Author's Note: I do not own any part of Code: Lyoko, the show characters, or anything else. The only things within that I claim as my own are the created characters Aurora & Spire Xion, Treg Zorl, Axel Blade, and Armoru.

Heaven Not Too Far

Treg's eyes move slightly, but just enough for Tamiya to notice. She grabs his right hand, and begins talking softly. "Come on Treg, snap out of it." With her words, his head turns to her and he smiles.
"What'd I miss?" he asks. Milly comes over and gives him a big hug.
"You've been out since early this morning." she explains.
"No, I mean about Aurora. She was here earlier." Milly and Tamiya look at eachother.
"Noone else was here. Just us and the nurse." Tamiya says.
"But, I could've sworn I saw Aurora for just a second and also Jim. And Spire." Treg sits up, a small red jewel falls out of his pocket. Milly picks it up and hands it to Treg. "What's this?" he closely examins the jewel and recognizes it. He does not know how he recognizes it, but he does. "Hey, Tamiya?"
"Yea Treg?" the black girl asks.
"Can you find Jeremy, Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, and Aurora? I think they'll want to see this." Tamiya nods and goes off to Ulrich & Odd's room.

After explaining to Ulrich what happened to Treg, Tamiya leaves him to find Jeremy. Ulrich calls Yumi as he knocks on Aurora's door. "It's open. Just don't make too much noise." Ulrich hears Odd's muffled voice. Ulrich opens the door, to Odd shaking Aurora's shoulder in an effort to wake her. "Don't look at me. She wanted me to sleep in here with her." Finally he gets Aurora awake. "Hey girl. Have a nice nap?" Odd asks jokingly.
"Yes." Aurora nods.
"Sorry to bother you two lovebirds, but Treg wants to talk with us. Yumi? You need to get up here and to the infermary ASAP." Ulrich closes the door as he leaves Odd and Aurora alone. Aurora crawls out of her bed and pulls on her clothes from last night. Taking Odd's hand, the two of them and Ulrich head towards the infermary, meeting Jeremy on the way and finding Yumi already there.

"Heya, Milly, Tamiya? Can I talk with them alone for a while?" the two young girls nod and leave Treg alone with the older kids. "I know that you five dissapear all the time. And, for some reason, I think THIS has something to do with it." Treg holds out the red jewel that had fallen out of his pocket. "This was in my pocket earlier. And the shape of the thing looks familiar." Aurora takes the jewel and closely examines it.
"HIM." is all she says and passes the thing around.
"Something this small, caused the two comas?" Jeremy asks.
"Two?" Treg looks puzzled, then he remembers. "Oh!"
"Spire!" Aurora gasps and runs from the infermary to her brother's room.
"Wait! Aurora!" Odd runs after her.
"So, Treg. What makes you think that you've seen this thing before?" Ulrich asks, sitting on the end of the younger boy's bed.
"I saw it when Tamiya woke me. As if I had been seeing it for several months." Treg answers.
"Sorry to say, but you used to work for the thing that this stands for." Yumi says.
"Huh?" Jeremy's voice drops low, so that Milly and Tamiya wouldn't be able to hear him.
"Before you came here, you worked for a Super-Computer named XANA. He had you construct this shadow-world within Lyoko. Do you remember anything about Lyoko?" Treg nods.
"A little. It's a virtual world with four regions. It's housed in the nearby Factory."
"Ok, so there's not much you remember. XANA had you working for him for a while, and he created these things called Omega Scanners, which YOU left in our possession after you destroyed XANA's Shadow Region. You activated something you called the 'Treg Protocol' when you destroyed the Shadow Region."
"That's what I call all my programs. I'll need to see the effect it's created to know which one it was." Treg says. Jeremy looks to the others, and they each nod.

Aurora kicks in her brother's door in, finding him in the exact same spot as last time. "No! Spire!" she falls to his side. Odd lays his hand on Aurora's shoulder in an effort to comfort her. "What happened?" she asks. Odd says nothing and rummages through Spire's pockets. He pulls out a small jewel. An exact copy as the one in Treg's posession.
"Empty your pockets." Aurora does, and in doing so reveals a third jewel. "XANA's targeted all of us. First Treg, then Spire, and you." Odd calls Jeremy. "Hey, you, Ulrich, and Yumi need to search your pockets from last night. Have Ulrich search mine while he's at it." he tells Jeremy and hangs up. "C'mon." Odd takes one of Spire's arms and Aurora takes the other. Between the two they managed to drag Spire to the infermary. Once there, Treg looks over at the three.
"This XANA thing?" he asks and Odd nods. "We need to get to the Factory. We'll bring him with us..." Treg stands from the bed and walks to take Spire from Aurora. Just then, Odd's cell rings.
"All of them? That makes seven." Odd thinks for a moment. "You don't think XANA might've put those things in Milly or Tamiya's, do you?" he asks Treg, whose eyes grow wide.

The six meet in the Factory, laying Spire on the floor in the super-calculator room. "Does this thing record?" Treg asks, and Jeremy shakes his head. "Maybe this doesn't, but I wonder..." Treg lets the sentance trail off and beckons for Odd and Aurora to follow him. They enter the elevator and Treg hits a few buttons. "Bingo." the doors open and the trio look upon the dust covered Private Computer of Astra Xion. "This thing should record." Treg punches a few buttons, kicking up dust from the keyboard. He watches the screen as a replay occurs from when the older Treg destroyes the Shadow Region. "I think I know now. Let's go back to the others." Treg leads the way back up to the Super-computer room. He paces around, gathering his thoughts. Aurora sits at Spire's side, Odd next to her. "Alright, here's what happened. When I activated this last 'Treg Protocol', here's what it did: Removed the Omega Scanners from the Private Computer to the normal Scanner room, shattered the Shadow Region & put markings from that Region in the other four, clouded my memory of the events involvnig XANA & the memories of me from the teachers at Cadic from when I graduated, and finally it created a new character for me."
"Very interesting, so. Do you know how to use the Omega Scanners to cure Aelita?" Jeremy asks, his voice filled with hope.
"Yes. But it requires a sacrifice of one person's greatest secret." Treg nods.
"Ok, so we'll tell everyone about XANA and Lyoko, right?" Treg blocks the frantic Jeremy from running to the elevator.
"You misunderstand. How I made thr program was that a secret kept by ONE PERSON, and ONE PERSON ONLY must give it up."
"Armoru." Aurora says.
"What?" Everyone turns to look at her.
"My Guardian. Armoru. He is my greatest secret." Aurora says.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?" a voice roars from the corners of the room.
"Armoru..." Aurora starts.
"You stupid human CHILD!" a black-winged man rushes from the darkest corner, charging straight at Aurora. Odd pulls her back and the man slams into the far wall.
"Is that...?" Odd asks Aurora, who nods.
"Armoru!" Treg throws a pipe at him. Armoru growls and lunges for Treg, putting both in the elevator. Treg hits the button and the door closes, taking them down to the Scanners. "Jeremy! Send us to Lyoko!" Treg pushes Armrou into one of the Omega Scanners and slams it shut.
"Why?" Jeremy's voice comes over the speakers.
"Do it! I can handle him there!" Treg jumps into the other Omega Scanner and they are both taken to Lyoko's Polar Region.