Author's Note: It is time! Alieta's decision has been made! Let us see what she has chosen! On with the show!

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6:50 PM Lyoko's Core

Save your friend, or save the world... The choice is yours!

Alieta always knew that Xana was evil. She always knew he would stop at nothing to win. But this... this was just unspeakable evil. This decision, was it the final surprise that Xana was referring to?

She turned around and looked up at her friends. There they were, dangling from those vines. She remembered the time they had. They would always protect her during their missions. She thought of all the good times they had and she thought of Jeremy.

Jeremy. The name alone brought a tear to her eye. Jeremy had always been there for her. Always talked to her, helped her. It was he who worked tirelessly to get her out of Lyoko and into the real world.

She considered him to be more that 'just friends'. She actually loved him, although she didn't really understand the concept of 'love'. All that was taken away by an insignificant creature.

With one last look at her friends, she turned around and looked at the core.

"I'm sorry, Jeremy..." she whispered and then walked toward the core. Then she entered it. The core began to laugh when she did this.

Inside the core, Alieta floated upward toward the platform. Then, she placed her hand on the blue screen and the words appeared.

ALIETA

Then:

CODE: LYOKO

As the core began to shut down, Alieta could have sworn to hear Jeremy's voice:

"Return to the past NOW!"

But then something happened. The core began to scream, as if in pain.

"HA, HA, HA, H.... HMM? URK! WHA-WHAT IS G-GOING ON! N-N-NO! I-IT CAN'T B- BE! NO! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"

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6:55 PM Control Room

Gary was worried. He had done everything Alieta had told him. He pressed enter at the right moment and a message came saying it was successful.

But then why were an alarm blaring and an error message up that simply said 'malfunction'?

He did not have time to ponder that question for he froze as if time stopped.

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6:56 PM Las Vegas, Nevada

Xana had been making a lot of trouble for the tourists and locals. And he was currently making the famed Mirage Hotel/Casino I think. go up in flames. Then everything stopped.

At first when he saw the message of which tower she went into, he laughed, then the alarm went off. It took only a second to understand why.

Now he was in complete fear.

"NO!"

The he saw the bright, white dome of light coming toward him.

"NO! NO! NO!!!!!!"

Before he was engulfed in the light, he threw his hands in front of his face in a feeble attempt to protect it.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The light engulfed him and his yells stopped.

Then time rewound.