~This chapter is inspired by how I felt while watching the episode, Franz Hopper (episode 49)~

Jeremy didn't want to tell Ulrich the bad news, but he felt that it was his job because he was the one who found out, and he was responsible for first bringing the others to Lyoko. Ulrich noticed him coming.

"Any news?" He asked. Jeremy sighed.

"It's worse than I thought," he explained, "your avatar's coding erodes on Earth and if it fully erodes before I can find your proper DNA sequence and scan it back into you, you'll disappear forever."

"Wait, can't you send Ulrich to Lyoko, until it's fixed so his coding won't erode. He could hide in a tower." Yumi suggested.

"You're forgetting that X.A.N.A. took control of the scanners. If he was scanned, X.A.N.A would just be able to erase him." Jeremy argued. The Lyoko warriors sighed, their problems were always solved by using a tower, not being able to go to Lyoko in order to defeat X.A.N.A. was unthinkable.

"X.A.N.A. really outdid himself this time." Ulrich muttered.

"This is your fault, Einstein, you were the one who booted up the stupid supercomputer in the first place!" Odd yelled at Jeremy.

"I didn't ask you to go to Lyoko, Odd!" Jeremy retaliated.

"If it wan't for that Jeremy finding the supercomputer, I'd still be trapped on Lyoko!" Aelita yelled, pushing Odd.

"Oh, so that makes Ulrich being hurt alright, doesn't it princess!?" Odd yelled, which made Aelita cry, she always cared about the others' safety and it hurt for Odd to accuse her of not considering their safety. Odd looked away.

"I thought this was a real team, apparently not." Yumi muttered.

"What are you talking about?" Jeremy asked angrily.

"Whatever, it's not important." Yumi replied coldly.

"Not important!?" Jeremy yelled. Aelita, Yumi, Jeremy, and Odd were arguing until it was inaudible.

"Guys!" Ulrich tried to yell, but he wasn't heard over the sound of the dispute. He tried yelling again and got the same result. He knew that under most circumstances, throwing any object at the scanners would be wrong, but if he wanted to keep the team together, it's what he had to do. He threw the sword at a scanner and they all turned around.

"Ulrich!" Jeremy yelled, but was cut off by Ulrich.

"We need to stand as a team if we want to beat X.A.N.A. Being a team doesn't just mean fighting together, it means holding each other up when we're weak and understanding each other. We all agreed to become Lyoko warriors and I for one, don't regret that choice. I know... I'm scared to, but if we can't talk to each other calmly and work as a team, we won't be able to defeat X.A.N.A." He paused and walked to Jeremy. "I know you can fix this, you always do." The other Lyoko warriors were touched by Ulrich's speech.

"I'm really sorry, princess," Odd apologized to Aelita, "I know you care, I was just scared."

"It's alright, Odd. I understand." She replied. Yumi smiled.

"I should have trusted the team more, I just can't believe this is happening." Yumi told Jeremy.

"We will figure this out, X.A.N.A hasn't been able to defeat us yet, and this isn't the day we let him win. We may be at a disadvantage with not being able to go to Lyoko, but we'll figure this out, just like all the problems we faced." Jeremy told the others. The others agreed and Jeremy and Aelita went to work on retrieving Ulrich's DNA, Ulrich joined them in the lab so he wouldn't have to be alone and Yumi and Odd went to class so they can cover for the others. Ulrich put up a brave face and acted like he was sure that everything would work out, but in truth, he felt like this was the end-his end.

~ there will be more chapters.~