Author's Note: Those of you who may have originally read this story may have noticed that it stopped rather abruptly after 'A World Without Danger.' That was because I had originally intended to continue the story from that point. However, my continuation seemed like it took such a radically different direction that I thought it should be another story. I was wrong.

So, I have added the chapters I was originally planning on releasing in another story. As a result, the rating of the story needs to be raised to 'T' due to some violence and story content.

P.S.:The entire story takes place after the Autumn Harvest Dance described in 'Uncle Sam's Misguided Children,' and completes before the trip to the air base.

The main characters of this story are based on characters from the cartoon 'Code Lyoko.' I do not own, nor do I claim, any copyright to these characters.
Aelita Hopper was sound asleep, dreaming about love. In her dreams, she and Jeremie were spinning together, two bodies floating in space, worlds and suns and stars circling about them. They were the center of the universe, all things revolved around them. And they revolved around each other...

Suddenly, she was shaken. She fought off the distraction, trying to stay in the moment with her love, but the shaking wouldn't stop. Finally, she was pulled out of her sleep.

"What, what is it..." she mumbled.

She opened her eyes. It was still night, and there was a dark form hovering above her, still shaking her.

"I'm awake! What is it?" she said, trying to sit up.

The form moved back from her, and she was able to sit up. Looking at the form, she saw that it was her roommate, Sissi Delmas. The form's outline matched Sissi, plus Sissi's bed was empty.

"Sissi, what do you want at oh-dark thirty in the morning?"

Sissi, started to speak, but what came out of her mouth wasn't words. It sounded like a tape recorder playing backwards real fast.

"Oh, no. Franz? Franz Hopper? Papa, is that you?"

Sissi started making the noises again.

Aelita got up and turned on a light. Now she could see Sissi. Her face had an odd look to it, like she was possessed. And in a sense, she was. Franz Hopper must have somehow activated a tower in Lyoko and taken control of Sissi, something he did several months ago, before school ended for the summer. Whether it was coincidence or Sissi was the only thing he could affect in the real world, Aelita didn't know. But he was here, right now, trying to contact her.

"Sissi, you are talking backwards. I cannot understand you. You must reverse your speech somehow," she tried telling her friend.

Sissi looked at her for a moment, as if trying to understand what she said, but then started talking gibberish again.

Aelita tried another tact. She went over to her desk and got a piece of paper. She then found a pen and wrote, "You Are Talking Backwards," then showed it to Sissi. Sissi got a quizzical look on her face, but once again started speaking gibberish.

Aelita then took Sissi and pulled her over to her mirror. She pointed Sissi at it, then held up the paper. Sissi's eyes got wide when she saw the paper's reflection. She then took the paper and pen and wrote something down. When Aelita looked at what she wrote, she saw that the writing was backwards also. Sissi held the paper up to the mirror.

It said, 'Help Me. Need sensory input. Gone too long without. Mad. Insane. Thought I saw you in Hell. I Miss You, Princess."

Aelita took the paper and wrote, "I Miss You Too. How can we help?" She then held the paper back up to the mirror.

Sissi read the message, then took the paper and wrote, "Memory Diagnostic. memdiagobj. Ask the Scyphozoa."

After writing that, Sissi collapsed.

Jeremie Belpois' dreams were full of the scent of angels and pink. All was right in the universe because they were together. If only that ringing would stop...

Jeremie woke with a start, then scrambled about looking for his cell phone. He found it and answered just before the call switched to his voice mail.

"Hello, who is it?"

"Jeremie, it's Aelita. You need to come to my room right now."

He smiled as he replied, "'Lita, I miss you too, but..."

"Jeremie, my father just paid me a visit."

Jeremie's smile vanished. "Oh. I'll be right there."

Jeremie got up and got dressed. Then he quietly left his room, trying to be stealthy so he wouldn't get caught after curfew, and on the Girl's Dorm level. Just as he was about to close his door, he heard a door slam! open, and footsteps run towards the stairs. Figuring that sneaking about was no longer an option, Jeremie shut his door and broke into a run after the phantom.

When he got to the Girl's Dorm level, Jeremie saw his phantom. Odd Della Robbia was in front of Aelita's door, getting ready to pound it down, demanding admittance.

"Odd, keep it down! We'll be in deep trouble if you wake everyone up!" he called to his friend as quietly as he could.

By that time, Jeremie had caught up to Odd, and having stopped him from waking the whole floor, knocked softly on Aelita's door. The door opened, and the boys went in.

Aelita had taken the few moments since she called to help Sissi get back into bed and covered up. She then put on a robe so she would be more presentable to visitors.

Odd was immediately at Sissi's bedside, trying to wake her.

"Odd, it's okay! She's just asleep!" Aelita told the boy.

"But you don't understand! We were dreaming together, and she just disappeared! She didn't fade out, she was gone! I couldn't feel her anywhere!"

"Odd, settle down," Jeremie told him, "whatever happened to her is over. She'll wake up in a minute, you'll see."

And she did, as if ordered to do so by Jeremie's suggestion. Sissi opened her eyes, and her face became a mask of fear. Seeing Odd kneeling next to her bedside, she sat up and threw her arms around him.

"It was awful! One moment we were together, and the next... He just pulled me out, pushed me aside and took over! There wasn't anything I could do! I couldn't see, I couldn't hear, nothing! I thought I was dead..."

She started crying into Odd's shoulder now. Odd just rocked from side to side, trying to comfort her.

"Aelita, how do you know it was Franz Hopper?" Jeremie asked.

"Sissi started behaving the way she did months ago, when my father used her last," Aelita replied.

"Were you able to get anything from him?"

"Yes, look," Aelita said, showing Jeremie the paper she used.

Jeremie took the paper and went over to the mirror. Holding the page up, he read what Franz Hopper had written.

"Hmmm, memdiagobj. Some kind of utility, I guess. I wonder what he meant by "Ask the Scyphozoa?"

Sissi had settled down by this point. "Did I hear you right? This happened to me before?"

"Yeah," Odd told her, "just a little while before school ended last summer. You remember my movie?"

"Yes," Sissi coldly replied.

"Do you remember me asking you to be in my next movie the next day?"

"That stupid idea you had about me being possessed and... Oh."

"Yeah," Jeremie said, "that really happened. You don't remember it because we did a Return To The Past to fix the damage that got caused."

"Is there some reason why Aelita's dad is picking on me?" Sissi asked next.

"I don't know," Jeremie replied, "hopefully it was just because you were so close to Aelita, and he really needed to speak with her."

"And if not?"

"Then it may suck to be you for a while."