Chapter 7

Common Interests

On Lyoko…

A tower was activated in the ice sector and was guarded by Tarantulas while in another sector X was working constantly on trying to find a way to free Aelita from XANA.

"Time is very limited."

He looked at the interface and saw an error message.

"Especially now."

Back on Earth…

A convicted Criminal was possessed by XANA and escaped a police van.

At Kadic…

Odd Yumi and Ulrich were talking about the criminal that escaped and how the cops said it was supernatural.

"You think XANA is involved?"

Ulrich questioned.

"Not a chance."

Jeremie and Aelita joined the group.

"The Super Scan has shown no activated towers."

"What about messages from X?"

Ulrich questioned.

"None, he's been very quiet lately even more than usual."

Aelita looked lost in thought.

"You ok Aelita?"

Jeremie looked at her.

"Are you ok?"

Aelita looked up.

"Yeah just feel a bit strange."

She held her head in pain and dropped her bag.

"Are you sure you're ok Aelita"

Yumi asked.

"Yeah i just didn't sleep very well last night."

The bell rang.

"Don't forget we have a math test, are you gonna be alright?"

Aelita picked up her bag and looked at Jeremie.

"No problem."

Meanwhile…

The Criminal XANA possessed was heading to a nuclear power plant at super speed.

When suddenly he collapsed while at the same time during the test Aelita passed out.

Back on Lyoko…

Part of the world started to vanish.

X felt this and began to move to a tower far away from the vanishing point.

His body glitched a bit.

"Urgg"

He fell to the ground for a moment before standing back up.

"I have to keep moving."

He started running into another tower.

"This is gonna take everything i have."

He goes to the interface and gets to work.

Back on Earth…

Aelita was taken to a hospital with Jeremie.

The doctors took Aelita into an operating room.

Jeremie had to stay behind doors.

He felt something touch his shoulder.

"Huh?"

He turned around and saw no one unaware of the invisible presence that went through the doors.

When the doctors went to get the equipment the presence went to Aelita and placed its hand on her forehead before vanishing.

Aelita's heartbeat got a little stronger.

The doctors saw this on a monitor.

"How strange she was close to death but she suddenly recovered."

"That kid's got a real guardian angel"

(AN:This line makes so much more sense right now doesn't it)

The Lyoko Warriors were waiting in the lobby.

Jeremie's laptop went off.

"Hm?"

He opens it

"An activated tower?"

Odd question..

"No a message from X"

"What is it?"

Yumi asked.

"Lyoko Danger."

Jeremie said looking up.

The doctor walked in and said Aelita was awake and that they could go see her.

Aelita was sitting up.

"It's strange the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me."

"Maybe it has something to do with you not being human?"

Ulrich questioned.

"Or maybe the virus XANA implanted in me?"

Jeremie was typing on his laptop.

"I don't think that's the case, i got a message from X that said Lyoko Danger."

Aelita held her head and saw an image and heard a voice.

The image was blurry.

"Lyoko is in danger."

Aelita blinked a few times and the vision vanished.

"Aelita?"

Jeremie questioned.

"You should check lyoko i don't know why but i feel like something is off there."

Jeremie nods.

"Something is definitely off with the super scan, i'll go check it out."

He puts his laptop back in its bag.

"We'll go with you."

Ulrich said.

"I'll stay here"

Yumi responded smiling at Aelita who smiled back.

While Jeremie and Co. went to the factory the criminal XANA possessed was ambushing a truck that left the nuclear power plant.

He quickly took out the guards and while the driver was about to ambush the criminal.

The criminal and a case of uranium was gone.

At the Factory…

Jeremie found that the superscan bugged up but saw a partially activated tower.

"That's strange there's a tower but it's only at half power."

Jeremie looked confused.

"We should take a closer look."

Ulrich said.

"Yeah."

Odd nods.

"Alright head to the scanners."

Jeremie virtualized them to Lyoko.

They were in the mountain sector.

They looked around and saw a tower that was grey.

"Jeremie that isn't a red tower."

Ulrich said as the overbike and overboard appeared in front of them.

"It's Grey."

Odd said as they jumped on the vehicles and went to the tower.

"A grey tower what could that mean."

Jeremie said as he tried to debug the super scan.

Ulrich and Odd got off their vehicles when they arrived at the tower.

The tower suddenly turned blue again.

"Jeremie i think it just deactivated itself."

Odd said.

"That's strange I better bring you in we don't know what could happen."

Suddenly a part of the computer shut off.

"Oh that's great now what's up."

The computer shut off.

"Oh no can you hear me?"

Communications were severed so Jeremie went down to the super computer.

"Jeremie not that were in rush but uh."

Ulrich was interrupted by X falling out of the tower.

"What the?"

Odd said confused as X stood up.

His body was glitching.

Ulrich and Odd approached him.

"Why are you two here?"

"Jeremie found a partially activated tower but it seems you beat us to it."

X shook his covered head.

"No, I activated this tower."

Ulrich and Odd looked confused.

"Why though?"

Ulrich questioned.

"To keep Aelita's heart beating."

Back at the Earth…

Aelita had passed out and her Heart rate was much slower while the criminal had collapsed as well.

X looked at the tower.

"The scanners are offline and the computer is running low on power."

"How do you know this?"

X looked at Ulrich.

"When i activated the tower i checked the computer before i helped Aelita."

X glitched again.

"But i could only send a small message with the little bit of energy i had from the tower."

He saw the sector was about to disappear.

"Get on your vehicles and move fast."

Odd and Ulrich saw the sector vanishing and began to head in the opposite direction.

X stood on Odd's overboard and placed his hand on it.

'This should work.'

He thought to himself as the three moved quickly away from the disappearing sector.

"I'm using the codes from your vehicles to keep them from vanishing."

The sector started to reform a few seconds later and Ulrich and Odd landed their vehicles.

"Looks like Lyoko recharge its batteries."

Ulrich said watching the sector reform.

"Sorry i dont have the energy to do this properly."

X got his scythe and devirtualized them.

Aelita's heart was beating normal again and the criminal was moving again.

Jeremie looked at the computer.

"Finally back and running."

He saw the energy was low.

"Oh no the nuclear battery is almost dead."

Jeremie Odd and Ulrich went back to the hospital where Jeremie explained the situation.

"X tried to warn us about this and like the computer he is running out of power."

Ulrich explained.

Jeremie began to think of a way to solve this issue.

Aelita heard all this from her hospital bed.

She closed her eyes and another vision appeared but this time it was more clear.

"X?"

She questioned.

"Aelita i don't have much time to say this but you must know about the super computer."

"Yes I heard Jeremie and the others talking."

"I know of a way to fix this but its only around a 50% chance of success."

Aelita looks up.

"What is it?"

While Aelita was talking to X in her head.

The criminal has taken Jeremie and brought him to the factory.

He shut off the computer and began the process of changing the battery.

But something different happened at the hospital.

Aelita was awake and while her heart beat was slow she was still conscious.

She quickly got dressed in her regular outfit and left the room where the other Lyoko Warriors were.

"Aelita you should be resting."

Yumi said.

"Factory….Battery…..Replaced...Tower….Deactivate."

Aelita barely was able to speak. She raised her head up and saw something different.

An X was in the pupil of her right eye.

The Lyoko Warriors were shocked.

"This is a new level of weird."

Odd question.

"Jeremie did just say he was about to replace the battery."

Yumi said.

"And that a criminal possessed by XANA would attack him afterwards."

Ulrich looked at Aelita.

"X is in Aelita's head, but he hasn't given us a reason not to trust him yet."

Yumi nods in agreement and they all snuck Aelita out of the hospital and made their way back to the factory.

Jeremie succeeded in changing the battery.

When he turned the computer back on.

Aelita gasped and her pupil returned to normal.

"Aelita, You ok?"

Yumi said, looking at her.

Aelita looked around.

"His plan worked."

"What?"

Aelita shook her head.

"We need to get to Lyoko."

She typed on the computer and set up a delayed Virtualization.

"I'll go help Jeremie with his guest"

Ulrich said going to the room.

Odd Yumi and Aelita were virtualized and made it to Lyoko.

They ran to the tower that was guarded by 3 Tarantulas.

The monster shot at the three as they moved behind a blue block.

Yumi moved left and Odd went right.

Odd shot at the first one from a far distance trying to hit the eye.

Unfortunately it was just too far and Odd was only able to barely damage it.

Yumi was having a hard time as well.

The second monster kept shooting at Yumi while the third one kept shooting her fans away.

"These monsters aren't exactly making this easy for us."

Odd said using his shield to block the laser.

Yumi got shot and fell back.

"Yeah i know,"

Back in the lab the criminal was easy tossing Jeremie and Ulrich around.

"I hope they are having an easier time than us."

Ulrich said as the criminal went after him.

Jeremie was leaning against a wall.

"Not likely since he's still attacking us."

On Lyoko…

Aelita saw the monsters closing in on Odd and Yumi.

She tried thinking of what to do, she couldn't run to the tower the monsters would see and shoot her but she didn't exactly have the right methods to destroy those monsters.

The first one finally knocked Odd down and was about to shoot him in the hea.

Suddenly a spinning scythe hit the eye before flying back and was caught.

But it wasn't X who caught it.

It was Aelita.

The remaining two monsters aimed at Aelita and shot at her.

Aelita spinned the scythe around deflecting the lasers.

She ran up and stabbed the second one before throwing the scythe finishing off the last one.

The Scythe vanished and Aelita went into the tower deactivating it.

A return to the past was launched.

They were all in the factory.

"I still don't understand how you were able to summon his scythe and stay conscious while the computer was off."

Jeremie said to Aelita.

"I do."

Before Aelita escaped the hospital.

"When i activated the tower i transferred part of my data into your consciousness."

"Why would you do that?"

"A human body cannot survive having their heart not beating for long, the data i transferred should allow you to stay alive while the computer is off for at most 30 minutes."

"But I would still lose consciousness."

"Only while the computer is low on power but if its completely turned off it will put you in a state of vague consciousness."

"But why would that help?"

"XANA is currently using a human body to gather what he needs to recharge the computer and when it's back online you need to be ready to head to deactivate XANA's tower."

Aelita looked confused.

"How do you know?"

"I just know I need you to trust me."

Aelita nods

"Alright."

Present time…

"It's so strange i know he was there but i think after the tower deactivated the data in me was gone."

Jeremie looked at the computer.

"I don't see him anywhere on lyoko."

Aelita looks at the computer.

'Where did he go?'

She thought.

On Lyoko in the ice sector.

In the middle of the sector the scythe of X was stuck to the ground.

(AN: And that's the end of another chapter,sorry this took so long my hand decided to have dry skin that split so i couldn't type properly.)