Since it is leagle requirement I must state that I don't own the copyright to Code: Lyoko. I may have a few good episodes recorded on my computer but that doesn't give me copyright. So I do hope that those at AnataFilms won't sue me for using their charictors. Thank you...

Hello all. Appearently there was just a little confusion and no one realised that I was replacing the original chapters with the revised ones... or at least no one commented on it. Anyway, this will be in effect as a seperate story until it reaches the original, at which time the original will be deleated and this one will be renamed... smile. I hope you approve of this one as much as you did the last.

It was shortly after the 'false start' incident; the children were still dealing with their loss. No one had wanted Aelita to have to go back to Lyoko after she was materialized, especially not Jeremie. He had worked so hard for so long on the materialization project and now he had to loose everything he had worked so hard for just because of one virus... it simply wasn't fair. The picture that he had of Aelita and him wasn't that much of a help either; he had placed it next to his computer so he could look at the picture while he worked; yet every time he looked at it he began to choke up...

Everyone was dealing with their losses in their own way, but the others were dealing with it far better than Jeremie was. Ever since the day that he had discovered the virus he had been working on an antivirus. He had been working intently on it every night, almost more than he had with the materialization project. Every night since that day he had been staying up past midnight to continue work and finish as quickly as possible. But every morning he paid for it when he woke up early for school. This night was no exception.

As Jeremie typed, completely fixed on the computer screen, Aelita appeared in a small window off to the side. She smiled when she saw him, but then saw the state that he was in. Aelita was worried for his health; she had experienced their world, and sleep, and she knew how humans needed sleep. She knew that if Jeremie didn't get the sleep he needed he would become ill...

"Hello Jeremie." Aelita said. "I see you are up late tonight as well."

Jeremie didn't respond, he hadn't noticed her at all. His focus was on the computer and his typing, and even a nuclear explosion couldn't have shifted his focus. As he continued typing, oblivious to Aelita's presence, Aelita watched him wondering why he was ignoring her. She quickly got her answer as Jeremie's head began to rock back and forth. Suddenly his eyes closed and he began to fall toward the computer. Aelita gasped and screeched, "Jeremie!"

Just before his head hit the keyboard he woke up and stopped himself. Slowly he picked himself up and looked at the screen. When he saw Aelita he jumped and blushed slightly. "Hello Aelita," he said. "How long have you been there?"

"Just a few moments before you passed out." Aelita responded concern flooding her voice. "Have you been staying up like this every night?"

"No." Jeremie lied.

"Jeremie! Don't lie to me, have you?" Aelita asked again.

"Ok, yes..." he responded looking down at his keyboard.

"How often? You can't keep doing this Jeremie, it isn't healthy." Aelita told him.

"I know, Aelita, I know. But..." Jeremie began.

"No, don't make up excuses. Nothing could be worth what you are doing." Aelita said her voice wavering.

"But..."

"No! Jeremie, you could get sick, very sick! I don't want that. I don't want to loose you."

"Aelita, I am doing this for you! I am working on an antivirus." Jeremie said.

"Oh... but... but, it won't matter if you can't finish it." Aelita told him. "Jeremie, please get some rest. You can work on the program more tomorrow. Besides, who knows... you could come up with an answer in your dreams."

There was silence for a moment while Jeremie thought about what Aelita had said. He decided that she was right, he needed sleep and he could work more on the antivirus tomorrow. "Alright, I'm going to sleep now. Good night Aelita."

"Good night Jeremie and, thank you..." her window disappeared and Jeremie prepared himself for bed.
...

Ever since Jeremie was little he had always had strange dreams. Every night when he went to sleep he would seemingly get back out of bed and begin walking around; as he turned a corner he would suddenly find himself in a very strange space. From this space he would find himself able to see what seemed like everything at once. As he moved around in this space the things he saw would change, but every time he would always be able to see everything at once. When he was younger he couldn't control his dreams and he would suddenly find himself in a completely different place, more solid places. He would explore this new place until he woke up and 'returned' to his body. But as he began to grow up he found that he could control the dreams and he could control what he saw. He found that he was able to move through the space and see different people and places, and when he chose to do so he would go and meet those people.

This dream didn't start out any differently. He got up and walked around in his room until he suddenly found himself in the 'above' space. He chose a place to go to, a city where he had been before a few times. As he entered this world he found himself surrounded by the many different people who lived in the city. He wasn't bothered by this though, he knew that if anything happened to him he would wake up and be unharmed. He began walking to a store that he liked to visit, but as he walked he suddenly felt as though he were being watched. He tried to ignore the feeling but it was difficult, this was different than anything else that he had been through.

Suddenly his eyes locked with someone else's. The man that he was looking at was very tall, taller than six feet; he had very long very blond hair and was wearing a hooded cape over a cloak. His cloths were made up of two colors, white and black. The man smiled and moved towards Jeremie. The man walked calmly without hesitation; almost as though he knew Jeremie. As the man neared him Jeremie felt a very strong presence, it was as though this man would be able to really affect him. Jeremie watched the man, unmoving, almost not breathing. He didn't know what to do, this had never happened before... When the man finally spoke to him he jumped.

"I see my thoughts were correct. I knew that all the other travelers weren't gone, and now I have found one. A young one." The man said in a calm kind voice. "But you seem familiar to me... I have seen you before somewhere... perhaps in something I watched when I was young. In any case, expect a visit from me very soon... Jeremie."

When the man said his name Jeremie felt himself fly back into his body. He landed hard on his bed with a bounce and when the shock faded from him he heard what had woken him up, his alarm was going off. He quickly glanced over to the window and realized that it was daytime. In a frenzy he got ready for another day of school, one of the only ones that he had ever slept in during.

"Jeremie's late," Yumi noticed.

"Yeah, aren't you the one who normally comes running to us?" Odd asked laughing.

I laughed a little as well. It was true, Yumi usually did show up waiving and running towards us, but it wasn't like Jeremie to be late. We all knew that he had been staying up late every night working on the antivirus, we could see the effect it was having on him every morning. He always seemed tired now and there were a number of times that he had actually fallen asleep in class. We tried to help him but nothing any of us ever did could help him. It seemed as if he was detaching himself from reality, and from us. None of us wanted to see anything bad happen to him, but it seemed that there wasn't anything that we could do.

"Hey, guys, sorry I'm late." Jeremie yelled running towards us. When he had reached the bench he stopped and panted. "I slept in..."

"It doesn't take a genius to notice that, Einstein." Odd said almost mockingly.

"Maybe that's why you did." Jeremie retorted.

Odd suddenly grew very silent but a moment later he laughed and was back to his normal self. I guessed, by his reaction, that he had realized that he had been to hard. It was in the past now but that still left the question of...

"So, have you made any progress?" I asked him.

"Yes, and I think I am almost finished... just a few more things that I need to do and I will have an antivirus." He said. "Last night..." he began but then became very quiet for a moment. When he was done he spoke again, "Last night Aelita and I talked it over and we decided that I should get more rest... though, it was more like her forcing me to." He laughed and continued. "I mean if I became ill then I wouldn't be able to work on the antivirus at all."

We all laughed and suddenly we heard a loud growling noise. Everyone stopped and looked around. The people around us were wondering what the noise was as well but the second time we all figured it out. A quick glance at Odd's guilty face and we all knew it was his stomach. He blushed and said, "What, I have normally eaten by now."

"True and I am hungry as well." Jeremie said. "Let's go get breakfast."

We headed off towards the cafeteria. When we had gotten our food and sat at our table Odd really showed how hungry he was. He quickly began shoveling the food down and I swear that I never saw him chew. I on the other hand ate calmly if at all. I wasn't that hungry. Things had been going on recently that were taking my attention away from the food in front of me. It was something that Yumi had said... or almost said to me a few days ago. It hadn't been that long after we found that Aelita would have to stay in Lyoko longer than we had thought and we were still feeling gloomy because of it. I don't really know what brought on the conversation but one day while Yumi were alone we began talking.
...

"Ulrich, do you think about the future?" Yumi asked me.

"Not that often, why?" I responded.

"It's just... we have been through so much recently. We gained a new friend in the real world, Aelita of course, but almost instantly afterward she was taken from us."

"Yumi, she is still alive, it isn't like she is dead." I reminded her. "Nothing has really changed at all."

"I know." She said looking at me and then turning away. "But that's not how Jeremie is taking it. He is acting like she has some terrible virus that has her in a coma or something."

"Well, she is stuck in Lyoko because of the virus that X.A.N.A. put in her..." I said. "But it isn't like she can't ever come back out."

"Right, it's just... I'm worried, Ulrich. I can't imagine what I would do if I lost you!" she said and blushed a bright red.

I could feel myself blushing as well. This was the closest either of us had ever really gotten to saying that we loved each other. We were both almost positive that it was true but...

"Yumi, you won't loose me." I told her. "I'm not going to disappear, and I am here on earth."

"I know... but still, what if something happened in Lyoko, or worse, here on earth?"

"What, is something wrong? Do you know something that the rest of us don't?"

She didn't answer me immediately. We sat in silence for a few minuets while she thought. I didn't know what she was thinking but I had a feeling I knew what it was about, or at least what had brought it on. When she spoke again I knew that I was right.

"Lately my... abilities… have been acting up again." She said. "I have been getting bad feelings but I don't know what they are from. Something big is going to happen, something that will change everything. I feel so many things are going to happen..."

"Well, maybe this is a good thing." I said trying to cheer her up.

"No, Ulrich, I feel..." she stopped and shivered. "I feel death in the near future."

"Someone is going to die?" I asked shocked. "Do you know who?"

"You know my abilities don't work that way. I can't sense things like that." She said. "But I am worried that it will be... that it will be..."

"Me?" I said quietly.

"Ulrich I l-" but she wasn't able to finish as Odd and Jeremie walked in abruptly arguing about something.

After Jeremie and Odd had abruptly put an end to our conversation we hadn't had much time alone together. It wasn't like we didn't try to finish the conversation, but after a while we decided to simply wait. Yet that wasn't good enough for me. I was sure that I knew what Yumi had been about to say, but now that we had gotten this far... I simply wanted to hear it for myself. And it wasn't only that either, her message of impending doom was part of it as well. What had it been that had caused the feeling? She had said something about someone dying as well. Who would it be? One of us or someone else? We had found long ago that if someone died Lyoko could not bring them back... so if someone did die, like the feeling she had gotten, we would be powerless to change it...
...

Pressure on my shoulder brought me out of my thoughts and I turned to see Yumi looking at me. I looked around the room and noticed that everyone else had left and we were the only ones left. Had I been that deep in thought? So distracted that I didn't even notice when the bell rang to tell us to get to class? Quickly I stood up and began picking up my tray, but I noticed that it was missing. I turned to Yumi and saw that hers was gone as well.

"Odd." She said and I suddenly got a vision of Odd wolfing down our food.

I laughed and Yumi relaxed a little. I realized that she had been worried and at the same time I realized that we were alone.

"Yumi," I started. "About what you were telling me about the other day..."

Yumi blushed and for a moment I believed that she was going to tell me what she had started to say but then she seemed to change her mind and said, "I don't know, Ulrich, it's just that I have this ominous feeling that something bad is going to happen within the next few weeks, something that will change our lives. The worst part is that I feel a dark cloud of death hanging along with it."

The second bell rang and I realized just how late we really were. Quickly we began running to our classes saying good bye. On the way to my class all I could think about was what Yumi had said, again...

I was sitting in my history class listening to my teacher drone on. Normally this class wasn't that interesting but in this case the teacher wasn't even making an attempt to keep our attention. Yet, for some reason everyone around me seemed to be able to pay more attention than I was. Not that they were fully awake either but at least they were able to keep their heads facing the teacher... My problem was that I was getting sleepy. My eyelids were beginning to feel like lead and I simply couldn't keep my attention on the teacher. I could literally feel myself falling asleep, slowly but surely.

Finally I gave up and my eyelids closed. At first the total darkness and silence felt like an illusion, something because I was so tired, but then my eyes began to focus and I began to realize what I was seeing. The sky was black with clouds, clouds so thick that even the lightening within them barely made any light. As I looked all around me I realized that I was standing in the city, but something had happened. All the buildings were rubble, but far more than that... Only chunks of concrete and twisted metal remained of the foundations and the piles were littered with shattered glass. It was as if a nuclear missile had hit the city, yet the damage was far more devastating.

As I looked around I began walking. The city was now a barren waist land, only a few piles of rubble reached my waist level. The damage was so complete that most of it had been powdered, as though it had been hit with a hammer... but that was impossible. Nothing could do this much devastation, nothing. The skies were black, full of darkness. The ground was nothing but crushed rubble. The air, I could now almost smell it, was thick with evil, hatred and... death.

Now I saw it! All of it. This was the vision I kept having. The vision of what was to come in the future. My emotions rushed back to me as I realized that this was my city. My home. Something devastating must have happened for it to have become like this. I could feel the evil lurking in the air, but what was it? What had caused something this terrible to happen? Suddenly, without any hint from my surroundings I knew... I knew the sad truth.

Quickly I began running. Somehow I knew where to find the factory. I ran as fast as I could, without tripping, or even breathing heavily. As I neared the place where the factory should have been, on the river, I stopped abruptly. There, where the factory should have been, on a small island in the river, laid ruins. From the looks of it something must have caused an explosion from the inside. The entire top part of the factory had been blown right off leaving only some of the walls standing. I could also see that this was the origin of what ever had caused this because there seemed to be burn marks coming away from the factory in all directions. But, again, what had caused this.

I looked and saw that most of the bridge still remained. I quickly ran to it and began to cross it. As I came to a large gap in the center I ran and leapt across. I landed on the other side and continued running to the gaping hole which had once been the door. As I slid inside I looked down to the floor and saw that the entire floor, all three levels, had been blown out. This could only have meant that the explosion had come from the supercomputer, X.A.N.A.

Now I was suddenly back in a time when the factory was still whole. As I watched I realized that I could just barely see myself disappearing down towards the elevator. I quickly jumped down to follow the others and my self but just as I reached the bottom the elevator door closed. I was running to fast and was about to slam into it when I found myself inside the elevator with the others. Patiently I waited for them to reach the control room but they simply kept going. I suddenly realized that everyone was going to go to the scanners and only then did I notice Aelita was with them.

The elevator doors opened and everyone stepped out. There appeared to be someone waiting for them but I couldn't see them very well. The others stopped and seemed to talk to the person but, naturally, I couldn't hear any of what they were saying. The person said something that the others seemed to not like and the first three stepped into the scanners, Ulrich, Odd and my other self. The scanners brought them to Lyoko and the next three stepped in... Three? I then noticed that a sixth person was with them but again I couldn't see who it was. When they had been scanned the person they had met disappeared in a flash of light.

I suddenly felt myself moving and I could not see most of the factory, including the three floors. Something was going on in both the control room on the display screen, and in the supercomputer room. I knew that this was it. A bright light began emanating around X.A.N.A. and around the scanners. Suddenly they began to light up and SLAP! I opened my eyes and found myself back in the classroom...

It was getting on lunchtime and I was getting anxious. I tapped my pencil with the tick of the clock, watching as the seconds passed. Thirty six... thirty seven... thirty eight... It was getting harder and harder for me to think of anything. I suppose that I had eaten all of Ulrich's and my food, but now I was hungry again... Speaking of Ulrich, what had been wrong with him? He had been silent the entire time we had eaten and then he hadn't gotten to class until after the second bell. What was it that was bugging him so much? ... Fifty seven... fifty eight... fifty nine... RING!

I got up and began putting my stuff away. I could hear Ulrich and Jeremie doing the same behind me and when we were all packed we left the room for the cafeteria. As we walked down the hall both Jeremie and Ulrich seemed to be deep in thought and didn't talk at all. I began to get nervous; this wasn't something that usually happened. Someone was always talking to me when the others were like this, but now both were silent... I could feel myself slowly slipping into insanity... or more of insanity than I already was.

I smiled at my joke, but my smile faded as soon as we stepped out the door. There, waiting for us outside the door, was Sissi. She was standing dead center, blocking us from going any further. But there was something strange about her right now... I suddenly realized that Nicolas and Herb weren't standing with her, but that wasn't the only thing that was different. Her expression seemed different, one that I hadn't ever seen before. She was holding her arms crossed, but not in anger. Her head was tilted towards the ground and she was looking at our feet, or rather Ulrich's feet. She seemed to be uncomfortable.

"Sissi, humbled?" Jeremie whispered. "That's a new one."

"Ulrich, I... can I talk to you, please?" Sissi said. Even her voice was different. I couldn't hear any smugness in it at all.

"What about?" Ulrich said his voice just full of emotion...

"A... alone, please?"

"Oh, and what could you possibly say to me that you can't say in front of my friends?" Ulrich asked his voice full of spite and anger.

At that Sissi quickly turned around and ran off quickly. Before she left I could have sworn I saw a tear... Sissi crying? That was even newer... I turned to look at Ulrich and saw no remorse in his expression. Even though it was Sissi, how could he have been so cruel and not care afterward.

Almost as if an answer to my question he blinked suddenly and shook his head. He looked around for someone or something and said, "Wasn't Sissi just here a moment ago?"

Jeremie and I stared at him in shock. It was as though the past few moments hadn't happened, but Jeremie and I knew they had. Not only was it cruel for Ulrich to act that way to Sissi but it was also cruel to act as though it hadn't happened. He began to look uncomfortable and finally said, "What?"

"You don't remember what you just said?" Jeremie asked.

"No..."

"You just made Sissi cry." I told him.

"Yeah, Sissi cry, good one Odd." Ulrich said laughing uncomfortably.

"He wasn't joking Ulrich." Jeremie said.

Now Ulrich looked confused. He really didn't remember. So, what did this mean?

"X.A.N.A.?" I asked.

"I'm going to go contact Aelita, see if she has felt any pulsations." Jeremie said.

"That's a good idea." Ulrich said. "Wouldn't want this to happen at a different time, or to other people."

Jeremie ran off towards the dorm rooms and as he left Yumi spotted us and began walking towards us. She had a funny look on her face as she walked up to us. It was a mixture of fear and discomfort. Ulrich glanced at me and I took a hint. Quickly I took off after Jeremie, leaving the two alone.

Continued...