On Lyoko a tower activated in the desert sector. In Odd's room a specter unscrewed the light bulb in Odd's lamp and sat the bulb down. Kiwi looked up and began to growl at the spector before it attacked him and possessed him.
Meanwhile Jeremy,Odd,Aelita,Ulrich and Josh were in the cafeteria getting dinner. As Odd and Jeremy were getting their food and arguing at the same time. "You're wrong, I tell you!" Odd said. "But I didn't say that Kiwi was stupid..." Jeremy said. "Oh, no. You said he was brainless." Odd snapped back. "Yeah. Well if you throw him a stick, he won't run and fetch it!" Jeremy replied. "Well neither would you! Does that make you brainless?!" Odd yelled back causing Jeremy to be silent. At their table Josh was sitting with Urlich and Aelita. "Aelita something feels strange." Josh said, holding his head slightly. "What do you mean strange?" Aelita asked. "I am not sure. Maybe I am just experiencing an energy dip." Josh said. "Well eating dinner will probably help." Aelita replied.
Shortly after Milly and Tamiya were on their way to the shows when they rounded the corner and Tamiya noticed Kiwi sitting in the hall. "Hey! What's he doing there?" Tamiya said pointing at Kiwi. "If Jim sees him, Odd's gonna be in big trouble." Milly said with a gasp. "I will take him back to his room." Tamiya said walking towards Kiwi, "I'll meet you in the showers." Milly said before going into the bathroom. "Good doggie. Come on Kiwi." Tamiya said reaching down to pat him. The eye of Xana pulsed in Kiwi's eyes as he started to bark before biting down on Tamiya's hand. "Huh? OOW!" Tamiya yelled, pulling her hand back. She looked at her hand before her vision began to blur. She swayed back and forward a bit as she got dizzy. She closed her eyes and then reopened them revealing that they had turned pure white and were glowing slightly.
Meanwhile in the Cafeteria Odd was licking a pudding container clean. "So you're not going to be finishing your chocolate pudding?" Odd asked. "Isn't that your fourth one?" Aelita asked, slightly amused. "Odd is like a cow: he has more than one stomach." Ulrich said. Distantly Milly could be head screaming. "HELP ME!" She screamed running towards the cafeteria. "All the better to pug out with, my dear.." Odd joked before looking up in surprise hearing Milly. "Tamiya….She came after me! Oh.. She looked… so strange and her eyes were completely white!" Milly explained terrified and in distress. "They were horrible! She looked like Doctor Schrank!" She continued. "Who's Doctor Schrank?" Jeremy asked, to which Josh shrugged having no clue. "The psycho TV brain surgeon in Hospital of Horrors." Odd explained noticing Jeremy and Josh's confusion. "Smells like Xana, doesn't it?" Aelita asked, causing Jeremy to pull out his laptop. "I'm launching a superscan."
Meanwhile Rosa was trying to comfort Milly. "Calm down. It'll be alright. You must have had a bad dream." Rosa said. "No! I didn't! It was real!" Tamiya said back still out of breath and terrified. Shortly after the super scan began to beep indicating that a tower had been activated. "Yep. An activated tower." Jeremy said closing him laptop, "Let's Head for the factory." Odd said getting up. "I will call Yumi." Ulrich said getting up and taking out his phone. Josh stood up and stretched. "I think it's serious. Sissi, go get your father, please." Rosa said. "We'll go with you." Ulrich said, making Sissi smile, pleased at the idea.
Jim was walking past the cafeteria as the group left. "Hey! Jim! There's a problem with Milly Solovieff!" Sissi said. "Jim?" She asked as he had not responded. Jim turned around revealing his zombified face before trying to grab them. Sissi screamed and started to run. "Sissi! Come back!" Ulrich yelled as she ran off, Urlich ran after her. Jim stopped and looked at the other four of the group before going after them. They began to back away. "Look over there!" Aelita said pointing at many more zombie students. "I am going to try and make a run for it." Josh said. "Meet you at the factory." He added before running off causing quite a few of the zombies to follow him giving the others enough time to get back to the cafeteria.
Odd shut the door behind Aelita,Jeremy and himself. Rosa looked up in concern. "Hey! What's going on?" She asked. "Oh, nothing. We're surrounded by zombies, Ma'am." Odd said "Zom..." Rosa managed to say before looking faint and starting to fall backwards.
Meanwhile Yumi had been making her way to the factory unimpeded. Josh on the other hand was still running for his life. "Of course he would care about me more than the others." Josh said to himself that his father, Xana, would try his best to get rid of him. He continued to run towards the sewer lid in the forest. Soon Yumi was also approaching the sewer lid and saw Josh. "Yumi! Am I glad to see you." Josh said, stopping to catch his breath. "Let's get to the factory, the others are stuck in the cafeteria and Urlich is out here somewhere with Sissi." Josh said lifting the lid and starting down. "Who's going to deactivate the tower? Don't we need Aelita?" Yumi asked as she placed the lid back. "I can deactivate towers but yes it would be best if they could get here." Josh said as they began to run towards the factory.
Inside the cafeteria the students looked fearfully out the window at the zombies peering in. "There! You see? I wasn't dreaming!" Milly said, scared. Sortly after the zombies moved away from the windows and walked off. "I'll bet they'll be back, with reinforcements." Herb said just as Rosa was waking up. "The problem with the living dead is that you can't kill them…. Because they're already dead." Nicolas said chuckling causing Rosa to faint again.
Odd,Jeremy and Aelita were gathered around Jeremy's laptop. "I hope Ulrich and Josh got away alright." Aelita said worried about their friends. "Don't worry. " Odd said as he grabbed the back door handle. "They're probably at the factory right now. And we've got to join him ASAP!" Odd added. The group turned around in surprise when William speaked up. "Hey. Where do you think you're going?!" William said. "Uh.. outside?" Jeremy said blankly. "No way! It's too dangerous." William replied. "That's our problem, William." Odd said as he grabbed the door handle again only to have William shove him away from the door. "Sorry, I'm the oldest one here so I'm the one "Sorry. I'm the oldest one here so I'm the one responsible for the group, and I'm telling you, you're staying here and waiting for help! I don't want the zombies to get you and what's more, if they attack the cafeteria again, we'll need as many of us here as possible!" William said to Odd before turning to address the whole cafeteria. "Anyone who tries to get out has gotta get past me first! Understand?!" He stated. "Oh, great! William thinks he's Bruce Willis! That's all we needed." Odd said.
At the factory Josh and Yumi were just arriving. "So your sure you can get us both to lyoko?" Yumi asked, sort of worried. "I am sure of it. I have virtualized Aelita in the past and I can virtualize myself." Josh said quick to the point. "I am going to call Jeremy and let him know." Josh said dialing Jeremy's number. "Jeremy? You there?" Josh asked. "Yea. Any luck getting to the factory?" Jeremy asked. "Yes. I am here with Yumi. Are you guys on your way?" Josh asked. "No. This joker William won't let us out!" Jeremy said quietly so as to not be overheard. "Just try your best to get out. I am going to virtualize Yumi and myself to try and deactivate the tower." Josh stated. "Good luck." Jeremy said, sighing as he hung up.
"Josh is at the Factory with Yumi there going in to try and deactivate the tower." Jeremy said. Odd looked over and saw Kiwi panting. "Hey look they're Kiwi!" Odd said "He found me! See how smart he is? Look at him, my little diggity dog!" Odd added. Just then Kiwi's eyes flicked with the eye of Xana. "Hey! That's the same dog we saw in the hallway just before Tamiya got zombified!" Milly said while Odd was approaching Kiwi. "Wait, Odd!" Milly yelled trying to warn him. Kiwi growled at Odd before biting him. "Ow!" Odd yelled in surprise. "Kiwi! Whats wrong with you?" Odd asked seeing him growling and baring his teeth. Just then Odd finally noticed the eye of Xana in Kiwi's eyes. "Xana.." Odd said under his breath before holding his head as he was slowly being zombified. "William! Quick, we have to tie him up!" Jeremy yelled.
Meanwhile Ulrich was hiding near the cafeteria with Sissi, trying to come up with a plain to free the others.
At the Factory Josh sat down at the terminal and began to find the tower and set up a virtualization. "Head down to the scanners I will be there as soon as I am done." Josh said typing first locating the activated tower then beginning the virtualization for Yumi. Yumi went down to the scanner room and got inside a scanner. "Scanner Yumi, Transfer Yumi, Virtualization!" Josh said completing the transfer. "Yumi you there?" Josh asked. "Yea." Yumi said, waiting for him to transfer next. "Good. I am going to send the vehicles then virtualize myself." He said virtualizing the overwing and overbike before starting a delayed virtualization and heading down to the scanner room.
Once Odd was tied up Jeremy tried again to get William to let them go by explaining everything to him. "A supercomputer that lets you go into a virtual universe where you have to battle an evil enemy called Xana? Who you say has possessed Kiwi" William said in disbelief. "Uh, yes. When you.. Put it that way, I admit it sounds a little weird!" Jeremy said. "If you want to stop this zombie attack Jeremy and I have to get to the factory now." Aelita added. "Look, I don't believe you, so you're staying here." William said "You should have let us leave before then we wouldn't be in this mess." Jeremy said. William grabbed Jeremy by his shirt. "Listen, if you'd gone out, you might be a zombie yourself by now idiot!" William said.
On lyoko Yumi and Josh began to head in the direction of the tower but without anyone to warn them they did not know they were heading right for a group of krabs that were guarding the tower. "Seems very quiet." Yumi said as they continued. "Yea. Something doesn't feel quite right." Josh said before noticing the krabs. "Krabs straight ahead by the tower." He stated before speeding up towards them. "Josh, be careful" Yumi said as she threw a fan at the Kkabs and destroyed one of the three. "I am being careful!" Josh said as he drove quickly under one and stabbed his sword up through it, destroying it before retreating as the last Krab began to go after him. It fired at him and managed to hit the overbike out from under him. "YumI! I need a lift!" Josh yelled as he continued to run. Yumi turned around and swooped down for him to jump onto the overwing. "Thanks." Josh said as they continued towards a large crack in the ground in front of them. The krab continued to fire at them, hitting Josh twice. "I don't have many life points left. I hope Aelita and Jeremy are on their way." Josh stated before the Krab hit the Overwing causing it to crash.
Meanwhile Ulrich was talking with Sissi. "I have a plan but I'm not sure you're gonna like it." Urlich said before telling her. "Are you ready?" He asked. "Uh yea." She said. Urlich ran out into the open behind the zombies at the cafeteria door. "KILL THE ZOMBIEEES!" He yelled, dancing around on the spot like a fool. "Come on, you deadheads!" He yelled, running off clearing the coast for Sissi who ran to the door. "Open up! It's me, Sissi" She yelled scared. Herb and William looked at Sissi as she knocked on the glass. "Hey! Open up, I said! I'm not one of them! HeeelP!" she yelled. "She's lying." Herb said, walking over. "Prove it." he said. "Um… I uh… I…have a subscription to Pretty Girl, and I still sleep with Nin-nin, my stuffed moose." Sissi said. "That has nothing to do with it, that just proves you're a lameo!" Herb said. There was a growl behind Sissie as the zombies had begun to return. "You open this door, you bunch of pea-brained dorks!" She yelled. "Ok! That's Sissi, alright!" Nicolas said nodding. Herb opened the door for her but before he could close it Jim began to make his way inside. "Aelita let's go. It's now or never!" Jeremy said grabbing her hand and running out the back door. "William tried to punch Jim but Jim grabbed his fist and tossed him outside before going back outside himself. Shortly after Ulrich managed to get back into the cafeteria after the zombies retreated.
Jeremy and Aelita made their way to the factory. "Get to the scanner room." Jeremy told Aelita as he sat down and put on his headset. "Yumi, Josh are you there?" He asked, looking on his screen seeing some Kankrelats ahead. "Yea. We're here. Aelita on her way?" Josh asked. "Yea. She's in the scanner room now. Also there's a group of Kankrelats ahead." Jeremy replied. "Good to know." Yumi said, readying her fans just as one of the kankrelats shot the overwing out from under her and Josh. "That miserable Kankrelat..." Yumi murmured. "Scanner Aelita Transfer Aelita Virtualization" Jeremy said as he virtualized Aelita next to their location. "Aelita is it good to see you." Josh said smiling. "We'll have to go on foot. A kankrelat destroyed the overwing." Yumi said as they all began to run towards where the tower was. As they ran eventually the ground just ended. "Oh, no!" Yumi said in dismay. "Jeremy, the tower and the ground, it's gone." Josh said. "No, wait. The tower is there. I.. I can see it on my screen!" Jeremy said. Aelita closed her eyes and concentrated a bit using her connection to Lyoko getting a vision of the tower. "You're right, Jeremy. It's straight ahead!" Aelita said. Josh looked a bit in shock. "Aelita I think your right. I know I can feel the tower's power." Josh said. "How are we going to get to it?" Aelita asked. "I can tele-transport Aelita!" Yumi said, smirking. "You're crazy! If you fail, she'll fall right into the Digital Sea!" Jeremy said. "You have a better idea?' Yumi asked. "I do! Tele-transport me. I am not important to your world." Josh said. "Josh don't say that..." Aelita said. "Josh, Aelita's right, plus she can see the tower and you can only feel it as you said." Jeremy stated. "Okay. I will stand behind Yumi and protect her." Josh replied. Yumi put her fingers to her temples and began concentrating. She began to glow slightly white as she slowly lifted Aelita off the ground and began to move her forward. A kankrelat was quickly approaching the group. "Josh there's a kankrelat approaching." Jeremy said, warning him. "Okay. I will deal with it." He said walking towards the kankrelat. He deflected a laser from it before stabbing it, destroying it. Another kankrelat approached him as he was walking back to Yumi and devirtualized him. "Yumi! Josh was just devirtualized. There's a kankrelat behind you." Jeremy yelled as the kankrelat fired at her. Yumi gasped as she was hit and lost concentration. Aelita suddenly began to plummet towards the digital sea screaming. Yumi stretched out her hand and activated her telekinesis again catching Aelita and continued to float her towards the tower. Yumi took out her fan to try and destroy the kankrelat. She throw it back at the kankrelat but missed allowing it to shoot her again making her drop Aelita. Aelita screamed as she fell until she landed on an invisible platform. "It;s one of Xana's tricks.." Aelita said getting up. Yumi stated and experimentally reached down and touched the area of nothingness in front of her and felt the solid ground. The kankrelat took this time to shoot Yumi again devirtualizing her. Aelita began to run towards the tower. "Jeremy! A krab!" Aeltia said worried. "Keep going! Normally it wouldn't dare fire at you." Jeremy said as Aelita ran right between the krab's legs and into the tower.
Meanwhile in the lab the zombies and Kiwi had made their way to Jeremy and Kiwi bit him, starting the conversion process.
In the Cafeteria the last few non-zombies are backed into a corner as the others approached them.
On lyoko Aelita went up to the top of the tower and deactivated it. As Jeremy was being zombified he managed to finish programming the return and to launch it. Launching them back to dinner before Kiwi was attacked by Xana.
The group sat down to eat dinner. "So Josh you understand a lot of the physics of how Xana's spectors work right?" Jeremy asked. "Well yes. I know exactly how they work. Why?" Josh asked. "I want to work on some form of defense against people controlled by Xana." He replied. "Hm Interesting. I can definitely help." Josh said.
AN: A little foreshadowing of the next chapter/ episode.