Chapter 2: Step 1, Return to North Dakota

"Instead of hiding the document, why don't we just show it to the police, tell them what's happening, and let them take care of her." Mac suggested.

"Hmm..." Technus looked at the document. "That's a great idea! Have you ever considered tutoring?"

"Let's go." Mac sighed. " we better hurry. Who knows how long until Madame Foster completly destroys Foster's."

"You may have a point. Plus, I have technology tutoring at 6."

"What do you have to learn?"

"I teach!"


"I am the Box Ghost!" The Box Ghost yelled at an arcade game. "I have power over square, cardboard,and uh..."

"You're talking to a big game." Skulker shouted.

"Uh huh, sure." Just then, he stepped on something red.

"Oh, sorry, that's my arm." Wilt said. "May bad."

"Wow, you are a suck-up." johnny 13 said.

"Yeah, so what if I am? It's not like I hurt anybody."

"Perhaps but..." JUst then, aknock on the door. TO Johnny's surprise...


"Okay, so where do you think we should hide this?" TEchnus said. Just then, his beeper rang. It was Skulker on the other line.

"Skulker to Technus. We have incoming news! It seems that we've been lied too. Madame Foster has been cloned by evil Blooregard to trick us. Now we have found the good Madame Foster and we are heading to stop the evil one. Skulker out."

"Hmm, it seems Madame Foster was somehow cloned, but how..."


"Ulrich, get oiut of there and get Aelita!" jeremy shouted. "You opnly have 20 life points left. If you get hit again. it's all over!"

"Well, where's Odd and Yumi?" ulrich asked from Lyoko.

"Hey, they're doing the best they can! I'm sure they'll be here soon! I just hope we're not too late!"

"How did XANA manage to attack anyway."

"Ulrich, I can honestly say I have absolutely no idea. All I know is you only have 10 life points left, and you're not even close to the tower."

"Hey, you try fighting the Schypazoa down here! It's stronger than ever!"

"I don't understand how it could've upgraded itself."

"Well, what's important is that we stop it and deactivate the tower." Yumi said, arriving in the elevator with Odd.

"About time you got here. Get to the scanner room."

Yumi and Odd left in an instinct. Jeremy just stayed at the computer. "I hope it's not getting terrible out there." He mummbled to himself.


"Okay, so let's see if we're all clear on this." Ember said. "You were attacked by a polymorph of yourself and he stuffed you into a clothes hamper?"

"That is correct." Madame Foster said.

"Then we've all been tricked this whole time! Sort of." Skulker added.

"I guess that's one way to put it."

"Well now that we have the real Madame here, we just have to wait for Technus and Mac to get back with the deed. Only it can stop the clone."

"Oh yeah, it hid the deed."

"We know." Desiree said. "What do we do now..."


"Hmm, so we've been dooped this whole time?" Vlad said, overhearing the ghosts talking to Madame Foster about the deed. "It was all a lie?"

"Well, either that, or the real Madame Foster is planning the destruction of the house. What do you think?" Technus asked Mac.

"My brain hurts."

"Nobody cares, really." Vlad said. "Now we have to get this back to the house before it's completely blown up. I wonder if it is already."

"Don't say that about my friends!" Mac said, practically yelling; standing on his toes, standing up to Vlad's mighty ghost form. "They've thought about me all the time. They've protected me from anything, especially from ghosts!"

"Come now, child. Do you really still trust them? After all the pain you went through..."

"And you never told your mother about Terrence." technus added.

"She doesn't get home until ten, and I'm asleep by then." Mac said. Technus thought for a moment.

"Okay, you got me there."

"But while your pain grows, I think I can fix it..." Skulker began, holding up plane tickets to Europe, 7 tickets to be exact. "...because I believe I have something you've been looking for right here."

"The plane tickets." Mac said, to himself. "How ever did you find them?"

"I found them on the street a few months ago. I knew they were yours."

To be continued.