Disclaimer: Nope, I still don't own Code Lyoko

Author's Note: Well, here it is. The chapter that's probably going to get me flamed. Blue Odd is our Odd, just so you know. Questions that this chapter may bring will be answered in later chapters, just so you know. There is a reason for this.

Chapter Seven: Betrayal

S,C,I,P,I,O.

Jeremie pressed the enter key, submitting the password. Behind the monitors, the hologram changed from the normal four sectors, to the very different fifth sector. Sissi watched all of this in amazement. She had been told all about what had been going on in the factory, and even what she had done in her forgotten adventures, but she never thought she would ever see it again first-hand.

She now even felt a grudging respect for the small boy sitting in front of the many computer screens. Even though he sat in front of the computer, rather than fight on Lyoko, he still had a lot of responsibilities. He was the one who directed his friends, warning them of dangers and telling them of what lay ahead. He had to keep track of this, and at the same time, all of their health points. She saw he was even searching through documents on another screen at the same time as he was doing all of that. She shook her head. She knew she would never be able to do so much at once.

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The regular purple Odd held his stomach as they arrived at the entrance to Carthage, clearly nauseated from the ride. The blue Odd on the other hand, having been to this place more recently (though it was in his own dimension) didn't feel the effects quite so much.

The walls, surprisingly, didn't spin like they normally did. Instead, the passageway was open already. Cautiously, the five of them made their way through the hall and into the large main room. Unlike what they were used to, the place was dimly lit, and quite bare. Only one other doorway was seen across the room. There was no key to be found, and not even a place for it to hide.

Seeing no other choice, they all ran across the room to the doorway.

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Jeremie and Sissi watched all of this on the computer screen. The girl was having a little bit of a hard time figuring out exactly what was going on there, but she got the gist of it. She shook her head, grinning, and stood upright and backed away from the computer a bit. It was getting tiring, bending over the computer like that. She stood a bit behind Jeremie, her arms crossed and a big smile on her face. This was almost over. They would reach the tower, deactivate it, then return to the past far back enough so all this death never began.

Of course, she knew that the deaths would still be there, but at least… at least there wouldn't be so much destruction. The world wouldn't be destroyed and in ruins anymore. There was one person she would, and already did, miss terribly, though. His death was painful for both him and her. She looked up at the roof of the room, seeing the hundreds of wires entertained within each other. Despite his ridiculous hairdo and his pimple-covered face…

SCHLACK!

The girl's eyes were wide and her smile was gone, instead contorted into a pained grimace. "Je-" she tried to warn the boy at the computer, but her mouth was quickly covered. She tried to bite at whatever was covering it, but her energy drained quickly as her impaled heart could no longer give her strength.

She died, her eyes still open and her body going limp except for a few twitches here and there, which also faded quickly. Her attacker stopped her from dropping to the floor, instead lying her gently down. This wasn't to be nice or out of respect. It was to keep the computer genius from hearing the thud of her body hitting the floor.

Said boy was too engrossed on what was going on in Lyoko to hear the sound of the blade stabbing her, or even hear it as it slid out of her corpse. The killer licked at the warm blood on the blade, grinning. It approached the boy.

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It turned out that getting through the fifth sector wasn't going to be as easy as they thought. The first room was merely an entrance to a large maze. The second room had four doors, and all rooms after that had the same thing. Ulrich, remembering a previous maze like this, made marks on the doorways with his katana as they went through them to be sure they wouldn't make the mistake of going through them again.

"Do you know where the tower is, Einstein?" blue Odd asked as they ran though the white maze.

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Jeremie searched through the holomap, trying to find the way through. He shook his head and tried turning the screen to a bird's-eye view of the whole maze. It took him only a moment to figure the path out.

"You're only a few rooms away," he told them. "All you have to-" he stopped suddenly when he felt something sharp press softly against his neck. His breath faltered slightly when he recognized it as a blade.

"Hello, Jeremie," the boy's eyes went very wide as he recognized his attacker's voice. He gulped, his Adam's apple pressing painfully against the sharp edge as it bobbed.

"Hello, Jeremie," he responded, not without a tremble in his voice.

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"Jeremie?" Yumi said, frowning as she recognized the boy's fear. The others stopped when she did. "What's going on?"

"Oh my god," purple Odd muttered as he recognized the tone used on the boy's voice. One of his hands traveled unconsciously to the place where his laceration was on his real body. "I remember it now…. I remember that voice now!" His hands clenched into tight fists and his eyes flared in anger. "You bastard!" he shouted, throwing his head back and surprising the others. "How could you do something like that? Why? I thought you loved her!"

"What?" Ulrich exclaimed. "What are you talking about?"

The boy whirled on him and gripped his shoulders. "Jeremie! It was Jeremie who attacked me and Aelita!"

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The cold-hearted Jeremie stared emotionlessly at the side of his counterpart's face as he stared at the screen, not daring to move. He chuckled softly as he heard Odd's voice screaming furiously from within Lyoko, unable to do anything to him.

"Oh, yes, I remember that," he mused, his voice icy. "Sorry for not finishing you, but Ulrich and Yumi came before I was done with Aelita. I had to order a Kankrelat to shoot my eye and pretend we were attacked. How irritating."

He was met with a flurry of enraged cusses, but merely chuckled again.

"Why?" he was caught off-guard by the question his look-alike suddenly asked. He brought the blade on his mechanical arm up slowly until it was on his cheek. He pressed it against him, forcing him to turn his head toward him and look him in his mismatched eyes.

"Sweet, Jeremie, you should know why," he said, bringing his face uncomfortably close. "After all, we are one and the same."

The boy wanted to protest, but he realized that what he said was painfully true. They were exactly the same, down even to the DNA. The boy grinned maliciously, the smile not reaching his eyes. He could see the fear in his eyes. He laughed softly and pulled the blade away, walking away from him. The boy in the chair let out a sigh of relief, though it was short-lived.

"Then again, we are different, when it comes to the fact that I've seen the truth. XANA showed it to me one day, allowing me to realize something." He glared down hatefully at his flesh hand, clenching it, not into a fist, but more like a claw. "The human race is destroying our planet. Not only that, but it is causing itself suffering. We can help both the planet, and the humans by wiping them out. My brother, don't you see that people live to suffer, and the planet suffers for people to live? With XANA's help, we will finally be able to create a world without danger."

He turned back to the boy in the chair and raised an eyebrow at what he saw. Jeremie had a gun in his hands, pointing straight at him. He wasn't worried, though. He could see the fear in his eyes, the way his hands shook as he held the weapon.

"Dear, Jeremie, you don't really think you'll be able to pull that rigger?"

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Meanwhile, on Lyoko, the five warriors managed to calm this dimension's Odd down. The purple-clad boy, now channeling his anger to something more useful, ran though the maze as fast as he could alongside his comrades. His eyes burned with a new fire and the Odd dressed in blue grinned at this. He was getting tired of seeing himself with such a broken look.

"The tower is nearby," Aelita announced as they continued along.

Sure enough, they soon reached the tower.

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"Don't you remember what I said? What we both vowed?" the cyborg Jeremie asked as he fearlessly, though slowly, approached the boy who pointed the gun to his heart. "We said we'd protect our world from the evil that corrupts it. Humans. We will fight to the very end and win. No matter what the cost." He leaned his face so close, it was a surprise their noses didn't touch. "Even if the cost is human lives."

He reached up and gently grabbed a hold of the trembling gun. He slid it from the boy's grasp, resisting only a little. He grinned and tossed it to the floor behind him.

"I believe you've been on for long enough, young man," he said casually, grabbing the boy's shirt with his mechanical hand. "My turn." With little effort, he lifted the boy and tossed him away from the chair. His human eyes pulsed with energy, though they weren't in the shape of XANA's symbol. The computer program hadn't possessed him, but it did currently reside within him to give him superhuman strength.

Jeremie let out a shout as he hit the floor painfully. He watched as his counterpart slid into the seat and immediately began typing.

"Oh my god," the boy uttered when he saw Sissi's corpse. He put a hand to his mouth and turned away, fighting back the urge to retch. When he turned away, though, he saw Kiwi lying on the floor also, unmoving.

XANAfied-Jeremie grinned as he finished a long string of commands. He entered it, causing the five cards of the children on Lyoko to falter slightly before returning to normal. He then placed two flesh fingers to his temple, concentrating slightly and sending a mental command.

On Lyoko, the five children were immediately surrounded by a hoard of XANA's minions.

"I'd be careful if I were you," they heard the XANAfied-Jeremie's now distorted voice say. "If you run out of life points, you run out of life. There is no returning to Earth this time my friends."

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Author's Note

This is a great and wonderful example of something that I wasn't originally planning! I honestly wasn't planning on making Jer evil! At least not from the beginning. I swear, my mind isn't letting me in on this stuff. cries But really, I think I subconsciously chose him, because it seems as if he, out of the Lyoko Crew, must be easiest to mentally break. For some reason, all my stories lately have been ending up with a touch of madness, sans one glances suspiciously around. Usually, though, I have my insane people fight inner battles. It looks as if in this one, he already lost the battle.

Oh yeah, one last thing. I understand the Funny Bunny thing now. ; I like that show, I just haven't seen that episode in so long. I'm guessing he said something about disliking with great instensity? Maybe my subconciousness remembered it?