This chapter was written by me and edited by Ana-DaughterofHades. This chapter was also edited by UndeadMonkey8. He has a really cool story called Code: Cameron, I highly recommend it!

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I only own my OC Lila. Mary was created by AeroJester203.

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Even a samurai keeps a diary

In Lila's room

POV Lila's

"Why?! Why wouldn't you tell me this sooner?" I ask, upset at the news I've just been given.

"I needed to confirm. With your anxiety and fainting spells suddenly stopping, I assumed it was because of a grandfather paradox. I searched my memory data banks, and most of my memories stored in those data banks have been erased."

"I didn't ask for this you know! I didn't ask to be a time traveler! It was supposed to a quick trip in the time machine!" I exclaim at Mary, becoming angry with her.

"I know. But your father was on the verge of death from the Xana bot Lila. When your timeline was erased, it technically saved your father from dying. He's gone yes, but in a way, he ceased to exist. That version of your father will be gone forever," Mary tries to explain. I shake my head.

"Please I've had enough for today."

"I understand," Mary nods, and transforms into her smoke like form. She integrates herself into my phone which is on my desk. Sighing, I go to turn the lights off and decide to go to bed.

One week later, after vacation

In Ulrich and Odd's room

Odd and I are in his and Ulrich's room as he frantically looks around in his drawers for a misplaced object.

Odd rubs his stomach. "Ulrich, come on. I'm getting hungry let's go and eat."

"Uh, I can't. You two should go and have breakfast. I'm going to be a while. There's something I have to find," Ulrich frets.

"Do you need any help?" I ask.

"No, thanks. It's something... personal," Ulrich answers.

Odd shrugs. "If you say so," he says, before stepping out. I give a last glance around the room before following.

In the cafeteria

We're in the cafeteria, as Odd finishes his entire breakfast. Odd sighs in relief as he finishes his breakfast. This consisted of heated bread and several bananas. The peels are all over the table.

Heated bread is a bit weird… and what was that smooth stuff? Didn't look tasty… I think.

"That was great! You can't go wrong with eight slices of toast with butter and three bananas. Am I right?" Odd asks. Jeremy takes a piece of his bread, hardly looking up from his book.

Oh... so that's what that stuff is called, yuck, I think.

"Hey, are you going to skip gym class again?" Odd asks Jeremy.

"Of course. Besides, this will give me more time to work on the materialization program for Aelita," Jeremy answers.

I look at him and back at my bowl, sitting quietly. Apparently not quick enough, because he notices.

"Are you okay, Lila?" Jeremy asks as he places his book on the table.

"Not particularly hungry today," I lie since I am still dealing with the news of my father's death. It's hard though, with his younger version right in front of me.

"Mind if I have your bowl?" Odd asks.

"Sure, be my guest," I reply sliding my bowl.

"Cool!" he exclaims happily, making me giggle a little.

Later

In the courtyard

After breakfast, the bells start ringing; signaling the beginning of the day. Odd, Jeremy, and I are by a tree in the courtyard, and we're watching everyone pass by. We see Yumi enter the courtyard.

"Hi Yumi," Jeremy greets. Yumi smiles as she walks over to us.

"Hello," Yumi says. We return the smile before something catches her attention. "That's strange, look over there; it's Ulrich."

Peeking from behind the tree, we see Ulrich with Sissi. He looks upset, but she seems relatively happy standing on the steps and admiring him.

"Why, is he hanging around with Sissi?" I ask.

"Ulrich, over here!" Odd calls out.

Odd waves at him as Sissi gets close to Ulrich's face. We can't hear what Sissi and Ulrich are saying, but she grabs him by his hand. "Let's go!" she exclaims as she pulls him up, shocking all of us.

Later

In History class

Later we're in Mr. Fumet's history class. Sissi looks at Ulrich while he has his eyes down, ignoring her. He continues writing down notes.

What's going on with him? I think, trying to concentrate on writing notes. I keep glancing back and forth, at Ulrich and Sissi.

"During the seventeenth century, all European states were governed by either a king or a prince," Mr. Fumet speaks. Jeremy is writing down his notes when Odd asks,

"Hey, what do you think is going on with them? I mean, I must be dreaming or something," Odd whispers. "Ulrich and Sissi; together? That's one of Ulrich's worst nightmares." He turns to Herb.

"Then again, Herb is jealous," he continues as Jeremy stops taking notes. He looks at Herb. Odd smiles at Herb.

"Did you hear a word I just said Odd?" Mr. Fumet calls, catching him.

"Huh?" Odd asks. He turns to Mr. Fumet.

"Were you listening to my lesson, at all Odd?" Mr. Fumet asks, and Odd smiles nervously and rubs the back of his head.

After class

Under the arches

The bells ring, signaling class is over. Jeremy, Odd, and I wait for Ulrich and Sissi. Odd leaves to prepare a distraction for Sissi, so that Jeremy and I can talk to Ulrich. They soon come out, arm in arm.

"Sissi come on, let's talk for a few minutes," Odd insists as he grabs Sissi from the other side of the doorway.

"Hey! Wait a minut-!" Sissi exclaims. Odd pulls her away from Ulrich.

"Care to explain?" Jeremy asks.

"Well…" Ulrich trails off.

Ulrich looks over to Sissi as Odd is preoccupying her.

"So, what's the sitch?" I ask.

"Okay, here's the thing... I'm in a jam. See for years I've uh…" Ulrich mutters something underneath his breath.

"What did you say?" Jeremy asks crossing his arms.

"I own a diary okay?! And here's the thing, Sissi found it. She's using it to blackmail me and by making me go out with her," he explains as he looks over at Sissi as she and Odd are still talking.

"She thinks she can win me over this way, but it won't work," Ulrich says. He looks over at Sissi as she and Odd are still talking.

"Wait a second. In your diary, did you talk about Xana? Or Lyoko?" Jeremy asks.

"You didn't keep the diary locked?" I ask.

"Well yeah, I did talk about that. No, I only hid the diary somewhere that I thought was safe," Ulrich explains. "Sissi's going to tell everyone, about everything, and it's my fault. I'm not sure what to do."

Jeremy puts his hand on Ulrich's shoulder.

"Rest assured Ulrich. Yumi, Lila, and I will look around. Don't worry, we're going to find your diary," Jeremy reassures him. Looking over to Sissi, and Odd they seem to be finishing their conversation.

"Will you leave me alone already?! I already told you, I do not plan on dyeing my hair blonde!" she exclaims.

"But I think blonde hair will look really good on you," Odd says.

Sissi scowls at him in frustration.

Ulrich looks at Sissi and Odd as he calls out,

"Something tells me she's had enough. Leave her alone Odd," Ulrich orders walking up to them. He takes Sissi by the arms as she smiles happily, blowing a raspberry at us. I roll my eyes, and she turns her focus back on Ulrich. Walking together, she puts her head against Ulrich's, leaning on him.

"Don't worry; we'll explain," Jeremy reassures Odd, putting his hand on Odd's shoulder.

Later

In Jeremy's room

Later, Jeremy and I are in his room as we are sitting on his bed, explaining the situation to Yumi.

Yumi gasps. Seeing she looks like she's going to hit something, I place Jeremy's pillow, next to the wall. She punches the pillow.

"I knew Sissi was obsessed with Ulrich, but to go this far. She's really blackmailing him?"

"I know right? Love makes people blind I guess," I say.

"The most important thing to do now is to find that diary. Otherwise, she'll start talking about Lyoko, and the factory," Jeremy says. "We'll probably end up on the front-page news of Kadic and… I don't even want to imagine the number of inquiries the police will make us go through."

"It won't happen, we're going to make sure of it," I say.

Yumi unclenches her hand, trying to calm herself down.

"Lila and I will check out her room. If we need any help, we'll let you know," Yumi decides.

"I'll be at the factory," Jeremy says getting off the bed. We hop into our shoes and leave the room. Yumi grabs her bag from the floor. Shouldering it onto her, we leave the room.

Outside Jeremy's room

Jeremy closes the door. We look at each other.

"Best of luck," we say in unison. Yumi and I start running.

I just hope Ulrich and Odd will be okay on that bus... I think with concern.

Inside Sissi's room

Reaching Sissi's room, Yumi takes out her hair braid clip. She fashions it into a lockpick.

"How did you learn how to do that?" I ask.

"Hiroki, my younger brother. He likes to take my stuff from time to time. So, I had to learn how to steal it back from. Being around a younger brother, you need to be prepared," Yumi explains.

"Wouldn't know, I'm an only child."

Yumi's braid pick unlocks the door and she smiles. Putting the braid in her pocket, she opens the door. We walk inside. Yumi checks the closet.

I keep mine in the desk draws, so I wonder… I think, walking to her desk. I open the draws one by one. They're filled with romance books, a few notebooks for class, which is a surprise. And, a few pens, but no diary. Yumi gasps, and I turn around. Yumi is holding a pillow in the form of a Valentine heart and gasps.

"Looks like we found it!" she exclaims. I walk to the bed, sitting on the bed with her. I notice that the diary is pink with a yellow pattern on it.

"Nice job," I compliment.

"Thanks," Yumi smiles unzipping the pillow. She takes out the unmarked diary, which looks to be pink and has a yellow pattern on it.

"Something tells me that's not Ulrich's," I say, giggling slightly.

"Ooh, you're right… definitely, Sissi's," Yumi nods, chuckling herself.

Yumi opens the diary, noticing the writing is different. Sitting down with her, she flips through the diary. Yumi gasps, seeing a photo of Ulrich in it. His name has been drawn around the picture several times. I look at the entry, reading it in my mind.

"Ulrich always gives me the cold shoulder. He never treats me the same way, he treats Yumi. One day, when he was at lunch, I went to look around in his and Odd's room. I wanted to find a picture of Ulrich, but as luck would have it, I found something far better. Now he can't possibly ignore me. I know what I'm doing isn't nice, but it's the only way I can get his attention."

After reading the entry, I feel the sudden urge to punch something myself.

"She frustrates me!" Yumi exclaims furiously.

I nod in agreement, "She's awful."

In the stairwell

We leave Sissi's room and begin walking down the stairs. Yumi takes her phone out to call Jeremy. There's a short pause.

"We ended up finding Sissi's diary," Yumi informs him, "You were right to be concerned. She knows about Lyoko, but she doesn't seem to understand everything. It doesn't matter to her though, she's going to use Ulrich's diary as evidence." she continues, as we're now reaching the bottom of the stairs. I can't hear the other side of their conversation, but Yumi finishes it with,

"It'll be okay Jeremy. I have an idea."

The girl's bathroom

We decide to go to the girl's bathroom downstairs I open the door. Yumi goes in first and I close it behind her.

"What's the plan Yumi?" I ask.

"Well, we have Sissi's diary right?"

"Yeah."

"So let's use her diary, against her."

"Ah okay, we're blackmailing her with her own diary. Nice," I compliment. Yumi takes out her cell phone and dials Sissi's number, calling her.

"Hi, Sissi…" Yumi begins. "You know Sissi, Lila and I really like your style," she starts to imitate Sissi. "Bumping into Jim today, I saw him wearing that idiotic gym suit of his," there's a short pause.

"Where is it Sissi? Tell me where you hid Ulrich's diary, otherwise, I'm going to have Lila spill all your dirty secrets to Milly and Tamiya. And you'll be on front page of the Kadic News," Yumi threatens.

Please let this work, I think.

"The third stall," Yumi whispers.

I go to the third stall, opening the door. I stand on top of the closed toilet, and with my hand, I search the toiletry. Grabbing something, I smile and I hop off of the toilet. I look at the diary, the color is green and it appears to be Ulrich's.

"I've got it!" I exclaim.

"Great! Bye Sissi, have a fun time at the pool," Yumi says, opening the door she turns to me. She puts her cell phone into her pocket.

"When Ulrich and Odd come back from their trip, you can give this to Ulrich. I'll take care of Sissi's diary," I smile. Yumi hands me Sissi's diary, and opens her bag. Handing Ulrich's diary to her, she places Ulrich's diary; neatly and carefully in her bag.

"Thanks, Lila," Yumi smiles.

Later

Under the arches

After putting Sissi's diary back into her room, Yumi and I are now under the arches. She and some other students are waiting to go to their classes.

It's nice not having to take gym class. Having fainting spells in this past, Mary persuaded Mr. Delmas at the beginning of the semester, that it wouldn't be a good idea to take gym class. And, this free time I have can be used for studying. But if I ever feel like I'm up for participating in gym class, I can, I think.

Her phone rings and Yumi picks it up. After a short pause, she ends the call.

"Everything okay?" I ask.

"Jeremy needs us at the factory," Yumi answers.

"Right. Let's get going then," I nod. We start running in the park to get to the woods.

Afterwards

We run to our secret manhole entrance in the woods near the school. Yumi pulls the cover off moving it to the side. She goes down first, and I follow her after, closing the cover. I climb down the ladder. Yumi takes out her skateboard as I grab my scooter. We start running, she pulls her skateboard back and throws it. She lets it gain momentum as it starts moving before she jumps on it at the same time. I get onto my scooter. We start making our way to the end of the tunnel.

Inside the factory

We soon reach the factory and hurry inside. Swinging down on the ropes, we land on the floor and run to the freight elevator. Reaching it, I press the elevator button and the freight elevator's hanger doors close.

Inside the lab

We exit the freight elevator. Yumi, carefully places the bag down on the floor. Jeremy begins typing on the keyboard.

"Hurry to the scanners. The situation is getting worse. The bus Ulrich and Odd are on, seems to be out of control. I'm going to launch a program and try to localize it. Head for the scanners," Jeremy says.

"Where do you think Xana is taking the bus?" I ask.

Jeremy looks at me.

"Nowhere good, knowing him."

In the scanner room

Yumi takes the middle scanner and I take the one on the left. We step in, and they close.

"Transfer: Yumi, Transfer: Lila." Closing my eyes, the scanner starts spinning.

"Scanner Yumi, Scanner: Lila."

The scanner continues to spin and starts humming.

"Virtualization!"

The gust of wind and bright light envelopes me, and I'm virtualized to Lyoko.

Desert Sector

With my vision returning, Yumi and I land safely in the Desert Sector. Yumi already has her fan in her hand, she extends it.

"Yumi! Lila!" Aelita calls out as we turn to face her. She waves as she starts running to us; we run to her as well. Yumi places her fan back within the knot of the sash, that is at her waist.

"I spotted the tower earlier. We're not too far from it, but we need to be quick," Aelita reminds us.

"Right!" I exclaim.

Letting Aelita take the lead, we start running in the direction of the tower.

"Hey, I noticed that you didn't have your cell phone on you today. Everything okay?" Yumi asks.

"I had a fight with my mom," I reply.

"O,h I see sorry to hear that," Yumi says.

"Thanks…" I trail off.

Aelita looks at me with concern, turning forward she focuses on running.

"You three should be approaching the tower soon."

We continue running as we slide down a jagged rock. We're now within eyesight of the tower. Aelita is about to run to the tower, but Yumi and I hold our hands up.

"This is strange, there haven't been any monsters," Yumi says and pulls her fan out, from the knot, fully extending it. I take my staff out of its sheath.

"She's right. Xana's probably trying to trap us," I say.

We start to hear a noise from behind us. We look behind to see some sort of sandstorm approaching.

"A sandstorm!" Aelita exclaims and we gasp.

"It looks more like a tornado," Yumi comments. We start running from it.

"Jeremy, we've got a problem!" I inform him. I sheath my staff back in its sheath.

"Make that two! There's a monster behind you!"

Looking behind us, all we see is the sandstorm. We continue to run, but it envelopes us. The sandstorm starts to worsen our eyesight.

"Watch out! You're getting close to the edge!" the sandstorm continues to push us.

"Incoming, it's a megatank!"

Hearing a faint, rolling sound I hear the Megatank opening up. A red light, shines through the sandstorm. It unleashes its laser in a wave. Seeing the incoming wave, Yumi and I grab Aelita; pushing her to the side and making her tumble. She yelps, hitting the ground and tumbling away from the edge. We roll away, from the laser just in time. Aelita somehow manages to stop herself, from tumbling. Yumi and I get back up. Spotting her pink hair, through the sandstorm; we push through it and help Aelita up.

"Sorry about that Aelita," Yumi says.

"It's okay, good reaction timing," Aelita compliments.

"If we start running in this sandstorm, we'll never make it. Yumi stand your ground," I request and I take my staff out.

"What are you going to do?" Yumi asks, taking out her fan and extending it, she covers Aelita. I start chanting in Latin.

"Exardesco! Exardesco!" I chant, letting my amulet glowing. The glow shines across the desert field and causes the megatank to charge it's laser directly at me.

"Yumi, now!" I exclaim, my amulet starting to fade. Focusing her fan, Yumi throws it at the growing laser. The fan slashes the Xana eye, causing the Megatank to explode. The fan comes back to Yumi, and she catches it. The gush of wind starts to fade and eventually stops.

"Great teamwork you two!" Jeremy compliments. "Odd and Ulrich are still stuck on the bus. It's getting closer and closer, and it seems to be heading to a chemical plant."

"A chemical plant?!" Yumi exclaims.

"Yes. I'm trying to relay some information, that will help the bus not plunge, Odd, Ulrich, Sissi, Jim and our fellow classmates to their deaths. Unfortunately, all I can do is provide them with a safe route to the chemical plant. But, we'll need to stop Xana before they reach it. So step on it, if you can."

"Right, we're on it!" I exclaim and we start running to the tower. Making our way to the tower, we glance to our side seeing the wires continuing to pulse and glow red.

"We're getting closer," Aelita informs.

"Maybe we can-" Yumi says, and is hit by several lasers She hits the ground hard, her body sparking.

"Yumi!" I exclaim, and I signal Aelita to get behind me. Standing my ground, I take my staff out and aim it at the two bloks ahead of me.

"Yumi's lost a lot of life points with those attacks! If she's hit again, it'll be up to you to take care of the Bloks!"

I begin chanting in Latin, and my amulet starts glowing, signaling my magic is fully charged up.

"Exardesco, Exardesco, Exardesco, Exardesco!" I swing my staff, throwing four Fire Bolts and keeping in mind that I have a limit. The Fire Bolts fly, reaching the Bloks. The first three Fire Bolts, hit the Blok destroying it. The second Blok, moves to the side just in time to miss the other Fire Bolt. It starts to charge its laser blue, which usually means an ice blast. The Blok fires the laser at me, and I ready myself to take the blow for Aelita. Yumi lands on the ground, in front of us. The ice blast hits her, freezing her and then unfreezes. She devirtualizes instantly.

"Yumi!" Aelita gasps, the blok starts to charge its laser at her. Dropping my staff, I unsheathe my sword. I run at the Blok, and swing my sword at it. My sword slashes the Blok and it is destroyed. I sheathe my sword, and walk back to my staff. Picking it up, I put it back in its sheathe.

"Let's save our friends," Aelita says. I nod.

At the activated tower

Aelita walks into the tower's "doorway," and she phases in. Looking up, I see the tower's red aura soon turning to blue.

"Return to the past now!"

A big white bubble envelopes everything, sending us back in time.

Earlier that same day

Back in Jeremy's room

Earlier that same day, we are now in Jeremy's room. Jeremy, Odd, and I eagerly wait for Ulrich.

"Say Odd, how mad was Sissi when she found out Yumi and I had her diary?" I ask, Odd sits comfortably on Jeremy's bed.

"On a scale of one to ten? 11," Odd smiles.

"Just goes to show you, Karma is always there when you least expect it," Jeremy says.

"Just like Xana," I joke.

Odd laughs a little, "Good one Lila."

"Anyways, do you think Ulrich will keep his diary safe this time around?" Jeremy asks.

"I'm sure he will Jeremy," I reply, the door starts to open. Turning our attention to the door, the door opens with Ulrich and his diary in hand as he lifts it proudly.

"Mission, successful," Ulrich says.

Jeremy claps.

"Yeah!" Odd cheers, standing on the bed. He jumps in the air. He lands back onto the bed, hitting it with a thump. I smile slightly, happy for Ulrich.

"Congratulations Ulrich. Sissi, wasn't too much trouble this time was she?" Jeremy asks.

"No, she wasn't. And thanks Lila, for helping Yumi find it the first time," Ulrich says.

"You're welcome," I smile.

In Lila's room

Later, I sigh going into my room. Mary is sitting on the bed as she's been waiting for me. I close the door.

"I'm glad you're well," Mary says.

"Thank you. Me too. With you..."

"I apologize for the heartbreaking news I gave you last week. I know we haven't talked much, all week. But, I should have been more truthful sooner."

I shake my head, "No, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gotten angry with you."

"It was a perfectly normal reaction. I would have been concerned if you didn't get angry at me. How did things go on Lyoko?"

"Thanks... I guess if I didn't get angry at you, it would be a cause for concern. Odd and Ulrich were trapped on a bus, the entire time. Yumi and I barely managed to handle things by ourselves. We were lucky this time around, and for once my own spells didn't cause me to devirtualize. I used them with carefully," I say.

"That's good, I'm glad it went well. But Lila, fighting for the world no, the future, is not about luck. It's just a matter of time. And in time, we'll defeat Xana. No matter what."

"No matter what," I say, nodding to her in agreement.

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