"Hello?" Jeremy answered as if he wasn't sure if he wanted to answer it "oh hi Ulrich, Oh alright sure I'll tell Odd, uh huh, ok sure. So that's where you are. Hey let me ask you a question. Are you going to the back to school dance? You are… with Yumi? So am I apparently… with Aelita."

"So you finally asked her?" Ulrich replied with a smile.

"Well no." Jeremy admitted slowly "See we thought Yumi was going to spend the night, so to speak, so I asked Aelita if she would call Yumi's dad and tell him she fell asleep studying or something. I said I would do anything."

"You shouldn't have said that" Ulrich replied thinking back to a dark time… kindergarten, "You're just lucky it wasn't worse. One time I said I would do anything to a girl and she made me go to school in a pink bunny suit for two days. With the carrot and the big fuzzy tail. It was horrible."

"Well I guess I did get off easy" Jeremy commented as he realized going to the dance wasn't that bad, at least he didn't have to wear a bunny suit "All she's making me do is go to the dance with her."

"And don't forget you're going to Lyoko with me every other mission." Aelita answered trying to get him to say he would while he wasn't paying attention.

"Jeremy you're going with us to Lyoko?" Ulrich asked as he questioned what he had heard over the phone.

"That wasn't part of the deal!" Jeremy answered in shock wondering if his ears were deceiving him. "You just said that I had to take you to the dance."

"Well I changed my mind." Aelita added as she smiled an intimidating smile.

"I'm not going to Lyoko and I don't even want to take you to the stupid dance!" Jeremy yelled angrily as he squeezed the phone in his hand as it curled into a fist.

"Um, Jeremy may I remind you" Ulrich started unsure of what Jeremy could do if he was angry enough "…FUZZY BUNNY!"

"Good Point" Jeremy continued thinking rationally since he heard that he was going to Lyoko every other mission, "Aelita let's make a compromise… do you know what that is?"

"Of course" Aelita answered smiling slightly as she looked him in the eye "Sure why not?"

"Alright" Jeremy started nervously "I'll go to the dance with you and I'll go to Lyoko with you if you…if you… if you--"

"Get on with it!" Ulrich shouted over the phone. He had heard their conversation and he had a feeling he knew what Jeremy was going to ask.

"…If you and I can be more than friends". Jeremy ended quickly. He'd said it so quickly that Aelita had a hard time understanding at first. Or maybe she was just caught off guard. Then she smiled.

He'd started to hyperventilate while she was trying to understand. She tried to help him the best she could.

"When you say more than friends you mean like boyfriend and girlfriend or do you mean like brother and sister?" Aelita wondered after Jeremy was sort of alright, hoping it was the first one.

Suddenly there was an electric shock from an outlet. It turned into black smoke and found it's way to Jeremy's ear. Aelita looked out the window for two seconds she'd heard a bird singing and wondered what species it was. The next thing she knew Jeremy was on the ground fizzling like a badly made hologram. At first she thought he'd passed out from nervousness until she saw how he was moving. He had a strange aura around him. It wasn't a light aura it was a dark aura of black. It seemed like a shadow but it was larger than a shadow and darker too.

"Jeremy?" Aelita asked as she shook him, she was on the verge of tears, "Jeremy… this isn't funny!" she moaned as she took the phone out of his hand. "Hello?" she asked "Ulrich?" all she heard was static. She took the phone away from her ear and noticed that it was electrocuted too. The display and lighting didn't work.

Jeremy suddenly sat up like normal. He rubbed his head and stood up. He growled as if he was tiger that hadn't eaten in a week.

"Jeremy!" Aelita yelled as she hugged him, "you're Ok! What happened?" she noticed his grip on her was getting tighter. She liked it at first but then she knew something was wrong. She knew something was wrong when she felt something hot on her sweater.

"Aelita…" Jeremy said but in a scratchy deep voice, not like the deep voice he had used before but a different voice. Aelita realized something wasn't right as soon as he started to speak. She pulled away from his hug and from the heat that was on her back. When she pulled away she saw the same strange look in his eye that she'd seen so many times before.

"X.A.N.A." she told herself as she realized the warmth on her back was his electrically charged hand. Then she thought out loud, "I need to find Ulrich and Yumi and Odd."

She ran out the door and Jeremy followed like a cute puppy dog, a cute puppy dog that wanted her dead. He was coming up behind her fast. Usually she could always beat him in a long distance race and usually he even let her win. But when anything was possessed by X.A.N.A. it could do anything. Super strength, super mind powers, basically super powers to some extent. It wasn't like you could fly or shoot webs from your wrists but you could do some things you couldn't do before.

He suddenly caught up with her. He grabbed her around the waist and brought her to the ground. Her face went straight into the blue carpet that Jeremy was staring at a few hours before.

"Jeremy" Aelita told herself since Jeremy probably wasn't listening "I've always wanted you to hold me but this is ridiculous." She tried to wriggle herself loose but to no avail.

"Hey kids" Jim started. He'd seen them. "Try and keep that in the bedroom. There are some younger students here too. If I see that again you will both be expelled I'm not expelling you now because you're reasonably good kids. But one more time and…"

"Yes sir" they both replied as Aelita blushed and before Jim could finish his sentence. They both knew he would ramble on forever and ever.

"And Jeremy get something for that cold… you wouldn't want to give that to your girlfriend there. That would "suck" as you kids say." Jim added, he too had noticed the difference in Jeremy's voice.

"Yes Sir" the possessed Jeremy answered as he sounded fed up with the 40 or so year old gym teacher. Jim was right Jeremy possessed sounded like he had a cold.

"Now!" Jim yelled as he pointed to the door. He didn't care that they weren't supposed to be outside after dark but he would rather have them outside to cool off then in their rooms turning up the heat. They both got up and ran outside before they could get in trouble again. "I don't want to see that behavior ever again in these halls, you hear?"

"Yes sir" they replied as they opened the door and ran out quickly.

Once they were outside Aelita started to run away from Jeremy again. She didn't care that her eyes weren't adjusted to the darkness; she just wanted to get away from the Jeremy that wouldn't hesitate to kill her. She fell over on of the benches but picked herself up before Jeremy could catch up. She could barely breath the bench had hit her in the rib and it had knocked the breath out of her but she still kept running.

Jeremy tackled Aelita again. Her face went straight into the dirt. She'd always wondered how Yumi felt when Ulrich chased after her and she'd always wondered what dirt smelt like. His electrically charged hand went to the back of her neck slowly. She hoped it wouldn't hurt too much. She just kept wishing that it would just be over. With every second she imagined the pain grow more intense. Finally as his hand closed in she closed her eyes and imagined how it would make her feel if it didn't make her faint right away. She blinked and the next thing she knew the circuit connected. She let out a small scream, like a kicked Chihuahua and then it connected the circuit and Aelita passed out. She saw blackness… then an intensely bright white light that swallowed her body into it.

Jeremy had picked her up and took her to the factory. He virtualized her then he sent the monsters. At his command they would attack her without remorse. They too would not hesitate to kill her.

"Even now that I'm free I'm going to kill you just for fun. So you can't deactivate the towers if I still use them sometimes." The possessed Jeremy started as soon as she opened her eyes to see the virtual mountains in the distance and all around her.

"Why are you explaining this to me?" she asked as she rubbed her head to relieve the throbbing pain that still remained.

"So I can kill you without you revolting." X.A.N.A in Jeremy's body replied, there was still a hint of Jeremy's voice. Aelita felt the tears start to leak down her face even though she was a virtual being and she couldn't cry, but she knew if she could the tears would be there.

"What?" Aelita replied trying to show that she wasn't afraid even though she was more scared than she had ever been in her entire life "X.A.N.A you're doing a pretty poor job of disposing of me." She added to make it sound as though she wasn't scared at all.

"That's what you think, sexy," Jeremy said in his own voice just to taunt her. Then in his possessed voice "Look There "princess"" he started mockingly, "Tarantulas and where are your friends? Oh silly me, not here!" then he laughed evilly, and then he coughed evilly after that.

"Oh no" Aelita thought as she wiped away the tears that weren't there "I'm done for… If only I could remember what Ulrich and Yumi taught me over the summer!"

Suddenly a tarantula shot multiple times. It hit her in the stomach twice. And in the leg three times when she tried to run after it hit her the first two times.

"20 life points per hit." Jeremy possessed by X.A.N.A. mocked. "20 x 5 is… Oh My! That's too bad! 100!" he laughed evilly once more. "Goodbye Princess!"

Aelita felt her legs disappearing. "Noooooo!" she yelled there was nothing she could do about it. She was dying. "Well" she thought, giving up "at least it's not a painful death"

"Hold on Aelita!" she heard Ulrich yell. Then she heard him yell just like Jeremy, "Return To The Past Now!"