In the elevator, Ulrich was wondering, why is it always me? because he was thinking that he must have SOME bad luck today. Getting stuck in the elevator wasn't the first thing, and he doubted it would be his last.

He leaned over and slammed the 'OPEN' button a couple times, to not avail. Then suddenly a fist came through and penetrated the door, definitely surprising Ulrich, who jumped back.

• • •

Meanwhile in Lyoko, Aelita was not sure if she believed in Odd more than she believed in Ulrich and his desire to fight XANAfied people. Even though she couldn't stand to just stand there and not be able to do anything, she knew the tower was still the issue.

"Whoa!" Yumi was tossed like a rag doll towards Aelita.

"Yumi!"

"Have you found the tower?" Yumi picked herself up, looking hopefully at her friend.

Just at that second, Aelita saw something out of the corner of her eye. It was like a glitch in the sector, and for just a second, something was not as it seemed. She nodded back at Yumi. "I think I have."

"Then go! Hurry!" She could see William charging at Aelita from behind.

Aelita turned around and ran to the middle of the plateau. "Right in front of me huh?" She mumbled to herself with a smirk. Setting her sights on a thick tree smack-dab in the middle of the area, she ran into it. Literally into. Because it wasn't actually a tree, it was the activated tower.

Yumi almost didn't believe what she had seen, especially when William charged at the tree face-first, and bounced off. It was like watching a cartoon or something.

• • •

Jeremie tried with all of his might to make a larger hole in the elevator so that he could get in, but Odd was on him in a minute trying to get him as far away from the elevator (and Ulrich) as possible.

"Odd!?" Ulrich exclaimed, almost questioningly, poking his head out the hole that Jeremie had initially made with his fist.

"Don't worry!" Odd called, struggling with the vampire, out of sight behind a pillar. "I've got him!"

Luckily Ulrich didn't see that it was Odd who was getting beaten to a pulp, again. Please, please tell me the tower is getting deactivated, Odd was mentally crossing his fingers, not knowing how much longer he could keep Ulrich from seeing Jeremie's fangs, or his own for that matter.

Back in the tower, Aelita was already floating up, also crossing her fingers, in hopes that blood had not been shed, nor had anything been revealed. She hoped she wasn't too late.

"Cummon Aelita, make it fast," Odd hissed through his teeth, currently taking a few hundred-thousand volts from his friend.

Her foot finally landing on the platform, Aelita's hand couldn't have come down faster as the window popped up, spelling out her name.

"Don't worry Odd, I'm coming!" Ulrich was prying open the hole, trying to climb through it to help his buddy.

Sometimes Aelita wished her name wasn't so long. This was one of those days.

AELITA_

Ulrich was half in, half out of the elevator, meanwhile behind a pillar not far away, Odd was beginning to see dark spots dancing around, clouding his vision of the possessed vampire who may or may not have been trying to kill him.

Come on, come on, Aelita may not have showed it, but she was always in a rush when it came to this.

CODE_

An evil cackle escaped Jeremie's XANAfied innards, as Ulrich faceplanted onto the ground, completely out of the elevator.

CODE:

Ulrich picked himself up and sprinted around to help Odd, just as—

CODE:

LYOKO_

Jeremie suddenly became as limp as a ragdoll, and both him and Odd collapsed to the ground, just as Ulrich turned the corner to witness it.

"Odd! Odd!" Ulrich got down and shook his friends shoulders, trying to get a responce. "Say something!"

Odd's eyes fluttered and he grunted, "something."

Ulrich shook his head, but the smile on his face said it all. He snorted, "Dork."

Back in the tower, Aelita also wore a small smile on her face. "Tower; deactivated."

And that's when they returned to the past.

• • •

The gang found themselves at dinner, in the cafeteria, back on Sunday, almost a week earlier. There was silence for a minute at their table, as they all came back to reality.

Odd was the first to speak. "Whoa."

"You can say that again," Ulrich agreed.

"Whoa," he repeated, grinning this time.

"What day is it?" Aelita asked, looking around like she'd never been on the cafeteria before.

"Er, Sunday?" Jeremie checked his watch, which also told the date. Handy-dandy little contraption if you asked him, which not may did.

"Well. That was... interesting," Aelita basically summed up the whole week that would never happen.

"I'll say," the boys all said in unison.

Just then Ulrich's cell vibrated as he received a text. It was from Yumi, reading: Everyone ok?

"Yumi wants to know if we're ok," explained Ulrich.

The others nodded nonchalantly.

Ulrich replied to Yumi; Yup. U?

Fine ;)

A/N:

One more chapter folks!