Ulrich and Maya had reached the factory in no time, but the ride down in the elevator was awkward. The rest of the gang were already transferred on Lyoko, waiting for Ulrich and Maya.
"Transfer Ulrich! Transfer Maya!"
"Scanner Ulrich! Scanner Maya!"
"Virtualization!" They landed on their feet right beside Yumi and William.
"Well, took you long enough," William muttered.
"Shut up," Ulrich glared.
Uh oh, Maya thought. ((Just a reminder that Maya's Lyoko form is a ninja. All black leather rapping around her and a hood she could pull up to cover her face, only exposing her eyes. She has cuffs on her wrists she could use to deflect lasers and hits from swords, like a shield. Also she has unlimited daggers that she could pull out of her cuffs and have a blade replace it. Along with invisibility as a second power, she's the perfect ninja.))
"Hey, William, how come you have a silver suit now?" Maya asked.
"This is what I looked like before…" he didn't want to finish.
Before she could ask, Jeremy's voice come through, "Guys the tower's 20 degrees east and 40 degrees south. I'm bringing up your vehicles." The over-wing, over-board and over-bike were being materialized as he spoke.
"Um, Jeremy," Ulrich said, "We have a problem."
"What is it?" Jeremy asked fearing for the worst.
"Um, three vehicles. Six warriors, even I can do that math," Odd joked.
"Come on guys," Jeremy groaned, "Work it out. And fast too!"
"Well, Maya can come with me, like last time," Odd offered.
"No way am I going with Stern," William muttered.
"Who said you would!" Ulrich shouted.
"I'LL go with Ulrich," Aelita said.
"And I'll go with Yumi," William grinned.
The thought of William having his hands resting on Yumi's hips make Ulrich want to spit fire, "NO WAY IN FUCKING HELL!"
"DON'T BE A JELOUS BASTARD STERN!" William yelled in Ulrich's face.
"STOP!" Yumi yelled, startling everyone.
"How about this," Aelita said calmly, "William, you'll probably be faster using Super smoke, I'll fly and Maya, you can ride with Odd."
"Super Smoke? Sounds cool," William grinned and yelled, "SUPER SMOKE!" and was off towards the tower. Aelita rolled her eyes and waved her hand over her wrist with the star watch and her wings grew. She jumped up and flew to the tower. Maya hopped on with Odd and they were off.
"Hey, Jeremy?" Maya called out, "Think you could add new vehicles to your list of programs?"
They could hear his loud groan.
"Jeremy, I'LL help you make the programs," Aelita said just as something shot her wing and she began to fall down to the Digital Sea.
"AELITA!" Yumi screamed as she fly towards Aelita holding her hand out to grab Aelita and pull her on the over-wing.
"Jeez, thanks for the warning Jeremy," Odd said sarcastically.
"What are you talking about," Jeremy said confused, "I don't see any monsters on my screen."
"Wait a minute," Maya said as she scanned the grounds, "There's nothing on the ground."
"No monsters in the sky either," Ulrich added.
"So, WHERE ARE THOSE COMING FROM?" Aelita pointed to a bunch of.. .arrows heading towards them.
"Shield!" Odd shouted and was able to dodge the arrows.
Ulrich tried to swivel pass the ones aiming for the ground, but the wheel of his over-bike was hit, causing him to roll towards the edge of a cliff.
"ULRICH!" Yumi screamed as she flew down with her over wing towards him. Aelita was supposed to be blocking the arrows that came toward them, but one came from behind and hit the bottom of the over-wing, sending the two crumbling on the ground near Ulrich.
"GUYS!" Odd yelled from the sky and the others looked at him and Maya. The two were pointing to a cave a few yards away from Ulrich. They ran into the cave and Maya and Odd came zooming in after them.
"Okay, Um, Jeremy what was that?" Odd asked as he and Maya jumped off the over-board.
"Is it some new monster?" Aelita asked.
"No, I-I don't know" Jeremy said as he typed away and a file popped up on his screen, "It's the attack probably!"
"How do we stop it?" Maya asked.
"We deactivate the tower, duh," Ulrich said with a little sarcasm.
Maya glared, "Alright smartass, how do we even get pass without being hit. It's not like we can defend ourselves against them IF WE CAN'T EVEN FUCKING SEE THEM."
"How do we even know it's a 'them,'" Aelita asked, "For all we know it could just one person or some new monster."
"Whatever it is we can't fight it so, how do we get passed it?" Yumi asked.
"I have an idea!" Odd said brightly, "Okay, Maya, you know how you can turn invisible too? Well do that and then you'll be able to see the monsters or whatever while you're in that state and BAM, you can tell us where to shoot and they're gone."
"Um, Odd," Aelita started, but Ulrich interrupted. "ODD YOU FUCKING IDIOT! IF SHE'S INVISBLE SHE WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE THE MONSTERS, THEY JUST WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE HER! AND WE NEED TO GET AELITA TO THE TOWER SAFELY NOT HER!"
They stared at Ulrich's outburst.
"Actually, Ulrich… Odd might be on the right track," Yumi spoke into the silence.
"Do you think you could make both you AND Aelita invisible and take her to the tower?"
Maya looked shocked, "Is that even possible?"
"Well, I could use my telekinesis on the others if I need to, it tires you out a lot though, but maybe… maybe if you tried you could make Aelita invisible too."
"That could work," Aelita pointed out, "And if you could, we could go on the over-wing and make that look invisible too and get there faster."
"Are ya listening Einstein?" Odd asked grinning.
"Yes and here you go," He virtualized the over-wing and over-bike next to them in the cave.
Maya and Aelita got on the over-wing and with a little hard thinking she was able to turn herself and Aelita and the over-wing invisible. Aelita rode the vehicle out of the cave, followed by Odd on his over-board and Ulrich and Yumi on the over-bike.
Yumi had her arms wrapped around Ulrich as they rode, for awhile it seemed that no monsters were coming. It was an awkward silence so Yumi decided to make small talk.
"You were pretty rough on Odd back there," she said quietly.
"He'll get over it," He muttered.
"How come you're in such a bad mood?" she asked quietly, "Did Delmas say something bad to you and Maya?"
She felt him tense as she mentioned Maya's name, "You know you can tell me Ulrich," She said again quietly as she rested her head on his back.
That made him less tense and loosen up a bit; but her next words made his eyes widen.
"Hey, what do you think William is doing?"
Before he could answer the arrows were back… but now they were different. The shooter, whoever that was, now chose to shoot three at a time and each arrow now had electrical sparks at the tip of it. Ulrich was quick to take out one sword and knock an arrow before it touched him, but the other two went right back him and hit Yumi in each shoulder, knocking her off the bike.
"Yumi!" He screamed and turned his bike around to get her. She was lying on the ground, like she couldn't get up. Ulrich jumped off the over-bike and ran to her. "Yumi?" She only groaned. The two arrows in her shoulders faded away once Ulrich took her in his arms.
"Yumi? Say something?" Ulrich begged.
"I-I can't feel my arms," she said quietly.
"Come on," Ulrich helped her stand up and he easily wrapped her arms around his shoulders, as if she didn't have any more bones there.
"Yumi… you lost fifty life points," Jeremy's voice was filled with shock.
"What happened?" Odd asked as he came back to them. Aelita and Maya came back too, they just couldn't be seen.
"Yumi got hit now she can't move her arms," Ulrich answered quickly as he walked over to his bike.
"But my wing was hit by an arrow earlier," They heard Aelita's voice, "But I can still move."
"These arrows were different, they were… weird."
Before he could explain, more sets of arrows came from the sky.
"Shied!" Odd yelled and blocked himself and the invisible girls. Ulrich quickly dropped Yumi's arms by habit as he took out his swords to deflect the arrows, but by doing so, Yumi fell back to the ground. Three more arrows pierced her body, two in the chest, one in her stomach, a few seconds later she was gone from Lyoko.
"No," Ulrich said quietly once the firing of arrows stopped, "Oh, no, no no, it's all my fault."
The scanner door opened showing Yumi on the floor.
"Yumi? Are you okay?" Jeremy's voiced asked.
She lifted her right fist and smashed it on the scanner floor, then she got up, even though she was dizzy, she could walk, "Well, on the bright side, I can feel my arms again."
"Good," Jeremy smiled, "Don't worry Ulrich, Yumi's fine."
Ulrich was burning with anger.
"Dude?" Odd asked quietly.
"Whoever the hell shot those arrows… is gonna die."