"Huh?" Kiks sighed, using her forearms to prop herself up on her bed. The room was dark and the shadows crept along gracefully. She turned herself so that she was horizontal in the bed rather than vertical, lying on her stomach, almost hanging over the side.

"I could have sworn…" A sudden sound stopped her, she turned her eyes to one side, surveying one side of the room. Without moving her head or body, she investigated the other side of the room. She saw nothing. Her forehead suddenly heated, her breath becoming rapid.

What's in here? She thought. Something's in here… maybe its what Sol tried to warn me about.

"Ahhhh!" She screamed, feeling something grab at her legs and pull her backwards. She flipped onto her back, pulling her head up to see a dark shadow pulling on her. She tried to break free to no avail. Letting her head hang back over the edge limply, she saw a gold bracelet on the floor.

I have to reach it! She told herself frantically, trying to reach her arm out to it., but coming up 4 inches short. She stretched and strained her arm in the dark after the shiny piece of metal. I can protect myself… I just have… to reach…

She flipped herself over once again, and as the monster pulled at her legs with one final jerk, she thrust her arms forward and grabbed the bracelet. Using her abs to pull herself into a sit, she grabbed a pillow and tried to hit her kidnapper, which felt nothing since the pillow went right through the dark form.

"What do you want with me!?" She yelled as it pulled her in the direction of a nearby wall. "You must be blind!! That's a wall! How are you going to kidnap me like that!?"

In answer to her question, the wall began to spark white light as the figure seemed to evaporate into an outlet, pulling her with it. Still halfway out of the wall, she clawed the floor with her hands and started to scream.

"Ahhh!" Kiks screamed, jolting up out of bed instinctively. She was breathing quickly and uncontrollably.

"What's wrong!?" Inquired the voice of Odd. She looked up at him, and patted her chest. Great… I'm still here… nothing weird… just a dream.

"I… I had a bad dream… that's all."

In a second, Odd was beside her.

"Where am I Odd?"

"In Jeremie's room… remember?"

"No."

"She fell asleep on the way here…remember?" Said Ulrich's voice sarcastically.

"Oh yeah…"

"Why am I in Jeremie's room?"

"Because Odd wanted to keep you as far from danger as possible, and as close to him as he could… so you're staying here tonight. And you get the dog to keep you company." He pointed down at Kiwi, who was lying on the bed next to her.

"We wanted to make sure that we could get to you quickly, if anything were to happen." Odd explained. "Its late, you should go back to sleep… I'm sure Jeremie wants us out of his room anyway."

"Sleep does sound very tempting." Jeremie commented.

Ulrich and Odd nodded. "We'll be in our room if you need us." Ulrich replied, as he walked out the door.

Odd bent over and gave Kiks a kiss on the forehead. "He means that…" he said.

A moment later, it was just Jeremie, Kiwi and Kiks in the room. Jeremie jumped into his bed and snuggled up to his pillow.

"I'm sure sleep is going to be very nice for you after denying so long, working on Aelita's program."

"Yeah. Sure is. By the way… thanks a lot for that. How'd you get it?"

She giggled to herself.

"Xana has been trying to figure out how to materialize himself for a long time… but as you know, even he makes mistakes. Basically, I just uploaded what progress you had gotten, and reviewed it along with his program. You had one half of it and he had the other."

"Smart.. Well… really… thanks, it's a dream come true."

She nodded and put her arms around Kiwi.

"You're kindof cute." She told it.

"Yeah, he's cute… he also sheds on everything and chews up slippers… trust me, I would know." Jeremie remarked, reaching over the edge of the bed and picking up a slipper with the toes chewed off, making Kiks giggle more.

"I like him… He reminds me of Odd." She put the blanket over her and the dog and laid her head on the pillow.

"Yep… He reminds me of Odd to… the both snore."

Kiks had already fallen asleep, so Jeremie turned the small lamp off.

Well, that half explains why Odd likes her. She likes to laugh, and he likes to make people laugh. Leave it to him to pick a girlfriend that he can always make smile.

The next morning, Kiks woke early, picked up the set of clothes Odd had gotten for her and snuck out of the room. Its early… but I have to go to Lyoko... I need to know what those monsters were that attacked me. She thought.

Tiptoeing along the corridor toward the boiler room, she peeked into Odd and Ulrich's room. Good. Both asleep. Odd isn't going to be very happy with me when he finds out that I'm gone.. I'll leave him a text on his phone... by the time he wakes up and see it, I'll already be at the factory.

She crossed through the boiler room, sprinting down the secret passage that eventually led her to the manhole on the bridge. Climbing up it, she looked around for any sign of a member of the group. She pulled out her cell and dialed Odd's number, typing in 'facnowrries'. I hope he can figure that out.

She walked silently in the factory, climbing into the elevator and hesitantly pushing the button. As the elevator rose, and eerie feeling settled on Kiks.

Why did I have that dream? Its been so long… She exited the elevator and headed over to the command chair in the lab.

Okay… I'll just have to program this to do an auto transfer. Can't be to hard, right? Slowly, she began to type in keystrokes, bringing up several different menus.

Alright. Reprogramming this setting should help. Memory, check. Maybe… I could change my program from here? A moment later a full screen had come up with different views of the cat form. Right. Now…Enable these weapons, they'll help out a lot in the future. Disable ability to turn to original form. There. No more evil Kiks. No more disappointed Odds. She patted herself on the back proudly. Now I'll just type in the transfer sequence, and set it to run in 3 minutes. Just long enough for me to get in the scanner. Pushing enter, she jumped out of the chair and ran to the elevator, which took her down to the scanner room. She looked down at her watch. 1 minute and 5 seconds to go. She though as she stepped into the scanner and closed her eyes. This has to work… come on, a person who could figure out materialization has to be able to make a simple program like this work. Please work. She looked back down at her watch. 25 Seconds. 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1… blast off. The light inside the scanner moved up the length of her body normally, but stuck about 3 inches above her head. Oh no. She thought closing her eyes. Oh no…

A second later, a cat like creature dropped from the Lyoko sky. Kiks looked down at herself. Phew.. I guess it did scan all of me. You're a lucky, lucky girl Kiks.

She looked around the computer world attentively. I have no idea what I'm looking for… but I've got a feeling that Xana might be it. She thought.

"SCAN." She said loudly, an unusual visor appearing in front of her eyes like sunglasses. "Useful. Glad I enabled them." She said to herself. On the inside of the visor appeared a computer screen, scanning the land and finally settling on a certain area of the artificial world. Aha… you want to turn that tower on do you? Be my guest and try, but by the time you get to it, you can expect a freezing virus. She began to sprint in the direction of the tower. She was now in the mountain region and was heading for the polar region. Its okay... this'll only take a minute.

Odd woke slowly at the sound of Jeremie's frantic voice.

"What do you want?!"

"ODD! YOUR GIRLFRIENDS GONE!"

"WHAT!?"

"She must have gotten up and left, it's the only explanation, and struggle would have woken me up."

Ulrich sat up in his bed, his eyes detecting the Odd's phone on the ground. He picked it up and looked at it.

"Well, here's your answer." He said, handing the phone to Odd.

"At factory, no worries?" He asked. "What would she be doing there?"

"Probably scanning Lyoko. My guess would be that she wants an explanation for the monsters." Jeremie remarked.

"Let's go then… we'll meet her there."

They headed out the door, running in the same direction as Kiks had earlier. A short time later the elevator doors opened to the lab.

"Where is she?" Odd asked.

"I don't know… she couldn't have gone to Lyoko on her own…"

He a seat in his chair, looking at the computer. "What?!"

"What is it?" Ulrich and Odd asked together.

"Look…" He replied, pointing to the computer screen, which was now showing a graphic map of Lyoko and a yellow triangle running along it.

"What's that?"

Jeremie clicked the triangle, a picture of Kiks came up immediately. "That would be your girlfriend…" He said in a half annoyed and disbelieving voice.

"How exactly could that be his girlfriend?" Ulrich asked.

Jeremie entered a keystroke, pulling up a separate screen with the commands that Kiks had entered.

"That's how. She entered a command for auto-transfer. Smart isn't she?" He answered, placing the microphone and earpiece on.

"What exactly are you doing Kiks?"

The yellow triangle came to an abrupt stop, and a moment later, the figure of Kiks walked onto the computer screen.

"Hehehe…" She giggled in a manner that proved she knew she was in trouble. "Overtime?"

"I'll have to watch out for you from now on… you're too smart. So what exactly are you looking for?"

"Looking for? No… what am I heading for…." She corrected. "Why don't you look at my form page?"

Jeremie did as she asked automatically noticing the changes. "Aren't you sneaky… how's that scanner working for you?"

"Well… look for yourself, I have to run." She said, continuing to sprint towards the polar region.

"Huh?" He remarked, looking at the screen she was seeing. "She's running for a tower… that Xana wants to activate?"

"WHAT?!" Ulrich and Odd asked, jumping up.

"She knows which tower Xana wants to activate, and she's running straight towards it."

Odd grabbed the earpiece from Jeremie. "What exactly do you plan to do once you reach it smarts?"

"Put a virus in it." She replied. "Oh… good morning by the way.."

"Errrggg…. You're in big trouble missy!"
"Ahhhh… you sound like my mom."

"I didn't notice." He handed the ear piece back to Jeremie. "Can you send me in too? To somewhere were I can join up with her?"
"Sure… I'll have to put you a little ahead though… she's not going to wait for you."

"Whatever." He retorted, hitting the elevator.

"So you're going to infect it with a virus?" Jeremie asked her.

"That's what my intentions are." She replied, breathing heavily as she ran.

"Transfer Odd. Scanner. Virtualization."

Kiks came to an immediate stop, sliding along on her cat like paws and boots. In the air about 10 feet in front of her was the virtualizing form of Odd who dropped to the ground.

"Yeah… I'm helping. Point blank."

"Okay… Fine. Lets go."

"Is that the tower?" Odd asked as the approached the large building.

"No Odd. This is a giant pencil." Kiks countered sarcastically.

"I meant, is this the right one?"

"Yeah. Come on." She replied, grabbing him by the arm and pulling him inside.

"So you can enter these things just like Aelita."

"It would certainly appear that way."

"You know, you don't have to treat me like I'm stupid."

"Then stop giving me rhetorical remarks and questions." She giggled, kissing him on the cheek and walking up the circular light runway.

"Stay here." She said as she floated to the top. Odd waited patiently as she moved the screens around. A moment later, she poked her head over the side, looking down on him.

"Odd. I need you to leave, don't worry about me, I promise nothing-bad will happen to me. I'll come back later, but I have to enter this computer. I might be able to stop Xana from activating towers from the inside out. You have to trust me though. Do you?" She asked. "Do you trust me?"

He looked up at her hesitantly, and finally letting out a sigh replied, "Yes. I trust you. Do what you have to and try to send us signals that you're alright… I'll be waiting for you." Blowing her a kiss, and being devirtualized.

"I love you Odd." She said quietly, turning back to the computer screens. Here goes nothing. She placed her hands on the screen, and prompted it to suck her in, just as she had been sucked into the power outlet so long ago.

Odd emerged in the lab, running quickly to Jeremie's side.

"Did she do it?"

"Yeah. Look." He replied, nodding at the screen. On it, the information for the tower Kiks had entered had appeared. Pointing directly to a small line in the Java, he motioned for Odd to look. Upon close observation, the words 'I love you' had appeared.

"That's so cute…" Ulrich commented, patting Odd on the back. "She used her love for her boyfriend to infect the super computers next target. She's a genius."

"What do you mean, infected?"

"She changed the code Odd. That produces a virus and reprogramming is going to be necessary before Xana can use it." Jeremie explained.

"Don't take it personally Einstein, but its not going to be hard for Xana to find that."

"Maybe not that… but she appears to be using it as a decoy. Considering that there are… 578 other single letter changes scattered through the code."

Odd jumped up and down. "MY GIRLS A GENIUS!"

The elevator doors opened again, revealing Yumi and Aelita.

"Why are you all here?"

"We followed Kiks. She came here without us…. And went into Lyoko on her own."

"ON HER OWN?" Yumi asked in astonishment.

The three boys nodded.

"I should have told you ahead of time that she would be able to. I'm sorry." Aelita said quietly and apologetically.

"Don't worry about it Aelita, you don't have to apologize for anything. She's helping out, she planted a virus in the computer. In order for Xana to activate a tower, he has to find all of her changes in programming. They're all on his turf, they don't hurt us at all." Jeremie reassured her, getting up and walking over to her, putting his arms around her in a gentle hug.

"Hehehe.." Odd chuckled, looking at the computer screen. "You go Kiks… screw him all up!" He had taken on the form of a cheerleader, jumping up and down each time a new symbol appeared… Blushing every now and then when she placed more decoys.

"What are you turning red for?" Yumi asked as she approached the computer. Odd stepped in front of it quickly, blocking her view.

"Nothing…Nothing at all.."

"Kiks is putting little I love you's to Odd all over the program."

"That's adorable!" Yumi replied, Odd turning even brighter.

"I personally think she has some guts to put it out there like that… I know I wouldn't." Ulrich remarked.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Yumi asked.

"It means that I would keep things to myself. Writing I love you where the entire world can see… its kindof embarrassing."

"You mean that if you love someone, you get embarrassed if anyone knows?"

"Yeah… it private."

"That's sick Ulrich."

"What?!"

"If you really loved someone you wouldn't be embarrassed by it… and you wouldn't hesitate to let people know. But I'm glad to know how you feel.." She turned to Jeremie. "Can I go to Lyoko?"

"Why?"

"I just want to check things out. Without Aelita in there, its impossible to know if something weird is going on."

Jeremie walked back over and picked up the headset. "Kiks… Is it possible for you to tell what is happening in Lyoko." The encoding stopped for a moment, then a new message appeared.

'No. Can't C Anythng outside, Sry'

"Okay… Guess you were right Yumi. Go ahead to the scanners."

A moment later, the familiar commands were being initiated. "Transfer Yumi. Scanner, Virtualization."

Appearing in Lyoko, Yumi dropped to the ground.

Errrggg. I can't believe him… 'im embarrassed to let anyone know that I like you Yumi, let alone love you… oh no… I cant do that..' As if it would kill him.

She ran along the paths to release her anger. WHAT!?! She thought as the path fell open in front of her, she tried to slow to a stop and grab at the ledge, to no avail.

"HEEEELLLLPPPP!" She cried pointlessly, falling into the open space at an accelerating speed.

"OH NO!" Jeremie cried. "YUMI! She just fell off the ledge! She's not on my scanners anymore! KIKS! FIND YU— what?" He looked in astonishment at the screen. All encoding had ceased an there were no messages from the brown haired super cat.

"YUMI!"

"KIKS!"

"AHHHHHHHH!!!" Jeremie screamed after a moment.