Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Code Lyoko. O.o

a/n: Hoooooowdy! Ya'll miss me while I was off in the wild blue yonder writing this chappie? (whipps out a bloody life preserver) MISS ME GOD DAMN IT...ejoy!

Ulrich's POV:

No, they can't be here! Not now! I thought as I starred in horror at the monsters that were running rampid through the gymnasium. What Josiane and I saw was pure terror. Crabs, Blocks, Creepers, Terantulas, and the worst of all, the Scithesoa. There were kids being picked up and thrown across the room by the giant octopuss looking creature. I saw that Odd, Aelita, Jeremie, and Yumi were battling it out with a Block. It had just blasted a bright red laser at Yumi, which she had dodged.

"Hey block-head! Take this!" Odd yelled as he took a baseball bat and shoved it into the XANA mark on the giant cube.

It blew up into a thousand pieces immidiatly after it stumbled around. I threw my arms around Josian's small figure and pulled her down just as a gigantic piece flew past, just where we had been standing a moment before. After the blast I stood up carefully and looked around. The battle was still raging on, and still no one had acknowledged either of our presences.

I turned to look at Josiane and said, "Okay listen to me carefully, I don't have time to explain everything, but I can tell you that you are in danger and you need to either stick close to me or hide!"

"But-" she began with a startled and confused look on her face.

"You have to do this! XANA wants to use you for this plan of his, and it doesn't sound good. Just so you can know XANA is an evil person, and won't even think twice about killing someone that is getting in his way. And...you mean too much to me. I don't want to loose you." I said starring into her eyes. Hey, they're different colors. One is an icy blue color and one is a greyish green. I turned and picked up a pipe that had just recently been blown from the wall.

"I think that you'll be needing this pipe. Wanna trade?" someone said behind me. I turned and saw that it was Josiane who was standing there with a smirk on her face. She held an even bigger pipe than the one I was holding.

I returned the smile againand handed over my pipe. Then I got serious, I charged at the first creature that I saw and plunged my "weapon" into it's mechanised flesh. It blew up as soon as I jumped away from it.

A Few Minutes Later:

Odd, Josiane, Aelita, Jeremie, Yumi and I were down to the last three monsters. Two Terantulas and one Mega Tank, the Scithesoa had retreated into a corner and floated there waiting for...something. Everyone had their focus on the Mega Tank, but that left the two others shooting red lasers at us. My strength was slowly fading, but I battled on. Josiane had turned her attention to one of the shooting menaces, and right after she ran towards it the Scithesoa floated across the floor. Unnoticed by anyone.

Josiane was dodging and making swipes at the Terantula with all the muster she could spare without completely draining herself. Then all of a sudden she was caught off guard by a shot that was sent by the second Terantula. And as she flew back the Mega Tank blew up as Yumi threw a pointed piece of wall at it, and the Scithesoa shot out it's tentacles catching her in mid-air. She hadn't passed out yet and when the tentacles brought her to face the creature she was writhing about trying to break away.

But the creature was too strong. It reached out two more tentacles on either side of her head, and instead of turning red when they rested and began its process, they turned a sparking blue white color. And that's because it wasn't trying to suck out any memmories. Woosh! Another piece of concrete flew up and sliced through one of the tentacles. But, sadly it had no effect. To my horror and everyone elses it was just replaced by another, and again flarred a sparking blue.

Then a jolt of something burst through the tips and into Josiane. Her eyes grew wide, and then she fell limp in the grasp of the monster that was holding her.

"NO YOU DON'T!" I yelled sending my pipe spiraling towards the creatures receeding back. It struck true, but it made no matter, the Scithesoa just sped up faster and pulled it out.

Immediatly everyone jumped into action, they scrambled over the debris and bits of all of their slain foes, until they reached the hole in the wall that the kidnapper had drifted out of.

Norm. POV:

Ulrich was in the lead, and when they reached the factory he waited impatiently for both the elevator and his friends to reach him. As soon as his team reached him the elevator had risen up to where he stood waiting. They all crowded in and the decended into the depths, towards danger. When it was forced to a stop everyone jumped out ready to fight, but everything was completely calm. The computer was humming peacefully and nothing seemed to be damaged.

Jeremie got out with Aelita (a/n: They figured that they didn't want her to be in danger too.) and Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi went down again to the scanner room. They were again ready for any kind of surprise ambush, but yet again everything was strangely calm.

"It looks like he actually wants us to go to LYOKO." Yumi said gazing around suspiciously.

"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not going to keep him waiting." Odd said jumping into the scanner.

Ulrich knodded and took out his cell phone to tell Jeremie to send them to LYOKO, "Hey, yea we're here."

"Alright, Ulrich I'm searching for any traces of Josiane anywhere in LYOKO. Hold on for a sec." Jeremie said typing away.

Then Ulrich heard Aelita cry out, "There! There she is...but Jeremie...where is that?"

"Ulrich it looks like you'll be going to a different sector, one that we have never been to before. It's sector X."

"Thanks Jer."

"Wait, Ulrich, don't do anything stupid okay?"

"Sure thing." Ulrich said and clicked the phone off. "Ok everyone seems like we're going to someplace new so stay close together."

Yumi and Odd knodded as the doors to the three scanners closed with a hiss. "Transfer Ulrich, transfer Odd, transfer Yumi. Scanner Ulrich, scaner Yumi. Virtualization."

They materialized into the new sector and saw that it was beautiful, and horrific all at the same momment in the space time continum. The space only consisted of maybe three football fields, and it looked to be the saddest piece of earth that you have ever seen. Everything was a dead grey color, and there was, at the very opposite end of the vast space was a large cliff that hung over the edge. It was flat at the top, but Ulrich did notice that there was a stone plaq that had to be the circumference of at leased two grown men.

Wonder what that is for? Ulrich asked himself, and tried to look harder butit was too faraway.

Then his and his two companions attentions wereforced notupon anything on the dead land, butwhat the land wassupposedly floatingon. There were clouds, dark clouds,moving in the dull light of the full moon that was radiating it's pearly white light across the expance of the sceanery. It looked like the clouds were traveling ata fast pace because they were swirling around and around the island at break neck speed. It wasn't a storm, but it was a peaceful fierceness.

The stars were shinning brightly than any of them had ever seen before. And if you wanted to you could find every single constellation. But their thoughts were broken as they heard a terrible voice run across them and out over every inch of the floating island.

"Ha ha ha ha ha! So they come! To rescue the prize of a lifetime. He he he. You humor me children, you really just tickle me bright pink." XANA roared.

"Where are you! Bastard, show yourself!" Ulrich called out in fury.

"Do you really wish to see me little one? I told you before that you should have stayed out of the way, AND NOT INTERFERE!" the ground shook as the last statement was screamed out of fury as well.

"You heard him XANA! Get your mega-bited ass out here and show yourself!" Odd called out from the ground, after having fell over from the minor quake.

"Very well then insignificant one. Here I am." All three of them looked around wildly, and saw no one.

"Where in the hell are you coward?" Yumi yelled.

"On the cliff."

They whipped around and saw, in the distance, a faint pinprick of a person standing in their range of vision. Ulrich suddenly bolted forwards and was soon followed by the other two.

"I wouldn't do that children if I were you. You might get a boo boo."

As Ulrich took another step on the ground it began to fall away from his feet. He sprang up and flipped backwards towards the other two. When he flipped he saw that the chunks of land had dissapeared into the thick clouds that were just below. Holy mother of god! That was a little too close.

"You okay Ulrich?" Yumi asked concerned. She reached out a hand and placed it gently on his shoulder.

He shrugged it off uncerimoniously and replied in a cold voice, "I'm fine."

"Now, now Ulrich. No need for that. But, I have a propposition for you."

"Oh yeah! What's that?"

"If you agree to get rid of your friends, I will bring you up to the cliff. And from there we can have a nice little fight between the two of us. What do you say Ulrich? You can have her back."

"Ulrich don't. It's not worth it!" Jeremie's voice rang out just as XANA's was doing.

"I'm sorry, but, what else can we do?"

Ulrich whipped around and begand sending blow after blow into his friends. He knew that Jeremie wouldn't re-materialize them, so he would just ave to do it himself. He sent the final cut into Odd, and as he was dissapearing he could have sworn he heard him say, "Good luck buddy, get her back!"

"I will..." Ulrich whispered as Odd had fully disapeared.

"Good boy Ulrich! I didn't think you would agree so quickly. So, now, a promise is a promise." and as he said this Ulrich felt a force lift him up and carry himself over the landscape towards the cliff.

a/n: Do you still love me for taking so long? I wanted to get this chapter up fast I really did, but I went into a writers block and couldn't think for a while. Anyways, please r&r and I will be a happy girl! O.o