At ten the gym was cleared as the students left for their dorms or home. Ulrich walked Yumi home, and before leaving, made out with her on her porch. Odd dropped Aelita off in her room. Nothing happened but they had a good time. Odd jr was surprised at how much fun he had with Milly. She was three years younger but still really cool. Xi and Angela arrived at her door, where they kissed goodbye, her kissing still needing improvement. It was a cool night with a harvest moon that hung in the cloudless sky.

Xi walked to his room and when turned the corner to his hallway and saw Emilie leaning against the wall holding a yellow folder. He walked like he didn't see her, but remembered her phone call.

" Good evening Travis," she said with a smirk.

" You called me."

" I did. Will you look at this for me?" she asked holding the folder out to him. Xi took it and opened it. Inside was a single sheet of paper.

" And what is this?" Xi asked looking at her.

" DNA test results. You remember a few weeks ago when I bumped into you during gym." He answered with a nod. " I plucked a strand of your hair. Then I did the same thing to Ulrich Stern. Now my daddy is a genetic researcher and I asked him to do a DNA test on it. You know to see if you two were somehow related. Look at the bottom." Xi did as told and what was written in big bold letters was, ' Positive match.' Xi felt his heart race. This was not good.

" Even weirder was how my father said you were related. According to the test, Ulrich is your father. Explain that right now or Milly with have the scoop of the year," she said threateningly.

Xi took a deep breath and said, " The test is wrong."

" My dad did it three times. Oh yeah you're an exact DNA match. I have Milly on speed dial. Now what are you, Angela and Charlie hiding. You guys are always missing."

" I can't tell you."

" Not good enough," her cell phone rang and she answered it right away. " Hi daddy, did that test result come back. Positive huh. Thanks daddy. See you on Christmas."

" Now what?" Xi asked, because she seemed happier.

" I did the same test to your DNA and Yumi Ishiyama's. Weird another match. You're her son, but that can't be. What the hell is going on, cause whatever it is I don't want to be in the dark on it. Now last chance. Tell me what's going on or Milly's news bulletin will actually have readers." Xi tried to think of a way to avoid this. Emilie planned this too well, he didn't have a choice.

" Fine. Not here though. Meet me at the park in half an hour."

" Can't wait," she said taking the folder from Xi and walking away. Xi walked into his room and kicked a pillow across the ground. This was becoming a very complicated situation. He fell to his bed and undid his tie and took it off, throwing it to the ground. They were screwed. Odd jr walked in and sat on his bed taking off his shoes.

Odd jr noticed that Xi seemed mad about something so asked, " What's up with you?"

" You know Emilie right?"

" Angela's roommate. Yeah why."

" I think she found out that Ulrich and Yumi are my parents." Odd jr who was trying to pull his shoe off, let his foot slip and hit the ground.

" She what?"

" Yeah. She got too suspicious and ran a DNA test through her father."

" What are you doing about it?" Odd jr asked worried their cover was about to be blown.

" Telling her. She threatening to tell Milly. You know her better than anyone, it'll be all over the school and possibly more within an hour. I hate being blackmailed." Xi said punching his bed.

" I'll go with. Explaining this should be difficult should I call Angela."

" Yeah. We're all in this." Odd jr called Angela and explained what was happening.


Emilie was in the park waiting for the Xi. The crowd from the dance was pretty much clear, so they had to do this quick before they began to patrol the campus. She saw Xi and Odd jr move out of the dormitories and run toward her, keeping low. Soon to follow was Angela who did the same, keeping low to avoid attracting attention. Emilie smiled big when she saw Xi. She was finally going to be involved or at least know.

They lead her through the sewers, to the factory and were moving down the elevator shaft. Xi typed in the code and the doors opened and Emilie stepped into the lab.

" Wow. Where are we?" she asked in awe.

" The lab. It's a supercomputer. Now to start, about what we're up to, you need to be fairly open minded."

" Is it any less believable than having a parent and child being the same age?"

" You have no idea. Alright you want the answer here it is. We're from the future." He told her, now it was up to her to believe him.

" How far in the future."

" About thirty years, give or take a few months. Now the bad guy in this story is a computer virus named xana." He told her everything she wanted to know in exchange for not being known as an impossible parentage. The scary thing to Xi was she was believing him. Least she was open minded.

" So Xi right?" Xi nodded to confirm. " You came here to stop xana from killing your parents in the future. Xana killed them in your time and your going to take him out here so you won't have to fight him in your time."

" Basically yeah. I have proof too. Wanna talk to Sissi Delmas?"

" No thanks."

" Not the one you know, the one from our time?"

" If it's proof." Xi began to load the communication program.

" Let's hope she's there." A second later Sissi appeared on the screen, looking very tired.

" Xi hey what's going on?" Emilie looked at the screen. The woman was at least forty but she was undoubtable Sissi. " Is that Emilie Leduc?"

" Yeah she blackmailed me. Found out that Ulrich and Yumi were my parents," Xi said showing her the DNA test results.

" That sucks well that means she's involved so did you get her up to date on what's going on?"

" Did I have an option?" Xi asked sarcastically.

" Not really. Well Emilie now that you know you can't tell anyone. You can compromise the future, possible making them not be born."

" I know," Emilie said quickly, " Xi told me everything. Even told me what Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, Jeremie and Aelita are up to. Told me about xana. I know it all."

" Good then you know what your getting yourself into. People have died in this battle. Some who had nothing to do with this." Emilie nodded, remembering what Xi told her about Justin. " You know the risks so do you still wish to help?"

" Yes. Tell me did you really marry Odd?" she asked still believing that to be impossible.

" Why is that so unbelievable. Come on. Odd just took me to Halloween dance in your time right."

Emilie shook her head and answered, " No. He took Aelita. You didn't even go."

" Oh my god. This is not good. That's not how it happened."

Xi finally realized what happened. " We changed something."

" Yes you did. Did your parents go?" Sissi asked hoping it didn't get worse.

" Yeah, they went with each other."

" Dammit that didn't happen. They didn't go."

" Are you kidding me. Why wouldn't they go?"

" Because, Ulrich was in the hospital from a sleeping pill overdose. He tried to kill himself. Did that happen?" Xi held his face in frustration, this was his fault. " What did you do?"

" I stopped him from taking the pills." Sissi did the same thing out of frustration. " Why hasn't anything happened yet?"

" I don't know. Jeremie's theory is that if something is changed, it takes the time line some time to figure out what events would have changed. Maybe well find out tomorrow. For now get back to the school and get some sleep. Please stay away from them. You may not like it but your father did attempt suicide. Your mother thought it was her fault so helped him recover, physically and emotionally. You lit the fuse and soon, we'll find out what you set off. Talk to you in the morning." She logged off without saying goodbye. Xi looked at the black screen for a few seconds before closing the link.

Xi placed the headset down on the keyboard. This was his fault. Everything was his fault. He fell back into the chair and hid his face into his palms. He didn't want anyone to see his face right now. Xi had let everyone down, and for what. To help his future, do save his father. No it wasn't his fault, it was Sissi. She never told him what would happen. He shook his head again. It was his fault, he should have kept his distance, but his emotions got to him. For all he knew, saving his father now might have caused him to die sooner.

Angela placed her hand on Xi shoulder, but he kept his head buried into his palms. " It's not your fault. You didn't mean to, you didn't know." Xi let his hands drop to his lap but didn't look at her. " Xi for all we know you made a better future."

" Or a worse one."

" Don't think like that."

" I'm sorry Angela. I need time to think about this. So please just give me some space." He stood up and boarded the elevator followed by everyone else. Within minutes they were all in their rooms in their beds thinking about what possibly could have changed from one little event. They'd find out on the morning.


Xi forgot the close the blinds to his window and the sun just passed a cloud and hit him square in the face. Placing the blanket over his face he woke up, blocking the worlds natural alarm clock. After getting adjusted to the light he threw the blanket of him and lay up. He looked around his room to see Odd jr, with one leg on the ground, and his blanket covering only the leg still on the bed. Odd jr looked like he'd fall out of bed any second. Xi laughed and placed his hands on the back of his head and rested his head against his pillow.

Suddenly Xi's head began to ache. In seconds it was painful. Holding his head in pain, he tossed and turned as his eyes began to flicker. Xi saw images rush past his eyes. Most of the images he had seen before. They were his memories. First day of school, first kiss, everything was as he remembered. Except every other frame had someone else within it. It was girl, and the girl was in through out the frames, aging, a part of his life as long as he had lived. Then it stopped.

Odd jr had woken up from an unfamiliar sound. Not realizing half his body was not an his bed he fell to the floor with a solid thump. He shook off the sudden fright from falling and looked for the noise that woke him up. It was Xi, tossing and turning, grunting in pain as he held his head.

" Xi!" He quickly checked his friend. Before he could help it, he was holding his head in the same fashion. Memories past through Odd jr's mind. Everything seemed the same except his parents were arguing more, and soon, his father wasn't in as many. As sudden as it began, it stopped and both boys lay there, trying to figure what the hell had just happened.

They looked at each other to see the same thing had happened to the other and quickly began to dress. Xi's phone began and he quickly answered it.

" I know Angela, we're going to the lab. Get Emilie, she wants to be involved she has to see consequences." He hung up the phone and called Aelita for cover.

In minutes they were in lab opening the link. Xi was in the chair with, Odd jr, Angela, and Emilie looking over his shoulder. The link opened and an unknown woman was at the screen. Xi looked at the woman with nothing to say.

" Who the hell are you?" Xi asked after a rather long awkward moment.

" You don't recognize me. It's me, Emilie." Everyone looked at Emilie who couldn't get her eyes off herself. " I'm involved now so naturally I'm here. Sissi is here too, and your not going to believe who else. Aelita." Angela heart jumped into her throat, making it hard for her to speak.

" My moms alive." she managed to say after swallowing hard.

" She is, now Sissi will explain what you changed." Sissi and Emilie switched places, Xi noticed she had a pregnant belly, which explained why it took so long to get off the chair. Sissi put on the headset.

" Alright. You changed the fact that Ulrich didn't attempt suicide, took Yumi to the dance and Odd took Aelita instead of me. What changed here is pretty extreme. Currently in this time, Aelita is not married to Jeremie but was, and Odd to me. I divorced Odd, and Jeremie divorced Aelita. Ulrich and Yumi pretty much stayed the same except they had three kids instead of two. Aelita has two children instead of one. They are still dead except for Aelita. Quite a lot of change from one little event."

" How does my dad not attempting suicide make you and Odd get divorced?"

" Because the moment in the park were Milly found out about the date, wouldn't of happened. Odd wouldn't have ran and bumped into Aelita. Noticing she was upset because Jeremie didn't want to go, Odd takes her instead of me. It's like dominos. I hate to admit this but the only reason Odd and I left the country was so he wouldn't interfere with Aelita's marriage. Going to the dance only made his love build faster."

" Then he couldn't bring himself to move."

" Then he and Aelita cheated on their spouses, and had a kid together. He's so adorable by the way."

" My mom cheated on my father?" Angela shouted. " How could she." She began to think about the memories she saw this morning. " That's what the memory was about. The argument with my parents. I remember. It happened when I was five. My mom was crying, begging my dad for his forgiveness. She didn't get it. He wouldn't listen, he just shouted at her and told her to leave, and she did."

" I remember as well," Odd jr began. " My mom was yelling at my father. They argued every now and then, being married does that. This was straight up pissed off. I've never seen my mother so mad. I went to live with my mom after the divorce, that's the reason I didn't see my dad much," Odd jr said forgetting his mother was on the screen listening.

" Glad you understand honey. Now I think Angela wants to talk to her mother." Aelita sat on the chair and placed the headset in her ear. Angela did the same, switching places with Xi. They sat there, staring at each other. Angela didn't know what to make of her mother anymore. Her mother, was once honest, loyal, kind and understanding. Now she wasn't that person anymore.

" Angela please don't look at me like that," Aelita said, her daughter looking at her with disappointment.

" How should I mom? Should I act like everything is okay? I'm glad your back put I hate the reason you are."

" Please let me explain."

" Explain what? How you cheated on dad for his best friend. You always told me to be honest, but now I think you're a hypocrite."

" Listen to me. Our marriage wasn't working. You know that before he died, we hadn't had sex in six months."

" Do I look like I need to hear that."

" All I'm saying is that, I thought I loved your father. I thought he loved me. We we're really only good friends who were married." Her explanation wasn't working for Angela.

" Of coarse he loved you. He spent countless hours to get you out of the computer," said Angela hoping that would prove it to her mother.

" Odd would have done that if he knew how. Jeremie had only been to Lyoko four times in his life. He may of freed me but Odd was the one risking life and limb to give him that chance. Ulrich and Yumi all the same. It wasn't love that drove him. You like someone for their gifts, you love them for their flaws. Jeremie thought I was pretty and funny, he hated how clueless I was about the human world, because it was slowing our relationship's progress. Odd thought I was pretty as well but he thought my clueless behavior was adorable. Odd never yelled at me unless it was necessary to yell, he wasn't killing himself from the inside out like your father was. Your father only freed me because I talked to him when no one else would."

Angela was getting angry. Her mother was talking about her father like she hated him. " So what, to get him back you slept with Odd."

" I slept with Odd because I loved him. That had nothing to do with your father. Odd listened to me. Jeremie wouldn't let me go outside in risk of xana. He was selfish. Odd could stand me not being with him, Jeremie couldn't. Jeremie never let me do anything. It was all work for him, doing this, doing that. I cheated on your father with little regret" Now Angela was angry.

" Little regret huh. You cheated on your husband of thirteen years with little regret. Why did you have me then. What was I to you?"

" Even though I was human, I lived in a computer for a large chunk of my life. I had convince everyone I was human, except myself. I knew there was only one thing to prove to myself I was truly human."

" You wanted to have a baby. That's why I was born. To prove something to yourself! All I ever was to was fucking proof!" she said, not realizing she was shouting at her mother.

" Watch your mouth young lady. You were never just proof. You're my daughter, I love you and always will. From the moment you were born, to the moment you comfort me on my death bed."

" To hell with you mom," she said crying. " Because right now, I kind of wish you were still dead."

" Angela," Aelita pleaded. Angela didn't want to hear it. She stood up and threw the headset on the keyboard and left on the elevator alone. " Angela come back here right now." Everyone was quiet now, not sure what just happened. Aelita was crying into her palms. Xi sat on the chair and put the headset on.

" She can't stay mad forever Mrs. Robbia, don't worry. It may take a while for her to suck it up but she'll forgive you... Did I just call you Mrs. Robbia."

" That's because of the memory shock," Sissi said from over Aelita's shoulder. " In Jeremie's notes he said that when we change something, the time line will force the memories onto us. I remember what happened in the last time line, because I 've been scanned. It's like a return to the past, we remember the changes. Angela is having trouble sorting what happened last history, and this history."

" Alright that explains why I still have my old memories. The new ones are weird. You wouldn't happen to know the girl I saw?" Xi asked.

" Probably me bro?" said a girl who's face appeared from the left side of the screen. " Are you telling me you don't remember your sister." Xi looked at the girl. She was in her twenties, and looked like his mother. The girl was a stranger and yet he felt like he had known her his entire life.

" You probably don't, this is a completely different time line. I wasn't even born in the last one. Thanks for not letting dad try to kill himself, you made mom and dad fall in love faster. Mom was nineteen when she had me , so naturally I was an accident."

" Whatever Keiko," Xi said as if it was natural for him.

" You do remember. Then you'll remember that Justin is still gone and so is mom and dad. In this history you live with me instead of Sissi. I always took care of you, even since I was helping raise you. I hated the fact that I was the only one who looked Japanese," Keiko said smiling.

" This is weird to me. I never had a sister before but now I feel like I always had."

" Well of coarse you do. That what happens when you mess with time. Tell me Xi, why do you have a Chinese name?" Xi thought for a second but Keiko said, " Never mind Aelita will tell you what drove her away from Jeremie. You'll have to explain to Angela, and bro. Pretty soon mom and dad are going to start dating, and arguing like an old married couple. Let them argue don't interfere. When they break up in a month don't try to help them get back together, it happens three months later."

" See why can't Sissi tell me what to let happen?"

" Would you of still let dad take the pills if you knew," he thought hard on it, and realized he still would of stopped him. " That's what I thought. Good luck bro, I need to get to work, things are insane here but we have to keep going on with our lives. I love you bro."

" Love you sis." Keiko face disappeared and he saw in the background her boarding the elevator, waving to him before the door shut. " Alright Aelita tell me what happened."