The Night had fallen over the country and half the world, and the streets of the city were illuminated by both street lights and the buildings, whilst at the school only a few lights were on, these however were from inside the dorm room of the school, one of them was the room of Ulrich and Odd, and whilst the former sat at one of the two desks in the room studying, Odd was dancing around his room in his pyjamas, his headphones were playing a tune that was turned high enough that despite the fact that they were firmly on Odd's head, Ulrich could still hear it perfectly fine, this of course irritated him,
"oh, oh, oh, I'm so glad, when your so bad" sang Odd, this only added to Ulrich's irritation, Ulrich turned around in his chair and said "hey Odd if you don't mind I'm tryna study", he turned back looking at his book on Renaissance Italy, he turned the page, however Odd didn't hear what Ulrich had said and carried on, and moved next to Ulrich and right in his ear screamed "YEAH", Ulrich had, had enough of this and stood up knocking his chair over and shouted "CUT THAT OUT", he stopped as Odd still paid no attention "Maybe you forget but we have a test tomorrow" he added more calmly, but Odd still paid no attention as he kept moving his arms forward dancing in a slightly humped position, Ulrich then shouted "SO STOP", Odd finally noticed but only because he opened his eyes and noticed that Ulrich looked angry, Odd removed his headphones, and shouted over his music that now filled the room, "HUH WHAT DID YOU SAY I CAN'T HEAR A THING", Ulrich lost his temper, he leant forward and shouted angrily "I SAID I WANT TO STUDY ODD", Odd was momentarily mesmerized, the he turned and faced Ulrich, "what's the sense of you studying" said Odd, Ulrich was shocked by the comment and the lack of faith from his best friend, "whatever you do, you're still gonna get a zero in history" added Odd as he pointed downwards with his thumb he then raised his headphones and added "so why not listen to what I downloaded from the web", Ulrich walked back towards his desk and started to pack his bag, "Go on it sure beats studying" he added, not getting that Ulrich was annoyed by him, "it's like pure music and nobody knows who wrote it either" continued Odd as he began to dance again point his right arm towards the door, "it's an mp3 file and it's free" said Odd as he placed his headphones back on then he shouted at the top of his lungs "IT'S A POP ROCK REVOLUTION", Ulrich was done with this, "you wanna revolution, I'll give you one, you don't think of anyone but yourself and I'm fed up" said Ulrich as he walked to and subsequently opened the door, "where you goin" asked Odd as he removed his headphones momentarily, "Jeremie's and Dallas's Room at least they Know you need piece and quiet, when you're studying, they're not like you selfish" replied Odd as he slammed the door, Odd looked at the door before sitting down on his bed, Kiwi ran and jumped on his lap, "its okay Kiwi, he'll get over it" said Odd as he placed his Headphones back on and laid back onto Ulrich's bed before humming to the song, before singing "so glad when you're bad", he then jumped and started dancing one again,.
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In there room Jeremie and Dallas were sitting and standing at the desk respectively, Jeremie was looking over the blueprints of a robot that had been constructed on the desk, it was a long and strange looking machine, it was 3 foot long and had lights at the end as if they were eyes, it had some strange spike looking areas around it, but this was mealy part of the purpose of the machine, the colour was dull and black, but it was a prototype,
"so this is a water recon drone" Asked Dallas, as he tightened one of the screws in, "yeah the spikes are to ward of any fish" said Jeremie, he had designed and helped construct a basic form of artificial intelligence, that could be controlled and would be given orders via a long range signal, but was able to move of its own free accord, Dallas shut a hatch on the side "that's should do it" he said, then suddenly the machine began to move, and it sprung from the table pinning Dallas to the ground, Jeremie looked at it worried then he heard a knocking at the door, he walked over Dallas and opened the door, "Ulrich, uh… what's the matter" he said as he stepped outside the room, Ulrich then looked inside the room as he watched Dallas wrestle with the machine, "come at me ya bastard" said Dallas, Ulrich then looked back at Jeremie and said "Odd and his music are driving me nuts", Jeremie scratched his chin and said "not into heavy metal, funk", Ulrich shook his head, "no I have to study for an exam, is it okay if I study in you're room" said Ulrich, Jeremie smiled "yeah I got no problem with that, what about you Dallas" said Jeremie, Dallas looked up as he wrestled the machine, he then turned the table on the creature and pinned it before shooting up and standing on the neck section, "yeah I aint gotta problem with that" said Dallas, Jeremie then lead Ulrich into there room "perhaps I could give you some pointers" said Jeremie, Ulrich smiled and replied "I could sure use some" he then looked at the machine as it squirmed below Dallas's boot, "Jeremie I'd say this is a failure" said Dallas, Jeremie looked at the violent motions of the machine before crouching down, and then it appeared to growl at him, he stood back up "yeah I think so" said Jeremie, Dallas nodded and grabbed his crossbow and fired a bolt into the Machines head section, the Lights dimmed and slowly turned off, and the motions of the machine stopped, "I'm not gonna ask" said Ulrich as Dallas picked up the machine and placed it on the desk, "want a coffee" Asked Dallas as he flicked the switch on a coffee maker, "yeah why not" replied Ulrich as he placed his bag on the desk and pulled out his book, "so what's Odd doing to wind you up this time" asked Dallas as Jeremie put away the blue prints and cleared some space, "he's listening to some song called glad when you're bad" replied Ulrich, Dallas then turned and looked at him, Jeremie's head arose from the draw he was putting the blueprint in, "what" asked Ulrich confused at the two of them, Dallas dived next to the floor board plank and punched it clean out of its place, and quickly opened the safe, "could someone tell me what's going on" asked Ulrich, Jeremie pushed his glasses to his face and said "well you see…" he was cut off as Dallas shouted "FUCK" then he repeated himself a few times, "what" asked Ulrich, then Jeremie said "it's gone isn't it" said Jeremie, Dallas stood up "yep someone has taken the CD, fuck Shinoda is gonna be pissed" said Dallas, he then replaced the board and sat down on his bed, "now what" asked Ulrich, as Jeremie started to make the coffee, "just black please honey" said Dallas as he pulled out his book, "I began again" added Dallas in response to Ulrich's question.
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Back in his room Odd was dancing around holding Kiwi by the dogs rear,
"so, so glad when you're really bad" sang Odd as he stuttered on the last word as was part of the song, he then started to swing Kiwi around the room, before he threw the dog down, he jumped onto Ulrich's bed and continued to dance, he sat crouched his right leg flat and his left leg in a sitting position, "he carried on humming when suddenly, under the sound of the music, there was a small noise as if the music playing had lost focus, Odd began to seize up unable to move, he tried to remove his headphones but he found himself unable to, he suddenly collapsed onto the bed, Kiwi sensed that he Odd was in trouble, he licked his face, but there was no reaction and he started barking trying to provoke a reaction from Odd, it failed and it was a surprise that no one heard that the dog was barking.
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Night ended and the sun shone brightly through the windows of the room, Dallas had slept on the floor, allowing Ulrich the usage of his bed, He and Jeremie were already awake, whilst Ulrich still slept,
"time to get up Ulrich" said Jeremie as he nudged Ulrich, Dallas looked down at him, "too tired" said Ulrich, Dallas looked at Jeremie who nodded, Dallas then grabbed looked at his own hand as eagle sense began to manifest and then he threw the energy towards Ulrich throwing the blanket from him as if there was a gust of air, "do we have to remind you we have a test this morning" said Jeremie as he put on his blue jumper, Dallas then put his Gray one on, before grabbing his Jacket "I didn't get a lot of sleep" said Ulrich as he stood off of Dallas's bed, "how come" asked Jeremie, Dallas then chuckled slightly as he knew the answer, "well I'll tell you how come" said Ulrich, then he started to do and impression of Jeremie, "oh Aelita, Oh Aelita you're in my dreams, I can't wait until" said Ulrich, then Jeremie placed his hand over Ulrich's mouth, but couldn't do the same for Dallas as he fell to the floor laughing, "she'll hear you" said Jeremie, then the three of them looked towards the Computer, Dallas looked towards them, "I bet she's sleeping or whatever a program will do" Said Dallas as he grabbed his left blade and strapped it to his wrist, "between you and Odd I can't study or sleep" said Ulrich, Jeremie then started to blush "hey you're not gonna tell anybody" asked Jeremie, Ulrich placed his hand on his shoulder, and said "promise Romero", Jeremie looked back at him, As Dallas threw Ulrich's Clothes to him, "lets get some breakfast" said Jeremie, "okay but not with Odd, he made me so mad last night" said Ulrich, as he pulled up his trousers, "What ever you say" said Jeremie, Ulrich put his shirt on and he followed Dallas out of the room, Jeremie quickly closed the door but not before he looked at the computer and smiled.
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In the Cafeteria the numerous borders where sitting eating and drink there choice of food, the three warriors had opted for something marginally different from each other, Jeremie had settled on some crackers, Ulrich a glass of milk with a role, whilst Dallas had opted for a simple cup of Black Coffee, which he preferably had with two sugars,
"You've become strangely addicted that recently" said Jeremie as he put down his crackers, "how come Odds still not here" asked Jeremie turning his attention towards Ulrich, "I couldn't Care less" said Ulrich as he continued to drink from his cup, "Knowing him, they've probably made it so he goes last, so as everyone gets some food" said Dallas, then he heard something that angered him, and Jeremie knew what it was, Dallas turned his eyes towards Sissi and her group as they walked in there general direction, and for once Sissi wasn't there to flirt with Ulrich, what had angered Dallas was the song playing from Sissi's head phones,
"what's the songs name" asked Nicholas, Sissi wasn't in the mood for the stupidity of him, "The Title is Glad when you're bad" said Sissi as she stepped forward leaving the three members of her Group behind her, "I Honestly can't believe how unhip you two are, a couple of real losers" said Sissi, Herb was confused, "couple there are three of us" he asked, Sissi looked at him and replied, "yeah but Adam wrote it", Dallas heard this and was none to happy about it going missing, and was further angered by the fact Adam had taken it, "well fill us in Sissi, what kind of music is it, R and B" asked Nicholas, as he and Herb started to walk away from Adam and after Sissi, Dallas stood out from his table and grabbed Adam throwing him onto an empty table, everyone in the room looked towards them, "And I thought you couldn't stoop to a new level of low" said Dallas, Adam smiled breaking into the 'I don't know what you're talking about' routine, "what do you mean, I Have released a hit song" replied Adam, Dallas would have punched him then and there, but he noticed the CD case with his song in Adam's pocket, he grabbed it and let go of him, before sitting back down at his table, Adam stood up straightening his Jacket, "not like you can reverse time to change history" said Adam, Dallas looked at Jeremie, ignoring the comment, everyone else resumed there personal business "I can do a return to the past if you want" said Jeremie, Dallas looked towards him, "No point he's had the CD for a while, I've just gotta be better" said Dallas as he smiled, Jeremie looked towards Ulrich, "Odd outta be here, maybe he didn't wake up" said Jeremie, Ulrich looked at him and replied "forget about it, it's his problem", "chill out you're making a big deal outta a bit of loud music, we cant let him miss his exam" said Jeremie, Ulrich stood up and started to walk away, "Yes we can" he said coldly as he walked away, Jeremie Sighed and looked at Dallas who just put another sugar cube into his coffee and smiled.
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Thirty minutes later Yumi walked onto the campus but since she was running late the bell had just gone and several students began to pour into there respective,
"Hi" she said, as she noticed the other three, "Odd isn't here" she asked, Ulrich sighed at the thought of Odd, "No I'm beginning to worry" said Jeremie, Yumi looked towards him and asked "did you check in his room", Jeremie shook his head and replied, "not yet we're gonna do that now", then he turned to Ulrich and said "right Ulrich", Ulrich shook his head and looked angrily towards Jeremie, "no we'll be late for the exam" said Ulrich, Dallas rolled his eyes knowing that Ulrich had scrapped the bottom of the barrel with excuses, Jeremie placed his arm around Ulrich, "not if we hurry" said Jeremie as he, Ulrich and Dallas walked away, "keep me posted okay" said Yumi, as she watched after them, "Uh Ulrich, Odd he doesn't have any bad habits does he" asked Dallas.
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"He's been playing that same dumb song over and over again, look now he's fast asleep" said Ulrich as he opened the door to his room, to see Odd who appeared to be asleep on Ulrich's bed "lets wake him up" said Jeremie, Dallas walked over and shouted "WAKEY, WAKEY YOU'VE MISSED BREAKFAST, YOU SCRONY BASTARD", no effect, Jeremie walked over and started to nudge Odd, "hey Odd get up will you" said Jeremie, there was no reaction, "if this is a joke, it's a bad one we are gonna be late" said Ulrich as Jeremie nudged him again, "something's wrong" said Jeremie, as he turned Odd onto his back, "Odd, Odd" said Jeremie as he looked into Odd's frozen open eyes, Dallas grabbed Odds wrist "This isn't a joke" said Jeremie, Ulrich closed his eyes momentarily feeling responsible, "2.14 per second, It's a miracle he's alive" said Dallas, as he grabbed Odd "we need the nurse now" he said.
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Odd hadn't moved a muscle, even as Dallas had moved him his body had remained as stiff as stone, Nurse Dorothy looked at Odd, and placed her hand on his forehead, he was ice cold to the touch
"Odd, Odd can you hear me" said Dorothy, Jeremie, Dallas and Ulrich stood around waiting for any news Jeremie looked up as Delmas entered the room, Suddenly Dorothy moved away from Odd, Shouting "CALL THE HOSPITAL" the warriors looked at each other before down at Odd, "tell them is very, very urgent" said Dorothy, Delmas then waked out of the room, "everything but his vital organs have shut down" said Dallas, then they heard Delmas phone the hospital "yes hello this is the Junior High school here, we need an ambulance here immediately" Said Delmas, The warriors looked at each other "his heartbeat and blood rate are slow, I don't understand" said Dorothy, Jeremie looked at him, "what do you think" asked Jeremie, Dallas looked at him "well first glance would be coma, but with his system shutting down and running on just his heat alone, Christ I'm surprised he's breathing" said Dallas, Ulrich hadn't said a word and was angry with himself for leaving Odd.
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In Yumi's Class room Mrs Hertz was teaching her science class, and she felt as if she was falling asleep, despite it being the first lesson of the day
"If we add up the resistance in a continues circuit, the intensity of the current diminishes, in a derivative circuit however the current produced by the generator is equal to the sum of the intensity…" said Mrs Hertz babbling on, Yumi looked at her phone a single word sent a shiver down her spine, Odd, she repeated the word before rushing towards the door "sorry Mrs Hertz, it's… It's Odd" said Yumi as she exited the room, with everyone looking at her weirdly.
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Outside several paramedics were loading Odd into the back of an ambulance, Dallas, Ulrich and Jeremie were standing watching as Delmas signed a form, Yumi rushed over towards them as Delmas handed the form to one of the paramedics
"What's the matter with him is it serious, is it" asked Yumi, the three boys looked back at her, "his heart is beating very slowly" said Jeremie, Yumi had an idea instantly "XANA" said Yumi, Jeremie shook his head "XANA's not capable of attacking People directly" said Jeremie, Dallas looked at her "minus spectres but I looked over the room no red" he added, Ulrich spoke up "if only I had of stayed with him last night" said Ulrich as he stepped away "what happened" asked Jeremie, Ulrich looked back at them over his shoulder "we had a big fight" said Ulrich, Yumi stepped towards him placing her hands on his shoulder "how could you have known that" said Yumi, as she tried to comfort her boyfriend, one of the paramedics started to close the back of the ambulance, "I'm staying with him" said Ulrich as he rushed over and stepped into the back, "I'm Sorry Ulrich but I can't permit you to leave the school grounds" said Delmas as he extended his hand to Ulrich to help him out of the ambulance, "I'm staying with Odd" said Ulrich as he refused to move, "Ulrich get away from that ambulance" said Delmas as he started to get angry, "This is not the right way to help him" said Delmas, Ulrich shook his head and replied "I don't care, I'm not letting him being taken away like this" said Ulrich, Delmas looked down having no say in the matter, he stepped back and said "alright you can go", he then put his hand out Blocking Jeremie from moving forward "one is enough" he said, Jeremie looked up at him, "but I want to go with him too" said Jeremie, "one is enough" said Delmas, Yumi looked at Jeremie and said "are you crazy, what if XANA launches an attack" said Yumi, Dallas drove up on his bike, "get your ass on" said Dallas, as he flicked out the kick stand, "we'll stay in contact, call me if there is a problem" said Jeremie, as he got on the back of Dallas's Bike, the ambulance started to drive off, "you two get of the bike this instant" said Delmas, Dallas drew his crossbow and pointed it at Delmas, "I'd suggest you'd shut up sunshine" said Dallas, then he placed it back before kicking the stand and started to move forward, Delmas was angry at this and stormed into his office whilst Yumi stood and watched as the two vehicles drove off.
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The ambulance parked up and the paramedics started moving the bed into the emergency ward, Dallas parked up next to a vending machine
"you can't park here" said Jeremie, Dallas shrugged his shoulders, and said "fuck it" then he and Jeremie dismounted, the two rushed inside, followed by Ulrich who had just staggered out of the ambulance, Dallas fell behind as he was stopped for his crossbow,
"for god sake you know I have a license" said Dallas, the security Guard nodded and Dallas ran after them, Dallas noticed someone had moved a bed in his way, he didn't slow down, he placed his hands onto the empty bed then turned and pushed his body away with his left and hand and span in the air doing a 180 degree turn before landing on his feet, Jeremie and Ulrich looked back at him, Jeremie smiled and knew that he could do such a thing, Ulrich however had never seen him do it,
"I've learned better than not to ask" said Ulrich, Dallas smiled as they found Odd's room, "we can't handle anymore emergency's" said a nurse as she exited Odd's room before shutting the door, "Ulrich you know you're not to blame" said Jeremie, Ulrich couldn't help but him blame himself, "no it's all my fault" said Ulrich, Jeremie placed his hands on Ulrich's shoulders "come on even if you had been there, you couldn't have changed what happened" said Jeremie, then he stepped away, Ulrich remained unconvinced "I'll go get us a soda" said Jeremie, "Black Coffee Please" said Dallas as he looked at Ulrich, "cheer up" said Dallas, Ulrich looked at him, "could you donate any organs, they'll grow back" said Ulrich, Dallas looked at him and shook his head, "no, they could be incompatible, and the healing factor could disable the rest of his body" said Dallas, Ulrich looked down, "the risks are too great to try" he added, whilst Jeremie walked into a closet and pulled out his laptop from his bag, he overheard more cases of People with organs that were shutting down, they were calling the CDC about it, he sat down and began typing
"Aelita" he said, whilst on Lyoko Aelita was sitting in the centre of the platform "How's everything going" she said as the window opened on Jeremie's laptop, "not good, Odds in a coma, it's weird his hearts almost stopped and according to Dallas his organs are shutting down" said Jeremie, Aelita was shocked at this news, she had read enough on the human body "oh no" she said, Jeremie was getting worried, "No one knows what to do, Weirdest thing is that Odd may not be the only one to be hit by the illness" said Jeremie, Aelita thought for a second "is it possible XANA has created a disease" asked Aelita, Jeremie was considering the idea "I can't believe XANA has found a way to attack people directly, without using spectres" replied Jeremie, "looks like he might have found a way" said Aelita, Jeremie stood up holding his laptop "anyway I better warn the others, I dunno how it could effect Dallas, meanwhile see if you feel any pulsations" said Jeremie as he closed his laptop, whilst on Lyoko Aelita was touching the blue screen closing the link, and turning off her data stream of information, back In Odd's room a heart monitor was slowing down, whilst Ulrich and Dallas looked at him the former sitting down his crossbow by his shin, whilst in the way tower, Aelita spread her arms, and dived into the black void but half way through the falling sensation turned into one of flying, she then landed on the platform, and it lit up before she walked towards the wall and passed through it exiting into the mountain sector, she then started running along the platform.
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Back at Kadic, Yumi exited the science building she pulled out her phone and dialled Ulrich's number but she moved it away from her ear as Sissi walked past, Glad when you're bad blasted from her headphones, it was obvious something was strange, Sissi was walking dead eyed not blinking, the only bodily movement was that of her arms swaying from side to side,
"Sissi" asked Yumi confused, and then Sissi fell to the ground "Sissi" said Yumi more concerned, Sissi's face hadn't changed from its dead eye look, "Sissi hey Sissi" Said Yumi as she walked over and looked at Sissi's face, "oh no" added Yumi, she then removed her headphones and suddenly she felt dizzy and had a small headache, she dropped the headphones and the headache stopped, but it took her a moment to find her balance again, she looked down at her headphones, failing to understand what had done this to Sissi, whilst at the hospital Ulrich looked down at Odd's body; the only sound in the room was the heat beat monitor, Dallas stepped over to Ulrich placing his arm around his shoulder reassuring him it would be okay, but secretly he didn't know if it would
"Guys, I just spoke to Aelita, she's gonna see if XANA is the cause of our trouble, if he did this I can't figure out how" said Jeremie, Dallas looked towards Jeremie, and looked at Odd's body, "I've looked over the body, no sign of a physical struggle, or the small rash where his skin would harden" said Dallas, Ulrich looked at him, "what do you mean" he asked, Dallas held Odd's arm up carefully, "when we use are powers or ones that are physical, side effects are visible, IE Odd's arms get a rash in that area, You get dehydrated very fast, and Yumi gets a massive headache" said Dallas, Jeremie looked at him about to question him about himself, "We need to go to Lyoko, it's the only way to save Odd, so lets go" said Jeremie, Ulrich rubbed Odd's face to move a fly that had landed there, "we'll get you outta this… I swear we will" said Ulrich.
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In the mountain sector, Aelita was running in the direction of the nearest tower, she stopped suddenly having felt something she half hoped she hadn't felt, one of XANA's vibrations, she knelt down and felt the ground,
"Oh no, XANA's activated a tower" she said as she stood up and turned around and started to follow the Vibrations, whilst on earth, the three exited the Hospital, Dallas placed his crossbow in the hold before stepping on,
"Jeremie, get on, Ulrich you'll have to run" said Dallas, as he started the bike and kicked the stand, "wait you said I'd be dehydrated" said Ulrich, Dallas smiled and nodded before looking at the vending machine next to him and punching it grabbing, grabbing some water, "okay then" said Ulrich, then Dallas shot forward on the motorcycle, with Jeremie holding on for dear life, Ulrich took a deep breath before he started running before shouting Super sprint and started to move at high speed, whilst on the motor cycle, Jeremie heard his phone ring, he quickly answered it
"Hey Jeremie, how's Odd" asked Yumi on the other end, as she dragged Sissi's body towards the nurses office, "He's getting weaker and weaker" said Jeremie, Dallas shouted back to him, "at the rate his organs are shutting down, he's got half an hour", Jeremie nodded, "did you hear that Yumi" he asked, Yumi stopped at the nurses door, "yeah and Sissi's got the same symptoms just not as advanced, but it's spreading" replied Yumi, Jeremie thought for a second, "it could be a epidemic spread by XANA" suggested Jeremie, then Dallas turned around a corner "shouting hang on", "Did you contact Aelita" asked Yumi, Jeremie looked as they approached the factory, "yeah get to the factory" said Jeremie, then he hung up, Dallas looked back seeing Ulrich behind them, he then turned onto the bridge and sped up, "shouldn't you slow down" asked Jeremie, Dallas replied "no time" before he turned around and grabbed Jeremie as the bike went off the platform, quickly using eagle sense he landed on the platform and skidded to a holt, "please never do that again" said Jeremie.
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In the nurses office, Dorothy turned on some classical music and walked towards her desk when Yumi kicked the door open, and dragged Sissi in,
"oh no Sissi" she said as Yumi dragged Sissi into the room, "this way" she added, as she helped move Sissi into a bed, "there set her down" said Dorothy, then suddenly the stereo systems screen changed and showed XANA's logo and started to play glad when you bad, Suddenly Yumi was again hit with a headache and began to lose balance and she started to stumble, "my head… that horrible song" she said as she covered her ears, but unfortunately for Dorothy, she had stethoscope and it was amplified rendering her in a coma, "Dorothy" said Yumi as she noticed the nurse fallen to the ground, she then rushed out of the room knowing that there wasn't much she could do here, "the music it's defiantly the music" said Yumi as she shut the door.
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In the Lab Jeremie was sitting at the computer whilst Ulrich was drinking his bottle of water really fast, Dallas watched him and cheekily commented
"You'll need a piss in a moment", Ulrich looked towards him but didn't seem to care, and then they looked at the screen as Jeremie connected with Aelita, "Aelita, we're in the lab" said Jeremie, "better hurry the pulsations are getting stronger, the activated Tower can't be too far away" said Aelita, "any monsters around" asked Jeremie, as Dallas and Ulrich walked towards the elevator, "not yet no" said Aelita, Jeremie smiled at this small consolation, "Ulrich and Dallas are on there way, stay where you are" said Jeremie, then just before her window closed Aelita replied "okay I'll wait here", Jeremie quickly typed and phone Yumi, she answered almost instantly "Yumi" started Jeremie but Yumi cut in by quickly saying "It's the song that's causing it" Jeremie looked back at Dallas who in turn looked at Jeremie, "what do you mean the song, I don't understand" asked Jeremie as Dallas stepped towards him "you mean the one that I wrote" Asked Dallas, whilst at the school Yumi was running through the grounds towards the forest "yep that's the one" said Yumi, Dallas looked at Jeremie his fist curled, "I need to do something" said Dallas, Jeremie grabbed his arm, "no time you'll have to do it later" said Jeremie, then it occurred to Ulrich "I think that's the song Odd downloaded from the web yesterday" said Ulrich, then Yumi heard over the phone quietly Dallas yell "THE WEB ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME", then it clicked in Jeremie's head "of course XANA's using the media for maximum coverage" said Jeremie, Yumi entered the forest, "he's formatted the song and now he's spreading it all over" said Yumi, Jeremie looked at the others "A deadly melody" he said, "considering what it's done to Odd, we better deactivate the tower, send Yumi as soon as she gets here" said Ulrich, then he and Dallas rushed towards the Elevator.
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The elevator opened and Dallas and Ulrich rushed to the nearest scanners, whilst in the lab Jeremie typed and selected their ID cards
"I'll send you north to the mountains" said Jeremie as Dallas and Ulrich stepped inside their respective scanners, "Transfer Ulrich, Transfer Dallas" said Jeremie as the scanners closed and the two of them felt themselves begin to rise and spin, their ID cards began to fill "Scanner Ulrich, Scanner Dallas" said Jeremie, then they felt the blast of air as Jeremie said "Virtualization", above a Plato in the mountain sector the blue square outlines of Ulrich and Dallas appeared in the sky before gaining their texture and features, they dropped to the ground and quickly scouted the area,
"Feels like months since I was last here" said Dallas, Ulrich looked back at him and smiled, and then they noticed Aelita running towards them "Ulrich, Dallas" she said as she stopped at them, "we've gotta get to the activated tower fast" said Ulrich, Aelita pointed back towards the way she had just came, as the pulsations were now visible "Over there see" she said, Dallas smiled before grabbing his right vambrace and chucked it to Ulrich, "thanks" said Ulrich as he placed it around his left arm, it then shrunk and hugged his arm "right o" said Dallas then he pulled up his hood and they started moving towards the tower, as they got closer and closer the pulsations grew stronger but there was no sign of any of XANA's monsters, they stopped "okay" said Ulrich as he placed his hand on his Katannas handle, "we're almost at the tower" said Aelita as she pointed towards it, the tower stood two platforms away from them, but the one the tower stood on was floating separate the only way to reach it was five smaller platforms that circled it but there was a small problem, they were moving, "I don't like it, it's too quiet" said Dallas, whilst in the lab Jeremie had brought up the news station and was watching the latest bulletin
"This morning we've been swamped with calls warning us of a mysterious epidemic, for an update let's go to bill hamster whose on the scene" said the newsreader, suddenly the camera switched to a man wearing an all brown suit the only variation was the shirt and tie were a lighter shade, his hair was grey, behind him was a traffic jam, people who had been struck by XANA's attack "as soon as news of the first cases were announced, I went to this neighbourhood Elm way, things are dramatic here to say the least, it seems at the moment the authorities can't quote a number of the people who've actually been stricken by the illness, the victims seem to be under the influence of the disease whose origins are unknown…" said Bill, then suddenly the camera man fell as Glad when you're bad played then Bill was also struck as he fell to the ground like an overturned statue, Jeremie had managed to mute it so as he had no risk of succumbing to the effects, whilst in the sewers Yumi grabbed her skate board before running and jumping onto it, meanwhile on Lyoko the warriors took there next steps slowly,
"No monsters anywhere that's suspicious" said Ulrich, then suddenly a Block crawled over the side of the Plato, "ah there you are" said Ulrich as he drew his Katanna, Dallas grabbed his tomahawk as two more Blocks appeared they were now cornered by the Blocks who stood in a triangular formation, "Aelita Hide" said Dallas as he observed the Blocks trying to work out which would attack first, whilst in the factory Yumi entered the elevator and pressed the button allowing the metal crate to descend, back on Lyoko, the Blocks began to move closer and closer, they ignored Aelita as they focused on Ulrich and Dallas, "any ideas" asked Ulrich, then Aelita ran across the path behind her and safely onto another Plato, the Blocks opened fire, Dallas drew his tomahawk and then took a deep breath as eagle sense began to manifest, "careful" said Jeremie as he watched Dallas's Life points drop from 100 to 90, Dallas ran towards another Block which was missing it's shots, Dallas dropped to his side and skidded across the floor and started to go between the Blocks legs then he held his weapon up slicing into the main body of the creature, destroying it but due to the speed Dallas was going he didn't stop skidding, "oh shit, oh shit" he said as he skidded off the edge, but before he could fall into the sky below, he smashed his tomahawk into the side of the mountain, whilst Ulrich charged at another of the Blocks, it fired, but Ulrich super sprinted to the side and then quickly ran towards the creature from another direction slicing the creature in half, it exploded leaving one left, the last Block fired it a shot, unfortunately this landed and struck Ulrich freezing him over and covering him in ice, "no, Ulrich" said Aelita, Jeremie looked at the screen and said "Ulrich you can't move for 3 minutes", Dallas heard this and looked up, "Jeremie what's going on" he asked, "Ulrich is stunned and Aelita is alone" replied Jeremie, Dallas then extended his left blade and flicked it into it's knife position, then using his weapons he began to move along the side of the mountain towards Aelita.
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In the computer room, Yumi rushed in from the elevator and towards Jeremie
"Everything okay on Lyoko" she asked, Jeremie turned and looked at her "not really, Ulrich's frozen solid, Dallas is on the cliff side and Aelita's alone" replied Jeremie, Yumi turned towards the hatch and said "I'm ready to go", then she began to descend it "to the mountains" said Jeremie, then Yumi stepped into a vacant scanner, "Transfer Yumi" said Jeremie as he typed causing the scanner to close, Yumi felt herself begin to rise and spin "Scanner Yumi" said Jeremie as her ID card began to fill with colour, "Virtualization" said Jeremie as Yumi felt the blast of air sending her to Lyoko, her blue square outline appeared and gained texture before she dropped to the platform below, the first thing she noticed was Aelita standing watching as another Block approached her, "Ulrich 30 seconds left" said Jeremie, whilst the Block that approached Aelita, fired a barrage of lasers towards her, each of them striking the ground but each one of them getting closer and closer until one almost hit her, but it was Blocked by Yumi's fans, "stay behind me Aelita I'll handle them" said Yumi as she placed her hand towards Aelita signalling her to move back, whilst another Block appeared, whilst on the Plato next to them Ulrich unfroze but as he did so, the Block who had previously put him in this state charged a shot, Ulrich looked back, he didn't have the energy to run or move, he braced for the shot when suddenly Dallas appeared over the edge of the Plato and threw his tomahawk towards the Block destroying it, "thanks" said Ulrich, Dallas smiled and replied "no problem, just help me up", the Ulrich grabbed Dallas's tomahawk and then walked over and helped him up, "how much longer" asked Yumi, then Jeremie replied "they're on there way", the first of the Blocks walked towards Yumi and it was ready to fire but Ulrich dropped down and stabbed it causing it to explode, Dallas then appeared and landed on the other he smacked his tomahawk into the creature and jumped off it placing his arms onto his chest and flipped through the air, before landing in his feat "glad to see you" said Yumi as Dallas and Ulrich drew there weapons, "better stay alert Two Blocks are on there way" said Jeremie as he picked up there trace on the computer "LETS GO" shouted Dallas as he moved forward towards the Block, it fired at Yumi, but she Blocked it with her fan, "well done" said Jeremie, then on the screen which was displaying the news stopped, it then went out of focus before changing to XANA's logo and the song Glad when you're bad began playing over the loudspeaker system in the Lab, Jeremie quickly stood up and rushed over towards a floor panel, he lifted it up and quickly unplugged the cable, ceasing the song, he walked back towards his chair, but XANA managed to bypass this and the songs started again, Jeremie struggled to reach his chair, he quickly typed the code for the return to the past, "Jeremie do you read me, Jeremie" said Ulrich, Jeremie finished the code, then fell over in a coma, then Ulrich looked at the others then at the Blocks, "Yumi, you and Dallas take Aelita and get to the tower" said Ulrich, Yumi Blocked a shot from one of the Blocks, "are you crazy you'll never hold them off alone" replied Yumi, Dallas dodged a shot from another of the Blocks, "she's right, it'll be a wasted venture" said Dallas, Ulrich smiled and replied "who said I would be alone", then the warriors apart from Ulrich started moving towards the tower, whilst Ulrich ran at the cube, shouting "TRIANGULATE" he then started to run around the Block using super sprint but in a triangle formation and at each of these angles it appeared Ulrich was standing there, but at the same time he was also running between each of the Ulrich's standing there, the Block was confused and couldn't work out what to do, then suddenly Ulrich struck it and destroyed the Block causing him to explode, the three Ulrichs then looked at the other Block with the lead Ulrich saying "position" as they stood in line, then they started to run at the Block, the Block fired several shot's but it only managed to hit one of the Ulrichs, the lead of the now two Ulrichs ran directly at the Block and swiped at it with his sword causing it to explode, but then another Block shot at and hit the other Ulrich, before firing and hitting the remaining de-virtualizing him, Ulrich arrived back in his scanner, he stumbled out but soon fell to the floor in agony as he heard Glad when you're Bad, blasting from the loud speaker, whilst back on Lyoko the three remaining warriors kept moving towards the tower, "that's half of us down, we're all that's left" said Dallas as he brought up the rear, they were suddenly ambushed by a Block which fired a shot, it managed to strike Aelita, causing the struck area to spark, she was knocked to the ground, Dallas turned and threw his tomahawk destroying it, "Aelita" said Yumi as she helped the other girl up, "lets keep moving, we're almost there" said Dallas as he unsheathed his crossbow, they carried on moving until they stopped and looked at the moving platforms, "we'll this was unexpected" said Yumi, as the looked at the spinning rocks, "they reach this point every seven seconds" said Dallas, then they watched as another drew closer, "now" said Dallas as he jumped on, "YUMI THROW AELITA ACROSS WHEN I REACH THIS POINT AGAIN" shouted Dallas as he moved further away, Yumi grabbed Aelita, "are you ready" she asked, then Aelita nodded and replied "not really", Dallas approached and then Yumi threw Aelita towards Dallas, the latter managed to catch her but he lost his balance and nearly fell of the edge, "okay lets get the tower deactivated" said Aelita, then Dallas grabbed her and threw her onto the platform with the tower, Aelita ran up to and passed through the tower wall, she walked towards the centre platform and began to levitate towards the top platform, where the blue screen appeared and she placed her hand on it, the word Aelita was typed in, then the words CODE LYOKO were typed in, the blue screens that surrounded the tower walls began to descend into the black void below, the return to the past activated itself and everyone was engulfed by the white flash…
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The previous Night, Ulrich was again sitting down at his desk flipping through the pages of his book, but yet again apparently not having learnt his lesson the first time around, Odd was dancing around the room listening to music, Odd was showing signs of not remembering the last attack
"Hey Odd come on I'm tryna study" said Ulrich, Odd removed his headphones "what's the sense of you studying you'll still get a zero" replied Odd, "I've heard that twice already that's enough" said Ulrich as he turned back and looked at his book, "hey listen to what I downloaded from the web" said Odd, Ulrich turned and looked at Odd scared that the events might not have been changed, "It's outta sight" said Odd putting Ulrich at ease, "it's incredible" said Odd, as he held up his headphones his head, Ulrich was pleased that it wasn't Glad when you're bad, Odd placed his headphones near Ulrich, who responded with "later okay time being I'd like to study and as for you I wouldn't say no to you helping me a little", Odd was confused slightly "you're so good in physics" added Ulrich, Odd was happy at the compliment "that's right and if you want help the reincarnation of Einstein is here to give a lesson to a saw dust filled head" said Odd, who once again was getting ahead of himself, "and I'll listen to your song afterwards" replied Ulrich, Odd then thought for a second, "you don't really have to, actually it's pretty mainstream, it's something that, what I mean is…" started Odd, Ulrich smiled and said "it's the kinda song a machine might'a written", Odd smiled and placed his hands on Ulrich's shoulders "yeah that's right, say you know a lot about music" said Odd as he started humming to the song, "so you gonna help me or what" asked Ulrich.
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Meanwhile in Jeremie's and Dallas's room, Dallas was inspecting the safe, the song had still been taken but this was no problem Dallas had already begun work on another song,
"strange don't you think that XANA took my song, and used it as a weapon" said Dallas, Jeremie looked back at him "yeah, but I suppose he did it as a sense of irony" replied Jeremie, Dallas smiled then looked at the door of the safe, "Christ what did Adam use to get this open" said Dallas as he quickly used the magnifying glass of Jeremie's soldering kit, "what's the matter" asked Jeremie as he kicked the table moving his chair towards Dallas, "the lock has been fried, and slightly melted" replied Dallas, then he looked at Jeremie and asked "how could he have done this?".
Authors note
Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it, TBH I didn't enjoy this episode it was too slow paced and not much I could do with it.