A/N: Sorry for the delay but quick update before you read the chapter! Chapter uploads will be moving to every OTHER Saturday until the end of April! THERE WILL BE NO CHAPTER NEXT WEEK!
From that point, Katrina had refused to cooperate with Jeremie knowing his plan could get him and the others in trouble. She also had banned Ulrich from being teleported to Earth while on Lyoko. Jeremie informed Odd and Yumi of his plan. Odd was all for it not really caring about the consequences. Yumi on the other hand was quite skeptical. However, she still chose to get involved. Ulrich's involvement was limited because if his sister, but he wanted to help as much as possible.
"It's not like she'll know" Odd commented trying to reassure his roommate.
"Do you not know my sister? I can't lie to her. If she finds out I disobeyed her, she'll kill me" Ulrich stated.
"You're overreacting Ulrich buddy" Odd said as he wrapped his arm around Ulrich's shoulder. "Your sister may be a tough, but I doubt she'll kill her favorite brother" He pointed out.
"I'm her only brother" Ulrich noted.
"Exactly!" Odd said causing Ulrich to roll his eyes.
"You can't blame Katrina though. What we're doing is kind of risky" Yumi chimed.
"I agree with Yumi" Aelita stated.
"Come on guys, what if this is our only chance of stopping Xana?" Jeremie questioned trying to reason with everyone.
"You don't know that for sure Jeremie" Aelita noted.
"Well we can't ask Katrina. She doesn't want to be involved at all" Jeremie stated.
"She only doesn't want to be involved if we try to enter the military base in Switzerland" Ulrich clarified.
"But we need to access the data that's on that computer" Jeremie noted. Meanwhile, on a college campus not too far from the factory was Katrina hanging out in the courtyard with her friends. Because of the whole situation that was going on with Xana and Lyoko, Katrina rarely got to spend time with her friends.
"So Trina, what's been going on with you lately? You never hang around after classes get out" Her one friend questioned.
"Well my little brother goes to the grade school nearby so whenever I have free time, I go see him" She responded. It was the truth, but it wasn't the whole truth. She couldn't tell them the whole truth.
"So you must be really close with your brother then to do that" They commented. Katrina nodded her head. There was more to it than that. It's not like she could tell them that she's only doing it to make up for lost time. That being trapped on a virtual world made her feel like a horrible sister and she felt like she needed to see him whenever she can as a way of redeeming herself. She forced herself to love pencak silat again because she knew her brother loved it because of the time they got to spend together. She lied to Ulrich, which she hated doing, but she knew telling him the truth would break his heart. She couldn't even mildly joke about being trapped on Lyoko without him getting upset about it.
"Well a bunch of us are going to the music festival that's this weekend. Are you going to join us Trina?" They asked. Katrina thought about it for a moment. Part of her should stay close by in case her brother and his friends needed her. However, she knew of Jeremie's plan and wanted to keep her distance to avoid getting in any trouble herself. She ended up agreeing to attending the music festival hoping Ulrich and his friends would be okay without her for the weekend. Her friends were excited that they were all finally able to spend time with each other for once. Katrina said goodbye to her friends heading back to her apartment. She saw Yumi walking with Hiroki just a few blocks away. It reminded her of the time she used to pick up Ulrich when he was in elementary school. She smiled watching the two from afar. She turned down her block only small steps from her apartment building. Normally she would drive to campus, but it wasn't that far from where she lived, plus it was a nice day out, so she walked instead. After finally getting home, she threw her back onto the couch heading into the kitchen to boil a kettle of water for her tea. This because a routine for her. Katrina claimed that having a hot cup of tea when she was stressed would calm her down at the end of the day. When her tea was ready, she brought it into the Livingroom where she sat on the couch next to her bag watching TV. There wasn't anything interesting on. Most of the time it was just reruns of various commercials, but she'd rather watch those then do anything productive at the moment. Her phone buzzed in her bag, but she ignored it knowing it was Jeremie trying to convince her to help out. She could tell it was him by the ringtone. Everyone had their own ringtones this way she knew immediately who it was without actually having to look at the screen. Her phone continued to buzz causing her eyes to roll as she pulled it out of her bag silencing it in her hand. Just as she suspected, it was Jeremie. She was mad at him at the moment because he tried to drag everyone into a risky situation just to obtain data from a super secure supercomputer in Switzerland. Then she got another text message. This time it was from Ulrich.
"Jeremie keeps insisting that we do this mission." It read making Katrina's eyes roll again. She texted him back.
"Tell him that if he keeps pushing this that I will forbid you from even stepping onto Lyoko and I don't care what the risk is. I don't want you getting into trouble because your friend is insane" With that, she tossed her phone back onto the couch. She found it annoying how persistent Jeremie was being about this mission. She knew that this could only lead to trouble.