"Aelita! Aelita!"

In an all too familiar scene, Aelita opened her eyes to find Jeremie right above her, staring into her eyes, concerned. She gasped, and then simply continued to inhale and exhale. It was only a dream.

"Another nightmare, huh."

Aelita couldn't bring herself to speak; she merely nodded.

"I'll make some tea, and then we can talk about it."

Tea is peaceful and calming enough, Jeremie thought to himself. Aelita was very frightened, and he wanted to make her feel safe and relaxed.

But before Jeremie could leave the room, his mobile buzzed. Darting across the room to his end table, before Aelita could get there, he looked down to see:

ULRICH STERN, 5:08 - SOS XANA, YUMI TOO

ODD DELLA ROBBIA, 5:08 - WEIRD DREAM THAT ULRICH WAS PINEAPPLE

ODD DELLA ROBBIA, 5:09 - OH, AND SOS XANA I THINK

I better get that tea, he thought.

As he began to brew, Jeremie wondered about his vision that night. Was he actually talking to Franz Hopper? Could it be that what happened was real, or was it a XANA trick?

XANA's dead...what am I thinking?, he thought skeptically. He paused and reflected.

Or is he not? No, it's not possible. I saw him disappear with my own eyes...

It must've been something he ate. But with everyone having bad dreams recently, could this really be a coincidence, or was there a connection? So many questions lingering in his mind, so few answers.

===The Next Morning...===

"All of you dreamed the same thing?"

The last question was rhetorical, for Jeremie had just heard all four of the others talk about the same dream - they were on Lyoko, fighting monsters, when all of a sudden they fell into oblivion. Aelita had filled in the detail of why.

"It was awful," Aelita said. "I just couldn't stop myself. Something made me enter Code XANA." She looked over at Odd. "I'd rather have dreamed my friends were made of fried chicken."

"Actually, it was mostly fruit," Odd corrected. "A nice, well-balanced, healthy meal, if you ask me!" He grinned.

Jeremie butted in. "This is serious. We need to go to the factory right away. I need to have a look at the supercomputer."

The four other Lyoko warriors looked at each other.

"And we need to go to Lyoko," Yumi said.

Jeremie reluctantly agreed. He had promised himself that he would protect Aelita at all costs, but he could not stop her from going to Lyoko. He just had to hope that there would be no software malfunctions, and no danger.

They walked outside to the cars. Jeremie and Aelita walked in back behind the other three.

"So, uh...Odd. I was a pineapple?"

"Yep, you better believe it! And your arms were cucumbers, chest was a watermelon...it was a good meal! Too bad it was fake."

"Yeah, too bad, huh darling?" Yumi said, as Ulrich blushed.

"What did you dream about, Jeremie?" Aelita asked him. "You mentioned it was a weird dream having to do with XANA, but obviously it wasn't the same one we had."

Embarrassed by his question to Franz Hopper and his doubt in himself, Jeremie replied, "Nothing serious. I'll tell you later." Before she could protest, he kissed her, grabbed her hand, and ran toward the car.