The gang walked together to class the next day (with the exception of the older two).
"I'm so glad we're going to Lyoko this afternoon" Odd grinned "Me and Lyoko have so much catching up to do" he pumped his fist into the air.
"Yeah yeah... what ever, very funny Odd.." Jeremie muttered while clutching his bag (which now contained his laptop).
Apparently, out of all six of them him, William, Ulrich and Yumi were not exactly happy with having to fend off their long time foe again; Odd and Aelita were elated. Odd couldn't wait for all the fights and thrills again. As for Aelita, she finally had the chance to revisit the place she lived in and almost called home for the past three years.
Speaking about yesterday, he and Aelita gave the others the run down on what they missed. Then after several minutes of talking about what could happen to their school lives they decided to return as their teachers might've been wondering where they were at that point.
...
They all arrived and noticed Jim standing near the track but this time had another student with him: a girl around their age. Odd and Jeremie looked at each other.
"Do you think she's a new student?" Odd whispered to him.
Jeremie shrugged "Maybe..."
Once they had all grouped together, he counted heads then went straight to introducing the new girl whom was called Farrah. She had short white hair along with a black headband. She wore a black long-sleeved shirt with a short-sleeved white shirt over it; white skirt and leggings underneath along with black trainers. Her skin was almost as white as her hair and she had fair red eyes.
"...and you all can make sure she feels welcome" he finished "So Farrah... say hello"
She fiddled with her fingers and looked to the left almost in an embarrassed 'not wanting to look at people' way.
"Umm... hi... I guess..." was all that came out from her mouth.
"Now with the introduction over, we will start the class" Jim stated ushering her towards the group of kids.
She slowly approached their small group while continuing to stare at the ground before standing beside Aelita. She didn't look up at all and tried to pretend she didn't exist but most of the class ended up staring at her anyway, whispering to each other, making her feel more awkward.
"Well... we have shy one..." whispered Odd nudging Ulrich as Aelita smiled encouragingly at her.
...
During break William and Yumi went over to the others who were waiting nearby; they all headed to their familiar bench near the rec room.
"Who's she?" questioned Yumi motioning towards the girl heading towards the rec room "I don't think I've seen her before..."
"Oh... she's the new girl" Odd replied casually leaning against the bench "She was introduced into our class just this morning"
She passed by their group looking their direction for a second. She paused, blinked then went red before quickly heading into the rec room.
"What's wrong with her?" William questioned raising an eyebrow.
"Aren't you getting it?" Ulrich said with a scoff as Odd gave a smirk.
It seemed like he was was the only one who didn't get it as everyone else was smiling.
"What?!" he said confused.
"She likes you silly!" said Yumi nudging him.
"Oh... what... really?... Well... I err...I better get to class..."
Not knowing what else to say he walked off to his next class before the bell even rang.
"Okay then..." Ulrich said bewildered "He's always the type to flirt with girls... now he can't say anything..."
...
During science, William's mind wandered back to the new girl that walked past them earlier. He shook the thought off. He couldn't get distracted by her.
"Hey... pretty boy..." whispered Yumi from behind him "Is the new girl not your type?"
He chose to ignore her and carried on writing notes. She looked at him questioningly. What was up with him? Did he not want to admit anything or just didn't have any feelings. Which would be strange since he was the guy who put love letters everywhere in his old school. Has being a Lyoko warrior changed him or something?"
Jeremie and the others were in English. Ulrich looked at the board blankly not listening at all. Odd noticing this decided to question him.
"Ulrich... What's up my man?"
He sighed "Well... I just wonder... how long are we going to fight XANA for? I mean... we fought him three times already now a fourth time... does he expect us to fight him until we're old?"
"I dunno buddy, but... what we gotta do now is what we do all the time: fight him, we always win, don't we? It's not going to be different then before except we have to be smarter and organise ourselves since we are older now than back then...oh yeah... and make sure he is dead for sure this time..." he gave a grin reassuringly.
Ulrich gave another sigh and started listening. Odd smiled and continued to draw in his notepad.
...
After class Jeremie and Aelita called the two over as they went outside.
"What's up Jer'?" Odd asked as the two walked up to them.
Jeremie pulled out his laptop.
"This..." he showed them the screen pointing to a XANA symbol near an image of a tower before pulling it back "Just what I was afraid of..."
"A XANA attack..." muttered Ulrich.
"Jeremie? What's going on?" Yumi asked as she and William came over.
"Perfect timing you two, XANA's attacking, and just when we were going to go to Lyoko too..."
"I'll stay behind..." Ulrich offered "It may be up to something..."
Just then, Farrah came up to them. A strange stoic look in her eyes.
"Oh... Farrah... what are you doing here?" Odd asked confused "You wanna ask Will out or something?"
"Shut up Odd..."
She didn't reply confusing most of the gang as Jeremie was glued to his laptop.
"Guys... I have a bad feeling about this..." Yumi said taking a step back wary.
Her feeling was soon proven right when she emitted purple energy from her fingers sending William flying back against a tree.
"Will!" Odd quickly ran over to help him.
Thankfully, there were no other students or teachers in the vicinity so there was no one to see this happen.
"I'll handle her, you guys go!" William said as Odd helped him up.
They nodded understanding and headed for the sewers. Jeremie closed his laptop and followed suit. William went over in front of her in a fighting stance.
"Not so fast"
...
The rest went down and picked up the scooters and skateboards they brought back and using them they rode though the sewers like they have done for the past few years.
When they arrived at the computer room, Jeremie quickly ran to the screen and told them to get down to the scanners quickly. Once there Ulrich and Odd allowed Aelita and Yumi to go in first.
"Okay... scanner Aelita, scanner Yumi, transfer Aelita, transfer Yumi... virtualisation!"
Once in the desert they waited for the boys. Within seconds both landed as the vehicles materialized.
"The tower is due north, north east"
They hopped onto their vehicles and headed towards the direction instructed; Aelita flew beside them.
...
In the forest, near the sewers, William was still fending off a possessed Farrah.
"Come on XANA! Is that all you got!" he taunted still trying to hold on despite knowing he was weaker.
He charged at her throwing a punch which she simply grabbed. She then used her other fist to punch him in the stomach. She walked off to the sewers as he fell to the ground in pain.
...
On Lyoko, the others soon came across the tower not to far from them guarded by several monsters: six hornets, two tarantulas and three bloks.
"See it Jeremie" confirmed Yumi on her overwing.
"Good... now you guys make sure she gets to the tower"
"We're on it Einstein" Odd affirmed "We're all pro's at handling monsters"
They quickly engaged in combat. Ulrich backfilpped off his overbike sending it at the tarantula. Odd went after the six hornets on his overboard and successfully hit two of them. Ulrich battled against the bloks with Aelita; Yumi faced the tarantula.
Odd was soon out of ammo.
"Jeremie?..."
"Yeah... I know..."
After getting his ammo refilled he fired bringing another three down but before he could take down the last one he was devirtualised by the tarantula in combat with Yumi.
"Odd!" Yumi yelled stopping to a halt as her fans returned to her.
Don't worry about Odd, Yumi, just keep fighting" Jeremie assured her.
She deflected the lasers from the tarantula then threw both her fans before doing a back jump over it. The fans find their target then return to her hands. She then threw them at the remaining hornet but it dodges so she uses her telekinesis, allowing the fan to fly back and destroy it.
Ulrich, using supersprint, jumped up onto one of the bloks thrusting one of his katanas in it's eye thus devirtualising it. Just then he gets hit by another blok causing him to lose 10 life points. He then threw his second katana at it destroying it as well. Unfortunately, Aelita's leg having been frozen by the remaining blok's freeze ray was unable to get to the tower. As it charged up she used this chance to throw an energy field it.
"Jeremie... I'm not sure I can get to the tower like this" Aelita said trying to fly up but failed.
"Don't worry... if Yumi still has her source codes, I'm sure she is still able to deactivate towers... Yumi... if you would..."
Giving a smile she walked into the tower. Ulrich, on the other hand, tried to chip away at the ice in case Yumi failed and Aelita had to deactivate it.
"You better hurry up, William isn't in good shape..."
Near the elevator a downed William tried to stand up having been knocked down again but noticed that she had already gone.
"Damn it..." he growled punching the floor "They better finish quick..."
Yumi walked to the screen and placed her hand on it. Her name appears before the words Code Lyoko replace it.
"Tower deactivated"
"Okay then, I'll rematerialize you"
After he does so, the lift opens revealing a confused Farrah.
"Huh? Where am I?" she questioned "What is this place?"
Odd looked over at Jeremie who gave a nod back.
"Return to the past, now"
...
They walked to class where Jim introduced Farrah again.
This time when she walked into the huddle of students Odd welcomed her.
"Wow..." Ulrich muttered sarcastically "Odd's being nice"
"Just giving her a warm welcome" he replied grinning now putting an arm around her shoulder.
"Oh thanks... I thought you would be ru-"
"Don't worry, once you get to know me you know I'm an awesome guy"
Farrah giggled; Ulrich looked at him annoyed.
After class, she walked with them to a nearby bench while they waited for Yumi and William. Once they arrived Farrah waved goodbye and headed off. William ignored her departure.
"Well... it seems she still likes you... William" Ulrich finished in a mocking tone.
He rolled his eyes as the others laughed.
"Well, you know she has an older brother in our class... and Sissi is totally falling for him"
"At least I don't have to worry about her anymore..." Ulrich raised an eyebrow.
They all laughed again.
"Oh well, we got class in five minutes, we can hang out in the rec room" Yumi grinned slowly stopping.
"Sure..." Ulrich smiled as they walked together.
The others opted to stay behind outside until their classes began again; soon enough the bell rang.
"Let the education commence!" Odd commenced proudly pumping his fist into the air, as they went to their next class.
Jeremie looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"Just kidding" he grinned waving his hand.
The new girl isn't actually going to become a Lyoko warrior in the story like them...
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