Chapter Ten: Yumi's Explanation

Ulrich gently put Yumi on his bed. He brushed away some hair that was on her face.

"So you don't remember anything?" Odd asked Aelita. Aelita shook her head no and sat down on Odd's bed. Jeremy had left to go get his laptop. He came in and sat next to Aelita.

"Let me check to make sure X.A.N.A didn't do anything on Lyoko." Jeremy said. Odd leaned against a wall waiting for Jeremy's response, and watching Ulrich with Yumi.

"She had better be alright or else I can't kid around about them going out anymore. That and I'll never get Ulrich on a date." Odd thought to himself. He decided to leave Ulrich alone since no one knew if she would be okay at the moment.

"There appears to be some activity, a lot of monsters are out but no tower is activated. That's odd," Jeremy said aloud.

"What?" Odd asked.

"The monsters are out I said that's odd." Jeremy said again.

"Oh I thought you were calling my name," Odd replied. Jeremy rolled his eyes. Yumi gently moaned and her eyes started to open.

"Yumi, how are you feeling?" Ulrich asked. Yumi looked at Ulrich surprised.

"Why am I here?" She asked sitting up. "I was in my room, then umm." Yumi said trying to remember.

"You and Aelita were headed towards the factory. Aelita doesn't remember why we were hoping you would." Ulrich said.

"That's right, we were going to meet someone. Stan told us while we were playing hide and seek to meet him and someone at the factory." Yumi said.

"Stan? But he was here when we came back, are you sure?" Odd asked.

"X.A.N.A!" Yumi exclaimed. Everyone curiously looked at her. "No we were going to meet X.A.N.A. Stan I thought or I could be wrong, told us to meet X.A.N.A at the factory at midnight. That's where we were headed. I didn't want to go but I almost couldn't stop myself. Then there was this weird thing that X.A.N.A has been giving us called a…a oh I don't remember some kind of dose. It was supposed to make us forget. I was going to become X.A.N.A's slave and Aelita was going to be brain washed to go out with ummm who was it, oh who ever has been working with X.A.N.A I don't remember. But Aelita has taken four doses and I have to, we didn't know we took them there were given to us without us knowing, I do remember someone saying that. My dose was increased because I fight X.A.N.A more often then Aelita does so she had a smaller dose. But we were supposed to become his slaves." Yumi finished. Everyone stared at Yumi not knowing what to say. Finally Jeremy broke the silence.

"How do you know all this?" Jeremy asked.

"Some stuff I remember being told, but other stuff I think I know because of the doses Aelita and I were given." Yumi said.

"Then how come you remember but I don't?" Aelita asked.

"I don't really know," Yumi admitted.

"Maybe since Yumi fights X.A.N.A more often and you only deactivate the towers the doses, as she called them, affected you more." Jeremy stated.

"Then what do we do now? How do we reverse the dose intake?" Ulrich asked.

"I'll have to work on a program in the factory, meanwhile we can't leave Yumi or Aelita alone. Not until we understand what's going on." Jeremy said.

"We can do that, if you need to go to the factory Aelita can hang out with me," Odd said.

"Yumi can hang out with me, but we have one problem." Ulrich stated. "She's in a different grade, none of us can be with her during school."

"Wait! I have an idea!" Aelita exclaimed. "Since the principal still wants to send Jeremy to the genius gifted people school we can have Jeremy beg the principal to be moved up a grade just for this week, to see if he can do it. At least that's what the principal will think, but he'll really be making sure she is alright until school is over. Then he will head to the factory I'll hang out with Odd, and Yumi will hang out with Ulrich." Aelita finished.

"That's so crazy it just might work!" Odd exclaimed.

"But why can't you come to the factory with me?" Jeremy asked.

"Because whoever is working with X.A.N.A might try to follow you two. The more people we have at school the less suspicion we will draw to ourselves." Ulrich said.

"Great then we'll start our plan tomorrow," Odd said. With that said Aelita and Yumi fell asleep on Ulrich's bed, Odd on his, while Ulrich and Jeremy hit the floor.