Chapter 5
The elevator door opened and Kiwi instantly walked out and sat on the floor over by Jérémie and Aélita.
Jérémie glanced down as Manchate followed, sitting down next to her friend.
Jérémie looked back up and asked, "Where's Odd?"
"Fighting Xana." Yumi said. "where's the activated tower?"
"In the desert sector." Jérémie said as Aélita went over to Yumi and Ulrich and stepped into the elevator.
"Hey, can I go?" Kiwi asked, standing up. "I know I'm no good fighting in this body."
"Alright." Jérémie said, not really pausing as he typed in the transfer codes. "The more protection Aélita has, the better."
Kiwi ran over to the elevator and Ulrich hit the button, closing the door.
"Remember this isn't one of Odd's video games." Yumi said as they traveled downward.
The elevator stopped and the door opened as Kiwi said, "I know, you have to fight. I'm not as stupid as you've always claimed I am."
Kiwi walked out, stunning the three in the elevator.
"I'm going to send the guys first." Jérémie said. "I looks like Xana's getting ready for you."
'Alright Jérémie." Ulrich said as he and Kiwi stepped into the scanners.
"Scanner Ulrich, scanner Kiwi. Transfer Ulrich, Transfer Kiwi, Virtualization." Jérémie said as he watched Kiwi's new digital form appear on the screen.
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Ulrich landed on the ground and turned to where he had heard an 'uph!'
"So, how do you like Lyoko in your own body?" Ulrich asked as he helped the boy up to his feet, not surprised seeing Kiwi's dog ears coming out of his hair.
"I figured I would have a full out dog body, really." Kiwi said, looking at his arms, and trying to see the rest of himself.
Kiwi was dressed in a dog-like crème outfit. "But I don't seem to have any weapons." Kiwi said, turning so he could see his tail but no sword pack or anything to hold any sort of weapon.
"It'll appear eventually." Ulrich said as Yumi and Aelita's forms appeared in the yellow sky.
The two girls fell out of the sky and landed on their feet as their vehicals appeared.
"Look out, William's on his way with two of his favoret monster." Jeremie said, seeing three red triangles heading towards his friends.
"The mantas?" Yumi guessed, jumping onto her overwing, a fan already in her hand.
"You guessed it." Jeremie said.
"Hey, can I hich a ride?" Kiwi asked Ulrich as Aelita jumped onto the overboard.
"Let's hope you can figure out your weapon soon." Aelita said as she watched Kiwi get onto the bike.
"You're telling me." Kiwi said as William and the mantas came appeared in front of them.
"New plan." Ulrich said. "Yumi, get on the overboard and take Aelita to the tower, ASAP." Ulrich glanced behind him, towards Kiwi, "You, jump off and get onto the overwing."
"Alright." Kiwi said, watching Aelita go over to YUmi on the overboard and let the girl hop over as Kiwi got off of the overbike.
Kiwi jumped onto the overwing, only to loos his footing as a laser shot by, forcing him to fall to the ground.
"Yumi! Aelita! Go!" Ulrich ordered as he pulled out a sabor and reved up his overbike, causing a dust storm behind him. "RRRRAaaaaahhhh!"
Ulrich speed forwards, passing the two mantas and running straight for William.
Kiwi made his way back to his feet and reached for the handles of the overwing to get back on it as the mantas came closer. He glanced up as he put his feet back on the vehical and saw that Ulrich had jumped off of his overbike and sent it flying towards William.
A shot, slicing too close to Kiwi's nose for comfort, took his attention away from seeing if Ulrich was alright. Kiwi tryed to fly away from the mantas and looked back down to the ground to see he had dropped something.
Kiwi flew around the mantas and saw that what he had dropped was a three pointed blade.
He flew down, grabbing the handle, and went straight for the eye of Xana on the back of the manta that had flown closer to him.
The long center blade cut deep, the two on its sides, just grasing around the first wound.
Kiwi pulled out his weapon and flew around to get the next one only to watch it retreate.
Kiwi looked down towards where he had last seen Ulrich to see William disappeared into a fog on the ground and going the same way the manta was going.
Ulrich placed his two katanas back into the pack on his back as Kiwi flew over so he could be next to the boy.
"We got to chance them, don't we?" Kiwi asked, putting his weapon in the shieft on his back.
"Yap." Ulrich said as he got onto the back of the overwing. He gripped Kiwi around the waist and saw Kiwi's weapon as they lifted off of the desert ground. "What's your weapon?"
"Oh, it's a sai. My first owner used one when I was a puppy." Kiwi said, puttinf as much power as he could into the overwing to catch up to the two.
Kiwi turned his head back to Ulrich, as he felt the boy tighten his grip on Kiwi's waist. Kiwi smiled, remembering his vertigo, as he wrapped his tail around Ulrich to help.
"There they are!" Kiwi cried, seeing William re-surface from his smoke next to Yumi.
"Yumi!" Ulrich cried, watching William sumon his blade and was slicing it towards the japanese girl.
Yumi turned around, her one hand holding a fan to block a krabe's laser. She saw William's blade in enough time to drop to the ground, letting the krabe's laser shoot at William.
Kiwi got close enough with the overwing for Ulrich to jump off and run over to William as he still layed on the ground from his own monster's blast.
Ulrich pulled out his two swords and placed them, crossing them around William's neck.
"William, next time, don't try to show off." Ulrich said, pulling his swords back so he could cut through his head.
"Uh guys." Jeremie's voice started, sounding scarred. "Odd had had some problems."
"Why do you say that?" Aelita asked as Kiwi flew up and stabbed his sai into the eye of Xana on the back of the manta, killing it.
Aelita let go of an energy ball towards the last krabe, killing it.
"Because the spector is in the elevator right now. I've locked it between here and the ground floor, but Xana'll work his way out of it, I'm sure of that." Jeremie said, looking at the security camera's veiw of the elevator as he saw the spector, disguided as Odd's mother still, getting out of the elevator.
"Which one of us has the least amount of life points?" Ulrich asked, his swords still in his hands.
"You do, with thirty." Jeremie said, questioning moving into his voice. "Why?"
"I'm coming to help you." Ulrich said, putting his swords back into the pack on his back. "Bring me home."
"Materilization Ulrich." Jeremie said, typing in the comands.
Ulrich closed his eyes, expecting the weird feeling of going back to earth with no pain when nothing happened. "Uh, Jeremie, I'm still here." Ulrich said, opening his eyes.
Silence
"Jeremie?" Aelita asked, everyone waiting for his voice.
"Jeremie is...no longer avalible." a soothing female voice said. "Maybe this will help YOU!" Mrs. Della Robbie started to laugh as she typed away on the keyboard, her hands no longer visable to the normal eye.
"Xana." Kiwi growled, knowing Odd's mom was the person Xana had copied.
"Now I can say my final fairwells, Lyoko warriors." Xana said, hitting enter to make the program he had just finished creating, to work.
A red circle surounded, first Ulrich's feet, and then started to appear around the feet of everyone on Lyoko.
The circle went up their bodies, scanning them, freezing them in fear.
"What is this thing?" Ulrich asked as it stopped moving, hovering like a red halo over all of their heads.
"It's a deleation program." Aelita said, fear in her voice. "Xana's trying to delete us, permently."