Chapter 16 I'd Rather Not Talk About It

A.N. – So, nothing much changes in this chapter, except one edit in the forest sector during the Xana attack. Now I did mention in a previous chapter that Yumi wants to duel Ulrich alone, it will happen in this chapter, but the duel I'm looking for in the one in episode 76. So, any of you who were hoping for that special duel, I'm bursting your bubble right now. Just be on the lookout for The Lake, which is coming in a few weeks. It will be the duel Yumi wants.

Guest – Glad you liked it! 1. Not there yet. I might be on episode 76 when this is posted. It is something to think about, but most likely it will probably be Odd and William. 2. Again, not even close. I do know of the duel. It's kind of one of the highlights of season 4. I could add something into episode 87. There is a scene where your idea could work. As for episode 90, someone warned me about this episode as well. Also, don't forget that Aelita still has her creativity, and I think it will be the same but mostly be a brother vs sister scenario.

Disclaimer – I do not own Code Lyoko, the plot or the idea. The plot is owned by the creators and this idea was submitted by Voltronblues123.

Out in the woods, the Lyoko Warriors are running, guided by Kiwi. All of them look tired and dirty as they're approaching Jeremy in the distance. "Come on, let's move a little faster!" he shouts holding a stopwatch.

"I don't believe this; he's trying to kill us!" Aelita calls out from the front. Odd is trudging along when he trips and falls in front of Kiwi. Kiwi sniffs him while he looks up at Jeremy, who stops the watch.

"You guys are ridiculous!" he scolds as they're laying around him, exhausted. "You're way too slow! What a bunch of snails!" They all glare at him. "Cept you Odd, even a snail runs faster than you!"

"Hey, we have a limited stamina here, unlike Lyoko!" William defends Odd and everyone else. Kiwi growls at him.

"Lyoko or not, if Xana attacks us here, you won't be ready. The stopwatch doesn't lie, you guys."

"Okay then drill sergeant Jeremy, how long has Xana been a threat and we've all survived?"

Jeremy knew William had a point but still gave no response.

"That was even worse than the last time," Jeremy stares down at all of them in the courtyard. "How do you expect to beat Xana if all of you don't speed it up?!"

"Hm, you're a real comedian Einstein," Odd shrugs lightly. "All you ever do is time us. Anybody can do that."

"One thing is for sure: if you guys don't get into shape, you're never gonna get any stronger and Xana's gonna beat you, hands down!" Jeremy explains to them. "But if you think you want another trainer, be my guest."

"Maybe there's a better…a better way of getting into shape" Yumi suggests to him.

"I get it! You're just badly trained. And if you guys can't keep up, it's my fault!"

"Well, yeah" William and Odd agree in unison.

"Okay, fine!" Jeremy crosses his arms stubbornly. "I may not be the best trainer in the world, but you have to admit, you don't exactly listen to me."

"Maybe we need to find someone else, a specialist" Yumi says, looking to the others.

"A specialist? You mind telling me where you expect to find one?" Jeremy asks incredibly. The boys turn to each other, wondering how they could do that without anyone knowing about Lyoko. Aelita suddenly smiles as she gets an idea.

Jim opens the door from his room. "Now just what do you think you're doing here?" he asks the five. "Can't a man have a little peace and quiet even on a Saturday?"

"Well, it's simple. Although, well, uh…you might think this is a little crazy" Jeremy starts off.

"Nothing could surprise me ever since I orbited the Earth," Jim remarks. "Spit it out Belpois."

"Um…well, we heard that you were once a special forces trainer."

"That's right," Jim paces around. "Special forces, the SIF! Secret Intervention Force, heh heh heh. Now those were the good ol' days. But that being said, I'd rather not talk about it."

"Would you be willing to train students like us, Jim?"

"Train students?" Jim says in confusion.

"Yeah, for a commando camp lie you, uh…like your Special Intervention thingamajig."

"Deal! Meet me at the red cross trail crossroads at 1500 hours sharp, dresses for sports" Jim walks over to them.

"You mean like today, already?!" Yumi asks, already done dealing with Jeremy's torture earlier today.

"It touches me that students recognize in what a benefit my experience and skills have, especially you Belpois! I never imagined that anyone can ever turn you into a man, a real one!" Jim places a hand on the boys shoulder.

"No, you don't understand! I was talking about training the others, not for me!" Jeremy says, trying to get out of it.

"This training course is for everybody!" Jim elaborates. "1500 hours and I want you there on time, you hear?!"

And with that he closes the door, to the amusement of others. "Ha! This will do wonders for you Jeremy," Odd states while Yumi is laughing. "Now you'll be able to put your stopwatch away for a little while! Alright!"

"This is stupid!" Jeremy grumbles as they walk underneath the arches. "I can't do a commando camp; I've got a ton of other things on my plate!"

"I think you're just afraid of sweating a little" Yumi comments to him.

"What if Xana attacks while we're training?"

"Simple, bring your laptop. If Xana attacks, we rush to the factory" William tells him.

"Don't worry Jeremy, Jim's commando camp can't possibly do us any harm, huh?" Aelita places a hand on his shoulder.

"With Jim…you can never tell…" Jeremy replies slowly.

"I have never seen a weaker pack of legless slugs in my life!" Jim shouts at all of them in the park. "1500 hours sharp does not mean 1502 or 1503!"

"Oh, we're not gonna split hairs over a few seconds, huh? On my watch-" Odd starts.

Jim leans in towards Odd, pointing a threatening finger at the boy. "Your watch doesn't watch with me Della Robbia! I give the orders around here, so straighten up! Okay, let's go, make our way to the combat clearing where we'll start with some basic training! Leg push-ups!"

They run after him, Odd sagging his shoulders. "You know, I wonder if it was a mistake to recruit Jim" Aelita states to Jeremy skeptically.

"No Aelita, it wasn't just a mistake: it was a huge, colossal mistake" Jeremy huffs as he walks off, leaving an amused Aelita.

"13, 14, 15!" Jim hollers as he watches them do push-ups. "Hold that 15, hold it. Hold it, I said!" Despite that, Jeremy falls onto the grass. "Alright, alright. One, two, three, four, on your feet. On your feet. Breathe in, and breathe out, easy does it. Two, three, four, five."

They follow his example, hopping up and down on one foot.

"Jeremy, are you okay?" Aelita asks as he's still on the grass.

"Not really, I feel awful…" Jeremy responds.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing Belpois?" Jim questions with a smile as Jeremy isn't moving. "This is only the beginning. By the time I/m through with you, you're gonna be a man! So, get up now!"

Jeremy weakly gets onto his feet. "Jim, don't you think you're overdoing it?" Yumi asks. "We want training, not torture!"

"Wrong again, young lady. You guys are all participating in Jim's boot camp! And that means two things: you sweat, and you don't complain, unless you want ten extra push-ups! From this moment on, we live and die together as a group, got it?"

"okay, okay, no need to get carried away" Odd states.

"YOU GOT IT ODD?!" he shouts at the five.

"Sir yes sir!" they recite as they straighten up.

"Okay, let's move it! 3-mile run!"

They all groan at this. They sprint behind him down the path. "One two, one two, one two, one two, one two, one two!" Jim recites as they trudge after him. Odd and Jeremy lag behind.

"Oh, my poor stomach. I should have never gone back for seconds of the tuna casserole after the beef stroganoff!" Odd complains.

Jim runs back to them, circling around them. "Get those knees up, you soft shell crabs! Go on! Hey Belpois, you couldn't even outrun a one-legged chicken!" They reluctantly pick up the pace. "Left, right, left, right. And left, right."

William, Yumi, and Aelita stare at him. "At this rate, we'll need at least a week to recover from Jim's boot camp!" Aelita comments as the two join them. "It's kind of useless."

"Young lady, it's the adversity that creates strength and courage! And that's the shortest path to fame and glory!" Jim recites proudly, gesturing to himself. "Hup, hup, hup, hup, hup!"

The four watch Odd attempting a pull-up, which he ultimately fails at. "Cut the clowning Della Robbia! This is not a circus!"

"Dunbar, don't be wimp!" Jim chastises as William is climbing up a make-shift wall. "You got nothing to be afraid of except a sore bottom!"

"Come on Belpois!" Jim calls out as it's Jeremy's attempt now…but he's just standing at the top, shaking like a leaf. "No use hanging there like a wet sock on a clothesline!"

William and Aelita watch the others crawl underneath barbed wire. "Move it! Get the lead out and crawl!" Yumi's clothes are caught in the wire. "Faster, you hear!"

Then they walk across a fence, but Aelita falls onto the ground. "Stones, I said on top of it!"

"Not bad for the first time," Jim looks at his stopwatch, looking towards the exhausted group. "Right, let's take a little break here and then we'll start a new workout."

They lay around on the grass.

"Hey, you know what Jim? We'd love to hear about your past life," Yumi speaks up. "I know you usually don't want to talk about it, but since it's just between us, the members of the same commando group…"

He clears his throat with a small smile. "Right. Well then, listen up. Exceptionally for you, I'll give you a quick rundown. It all began when I completed my training to become a physical education instructor. I was also a licensed scuba diver. And that's why the Marines recruited me fort heir special forces. NASA heard of me and since I was now a special forces diver, they had me test out their space suits underwater. So after having received a medal from the president, I was appointed to the secret service!"

On Lyoko, a tower is activated in the forest sector.

"And believe me, Rosita Banana didn't just play the accordion, she was also a heck of a pilot!" Jim is still telling stories while Jeremy's backpack is sitting at the tree nearby. "When I arrived in Buenos Aires with my cameras, her biplane bowled me over!"

Jeremy hears the alert beeps from his laptop. Jim looks at his watch in confusion, the boy looking back towards the teacher. "Right. Break time's over now. A quick trot to shake off the rest! Hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup!" They look at him in annoyance, standing up and tailing after him. "Let's go people, move it!"

Jeremy opens up his bag, pulling out his laptop. He opens it up to see the activated tower. "Activated tower! We've got to end this circus right now," getting onto his feet, he sees that everyone is gone. "Huh?! They're already way ahead of me! Come on, you can do it Jeremy."

The others run after Jim, Odd falling behind once again. The teacher comes to a stop in front of them, seeing a boar.

"Whoa, a wild boar. All the way out here" William states.

"How about that! A wild pig!" Jim says.

"And it's huge!" Yumi states as they start to back away. "Let's go another way!"

"Hm? Oh, relax, it's nothing! I handled much worse than this when I was in Burma" Jim jerks a thumb to it.

The boar runs towards them, alarming them all. Jim tries to kick it, but the boar slides right past him. It charges at Jim, again, and he jumps out of the way. The pig opens his eyes…and then the sign of Xana appears.

"Uh oh. We got trouble" William looks to the others.

"Xana" Yumi murmurs knowingly.

"Uh Jim, you might want to get away! You don't know what you're messing with!"

"It's not a wild boar!" Aelita adds in.

"Right, like I said, it's just an overgrown pig, that's all," Jim dismisses the warnings. "Come to Jim, little piglet! Here, little piggy!"

"No, we're telling you Jim, we'd be much better off getting out of here!" Yumi says in worry, just as Jeremy arrives. The boar turns its attention on him instead.

"Look out Belpois!" Jim runs in and takes the hit for Jeremy, landing in a bush.

"Jim?" Jeremy rushes up to him. "Jim! Are you okay?"

"Yeah, yeah sure…how's the other guy?" Ji m smiles weakly, turning his head away, meaning he's not fine. Jeremy looks over his shoulder as the boar is charging again. William picks up a rock and hits it in the head.

"Wow, nice shot!" Odd cheers for him.

"Hey bro, you got a great arm!" Aelita points out. The boar opens its eyes again.

"I'll keep him busy" William slowly backs away.

"Good thing you're fast too, go!" Yumi orders him and he runs off. The boar takes the bait and starts chasing him.

"Xana sent this thing after us, there's no time to lose. Get tot the computer lab, Aelita can manage the virtualization process. Hurry up!" Jeremy urges the three.

"What about you?" Aelita wonders and he looks to their teacher.

"I better stay here with Jim." Thankfully Jim doesn't hear them because he's still smiling widely like an idiot. "And if William can't join you, then all 3 of you are gonna be needed on Lyoko."

"Good luck!" Aelita calls out with a wave as they run off.

"Jim, get up, Jim," Jeremy shakes him a little. "I'll help you."

"Yes Mr. President…the mission has to go on whatever it takes…even if the costs me my stripes!" Jim murmurs. Jeremy frowns towards the man.

The three run as fast as they can, but with all of the running they did today, that was the last thing they wanted to do.

"This way, it's a shortcut!" Yumi guides them to the right.

Meanwhile, William is running as fast as possibly can. He looks behind him to see the boar right on his trail. He reaches the wall Jim set up and grabs ahold of it. The boar turns sharply, heading right towards him. William climbs up the wall, the boar bumping into it. William reaches the top safely.

"Not so bad when you practice" William comments.

The other three crawl on the grass. "Come on, you can do it Yumi!" Odd encourages her. She continues to crawl through.

The boar backs up a bit…and then leaves. William pulls out his phone. "Hey Jeremy, Xana's coming to pay you a visit. Better move fast! I'm going to join the others on Lyoko."

Jeremy hangs up as Jim rubs the top of his head. He looks around for the boar as they're hiding in a cave. "We have to find a way to conceal our hiding place. I'll camouflage it with some branches."

"Give me a minute to get my strength back and I can help you…my leg's fine…I'm ready to walk again" Jim tries to stand, but let's out a yelp of pain.

"No coach. Don't move, I'll take care of it!" Jeremy gets onto his feet.

The three run across a log, Aelita balancing herself and they continue running.

Jeremy stands back proudly at the work he's done with the cave. There are so many branches, that anyone could pass by it. He moves one away and then pulls it back, walking up to Jim.

"Oh, this is horrible. I feel completely useless!" Jim mutters under his breath. "This stupid broken leg I got."

"Your knee is really swelled up. You'll need an x-ray to see whether or not it's broken. I'm gonna have to immobilize it or it's gonna hurt even worse" Jeremy looks around and grabs two branches. He then grabs a rag from his bag, tearing it apart.

The three come to a stop at a clearing, panting in exhaustion.

"We're almost there…" Yumi says while breathing heavily.

"Okay, just one last bridge. The factory's not much further!" Odd says as they all take off.

"Pretty good splint there Belpois. I haven't seen work like that in a long time," Jim states to the boy, impressed. "You never worked with the Magyar Commandos, did you?"

"No, it's just a question of common sense," Jeremy looks to the splinted leg. "An injured joint won't get any worse if it doesn't move."

"Exactly! You would have made a great soldier Belpois! If only you had a little more muscle."

Jeremy leans back a bit. "Maybe you don't know this Jim, but the brain is kind of like a muscle and that's the one in particular that I've been exercising the most!"

The three finally reach the factory, Aelita jumping into the chair.

"Come on! Every second counts" Yumi urges and Aelita works as quick as she can.

"I'm on it. But I'm not as fast as Jeremy," Aelita responds. An alarm sounds and shows the core under attack. "Oh! Xana has sent Ulrich and some monsters into the core chamber."

Some mantas are arriving at the core, pointing right at it. Ulrich points his saber at the sphere. "Fire!" They fire at once, Aelita looking to all of them.

"You two get down to the scanner room. We have to protect the core of Lyoko" Aelita states as the door opens behind them.

"What about the tower?" Yumi asks.

"I guess I'll have to manage that alone…"

"Not alone sis, your bro is here to lend a hand" William announces entering the lab.

"William!" Yumi exclaims in relief.

"I got rid of the boar, but it went back to find Jim and Jeremy" William explains to them.

"Either way, we better not waste any time" Aelita states.

Jim sniffs a leaf from his pocket, which was from the leaves blocking the little cave. "It's got a funny smell" he gives it to Jeremy, who smells the scent coming from it.

"Peppermint. My parents have some in their garden. Bad news Jim, our camouflage is useless! The boar's sense of smell is gonna give us away!" Jeremy says in realization.

"It sure will. There's a good chance of that…a better than even chance!" Jim looks away, Jeremy is leaning back.

"We've gotta find a way to hide our scent! But how?"

William, Odd, and Yumi arrive at the scanners. Odd and Yumi will deal with Ulrich at the core and William will go with his sister to the tower.

"Are you ready?" Aelita asks ready to virtualize them. "Transfer Odd. Transfer Yumi. Scanner Odd. Scanner Yumi. Virtualization." Aelita taps enter and the two land in sector 5 in the arena. "I've already called up your vehicles. They'll be standing by for you in the celestial dome. Not time to lose!"

"Got it!" Yumi states as the walls open.

"If we had a little caribou poop, we could cover ourselves with it" Jim suggests, Jeremy whipping to him in disbelief.

"Uhh, did you say caribou poop?" Jeremy asks.

"Yeah. It's an old Indian trick I used in Quebec to surprise arsonists in the forest. Anyway, we're not in Canada, so that means no caribou poop…"

"That's good," Jeremy stands up. "No way am I gonna smear myself with any kind of poop! On the other hand, I'll be right back!"

"Wait!" Jim calls out, but since he can't move, he can only watch Jeremy leave.

Aelita arrives in the scanner room, having already started the virtualization process for them. William gets into a scanner, and she gets inti the one across from him. "Okay, I've started the delayed virtualization program."

"Where's the tower?" he asks curiously.

"In the forest sector."

The scanners close around them. They close their eyes as they're transferred, scanned, and sent into the forest. They land side-by-side.

"Nice job. Overbike, waiting for us" William comments to the vehicle not far from where they landed. He gets on, followed by his sister.

"Come on bro, show me what you got!"

William puts it in full throttle and speeds away.

Jim looks up when Jeremy comes back, sitting down. "Okay, listen Jim. Take some mint, rub it on yourself. It should be enough to hide our scent."

He's confused but he does so anyway. "It's a nauseating odor…"

"I like it much better than caribou poop, don't you?" Jeremy asks while rubbing.

"Oh, I don't know…"

Odd and Yumi arrive in the celestial dome, and just like Aelita said, their vehicles were waiting. Yumi's is on the left, and Odd is to the right.

They both jump on and take off. "I feel a lot better on this machine than on Jim's ropes" Odd comments as they head for the south entrance of the dome.

"Okay, now all we can do is wait," Jeremy replies once the mint is rubbed all over them, laying in front of their feet. "We better hope that the others manage to deactivate the tower on Lyoko."

"Hey, you delirious or what, huh Belpois?" Jim points to his head and Jeremy remembers he's accidently almost gave away the secret. Luckily, Jim doesn't believe him.

"Uh…just daydreaming Jim. Why don't you tell me about when you were in Canada?" Jeremy says.

"Ah! Well, that's a long story…"

Jeremy was successful from having to explain it to Jim…again.

William slides to a stop, looking around. He's in the location his sister gave him, but… "Uh sis, mind telling me where the tower is?"

"I don't get it. I must've made a calibration error. Without Jeremy to guide us, this won't be easy…" To make matters worse, a krab also appears. "William watch out!"

It fires at them, and he drives the Overbike around to avoid the projectiles. William uses his armor to deflect them, at 5 life points a hit, and then a second krab arrives. "Energy field!" Aelita fires her orb, destroying one of the krabs. He comes to a stop as they look at the last one.

"Well, if Xana has his troops here to stop us, we must be close" William states.

Odd and Yumi reach the entrance, watching it closely. They fly inside at the right time and trip the key. The stairs materialize in front of them, and they jump up into the core chamber. Odd looks up to the situation at the core.

The mantas are still firing, and both shields are still on. "Stop them!" Ulrich orders as he notices the duo. A few mantas fly to them.

They jump up the steps to deal with the mantas. Odd backflips from a laser, landing on his knees as he jumps. "Whoa! Beware of falling objects!" Odd calls out. Yumi lands on a platform, Odd leaping up the stairs. Yumi pulls out her fans to absorb the lasers. Odd joins her and looks up. "Hey, isn't that your boyfriend up there?"

Ulrich is riding a manta. "He's not my boyfriend!" Yumi tosses a fan, missing the mantas, but on return kills one. "We're just really good friends."

"You always say that." Odd doesn't know Yumi's plans to confess when Ulrich is freed.

"And that was when I found out that as far back as a century, I was a full-blooded Indian! Huh?" He suddenly hears noises, Jeremy shushes him. The boar is sniffing around for them outside, but eventually leaves. Jeremy leans back in relief. "It looks like your trick worked."

"Yeah, the mint's smell is strong enough now to trick him, but how much longer will it last?" Jeremy wonders, hoping his friends are on Lyoko already.

"Well, anyway, on thing about caribou poop, it lasts a long time!"

William is still driving around searching for the tower as he's going straight. "Empty, like this whole sector."

"Alright, we have to head back to where we started. The tower has to be there" Aelita says.

"Okay, let's head back," he turns the bike around and goes in the opposite direction. As they get back to the clearing, Aelita is knocked off, sliding towards the digital sea. She stops short of it. "Oh no, sis! Super smoke!" William says before the Overbike explodes. A krab approaches her.

"Energy field!" she aims right at the krab and destroys it, but the explosion sends her over the edge.

"Got ya!" William states as he grabs his sister's hand. She notices another krab behind him.

"Behind you!"

William quickly flings Aelita over him and the krab. William is later devirtualized by the krab.

The boar sticks its head through the peppermint. "Oh boy. He found us. What do we do now?" Jim asks.

Jeremy just runs away instead of answering. "Hey, what are you waiting for?! I'm over here! Hey, follow me!"

Jim stares after the boy in confusion. "That kid doesn't have much muscle, but he sure is big on guts."

The duo fire at the manta attacking them, Yumi throwing her fan. It simply flies out of the way. "Odd, the first shield layer is about to give! We have to do something!" Yumi cries.

"I know, and I've got an idea!" Odd replies.

"Oh yeah? And what's that?"

"Skydiving! YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Odd jumps off the platform, scratching the manta. Ulrich notices him approaching.

"Get him!" Ulrich orders.

The manta he's standing on points toward Odd. "Go get em guys!" Odd says.

The other manta focuses on Odd instead of the layer, Ulrich chasing him. Odd jumps off before a stray laser destroys his manta.

"Yeah!" A laser barely misses him, and he jumps into the air, crossing his arms. "Shield!" The manta breaks through it, and devirtualizes Odd. Yumi tosses her fans defeating both mantas. Ulrich super sprints off his before it's destroyed. He lands on the platform Yumi is on. She wanted to duel him alone, but this wasn't the right time.

Jeremy continues running from the boar until he reaches the wall, climbing up the tree. He looks down at the pig, which circles around the tree. He shimmers over to the top as the boar steps back, ramming into the tree to try and get Jeremy down.

"Oh no. I better get it right this time!"

The boar rams into the tree again.

The krab is firing straight for Aelita, who fires and misses. "Energy field!" she misses but goes under and destroys it. "Energy field!"

"Hey sis, how are you doing?" William asks from the lab.

"William, tell me where the tower is, hurry!" Aelita cries.

"You should be looking at it now!"

"That's impossible, I can't see it! How come!" A fourth krab appears and fires at Aelita. "Energy field!" She misses and her orb hits the tower, showing its position. "Got it! Xana's pulled this one on us before."

Jeremy looks down nervously as the boar backs up. He moves further to the left as the boar hits the tree, Jeremy's feet slipping. He's now dangling as he hangs onto the rope as hard as he can.

Ulrich runs towards Yumi, swinging his sabers. He tries to do a jump attack, but gets his sabers stuck. Yumi sweeps his feet and kicks him to a wall. Ulrich gets up and super sprints, pulling out his sabers and pointing them at Yumi. She throws her fan, and he dodges easily.

"You lost your touch Yumi! It's over!" Ulrich says as she rushes her. As he does that, Yumi runs towards him and pushes him off the edge, where one of her fans devirtualizes him.

"And I would call that skill, Ulrich dear" Yumi smiles in her victory.

The boar looks up at Jeremy, walking up further. "I promise never to eat pork again!" He cries out in fear. His hands start to slip, which the boar notices. Suddenly a rock is thrown at him and he looks to see Jim wobbling over.

"Okay then, you overcooked bacon! You thought I'd let you off that easy?" Jim says.

Jeremy let's go, landing on his feet and running off to hide behind a tree. "I'm sorry Jim, but you should have never left the cave!"

"Lemme tell you kid, you got guts, but if you think that I abandon my men under fire, you don't know good ol' Jim!"

The eyes flash the sign of Xana from the boar as it stares at Jim. Aelita finally destroys the krab, running past it and reaching the tower. She runs up to the pad and starts floating to the top.

The boar charges as Jim is knocked off his feet, landing in a bush. The pig focuses on Jeremy now.

Aelita lands at the top.

Jeremy hides himself behind the tree, fearing the worst.

Aelita presses her hand to the interface.

Aelita

Code

He holds his head as he anticipates the hit.

Lyoko

"Tower deactivated" Aelita states, the boar coming to a stop. Jeremy looks up, staring at the pig. He gives Jeremy one look before leaving. He slides to the grass, sighing in relief.

Jim is walking around injured as he has a cane, but he'll eventually heal. The Lyoko Warriors notice him from the benches. He sees the group and smiles. Waving his cane. He hobbles over to them.

"Hey, you didn't do a return to the past," Yumi turns to Jeremy. "You sure Jim has forgotten everything?"

"Just the opposite, he remembers everything, and that's the best insurance that there is. To him, our wild boar was a crazy and dangerous animal, but a completely normal one."

"Oh, hello there Jim. We're glad to see you back on two feet again" Aelita greets politely.

"More like three, huh! But it's not too serious, just a bad sprain and a nasty bruise. I'll be as good as new two weeks' time" Jim informs them.

"For us, it's really a shame. Just one day of boot camp for two weeks of recovery!" Yumi points out.

"Oh, don't worry. That one day was very enlightening for me. You may not have been up to the commando level, but you showed great spirit. You really did! As soon as I am back in shape, I'll organize lots of other training sessions! And I hope to see you all there!"

"Um…" Aelita starts off nervously. After that one day, they weren't sure if they wanted to go through that again.

"Um…not me, I'm booked until the end of the year. I've got a… sleep session" Odd holds up a hand.

"Honestly Jim, it's too much of a…" Yumi starts.

"Honor. We can't be at the commando level like you said and probably never will" William finishes.

"I'll be there," Jeremy states. Everyone turns to Jeremy in surprise. "I owe you one Jim."

"Excellent Belpois!" Jim smiles at him. "I knew I could count on you kid." He waves to everyone before leaving.

"I must be dreaming," Odd turns to him. "I'll be there. Wow, you couldn't come up with a better answer than that! 'No' for instance or 'never' or 'nein' or 'nyet'!"

"He must really enjoy torture at Jim's" William stares at the boy.

Jeremy just smiles.

"Lemme tell you something kid, you've got guts!" Jim's words repeat in Jeremy's head.

Yumi sat in silence in her room the following night. She was almost in tears. No matter how much encouragement she got from everyone else, it still wasn't enough to help her overcome the guilt she felt in her heart for not giving her relationship a true chance to develop. Now, Ulrich was gone and without him, Yumi tries to get over it.

All she has now are memories. All the time as friends, the arguments, the practice fights, even the first kiss on Lyoko. She would have to learn how to forgive herself first before she could try to repair the relationship. Until then, the guilt will always linger.

A.N. – Now there is no episode yet to when she will forgive herself. Either episode 76 or episode 93, but the concept is still the same. The guilt will hang over your head until you can forgive yourself. And for those of you who don't remember, Yumi was the one who called it quits in episode 53. PM me with story ideas if you have any! Don't forget to review with questions or comments! I will respond! Stay safe and healthy out there! As always, till next time! See ya! -lyokowarrior97