Woo, it's me again! Back with another chapter of WTJB! This is the longest chapter I've written so far... man I feel good. Anyway...

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko.

Claimer: I do own Mia. I also own this fanfiction, but that's obvious and besides the point.

One more thing, before I stop pumping up the word count. Sara helped me write this. Thanks:)

Chapter 3

Down in the infirmary, Odd, Aelita and Nurse Dorothy were sitting around one of the beds, on which Jeremie was lying. The nurse explained that he was found lying unconscious on the floor outside his dorm, as if he wanted to go somewhere in a hurry, ran straight into the wall and knocked himself out cold.

Odd laughed at this comment. "But only an idiot would do that, right?" he said.

She carried on to say that his pulse was very slow. Now Odd didn't make anything of this statement (as you would imagine), but Aelita was slightly concerned. Dorothy turned her back to Jeremie and began to write out her observations.

"Oh, Odd, I just feel terrible about all this." Aelita said, gazing at Jeremie. She slowly clutched Odd's hand behind their backs. He didn't move.

"Don't worry about him; he'll be fine, just like he always is!" Odd said with his usual carefree grin. Even given the current situation, Aelita managed to smile at this.

"I guess you're right." She said trying to convince herself it was true. "I still feel a bit guilty, though."

"About what? You have nothing to feel guilty for."

"Well, uh, you know, the conversation we had earlier about, well, how I, feel. I said I didn't love him, I feel like I should have been here for him."

Odd turned to look at her spot on. "Do you love him?"

"…I guess not."

"You can't blame yourself for that." Odd said with uncharacteristic wisdom and understanding.

"You're right again, I suppose." Aelita said with a sigh. She tore her gaze from Odd's face to look at Jeremie. She saw his head turn, subtly but noticeably. Surprised at this, she exclaimed, "Oh! Look, he's moving!"

Dorothy turned and looked at Jeremie, and his eyes flew open. Right then, Aelita's concerns were proven… right there within them was the mark of XANA. Even Odd was worried at this point.

The XANA-ified Jeremie promptly leapt straight out of bed, and ran into the door, immediately knocking himself out again, and putting Odd back to his usual self. He found it even more hilarious now that he saw it happen right in front of him.

"Odd, this is no funny joke," Dorothy said, interrupting his bout of laughter. "Jeremie appears to have a very bad mental illness right now and this is serious."

He started dragging Aelita out the room (ignoring the now floor-bound Jeremie). "Cool it missus, we know just what to do. Be right back!"

Once they got out of the room, Odd and Aelita ran the usual way to the factory. While they were doing so, Odd called Yumi.

"Hey Yumi, is Ulrich with you right now?"

"Yea, why?"

"Great, see you both at the factory then. We've got a big problem here, goes by the usual name of XANA…"

"Okay I'll be right there." Odd hung up.

(Yumi's POV)

Damn, I just went to all that effort to bring Mia back here (A/N: She's still sleeping at this point in time) and now there's a XANA attack? The timing couldn't be worse…

"Ulrich," I started, "we've got a XANA problem; Odd wants us at the factory right now. What do you think we should do with Mia?"

"Uh, we take her with us I guess," he replied.

"Yea but we just carried her all the way here," I groaned.

"Well we'll just have to c-"

"Where am I?" came another voice, interrupting Ulrich. "Oh it's you Yumi, what's going on?"

"Uhm, no time to explain. Mia, can you run?"

"Sure why?"

"Great let's go then." I said, thankful that I wouldn't have to carry her any further.

(Later, at the factory, Aelita's POV)

Odd was telling me about what we would have to do, which was rather abnormal for him. I could hardly think about anything but what had happened to Jeremie, but I managed to listen.

"Aelita, you have to virtualize me so that we can stop XANA. When the others get here virtualize them too, okay?"

"Uh, sure, go to the scanner then."

He put his hand on mine. "Listen, I know you're worried about Jeremie, but don't let that stop your concentration. We're doing this for him, remember that."

Did he just say concentration correctly in a sentence? Don't answer that.

"I know Odd. Anyway, we better hurry."

"Got it." With that, Odd went back to take the elevator to the scanner room, and went into the scanner without hesitation.

Even though I knew exactly what to do, I was still nervous as this was my first time at manning the supercomputer.

"Transfer, Odd. Scanner, Odd, Virtualization."

(On Lyoko, Odd's POV)

I landed as usual, this time in the ice region (A/N: This doesn't really matter, it's just my fave region ), immediately noticing the welcoming committee. Five blocks. Ha, piece of cake. I started to run at them, not directly at them but slightly to the side, I fired three arrows in a row; two of them hit. Wow, I'm improving. The other three blocks were ready to fire right now, but changed their minds and instead decided to use the ice beam. Crap, one shot and I'm outta here. Better watch my step.

I started to fire some more arrows. Unfortunately I was also busy dodging ice beams, so they all missed. Four arrows left, three blocks left. I fired another one, and managed to hit another block. The other blocks weren't even starting to fire, so I fired another arrow at them, but they ran away for some reason. Strange, never seen that happen before.

"Hey Aelita, is anything weird going on over there? The blocks just ran off."

"Um, no, not so far. Just stay on your guard though. You never know when XANA will do something weird. Yumi and Ulrich should be here soon."

I heard a familiar noise. "Uh oh, sounds like a megatank." It was indeed a megatank; but, instead of trying to fire at me, it just ignored me and went over in the exact same direction as the two surviving blocks did.

"Okay, something weird is definitely going on. A megatank just went right past me."

"I know Odd. Oh, here come the others now, I can see them on the camera. Wait… there's someone with them…"

"You mean Einstein? Hey, I knew he'd come to his senses eventually."

"No, it isn't Jeremie. It's a girl, dressed in really light clothes. I don't know who it is at all."

"Well whatever. Anyway, when are you going to virtualize yourself?"

"I'll wait till they get here. I may need extra backup, especially if XANA is up to something."

(A few minutes later, Normal POV)

"Okay, we're here." Yumi said, stepping out of the elevator with Mia and Ulrich. "Wait, where's Jeremie?"

"In the infirmary," Aelita replied. "He's been messed up by XANA somehow. You'll have to transfer me and Ulrich to Lyoko in the meantime. Oh and who's that girl?"

"I'll explain that later, for now we have someone to save so let's get to it." Yumi stated, sharp as ever. Accompanied by Mia, she took Aelita's place at the supercomputer, while Aelita and Ulrich went down to the scanner room. She was even more nervous than Aelita was, as Yumi had done this process once before – and got it wrong. However, she knew what to do and was determined to do it.

"Transfer, Aelita. Transfer, Ulrich. Scanner, Aelita. Scanner, Ulrich. Virtualization."

No blinking red exclamation points. Thank God.

Wahey, all done. Another cliffy for ya! Damn I love cliffies. :D

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