"I'm getting really worried," Yumi said. "There hasn't been a single attack since Olivie put the virus on the super computer. And that was almost two weeks ago," she continued.
"How long do you think it's going to take to uninstall the virus Jeremie?" Aelita asked.
"I need some data from Sector 5 to do it," Jeremie answered.
"But you said that it's risky to try to go there under these conditions," Ulrich said.
"But I won't be able to do anything to the virus if you don't go there, so we kind of don't have a choice here," Jeremie explained.
"When will we go then?" Odd asked.
"After school, I want rid of the virus as soon as possible," Jeremie said.
Right after school they hurried to the factory. Each Lyoko warrior was nervous about what would happen. They had no idea if they would soon end up in Sector 5, somewhere else or nowhere at all. No one said a word before they reached the factory.
"Okay, get to the scanners and to the edge of the Sector and I'll pass the Scipio code," Jeremie instructed. He virtualized the others to the Ice Sector and got them their vehicles. Soon they reached the edge of the Sector. Jeremie entered the Scipio code and was quite scared of the outcome.
Yumi, Odd, Ulrich and Aelita saw the Transport Orb coming and prepared themselves as the Orb took them inside it.
"Are you there guys?" Jeremie asked carefully.
"We're here Jeremie. Everything seems to be the same," Aelita said.
"Including my poor little stomach," Odd said since his stomach didn't like the trip to Sector 5 that much.
"Well the main thing is that you're there in one piece. Get the key and go to the Celestial Dome. I can't tell you where the key is sadly but you'll find it," Jeremie said.
They indeed found the key easily with no one devirtualizing and got to the elevator leading to the Celestial Dome. Aelita hurried to gather data from the interface while the others prepared themselves for possible mantas attacking. Weirdly, none showed up.
"Is this all the data you need?" Aelita asked Jeremie.
"Yes, this should be enough. I'll try to remove the virus," he answered.
"Isn't it worrying you that X.A.N.A. sent no problems on our way and just let us gather all the data we needed?" Yumi asked the others.
"Of course it's worrying me but X.A.N.A. seems to do that a lot lately," Odd said.
"That's true but don't let your guard down," Aelita said.
"That's it. I can see Sector 5 again now," Jeremie announced after a while. "I'll get you back now."
"What was that all about? X.A.N.A. just let us uninstall the virus without trying to stop us at all," Ulrich said. Jeremie nodded.
"I know. That worries me a little too much. I'm afraid he got something important done during these two weeks and we might face some great trouble soon," he said. The others nodded in agreement and were at least as worried as Jeremie.
"I guess we'll just have to wait and see what X.A.N.A. has in store for us," Ulrich said.
"It's kind of funny how a couple weeks ago we were waiting an attack to know more about Olivie but now I'm not waiting the next attack at all," Odd said.
"I agree. The next attack might be something terrifying," said Jeremie.
The Lyoko warriors had had trouble sleeping for many days now and this night was no exception. They were all thinking about so many things right now. X.A.N.A.'s latest tricks had gotten them all confused. Slowly they all fell to sleep one at a time.
The next morning they were again terribly tired and at the same time extremely worried about X.A.N.A. Even Odd seemed to not be so hungry, and that was something. They only switched glances but said nothing.
Mrs. Hertz's class started with something special. There was a new student in Kadic and she was coming on Aelita, Jeremie, Odd and Ulrich's class. They were in a slight shock when they saw the familiar long blue hair flowing as the girl walked to the class. Even scarier was to them that she wore a black tunic with elbow reaching sleeves. They could only stare but they tried their best to hide their astonishment from the others.
"This is Olivie Courant and she will be coming to your class," Mrs. Hertz introduced her. Hearing the name, Ulrich, Odd, Aelita and Jeremie glanced at each other startled and worried. "Hi, I'm Olivie and I transferred here from another school, and I think I'll like it here," she said while glancing at her new classmates.
"You can go sit on any free seat," Mrs. Hertz said. Olivie nodded and walked to the back row and sat in the free table so she had no one next to her.
"Now that we have that settled let us start studying," Mrs. Hertz said. The whole class was whispering various things about their new classmate. Must be the blue hair that's wondering their minds.
They had math on that class. Olivie was extremely talented with it. To Jeremie and the others it came as no surprise but everyone else were almost shocked that someone was almost if not on Jeremie's level. The class seemed to last forever and none, Jeremie, Odd, Ulrich or Aelita, could concentrate that well.
"So she's here now?" Odd whispered to the others after class.
"Seems like it," Jeremie said shortly.
"But we can't be sure, right? You do remember what happened when that one girl who looked like Aelita came to the school," Ulrich pointed out.
"That's right. We have to be 100% sure before we do anything," Jeremie said. "But I'm already 99% sure it's her," he continued.
"Lets find Yumi and tell her too," Aelita said.
"What! You must be joking," Yumi reacted after hearing what had happened. "How could she be here?" she asked.
"I don't know but we can't be sure it's her. We need to find out more about her and maybe even make friends with her," Jeremie said.
"So we'll follow her, and try to ask about her background?" Ulrich asked.
"Precisely," Jeremie answered.
"And this here is your room," Jim said.
"Thank you Jim," said Olivie. The Lyoko warriors were just around the corner listening to the conversation and of course they wanted to find out where Olivie's room was. They even planned on investigating it but they decided not to it, at least yet.
After Olivie went to her room and shut the door and Jim left the warriors came out of hiding and walked in front of the door and tried to listen if something was happening inside. They heard nothing out of the ordinary, mainly the sounds of unpacking. Soon they decided to leave there and discuss matters somewhere else.
"Now tell me since you were the ones that actually saw Olivie on Lyoko. Does this Olivie look exactly like her?" Jeremie asked.
Ulrich nodded. "Completely the same. She's even the same height and has the same coloured eyes and tone of voice," he said.
"But the creepiest thing of all is that she wore almost exactly the same tunic on Lyoko," Odd added. Yumi and Aelita nodded agreeing.
"I see. But we still need to inspect her in order to know for sure if we have the same Olivie here," Jeremie said. "So each of us will examine her closely and try even talking to her. In the best case she'll be the one coming to talk to us," he instructed. The others nodded.
The next day after the first class the best case possible actually happened. In class they had not noticed anything special but after it Olivie came to talk to Aelita. "Hi – um – Aelita. I don't know anyone here and no one's come to talk to me so could I hang out with you? It's slowly getting kinda lonely," she said.
"Sure. You can come and meet my friends too," Aelita answered with a smile.
"You know Jeremie, Odd and Ulrich from class and this is Yumi," Aelita introduced. They all greeted Olivie.
"Nice to meet you all," Olivie said with a cute little smile. It was really hard for them to believe that this girl might be associated with X.A.N.A.
"Do you want to go to lunch with us after the next class?" Odd asked.
"Sure. Sounds good," Olivie answered. They were all really glad about the situation. Now they could inspect Olivie even better and maybe even without her noticing it. But they kept in mind that of course she noticed if she truly was the same girl from Lyoko.
"Well, well. Your little freak club has found a new member it seems," Sissi said after seeing Olivie in the same table with the Lyoko gang. "I find it no surprise," she said mockingly and left the scene.
"That's the principle's daughter Sissi, right?" Olivie asked.
"Yeah. And she's a real pain in the butt most of the time," Odd said.
"So you transferred here from another school?" Jeremie started.
"Yes. From Elliv's school about 150 kilometers from here," Olivie answered casually.
"What about your parents?" Yumi asked.
"My mom died of cancer when I was five. Dad works as a doctor," she answered even more casually.
"I'm sorry to hear about your..." Aelita started.
"Don't worry about it," Olivie interrupted her. "I barely knew her."
"So what do you guys think?" Jeremie asked later from the others. They were in his room.
"If she is the same girl from Lyoko they've created a flawless backstory," Ulrich said.
"But knowing X.A.N.A. that's something he would do," Yumi said.
"Even if it seems flawless if we find a flaw in it we can be sure it's her," Jeremie said. "So lets just keep asking questions and get to know her."
"Good morning," Olivie greeted as she joined the others on breakfast the next day. Almost immediately Jeremie's laptop started beeping.
"Sorry Olivie but we have to go now," Jeremie said.
"Um, okay. See ya!" She said and looked genuinely confused as the others rushed out of the cafeteria straight to the factory.
"So far there's no flaws in her backstory," Yumi said in the elevator leading to the super computer.
"There's one flaw and it's flawlessness. Mom is dead and dad has a busy job so we probably will never see them. Her previous school is 150 kilometers from here so it's unlikely that we would meet someone from there and ask if Olivie was a student there," Jeremie pointed out. The others said nothing but now that Jeremie mentioned all this it made actual sense to them.
"Okay, get to scanners and I'll get you to the Forest Sector," Jeremie said.
"There's one thing I don't get. If Olivie is here on Earth why would X.A.N.A. attack? I mean, if we don't see her now it's like X.A.N.A.'s confirming our suspicions," Yumi said in the elevator on their way to the scanners.
"I know but that's good for us, right?" Odd asked.
"I guess you're right, Odd, but X.A.N.A.'s been pulling a lot of tricks lately, and I'm not so sure about this at all," Ulrich said.
Soon they saw the familiar scenery of the Forest Sector and travelled on their vehicles going straight to the tower. "Whoa. It seems like X.A.N.A.'s truly been busy these two weeks. Now that's a welcome committee," Odd said after seeing what was waiting for them in front of the tower.
"There's a total of 12 monsters: four bloks, three tarantulas, four krabs and a megatank," Jeremie said. "But I don't see Olivie."
Odd, Ulrich and Yumi started attacking but were extremely careful. Odd went for the tarantulas and the megatank, Ulrich took the bloks, and Yumi was left with the krabs. The monsters decreased in number and so did the warriors' health points. Then something unexpected happened.
Yumi had just gotten rid of all the crabs, and then she saw who was coming. This time the scythe was already in her hands. "Hello Olivie," she greeted.
"Hello Yumi. Care for a fight?" Olivie asked. Yumi answered with a quick throw of her fan. She dodged it while at the same time sending an electric wall towards Yumi. She avoided it, but only slightly.
The fight went on for a while. Olivie had no problem avoiding Yumi's fan and finally she hit Yumi with the scythe ending her game for now. Meanwhile Odd and Ulrich had cleared all of the monsters out of the way. Aelita was still waiting in the background.
"Two against one? Doesn't seem that fair, for you," Olivie said like taunting Odd and Ulrich to attack her. And they did.
Just as Odd and Ulrich were running towards Olivie she drew a long line on the ground. Odd managed to jump over the electric wall since it wasn't that high but Ulrich was hit by it.
"You won't hit me with those again!" Odd screamed triumphantly.
The fight was surprisingly even. While Olivie still seemed to have no problem dodging Odd's arrows or blocking Ulrich's sword they didn't give her the opportunity to attack back.
Aelita was watching the fight from a safe distance. She still wondered why Olivie fought against them if she truly wasn't possessed. Then she made her decision. She ran out of hiding and nearer towards the ongoing fight. Then she screamed out loud: "Why are you fighting us Olivie?!"
The fight ceased immediately. Aelita, Odd and Ulrich looked at Olivie waiting for an answer. It was kind of surprising to them that Olivie was having a struggle with the answer. She doesn't know why she's fighting us? they all thought at that moment.
"I... I don't know..." Olivie answered after a long silence.
"But you at least know that X.A.N.A.'s trying to take over the Earth even if it means someone gets killed?" Ulrich asked. To their surprise Olivie seemed shocked by this information.
"That's not what he told me," Olivie said with a hint of anger in her voice.
"Do you know who you are? Why you're here?" Aelita asked.
Olivie nodded. "X.A.N.A. created me, gave me life. That's why I listen to him," she said. "But after..." her sentence was cut short. It was as if she was listening to something. She turned her head down. "Understood," she said after a while. "Looks like this chat is ending here," she said while slowly disappearing. It looked like she was being devirtualized until there was no sign of her left.
"What was that all about?" Odd asked.
"No idea," Ulrich said. Aelita went on and deactivated the tower.
Now they knew who Olivie truly was but they were given even more questions without answers. If Olivie was on Lyoko than who's the Olivie on Earth? What's X.A.N.A. going to do now? Is Olivie a good guy considering what they just heard and saw?
They were even more confused that before.
Thank you for reading and please remember to leave reviews on what you think. I'm having so much fun writing this and I'm excited to show you what's going to happen next. Until then! :)
