This time, Alexandra continued her trek across the cafeteria and sat next to me. "Well, that was quite an exhilarating experience, eh? And to think, here I am like one hour earlier and nothing seems to have changed. IS that what it's all about? You defeat this computer thing called, what was it, Aelita?"

"Er, Aelita's on our side. XANA's the enemy. We fight XANA." Jeremy said in what seemed to be an annoyed tone of voice.

"Ok, yeah, we fight XANA, own his butt, and we come out on the other side before any of it even happened!"

"Sshhh!" Ulrich, Yumi, and I all hissed in her direction. She turned around to see Sissy standing right behind her.

"Hey, Alex…what are you doing hanging around these misfits? Well, whatever you do, don't bring them into MY room. Anyways, me and my dad just wanted to give you a little school rule packet so we make sure you don't do anything…troublesome…anytime soon. Well, I'll see you tonight." With that, Sissy walked away. I wanted to scream at her for calling us misfits and saying me and my dad instead of my dad and I. Really, it was the first time any thought like that had come in to my mind, but I was happy to see it appear, as I was working on getting smart like Einstein across from me.

We walked back to our separate dorms and I chatted with Ulrich for a while, we played some games of basketball, then a bit of Tennis but we got really tired and Ulrich didn't feel very well so we went back in at about 8 and he went to bed. I read for awhile, then dozed off myself

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I woke up early that morning to see Ulrich lying wide awake. I could see his eyes twitching, his face sweating, but the fan was on and he wasn't even under the blanket. Now I'm not much of a med student, but I do know that it's not a good thing when someone's sweating on a cold spring morning.

"Ulrich, you feeling all right? You look pretty warm." When I didn't get an answer from him I ran up to him and smacked him across the face. "Ulrich! Ulrich, wake up, talk to me!" I remember crying over that, nearly having a heart attack. Some of the people from dorms around ours heard me, and they went to go get some help from the infirmary. Meanwhile, I got a cup and ran to the bathroom to get some cold water.

"This better work…" I stated to myself as I poured it all over Ulrich's face. He twitched, but didn't open his eyes. "Look, Ulrich, just wake up! Wake up!" Normally him sleeping through my yells wouldn't alert me much, except he had gone to sleep without his earplugs, he went to bed at EIGHT, and he fell over in the middle of tennis. Also, from the pale solemn look on his face, he wasn't in the best of shape.

Finally, the nurse arrived and said that I should leave the room, so I went to Jeremy's room and woke him up, and told him to wake up Yumi and meet me at my dorm. In the meantime, I ran to Sissy and Alex's dorm room and knocked.

"Who is it?" The most uninviting voice of Sissy's called to me as I stood there with my pajama shorts on and no shirt. I kind of forgot about the whole 'no shirt' thing, but an emergency is an emergency.

"I don't think you really care, but I would ask Alex to join me outside, if you don't mind," Cool voice, check, cold sarcasm, check, suave hair…not check. Bed hair is a no no. Well, whatever.

"Well, I don't think she wants to talk to the likes—"

"Hang on, Odd, I'll be right out. And Sissy, I think I can decide for myself whom I see or do not see," Says the mysterious voice of the only other person in the room. She opened the door and stuck her head out. "What is yawn Er, What is it, Odd?" She managed to yawn out to me.

"I don't know, but I think Ulrich is really sick. You gotta come, I already gathered Yumi and Jeremy. Come on!"

"Hold yer' pants on, dude, I need to at least put some clothes on!" As soon as she was done with this difficult and horrendous task, we rushed over to my dorm room only to find it empty. The only thing there was the unconscious body of the nurse who had earlier come to help Ulrich. The window was smashed wide open and a baseball bat sat next to it with bits of glass around it.

"What happened, guys? Where'd Ulrich go! What happened to him!" I practically screamed at Yumi and Jeremy. Yumi just stared at me, and even though I knew the answer, Jeremy finished my thoughts.

"We heard a scream, so we hurried over. When we got here, it was already like this. No Ulrich, and one unconscious nurse." Jeremy's answer was quick and astute, but the look on his face said he was worried, too.

"Look…there's…we have to…we have to find him. Who knows what could happen to him? He could get sick, or robbed…or worse," I said the last part wearily, as I knew Yumi would start to cry, too. I'll admit it to myself; I had a hard time holding back the tears, too.

"Do you think it could have been XANA? You never know what he could be up to, right?" Alex stated what everyone was thinking. She was just the only one of us who could think straight. After all, she had only known Ulrich for a day. "I mean, I know he struck only yesterday, but still…there always a chance. We should take precaution for the next few days. Just to make sure XANA doesn't catch us, too. If we get attacked, then who will be left to save Ulrich, or even the whole world, from XANA's grasp?"

We all spent shifts that day taking turns skipping class and researching these types of symptoms and whether or not any disease carried them all. I felt like Greg House from his TV show, House™. Nothing came up about any type of disease like this, though. However, 3 days after Ulrich's disappearance, Yumi never came to school. We heard on the radio about two unconscious parents and a broken down door out about a half mile from the school, about an hour later. The address matched. What could we do about it, though? However, over the next few days, it was happening everywhere. From people we knew, too; Millie, Sissy, Jim. Although no one knew exactly WHERE Jim lived, he never showed up to school. It was a huge crisis, and this time, XANA was serious. The entire French population had been infected.

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"Alright Jeremy, load us up. Did you manage to download any type of weapon for Alex?" We had decided to go to Lyoko. We needed to get this over and done with, especially before we ran out of Lyoko-capable people, or, of course, Jeremy's.

"Don't worry, Odd, it's taken care of. Alright, now! (insert what he says about loading them in here; I haven't seen the show in over a year cuz they don't have it anymore, I don't remember it!) Virtualization!" Coming from Jeremy, f course, this was nothing special. But I heard a noise way in the background, probably amplified by our long range PA system running from the computer room to the pods. I paid no mind, however, as I entered the digital world of Lyoko for what could be the last time….

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Whoa, suspense? What's this? Well, anyways it seems we're drawing to a bit of a tad conclusion like thing here. Not a whole lot of the original love triangle I had in mind, I suppose I shouldn't have gone so quickly through those three days from Ulrich disappearing to Yumi's disappearance. Well, too bad. I'm starting to think this story is a flop, less than ten reviews on the 5th chapter, as my other one had about 25 by this time. Come on people, if you like the story than review! Boost my confidence! Tell me to update faster! If I have no reason to, I won't, so if you want it, you have to ask. That goes for Kadesh's chapter also, as people tend to write better and faster with motivation.

REVIEW OR BE EATEN BY THE HOLLOWS OF MY ARMY! PS I just recently got hooked on Bleach. It pwns you sorta, kinda, definitely.