Chapter 6

"Jérémie, Aélita, lunch is about to be served." Yumi said as she walked into Jérémie's room. "Huh?"

Inside she found that neither of her friends were in there. Yumi pulled out her cell and called Jérémie.

"Yumi?" Jérémie's voice asked from the other end.

"Hey, where are you?" Yumi asked, walking out of his room.

"At the lunch room waiting for you and the others." Jérémie said.

"Oh, ok." Yumi said. "See ya there."

Yumi hung up and was about to walk away from Jérémie's room when an alarm got her attention. "What?" Yumi asked as she walked back into the room. She went over to Jérémie's desk and saw that a tower was activated. She looked over to where the double alarm sound was coming from and noticed Jérémie didn't have his laptop with him. "Shoot, tower's activated." She pulled out her cell and called Jérémie back again.

-.-.-.-

"Lady's first." Odd said, opening the door for April.

"Thanks." April said as she ran inside, trying to stay dry but having no luck.

Ulrich and Odd walked in only to have April fall onto them, slipping on the floor.

"Are you ok!?" Ulrich asked, helping her up.

"Yes, I am fine." April said, trying to stand up. "My flip flops get slippery when they are wet." She took another step and fell into Odd's arms. "Ok, that is it." She knelt down and picked up her flip flops and stood up.

Odd snickered at her, only to stop suddenly as April turned around to face him. "You do not say a word, kapeash!"

"Kapeash." Odd said, putting up his hands.

Behind the three, over at a table, Jérémie sat with Aélita, talking to Yumi on the phone.

"I'll get Ulrich and Odd and we'll be on our way." Jérémie said, ending the call.

"There they are." Aélita said, pointing behind Jérémie. Jérémie turned around just in time to see a specter drip out from the ceiling and aimed for April.

"APRIL!" Jérémie cried as he jumped out of his chair and tried to make it over to them before Xana could get to her.

April looked up at Jérémie to see that his gaze was above her. She looked up, only to have time to drop her flip flops and scream before the specter took over her body.

Ulrich looked up from April, who was fighting Xana as he took over her body, and guessed, "Xana?"

"He's activated a tower." Aélita explained.

"Huh?!" Odd exclaimed as April ran outside, screaming as Xana fought to take her over. April fell to the ground, still screaming.

"I've got April. You go and deactivate that tower!" Odd said, ready for her to attack him as she stopped screaming and was fully under Xana's control.

Ulrich nodded his head and ran out the door into the storm with Aélita, Yumi, and Jérémie.

April looked up, her pupils covered by the eye of Xana. She looked up at Odd, her hair in her mouth, and aimed her hand at Odd. "ARRR!" April growled as she shot him backwards into the cafeteria.

Screams were covering the cafeteria as the kids started to run. April stood up and walked over to Odd inside the cafeteria.

Odd got up and looked at the American before jumping up and tackling her down to the ground, trying to keep her hands underneath her and get her outside in the rain.

-.-.-.-

"I hope Odd can handle her." Ulrich said as they rode in the elevator to the lab.

"What do you mean? He normally can hold his own against Xana." Yumi said.

"You haven't noticed?" Aélita asked.

"What?" Yumi asked.

"He likes her." Jérémie said as the elevator stopped and the door opened. "Go to the scanner room."

"Got it, Einstein." Ulrich said. The three watched Jérémie walk over to his chair before the elevator door shut, taking them down to the scanner room.

"You're going to the ice sector." Jérémie said as the three went into scanners. "Transfer Yumi, Transfer Ulrich, Transfer Aélita, Scanner, Virtualization!"

-.-.-.-

"Look April, why don't we talk it out." Odd said as April looked up at him. "I know it'd be long distance, but still."

April growled before she used her feet and kicked Odd off of her. Odd flew backwards, crashing into the pole separating the line for food from the rest of the cafeteria.

"I'll take that as a no?" Odd guessed as he opened his eyes, feeling pain all over his back.

April jumped up and walked over to Odd. Odd looked up as she reached down and grabbed the collars of his shirts. She pulled him up and sent electricity throughout his body. She threw him over to where an upturned table was, behind was Paul, Sissi, and Theo who all ran, screaming, as Odd hit the table.

"Nice throw Xana, but I think you missed your point." Odd said as he stood up, rubbing the back of his neck. In his hand, he held a steak knife he had almost landed on the business end of. "Now try this point!"

Odd ran at April, raising the knife above his head and aiming to stab her jean belt loop into the wall behind her, only to have April reach up and stop his hand from going there and twisted him around, hurting his wrist.

"Hey, come on!" Odd said, pain going through his limb. "I wasn't going to stab you." Odd felt his hand let go of the knife, no control on Odd's part, and fall into April's hand.

April let go of Odd and pointed the knife at him.

Odd fumbled around, trying to remember which pocket he put his cell in as he back up. He pulled out his cell from his back pocket and dialed the lab.