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My virtualization pod opened up. I pushed myself out of it quickly and started for the elevator. I rubbed my cheek and was surprised to find that it was damp. The elevator door closed just as Ulrich and Odd's virtualization pods opened up.

New tears started forming. I brushed at them impatiently and rode to the top floor, not even bothering to stop by to say something to Jeremy.

As soon as the elevator opened again, I ran outside and ran to the manhole. Without hesitation I jumped down it and landed in my customary crouch. Then I grabbed my skateboard and gave my self a running start.

As I rolled through the sewers, I heard someone else following me. Hurriedly I pushed harder to make myself go faster.

I was climbing up the ladder when my follower caught up with me.

"Yumi, you can't just leave."

I stopped halfway up and turned to face Ulrich. "I have to. I wouldn't ever be accepted."

"You don't know that until you actually talk to Jeremy."

I started climbing again. "Don't worry. I know."

When I climbed out, it was dusk and getting darker. I realized that we had been in the factory a long time. I sighed. Just as well, as it would be my last time.

I ran through the forest, leaping over small plants and obstacles I knew were there even in the dim light. Then I started for the building of dorms. I just wanted to be alone.

When I reached my room, I flung open the door wide once unlocked and flung myself onto my bed. I forced myself not to cry but I lay curled up in a ball.

Suddenly, I remembered WOOHP. I hated that organization very much. It was the cause of all of my pain, my sorrow. I looked across the room and saw my blue pack with the flower on it. I narrowed my eyes at it hatefully and grabbed it. Then I headed out the door again, intending to throw it in the nearest dumpster.

Ulrich was coming down the hall at the exact same moment. He saw me and opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly the floor underneath me opened up. I screamed as I started to fall in but then I was jerked up. Ulrich had grabbed my hand and was trying to pull me up.

"No, Ulrich, let go. Let go now!" I commanded.

He shook his head, determined.

"No, I'm serious! Let go!"

Suddenly a huge gust of sucking wind ripped me from him and carried me into the tunnel. To my horror and surprise, Ulrich had tumbled in also and was sliding along right beside me. The opening underneath me opened, as usual, and I dropped onto the pink couch. Ulrich dropped down on top of me a moment later.

"Ouch!"

"Sorry."

I straightened up and rubbed my head. "Jerry?"

"Who else? AH!" he said, astonished. "Who's that?" he pointed at Ulrich.

Great, just great.

"He's...uh...a friend. See Jer, you didn't WOOHP me at exactly the right time..."

"I'm her boyfriend trying to keep her from committing suicide." I gaped at him.

"I wasn't going to do that!"

He snorted. "Well it seemed like it."

I turned back to Jerry. "Please don't turn him into a vegetable."

Ulrich looked at me blankly. "I beg your pardon?"

Jerry shook his head sadly. "I'm afraid I might have to do just that." He snapped his fingers. Two strong looking agents came immediately into the office. Jerry pointed at a bewildered Ulrich. I scrambled up to stand in front of him.

"No, Jerry, no! You are not frying his brain!" I said angrily.

Jerry sighed. "Yumi, please be reasonable! You have a mission to go on."

"Well then where's my team?" I demanded.

Jerry slapped a hand to his forehead. "They're already on the case."

"Oh," I said dumbly. The two burly agents stepped forward. I regained my guard. "No! You turn him into a vegetable and you'll have to turn me into a vegetable." After a while I looked pleadingly at Jerry. "Please, can't we work something out?" I said in a small voice.

"Unfortunately that isn't possible," Jerry said. He snapped his fingers again and his agents started advancing. "Even if it means that you have to lose your memory as well, Yumi."

I stared at him with round eyes. "Jerry! What happened to you? Where's the Jerry I know and love? You know I'm one of your best agents! You know it! How can you afford to erase my memory? Say it! Say it! I'm your best agent!" The first agent had already reached down and picked me up with my arms pinned to my sides. I struggled futilely. "Get your hands off me, thickhead!"

"All right. I'll say it. You're my best agent."

I turned in shock. That wasn't Jerry's voice. It was...

"Xavier?"

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"You know, I think I'm going to be merciful and not turn you all into vegetables by zapping your memories. Now that you know who I am, I'll have to simply kill you. I would trap Yumi and Ulrich in Lyoko and shut down Lyoko but I thought that since you were so insistent, I would kill you along with you pesky spies."

Xavier had an evil grin on his face as he watched us struggle in our thick bonds. We were on a tiny little metal platform that was programmed to go up and down as the controller pleased. There was a little rectangular pool of water below us. I was at the very front with Alex to one side and Ulrich to another. Sam, Alex, Clover were all in their spy suits as they thought they were on a real mission.

"You are so not going to get away with this!" Sam screeched at Xavier. Xavier just sneered.

"Really. I suppose you'll try and stop me. Well, you'll have to stop yourself from drowning first. And by the way, if you really insist on knowing what's happened to Jerry, I'll tell you. I have him geared up to transfer all his knowledge of WOOHP to yours truly and when I have all of it, I'll dispose of him and use WOOHP to take over the world with my brothers in tow, of course."

"Brothers?" Clover asked contemptuously.

Suddenly, a blonde haired boy, a red haired boy, and a brown haired boy stepped through the sliding doors to the room we were being executed in. They all bore smug smiles on their faces. Ulrich and I gaped at them. "But your..."

They all sneered even more. "Yes, we fought you in Lyoko so now we know exactly how strong each of you are. It was just part of our plans to gather information. My brothers, Adam, Andrew, and Nathaniel are much more competent fighters than all of you put together, so don't get any ideas. And," he gazed directly at me, "consider our rematch won. The victor is me."

I snarled. "Yes, you win by cheating!"

Xavier looked around the room thoughtfully. "I wouldn't call it cheating, my dear. I would call it, using advantages to my advantage. Now, have fun swimming!" He pressed the button he had on his controller and laughed as he walked out of the room. His brothers followed in an orderly manner.

"Uh! What pests!" Clover screamed, futilely trying to release herself from her bonds as the platform started to descend. The bonds were a thick rope that bound all of us together and to the slender pole in the middle of the metal platform.

"What's Lyoko?" Alex asked me.

"Uh..." I glanced at Ulrich nervously. He shook his head. "I'll tell you later," I mended quickly. "Right now let's see if we can get out of this mess. Anyone have their gadgets?"

Sam, Alex, and Clover shook their heads as one. "We didn't have time to grab our packs and that creep in the Jerry mask didn't give us any new gadgets for our phony mission. We should have suspected something," Sam explained.

"Don't worry about it," I said quickly. "Alex, do me a favor and see if you can reach my pocket."

Alex strained in her bonds and shifted a bit. "I think I can."

I nodded. "Good. Reach in my pocket and see if you can find my laser lipstick. I might have stuck it in there cause I didn't have anywhere else to put it."

Ulrich raised an eyebrow. "Laser lipstick?"

I sighed. "Well, if we're spies, you don't expect us not to have gadgets do you?" He shrugged.

"I found it!" Alex exclaimed.

"Good. Now try and put it in my hand," I instructed. Alex complied and soon I was clutching the little tube tightly. I felt along it carefully and turned it so that I could direct it to the thick rope that was binding my hands. Then I switched it on. In a few seconds my hands were free. I bent to cut my feet free and the swung around to cut Ulrich's bonds. After his, I cut Alex's and passed her the laser lipstick. Then Ulrich and I jumped free from the platform that was steadily lowering itself down into the pool of water beneath it.

I ran over to grab my pack with all my gadgets in it as Alex, Sam, and Clover jumped away from the metal platform. The platform had just started going underwater.

"So, all this time, you were disappearing because you were a spy going on missions?" Ulrich asked incredulously.

I nodded wistfully. "So now you know. I told you I had a good reason." I looked at everyone and took a deep breath. "Let's go take down the dream team."