Odd and Ulrich arrived in Jeremie's room he was talking to Aelita on his computer whilst trying to fix the super scan program. The program had stopped working suddenly and no-one really knew why or how. Aelita was on lyoko (very much to the dislike of Jeremie) because of the broken scan program. She was there in-case of a XANA attack.
"I think I have it this time Aelita" Jeremie said excitedly "oh and hi guys come in"
He typed the new ideas in a stream of code into the computer followed by a now very familiar sound and a red exclamation mark appearing on the screen.
"Damn not again!" he shouted making all the other occupants of the room jump "That should have worked"
"Is everything alright Jeremie? I herd you shout" Aelita said with worry in her voice appearing on the screen
"It's alright Aelita" Jeremie reassured her causing her to smile sweetly at him "I was just working on the super scan so you can come back here with me… I mean us" he corrected himself but still earned glances from both odd and Ulrich.
"Well where did you start to learn to sweet-talk Einstein?" Odd said "Because you're not that good at it. I could show you some real lines if you want?"
"You're on to talk Odd who got stood up today hmmm" laughed Ulrich
"I guess she just realised that I'm far too perfect for anyone" laughed Odd "Anyway why don't you let me have a little look at that super scan thingy. I got materialisation before you did so I might be able to do this"
"Odd I don't think letting you on my computer is a good idea" Jeremie said with a little worry in his voice "I don't have backups of any of this
"Yeah I figured the day you let me play with lyoko is the day XANA sends us a Christmas card yeah" joked Odd
Just then there was a knock at the door "its Yumi can I come in?" called Yumi. Jeremie got up and let her in surprised by the slightly worried faces of his friends at her arrival.
"So here you are" Yumi said mischievously to Ulrich and Odd
"Erm hi Yumi" Ulrich said worriedly back "no hard feelings about earlier?"
Yumi didn't answer instead she proceeded to get both Ulrich and Odd in a head lock but before she could force an apology out of them she was shocked by a loud shout from Jeremie
"At last the super scan works!" Jeremie shouted in excitement "You can come back now if you want Aelita"
"Really that's great Jeremie thank you ill see you soon. I have found some new information about the antivirus and I want to take a look" she said happily.
"Ok but if you see any sign of XANA go hide and I'll send some help for you" Jeremie said a very serious tone in his voice
"Ok" Aelita replied leaving the screen
That night…
"I checked out the data Jeremie I really think this could be it but we need to look at it a bit more" Aelita said excitedly appearing on Jeremie's screen
"Great we'll go and get the information tomorrow!" Jeremie said even more excitedly "you could be here free from XANA how do you think that sounds Aelita"
"It sounds great but I think we need to examine the data a bit more It could be a trap" Aelita warned Jeremie
"Yeah but we have this chance we have to try don't we?" Jeremie said back
"…even if there's a chance it could hurt your friends?" Aelita said quietly
"They all know the risk they take when they go to lyoko I'm sure they won't mind going" Jeremie said
"What about me" Aelita asked leaving the screen not waiting for an answer she was kind of worried about the way he just assumed that his friends wouldn't mind. 'is that the way he thinks about me?' she thought 'does he really mind if I get deleted from lyoko?' She shook her head and decided shed like to stay on lyoko tonight.
Back in the room Jeremie was surprised by Aelitas sudden disappearance and ran the recent conversation through his head. 'was it something I said…wait she couldn't have thought I meant…' he thought. 'I'll have to apologise tomorrow I doubt she wants to talk now' he then layed down to go to bed but didn't manage to sleep a wink that night.
The next day (Saturday)
Jeremie woke up after what must have been 2 hours sleep he seemed to be both excited and worried at the same time. Excited that today might be the day that Aelita could be free from the virus from XANA. Also worried because of what had happened last night. He got up and nearly fell over again because of grogginess from lack of sleep but hr managed to stay upright. He went and got his cell phone from his table and text Yumi, Ulrich and Odd to meet his at the factory (he wanted to wake up a bit more before he talked to them)
At the factory he decided he needed to call Aelita he tried to call her up but there was a little interference. He tried a second time and this time she answered.
"Good morning Jeremie" she said smiling "How are you?"
"I'm fine Aelita thank you" Jeremie replied "listen Aelita about last night…"
"Don't worry about it" she interrupted "I've had had another look at the data I found and I still think this could be what we are looking for"
Just at that moment Odd, Yumi and Ulrich came through the door and waked into the room.
"So what did ya want" Odd asked
"I think Aelita has found the information I need for the antivirus so you guys want to go to lyoko" Jeremie asked
"I don't know me and Ulrich were really getting in to that extra maths class" Odd joked "but I guess we can sacrifice it just this once"
"Ok thanks guy now you'll be going to the desert region because strangely the information isn't in sector 5 where I thought it would be" said Jeremie
"Ok let's get XANA once and for all" Yumi said heading to the scanners with the others
"Yumi, Odd, Ulrich, Scanner, Virtualisation" said Jeremie as he virtualised them into lyoko "the information if 1 mile to you left it's not in a tower. Aelita should be there with you"
"Yeah she's here Jeremie" Ulrich replied
"Let's get going guys" Odd shouted "you'll be on earth with us soon Aelita were gonna be kicking XANA out today you see"
They then proceeded towards the data which was in a cube on the floor of a cave. It seemed to be strangely lightly guarded for something that seemed to be of so much value to XANA. Then, as if he had just read there minds, three blocks were virtualised in front of them.
"I got these you three go" Ulrich said as he turned to face the blocks "triplicate" the three Ulrich's ran towards the blocks, one of him got shot, then the other two managed to get to the blocks "impact!" he yelled as he and his clone took out two blocks then he slashed the last block but not before it shot his last clone. To Ulrich's surprise hiding behind the block was hiding a megatank "ahh…not good" he said before he was devirtualised by the tank.
Up a head the other three were in sight of the cave...and two crabs. Ulrich and Yumi ran first trying to destroy or at least distract them for Aelita but as they got close another crab was virtualised and proceeded to shoot Ulrich in the leg. Yumi managed to take one out before getting hit two
"Lets hit them from the sides together" Yumi suggested
"I like it 1… 2… 3 go" Ulrich replied
They both ran in opposite directions but the crabs saw what they were doing and shot at only Ulrich devirtualising him. As the crab's backs were turned she threw her two fans and hit them both right in the XANA eye.
"Run now Aelita!" Yumi shouted and Aelita ran straight to the cave in which the data box resided just as Aelita got the data from the box she felt something approaching and decided to run behind the cave. Yumi was puzzled by Aelita suddenly running off but when turned around she saw why the megatank was set up ready to fire right behind her! Sure enough a couple of seconds later she found herself in the scanner room again. She ran up to the elevator and took it to the computer floor to see Jeremie was typing away on the keyboard
"Aelita made it to a tower behind the cave he said as she stepped forward "thanks for helping"
"No problem" she smiled back "listen I'd better get going my parents still think I'm at home and they'll get suspicious if I don't get back soon"
"Yeah and we'd better get back to school you know what Jims like" said Ulrich
"Could you guy cover for me while I get the virus out of Aelita?" asked Jeremie
"As long as you don't keep her for yourself" Odd joked as they left
Jeremie just ignored him he'd grown used to the teasing by Odd. He sat down to look at the Data and to his surprise it was a pre-made program with a text file. He opened the text file which read:
To Jeremie and gang
I saw you were trying to get rid of the Virus in Aelita and thought you could use a hand. Sorry though I ended up making the Whole thing hope you don't mind ha-ha
From Franz hopper
P.S do NOT type wrong password its XANA trapped (to trap XANA if he gets it first).
"That would explain why it wasn't in sector 5" Jeremie exclaimed "Password, password what would be his password"
"SCIPIO?" offered Aelita
"Of course" said Jeremie "Thanks Aelita you'd better get in place for the antivirus"
When Aelita was in place he started the Antivirus up and a box came up saying "input password" he took a deep breath 'this is it she's going to be here' he taught as he put in the password SCIPIR Just as he entered he realised his error and a message box came up saying "maybe this will teach you not to play with things that aren't meant for you XANA" and what seemed like 100 red exclamation marks came up one by one on his screen
But this wasn't the thing that worried him in fact he didn't even really notice them
The only thing he could hear was her scream…