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"In recent events, last night's villain, Dr. Animo, was being hauled off to jail in the police van, but the vehicle was mysteriously hacked, and Dr. Animo has not been seen since the vehicle's disappearance. It is unclear where the vehicle has gone, and Dr. Animo has not been found at the moment."

Tony turned the holo-screen off from his desk and sighed in annoyance. "As you can see Tony, Dr. Animo has disappeared, but we're unable to track the hacker." Fury told the superhero.

"Isn't this supposed to be Aelita's type of job?" Tony asked as he looked through the files about Dr. Animo's case.

"It is, but she's not the person we're asking to do it." Fury answered with a shrug. "She and Danny have other things to take care of right now, and while Aelita can find Dr. Animo under an hour, it also came to our attention that Xavier doesn't know about her and Danny's involvement yesterday."

Tony put the file down and raised an eyebrow. "I find that a bit her to believe."

"So do I, but his mind is occupied with his house guests, and one of them is Dr. Animo's arch rival."

"And you want the rival not to know about Animo's escape." Tony finished narrowing his eyebrows suspiciously.

"No, if the boy finds out then he can take care of Animo. He's dealt with the villain long enough to defeat him without trouble. The main reason is because the man has an accomplice that has mutant powers that can rival Aelita's mutant powers. If she were to find out…"

"We could end up with a major electronic disaster." Tony finished closing his eyes knowing how bad the situation could end up going. "I'll do it then, but you would be crazy to think I would go after these guys with your team Fury."

"That's why I am only asking you to find them. My team will handle the rest from there." Fury explained as he got up from his seat. "You're doing the right thing Stark."

"I'll be the judge of that myself." Tony watched Fury leave his office with the door closing behind him. "Jarvis, I need you to call Aelita up and have her find Dr. Animo and this hacker who freed him."

"Sir, I would recommend that you should take Director Fury's warning into consideration. If this hacker has the same type of mutant power as Aelita; then we would be facing a major catastrophe." Jarvis warned Tony.

"I know, but Aelita and this mutant will meet each other. It only matters at what time it will happen, and I would rather have it happen sooner than later when it comes to technology." Tony explained to his A.I. "Besides, if this man is just like Aelita, then the catastrophe would be a lot worse without her involvement."

"I understand sir. I'll go ring her up with the situation then."

"Thanks Jarvis."

Meanwhile in the Danger Room, Cyclops and Nightcrawler hid behind the wall allowing it to be hit by the lasers being fired at them. "You got a plan?" Kurt asked as Scott peaked his head out at their situation.

Scott moved his head back quickly as a laser flies past his head. "I have a plan, but we need to know where the others are." Scott answered.

"We're all that's left." Nightcrawler reminded him.

"Oh yeah, I forgot." Cyclops sighed in frustration running his hand through his hair. "Ok, see if you can teleport on top of the guns and have them fire at each other. Your distraction should be able to get some open shots to destroy those guns."

"You got a better plan?" Nightcrawler asked feeling uneasy with the plan.

"If the others were still here this would be way easier, but they aren't. This training session is up to us now."

Nightcrawler nodded and said, "Give me a minute to find da right spots to teleport." He teleported behind another wall and poked his head out glancing around carefully. He ducks back behind the wall and presses the button on his com link. "Ok, I'll be distracting them…now!" He teleported into the center of the machines and crouched as one laser flew over him. He teleported onto the machine that fired then stuck out his tongue as two other laser guns pointed at him. "You can't hit me!" Suddenly all the guns pointed right on him making him gulp in fear. "Uh, it was just a joke." He teleported away just as the guns fired at him and appeared behind the wall next to Cyclops.

"What kind of distraction was that?" Cyclops asked raising an eyebrow.

"A bad one…" Nightcrawler muttered in despair.

Scott came out from behind the wall and fired his blaster from his eyes at the guns three times before getting behind the wall as the guns pointed straight at him. "Do you think you can have a better way to distract those guns?"

Kurt nodded and teleported out on top of the ceiling above the guns. "This will enough for tonight you two." Charles said getting the two to relax in relief.

"Man, I really didn't want to my behind burnt from Aelita's upgraded defense." Kurt muttered happily.

"Don't be like that Kurt. Your distraction was pretty good compared to other distractions that you've done." Aelita said from the control room.

"He said, 'You can't hit this.'" Danny said sarcastically giving her blank look which got her to shrug sheepishly.

"I could have done better wid dat." Kurt agreed with Danny's meaning to his comment.

"Relax Kurt. I probably would have done worse if I was in your situation." Danny told Kurt before phasing into the Danger Room as everyone else except Aelita and Charles entered the Danger Room.

"That was so cool!" Ben exclaimed happily.

"I wouldn't say it was cool Ben." Max said crossing his arms. "He made a risky distraction that could have gotten himself killed, but there is always room for improvement."

"It didn't take long for the rest of us to be defeated though." Jean pointed out with a sigh.

"How did she even catch you off guard?" Evan asked crossing his arms as Aelita and Charles came out of the elevator into the Danger Room.

"I wasn't quick enough to see the attack coming." Jean answered crossing her arms.

Max rubbed his chin with his right hand in thought, "Hm, it seems that most of you still have a lot to learn, but there is room for improvements. I actually might enjoy working here for a couple terms."

"That's good to hear Max, but it is time for Danny and Aelita's weapon training." Logan said smirking at the two teens who were smiling nervously.

"Do we have to do weapon training with the guests here?" Danny asked hoping to get out of Logan's special training.

"Now Phantom, I thought you wanted the training." Logan taunted with a devilish grin.

"We do, but you tend to go a bit overboard while we're here in the Danger Room with weapons." Aelita answered crossing her arms. "Plus, I doubt our guests want to watch us train all day."

"Nice try Pinkie, but you guys are going to train." Logan pulled two katanas out and tossed them at the two teens. The two teens caught the katanas and walked off into the center of the Danger Room. "Battle stance…" Logan commanded which got the two teens into battle stances with the katanas facing at the other teen. "Now attack!"

The two teens stare each other down as their katanas moved closer to their bodies. They gave each other a respective bow then got back into their battle stance. They charged at each other and clashed their swords against each other. Aelita jumped back a bit then sliced her sword down at Danny who deflected it and swung his sword back at her. Aelita blocked Danny's strike on her right side and held it there for a couple seconds before pushing him off of the attack.

Danny staggered back a couple steps then blocked Aelita katana with his katana. The two push on each other then jump back to stare at each other with serious looks in their eyes. Aelita ran at him and swung her katana down which Danny blocked above his head. Danny swung his leg out from underneath her making her fall onto her back. Aelita felt the katana slip out of her hand and groaned.

Danny put his katana up against her neck and said, "Looks like I win."

Aelita moved the katana away from her neck and got up on her feet. "You win this time, but I'll win the next spar in training." She told him before picking up her katana.

Everyone except Logan and Charles were staring at the two in shock. "Did that just happen?" Rogue asked quietly.

"It did." Kurt answered.

"That was incredible!" Ben exclaimed happily. He turned towards his grandfather and asked, "Can I learn how to fight with a sword, grandpa? I promise that I will try not to hurt anyone!"

"You can't seriously believe that grandpa would actually let you train using weapons, Doofus." Gwen said putting her hands on her hips.

"It could happen." Ben glanced at Gwen and smirked, "You want to learn how to use a sword as well, Dweeb."

Gwen scoffed and left the Danger Room saying, "As if Doofus, they just made it seem interesting."

"She's in denial."

"She's not in denial Ben." Max said catching his grandson's attention. "She is right about you not learning how to use a sword though."

"Ah man…" Ben groaned at the answer.

"Sorry Ben, but that type of training is meant for those of an older age." Max explained to his grandson.

"Does that mean I can learn when I'm older?" Ben asked getting hopeful.

Max chuckled, "We'll see, but there are other things you need to train with first."

"Yes grandpa." Ben replied.

"Well then…" Max turned his attention to the other students to find the students except for Danny and Aelita gone. "Where did the students go?"

"They're done with training for the day." Charles answered with a smile. "Danny and Aelita train for another hour using different types of weapons. The others were offered to join, but none of them want to be trained by Logan since he tends to be a bit harsh with his training."

"That's putting it lightly." Logan said as he turned his attention back to the two teens as Aelita made training dummies come up out of the ground in the Danger Room. "Ok, now you guys will be fighting the metal test dummies that can fight back."

"I see your point." Max muttered as Ben stared at the training with wide eyes.

"I think I might want a different teacher when I'm older grandpa." Ben whispered to Max.

"I heard you, bub." Logan said giving Ben a small glare.

"Uh…" Ben ran off out of the Danger Room leaving the four adults and the two teens in the Danger Room.

Logan smirked at the retreating kid before turning his attention back to the teens. "Let's leave them to their training." Ororo said.

"Good idea." Max said as the three adults left the Danger Room leaving the three behind with their training.

Odd Della Robbia climbed on top of the ceiling in the training room on the Helicarrier and stopped right above Ulrich. He released his claws from the ceiling and fired a laser arrow from each wrist. He watches Ulrich run from the spot and lands on the ground where Ulrich was. "Drat, I was hoping that would have hit." Odd muttered.

"I almost didn't see it coming." Ulrich told his friend as he pulled his katanas out of the sheaths on his back.

"Well, you can't blame me for trying." Odd replied back with a shrug.

"Are you guys training again?" Yumi asked from the control room getting the two to turn their attention to her.

"What's wrong with training? Tony didn't want us to stay at his place while he's at work so…" Odd trailed off hoping Yumi got the message.

Yumi sighed, "I'm surprised that you guys are majorly serious about this."

Ulrich and Odd glanced at each other then back at Yumi. "You weren't there when Jeremy's mind thought it would be a good idea to fall off into the Digital Sea." Ulrich told her seriously. "We're getting ready when more of his mind makes an appearance."

Yumi's eyes soften at the mention of Jeremy. "I guess I'll leave you guys to your training then." She muttered before leaving the room.

"How much have we been training the past couple days?" Odd asked as his Lyoko uniform disappeared.

Ulrich put his katanas back in the sheaths and had his Lyoko uniform deactivate while saying, "Too much according to Yumi, but she is right. We've been focusing so much on training that we've been ignoring everything else."

"Can you blame us?" Odd asked as they left the training room. "After what Jeremy did back at the Cortex I thought they would have joined us."

"True, but they didn't see it happen in person like we did." Ulrich pointed out as they walked through the hallway.

"Hey Odd, could you come here for a second?" Hawkeye asked as he saw the two teens walk by him.

Odd turned and to Hawkeye and nodded, "Sure thing."

"I'll go find Jeremy and Yumi." Ulrich said leaving the pair alone.

Hawkeye led Odd through the Helicarrier and entered a small room having the door close and lock behind Odd. "What do you want to talk about?" Odd asked as Hawkeye sat down in front of the computer.

"I've been watching you and your friend's training in the training room, and I've been thinking about a few things, but I need to know." Hawkeye looked at Odd with a serious gaze. "Why have you been training these past few days?"

Odd smiled nervously and asked, "Does there have to be a reason? I mean there could…"

"Odd…" Odd stopped and kept his nervous smile on his face. "There aren't any cameras in this room. This is just between you and me, kid."

Odd closed his eyes and sighed, "You remember the rescue mission we went on?"

"Hard to forget about the easiest infiltration mission I ever had."

Odd put his hands in his pockets and nodded, "Well, when we told you guys that Jeremy didn't make it, we found out that Jeremy transferred his mind into the virtual world that this Tyrone fellow created."

"You're kidding me." Hawkeye muttered in surprise.

Odd opened his eyes and said, "I'm not good with all of the details, but the part we met in the virtual world…"

"Wait, you have a way to go into the virtual world?" Hawkeye asked getting up from his seat.

"I thought Fury told everyone about Lyoko." Odd said raising an eyebrow in confusion.

Hawkeye crossed his arms and shook his head. "No, most of the things Fury knows about, he tends to keep to himself unless the time calls for it."

Odd shrugged, "Oh well, we found part of Jeremy's mind at the Cortex and connected our supercomputer to Tyrone's supercomputer so we can find some things out on what Tyrone is up to."

"There's more to this, isn't there?"

Odd closed his eyes and sighed, "We found Jeremy in the Virtual World, but his mind was mostly focused on the negative things going on around him. I didn't know about it until I had a vision of him jumping off the platform into the Digital Sea."

"What's the Digital Sea?"

Odd leaned against the wall and crossed his arms. "The Digital Sea is…I guess you could call it the movement for the internet. I forgot how Jeremy explained it. All I remember is that if you touch it then you would break into millions of pieces."

"Meaning the person will either die or will be in so many parts that you might as well be dead." Hawkeye muttered in distaste. "How do you move throughout this virtual world?"

"It's like moving in the real world only the supercomputer scans us into Lyoko and gives us what we most desire or dream or whatever Jeremy told me." Odd finished with a shrug.

Hawkeye raised an eyebrow at the explanation. "Does that mean you can look like anything like a purple cat?"

"I'm still confused about that part." Odd rubbed the back of his neck with a nervous smile on his face. "I never dream about cats nor fantasize about them, but I like the rest of the features that came with the suit so I can't complain."

Hawkeye nodded, "Guess that means if I go into this virtual world I probably wouldn't be an archer."

Odd shrugged, "Who knows? Ulrich and Yumi know some kind of martial arts and took up forms of a samurai and a ninja."

Hawkeye chuckled, "That gives me some hope if I ever do go into the virtual realm." He sat back down on his chair and crossed his arms. "What happened to your friend Jeremy?"

"He decided to fall off the platform and go into the digital sea. I sped off on my Overboard and saved him before he could hit the digital sea. Now Aelita is trying to figure out where the rest of Jeremy's mind is and hoping to bring him back to the real world." Odd finished explaining with a frown on his face.

Hawkeye gave Odd a serious stare and asked, "How much have you and Ulrich been training since this event?"

"A few hours these past few days I guess." Odd muttered with a shrug.

"Then I guess we better push up your team's training." Odd looked over at Hawkeye in surprise. "And I mean your whole team including Aelita."

Aelita closed her phone and glanced over at Danny and Rogue sitting on the couch talking to each with smiles on her face. She left the room and saw Rachel coming out of the dining room. "Who was it that called you?" Rachel asked curiously.

Aelita looked around carefully and said, "It was Tony Stark's A.I. Jarvis. He told me that Dr. Animo was freed from the police van while they were on their way to prison."

"That doesn't sound good." Rachel replied back crossing her arms.

"It isn't, but he had help from a mutant who can hack into electrical machines like I can."

"There's another hacker mutant like you? I thought everyone's mutant powers work differently from each other."

"They do," Aelita closed her eyes and sighed, "but it isn't impossible."

"Why did Jarvis call you then?" Rachel asked narrowing her eyebrows.

"Tony wants me to use my powers to find Dr. Animo and the hacker's location." Aelita glanced behind her to see Danny and Rogue standing behind her with serious expressions. "Would you guys be able to help me with this?"

"Ah barely know anything about computers, and Ah'm guessing the Professor knows nothing about this." Rogue said giving her boyfriend a curious glance.

"I'll explain it when we take care of finding Dr. Animo." Danny answered the unasked question Rogue was giving him from her stare. He looked over at her with a serious look in his eyes. "I promise."

Rogue looked back at Aelita and crossed her arms. "Well, good luck then. Ah have to go with Jean and Kitty to buy supplies for school."

"Oh yeah, she asked us to go as well." Rachel muttered with a sigh. "Too bad I got my supplies from my parents earlier." She replied with a smirk forming on her face.

Aelita giggled and put her hands together behind her back as she took a few steps towards the front door. "I already bought my school supplies with my friends last week."

Danny looked between the girls and shrugged, "Eh, I still have to get my school supplies, but I got time to take care of that. Dr. Animo is more important right now."

Aelita nodded and asked, "Are you two willing to go with me?"

"I was there with you fighting those mutated animals. Don't expect me not to be there to help you with this." Danny told her seriously.

Rachel shrugged, "Eh, I got nothing better to do."

"Good luck you guys." Rogue said before the three walked off towards the garage. Rogue grabbed Danny's arm and pulled him towards her giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Yah better come back alive."

"You have nothing to worry about." Danny assured her. He kissed her on the cheek and felt her let go of his arm. "We'll try to be back tonight."

Rogue watches him run off towards the garage and sighs, "Ah'm starting to feel things will be different after this."

"Did Danny leave with Aelita for that project again?" Kitty asked as she and Jean came out into the lobby.

"How much did yah hear?" Rogue asked turning her gaze to Jean.

"We didn't hear anything." Jean answered truthfully as she raised an eyebrow. "Was there something we're not supposed to know?"

Rogue mentally sighed in relief. "No, yah guys showed up just a few seconds after the conversation finished, but Aelita was called to help someone search for someone in particular."

"I hope she doesn't use her mutant powers to search for this person. We don't need people to find out about mutants." Kitty pointed out.

Rogue nodded and crossed her arms. "Yah got no argument from me, but we better get going to get our school supplies."

Jean pulled Scott's car keys out and smiled, "Good thing I asked to borrow Scott's car, but it would have been better if we took Danny's truck instead."

Kitty rolled her eyes. "Yeah, and Danny would have allowed you to drive it." She muttered sarcastically.

Jean walked off towards the garage saying, "It wasn't my fault that one of his tires blew."

Rogue and Kitty looked at each other then back at Jean. "Yah flattened all four of them, and you were driving out the front gate." Rogue reminded her friend.

Jean stopped and winced at the memory. "How was I supposed to know Evan and Kurt were training?"

"Everyone knew." Both girls replied with dead-panned looks.

Jean messaged her forehead with her index and middle finger and asked, "May we please drop it?"

Kurt stands on the ceiling staring down at the three girls with a raised eyebrow at their conversation but says nothing as they leave the building. "Are you done spying on them? Dawn asked getting him to turn towards her.

"I wasn't spying on them." Kurt answered as he released his hold on the ceiling. He grabs the railing with his tail and swings up for him to land on the floor a few feet from Dawn. "I was minding my own business until I heard Aelita talking about someone called Dr. Animo."

Dawn raised an eyebrow. "What were they talking about?"

"I zought you didn't want to get involved vid zis?"

Dawn crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow. "Kurt, your aura is saying that the conversation is serious and dangerous." She told him.

Kurt rubs the back of his neck and sighs, "Zis situation requires of me to tell da professor." He walks off heading towards the Study.

Dawn watches Kurt walk away and mutters, "Dr. Animo…is he responsible for that bad feeling I had about the animals?" She turns her head and see Scott's car leave past the gate. She feels something crawl up her arm and glances at the mouse on her should. She keeps her eyes on the mouse then walks off to her room while listening to the mouse talk to her. She stops when the mouse stops squeaking and mutters, "Thank you." The mouse squeaks a couple times before running off. "I might like all living creatures, but mutating them is another thing." She mutters as she enters her room.

Ben shot the basketball and groaned the ball bounces off the rim and bounces away from him. He looks around carefully before pressing the button on the Omnitrix. He turns the dial around and smirks when he sees the image it landed on. "Time to go Fourarms."

"What did Grandpa Max say about using the Omnitrix?" Gwen asked.

"Ah!" Ben jumped and looked at his cousin in surprise. "Don't surprise me like that!"

"Ben…" Gwen growled as her hands rested on her hips.

Ben winced and sighed, "Sorry, but we haven't done anything except watch everyone use their powers, which were awesome to watch by the way, but I need to do something."

Gwen rubbed her forehead and sighed, "I know what you mean. Aelita makes me like an amateur when it comes to be the smart one."

"She's way older than you too." Ben pointed out.

"You're not helping." Gwen looked out at the view of the city and asked, "What do you think about the mutants?"

Ben looked out at the view of the city and smiled, "They're really cool. I just wish I can show them my aliens, but there are some things that Grandpa Max get really annoyed about for no reason."

"Ben…"

"I know Gwen." Ben closed his eyes and sat down on the ground. "I just want to meet an actual hero instead of being cooped up at this place."

"We could ask grandpa to take us to town, but you'll find trouble as soon as we get there." She pointed out making Ben give a frustrated groan. "It still wouldn't hurt to ask though."

Ben looked down at the Omnitrix then back at the town. "I could just go Stinkfly and fly us over there."

"You know how mad grandpa will be if you did that. Do you want to ruin grandpa's chance of getting a job working at this awesome school?"

"You're right."

"I know I am."

"Don't get used to it Dweeb."

Gwen held her tongue on replying back and shook her head at his reaction. "If you do go alien, don't leave me here alone." She told him before leaving.

Ben just stared at her as she left and sighed in defeat. "Life was much easier when I could go hero and fight bad guys, but I can't do that here. Well…grandpa told me in multiple places not to use the Omnitrix, and that never stopped me." He shrugged off those memories and got up on his feet. "I might as well see if grandpa will drive us into town then." He took one step then made a disgusted look. "Did I just act mature? Oh yuck! I'm too young to do that!"

Gwen, who heard Ben's last three statements, chuckled at Ben's agony. "You have to grow up sometime Doofus, and I will take that victory over our talk." She said with a smirk on her face. 'Even if it wasn't an argument.' She added mentally.

"Thanks for coming Aelita." Tony said as he led her, Danny, and Rachel through the hallway.

"It's no problem Tony, but I am curious why Jarvis had to call me instead of you." Aelita remarked jokingly.

"Ha ha, I shouldn't have to explain the reason why I had Jarvis call you since he should have explained everything to you." Tony reminded the teen who nodded in response. "Good, do you think you could find out where Dr. Animo and his partner could be?"

"I can do it in a snap." Aelita said as the group entered into the lab.

Danny put his arm in front of Rachel which got her to turn her head to him as Aelita and Tony went to the desk. "They'll be working on this for a little bit." He told her seriously.

"Then what are we going to be doing until they're done?" Rachel asked him curiously.

"Follow me." Danny led her through the lab and pushed open a secret door. He goes through the door with her following him. She widened her eyes in surprise as Danny walked over to the supercomputer. "Say 'hello' to the supercomputer to a virtual world known as Lyoko." He told her as he sat down on the chair connected to the supercomputer.

"Why did you bring me here?" Rachel asked curiously as she walked up to the supercomputer.

"Believe it or not, I figured this could take a while."

"Did you bring us here to have fun?" Rachel asked raising an eyebrow at Danny's way of fun.

"Actually, I brought us here for me to learn how to use the supercomputer and for you to know what Aelita and I are getting ourselves into with the virtual world." He told her as he started to type on the keyboard.

Rachel turns her attention the holographic map of Lyoko and walks over to it curiously. She watches the map as it spins around before it zooms in on the forest sector. She blinks as it reveals the virtual forest widening her eyes in surprise. "Is this virtual world real?" She asked turning her attention to Danny.

Danny nods his head as he looks over the commands on what to do. "Yep, I never been on Lyoko, but I have gone into the scanner and been on another virtual world."

"What do you mean?"

"I'll explain later." Danny said hoping to avoid the question. "Plus, the story is Aelita's to tell not mine." He typed a few more commands in and muttered, "Hm, it seems Tony hasn't scanned himself into the Supercomputer."

"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Rachel asked raising an eyebrow.

Danny smacks his forehead and mutters, "I forget she knows nothing about this." He looks over at Rachel and shrugs, "In my opinion I don't really care since this belongs to Aelita, but she probably thinks it is a good thing." He turns back around and starts typing again.

"What is really going on with this supercomputer Danny?" Rachel asked curiously as she crosses her arms narrowing her eyebrows at him.

Danny turns his head and says, "Aelita is better at explaining this than I will be." He sighs and types a few command codes in bringing up the avatar images of the Lyoko Warriors.

"Danny, why are you on the supercomputer?" Aelita asked as her image came up on the screen.

"I am testing out some of the command codes, so I can be ready for future situations." He answers as he looks over his avatar.

Aelita nods her head slightly and says, "Ok, but we found the hacker's location, and my old team will be joining us."

Danny smiles, "Cool, guess this means we got eight of us taking on this hacker."

"Six actually, you and my team will be going to the location. Rachel doesn't have anything to help cover up her image which could expose mutants to the public if this fight goes from inside a building out onto the street."

"What about Tony Stark?"

"I just hacked his armor to prove that his armor will become hacked if he comes along."

"Sneaky…" Rachel mutters in surprise.

"Do your friends even know about this?" Danny asks raising an eyebrow at the sudden idea to pull her first group of friends into it.

Aelita smiles nervously and says, "I was hoping that we could convince them to come along the moment we go see them."

"Isn't that a bit dangerous?"

Aelita giggles, "What's a life without a little danger in it?"

"You can't be serious, right?" Yumi asks as the five Lyoko Warriors and Danny stood in the room on the Helicarrier. "Do you seriously expect us to pick up our stuff and go with you to fight a couple evil villains? Aelita, have you gone seriously crazy since the last time we saw you? What would make you think we want our lives to become even crazier than they already are?"

"Hold on Yumi." Ulrich says catching his crush's attention. "After everything we've been through in a virtual world, I thought you would have accepted this. Plus, we might accidentally come up on a lead about Jeremy's mind that could be wondering the Digital Sea."

William puts his hands and asks, "Now before any of us start arguing about what we should do, we need to remember one thing. If Aelita is doing this to protect people, wasn't it the same when we were on Lyoko?"

"He's right." Odd said pumping his fists in excitement. "This will be more like real life, but we've faced many things against Xana in the real world before. What is stopping us from doing this?"

Ulrich nods his head in agreement and says, "Yeah, if we can find any clues to Jeremy's whereabouts then you can count me in."

"That's not what I'm worried about." Yumi said getting everyone's attention.

"What are you worried about Yumi?" Danny asked as he and Aelita glanced at the four.

"What will happen if one of us dies from this?"

The three male Lyoko Warriors stare at Yumi in surprise. "I see." Everyone looks at Danny after he said that. "You're afraid of losing someone else."

Aelita looks away from Danny with her eyes closed in shame. "After losing Jeremy and finding out that he's still alive, you started to doubt yourself." Aelita mutters getting the team to look at Aelita in shock.

"I don't doubt…"

"Yes you do!" Aelita yelled as she turned her gaze on Yumi. "After you were deleted on the Cortex and found out Jeremy tried to kill himself, you started to let your fear of losing someone else creep into your mind and allowed yourself to doubt to can protect us like you use to."

"That's why she was upset with us when we were training." Odd mutters in disbelief.

Ulrich looks away from Yumi and says, "It doesn't matter if you doubt yourself or not. Jeremy will need us in the future, and the only way to get him back is to become better than we already are."

"Look you guys, this isn't about Jeremy though. This is about us risking our lives to take down a mutant who has similar abilities like Aelita does." Yumi tried to explain.

"Yeah, and if he finds out about Lyoko, he could end up ruling the world." Odd told her getting her to stare at him in surprise. "Did you really forget that Aelita can use any electronic by the movement of her hands? If this guy is like her than we got serious problems."

Yumi looks at Aelita who was looking back at Yumi worry being shown in her eyes. "I'll go, but it doesn't mean I'll do this every time we come across some villain wanting to do evil things to the planet." She told them getting the group to cheer and smile at her.

"Where are we going anyway?" Odd asked Aelita.

"Remind me again why I left my original boss and joined you for some weird mutating experiments." Technus said as he went through the files he stole from Stark Industries.

"Your boss was going to get rid of you, and you needed someone who could help you get out without anyone noticing." Animo answered as he looked over the d.n.a. strands through his microscope.

"I know that much, but you are not even close to being quiet when the situation calls for it." Technus countered getting the scientist to groan.

"You're one to talk." Animo muttered in distaste. "No matter, did Stark put the information in his files on where he is putting the reactor?"

"Unfortunately, he must have figured we would have hacked his systems, or he would have put it up on file." Technus moved through the files then stopped when something popped into his mind. "Did you hide the vehicle far away from here?"

"Of course not, we need it to escape. Why would I even do such a thing?"

Technus stopped his work and frowned, "Oh boy…"

Suddenly a crashed was heard above them getting both of them to look up at the ceiling before it crashed down with dust of the crash flying everywhere. Odd jumped out of the dust and fired his laser arrows at Dr. Animo. Animo shrieked and ducked as the lasers flew all over his desk. "Now that's a dynamic entry." Odd remarked as the dust settled away revealing his team.

"You fool!" Animo yelled as he got up looking at the damage Odd did. He turned his attention to Odd and growled, "Don't you realize what you have just done?"

"Destroyed your evil research?" Odd asked rhetorically.

"Well…yes." Animo gave Odd a frown before pressing a button on his helmet. "You are going to realize that Dr. Animo should not be messed with."

"I should have seen this coming." Technus said as the five teens glared at him.

"Yumi, William, you guys go handle Dr. Animo with Odd. We'll take care of this guy." Aelita told her friends who nodded and left to help Odd.

"Now, who are you?" Danny asked as the three stayed on guard.

"I, Nicholai Technus, am a master over all things technology and can control any technology by my own will." Technus answered with major enthusiasm.

Ulrich blinked a couple times and asked, "Is he for real?"

"You seriously doubt that I can't control technology! I am Nicholai Technus, and I will end you and your friends with my power!"

"Whatever you say man, but we will stop you." Ulrich pulled his katanas out of the sheaths and ran straight at Technus.

Technus brought an invisible force field up in front of him and laughed as Ulrich skidded to a stop in front of it. "Ha ha! You thought I wouldn't have prepared for this! I always think ahead when I am in my lab. Now I will leave you children and have some fun."

"Oh no you don't, we will stop you before create a robot to destroy the town!" Danny yelled angrily at the genius.

Technus blinked a couple times then smirked, "That's a great idea kid. I was just going to get in my vehicle and leave the facility, but I like your plan more. You should be a teacher!"

Danny smacked his face as Ulrich and Aelita stared at Danny with neutral faces. "Did you seriously just give an evil villain?" Aelita asked him crossing her arms over her chest.

"I didn't know he was just going to leave the city." He muttered in distaste.

"Bye bye!" Technus said as he went into the elevator.

Danny and Aelita fazed through the force field and watched as the elevator went up towards the main land. "Ulrich, run up the way we crashed through and cut Technus off as we follow him." Aelita ordered.

"You got it princess." Ulrich ran off towards the top and smirked when he saw some stairs nearby. "Heh, he's not so smart now if you installed stairs for us to follow you." He ran up the stairs and kept his mind on stopping Technus.

Animo looked between the three teens as they held their weapons. 'Great, Technus will probably escape since I forgot to have him install the force field for me to escape.' He thought grimly. 'Good thing I got my own backup plan.' He smirked at the situation and pulled a remote out of his pocket. "Sorry kids, but it seems I'll have to leave you with my pets." He pressed the button which opened a trap door. The moment the trap door opened out came multiple giant mutated mosquitoes.

"Ok, now that's just gross." Odd remarked as Dr. Animo ran off.

"Have fun kiddies!"

Odd brought his wrist up and fired a laser arrow which broke open as a net and wrapped Dr. Animo up making him fall to the floor. "We'll deal with you later." Odd muttered before turning his attention to the mutated mosquitoes.

"Let's focus guys. If we're going to finish this we need to be in an open space." Yumi told them.

Odd brought the Overboard out and said, "I'll go grab this Dr. Animo guy and bring him to the surface with us so he doesn't escape. I'll meet you guys at the top!"

William nodded, "Sounds like a plan." William went into his smoke form and went through the opening. Yumi followed him on the Overwing with the giant mutated mosquitoes following them.

Odd shot over to Dr. Animo and grabbed the laser net saying, "All aboard the Overboard express!"

"Don't get cocky just because you caught me off guard." Animo remarked as he was placed on the Overboard behind Odd. "You teens have no idea what you are up against."

Odd chuckled, "Actually, we have a pretty good idea on what we're up against."

Technus walked out of the elevator and snapped his fingers bringing multiple cars in the parking garage to life. "I need to remind myself to thank Dr. Animo for building the lab under a parking garage." He muttered before breaking the cars apart into multiple pieces.

Ulrich skidded to a stop just in time to see the cars break into multiple pieces. "Oh boy, this isn't good." He muttered then ran straight at Technus.

"Hm?" Technus turned his gaze to Ulrich and fired some parts over at the teen who easily dodged through the parts but stopped when the parts crashed in front of him making miniature robots.

Ulrich looked up at Technus and clenched his teeth. "Don't make this harder than it is Technus. We're here to put you and your partner in jail." Ulrich told the adult.

"Don't sound too commanding kid. Everyone has to stay for some time before coming adults…Wait that didn't make any sense." Technus tapped his chin then snapped his fingers. "Here we go! Don't let the law go to your head kid. You're too young to handle the real life and death situations." Technus smiled, "That works perfectly!"

"I've faced life and death situations multiple times before Technus, but this situation will seem a little easier thanks to the training I've done." He told the adult who frowned.

"Fine then." Technus recalled the small robots and made the small parts go around his arms. "Let's see what you got kid. I'm willing to see what a young teen like you can do against a genius like me."

"Let's do this." Ulrich ran straight at Technus as Technus' hand became completely covered in metal.

"Yes let's dance." Technus ran at Ulrich and swung his now gauntlet covered hand at Ulrich.

Battle between Ulrich and Technus will happen in the next chapter, and yes it will be just between the two. Danny and Aelita will only interfere if the need be, but they will be doing something else anyway. Odd, William, and Yumi will be fighting the giant mutated mosquitoes which might be enjoyable.

Anyway, I would like it if you guys tell me what you thought about the chapter and if you see something that might need to be fixed just let me know through the review or the PM. Either way I hoped you guys enjoyed it and R&R.