Wooooooot! I'm on a roll. Here's the next chapters. Thanks for reviewing guys! Enjoy :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko.

Claimer: I own Mia, Kyle, AND the Scyther. Yay for building that list up. -shot-

Chapter 8

(Monday morning, normal POV)

Ulrich, Odd and Aelita were already sat down (not to mention eating) at their favourite table in the cafeteria by the time Yumi and Mia arrived.

"Damn I wish they would serve Sunday food all the time," Odd said.

"You know for once I actually agree with you," Ulrich said. "And by the way, don't go piling on me like last night again, keep the sugar to yourself."

"Hmm so why isn't Jeremie here yet?" Yumi asked, sitting down.

"You don't know?" Ulrich asked her, rhetorically.

"If I did I wouldn't be asking…"

"Well why not ask Odd, I'm sure he would know."

"Yea, we totally threw everything in his face," Odd said. "It was quite funny actually. You guys should've seen it."

"So what happened?" Mia asked.

"Eh, we kissed," he replied, with a trademark grin.

"You did what?" Yumi said, looking shocked.

"Could've told you two myself," Ulrich stated, "if you hadn't been on sugar last night."

Just then, a drawn-out scream was heard from the end of the cafeteria. Practically everyone dropped whatever they were holding and froze in place.

Aelita was the first to speak. "It's XANA; I can feel it…"

"Great… You guys get to the factory." Ulrich said. "I'll get Jeremie."

He got up, and turned around only to see Jeremie standing in front of him. "I wouldn't bother if I were you."

"What are you doing Jeremie, we have to go fight XANA, you know…"

"Well you know what? XANA is going to be gone in ten minutes."

"What? How come?"

"Oh, I just told it to self-destruct."

"But doesn't that mean that-"

"Aelita will die. But why save one person when you could do the whole world a favour instead?"

"Whatever. We gotta go save Aelita."

"Fine, have it your way." He went over to get his breakfast, without a care whatsoever for the others.

"Damnit, I can't believe he would do that. Anyway, let's go to the factory already."

(A little later, at the factory)

"Aelita, you've got three minutes," Ulrich said as she sat down at the computer.

"That's okay," she replied. "You four should get to Lyoko to get rid of any monsters that might be there while I get rid of the self-destruct program. Then I'll virtualize myself and deactivate the tower."

The four arrived in the scanner room.

"I'll go last," Yumi said, and the other three went into the scanners.

Aelita's voice was heard from the loudspeakers. "Transfer, Odd. Transfer, Ulrich. Transfer, Mia. Scanner, Odd." Yumi got into the scanner that Odd had used. "Transfer, Yumi. Scanner, Ulrich. Scanner, Mia. Scanner, Yumi. Virtualization."

(On Lyoko)

The four landed simultaneously in the desert region. This time, Mia was more prepared, and made a decent landing.

"Wow, XANA's made it easy for us this time. The tower's right over there." Yumi pointed to a tower glowing red in the distance. "But we can't do anything without Aelita."

"So where are the monsters?" Ulrich said.

Mia used her super speed to survey the area. "Can't see any," she concluded.

"Hmm, now why would XANA send no monsters? Maybe it's because Aelita isn't here…"

"Or maybe he's just busy with other things right now," Odd said.

"Hey what's that noise?" Yumi said.

"Sounds like fighting?"

"Let's go check it out."

They ran off in the direction of the noise, which was coming from behind the tower.

(At the factory)

Aelita started searching for signs of a shutdown straight away. She had only three minutes, and Jeremie was clever so he wouldn't leave a giveaway sign.

After a minute, she found a reference to a unique error in XANA's code. "That's weird. This must be what Jeremie is using to shut down XANA… hmm…" Aelita spoke to herself as she worked.

"Got it!" she said, and changed a single byte of code. "Hey guys, I fixed the shutdown. I'm going to virtualize myself now." She started up the virtualization program and went down to the scanner room.

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

(On Lyoko)

Aelita landed with the rest of the gang.

"Hey, why are you all going away from the tower?" she asked them.

"We heard noise from over here," Yumi said. She was correct; the noise was getting louder.

"I'll go deactivate the tower," Aelita said, "since there's nothing in the way. You can check out that noise without me." She headed back for the tower.

Suddenly, they turned a blind corner and saw a Scyther holding something that looked human. The Scyther however was just standing there.

As they ran further towards the Scyther, they realized it was indeed a human that it was holding. It noticed them, however, and pinned its captive against the wall with one of its foot-long claws, which were apparently removable.

"I have an idea," Ulrich said. "Odd, we'll keep that thing busy. The girls can go and find out who that is."

"Gotcha," Mia said, and they split up.

Yumi and Mia approached whoever it was that was pinned against the wall. It was a boy their age with blonde hair, dressed in dark blue. (A/N: So I like my short descriptions; who cares. You get the picture. :P )

"Hey, are you okay?" Yumi asked.

The boy opened his eyes. "Enemies of XANA, you can call me Kyle."

"Nice to know you're on our side," Mia said, "because I'd hate to have to kill you. You're hawt."

"Save the witty comments for later would you?" Yumi said.

"Yeah sure just having some fun," Mia said, and proceeded to remove the claw that was attaching Kyle to the wall.

"So anyway, what brings you here?"

"I've been here for as long as I can remember," he said, "I was put here by Franz Hopper with Aelita. I'm her brother."

"Who's Franz Hopper?" Mia asked.

"Aelita's father." Yumi said. "He used to teach at Kadic, and he was the one that originally created XANA and Lyoko as a virtual paradise, but he abandoned it and XANA got a virus. And then, he went missing."

"So how come nobody has seen you before, if you've been here all the time?" Mia asked him.

"Nobody came to find me," he said, "not even Aelita."

"But now, we did."

"Correct. And I must give you this."

He produced a CD from somewhere in his clothes, and gave it to Mia. "This is your only hope for reversing XANA's corruption. Do not lose it or break it; if you make a copy of it, the copy will not work. Guard it with your life. It will only work on the computer owned by the one who deserted you. That is all I have to say."

"Cryptic huh," Mia said.

"Can't you come back with us? I mean, like Aelita did?" Yumi asked.

"Aelita was materialized. I have not been. So I cannot come with you."

"Well, we might as well go then," Yumi said.

(In the factory)

Aelita, who had successfully deactivated the tower and returned to the factory, devirtualized the others. As usual, they returned to the past.

Okay short chapter I know, but it was necessary. Whatever. I'm actually getting onto the proper plot at last. Review now anyway.

also: I've never seen season 2 (damn british TV), so correct me if anything I said about Hopper was wrong ;)