Lord Maximus: I don't own Code Lyoko.

Lost

Aelita entered as Odd fought to hold off Xana's monsters. He jumped at the hornets and they blasted him.

Yumi and Ulrich struggled to escape the alien that was possessed by Xana. Sissy looked at the helpless. The grip on them tightened, as the alien held them up.

Aelita flew to the upper platform.

"Jeremy, if I happen to choose the wrong tower it will be all over you know that." said Aelita,

"I have faith in you, Aelita." said Jeremy.

The alien had enough torturing and decided it was time to finish them off. Yumi and Ulrich felt the grip tightening and soon were unable to breath. Ulrich looked over at Yumi and saw how scared she was. With his last bit of strength he reached for her.

Yumi saw his hand and reached too. They grabbed each others hands and held tightly.

Aelita placed her hand on the screen.

AELITA

CODE LYOKO

They no longer felt pain, they just felt cold. Their vision started to darken, and no longer could breath. Soon their hands dropped and they went limb in the alien's grasp. It tossed them away and a black mist oozed out of it.

Sissy looked at the dead bodies. She could do nothing to stop the scream that came out of her mouth.

"Jeremy, I'm sorry. I chose the wrong tower." said Aelita.

Jeremy's head dropped and looked at the screen as tears formed in his eyes.

"You mean Ulrich and Yumi are. . ." stuttered Odd.

Jeremy looked at him; tears were coming out of his eyes. Odd fell to the ground on his knees.

"No. NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" shouted Odd.

Tears poured out of his eyes.

Aelita sat down as tears came out. She felt them, which was strange because she was in a virtual world. She did not try to stop them from pouring out. She had lost two close friends of hers.

Odd sobbed. This was not supposed to happen. They were supposed to stop Xana. But now Xana had robbed of him his best friends.

"How could this have happened? How could Xana win? He wasn't supposed to win? Why did Ulrich and Yumi have to die?"

These thought rang through out Odd's mind.

Jeremy looked at Odd.

"I should have done something. I knew what Xana was doing and I let him kill Ulrich and Yumi. How could I? They were one of the only friends I ever had.

In Lyoko Aelita saw Jeremy and Odd as they sobbed. They had lost thier friends because of her. She chose the wrong tower and Xana got his way. Somewhere she could hear Xana laughing at his victory.

His evil laughter echoed in her head. Soon she felt his presence in the tower.

"Thank you for your valiant effort in trying to stop me. Unfortunately it was all for nothing."

"You took away my friends, Xana." said Aelita in a cold tone.

"You brought them into this. This battle was far bigger than they could possibly imagine."

"They wanted to help. To help stop you." said Aelita.

"You are just denying it. You only recruited them to stop me. You knew that they would risk their lives for you. And because of that you have lost two of them."

"No. That's not true." said Aelita.

"Don't try to fool me. I know you better than anyone. Even you're precious Jeremy."

"You leave him out of this, Xana. If you hurt him you will regret it." said Aelita.

"You will try to stop me, alone? Aelita you recruited the humans when you could not face my monsters alone. You knew that they could fight so you could deactivate my tower."

"I'll do whatever it takes to stop you. You have taken two of only friends from me." said Aelita.

"And who's fault is that? Are you not the one who entered the wrong tower?"

Aelita stood and looked down. No matter how mich she denied it; Xana was right. She picked the wrong tower.

A few days later Ulrich and Yumi were buried. Yumi and Ulrich's parents stood thier with tears in their eyes. Jeremy and Odd toled Sissy why the alien came to life and she promised not to tell for Ulrich's sake. She knew he would not want her to tell the authorities.

If they found out Xana would be unplugged and Aelita would go with him. They vowed that Xana would pay for what he did.