A/N: Okay I'm back. And now what happens next…

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The Lyoko gang spent all week looking for the culprit. But after 2 days of no results, Jeremie announced, "There's only 2 days until the weekend. Maybe we should go then." He turned to Ulrich to check if that was okay.

Ulrich nodded, still upset about their missing robots. So they waited.

The days seemed like forever. Finally the last bell rang and school was out for the weekend. After finishing their boring homework, Yumi, Odd, Ulrich, and Jeremie ran over to the factory through the sewers. This time, Jeremie took the stairs down. Yumi, Odd, and Ulrich leaped down by the ropes and entered the elevator.

His brow dripping with sweat, Jeremie sat down in front of the super computer. His hand paused over the mouse, it shaking like the rest of his body.

"Come on Jeremie! We don't have all day!" Ulrich called to the ceiling. He tapped his foot impatiently on the floor. "What's taking so long?"

Jeremie hesitated, and then started the virtualization process. Holding the microphone near his mouth, he said, "Get into the scanners." Even his voice shook.

This was the first time he was going to do something without Aelita. "Be brave," said the tiny voice in is head. Nodding, he repeated the most common used words in Code: Lyoko. Crossing his fingers, the intelligent teen pressed the final button, and hoped that his friends had not heard the worry in his voice.

"Jeremie! Jeremie! We're here! We're in Lyoko!" Jeremie opened his eyes and looked at the monitor. Sure enough, 3 green triangles were there, with the labels Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd. "I can't believe it!- I mean, of course you're there. What do you think I am, a 6-year old?"

Ulrich ran along the open landscape of the desert region. His heart and soul were free from the trap that had been sealing them in for so long.

"Be careful Ulrich, there might be some monsters hiding around," said Yumi. Her hand was positioned over her fan, as if she expected a monster to reveal itself anytime now.

"Stop being such a Johnny-rain-cloud! (National Treasure. That movie rocks! ;))"

"Hey! You're usually the oh-so-serious one when it has to do with Lyoko!"

"Yeah, but there are no problems now."

"No problems!" Yumi cried, her eyes wide open as if Ulrich had just said that he was getting married to Sissy. "So you consider Aelita dead not a problem! She's the only one who can stop the Xana attacks. How are we supposed to save the world without her?"

Ulrich stopped skipping around in big circles around them and glared at Yumi. "Maybe one of us can do it. We've never tried. That was the point of us coming here."

"Liar! The point of us coming here was to make you happy. And I don't want to waste my afternoon watching you skip around. Jeremie," she said, now talking directly to Jeremie, "Bring me home."

"But Yumi," protested Ulrich.

But Yumi had already vanished thanks to a new program Jeremie had recently installed. Because she hadn't been destroyed by the monsters, Yumi was fine when she walked out of the scanners to join Jeremie.

"Jeremie, make Yumi change her mind," pleaded Ulrich. "If you can't make her, than bring me home too."

But before Jeremie could reply, Yumi leaned over him and talked into the microphone. "He's not going to make me change my mind. You wanted to go to Lyoko, and there you are. Just go and play like 6-year olds now."

Yumi straightened up and walked quickly towards the elevator. Soon she was returning to the campus to gather up their stuff and then returned home.

Meanwhile in Lyoko, Odd hadn't been disturbed by Yumi's lecture. He glanced at Ulrich to check if he was okay too. But if he was, he didn't show any sign of it.

After a moment's silence, Ulrich said to Odd, "Wanna just run around, blow any monsters that we meet? We're here anyway."

Odd nodded, and they ran out towards the main land and whatever danger Xana was going to throw at them.

When Monday morning came, Ulrich found out that Yumi wasn't talking to him. No matter how many times he tried to get her talk, she wouldn't reply. It was like when he was 'going out' with Emily. He sulked at his loss.

Sissy however took this as an advantage. The moment she saw this, she stalked right up to Ulrich, leaving Herb and Nicholas behind. When they tried to follow by running, she stuck out her arm, causing them to crash into it and to fall in a heap in the shadow of a nearby tree.

"Hello Ulrich—"

"Dear, yes I already know."

Sissy ignored this and carried on with her 'perfect' plan. "Is Yumi being mean to you?"

"No."

"Then why won't she talk to you?"

'She didn't do anything wrong, I did,' thought Ulrich, but he didn't want Sissy to learn their secret and their fight. So he just pretended he was a conceited idiot while kinda telling the truth. "She's just being stubborn."

"Did she do something wrong but not admit it?"

Ulrich was surprised. He and Sissy were actually having a conversation. But that would change.

"Yeah."

"She did!" What?"

"She murdered Jim and doesn't listen to me when I tell her that it wasn't the right thing to do."

"She did! Omigod, I am so going to tell on her for this…"

Ulrich had to struggle to keep from bursting into laughter.

"I have to tell my father right away! Hey!" Sissy just realized that Jim was standing a couple meters away from her. "You liar!" she spat.

Ulrich doubled over with laughter, and Odd along with Jeremie joined him, for they had been eavesdropping on them. "Well," said Odd between fits of laughter, "that makes two girls that hate you now!"

Ulrich ignored the last remark and continued laughing his heart out. Everyone on the school ground could hear, and that meant Yumi too.

She turned to look at the trio from on the bench. Since Sissy's back was facing her, she couldn't see her angry expression on her face. But she could see that Sissy was leaning over with her hands on her knees, which looked like she was laughing too. She sighed sadly. Before the fight, it had been her, Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie who had been laughing together. Now Sissy was probably part of the group. She stood up and walked off to class right before Sissy started telling them off.

Through Sissy's angry speech, Ulrich saw Yumi walking off and stopped laughing. 'She looks so sad,' he thought unhappily. He slung his bag over his shoulder and walked off in the middle of Sissy's scolding.

Sissy and the others stopped whatever they were doing too and watched Ulrich walk off.

Ulrich could feel the eyes watching his every move, but he merely shifted the position of is backpack and moved on. Time to make things right.

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A/N: Yeah, didn't really get too far on this chapter. But the next few chapters are going to be exciting, I can guarantee that. But you have to review, or I'm not gonna update. Happy reviewing!- sorinslayer4eva