Well, here is chapter 6, the final chapter of this all-too-short story. I would like to thank takes a deep breath ...oh forget it. Too many people reviewed to thank them all. So...thank you all of you! Thanks especially go to those of you who reviewed the first chapter and told me to keep going. If it weren't for you, this would be a oneshot!

So, here you go. The finale. This chapter contains some events from The Key. If you haven't seen it, well...you should still be able to follow the story, but it'll be harder. I'm sure you'll love this chapter, since it's a whole 2000+ words, twice as long as my normal chapter length! (but about equal to the first chapter)

Chapter 6 - An Awesome Day
Aelita POV

Jeremie came up to me after class and pulled me away from the rest of the group. His face was bright red.

"Um…Aelita…will you…uh…" He stutters.

I decide to finish for him. "…go to the dance with you? Of course!"

He lets out the breath he had been holding in relief. "Okay. Thanks!"

He grabs my hand, blushing even more. I'm sure that I was as red-faced as he was. We walked over to the others, who grinned. Odd sighed.

"Finally! I've been waiting for that almost as long as I had been waiting for Ulrich and Yumi! I'm glad that you two finally got together."

Odd POV

Ally ran up to me after class. I looked at her, then smiled and leaned in for a quick kiss.

I broke away and she smiled. "Even though that was great, that's not why I came. I want to show you something."

I shrugged. "Okay."

She led me off to her dorm. She took me inside and rummaged through the stuff all over her desk.

"Aha!" She pulled out a notebook and gave it to me.

"I wanted to show you this. Just read it."

I shrugged again and opened to the first page. There, I found lyrics to a song.

"Wow! These are really good! Say…do you play guitar?" She smiled and pointed to a corner of her room. There was an electric guitar case.

Perfect. "Would you mind being in our band? You could be one of the guitarists! Maybe we'll even play some of these songs!"

Ally POV

I looked at my watch and saw that it was time to go to the dance. Aelita and I were at Yumi's house, and we had all gotten ready there. The doorbell rang.

"I'll get it!" I walked slowly down the stairs so I wouldn't trip and opened the door. Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie were standing there. Odd's eyes widened.

Odd POV

Wow…Ally looks really beautiful tonight! She's wearing a red strapless dress. Her black hair is down for once, and goes almost down to her waist. She's just…wow…

Jeremie POV

Aelita was next. I laughed at how stupid Odd looked as he was staring at Ally. I turned back to the stairs and saw Aelita walk down.

Wow. She's wearing a pink spaghetti-strapped dress that has this…sparkly sheen.

Ulrich POV

I saw Jeremie laugh at Odd before he saw Aelita. Now he has the exact same expression on his face. I would laugh, but I'll probably be the same when Yumi comes down.

I looked back up at the stairs and saw her. She had a black spaghetti-strapped dress on. She looked…wow…

Well, we left the house and headed to the dance. Aelita was going to DJ part of it, and the PRP, with our newest member Ally, would also be performing.

Jim let us in, after yet another reiteration of the rules, and we had the time of our lives!

Jeremie POV

The last song ended. Aelita and I walked off the dance floor. I smiled as an idea occurred to me.

"Aelita, you know what would make this the perfect night?"

She looked at me, with a slightly scared look, then nodded slowly. "Let's finish this once and for all."

We met up with the others outside. Odd walked Ally back to her room, then we met in mine.

"Okay, how about we finish this once and for all. Let's find the fragment and shut down XANA and Lyoko once and for all."

The others nodded. Odd smiled. "It's time for our final mission."

Ally POV

I couldn't sleep, so I walked over to Odd's dorm. He wasn't there, so I went to Jeremie's. I was about to knock, when I heard somebody mention something called Lyoko. I shrugged when I heard movement inside. I knocked on the door, and Jeremie opened it.

"Hey guys, I can't sleep. Wanna hang out for a little?"

Odd rubbed the back of his neck and sighed. "We would, but we can't. I'm sorry, but we have to…uh…go somewhere. I wish you could come too, but you can't."

I sighed and was about to argue, when I decided to go about it a different way.

"Fine. See you later or tomorrow."

Odd smiled. "Yes! Sunday!" He looked at me, shrugged, and ran off.

I walked back towards my dorm. I saw them go outside and doubled back. I snuck through the doors. I had to find out what they were doing.

They never saw me as they headed into the park. They stopped in a clearing and looked around. They missed me, and Jeremie crouched down and fiddled with a manhole.

A manhole? He opened it and climbed down. The others followed.

Okay, now I really had to know what was going on. I followed far behind them.

When I landed lightly on the ground, I saw them skateboard off. There were no extras, so I ran after them. They stopped and climbed up a ladder. As soon as the last one was up, I jumped out from behind the corner and followed.

I looked up to see them running towards a factory. I decided to finally confront them. They jumped off a platform inside the factory and swung down to the floor on cables. I followed, and they heard me and turned around.

Jeremie took one look at me and sighed. "Why me…"

"Okay, what are you guys doing? You're always disappearing for hours on end! What is going on? What is this place?"

Jeremie's face was in his hands as he kept muttering darkly.

Odd POV

Well, this was an interesting development. I sighed. "Fine. We'll tell you, just because we're almost done. Follow me."

I led them into the elevator and hit the down button. The doors closed, and we went down to the control level.

The doors opened and Ally looked around. "Wow…what is this place?" She walked over to the computer console and looked at it, then looked at the holographic map.

Jeremie POV

"Okay, you guys know what to do. I'll virtualize you near the transporter. Just get to the switch, and the path to the fragment will be opened, okay?"

Odd smiled. "Let's go! Ally, you stay here with Jeremie."

I nodded. "Yes. I'll do my best to explain what is going on after they're in Carthage."

She shrugged and went to look at the computer as I virtualized everybody.

Everything was going fine, but then everything went to hell in less than a minute when they were about to reach the fragment. Odd and Yumi were devirtualized. The room started collapsing. Aelita got to the fragment, but it was a fake. A falling block hit Ulrich, devirtualizing him as well.

Then, of course, the Schyphozoa came.

Ally POV

Well…this is weird…Aelita is in some kind of danger, Jeremie is practically pulling his hair out, and the others look sad.

"What's happening?"

Jeremie stopped crying for a moment. "There is a monster stealing Aelita's memory. If it does, she'll die."

Well, that problem had an obvious solution. "Well, okay, then I'll go help!"

Jeremie stared at me for a moment, then banged his head against the keyboard. "Stupid stupid stupid me…" He recovered, then looked at Odd. "Okay, you brief her as you go down to the scanners. I'll start the process. I think I might be able to virtualize her next to the Schyphozoa."

Whatever that means…

Odd hit a button in the elevator, and we left the lab.

"Okay. When you get to Lyoko, you will fall from five or ten feet in the air. Try to land on your feet. You'll have a weapon. As soon as you see this big tentacle monster thing, find your weapon and attack it. There is a really small symbol that you can hit, but you should just slice off a few of the tentacles first, then attack it to make it go away."

I nodded, trying to take it all in. It sounded weird, but they were definitely not pretending. Aelita was really in trouble.

"Okay, just step into this cylinder." I looked up at it and gulped. I'm not great with confined spaces. No, I'm not claustrophobic, or at least not much. I just get uncomfortable. But if Aelita's in trouble…

I stepped into the thing and it closed. I took a few deep breaths, then I floated up into the air. There was a rush of air and a flash of light, and all sense of touch went away.

I opened my eyes to see a huge blue room with blocks littering the ground. I fell and landed on a platform. I looked up and saw the monster holding Aelita with its tentacles. I looked down at myself and saw that I looked like some sort of elf. Actually I looked exactly like an elf.I was wearing a green sorta-dress-thing...I don't know what to call it! I had a bow in my hands and a quiver full of arrows on my back.

Immediately, I shook my head to clear it and grabbed an arrow from the quiver. I looked at the monster, sighted along the shaft of the arrow, and fired straight at one of the tentacles.

The moment the arrow left my bow, it lit up! A streak of light pierced straight through four of the monster's tentacles. It dropped Aelita. I ran up to it and pulled out five arrows and fired all of them at the symbol at once. All of them hit, and the monster shuddered, then slowly floated away. It was about to reach a doorway when it exploded!

I ran over to Aelita and knelt down. Her eyes were closed. "Aelita! Are you okay?"

No answer. Oh no...her memory wasn't completely gone...but... I knelt down and grabbed her wrist...

Good. There was a pulse.I backed up a couple steps when there was a sudden flash of light. Aelita's body was encased in an orb of light and floated up into the air. She opened her eyes.

Suddenly I heard somebody who sounded like Jeremie shout something, and, moments later, I was back in the cylinder. The door opened and I walked out. I felt really tired, but I saw Aelita being held up by Jeremie, who was smiling, and that made me feel better.

Jeremie POV

Yes! I ran a scan on Aelita just before I devirtualized her, and I saw something great!

Not only did Hopper heal her when she was inches from death, but he also gave her back the fragment!

Aelita looked happy and sad all at the same time. A moment later, I knew why.

"My father…he saved me…twice now…and I don't even know if he's still alive!"

I patted her on the shoulder. Suddenly, I heard a scanner warming up. I turned around, as did the others. We stared at the scanner and watched as it opened. We saw an old man tumble out and end up sitting on the floor, leaning against the scanner.

No…way…

"Um…Franz Hopper?"

The man looked up at me. "Jeremie…nice to…nice to see you in person…at last…"

Aelita POV

My father explained everything. He had been imprisoned by XANA, but had managed to work out a way to take control of towers. His power grew, and soon he rivaled XANA. He was able to control XANA's monsters and deactivate his towers.

Finally, during XANA's last try to steal my memory, he was so distracted that Dad was able to escape. He devirtualized himself, and now he's here…

There's only one thing left to do…

Ally POV

"Would you like to do the honors?" Jeremie looked at Aelita. We were in a huge room with a giant supercomputer-thingy in the middle.

She shook her head. "No…you can do it…"

He looked up at the computer. He kept looking…and looking…and looking…

Finally, I threw up my hands. "Fine! I'll do it!" I walked up to the switch and put my hand on it. "You've pissed me off a lot, attacking Aelita like that and trying to steal her memory! She was my first friend here. So…ha!" I pulled the lever and watched as the bright golden lights on it went dark.

For some reason, everybody turned to look at Aelita, who slowly smiled. Her smile grew into a grin, and soon she was laughing. Everybody else, including me, joined in.

Jeremie POV

Aelita spun around, then pulled me into a hug. "Thank you Jeremie! I can't believe we finally did it! I love you! I––oh…"

She pulled away and looked at me. She loves me? Really?

Today just keeps getting better. I pulled her back into a hug. "I love you too…"

Our lips met in a wonderful kiss…

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Well, that's it! You like? Anyway, this story is now officially done! Please review!

One more thing, for those of you who read Code : Changes, the sequel will be up either today or about a week from now. Spending a week in NYC, can't bring my laptop :-(

So, please tell me what you think of this chapter. Yes, I know that for some of you this wasn't enough Lyoko. Just deal with it, okay? And no, I am not planning to do a sequel. If I change my mind, I refuse to work on it until I am very far along