Author's note after one year: Okay, so after losing inspiration, after struggling to find time to write, and after writing a story that didn't turn out the way I wanted it to, I'm active again. I decided to edit this a little. It's strange to read this story after a year – last time I updated was 15 March 2013. Anyway, enjoy reading. I'm working on another story, which I'm carefully planning.

Author's note: I certainly did not intend to steal or use somebody else's ideas. Besides I came up with the concept of this story by staring at the three different clocks during Physics. I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko! Only my imagination:)!

Chapter 1: Another attack

As usual Jeremy and Odd were sitting on the bench. Jeremy typed away on his laptop and Odd thought about how to avoid the two girls he dated, or used to date, from now on that is. Because they both found out about the other one dating same guy as she was. Odd concluded that he would bother his best friend with his dilemma. And just then Ulrich came, walking towards them. But he seemed to be deep in thought.

"Hey buddy what's on your mind?" Odd said. "Oh nothing, just thinking about something Yumi told me," Ulrich said. "Really?" Odd asked curiously, "what did she tell you?" Just as Ulrich was about to answer his question, Odd started talking again. "I am in big trouble and I wondered if you could do me a favour," he said. Once again before Ulrich could response, he was interrupted by a shouting Jeremy. "Guys, activated tower. We need to go, now! Where are Aelita and Yumi?"

Meanwhile with Aelita...

Aelita received a message on her phone: SOS XANA! Jeremy. Aelita finally had some time for herself, but as usual the quiet moment was ruined by XANA. "Aren't we ever going to beat XANA and free my father for good?"Aelita thought. She started running towards the factory and met Yumi at the entrance of the sewers. "I got the message from Ulrich," Yumi said, trying to breathe normally again, because she had just been running all the way from the science building. "Let's go".

At the factory...

Jeremy quickly sat in his chair and immediately prepared for the virtualization. Ulrich and Odd were heading downstairs, towards the scanners. Then they heard Jeremy's voice. "Guys, get inside the scanners, I'm sending you to Lyoko now. Head for the activated tower, due south of where you'll be landing, and destroy as many monsters as you can. There is a whole bunch of crabs and tarantulas waiting for you," he said. "Relax Einstein, we enjoy going to such parties. Those monsters won't be able to resist 'the Odd charm'," Odd said. "You mean that they'll all disappear as soon as they smell 'the Odd charm'," Ulrich said, while he started laughing at his own joke. "Transfer Odd, transfer Ulrich, scanner, virtualization," Jeremy said as he wondered what could be taking the girls this long.

Finally Yumi and Aelita told Jeremy they had arrived and that they were now standing in the scanners. "Jeremy, virtualize us," They said, still exhausted from the all the running. Why were they so exhausted? "Transfer Aelita, transfer Yumi, scanner, virtualization." Jeremy said, while trying to figure out what the attack on Earth could be.

On Lyoko...

"Aelita, I don't feel so well," Yumi said as she started feeling dizzy. "I am feeling rather strange myself as well," Aelita, who started seeing everything flipped around, replied. "Could this be XANA's attack?" Yumi asked. "I mean an attack specifically pointed at us." "It is possible. XANA is strong enough to do this to us, by which I mean your dizziness and my weird sight. And if I remember correctly, we seemed to be a little too exhausted from running to the factory, since we do that very often," Aelita responded. "Girls, we don't have time to chat. The sooner the tower gets deactivated, the quicker things will get back to normal." They heard Jeremy saying in an annoyed tone, because of the already wasted time.

The girls finally saw the tower, only to be end up in a monstrous fight. Ulrich and Odd had destroyed nine out of twenty monsters already. But they were still far from entering the activated tower. Ulrich used his super sprint to confuse two tarantulas. Afterwards he jumped into the air and threw both of his sabers at the two tarantulas, destroying both of them. Odd was flying around on his overboard and damaged three crabs, making sure only one hit would be enough to kill all three of them. He made a summer salt, while standing on his overboard, and shot three laser arrows at the three crabs beneath him. Now there were only six monsters left, two tarantulas and four crabs.

Yumi jumped off the overwing and Aelita activated her wings and together they joined the fight. Yumi acrobatically dodged everything fired at her. Aelita took advantage of the situation and started descending quickly. She had two energy fields in her hands, she aimed and she hit two crabs. One barely dodged the attack, but the other one was destroyed. Yumi then threw her fans at the remaining two crabs and hit the marks.

Odd had trouble staying on his overboard, since he was shot out of balance. Then he was sent flying and one hit from a laser devirtualized him. "Odd!" Yumi and Aelita screamed, not focusing on the last two tarantulas anymore. The tarantulas aimed for Yumi and fired their lasers. But Ulrich protected her, taking all the hits, instantly devirtualizing him. Yumi's attention was back and she was angry, because Ulrich had been devirtualized. She jumped into the air and Aelita caught her. She flew as high as was necessary and Yumi threw her fans at the two tarantulas, causing them to explode.

Aelita ran into the tower and entered Code: Lyoko. Then they were both materialized by Jeremy.

At the factory...

"Listen guys, I am worried about something. Why did XANA send so many monsters to Lyoko? It doesn't make any sense at all. It is as if he was trying to distract us from something else," Jeremy said, as he began walking to and fro. "Don't we need to launch a return to the past?" Odd asked. "No, we don't, I haven't noticed anything unusual on Earth. No news, no messages, no attacks. It looks like Yumi and Aelita were the only two persons affected by XANA's attack," Jeremy answered.

"Yumi, you look terrified, what's the matter?" Ulrich asked concerned. A bit anxiously Yumi replied: "Jeremy, launch a return to the past." Everybody was confused now. "Why? XANA hasn't had enough time to attack on Earth and..." "I said launch a return to the past, now!" Yumi shouted.

"That sickness from XANA's attack has gotten worse than we thought. William apparently sent me a message, when we were on Lyoko, that a lot of people in school had the same symptoms and after some time they fell to the ground breathing heavily". "But why do you look so terrified? We can change it around, if it is not too late," Odd said. "If it is not too late, you do not understand, I wasn't finished yet. My brother must have been at school at that time. He must have the disease as well by now. I can't imagine having to live without him. Please, just return to the past." Yumi was almost begging now.

"Return to the past," Jeremy said as he launched it. "Oh no, the program is messed up. Guys, there is another activated tower. XANA has planned another attack!"