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Hi everybody out there! Yea, this is my very first fanfic EVER! I'm so excited to get started, so let's just go! Hope you like it!
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Dead Serious Chapter 1: Lingering Trouble

"That's the last one!" Odd yelled over his shoulder as Yumi's fan sliced through the final roachster, signaling to Aelita to head for the tower.

Just as Aelita was entering the tower the three left outside, gathered to congratulate one another on their fastest response to a Xana attack yet.

"You know, that seemed almost a little too easy," Yumi commented thinking over the day's Lyoko events.

"Yeah, it's kinda weird that we were able to deactivate the tower before Xana managed to attack Earth," Ulrich added.

"And none of us even got devirtualized this time. Usually, at least one of us gets knocked out. Xana really didn't put up much of a fight, the only welcoming committee we received was five dumb roachsters," Odd put in.

"Huh? Better make that six," Yumi corrected him, as she suddenly spotted a roachster out of the corner of her eye.

Ulrich spotted it too, as it took a quick peek at them from behind a rock not too far away. "I'll get it," he volunteered, even though there wasn't much time left before they would all return to the past.

Ulrich charged around the side of the rock and jammed his samurai sword into the hiding roachster, which exploded just as the wall of blinding white light converged upon them, but this time something was different about the way that the roachster had exploded. As little bits of virtual material flew into the surrounding space, they were joined by a mass of thin, wispy, greyish-green gas, which Ulrich had never seen before. As Ulrich stood studying it, the gas almost seemed to melt into his skin giving him the shivers, although his virtual body could feel nothing. That was weird, was Ulrich's last thought, before he was swallowed up by the blinding glare.
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