This chapter was written by me and edited by Teen-Lyokofan7777. I do not own Code Lyoko, all copy righting goes to MoonScoop. I also do not own Naomi Jones, she is owned by sakuraphoenix. I only own my OCs.

Nobody in particular

POV Peter's

Our classmates continued to talk when Mrs. Hertz said

"Right, quiet down, please. Across the board, the results of the last class test were far from brilliant. Your grades were almost all C's and D's. Obviously, as always there are exceptions. Belpois, I gave you in an A-. The minus was a reminder that there's no such thing as perfection." Jeremy shrugged.

"Morales, I gave you a C+. A little more studying needs to be done, but you're doing well in the class overall." Mrs. Hertz said, and I nodded.

"Stern, you are clearly pushing the limits of your 'I don't care' attitude." Hervé and Nicolas started laughing as Mrs. Hertz continued, "The nucleus is not made of croutons, but protons. D-. If memory serves and mine is more reliable than yours, you promised you'd put in a more honest effort. Didn't you? Where, as it seems quite clear to me that you didn't even glance at your notes. This is not going to help you, at the academic review tomorrow morning." Mrs. Hertz said, she noticed Nicolas continued laughing.

"Poliakoff, zero." Mrs. Hertz said causing Nicolas to stop laughing. "A kilogram of mercury does not weigh a ton. So if I were you, I'd stop snickering like an idiot." Mrs. Hertz walked over to him. I looked at Ulrich, his hand was on his forehead. He didn't seem too happy.

After class in the cafeteria

"Don't worry, it'll work out fine," Odd said trying to reassure Ulrich.

"Yeah, I'm sure all you need is some extra study hours," Naomi added.

"Doubt it. Hertz is going to do everything she can, to transfer me to ninth grade remedial." Ulrich shook his head in frustration.

"They wouldn't do that, we're in the middle of the year," Yumi put in.

"With my rotten grades, don't bet on it. My parents are going to kill me. Finding time to fight Xana is going to be a real nightmare. What's worse is, if they find out I'm dating you, they'll try to break us apart. My grades are more important to them than my feelings," Ulrich mentioned.

"I'm not too sure about that, Ulrich," Patricia surmised.

"Yeah, come on Ulrich. Nothing's been decided yet." Aelita said.

"She's right, maybe a teacher will defend you. Anyways, speaking of transfers I've got some good news. I've finally, found a way to transfer you directly into Sector Five. Not bad huh?" Jeremy asked.

"You mean without going to the transporter?" Odd asked.

"Yeah. That's right, by interpolating the source codes in quantum space, we can get around the Issenberg uncertainty theory. The only risk is coming up with a mathematical singularity." Jeremy explained.

"I don't follow," Jade commented.

I looked at her uneasily, still unsure of her loyalty to the group.

"Yeah, in English, Einstein?" Odd asked.

"It can work, but it's dangerous. Before I can really be sure, I'm gonna need a um…" Jeremy said putting his finger to his chin, trying to think of the word.

"Guinea pig?" Odd asked.

"Right. Any volunteers?" Jeremy asked.

No one answered, and Odd held out his hand, several string beans in it.

"Shortest string bean is it," Odd suggested. One by one we took a string bean. I noticed Ulrich didn't get the shortest one, I looked down and sighed thankfully not having the shortest one. I looked over to Jade, it seemed she had the shortest one.

"Great, just my luck." Jade sighed.

"We'll run the tests tonight, at eight o clock. Okay?" Jeremy asked.

"Okay," Jade mumbled.

Later that night in sector five

The transporter released us, all but Jade.

"Tell me, guys, did you all get to the arena?" Jeremy asked.

"Last stop, everybody out," Odd replied.

"We're good to go, Einstein," Ulrich informed.

"We're standing by, to welcome Jade," Yumi said.

"Loud and clear Yumi. Jade, are you ready?" Jeremy asked.

"I hope things will go alright." Patricia paced the floor.

"I'm sure they will. Jeremy knows what he's doing." Naomi reminded.

"Hold on now. Jade's gonna be with you soon."

We separated from each other, leaving Jade space to land in the middle of us. We looked up in the air, we waited for Jade.

"Where is she? Did she take the local instead of the express?" Odd asked.

"The virtualization did take place. She should have appeared next to you."

"Maybe she was transferred to the wrong place," Aelita said.

Why do I have a bad feeling of a sudden? I thought.

"I'll do a search, but I can't see how." "Oh no! Impossible!"

"Jade…" I trailed off.

"What? What's the matter?" Yumi asked.

"She doesn't even show on screens anymore."

"You want us to sweep sector five? To see if we can spot her?" Aelita asked.

"And have Xana take advantage of the situation and pull a dirty one on us? No thanks, I'll run a search from here. You better come back in, I'll rematerialize you now."

Back in the lab

"Nothing in the mountain sector. Nothing in the arena, nothing in the celestial dome. Nothing in the core of Lyoko, and not a trace in Sector Five either." Jeremy listed.

"What are you saying?" Patricia asked.

"Jade has… disappeared. I don't know what to do." Jeremy admitted truthfully, he looked at me. "Peter, I'm sorry…"

"Einstein just, please… don't…" I trailed off.

"Peter he's only trying to—" Naomi was interrupted by Ulrich, who put his hand on her shoulder.

"Don't, he's needs to be alone."

We walked out of the factory.

"I don't get this. In spite of all my research, I haven't managed to localize her. I'll still keep searching in my room computer, she's got to be somewhere." Jeremy figured.

"No, you have to keep trying. The truth is… it's all your fault she's gone. Jade might be my ex but… she could be gone forever." I said to Jeremy, he looked shocked. I ran back to the dorm… confused. I walked up to the stairs and entered my room.

Flashback

"Is that…"

"Yeah…"

My eyes couldn't believe what Jeremy showed me. Jade's eyes, her Xanafied eyes.

"Jade…"

End of Flashback

I closed the door and locked it. I needed to be alone, I was in no mood to write in my journal.

Jade… are you truly gone? Or is this a new ploy by Xana? Your betrayal hurts so much, but the thought of you always being at Xana's side, what does that say to me? Am I too trusting? Was I really right to start a new relationship with Naomi so soon? Or am I just hurt so much that, your betrayal of the group is what's causing the pain? I thought, laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling.

Just who are you, Jade? A traitor… or a friend? I thought.

The next morning

Aelita, Odd, Ulrich, Patricia, Naomi, and I walked to Jeremy's door.

"Peter, are you going to be okay?" Naomi asked.

"Yes sorry for yesterday…" I trailed off.

"It's okay, I understand," Naomi nodded. We got to Jeremy's door, and Aelita knocked on it, Odd holding Kiwi.

"Come in," Jeremy called.

Ulrich closed the door.

"Well, anything new?" Aelita asked.

"Nothing. Still no sign of Jade." Jeremy replied. His eyes looked tired, he must have been typing all night.

"Come on, she couldn't have just disappeared in thin air," Odd said.

"There must be some way of finding her," Patricia added.

"I must have made a mistake somewhere. But for now, I don't know where I could have messed up." Jeremy said.

Kiwi suddenly started barking.

"Kiwi, will you cut that out?" Odd asked.

"We don't want Jim to catch you," Ulrich said.

Kiwi jumped in the air as if he was jumping onto someone.

"Maybe an emergent property appeared in the algorithms, and altered the virtualization," Aelita surmised.

"Looks more like a big system bug to me," Jade spoke.

We looked for her.

"Jade is that you? Where are you?" I asked.

"I'm down here, lower. Surprise," Jade replied.

"That's fantastic. All my training methods have finally paid off. Kiwi's talking, and he sounds like Jade. Cool," Odd beamed.

"I don't think its Kiwi talking Odd," Ulrich said.

"Ulrich's right. It's really me, Jade. From inside of Kiwi's body," Jade said. Odd bent down.

"But what are you doing inside of my dog? That's crazy." Odd said.

"I entered Kiwi's body by accident. Thanks to him, I can communicate with you guys. Otherwise, I'd still be some sort of disembodied ghost. It was kind of scary." Jade mentioned.

"What an adorable little diggity dog." Odd said petting "Kiwi."

"Knock that off or I'll bite you." Jade threatened.

"Quiet you mangy mutt," Odd said, and Aelita giggled.

"I think I know what happened. During the virtualization, Jade's body and mind got separated." Jeremy explained.

"Is that why we couldn't find Jade on Lyoko?" Naomi asked.

"Right. Because it's not Jade whose there, it's just her inanimate body. Her corporal envelope, which doesn't give the same signal." Jeremy continued to explain with his arms crossed.

"Think you can put me back together?" Jade asked.

"Since we have no classes today, I'll go back to the lab with Aelita and run another search. Once we locate your body, I'm sure we can put you back into it. Okay?" Jeremy asked.

"Great, and how long will that take you?" Jade asked.

"I hope, I have it all worked out by this afternoon," Jeremy replied.

"Okay good. I need time to think about some things anyways." Jade said.

"What do you mean? Think about what?" Patricia asked.

Jade didn't reply. Instead, Kiwi started barking again.

"Jade? You still there?" Odd asked.

Kiwi came to us, I petted him.

"You're such a good dog," I smiled.

"Looks like Jade's gone. I've got to get going soon, I got my academic review soon. Wish me luck, keep me posted." Ulrich said.

"We will," I said. Ulrich walked out.

At lunch

Someone started throwing food, and it turned out to be an out food fight.

"Can't a girl just eat in peace and quiet?" Naomi asked.

"Not likely," I replied dodging the food. Uncle Jim walked in the lunch room.

"What is going on in here? Everyone stop what you're doing, or it's detention for whoever started this!" Uncle Jim yelled.

If Jade's not inside Jim, then where is she? I thought.

Odd stood on the table and yelled, "Fire away!"

Our classmates started throwing food at him but then

"Cut it out you guys, it's me, Jade." "Uncle Jim" said.

"Jade?" Yumi asked.

I guess I was wrong, she makes a pretty convincing Jim I thought.

Our classmates shouted something while throwing their food, we all left the cafeteria.

"What are you doing inside Jim?" Yumi asked.

"Originally, I was trying to find Mrs. Hertz's to help out Ulrich's case. But no such luck." Jade explained.

Yumi's phone started ringing, Yumi answered it.

"Yes, Jeremy?"

"Okay, great. I'll tell her." Yumi said hanging up. "You have to get to the factory, it looks like Jeremy solved your problem."

"Okay, I'll bring Ulrich, too, after the academic review. It's too important, especially what happened with Mrs. Hertz." Jade said.

"What do you mean? What happened?" Patricia asked.

"I'd rather not talk about it, I'll be there as soon as I can," Jade replied.

"Odd Della Robbia, it's time for your academic review. You are the class representative." Mr. Delmas called walking to us.

"Oh no!" Odd sighed, stepping down the steps as he went with "Uncle Jim."

Yumi's phone started ringing.

"But isn't that normal?" Yumi asked.

The volume on her phone wasn't loud enough for us to hear it, but I can tell it meant something wasn't right.

"Right now, I'm with Peter, Naomi, and Patricia. Ulrich, Odd, and Jade are at the academic review." Yumi said.

On Lyoko

Aelita, Yumi, Patricia, Naomi, and I were virtualized into Lyoko's mountain sector. We ran toward the edge of the sector.

"We're okay Jeremy. We're here at the edge of the sector." Yumi called.

"Okay, I'm sending you the transporter," Jeremy informed.

"I'm still getting used to it," Naomi mentioned.

"You'll get used to it in time," I reassured her, she smiled. The transporter arrived and swooped us all. It soon brought us to sector five.

"Holo – Sphere system, connected,"

The transporter released us, the entrance to the corridor opened. We ran into it, and it opened. We continued on running and came to a room. This was room looked way too get to the key.

Aelita spotted the key.

"The key is over there, just on the other side."

"Right, let's go," Patricia insisted. Suddenly, the ceiling started moving as blocks, which begun to go up and down. We ran for the key, dodging the incoming blocks from the ceiling. Yumi, Patricia, and Naomi jumped down onto the floor that began to descend. They jumped back up, Aelita and I followed in pursuit. We tried to jump onto it but missed. Yumi pulled Aelita up, and Naomi pulled me up. We kept running, Patricia did a cartwheel and managed to press the key in time before it the ceiling crushed all of us.

"At your service." Patricia joked, bowing as Aelita, Naomi, Yumi, and I ran into the entrance.

"Now, take the next passage on your left."

"Right," Yumi acknowledged. We continued running, we tried to find Jade's body but nothing.

"Now go right."

We turned right and headed down the passageway. We looked to see where Jade was and spotted her.

"Jade?" Patricia called out.

"Jade" turned around, her eyes filled with Xana's symbol in them.

This is the second time I'm seeing her like this ugh… I need to confront her about this and soon… I thought.

Jade started running incredibly fast, not as fast as Ulrich with his super speed, but faster than normal. We looked at each other in concern, we ran to catch up to her.

"She's heading toward the Core of Lyoko. Try, to catch up to her okay?" Jeremy asked.

"That's easy for you to say. She's unusually fast." Yumi replied. We entered another room hallway, but she wasn't there.

"Where to now?" Naomi asked.

"She changed directions. Do you see another way out?"

"No, just a shaft," Aelita replied.

"That's it, go ahead. Jump!"

We jumped down into the shaft. We continued running down a corridor.

"She's reached the Core of Lyoko. Hurry up you guys."

"Right," I nodded. We kept racing but stopped at a dead end.

"Do you see a way in?" Jeremy asked.

"No, it's a dead end," Aelita replied.

"Oh, what luck. Xana must have opened a passage for her leading her directly to the Core of Lyoko."

"What about you? Can you do the same?" Yumi asked.

"No, I wish I could. But you'll have to go by way of the celestial dome." Jeremy replied.

"Okay, we'll take the elevator," Aelita said.

We made our way to the elevator.

"Hurry, the shield just took a thirty point energy hit."

We could see the elevator coming, and we jumped.

"We're almost there," Patricia informed.

"Can you program our vehicles?" Yumi asked.

We reached the entrance of the Core of Lyoko. The girls hopped onto their Overwing's, and I hopped onto Patricia's Overbike. We flew into the opening of the Core of Lyoko. We hopped off of our vehicles, Jade's possessed body held her hand in the here. She continued to shoot out some sort of green energy from her hands, Aelita summoned her energy field and shot it at "Jade." Jade grunted, and I summoned a fireball, I managed to hit her with it. Naomi, Patricia, and Yumi ran up the stairs. Three flying Mantas came, Aelita and I ran up the stairs as well. Yumi blocked the incoming lasers with her fans. Naomi used Odd's shield she had copied and deflected the lasers.

We dodged them, and Aelita threw an energy field at a Manta. It exploded, I threw a fireball at Jade, but she dodged it. One of the Mantas continued to fire at Yumi, Patricia and Naomi were dealing with their own Manta. Aelita summoned her energy field and tried to shoot it at Jade. She continued to dodge it. Aelita and I were shot from behind by another Manta. Jade continued to focus on the shield, raising her hand and shooting out the green energy at it. One of the shield layers exploded.

"Energy field!" Aelita exclaimed. Aelita tried to shoot her energy field at the Manta, but she missed. The Manta, flew up at Yumi, who blocked the incoming lasers. I managed to dodge another hit, but unfortunately Aelita was hit and devirtualized. Yumi threw her fans, and missed she was soon devirtualized. Patricia threw her big shuriken at one, but the Manta dodged it and fired at her. Patricia was devirtualized. Naomi and I remained, I tried using my lightning arrows, and I shot one at a Manta. I managed to defeat it, as it exploded. The other Manta however, manage to shoot Naomi and I. We were both devirtualized.

The scanners opened and Uncle Jim was on the floor.

"Why is our gym teacher on the floor?" Naomi asked.

"I think Jade left him there." Yumi replied.

For some reason, Uncle Jim had a smile on his face even though he was unconscious.

"Something tells me, he's better off not remembering this." I said.

"Jade, now's the time. I'm starting up your fusion." Jeremy informed. The scanners reopened, Jade was sitting on the floor.

"You have no idea how great it feels to be in your own body." Jade smiled.

Later

"How did your academic review go, Ulrich?" I asked.

"It went great. Mrs. Hertz is giving me another chance. I'm glad Jade was there, she managed to convince her on not putting me in remedial classes." Ulrich replied.

"That's great news. Maybe, Naomi and I can help you study more." I offered.

"Sure, after today I definitely need to. Sorry I couldn't help you guys on Lyoko. I was talking to Mrs. Hertz, to reassure her that I will try harder." Ulrich said.

"I'm sure you will. Well hey, I got to go. I'll see you later." I said walking away. I walked to the dorm's room and knocked on Aelita's door. Jade opened the door, she seemed surprised.

"Oh hey…. What's up?"

"Can I come in?" I asked.

"Sure but I have class soon." Jade replied allowing me in, Jade closed the door. I started to get nervous, but I had to ask her. It was now or never.

"Look Jade, I'm not going to sugar coat this. Are you… working for Xana?" I asked.

And done! Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter, sorry for the cliff hanger. More to come soon! Don't forget to review! Also please don't post any spoilers for those who have not read the double update!

~LyokoWarrior1994