At the factory, Aetlia,Odd, Yumi and Ulrich were just getting off the elevator walking into the lab by Jeremy. "Just a few more missions like that on Sector 5, and I'll have all the elements I need for Aelita's antivirus!" Jeremy said smiling. "Now onto more pressing matters, what to do about Josh." Jeremy added. "I don't think we should trust him." Ulrich said, not willing to trust something created by Xana. "I think we should at least give him a chance. He did help us the other day." Aelita pointed out. "Then let's have a vote. No matter what we have to involve him somehow. And honestly his knowledge will be of great help against Xana." Jeremy said. "Okay. So let's vote already." Odd said. "Okay, who's for letting Josh work with us. I vote for." Jeremy asked. "I vote against. I trust him as much as Xana" Ulrich said. Yumi looked a bit uneasy. "Odd? Your vote?" Jeremy asked. "I vote against. It's not that I don't trust him but I rather know for sure he would help us. He was still deciding the other day." Odd said. "Aelita?" Jeremy asked. "I vote for. He might have been against us but I think all this time being human he's changed. Sort of how I have learned new things being on earth." Aelita said, smiling a bit. "Okay that's two for and two against. Yumi your vote decides if we actively let him help us." Jeremy said as everyone looked at her. "I… I vote for. Something that happened when the supercomputer's battery was going dead makes me know deep down he's not like Xana." Yumi said. Ulrich and Odd looked at her in dis-belief. "Okay then. It's decided we will let him help us, at least if he wants to." Jeremy said. "We ought to be heading back to the dorms, it's getting late." Jeremy added.
The group headed back through the sewers to the park entrance. Where they climbed out one by one. Ulrich turned back and offered his hand to help Yumi and was holding her hand a bit longer then necessary afterwards. "See you tomorrow, Yumi!" Jeremy said, waving. "Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow!" Yumi replied before looking at Ulrich. "See you tomorrow.." She told him quietly. She then slowly walked away. "Yeah, uh, late." Ulrich said back to her nervously. Odd, Jeremy and Aelita stopped and watched all this happen. "Hellooo? Anyone home?" Odd said knocking on his own forehead. "Ulrich you ought to go for it." Odd added. "Like, now?" Ulrich asked. "No, wait until she starts going out with another guy, because she's sick of waiting for you to make a move, right?" Odd said sarcastically. Ulirch looked nervously at Odd. "And what if Jim notices that I'm missing?" He asked. "We'll cover for you!" Odd said. Aelita laughed a bit at all this going on. "Yeah." Aelita said implying that he would definitely cover for him.
At the Ishiyama household, Yumi was just getting home. She stopped surprised to see William leaning against the column next to her gate. "William? What are you doing here? Are you crazy?" She asked. William walked closer to her. "Yes. I told you I was!" He said, lifting her chin alittle. "I go totally crazy when I like a girl." He added.
Ulirch was running to Yumi's house and stopped a few buildings away seeing William and Yumi together. He watched for a moment with his mouth open in shock before closing his eyes and sprinting away back towards kadic.
William leaned towards Yumi's face as if going to try and kiss her. "Uhh! No!" Yumi said flustered. "Wait! I…. Sorry, I..I..I'm a little.. Confused." She said ducking under his arm to move away. She opened her gate and went inside it. "It's Ulirch, isn't it?" William asked. Yumi paused for a moment. "Goodnight.." She said before going inside her house.
At kadic Odd,Jeremy and Aelita were in their pyjamas waiting in Odd and Ulrich's room for Ulrich to return. Odd was in the middle of recounting some event that had happened. "So then I told her I was going to order a T-shirt on the Internet, and she asked, if it was going to come out of the printer!" Odd said causing the three to laugh. Just then Ulrich opened the door and walked inside. "Here's out hero!" Odd said causing Ulrich to frown. "Hey, champ! How'd it go?" Odd asked. Ulrich didn't say a word and layed down on his bed. Odd look at Jeremy and Aelita. "Well then.. I think I'm going to go to bed. I'm tired." Aelita said leaving. "Yeah, me too." Jeremy also said leaving closing the door. "Well? What happened, huh?" Odd asked, wanting to know what was bothering him. Ulrich stayed quiet and rolled to face the wall. "Leave me alone" he said grumpily.
Outside Odd and Urlich's room Jeremy and Aelita were getting ready to go their separate ways. "Before we go to bed should we stop by Josh's room and tell him the good news?" Aelita asked Jeremy. "Sure, I guess." Jeremy replied smiling as they quietly walked to Josh's room and knocked on the door. Josh opened the door slowly. "Aelita? Jeremy? What are yous doing here?" Josh asked, a bit confused. "We came by to tell you something." Jeremy said. "What?" Josh asked. "We had a vote earlier at the factory. Were going to let you help us." Aelita said smiling. "Okay? That mean you will text me or something when my father launches an attack?" Josh asked. "Ah yea. Also maybe you can share some more information about your creation sometime." Jeremy said, very interested in how Xana managed it. "Yea. Okay. Well See you in the morning. I am going to bed." Josh said closing the door slowly. "See you tomorrow Aelita." Jeremy said to her as they walked their seperate ways to their rooms.
The next morning all the students were gathered outside the school at the soccer field. Around the soccer field a small driving course was set up and a small yellow car was parked near the stands. "Some of you are already riding scooters and at this stage, I don't think it would be a waste of your time to go over the rules of the road." Mr. Demlas said. "Now this training day will familiarise you with the correct way to drive a vehicle. Assistant Warrant Officer Garrigue, here, has agreed to take you under his responsibility today, as part of the exchange programme between the Police Force and the Board of Education. Our physical education teacher Jim will assist you as well." Mr. Demlas continued. While he was talking Yumi looked at Ulrich and smiled and waved at him. "Hi.." She started to say when Ulrich just turned away and paid her no attention.
Jim was standing with Mr. Delmas and Officer Garrigue. "Corporal Jim Morales. Seventh Engineering Battalion, service number 9-2-12-1!" Jim said saluting the office. "At ease! You…were in the army?" Office Garrigue said in surprise. "Uh…I'd rather not talk about it, Captain." Jim said which by now is his catch phrase. "I'm only a Warrant Officer." Office Garrigue stated. "Oh. Excuse me, Lieutenant." Jim corrected himself. "Yes, well, um…I'll turn operations over to you, uh…Jim. …Can I count on you?" Mr. Delmas asked. "Affirmative, Mister Delmas!" Jim yelled, making Mr. Delmas flinch. The Officer began to teach them about the rules of the road.
Meanwhile Yumi was trying to figure out what was wrong with Ulrich. "Hey, hey! Ulrich! What's wrong? Are you sulking, or what?" Yumi asked him, grabbing his arm causing him to pull back and move away. "What is it with him? Last night when we said goodbye, he was in a great mood!" Yumi asked Odd worried about Ulrich. "Yeah, but…what about after? What happened after he followed you back to your place?" Odd asked. "He followed me? Oh no!" Yumi said, groaning realizing the problem.
One by one the students drove the driving course. Meanwhile Xana activated a tower taking control of the scanner program to begin virtualizing a Krab. One of the scanners soon opened and a crab stuck its leg out. Soon after it forced its way out of the scanner destroying it before making its way out of the factory towards Yumi's house. A second scanner began to warm up.
Just as the driving course had finished William commented about Ulrich's bad driving. Urlich turned towards him and tackled him to the ground where they began to fight. "Stern and Dunbar!" Jim yelled, breaking up the fight. JIm then took them to the principal's office where Mr. Delmas gave them both detention in the library.
In the courtyard Aelita, Odd and Jeremy were near a bench while Yumi stood a bit away leaning on a tree. "Don't worry, Aelita. It'll work out. They're not the first guys who've ever fought over a girl!" Odd told her seeing the worried look on her face. "How about you? Would you fight over me, Jeremie?" Aelita asked. "I fight for you every day, Aelita. Against XANA!" Jeremy said. "That's…so beautiful!" Odd said wiping away a fake tear just as Jeremy's laptop began beeping. "Huh?" Jeremy said opening his laptop to find the superscan finding an activated tower. "Speak of the devil! I've got an activated tower here." Jeremy said, closing his laptop and getting up. "Let's head for the factory. The sooner we deactivate it, the better." Yumi said. "What about Ulrich?" Aeltia asked. "We'll manage without him but call Josh.." Jeremy said. Aelita took out her phone and called Josh informing him to come to the factory.
Meanwhile at the Ishiyama household, Yumi's father ,Takeho, arrived home and walked inside. Yumi's mom, Akiko, and brother ,Hiroki, were sitting at a table. Akiko was on her laptop and Hiroki was playing on his gameboy. Takeho walked into the room and up down his briefcase. "Your home early," Akiko said. "The meeting with Morimoto-san was moved up. How's your dictionary coming along?" Takeho asked her. "Wll, my editor called and ..." she began to answer but stopped as soon as a loud band was heard and the whole house shook. "Huh?!" Hioki gasped, closing his gameboy startled. Akiko walked to the front door. "Who could that be?" She said opening the door. Her eyes widened in fear as she saw the Krab and screamed.
Odd, Jeremy,Aelita, Yumi and Josh arrived at the factory. They all were about to go down the ropes when Odd stopped and held up his hand to get the others to stop. Down below the sound of a Krab could be heard. "There! Look out!" Odd said as the Krab looked up and shot a few lasers at them before stopping because it could not see them. "Well…now we know what Xana has in store for us!" Odd said. Just then Yumi's phone rang. "Hello? Hiroki?" Yumi asked. "Yumi there's a big monster outside the house!" Hiroki said in a panic. "What?!" Yumi said, shocked. "No, I swear! And the monster looks like the one in Ultimate Blaster! Daddy's outside!" Hiroki said, hiding under a table. "I'm coming." Yumi said, hanging up. "Xana has virtualized another Krab. It's at my house! My parents are in danger!" Yumi said, panicked. "Go help them. Odd,Josh and I will manage on Lyoko." Aelita said.
Once Yumi left Jeremy came up with a plan. "Right. I've got a plan. Ok, this is the gallery, which I'm going to call, G. This is where we are; this is the elevator landing, which I'm going to call E – we've got to get to point E without being spotted by the Krab, K! You get it?" Jeremy asked, adjusting his glasses. "No. But.. I've got another plan." Odd said "What is it?" Jeremy asked, curious. "BANZAAAAAI!" Odd yelled running past the group jumping down in front of the Krab to distract it. "What're you waiting for? An invitation?" Odd yelled at the Krab as the group began to hurry down to the elevator. The Krab totally ignored Odd and started to go after Josh. "Get in the elevator now!" Josh yelled, starting to run away from the elevator to lead it away. As he ran the Krab continued to fire at him. Josh turned around and ran back towards the elevator getting hit by one of the Krabs lasers just as he was getting into the elevator.. "JOSH!" Aelita screamed seeing him on the ground just outside of the elevator with smoke rising off him. The Krab looked down at him as if looking for movement before getting ready to fire another laser at him. Odd saw this and quickly grabbed Josh's arm and pulled him into the elevator that had begun to close. "Josh are you okay?" Jeremy asked looking down at him. "It burns so much." Josh gasped out having a large burn from the laser on his back. "Okay, Odd set him down in the lab and head down to the scanners." Jeremy said as the elevator doors opened in the lab.
Meanwhile Yumi was trying to make her way to her house but the local authorities were not allowing anyone there due to the Krab. Just as she was about to give up the officer got a call over his radio that the creature was at Kadic Academy, allowing Yumi to get through.
Odd and Aelita went down to the scanner room where the whole room was a mess with two out of three scanners totally destroyed.. "You okay? Are you there Odd?" Jeremy asked over the intercom. "Uh…yeah, but uh…we've got a little problem here! Our friend Mister Krab has busted all the scanners!" Odd stated. "Not all of them! This one looks like it still works." Aelita said approaching the working scanner. "Ok. I'm going to virtualise Aelita first." Jeremy said typing. "The activated tower is in the Mountain Sector. Thirty-five degrees north. Scanner, Aelita! Transfer, Aelita! Virtualisation!" Jeremy said completing her virtualization and beginning to set one up for Odd. "Odd your next." Jeremy stated. "Ok" Odd replied, waiting as the scanner whirled to life and a Krab leg came out of it. "Uh-oh! Jeremie, we've got another problem." Odd said backing up. "What kind?!" Jeremy asked. "Well…it's a big banquet. Xana has sent us an entire seafood platter!" Odd said.
Meanwhile the Krab that was at the factory made its way to Kadic and began to hunt for Ulrich causing much destruction. Jim heard students screaming while Ulrich was in detention with William. "You two stay put if you know what's good for ya." Jim said going to find what all the screaming was about. Soon after Jim Ulrich looked out the window and saw a Krab. "What is that thing?" William asked. "A Krab." Urlich said sternly.
A loud awful noise from the scanner room caused Jeremy to pull the ear piece from his ear just as Odd was climbing up from the scanner room. "What was that?!" Jeremy gasped shocked. "The very last scanner getting destroyed by a Krab." Odd said. During this whole exchange Josh had been very quiet in pain. "Aelita is on her own now…!" Jeremy said worried. "Jeremy. Send me in." Josh said gasping as he stood up and walked over towards him and Odd. "But how? All the scanners were destroyed by the Krabs."Jeremy said. "Jeremy I will tell you how once this is done. Just trust me." Josh said breathing hard. "I need you to do the normal virtualization process but target the auxiliary port on the console for where to transfer memory from instead of the scanners." Josh said. "Are you sure?" Jeremy asked understanding how that sort of transfer would work.. "Just trust me." Josh said, placing his hand on the expansion port on the back of the console. "Do it now!" Josh said using the spector codes in him to access the port. "Transfer Josh." Jeremy said watching Josh. As he entered the command Josh went limp falling to the ground. "Virtualization!" Jeremy said, hitting enter finishing the transfer virtualizing Josh next to Aelita.
"Josh are you there? Answer me!" Jeremy asked worriedly, as red errors appeared all over the screen. "I am here." Josh said. "Okay. You had me worried. Your body went totally limp. And from what I can tell you will be killed if your devirtualized. Just like Aelita." Jeremy said. "Okay. Good to know. Send us a vehicle." Josh said. "Okay. I am sending the Overboard" Jeremy said, loading up the vehicle next to them. Josh tried to get on it and fell off almost instantly. "Jeremy you better send the Overwing for Josh." Aelita said, not exactly comfortable with Josh riding with her when he was having such a hard time riding it. "Okay. I will bring it up." Jeremy said quickly bring up the Overwing. "Now head to the tower." He added.
Ulrich called Jeremy. "Jeremy? What is happening?" Ulirch asked, wanting an update. "Xana has materialised three Krabs. One of them is at Yumi's, and Odd's playing upstairs with the second, so that it won't do any more damage outside." Jeremy said. "The third one is here at the academy. I'll deal with it. …With William." Urlich said hanging up. Before heading outside with William. Jim ran at the krab. "Geronimooo!" He yelled as he swung his fist at it. The krab shot him in the shoulder knocking him to the ground. "Jim!" Ulrich said, running towards the krab with William. The krab looked back and forth between the two before they ran under it. William threw a rock at it to get its attention while Ulrich ran towards the shed. The krab began to go after William who ran after Ulrich.
Meanwhile Yumi walked into her house worried. "Anybody home?...Daddy? ..Mun?" She called out looking around. "Hiroki?" She continued getting worried.
Back at the school William was running towards the shed with the Krab right behind him. "Ulrich! I'm at the groundskeeper's shed. Ulrich?!" William yelled panting from running so far. Just as the grab was passing under a tree Ulrich jumped off a branch and stabbed it in its back with a metal rod. Urlich stepped off as the Krab slowly collapsed to the ground,dead.
On Lyoko Aelita and Josh were making their way towards the tower. "Watch out you have guests." Jeremy said. "3 Hornets at your 10 o'clock." He added. "Don't worry I will protect Aelita." Josh said slowing down on the Overwing to get between the Hornets and Aelita.
Back at the shed Urlich stood next to William who was still on the ground. "You're lucky. I wasn't going to save you." Urlich said coldly. "Hey.. What are you, crazy? What's the matter with you?" William yelled. "Stay away from our group! You got that?!" Urlich yelled back angry. "Listen, man. You're the one who doesn't get it. In the race for Yumi,I'm not in first place. Or didn't you know?" William replied, getting Ulrich's attention.
Back at Yumi's house she slowly walked up the stairs worried. THen suddenly her father jumped out from behind a wall, wearing samurai armor and wielding a katana. YUmi just back against the all shielding herself with her arre startled. "Daddy?!" Yumi said, finally realizing it was her father. He father laughed a bit at how startled she was,
Back at the factory the third Krab had made its way to the factory floor where Odd was hiding behind a pillar from it. "These Krabs are just as bad as on Lyoko!" He stated.
Meanwhile on Lyoko Josh was using his sword to deflect lasers from the hornets away from Aelita. He slowed down a bit more to make it easier to jump up and destroy one of them. "Good going Josh!" Jeremy said. "Aelita there's more hornets incoming. Xana is doing everything he can to slow you down." He added. "That's for sure. He wants to give the Krabs time to take care of the others." Aelita said.
Ulrich called Jeremy. "Ulrich!" Jeremy said. "Jeremy, we took out one of the Krabs". Urlich said. "Finally , some good news. Aelita and Josh are doing everything they can to get her to the tower and deactivate it, but nothing had better happen to Yumi or Odd in the meantime!" Jeremy replied. "I'll take care of it." Ulrich said hanging up. "We'll take care of it." William said, showing that he intended to help.
On lyoko Josh was slowly finishing off the first three hornets as two more went after Aelita. "Aelita watch out!" Josh yelled as the two hornets began to fire at her. Aelita quickly moved out of the way on the overboard. "Josh I will handle them." Aeltia said as she kicked the back of the overboard down to go straight up before turning around and heading towards a gap in the pathway. She maneuvered through the gap but one of the hornets slammed into the path destroying it. Meanwhile Josh was getting close to the last hornet that was following Aelita. He threw his sword at it destroying it but also causing his sword to go flying off the sector. "Josh, I have a little problem. I don't have the codes required to materialize you a new sword right now." Jeremy said typing.
At Yumi's house the Krab shot at Yumi as she tried to exit the property, hitting her. Her father attempted to attack the Krab with his katana but the Krab simply tossed him aside with its leg. The krab readied up to deliver a final shot to Yumi. Just as it fired its laser Ulrich ahrived and used Yumi's father's katana that was on the ground to deflect the laser. "Make my day shrimp." Ulirch said reading to fight the Krab.'
Back in the factory Odd was hiding from the Krab just as William showed up with the car that was used in the driving course earlier in the day. "Odd get in!" William yelled, causing Odd to quickly get into the car, William then floored the gas to get away from the Krab.
On Lyoko Josh and Aelita were nearing the tower. "The towers straight ahead." Josh said, smiling a bit. "Except there is a tarantula and the Scyphozoa!" Jeremy yelled as he was alerted to them. "Aelita, I have a plan." Josh said. "Okay what is it." Aelita asked. "You need to make a fake copy of yourself to trick the Scyphozoa and I will distract the tarantula while you head to the tower." Josh said. "That could work." Aelita said. "Just try not to get hurt." She added as she used her creativity to generate a copy of herself. Josh continued ahead with the copy and lured the monsters away from the tower. Jeremy had no idea what Josh and Aelita decided to do and was freaking out a bit as they ran.
At Yumi's house Ulirch was fighting the Krab. Ulrich jumped up and cut off one of the legs of the Krab causing Hiroki to jump up and run towards him and the Krab cheering. "Hiroki NO!" Ulrich yelled as the Krab shot him with a laser in the chest knocking him to the ground.
In the factory Odd and William found a rope and tied it to the Krab while it was not looking and attached it to the car. Odd ran to the side while William floored the car towards the elevator and jumped out just before the car went over the edge. Once the car went over the edge the Krab was dragged into the elevator making it crash down to the bottom.
On lyoko Aelita was making her way to the tower and Josh and the copy ran from the monsters. "Aelita No!" Jeremy yelled only seeing the signal from the copy as the Scyphozoa approached. Strangely the Scyphozoa totally ignored the Aelita copy and started to corner Josh. "Josh watch out. I don't know what Xana wants but he's after you!" Jeremy said worried. Josh tried to run but was cornered by the tarantula. The Scyphozoa grabbed him and began to mess with his memory. Shortly after the Aelita copy disintegrated as Aelita got near the tower.
At Yumi's house Ulrich was on the ground trying to get up. The Krab saw this and pinned him down with one leg while raising another to stab him with. It slowly came towards him.
On Lyoko the Scyphozoa dropped Josh who was getting up slowly disoriented, the tarantula looking at him before starting to fire.
Aelita ran into the tower and started to go up.
Josh got hit by a laser. "Josh no more hit and your done for!' Jeremy yelled.
At Yumi's the Krabs leg got closer to Ulrich's head getting closer and closer.
Aelita got to the platform at the top and deactivated the tower.
The Krabs leg stopped only two inches from Ulrich's face.
On lyoko the tarantula continued to fire at Josh. "Jeremy, launch the return to the past hurry!' Josh yelled, having a hard time doging the lasers.
In the lab Jeremy programmed hte return to the past.
On lyoko a laser was heading straight at Josh.
"Return to the past now!" Jeremy said hitting enter.
The return brought the world back to during the driving course. Ulrich stopped the car in front of the stands. "Hey. You really do know what you're doing, Ulrich." William said. "Thanks.." Ulrich replied. "You wanna come with me to my go-kart club? We'd have a great time together!" William aked. Yumi watched with a confused look on her face. "Sure! Why not?" Urlich said, chuckling and shaking his hand.
After the driving course Jeremy and Aelita went to Jeremy's room to continue working on Aelita's antivirus. Jeremy called up Josh "Jeremy?" Josh asked. "Josh, can you come to my room. I want you to start sharing some information about Xana." Jeremy said. "Oh Okay. I will be right there." Josh said hanging up.
In Jeremy's room Josh sat on Jeremy's bed near Aelita. "So what do you want to know." Josh asked. "Firstly do you know anything about the virus Xana gave Aelita?" Jeremy asked. "Well actually, I .. I … I don't believe it I can't remember." Josh said, holding his head before falling sideways, gritting his teeth. "Josh?!" Aelita gasped worried. Jeremy hurried to his side and tried to shake him out of it. Shortly after Josh started to breath normally. "Why can't I remember.." Josh mumbled, still holding his head. "Josh just relax, somethings not right. Are you sure you remembered before your trip to Lyoko?" Jeremy asked. "Yea. Could the Scyphozoa have either taken it or like blocked it?" Josh said. "Maybe." Jeremy said. "So anything you do still remember that you want to explain to us?" Jeremy added. "Sure, I will start with my creation I guess." Josh said. "So I was created to serve my Father of course. He used data he stole from Aelita to create a full functional virtual envelope for me. Then before I had him steal Odd's DNA sequence code I was involved in multiple attacks, where using a tower I was sent to earth as a spector. Mostly to steal more of Aelita's memory." Josh said. "Okay. That makes sense I guess." Jeremy said listening while Aelita tried to take that fact that Josh had directly worked with Xana to steal her memory. "So after Xana stole Odd's DNA, I began to work on creating my own using his as a template. I also used some of the memories that we had stolen from Aelita to do so. Then shortly after my Father used the Scyphozoa to insert it into me before sending me to earth for the first time." Josh said. "So you're sort of like a mix of me and Odd with a little bit of randomness added in." Aelita said piecing it all together. "Well yea, I guess so." Josh said. "Josh I have a question. Why do you seem to care about me so much? LIke you seemed overly worried about me even when you were still helping Xana. " Aelita asked. "I am not exactly sure, I just feel some sort of connection to you. Sort of how I can feel my connection to the lyoko and the supercomputer. Plus honestly you are a very nice person." Josh said. "That's strange. It could be the virus creating this sort of connection." Jeremy said. "Well it was nice talking." Josh said smiling. "I am going to head to lunch. Aelita you coming to lunch?" Josh asked. "Yea. Jeremy you coming?" Aeltia asked. "No, I am finally making progress on your anti-virus." Jeremy said. After Aelita and Josh left Jeremy's room Josh stopped and looked at her. "Aelita, Also I didn't want to say this in front of Jeremy but I think you're very pretty as well but I don't want to get between you and Jeremy. I think you too are perfect for eachother. " Josh said, smiling a bit. Aelita blushed. "I understand." She said as they continued to lunch.
Well that's all for this chapter.
And yes if it wasn't for the fact that I really love Jerlita I would totally ship Josh with her. Sort of wish I had someone to easily ship with Josh but yea. I am not introducing another character. (Because I would have to make one) and I don't want to have to involve another Code Lyoko character into the gang.