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Harry, Odd, Ulrich and Yumi were fighting off several Bloks. Ulrich defeated one.

"Harry, Aelita, decide which one of you is deactivating the tower!"

The two looked at each other.

"You do it Harry."

Harry nodded and finished off the Blok he was fighting.

"You really need to stop teasing the monsters," said Jeremy.

Odd destroyed the last two monsters.

"Yeah! He's amazing, how does he do it? The crowd is going wild! Thank you, thank you!" Odd started to jump around.

"Odd! Odd, cut it out, will you? There's a third Blok!" said Jeremy as he looked at the screen.

"Huh, a third one?"

Odd got hit several times.

"Odd, one impact and it is game over!" warned Jeremy. "Ten more life points."

Harry destroyed the monster and walked into the tower. He placed his palm on the screen.

Harry

Code

Lyoko

"Return to the past now."

Earlier

"Harry?"

"Present."

"Jeremy?"

"Present. Hey, great work, guys! You were better than ever! Huh?"

He turned around and the two boys weren't there.

"Odd? Odd? …Odd? Odd's absent? Well, and so is Ulrich!" exclaimed Ms Hertz as she looked over to their seats. Harry clutched his head.

"Xana's up to something," he whispered.

Elsewhere

"Harry?"

"Present."

"Jeremy?"

"Present."

"Odd?"

"Present. Hey, that was great work, Einstein! You were never better! You too Harry."

Jeremy and Harry ignored him.

"What's up with them?" wondered Ulrich.

"Odd! Ulrich!"

Here, ma'am!" Said the two boys at the same time.

"I know that! What I do not know is what you have to say to each other that's so interesting!"

"They'd asked me if I'd noticed…that with all due respect, ma'am, the Brouwer equation you wrote on the blackboard is wrong," said Jeremy.

"What?"

"It's not wrong from a mathematical point of view, but it fails to take into account Bronsky's theory on the phenomenon of compared masses. You should treat the second unknown element as a squared mass, not a factorial," explained Jeremy as Ms Hertz looked at the board.

"Hm…why yes, you're…you're absolutely right! I'm sorry about that!"

Earth

"Jeremy, Harry, would you know where Ulrich and Odd are?"

"I thought they were coming to lesson," said Harry as he and Jeremy ran out the room and to where Yumi's class was.

"This is weird, I don't believe it! Yumi's gone too!" said Jeremy as they peered in. They ran to the boy's dorm and looked in. Empty. They crossed the corridor to their dorm.

"Aelita! Aelita, Ulrich, Odd and Yumi…tell me that they're with you…" pleaded Jeremy as he started up the computer.

"Why? Didn't they come back from Lyoko?" asked Aelita.

"No, Aelita! We've lost them! Something must have gone wrong in the return trip!"

"Calm down Jeremy."

"I know what happened to them," said Harry. They looked at him. "Something beginning with X..."

"Xana? You think it's Xana?" asked Jeremy.

"This is something he'd would do," said Harry as he concentrated. "They're alive. I can tell that much."

They didn't notice Jim standing in the doorway.

"Do you mind telling me what you're doing here?" asked Jim.

"Err…."

Elsewhere

"All the world's a stage and all the men and women are merely players," said the teacher. "They have their entrances and…."

The teacher flickered and said "All the world's a stage and all the men and women are merely players. They have their entrances and…"

"You guys ok?" asked Yumi as she leaned against the bench.

"As ok as two guys can be with two hours of bio ahead of them," said Odd.

"Anyone know why they're sulking?" asked Yumi as she looked at Jeremy and Harry.

"Nope."

"Listen, something really strange happened in English class. The teacher flickered and repeated what she said. Like a broken record! But it only lasted a second!" said Yumi.

"And what, you're thinking that it could be Xana?" asked Ulrich.

"I really don't know, Ulrich, but it sure wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on things!"

Jeremy and Harry were watching them.

Lyoko

Aelita looked around the deserted desert sector. "Nobody. Pulsations?! Xana!"

She ran to a way tower and changed sectors to the mountain region. She ran to a crossroads and looked around. She sat down on a rock.

"Jeremy…"

Principal's office

"Jeremy, Harry, this is very serious. Everyone is concerned. Are you sure you don't know where they are?" asked Delmas.

Harry shook his head. "The last time I saw them was when we headed to class."

"No, sir, we..." started Jeremy.

"As I'm sure you can imagine, their parents are worried sick!"

"We already said that we don't know where they are," said Harry.

"Please think about it. The smallest clue could be a great help. You five are always together."

"Alright, sir. We'll think about it, but we need to be alone," said Jeremy as Harry's laptop bleeped.

"You have an awful lot of nerve, young man! However, if it's the only way to bring you to your senses…I'll give you three minutes!"

Outside

"What's up Aelita?" asked Harry.

"I'm sorry for both of you but they're not on Lyoko. There's an activated tower but I can't locate it. I need you to come to the factory."

"That's impossible. We're stuck in the principal's office," said Jeremy. "I'm sure Harry could get us out but I don't want Delmas and Jim to find out about him."

"Don't worry, I'll help you get out of there. Yes, Jeremy, just like Xana, I can operate on the school's network as well. Listen closely now."

She outlined her plan.

"Get on with it then," said Harry.

"I'm sure Jeremie knows more than he's saying…" said Delmas as he walked own the corridor.

"Should we call the police?" asked Jim.

"We thought it over," said Jeremy. "We'll tell you where they are."

Elsewhere

"Didn't I tell you?" asked Odd as they sat in the lunch room.

"No."

"I didn't do wheels because I broke them. I went to the guys selling them… Ohhh, hey, Sissi! Did you use canary feathers in the washing machine instead of soap?" asked Odd as Sissi walked past.

"That is so dumb! I'll have you know that yellow is the in colour this year! Hmph!" exclaimed Sissi.

"Hahahaha! What a dope!"

They heard a sizzling noise and everyone around them repeated themselves.

"Hey, did you hear that?" asked Yumi.

"I sure did…"

"That is so dumb! I'll have you know that yellow is the in colour this year! Hmph!" repeated Sissi

"I didn't say anything that time!" said Odd.

"We have a problem," said Yumi as Jeremy and Harry typed away at their laptops. They glanced over at the same time.

Earth

Jeremy and Harry lead them to the boiler room.

"But there's nobody here," said Delmas, stating the obvious.

"We have to wait a little while," said Jeremy confidently. The adults looked at him. "They'll be here any minute now."

Steam started to come out of the boiler as Delmas looked at his watch.

"Well, where are they?!"

The boiler started to explode. The adults leapt out of the way and ran out of the room, coughing. Jeremy and Harry used the distraction to get away.

"Jeremy…" they went back in. "Where have they gone? They can't just disappear."

Factory

"Aelita, thanks for giving us a hand," said Jeremy a they went down in the elevator.

"I hope you realise that if…if you don't detect anything alive on the scanners, it'll mean that…" Aelita trailed off.

"Yes, I know…we'll find out soon enough…" said Jeremy as he exited to the scanners. "Empty!"

Lab

They aren't there," said Jeremy as he sat down at the computer. "I don't get it. If they're not here and not on Lyoko, then where are they?"

"They're not stuck in limbo, are they?" asked Harry.

"No. they aren't there Harry. Just before you got here, I captured this sound bite. A sort of radio are TV station transmission. But be careful. It was really bizarre. Let me show you."

A video opened in a new window. In it was Jim and a class and they could see Odd and Ulrich.

"That's crazy!"

Elsewhere

The class was doing stretches.

"One and two, one and two…"

Yumi was watching. She noticed Jeremy and Harry on their laptops. Herb and Nicholas started to fight before flickering and repeating themselves.

"It happened again… and it's happening all the time."

She looked over at the two boys again. "Jeremy and Harry…"

Earth

"What am I looking at? They didn't come back to Earth, did they?" asked Jeremy.

"Looks like they didn't," said Harry

"What if what we're seeing is a recording?" asked Aelita.

"But how can that be, Aelita? We're in the picture!"

Elsewhere

"There are weird things happening!" said Yumi as she walked over to the two. "Any news from Aelita?"

"I'm having difficulty contacting her! I have no idea if there's an activated tower or not, but at the slightest alert, we'll have to move in," said Jeremy, eyes glued to the screen.

"Hey, how come you're not doing phys ed., Jeremy?" asked Yumi suspiciously. "You too Harry.

"Jim agreed to excuse us."

"He did? That's weird…you're not exactly a star athlete."

"You've gotta know how to handle him!" said Harry as they looked over at the class. "Not like them…"

"Incredible…" Yumi muttered as she walked away.

Earth

"It sure isn't a tape, it's happening somewhere right now. They're neither in Lyoko, nor in the real world, they're somewhere else…" mused Jeremy.

"Yes, I know but, I've checked all the transfer protocol data, and unless a sort of parallel world exists somewhere…there's no such thing as an intermediate space!" said Aelita.

"Unless Xana has manufactured one! That's it, a world parallel to Lyoko! And he must have modelled it after the school, he couldn't have made a better trap. Yumi and the others think they're in reality, but it's only an illusion. They're living under Xana's control completely at his mercy! We've gotta rescue them!" exclaimed Jeremy. "Find out where the signal is coming from."

"I've been trying too but it's scrambled. All we have is a sound bite and not the signal itself."

"Hang on a moment," interrupted Harry. "How come I returned to earth? I mean, Xana would want to get all of us out of the picture."

"It could be that you were in the tower," said Jeremy thoughtfully. "Or your magic allowed you to slip past Xana's trap. Or it's an integral part of your avatar. I mean, ninjas are supposed to be sneaky. To get to the prison, we'll have to use the bite to home in on it. Dive towards the source by using trial and error system. Harry, can you program the scanners to do that?"

Harry leaned across and started to type away at the computer.

"But that's crazy and you know it! And besides…who could do it? We're all alone, Jeremy, and-" said Aelita.

"It's going to have to be me and Harry. If you take over the controls, then we'll be able to go," said Jeremy.

"It's too dangerous!"

"I eat danger for breakfast! You can't deny me the right to rescue my brother Aelita."

"We can't leave Ulrich and Yumi and Odd at the mercy of Xana! Think about it: if I'm here in front of you…who is the other Jeremie?" asked Jeremy.

"And the other Harry?" asked Harry.

"Aelita! There's something I want to tell you. I'd much rather be entering a virtual world, to find you waiting there for me," said Jeremy.

"So would I."

"Well, that's done," said Harry as he finished the program he was working on and the two walked down to the scanners.

"It's ok, Jeremie, I've prepared the transfer procedure. You can get into the scanner. Transfer Harry. Transfer Jeremy. Scanner Harry. Scanner Jeremie! Virtualisation!"

Virtual prison

Harry and Jeremy dropped out of the sky. Jeremy landed on his backside while Harry landed on his feet.

"This place is really realist," muttered Harry as he looked around.

"Aelita, can you answer me?" asked Jeremy as he righted his glasses. No answer. "That would be too easy."

"What did you think?" asked Harry as they started to walk towards the school. "Xana wanted to make this as realistic as possible. We don't here random people form thin air."

They didn't notice a flower turning into the eye of Xana.

'Ugh, there they are at last!' thought the fake Jeremy as he watched the two boys as Jim with whited out eyes and grey skin walked in. "We've got visitors, Jim!"

Lyoko

"That's got to be it," said Aelita as she saw a massive orange dome in the distance. "I'd better go have a closer look."

She jumped down from the ice structure and ran towards it.

Ulrich

"Yeah, Yumi's what you might call intuitive, but she can be wrong sometimes," said Odd as he read a magazine. "And let's face it, Ulrich, huh…any girl with a crush on you can't be what I'd call absolutely normal."

"What about Jeremy and Harry?" asked Ulrich. "I know for a fact that's not Harry's normal behaviour. I know he can be really quiet but he won't avoid his friends for absolutely no reason."

"Well, they have been acting a bit werid lately…" Odd's phone rang. "But to think he's been hiding a huge secret. Hello? Yumi, is that you?"

"It's stretd again but this time it's a lot worse than ever! It's at my own home."

"What's going on Yumi?" asked Ulrich.

"It's my parents. They're acting oddly. They keep making the same gestures," said Yumi as she watched them do it. "They act as if I'm not event there. It's as if they were phoney imitations of my parents. We've got to do something!"

"You'd better not stay there. We'll meet in the park and got to the factory. I'll warn Jeremy and Harry."

"No, not Jeremy or Harry. Just Odd, you and me, ok? Let's leave them out of it this time, I-I have my doubts…see ya." Yumi disconnected the call. Odd and Ulrich looked at each other.

Harry

Jeremy and Harry walked round the corner.

"Let's hope they're in their room." Jim's shadow appeared behind them. They looked at him and Jim threw Jeremy down the corridor. Harry pulled out his shuriken and threw them, only to see them fade.

"Uh oh."

They ran.

"I've got you! Soon I won't have any more obstacles!" exclaimed the fake Harry as he watched them run in the park.

Lyoko

"I only hope it's not too late," said Aelita as she walked up to the dome. It emitted as whirring noise.

Virtual prison

"What about Jeremy and Harry?" asked Yumi as the three met up.

"We didn't tell them," said Ulrich. "But once we get to the factory, we can't get to Lyoko without at least one of them. They're the only ones who can use the computer after all."

"We'll see when we get there, but I'm afraid they can't be trusted!"

They heard a rustling noise.

"Must have been a squirrel."

They didn't notice Nicholas and Herb hiding behind a tree, looking at them with whited out eyes.

"Come on, let's go," said Odd as he pulled the cover of the manhole off.

Jeremy and Harry ran down a path that was a little further down from them.

"Oh no, too late," said Jeremy as he looked at them. Harry looked at Jim who was a little further down from them. They started to run again. Nicholas and Herb jumped in front of them. They shoved through.

Lyoko

Aelita looked inside the dome.

Virtual prison

"Out of my way," said Jim as he ran past the Herb and Nicholas zombies.

"For a program, you're a pretty good imitation!" Jeremy said to Jim as he caught up. "Harry, can you go any faster?"

Harry disappeared and reappeared. "Yep. Xana can't stop that so easily."

Night drew in and they eventually climbed a wall and ran off towards the factory. The moon flickered.

Lab

"I don't understand, there's no link!" exclaimed Yumi as she looked at the results on the screen. "It's like Lyoko didn't exist anymore!"

"And that might be exactly what has happened," said Jeremy as he and Harry appeared out of nowhere. They looked at them.

"Jeremy! Harry! What are you doing here?" asked Ulrich as they approached.

"We got a message from Aelita," said Jeremy. "A tower has just been activated."

"She said something about a program to erase Lyoko." Said Harry. "We haven't heard from her since."

"Ok, we have to check this out Yumi," said Ulrich as he looked at Odd.

"Hey, wait a minute. The connection's down. Since the link isn't there, how do you intend to send us there?" asked Yumi suspiciously.

"I've created a new access protocol," said Harry. "All that is left is the scanners."

"So what are we waiting for?" asked Odd. Yumi looked at the two.

"Hold it Odd. I'm not too sure about this."

"What's wrong with you?" asked Jeremy. "It's Jeremy, Yumi. And Harry. Don't you trust us?"

"We've got to get moving," said Ulrich. "What if Lyoko does get erased? Have you thought about Aelita?"

"Look, you've got to believe me," said Jeremy. "You have to believe us. But if you have any doubts, let Odd and Ulrich go first."

They looked at the elevator as they heard it open.

"Yumi, you're right, it's a trap! Don't go!" warned Jeremy as the two boys walked into the lab.

"Xana, is that the best you can do? A cheap imitation to delay us?" asked the other Jeremy.

"He's lying! The phoneys are there, it's them! Everything here is phoney! You never came back from your last trip! You're in a virtual world created by Xana!" said Jeremy as he pointed at them.

"Please tell me you noticed," said Harry.

"Well, well. A fake me," said the other Harry. The real one glared at him.

"That would explain the inconsistencies," said Yumi.

"OF course it would. Xana isn't infallible. He can make mistakes too," said Harry as the other pair crossed their arms. "He only has theoretical knowledge of the real world. What he wants is to get you into the scanners so he can get rid of you forever."

"That's totally absurd, Xana!" said the fake Jeremy.

"It's true, we have no proof that he's not the one lying to us, right? He could've created the inconsistencies too!" said Ulrich.

"Exactly!" exclaimed Odd. "To hold us up while Aelita and Lyoko are being erased forever!"

"The only proof is the fact that we're here with you," said Jeremy.

"Apart from the fact that those two have been acting weirdly," Harry pointed out. "Ulrich, remember when we were young? You had a teddy called Mr Snuggles. And if I had programmed it, I would make sure that there wasn't any inconsistencies. If Xana erased Lyoko, wouldn't he be unable to get rid of us?"

Ulrich blushed as everyone looked at him. "Well, I think I know which the real Harry is."

"You have to decide which one of us is lying," said Jeremy.

"And it's not us. Assuming, as you claim, that this world is virtual, you mind telling us how you got here?" asked the fake Jeremy.

"We're listening, Xana!" exclaimed the fake Harry.

"We got in here via the scanner. We're here in virtual form!" said Jeremy.

"You gave yourself away. Everybody knows that the real Jeremie wouldn't step foot in the scanner, he'd be much too frightened! And if the real Harry was here, he'd look like a ninja, not look like his normal form."

"And I'm sure Jeremy would go into the scanner, if his friends were in danger. And Harry is an excellent programmer. He could easily create a fake layer to make him look normal," said Odd.

"No doubt about it!" agreed Ulrich.

"Absolutely none!" said Yumi.

"It's not logical, don't you see?" asked the fake Jeremy. "He's too scared to even try. I'm much too scared. If so, then why haven't I already done it?"

"I've told you why! Because he's not infallible! Xana's knowledge of people is only approximate!" said an exasperated Jeremy.

"And who said humans were logical?" asked Harry. "Jeremy doesn't refer to himself in the third person and he doesn't need to go over to Lyoko. Not with his friends going over."

"That's right," said Odd. "And as far as friendship goes, it's not approximate, it's double zero. Good to see you again, Einsteins."

"No, it's not logical. NOOOO! NOT LOGICAL!"

The fakes started to glow and levitate as Xana summoned the Jim, Herb and Nicholas zombies who latched onto Yumi, Odd and Ulrich. He then made the wires trap Jeremy. He tried to do the same for Harry who dodged and attacked the zombies with his bare hands.

"YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!"

"Aelita!"

Lyoko

Aelita heard the call. She knelt down and used her creativity, placing her hands on the bubble. The bubble exploded, shaking the entire sector.

Jeremy returned to earth. Xana went to who knows where.

"Wake up Ulrich," said Harry as he shook him. Aelita walked over.

"I got them back, all of them! Safe and sound! The parallel world bubble has disappeared!" said Aelita as they began to wake up.

"I don't remember anything, but I feel just great!" exclaimed Odd. "What happened?"

"Xana created a virtual prison," explained Harry. "He trapped you in it. I, Aelita and Jeremy did everything we could to save you."

"He locked us up. Unbelievable!" said Yumi.

"What? Jeremie came to Lyoko?" asked Odd. Aelita nodded. "Fantastic, Einstein! Join the daredevil heroes club!"

"Thanks, Odd!" Said Jeremy. "…look, it is Xana's welcoming committee!

"No need to worry, Jeremie, we're used to this. It's a piece of cake! Here we go! YE-HEAAAAH!" Yelled Ulrich as they ran towards the monsters.

"I suggest we do another return to the past after this," said Harry.