lostmoonchild: okay, thanks for the reviews! Since somebody saw Ulrich pointing a gun at Josh's head, I'm gonna actually go with an idea that I had a while back that I find kinda amusing except unfortunately, you all are gonna have to wait. Chapter Eight is now up, so read and hopefully enjoy. Oh yeah, I don't own Code: Lyoko or any of the songs unless I say otherwise. The people who aren't part of Code: Lyoko are mine so don't sue.

Chapter Eight

Three months had passed rather quickly and the battle with XANA was getting more and more nasty. XANA had managed to somehow create a blizzard that left everybody freezing cold but thanks to the return to the return to the past program, nobody remembered a thing and fortunately, it was already beginning to snow signalling the beginning of winter.

School was to be released for a couple weeks for Christmas vacation and a bunch of the students were heading home for Christmas. "My parents don't feel like travelling back to Japan for Christmas." Yumi said. "So I'm staying here."
"My parents are in China for a meeting." Ulrich said with a sigh.

"I'm stuck here." Odd answered. "Some problems came up at home and I'm supposed to stay here until everything's worked out."

"Somebody's got to stay here and work on the anti-virus." Jeremy said. "And incase XANA attacks, transfer everybody into Lyoko."

"Kaji?" Yumi questioned.

Morgan sighed and watched the snow falling outside. "I have to go back to Japan." Morgan said softly. "I promised my daughter that I'd be home for Christmas and I can't break that promise."
They looked at her and saw some sorrow in her eyes, almost as if she didn't want to leave. "Hey, two weeks will pass quickly." Odd said trying to cheer her up.

"Easy for you to say. You won't be giving concerts and having to switch from "normal teenager" to mother in a second's notice." Morgan said with a sigh. "It's hard, ya know?"

"What?" Jeremy asked looking confused.

"Living lies." Morgan answered starting to throw some clothes into her suitcase. "Its even harder when your life is seperated into hundreds of different lives and you have to jump from one life into the next, pretending that none of the other lives even exists."

"You get used to it." Odd said with a grin as he helped Morgan.

"Not for me. A life depends on me to survive."
"Amaya's inochi." Yumi said with a nod.

"Hai."

The three boys started laughing at the two Japanese girls and sobered up when Ulrich asked, "When are you leaving?"

"Tomorrow afternoon." Morgan answered calmly shivering slightly. "Then I'll be back a couple days before school starts."

"Alright. Don't try to get killed." Ulrich said.

"Hon, if I wanted to die I would have gotten pregnant." Morgan said laughing. "Then Jason would kill me."

"Yeah, literally." Yumi added with a grin.

The next day just as they were heading to the airport, there was a sudden earthquake that made buildings fall down. "Oh shit! XANA attack?" Morgan shouted when the taxi stopped suddenly.

"Tower activated in Lyoko so yes." Jeremy said as they got out of the taxi.

They stopped suddenly when a gap appeared in the road. "Uh, Kage, this would be a good time..."

"Alright, give me a sec." Yumi said putting her hands on the road.

They watched as a black bridge formed suddenly and Yumi shouted at them to get going. "An ice bridge would be more fun!" Morgan shouted as they ran across the shadow bridge.

"Damare, baka!" Yumi shouted running across the bridge as fast as she could.

"How'd you do that?" Ulrich shouted as they ran to the factory.

"Call it a gift from the Kamis!" Yumi said when they got into the elevator.

"Gift my ass. Curse more like it." Morgan said calmly.

"you guys can explain it later."

"We don't hurry up, there's gonna be nothing left to save." Odd said as the factory started shaking.

Morgan grinned and said, "Too bad all six ain't here. Then XANA would be killed."
"AMI!" Yumi shouted as they walked into their scanner.

A few minutes later they found themselves in the mountain region. "Okay, I expected ice this time since it's winter outside in the real world but... wait a minute! Okay, never mind. Thought the scanner got Yumi and me mixed up." Morgan said starting to laugh.

Odd rolled his eyes as Aelita came running towards them. "I've already located the tower except there's a couple trantualas guarding it." Aelita said.

"I"m in the mood for a song right about now." Morgan said with a sigh.

"Not now. Save it for vacation. You're going to need it."
"And I love you too so give me some sugar!" Morgan said starting to laugh. "Oh shit, hyper."

Yumi stepped back and said, "Jeremy, you might as well consider these monsters gone already because once Kaji is hyper, anybody and anything in her way is usually history."

"Hey!" Morgan shouted still laughing. "I'm not THAT bad."

"No, Damon and Thomas are just overexagerating and I was drunk as hell last time you got hyper and the training building just started on fire due to faulty wiring."

"EXACTLY!"

"Can we carry this conversation on later?" Ulrich asked as they charged at the trantualas.

"Wiring sucked." Morgan said before starting to run next to Odd.

"Hey, Jeremy, can we get vehicles here?" Odd shouted.

"They're on their way." Jeremy reported just as the vehicles appeared. "And there you guys go."

Yumi and Aelita jumped on the hoverwing (or whatever it is they ride) while everybody else jumped on their vehicles. Since Morgan didn't like riding alone -which by the way was surprising- she and Odd shared a vehicle and came up with a cool way of fighting XANA's monsters. One would control the hoverboard (AN i don't know what they're called so I'll give them my own names) while the other shot at XANA's monsters.

Within five minutes they were at the tower and the trantualas were destroyed. "Just me or is XANA getting more and more pathetic?" Yumi asked.

"Uh, guys, hate to tell you this but XANA just sent a ton of monsters after you all." Jeremy informed them.

"Okay, any ideas?" Yumi asked drawing her weapons.

"Yeah. We kick their asses." Ulrich said.

"Thought that virus of yours is supposed to do something." Odd shouted at Morgan.

Morgan grinned and said, "It is. Except we're gonna need a bit of a diversion..."

"Aelita, is something wrong?" Jeremy asked.

Aelita tried typing in the password and she said, "XANA's keeping me from entering the password!"

"Not good!" Jeremy shouted.

"What's not good!" Ulrich shouted.

"XANA's keeping Aelita from entering the password." Jeremy said.

Both Japanese girls looked at eachother before nodding. "Ready..." Yumi started as she and Morgan got ready to run.

"Get set..."

Before anybody could say anything, both girls shouted "GO" and took off running towards the monsters as fast as they could. "They're crazy!" Ulrich shouted chasing after the girls.

"This is insane!" Jeremy shouted. "There's only one, not two!"

"Hey, you guys, if we don't reappear on Earth just tell our families that we're home again!" Morgan shouted. "They'll know what you mean!"

"DON'T YOU TWO EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!" Jeremy shouted.

In the tower Aelita managed to type in CODE: LYOKO just as XANA stopped messing around with whatever program he was messing around with. Suddenly, they found themselves surrounded by light.

They were heading to the airport again just before XANA attacked the first time. "Oh my God..." Yumi whispered as they looked out the cab windows and saw injured people. "What in the hell?"

"Jeremy, did XANA mess with the return to the past program?" Odd asked looking shocked.

Jeremy opened his laptop and typed a few things. "Uh... yes?" Jeremy said after a couple minutes.

"Oh shit. Not good." Morgan whispered nestling against Odd.

When they got to the airport, they ran to where the plane was boarding. "Hey, don't be upset." Morgan said with a grin. "I'll be back before you guys even know it. Hell, maybe you guys will remember what quiet sounds like."

They started laughing and Ulrich said, "It's going to be a little weird not having you around to shut Odd up at night."

"Nah. He'll shut up. Won't you, Odd?" Morgan asked laughing as Odd wrapped his arms around her waist and spun around. "Odd Della Robbia! Put me down now!"

Odd gently kissed Morgan completely ignoring everybody and said, "That's for the ride."

"Flight 239 now boarding to Tokyo, Japan." An announcer said.

"That's my flight." Morgan said with a smile. "See you guys in two weeks."

Before she boarded the plane, she hugged every one of them as tight as she could. "Don't let XANA kill anybody. Especially you guys. If you guys die, I'm gonna be pissed." Morgan said with a joking smile as she boarded the plane.

They watched as the plane took off and sighed as they got back into the taxi before heading back to the school. "Don't worry, Odd. She's going to come back alive." Yumi said with a smile. "Jason might be an ass but he's a good ass... Especially when Kaji starts threatening to cry."

Odd smiled and said, "I'm not worried about Kaji. I'm only worried about what's going to happen now."

"I'll start working on the program." Jeremy said calmly taking out his laptop.

By the time he managed to get the program halfway fixed, XANA completely destroyed the return to the past program.

lostmoonchild: I know, somebody's probably saying, "How could she have XANA destroy the return to the past program!" and to be perfectly honest (assuming of course my memory is correct), you'll find out in the next chapter so patience, my favorite reviewers! Read and Review! Flames are accepted.