A.N.: I'm back with more Virals! I'm sorry for the long wait. I have been writing crossovers that have nothing to do with Code Lyoko and I was having trouble posting them because when I clicked the crossover button on the publish story screen, the second catagory selection option thingy never showed up. So since I can't post my many crossovers(which fill my desktop until I can post them) I am coming back to my first story idea I've ever had when joining fanfiction. And that's The Virals! And for those of you who liked E.X.E.L. the most, I'm sorry but I have been planning on him betraying the Lyoko warriors since the beginning and I've only made him out as a good guy to make it more believable that he really is one and to have him gain the Lyoko warriors trust. (Which is hard to do when it comes to Jeremy) Anyway...enough stalling! On with the story!

Code Lyoko: The Virals

Episode 14: Failure

Disclaimer: If I owned it or its characters would I be here? No. I'd probably be on vacation in the Bahamas or something.

So far, it's been a week since the female fiasco and E.X.E.L.'s destruction. Nothing has gone right for the warriors. Jeremy has actually started failing in every class, Odd has been shot down by every girl in school(which isn't exactly new), Ulrich has been losing every soccer game(whether it's a game against another school or not), Yumi was always ruining her clothes just by standing around, and Aelita had the same problem as Jeremy.

It was easy to see why Aelita and Jeremy weren't doing so hot. The teachers stopped giving homework and tests and decided to ask the students questions for grades and not giving them enough time to answer. And guess who was the teachers' favorite. That's right, Jeremy and Aelita. They would ask them more questions than anyone. Aelita and Jeremy couldn't understand this at all. But one day, the teachers decided to give the classes a test again. All of the questions on the tests were short answer/extended response and when Jeremy got his test back, he almost lost it. Wait...did I say almost? Well scratch that. He DID lose it.

"What the hell?" Jeremy shouts at the science teacher. "What is with you teachers? You take tests out of our classes and ask us impossible questions that have nothing to do with the subject and don't give us enough time to answer! Now you give us a test out of nowhere and give me a zero because I didn't have it in the exact words you were looking for? What the hell is wrong with all of you?" Jeremy was more upset than most people, but who could blame him? Besides Lyoko, his schoolwork was the most important thing to him. Aelita wasn't quite as upset as Jeremy but close enough.

"Yeah! And you ask us more questions than everybody else! And without homework and other tests there's no way we can make it up!" Aelita yells.

"To the principal's office! Now!" Mrs. Hertz screams back.

The same thing happened in every one of their classes. Jeremy shouts at the teacher, Aelita backs him up, and the teacher gives them detention along with a trip to the principal's office. They ended up with enough detentions for every day for a month and still have some to spare.

Ulrich didn't have anyone to blame because it was him always messing up. Well, ocassionally one of the other players would trip him but they always claimed it to be an accident, or didn't remember doing it. The weird thing is, he could see pure sincerity in their eyes when they claimed they couldn't remember it.

For Odd, he couldn't figure out what was going on. Everytime he was going to ask out a girl, they shot him down right when he opned his mouth. And the strange part was, half the girls never even caught a glimpse of him and couldn't have even known he was there. He also wasn't doing good at skateboarding.

With Yumi, she had gone through a month's worth of clothes in two days. On the third day, she skipped school while her parents got her new clothes which got ruined as well. They weren't to happy to have to buy her five new wardrobes worth of clothing peices. I'm not talking outfits, I'm talking every single, separate peice of clothing fitting in five wardrobes.

On the day Jeremy and Aelita hit the jackpot of detentions, Yumi just happened to run out of clothes again. Ulrich broke his leg playing soccer because aparently someone on the other team thought they were playing football(American football) and tackled Ulrich for the ball. Odd broke his arm at a skateboarding competition on the same day by getting into a fight with another skateboarder. It was a...short fight to say the least. Odd finally did a move right and it happened to be better than a certain someone and that certain someone decided he'd get revenge on Odd by breaking his arm. He did this by hitting it with his skateboard as hard as possible. The people in charge asked what happened and Odd told them. His attacker didn't remember doing it so Odd was kicked out of the competition for blaming an injury on another competitor.

Odd hadn't seen the sincerity in his attacker's eyes and decided to try and get his own revenge by breaking that kid's leg. Unfortunately(and at the same time; fortunately) A cop had seen Odd trying to sneak up on the kid and grabbed Odd by the shoulder, right before Odd swung his skateboard at the kid with(with one arm if I might add) and threw him into the back of a policecar, after handcuffing him. Then the cop walked over to the kid and started talking, forgetting about the kid in the back of his patrol car.

X.E.R.O.X. chose this moment to make himself known. He got rid of the barrier he had around the tower he was using to ruin the warriors lives so the superscan could finally pick up the activated tower.

Jeremy hears beeping coming from his laptop, right in the middle of study hall. Jeremy had pulled his laptop out of its bag, only to have it taken away by Jim before he could look at the results of the superscan. "Now this is study hall young man. And that means homework only and be quiet!" Jim started walking away with Jeremy's laptop but soon tripped over the leg of a chair because a kid decided to get up at that moment. Jim fell and with his weight on the laptop he heard a crack. He brings himself up to find a horrorstricken Jeremy staring at what was left in his hands. Jim follows Jeremy's gaze and finds his laptop, broken on the hinge and a shattered screen. "That happened just because I fell on it?" He scratches his head in confusion. "Well that doesn't make any sense."

He decides to hand Jeremy back his laptop(which now had a couple of wires hanging out as well. Since Jeremy just continued to stare at it in horror, Jim put it on the table in front of Jeremy. "Um...sorry about that," Jim says in guilt.

Jeremy just stares at it for about a minute when Aelita decide to snap him out of his trance. "Jeremy? Remember? Superscan alarm? That means there's an activated tower,"she whispers to him. He stands up.

"Thanks a lot! I needed that for my homework! Now I have to go get a new laptop!" Jeremy runs out of the room.

"I need to go to the bathroom!" Aelita shouts as she follows Jeremy.

"Doesn't Jeremy have a computer in his room?" Jim asks no one in particular.

At the factory, two minutes later, "The others won't pick up so I'll call the guys in the States and see if they can help," Jeremy informs his friend. They were currently heading down to the computer room via elevator. Little did they know, X.E.R.O.X. had activated a second tower. Once they got there, and Jeremy got to the computer, he had discovered something. "Uh, I can't find the coordinates of the activated tower. But the superscan did pick up one, just no coordina-uh now there's two activated towers. I have the coordinates the the second one but not the first." Jeremy had his phone connected to the super-computer so he had called Mike while in the elevator and arranged for some reinfocements. "The new tower is in the mountain sector. I assume the other one is there too and this one is stalling us by stealthing the coordinates.

"Transfer Aelita. Scanner Aelita. Virtualization," Jeremy oh so nicely virtualized Aelita into the sector of mountains.

With Aelita, the States warriors only just arrived. "So we're escorting a princess to her castle?" Launie asks as they approach her.

"Yep. And there are two castles you must escort me to," Aelita plays along.

"Guys..." Cameron began.

"What is it Cameron?" Asks Phillip.

"It's the others. Jeremy's been telling Mike about what's been going on and Mike told me. It seems like your guys' luck has been turned upside down in the things you're normally good at. Well besides Odd's being shot down by every girl he asks out. And Odd and Ulrich were good in soccer and skateboarding. It makes me think...that the reason they wouldn't pick up is because something happened to them. Which leads me to the conclusion that a viral has been behind all of you guys' bad luck," Cameron explains.

"Well that would explain people's odd behavior," Aelita agrees.

"And also, I think it might be X.E.R.O.X." Cameron says in a lighter tone.

"What makes you say that?" Asks Launie. Cameron only points in response.

"He's decided to pay us a visit instead of the other way around," Cameron states. He virtualizes two sabers. There were hundreds of monsters. Not only that, but all of them were Anubis'. 'Wow. Haven't seen those ones in a while,' Cameron thinks privately. He then smirks. "This is too easy. Huh?" He looks beyond the monsters and sees hundreds of new monsters. "Nevermind." He then devirtualizes his two sabers and enters his curse mode. "My only option here." An Anubis' fires at Launie and takes out ninety-percent of his lifepoints. (I would hope you can figure that math out on your own)

"Ow! Geez! That hurt!" Launie shouts.

"Wait! What? Oh no!" Cameron exclaims. 'This was his plan all along. Get rid of the more experienced Lyoko warriors, lure Aelita to Lyoko, eliminate the new warriors so we aren't a threat, and take the keys to Lyoko from Aelita's memory! This was one giant trap!' "Jeremy! Bring up their vehicles! They need to get to the tower now! I'll hold them off!" A moment of silence. "Jeremy?"

"X.E.R.O.X. must've cut off our connection with Jeremy!" Aelita panics.

Cameron materializes three overboards himself. "Go! I'll hold them off!" The others nodded and each got on their own overboard. "Good luck!"

"Your the one who's gonna need the luck," Phillip says to his best friend.

"I'll be fine. This form is more powerful than my normal form remember? I'm more worried about you guys since if you lose your lifepoints, you're all gone forever!" Cameron says back.

"Yeah well we thought you were gone forever multiple times and yet here you are," says Phillip.

"Yeah. Me and Death don't get along well," Cameron jokes.

Then, Aelita, Launie, and Phillip take of towards the first tower.

"Well who's first?" Cameron asks the monsters. Then the new monsters suddenly jump over and in front of all of the Anubis'. "So...the new guy gets picked on first huh?" The new monsters then turn into a floor mounted window(like a floor mirror or whatever you call it). "Okay. And that's supposed t-" The Anubis' fire beams through each of the windows and they hit Cameron. Only he isn't hurt from the impact, he's hurt from the pain of a massive amount of negative energy entering his body. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Not again!"

With Aelita, Launie, and Phillip. Aelita had just deactivated the tower. "Guys? You there?"

"Jeremy? What happened? We couldn't contact you," Aelita.

"I don't know. I was sitting here, bringing up your vehicles when suddenly I lose my connection with Lyoko," Jeremy explains.

"Well do you have the coordinates for the other tower yet?" Phillip asks.

"Wait. You guys didn't find and deactivate the other one? But it's deactivated now," Jeremy is now puzzled.

"Well in any case, ou should launch a return to the past set for a week back. X.E.R.O.X. was most likely behind everyone's strange behavior and I don't want to have to make up all of our F's," Aelita says to Jeremy.

"Already on it," Jeremy complies. Then a bright white light consumes them all.

Back with Cameron, right before the RTTP. "They're about to launch a RTTP. Well I guess it's time," says a too familiar and haunting double-voice. "Now that I am back and my former master is gone, it's time I get rid of those pesky light warriors with my newfound power, once and for all." He thens forms a shield around him. "I cannot be affected by time travel in my darksheild."