In the forest sector, Odd is flying with Aelita as they're dealing with another activated tower. Aelita yelps as Odd narrowly misses a tree, allowing a Hornet to bump into it and be destroyed. "Say Odd, why do you always have to wait for the last second?" Aelita asks curiously.
"Because it's more fun," He tells her playfully, "That's why."
She gives a worried look at how that's gotten him devirtualized in the past. Amy flies up to them, riding her OverRunner. "Everyone has their own style, Aelita."
"See, Ames gets it," Odd winks at her. "I knew I made you my favorite girl for a reason. You understand me."
She rolls her eyes, blushing as she sees Aelita smirking. As the Hornets fire, Odd skates left and right to avoid the trees at an angle, Aelita holding onto him the whole time. The two Hornets fire again, Amy swerving underneath Odd to avoid them. Aelita yelps at the close proximity of the lasers and at the trees. She gasps sharply as Odd zips by a tree at close range, getting another Hornet destroyed.
"Is that what you call fun? Looks more like insanity if you ask me," Aelita comments.
"Oh, really? You mean there's a difference?" Odd giggles, both Aelita and Amy chuckling at his joke.
The last Hornet fires and he swerves to avoid it. He looks up and one of Yumi's fans hit two trees before coming back and getting rid of the Hornet.
"Thanks Yumi," Odd gives her a finger salute with a wink as she appears with her Overwing.
"Don't mention it," She chuckles a bit and they continue flying as Ulrich is on the ground. Amy lands next to him and Ulrich looks from behind to see a Hornet. He moves back and forth as it fires at him, another one joining in on the attack. Two Hornets appear in front of Amy and she speeds up, avoiding the incoming lasers. They follow after her while Ulrich pulls out his sword. He stands up and moves his bike to behind the Hornets. He jumps up into the air and spins around, destroying both before landing back on his Overbike.
"Odd, Amy, and Aelita, you're only a few minutes from the activated tower," Jeremy reports.
"Bummer. I was just starting to enjoy yourself," Odd sounds disappointed.
Amy looks behind her, dodging the lasers as she moves forward. She swerves back around and holds out her hand. "Green Luxuriant Ivy," A green glow comes from her hand as vines shoot up from the ground, capturing the two Hornets. They continue to fire and Amy turns them around so that they destroy each other with lasers.
"Careful! Behind you!"
A Hornet is right behind Odd and it destroys the Overboard, Odd lowering it to the grass. "Boy, lots of action. Sorry Aelita, we're gonna have to jump!"
As they're nearing a tree, Aelita jumps off, Odd jumping and hanging onto another tree. He crawls over to Aelita, standing up. The activated tower is in their sights, but then a horde of Hornets arrive behind them.
"Hurry, I'll cover you!" Odd points his arm at them, Aelita running off. He fires at one, destroying it. He fires again, but misses. He backs away from the lasers and tries again. "Laser arrow!" He misses and gets hit in the stomach, destroying a Hornet before he lands on his feet.
Aelita uses the stepping stones to reach the tower, but light blue tentacles fly in front of her. She looks up at the Scyphozoa as it blocks her way. She backs away slightly, looking at the waving tentacle in fear. Yumi comes in and throws her fan, destroying the tentacles before they can touch Aelita.
"Good job, Yumi," Jeremy congratulates with a smile. Aelita enters the tower as a Hornet explodes near Odd. He looks in confusion, knowing that he didn't fire a laser arrow. He sees a spear landing in front of his feet. Amy skids to a stop in front of him, throwing up a hand.
"Venus Gobbler." The plant soars into the air, swallowing up the rest of the Hornets. Amy turns to Odd with a smile. "You okay?"
"Yeah," He nods with a smile. "Thanks Ames. I've never said this before, but your powers are pretty cool."
"Thanks!" She beams at him for the compliment.
She looks really pretty when she smiles like that.
He still didn't know why he had these kind of thoughts of her. He needed to talk to someone about this, and soon, but not too soon. He wasn't ready to tell the others about his urges, they would just tease him about it and possibly tell Amy. Not that having those thoughts about Amy was a bad thing; he just needed to know why.
Aelita runs into the tower, floating to the top. She approaches the interface and presses her hand against it.
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"All done, Jeremy. The tower's been deactivated," She informs him.
"Okay, I'll start the return and get you all home," Jeremy smiles a bit.
"Really?" Yumi asks curiously, putting away her fans. "Why? XANA didn't even have time to launch an attack on Earth."
"Yeah, he didn't even pull anything. Nothing that suggests we do a return in time, anyway," Amy looks at Yumi.
"You can't be too careful."
"Uh, may I remind you that going back in time makes XANA stronger?" Ulrich points out.
"I know what I'm doing, alright?" He retorts back.
"Well, if you know then explain it to us," Odd replies. If Jeremy was going to make XANA stronger, they at least deserved a reason.
"Just trust me, okay?" Jeremy asks with attitude that's not like him.
"Jeremy," Aelita looks up, "That's not the point."
"That's my final answer." Odd glances at Ulrich and Amy, who shrug. "Return to the past now." He presses enter and Aelita can only watch as the data depletes from the tower. Everything gets redone and when they return, they talk about Jeremy's recent mood.
"Jeremy's really becoming a pain," Ulrich starts off, holding his soda as he's leaning against the door frame. Yumi gets her drink from the vending machines. "He just flies off the handle for no reason at all. He's like a timebomb."
"Who knows? Maybe he's got family problems. Er, sorry, Amy," She smiles sheepishly.
"It's okay," Amy replies as she steps up to the machine.
"Or else he's only just realized he has a split personality and that when the moon is full, he becomes the son of Dr. Shrank!" Odd imitates a monster, Amy snickering as she places in a coin. "Capable of grafting animal body parts onto human beings. And he now knows that he must face up to a fate worse than death."
"You've been watching Horror at the Hospital again, huh?" Ulrich asks knowingly.
"How could anyone pass up such a fantastic program?"
The others hold up their drinks as an answer. Ulrich notices Jeremy approaching. "Oh, there he is."
"How's life, Einstein?" Odd asks casually and he walks past him without a word.
"Where were you?" Aelita questions in concern.
"In my room, why? Is there a law against it?" He replies rudely.
"Chill, will you? We were worried, that's all," Yumi tries to calm him down.
"Geez, Jeremy. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed," Amy crosses her arms. She already didn't like this side of someone she really respected, it wasn't like him. He'd never be rude to Aelita like that or snap at his friends. Something was obviously affecting him...
"I'm a big boy now, so just get off my back!"
"Hey, you might just have something there with your Dr. Shrank theory," Ulrich replies to Odd.
"Ah, you see? I told you so!" Odd says as the bell rings. "Right, in the meantime, I've also gotta face a fate worse than death."
"What's that?" Ulrich asks as he walks away.
"Mrs. Meyer's class."
Amy laughs at him at how much he hated math.
"Property allows us to calculate length. For example, in a triangle marked ABC. With straight lines called RS and BC, which are parallel."
As she's speaking, Jeremy doesn't seem to be paying too much attention as usual. Amy glances at Odd across from her as he's drawing something. "First we calculate X, then SC." Ulrich glances at Odd's paper as he's drawn a beast with duck feet. "Hypothetically, ABC is a triangle. R is a point on AB. N is a point on AC."
In Jeremy's head, he's in front of an entrance that has light. He tries walking up to it, but it suddenly gets dark, the darkness starting to capture the walls.
"X equals 7 times 8. 10x equals 56." Jeremy stands up as his head is pounding. "And that's it. It's rather simple in the end."
"Ma'am?" Jeremy asks, holding a temple.
"Uh, yes Jeremy? Question?"
"May I go to the infirmary...?"
"Oh, yes, of course," She says, seeing his troubled stated.
"Do you want me to come with you?" Aelita offers as he walks past her.
"No," He tells her sharply, leaving her worried. Aelita glances at Amy, who stares after Jeremy, resting her pencil on the desk.
"Jeremy skipped history class?" Yumi asks at lunch, grabbing a dish.
"And gym class too. And now he's skipping lunch," Ulrich moves his tray, Odd and Amy standing behind him. Jeremy skipping lunch and gym was something that was common; he was usually in neither. But history was something that he always showed up for. It's one of his top classes, and it wasn't like him to just skip it like that.
"Gym class and lunch, I can understand. But skipping history class is not Jeremy's style at all," Odd speaks, Aelita walking up behind Amy.
"I'm gonna check his room."
"Good luck. With his grouchy attitude, I doubt he'll listen, but you never know," Amy shrugs at her.
Jeremy is busy working with a scowl on his face when Aelita knocks. "Yes?" He turns to the door and she enters.
"It's me. I brought your notes from the classes that you missed this morning," She holds up a binder.
"Put them down on the bed," He replies thinly. She does so, approaching him.
"Jeremy, if there's anything wrong, you know you can talk to me about it, right?" She places a hand on his shoulder, attempting to comfort him. She was finding this side of him unsettling. Being discreet with the return in time, having an attitude about his actions, skipping classes...
"What's up with you guys? There's nothing wrong with me. I'm just working," He tells her dismissively. "That's all. I've almost found the antivirus, which will free you from XANA. Isn't that worth spending some time on?"
"Yes, of course, but you've been strange recently. You should take a break from time to time," She tries to reason with him.
"Oh yeah, does XANA take breaks? No. So what do you want? You wanna destroy your memory?" He turns back to Aelita, who approaches the door.
"I really don't wanna lose you, Jeremy, and I can hardly recognize you anymore."
"Aelita..." He stands up, actually sounding like himself for a second. "There's something I have to tell you."
Before he can, the superscan activates, showing an activated tower. "You see? I told you XANA never takes a break!"
Rosa is gathering the salt and pepper shakers after lunch while the others are waiting for Odd to finish eating. Yumi stares at the empty trays, Ulrich's hand on his cheek. Odd finishes the last of it, looking at three empty plates.
"You sure you're done now?" Yumi asks impatiently as her phone rings. She answers it without a word. "SOS XANA."
"Okay Jeremy, we're on the way."
"Hurry up!" He urges and she hangs up the phone.
"XANA has launched an attack. We have to go to the factory," She stands up, but Rosa comes to a stop.
"You, over there! Sit back down."
"Huh?" The others stand up in confusion at her order.
"I said sit down," She growls and picks up a plate, throwing it at high speed towards Amy. Odd pushes Amy to the ground, shielding her as the glass hits the wall. Yumi and Ulrich move out of the way. Now they know what the attack was.
XANA Rosa levitates a plate to her hand and throws it again, tossing three more. They all hit the ceiling as Ulrich cringes.
"I shouldn't have said her mashed potatoes looked like barf, I guess," Odd comments, helping Amy to her knees.
"That's not the point," Amy puts a hand to her forehead.
"If you ask me, this looks more like a XANAification. Cover Amy and me, we'll try to reach Aelita and Jeremy at the factory," Yumi points to the entrance.
"No problemo. Ulrich, on three. One, two, three!" The boys stand up, ducking a plate as they throw some of their own at her. Yumi and Amy stand up, quickly running past XANA Rosa as she holds up a lid, the plates breaking when they hit it.
"Hey!"
"Ready for another round?" Odd smirks at Ulrich. "It's not everyday we get the opportunity to break up the place."
"The activated tower's in the mountain sector," Jeremy reports to the lone Aelita.
"Well, we'll just have to wait for the others," She says just as the elevator doors open to the scanner room.
"What on Earth are they doing?"
"They're doing what they can. XANA has possessed Rosa. We'll have to make do without them," Yumi explains as she and Amy walk up to the other two scanners.
"They do love entertaining," Amy smiles in amusement.
"Hurry up. I'll start the virtualization process."
Yumi, Amy, and Aelita step into the scanners. "Transfer Yumi. Transfer Amy. Transfer Aelita. Scanner Yumi. Scanner Amy. Scanner Aelita. Virtualization."
When they get to the mountain sector, the tower is not too far. "The activated tower should be straight ahead."
"We can see it, Jeremy. But there's also an army of monsters blocking our way," Yumi reports as a bunch of Kankerlots, at least 18 of them, blocking their way from the tower. "I have a funny feeling we should take cover. Come on."
Aelita runs ahead of them as they hide behind a huge rock. The first row of Kankerlots fire before the second one stands in front, firing as well.
"Yumi, Aelita, Amy, are you okay?"
"We'd be a lot better if you could materialize the Overwing and the OverRunner," Yumi implies.
"Okay, coming up." As he's bringing up the two vehicles, he gets a phone call from Odd.
"Jeremy, how's it going on your end?" He and Ulrich are using the table as a fort. XANA Rosa picks up the cart, dropping the other items. "Cuz over here, we're starting to run out of ammo."
Ulrich throws a spoon that hits the cart and lands in front of XANA Rosa. She steps on it, squishing the utensil.
"Jeremy, you better hustle. May I remind you that Rosa's specialty is chopped sirloin?" Odd presses further.
"Come on, ladies, get a move on! Odd and Ulrich are in a really bad way," Jeremy tells them.
"No kidding. All we need here are some sandwiches for a night picnic," Yumi gestures to the army of Kankerlots.
"They can come here and try getting rid of 20 Kankerlots. I'm sure they'd have it just as hard," Amy crosses her arms as Aelita peeks out to the monsters. The two rows fire at the rock again, Aelita turning to the other two.
"We'll never get through."
"Hold on a sec. I've got a little idea. Amy, when I tell you to, I need you to do your Rock Slide." Yumi steps back a few feet, Amy looking at her in confusion.
"What good will that do?"
"Just trust me," Yumi winks at her.
"Little or big, it doesn't matter as long as it works. I say you do it," Aelita looks at Amy, who nods. Yumi presses her hands to her head, using her telekinesis to lift up the boulder in front of them. She moves her arms and the boulder goes rolling over to the monsters, crushing at least half of them. Two of them destroy each other as they fall to the ground. Three run away while one tries to figure out which way to go. It eventually gets crushed by the boulder.
"Now!"
"Rock Slide!" Amy holds out her hands and a slide made of rock materializes underneath each Kankerlot. They slide down, disappearing into the Digital Sea. Yumi and Aelita fly down the path towards the tower, Amy backflipping into her race car and driving after them.
XANA Rosa growls as she advances towards the two boys. "Here she comes," Ulrich looks at Odd. "Now I know what Tweety feels like against Sylvester."
Odd dials Jeremy again. "Hey Jeremy, what are you guys waiting for?"
Yumi slides to a stop in front of the tower, letting Aelita jump off. She enters the tower. "Aelita's in the tower. Just hang in there for another 30 seconds," Jeremy tells Odd, who glances up nervously at XANA Rosa. She throws it and they jump out of the way as it breaks apart.
"30 seconds? That's like an eternity!"
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Rosa turns back to normal and she falls unconscious, Odd glancing at her. He pulls his phone up to his mouth. "Jeremy, I think this calls for a return to the past, don't you?"
"Right. I'm launching it. Get ready. Return to the past now!" Jeremy pushes enter and starts the day all over again.
"What's he up to?" Ulrich asks as Jeremy is missing. "He should be here already."
"Why don't we go check his room?" Aelita suggests, pointing to the dorms.
Aelita knocks like last time, but there's no answer. She opens it. "Jeremy!" He's lying on the ground, having fallen from his chair.
Odd looks down at Jeremy, who has been taken to the infirmary. He hasn't woken up since they've discovered him. "Jeremy, wake up! It's terrible!" He shakes him, "Aelita has fallen in love with Herb! No reaction. This is really serious," He turns to Yolanda, who has her phone out.
"Right. I'm calling the hospital."
"Look!" Aelita points to Jeremy. "His eyelids are moving."
They are, but he doesn't wake up. "He must be dreaming," Yolanda guesses, her phone to her ear.
He's having the same dream again, in the room where there's light. He walks up to it, curious as to what's on the other side, but the darkness comes back, surrounding the room. The light gets farther and farther as he starts running to escape the darkness. But he can't escape...
Odd and Aelita walk out of the infirmary, Yumi, Amy, and Ulrich waiting for them outside. "What could've happened to him?"
"Something must've happened during the last return to the past," Aelita explains, as Jeremy was grouchy, but other than that, he insisted he was fine. Or at least, that's probably what he wanted them to believe.
"XANA?" Yumi asks slowly.
"I have no idea, but I think it's worth checking out the supercomputer," She walks towards the exit.
"I think that's a good idea," Amy says, hands on her skirt. "Maybe we'll find some answers..."
"We'll go with you," Odd offers, glancing to Amy. She nods and stands up, walking with them out the building.
"Should we search Jeremy's room?" Yumi asks Ulrich.
"I really don't wanna do that." Ulrich didn't feel comfortable invading Jeremy's privacy, considering that if he found out, he wouldn't be happy given his mood. "But..."
"Nothing special," Ulrich says once they're in his room. "Except that I just found out that Jeremy still wears underwear with kangaroos on them," He holds up a pair. "I'll have to tell him to move onto boxers."
"No activated towers," Yumi checks the superscan. "But there's a ton of files. Hey, I can't open this one." She tries to press on it, but a red sign in front of it prevents her from accessing it. "It's called My Journal."
"The logs are all normal," Aelita looks at the stats from the returns in time. "There certainly was a major discharge of energy during that last return to the past, though. But they're no different from any of the previous returns to the past."
Something was obviously up with the returns to the past, and it most likely had something to do with Jeremy. Why else would he go against their protests and launch one the first time around without giving a reason? They're normal, but there had to be something else behind it. Jeremy knows that doing the procedure increases XANA's power; in fact, ever since the time loop, he outright was against using it unless it was absolutely necessary. He wouldn't do it without something that was logical to understand, but it was something that he obviously kept to himself.
That would explain his secrecy...
Ulrich suddenly calls, to ask her for help. "Ulrich?"
"We need you. Can you meet us in Jeremy's room?"
"Okay."
When Aelita, Amy, and Odd meet them, it's the same thing as last time: no access. "There, and I..." She opens it up to see lots of entries. "Got it. It wasn't easy, but I got it." Jeremy being Jeremy, he'd obviously secure his things. "These are video files."
"Just open the first one," Yumi points to it and she does so. Jeremy is on screen in his room, recording.
"Today I have decided to start a video journal. A bit like the diary of Franz Hopper had. This way, if anything happens to me, others might be able to continue my research. My search to find the antivirus which will free Aelita from XANA has never been closer to total success, or how Amy is connected. And it's thanks to Franz Hopper's diary, and thanks to the data recovered from Sector Five that I was able to decode part of his diary that explains how to use the returns to the past to logarithmically increase your intelligence. I immediately tried it. It's amazing. It's as if my brain suddenly had the processing power of 10 computers linked in series." He holds up a headset.
"A neural headset," Aelita realizes what it is.
"Open the most recent entry," Yumi tells her.
"This one's from yesterday," She opens it and they see Jeremy wearing the headset.
"Everytime I use the headset, my mental and physical health gets worse and worse, but I'm moving so far forward in my research. I can't stop this close to success." The entry ends there.
"That's all we needed," Ulrich comments.
"Is there anything we can do to save him?" Aelita asks herself as she doesn't have the answer.
"Let's go to the factory," Odd suggests.
"I'll meet you there. First I have to stop by the infirmary. I wanna make sure that XANA's attack isn't directed at Jeremy," Yumi says as they leave.
"Yumi, just be careful. If XANA is targeting him because of what we just learned, we might not be able to rely on him to help us on Lyoko," Amy places a hand on the doorframe, turning to Yumi. "Okay?"
"Right," She nods at her and Amy takes her leave after the others.
Jeremy is placed inside an ambulance, Yolanda and Mr. Delmas watching. The paramedic is outside, closing the doors.
"Come with me," Mr. Delmas holds up a folder full of files. "There are papers we have to sign."
A specter enters the ambulance, taking control of the vehicle. It starts up and the three adults turn in confusion to see it about to leave.
"Hey, my ambulance!"
Yumi comes just in time to see the vehicle take off, with Jeremy inside as the siren sounds. "Is Jeremy in there?"
"Yes, but he isn't driving it," Yolanda states skeptically, Yumi watching it leave. She had to stop it, to make sure that Jeremy didn't get hurt. She sees a bike behind her and jumps on, speeding after the ambulance.
The four descend from the main floor to the lab to drop off Amy. Odd, Ulrich, and Aelita step up to them. It was decided that Amy would stay in the lab to monitor Lyoko, like Jeremy would do. Someone had to do it, and she needed to help in the best way she can.
Yumi catches up with the vehicle, but she's not close enough to stop it. She picks up her phone. "Amy, XANA has taken control of Jeremy's ambulance. I'm gonna try to do something, but I'm really counting on you guys."
"Oh no, so that's what XANA's attack is. Okay, the others will have to manage without you both. I promise I'll get them there...I hope," She cringes at the last word. She's seen the virtualization process happen, but she's never actually done it. Hopefully she remembers how it's supposed to go.
"Aelita, Odd, Ulrich, are you guys ready?"
"Ready."
"Ready."
"Ready. You can do this, Amy. I know you can," Aelita says, Amy smiling in relief.
"Okay..." She takes a deep breath. "Transfer Odd," She presses a few keys and Odd gets his hair blown into the wind. "Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Aelita. Scanner Odd. Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Aelita. Virtualization."
They virtualize into the ice sector. "How'd I do?"
"We're all here, Amy. You did great," Ulrich looks up, Amy putting a hand to her chest in relief.
"Okay, the tower isn't too far from you. But I can't bring up the vehicles. I don't know how to do that. You'll have to go on foot."
"That's okay, Ames. It's time for going old school, anyway," Odd comments, Amy giggling. Aelita takes the lead, the boys running after her.
Yumi moves the bike to the pathway of the park, the ambulance catching up to her. When she sees herself in the rearview mirror, she reaches out to try and get through the passenger door. She pants as the vehicle speeds up. It drives out of the school and sharply turns left. Yumi catches up to the back, seeing the sleeping Jeremy inside.
"Jeremy!" She pounds on the window, but it's too muffled for him to hear.
It's happening again. The darkness is trying to take him away. He runs as fast as he can, but he's unable to reach it...
"Jeremy!" Yumi calls out again, trying to get to the driver's seat. The ambulance is out of her reach, so she'd need to get a boost. She takes a shortcut and rides the bike down some stairs. She bumps all the way until she gets a slight headstart of the ambulance. She reaches out to the door handle and finally gets a grip on it, pulling it open. Due to the wind, it leaves her hanging onto the handle, the bike left behind. She looks at Jeremy and enters, closing the door behind her.
"Jeremy, wake up!" She shakes him by the shoulder, but he doesn't budge.
Jeremy tries again to reach the light, but it's not enough. The darkness has engulfed the entire room.
"Jeremy!"
He slowly stops walking as he hears Yumi's voice.
"Jeremy! It's me, Yumi!"
The light slowly starts to fade away and all he can see is darkness. "Wake up!" Her voice echoes as he stares at the fading light, and then he's suddenly brought to it.
"Wake up!"
When he opens his eyes, his vision starts to clear. "Jeremy...Jeremy." He sees Yumi looking down at him.
"Y-Yumi, what's going on?" He stammers, as the last thing he remembered was falling in his room.
"Just huge problems. Same old routine," She sounds happy that he's up, but also relieved that he's okay. "Before we can do anything else, we have to get out of here," She opens up the door a little.
"Hey, don't you think we oughta stop the ambulance first?" Jeremy suggests, closing the door.
"Well of course I do, but you mind telling me how?" She asks sarcastically. The ambulance jerks to the left, causing her to fall as they're headed for the river. "Make it fast because we are heading straight for the river!" She peeks through the back window.
"Huh?!" Jeremy stands up to see their destination.
Aelita, Ulrich, and Odd are almost at the tower. "There." They can see it past some pillars.
"Guys, watch out. Five Tarantulas are materializing," Amy warns them and they virtualize in front of the trio.
"Maybe you shouldn't have said it so loud," Odd replies to Aelita, Amy rolling her eyes.
"I've got an idea," Ulrich suggests. The only way to get past was to make their own path.
"I love it when you say that," Odd replies and Ulrich pulls out his sword, spinning it. He points it towards the land and stabs through it, breaking it a little. Odd realizes his plan and charges up the arrows. "Laser Arrow." He fires at least ten times, further cracking the ice.
Ulrich pulls out his sword and the ice cracks underneath, causing a Tarantula to fall into the water. The other two look at their fallen companion, looking down at the cracking ice. Ulrich watches until he feels something underneath. He glances to see the ice separating his feet and he jumps to Odd and Aelita. Another Tarantula falls through the ice, leaving only two left. One of them slips, falling through the water, leaving two remaining.
Yumi pounds on the glass as they're nearing the river. "Hurry up!"
Jeremy snatches a fire extinguisher, throwing it through the glass and breaking it. Yumi jumps into the driver's seat and puts on her seatbelt. She presses on the brake, but XANA thought of that, and has cut off the power to them.
"Oh, darn it!" Yumi exclaims in disbelief. "Oh no!" The ambulance jumps into the river, slowly sinking. "Help had better be on the way like now!" Yumi dials Amy as the vehicle hits bottom.
"Yumi, everything okay?" Amy asks as she answers.
"Not really. Jeremy and I are at the bottom of the river. Please tell me that they're almost there."
"Oh no," Amy gasps in horror, changing to the others. "Guys, you gotta speed this up. Yumi and Jeremy can't take it for much longer."
"We would if we could," Odd looks at the broken ice. "You got any other brilliant ideas, Ulrich?"
A Tarantula narrowly misses the water, crawling back up. "Uh, well..." A laser hits the samurai, devirtualizing him
"Man, that was not cool," Odd glares at the Tarantula.
"Oh great!" Amy places her hands on her cheeks. "Odd, it's up to you now. You and Aelita have to hurry."
Ulrich steps out of the scanner.
"Odd, watch it!" Aelita warns as he jumps, landing in front of the Tarantula, causing the ice to tilt. Odd stares at the Tarantula in the eye, gripping the ice with his claws. He fires at the leg, causing the Tarantula to step away and slide. Odd hangs onto the top and jumps, landing on another block.
As Ulrich comes into the lab, Amy glances behind him. "You okay, Yumi?" She asks as Ulrich steps up to her.
"To tell you the truth, uh, no."
Amy cringes, holding her head at how everything's going. Two of her friends are danger of drowning while the other two can't reach the tower by jumping. Now she knows how Jeremy feels all the time. It's a wonder that he doesn't take anxiety pills. How does he do it? "What do I do? Odd and Aelita aren't at the tower yet and you could be drowning..."
"Hey, it's okay," Ulrich assures her, placing a hand on her shoulder as she's frowning to herself. "You've managed this far. Jeremy would be proud. Just hang in there a little longer."
"Okay..." She takes a deep breath. "I can do this..."
"Now the problem is how to reach the tower," Odd places a hand on his hip.
"Preferably faster. I don't think Yumi and Jeremy are in the mood for swimming at the bottom of the river. There's only one Tarantula left, you just have to get rid of it and somehow reach the tower," Amy looks at the three dots.
"Do you think Yumi and Jeremy can make it?"
"We just need a few more seconds..." Amy bites her lip.
"Just a little Tarantula to get rid of first, right." Odd waves his tail as he stares at the monster. It takes the first move by firing at Odd. "Shield." He throws his arms in front of him, a purple shield blocking the blows. He fires three times, Aelita staring at him.
"Odd, leave it to me." Aelita presses her hands together, singing. She uses her creativity to make a bridge from her spot to the tower.
"Nice one," Odd gives her a thumbs up. The Tarantula fires, devirtualizing him. Aelita gasps and Amy sees his dot disappear.
"Aelita, the tower."
"Okay," Aelita runs across the bridge, a shot firing in front of her. She slides the rest of the way down, narrowly avoiding the shots. She passes through a tunnel to the tower and enters it. She starts ascending to the top. She does a flip and lands on the pad. Walking up, she logs in.
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"Guys, we got it. Tower is deactivated," Amy reports, Ulrich giving her a high five. "Thank goodness."
"Super. Now we can drown in peace," Yumi retorts back. "Amy, Ulrich, we're still at the bottom of the river. The only thing that can save us now is a return to the past."
"I'd love to do that, but I never read that part of Jeremy's notes," Amy explains.
"Put me on," Jeremy holds out his hand and Yumi hands him her phone. "Amy, I need you to do exactly what I say, okay?"
"Okay. Right. Uh huh. Yes. Jeremy, I know you're in trouble, but if you go too fast, I might not be able to pull it off! Where's the button I need to push? I don't see it."
"Quickly!" Yumi urges Jeremy.
"On the right. On the upper right of the keyboard, the jump button, the ultimate blaster!"
"Okay, I found it." Amy and Ulrich push it together.
"Return to the past now," They say in unison, narrowing their eyes.
The return jump engulfs all of them, including Yumi and Jeremy in the ambulance.
When they return to the same day the third time around, Jeremy has yet to show up again. "Don't tell me he's out cold again," Ulrich turns to the others.
Aelita knocks on the door (a record of how only she's done it on the same day three times) and opens it. "Jeremy, no!"
This time he's not unconscious, but he is in the process of destroying the headset. "I checked the calculations I've done over the past few weeks. Most of them are wrong."
"So, you were destroying your health without even improving your brainpower," Odd walks up to him. "I wouldn't call that a very good deal."
"I wish you said something, but I'm glad you're okay," Amy replies, Odd patting her back.
"Thanks to you!"
"Do you think that XANA had something to do with it?" Yumi steps up to him.
"He certainly put me on the track, but the information did come from Franz Hopper's diary."
"In some way, the we have not just one, but two enemies," Ulrich holds up two fingers.
"Hopper is certainly not an enemy," Jeremy dismisses that theory. "But his discoveries are out of our league. I think we better be careful."
"For now, the important thing is that you get back to being your old self again," Aelita tells him gently, glad that he's not his recent self.
"That's for sure. Seeing you so grouchy, you were getting to be like Dr. Shrank," Odd looks at a certain member. "Or even worse, huh Ulrich?"
"Hey, I am NOT..." He pauses, realizing just how he can be at times. He wasn't exactly Mr. Sunshine like Jeremy was being the last two times. "Grouchy."
The others laugh at his expense. "Yeah right, give me a break."
"Well alright," He laughs along with them.