This chapter was slightly edited by Foxtrek, the rest was edited by AeroJester203. Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko, all copyrighting goes to MoonScoop. I only own my OC Lila. Mary was created by AeroJester203.

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Holiday in the fog

Inside Lila's room

POV Lila's

It's late at night and I'm in my room with the window open. I stare at the courtyard, waiting for Jeremy and Ulrich to come out. They soon emerge from the dormitory with cans of spray paint in hand. Ulrich and Jeremy begin painting graffiti on a nearby brick wall as part of their plan to get Jeremy a week of detention so he can stay over the holiday. I giggle lightly to myself as I watch the image become complete. I hear Kiwi barking, turning to watch Jim chasing after him. I stifle a laugh at the sight of him in his pajamas.

He sees Jeremy, Ulrich having cleared out once Kiwi was coming.

"Belpois, what are you doing out so late?" the gym teacher asks. Jim notices the graffiti on the wall, pointing to it angrily, "Is that supposed to mean something?"

Jeremy smiles sheepishly in his act. Meanwhile, I look at the completed graffiti of a cartoonish caricature of Jim's face with bunny ears, goofy eyes and giving the peace sign with his right hand.

I close the window since I am no long able to hold my laughter. Mary comes out of my phone as she transforms into her human form.

"It's not funny you know," she says with a twinge of annoyance.

"It is," I giggle as I sit on the bed. "My father never told me he was such a good artist."

The AI rolls her eyes with a half-fond smile, "There's a lot of things I'm sure you're he didn't tell you. I will let you rest. Have a good night, Lila." Mary, transforms back into her smoke like form as she enters my phone.

I nod, with a smile, "You too, Mary."

I turn off my lamp as Mary retreats back into the phone, and then lie on my bed as I try to fall asleep.

The next day

Inside Mr. Delmas's office

The next day, Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, and I are outside Mr. Delmas's office. His secretary is typing on the computer and I look at the nametag on her jacket, Nicole Weber. She has a dark blonde hair, wears glasses, and is wearing a brown suit with matching work pants. The door to Mr. Delmas's office opens and Jeremy emerges with the principal behind him, having opened the door.

"Jeremy, I hope you'll learn from this. You're always a model student," Mr. Delmas says as he looks at Jeremy. "This was a very shameful act you committed."

"I... I agree..." Jeremy trails off, nodding. Mr. Delmas closes his door.

Afterwards

We're outside of the office now, and we all surround Jeremy the four of us start talking over each other.

"Okay, okay," Jeremy says stopping us. "I've been given a whole week's worth of detention, during vacation." As he leads us out into the hallway outside the office, he leans against the wall, letting out a discouraged puff of air. Odd moves over, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Awesome, we should be glad he has a low tolerance," I smile.

Odd chuckles, "That's for sure."

"Jeremy, you're the king of punishments," Ulrich compliments.

"There's no way we could have done better," Yumi adds. I nod, smiling to him,

"I won't let Xana rest while I am here," Jeremy says.

"I know you won't, and you mean we won't let Xana rest. I'll be here to keep you company too. My mother is going away on a business trip, so I'll be staying here during vacation week," I lie as we walk out of the hallway.

Later

An hour later, I walk alongside them as we head toward the main gate. Ulrich, Odd and Yumi have their bags with them as we start walking. We move towards the main gate through a small wooded area on the school grounds, discussing our plans for the break. There is an unspoken tension in the air, anxiousness about the possibility of an attack by Xana, especially with so many of us gone.

Ulrich turns to Odd, disgruntled with his week's plans. "Odd gets to travel to see his folks, halfway across the globe. Yumi gets to vacation in the mountains. You know what I'm doing? Math tutoring for the entire vacation!"

Odd lets out a rambunctious laugh as he places his hand on Ulrich's shoulder.

"One week to make you a good student? The chances of that are, well, like winning the lotto. They'll need all the luck they can get," he jokes.

Ulrich looks at us and smiles, Odd's jab cheering him up a bit.

"Will you and Lila be okay without us?" Yumi asks.

"I'm sure we will be. Should Xana leave us alone, I'll have time to work on the materialization program for Aelita," Jeremy answers.

"I'll be able to help too," I offer, "if you need it."

"Jeremy and Lila aren't the only ones staying at school alone. I'll be looking after them as their guardian angel."

I grimace hearing the voice, turning to see who spoke. Namely Elisabeth "Sissi" Delmas, the self-proclaimed "diva of the school." She stands ahead of us on the path with a hand on her hip and a sly smile on her face.

Odd snorts, "You two must be thrilled."

"Yeah, overjoyed," I reply with a roll of my eyes. Looking further ahead, we see Jim approaching as he angrily crosses his arms together as he regards my father.

"Do you think that wall you graffitied is going to clean itself? Jeremy, I want you to start cleaning it now!" Jim demands.

Sissi can't help but laugh at Jeremy's situation, but it draws the man's attention to her.

"You think that's funny young lady? Your father wants me to keep an eye on you while you study, and that's exactly what I will do!" he exclaims as Sissi stops laughing.

Jim then turns to me, gesturing over his shoulder with his thumb, "Your mother wants to see you, she waiting by the principal's office, before she leaves for her big trip."

"Uh, thanks Jim," I say as he nods. Jim takes Jeremy and Sissi together, the three of them walking away.

"Well... I guess math tutoring can't be that bad," Ulrich says.

I smile and wave goodbye to him along with Odd and Yumi, "True. Well, I should go and meet my mom. See you guys in a week."

"Bye, Lila," they say back.

Assuming I know Mary, she's probably not waiting for me by the principal's office. She's probably in my room, I think while heading back my room..

Inside Lila's Room

I open the door to find Mary waiting for me.

"Jim said you needed me?" I ask as I close the door. "Also, did you talk to Delmas?"

She turns to me, "I did yes. With everyone going away, I figured I should tell him and Jim, that I'll be going on a vacation. I was wondering... would you like to go on vacation too?"

"Hmm... it would be nice, I already told the others you'd be going on one by yourself. But you know, Mary, if you do actually want to go out and explore France a bit, I'm sure it would be okay."

Mary nods, "I was hoping you would say that. I think I'll go out and buy myself a phone. I'll be leaving now."

She transforms into her smoke-like form as she floats into a plug behind her and integrates into the network of the school. I can't have her leave through the window since Jeremy, Jim and Sissi are outside.

Later

Later at night, I plug in the phone Mary bought for herself, my guardian having returned to my phone after scouting out the city. I stretch my body tired from setting up at the device. Yawning, I happen to look at my diary on the desk.

I decide to write some more in it either tomorrow or the next day before turning the lights off and lying down to fall asleep.

The next day

After starting my day, I get a call from Jeremy to meet him at the factory. Once we meet, going into the freight elevator, he explains about what he saw—a bizarre incident while he was trying to sneak out to the factory last night.

"Are you sure there's something going on in the school?" I ask him.

"I'm positive. I know what I saw last night, it was some sort of weird smoke," Jeremy replies. "It moved on its own and tried to envelop me."

Smoke... hmm... I think curiously.

The freight elevator's doors opens revealing the lab and we walk up to Jeremy's chair, he sits in it. He opens several windows up on the monitor, making calculations of his hypothesis.

"We're in trouble... Those spilled bottles that I told you about, holds a large amount of a concentrated and toxic substance," he explains. "If the calculations are right on the computer the substance may even...

"May even...?" I prompt. When he doesn't answer, I ask again, despite having a good idea of the answer. "The gas can what?"

This substance reminds me of a poisonous one, which my father told me Xana used in order to choke all the world's leaders in ten minutes flat. My father didn't have Lyoko at the time to stop it from happening because Xana had already obliterated the factory

"If someone inhales the gas for a long period of time... it can be deadly," Jeremy responds.

"No way..." I trail off.

Jeremy starts typing up command keys to locate the tower. The holosphere of Lyoko appears on the computer as it locates the tower.

"Aelita, I'm sending you the coordinates to the tower. It's 37 degrees south and it's located in the forest area. We're going to wait for the others, but if you need help, I'll send you Lila for backup right now just in case," my father says.

Aelita's window pops up, "I'll wait for her, then we'll be on our way. I'm too far from the tower, so it's going to take time. We'll need help," Aelita says.

"I think I know three certain somebodies who would gladly end their vacations short," Jeremy muses while turning to me.

"Lila, can you head to the scanners now?"

"Right," I nod as I run back to the elevator and get in. I press the red button once the door closes to have it bring me down to the scanner room.

Inside the scanner room

The freight elevator's doors open. I run to the middle scanner.

I step into the scanner, and it closes as Jeremy announces,

"Transfer: Lila."

"Scanner: Lila," he continues as he the scanner spins and starts to whir.

"Virtualization!"

I close my eyes as the gush of wind envelops me, billowing my hair and necklace before I'm virtualized to Lyoko.

Lyoko's Desert Sector

I open my eyes as I appear in the desert sector; landing safely on the virtual barren ground. Aelita is running towards me and I move to meet her halfway.

"Hi, Lila. There's a deactivated tower nearby that we can use to get to the forest sector," Aelita explains.

"Right, let's go!" I reply as Aelita and I start running.

Technically speaking you shouldn't be on Lyoko right now... Mary reminds me from within.

I know...this is sort of changing events, but not dramatically. I just hope my memories won't affect me again...

Truth be told... I don't think they will. I chose a scenario from your childhood. You did suffer from anxiety and fainting spells with small crowds before Xana destroyed a lot of places you and your father frequented, she explains. I'm not sure why your father didn't specify the source of your trauma you experienced. But it must be caused by your something that occurred in your past, and the trauma of that experience has repressed your memories of it.

I see... so you didn't just make up the anxiety and fainting spells.

No I didn't... I needed to provide you with a validated medical condition. Rather, than making one up. The fainting spells, just happened to have good timing was all.

True I suppose...

"Everything okay, Lila?" Aelita asks me as we reach the tower, which is enclosed by a platform. "You're unusually quiet."

"Sorry, Aelita. Just deep in thought," I reply, trying to focus so that she doesn't suspect anything.

Aelita nods as she enters the tower first with me following her in. Together we light the platform as we move to the edge. She dives down first before I descend next. We fly through a stream of data before rising up as we reach another platform and land on it, lighting it up before we exit the tower.

"Jeremy, we just made it to the forest sector," Aelita informs.

"Yumi and Odd are in the scanners," Jeremy replied."Keep your eyes open and stay safe. Knowing Xana, there are more than a few monsters lurking around there. Lila, I've just noticed something strange. It appears you've gain two new spells. They seem, to affect your life points dramatically."

After a brief pause, he adds, "I'm going to go to the school to make sure Jim and Sissi are okay. They could be in trouble, and I should warn them."

Aelita and I start running in the direction of the activated tower.

"Stay safe Jeremy, please!" I call.

"I will," Jeremy responds.

We continue running towards the activated tower for some time, following the pulsations until we see Yumi and Odd by themselves ahead of us.

"Which way should we go?" Odd asks Yumi.

"This way; follow me," Aelita answers as she reveals herself from behind the digital tree with me beside her.

"Lila, looks like you got here early," Yumi notes. "Did you see any monsters on your way here?"

"No. None, surprisingly," I reply.

We hear metallic scuttling sounds and turn to see a group of Kankrelats approaching us.

"Well, they're here now!" Odd exclaims while cocking his paw.

The monsters start firing their lasers, making us split up to dodge. I take my staff out to block them with the sharp end as I begin chanting to charge up my fire bolts.

"I'm not trying to rush you guys, but things are getting rough over here," Jeremy informs. "I met Ulrich on the way to school, and he took over from there, but according to the news, the toxic gas is starting to spread."

"What do you think we're doing? Sunbathing?" Odd jokes as he gracefully dodges a laser by twirling away, aiming low to the ground on one knee as he fires a laser arrow, destroying one.

I finish chanting before unleashing several fire bolts at the same time that Yumi throws her fan. My fire bolts and Yumi's fan take care of three Kankrelats.

Odd does several handstands as he dodges the incoming lasers from his monsters.

"Odd, be careful!" Yumi warns.

Odd continues to do his handstands before he gets hit by a laser, throwing him back to the ground. Aelita tries to sneak to where Odd is and manages to get to him, but the Kankrelat releases a laser.

Before I can react, Yumi throws herself into the line of fire, causing her body to spark once the blast hits. But Aelita remains unharmed as she falls back with sparks emerging from the impact area.

"Are you feeling okay, Yumi?" Jeremy asks.

"I'll be fine. There's no physical pain on Lyoko, after all," Yumi reminds him.

"Keep Aelita safe," Jeremy says.

I start to chant in latin as I charge my sword with fire. The fire begins to gradually surround the blade, but the Kankrelat quickly fires another round of lasers, hitting my hand and sending it flying from my grip as the flames go out without my magic to sustain them.

Come back to me, I command to my sword using my attraction spell. The sword hovers an inch off the ground before flying back to me. I grab it and place it back in its sheath. Odd, Yumi, Aelita, and I go for cover behind a tree.

"The tower is accessible, if you get past the tree bridge. All you need to do is take care of the monsters. Also, Lila you just lost ten life points with your attraction spell along with another ten from that hand shot," Jeremy informs.

The attraction spell really is costly, Mary remarks.

Yes it is... but I think I'm about to do something that'll even cost me more life points.

"I think I may have an idea. I can try my new magic bomb spell, but it's going to zap a lot of my life points away," I say.

"How much time do you need for your spell?" Yumi asks.

I think for a bit before answering, "About thirty seconds, give or take."

Internally, I communicate, Mary, on my signal, start the activation.

I will. Please keep in mind, this "spell", will take away at least twenty more of your life points. Perhaps more, if you cannot get away from the blast in time.

I remember.

"I think I have a quicker idea," Yumi suggests. "Lila, Odd, you two should take care of Aelita."

Never mind, Mary... another time, I say in my head.

I heard.

"Laser flash!" Odd exclaims as he leans around the tree and fires his laser arrow at the Kankrelat, destroying it.

I take my staff and use my attraction spell, telepathically commanding it to attack the Kankrelat. It zooms through the air and hits it in the eye of Xana, ripping through to the other side and causing it to explode. Maneuvering it in a sharp turn, I make it come back to me as Aelita and Odd run out from our cover with me following them.

"Lila, that attack with your spell just now cost you twenty life points. You're down to sixty," Jeremy informs.

"No way, it cost me twenty?!" I exclaim in disbelief as I catch the staff at its center.

Mary surmises, Ten to send it out, and ten more to bring it back perhaps, if you use it too much?

That stinks! I mentally complain while looking back to check on Yumi. I controlled it to fly in one path; that should mean that it only uses ten life points!

Magic can be strange Lila, Mary comments.

Two Kankrelats remain as Yumi places her hands on her head. She starts her telekinesis, as her body gains a light pink aura that surrounds her. She focuses on a large rock close by, moving it towards her. She releases the rock to thud to the ground and jumps on it for a higher vantage point as she throws her fan. But her attack misses, and the Kankrelat shoots its laser at Yumi. We see her spark as we continue to run. The other Kankrelat fires at Yumi as well before we can't see her anymore from the distance and the obscuring trees.

"One more hit and Yumi will..." Jeremy trails off.

Aelita, Odd and I continue running as we make it to the tree bridge and cross it to find the tower on a plateau, unreachable without climbing up.

"Hurry up, you three!" Jeremy exclaims. "Jim was just on Ulrich's phone; he's passed out and they're running out of air in their hiding place!"

We stare at the tower as Aelita is not capable of reaching it at any quick pace. I briefly contemplate sending Aelita up with my staff, but I could already hear the skittering metal legs. She'd be way too vulnerable out in the open where we couldn't defend her. But then I remember some of the more obscure abilities that my father and surrogate aunt and uncles told me about growing up.

"I can deal with this, take care of the monsters," Aelita replies as we see the two Kankrelats from earlier as they approach us from the bridge. Yumi must've been devirtualized.

"Wait. I think I have a quicker way," I offer as I draw both my weapons and stand in front of Aelita. "Odd, climb up there and get ready to catch Aelita."

"You kidding?" he asks incredulously. "That's a climb straight up with no handholds."

"Trust me; you're a cat. Cats climb," I insist without turning away from the approaching enemies.

Odd looks at his paw hands contemplatively for a moment and up at the wall of the plateau before jumping as high as he can and hooking his claws on the surface, surprised for only a moment before the sound of lasers firing makes him scamper up at a faster pace. I do my best to guard Aelita and myself as she stays behind me with my weapons redirecting the blasts.

A moment later, Odd calls,"Ready!"

With a deep breath, I throw my staff towards the monsters, seizing control of it mid-flight to make it sweep horizontally into the Kankrelats, knocking them off their feet and onto their backs before they flop to their sides due to their odd bodies. They start writhing their legs in an attempt to make themselves turn to aim at us again from their prone positions, but I got the diversion I needed as my staff clattered to the ground behind them.

Fifty, I internally count down my life points.

Turning around and sheathing my sword, I cup my hands and say, "Get ready, I'll give you a boost with strength." I chant in latin as Mary begins activating the power-up and Aelita rushes at me. It hits right as Aelita puts her foot in my grip, and I throw her up to be barely caught by Odd, who pulls her up and lets her into the tower.

Thirty

I hear the lasers charging from the Kankrelats on the ground, but I just smile before they hit me in the back, devirtualizing me on the spot. I did my job, and we won the fight today.

"Zero," I mutter.

Inside the scanner room

I lean against the wall of the scanner, the scanner opens. Another scanner opens, with Odd giving a thumbs up. After finally catching our breath, the white bubble of a return to the past envelops us.

The previous night

Opening my eyes, I realize it's the previous the night, and I look out my open window.

I watch Jeremy and Ulrich from afar as they graffiti the wall again. This time however, Ulrich is staying behind. I hear barking, as Kiwi is running outside again, Jim trying to chase him.

"Come back here! I'll get you!" Jim exclaims as I see Jeremy and Ulrich smiling. I close the window and sit down on the bed as I take out my cell phone.

Mary expels herself from it, and changes into her human form.

"Are you going to go back and get your cell phone again this time?" I ask.

"Maybe in time I will. Not tonight though. How are you feeling? Any side effects from continuing to the change timeline slightly?" she asks.

"Not that I can I think of. Do you... think it's possible that ever since I first entered this timeline, and became a Lyoko warrior, that... I no longer have memories of my future at all?" I ask unsurely.

Mary stares at me for a while before sitting on the bed with me.

She sighs, "You have the same intelligence as your father that's for sure. Lila... the truth is most of my memories have been corrupted for some time now. I believe this may be the cause of a grandfather paradox. We still know of the bad future, and your father, because we were in the time machine. If we had been in the eye of the storm... we wouldn't be here now."

"So my father, he's- he's," I stammer unable to form the sentence.

"He's gone," Mary nods, confirming my question. Tears start to drip from my eyes and onto my cheeks as Mary gives me a hug, trying to comfort me.

Author's note: Check out my new poll, concerning the future of Lila's love life in this story, and let me know if you like the idea of the pairing I have in mind.

Also, I didn't want to leave Future Jeremy's death, on a cliff hanger throughout this story. I figured, this would be the easiest way to confirm it. Don't forget to review!

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