A/N: Just as i promised, anotha chapter! Thanks for the reviews, and pretty soon i might be dedicating a chapter here and there for some of you. Argh..the other chapters i typed disappeared......GREAT. ok ok, dont panic now....umm....why dont you guys just read this one for now? Okay then, get to it!
Ch.9 –Xana's Attack
Jeremy text messaged Odd to tell him to meet at the factory after class.
They all met up there, and Jeremy logged on to Lyoko.
Jeremy was worried. "If Xana has launched at attack, I hope Aelita wasn't affected by it in anyway."
(poor Jeremy doesn't even know the truth)
Aelita's visual popped up.
"Hello Jeremy. How are you?" yes, the stone-like expression hadn't left her.
"Aelita! Where were you when I tried to contact you this morning? You had us worried!"
"Oh. I am sorry Jeremy. I had just gone to look around for pulsations."
Ulrich smirked, "Told you, Jer."
"Did you happen to find anything, Aelita?" Jeremy continued.
"Oh, well...yes, yes I did." She said reluctantly.
"Ah-ha! I knew it!" Jeremy exclaimed. "Xana has launched another attack!"
This was Odd's cue. He walked backwards a few steps, then turned and ran out of the factory. Xana had taken control over Odd's mind again.
"Okay Aelita, I –Odd? Odd were are you going?! Odd!" Jeremy sat in his chair, utterly confused.
It wasn't just Jeremy who was puzzled. Yumi and Ulrich both raised an eyebrow. What was Odd up to? What's gotten into him?
Yumi stepped forward. "I'll go find him and see what's wrong."
Ulrich reached for Yumi's arm. "Yumi, I don't think he-
"It's ok Ulrich. You stay here with Jeremy. Aelita may need your help in Lyoko. I won't be long."
With that, she ran off after Odd.
Jeremy: Well that was weird, wasn't it?
Ulrich: Yeah...it was.
....
"Odd! Odd where are you?" Yumi yelled. "Geez, where could he have gone?"
She walked around a bit. She checked near a gathering of trees, and behind the factory. Not there.
Yumi walked over the bridge outside the factory building.
Back at the factory
Jeremy was talking to Aelita.
"Are the pulsations getting stronger?"
"Yes, yes they are Jeremy. I can feel them now."
A flashing red signal had started to beep on the screen.
"Jeremy, what's going on?" Ulrich asked.
Jeremy was typing in things. He pressed a few buttons and tried to find the source of the warning signal. He looked towards Ulrich.
"I'm not sure. The computer's acting up. It may be Xana's doing! Aelita! Listen to me, you have to –
The computer shut off on its own.
A look of worry quickly came over Jeremy's face.
"I can't get it back on, I don't understand!"
Ulrich shook his head. He had a feeling something bad was going to happen.
"Ulrich, you go and get hold of Yumi and Odd. I'll have to reboot the whole computer, but it'll take at least a few days."
"A few days?? Xana could attack anyone in anyway during that time!"
"Maybe that was his whole plan..."
Ulrich stood with a look of despair.
"I'll meet with you later Jeremy."
He took off.
Outside
Yumi looked around the area one last time.
"This is so bizarre of Odd to do." She thought out loud.
Suddenly, a pair of arms slipped around her waist, and when she was about to scream, one hand covered her mouth. Yumi struggled to break free of the grasp, but failed. The attacker knocked her out and dragged her behind the factory...
....
"Yumi? Where are you? Odd?" Ulrich walked to and fro trying to find them.
They couldn't have gone back on campus...but then where are they?
He took a few steps ahead of the bridge.
'CRACK'
Ulrich withdrew himself. He glanced down to check what he had stepped on.
A cell phone?
Further examination of the cell had made Ulrich's eyes widen with fear.
It's Yumi's!
She wouldn't just drop her phone and not notice...
Oh no...
Ulrich rushed back towards the factory and bumped right into Jeremy, who was now leaving.
"Ulrich? What's the rush?"
"Jeremy, I , I hope that, Yumi...she...and Odd, I don't know..."
"Okay, calmly now, Ulrich. Tell me what happened." Ulrich explained how he searched and searched, and had found Yumi's cell phone.
"I'm sure its Xana. Let's go see if Odd's back at school."
But to their dismay, Odd wasn't at school. He wasn't, anywhere!
Jeremy sighed. "Things are getting worse and worse by the minute. First the false alarm, then Odd's fainting, then the computer crashes, and now..."
Ulrich stopped him. "No. Don't even say it. We will find Yumi, and Odd. I won't sleep until we do."
A/N: oOoOo what happens now? I bet you're dying to know....well....probably not dying......eh, close enough. R&R, later till the next one!