Hey guys, sorry about the rushed chappy last time. My parents kick my off the computer around 9:00 so I had to hurry. I've been sick these last couple of days, so I got to stay home from school. I used that chance to write, I have the next couple chapters written. So the more people review, the sooner I will post them. It's all up to you! Happy reading!

(Ulrich P.O.V.)

We go through first period normally, and second period too. In third period, I found out I failed another math test, bringing my grade down to a 'D'. At lunchtime, we all grab something really quick to eat, and then rush over to the infirmary. Dorothy sees us coming and stops us just outside.

"No, I'm afraid you still can't come in. For all we know, it could be contagious. If his condition doesn't improve by the time school is over, he'll have to be transferred to the hospital. This could be serious."

"Can we just look at him?" Yumi pleads.

"No, I'm afraid not. But you can do one thing…."

"What's that?"

"Pray." Without another word, she walks back inside and locks the door.

"Okay, this is serious. If Macas is transferred to a hospital, I don't know what will happen. We may never get the chance to help him get free of XANA's virus." I say. They all nod in agreement.

"Okay, what do you say we-." Odd is cut off by Mr. Delmas walking up behind us.

"Hello students. How is Mr. Keloly?"

"Uh, not good sir. He might have to be transferred to the hospital."

"Oh, that's too bad. Well, I guess we can't have a trial for a sick student, can we?"

"Uh, no sir."

"Well, I've postponed his trial indefinitely. For Mr. Della-Robbia, that means until he's better." He says.

"Oh, okay. But before Jeremie left, he found something in that CD that I thought you might want to see." I say quickly.

Maybe we won't have to have a trial after all….

"Oh, really? What's that?"

"The security camera was tampered with. A movie was laid overtop that shows that Macas didn't really beat up Yumi." Mr. Delmas' eyebrows shoot up into his hair.

"Oh really now?"

"Yes sir."

"Well, right now you need to get to class. After school, come by my office and show me."

"Yes sir." I nod to the others, and we walk off as Mr. Delmas walks into the infirmary.

"Guys, we need to get to the factory." I say.

"Okay, let's go." Odd says.

"No. If anyone else missed class, we could get in trouble. I need Aelita to come with me, but everyone needs to go to class." Odd nods in agreement and walks off. Yumi looks disapproving.

"Yumi, please, go to class. It will help get your mind off what has happened the last couple days." She reluctantly nods. I kiss her and she runs off to her last period of the day.

"Okay Aelita, let's go." We run off towards the park, watching for Jim or other teachers. When we enter the tunnel, Aelita stops and looks at me.

"Ulrich, why did you need me to come?"

"What, you think I can operate the supercomputer? After what I did with Jeremie's computer yesterday? Come on, I barely knew how to plug it in!" She laughs and we go down the tunnel.

"But then, why did you come?" She asks as we cross the bridge.

"With XANA out and about, there's no way any of us can go anywhere by ourselves." We enter the elevator and go down to the control room. Aelita sits in the chair and types something.

"Woah." She says.

"What?" I look over her shoulder.

"Watch this." She runs the movie from the CD. It looks just like before.

"So?"

"Now watch this." She runs the movie after the extraction. It shows Yumi come onscreen, and then a blank white spot. It's as if someone just erased only William from the picture. You can tell it's a human, but not who it is.

"I think XANA goofed. When we extracted the overlay, it removed everything underneath it as well!" It shows me come on screen and kick the white personage. The blank area falls to the ground and doesn't move, just like William did.

"Yes!" Aelita burns the movie onto an extra CD and puts both into separate cases. I put them both in my pocket, but stop Aelita from getting up.

"Wait. We have some more time. Do you know if you can do something about Macas?"

"I can't do anything, but Jeremie can."

"Well, Jeremie isn't exactly available to us now."

"No… but his old computer is…." My eyes widen.

"I'll be back in about ten minutes." I say. I run out of the factory and back to the school. I run into Jeremie's room and grab his old computer with his miscellaneous attachments. As I walk back out, I get confronted by Sissi.

"Why hello Ulrich dear. What could you possibly be doing out of class during fifth period?"

"Not now Sissi. Wait, why are you out of class?"

"I didn't feel good." She said it in such a way that anyone could tell she was lying.

"Now get out of my way, I have things to do."

"Oh, I don't think so. Not unless you want even more trouble for you and your friends." I stop in my tracks.

"What?"

"Oh, this stuff was easy. Macas' trial was easy to set up, William has very good connections."

"WILLIAM?"

"Yah. I think he wants Yumi for himself, so he wants me to break you two up. And unless you do, you and your friends are going to find it hard to stay out of trouble."

"There's no fucking way…."

"Oooh, language Ulrich. I'll give you a couple days to think about it…." Without another word, she walks off. I just stand there in a stupor.

XANA must have possessed William! He needed someone with good contacts here, so he picked Sissi! There's no telling what could happen!

After a minute, I realize what I was doing. I run off again to the factory. Once there, I set up Jeremie's computer (with more help from Aelita).

"Aelita, something is wrong."

"What's that?" She asks absent-mindedly. She's searching through Jeremie's old files for something.

"Sissi is the cause of all this." Aelita instantly perks up.

"What?"

"She just told me that she was working with William to set up Macas' trial. And unless I dump Yumi, it's only going to get worse…." I sit down on the floor with my head in my hands.

"Don't worry Ulrich, we'll find something. There's no way she can split you two up." Aelita smiles and returns to Jeremie's computer. All of the sudden, I remember something. Something Jeremie said when he broke free of XANA….

"Aelita, look for something called the Destroyer." She looks at me weird.

"What for?"

"Just do it." She types a couple buttons and brings it up. I look over her shoulder at the description. It's a program designed to destroy Lyoko profiles in case of an emergency.

"Why did you want me to find that?" I feel the blood rush out of my face as I realize what Jeremie was talking about.

"When Jeremie broke free of XANA's control, he said something else. He said when you found the Destroyer, to use it on him. He'd rather die than be under XANA's control." Aelita's eyes tear up, she start crying uncontrollably.

"No Ulrich, we can't!" She hugs me and cries into my shoulder for a while.

"Don't worry Aelita. We're not going to use it. We'll find some other way to bring him back." Aelita sits up and wipes her eyes.

"I'm sorry Ulrich, I just…."

"Don't worry about it. You love him, don't you?" She blushes.

"Yes. At least, I think I do…." I make a quick connection. Odd. Odd has been doing so much for Aelita lately… in fact, I think Odd might have a crush on her!

"Do you have doubts?"

"Yes… I've been virtual for as long as I can remember… I'm not sure I know what love feels like. Can you describe it to me?" Now it's my turn to blush.

"Well, no. Not really. Trying to describe love… detracts from the purity of it. You can't describe love, you have to feel it and understand it for yourself."

Odd has a crush on Aelita, but Aelita is in love with Jeremie… this is one messed up love triangle!

"Thank you Ulrich." She wipes her eyes again and turns back to the computer. After a couple of minutes, she starts typing furiously.

"What is it?"

"I think I may have found something!" She pulls up and information window. The description for the program is it brutally removes a virus. Notes from Jeremie say that he refuses to use it on Aelita because it could destroy her.

"Could this work?"

"It might. But it would be very risky."

"What's the problem?"

"It gets rid of the virus by destroying all infected files. If it gets rid of too many files in the process, it would delete the person. Plus, to activate it we would have to get Macas into a scanner."

"That means we would have to get him out before Dorothy takes him to the hospital!"

(Odd P.O.V.)

I'm extremely bored in science class. Last period of the day is bad enough, but with Ulrich, Jeremie, Aelita and Macas gone, it's driving me insane. I find myself continually looking at the clock, willing it to go faster. As soon as the bell rings, I dash out of the classroom and call Ulrich.

"Odd, head to the infirmary! Don't talk to Dorothy or anything, just wait for me there!" That's all Ulrich says before he hangs up. I run for the infirmary and stop outside. I'm not there for more than 30 seconds before Ulrich shows up. He leans over, trying to catch his breath.

"Odd… we need… to get Macas to the factory."

"What? Why?"

"We found a way to hopefully get rid of the virus. We just need to take him to the factory and put him in the scanners before he gets moved to the hospital. That will be any minute!"

"Great, but how are we going to get past Dorothy?"

"I'll take care of her, just get in and out as soon as she's gone!" He pushes me out of sight and knocks on the door.

"Dorothy! Aelita got hurt! I think she broke her leg!" He says. I stand in shock for a second before I realize it's just a cover story. Ulrich runs past me with Dorothy right behind him. I peek around the corner, no one is by the infirmary. I rush inside to see Macas lying on the bed. He looks deathly pale and he has XANA's red eye on his chest. I carefully pick him up and sling him over my shoulders. I run outside as quickly as possible and head towards the park. Macas starts coughing, so I stop and lie him on the ground. He keeps coughing, and starts coughing up blood. After a minute, he stops and I pick him up again.

"Don't worry buddy, we found something to help you." I enter the sewers. Deciding there's no other way, I just run with him over my shoulder. It's a long run, and I'm beginning to tire. I get to the bridge, and my legs begin to give out. I stop for a second to steady myself, then go on again. Just before I reach the balcony, my right leg buckles. I fall to the ground and Macas hits hard. He rolls slightly, and reaches the edge. I quickly grab him before he falls and pull him back. At that moment, Ulrich and Aelita show up.

"Hey Odd, careful!" He helps pull Macas back away from the edge.

"Well, he's not exactly a feather, now is he?" I say. Ulrich gives me a hand up. Aelita and Ulrich grab Macas and take him down the stairs, while I take the rope and get ready. I walk into the control room and realize I have no clue how to get ready. So I go down to the scanner room and wait. After a couple of minutes, Ulrich walks out of the elevator with Macas in tow. Macas looks worse and worse, his skin is beginning to lose it's pigment.

"Help me get him into the scanners." I grab an arm and we sit Macas down in the scanners. Ulrich goes up to the control room while I wait here.

"Okay Odd, I'm going to explain the situation to you." Aelita's voice says over the speakers.

"Okay, but don't expect me to understand half of it."

"Macas' virtual form was infected with a virus, it corrupted about half of his files before he was de-virtualized. This new program should delete all the infected files, then re-create them as they were before they were infected. But if it has to delete more than half the files, then Macas himself will be deleted and lost forever."

"Okay. Go ahead with it. Tell me if anything's wrong."

"Okay." The scanner door closes, with Macas inside. I hear the scanner warm up, and Aelita begins the process. After about five minutes, I hear her gasp.

"Aelita! What's wrong?"

"I-I made an error in calculations. He-he might not make it…."

"No!"

"We'll find out in a couple minutes." I pace the floor, I feel like an expectant father. After a couple minutes, I hear crying over the speaker.

"Aelita! What's happening!"

"It's deleting too many files. Macas is going to be lost…" Ulrich's voice says. Aelita must have been crying too much to answer. A ridiculous thought pops into my head, but I always go with my ridiculous thoughts.

"Ulrich! I'm getting into a scanner! Transfer some of my good files to Macas then use the program to re-create me!"

"Odd, I don't know if that will work!" Aelita says. She must have literally forced Ulrich out of the chair.

"Just do it! We can't lose Macas, not if the prophecy is true!" I step into the scanner. The doors close behind me.

"Aelita, if this doesn't work, I want you to know that I think I love you." I hear her gasp, but say nothing more. The scanner scans me in, but doesn't virtualize me to Lyoko. I feel like I'm stuck in the virtualization process, just before I would have appeared. I can still hear Aelita though. I open my eyes and see nothing but white. Except for Macas, he's standing limply next to me in his Lyoko outfit. I try to move, but I can't. I can see myself, I'm also in Lyokian(is that a word?) form. A purple aura surrounds me and a red aura surrounds Macas. They grow bigger until they are touching. My purple energy transforms into red energy which gets absorbed by Macas' aura.

"Success!" I hear Aelita say. Macas vanishes into the white, but I stay.

"Oh no!" Aelita says. She starts yelling something, but it fades out until I can't hear anything.

Oh shit….

Yah, I know. It's a cliffy. But I had to stop here, this chapter was getting pretty long. Just wait, the next chapter is HUGE. I mean massive, like 3,000 words. I may shorten it... depending on reviews... and now, I leave you with a quote:

290. I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. For those who like coutry musc, denigrate neans to 'put down.'

No offense to anyone who does like country music. I think this is kind of funny, because I listen to country sometimes. Don't take it personally. Please. I would rather not be chased by an angry mob. Review please!