11/21/05
Radio Announcer- "Good Morning! Its seven o-clock in the morning and you are listening to Sky Radio! Up next is the Subsonic's latest hit titled-"
Jeremie turned off his alarm clock and put his glasses on. He got up and walked over to his computer.
Jeremie-"Hmm, lets see if XANA is up to something."
The super scan showed nothing wrong. Jeremy walked out of the room. In the cafeteria, Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd were sitting at a table eating breakfast.
Odd- "Hey Yumi, are you gonna finish that croissant?"
Yumi- "No, go ahead"
Odd- "Ha! Yum!"
Ulrich- "I swear Odd, your stomach is like a bottomless pit or something."
Aelita and Jeremie walk into the cafeteria together. Sissi walks up to them.
Sissi- "Well if it isn't Mr. and Mrs. Einstein."
Aelita blushes.
Ulrich- "Gee Sissi, do you think you can go one day without confronting one of us?"
Sissi- "Hmmph!"
Sissi walks away and sits with Nicholas and Herve.
Jeremie and Aelita sit down. Jeremie takes out his laptop and begins typing.
Yumi- "So, has XANA launched an attack?"
Jeremie- "No, not yet at least. I checked the super scan this morning. Right now I'm working on de-bugging this stupid anti-virus. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother trying, it just seems so hopeless."
Aelita- "Oh Jeremie don't say that! We mustn't give up! We almost have it cracked."
Jeremie- "Yeah, I guess your right Aelita."
Yumi- "Yeah Einstein, if you don't get that anti-virus figured out, then we'll never have the satisfaction of shutting down the supercomputer. Well, I'd better get to class. See ya!"
Jeremie- "Oh yeah, us too! Mrs. Hertz is gonna kill us if we're late...again."
Jeremie, Odd, Ulrich, and Aelita walk into Mrs. Hertz's and sit down just as the late bell sounded.
Mrs. Hertz- "Alright class, settle down, settle down. Now class, can anyone tell me what mineral is found a common pencil? Hmm...how about you Odd?
Odd- "Umm…"
Mrs. Hertz- "Exactly as I thought! What's your excuse for not knowing the answer this time? Hmm?"
Odd- "Well umm…"
Mrs. Hertz- "That was a rhetorical question!"
Annoyed now, Mrs. Hertz turns her back to the class and begins writing on the blackboard.
Just then Jeremie's laptop begins to beep rapidly.
Jeremie- "Oh no! the super scan has picked up an activated tower!"
Aelita- "We won't have time to get to the factory in the middle of class!"
Sissi- "AAHHH!"
Mrs. Hertz- "Elizabeth! What on earth are you- AAAHH!"
Forming behind Mrs. Hertz was the black and purple mist known as XANA's ghost. The mist flew into Mrs. Hertz. Mrs. Hertz began to twitch as the pixelation process took effect. In the pupils of Mrs. Hertz's eyes was the eye of XANA beating feverishly. Mrs. Hertz shot a large purple beam at Jeremie and Aelita knocking them unconscious. Everyone in the class but Ulrich and Odd ran to the back of the classroom. She put them both over her shoulder and ran out of the classroom. Ulrich took out his cell phone and dialed Yumi's number.
Yumi's cell phone vibrated on the edge of her desk. Yumi looked at the text message that Ulrich had left her: "SOS XANA, Ulrich"
Yumi- "Can I go to the infirmary?"
William- "Uh, me too?"
Teacher-"Oh, well…alright I guess it's okay."
Yumi and William run down the hall in the direction of the school courtyard where Odd and Ulrich were waiting.
Yumi- "William! What do you think your doing?
William- "What dose it look like? I'm apparently cutting class with you."
Yumi- "Oh fine! It won't matter anyway!"
Yumi and William reach the spot where Ulrich and Odd are.
Ulrich- "What's William doing here?"
Yumi- "I'm sorry, I couldn't get rid of him. Wait, where's Jeremie and Aelita?"
Odd- "Well, lets see, XANA possessed Mrs. Hertz and took both Jeremie and Aelita."
William- "Wait…What!"
Yumi- "Are you kidding? Without Jeremie, we have no way of getting to Lyoko!"
Odd- "Well, there is one way we could get to Lyoko."
Yumi- "What! Oh no no no no no! Do you remember what happened the last time I tried to work the supercomputer?
Odd- "Yumi, we have no choice! Aelita could be losing her memory to the skitzozoa as we speak!"
Yumi- "I guess your right, alright lets head over to the factory now."
Just as they begin to head off to the factory, Jim comes running up behind them.
Jim- "Stern! Della Robbia! Wait up a second!
Yumi- "Me and William will meet you there."
Yumi and William run off for the factory, William asking all sorts of questions.
Ulrich- "Uh, Jim! We were just-"
Jim- "Save it! I saw Mrs. Hertz run off toward the park. Get her back here and I will see to it that you aren't accused of skipping class. Ya got that?"
Odd- "Are you cutting us a deal Jim?"
Ulrich- "Why are you being so nice?"
Jim- "I don't need a reason, now get on with finding Susan!"
Odd and Ulrich run to the manhole cover in the park and go down into the sewer. They get on their skateboards and ride through the sewer until they reach the factory. They run across the bridge and run inside only to find Mrs. Hertz waiting for them.
Ulrich- "You go on ahead to Lyoko, I'll stay here and distract Mrs. Hertz."
Odd- "Alright."
Odd darts for the elevator while Ulrich tackles Mrs. Hertz. Odd just barely makes it as the door begins to slide down, sealing the elevator. Odd presses the button and the elevator goes down to the control room where Yumi and William are waiting. The elevator door opens and Odd walks in. Yumi is sitting in the chair in front of the screen. William is standing on her right staring at the screen in amazement.
Odd- "How did you two get around Mrs. Hertz?"
Yumi- "We took the corridor when she wasn't looking. Where's Ulrich?"
Odd- "He's upstairs battling Mrs. Hertz! Wait, where's Jeremie?"
Yumi- "XANA must have wanted Jeremy out of the way, because Jeremy is inside the supercomputer, like in Limbo somewhere."
Yumi- "Aelita! Where are you?"
Aelita- "Yumi, I'm in the mountain region surrounded by three Hornets! I can see the activated tower from where I am!"
Yumi- "Alright, I'm gonna try to send Odd!"
Aelita- "Please hurry!"
Odd runs to the elevator and goes to the scanner room. Yumi takes out Jeremy's manual and turns to the page on virtualization.
William-"Do you really understand how to do this?"
Yumi- "Well not really. Jeremie and Aelita are the ones who dose everything to the computer, me, Ulrich and Odd just go into Lyoko and protect Aelita."
Odd- "Anytime your ready Yumi!"
Yumi- "Okay, umm, scanner Odd! Transfer Odd! Virtualization!"
Odd is virtualized on Lyoko.
Yumi- "Did everything go okay Odd?"
Odd- "You did fine Yumi, I can see Aelita. Are you gonna materialize my overboard?"
Yumi- "No, I don't know how to do that, you'll have to go on foot"
Odd runs over to where Aelita is being held.
Odd- "Laser arrow!"
Odd shoots two arrows. One hits a hornet and destroys it, but the other one misses.
Yumi- "Hey! Be careful Odd will you? I don't know how to reprogram your laser arrows and if you run out your as good as useless on Lyoko!"
Odd- "Well aren't you encouraging today."
Before Odd could destroy the last two hornets, the skitzozoa got to Aelita.
Odd destroys the hornets runs to Aelita's aid.
Odd- "laser arrow!"
Odd shoots three arrows at the skitzozoa. It drops Aelita and slinks away.
Odd- "How was that for saving the day? Yumi? Yumi?
Yumi is in the elevator going to the bottom most room. William is in the control room trying to fight off an extremely angry Mrs. Hertz.
Aelita- "Yumi is probably being attacked by Mrs. Hertz! I have to go and deactivate the tower!"
The elevator door opens and Yumi runs to the back of the room. The towering supercalculator rises up from the floor. Mrs. Hertz walks into the room through the closed elevator door and stops dead in her tracks as she sees the supercalculator.
Yumi- "You wouldn't attack me now would you? Then you would hit the saupercalculator and kill yourself as well XANA!"
Mrs. Hertz raises her arm out. The supercalculator begins to go back into the floor. A large steel plate slides over the hole.
Yumi- "Oh no!"
On Lyoko Aelita is in the tower and is flying up to the top platform.
Mrs. Hertz is shooting a purple beam at Yumi.
Aelita is now at the top. She puts her hand on the interface.
Yumi is just about to collapse from the pain of Mrs. Hertz's beam.
The Lyoko code is entered.
Aelita- "Tower deactivated."
All of the windows in the tower go down into a black abyss at the bottom of the tower.
Mrs. Hertz falls down and is left unconscious on the floor.
Yumi rushes up to the control room to de-virtualize Odd and Aelita. William and Ulrich are sitting against the wall breathing heavily as they were just defeated by Mrs. Hertz.
All of them but Jeremie are sitting around the computer screen.
Odd- "How are we going to get Jeremy back this time?"
William- "Well I don't know anything about any of this, but can't you just de-virtualize him like you did them?"
Aelita- "No I'm afraid it's more complicated then that. To get Jeremie back from where he is in the supercomputer, we would have to go to all four passage towers and get the memory to materialize him. I don't think we have time to do that again."
Odd- "Wait a second, Time! Can't we just launch a return to the past and he will be back? I mean, whenever we're on Lyoko and Jeremie launches a return to the past we are always de-virtualized."
William- "I'm sorry, but what do you mean by return to the past?"
Ulrich- "When XANA launches an attack that we can't recover from, then we launch a return to the past to reverse time and no one but the five of us can remember."
Odd- "But we don't do it as much because it makes XANA stronger."
Yumi- "Well we have no choice now."
Yumi looked in Jeremy's manual and typed in the code and pressed enter.
Yumi- "Um, return to the past now!"
The giant white light absorbs everything around them as time reversed itself.
Jeremie, Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, and Aelita are standing in the school courtyard by a tree and some bushes.
Jeremie- "Well, now there's one more reason to stay away from the scanners. That's the second time I've been sent to that same part of the supercomputer!"
Odd- "It's weird though."
Aelita- "What?"
Odd- "XANA. He possessed Mrs. Hertz in plain sight for everyone to see. He's usually discreet about that.
Aelita- "He knew we would succeed in deactivating the tower!"
Yumi- "You mean he sabotaged his own attack?"
Jeremie- "He is trying to get us to launch a return to the past to make him stronger."
Odd- "Yeah, it did seem a little too easy defeat him."
Yumi- "You think it's easy to handle the controls of that computer when you have no idea what you doing!"
Jeremie- "Or being trapped in Limbo?"
Ulrich- "Or fighting off Mrs. Hertz when she is being possessed by XANA?"
Aelita- "Or having your memory stolen?"
Odd- "Okay, so maybe it wasn't so easy."
Yumi- "Alright, lets get to class now before we get in trouble with Jim."
The five of them walk away towards the school. Then Sissi gets up from out of the bushes.
Sissi- "I knew there was something weird about them!"
To be continued…
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