Chapter 6

Odd opened his eyes and sat up, only to have a sharp pain lace through-out his body. He heard a mone and realized it had come from his own mouth.

Odd stood up and saw all of the damage Yumi's house had gone through. The wall that seporated the hallway from the living room was only one piece. Ironicly, it was the piece with the lightswitch, but wouldn't turn on anything since he had grabbed the light ficture to swing on to avoid his mother and it had crashed to the ground when he jumped off.

Odd pulled out his cell and dialed the factory's number as he walked over pieces of wall, ceiling and who-knows-what, trying to get to the door.

Not getting anybody, he hung up and headed to help.

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"Man, you three look weird." Kiwi said, for the first time glancing behind him to see Ulrich, Aelita, and Yumi as they travled towards the tower that was still too far off to see all that well.

"You should see yourself, one ear." Aelita said, comenting on how the part of his head was disappearing.

"Ugh!" Ulrich eclaimed, tighting his grip with one arround Kiwi's waist as more pixles from his other arm disappeared.

"At least now there was a good reason for me to have learned ho to fight if I only had one foot." Yumi said, looking down towards her right leg as it hung over the boverboard, most of her foot gone now.

"Oh, just great." Aelita said, getting all of her friend's attentions to look forward. "Monsters."

"Can you see how many?" Kiwi asked, seeing some of the blocks and what he thought to be a tarantula, but his left eye was starting to be deleted, taking some of his sight.

"It looks like five blocks and a tarantula." Ulrich said, looking around Kiwi's good side to avoid seeing the inside of his digital form.

"Oh, and a warrning to you all," Xana said, smiling as he watched them get shot at as a smile appeared on Mrs. Della Robbia's face. "The more you get shot, the quicker you go, If you're killed, well, let's just say, I'll kill Jeremie and the world will be mine."

"What, you forgetting about me?" Odd asked, distracting Xana to look up.

Above the computer, Odd stood with a pole in his hand. His face covered in bruses and blood was coming out of his shoulder wound, making the remains of his pink and purple ensomble turn a cremson red.

"Why would I remember you?" Xana said, his voice sounding more like Odd's mother. "You're nothing but a piece of trash."

"You'll eat those words." Odd hissed, "Yeha!"

Odd jumped from where he was, aimed to land his foot on Xana's head, only for Xana's arm to reach up and grab Odd by the anckel. Electricity raced through Odd's body, coloring him a purple/blue color.

Xana threw Odd out of the way, over where Jeremie still layed, smiling.

Odd tryed to sit up, his shoulder bleading badly and he smelt something reminding him of fried food.

Xana sniffed the air and a smile came on his face. "Smells like fried chicken." he said in Odd's mother's voice, a hint of his undertone as finding its way out.

"Ha, and I see one." Odd said, getting up, his felt arm limp and numb. He grabbed his arm as it swung uselessly, thinking of a plan.

"Morter!" Odd cried, swinging his pole high above his head and aimed for Xana's head, knowing Xana would see it and let go at the last second, kicking Xana in the stumch.

Xana stumbled back, surprsie covering his face.

Odd turned around and kicked as high as he could, knocking his foot into his mother's jaw.

Xana straightened his jaw with his hand and brushed back some of the purple hair of his disguise. He straightened out his arm, aiming his hand at Odd, and shot electricity towards him.

Odd ducked just in time, and said, "Come on, Xana, you can do better than this."

Xana growled, his hand in a fist. He disappeared into a fog and circled Odd, going all around the boy to confuce him.

Odd tryed to catch him, only for the bit he had to flow straight out of his grip and over to Jeremie.

Odd watched as Xana went into Jeremie's body as the boy awoke, only to find himself not able to breath.

"Not again!" Odd exclaimed, rushing over to his friend's side. He held Jeremie's head up, to see if that would help the boy get air, but nothing worked as Jeremie gasped for something he couldn't get.

Odd got up and picked up the mike. "Guys, hurry! Jeremie can't last much longer." Odd said, seeing that they were getting deleted more and more as time went by.

"Odd, how would you like to fight with only one hand?" Ulrich asked, welding one of his swords agaisnt the block as his right arm was now almost complettly gone, leaving a stump at his shoulder.

"How about, no air?" Odd asked, wishing he could do more but found that while the deletion program was running, no one could be sent to Lyoko.

"Xana's doing something twice?" Yumi asked, surprised. She grabbed her fan as it came back at her and smiled as the block blew up and disappeared.

"He knows it works with enough time." Odd said, looking back at Jeremie, who had stopped his gasping sound, and loosing his battle against Xana. "And he's almost got it."

"I will not alowe Jeremie to die!" Aelita said, determination on her face. "Kiwi! Come here!"

Kiwi turned, half of his head gone and it was eating away down his neck and his shoulder. He steared the overwing over, his sai back on his back as he had just finished off his block.

Aelita jumped on and looked at Yumi and Ulrich. "I'm getting to that tower." Aelita said, anger in her voice as she gripped around Kiwi's waist.

The last Yumi or Ulrich saw of her was the pixles leaving her back as she was being deleted.