Ok, here's chapter three.

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko.

Chapter 3: The Attack

Yumi and Ulrich finished showing Slyzer around, and Yumi headed to her room. Ulrich headed to his, followed by Slyzer. They were talking, and the discussion got to Yumi.

"So you like her?" Ulrich asked.

"I thought it was obvious."

"Well, you know I ...."

"Like her too, yeah, but right now she seems mad at you. Aelita was nice though," Slyzer said.

"She would be. And they're all mad at me, because I told you about Lyoko." There was a pause in the conversation.

"What's up with Jeremy and Odd though, they seem to be mad at me, why is that?"

"Lyoko. You knowing about it anyway. They... they just don't trust you I guess, I'm sorry. They will learn to." Slyzer nodded, slightly unbelievingly. "Yumi likes you though, since you were flirting with her all throughout the tour."

"Heh.. heh... yeah........" There was silence for a time. Then they heard a scream. It seemed to be coming from the hall. They immediately ran out of the room.

"Sissy?" Ulrich was surprised. She had screamed, and she was laying on the floor, holding her head while covering her eyes. "What happened?" Ulrich asked.

"Ulrich... is that you? I can't... can't see...." That's when Ulrich and Slyzer noticed the glass pieces on the floor. The light on the ceiling above Sissy had crashed down.

"Sissy what happened?" Ulrich asked again.

"I don't know.. I was walking out of my room and all of a sudden there was this big flash... now I can't see!"

"I'll take you to the infirmary, Slyzer, go to Jeremy, ask if he's noticed anything strange.

"But.. he doesn't exactly..."

"Just go, trust me." Ulrich slouched off, carrying Sissy over his shoulder. Slyzer ran down the hall and turned, and ran down another. He was very fast for a kid his age. He came to Jeremy's room and gave the door a quick knock. Jeremy opened the door slowly.

"Oh, uh, hi Slyzer, why are you here?" Jeremy asked bluntly.

"Ulrich sent me. Sissy, I think that was her name, we found her on the floor. She says there was bright flash, and now she says she can't see. The light above her also crashed. Ulrich asked if you have noticed anything strange lately?"

"Um no... I'll do a..." He was going to say 'scan for any activated towers' but remembering that Aelita was mad, and that he was mad as well, about Slyzer knowing what a 'scan for any activated towers' was, and so he didn't finish his sentence. He said "No, nothing," and quickly closed the door.

"So you just found her outside your room?" The nurse asked.

"Yes-" Ulrich was cut off.

"And I can't see!" Sissy screamed. She was completely freaked out at this point. The nurse looked at her eyes with lights and such.

"Sissy, I don't know how to tell you this, but you appear to have gone blind, most likely because of the flash of light," the nurse said.

"WHAT? I'M BLIND???? NOOOOO!!!!! I'LL NEVER GET TO... I CAN'T... HOW LONG WILL I BE BLIND? FOREVER?"

"Sissy, you must calm down. You may not be blind for the rest of your life, but by the looks of things, at least several years. I'm sorry, this is most unfourtunate, and-"

"WAIT UNTIL MY FATHER HEARS ABOUT THIS!!" She was about to storm out when she remembered that she couldn't see. The nurse called for the headmaster, and Sissy's father came to pick her up from the infirmary.

"You may go now Ulrich," the nurse said. "It was good of you to bring her here." Ulrich left without saying anything. That is definitely not normal. Lights just don't flash like that, and if they did, they wouldn't be bright enough to blind someone!! Something is definitely wrong, I wonder if X.A.N.A.'s behind this... Just as Ulrich turned to head to his room, Slyzer came running up to him.

"Ulrich..." he was out of breath, "Jeremy says he hasn't noticed anything."

"Well did he do a scan for towers?"

"Uh, no, he didn't say anything about that..."

"Well I'll-" Ulrich was cut off by the second scream of the day. Actually it almost sounded like two sreams. Great. Slyzer thought. As soon as I get to this school half the students are gonna go blind. Boy am I lucky.... All of a sudden Yumi came running down from the same direction as Slyzer had been.

"What's going on, I heard something happened to Sissy?" She asked quickly.

"She's blind. Apparently the light by her flashed and broke, and it was so bright that she lost her vision."

"That's not normal."

"So do you think you-know-who has woken up?"

"Could be, did you check with Jeremy?"

"He hasn't scanned as far as we know. He knows nothing. You go warn Odd, we'll check this out," Ulrich said running in the direction of the screams. They came upon Milly and Tamiya, in the same position Sissy had been, clutching their heads. It had just occured to Ulrich and Slyzer that the flash must cause a very bad headache. Oddly enough, Milly and Tamiya were outside of Mrs. Hertz's room, and the light that was shattered was the same bulb that Ulrich and Slyzer had joked about earlier. The two boys quickly took the girls to the infirmary. The nurse warned the headmaster, and before anyone knew a thing, warnings were up to be careful about the flashes, and the electricity was cut.

Slyzer and Ulrich were running towards Jeremy's room when Jeremy, Yumi, and Odd came running out. Forgeting the anger towards Slyzer, Jeremy yelled, "It's X.A.N.A.!"

"That's what we were afraid of," Ulrich said. "So is he trying to make us all go blind?"

"Yes he is. By taking control of the school's electricity and infecting all the lights, he can brighten them as much as he wants, making us blind. The only bright side is, once a light is brightened that much, the bulb'll blow."

"Yeah we noticed," Ulrich said, remembering the broken glass.

"But the power's cut, so won't that stop things?" Slyzer asked.

"The only thing it's stopping is my contact with Lyoko. X.A.N.A. has his own power source apparently. We'll have to go to the factory."

"All of us?" Odd asked, raising an eyebrow and looking at Slyzer. Slyzer winced.

"I suppose," Jeremy said reluctantly.

"Guys, in case you hadn't noticed, Slyzer's a part of the group now, so get over it!" Yumi yelled. "You know him now, he won't tell anyone about Lyoko, so let's just be friends already and stop this before we all go blind!" That stopped Jeremy and Odd in their tracks for a moment. Jeremy made an indifferent grunt, and they walked off. "Ugh, those jerks.." Yumi said. They started to run towards the exit.

"Thankyou Yumi," Slyzer said. She winked.

"Anything for a friend." They kept running and entered the secret passage in the park. Down the ladder, into the sewer. The attacks were getting worse. Much of the school was blinded now. The higher risk was, if flashed too many times... permanent brain damage could be caused. Damage that couldn't be fixed by a trip to the past...