The Two Faces of Evil
Part II of The Search For Franz Hopper
7: Fire in the Sky

Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko nor is this a Season 3 spoiler
The return in time function took the group back to that morning when Jeremie's computer picked up an activated tower, only this time there was no activated tower. By that time Jeremie was awake and fearing that the return in time function made XANA stronger believing that he was still in the supercomputer. But at the same time it saved Ulrich from the injury inflicted by the Kankrelat. When Ulrich woke up that morning, he somehow had a memory of that time Yumi kissed him.

"What just happened?" he asked himself. "Was that real? Did she just kiss me?"

Then Odd woke up hearing Ulrich's voice. "Hey you're awake", Odd said. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine. Why?"

"You don't remember anything?"

"I remember being hit on my leg by a Kankrelat. Then everything went blank."

"Oh okay, just making sure."

Odd checked his clock and said, "Oh no were late for breakfast!"

"Don't worry 5 minutes won't kill you."

They rushed down and found Aelita and Jeremie already there. They were all happy that Ulrich was still alive.

"Hey Ulrich", said Jeremie. "How are ya feelin'?"

"Odd asked me the same question", Ulrich replied. "And I'm fine, thanks."

"Well it's a good thing you're not injured anymore", Aelita added.

"So what do you guys want to do today?" asked Odd. "I got nothin' to do."

"Don't you have homework to do?" Jeremie replied.

"I meant nothing interesting."

Everyone laughed. But being the weekend, they wanted to do as much as they could before they went back to school. Ulrich finished his breakfast before everyone and told the others he'd be at Yumi's.

Ulrich rang the bell and Hiroki answered the door.

"Hey is Yumi home?" Ulrich asked him.

"Yumi your boyfriend's here!" Hiroki yelled.

"Beat it Hiroki", Yumi replied.

"Hi", Ulrich said standing in the doorway.

"You want to talk to me about something right?" asked Yumi.

"Well yeah...what happened after the attack..."

Yumi blushed. Ulrich felt confused, but Yumi couldn't hold it back this time. She grabbed his collar and kissed him passionately.

"So it was true, what I thought was a dream. You did kiss me while I was unconscious."

"Um yeah, about that."

"At least I know you love me. So...does that make us boyfriend-girlfriend?"

"Yes. I don't know what I was afraid of. Why I didn't ask you before. All those time, all that time we spent together."

Their conversation soon ended and Ulrich went back to the dorms where he found Odd feeding Kiwi. Odd then told him about what the gang planned to do that day, have fun in the city. Ulrich then called Yumi and told her about what was going to happen.

"So what did you go to Yumi's for?" asked Odd.

"Nothing really", Ulrich replied. "Just to tell her I'm not hurt or anything."

"You're lying. I can tell."

"Ugh fine. She kissed me. She's my girlfriend now."

"WOW! It finally happened!"

"Can you not make it a big deal? You don't see me blabbing about all the girls."you've dated.

"okay. But I've been waiting for this for a while now."

For a while, Odd wouldn't shut up about it until Jeremie called and told them to meet at the Heritage. Odd then realized they had to clean the house all over again.

"Maybe returning in time wasn't such a good idea", said Odd.

"Well the faster we finish the more time we have to have fun", said Ulrich.

"Okay then there's no time to lose", Jermeie replied.

The gang finished quickly already knowing what to do. They started at 8:00 AM and ended at noon. They went back to eat lunch and planned on going to the city. When they did head for the city, everyone wanted to do something different. The girls wanted to go look for clothes, Odd and Ulrich wanted to look for games, music and soccer stuff, and Jeremie wanted to check out hardware for his laptop. But one thing they could agree on was watching a movie. None of them had watched a movie except Odd's flicks, which were solely comedy based on making fun of Siss, Jim or any movie he thought was awful. The gang went where each of them wanted to go and when they finished everything it was 5:00 PM. They found a movie theater and bought tickets to see a 2 hour long romance movie so they could get back just in time for dinner. There seemed to be more kissing than watching though. Then the power went out throughout the city and the suburbs. The flood lights went on in the theater and everyone left the building wondering what happened.

"Weird", commented Odd as he and the others stood outside the theater. "Now what, we still have an hour or so before dinner."

"Let's just go back, there's nothing left to do", said Jeremie.

"Then I'll just head home", Yumi said. "See you guys tomorrow."

Yumi left and the others went back to school. The power was still out and the faculty was gathering everyone in the cafeteria where the emergency power source was. Then Jeremie's phone began to ring.

"Hello?"

"It's Franz. Meet me in the factory, XANA's attacking."

"Guys XANA's at it again and Franz wants us to go to the factory."

"Let's go then", replied Ulrich. "Better than waiting here."

"Ah man, but I'm starving", said Odd.

Ulrich called Yumi and told her also meet at the factory. When they arrived there, they were surprised to find everything electronic to be working, besides the uranium-powered supercomputer.

"Why's this the only place with power?" asked Jeremie to Franz.

"Probably because it's part of XANA's plans", replied Franz. "No matter, get to the scanners. I'll let you take over from here Jeremie. By the way there is an activated tower."

A moment later the gang was on Lyoko in the Mountain Sector with their vehicles.

"The tower should be northwest of you guys", announced Jeremie. "But be careful."

They followed a long, narrow path until they reached a hollow mountain.

"You guys are close to the tower", said Jeremie. "Watch out! Hornets at six-o-clock!"

"Jeremie, I don't see them", said Odd as lasers came out of the sky hitting him.

"I see them", said Aelita as she pointed to five dots in the sky.

"Yumi, Aelita go ahead", said Ulrich. "Odd and I can handle them."

The girls entered the mountain and followed the only path. They reached an opening to find the tower on top of a floating piece of land with a ten foot radius, graded by three Hornets flying around the tower. Then one of the monsters noticed them and fired, hitting the vehicle, destroying it. Outside Odd's been devirtialized after killing two of the five monsters. Ulrich then went inside the mountain to lure the Hornets towards him from the sky.

When Odd stepped out of the scanner, he saw a black cloud of energy. Then it fled out the ceiling. Odd then went up to the lab room and told Jeremie about what happened.

"XANA's duplicating himself", said Jeremie. "But that doesn't explain the power outage and why this place has power."

"Oh no!" said Franz. "XANA's charging the power here probably."

"What?" replied Jeremie. "Where? How?"

"Probably in the supercomputer", Franz said. "It may run on uranium but it still uses electricity. He's most likely charging the energy there to destroy the factory with one blast."

"Aelita! Aelita please deactivate the tower fast! You guys are in serious danger!" yelled Jeremie as he opened a window showing the amount of power in the supercomputer. "XANA's charging the supercomputer with energy to destroy the factory for good."

"We're trying but Hornets are guarding the tower", Aelita replied.

"Gotcha!" said Yumi.

"Nevermind", said Aelita.

Aelita entered the tower and deactivated it. But the meter was still rising.

"What?" Jeremie cried. "I have to devirtualize all of you guys now. XANA's close to making the factory explode!"

The three were devirtualized and all of them evacuated the building. When they reached the sewer entrance, Jeremie looked back and saw a black cloud hovering over the factory. Then the factory exploded as a mushroom cloud appeared due to the uranium in the supercomputer reacting to the electric impulse XANA just released. The explosion wasn't big, but it was big enough to completely annihilate the factory causing pieces of what was the factory to fly through the sky into nearby buildings, trees, and the river. No one was hurt, but XANA took a huge leap forward in global domination. Jeremie watched the explosion in disbelief and said.

"This can't be happening..."

Aelita came and grabbed Jeremie's arm and said, "C'mon let's go back."

And they did, both in disbelief.

I should've had this done much earlier, sorry for the inconvenience. But what do you think will happen now that the factory is gone? Please review since another person's opinion helps a writer succeed. Also I have all of Part 2 thought out already.