Sorry I didn't update in the week I forgot to say that I'm assisting to camp and I will be going this week too. I won't be able to update until next week. It took me a big effort to make this chapter. Sorry if it seems like a fill-in chapter, I've been sick for a few days now but I hope to get better and be able to concentrate on the next chapter. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 14: Answers

Odd's POV

It was strange coming back to school after a week. I noticed everyone had moved on. For the first time I had no clue of what was happening on Math class. Usually I would at least understand at least the basic part of each problem. It seems like everyone had let me behind. Even Jeremy was speaking about this new area called recovery area.

"Odd what about that new area you made?" Ulrich asked me at lunch.

"I don't know. Maybe we should call it after the creator," I replied to him with a smile.

"Not a chance," Yumi cut in. "I doubt the area would want to be called after you."

Aelita giggled. "I wonder if the foot of the towers have the same smell as his feet," I heard her mumble towards Jeremy. I clearly heard it. Jeremy gulped down his food as he held the laugh.

"I heard that," I said. Everyone laughed. William sat next to Sissy and started speaking to her. I frowned, "Hey, what's William doing speaking to Sissy. Everyone looked at them and then back to the table.

"I don't know," Ulrich said.

"Do you think they might be going out together?" Aelita asked.

Yumi shook her head, "I know William, he wouldn't go out with Sissy, and she is not his type."

"And Sissy may have no brain but she knows how William is," Ulrich replied.

"And how exactly is William?" Hunter asked sitting down next to me. Angelo sat across. The table was full now.

Ulrich didn't reply. "Okay since when do we gossip?" Yumi asked breaking the silence.

"Your right," Jeremy said. "I am almost done with the Skid."

"Do you mean we'll have our Ship back?" I beamed. I am ecstatic to go to a replika. I've been waiting to see my Lyoko self again in the real world.

"Well it's not that easy. You know, last time we lost the Skid and didn't have backup data because it was too much to store in disks," Jeremy said. "I didn't even have time to plan out a recovery program on Lyoko."

"Isn't teleportation possible on the virtual world?" Angelo asked Jeremy.

Jeremy thought for a moment. "There is but back then I had only managed to duplicate, make copies about a same thing."

"Then why didn't you make a copy of the Skid?" Hunter inquired.

"Because it's too much data to duplicate with just one program, I would need to activate more than ten towers to make that," Jeremy replied. He looked up from his food. "The Skid wasn't a normal Ship. Franz designed it especially for traveling through the net. Until now I could manage a shield for the vehicles but we won't be able to use them again to travel."

Aelita frowned with concern, "Why not?"

"Because," Jeremy explained, "I had to sacrifice one of the shields to distribute it along all the vehicles. I have to build that shield again from scratch for the new Skid. At least I have the notes and that has made work easier."

"You haven't asked me for help," Aelita mentioned.

He sighed with a slow nod. "The reason is because I wanted to do something on my own. I wanted to surprise you all and not be some useless member of the group."

"You're not useless. If it weren't for you I'd still be lost," I reminded him. He smiled at me widely.

"I would still be in Lyoko if you hadn't gone to the factory that day and started up the supercomputer," Aelita added kissing his cheek. That made him blush violently.

"Maybe I'd still be without friends," Yumi said with a small smile.

"Maybe we'd still be on Eonor, trapped and under Lexia's rules," Hunter said picking up a piece of chicken.

"We would still be lost, and your world too," Angelo smirked.

"So you are important for the group," Ulrich said. "What I want to know I is what William is doing sitting with Sissy Delmas alone? Does he even know what Sissy did to us when we first discovered Lyoko?"

"Don't think so," Yumi glanced back at them and then looked down to the table.

William's POV

I was sitting with Sissy on the cafeteria. I could sense people behind me staring and I knew they were going to start a gossip about me and Sissy. So what if I liked her? She was cute and now that she lost her friends she seems more mature. To my surprise she spends less time walking around looking like a model and more time at the library reading her notes and studying. She said that she now understands a bit more about math. I've been helping her out on those classes even if those aren't my strength but to my surprise I could calculate faster than before. It was as if I had a computer on my mind. Maybe it's the Xana thing.

We walked out to the campus after a few minutes and then we went to our classes. As always boring. I had an easy test on history and a quiz in Math.

After classes I met up with Sissy at the dorms. We were on her room, not doing anything bad, just talking. We laughed, not too hard, and kissed, but apart from that nothing. She was sweet. We could be talking and nothing would interrupt our little bubble.

My phone rang. I took it out to see a message that said Lexia. Damn this AI.

I looked up at Sissy, "Um, I have to go," I said lowly.

She frowned with concern and hurt like if I was leaving her forever. "Why?"

"I have something to do," I stood up and picked my jacket and slipped it on.

"Can I go with you?" she inquired.

I shook my head, "Sorry, you can't, I'll be back later."

"You aren't going to sell drugs, are you?" she demanded with her hands on her hips.

"What? No, I just have to do something with some friends. I'll be back," I opened the door.

"Playing a prank?" she asked.

"To Herb," I lied.

She smiled, "Go for him," she said and I closed the door and walked out of the dorms. I went to the sewers and took my skateboard and started down to path towards the factory.

I got there just in time to see Jeremy hustling me to get to the scanners. He was alone. He typed something and came with me. We went down to the Scanners and took our positions. A few seconds later the process started and we were virtualized in Lyoko.

We were in the mountain sector. Jeremy was next to me in his elfish style. I was told that before he looked more like a street fighter. Wonder how he looked. We started running towards the north. I followed him with my blade on my hand. I still didn't know how to hide it. I am aware that I could under Xana's control but not now. I couldn't find a code to activate it.

After a few minutes of walking Jeremy started speaking. "Lexia is attacking. She is guarding a tower and we can't deactivate her because of Meiah." I had met Meiah before but under Lexia's command. I knew she wasn't conscious of what she was doing but I knew she felt trapped. That made me angry but I knew nothing about how to get her back. Lexia had different codes from Xana. I had no start to get her back.

We got to the war Zone. There was a tight barrier of those monsters that I think they were called crawlers. They were attacking. I called a few creatures for help and started helping the others.

After a few minutes of fighting I decided to make my shot. "Life sprint," I whispered and made my way towards the tower. I was in front of it now. Meiah, was in the field fighting. I walked through the tower and walked to the middle. I ascended to the second floor and entered my code.

WILLIAM, CODE, LYOKO

I sighed. The tower had been deactivated. I jumped down and walked out of the tower. The fight was still going on. Meiah was now looking my way with fire in her eyes that seemed to want to kill me. I smiled at her. I swung my sword as fast as I could. The cut was enough to kill a few of the monsters but enough to have an advantage over Lexia. Then I heard the buzzing sound of hornets. I smiled and called a few for myself. This was going to be a good fight.

After a few minutes we had all the monsters dead and Meiah looking at us infuriated and attacking with her whip. It had caught fire. After a few minutes we got to beat her and she had no other option but to retreat.

Jeremy's POV

It seemed as a dream. William could deactivate towers just like Aelita which meant that we were double covered. Meiah had gone back to wherever Lexia wanted her. We were now alone in Lyoko.

"This is the first time we beat Lexia that easy," Angelo said.

"I agree," Hunter turned and looked at the tower. "So there are two who can deactivate them?"

"Seems so," Ulrich said. "What do we do now?"

"Do you want to stay here in Lyoko or do you prefer to get devirtualized?" I asked him.

"I have things to do," William said. I knew that thing had something to do with Sissy.

Yumi stepped up, "Okay, can you tell us what is going on between you and Sissy?"

"None of your business," he said and raised his hand with his sword up. His own hornets shot at him and he pixelized.

"Think he loves her?" Ulrich suggested.

"Maybe, but that's none of our business," I said and started walking. "Let's check around Lyoko. We too have to check the Core in case of an attack.

Yumi's POV

This was odd. I knew William would do something like this. It was late at night. We were walking home but I decided to drop out at the dorms. The rest were already on theirs. I walked to William's and knocked on the door. He opened and was surprised to see me there.

"Yumi," he said, he was obviously not expecting me to drop around here.

I walked in without waiting for an invitation. I knew it looked wrong and it was against rules but I wanted answers. William looked out and both ways and closed the door.

He sat on the bed. "What brings you here?" he asked, I would call that way "innocently".

"I just wanted answers," I assured. "If you can provide me with some."

"About Sissy," he nodded waiting for my reply. I nodded. He sighed. "She lost her friends. She's not the same whore of the school. She has been doing better and until now I'm her only friend."

"Do you know what are you doing?" I asked him looking at his eyes.

He nodded. "I am perfectly concerned on where I am standing. What is your problem with me being with Sissy? Are you jealous now that you don't have two boys fighting over you? Hey, I don't know how but I fell in love with her. Are you going to go against it?" I was pulled back by his accusation.

"No," I said lowly but careful with my speed. I wasn't jealous but my tone could make him have the wrong idea of what I thought. "It's just that one day you are with us and the next you are alone and all of a sudden we see you with Sissy. Since when?"

"A few days ago," I said. "Um, I will tell you something but you can't tell anyone." I nodded waiting for him to continue. "The other day I found Herb on Sissy's room. He was in her closet looking through her private clothing." Ew, what a pervert. "I kicked him out. Ever since then Sissy has been following me and then we started hanging out and now we are in love. I love her. I will protect her. From anything," he assured me.

I nodded. "Then I guess that is all I need to know. Just make sure you don't tell her our secret. Last time she knew she freaked out and called the police and the principal to the factory and almost blew our work," I made sure he understood my words. I opened the door and headed home. It was late but I would just tell my parents I was studying late.

Leiah's POV

I was just putting Xohan on his crib when the nurse walked in. "Leiah, I need to talk to you," she said. I turned with a smile. She was nice. One of the nicest and bravest persons I had ever met.

"What is that about?" I asked her.

She bit her lip and sat down. "Well, Leiah, I can't have you here for much longer. You see, my husband isn't all that thrilled with me having you here. I tried to convince him and he will give you a few more days." The smile in my face melted. I was concerned of what she was tealking about. "I believe you are already recovered from birth."

I looked down at my stomach, it still wasn't flat enough, "I'm still fat," I told her.

She nodded, "Don't worry, I have begun to speak with the principal about my proposition."

"How did he react?" I asked searching for a hint of hope in her expression.

"Honey, he is giving it thought. He asked about the daycare and I told him I was a volunteer. He said that it wasn't safe for babies to be around sick children. He was right about that but then I made another proposition," her tone was encouraging and hope began to build up in me again.

"What was it?" I asked thrilled about what she would sat next.

"Hire another nurse. An assistant, he said he would think about it."

I nodded. "Korran is working hard for our child. He goes to work nearly every day."

The nurse smiled. "I know he does. Did he find an apartment?"

I nodded. "He found one but it's only for one person. He said that it's bigger than the house we had back in Xohan but that he would feel better if I go to this boarding school instead. He said it would be hard to feed us and maintain the whole house by himself."

"Maybe if he shaved he would pass as a ninth grader," she suggested with a smile.

I looked at her horror struck. "That hair in his face grows with him. It won't get longer. And that his honor. The honor of all the people of third kind, all the men at least, women did not have that. Just their claws."

She nodded. "Okay, then, you will be assisting the school by next week if everything goes okay and as planned." I nodded. She turned and was ready to leave.

"Hey," I said when she was at the door. "Thanks for your help. I appreciate a lot what you have done for me and my child."

She smiled widely, "You're welcome. I am happy to help, good-night," she closed the door with a smile. I sighed and looked at my child. Xohan looked so peaceful sleeping. He wasn't human but neither was he alien. He had been born on Earth. Korran's mother would have been proud. Mine too but she died after my birth so I never got to know her. Still I knew she was proud of me.

I was walking in the air now. My feet didn't touch the ground. It was a gift that was given to me from my parents. It was the mutation us from first class had. Everyone was different in their own way but I was just like my mother. I could fight against gravity to stay on air for as long as I pleased. I wonder if Xohan had anything. And if he did I hope he gets something useful and that he can control with ease. I know of some people that had to be put in isolation because of their ability until they learned to control it. I wonder if humans can do the same. I had never know of humans that can do these stuff.

After a while I went to sleep. I was happy but I still felt as if Korran needed to be by my side. He was probably on the factory. I just wish he could be with me every night like before. It was comforting to have him. He made me feel safe. Now I felt cold and exposed in this room. Only the blankets were here, to keep me company. I hope everything turns out okay and that we find a way to defeat Lexia. I don't want another planet in destruction because of a stupid virus.

Sorry if the chapter wasn't that good but I couldn't concentrate that much. Having a runny nose isn't that comforting when you are writing a chapter. Please let me know what you think about my story so far. I am eager to know how I am doing and if you think I could better in something then tell me and I will work on it. Criticism is always accepted when it's for improving a story.

P.S. The OC are part of the story so I will include one of their POV every now and then. I already have a few surprises for the future.