Josh and Jeremy were working at the factory. "So spectors are basically manifestations of an powerful electromagnetic field." Josh said. "Hm interesting. So if we produced a powerful enough EMP blast we should be able to destabilize one." Jeremy said thinking. "Well, in theory. Although my father may be able to stabilize it before it disintegrates." Josh explained. "Sort of how I am able to draw energy out of some electronic devices to stabilize myself at times." He continued. "Okay. Great, let's get to work." Jeremy said beginning work on a device. "We will have to be very careful with this. Because it could also destabilize me as well." Josh said to him. "Hm, Josh why is it that you are stabilized by Lyoko?" Jeremy asked, very curious as he couldn't access Josh's codes. "Well you see I don't have all the required digital signatures and codes to form a stable human body. So my father used what he could from the little memory he had stolen from Aelita and also the DNA sequence from Odd to get as close as he could, he also used some of his multiagent codes. Then used the same code that stabilizes and empowers spectors to stabilize me, thankfully I don't require an activated tower. I only need Sector Five to still exist." Josh explained. "Ah. I see. So if we ever want to decouple you from Lyoko to be able to shut down the supercomputer we will have to work on filling in the missing codes." Jeremy stated.
The next day the gang was hanging around the ground floor of the factory for a meeting. "So you are probably wondering why Josh and I called a meeting." Jeremy said. "We have developed a weapon to use against people under Xana's control." "So you're saying that this thing can destroy someone who's under Xana's control?" Yumi asked. "It isn't a 'thing,' it's an EMP bomb. It makes an electromagnetic explosion that affects anything electronic. And because the pixelated body of someone under Xana's control is held together by an electromagnetic field… '' Jeremy started before being cut off by Odd. "Uh, Jeremie, we've got a class in twenty minutes. Can you give us the CliffsNotes version?" Odd asked, causing the other to laugh. "Bomb explodes. Guy under Xana's control obliterated" Jeremy said, simplifying his explanation. "Great!" Aelita said smiling. "Right, Except for one little thing. We haven't come up with a mini version yet." Jeremy said looking over at the device sitting on a skateboard with two large batteries. "There is also the big issue that it could obliterate me as well. As my body is stabilized by a similar field to a spector." Josh explained.
While they were walking back to the school Xana activated a tower. Pulsations began to flow across the ice sector and ended at a tower.
Later on Aelita, Jeremy, Ulrich were sitting by the cafeteria. Sissi and her gang walked up to them. "Huh! What do you know! Yumi isn't here with you! Oh, of course not! I saw her with WIlliam. How stupid of me." Sissi said, trying to bother Ulrich. "You got that right." Ulrich said plainly. "Why is it whenever you see Sissi you feel like being nasty?" Jeremy asked. "Maybe because being with someone nasty rubs off on you." Urlich said. Just then Jeremy's laptop went off. "An activated tower! XANA's on the move again. Too bad for our music class. Let's get to the factory." Jeremy said jumping up. Just as they began to walk Jim approached them. "Where do you think you kids are going?! That's the way to your classroom." Jim said pointing towards the music classroom.
Meanwhile Yumi, Odd and Josh were talking to William. "Well, Josh and I have to get to music class with the others." Odd said. "Lucky you! We've got chemistry." William said, sounding not too happy. Odd then spotted Mr. Delmas. "Ah! Visuals on the principal." Odd said. "Good morning, Mister Delmas! W-we were just on our way to class-" Yumi said before she was cut off by Mr. Delmas grabbing her arm. "HEY! That hurts!" Yumi complained. William looked stunned as Mr. Delmas also grabbed Josh. "What's the matter with you, Sir?! You can't treat students that way!" William yelled. "Yea. Let them go." Odd said just as Mr. Delmas managed to get a hold of Odd and hold him under his arm. "Wait!" William yelled, grabbing Delmas's shoulder. Mr. Delmas turned around the eye of Xana in his eyes. "What are you doing?" William yelled.
Moments later William went through the doors of the building hitting the floor and sliding till he hit the stairs. Mr Delmas walked towards a car at the edge of campus. As he approached the doors unlocked and opened themselves. William limped after him. "Hey! Stop!" He yelled as Mr. Delmas thru Josh, Yumi and Odd into the car. William ran back towards the school where Nicolas overheard him. "The principal's gone totally crazy! He's kidnapped Yumi,Odd and Josh!" William said talking to two people outside the dorms.
Nicolas barged into the Music classroom, interrupting Mr. Mirti's lesson. "Delmas has just kidnapped Ishiyama, Della Robbia and Anderson" Nicolas blurted out. The whole class gasped while Jeremy murmured "Xana". "What kind of nonsense is this?!" Mr. Mirti asked. "But it's true, Sir! He even beat up William Dunbar!" Nicolas replied. "Don't you move. I'll be right back." Mirti replied going outside.
Aelita looked very upset. Ulrich had his phone to his ear. "Yumi isn't answering, and Odd isn't either." Ulrich said quietly. Jeremy's phone began beeping. The display flashing between an envelope and the sign of Xana. "A message from Xana…!" Jeremy said quietly before reading it. "Aelita at two o'clock in the Ice Sector to give herself up to the Scyphozoa! If not, Odd, Yumi and that traitor will be liquidated." The message read causing them all to gasp. Urlich stood up. "We don't have any time to lose. Let's go." Urlich said. "Ok" Jeremy replied, also getting up. Just then Mr. Mirti got back. "I want everybody in their seats right now." He said. "How do people expect us to save the world if they don't leave us alone?" Ulrich said annoyed.
Meanwhile Mr. Delmas stopped in front of an abandoned cold storage warehouse and electrocuted the three until they passed out and took them inside. Odd and Yumi awoke first. "Hows Josh?" Odd asked. "He's unconscious still." Yumi said, slightly worried. "I hope he's alright." Odd replied. "Where are we?" She asked, shivering. "Given the temperature, I would g-g-g-guess somewhere n-north of Siberia." Odd said trying to bring up the mood. Mr. Delmas was standing guard at the entrance of the room. Josh started to wake up looking around. "Oh my head." He mumbled sitting up. "Josh you okay?" Odd asked, concerned. "Yeah. I think so." He replied standing up a bit. "My cell phone.." Yumi said, reaching into her pocket. "He must have taken them." Odd said. "Yea. He has mine too. No way to contact the others or for them to locate us." Josh added.. "We've got to get out of here. Before we freeze to death." Yumi said standing up. "Mr. Delmas sir?" Odd asked taking a few steps towards him. Mr. Delmas turned and raised his hand. "Odd watch out!" Josh yelled before jumping in front of him just as Mr. Delmas' hand crackled with purple electricity that leaped towards them and hit Josh instead of its intended target of Odd. "JOSH!" Odd and Yumi both exclaimed as Josh was thrown backwards into a railing behind them. "Josh you okay?" Odd asked,worryingly. "Yea…. I think so. I can't feel my feet." He said tailing off in pain. "What!" Yumi gasped. "Josh just stay still.. don't move." Odd said going over to his side.
Outside the dorms a lot of students had gathered. Jim was standing on a chair and a few police officers were also there. "Right then. Everybody here?" Jim asked as Ulrich,Jeremy and Aelita were sneaking away. "Classes are cancelled for the rest of the day." Jim continued before getting down. "Sissi, and William, the detective would like to ask you a few questions." He added. "Hey what about those three!" Sissi said pointing at Ulrich,Jeremy and Aelita. "You should question them too. They're always scheming with Odd and Yumi." She added. "Stern… Belpois and Stones." Jim said with force. "I wouldn't be surprised if they knew something about what happened to my father!" Sissi said. "Come on, you three. Follow me." One of the detectives said, The three exchanged looks. "Ready?" Ulrich asked. "GO!" Jeremy yelled as they all began to run in different directions, The detectives ran after them Ulrich managed to get away but they managed to catch Jeremy and Aelita.
Ulrich made his way towards the factory.
Back in the cold storage room Yumi and Odd were trying to help Josh. "Is there anything we can do?" Yumi asked. "I don't think so.. you two look cold." Josh said, shivering. "Hey Xana! Apparently you plan on keeping us alive! Or…you'd have already blown us away!" Odd yelled at Mr. Delmas who didn't react. "Uh, in case you didn't know, cold can kill us too! So if I were you, I'd do something about it!" He added causing Mr. Delmas to stop as Xana considered the odds before throwing them the jacket Mr. Delmas was wearing. Odd draped it over Josh and Yumi. Josh asked as he tried to move some. "Josh stop. Your going to hurt yourself worse if you keep moving." Yumi said, also worried that he could go into shock from the injury.
Meanwhile Jeremy , Aelita and Sissi were sitting outside the school office where the detective was interviewing people. "Nice going, Sissi! You really messed up this time. It so happens we're the only ones who can help your father." Jeremy said. "What do you mean?" Sissi asked. "Your Father is well uh, possessed." Aelita said. "Oh yeah, right. Like in Hospital of Horrors? And he's been taken over by a demonic entity who'll make him do unspeakable things, huh?" Sissi asked sarcastically. "Well basically, that's about it." Jeremy said.
Back at the cold storage warehouse Yumi was still near Josh both trying to stay warm when their cell phones slide out of the jackets pocket. Yumi picked hers up and quietly called Ulrich.
At the factory Ulrich answered his phone."Yumi! Are you okay? Where are you." He asked. "If you ask me, we're at the refrigerated warehouses, on the wharf just at the-" Yumi said but was just off my the phones lifting up and away before being destroyed by . Ulrich painiced a bit. "Yumi?! Yumi!" He yelled into the phone before hanging up and looking over at the EMP that Jeremy and Josh had been showing them earlier.
In the office Aelita and Jeremy were convincing Sissi to help them. "So, in order to help my father, you have to go and deactivate a tower that's in a virtual universe?" Sissi asked. "That's right." Jeremy replied. "M-my last question… Why should I help a couple of complete wacko pathological liars, huh?" Sissi asked annoyed, crossing her arms. "It's not us you'll be helping, it's your father! You have to trust us. I'm begging you!" Aelita told her just before the door to the office opened and William walked out. "Thank you. You can go home now. Elisabeth Delmas? It's your turn." The detective said.
Back at the factory Ulrich was looking very confused and he flipped switches on the EMP bomb. "Jeremie…next time, leave me an instruction manual." He said sighing before flipping another switch which powered it on. "YES!" He said jumping up.
Meanwhile Sissi was talking to the Detective. "Jeremy do you think she will actually help us." Aelita asked. "We can only hope." He replied just as the detective slammed open the door. "Evacuate the school!" The detective said forcefully. Both Jeremy and Aelita looked up confused and Sissi just smiled. Jeremy and Aelita headed towards the manhole in the park and Sissi followed. "Thanks for trusting us, Sissi!" Jeremy said. "Don't mention it! But if your story about a…virtual world turns out to be phoney, you're gonna regret it!" Sissi replied. Just then Jeremy's phone rang. "Ulrich where are you?" Jeremy asked. "On my way to the refrigerated warehouses. I'm gonna try and set Yumi ,Josh and Odd free." Ulrich said. "ultimatum expires in fifteen minutes! How are you going to free them?" Jeremy asked. "Using your and Josh's bomb thingy." Ulrich replied. "What?! That could kill Josh!" Jeremy yelled. "Its a risk I am willing to take." Ulrich said hanging up.
"Sissi what are you doing?" Jeremy asked, noticing her staying with them as they go to the manhole. "I'm coming with you! Remember, my father's involved in this! And I wanna check out this virtual world business you've been blabbering about." She replied. "Oh, alright" Jeremy said, not too happy with the idea.
Ulrich walked up to the warehouse and walked in beginning to look for them.
Sissi, Jeremy and Aelita got to the lab. "Wow! I feel like I'm in a James Bond movie!" Sissi said, overwhelmed by everything. "Xana doesn't waste time! Your friend the Scyphozoa is already waiting for you." Jeremy said looking at the screen. "How much time before the ultimatum's up?" Aelita asked. "Two minutes'' Jeremy said. "Ulrich took the EMP… he's going to use it near Josh." Jeremy said a sound of dread in his voice.
Ulrich continued to look before calling Jeremy. "How much time is left?" He asked. "One minute." Jeremy replied. "Not good. There's no many rooms to check." Ulrich said.
Soon the ultimate expired and Mr. Delmas turned towards the three and stretched out his hand while purple electricity began to flow around it.
Ulrich looked up as he heard Odd screaming. He ran towards the sound, "Jeremie, that bomb you made – it won't blow away the principal, will it?" Ulrich asked, "well technically speaking no… but it could Josh!" Jeremy replied just as Ulrich armed it and shoved it into the room ."WATCH OUT" He yelled as a large electromagnetic pulse flowed out of the device.
At the factory Jeremy was getting worried. "Ulrich! Ulrich! Can you hear me?." He yelled into the mic. "You said that that bomb fried anything electronic, so that would mean cell phones too, right?" Aelita asked. "Oh, I'm such a dork! I hadn't thought of that!" Jeremy said. "Can't we find out if it worked? My father might be dead by now…!" Sissi said worried about her father. "Or in great shape, giving Josh,Odd and Yumi a piece of his mind!" Jeremy said worried.
Back at the warehouse Mr. Delmas was on the floor unconscious. "You guys alright?" Ulrich asked. "We are but Josh isn't. His back was injured earlier." Yumi said going over to check on him. "Josh?" She asked but got no response. His body was slightly fuzzy looking as if it wasn't stable. "Ulrich and Odd give me a hand. We have to get to the factory and we are not leaving Josh here." Yumi said, trying to lift him. Ulrich and Odd got on each side of Josh and put his arms over their shoulders and carried him with them as they headed to the factory. Shortly after they left Mr. Delmas eyes opened and the sign of Xana weakly pulsed in them.
At the factory Aelita was worried. "Uh, Jeremy?" Sissi asked, getting his attention. She kicked his legs out from under him and then punched him in the stomach knocking him unconscious. "Nice job! Where'd you learn to punch like that?" Aeltia asked. "I took pencak silat classes! To impress Ulrich. But it didn't work! By the way, why did you ask me to do that?" Sissi asked. "I have to help the others. Only I can deactivate the tower and Jereny would have never let me do it on my own." Aelita said setting up a virtualization. She then headed down to the scanners. "Sissi! Now!" Aelita yelled up. "Are you um... are you sure?" Sissi asked. "Yes, Sissi! Do it!" Aelita yelled back as Sissi hit the enter key causing the virtualization codes to run.
Aelita landed in the ice sector and began running towards the tower. Shortly after three Kankrelats came up behind her and started to fire at her.
As Ulrich,Odd and Yumi got to the bridge carrying Josh he began to wake up still not stable. "I have to get to lyoko..." Josh mumbled bearly awake. "Okay, Josh we are almost there." Odd said worried. Just then Mr. Delmas skated across the water and super humanly jumped up to the other end of the bridge. "Get to the factory! I will take care of him!" Ulrich said, kicking Mr. Delmas in the chest knocking him backwards long enough for Yumi ,Odd and Josh to get through.
Meanwhile Aelita had been cornered by the Scyphozoa. "Jeremy? Uh, Jeremy… Mm, I think there's a problem…!" Sissi said, trying to wake him up. "Oh, my head..." Jeremy groaned disorenated. "Well…Aelita is there…in the video game, and with some kind of giant squid!" Sissi said getting out of the chair. "Oh no. The Scyphozoa" Jeremy gasped as the elevator came down. "Get to the scanner room now!" Jeremy said readying the scanners for Odd,Yumi and Josh. Josh was still fuzzy looking and he was breathing very heavily. "Josh, are you sure you're fine to go to lyoko?" Odd asked, concerned. "No but I have to go. We need to deactivate the tower." Josh said gasping in pain. "Jeremy we're ready!" Yumi called up worried. "Okay I am starting the virtualization process." Jeremy said "Scanner Yumi, Scanner Odd, Scanner Josh. Virtualization!" Jeremy said typing. Odd and Yumi landed in the ice sector. While on the screen a window opened showing Josh's avatar with a red exclamation point flashing over it. "Odd, Yumi is Josh there? There was a bug during the transfer." Jeremy asked nervously. "Ah no!" Odd yelled. "I am virtualizing your vehicles now. While you're stopping the Scyphozoa I will see if I can find Josh." Jeremy said typing frantically. Jeremy went down to the scanner room to check if he was there and found the scanner empty. Meanwhile Josh was neither on Lyoko nor on earth. He was in an area between the two due to the damage done from the EMP.
Odd and Yumi jumped on to their vehicles and hurried towards Aelita's location. The two soon got close and Yumi threw her fans slicing the Scyphoazoa's tentacles. "Odd you get Aelita and head towards the tower." Yumi said. Odd stopped to let Aelita on and headed right for the tower.
Jeremy came back up to the lab from the scanner room. "Guys, Josh isn't here and he's not on lyoko. I don't know where he is." Jeremy said, starting to freak out. "Do you want me to go to a way tower?" Aelita asked. "No, Urlich is getting beaten to a pulp out here." Jeremy said. "There's two krabs ahead." He added.
"I will handle them." Yumi said, flying ahead.
On the bridge Mr. Delmas was holding Ulrich up by his shirt, purple electricity flowing up thru his arm. He then threw him up against the side of the entrance. Sissi had gone up the elevator. Mr. Delmas readied his hand to electrocute Urlich. Sissi all of a sudden leaped at her father with a pole knocking him away from Urlich.
On lyoko Odd was staying back with Aelita. Yumi threw her fan destroying one of the Krabs while Odd shot the other one before landing near the tower. "Aelita its your turn" Odd said.
On the bridge Mr. Delmas attempted to electrocute Urlich again. "Daddy no!" Sissi yelled trying to block his path to Ulrich. "Leave him alone!' She said as Aelita deactivated the tower, causing Mr. Delmas fall down outcold.
"Jeremy what are we going to do about Josh?" Aelita asked. "I don't know. Is there a way to prevent the Supercomputer from purging the scanner memory during the return?" Jeremy asked. "I am not sure. Let me check." Aelita said typing on the terminal. "I think so. At least I hope." Aelita said. "Okay set it up and I will launch the return" Jeremy said. "Okay. Done." Aelita said configuring it. "Return to the past now." Jeremy said typing in the return code.
The gang were all back in the factory where Jeremy was explaining the EMP except Josh was not there. "Where's Josh?" Ulrich asked, looking around. "He didn't make it to lyoko during the attack due to some system error. I will be skipping classes to try and recover him from the supercomputers memory." Jeremy said looking down as he walked towards the elevator. "I will help you." Aelita said walking with him. "Oh" Ulrich sighed before the rest of the group headed to class.
"Aelita I am worried. What if we can't get him back… What if I lost one of our team for good." Jeremy said looking down. "Jeremy I am sure we will get him back." Aelita said. "Let's hope you're right." He said as they sat down and began to work.
A few hours later the others had come back to check on them. "Okay so Jeremy and I have managed to isolate Josh's data in the supercomputers memory. Although it's quite damaged which may explain why the transfer failed." Aelita said. "We are going to try and force a devirtualization using the same principles Josh showed me when he had me virtualize him directly from the computer." Jeremy said typing. "Here goes nothing." He stated hitting enter.
In the scanner room one of the scanners came to life before opening, releasing a lot of smoke. "Transfer successfully!" Aelita said, jumping up in excitement. "Head to the scanner room!" Jeremy said jumping out of his chair. Josh was laying on the floor of the scanner out cold. "Josh wake up." Odd said shaking him. Moments later Josh slowly opened his eyes. "Odd help me up." Josh said, grabbing his hand. "Josh you look like crap." Ulrich said. "Well yea… At least I can walk," Josh said, gasping with each step.
"Josh what happened?" Jeremy asked. "I think from having so much physical damage and also the damage to my code from that EMP the computer just couldn't process it." Josh said. "Also I am pretty sure I am so beat up now because of how my code has a form of error correction. It distributed all the damage to my back across my whole body." He added. "Hm interesting. So we will have to be more careful when virtualizing you" Jeremy said, taking note.