Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own Code: Lyoko, but I have owned Angel for the past 3-½ years.

Chapter 5: Captured

"So, let me get this straight. You're really an alien princess with surreal powers that were taken away, but then you found them, only to lose them again and have them traced back to

here to a boarding school in the French countryside." Ulrich questioned Angel about her severely twisted story. All Angel did was nod. "But, because you have enemies that could

recapture your powers, you couldn't come here with everyone knowing about that, so you used one of your past quests on a suburban Californian ranch as an alibi. That way, you

wouldn't be lying, but no one would have to know without you telling anyone. Is that it?" Ulrich could barely talk anymore from trying to put things together and talking at the same time.

"Yup."

Once again the commanding school bell rang.

Time passes. The teacher, Mrs. Hertz, still continued the lesson from yesterday, but she kept looking at the clock, and resetting her watch till the sun could run by it. Finally, after that

dreadful class, Odd came over to Angel. He looked like he had something urgent to say. All Angel did was meekly look down at her book. Odd shyly started to starrt a conversation,

tripping over his words. "Hey Angel? I was wondering if you knew where XANA was? I mean, I know you know he's here, but do you know know where he is exactley, Because I know

and I would be happy to show you and..."

Angel didn't seem to be listening to him, just staring down at her book. However, she could hear him, and right in the middle of a sentence, she interrupted Odd.

"Are you having a hard time talking or something, because I already know where this conversation is going. Your not sure if I know how or where to find XANA, and you are willing to

take me through the secret sewer passage in the park that leads to the factory on the ferry shaped island in the middle of the river where the super-calculator, the only connection from a

branch of my world to yours is stationed that you and your friends use via the scanners to get to Lyoko. Is that it?"

"Uh, yeah. Thats exactly what I was thinking, I think. How did you do that?"

"Oh, you mean the whole reading your thoughts thing? It's called telepathy, which means I can read your thoughts, and talk to other people that way. It comes in handy for conversations

like this. I can use my powers to immitate any other power." Angel started to get up.

"And I couldn't think of any other way to spend my time."

Odd was stunned by her answer. "Okay, so when should we go?"

"Well, We could go after school or tomorrow, it's Sunday tomorrow, or we could go now if we fly, or.."

"Wait a minute, back up. Did you just say 'fly'? Okay, let's go now!" Obviously Odd was elated to fly

Later on...

"So, this is the factory? Seems, unsucspecting."

"Yeah. So, where do we go first? There's the super-calculator, the scanners, the CPU-thingy, and the Main attraction, the XANA metal monster itself."

"I think XANA will be, interesting." The truth was, she only wanted to see XANA first to prove to herself there was nothing to be afraid of.

As Angel, what everyone called her now, anticipated the descend down towards the metal collumn that these humans thought XANA was in, she sensed a hypnotic field by the time they

got to the negative room. In fact, while Odd was yammering on about how they first found this place, Angel was uninterested in the empyy glowing shell, but the pulsing beat she felt fall in

sync with her own power core.

Blindly she swayed over to the wall, where she felt the pulse beating faster with every step.

"Hey, Angel? The evil Machine is over there. Angel? Angel, can you hear me? I ..."

Odd realized where she was, and his breath became short when Angel began to walk into the wall. He inched his way over to Angel, and just lightly nudged her to try to get her attention.

That touch broke her out of the deep trance

"It's...it's... there! The true XANA form! I can sense it Odd!"

"What are you talking about? XANA is on the other side of the room!"

"No, that is just what enables XANA to escape into the real world! the side of XANA that has my power is behind here. I can feel the core alinging with mine, it's trying to talk to me!

Odd, I have to go in there."

"What? how do know expect to get over there?"

"Like this!" and with that, she pulled Odd through the wall.

"Okay I thought the flying was cool, but that was awesome! And you do this stuff all the time Angel? Uh Angel...woah."

Odd realized the red formless blob floating in the middle of the room.

"Is that really it?" Odd could barelu stammer out the words. Now even he could feel the raw, negative energy.

"Yes, that is the XANA I am after. Somewhere in that evil ink stain is my lost power."

Out of no where, A ghastly voise echoed, but in what Odd Presumed was Starelinean. Although it was an alien language, somehow Odd could comprehend it.

"Princess AngelBolt, I presume? And who is this, one of your little servants?"

"Very humerous, this is my friend, Odd, and he's with the ones who have stopped you from ever getting anynore power!"

"Yeah, and we're going to stop you just like before!" Odd boldly shouted, much of a surprize to himself as it was to anyone else.

"He speaks? The Stareli must have reactivated whatever power he had."

Somehow, Odd just spoke Starelinean!

"No matter, your the one I really want, Princess!" The red blotch reache out and grabbed Angel! She gave out one single scream, before she was yanked into the evil red stain. Before

Odd could do anything, the blob stretched out again and pushed him through the wall.

As soon as he realized what happened, he raced off to alert his friends about what he saw.

After several minutes...

"Really, so thats how it works? I always thought..."

Suddenly Odd collapsed at Jeremie's door.

"Odd? what happened?"

"No time to explain! We have to get to the factory! Angel is trapped inside XANA!"

"Jeremie! something strange is happening here!"

Aelita had popped up onto the monitor. there are strong pulsations all over Lyoko, causing me to fall down, and they all are leading to the center where everything meets! There are bright

lightning storms all over too."

"Okay Aelita! we're on our way!"

Odd quietlly murmured to himself, "None of thiswould have happened if I hadn't Brought Angel There, Because of my blindness to danger, Angel and Aelita are both in serious trouble.

But now, mabey I can make it up to themm By saving them. Yeah, that's it! I'm going to save Angel! I only hope it's not too late."

The french school system has school on Saturdays, but not on Sundays. But they do not have school in the middle of the day or for the second half of Wednesdays.