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Sittin' in a Tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Chapter 3: Mystery Girl, Mystery Plans: Part 2

Odd looked around, surprised by the chill that came off of the Artic region. In a way he had expected to land in the Forest but maybe his coordinates had been off. "Jeremy's really better at this computer stuff…" He said out loud to himself before groaning, "Oh great! Now I'm talking to myself!" He paced the spot he landed in before realization hit him square in the chest, literally. A laser shot him in the chest, knocking him to the ground. If he'd been paying attention, he'd have noticed that X.A.N.A.'s monsters had been there when he'd appeared. It was as if they were prepared for his arrival. "Aw man…"

Blocks and Mega-tanks had surrounded him, all ready to fire if needed. In the back floated the Schyphozoa, floating closer and closer to him before wrapping its tentacles around him.

He struggles. "Why did I have to go to Lyoko?" Odd yells in frustration. It was just like him to plunge head first into everything without a thought or care in the world.

A voice suddenly echoed around him and the monsters, "Bring him to me."

Golden eyes widened. "What?! To who?" he struggled more as the Schyphozoa began moving, heading for the tower hidden below. There he saw the familiar girl, the girl he'd been thinking about for days. "You…?"

A small smirk came to Dahlia's face as she jumped down from the top of the deactivated tower. "I see you've finally come back. I wondered if a catastrophe would need to happen before you would."

…..

"Odd? Where are you?" Ulrich demands on his cell phone.

There was a slight pause before someone spoke, "Ulrich? Did you even check the caller ID? I can't get a hold of Odd and I-"

"Jeremy?" Ulrich pulls the phone away, looking at the caller ID this time. Jeremy's name appeared in green letters on his phone. "Jeremy…? Why were you trying to get a hold off Odd?"

"My computer went off that someone virtualized themselves," answered Jeremy. "And the cameras showed Odd entering by his self.

"That's where he went," whispers Ulrich to himself.

"What do you mean? You two didn't have another break up, did you?" Jeremy half-teases.

"Break up?"

"You better go make up with him!" The warning was evident in his tone, "You two fighting just doesn't fit."

The phone clicked off, showing that Jeremy had ended the call to allow Ulrich to do what he needed to do.

"Great…" Ulrich says before looking around the corner to find Jim gone. "I better hurry before he gets himself in trouble too."

…..

"A catastrophe would have brought all of us here if we had to!" Odd claimed with a slight shrug before gasping as the Schyphozoa squeezed him as if in warning.

The girl landed on a stone that floated between the tower and land, "I would have had to work harder just to get you alone."

This actually made him laugh a little, "Can't resist my charms already huh?" A golden eye winked at her, "All the girls swoon for me, I just can't get 'em to stay off me."

Green eyes blinked in confusion, "Swooned? Charms? You speak as if you were a friend but I've told you, I'm your enemy." She pushed some hair from her face, which only made him wonder if there had really been anything there. "I brought you here to-"

"Ooo! Is this where you divulge your plan to me and I sit here in awe and horror about what you've come up with?"

Annoyance flashed in those bright green eyes before the Schyphozoa dropped him as if acting it were on her emotion. "I am trying to speak to you." She inquired. "I'm trying to help you before-"

The blond teenager was up in an instant, having landed on his 'feet' like the cat he was portrayed to be. He scurried around, using his laser arrows to get rid of a few blocks and irritate the Schyphozoa. "Why would I listen to someone who's the enemy?" He demands as he made a move to get out of the underground space. "And on your terms?"

"But you have to-"

Odd didn't bother to slow down or stop. For days he'd talked about her and wondered what her purpose really was. All he wanted was to give her the benefit of the doubt and listen, but he couldn't! He could only hope she'd understand if they found out she was on their side. "I don't have to do anything!" Odd calls out as he turns to show a mischievous grin. What he saw was something hardly different than what usually happened on Lyoko.

First, he saw that she was floating in the air, her braid floating around her as more and more monsters appeared. Then, words came from her mouth he couldn't hear before her eyes opened, those green eyes had become pitch black. "If you won't listen, then I'll make you!" The monsters began to charge towards him as the tower became an angry red.

Color drained from Odd's face as he saw the sea of monsters, the red tower, and the angry virtual girl. He turned tail and ran. "If I live through this, I promise I will never-!" A laser shot passed him, hitting the ground before him. "Whoa!" Odd turns to see all the monsters had followed and were circling around him. "Whelp…too late to run now." He took aim at a few blocks before him. One fired, forcing him to dodge as he shot his laser arrows, three of them. "You missed!" He grins before being shot in the torso. "That…didn't…" He groans.

He didn't see the Schyphozoa and its tentacles. He wasn't expecting something to wrap around him and hold him still. Odd struggled, wincing as his torso still stung from the shot. "If I…ever get out of this, I promise I'll never tease my friends about their crushes again…"

Dahlia floated towards him before she landed on top of a mega-tank. "I don't plan to hurt you." Her eyes were once again green, but anger coated her words, "I am trying to help. Do you know what help means?" Her arms were crossed just like he'd seen Yumi and Aelita do when they were upset, or angry, or insecure.

"You said you were the enemy. You go by a name I know…"

"X.A.N.A. is planning a nuclear attack. Your friends need to be aware of it. They need to be prepared." She dismissively spoke. "So you can either keep running from me, or you can listen to me."

"Who are you?" Odd questions.

"You must prepare."

"Are you like us? Human?"

To his surprise, she answered this one, "I don't remember." She was quiet for a spell, as if expecting another question, "You must prepare your friends." She tells him. "Tell them that X.A.N.A.'s next attack is coming." She rose again in the air.

"Wait, where are you going? Was that all?" Carefully he was set down by the Schyphozoa.

"I'm out of time." Her eyes looked almost sad before she disappeared

Odd stood there in disbelief before whispering to himself, "Nuclear weapons… X.A.N.A…. Dahlia…" He shook his head. "Wait!" Odd pales, "How am I gonna…" He turns to see that all the monsters had disappeared except two. "Oh…"

The scanner doors opened, letting smoke out just as a hand reached out and grabbed the side. Odd panted, holding his torso once again. Ulrich sat before him with his elbows resting on his knees and his chin resting on his intertwined fingers. "Welcome back. Wanna let us know what went on in there, or did you get corrupted by X.A.N.A.?"

The blond stiffened a little before coming out of the scanner before looking to his friend, "X.A.N.A. is planning a nuclear attack."

"Sure he is." Ulrich watched him for a moment, next to him sat a steel pole; he'd been prepared if Odd had been taken over. That's when he stood, "Why would go into Lyoko without us?" The poor teen looked like he'd been running around town all night, searching for his best friend, which he had. "Of all places you'd stomp off to-"

"Maybe because you were getting tired of listening to me," the blond tells him with a slight annoyance in his voice, "but you've made your point. She's an enemy, but there's something more to all this! I just know it."

The brunet stared at Odd before shaking his head. "Odd, we don't know what she is. Right now, as Jeremy would say, she's an unknown variable. We don't know what she's capable of or what she wants. For all you know, she only let Aelita by because it would catch our interest, Jeremy's and yours. Look at what it's done! You're obsessed with her! Your constant thoughts are about her, and every word out of your mouth has been about this Dahlia! We don't even know if she's a real person!"

"Of course she is!" Odd instantly growled.

Ulrich clenched his fists, "And what makes you so sure? We've never even heard of Dahlia!"

"We never heard of Aelita either before we met her! Now we've found out she's Hopper's daughter and he's the one who put her in Lyoko to protect her!"

"That's not the point!"

"Then what is?"

Two sets of brown eyes locked with the other, "I just don't want you to do something stupid." Ulrich says as he tried to regain his calm. "Jeremy thought that other girl was Aelita, remember what happened? What if this girl was sent by X.A.N.A. to throw us off are game, or even to pull us-"

"Don't you dare say apart, or break us up." He scowls.

"Will you just listen-"

"I'm done listening! Why don't you listen? X.A.N.A. is going to stage another attack. A nuclear attack!" Odd tells him. "So let's call up Jeremy, Aelita, and Yumi and get to Lyoko to deactivate the tower!"

His friend sighed before pulling out his cell phone, "Jeremy… I think you need to scan for a tower on Lyoko, just in case."

…..

Naturally, Jeremy wanted to check everything out, plus make sure they had the right Odd. They had discovered that thought X.A.N.A. could virtualize clones of them, but these clones didn't match the code to be virtualized back into Lyoko. "Transfer Odd," he announces with Aelita standing beside him, while Ulrich and Yumi were in the scanner room prepared. "Scanning, Odd," he presses a couple of buttons, selecting Odd's card on the computer. "Virtualization!"

There a long pause before Odd commented inside of Lyoko, "Hey Einstein? Was that all? Are you gonna send the others to, ya know, find the tower?"

He gave the others the head up to go ahead for the scanning.

"Jeremy, have you found anything on this Dahlia?" Aelita asked softly."

He simply shook his head, "No, as far as we know she doesn't exist, but we thought the same for you on Earth. Only to find out your father was Frances Hopper…"

The pink haired girl nodded a little, but a small smile was etched on her face, "But there is a possibility. She could have been created by X.A.N.A. but usually he makes people we already know. Why not clone Sissy," she said with a light laugh, "and make us think she somehow fell into Lyoko?"

It was a possibility, the girl could have been a clone of someone else Aelita may not remember. Or, a big or at that, she could be someone who had been transferred into Lyoko before. There were too many questions to ask. Was she real? Or was she a creation made by X.A.N.A.? What was the plan in having them go to Lyoko, to deactivate another tower, to stop something they didn't know was going to happen? There was no proof that X.A.N.A. launched an attack; no proof that there was going to be a nuclear attack, but they couldn't take any chances.

It took a moment before Jeremy nodded in agreement, "You're right. We need to figure out what this girl is."

A/N: I hope all of you liked the new chapter! R&R!