Angel: I apologize for the late update, I had school early this morning. And I was in the middle of trying to find good prices for textbooks, which is a struggle, so I just gave up for the time being on that task.
Please understand that school is starting, and I'm gonna be busy after I get out of school for the next few months, so updates might get delayed because of that.
In the ice sector, a tower is activated...
Jeremy's computer beeps and he wakes up at the sound, putting on his glasses. The superscan doesn't show the exact tower, instead it keeps scanning. "Something is not right here." He attempts to find out the problem, but nothing happens.
"What do you mean, clack?" He takes off his glasses, rubbing his eyes sleepily. "An alarm signal and no activated tower? That's weird," He goes to lay down on his bed, telling himself that he'd take care of it in the morning.
The next morning, Yumi rushes into the dorm, running up the stairs.
"And you're sure about the alarm last night?" Aelita asks, Jeremy having told her his concerns.
"Not 100 percent. I was pretty groggy. Odd, could you make a little less noise?" Jeremy places a hand on his cheek in annoyance.
"No!" Odd shouts back, digging through Jeremy's trash. "If I don't find the DVD of my short film in the next three seconds, I'll turn into a pumpkin!"
"That'll be the day," Amy snorts to Ulrich, who's sitting on Jeremy's bed.
"Which short film? Natural Grandeur Two or I Guess Our Guest is a Ghost?" Ulrich wonders and Odd looks up.
"I Guess Our Guest is a Ghost," Odd tells him. Jeremy places a hand on his cheeks in disbelief. "If you want me to become rich and famous, I absolutely have to give it to T.V.!"
Jeremy takes a deep breath. "T.V.? Who's T.V.?" Aelita asks in confusion.
"His real name is Thomas Vincent," Odd stands up. "But everybody calls him T.V., because he's the famous news reporter on TV," He kicks away Jeremy's trashcan. "TV, get it?"
Yumi opens the door. "T.V.'s gonna be here in five minutes."
"My career is nicked in the bud!" Odd laments, sagging his body into Jeremy's desk. He starts fake crying and Amy stands up, picking up a DVD.
"Odd," She holds it to his eyes.
"Hey," He takes it from her. "Yes! Fame, fortune, and glory are mine. Ames, I could kiss you!"
"That'll be the day," Ulrich teases back to Amy, who glares at him, blushing when Odd has his back turned. Jeremy, Aelita, and Yumi all giggle.
A high-tech car pulls up in front of the faculty building, the car door lifting up. T.V. pulls down his glasses with an uninterested frown. He gets the door opened by Jim when he approaches the building.
"My dear T.V., on behalf of the students and faculty, we're very honored that you-"
"Okay, okay," T.V. interrupts Principal Delmas' written introduction. "No big deal, time is money." He gestures to a shorter woman who has light brown hair to a short bob, a brown jacket with a red shirt, blue jeans, and is holding a camera. "Uh, this is Edna, my camera, uh, woman, person, whatever. Never on time. Show up late one more time, and you're finished! I've got a hundred and fifty cameramen who'd kill for a chance to work with T.V."
"Hmm," She glares at him. She needed the money, but working with this jerk is slowly starting to make her question her sanity.
"You, sweatshirt, park my car out of sight from the kids. I don't want them scratching it," T.V. throws his car keys casually to Jim. They hit his face before he catches them in his hand.
"Uh, whoa." When did he become a valet?
"Now, let's continue with our study of plant life," As Ms. Hertz is talking, Sissi eyes a dripping faucet in boredom. "After our field trip last week, I asked you to calculate the yield of the field of corn that we visited." Nicolas casually has his fist to his cheek. Odd clicks his pen as Amy is taking notes right next to him, to the right of Ulrich and Jeremy. Aelita is sitting behind them. "Now, who can give me the answer?"
Nicolas accidentally hits his face with the book as he drops his arm. "Poliakoff?"
"Wha?" He looks up in confusion. "Yeah," He flips through his book quickly. "One thousand five hundred and twenty seven tons!"
"Really, Nicolas?" She raises an eyebrow, amused. She then claps and he grins widely. "Well done. You've solved the problem of world hunger."
The whole class laughs at him and he drops his smile. "Quiet down."
T.V. comes into the class and she turns to him. "Yes?"
"Give me a panorama shot of the kids," He orders Edna, microphone in hand. Ms. Hertz steps up to him, wondering what he's doing.
"Ahem." Sissi walks up behind her. "Can I help you?"
"Yes. Get out of the shot," He tells her rudely. She huffs at his manners. He turns to the camera. "Do our schools still provide a future for all youth faced with the teacher's last attitudes? We have reason to doubt." He walks past Jeremy. "To see how bad it's become, all you need to do is pick out a student at random and ask him his grade point average." He gestures for Jeremy to speak, holding the microphone to him. "You, for instance."
"99.87 out of 100."
T.V. looks at him in shock, Ms. Hertz humming in confirmation. "Okay, cut. That's too high."
Edna cuts and then turns the camera back on. "Who here has a below 60 average?"
Odd raises his hand, Amy shaking her head. She thinks back to how her dad once wanted her to beat Jeremy's score, but to do that, she'd have to be a robot.
Or, just be Jeremy himself.
Even she knew she couldn't pull that off, which is why she's happy with her 96.8 average. Anything to make her father's face go red was worth the B from history.
"Okay son," T.V. walks up to him. "So you're flunking out of school, right?"
"Me? Not exactly. On the other hand, I have this great DVD to show you," Odd grins, holding up his short film.
"Oh, this cannot be happening," T.V. comments to Odd's dismay. "What's with this bunch of-"
The bell rings and they all cheer. The five walk out of the building. "I'm so disgusted!" Odd frowns deeply. "T.V. didn't even wanna see my masterpiece."
"Is that what it means to be a starving artist?" Aelita asks him.
"Aw, I wouldn't worry about it," Amy wraps an arm around Odd. "He doesn't know what he's missing out on."
"Really?" Odd looks up at her.
"Of course. I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it. You're too good for him. He's just an idiot who doesn't see your talent."
He smiles at her encouragement. He was gonna show T.V. that he could make it big and then he'll see what he missed out on! If it wasn't for Amy, he'd still be doubting himself. But the girl just cheered him up like it was nothing.
"Oh no!" Jeremy exclaims in horror.
"What?" They turn around to him. Jeremy pulls out his beeping laptop and opens it.
"The alarm. XANA's gone on the attack," He closes it.
"I'll warn Yumi," Ulrich pulls out his phone.
"Well I sure hope this goes quickly, because I don't wanna miss today's meatballs and gravy!" Odd catches up with them. "They've been at them for ages."
"Ah, Rosa can make anything better...except for maybe T.V.'s stuck up personality," Amy rolls her eyes at the mention of him. She never liked him, she's heard how nasty he can be. And his attitude in science class only proved her point.
"Virtualization," Odd, Yumi, and Ulrich land in front of Amy and Aelita in the mountain sector. She turns around and they run down the long rock pathway. The tower is just in their sights as Amy takes herself into the sky with her wings.
Jeremy watches, noting that there's no sign of monsters so far. A second later, his suspicions are diminished. "Watch it, you've got company."
"Aelita, stay behind me," Yumi pulls out her fans. Ulrich pulls out his sword and Odd readies his arm. Amy pulls out her spear. It's a horde of Hornets. Ulrich speeds up.
"Everyone bring their pesticide?" Odd asks them. They separate and three of them attack Ulrich. He blocks the shots with his sword, destroying one when he reflects the projectile back to the monster. Yumi runs up ahead as two circle Ulrich, Aelita following behind.
Yumi looks up at three Hornets, watching them circle back to behind her. They fire at her from behind and she runs past the shots, absorbing some with her fans. They continue their attack on her and she continues absorbing them with her weapons. Aelita watches her.
"Yumi!"
She looks up ahead at Aelita's warning to see three rock platforms up ahead. She jumps, spinning around and holding out her fans. She blocks the shots, reflecting them back to two Hornets, getting rid of them. She flips and lands on one of the rocks, still spinning. She gets herself to stop just as she was about to fall off. She gasps in slight shock, three Hornets approaching Odd.
He backflips as they were planning on ambushing him, firing one arrow. It destroys the one on his left.
Amy comes to a stop as three Hornets are flying straight towards her. She flips into the air, holding her spear. She rolls towards them, destroying a Hornet in the middle when she passes right by it. She flies underneath the rock, two Hornets following after her.
Yumi backs away slowly as a Hornet is approaching her. She then starts running forward and jumps, spinning around as she throws her fans. "Ya!" One fan gets hit by a laser while the other destroys the Hornet. Yumi lands on the next platform and catches her fans. She backflips back onto the path.
Ulrich blocks another laser before speeding up. "Super Sprint!"
The Hornets chase after him and he jumps onto the first platform with a yell. He spins around while he's still in the air, getting rid of both Hornets.
Odd runs as two Hornets are firing at him. He jumps and turns back to them. "Laser Arrow!" He fires twice, getting rid of one.
"Ya!" Yumi throws a fan right past Odd's face and it destroys the third Hornet. Odd looks back to see her catching the fan, Aelita standing next to Yumi. Odd lands in front of the three.
"Thanks Yumi. Hey, where's Ames?"
He gets his answer as Amy flies right past them, looking back at the Hornets still chasing her. "Rock Spear!" A duplicate of her spear made of rock appears and it flies right into the Hornets, destroying them. One final Hornet looks down at them as Amy flies up to her friends.
"Hey! Bunch of chickens!" Odd shakes a fist, Amy stifling a laugh.
"Weird. I guess XANA is not up to snuff today," Yumi comments on how the Hornet just left.
"Well, weird or not, it's better for us, because we have something waiting for us," Odd looks to all his friends. "Meatballs and gravy!"
"So hurry up," Jeremy smiles softly. They continue down the pathway, jumping over two more platforms. They reach the tower and Odd looks to Aelita.
"Well, my lady, your tower is served," He gestures to it.
"Aelita, wait," Yumi stops the elf girl before she could enter. "Look!" She points up to the tower, which self-deactivates. "The tower is deactivating itself."
"Huh. You don't see that everyday," Amy stares at it.
"Well, what do you know?" Ulrich asks.
"What does that mean, Jeremy?"
"I wish I knew," Jeremy scratches his head in confusion.
When they return back from materialization, Jeremy is staring at another activated tower. He holds his head. "Oh no! Another tower activated in the ice sector." However, like last time, it disappears. "Again? Unbelievable!"
"What's going on?" The others enter from the elevator.
"The tower just deactivated by itself! I don't get this at all!"
"Do you think it's a bug in the supercomputer?" Aelita wonders, as it's happened before.
"Or a new plot by XANA," Odd suggests, smiling a bit.
"Go to lunch," Jeremy waves at them. "I'll stay here and try to work all this out. If anything happens, I'll give you a shout."
Yumi nods at them and he hears them leave. "I'll stay with you," Aelita places a hand on his shoulder. "With the two of us, it'll go faster."
He smiles gratefully for the help.
A student walks off with his lunch as the other four are next. T.V. cuts in line in front of Odd. Rosa gives him a big smile, planting some meatballs and gravy onto his tray. "What's with these little mini servings? Come on, cookie, don't be shy," He snaps his fingers. "Load up the meatballs."
She gives him more meatballs and he walks off. "Let me tell ya, sure is no picnic being a field reporter."
Amy sticks out her tongue at him in retaliation. Rosa gives Odd less meatballs than she would usually give him. "Wait, what? Where are all the meatballs?"
"On T.V.'s tray," Rosa looks up at the man, who tastes the meatballs and spits them out in disgust.
"Oh, oh, this is awful!"
They just stare at him for his...high tastes.
"Any guy who had wheels like this, I'd go out with in a heartbeat," Sissi smiles, touching T.V.'s car.
"Okay, I'm outta here. I'm starving," Nicolas walks off and Sissi huffs at him. Herb smiles widely that he's alone with Sissi.
Jeremy stares at another activated tower, rubbing his chin. "It's starting up again. Should I tell the others?" Aelita wonders.
"Hang on," Jeremy leans back in his chair. "It might deactivate by itself again."
However, it doesn't, as the satellites are affected. A specter flies out from them into the clouds, causing a storm. They dark the skies and the buildings underneath...
Ulrich takes a sip of his water as it starts to snow. "Look!" He points outside. "It's snowing!"
"Right on!" Odd cheers, the other students cheering too. Amy smiles, looking outside. She loved snow ever since she was a little girl. In the winter, she'd go with her parents to a cabin and just play in it all day...
That was when her parents were still happy together.
Jim looks outside. "Calm down, everyone. Stay in your seats."
Aelita and Jeremy, unaware of the snow, are looking over the statistics. "The subsystem seems okay too..."
She eyes the right screen, seeing that the tower is still activated. "Jeremy, the tower is still activated."
"Uh oh, bad news. Maybe this time XANA really is attacking," Jeremy puts the headphone to his mouth. It would've gone away after a few seconds like the last two times...
The students are out playing in the snow, throwing snowballs at each other. "That's enough now," Jim claps his hands. "Everyone inside."
He gets a snowball to the face, looking towards the principal. He puts his hands behind his back innocently, glaring.
Yumi runs past as Ulrich is holding a snowball, chuckling. Odd and Amy throw snowballs at each other.
"Hold still, Ames!" He chases after her and they both trip, laughing. Odd glances at the smiling girl. Some snow is in her hair as some of it falls down onto her cheeks. She looks...really pretty in the snow all of a sudden...
He had to resist the urge to touch her snowflake-decorated hair.
"Yes Jeremy?" Yumi holds the phone to her ear, backing into a tree. Ulrich stands behind her, snowball ready. Odd prepares to hit Ulrich with a bigger snowball once he's gotten up, Yumi hanging up the phone. "XANA's attacking."
Odd drops the snowball. "Aww...okay," Amy pouts and Odd grins at her.
"Think of it this way, we can play in the snow in the winter time."
"Yeah!" She smiles in agreement. Suddenly, the wind blows the snow harder, some of the students covering themselves.
"Inside, on the double!" Jim calls out, the principal helping two students into the dorms. Jim helps out a crying student.
"Come on, I got you." He picks him up as the snow doesn't let up, the four Lyoko Warriors helping other students inside. Yumi closes the door as Odd and Ulrich drop Milly and Tamiya. They look to see everyone else sitting on the stairs.
"We have to get to Lyoko," Yumi tells the three, frost coming from her mouth.
"Yeah, you're right, and I bet the weather's better there," Odd comments as it's just as cold inside as it is outside.
Amy calls Jeremy. "Einstein, we can't get to Lyoko. We're stuck at school because of a blizzard. This must've been XANA's doing."
"What a nightmare! XANA's back to his old self!" Jeremy holds his head in dismay. If they couldn't get there, Aelita is all alone...
Herb tries to open the door to the gym, but it's locked. "Closed. Now what?"
"Follow me," Sissi shivers from the cold. They get inside T.V.'s snow-encrusted car, shivering. Herb tries to start up the car to get the heat on, but the snow has already gotten to the engines. Sissi tries to turn up the AC, but with the car off, it's no use. Herb tries again, but nothing. Eventually, he gets it on, the heat melting some of the snow.
"Cool, the Subsonics!" Sissi holds up a DVD and they play it as they wait for someone to help. The wind stops blowing, but the snowflakes still fall, the whole school covered in at least 2 inches of snow.
The students shiver as Jim walks by, handing them coats, hats, and blankets. He's wearing a yellow coat and a blue hat on his head. He hands Yumi, Amy, Odd, and Ulrich jackets. Yumi gets a dark blue jacket with a pink hat, Odd gets a light blue jacket and pants, and Ulrich gets a grey hat and a red jacket. Amy gets a pink jacket and pants like Odd's, blue earmuffs over her ears and a green scarf around her neck. All of them have goggles, Yumi's being decorated to look like a ladybug, and Amy's decorated to have a cat design, with the ears above her eyes.
"Here, Mr. T.V.," Jim offers a hat. "This will keep your hair in place."
Edna puts on a green blanket, giggling at her boss. He's frowning as he has a red and green hat, kind of like an elf hat for Christmas.
"Very good, Ms. Hertz," Mr. Delmas is wearing a beige coat and red scarf. "You did well to take the children safely to the basement of the science building." He hangs up, frowning in worry.
"Look, Mr. Delmas," Jim holds up a tiny device. "I found the weather station. I got this free with my Sumo Mag Subscription. Up there, it shows the temperature outside," He gestures to the top number. "Uh, it's 4 degrees below zero. And down here," He points to the bottom temperature, "Shows the temperature in here, 37."
"37 degrees?" Mr. Delmas asks in shock. Usually the dorms don't get that cold, even during a storm. "Come on, let's go down to the boiler room," He walks up to the door, Jim turning to everyone else.
"Okay everybody."
The car has run out of battery from the radio and AC, leaving Herb and Sissi in the cold again. "It's a scientific fact that if we huddled together, we'll keep warmer," Herb suggests, a loud smack being heard from inside the car. "Ouch!"
"It's a scientific fact that a good slap will keep your cheek warm," She retorts back.
Edna is recording the students trying to keep warm in the boiler room. "I'm setting it on maximum," Principal Delmas is standing in front of the heater. "That should warm us up a little." She zooms in on Amy and Odd. Odd is hugging Amy as they're huddling together to keep themselves warm. She has her head rested on his chest.
T.V. stands in front of the camerawoman. "Edna, stop wasting film. An unbelievable deep freeze has taken hold of the city and what are you shooting? Four brats in a basement! It's not even PG-13! People expect spectacular TV from T.V., so let's get out of this rat hole and go where the action is, the city!"
Edna puts down the camera, crossing her arms. "Not with me." She's had enough of his bossy attitude and his opinion of children. Besides, she thought that Amy and Odd were cute together.
"Oh yeah? Fine. YOU'RE FIRED!"
Ulrich, Amy, Odd, and Yumi watch in shock. T.V. snatches his camera back. "Can't have cold feet on this job."
Edna grits her teeth at him. She's glad that she doesn't work for him anymore, the jerk. He eyes Odd and Amy snuggling, rolling his eyes.
"Disgusting."
He walks up to Jim, who's blocking his way. "You can't go outside," Jim shows his device. "It's 40 below out there."
"My car keys," He was not staying in some rat hole school when he could be getting quality TV.
Jim digs around for them, smiling innocently. "Um, I think I left them in the ignition." He smiles widely.
"Idiot!"
It was payback for making him a valet and for his attitude. He silently hoped T.V. got what was coming to him as the man storms out.
"Did you hear that?" Ulrich asks the others. "40 below, and there's no reason for XANA to stop there."
"The only solution is to deactivate the tower on Lyoko, but if we go out, we'll end up as...ice sculptures!" Odd says and Amy looks up at him.
"If we don't, Aelita's all alone and we'll freeze either way. She needs us. We have no choice..."
"Amy's right, we have to try," Yumi agrees with her. "We'll sneak out of here and search the rooms for warmer gear, and then we'll run over to the factory."
"Okay," The other three nod at her plan.
Herb and Sissi shiver in the car. "I'm warning you, Herb, if you fall asleep...I'll slap you again!"
He recoils back at her threat. The door opens, covering the top of Herb's hair with snow. A snow-decorated T.V. leans in towards them angrily.
"What do you think you're doing in my car?! Get out of here!" He yells at them.
"Hey, you're not gonna leave us in this blizzard, are you?" Sissi asks him, her nose with snow on it.
"Fine," He agrees reluctantly. "I'll drop you off. Get in the back and don't get my soft leather seats dirty, got it?" He gets in and the door closes. He takes off, snow trailing behind the car. As the four escape from the boiler room into the outside, the car swerves due to the snow in the tires. The four come to a stop in front of a small hill. T.V. tries to gain control.
"Stupid power steering!" He swerves narrowly past a tree, but crashes into the next one, the snow falling onto the windshield.
"Did you see that?" Ulrich asks them. They recognize the high-end car as T.V.'s.
"We gotta go and help him."
"As much as I hate the news, I don't want him to freeze to death..." Amy murmurs at Yumi's suggestion.
Ulrich slides down first, followed by Odd, Amy, and Yumi.
Jim looks at the device, sitting between Christophe and Milly. "Sir?" A student wearing a dark puple coat walks up to him.
"Yes, Michael?"
"How c-c-cold is it?"
Jim's hand shakes as he looks at it. "58 degrees below zero outside t-twenty-three degrees in here," He stammers as frost comes onto his face. Michael gasps in shock at the lowered temperature. Who knows how long they had before it got worse...
"The deadly cold snap has hit the city, which was buried under ice and snow in a matter of minutes," Aelita and Jeremy are watching the news for the status. Luckily, the factory wasn't affected. "The authorities have put the emergency cold weather on action, but chaos has broken out nonetheless. Telephone lines-" The footage stops there, as the snow has affected phone lines and satellites at this point.
Ulrich stomps his foot into the white substance, Yumi, Amy, and Odd helping out a cold Herb and Sissi. T.V. steps out, shivering.
"I-It wasn't my fault. It was the p-power steering, I..."
"Yeah, right," Yumi interrupts sharply, just as fed up with him as Edna was. "Why don't you make yourself useful in the meantime? Get Sissi and Herb into the boiler room, fast!"
"Go on! Go!" Amy shouts at him and he walks off, escorting the two away.
"Now that's authority," Odd comments, impressed at how Amy took charge. Ulrich glances a tree, which starts breaking apart due to how cold it is.
"Ulrich! Look out!" Yumi pushes him out of the way without a second thought. The tree falls as Ulrich lands in the snow. Odd and Amy stand up from the white substance.
"That was close," He rubs his head. Amy turns around and her eyes widen in horror.
"Yumi!" Ulrich shouts as Yumi is stuck underneath the fallen tree.
"Oh no, Yumi," Amy runs up to her, Ulrich wrapping his arms around her.
"This is why...I like bonsais better," She comments at her situation, looking up at them.
"We'll get you out there," Ulrich assures her. "One, two, three." Amy, Ulrich, and Odd try pushing against the tree to free her, but it's too heavy. It doesn't move an inch.
"Forget it," She tells them, knowing that she can't escape. "It's much too heavy. Go to the factory, that's more important."
"We just can't leave her. She won't last long in this cold."
"Yeah," Amy frowns down at Yumi.
"You two get to Lyoko," Ulrich tells them. "I'll stay here with her."
"Good luck," Odd and Ulrich pat each other on the shoulder. Amy bends down and hugs Yumi as best as she can.
"We'll go as fast as we can. Don't fall asleep on us," She smiles weakly, running after Odd. Ulrich bends down, placing his hand on Yumi's back.
"Hang in there. I'm gonna go look for something to get you out of there," He gives her a thumbs up and she returns it. She watches him leave and hugs herself, feeling colder...
Ulrich walks into the shed for something to get the tree out.
"We have no choice, Jeremy!" Aelita tells Jeremy sharply, as she's trying to convince him to let her go.
"But that's exactly what XANA's waiting for, Aelita: for you to go to Lyoko, so he can steal your memory," Jeremy replies back. He did it when he sent Krabs to Earth, and XANA can surely do the same tactic again.
"If someone doesn't go and deactivate that tower, Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, and Amy will die of cold!" Aelita argues, "And the entire city with them!"
Jeremy holds his head in shock. The chances of the four getting out of the school were slim right now, and eventually, the city would be affected too. As much as he didn't want to put Aelita at risk, he didn't want his friends or anyone else to die.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. I'll launch the virtualization process."
Aelita walks off to the elevator, glad that she's doing her part to help.
Ulrich drags a pulley that's already starting to freeze. He sees Yumi's eyes are closed. "Yumi!" He rubs her goggles.
"Let me...sleep," She opens her eyes weakly and he shakes her awake.
"No! No, you can-you can sleep later, okay?" He throws the chain over a branch, connecting the chain to the pulley. He attaches another chain around the tree and starts pulling. The chain starts to freeze as he continues pulling, but the tree doesn't budge. The chain slips from his hand and he kicks the snow in frustration.
Aelita drives the Overbike to the activated tower up ahead in the ice sector. "Look out, Aelita. Hornets on the way."
"I can't see anything for now," She doesn't notice any Hornets...
Because they're not Hornets.
She recognizes the shape of the monster, looking up in surprise to see a Flying Manta! "They're not Hornets. They're Flying Mantas!"
"Huh?" Jeremy asks in shock that he didn't notice them from the screen. What's more... "But...they never leave Sector Five."
Aelita eyes them closely, wondering why they're here. Either way, it was a big step up from XANA. She narrows her eyes and speeds up. "We have to face facts. XANA is getting more and more powerful."
"About face, Aelita, fast!"
The three Flying Mantas surround the activated tower, flying around it and stopping right in front of them. If Aelita dared to go through, she'd be fired at. She comes to a stop and turns around.
"No!" Her mouth opens in horror at the Scyphozoa approaching her.
Jim turns up the boiler, shutting it closed. He stands up, hands on his hips. "Well, that's it."
Mr. Delmas looks at his phone, which is now inoperable due to the weather.
"Think about warm things, Amy," Odd tells the girl as they're slowly walking to the factory. "Tahiti, sauna, heat wave, fireplace..."
Amy falls onto the ground behind him, too cold to walk any further. "Huh?" Odd looks down at her, "Ames!"
"O-Odd...I-I'm too...cold...go on without me."
"No way!" He helps her up onto his back, carrying her across the bridge slowly as she passes out.
Aelita drives away from the Flying Mantas. She sees them hatching something, gasping. "Flying Mines!" She drives up ahead.
Ulrich pulls the frosted chain, which eventually breaks from the frost. "Yumi," Ulrich cries out that he's unable to help her. He crawls up to her. "Stay with me."
The Mantas fly around the Scyphozoa, trapping Aelita inside a circle of mines. She narrows her eyes at the trap and revs the bike, having a plan.
Sissi shivers next to her father, Jim's device on the ground. The temperature drops even further. "Okay, no sleeping," Jim claps to get everyone's attention. "Everyone listen up. I'm gonna tell you a little story." He paces around. "And it's from when I was a volunteer research subject, for the space exploration program."
T.V. smiles when no one is looking, snatching Milly and Tamiya's blanket for warmth.
"Aelita, what are you doing? You're going straight to the Scyphozoa!"
Ignoring Jeremy's warning, Aelita uses her creativity to make a ramp. She speeds up and flies over the Scyphozoa, crashing the Overbike and sliding onto the ground.
"Hot springs, g-glass furnace," Odd presses the button. He feels Amy's head drop and he gasps. "Ames, no! Wake up, wake up!"
He shivers, a tear falling down from his eye. "Please...wake up..."
"And b-believe it or not," Jim stammers, frost from his mouth. "Major Santana really had it."
Edna slaps T.V., knocking off his glasses. "No sleeping!" She glares at him, grabbing the blanket. She wraps it around the girls. He stares at the woman in shock, holding his warm cheek.
Aelita looks up at the disappearing mines, the Scyphozoa approaching her. "Aelita, behind you!"
She turns around, gasping sharply to see the jellyfish holding out his tentacles.
"Please, hang on..." Ulrich begs as he's hugging Yumi. "I'm sure Amy and Odd are already on Lyoko."
In fact, they're the opposite as they enter the lab. "M-Magma..." Odd falls onto the ground.
"Odd! Amy!" Jeremy rushes to their side, trying to get Odd up.
"D-Don't help me, help her," Odd slowly points to Amy on the ground next to him. "She p-passed out..."
Aelita runs from the Scyphozoa, who's gaining on her.
Jeremy and Odd help Amy into a scanner as best as they can. He then helps Odd into the other one as Amy's cheek rests on the cold metal.
Aelita gets captured by the Scyphozoa from behind. "Transfer Odd. Transfer Amy. Virtualization!"
They materialize into the ice sector, Odd landing on his Overboard. Amy lands behind him and she wakes up at the landing.
"Are you okay?" He asks gently as she stands up, holding her head.
"Yeah..."
"Don't fly or drive, okay? You're still dizzy. I'll take care of us in the meantime," He then sees the ice sector. "Oh no, more ice."
"Come on, Aelita needs our help," Amy tells him, wrapping her arms around his waist in a hug. She rests her head on his shoulder and his eyes widen. "Thanks for helping me through the cold..."
"Heh heh..." He rubs his neck sheepishly. "You're welcome. Alright, we've got a job to do." He takes off with Amy towards the activated tower. They see Aelita getting her memory taken by the Scyphozoa.
Ulrich continues hugging Yumi. "Leave me," She looks up. Aelita needed all the help she could get, and there was no way he was gonna get her free.
"You won't get rid of me that easily."
She smiles softly at him.
Odd fires his arrows. "Laser Arrow!" They hit the jellyfish and Amy makes her spear into a bow.
"Sapphire Arrow," Multiple ice arrows hit the monster and he releases Aelita. Odd flies over to her and she lands behind Amy.
"Can I drop you off at the next activated tower, perhaps?" Odd offers her.
"I wouldn't say no," She smiles in amusement and he flies to the tower.
"Look out behind you!" Jeremy warns as the two didn't know about the Mantas. They fire at them and they look behind to see the monsters appearing.
"Mantas in the ice sector?!" Amy exclaims, turning to Odd. "That's just what we needed."
"A-And so...there I..." Jim falls next to his device, shivering.
Odd zips past the lasers behind them, flying down and spinning in a circle. Aelita yelps at the speed and Odd spins around another one. The Mantas fly past them, letting out the mines and surrounding the tower with them.
"Another field of flying mines!"
Odd turns around to the two. "Hang on."
He zips past the mines like it was nothing.
"Please...Yumi..." Ulrich tries to keep his eyes open. "Don't give up...we need you to fight against XANA..." Frost comes from his mouth as her eyes are also closed.
The Mantas fire from behind. "Odd, Amy, the Flying Mantas are behind us!" Aelita warns the two. He ducks underneath the mines where it's safe, the Mantas following after them. He heads towards the tower, one of the Mantas falling to the ground, destroying itself. The other two follow and Odd continues ahead of the flurry of mines. A Manta appears right in front of them. It fires and Odd just chuckles, moving past them.
"Right where I want them." He aims his hand at the one firing at them. "Here we go!" He fires three times, hitting one of the wings. Amy throws her spear, hitting the other one. The Manta spins around, falling straight into mines. It explodes, causing a chain reaction of mines being exploded. It creates a path to the tower.
"Yes! There's an open passage!"
Odd stops in front of the tower. "Hurry! We'll cover you!"
Aelita jumps off, running towards the tower. The Manta fires at Odd and he fires back. "Shield!" He makes a shield with his arms, but eventually gets devirtualized.
"Odd!" Amy cries out, looking down at Aelita. The Manta chases after the girl, but she enters the tower safely. "Frosty Vine!" Ice vines surround the Manta before it's completely destroyed. Amy sighs in relief, flying around the tower and coming to a stop.
Aelita runs into the middle and flies to the top.
Ulrich silently cries, a frosted tear running down his cheek. "...I need you..." He whispers, but Yumi is already passed out.
Aelita lands at the top, walking up to the interface and signing in.
Code
Lyoko
"Tower deactivated," She watches the codes disappear.
The sun comes out and Ulrich feels the snow off of him melting. "Yumi?" He sees that she hasn't woken up. "Yumi!" He bends down and doesn't hear her breathe. He tries to call, but the satellites were still busted from the weather. "Oh no...NO!"
Odd and Amy appear in the lab. "Jeremy, hurry up. Launch a return to the past. Yumi's in trouble."
"Okay," He presses enter. "Return to the past, now!" He snaps his fingers, engulfing everything.
It's back to the cafeteria. T.V. walks up to Rosa, cutting in line again. Rosa smiles widely and gives him a small portion. "What's with these little mini servings? Come on, cookie, don't be shy. Load up the meatballs," He snaps his fingers.
Odd winks at her, silently encouraging Rosa that she didn't need to take that from T.V.
"Do you really want it?"
"Oh yeah. What are you, deaf too?" He narrows his eyes in annoyance. At that, she dumps some meatballs on him. "What the-"
Odd laughs at him. "And if you're still hungry, there's seconds."
The others all laugh at him, Amy and Odd high fiving. Odd knew better now. He wasn't going to waste time on some jerk.
And, seeing him covered in meatballs was a little payback.