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Heh, I feel like an idiot. In Routine and Ghost Channel and Frontier, they confessed. Crap. I forgot! Oops. To those of you who asked in Hidden from the Light, yes my seventh-grade teacher did call us idiot children. However, she meant it in the nicest way possible.

Chapter 10: Ready

Odd woke up to the shrill sounds of a cell phone ringing. "Who in their right minds calls at 6:00 AM?!?" Fianna groaned in annoyance. She picked it up and began to talk.

"You must be insane to be calling me at 6 AM."

"Nice greeting."

"Oh, hi Jeremie."

"Is Odd there?"

"Yeah. What's the purpose of waking me up at 6? If it's not good, I swear I will come and kill you."

"X.A.N.A. is ready to kill us. Literally."

"Then why didn't you say so?!? We're coming!" She hung up and turned to Odd. "X.A.N.A. is ready to fight us." She swooped down, grabbed her clothes, and entered the closet to change.

Odd walked to the window. A soft blue-grey covered the sky, but in the horizon, he saw light bands of green, yellow, orange, and pink, which faded into lavender and lilacs. Turning to the east, he saw furious oranges and yellows far away. He smiled, knowing that the sun was rising. 'Like the rising and falling stars that we are," Odd thought. Realizing what he had done, he shook his head. 'Philosophy must be getting to me.'

Fianna walked back out. "Your turn, Odd... Whoa, wait, are you doing philosophy again?" she asked in disbelief. As he nodded, she shrieked and fled from the room.

"What? I'm not that weird!" he called after her. She didn't reply. He shrugged and began to change.

Fianna raced down the hallway, searching for Odd and Ulrich's room. She found it and knocked extremely fast. She was let in by Jeremie, and she saw Yumi leaning against the wall, Ulrich feeding Kiwi and Aelita sprawled on Odd's bed. "What happened?" asked Jeremie, looking at her terrified expression.

"It's Odd. He...he..." Fianna panted.

"What happened to Odd?!?" Ulrich worried.

"He's doing...philosophy again!" Fianna wailed. "What happened to him?"

"Oh, good lord." Aelita sighed.

"Oh, and he needs his hair gel. It looks like a girl's."

"Well, let's all go and bring it to him." Ulrich snickered.

"Why are you so amused, Ulrich?" Yumi asked with narrowed eyes.

"Nothing!" he said with wide, innocent eyes.

The five walked leisurely back to Fianna's dorm with Odd's hair gel. Usually people would notice. But since it was 6 AM, no sane person was awake. Ulrich walked into the dorm to see Odd ready and changed with his hair flat on his head. The others stood in the doorway and openly gawked.

"What?"

"It's just your hair is flat," Aelita said, stunned, effectively voicing almost everyone's opinion.

Ulrich gave Odd his hair gel, which he proceeded to use to shape his hair into its normal spike. "So, it's time for Lyoko? Fianna ran out before she could tell me anything." This said person blushed from embarrassment.

Yumi took pity on her and took charge. "Yeah, and it's worse. We're dueling with X.A.N.A., and last time, he had 1000 lifepoints. This time will be worse. I'm sure," she said.

"Er, that would be a problem. But I can maybe give you more lifepoints," Jeremie mused, thoughtfully. "Hey Aelita, can you help me?"

"Sure," she replied, and the two took off.

"Huh. I wonder what they are going to do," Fianna wondered.

Odd smirked. "What do you think? They are probably in his dorm making out."


Odd was wrong. Jeremie and Aelita were viewing the programs on changing lifepoints in the factory. It seemed impossible. Aelita also had her sword reminscent of Ulrich's own changed into a thin rowan staff with a glowing blue crystal on the tip.

Jeremie called Ulrich on his cell. "Get ready, guys. We're going to rock!"

Ulrich replied, "Riiiiight. Okay, we'll meet you at the factory."

Jeremie smiled. "Right. Get moving, huh? We're already here."

"Oh. Alright, we're coming," Ulrich muttered, a bit astonished. He hung up. "Hey Odd. You were wrong; they weren't making out."

Odd looked taken aback. "Oh."

"So what did Jeremie want?" Yumi asked, the ever practical one.

"Oh, we better go to the factory. Jeremie and Aelita are there. We need to go, now."

Fianna sighed. "Well, I hope when we get there, they aren't snogging or anything."

"What?" Odd and Ulrich had dumb looks on their faces. Yumi giggled.

"Nevermind. You don't need to know," she brushed it off. "Let's go."

They crept to the manhole, climbed down the ladder, hopped on their skateboards, and rode far into the gross smell of the sewers. In five minutes, the four leapt off and clambered to the surface level for some fresh air. They sprinted to the ropes and swung down. No tricks due to the little room and time. They rode down to the scanners where Aelita was waiting for them. The five each stepped into their own scanner, revolving slowly on the spot. The golden doors closed, leaving them in their own completely sealed capsules.

"You're going to the forest region. X.A.N.A.'s waiting. Good luck, guys. Transfer Aelita. Transfer Fianna. Transfer Odd. Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Yumi," Jeremie intoned.

White circles of light began encircle the walls of the scanner. "Scanner Aelita. Scanner Fianna. Scanner Odd. Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Yumi. Virtualization." He completed the old, well-known phrase. With that, they felt their particles fly away, reforming in Lyoko with the familiar rush of adrenaline. Their data made a real person and let them drop on the Lyoko forest ground. There was just one problem: "Where's X.A.N.A.?"

Whew! It's over!!! Yay! I am taking a small break from this; don't be worried about no updates for a while. You know, I just realized Fianna's power doesn't make sense. Uh, let it be able to read memory as well for the monsters and all. Review!