Kevin Shook

Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and Aelita are standing in the school courtyard deep in conversation. Jeremie is running frantically towards them as if being chased by something.

Odd- "Oh good, Jeremy's here. Hey Jeremie, if you became a mad scientist, who do you think you would be more like? Dr. Frankenstein or Dr. Shrank?"

Jeremie- "Not now Odd! I have some horrible news!"

Yumi- "What is it?"

Ulrich- "Yeah Einstein? What could possibly be so bad?"

Jeremie- "They- they want to destroy the factory!"

Aelita- "What!"

Jeremie- "Its true! In the school newspaper!"

Aelita, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi read over the article. Yumi reads the article aloud.

Yumi- 'In order to satisfy an increase in boarders, Kadic Academy has taken steps towards demolishing an old Renault automotive factory located on the Seine River to add another building as it is the closest uninhabited building near the school's campus'

Odd- "Can they do that?"

Aelita- "I- I don't feel good. I need to lay down."

Aelita's knees buckle and she collapses. Odd and Ulrich catches her before she hits the ground.

Nurse- "Aelita? Aelita wake up."

Aelita slowly opens her eyes. She wakes up to find that she is in the infirmary with Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie at her bedside.

Aelita- "What happened? Why am I in here?"

Nurse- "You fainted due to extreme emotional stress."

Aelita- "Extreme emotional stress?"

Yumi- "Yes. Your grandmother is in the hospital. Remember?"

Aelita- "What? Oh yes… grandmother."

Nurse- "It would be best if you went back to your room for the day."

Aelita- "No. I'll be fine. I want to go to class."

Jeremie- "Aelita, you should really get some rest"

Aelita- "No."

Jeremie- "Aelita, please-"

Aelita- "Jeremie! I am going to class! I am going to go about my day as normal!"

Aelita angrily throws the blanket off and storms out of the infirmary.

Jeremie- "Aelita, wait…"

Yumi- "Let her go Jeremie, she is still having a hard time accepting this. This whole situation will affect her the most."

Odd, Ulrich, and Jeremie walk into Mrs. Hertz' class as the late bell sounded. Aelita is already sitting at her desk looking as if nothing is wrong. Mrs. Hertz begins to take role.

Mrs. Hertz- "Odd Della Robbia?"

Odd- "Here."

Mrs. Hertz- "Jeremie Belpois?"

Jeremie- "Here ma'am."

Mrs. Hertz- "Sissi Delmas? Sissi? Has anyone seen Sissi?"

Mrs. Hertz' voice trails off as she continues the role call. Jeremie's cell phone beeps on the table as he receives a text message. Jeremie looks at the phone. It read:

Meet me at the factory after class, bring the others. – ED

Jeremie- "Hey guys, look at this!"

Ulrich- "Someone knows about the factory?"

Aelita jerks her head forward.

Aelita- "Today is a normal day. The only way I am going to that factory is if XANA attacks."

Jeremie's laptop begins to beep rapidly signaling an activated tower.

Jeremie- "Well, now we have two reasons to go to the factory."

Aelita- "Hmmph!"

The class time goes by and the bell rings for them to leave. Jeremie, Ulrich, Odd, and Aelita bolt down the hall towards Yumi's class only to find her outside of the classroom already waiting for them.

Yumi- "I got the same message! Lets go!"

They run through the park and stop at the manhole cover. One by one they go down into the sewer. Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd ride on their skateboards while Jeremie and Aelita ride on their scooters until they all reach the end of the sewer. They climb up the ladder and run across the bridge. They swing down on the ropes until they are all standing there.

Jeremie- "Wait a second, ED? Those are someone's initials!"

Ulrich- "Who do we know with the initials ED?"

Jeremie- "Elizabeth Delmas!"

Sissi- "Really Jeremie, do you have to use my full name?"

Sissi is standing in the elevator with one hand on her hip.

Sissi- "We're all friends here aren't we? The name Sissi will do just fine."

Aelita- "Sissi, how did you find out about this place?"

Sissi- "I overheard you practically broadcasting it yesterday! You guys are always running off to this place and I finally found it. Imagine my surprise when this elevator took me to those rooms."

Jeremie- "So you know about everything? About XANA? About Lyoko?

Sissi- "Umm… yeah!"

Odd- "Judging by your tone of voice, you're completely clueless."

Sissi- "I know enough to want to know more! Now I demand that you explain everything to me!"

Ulrich- "Sissi, there might not be much to tell soon, the school is going to tear this place down."

Sissi- "Oh I know all about that. You see, I want to be a part of your group, and I intend to get what I want."

Odd- "NO WAY! Out of the question!"

Sissi- "Oh? And why is that? When Aelita got here you welcomed her with open arms?"

Jeremie- "Sissi, that's different. Aelita-"

Sissi- "Listen! I told my father about this place, I can just as easily talk him out of destroying it! Now, you can either explain all of this to me or this place goes down like a ton of bricks!

Aelita- "Alright Sissi, you win. Lets go down to the lab and explain all of this to you.

Jeremie- "Aelita! What are you doing!"

Aelita- "Jeremie, you heard what she said. We can't risk losing the factory. If the supercomputer is destroyed, I am as well."

Yumi- "Okay! No more discussion. Sissi will be in the group for the sake of Aelita. Agreed?"

Altogether- "Agreed."

Sissi- "Oh this is so great!"

All of them get into the elevator. The elevator goes down to the lab. Sissi is humming happily as the door to the lab opens. They all walk into the lab. Jeremie walks over to the Holosphere.

Jeremie- "Sissi, this is Lyoko."

Jeremie launches into a long speech explaining all about Lyoko and XANA. Sissi interrupts him.

Sissi- "If this is all so evil, why don't you just shut it off?"

Jeremie- "I was getting to that. If we shut down the Supercalculator, Aelita will die."

Sissi- "What!"

Aelita- "Yes. Now you see why we can't let this factory get destroyed."

Sissi- "Wait! This doesn't make any sense! How could turning off a computer kill Aelita?"

Jeremie- "XANA infected her with a virus that keeps her linked to him. So if we destroy him, we destroy Aelita."

Sissi- "This is just a lot to handle right now."

Yumi- "Did you all forget that XANA has activated a tower?"

Jeremie- "Oh! I can't believe we forgot about the XANA attack!"

Sissi- "Well, I should probably go and talk to my father."

Yumi- "I'll go with you. If XANA is attacking the school, you will need someone with you who is familiar with his attacks."

Yumi and Sissi walk into the elevator and Yumi presses the button. The door closes and the elevator goes up to the surface. Odd, Ulrich, Jeremie, and Aelita are left in the lab.

Aelita- "We'll take the ladder down to the scanner room while Yumi and Sissi are in the elevator."

Aelita, Ulrich, and Odd climb down the concealed ladder into the scanner room. All three of them take their places in the scanners.

Jeremie- "Scanner. Transfer. Virtualization!"

Ulrich, Odd, and Aelita are virtualized in the forest region. Jeremie materializes Ulrich's Overbike and Odd's Overboard and they all take off. They eventually reach the tower.

Ulrich- "Whoa!"

Aelita- "Whatever XANA is up to, he really doesn't want us interfering."

Surrounding the activated tower are four Megatanks, eight Kankrelots, and three Krabes. Jeremie gets a call from Yumi.

Jeremie- "Yumi? Is anything wrong?"

Yumi- "No, everything is fine. It's as if XANA isn't even attacking."

Jeremie- "Well that's not the case on Lyoko!"

Yumi- "Well, Sissi has sorted everything out with her father, the factory is safe."

Jeremie "Good, now get over here! The others need you on Lyoko!"

Yumi- "Alright, me and Sissi are in the park right now."

Yumi hangs up the phone. Jeremie redirects his attention towards the computer. XANA's monsters are putting up a good fight on Lyoko.

Jeremie- "Odd, you have thirty lifepoints left. Ulrich, you have eighty."

Odd shoots three laser arrows. Two of them hit a Megatank, and the other one hits a Kankrelot. Ulrich jumps on top of a Krabe and stabs it with his digital katana.

Odd- "Is anything happening in the real world?"

Jeremie- "No, nothing."

Odd hits three more Kankrelots and one Megatank. The activated lets out a loud triumphant roar and the red glow fades back to the neutral blue. What's left of XANA's monsters goes off into different directions and deserts the area.

Aelita- "Jeremie? What's going on?"

Jeremie- "The Superscan is showing me that there is no activated tower. XANA must have called off the attack."

Aelita- "Or he succeeded in accomplishing his attack."

Jeremie- "Okay Aelita, get in the tower. I'm going to bring you all back in."

A loud metallic screech fills the lab. The door to the lab shakes violently as the screeching gets louder. The shaking subsides and the screeching fades away and is replaced by a loud blunt crashing sound. Jeremie quickly materializes Ulrich, Odd, and Aelita. He walks over to the door and pushes a concealed button. The mechanical door opens but reveals only and empty dark elevator shaft.

Jeremie- "Ugh, too dark to see the bottom."

Aelita, Ulrich, and Odd come up through the ladder.

Aelita- "Jeremie? Why are you standing in the doorway?"

Jeremie- "I think the elevator just fell to the bottom of the shaft!"

Ulrich- "Are you serious?"

The computer began beeping, signaling that Jeremie was getting an incoming call from Yumi. He rushes over to answer it.

Jeremie- "Yumi? Yumi are you okay?"

Yumi- "We're both in one piece, except Sissi hit her head on the way down, she's out cold now"

Jeremie- "What happened?"

Yumi- "We got in the elevator, hit the button, and the elevator just fell! I don't think the cables are broken though."

Jeremie- "Alright, we'll get the winch to bring it back up. Just hold tight."

Jeremie, Ulrich, Odd, and Aelita climb up into the corridor and go to the elevator port where the elevator should be. Jeremie hits a button on the side of the elevator control panel, which activates a winch atop the elevator frame. Once the elevator has been pulled up, they safely pull out Sissi and carry her back to the school and the infirmary.

Nurse- "Oh my goodness! What happened to her?"

Yumi- "We found her in the park like this."

Sissi's eyes open. She looks around.

Sissi- "What happened? Where am I?"

Nurse- "Your in the infirmary, you hit your head."

Sissi- "What? I don't remember ever hitting my head!"

Nurse- "Really? Can you tell me what day it is?"

Sissi- "Of course I can, its Monday. Why?"
Nurse- "Oh my no. It is Wednesday. You will need to get some rest, I am going to have ask the five of you to leave."

Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, Jeremie, and Aelita leave the infirmary and walk out to the school courtyard.

Jeremie- "Wow, that bump to the head cause her to lose the last three days of her memory?"

Aelita- "I can't believe that XANA's big attack was just to mess with the elevator."

Jeremie- "No, the elevator came loose after XANA called off the attack. My guess is that the factory is just getting too old and falling apart."

Aelita- "So we might never know what XANA's attack was?"

Jeremie- "I'll see you guys later, I'm going to go look into this a little more."

The next day, Aelita, Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi were sitting on the benches while Jeremie comes walking up to them.

Jeremie- "I figured out what XANA's attack was. He was actually doing something to help us."

Yumi- "Really? How so?"

Jeremie- "Well, I hacked into the city's records. I couldn't find any trace of the factory ever being there."

Aelita- "What? So XANA just deleted the factory from history? Well that does make sense. If the factory got destroyed, he did as well."

Ulrich- "So the factory is safe forever."

Odd- "Wow, who knew we could count on actually XANA to do something good?"

Altogether- "yeah."

The End

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