Okay I know that in almost every chapter I give some excuse for it takeing a long time to finish a chapter. So in this chapter I just want to say that I have other things to do and cant sit at the computer all day writing a story... I wish I could but I cant :( .

Anyway on to the chapter!


"Alright." Yumi said still looking at the giant worm heading towards them. "We're about to face a giant worm with one weak spot that we can't reach, and all we have to fight with are knives and metal fans. Any ideas?" She asked Yuri who was also looking at the beast.

"Just one. Run!" She said putting her knives away and turning the overbike around and going away from the monster as fast as she could. REXA just laughed watching with amusement. Yumi realized what her companion had done followed her soon catching up to her.

"What's wrong Yuri you afraid?" Yumi said looking at her.

"Yes." She said simply not looking at Yumi and checking to see where the worm was. "It's a giant worm that is going to eat us with giant rotating blades. That's one of my worst nightmares."

"You've dreamed about this before?"

"Yes. Except in my dream I didn't run away and I got eaten!" She said emphasizing the word eaten.

"Come on Yuri the only way to get over your fears is to face them."

"Don't you think I know that!" Yuri yelled offended. "I grew up knowing that. But right now we're outmatched and I think it's better to run away and come up with a plan than to stay were you are and get eaten!" Yuri yelled again emphasizing eaten. Yumi looked taken aback.

"Alright so what's your plan?" Yumi asked.

"Don't have one."


Stella was still staring at the 'pointy' root. Jeremy had gotten so bored that he fell asleep and was currently curled up into a ball with his back to a wall made out of roots and was muttering something to do with Aelita. About the fifth time that she heard Aelita Stella stopped staring at the root for a second to roll her eyes then returned to what she was doing.

"I just know that it's important." She said quiet enough not to wake Jeremy. "And my feelings have never lied to me before." She stopped staring at the root and scratched her head. "Come on feelings just tell me why this root's important." She said talking to her stomach. Stella looked at the root again. "Pointy root, pointy root." She said trying to concentrate on the root as she closed her eyes. "Oh look noodles." She said with her eyes still closed. "No don't think about noodles. Concentrate on the pointy root. Hay noodles is trying to pull my rope away. Wait that's not a rope that's the pointy root. Hay where did noodles go? Here doggy doggy." She began to search with her hands with her eyes still closed and ran into the wall of roots. She opened her eyes realizing where she was and she was no where near her dog. "Oh." She stopped doing anything for a moment and listened to the silence. Stella didn't like silence but it was good for thinking. She hummed as she thought. "I GOT IT!" She yelled not bothering to be silent and waking Jeremy with a start.

"What? What happened? What?" Jeremy said looking around and seeing a proud Stella.

"I figured it out." She said grinning from ear to ear and going over to the pointy root.

"Figured what out?" Jeremy said rubbing his head still half asleep.

"Why the root was important." She said looking at him. "Noodles told me in my head."

"What noodles?" Jeremy asked confused. "Can I eat them I'm hungry?"

"You can't eat my dog!" She yelled. "Anyways I thinks I've gotta pull on it." She said grabbing the root and pulling. Nothing happened.

"That's not going to…" but Jeremy stopped talking as a whole bunch of roots fell down in front of Stella creating another passageway. "Uh…" Stella smirked.

"Not going to what?" She said already heading down the passage. "Are you going to just sit there or are you going to see where this thing goes?" She said looking back at Jeremy.

"O-okay…" Jeremy said quietly apparently stunned at what had just happened and followed Stella. "Stella I've got another question." He said once he got over his shock.

"What?"

"Why did you name your dog noodles?" Stella had to think for a moment.

"Because when I brought him home the first thing he ate was my brother's bowl of noodles." She laughed. "He jumped onto the table and ate the whole thing while Seth (Stella's brother) was in the bathroom. Then he left before my brother came back and Seth thought that the noodle fairy had taken his noodles away because he had been bad and dishonored the noodles." She laughed again this time Jeremy joined her.

"How old was he five?"

"No at that time he was in college." She said. "And he still actually believes that there's a noodle fairy. He even has a shrine in his closet to appease it." Jeremy didn't say anything for a minute. "He even got Carrot and Adele to believe in it and they bring sauce to it every Thursday."

"Wait a minute you've got a sister named Carrot?" Jeremy said thinking about how weird it would be to be named after a vegetable.

"No we just call her that her real name's Carol."

"So why do you call her Carrot?"

"Her hair is orange and she always wears green plus she loves carrots. I have no idea why though." Stella shrugged and kept on going as Jeremy stopped.

"Her family's weird." He finally decided as he went on moving.


"Ulrich can we…?" Odd began to ask.

"Whatever it is no." Ulrich said as he lay on the ground.

"But I'm bored." Odd wined.

"So am I but I'm still not going to do whatever you came up with." Ulrich said staring at the sky even though there was nothing to look at.

"Come on."

"No." Ulrich said trying to end the conversation.

"Why don't we talk about something then?" Odd suggested.

"Alright. Can you think of anything?" Ulrich said sitting up and looking at Odd. Odd had to think for a while since they had already talked about anything that he could think of.

"Uh…" Odd said still thinking. "No. Man I'm bored. Hay maybe we can talk about how bored we are." Odd joked.

"Pass." Ulrich said laying back down.

"Right now I think I'd prefer a XANA attack to this." Odd said. He began to walk toward the tower. "I'm going to see what Aelita is doing." Odd walked forward and hit the tower. "What the?" Odd said feeling the base of the tower. "Ulrich the tower wont let me in." Ulrich got up.

"Really let me try." Ulrich walked to the tower and put his hand out trying to get into the tower but got the same result as Odd. "Odd are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"If your thinking that we should attack the tower than yes."

"No." Ulrich said shaking his head. "I was thinking that if we can't get in than maybe Aelita can't get out." Both boys heard a sound behind them and turned to see a crabbe and two megatanks getting ready to fire at them. "Odd." Ulrich said as he pulled out his swords.

"Yeah." Odd got ready to fire.

"I think you just got what you wanted." The megatanks fired and the two boys dodged and hid behind a rock nearby.

"So what should we do?" Ulrich asked.

"I think we should attack them." Odd said coming out from behind the rock. "BANZAI!"

"Odd!" Ulrich yelled but Odd didn't hear him and headed toward the Crabbe. Odd dodged the lasers as he ran at it on all fours. He stood up on two legs as he fired three laser arrows. They all missed, but the Crabbe's laser didn't. It hit Odd's leg and Odd felt something strange as it hit. Not because he hadn't felt it before but because he had never felt it on Lyoko. It hurt.

Odd realized that something must be wrong and went back to the rock that Ulrich was still hiding behind.

"What's wrong I thought you were going to attack them?" Ulrich said. "It's not like you to retreat after you got hit by one laser."

"Hay I didn't retreat I just felt that something was wrong." Odd said as he held the part that the laser hit. "When the laser hit my leg it hurt. I know that that's not a good sign."

"What? That's not normal usually we just loose a couple of life points." Ulrich said.

"Wow smart guy did you figure that out on your own." Odd said.

"Hay I wasn't the one who charged into a group of monsters and got his leg hurt."

"Whatever. So what should we do. I don't think it would be a good idea to get hit again especially by one of those megatanks." Odd said looking over the top of the rock to make sure that the monsters hadn't followed him. Instead they were attacking the tower. "Ulrich there attacking the tower that Aelita's in!"

"What?" Ulrich looked over the rock.

"I don't think that's a good thing either." Odd said.

"Alright I don't know what they are doing but it can't be good." Ulrich said apparently ignoring Odd. "But whatever it is we have to stop them." He said pulling out both of his swords.


"YES WERE OUT!" Stella shouted as her passage led them back to the sewers and out of the maze of roots. "Who's good!" She said gloating. "I told you Four Eyes! I told you the root was important!"

"Yeah yeah." Jeremy said brushing off imaginary dust.

"Your just embarrassed that I was right." Stella said.

"Lets just get to the factory." Jeremy said ignoring Stella and walking forward. Stella soon followed him humming something and dancing around in circles all the way to the end of the tunnel.


"Alright it's been almost a half hour already." Yumi said. "Can you think of anything?"

"No you?" Yuri said checking to see where the monster was again and noticed that REXA had vanished.

"If I thought of something then I wouldn't be asking you if you thought of something." Yumi said annoyed.

"Whatever. Franz, can you think of anything?" Yuri said ignoring Yumi and looking at what she thought was the sky.

"No." Franz's voice said from no apparent source.

"Well this is just great." Yuri said holding her head with her hand. "Is my aunt still there?" She asked Franz.

"Yeah why?"

"Ask her what we should do."

"What!" Yumi yelled. "Are you crazy! She has nothing to do with Lyoko! In fact you should be happy your even here! Plus she's crazy if you haven't noticed!" That was it for Yuri.

"Look she's good at figuring out things even if her solutions are a bit strange!" Yuri yelled as loud if not louder than Yumi. "Anyway it couldn't hurt."

"All she said was Froggy." Franz said sounding confused.

"What? Frogs eat bugs!" Mica yelled in the background.


REXA materialized from a cloud of smoke in XANA's headquarters.

"They have yet to do anything lord XANA." She reported. "In fact they started running away from my pet."

"Good." XANA said. "and I have sent my servants after the humans on Lyoko. They should be destroyed soon." REXA sighed knowing more than she let on already planning what to do when this plan failed.

Jeremy and Stella ran into the computer lab as soon as the elevator opened. The first thing Stella noticed was that her mom was there. Jeremy only saw that there was someone there that shouldn't have been.

"Who's this and why is she here?" He asked Franz pointing at Mica. Franz was about to respond when…

"MOMMY!" Stella yelled hugging her mom.

"That answer your question?"

"But why is she here?"

"She followed us and me and Yuri both know that we could never stop her when she's curious." Franz said then continued in a whisper. "Besides we can always do a return trip and she wont remember a thing."

"But I thought that wasn't working." Jeremy said also whispering.

"Ah we'll fix it." Franz said looking at the screen.

"So how's it going over here?" Jeremy said voice going to it's normal volume.

"Well Yuri and Yumi are being chased by a giant mechanical worm and it's creator who calls herself REXA. They have no idea how to defeat them and I don't know how things are going on Lyoko." Franz said summarizing the situation.

"Wait so there's another virus like XANA?" Jeremy said confused as Stella and Mica stopped their random conversation to watch them and listen.

"Yeah and I'm guessing that she's on XANA's side."

"Speaking of XANA I want to check what's going on in Lyoko." Jeremy said trying to hide that he just wanted to talk to Aelita.

"He just wants to talk to his girlfriend." Stella said.

"I don't think that's a good idea." Franz said. "If we connect back to Lyoko then we might not be able to get back to were we are connected to now."

"What!" Jeremy yelled. "If we're not connected to Lyoko and someone's devirtualized then they could vanish forever!"

"If we don't get rid of the virus and they are devirtualized they will vanish forever!" Franz yelled standing up and taking off the headpiece.

"Nerd fight!" Stella yelled seeing that Franz and Jeremy were both mad at each other.

"We might lose Aelita!" Jeremy yelled.

"We might lose Yuri!" Franz yelled back.

Franz and Jeremy started yelling at each other at the same time so no one could understand what they were saying. Eventually Franz jumped on Jeremy and they started actually fighting.

"Nerd fight!" Stella and Mica started chanting as they watched the two boys fight.


"Well isn't that nice." Yuri said sarcastically after hearing Stella and Mica chanting Nerd fight. "The two smart people are pounding the other ones guts out while were here stuck in this situation with no idea how to get out." Suddenly Yuri thought of something and it showed on her face.

"Got an idea?" Yumi said looking at her.

"Guts…" She said quietly. Yumi just looked at her confused "Haven't got the guts to…" Yuri looked at the monster and saw that the blades only hit each other on a steady beat. "If I time it right then I should be able to hit the symbol." She said louder. "But I need speed." She muttered. "I've got it!" she said louder looking at Yumi.

"Got what?" Yumi said still confused.

"The answer. You need speed and timing to hit the symbol." She started climbing onto the front of the overbike. "So if I push off of this thing with all of my strength at the right time then I should be able to go straight through those blades and hit the symbol with my knife. That's why she said we lack guts the only way to do it is to risk getting devirtualized." She used the weightlessness of the area so she was perched like a frog on the front of the overbike ready to kick off.

"You cant do that your not even sure if it will work."

"I know, but what's life without taking some risks." Yuri said repeating the phrase that her uncle often said. "Wish me luck." She said gathering up her strength and her courage as she kicked as hard as she could knife in hand. She rocketed forward through the worms mouth and over the spinning blades. She looked forward at the blades at the back of the mouth which were just opening.

It took only a few seconds but for Yuri it seemed like forever. She went through the opening just in time and hit the Symbol with her knife. She put her legs against the back ready to kick off, but as she did so, she was shocked by electricity coming through her knife. She blacked out and was left floating still clinging onto the knife while Yumi had no idea if Yuri succeeded or not.

For Yuri it felt like a million memories passed in front of her eyes in a few seconds. She saw her parents laughing as she fell off a ball. Then it was Stella's mom giving a baby Stella a flower. Then Franz's dad doing something on the computer as Franz played outside. The Strangest thing was that these memories wernt her's and when she saw Franz's dad on the computer, it was like she was looking at him from the computer. She couldn't help but look at these memories. In Fact it was almost like they were trying to tell her something something important, but for some reason she couldn't understand what it was saying.


REXA held her head like she had a headache as she saw the same things that Yuri saw flash before her eyes. 'No.' she thought. 'I have to stop this. That brat cant see...' But it was to late for that it seemed since REXA had no control of whatever was happening.


Franz and Jeremy were still fighting, but Stella had gotten bored with it after a few minutes and decided to look at the computer since no one else was. Mica however seemed to be enjoying this very much. Stella put the headpiece on.

"Hello testing testing 1, 2, pi."

"Stella?" Yumi said.

"The one and only. So what's up?"

"Yuri went into the worms mouth and the worm stopped moving but Yuri hasn't come out." Yumi sounded worried. "Do you see her on the screen or is she in the scanners." Stella looked at the screen but couldn't tell what anything on it meant.

"Well she didn't come back here,and... Um... One minute." She went over to the fighting boys and looked at them for a minute. "Yuri went poof!" She yelled making the two boys stop fighting. One because he didn't understand what she just said and the other because he understood what Stella had just said.

"What?" They both said at the same time.

"Yuri went into the worms mouth and didn't come back." Stella said. "And she's not in the scanners."

"What!" Both boys yelled as they ran towards the computer. Franz got there first and sat in the chair.

"Yuri? Yuri?" Franz said into the headpiece. Mica went over to look at the screen knowing what would happen if anything happened to her brother's daughter while she was around. "Yuri can you hear me?"

"I cant see her on the screen." Jeremy said. "If she's there then the worm's dot is hiding her."

"Oh no." Franz said. "She's vanished. That's not good. That's not good." Franz got up from the chair and started pacing.


Yuri slowly stopped seeing memories and began to realize what they meant. They were all of her family and Franz's family, and they were all from the point of view of something electronic. For some reason REXA was spying on them. She didn't know how she knew it was REXA but she knew it. As the memories stopped coming she realized where she was and she could hear Franz saying 'That's not good' over and over again.


REXA Soon realized that her memories stopped coming. She didn't know how that girl had made her memories spill out like that but she would make sure that it didn't happen again.

"Lord XANA." She said. "They have defeated my pet."

"I will tell my servants to hurry and destroy the others."


Ulrich had just destroyed the first megatank and neither of them had any idea how many life points they had. A few seconds later Odd destroyed the Crabbe.

"Hay Ulrich!" Odd yelled looking at the last monster. "Ready for hay it's us!"

"Sure." Ulrich said running toward the megatank and stopped standing in front of it. The megatank opened ready to fire, but Odd jumped on top of it forcing it to roll so it's eye was in front of him. Odd fired a laser arrow at the eye and jumped off of the tank before it exploded.


"NO!" XANA yelled. "They destroyed my servants." REXA only smiled knowing that this was going to happen.

"Lord XANA?" She said. "I think I know of a way to defeat them."


:We were to busy fighting to notice that our friends needed us." Jeremy said his head down. "I think that we should agree to not do that ever again." He said looking at Franz who nodded.

"Alright promise?" he said holding out his hand toward Jeremy.

"Promise." Jeremy said shaking Franz's hand.

"Hay guy's." Yuri said. "Now that you agree that you shouldn't fight anymore can you get us out of here?"

"Alright Yuri." Jeremy said typeing in the devirtualization codes clearly not paying attention to what he was doing or who had just said that.

"Wait Yuri?" Franz said looking at the screen. "Your Okay."

"Yeah I'm fine." Yuri said. "But the monster isn't. I don't think it'll bother us anymore." Franz let out a sigh of relief. Jeremy devirtualized Yuri and Yumi and Franz connected them back with Lyoko.


"Interesting." XANA said after hearing REXA's plan. "Are you sure that this will work?"

"Positive." REXA said smiling evilly.


Odd, Aelita, and Ulrich stepped out of the scanners to see Yuri and Yumi waiting for them.

"It's okay Einstein." Yuri said. "They're all here in one piece. Including your girlfriend."

"She's not... well not tecnicaly... uh... just get up here." Jeremy said and even though none of them could see him they all knew that he was blushing. Yuri smiled as they went into the elevator and went to the computer lab.

"Okay I think that after that bug was destroyed that there wont be as many problems with Lyoko." Jeremy said refuseing to look at any of them since he was still blushing. "So I think that the return to the past will work." He started entering codes and once he was finished he held his finger over the enter button. "but incase it dosen't... Mrs. Bella?"

"Call me Mica." Mica said balanceing a pencil on her nose.

"Alright Mica, I want you to promise you wont tell anyone about Lyoko." Mica looked at him catching the pencil in her hand as it fell.

"Okay, I wont talk to anyone about Lyoko unless they already know about it's existance." She said with a straight face all the while staring at his eyes. "That good enough?" Jeremy nodded.

"Alright." Jeremy hit the enter button. "Return to the past now!" a white bubble engulfed them as they traveled back in time.


Okay that's the end of this chapter! NOW ON TO THE QUESTIONS ABOUT NEXT CHAPTER! THAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT!

What is REXA's plan?

How did Yuri know Jeremy's nickname when no one has said it around her? (Actually she said it before in chapter 9 after the fifth line and the sixth paragraph down when she was half asleep.)

Why was REXA spying on Yuri and Franz's families?

Why did Mica reword her promise?

Why does Stella's brother believe in a noodle fairy? (I like the noodle fairy... I started laughing when I wrote it)

Well that's all I can think of so bye until the next chapter!