Yay! It's me again! With another chapter of WTJB! And according to the most awesome person in the whole world (i.e. me, no, just kidding, I mean Sara :)), it just gets better and better!

Oh, and the line button in the editor works again. Way. Now to bore you with the usual two lines of stuff.

Disclaimer: If I owned Code Lyoko, it would air on Toonami UK at the same time it does in America... which it obviously doesn't.

Claimer: I own Mia, Kyle and the Scyther.

Chapter 10

(Jeremie's dorm, after school)

The group were sitting around the room: Odd and Aelita on one side, and Ulrich, Yumi and Mia on the other.

"So... any ideas on what we're going to do without Jeremie?" Ulrich broke the silence.

"Well, there isn't much problem with Lyoko. Aelita and I can both use the supercomputer pretty well," Yumi answered.

"But the real problem is how we explain this to everyone else," Odd said. "And we don't know if he's really gone, or just... missing."

"All we can really do is take it as it comes," Mia said. "There's no way we can fool people into thinking he's still here."

"I... I'm still really sad about this," Aelita said. "It's my fault that this happened."

Odd comforted her. "No it isn't. It's not your fault that Jeremie was being so stubborn."

"But I took him to Lyoko."

"But you didn't kill him. XANA did."

The group sat silently once again for a few minutes. Yumi finally spoke, telling Aelita about the possibility that Kyle was XANA.

"No. He can't be. He's supposed to be my brother, right?" Aelita replied. "I have no memory of what happened before I was virtualized... but I think we should trust him."

"Well you heard it," Odd said enthusiastically. "3 votes to 1 says yes. Let's go and give the sphere to Kyle!"

"We should all go, in case there's a problem," Ulrich said, and the group left the room. Aelita walked out last and locked the door.

(At the factory)

"I've found Kyle. He's in the passage tower in the mountain sector. I'll virtualize you nearby," Aelita said from the supercomputer room. "Ulrich and Odd, you go first."

They stepped into the scanners.

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

After the scanner doors opened once again, Yumi and Mia stepped in, with Yumi holding the sphere.

"I'll stay here to warn you of any monsters or anything," Aelita informed them. "Transfer, Yumi. Transfer, Mia. Scanner, Yumi. Scanner, Mia. Virtualization."

(On Lyoko)

The four fell to the ground as usual. Yumi held the sphere, being careful not to drop it.

"Okay, Yumi, get to the tower."

The tower was in plain sight, so she ran to it straight away. The others stood around, watching for any monsters.

(Inside the tower, Yumi's POV)

Kyle was sitting on the floor inside the tower, meditating. He soon stopped and looked at me.

"I see you brought the sphere." I gave it to him as he said this.

"Yeah, so, what exactly are you going to do with it?"

"I need to take it to Carthage, and activate it."

(A/N: Unlike in the official Season 2, they don't know about Carthage yet.)

"What's that?"

"It's the heart of Lyoko. I can control XANA from there, but only with the spheres. But I have not gone there since the spheres disappeared, as I am unable to fight. I'll need protection to get there."

"That's not a problem. Everyone's here."

Kyle got up, and we walked out of the tower.

There were still no monsters around. I wonder why XANA is being so quiet...

"Hey guys," I said to the others. "Kyle says he needs to get to a place called Carthage to activate the sphere and control XANA. He wants us to help him get there."

"No problem," Odd said. "I was getting kinda bored."

"Come on," Kyle said. "Follow me." He ran off, and we followed him.

"Guys, you've got trouble," Aelita said. "XANA's sent some monsters. Six Blocks, to be precise."

"Alright, we see them," Ulrich said. He charged at one of the blocks, hitting it perfectly. "One down, five to go."

Almost before he finished, Odd shot a couple of arrows, and both hit their targets. "You mean three down, three to go," he said with a grin.

"Wow, you're getting better Odd," Ulrich said, but was rather careless and got hit by a surviving Block.

"You're down twenty life points, Ulrich," Aelita said. "Watch out! Two Krabs are headed your way."

As the Krabs came into sight, they immediately started firing. After a couple of missed shots, one hit Kyle. He screamed as he hadn't felt this pain ever before. Mia ran in front of him and brought up her shield just in time to protect an otherwise fatal second hit from the Krab. The laser bounced off, hitting the Krab dead on and destroying it. Yumi took out the other Krab with her fan, and Mia released her shield.

"Thanks for that, Mia..." Kyle started, hesitantly.

"No problem," she replied.

"We should split up," Yumi said. "Odd and Ulrich can stay here and clean up, and we'll take Kyle to wherever he needs to be."

Kyle led the way of course, and the Japanese twins followed close behind.

(A/N: Carthage is different here to how it is in the TV show.)

"So, any idea how far this place is?" Mia asked.

"Probably not far now," Kyle said. "In here." He walked into a tunnel in the mountain.

"How strange that XANA isn't sending more monsters for us..." Yumi thought aloud.

After a minute or so more of walking through the tunnel, they eventually got to what looked like a dead end. Before anyone could question why they were there, Kyle placed his hand on the "wall" and shut his eyes. A few seconds later, the "wall" split open, revealing a blinding white light.

"Come in," he said to the girls. They walked into the light. The next thing they saw were blue and white semitransparent walls of binary code all around them.

(Mia's POV)

Wow, this is weird. I mean, I've only been in Lyoko a few days, but this Carthage place is completely different. Nothing but blue and white, and everything's so blocky. And if that wasn't enough, we've just been ejected from some big tube with ones and zeros on the sides.

"Aelita, can you see us on the screen?" Kyle called out.

"I was following you," she replied, "but you suddenly disappeared. What happened?"

"We just went into Carthage..."

"Oh... well, there's no maps or anything for that sector. I'll run a search for you, but it may take some time."

"Curses," Kyle said. "We'll have to find our own way for now. If we carry on going this way we should get to the Heart of Lyoko."

After a short time of walking around, XANA noticed us, and sent six creepers from small gaps in the walls.

"Look! Monsters!" Yumi said.

"Well, there's too many of them for us. We'd better run for it," I said.

"Come on, this way!" Kyle said, and ran off around a corner. Yumi and I followed, being careful to avoid the creepers' lasers.

After taking a few more turns, we ran into three more creepers.

"Can't go that way," Kyle said again, changing direction. Yumi threw her fan at the creepers, killing one of them. Suddenly, I heard a scream from Kyle's direction, and turned round to see him being held up by the Scyphozoa.

"What the hell is that?" I said.

"Looks like trouble," Yumi said, but before she could throw her fan, she was hit by a creeper again, and devirtualized.

"Yumi!" I turned round to the creepers, bringing up my shield. As usual, the monsters stupidly fired at me, and got hit back by their own lasers. Now that those are out of the way, I turned back to where the Scyphozoa was. But it had left and was out of sight. Kyle had been dropped to the ground.

I ran over to him. "Kyle, are you alright?" I bent down over him. Suddenly, he opened his eyes... and the symbol of XANA was right there in them! I pinned him down, shouting his name.

His eyes briefly went back to normal. "Mia... what..." he started, but didn't have time to say much, as he got back his mutated eyes, and overpowered my pinning him down, throwing me against the wall. Then he ran off. By the time I got up, I had no idea where he went.

(In the factory, Yumi's POV)

"Hey Aelita," I greeted her at the supercomputer, after arriving there. "How's the search going?"

"I just found them!" Aelita replied. "Mia, I found you and Kyle. What's going on there? Why aren't you with him?"

"He looks possessed," Mia replied. "I don't know where he is. Can you guide me?"

"Sure." She continued, giving her directions. "That doesn't sound good though. What if XANA uses Kyle to use the sphere for his own good?"

"I have no idea," I said. XANA doesn't possess people for the fun of it. He obviously needs that sphere.

(Mia's POV)

After several minutes of following Aelita's directions as fast as I could, I finally caught up with Kyle. He was in the middle of a big room, just standing and holding the sphere and doing absolutely nothing. I ran over to him, but he pushed me aside, and I fell down. I got up again and did my trademark shield dash, knocking him over, and he dropped the sphere as his eyes went back to normal once again.

"Something's not right... What happened to me?" he said.

"You were possessed by XANA," I replied, hoping he'd stay out of this possessed state this time.

"But... how are you..." He never finished his sentence, as the XANA eyes returned. I got up and reached for the sphere before he could, but a creeper shot me. For the third time, I fell down onto Kyle, and for the third time, his eyes changed back to normal.

"...talking to me?" he said, as if completing his frozen statement from before.

So I said the first thing that came to my head. "Why is it that you're loose from XANA when I'm on top of you?" suddenly realizing how stupid that sounded.

"The sphere!" he said, turning toward it as the Scyther came to retrieve it. I got up and similarly turned to look at it. This time, Kyle was not re-possessed.

"No! We can't let XANA take it!" he said. We ran towards the Scyther, but were shot back again by creepers.

"How are we going to stop him now?" I said. I felt totally hopeless now.

"We don't," he said. "XANA will get stronger from the sphere, but so will Aelita and myself."

That was unexpected. "Really? How?" I asked him.

"I don't know. The sphere contains a power that was locked up inside it. XANA is releasing the power. If not, I would have sealed it away to stop XANA from getting stronger. The one thing I do know is that I will be able to devirtualize, just like the rest of you. And..."

He never got a second chance to speak, as we started devirtualizing. I opened my eyes, stepped out of the scanner, and saw something that I never thought I'd see. Kyle in one scanner... and Jeremie in the other.

I ran over to Jeremie. He was curled up at the bottom of the scanner, as if asleep. But he wasn't breathing. I bent down and grabbed his wrist, to find no pulse. Then only one thought was in my mind.

Jeremie... was dead.

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