(If you could read the following disclaimer, then congratulations, you figured that it is backwards)

.okoyL edoC nwo t'nod I

.ydissaC nwo od I

(If you couldn't, then Here is the forward disclaimer)

I don't own Code Lyoko.

I do own Cassidy.

Jeremie was working on the breaker/antivirus for five hours, but there was no sign of a break or an antivirus. Frustrated, he tried again.

Yumi, Cassidy (who was smiling and wasn't tired), and Ulrich came from the elevator.

Cassidy was holding something behind her back. She wanted to show the shape of whatever was behind her back.

Ulrich was curious. "What's that behind your back?"

Cassidy's eyes looked innocent. "Nothing."

Ulrich shrugged. It's probably nothing lethal if it looks like a scrap piece of paper. He turned to Jeremie.

"You look awfully down today. What's the problem?" Yumi asked.

"He's been working a little too hard on the breaker/antivirus, and decoding Franz's diary," Cassidy answered for her. "He hasn't moved a centimeter though."

"Just a question of time." Yumi smiled. Cassidy was the lead psychic in the group. She was good.

"And you?" asked Ulrich.

"The same nightmare that happened before Jeremie here went to Limbo," she sighed. She handed over the paper.

It looked clearer, but it didn't show any more detail. It looked a little off.

Ulrich looked up from the paper. "Uh, oh, okay, I think I know two people who need to air out their neurons a bit. And here's how we do it!"

"Odd's film?" Cassidy guessed.

Ulrich got a hint annoyed. For once will you give up on the psychic predictions?

"Nope." The now-the-same-age-as-Yumi girl smiled.

"Did you read his mind again?" Yumi asked.

"Am I that obvious?" she rolled her eyes.

"Hey! That's my line!" Jeremie smiled.

"Not for the moment," Cassidy teased.

"By the way, who's in the film?" Jeremie asked.

"No one knows. Even Cassidy clamped down on her psychic thoughts. She had gone off doing who-knows-what with Odd," Ulrich frowned.

"The director would like everyone in this factory to know that he does not like any of his workers to spoil," Cassidy spat back at Ulrich.

-Let's see what happens next-

Everyone was talking about Odd's newest film. Milly and Tamiya asked Cassidy a bunch of questions about the film but she kept her mouth firmly closed, but gave this little tidbit: "The director wants me to keep the film's plot, characters, et cetera, a secret. I'm sorry, girls, but Odd does not like a spoiler."

Soon everyone was in their seats.

Cassidy squirmed with excitement. She had a sparkle in her eye. Odd noticed right away and said to her, "'really excited about this, Cassidy?"

She nodded. "This will be totally cool," she squealed in a whisper.

Odd shushed her. One slip and the whole film's secrets would be the talk of the school, thus ruining it.

Chardin came up to the podium. "Welcome to the Kadic Academy's film club short film night!" He went on to list names (A/N: That the author does not know how to spell thanks to Chardin's accent).

Odd smiled at Cassidy. This was it.

Ulrich sat next to them. "How's it going, Odd? No butterflies yet?"

"Nope," Odd answered with zest.

"You'd never guess," Ulrich cracked.

The brown-haired girl had her bangs up in a clip. "Shhh! Chardin is talking."

"…into full length features," the aforementioned man continued, "which is why…"

Cassidy smiled and said to Odd, "It's coming! I can feel it!"

"You know it, Cat-Girl," Odd smiled.

"This short film is, was, and always will be an important out form," Chardin was babbling on, as happy as a clam, "which can say as much as full-length feature. Our first film is by Odd Della Robbia."

"It is coming now, just you wait, Odd," Cassidy spark-flashed.

"…and is titled, rather poetically, Natural Grandeur," He continued. "No one has seen it yet, but it is enough to imagine…" something "…on the fragility of our ecosystem, which…" He stopped when the film started to roll. (A/N: *As Niles* PRAISE THE LORD)

Odd was onscreen first, running down the dormitory hallway, in a panic. He was running away from something, but was stopped by a cosplay of Jim.

"What's all this racket about, huh?" Romain, playing Jim, asked the Odd onscreen.

Everyone started laughing, including the real Jim until he realized who he was laughing at.

"We have to get out of here," the Odd on the screen had a close-up. "She-she's coming! I tell you: She's—she's bigger than life! We gotta get out of here! Her almost-correct Southern accent is a horror. She can knit a GIANT SCARF!"

Cassidy smiled and laughed. Odd could make anyone laugh, well, except Ulrich, but she still laughed at his (deemed bad by Ulrich) good jokes.

"Are you crazy, Della Robbia? Do you know how tall that would make her?" Romain kept his Jim accent from slipping. "I think you've lost your senses. Alright, let's go to the infirmary."

Everyone was laughing, even Odd (the director) himself. The comedy in the film knocked everybody's socks (or shoes) off.

Odd onscreen tried to resist Romain's grip. "NO!" The two went outside the dorm building. Then the ground began shaking underneath their feet.

"It's too late! SHE'S FOUND US!" Odd onscreen yelled.

Cassidy came onscreen as a giantess. She had a pair of knitting needles in the shorts pocket and a skein of yarn in one hand.

Odd and Romain backed up.

Cassidy off-screen was laughing so hard her glasses came off. Jeremie, in between chuckles, grabbed her glasses and helped put them back on.

The Cassidy onscreen looked at one hand. "Oh, shoot! I think I broke a nail. Darn them trees." She used her almost-correct Southern accent.

Off-screen everyone was in stitches, laughing super hard at the film. Cassidy and Sissi were too.

Onscreen, Cassidy's big hand reached for Odd and Romain.

But then Jim, who was now laughing again, accidentally slipped and ended up cutting the film shorter than usual.

Cassidy was trying for recovery but none came for her yet.

Sissi, who was still laughing came up to Odd as he recovered. "ODD, that film was—" A ghost similar to XANA's was circling around her—"the—was the—" the ghost entered. Sissi tried to make words come out of her mouth, but all that came was gibberish.

Cassidy recovered then. She blinked a few times to clear the tears of laughter from her eyes. She stood up as if she left her brain in the chair and grabbed Sissi's arm.

Cassidy's eyes went blank as if she was seeing something, but she wasn't. Together they walked toward Jeremie and Cassidy started speaking backwards. Sissi translated: "I can help you. I want to enter into contact with you now! I'm Franz Hopper. I can help you."

"I think they've lost their senses," Jim said aloud.

Cassidy gasped. She said something backwards, and Sissi said, "No. No."

She tried speaking with Spanish, but utterly failed as Sissi did not know that language.

"Atilea (1)," Cassidy tried saying Aelita's name.

Aelita's eyebrows rose. "What?"

Cassidy whispered something backwards to Sissi. The girl gasped and slapped the psychic across the face.

"What did she say?" Aelita asked Sissi.

"She insulted me."

"Ti ot desu teg llew heay," Cassidy muttered.

"What?" Ulrich asked.

"Yeah, well, get used to it," Sissi translated.

Yumi whispered to Cassidy, "Do you think it could be XANA?"

"Eimerej ksa," Cassidy muttered.

"Ask Jeremie," Sissi translated.

Just then the presence caught up with the two girls and Cassidy was able to let go of Sissi's arm.

"I think it must be the one who must not be named here in the auditorium," Cassidy said, back with speaking forward.

"What is the meaning of this?" Mr. Delmas asked.

"Nothing sir," Yumi told him.

Sissi started speaking backwards then.

"Is something wrong, Sweetheart?" Mr. Delmas asked, hands on her shoulders.

She kept speaking backwards. And it seemed to be the same message over and over again.

Jim came forward. "I'll take care of this, Mr. Delmas." He took Sissi in his hands. "I think you've lost your senses. Alright, let's go to the infirmary."

Everyone started to laugh. Odd's film was reminiscent in their minds.

That didn't help matters. Mr. Delmas waved his hands around trying to calm the students down. "Alright, children, I want each of you to go quietly back to your rooms." He turned around to Jim. "Jim, you take care of the students. I'll take Sissi to the infirmary."

Yumi then repeated the question to Jeremie. "Do you think it's XANA?"

-Jeremie's room-

The super-scan was up and Jeremie was running it. "Nope, no activated towers—XANA's got nothing to do with it."

"I can hardly believe that Sissi and I were like a sound wave," Cassidy shuddered.

"No kidding, Danger Psychic. By the way, you did wonderful in Natural Grandeur. You really hit it off," Odd nudged Cassidy in the arm.

"Thanks, you did too. Great job on the panicked look," Cassidy complimented.

"Hey! It was thanks to your help that I looked natural," Odd shot back with a smile.

"And it was thanks to yours that I didn't look at the camera," Cassidy smiled.

Yumi walked in. "The nurse said that Sissi received an electric charge. She's in shock but fine. There's nothing to worry about."

"Good, but the way that I received her backward talk," Cassidy shuddered again.

"Ah, poor Sissi. I have to admit that she would have been the giantess if Cassidy didn't step in," Odd sighed.

"Right, false alarm. We can all sleep easy now," Jeremie reassured the gang.

Ulrich stretched. "Yeah. That works just fine because tomorrow is Sunday and on Sunday…"

Odd and Cassidy chimed in as if in perfect harmony. "WE SLEEP IN!"

"Dormimos el domingo," Cassidy shouted in Spanish.

Aelita laughed. "What?"

"We sleep on Sunday," Cassidy said in translation.

-That night-

Jeremie was woken up by Sissi coming in speaking backwards. "Sissi!"

Cassidy came running in. "She came to get me too. I was too scared to scream out."

Aelita came rushing in, almost bowling Cassidy over. "Cassidy's panting scared woke me up."

"Sissi, what has gotten into you? Huh?!" Jeremie was startled by Sissi walking over, picking up a pencil, and writing on a sheet of graph paper some sort of code.

Cassidy's eyes went white and Aelita, who took notice as this was the first time she saw this, didn't know what to do.

Jeremie knew exactly what to do thought. He made the "Watch and learn" gesture to the pink-haired girl, who nodded, and backhanded the psychic across the face.

Jim came in after Cassidy mouthed a "thank you" to Jeremie. "What's all this racket about, huh?"

That startled the fourteen year old and she started stammering about what happened as if she'd been given the third degree.

Jeremie stared at his psychic friend in shock. She'd been that way before. He held back a snicker as after Cassidy was done saying what had happened, she started quoting School of Rock's "The Man" speech. (A/N: School of Rock is 2003)

Jim only noticed Sissi. "Sissi, you should be in the infirmary. Your father's going to have my head again."

Cassidy stopped quoting right then. She shooed Aelita and herself to their room, leaving Jeremie to look at the paper. It said:

H (Lower cased with a triangle pointing in the east direction) Q W O A / 1 g / M 8 Q 6 N l heap

B (Lower cased) s f j z | 1 u IE (both lower cased and spaced out) U Q G J g 258 B |

M O R FF 7 Q J l / R 7 G K L N

K 3 t J R Q M F N P 6 3 7 A K M N

B A J u m I (the I is lower cased) w r e a N (backward though) H T h r M

-KK s l 337 M a t 4 65

O d G z V r g 8—6 45 Z MN

H 8 F P—64 | G o p 2 u/432/

(Slight indent) K L M—6 P9 L C

-That's enough code for me thanks; the next morning-

Ulrich was covered up from his head to his does in his blanket, all warm, when his phone rang. He groaned and grabbed the now-annoying device from the floor. "Jeremie, it's Sunday. Okay, we're coming," he groaned to his friend.

-Factory-

"A message in code?" Ulrich was now wide awake. "Written by Sissi?"

"Yep," Cassidy yawned. "Jeremie, Aelita and I were witnesses."

Odd noticed. "Why are you tired?"

"Sissi, that's why I'm tired," Cassidy snapped.

"I ran the supercomputer all night to translate it," Jeremie said, typing on the keyboard of the said computer.

The words rearranged to a message. "And look at what it turned up!" the genius pointed to the screen.

Sissi's backwards talking was there, but a deep distorted voice was in front saying, "I can help you. I want to enter into contact with you now…"

"I can help you?" Yumi repeated the first line.

"It's gotta be a trap set by XANA!" Ulrich snapped to conclusion.

"Not by XANA, Ulrich," Cassidy said grimly. "It's Franz Hopper. I know it! And…"

"Stop talking right now," Ulrich told her. "Anyway, he must've managed to possess Sissi without activating a tower."

"Will you stop acting as if I'm a bad person, Ulrich?" Cassidy said. "I never betrayed you."

"Okay, sorry, I get so annoyed by your predictions. It's like Professor Trelawney," Ulrich felt better after saying that.

"I don't think so. Cassidy's right. Otherwise, Sissi would've gone after me. She would have tried to get me out to Lyoko, so that the Schyphozoa could steal my memory," Aelita inputted.

Cassidy nodded. "I bet it's Franz Hopper."

"I still bet it's XANA!" Ulrich said.

"If I lose, I'll clamp down on my psychic blurt outs for a week at most."

"And if I lose," Ulrich challenged.

Cassidy leaned in and whispered in Ulrich's ear. A few seconds later, he flinched. "WHAT?!"

"With a megaphone, with a happy face, and with Take Me Home Tonight playing," Cassidy crossed her arms in front of her chest, proud that she was betting against Ulrich.

"Okay," Ulrich groaned. "Sheesh materialism does not play games with you!"

"Aelita's right! If you ask me, someone or something want to contact us through Sissi, but it's not XANA," Jeremie told the group.

"I feel I'm winning," Cassidy sang to Ulrich.

"Don't make me eat my hat yet," Ulrich smiled to her.

"Well, then, who is it?" Odd asked.

"No idea," Jeremie said. "To find that out, we'll have to talk to Sissi again."

Yumi had a smile on her face. "Okay, I'll bring her over. Anyone care to join me?"

"I have to go to Lyoko, sorry, Yumi," Cassidy frowned.

"It's fine," Yumi nodded.

Odd perked up. "I will! I'm your man Yumi! I mean… you know what I mean!"

Ulrich and Cassidy looked to Jeremie. "We better look around Lyoko. I wanna make sure that XANA isn't setting some sort of trap," the boy put a hand on Jeremie's shoulder.

Cassidy smiled. Oh if he only knew that she was winning inside, and that tomorrow he would be doing her bidding.

"I'll go with you two," Aelita said.

"With the Schyphozoa and everything? It's too risky," Jeremie told Aelita.

"Jeremie, stop worrying about me," Aelita took matters into her own hands.

That made her knight in glasses glare at her a little.

Soon the two girls and the only boy were on Lyoko. Jeremie also materialized the OverBike and OverWing. Cassidy didn't mind it. "I'm used to other vehicles."

"Great timing! Nice work, Jeremie," Ulrich said.

"Ulrich, get ready to eat your hat!"

"I'd rather not!" Ulrich shouted back playfully at Cassidy.

She hopped on the OverWing. "Coming Aelita?"

Aelita shook her head. "I'd rather go with Ulrich."

The psychic cat didn't mind it. "I'll go on my own then."

"Thanks, okay, make it fast. This is just a reconnaissance mission," Jeremie sounded from Lyoko.

"We'll be careful," Cassidy balanced herself on the OverWing.

"Relax, we won't go crazy," Ulrich reassured Jeremie.

They both headed off to scout XANA activity.

-With Odd and Yumi-

Odd and Yumi headed back to school and found that Sissi was being taken to the hospital.

Odd called Jeremie. "Jeremie, bad news: Sissi's going to the hospital."

-Lab-

"Oh, no, we have to bring her back here," Jeremie sounded worried.

-Back to Odd and Yumi-

"No sweat," Odd sounded confident, even though a frown crossed his features. "I've got an idea."

He hung up on Jeremie. Yumi was a little suspicious. "Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?"

"Yeah, good thinking!" Odd smiled.

-Jeremie-

"Ulrich, Cassidy, Aelita, everything okay with you guys?" Jeremie asked.

-Lyoko-

"To tell you the truth I have no idea. Has the super-scan picked up an activated tower?"

"Nope, Ulrich," Cassidy said. "But I do see something that'll make you do the thing that I whispered to you!"

"What is it?" Jeremie wondered to Cassidy.

"A white tower!" she told the sky. "Is that a XANA sign, Ulrich? It isn't to me."

Ulrich raised his brows. She'd better not make me do that thing tomorrow.

"I'll send you a visual," Aelita told Jeremie and she did.

"What the heck is that white tower supposed to be?" Jeremie said.

"It's Franz Hopper's tower, Jeremie," Cassidy kept her balance on the OverWing very well.

"How do you know that?" Ulrich sounded shocked.

"Psychic forces, Ulrich. Psychic forces," she told him.

"Do you think this tower has something to do with Sissi? Or with the being who's trying to contact us?" Ulrich dropped the subject on Jeremie.

"Ask Cassidy!" Jeremie told Ulrich.

"What do you think, Cassidy?" he stopped the OverBike as she stopped the OverWing.

"It is," Cassidy nodded. "We have to protect it."

"Why?"

"Because then we won't get the message," Cassidy's brown eyes turned a little light brown.

"And I want to see this close up," Aelita told Ulrich.

The three went on their way.

-Lab-

Jeremie saw two red dots on the screen. Red dots meant danger.

"Ulrich, Cassidy, behind you!" He warned.

-Lyoko-

Two Megatanks were tailgating the three. Luckily, Cassidy was up in the air.

The two drivers gunned their engines as fast as they would go.

"Faster," Aelita panicked.

Ulrich tried to go faster, but couldn't. "I've got it floored."

Aelita then thought of something and tapped Ulrich's shoulder. "Go left!"

"Whoa! Are you sure about that? There's nothing to the left."

"Not yet, there isn't," Cassidy smiled. "Aelita, the honors are yours."

The pink-haired girl used her Creativity to make a path to the left. The two went to the left until they met an edge. Ulrich slammed on the brakes and a small rock fell into the digital sea. Cassidy stopped and hovered on the OverWing.

The two Megatanks kept going to the white tower.

The three looked to the Megatanks.

"Well done, Aelita. But it's really weird how they didn't come back to attack you! Something's not right."

"The white tower is a clue," Cassidy muttered.

Aelita realized something. "Jeremie, it wasn't us they were after!"

"They are trying to destroy the white tower," Ulrich said.

"Hold them off!"

Cassidy was on her way. "No sweat, like Odd said. I'm ready for anything."

"How did you know that I was on the communications—never mind, just go!"

"Okay," she smiled.

Ulrich turned to Aelita. "Feel like a little game of bowling?"

"What?" she was confused.

"Forget about it! It's a bad joke," Jeremie said.

"Sometimes I really crack myself up!" Ulrich smirked.

"And you've really confused Aelita there, Mister!" shouted Cassidy from the OverWing.

The two went over to where Cassidy was. She was off her OverWing and in fighting mode. She growled. "You want to turn this Tower off. Well, good luck, XANA!" she smirked too. Firing two rounds at the 'Tanks, she avoided shot after shot of the 'Tanks' fierce elliptical lasers.

They were destroyed and two more came in to take the two's places.

Ulrich took out his sword. This was going to get good. Cassidy didn't lose a life point. She was really good at keeping her life points at a good level.

-Hospital-

A nurse and Mr. Delmas held Sissi's hands. She was looking blankly ahead. Her heart rate went from sixteen to eighteen. Her father was worried. "Well, what's wrong with her?"

The nurse looked at the heart monitor then turned her attention to Mr. Delmas. "I haven't the slightest idea. We'll keep her here under observation for a couple of hours then we'll see."

Mr. Delmas felt that there was nothing he could do for his daughter. "Oh, very well. Let me know at the first sign of a change in her condition."

"Of course," The nurse (Named Sue Murphy) said.

Jean-Pierre came off the bed and went to get a drink. This was too much for the principal to handle.

A doctor and nurse were talking about a patient. "Such a sweet patient, he was really lucky."

Odd and Yumi passed by. He asked her, "So, what did the girl at the reception say?"

Yumi gave the info. "Room 237."

-Back at the Lab-

Jeremie typed on the super-scan and found an activated tower.

-Hospital-

Yumi's phone rang and she picked it up. "Jeremie?"

-Back to lab-

"I just located an activated tower. XANA is on the offensive," Jeremie sounded happy.

-Back at the Hospital-

A scream jolted the two teens. It was Sissi's scream in the forwards direction. Yumi hastened this reply, "Jeremie, we'll call you back."

They ran into Room 237 and found that Nurse Murphy was attacking Sissi. She had the eye of XANA in her eyes. The patient, on the other hand, was frightened.

With a cry of "Stop" Yumi was about to lunge forward and fight the nurse. But the nurse punched her.

Odd ran behind the nurse. Murphy picked Yumi up by the sweater and glared at her with blatant eyes. Then the nurse dropped her. In the middle of her stomach was nothing. Just an invisible stomach. She dropped to her hands and knees.

Odd was standing there with the defibrillator paddles in his hands, looking devious. "Poor thing. She had hypertension."

Yumi got to her feet, smiling. "Not anymore. Quick."

A few minutes later, they were out of the hospital room with Sissi in a wheelchair. Yumi called Jeremie. "It's okay Jeremie! We've got Sissi."

-Lab-

"Great," Jeremie was glad. "Bring her over to the factory and hurry up!"

"It won't be that easy!" Yumi's voice came to his ear.

-Hospital-

"There's a doctor possessed by XANA who doesn't seem to like the idea," Yumi, Odd, and Sissi were out of the hospital by then.

-Lab-

"Ouch," Jeremie was typing.

-Outside the hospital-

Odd and Yumi were still walking Sissi.

-Lab-

"Ulrich, Cassidy, I've got some bad news!" Jeremie told them.

-Lyoko-

"A doctor possessed by XANA?" Cassidy guessed.

"You are always on the ball there, Cassidy."

Ulrich was now sitting behind Aelita on the OverBike, dragging his katana on the ground.

Aelita drove in the middle of the two 'Tanks. They fired their lasers, causing a V-shaped formation, missing the two warriors in the middle, and missing the one outside the laser fire.

Cassidy fired at the Megatank on the right, destroying it instantly.

Ulrich jumped off, ran up the white tower and jumped the one on the left, and killed it.

"Activated tower in..."

"The Ice Sector," Cassidy and Jeremie said together. The female cat warrior took charge immediately. "Ulrich, you lead Aelita to the activated tower. I'll protect the tower here."

"Are you nuts? You would be devirtualized by the time we get back," Ulrich shook his head.

"Stop underestimating me. You saw me one time stopping two Megatanks with only a sword like yours and one hand. I know that. You told me after we materialized Aelita," Cassidy spat back, shooting her fifth round at another Megatank. "Don't tell me I can't do it. American has the words I Can at the end, and I CAN do it. I dare to try."

Ulrich nose-sighed a growl. "You're as stubborn as a mule."

"Takes a person to know a person, Ulrich," she smart-mouthed back.

Ulrich had no choice. "Fine, but don't come running, crying to me when you come out of the scanner, devirtualized by a Megatank."

"Steer clear of the Schyphozoa," Cassidy told him.

"I know what to do!"

They left off, leaving Cassidy to work on her own.

"Cassidy, are you sure you know what you're doing?" Jeremie asked.

"Yes, Jeremie," Cassidy shot a bullet at another Megatank, destroying it before it opened its shell.

She set to work immediately after that.

-With Odd, Yumi, and Sissi-

They were running fast because of the XANA-possessed doctor. She (Murphy) was in an ambulance, driving recklessly to the three.

Odd looked back, still pushing the wheelchair. "Let's get out of here. Here comes Dr. Doom."

Good use of Fantastic Four, Odd, Cassidy's words complimented him. Somehow, without her, she gave compliments without throwing them out.

"Look out!" Yumi's words drug Odd out of his thoughts and he grabbed Sissi.

They got out of the way just in time.

Odd and Yumi surveyed the scene from above. "I hope she was wearing a seatbelt," he said.

Sissi, however, found her feet and slid down the rope. The two forward-speaking friends looked to each other in curiosity tinged with a slight suspicion.

-Lyoko-

Cassidy was faring well with the Megatanks. She dodged three laser shots and those three went to the ones firing. They combusted and Cassidy was growing confident. "Well, slap my vision journal and call it a success. This is getting good!"

"I believe you," Jeremie was proud. "Ulrich was wrong. You aren't devirtualized yet."

"Just goes to show." Dodging, Cassidy shot another one. Megatanks were easy to manage at either close- or far-range. She managed at far range while the others did it either that way or close-ranged.

Another one fired at her and she jumped out of range. The fire went at a fifteenth Megatank. It forced that poor 'Tank right off the face of Lyoko into the digital sea.

Just like my visions, Cassidy mused. Only with a hint of Ulrich. She chuckled at that. She paid close attention though as a seventeenth 'Tank came in. "You never give up, XANA," she muttered in a chuckle as she shot her tenth round at it.

-Elevator-

Yumi pressed a button on the elevator. Then she and Odd both noticed the nurse clambering out of the busted ambulance.

She tossed a hubcap at the teens. They dodged it. They got into the elevator just in time and the door closed. XANA-Murphy punched a hole in the elevator door but that didn't stop the two Lyoko Warriors and Sissi from going down to the Lab.

Odd looked to Yumi. "Whew."

-Lyoko; let's see how Cassidy's doing-

Cassidy shot her twelfth round at the twentieth Megatank. Jeepers, you are laying them on. But I like cracking them like eggs. Get ready, XANA, because I'm never giving up.

She was destroying Megatank after Megatank. If Ulrich could see me now.

Bayonet, rifle, redneck gun. She was ready for it all using whatever she could.

"Cassidy?"

"I'm fine, Jeremie," Cassidy smiled. "These monsters are a piece of cake."

She shot hard at the twenty-third Megatank.

The monsters were not gaining ground as Cassidy was a real tough person when it came to Lyoko monsters.

-Elevator-

The nurse jumped on the elevator and Yumi and Odd looked up. She turned to Odd. "Quick!"

The elevator opened up and Odd and Sissi walked out. Jeremie was about to get out of his seat when he heard Cassidy's voice. "Get Odd to Lyoko, Jeremie. He needs to help Ulrich and Aelita in the Ice Sector."

He did so and said to Sissi, "Ah, finally." He got out of his seat.

Yumi went up. Jeremie asked, "What are you doing, Yumi?"

"I'm buying time," Yumi said as the doors closed.

He turned to Sissi. "Sissi, I believe that-that—HEY!"

"Now what's the matter with Sissi?" Odd asked from the Ice Sector.

"She's typing, but I won't stop her," Jeremie told Odd. He monitored the Lyoko Warriors standing beside Sissi.

Sissi typed codes up on the computer screen.

"Cassidy, what's your status?" Jeremie asked.

"If you ask, me, it is as good as, well, good can be. Shooting Megatanks feels like a second nature," Cassidy told Jeremie.

"Thank goodness you have that tube, Cassidy," Jeremie smiled.

"Well, I nearly lost hope when I saw no weapon for the first time," Cassidy said.

-Ice Sector-

Aelita, Ulrich, and now Odd were getting to the tower. Ulrich looked to find Odd on his OverBoard. "Odd, when did you get in?" he asked.

"Jeremie sent me to Lyoko first, then let Sissi type," Odd said.

"And Cassidy?" Ulrich dreaded the worst.

"She's doing really well, Ulrich. She's slain over twenty Megatanks," Jeremie sounded proud.

"WHAT?!" Ulrich sounded appalled. "She couldn't have managed that many without some life point loss."

"She still has one hundred life points, Ulrich." Ulrich was amazed. "Wait a second. Over THIRTY now!"

"She's Queen of the Megatanks!" Odd cheered. "Good on her, Jeremie."

"She's defending the white tower easily," Jeremie said. "And she's solo."

"I know I'm going to regret this tomorrow morning," Ulrich sighed.

"Why?" Odd asked him.

"I called her nuts and underestimated her."

"Like the time you thought that my name wasn't one?" Odd remembered.

"That time, I didn't know her as well as now," Ulrich answered.

"Well, it goes to show," Jeremie told the two boys.

"I'm proud of her, Jeremie," Aelita beamed.

"We all are," Ulrich reminded her.

A Krabe fired at Ulrich, but it missed him by mere centimeters. "Ulrich, look out!"

-With the XANA-nurse and Yumi-

XANA-Murphy opened up the top elevator door and jumped inside. Yumi was already at the entrance when she did. She backed up and got grabbed.

-Ice Sector-

The chase was on. Two more Krabes joined the first and it was an all out fight. Ulrich stopped his vehicle, jumped on the first one and stabbed it in the eye.

Odd got into far range and shot three arrows at the second one.

There was one more Krabe to go.

-Forest sector-

Cassidy was doing fine. She dealt with the 'Tanks like it was no big deal. Protect the tower, protect the tower. Protect the tower. Franz Hopper needs it to keep connected. Keep protecting the tower. You still have one hundred life points. Keep going.

She shot at the thirty-eighth 'Tank. "You ain't going to bring me down, XANA."

Her tube was not out of ammo yet. She kept going.

-Elevator; the score is…?-

Yumi was about to get hit, but she kneed XANA-Murphy in the stomach. She started to run from XANA-Murphy.

-Forest Sector-

Just then, the same sensation she had before came on her again. (A/N: Check the Code: Earth Chapter)

You can do it Cassidy, A voice told her, and she inwardly nodded. Let me help you.

She put a hand in front of the fortieth Megatank. "Stop! Leave here. NOW!" She sounded normal but her voice had a small growl to it.

The 'Tank started to move strangely backwards into a tree and exploded. Another Megatank came and took its brethren's place. Cassidy moved in front of it. "Leave this. Tower alone. NOW!"

It too backed up and exploded as it hit a tree.

"Cassidy?!" Jeremie sounded worried.

"Just worry about Sissi, Jeremie," Cassidy said. "I'm doing fine on my own."

-Ice Sector-

"Guys, we have a problem!" Jeremie warned his friends.

"Did Cassidy get devirtualized by a Megatank?" Ulrich asked his voice half-expectant.

"No, she's acting strange and saying things in one- or two-word sentences. She sounded normal when I called her, but when she talked to the Megatanks…"

"It's like the time before Aelita was materialized the first time," Ulrich realized.

"She did the same thing," Odd was shocked.

"No one's possessed her," Ulrich said. "Her eyes were normal."

"Deactivate that tower, QUICK, and get back to Cassidy!" Jeremie told them.

-Forest Sector-

Cassidy drove off five Megatanks with her voice. Don't give up, Cassidy. You can still do it.

She inwardly nodded.

-With Yumi-

She ran until the nurse caught her by her ankles and she landed on her hands. She rolled over and Murphy pounced on her and tried to punch her two times, but Yumi dodged.

-Ice Sector-

Ulrich let Aelita off and she ran to the activated tower to deactivate it.

He took off to take care of another Krabe. But it was too late. The monster hit him twice and he devirtualized.

Odd took another hit. "Odd, watch it, you just lost eighty life points. One more hit and it's game over!"

He lifted a fist to the air. "Relax, it's all a part of the plan."

Then he avoided two lasers from two more Krabes. They were firing at the comedian while he was waiting for Aelita to deactivate the tower.

I would like to know how Cassidy's doing. Sounds like she's been having fun.

-Let's see, Odd-

Cassidy was not back from her sensation. She was making Megatanks roll backwards from her with her words.

Thirty minutes later, Odd and Aelita came in from his OverBoard. (A/N: Aelita has deactivated the tower and Yumi and Ulrich are okay)

Inwardly, the psychic was thinking, XANA should have sent in Kankrelats, because they are unpredictable.

The duo came to a halt next to her. "How many Megatanks has she been defeating since this began?" Aelita asked, concerned.

"Over 80. What a record!" Jeremie was amazed.

Odd hooted in raucous, joyous zeal. "I wouldn't be able to beat that!"

Cassidy lost the sensation then. She looked to her right. "Odd, what happened to Ulrich?"

"One word: Krabe!" Odd told her.

"The tower…?"

"Deactivated," Aelita said.

A laser blast came in between the duo and psychic, cutting the tower connection.

"NO!" Cassidy cried. "SISSI and the tower…"

She roared into the sky and shot that last Megatank.

Jeremie cleared his throat. "Cassidy, you have managed a record eighty-seven Megatanks."

"I wasn't even planning to count them all," Cassidy was in a little anguish, but the record cheered her up some.

"Great job, Aelita and Cassidy!"

-The next day-

Jeremie rushed to his room. He wanted to show the gang something. He saw Sissi open the door. "Huh, everything okay, Sissi?" He asked her.

She was angry. "How do you expect everything to be okay when I am surrounded by big, fat losers?!"

She left the room and Jeremie entered his room at last. Cassidy was really offended with Sissi's rhetorical question. "WE ARE NOT FAT!" she yelled.

"Did I miss something?" Jeremie asked.

Everyone except Jeremie laughed. He was wondering. "Come on! Tell me."

"Yes, Odd just offered Sissi a role in his next film," Ulrich smiled.

"It's the story of a girl driven by a mysterious being who tries to make contact with humans all of which takes place in a virtual universe full of danger," Odd explained.

"What did she say?" Jeremie cocked a brow, smiling.

Aelita was giggling a little. "That no one would ever believe such a ridiculous story."

The genius started laughing. "Ya don't say!"

Yumi came in. "How about you? How's it going?"

"Finished!" Jeremie smiled. "The computer deciphered all of the lines of code that Sissi spoke while she was spellbound."

"The lines that she said forwards-like when I grabbed her by mistake?" Cassidy cocked her head to one side.

Odd was curious. "So? What's it say? Let's hear it."

"Tons of interesting stuff. And a whole lot of elements that are going to help me find a breaker/antivirus for Aelita," he pointed to the CD case in his hand.

"And…? Do you know who this mysterious entity who wants to get into contact with us is?" Ulrich asked him.

"Well take a look," Jeremie told Ulrich.

Cassidy was in ecstasies. "Get ready to eat your hat, Ulrich."

"Get ready to eat yours," he shot back playfully.

Jeremie went over to his computer, put the disk in the disc drive, and pressed a few keys. "I warn you. This is completely crazy."

The audio opened up. At first it sounded like Sissi speaking backwards again, but now the man's voice was distorting and clearing at different intervals. Everyone was on edge. "I can help you. I want to enter into contact with you now."

Odd was amazed. "Wow, I can't believe it."

"I am Franz Hopper." The recording repeated that last line over and over again.

"I am Franz Hopper," Aelita repeated.

Cassidy turned to Ulrich. He turned to her too. "I can't believe this. Beaten by one of my best friends," he growled.

-That afternoon-

Ulrich was in the courtyard with a megaphone, a forced, happy smile, and an Eddie Money theme playing. He couldn't believe his luck. "Yumi, I…"

He turned away from the megaphone to his supervisor. "Cassidy, do I have to?" he whined.

"You lost the bet. Now you have to pay the price." She had her arms crossed against her chest.

He gave her a look that said, "I hate you," and turned back to Yumi. "Yumi, I—I love you!"

That made Odd whistle in joy. Sissi was outraged. "WHAT?!"

Yumi blushed.