Chapter 25 Routine
A.N. – Okay, so if this were my choice, I would tweak the ending to my liking, but I spoke to the submitter, and I did add a little addition at the 'special' scene, but besides that, the plot doesn't change.
Disclaimer – I do not own Code Lyoko, the plot, or story idea. I am just a fan of the show, the plot is owned by the creators, and the idea was submitted by LittleRedRebel.
There's an activated tower on Lyoko, in the forest sector, defended by a megatank and three bloks. "It's now or never" Jeremy says from the microphone. Ulrich points to his right as he looks at the others. Nadia, Odd, and Yumi from behind the trees. Aelita staying in her spot. Ulrich jerks a thumb behind him, and she nods, running off. The bloks walk up to the megatank as Ulrich stays where he is. Odd runs right while the girls run on the left path. Yumi and Nadia hide behind a tree, peeking to see the bloks moving around like guards. The two turn to Odd, who waves at them. Yumi pulls out her fan and jumps out of hiding, throwing her weapon. One blok gets destroyed. The second blok focuses on the girls, Ulrich sliding in front of Yumi and blocking the lasers.
"Go on Aelita. Go!" Ulrich orders and she runs off. Ulrich jumps up as Aelita continues running.
"Odd's on his way Aelita" Jeremy reports. Ulrich readies his sword.
"Impact!" He stabs the blok with his sword, destroying it. He doesn't see the third behind him. Nadia runs up behind it and destroys it. Odd and Aelita run together, Odd panting.
"Megatank approaching!" The megatank stops in front of them, blocking their way from the tower.
"Hold it!" Odd places an arm in front of Aelita. "Come and get me you bowling ball!" He aims his paw. The megatank readies its circular laser and fires. Odd is catapulted in the air due to the blast, but he land son the megatank, rolling the symbol in front of him. "Laser arrow!" He hits it dead on and it's destroyed. Aelita blocks her face away from the smoke. Jeremy sighs in relief as he presses his back against the chair. The day they found each other was a blessing. Odd gives a thumbs up as Aelita runs to the tower.
"It's okay. Aelita is in the tower" Ulrich reports to Jeremy as the others watch her. She steps inside and floats to the top.
"As usual guys, great job!" Jeremy says with a smile as Aelita puts in the code to deactivate the tower.
"That's right, another Xana attack chopped off, another tower gone!" Odd comments.
"Okay, get ready for the return trip to the past."
The return trip puts them in science with Ms. Hertz…again. "And so, this equation, which you weren't able to solve, would have enabled you to-" the bell rings for the end of class and the students stand up. "Class dismissed and don't forget your chemistry exercise for tomorrow!" They step out of class, going out into the courtyard.
"Actually, I prefer Odd. He's funny too" a girl with blonde hair says to an older girl with glasses and dark hair.
"I got bonus points for making level five."
Yumi sits on a bench by herself, waiting for the others. She sees the boys and Nadia walking up to her. "Well guys. How was class today with Ms. Hertz? Was it fun?"
"Oh, the same exact lesson before the Xana attack, so it was twice as boring!" Ulrich answers, Jeremy smiling.
"Once, twice. It doesn't matter. You'll never be any good in Physics anyway!" He jokes, sitting next to Yumi.
"You'd think you'd be better, considering you had the same lesson twice. Don't you retain any of the information?" Nadia asks.
"Guess not. Plus any notes I take just get erased anyway" Ulrich answers.
"Well if it isn't Sissi," Odd sees her walking up to them. "Hello, Ulrich dear. Can we talk for a minute?" Odd mimics Sissi. This was one of the disadvantages of Xana attacks.
"Hello, Ulrich dear. Can we talk for a minute?" Sissi asks, Odd giggling to her confusion.
"First of all, I'm not your Ulrich dear. Second of all, I will not go to your room to explain exercise B page 52" he deadpans to her shock.
"But…how did you know that I…" Ulrich looks at her blankly, Yumi smirking with a raised eyebrow. Jeremy and Nadia have the same looks. She blushes in embarrassment before storming off. The return trip was worth her reaction.
"A Sissi attack is almost as bad as a Xana attack," Yumi comments. "And ten times more boring."
"That's for sure" Ulrich agrees with her.
"As annoying as she is, we can exploit her for our help in our fight against Xana" Nadia mentions.
"Yeah at the expense of Ulrich" Odd points out.
"So, anyone feel like sneaking out and going into town for a while?" Ulrich offers as they walk Yumi to the entrance.
"Count me out. I've got a heavy date with my pillow!" odd snorts.
"Sorry, but I'm not fond on the idea of breaking out. I do enough of it as is with Xana constantly attacking us" Nadia answers.
"And I'm gonna work on my program for materializing Aelita!" Jeremy rubs his neck bashfully just from mentioning her. "One of these days I'm gonna do it!"
"How about you Yumi? Wanna go into town and have an ice cream?" Ulrich questions.
"No, not tonight. I've got to do a little studying. I'm way behind thanks to all these Xana attacks. See you tomorrow" she walks off, waving.
"Ciao Yumi, see you tomorrow" Jeremy calls out.
"Later Yumi" Nadia waves to her.
"What an exciting evening" Ulrich deadpans.
"Ciao!" Odd says before leaving with Jeremy and Nadia. Ulrich sighs as he watches Yumi leave. Right now, his morale is very low. He was getting tired of reliving the same day over and over. But unfortunately, Xana doesn't stop. But he felt his friendships slipping away…even his relationship with Yumi.
Ulrich has returned to the dorms, sitting on his bed as he pets Kiwi. "Ahhh," Odd steps in, having just gotten out of the showers. "Hey, you oughta take a shower. It really relaxes you." He flops onto his bed with a relaxed sigh.
"Tell me what your day was like" Ulrich sighs, expecting to hear the same story.
"Nothing special. Let's see now…oh, I had the embarrassment of my life in gym class. My shorts tore. Guess where? Then I lost my pencil case in the library and to finish the day, I had a fight with Marcy. And that's what my day was like" Odd lays back down in his bed.
"No, what I mean Oddis, don't you feel you've already had the exact same kind of day?" Ulrich wonders, Odd sitting back up.
"Well yeah, but that's normal," Odd yawns. "Don't forget we had the exact same French, English, and Physics class twice and on Lyoko, it was 'yoohoo, it's us' for the seventh time" Odd looks at Ulrich.
"Yoohoo, it's us?" Ulrich asks, not familiar with the term.
"That's what I call our game plan. You know, the one we used to help Aelita to reach the tower safe and sound. Why all these questions, hmm?" Odd crosses his arms, a curious look on his face.
"No reason, I've…I'm fed up with all this school, Lyoko, back to school, back to Lyoko and uh…this is Xana's fifth attack in a week." Odd closes his eyes, a little tired as well. "I'm also fed up with what's happening to Yumi and me. Once in a while, I get the feeling that…" He sighs, looking out the window. "That she doesn't have…any feelings for me." He turns to see Odd asleep.
Ulrich takes a shower to Odd's suggestion, but on the inside, he was still thinking how weary it was…the shower didn't really help him calm down and neither did wondering the corridors. The one thing was what Xana Nadia told them about their relationship. Yumi said they would see where it was gonna go. It seemed like the answer was almost certainly no. A girl walks across from him. He snaps out of his thoughts and looks up to see her. "Oh, hi Emily."
"Hello Ulrich," she turns to him. "I'm looking for Jim. Have you seen him?" She readjusts her left sleeve from her robe.
"No, sorry."
"Ah," she gives a little smile. "That's okay. Good night" she walks away, and he walks to the other side of the door. Both had seemed to take an interest in one another…Ulrich looks back to see her staring at him.
"I don't believe it. Does she have a thing for me?" He finds himself blushing. He turns back around to see the doors closing. He bumps into Jim.
"Ulrich, if you gonna sleepwalk, do it in your room!"
"Oh, hi Jim. By the way, Emily's looking for ya" he points in the direction that she left, Jim staring after Ulrich in confusion as he leaves.
In the supercalculator room at the factory, the machine rises. It would seem Xana had an idea for when the Lyoko Warriors return to Lyoko…
The next day, Yumi is walking to the cafeteria for breakfast. She sees something out of the corner of her eye: Ulrich and Emily. They were both laughing. Ulrich? What's he doing with Emily? As far as she knew, none of her friends mentioned anything about him hanging out with her…They sure don't look bored. She walks up to Jeremy, Nadia, and Odd sitting on the bench. "Hello." She turn to the two. "What kind of game does he think he's playing?"
"He's just talking to her. What are you, jealous?" Odd says.
"What?" She turns to him. "Me, jealous of Emily? You've gotta be kidding. Jeremy, Nadia, and Odd give each other smug looks. "Besides, she's a year older than him, and that's a lot." She huffs, opening her backpack to get a pencil.
"Guess what, you're also a year older than him. I guess you just forgot" Jeremy reminds her, turning around to her.
"Yeah? Well, it's not the same thing! I'm Ulrich's girlfriend! I-I mean, I'm his good friend" she blushes at her mistake.
"Girlfriend or friend? Because the way you're acting and recent events over the past few months, it seems like girlfriend" Nadia tells her.
Yumi was then thinking how much she saw. Maybe her relationship with Ulrich wasn't as secret as she thought. "Well, you're wrong! I'm just his friend."
"You know, Ulrich's been kind of down in the dumps. So if he wants to talk to another girl, don't make a big deal out of it" Jeremy explains.
"Who says that I am?!" She exclaims.
"A little defensive, are we? You're never this way with Sissi. Are you threatened by Emily?" Nadia questions her. Yumi decided to not answer, trying to avoid another slip up. But her silence was enough of an answer for Nadia as she smiles.
Nicolas punches against the drink machine. "Oh, this machine's gonna drive me bananas!" He kicks it, having lost his money and drink. Herb sees Ulrich and Emily together.
"Hey, there's double bug news! Ulrich without Yumi, and Ulrich with Emily!" Herb points out, the other two looking past him.
"Emily?!" Sissi's eyes widen in shock. "How dare she?! The nerve of her going after him if Yumi's out of the picture! I'm next on the list!" Sissi notices Yumi not looking happy about it either. "Speaking of Yumi…she's not taking it to well." She grits her teeth, just as jealous as Yumi.
"Neither are you Sissi" Herb tells her from behind.
"Shut up!" She snaps. "I just got a really great idea that's bound to make Ulrich all mine," she smirks to herself before leaning towards Yumi. "Quite a romance going on there…?" She looks at the two seeming to get along well. "Two months already, that's not bad."
"What?" Yumi whispers in disbelief. Two months and Ulrich said nothing.
"Oh, I thought you knew!" Sissi looks guilty, but really, she was fanning the fire. "Doesn't Ulrich tell you everything? I mean, you two are so close. I've decided to give up on him, there's no hope, I'll have to do my best to forget him. And if I were you, I would do the same" Sissi looks away, giving a smug look to herself.
"You're not me Sissi, so save your advice if you don't mind," Yumi stomps away from her. "What a pest…" But the more she looked at them, the more she was starting to believe it…
"Sissi, do you mind explaining your strategy?" Herb wonders. She doesn't answer and simply walks away, humming to herself.
"Jeremy," Aelita comes onto the computer, in the desert sector as she feels pulsations. "Xana's launched another attack."
"Are you feeling pulsations?" Jeremy questions, on his laptop.
"Yes, in the desert sector. They're really strong" she explains.
"I've never seen him this active as he is now. Sorry guys, you gotta go back. And right away too." Odd, Nadia, and Yumi are standing behind him, Yumi still thinking about Ulrich and Emily.
"Well, as they say, when you gotta go, you gotta go" Odd says.
"Right. Maybe this time we can finally be a step ahead of Xana" Nadia comments as nothing has happened yet.
Jeremy dials Ulrich but gets nothing. "Hmm, Ulrich has shut off his cellphone."
Yumi feels like she's on the brink of exploding. "Yeah, he much too busy with Emily! Hang on, I'll go and get im" she runs down the path in the park.
"Yumi, no wait!" Jeremy warns, knowing if it gets intense, Yumi won't hold back. Nadia gives a look of worry.
Ulrich leaves the cafeteria with a small smile on his face. "Wanna go for a walk Ulrich?" Emily walks up to him and he joins her. Yumi sees them walking together, watching them intensely.
"It's nice to relax and not think of-"
"Hey Ulrich!" Yumi calls out, her anger boiling slowly inside her. He turns to her. "Come here a second."
"Hello Yumi," he greets, turning to Emily. "I'll be right back, okay?" She grabs his arm, leading him away.
"I hate to disturb you, Romeo, but Jeremy's been trying to reach you. Xana's just woken up" she reports, silently hoping that he would leave Emily and go with her to the factory…
"Xana? Again? Go on, I'll be right there" he walks off to come up with an excuse for Emily, but stops him, angry.
"What do you mean 'go on?'" She snaps.
"Cool it, huh Yumi?" He asks, confused at why she's mad at him.
"Okay, I'll cool it," she says with anger. "First tell me what's going on with you and Emily."
"Nothing's going on," he takes his jacket back from her grip. "I like her. We get along really well." Emily stares at the two in worry, knowing how close they are. She wasn't the one to get in between a friendship or relationship. "I don't understand the problem. Unless that bother you" he gets into Yumi's face, having a little smug smile on his face. He could tell she was jealous.
"Bothers me? No, it's just that…" She looks away, clenching her fists. "That you could've told me about it. Like a buddy, huh?!"
"Oh, I get it. You think of us as buddies! I wondered what you thought of us and now I know" he retorts, no longer smug. It felt like now it was just the two of them, arguing.
"That's right, a couple of pals, and nothing more. And besides, that's the way you want it! Not like Emily, huh?! Oh Ulrich!" She closes her eyes, biting her lip in anger.
"Okay, what do I really mean to you? And be honest, huh?" He crosses his arms.
"Me be honest? You and Emily have been together for two months without a word, and you tell me to be honest?" She reveals.
"Where did you get that idea? Emily and I are not…" He sighs. "Oh forget it. I'm not gonna defend myself to you. Ciao!" He walks back to Emily, holding her hand as they walk away.
"Yeah right, ciao. That's all you can think of to say," Yumi shakes a little after what just happened, tears in her eyes. Yumi stops in front of the park gates, wondering if Ulrich and Emily were really a couple…her phone rings and she picks it up immediately. "Ulrich?" Her face turns into disappointment. "Oh Jeremy. Yeah, I told him. He's on his way there. Me too, yeah. I'll be right there." She hangs up, silently walking off.
"Now that Act Two is over, the final act is all mine!" Sissi and Herb see Yumi leaving.
"All yours? But what about Emily?" Herb questions.
"Oh, for a pro like me, Emily is no problem," she says to his confusion. "In exactly 30 seconds, Ulrich will be in my arms."
Ulrich looks at Emily as she stands on the stairs, having just escorted her to her building. He smiles and waves at her.
"See ya later" she returns the wave, walking up the stairs. She stares after him as he leaves. Sissi waits out in the courtyard for Ulrich to come out.
"Ulrich dear, I have to tell you something," she walks up to a confused Ulrich. "It can't wait any longer!"
"Sissi dear," he retorts. "Under normal conditions, I would take the time to tell you to go fly a kite, but this time, I'll be less polite and just ignore you" he walks away, Herb snickering.
"Well, your 30 seconds are up" he says to her annoyance.
"No, everything's quiet here. No short circuits, no giant bug invasion, no earthquakes. How bout you?" Jeremy explains to a worried Aelita.
"Well, I'm almost at the activated tower, but none of Xana's monsters have appeared yet." Ulrich and Yumi carefully avoid one another's eyes. "If not for the pulsations, there's no sign that Xana's woken up" she logs off.
"I wonder if this isn't a new tactic of his…" Jeremy says.
"What if the attack is aimed at us directly?" Odd asks. "For example, this argument between Yumi and Ulrich. Suppose that Xana is just using Emily to mess with our heads."
"That's highly unlikely. Xana can't possess humans and if Emily was an agent of Xana, why hasn't she tried to kill him or us yet" Nadia tells Odd.
"I got a better idea. He's using your ridiculous theories to distract us!" Ulrich snaps.
"What's the matter with you? I was just trying to help!" Odd shrugs.
Nadia walks up to Ulrich, visibly angry. "Apparently Yumi failed to do this to you!" Nadia then slaps Ulrich hard enough to leave a mark on his cheek. "Listen to me good! I don't know what is going on between you two, and you can't figure each other out. So, either deal with it or shut up! You try dragging us in again, what I'll do will much worse!" Nadia walks away after threatening Ulrich.
"Thank you Nadia. Just stay out of our business" Yumi tells them.
"Hey, stay calm. I think one of you should do a little reconnaissance on Lyoko," Jeremy turns to them. "Well, who wants to be first?" The angry kids say nothing, refusing to go. "Don't all of you answer at once."
"Send Ulrich Jeremy. He needs to be entertained" Yumi retorts.
"Ladies first, get her out of our hair" Ulrich murmurs.
Jeremy slams his fist on his chair. "Look, I'm getting tired of all this quarreling. Aelita needs us, and that's what I call an emergency!" They all look at him, surprised by the tone. Jeremy never got this angry before. "So head for the scanners, all four of you are going in! Hmph…Aelita," she appears on the screen. "Help is on the way." The doors close behind him. "I better warn you, Yumi and Ulrich are a bit…well, you might say, buggy."
"You mean to say, that they've been fighting, don't you?" Aelita guesses.
"You guessed it Aelita. Nadia, hope you don't mind going last. I'm sending you to the desert sector. Don't forget, you have to protect Aelita, all four of you." He presses enter and all three scanners close. "Okay, here we go. Transfer Yumi. Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Odd. Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Yumi. Scanner Odd. Virtualization." A scanner opens and Nadia steps in. "Transfer Nadia. Scanner Nadia. Virtualization." All four are successfully virtualized, but something happens when it goes through. He gasps.
The three land, followed by Nadia. They look around, Yumi looking away from Ulrich. Nadia crosses her arms. At least they're not fighting anymore. Aelita runs up to them.
"Hi" she waves politely.
"Hello Aelita" Odd waves back.
"Hey Aelita," she raises an eyebrow as Jeremy calls out to her. "There was a bug at the moment of transfer. Are they all-"
"Don't worry, everyone is accounted for. Safe and sound and ready to go" she interrupts.
"Well two of us are" Nadia faces Yumi and Ulrich.
"I don't know what it was. I'll scan the program, we'll see what happened," Jeremy takes a moment to scan the transfer program. "What is this mess? Aelita, I think the supercalculator's been infected with a virus." Everyone stops in their tracks. "So that's the Xana attack."
"But that's crazy," Odd points to his head. "Why would Xana want to infect himself?"
"Well, you never know what Xana's got in his head until it's done" Jeremy answers.
"That's why nothing's happened on Earth. He was waiting for all of us to come here. We played straight into his hands" Nadia adds.
"Maybe he's using it to modify a program that he doesn't have access to. Yeah, but which one?" Aelita wonders.
"I don't know, but it looks like he wants to change the rules on Lyoko."
"I got a funny feeling about this" Ulrich voices.
"For once, I agree with you. We're in Xana's domain now. We're his victims" Nadia looks around, waiting for Xana to make a move.
"We've gotta take a closer look into this. There has to be an inactivated tower not far from you" Jeremy looks at his map.
"Okay, I'm off" Aelita logs off with Jeremy.
They've found a deactivated tower and Aelita turns around to them. "I hope you're not gonna kill each other if I leave you two alone" she winks.
"Trust me, I got the better chance at blowing one of them away if they start arguing" Nadia tells her.
Aelita walks into the tower. She walks into the middle of the pad.
The four sit near the tower, Yumi and Ulrich still avoiding each other. Aelita floats up to the top as a kankerlot approaches the four. Odd looks up to see it.
"Jeremy," Aelita lands on the top pad. "Okay, I'm here. I have access to the transfer program. This is very strange…usually the program doesn't include any of Xana's monsters. It's really weird."
"You go, you're the closest" Ulrich tells Odd.
"Now I understand Jeremy. It's a trap!" Aelita exclaims as Odd points his paw at the kankerlot. "Xana's sabotaged the devirtualization program."
"Huh?!" Jeremy asks in surprise. "Odd, watch out for lasers. This monster can kill you for good."
"Laser arrow!" Odd destroys the kankerlot, but is hit regardless, falling to the ground.
"What's going on?!" Ulrich exclaims.
"Xana's monsters can prove fatal to you. You can't be devirtualized or you'll disappear forever!" Jeremy explains, looking at Odd's ID card. "Oh no! Odd's lost 50 life points already!"
"Calm down Jeremy. Odd's still here with us" Ulrich points out.
"You don't understand. He just got hit by a laser. That means he's only got-"
"Listen Jeremy. Aelita takes the same risks all the time. Nothing's changed for us," Ulrich interrupts, trying to calm him down. "We have to be more careful, that's all."
"That's why he sent the single kankerlot. To see how much firepower he has now. The tower is gonna be a nightmare. He could blow us away in a single shot!" Nadia realizes.
"He's really trapped us, and we'd better not make a mistake this time" Yumi walks up to Odd, checking over him. He lifts his head up.
"It'll make the fight a lot more exciting" he says.
"I've got to deactivate the tower fast, before Xana has a chance to concentrate all his strength on" she explains.
"That's the safest solution. Hurry but watch out for monsters!" The four run off after Aelita. "Meanwhile, I'll try to get rid of the virus…listen Xana, if you think you can impress me with your cheap, two-bit virus, you are mistaken!" Jeremy puts in a CD, typing away.
The others trail behind Aelita, Yumi and Ulrich still not talking to each other.
"I'm never gonna get it to work!" Jeremy comments, sighing as he hangs his head. "Xana has completely wrecked the circuits! There's only one possible solution," he takes off the headphone. "Work directly on the hardware" he steps out of his chair and enters the elevator, pressing the button. He goes down to the scanner room, running inside. There's gotta be an access around here somewhere…all I gotta do is find it. He lifts one of the panels, closing it. Here? He lifts another panel, closing that as well. Nope. Must be in the supercalculator room. He looks at another box. Oh, no way. "On this floor, everything's locked up tight. Now what?" He stands back up, the elevator doors closing him in the room. "Oh no! Xana, you're even more evil than I thought!"
They continue to follow Aelita. "Jeremy, how are you doing? Jeremy?" None of them know that he's left the room.
The access space! If I adjust it the winch, I should be able to get down. Jeremy hesitantly walks up to it, not knowing where exactly it leads.
Aelita stops running, pointing up ahead. "The tower! It's there!"
In the supercalculator room, Jeremy is using the rope to lower himself down. He's using a button belt to do so, doing it slowly and carefully. He turns around as he continues to lower himself, landing in front of the control panel. Jeremy straightens himself up, pressing his foot against the surface. "You don't scare me Xana! Just gotta replace the circuits you messed up, and you'll fail again like all the other times!" He pushes himself so he swings back and forth to grab the circuit boards.
"It's all over. If we try to get through all this, we're done for!" Yumi tells the others as they hide behind a rock. Of course, Xana never makes things easy: there's two megatanks and two krabs guarding the tower.
"You never know. We just have to hang on until Aelita enters the code" Ulrich sits back.
"It's 'yoo hoo, it's us' time!" Odd exclaims, Ulrich nodding with a small smile.
"Yumi, you and Nadia take the krabs. Odd and I will take on the megatanks," Ulrich orders. "Aelita, go on, run!"
"Uh Ulrich?" He turns to Yumi. "I, uh…"
He understood what she was trying to say. "Be careful Yumi."
"You two Ulrich," they run off in the opposite direction, Nadia following after Yumi. Ulrich runs with Odd and Aelita. One of the megatanks opens up and Ulrich jumps up, avoiding the laser. He stabs the symbol, jumping out of the way to avoid the blast. Nadia and Yumi hide, but the krabs see them. Odd runs up to a platform above the megatank and jumps as the monster fires its large laser at Aelita. Odd lands, spinning the symbol in front of him.
"Keep rolling! Laser arrow!" He hits the symbol, and it rolls away, causing an explosion that doesn't allow Odd to see the krabs, and one of them fires a laser at his torso. He ducks his head as the krabs walk above him. "Yumi! Nadia!"
"We're coming!" They say in unison and run.
Jeremy's sweat falls onto his glasses as he moves the circuit boards. "Bingo! You have just-" the board shocks him, and the rope lifts him up. It drops him before lifting him, the shock having knocked him out.
The krabs fire at Aelita as she tries to reach the tower. Yumi and Nadia run onto a platform, jumping up. Yumi fires at one, but the explosion knocks her back. "Yumi, no!" Ulrich shouts.
Nadia jumps on top of her krab and pierces it. It explodes as she jumps off. She turns to see Yumi about to fall into the digital sea. Ulrich grabs her just in time.
"It's okay, I got you" he reassures. He helps Yumi up just as Aelita enters the tower.
"Ulrich, you-" she's pulled up to his face and they look away shyly with also embarrassment.
Aelita lands on the top pad, walking up to the interface.
Ulrich and Yumi look back at each other, still so close.
Aelita presses her hand to the interface.
Aelita
Code
The young couple closes their eyes as their lips grow closer.
Lyoko
Nadia sees the two, but her vision goes white, and the two's kiss never comes to pass. The tower deactivates and the return in time is launched.
"Actually, I prefer Odd. He's funny too."
"I got bonus points for making level five."
Yumi leans against the bench, smiling to herself as she sees Ulrich and Emily laughing. She didn't feel jealous of them anymore now that she knew they weren't together.
"Quite a romance, don't you think? Two months already, huh?" Sissi leans towards her.
"Really? Two months?" Sissi turns to Yumi, confused. "That long?"
Ulrich sees Yumi. "There's Yumi. So long now Emily" he walks away.
"So long. Ain't love grand?" She smiles at them, walking away.
"Hi. I was waiting for you" Ulrich smiles at Yumi, both of them having reconciled.
"So was I. Two months is a pretty long time. But Sissi was here to keep me company."
"Huh?" Sissi looks in confusion at the two.
"Thanks."
"Hmph. Bunch of creeps" Sissi walks off, and they stare after her.
"Yumi?" She turns to him.
"Hm?"
"You know, about what happened on Lyoko, uh…I mean…what nearly happened?" He blushes, chuckling nervously.
"Um, now that you mention it, um…" she blushes, smiling. "I'd rather you didn't talk about it to Odd, Nadia, and Jeremy. At least, not right away."
"Yeah…I agree, not a word." They smile to each other.
"Come on Ulrich," the others appear next to them. "Don't forget, we have Ms. Hertz's class to go to one more time!"
"Well, it wasn't all that boring on Lyoko, was it Ulrich?" Odd wonders, the four sitting at their class.
"You're right Odd. And I learned something too. Something super important…"
All he remembers is what nearly happened. Nadia also saw the whole thing too. This would be a secret she takes to the grave, unless Yumi and Ulrich tell the group. Either she was happy they reconciled…or they knew where they now stand.
A.N. – I think the creators wanted to tease us with this. I believe they did kiss. No reason to stop when you mere inches away, and also the time it takes for the tower to deactivate and the return to start, they had enough time for their lips to touch before the jump in time. This is just how I see it. Believe what you want. PM me with story ideas! Review with questions or comments! I will respond! As always, till next time! See ya! -lyokowarrior97