Chapter 5: Clues
As Jeremy and I entered the main control room, right above the scanner room where Yumi, Odd and Ulrich were loading the doubles of themselves into the scanners, I suddenly felt as if this wasn't right. Why were we putting these… things… into Lyoko? I supposed there was nowhere else to put them.
Jeremy pressed a bunch of keys to set up the scanner. But the way he was pressing each key… it wasn't the same way he does other times. He always seems to press every same key every time the same way, but it was slightly different this time.
"I'm scanning them in now." He declared. "Put the fake Yumi, Odd, and Ulrich in first. Then the fake Jeremy."
His voice seemed to have almost no emotion. It was so strange. They were all acting this way.
"Done." He said, as he got up from his chair. We left in the elevator, Jeremy and I, as I saw the hologram projector switch off in the middle of the control room.
"That wasn't that bad, was it Aelita?" Jeremy soothed.
For one split second I clearly saw XANA's eye in Jeremy's pupil.
"Jeremy-"
I stopped myself. I knew I imagined it. Jeremy had been in Lyoko, and was immune.
Right?
Ulrich, Jeremy, Odd and I went to the next class. It was exactly 2:00. Just in time.
During the whole class they were acting even stranger than before. Their eye's looked glazed over. But no one in the whole class besides them was acting strange.
Now I was starting to get suspicious.
The class went as usual, except for my friends. They all answered everything the teacher asked about the same they normally do. But it was how they answered that was strange. I just couldn't put my finger on it. I guess it's what you would call intuition.
I was starting to think of different possibilities for why it was happening. But the possible cause that stood out the most was by far that is was a XANA attack. But what I couldn't figure out. I had to go to the factory.
After class I did just that. I went upstairs to ask Jeremy, Yumi or someone to come with me, but I decided not to. They seemed to be too weird, and to eager to get rid of those fake bodies in the scanner.
I stopped in mid thought. The fake bodies. I had a crazy idea. And it frightened me how much it made sense.