Author's Note: Xana is attacking, Ulreck is still hypnotized, and Yumi is depressed. What more could go wrong? Well, we're just gonna have to find out. Do remember that it is kind of late out. On with the show!

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Yumi was taking a shower when she got a call on her cell. But she was too busy and the shower was too loud to even her the cell.

"C'mon, C'mon! Answer, Yumi!" Alieta said out loud. Ulreck and Odd were pacing around, unsure of what to do. "Please pick up the phone!"

"Well? What do we do?" Ulreck asked.

The past few days and the lost of Jeremy had been causing a lot of stress to Alieta. Yumi, Odd, and Ulreck were helping her as much as possible, but the stress was beginning to take its toll. "I-I don't know... We need someone to operate the computer... But having only one person in Lyoko with me would be dangerous..."

"Try calling her house, maybe she's still mad and turned off her cell."

Alieta realized that Odd had a point. They used a cell phone so much and most of them stayed at the school that she had forgotten that Yumi lived off campus. "Good idea... What is here number?"

Ulreck told her. Alieta typed it in and began to call. "Thanks, Ulreck..."

Soon, someone answered. "Hello?"

It was Yumi father. "Hello, sir."

"Ah, Alieta, how are you?"

"I am fine, sir. Is Yumi around?"

"Yeah, she's in the shower, though. Hey, is it true that Yumi broke Ulreck's nose?"

The question made Odd begin to giggle and Ulreck place a hand on his nose and twinge in pain. Alieta said to him, "Yeah... She did... Why do you ask, sir?"

"Oh, no reason. The principal called and told us. She has two after school detentions, because of it."

Ulreck felt sorry and glad at the same time.

Then, he father said, "Hold on..." After what seemed to be a moment, he said, "Yumi is out of the shower now."

"Really? May I talk to her?"

"Sure, hold on..."

Yumi's father could be heard calling for Yumi. Soon Yumi answered. "Yes?"

"Yumi! Quick! Xana is attacking and we need you here!"

Yumi was a little cautious. "I've noticed nothing."

Come to think of it, how was he attacking?

"There is a tower active! Please come!"

Odd looked at Ulreck then called toward the headset, "You still mad at Ulreck?" Alieta switched it to speaker mode.

"Yes."

Ulreck, who was leaning against a wall with his eyes closed, let out a aggravated sigh and let his shoulders slump.

Alieta, who was getting aggravated herself, said to Yumi, "Listen, we need you down here! If you come, I promise that Ulreck will not talk to you unless he has to!"

This was the magic bargain. "Sure... I'll be down. It may take me a little bit, I will come down."

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After a few minutes, Ulreck, Odd, and Alieta were running across the Desert Region toward the tower.

"Ok, guys, watch out. I've got two enemies on the map. They are just standing there looking in you direction, so they know your there!"

'Ulreck...'

"Hmm? Yeah, what do you want?"

Alieta and Odd stopped and turned to look at Ulreck. "Want what?"

"Didn't you call my name...?"

"No..."

'Ulreck, listen to me...'

"There it is again! Are you sure it isn't you?"

"I hear nothing nor have I said anything to you, buddy."

"Yumi...?"

"I don't see anything, or have heard anything."

'Ulreck... I need you to do me a favor.'

"Are you ok?" Asked Alieta.

"Yeah... l-let's go..."

As they progressed toward the tower, two figures came in to view. But they weren't crabs or blocks or anything like that. As they got closer, they stopped dead in there tracks. It was Xana and the cloaked stranger.

"Hello, again."

Ulreck began to think he was going crazy. 'Do you know who I am, Ulreck?'

Ulreck began to look at the cloaked stranger. "You...?" He said in a whisper.

'That's right... Want to know more? Here, I'll show you who I am.'

The cloaked figure raised her hand, gripped her cloak and ripped it off. The person who was cloaked horrified everyone except Xana.

"Please allow me to introduce my newest friend!" He called happily. "Sissy!"

"Hello, everyone. Surprise to see me?"

Yumi was most horrified. 'Alieta was telling the truth! Sissy WAS making him do those things! I must help...' She looked around for a way to help as she spotted in the program menu a program that said 'Ulreck Anti-Virus'. She clicked on it. It gave the same message. "Oh man..."

On Lyoko, Ulreck began to act very strange. "No... You can't make me..."

Alieta looked alarmed. "Xana! What are you doing to him???"

"Don't ask me. Ask Sissy."

But it was already answered for her. "NO! I WON'T! I will not kill my friends!" But his protests were not working as well. He began to draw his sword and walk toward Odd and Alieta. "Alieta! Odd! RUN! Run now!!!"

"We can't just leave you!"

Suddenly Yumi yelled to them, "WAIT! Look at Sissy! Eye contact! As long as she is looking at Ulreck, he has no choice but to do what she says! Eye contact with his eyes strengthen the power she has over him!"

Alieta and Odd got the clue. "So if we break her vision and knock her out..."

"... We can run the AV program!"

Alieta and Odd looked at each other. They already knew what they had to do.

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Author's Note: Well, what do they have to do? Will it even work?

In other news, the plot for 'Phase 2' is ready. If it could be called anything, it'd be 'The Battle of Evil'. If you would like a summary of 'The Quest for Jeremy Phase 2', e-mail me directly, or include your e-mail in a review. If you request it in a review, tell me that you do and include your e-mail with it. I will send a reply to those who ask for it.

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