Within the Ice sector the warriors were on a bridge leading to an ice bowl which contained the activated tower, each of the warriors were distracted by a Block, Yumi quickly somersaulted to the side dodging a shot, whilst Ulrich blocked a shot with his Katanna, Dallas quickly jumped into the air and span around doing a 360 on a horizontal angle, before landing on the ground in a spread out crouch position, Odd was jumping away from every shot that his Block was firing, Aelita was hiding behind cover due to the hazard,
"Okay" said Ulrich as he started to move up to attack a block, the Block fired several shots but Ulrich easily blocked them and shouted "IMPACT" as he struck the Block in its eye, he withdrew his sword and moved as the creature exploded and faded into non existence, "Odd, Dallas Take Aelita to the tower, Yumi's in trouble" said Ulrich, Dallas nodded and threw his tomahawk at his Block and ran towards it grabbing a hold of the weapon as it was embedded into the shell of the creature, it tried firing at him but it was missing as Dallas disappeared from it's line of sight, Meanwhile Odd fired a laser arrow at his Block Destroying it, but another appeared behind him, he turned around unable to raise his arm in time when suddenly it exploded, "what the" he said, then he quickly noticed Dallas was steering a block with his tomahawk, "Aelita" said Odd, then Aelita moved out of cover to the now clearer bridge, "okay princess the home stretch" said Odd as they ran up to the several Blocks that guarded the entrance to the bowl, Dallas quickly looked towards them and turned the Block towards the monsters defending the tower, He quickly moved into the Blocks eye sight and said "Can I interest you in our lord and savoir…", he quickly moved up again as the Block fired a shot striking one of the ones that defended the tower, "Careful Odd they're moving towards you" said Jeremie, Odd smiled and replied "no problem, be back in a sec Aelita", then Odd ran forward and jumped as the Blocks focused their fire on him, he quickly moved in between the shots and shouted "LASER ARROW" as he fired two into the Blocks hitting both of them and destroying them both, "he is amazing the crowd is going wild" said Odd as he cheered to himself about the double strike, "Odd, Odd cut it out will you there's a third block" said Jeremie, then Odd stopped and said "a third one", then the Newly arrived block fired a shot and struck Odd sending him to the ground, Dallas quickly turned and used his mounted Block to destroy the one that had shot Odd, Jeremie looked at the screen on Odd's window, his chest was flashing red, he had taken a serious hit, "Odd, you've lost too many lift points" said Jeremie, regardless Odd stood up "Odd what are you doing" asked Jeremie "take cover it's too risky" added Jeremie as he ran towards two more Blocks, Dallas quickly turned his to try and assist but the Block reared throwing him from the creature, his crossbow landed away from him, the Block turned around and charged it's shot at him, Dallas grabbed his crossbow and said "yippy Ki yay…" then he squeezed the trigger firing the bolt into the Block and destroying it "…Mother fucker" he finished, he then turned his attention to Odd who was still charging towards the Other Blocks "Odd one impact and it's over you've only got 10 life points left, that's all" said Jeremie, "10 is more than enough, here we go" replied Odd as he fell to his knees dodging the shots from the block and sliding towards it and firing his laser arrows into the creature destroying it, Yumi quickly threw her fan at the other block destroying it, "Nice one Yumi" said Aelita, as she ran over and helped Dallas up, "thanks Aelita" said Yumi as she and Ulrich ran over to Odd, "great one Odd" said Ulrich as the other warriors stopped at him, "hey Jeremie, next time just enjoy the show and let the real pros get the Job Done" said Odd who then chuckled at his own joke, which everyone found in very poor taste, Jeremie himself was most offended, Odd stopped laughing as everyone gave him a serious look, "I'll go and take care of the tower" said Aelita as she turned around and walked away, "hey take it easy I was just kidding, I didn't mean it, Hey Einstein you hear me it was a joke" said Odd in a bad apology, Jeremie just sighed upset by the comment, Aelita entered the tower, and quickly deactivated it, Jeremie quickly pressed enter and said "return to the past now"…
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Since the attack hadn't taken too long, Jeremie had set the program to only go back to the beginning of the first lesson, Mrs Hertz was reading of the names on her register
"Valerie" she said, then a voice replied "present", Mrs Hertz ticked off her name, "Benjamin" she asked, another voice replied "present", she again ticked of a name, "Herb" she said, a dull Herb replied "present ma'am", Mrs Hertz rolled her eyes and ticked of his name, "Nicholas" she asked and another duller voice replied "here", Mrs Hertz shook her head and ticked his name off, "Adam" she asked, there was no response, so she crossed his name off, "Sissi" she asked, and Sissi who was sitting across her seat with her feat on Adams reading a magazine about horses, "Present" she replied half minded, Mrs Hertz ticked her name off, "Jeremie" said Mrs Hertz, "Present" he replied, he was obviously feeling better as he turned the page on his book, "hey guys you were better than ever, no hard feelings Odd it was…" said Jeremie as he whispered behind him, he stopped as he heard Mrs Hertz say "Odd" but there was no response Jeremie Turned around, there was no Odd, there was no Ulrich, Jeremie turned to his side and three for three there was no Dallas either, "Odd, Odd" repeated Mrs Hertz then she looked towards his usual desk, as did most of the class, "Odd's absent, well so are Dallas and Ulrich" said Mrs Hertz as she crossed them on the list, Jeremie was dumbfounded to where they could be.
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"Pichon" asked Mrs Hertz, then Herb replied "Present Ma'am", she ticked his name, "Poliakoff" she asked then Nicholas replied "present" she ticked his name off, "Scylla" she asked, Adam replied "Present", Mrs Hertz ticked his name off, "Delmas" asked Mrs Hertz, "present" replied Sissi as she sat forward all dull looking, "Belpois" she said, Jeremie looked up and replied "Present", Dallas looked at the others "is it me or is the chalkie being more formal today" he asked, The other shrugged there shoulders "I dunno seems like it" said Ulrich, Odd quickly leaned forward to Jeremie, "hey that was great work Einstein, you were never better, no hard feelings huh" said Odd, but Jeremie didn't appear to here, "after what you said before, it's no wonder he's sulking" said Ulrich then they heard Mrs Hertz Shout "Marshal, Della Robia, Stern" they all replied "here Ma'am", Mrs Hertz was angry "I know that you are here, but I do not know what you have to say that could be so interesting" she said "they asked me if in all due respect Ma'am, the Brower equation you wrote on the black board is wrong" said Jeremie, Mrs Hertz looked back at the board, whilst the other warriors looked at each other then at Jeremie, "it is not wrong form a mathematical point of view but it fails to take into account Brodsky's theories of phenomenon of compared masses, you should treat the second element as a squared mass not a factorial" answered Jeremie, Mrs Hertz turned around again and stared a the board briefly "why yes you are absolutely right, I am sorry about that" apologized Mrs Hertz, the other warriors were confused about this.
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"Jeremie, would you know where the others are" Asked Mrs Hertz, Jeremie quickly jumped out of his chair and walked out of the class room, he quickly ran out of the science building and ran towards the main one, he peeked in on one of the class rooms, "I don't believe it this is weird Yumi's gone too" said Jeremie, he jumped down from the window before running inside and into the dorm area, he quickly ran up the stairs to the top floor and opened up Odd and Ulrich's room, "nobody here" he said as he inspected the mess in there room, then he ran to his own and opened it no sign of Dallas either, he quickly shut the door and ran over to his computer and began typing, "Aelita" he said, then Aelita's window opened, "Aelita are the others tell me they're with you on Lyoko" asked Jeremie, Aelita was slightly confused, "why didn't they come back from Lyoko" she asked, Jeremie suddenly began to panic "no Aelita I've lost them, something must have gone wrong in the return trip" said Jeremie who was close to hyperventilating at this point, "calm down Jeremie, they couldn't have just vanished go check the scanners whilst I look around Lyoko" said Aelita, Jeremie took a deep breath and said "good idea I'll go and see", then he turned around to see Jim had opened the door and was standing there, Aelita's window quickly closed before Jim could get a clear look at her "do you mind telling me what you're doing here" said Jim, Jeremie started to sweat at the fact he had been easily caught out.
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Yumi walked over towards the others, Ulrich had a book in his hands whilst Dallas was looking at his right hand,
"you Guys okay" asked Yumi, Odd turned and looked at her "as okay as you can be when you got two hours of bio ahead of them" he replied, then the warriors looked towards Jeremie, "anyone know why he's sulking" asked Yumi, Ulrich looked back towards her, "he's angry at Odd" he replied, "listen something really strange happened in my English class" said Yumi, Dallas looked at her, he appeared heavily intrigued, "something strange happened to my teacher, she was saying something then suddenly she stopped and appeared to lose quality for a moment before repeating what she had just said, and no one appeared to notice, it was like a broken record but it only lasted a second" said Yumi, the others looked at her, "and what you think it could be XANA" asked Ulrich, Yumi shook her head and replied "I really don't know", Dallas hummed for a second, "What" asked Odd, Dallas looked back at them and held up his right hand, "what, you're right hand, there's nothing wrong with it" said Odd as he was confused to as to what Dallas was implying, "that's the problem Odd there isn't one his knuckle shouldn't be there" said Ulrich, as Dallas lowered it, "unless Jeremie has rigged the scanner to fix all Damage that shouldn't be like that" said Dallas, he looked towards Jeremie, "and even then it shouldn't work on me, it would just revert back" he added, the warriors looked at each other "anything else seem a bit weird" said Ulrich, Odd thought for a second, "Mrs Hertz being more formal with the register" said Odd, Yumi thought for a second "mine too" she added, "my car" said Dallas, the others looked at him, "what" asked Yumi, Dallas turned back and looked at her, "My car is intact, it was written off a while ago during an XANA attack" said Dallas, then he thought only one thing could prove his theory, he lifted up his hair "nice hair cut" said Ulrich jokingly, "its not there is it" asked Dallas, the others were confused, "there's meant to be a grey streak from the front of my hair to the end of my ear just above my ear" said Dallas, the others quickly realised something was strangely wrong as if the world had changed and they didn't know, "we need to keep an eye on things" said Yumi, whilst watching them Jeremie slowly grinned at them.
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Aelita stood atop of a rock in the desert region, she was looking around, she looked at numerous towers, but no sign of any trouble,
"Nothing here" she said then she felt vibrations but these were different to that of an activated tower, "XANA" she said as she jumped down from the rock she then followed them into the way tower and into the mountain sector, she quickly ran out of the tower in pursuit of them, she quickly slowed down as she lost trace of the vibrations, Back in the real world Jim had taken Jeremie to Delmas's office and was now sitting in front of him,
"Jeremie this is serious" Said Delmas, Jeremie sighed, "Everyone is very concerned, and now for the last time do you know where, Ulrich, Odd, Yumi and Dallas are" added Delmas, Jeremie who had up until this point remained silent spoke up, "no sir I…" he started but he knew it was best to not say, "as you can imagine there parents are worried sick" said Delmas as he stood up, and walked around his desk, "I told you I don't know where they are" replied Jeremie, Delmas turned around and lent forward over his desk, whilst Jim rubbed his eyes, back on Lyoko Aelita quickly sat crossed legged on top of a rock, "Jeremie think please the smallest clue could be of the greatest help, you five are always together" said Delmas as he looked out of the window, he scratched the back of his head, Jeremie felt his eye vibrate, he quickly grabbed his laptop bag and said "all right sir I'll think about it, but I need to be alone", Delmas turned around, he was slightly outraged as to what Jeremie was asking off him, "you have an awful lot of nerve young man, however if it's the only of bringing you to your senses, I'll give you three minutes" said Delmas, Jeremie stood up and said "thank you sire".
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Jeremie had moved to the other end of the building and had pulled out his laptop to save him the stress of direct communication,
"I felt your message what new"asked Jeremie is "I'm sorry Jeremie, but they're not on Lyoko" replied Aelita, Jeremie was shocked he was uncertain as to what was going on, "but there are strange vibrations, only I can't seem to locate their destination, I need your help go to the factory" added Aelita, Jeremie looked back at her from down the hallway "impossible I'm stuck in the principals office" replied Jeremie, Aelita smiled and said "don't worry I'll help you get outta there", Jeremie was confused, "Yes Jeremie just like XANA I can operate on the schools network as well" she added, Jeremie quickly looked around again, "listen closely now" she said, whilst down the hall Delmas and Jim were walking to collect Jeremie, "I'm sure, Jeremie knows more than he's saying" said Delmas, Jim was thinking of more drastic measures and said "should we call the police", Delmas looked at him and seriously considered the idea, Jeremie then stepped forward, "I've thought it over I'll show you were they are" said Jeremie, Delmas and Jim looked at him very confused.
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In the Cafeteria, the warriors were sitting together, as usual Odd had Most of Dallas's food who himself had only a small portion and a cup of Black Coffee, Jeremie wasn't sitting with them and had not said a single word to them, at the table Ulrich was sitting next to Yumi with his arm around her, with Dallas and Odd sitting adjacent to them
"Didn't I tell you" asked Odd, Ulrich replied "no go on", Odd smiled and took a sip of his drink "I needed new wheels because I broke them on a rail, so I call over the guys selling" said Odd, then he noticed Sissi, "Hey Sissi, did you use cannery feathers in the washing machine instead of soap" laughed Odd as Sissi stood there in a shirt almost similar to her usual attire except that it was yellow, "that is so dumb I will have you know that yellow is the in colour this year" said Sissi then she walked off, then the warriors started laughing "what a dope" said Odd, suddenly they all heard a rewind sound, and everyone repeated there conversation, the warriors looked around everyone was repeating the same mannerisms they had just displayed, "I'm certain I'm not the only one who just heard that" said Yumi, Odd looked over his shoulder at the table behind him "I sure did" he said, then he turned back as Sissi said "that is so dumb I will have you know that yellow is the in colour this year" again then she stormed off again "we didn't say anything that time" said Odd, Yumi looked towards Jeremie, "we gotta problem guys" she said then Dallas noticed Jeremie grin at them, "I have a feeling what ever it is, could be affecting Jeremie" he said.
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Jeremie had led Delmas and Jim to the boiler room,
"But there's nobody here" said Delmas as he looked around, "we have to wait a little while" said Jeremie, then the two staff members looked back at him confused, "They'll be here any minute now" said Jeremie, whilst in the opposite end of the room the boiler was starting to heat up, the temperature gauge looked as if it was gonna explode, Delmas looked at his watch it was nearly the end of school hours, he looked up and shouted at Jeremie "WELL WHERE ARE THEY", then suddenly a massive pipe that went across the room exploded, and steam filled the room, Delmas and Jim rushed out into the open courtyard and fell to the ground almost choking to death in the process, then it occurred to the both of them at the exact same time that someone was missing "Jeremie" they both said in unison.
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"Aelita" said Jeremie as he put on his wireless headset inside the elevator "thanks for helping me" he said, Aelita smiled and said "Jeremie if you don't detect anything alive on the scanners, it'll mean that…" started Aelita, but Jeremie didn't want to hear it "yes Aelita I know, but we'll find out soon enough" he said, then the elevator stopped at the scanner room, the door opened and Jeremie looked at the scanners "Empty" he said then he scratched the back of his head in utter confusion.
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Jeremie had moved up to the computer room and was now sitting in the chair,
"They aren't here" said Jeremie as he scratched his forehead, "I don't get it if they're not here and they're not on Lyoko where are they" he asked as he took of his glasses and cleaned them, "Jeremie just before you got here I intercepted this data file" said Aelita, Jeremie quickly placed his glasses back on, "it was really bizarre let me show you" said Aelita, then a window opened it appeared to be CCTV footage of the school, Jim was walking the 10th grade boys gym class onto the running track Jeremie was instantly confused as Ulrich, Odd and Dallas were there, "hey that's crazy" said Jeremie, whilst in the video Jim was making everyone do stretches by raising there hands above there heads and then reach for their feet "and one, and two" repeated Jim over and over again, "that is it" said Jim as they followed the instructions, Yumi was sitting on the seats by the track and observed as Jeremie sat watching with his laptop, then suddenly she heard arguing from Nicholas and Herb, "hey watch what you are doing, you did that on purpose I saw you" said Herb, then suddenly both he and Nicholas lost quality before regaining it and Herb repeated "hey watch what you are doing, you did that on purpose I saw you", Yumi quickly turned her attention to it, "its happened again, no it's happening all the time" she said then she returned her attention to Jeremie "Jeremie" she said as she realised Jim wasn't scolding him for not being in class, "what am I looking at, they didn't come back to earth did they" asked Jeremie as he was becoming increasingly confused by what he was watching "what if what we're seeing is a recording" said Aelita, Jeremie returned his attention to the video, Yumi got up and walked towards Jeremie, "how can that be Aelita, I'm in the picture" said Jeremie, Yumi looked at the Jeremie that was sitting down on the seats then back at the gym class, "there are weird things happening, any news from Aelita" said Yumi, Jeremie however didn't even look up from his computer, "I am having difficulty contacting her, I have no idea if there is an activated tower or not, but at the slightest alert well have to move in" said Jeremie, he didn't even appear to look away from his computer as if he was fixated on it "hey how come you're not in the gym class Jeremie" asked Yumi, Jeremie finally looked up "Jim agreed to excuse me" he said, Yumi was shocked by this "he did, that's weird you're not exactly his star athlete" she said, Jeremie smiled and looked towards the class, "You gotta now how to handle him" said Jeremie, then they noticed how Jim and the rest of the class were just standing and watching as Dallas, Ulrich and Odd were being forced to do press ups, "Not like them" said Jeremie, Yumi was puzzled by Jeremie's strange behaviour "incredible" she said under her breath as she walked away, back in the lab Jeremie was getting more and more confused, "it sure isn't a tape it's happening somewhere now, they're neither in Lyoko nor in the real world, they're somewhere else " said Jeremie as he started to piece together the facts "yes I know but I've checked all the transfer protocol data, and unless of course a parallel world exists there's no such thing as an intermediate space" said Aelita, then it clicked together "Unless XANA has manufactured one" said Jeremie, then the idea seemed to make sense and he shouted "THAT'S IT" Aelita was confused "a world parallel to Lyoko, and he must have modelled it after the school he couldn't have made a better trap, the others think they're in reality but it's only an illusion, they're living under XANA's control completely at his mercy, we've gotta rescue them" said Jeremie, Aelita realised that this time XANA had created the rules "find out where the signal is coming from" said Jeremie, "I've been trying to but the signal is masked, its scrambled all we have is the data file and not the signal itself" said Aelita, Jeremie realised he was gonna need to man up to do what he had to do "then that's what we're gonna have to use, we're gonna have to program it to guide the scanner to dive towards the source using a trial and error system" said Jeremie, Aelita knew what this meant "that's crazy and you know it, and besides who can do it, we're all alone Jeremie" said Aelita, Jeremie looked down and took a deep breath, he looked up again and said "it's gonna have to be me, if you take over the controls if you take over the controls then I'll be able to go" said Jeremie, Aelita was scared at what Jeremie was proposing "it's too dangerous" she said, but Jeremie knew what he had to do "but we can't leave the others at the mercy of XANA, think about it if I'm here in front of you, whose the other Jeremie" said Jeremie, he stood up and was about to walk to the elevator but he stopped and said "Aelita there's something I wanna tell you, I'd much rather enter Lyoko to see you again", Aelita smiled and replied "so would I" then she stood up and rushed for a tower to take control of the scanners, whilst in the lab Jeremie entered the elevator and pressed the button to go to the scanner room, he walked out as the door opened and walked towards the scanner, being the second shortest in the group and the fact he'd only been twice previously meant the scanner looked menacing, "Its okay Jeremie I've prepared the scanner, you can enter now" said Aelita, Jeremie stepped forward and entered the scanner, he turned around and it closed, he was Nervous to say the least "Scanner Jeremie" said Aelita, as Jeremie felt himself began to spin and rise, "Transfer Jeremie" said Aelita as Jeremie felt the blast of air "virtualization" finished Aelita, Jeremie felt almost queasy, then he suddenly appeared in the 10 feet up in the air just outside the school grounds, he fell to the ground, he quickly stood up adjusting himself "Aelita can you hear me" he asked, then it occurred to him "of course not that'd be too easy" he replied to himself, then he started walking away, but he failed to notice that one of the rose plants suddenly began to morph into the eye of XANA and began transmitting an image to the other "Jeremie", it watched as Jeremie started running through the woods "There he is at last" said Jeremie, then Jim entered the room "we have got a visitor Jim" said Jeremie, Jim looked different his skin a pale blue his eyes without pupils, whilst on Lyoko Aelita had entered the ice sector and noticed as there was a giant Guardian over the arena "that's probably it, I better have a closer look" said Aelita as she jumped down from her platform.
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"really Ulrich" said Odd as he sat on his bed reading a magazine, "you've been dating for what 10 months and you're thinking of proposing" said Odd, Dallas smiled as he sat on Ulrichs bed "to be fair Odd has a point you're still underage man" said Dallas, Ulrich looked at the both of them "I know but our one year is coming up and I was thinking about…" said Ulrich, Dallas stood up "I know you want to but man wait till its legal at least so what that's another few months" said Dallas, Odd started laughing again "real funny" said Ulrich, then he changed the subject "don't you think Jeremie has been acting a bit strange" Said Odd, Dallas nodded in agreement "he locked me outta mine and his room" he said "yeah he has been acting a bit strange lately" added Odd, then they heard a phone ring and Odd answered it "yeah hello, Yumi is that you" said Odd then he got a mouthful from Yumi "it's started again this time it's a lot worse, this time it's at my own home" said Yumi, Odd handed Ulrich the phone, "what's going on Yumi" asked Ulrich, "it's my parents they're acting so strangely, they keep on making the same gestures and they act as if I'm not even there" said Yumi as she started to cry slightly "its as if they were phoney imitations of my real mum and dad, we've got to do something" said Yumi, Ulrich thought for a second "okay better not stay there, we'll meet you in the woods and go to the factory, I'll warn Jeremie" said Ulrich, but Yumi immediately replied "Not Jeremie, just Odd, you, me and Dallas, lets leave Jeremie out of it this time I have my doubts, see ya" then she hung up, Ulrich looked back at the others, they were confused as well.
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The real Jeremie entered the floor of the dorm building and said
"Let's hope they're in Ulrichs and Odds room", then he heard a growl, Jeremie turned to his right to see Jim, the latter quickly grabbed him and threw him down the corridor, Jeremie quickly scrambled to his feet and started to run away with Jim in pursuit, whilst the other Jeremie watched on his computer screen as the other warriors made plans, then the camera feed switched to the forest with Jeremie being pursed by Jim, "soon I will not have any more obstacles" said the other Jeremie, whilst on Lyoko Aelita ran across the bridge that led to the arena "I hope its not too late" she said as she drew nearer to the dome.
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The warriors were standing in what they thought was the forest, Dallas had moved the man hole cover,
"And Jeremie" asked Yumi, "we didn't tell him, but you know once we're at the factory we can't get to Lyoko without him" replied Ulrich, the warriors then looked at each other "we'll see when we get there, but I'm afraid he can't be trusted" said Yumi breaking the silence, the others were shocked, then they heard a noise in the bushes, "must have been a squirrel" said Ulrich, then Yumi climbed down the man hole, followed by Odd then Ulrich, and finally Dallas, Jeremie noticed this from afar, "oh know to late" he said then he started to run towards the man hole as Dallas replaced the hatch, but he was stopped by Nicholas and Herb, he looked at them, they looked normal besides the dead eye appearance on there face, Jeremie quickly barged through them, suddenly the two changed, they became slightly taller there hair became a mess and there skin a pale blue similar to Jim, and they began chasing him followed by Jim who caught up.
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Aelita quickly stopped at the Guardian, whilst in the forest Jeremie was only just able to out run his three pursuers, Jim ran ahead gaining ground on Jeremie, it growled at him,
"For a programme you're a pretty good imitation" said Jeremie then he noticed some bushes and quickly ran through them before jumping over a wall losing his pursuers, he landed on a path at the side of a road before running towards the factory, whilst in the lab Yumi was having trouble contacting Aelita,
"I don't understand there's no link, it's like Lyoko didn't exist anymore" said Yumi as she sat in the chair in front of the screen, Dallas quickly moved up from the hatch, "nothings been cut or damaged with the cables, the problem if there is one lies within the system" he said as he closed the hatch throwing down his tool belt, "and that might be exactly what has happened" said a voice, the warriors turned to see Jeremie standing there, the warriors moved towards him with caution "Jeremie" they said each at a different time but each as confused "but what are you doing here" said Yumi, "I got a message from Aelita, a tower has been activated, she said something about a program to erase Lyoko, I haven't heard from her since" said Jeremie, the warriors were confused as to Jeremie's actions Dallas expanded his eyes and everything flashed as if Eagle sight wasn't working "oh shit" he said under his breath, "this sound serious we gotta check this out Yumi" said Ulrich, Yumi raised her hand and signalled for Dallas to step forward, "hey wait a minute if the link has been cut, how do you intend to send us there" asked Yumi as Dallas moved forward with his crossbow in hand, "I have created a new access protocol all we need now is the scanners" replied Jeremie, Odd was convinced "what are we waiting for" Asked Odd, but the others weren't convinced "hold it Odd I'm not to sure of this" said Yumi, Jeremie then started to sweat and Dallas raised his crossbow "what is wrong with you, it is me Jeremie" said Jeremie, "we gotta get moving, what if Lyoko does get erased huh, have you thought about Aelita" said Ulrich, Dallas looked back at him, "I dunno something seems funny" he said as he moved closer to Jeremie "look you have gotta believe me, but if you have any doubt, let Ulrich and Odd be transferred before you" said Jeremie then they heard the elevator open, "YUMI YOU'RE RIGHT IT'S A TRAP" said Jeremie as he exited the elevator, "Jeremie" said Dallas as he lowered his crossbow, "XANA is that the best you can do, a cheap imitation to delay us" said the first Jeremie, "he's lying the phoney is there, its him everything here is phoney" countered the second Jeremie, the others were confused "you never came back from you're last trip, you're in a virtual world created by XANA" he added, Yumi and Dallas started to realise it "that would explain all the inconsistencies" said Yumi, then Dallas looked at his hand and realised it made sense, "of course, he only has theoretical knowledge of the real world, what he wants is to get you into the scanners to get rid of you once and for all" said the second Jeremie, "That's totally absurd XANA" said the first Jeremie, the warriors looked at each other, "Its true we have no proof that he's not the one lying, he could have created the inconsistencies too" said Ulrich, Odd then pointed towards the second Jeremie and said "yeah to hold us up whilst Lyoko and Aelita are being destroyed", the second Jeremie started to sweat "the only proof is the fact that I'm here with you, you have to decide which one of us is lying" said the second Jeremie, the first was quick to argue "assuming as you claim this world is virtual do you mind telling us how you got here, we are listening XANA" he said, the second Jeremie replied "I came here via the scanner, I'm here via virtual form" the first Jeremie chuckled and said "ha the real Jeremie would never step foot in scanner everyone knows he's much too scared", the second Jeremie started to panic, the warriors looked towards him "and I'm sure he would use the scanner if his friends were in danger" said Odd, "no doubt about it" said Ulrich "absolutely not" said Yumi but the first Jeremie was quick to argue this and said "yes but that is only a theory, I am here do not believe that imitation I am Jeremie", Dallas then realised something, he turned around "Tell me Jeremie I've noticed something" said Dallas, the first Jeremie was confused "what have you noticed" he asked, Dallas smiled "you haven't used a single contraction today" he said the first Jeremie was shocked, "what are you on about" he said, Dallas pointed his crossbow towards him, "use a contraction then" said Dallas everyone looked at him, "I am unsure of what you mean" said the first Jeremie, "I thought so" said Dallas then pulled the trigger and fired a bolt into the first Jeremie, it struck him clean in the chest, but he didn't fall over "not logical" said XANA as the first Jeremie began to glow the bolt exploded "NOT LOGICAL, NOT LOGICAL, NOT LOGICAL" screamed XANA as he began to float in the air, what had been Jeremie had transformed similar to Jim, Herb and Nicholas, he then raised his right hand and suddenly behind each of the warriors someone appeared behind Yumi appeared Jim, behind Odd appeared Herb, behind Ulrich appeared Nicholas and behind Dallas appeared Adam, they quickly grabbed them causing them to scream, then XANA curled his hand and the floor below Jeremie began to crack up and wires burst through it wrapping around Jeremie and beginning to crush him, XANA laughed and said "you are going to die", Dallas smiled and spoke up, "XANA or is Mr XANA" he said then everyone looked towards him, "what is it puny human" replied XANA, Dallas quickly grabbed his own left arm and said "I must say what a wonderful trap you created here", XANA was confused as to what he meant "what" he asked, Dallas smiled again and said "yeah good trap, not perfect as you put one thing into a trap you never should put in a trap", XANA was confused "and what is that" Dallas stopped smiling and said "me" then he quickly raised his legs using Adam who had grabbed him around the waist and quickly fired using his wrist gun into Adam's foot causing him to scream in pain, "what is this" shouted XANA as Dallas broke free, he then extended his blades and charged at Nicholas and Jim causing them to drop Ulrich and Yumi respectively, Jeremie screamed "AELITA" whilst outside the guardian Aelita heard this cry for help and was thrown back, whilst inside Ulrich and Yumi tried freeing Jeremie as Dallas stabbed the Nicholas clone in the head neutralizing him, the Herb clone threw away Odd and charged at Dallas only to meet a similar fate, Dallas then charged at XANA only for XANA to shoot electricity towards him, but it didn't stop Dallas as he continued to stumble forward, whilst outside Aelita walked back up to the Guardian she knelt down and placed her hands on it before she started to sing, suddenly the guardian had a surge of power run through it and in a blinding flash it exploded, with a giant red pillar that reached the sky extending from the area, in the duplicate world, XANA screamed as he disappeared the bodies of the clones also disappeared, the wires around Jeremie snapped and blew apart before he was thrown into the ceiling before he appeared to phase through it, the red pillar then exploded in a blinding flash, and Jeremie screamed as he felt himself being thrown back into the scanner, the scanner opened and Jeremie exhausted from the experience fell to the floor, he quickly stumbled up and rushed into the elevator, he pressed the button and the door closed and the crate ascended to the computer room, Jeremie quickly rushed out and sat at the computer, he quickly placed his ear piece in and asked "Aelita are you okay", Aelita smiled happy to see him okay, "yes I'm fine, don't worry I got them back safe and sound, the parallel world bubble has disappeared" replied Aelita, whilst on Lyoko Odd did a back flip "I don't remember anything but I feel just great" said Odd as he patted himself on the chest, "speak for yourself I feel as if I've had a car battery clipped to my nuts" said Dallas as he shook himself, then they looked towards Aelita, "Aelita what happened to us" asked Ulrich, "XANA created a replica of where you live so you'd think it was reality" replied Aelita, it took a moment for it to sink in "he locked us up in a virtual prison" said Yumi, Aelita nodded and said "yes but me and Jeremie did what we could to set you free" the warriors were more surprised by this "what Jeremie came to Lyoko" said Odd, Dallas knew that this was his third trip and his second successful one, Aelita nodded and Jeremie yelled "fantastic Einstein join the heroes club" said Odd, Jeremie smiled at the compliment and said "thanks Odd, no hard feelings huh" then he noticed the radar "look it's XANA's welcoming committee" added Jeremie, then the warriors noticed an entire swarm of Blocks "just another day in the office" said Dallas as he pulled up his hood and drew his tomahawk, "no need to worry Jeremie we're used to this, it's a piece of cake, here we go" said Ulrich as he drew his Katanna and charged at the blocks, "I'm with you" said Odd, as the two ran towards the blocks, Dallas quickly followed then Yumi ran after them as Aelita hid behind a rock and watched the ensuring fight.
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Authors note
Okay that was a better chapter even though it only came in at just over 6000 words, plus that last part took four pages on my word document I used to write this, well only two chapters left and I must say there has been some suggestions as to XANA's agent won't be revealed for another chapter or two as whose got it right.