A/N: New chapter! This one's a two part deal. X.A.N.A. attacks and Yumi and Odd have to fight him. I hope it goes well. Don't forget to R&R! Thanks.

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At the Factory---

When we got to the factory and we entered the elevator and went down. Jeremy got off on the 1st basement floor. Yumi and I got off on the 2nd.

"So, what's he up to this time Einstein?" I asked stepping into my scanner.

"Don't know. I'm going to call Ulrich and tell him to be on guard." Jeremy replied over the PA. "Scanner Odd. Scanner Yumi. Transfer Odd. Transfer Yumi. Virtualization!"

Once we were virtualized I saw that we are in the desert region of Lyoko. Aelita ran up behind us and greeted us with the normal "Hey, guys." and we did the same.

"Where's Ulrich?" she asked.

"He's sick today." I replied but then I realized that she had no knowledge of sickness or disease in Lyoko.

"What is 'sick', Odd?" She curiously asked.

"Think of it like this, Aelita," Jeremy said, "If Ulrich was a computer then you could say he has a computer virus."

"Oh, okay. Well, I hope it's not as bad as I'm thinking it is. A computer virus can be deadly for me." A worried Aelita stated. I was starting to get annoyed.

"It's not that deadly; don't worry." Jeremy said. Yumi gave a concerned look at Aelita. 'I better do something or Yumi will be so worried about Ulrich that she won't be able to concentrate.' I thought.

"Okay, enough about Ulrich let's just go and deactivate the tower, already." I cut Jeremy off from saying another sentence and walked in the direction of the tower.

After about three seconds I decided to run and was shortly joined by the sounds of a trailing Yumi and Aelita. The tower was surrounded by rocks and there aren't any of X.A.N.A.s' robots in sight. There is also a lot of medium to large sized boulders on both sides of the tower.

"Be careful guys. I'm seeing about 10 of X.A.N.A.s' fighters right in front of you. Let's see...four hornets, three mega tanks and three crabs." Jeremy announced.

I stopped dead in my tracks and watched Yumi run ahead of me. 'Didn't she hear what Jeremy just said?' I thought as she rushed carelessly towards the tower beside Aelita. As they were about half way to the tower a mega tank rolled out from its hiding place and fired a fully charged laser blast at Yumi and Aelita, hitting both. My entire body was frozen I couldn't move! I felt so frustrated seeing my friends get the crap beat out of them and there's nothing I can do! As they recovered from the tank four hornets flew in from the right and started hammering at them. Then a second mega tank revealed itself and devirtualized Yumi and Aelita fell off the edge.

Meanwhile Ulrich's and Odd's dorm---

I lay on my bed thinking of the group. 'I hope that they're okay. Without me they're shorthanded.' Then my cell phone rang. I remembered that I set it on the floor by my bed when I came back form the nurses' office. Fumbling around over my pants I found it.

"Hello?" I said and heard Jeremy's voice on the other end.

"Ulrich, it's me. Hey, I just virtualized Yumi and Odd but I still have no clue as to what X.A.N.A. is up to so be on guard." Jeremy said.

"Alright. I'll be careful. Thanks." I hung up the phone and went to the window. It hurt to stand up and walk but somehow I managed to make to the wall. 'Anything suspicious?' I thought scanning the park, 'Nope. Nothing out of the ordinary.' Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.

"Hello? Ulrich, dear, are you there?" 'For the love of God, NOOOOOO!!! Doesn't she get it that I don't like her and never will?' I clenched my hands into a fist. The knob turned and the door opened. 'Apparently, Odd forgot to lock the door on his way out. Thanks a lot, Odd.'

"Ulrich!" A startled Sissy yipped, "I thought the nurse told you to be in bed." 'Maybe if I play tough she'll leave.'

"Yeah, so? Ya going to do something about it?" I replied angrily and coughed, "It hurts to talk so I'll just say this: leave." I looked out the window again hoping to find something out of the ordinary but didn't. Then, I felt a warm hand on my left shoulder. 'Why can't she just take a hint?!'

"Your friends aren't here so you can let your TRUE emotions for me out." She said.

"Well, okay then, I don't like you one bit. I never want to see you again. You are the most annoying person I know and last but not least," I replied and turned my face toward her, "get out of my room!" I kneeled down on the floor coughing trying to ketch my breath.

"I know you don't mean that, Ulrich, dear," she responded. 'Oh but I do.' I thought as she grabbed my arm helping me up. I pulled it away from her and looked outside the window when something long and metallic caught the corner of my eye as it gleamed in the sunlight. I was then pulled the opposite direction to face Sissy. 'Wait a minute, 'I thought, 'There is no way that X.A.N.A. could do that.' Without thinking, I threw my arms around Sissy and tackled her to the ground.