This isn't the full attack; what happens next is a bit of a foregone conclusion of course.
Day 3: XANA Attacks
"Hey, Yumi, Odd! What's the situation?"
"Jeremie! There you are, finally!" Yumi struggled to cradle her phone between her ear and her shoulder as she ran. "The mid-level is clear, but we haven't been able to get to the top of the tower yet- ODD!"
Yumi dropped the phone into her pocket and ran for the nearby stairs, following a crackling noise and an loud yell. She saw Odd go flying across the deck, away from the stairs, but caught up to him just in time to catch him in her arms.
"I thought you were following me!" Yumi said.
"Hey…I thought you thought that too," Odd said, dusting himself odd. "I just wanted to make sure-"
"If they were safe, I think we'd know by now." She fished her phone out of her pocket. "It's not just the elevators. He's constructed some kind of electrical barrier around the stairs, too. It's too late for us to get through -"
"There you are!" Jeremie interrupted. "What happened?"
"Odd threw himself at the stairs," Yumi said.
"I was trying to solve the problem!" Odd yelled from behind her.
"Okay, that was stupid, but it did do the job." Yumi could hear the news coverage Jeremie was watching in the background of his call, though all she could make out was "…mysterious hostage situation at the Eiffel Tower." "Listen, there's a breaker box on the other end of the deck, right next to the gift shop. If you can trip the breakers, it might give you enough time to get to the top. It won't stop him, but it might give you the time you need to take stock of the situation and protect everyone still up there."
"Protect everyone?" Odd said, grabbing the phone. "In case you haven't noticed, we're just two very electrocute kids! What about the police, or the army? Did you say they were outside?"
"They haven't been able to get anywhere near. He's been messing with their controls. I've been trying to counter him, but this is the best chance we have. Now, go!"
Jeremie hung up with a click, and Yumi and Odd took off across the platform. The shops and restaurants they passed seemed surreal in the context of the work they had to do. "I never even knew all this was up here," Odd said. "You'd think it was all just a hunk of metal from the outside…"
"You've really never been here until now?" Yumi stopped to give Odd a quizzical look. "It was one of the first places my parents took me when we arrived from Japan -"
"I really would love to hear all about it, but I'm gonna need silence for this!" Odd took a flying leap for the fuse box, and easily picked the lock, exposing the many fuses. He and Yumi pulled them all down at once, plunging the deck into darkness - and giving them the chance they needed.
"Go, go go go!" Yumi yelled as they headed for the stairs. They were able to pass through with ease, and began making their way up. It'd be a long, long climb - but until the Return to the Past came through this really was the only thing they could do.
"One down, six hundred to go," she mumbled. What was taking Aelita so long?
"Hey, Jeremie! How's it going out there?"
"Fine," Jeremie said, adjusting his microphone. He turned the volume on the news coverage down, to better hear Ulrich. "If you think two thousand tourists still trapped in a giant lightning rod is doing fine."
"Are the tourists okay?"
"I haven't heard otherwise from the news, or Yumi and Odd." On one side of his screen he saw video footage of multiple military helicopters struggling to get anywhere near the Eiffel Tower. On the other, a wireframe model of Lyoko, with two dots for his teammates and one more for the monster.
"Then as long as we can get to the tower, by our standards, that's pretty fine." Ulrich spotted something moving out of the corner of his eye, and leapt off the back of the Overbike, falling in an arc onto the top of what turned out to be a Blok. He leapt to avoid its spin throwing him off, landed again, and shoved his katana into its eye. "Agh! Impact!"
The Blok exploded beneath him, sending him onto the ground. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Aelita swing the bike around, coming to a stop at Ulrich's feet. "Impressive," she said.
"Yeah, but we're not out of the woods yet." Ulrich stood, dusting himself off. "We have to get to the tower before something happens on the…well, the tower."
"We do." Aelita turned the bike in the direction of the activated tower. "But as far as immediate danger, I'd worry about Odd and Yumi. XANA may be dangerous, but more than that, he's vain. If he has us, he's going to give us all his attention…"
The tower was just a few degrees over from the nearest ice shelf - but in between the two points sat two Krabs and five times as many Kankrelats. The Kankrelats were still walking back and forth, surveying the landscape, but the Krabs had spotted them, and they were heading their way.
"Case in point," Ulrich said, drawing out his sword. "Don't worry, though. They'll be gone in a flash!"
"Of course they will." Aelita nodded, then dropped to her knees, singing a high note as she spread out her arms. Ulrich took this as his cue. "Super Sprint!"
He ran up the shelf and over the ramp that Aelita had formed, doubling his speed as he soared over the Krabs, aiming his sword at their heads.
- Carth