has fins that looks like that of a shark. The head has two Eyes on each end making the new monster look like a hammer head shark.
"Aaaa!" Yumi sees a screen come up in the bubble. It shows the right side of the submarine of the submarine in orange and a number is next to it. "Sanne what happens if the numbers I'm seeing goes to zero?"
"What numbers?" Sanne's fingers fly over the keyboard and she soon has the same screen. "Yumi get to the surface now!" The submarine was being destroyed. In Yumi's confusion she forgets she was in reverse and pulls back on the controls but this makes her go deeper.
"Help!" Yumi is still panicking as are Sissi and Samantha in the wings of the submarine. "Whoa what's that?" Yumi sees something else inside the Digital Sea. She keeps going deeper and gets away from the fight then stops. "I have to check it out."
"Got it!" Jim hits the shark monster with the laser cannon and destroys it. "I don't think I hit the Eye but it blew up like I did."
"Jim the cannons are powerful. That smaller submarine takes more resources then the three large ones put together because of those things."
"Oh, well, hey!" Jim feels something hit his submarine. He maneuvers it with one hand and sees the Digital Sea Serpent. He fires at it but misses as it uses its long body to move between the lasers.
"Sanne I found something!" Yumi had continued diving towards a weird glow. "It, it looks like an underwater city."
"A Digital Atlantis? Can you get closer?" Sanne never imagined this would be found when they went down.
"Whoa pull back!" Sissi was the closest to the underwater city and when Yumi went towards it. Sissi found herself in open air! Yumi stops and reverses the submarine. "It's, I saw things in there."
"What, William?"
"No something, it looked like a Manta but there were legs coming out of it." Sissi looks around as they pull away from the city. "Yumi what are you doing?" They weren't going to the surface and they weren't going back to the others.
"I'm finding William."
"But, this, this was a test I thought."
"We'll find him now!" Samantha agrees with Yumi. While they were there they had to find William. Xana might not give them another chance.
"Well without Jim to cover us I guess I'll help you." Sissi closes her eyes and creates an energy field. "So where do we go first captain?" Sissi leans back in her chair.
"Mountain Sector. That's where we lost him the first time." Yumi drives the submarine away from the fight and the weird city.
"Got it!" Jim was getting better control of the submarine and the laser cannons. "Just like when I was testing out the prototype for the Urban Dreadnought Defense Fighter over break a couple years ago." Jim blasts another Digital Sea Serpent.
"Ok we're almost to the surface." Aelita pilots her submarine to the surface and breaks through. "Mom, where did Yumi go?"
"I don't know. Hit the blue button next to your head." Aelita looks around and sees it. She pushes the button and the bubble opens. "Ok, stand up and I'll use the Transporter, or try to, to take you to the Mountain Sector." Aelita and the others do and soon the Transporter arrives and whisks them off. "Odd get to the surface!" Odd was toying with the monsters by driving the submarine into them.
"Fine Sanne we're coming." Odd pulls back on the controls at full speed and soon the submarine shoots out of the Digital Sea. "Woo!" Odd pulls back the lever as they land back into the Digital Sea. "What was it, the blue button?"
"Yes Odd." Sanne waits and soon sends the Transporter to take them to the Mountain Sector.
"Sanne where are Yumi and the others!" Jim fires another laser destroying a Digital Shark that had gotten to close.
"The others are in the Mountain Sector but Yumi and her passengers are gone! I, I can't detect you or the others from here the Digital Sea stops me! I, I don't, they said something about an underwater city then I couldn't hear anything else." Sanne is worried about Yumi and the other two girls, even Sissi. This was her program and now it had gone horribly wrong. Xana tore into them so badly with Digital Sea monsters that they had to abort the training session. "Jim just get to the surface and I'll use the Transporter to send you to where the others are." Jim follows Sanne's orders and soon joins the others in the Mountain Sector.
"Come on, he has to be around here somewhere!" Yumi soon learns what the saying needle in a hay stack meant as she looks for William. Since they were on Lyoko they wouldn't get tired. They could keep looking for William as long as they wanted. Her parents might get worried but Yumi didn't care. "What the heck? Sissi, Samantha, do you see that?" Yumi drives towards something in the distance.
"It's the city again. It, it must be the Digital Sea version of Sector 5." Samantha leans forward hoping to see anything but can't the Digital Sea is too thick.
"Sanne send the vehicles!" Ulrich was with the others in the Mountain Sector. He had to slow down because the others were being left behind.
"I can't yet I, I don't know which submarine Yumi and the others are in so if I devirtualize the wrong one we'd lose them.
"Ok." Ulrich closes his eyes and concentrates. He had a connection to Sissi and tries to find where she was but finds he can't. "We only need to get Aelita to the Tower." Ulrich runs over to Aelita. "Pri, Princess can I give you a lift?" Ulrich had a hard time saying it. It had been so long, an eternity to Ulrich, since he was able to help Aelita and the others like a regular member.
"Don't call me Princess." Aelita was called Princess by Franz and didn't like it. Ulrich had forgotten that.
"Well, I'll give you a ride anyways." Ulrich grabs Aelita and throws her over his shoulder. "Super Sprint!" He takes off down the narrow paths jumping past twists and turns.
"Get back here!" Jim isn't sure what happened. Yumi and Samantha, with Sissi, had disappeared and now Ulrich takes off with Aelita.
"Is this the attack? They, did they trick us?" Odd clenches his fist. "Yumi, Samantha, and Aelita. If we don't get them back…" Odd trails off. Was his trust misplaced? He had been ready to join Sissi after Sissi got S.S. back but if Sissi and Ulrich killed the three girls his vengeance would be unlike any other. He shakes his head. "No, Ulrich is helping us. He's getting her to the Tower because he's fast and with his power he can handle anything. I trust Sissi."
"Put me down!" Aelita was scared of what Ulrich was doing. Had Sissi given him orders and now she was being kidnapped?
"Not until we get to the Tower." Ulrich continues with Aelita.
Back in the Digital Sea Yumi is getting frustrated. "Damn it! We have to find William." Her yelling is heard by Sanne.
"Yumi, where are you, what are you doing?" Yumi doesn't respond. "Yumi Ulrich, he, he kidnapped Aelita. What did Sissi do?"
"I did nothing!" Sissi yells and her energy shield flares. "Wait, Yumi, I felt something!" Sissi concentrates and expands her energy. She feels the corruption creep in but she ignores it. She had to help Yumi so maybe, just maybe, Yumi would trust her. "Go back, then up, I feel something."
"Ok, now?" Yumi tries to follow Sissi's instructions.
"Go up, keep going up." Yumi does. "Stop, look around, he has…" Sissi stop as the corruption gets to her brain. "No, no…" She struggles trying to keep the corruption out when Samantha sees what Sissi felt.
"William!" Samantha yells then remembers she has to push the green button. "Yumi, I see William, look up and to your left." Yumi does and sees him.
"Samantha can you get him with the claws?"
"I, I think so. Fly me closer to him." Yumi does. "Ok, whoa, these are too difficult to work! Sissi what about you?" She gets no response. "Sissi?"
"Aaaa!" The corruptions creeps into her brain, her eyes show the symbol of Xana. "I can't do this here." She keeps struggling. "I have to escape!" She creates an energy field then breaks through the bubble. She flies out and sees William and Samantha desperately trying to grab him with the claws. "I can help, no, leave them alone!" Sissi struggles trying to keep the energy field up but this causes the corruption to infect her brain faster. She flies over to William and grabs him with her energy. She moves him to a claw and Samantha grabs a hold of his leg. Sissi now flies straight up as fast as she can. When she flies out of the Digital Sea she drops the energy shield and is able to make it to a platform. She drops down onto it as the corruption takes her brain.
"Yumi I got him! Take us up." Yumi does.
"Sanne we, we, William we found him!" Yumi breaks through the surface of the Digital Sea. "Sanne can you hear me?"
"I do, wait, I have your signal." Sanne's fingers fly over the keyboard. "Yumi where is William, I'm not seeing him."
"Oh, wait, here." Samantha uses the controls to raise the claw with William out of the Digital Sea.
"Ok I got him. Wait one moment." Sanne sends the Transporter and it gets William! It brings him up and drops him on a platform in the Mountain Sector. "Hit the blue button and I'll bring you back now." Yumi and Samantha hit the blue button opening the bubble and soon the Transporter get them and drops them off next to William.
"William." Both girls go to him and turn him over onto his back.
"William, why won't he wake up?" Yumi hugs him and speaks into his ear. "William, it's me, Yumi. Please wake up."
"Maybe you need to take him to a Tower."
"Maybe." Yumi pulls away from William. "Samantha help…" Yumi is hit with a bolt of energy.
"I will have him now!" Sissi's corruption had been complete. "Yes, I will have another lover."
"Leave him alone!" Samantha gets her daggers out not understanding what was happening to Sissi.
"Out of my way!" Sissi sends out a bolt of energy destroying Samantha.
"No, Aelita, I have to set you down." Ulrich could not only feel Sissi he could see her and knew she had been corrupted. "Super Sprint!" He runs and jumps then kicks Sissi when he gets to her. He is hit with the shock collar but he fights it. "Sissi stop this!"
"Ulrich don't worry we will finish what we started earlier except we will have someone else joining us." Sissi charges her hands with energy.
"I won't let that happen to William." Ulrich gets his swords out. He knew he was at a disadvantage. Every time he hit Sissi he would be shocked and she had more power but he had to stop her. There was a simpler way but he didn't want Yumi to hear him say the words.
"Aelita!" The others catch up and find her. Sanne was able to send the vehicles now that the submarines were gone. "Where's Ulrich?" Aelita points and they see Ulrich being beaten by Sissi.
"What happened?" Aelita shrugs her shoulders. "Get on Aelita." Jim flies down on the Overwing and Aelita gets on. They take off for the activated Tower as Ulrich and Sissi fight. Well, as Sissi beats on Ulrich.
"Sissi stop, don't make me say it." Sissi back hands him. Sissi had easily disarmed Ulrich of both swords and now was toying with him.
"Say it Ulrich, I know you want to you just don't want Yumi to know the truth!" Sissi smacks him again. "If I send you back I will get William, or is that what you want? You don't want to leave William with Yumi?" Sissi laughs a deep evil laugh.
"I, I, I love you." Ulrich grabs Sissi and kisses her. The corruption melts away from Sissi's brain and soon she hugs him and kisses Ulrich back.
"No, Ulrich." Yumi had heard it all which was exactly why Ulrich didn't want to say it. "He, he couldn't mean it." Yumi walks away from the screen and starts to cry. She was losing the man she loved to the enemy, or was she? Her teenage mind couldn't tell her teenage heart that Ulrich couldn't have meant it.
"Ulrich you tiger." Sissi breaks the kiss. "We have to help the others." Sissi could already feel a presence, a powerful one that could only mean Lynnette.
"Yes Sissi." Ulrich and Sissi both use the Super Sprint ability to catch up to the others.
"Oh crap they're coming this way." Odd sees them and slows down on the Overboard. "S.S. and I will try to stop them." He slows down even more but Sissi and Ulrich don't stop to fight they continue running. "Wait!" Odd controlling the Overboard goes after Sissi and Ulrich.
"What was Odd doing?" Ulrich runs next to Jeremie who is on the Overbike.
"He, what happened?" No one knew about the corruption and what it would do.
"Sissi used her powers to much." Ulrich explains how the use of powers and the corruption. "We have to get Aelita to the Tower and Sissi told me Lynnette is waiting for us."
"She can tell that?" Ulrich nods. "Thanks for the heads up." They continue and make it to the activated Tower quickly.
"Hello Traitors. I see you brought the Lyoko Warriors with you." Lynnette gets he mace out. "Ready to fight?" Sissi steps forward but Ulrich stops her.
"Sissi you've used your powers enough already. We don't know how long the fix will last." Ulrich takes Sissi's axe from her. "Lynnette are you read to fight?"
"Yes, I believe so." Lynnette and Ulrich attack each other. This was going to be an amazing battle but Sissi did not want to watch. She goes over to the Overwing and grabs Aelita by the neck.
"What are you doing!?" Jim tries to stop Sissi but she destroys him with an energy bolt.
"Aelita we don't have time to waste on a fight with the monkey." Sissi uses her powers and gets Aelita to the Tower in an instant. Sissi tosses Aelita into the Tower. "Was that really so hard?" Sissi laughs when Lynnette turns around and sees she's been beaten.
"No! You had to cheat to defeat me!" Lynnette is distracted allowing Ulrich to slam the axe into her. This hurts her but doesn't destroy her. Lynnette swings around and knocks the axe from Ulrich's hands. "I'll at least be able to get the boy for Xana."
"I don't think so." Sanne chuckles. She had sent Yumi and Samantha back to Lyoko when the countdown ended. They had William's body and got it to the closest Tower. "I'm bringing you back, uh, the others not you Sissi or Ulrich."
"We don't need you to help us." Sissi and Ulrich break apart into black mists. Sanne brings all but Samantha and Yumi back.
"Yumi, Samantha, any response?"
"He's, he's awake!" Samantha and Yumi hug him.
"Uh, what happened? Am I dreaming?" William looks and sees two girls hugging him. "If this is a dream I don't want to wake up." He laughs a little.
"William, um, do you remember me?" Samantha smiles at him hoping he did.
"Uh, you look like Samantha but she's not a Lyoko Warrior, is she?" He looks over at Yumi.
"She is. William, I, I'm so sorry. I should have protected you better." Yumi hugs William again.
"It's ok Yumi. How, how did you find me?" William's memories were scrambled. He remembered pain, and more pain, like his body was being torn apart atom by atom but it wasn't destroyed.
"We…" Samantha and Yumi explain this and more. They were safe in the Tower.
On Earth in Sissi's room she has Ulrich back on her bed. "Why are you sad Ulrich?" Sissi could sense it with their connection. Ulrich doesn't give a spoken response but she reads his mind. "You're afraid Yumi will go to William? Trust me Ulrich she won't." Sissi gets on the bed next to Ulrich. "I know what it's like to love you. I couldn't stop and neither could she. I'll make you forget all about it." Sissi tries but Ulrich's mind was lost. He could only think about Yumi and William and what would happen.
A/N So William is back! What will Yumi do? Anything? Nothing? Will Samantha get him instead? Or will neither get him when he dies again? Lol