Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko.

Summary: Jeremie's gone missing and no one has any idea why. When XANA launches an attack, who will work the super computer? Will they have to result to someone else? And will they ever find Jeremie again?

Author's Note: Heehee, getting closer and closer. ;) I know I was quick to update, but this story is burning a hole in my disk drive and I want to see how people like the whole story as one.

Reviewers: Princess Aelita Lyoko

Missing

Chapter Seven

"Jeremie!" Odd yelled loudly. "He was here!" Ulrich ran over and placed his hand over Odd's mouth.

"Shh," he said. "We don't want anyone hearing us. They'll tell us we know where he is." Odd nodded and Ulrich dropped his hand. Rose handed Jeremie's glasses to Ulrich, wiping her eyes of the tears that wanted so badly to fall. He took them and examined them. He noticed one of the lenses was cracked.

"Hey, one of the sides is cracked," Ulrich announced. Rose and Odd looked, inspecting them.

"It's probably the result from falling," Rose stated. Just then, her laptop beeped. "But what would Jeremie want that was in my room?" she asked while opening her backpack to get her computer out. Ulrich and Odd looked around. Rose went over and placed her laptop on the desk, turning it on.

"Maybe he wanted some food?" Odd joked. Rose typed her password in and some computer code. The pink sprite's head popped up on the screen.

"Rose!" she yelled. "Thank goodness I got a hold of you!"

"What's wrong Aelita?" Rose questioned, Ulrich and Odd walking over to listen to the conversation, too.

"It's XANA!" she cried.

"Already?" Ulrich questioned.

"Does XANA always attack so back-to-back?" Rose asked.

"No, not really," Odd answered.

"It's not an attack, it's concerning Jeremie!" Aelita said, settling everyone's questions.

"Really!" Rose asked. "Because he was just here! In my room, Aelita!"

"Jeremie's paired up with XANA!" Aelita yelled. Everyone gasped.

"Are you serious!" Odd screamed. The sprite nodded.

"Yes, but only by force," she explained. "I know what's happened now, it all makes sense!"

"Well, tell us then!" Ulrich demanded.

"Jeremie received a message from XANA saying that if he left the school and destroyed everything related with Lyoko, that he'd stop attacking Earth," Aelita told.

"So, that's why he left!" Odd concluded.

"Yes, but you know XANA. He wouldn't stop just by saying that. Once Jeremie was out of the way and all the connections to Lyoko were destroyed, XANA had an open window. So that's why he attacked." Everyone nodded and kept quiet so she could go on.

"Jeremie saw that the squirrels were being controlled by XANA and he tried to go back to the school. But XANA wouldn't allow it, so he possessed Jeremie. He must've come to search your room so he could wipe your computer of the Lyoko connection code."

"But I had my laptop with me, so he couldn't find it," Rose added, finally understanding why everything was happening.

"Right," Aelita finished, taking a breath.

"Aelita, Jeremie dropped his glasses in my room," Rose said. "Since XANA's controlling someone who needs them, does that mean he can't see either?"

"It's a possibility," Aelita answered. "Although, XANA enhances whoever or whatever he possesses strength, so he might not need them or even notice they're gone."

"Is a tower activated?" Ulrich questioned.

"No, which isn't good," Aelita replied. "We can't deactivate a tower that XANA hasn't activated."

"So how do we get XANA out of Jeremie?" Rose asked.

"We'd first have to find Jeremie," Ulrich said.

"And see his condition," Aelita finished. "But you would have to fight Jeremie like you would monsters on Lyoko."

"So we'd have to fight our friend?" Odd asked. Aelita nodded sadly.

"XANA wouldn't stay in a body that was weak and defeated," she added. "He'd retreat and go for something or someone else."

"Well, at least we know what's going on now," Rose said quietly, lowering her head.

"You should get some sleep," Aelita suggested. "Right now, XANA's just keeping Jeremie with him and under control. He's not a threat yet. If anything happens, I'll contact you." Ulrich smiled.

"Thanks," he said. Rose reached out and put her hand on the top of her laptop screen.

"Goodnight, Aelita," she whispered and shut her laptop. Odd looked at Ulrich who jerked his head towards the door.

"Um, well… thanks for the food, Rose!" Odd thanked. "We'll see you in the morning!" Ulrich walked out of the room and Odd put his hand on the door handle.

"Try to get a good sleep," he said and quietly shut the door.

Rose got up from her computer chair and went over to her bed. She looked at it, taking everything in that had happened that day. And the fact that Jeremie's body had been in her room. Although it wasn't his mind.

Rose fell onto her bed, not bothering to cover up or even change out of her clothes. Instead, she cried herself to sleep.

x0x

Rose awoke to the sound of her door opening.

"Rise and shine, sleepyhead," the voice said. Rose rubbed her eyes and opened them, seeing Yumi standing in her doorway.

"Good morning, Yumi," Rose greeted, yawning incredibly big.

"More like good afternoon," Yumi corrected. Rose sat straight up.

"What time is it?" she questioned.

"Noon," Yum answered. Rose jumped out of bed.

"Oh my gosh, I can't believe I slept that late!" she cried.

"Why, what's the alarm?" Yumi smiled. Rose sighed and walked over to her desk. She picked up Jeremie's glasses and placed them in Yumi's hands. Her smile quickly disappeared.

"Are Odd and Ulrich up yet?" Rose asked. Yumi shook her head, still looking at the glasses. "Go get them up and ask for an explanation. I've got to get working."

Rose pulled out her computer chair and sat down in it while Yumi sprinted out the door to go wake the boys.

Rose turned her computer opened her computer and turned it on. After a few seconds, she typed in her password. Once the laptop had booted up completely, Rose went to work.

After about half an hour, Yumi, Odd, and Ulrich knocked on Rose's door. She waved at them to come in while she was studying something on her screen.

"We told Yumi," Ulrich said.

"Good, because I don't think I could have," Rose smiled. She pointed to something on the screen repeatedly. Then she turned to the gang.

"Does Jeremie carrying around anything electronic?" she asked. "Like something he has with him constantly?"

"I don't know," Odd said. "His mobile and his laptop. Why?" Rose smiled.

"Give me the number to his mobile," she commanded. Odd told her and she typed it quickly into her laptop. After a few more minutes of typing and clicking icons, she turned the laptop to show the gang. It had some kind of map on it with a red circle on the side. Rose smiled again.

"Found him."