Disclaimer: I don't own anything involving Code Lyoko. I own Xenon, plot, some small characters that never get mentioned more than once, and some parts of sector seven.

Dedication: I'd like to dedicate this chapter to people who make, created, etc the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. I finished it and it was good. A little dark which made me turn to Ouran High School Host Club which is a much brighter and fluffy world. Both very good animes!

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"So what's your favorite color?" Xenon asked. She knew the answer and it was quite obvious too.

"Purple. Yours?" Odd asked with a smile. When Xenon asked to start over with a clean slate it gave everything a new light. They had started at the beginning, introducing themselves. Odd and Xenon walked around the city coming from the factory. It felt weird though for Odd to start over. Xenon showed no signs of even knowing anything about him. It was like she simply forgot the past and was getting acquainted.

"Same." Xenon said. "What do your parents do?" Odd grimaced some, but answered.

"My father is dead--"

"I'm so sorry."

"It's alright." Odd said. "We were never close. My father owned the computer company, DRT. It stands for Della Robbia Technology. When he died, I inherited it. Though I don't really want it. I can't do a single thing on computers without making them explode or something. Jeremie can vouch for that. My mother is taking care of DRT till I finish high school." Xenon nodded acknowledgedly. "So, what about yours?" Odd instantly regretted asking it as soon as he did.

"My parents? Well, my life is more complex than yours or anyone's for that matter. I don't know who my real parents exactly are. I was made in a test tube and was genetically enhanced by a man named Franz Hopper. So, you could say that he was my father. He used to work as a science teacher at Kadic about sixteen years ago, then got into making the virtual world called Lyoko. As for my mother, well my birth mother was Franz Hopper's wife named Raisa. I don't really know if she had a job or not. The last time I saw her I was six months old and then Franz Hopper put me up for adoption and I was adopt by a husband and wife whose surname was Smith. They were kind and care a lot for me. They live in Paris right now. They both work for a law firm." Odd nodded and didn't say anything. They walked in silence for a while. Odd's stomach growled hungrily.

"Do you want to get something to eat?" Odd asked, gripping his stomach with his right hand to try to make it be quiet.

"Are you asking me out a date?" Xenon asked dumbfounded.

"Well, no...I mean yes. I just want to get something to eat. We could go back to school or eat out and get some real food for once." Odd took a deep breath. Xenon stared at Odd, thinking. She bit slightly on her tongue.

"Sure!" Xenon said with a big smile.

"What kind of food do you want? Chinese, Indian..."

"Let's go out for Chinese."

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Odd tired to get a grip of his lemon chicken with chopsticks. No avail. Odd resorted to stabbed it with the point of his chopsticks and put it in his mouth. As he looked up, he saw Xenon trying to suppress her laughter. He gave her a big goofy grin that stretched from ear to ear. He saw a waitress pass.

"Excuse me." Odd said, catching her attention. On her name tag it said, 'I only speak Chinese.' "Qingwen...um." Odd thought for a second. "Fork..." Odd drew the shape of a fork in the air. The waitress study Odd's drawing the air.

"Oh!" She said realizing what Odd wanted. She came back with a fork and gave it to Odd.

"Xiexie." Odd said, inclining his head down.

"Buyongxie." And the waitress left.

"You know Chinese?" Xenon asked as Odd put chow mein in his mouth. Odd swallowed quickly.

"I know some. But the only languages that I'm fluent in is English, French, and Italian."

"Italian?"

"Yeah. On my father's side, everyone is Italian and most of them live in Italy and are artists. Well, everyone besides my father. My grandmother said that he was more into electronics unlike the whole family, but they supported his interests." Odd sighed. "When I was younger he tried to nudge me into his interests and the company. He hated it when I drew. I'm not half bad. He was determined that I was not to continue down the path that he never wanted to go down. But anyways..." Odd put more food in his mouth. He felt weird. He never really talked like that and given information and feelings so easily that he never wanted to share.

"I'm not that close to my father either. I've never forgiven him yet for basically abandoning me when I was six months old. He took me from my mother and my sister, Aelita."

"Is Franz Hopper still alive?" Odd asked. I've always wondered if he was alive. I mean, now, he's been in Lyoko for fourteen years. I would have thought Xana would have killed him by now. Odd thought.

"Well," Xenon started. She sighed. "Yes, but...He stuck where he is."

"Where is that?"

"In sector five." Xenon responded.

"But we've been going to sector five for years and never seen him--"

"That because it's in a secret part of sector five. It's in a room completely controlled by Xana. It's impossible to get in there unless Xana takes you there forcibly."

"Oh." Odd said. "Why don't you try to get him out. I know you dislike actually probably hate him but Aelita cares about him. Ever think of trying to get him out?"

"No." Xenon said flatly, laying her chopsticks on the side of her plate. "Franz Hopper is perfect where he is." Odd's heart sank.

"I didn't mean to offend you." Odd said apologetically.

"It's alright. It's...I just...never mind."

Xenon and Odd ate through the rest of the meal quietly, glancing at each other as the other look away. Odd paid for dinner and then they walked back to Kadic. It was darker now. Odd stood protectively closer to Xenon but didn't make any body contact.

"Odd, I'm sorry for what happened at dinner."

"Don't worry about it." Odd replied then looked at Xenon next to her. Her face was red with embarrassment and she was slightly shivering in the cold of the night. Odd bit his lip slightly debating on whether he should or not. He decided he'd try it. He lifted his arm giving it a fake stretch and then wrapped it around Xenon's shoulders. Xenon stopped walking and looked at Odd in surprise.

"Sorry." Odd said removing his arm. What's with Odd? Xenon thought.

"It's alright. It keeps me warmer." Xenon said then continued to walk in the direction of Kadic. Odd kept up with her pace. Did she say that she wanted my arm around her or not? Odd thought, confused. They reached Kadic and Odd walked Xenon to her dorm room of the second floor of a dormitory, room number 112. Xenon unlocked the door and then looked back at Odd.

"I had a good time. It's nice to forget and start new." Xenon said. She looked at Odd. Odd felt her eyes searching him. He didn't know quite what to do. Before New Year's Eve Xenon would have invited him in to stay there for the night, but now she knew she would do no such thing, at least for right now.

"Me too." Odd replied. Stupid! A voice shouted in his head. You couldn't say anything better? 'Shut up.' Odd told the voice.

"Mmmm." Xenon said and looked side to side as she waited for Odd to say something more.

"Xenon?" Odd asked. Xenon looked at him. "Xenon, can I give you a kiss?" Xenon was stunned that Odd was asking permission, but nodded. Odd placed his lips on Xenon's and Xenon's opened her mouth. Odd searched for answer of any kind. Odd was confused by Xenon. Her kiss wasn't full of the passion she once had for him. Odd didn't expression much either but there was a difference and Xenon didn't express as much love for him as he had for her. Xenon broke the kiss.

"Good night, Odd." Xenon said touching the doorknob behind her with her right had and twisted the handle.

"Good night, Xenon." Xenon walked into her room and closed the door behind her. Odd stared at the number, 112, on her door for a few moments thinking. She wanted to start new, but did she completely start new. Did she lock away her love away too? Odd thought. I can tell she doesn't love as much as she used to. What happened?

Well, you hurt her, but sleeping with that bitch, Sissi. The voice said. Odd sighed and then walked up stairs to his room. When Odd opened the door, he found Ulrich laying on his bed looking at the ceiling.

Odd followed the same suit on his own bed and sighed.

"Where's Yumi?" Odd asked as Kiwi jumped on his bed and laid close to him. Odd scratched him absentmindedly.

"At her house. Her parents worry about her spending so much time with me. Her grades are slipping and they say she needs to concentrate more of school or they'll send her to her grandma's and grandpa's in Japan."

"Ouch." Odd said imaging it. His mom was basically cool with whatever he wanted to do with his life. She wanted him to get a good education, but being all the way in California she couldn't do much. "Well, some time is better than no time."

"Yeah, but it takes the time I'd spend with Yumi at night." Ulrich said with a sigh. Odd rolled his eyes. You're just sad because it cuts into your sex life. At least you have one. Odd thought bitterly. Right now, I'd be lucky to get a kiss with feeling in it. "So, Xenon still not talking to you?" Ulrich asked, making Odd lose his train of thought.

"No, she's talking to me. She said she wanted to forget the past and start new. I mean seriously start new. She told me her name and asked me mine."

"Wow." Ulrich said. "So, what did you do with her?"

"Well, today she went to Lyoko by herself. I was outside of her scanner when she came out, but then she said she had to go to Lyoko again and go to sector seven." Odd recalled.

"What did she do there?"

"I don't know. She didn't want me to come. She said she wanted to store something or other."

"Store something?" Ulrich questioned. "How? When you go to Lyoko you can't bring anything with you." Odd shrugged. "I think there's something wrong if she--" There was a knock on the door. "You get it." But before Odd could even argue, the door opened. It as Aelita. She looked at Ulrich and Odd and let out a puff of disgust.

"Ulrich, you need to get over it." Aelita said. "You're acting just like Yumi." Ulrich rolled over and sat up.

"Were you just at Yumi's?" Ulrich asked.

"Yeah, she in even more trouble right now."

"What for?"

"Well, she was depressed and angry that she wasn't allowed to see you as much and when she talked back to her parents, Hiroki spoke up." Ulrich groaned knowing whatever Yumi's brother had said wasn't good. "He said Yumi only wants to see you so you could fuck her." Ulrich put his shaking hands on either side of his face.

"Can I please just wring his little neck?" Ulrich asked aloud.

"Be my guest." Odd said.

"Anyways," Aelita interrupted. "Yumi's father scolded Hiroki for talking like that and then asked for Yumi if it was true." Ulrich groaned again. Yumi could never lie completely without giving something away. "Yumi said no but it was obvious in her answer that it was meant to be yes. So, she was forbidden by her father to see you outside of school hours and then he told me to leave."

Ulrich looked more depressed than ever then resumed his position of laying down and stared at the ceiling once again. Aelita turned to Odd.

"Xenon talking to you yet?" She asked without much enthusiasm.

"Actually yes." Odd said.

"So what did you two do?" Aelita asked.

"Why do both you ask that?" Odd asked.

"Well, it just a plausible question because people wonder what you too could possibly do after what happened, I mean, New Years and on Xenon's suicide—on Xenon's--our-- birthday." Aelita said.

"Well, she had been to Lyoko and when she came out she said she still had to go to sector seven to store something."

"Store something?" Aelita asked.

"Yeah." Odd responded. Aelita thought about it and then looked at Odd and smiled.

"Odd?" Aelita asked batting her eyelashes. Odd looked at Aelita, slightly scared.

"Ye-yeah?"

"Want to do me a favor?" Aelita said with wicked grin.

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"So, where do you want to go?" Odd asked as Xenon looked her dorm room behind her.

"I don't know." Xenon said thinking. "Surprise me." Odd held out his arm.

"Being very gentleman like. That doesn't seem like you." Xenon commented and accepted his arm anyway. Dammit. I don't want to do this is Xenon. Aelita, it better be worth it. Odd thought as they walked down stairs.

Aelita poked her nose out of her dorm room and checked to see if the coast was clear. When she saw it was she crept out of her room and locked it behind her. She took out Odd's key to Xenon's room, unlocked the door and entered.

Xenon's room was relatively clean. The purple blanketed bed was made, there was nothing on the floor and the closet was closed so it wouldn't reveal the mess that it contained. On her desk, was a few crumpled-into-a-ball paper. Aelita tapped the top of the desk and a small chunk of the wooden panel moved sideways to reveal Xenon's metallic laptop. Aelita drew to out and put it in its case that was on the side of the desk. Aelita gave a sigh of relief, walked out, and locked the door behind her.

Aelita looked around and then rushed down stairs. Where did Odd say he was going? Because if I see them in the city as I head for the factory Xenon will notice that I have her laptop. Aelita thought. I'll just go through the industrial district.

Aelita did that and it added about a mile than she would have usually taken to the factory. Aelita arrived and went down to the supercomputer. Aelita withdrew a cord from Xenon's laptop and plugged it into the supercomputer. On the supercomputer it said, 'Please enter main password to connect to sector seven."

"Crap." Aelita said as she saw the flaw in her plan. She had no clue to any of the passwords to Xenon's laptop. "What am I going to do?" Aelita asked aloud hoping a voice would answer her. Doesn't Jeremie have a program that copies people voices? And then I can use the supercomputer to call the Smiths' to ask for the password. Aelita searched for the program and it was labeled, 'Voice Copier.'

Aelita scanned down a long list of names, alphabetical by last name, looking for Xenon name. Xenon wasn't under Smith. Maybe it's under Hopper? But why would Jeremie put it there? Aelita thought. But under Hopper there was only herself. As a last resort, Aelita looked under just plain, 'Xenon' and it was there. Aelita opened it and used another program and called the Smiths' using the phone number in the computer.

"Hello?" Asked a voice on the other side.

"Mrs.---Mom?" Xenon's voice said. Aelita was typing in Xenon's part of the conversation.

"Yes?" Mrs. Smith asked.

"Do you remember the password to my laptop? I've forgot..." That's not Xenon at all. Aelita thought as she presses enter and the computer said it.

"Xana?" Mrs. Smith questioned.

"No." Aelita said speaking into the microphone. "It me Aelita. I need the password to get into Xenon's computer."

"What for? Where's Xenon?"

"Um...She has amnesia and I--" Aelita made up.

"Why would you need the password into her computer then?"

"Look I need the password to get into sector seven. Xenon's not here right now. I need to get in there." Aelita said desperately.

"Well, it wouldn't hurt. When you go to sector seven through the scanner there's a filter that stops any trace's of Xana getting through. But what do you need?"

"I need to get something that Xenon stored there."

"In the huge tower in the hills? That's like Xenon's personal house there. She could live there should it be necessary. But what do you need there?" Mrs. Smith voice contained suspicion like she knew what Xenon was hiding and thought it was best not to let Aelita find out what it is.

"I need to get a file." Aelita responded. Surely Xenon would have a computer or something that she'd store things. I wish she'd just me the password.

"Hmm." Mrs. Smith said, thinking. "I'll give you the password but I warn you it's long and doesn't have a pattern."

"OK."

"It's: x-t-a-i-n-r-a-o-i-f-s-i-e-r-v-e-i-f-l-f-b-u-u-s-t-i-i-w-s-w-h-o-a-n-r-s-e-i-m-h-y-t-s-d-o-i-u-d-l-i-w-t-i-a-t-h-h-t-h-y-i-r-m-r-i-o-n-s-e-m-x-i-c-a-h-t-g-i-e-l-f-e-o-a-r-m-a-o-e-r-l-f-i-t-a-i-s-p-m-e-e-e-m-k-o-d-r-l-y-u-w-o-h-c-i-i-c-e-h-c-i-a-g-l-a-p-v-y-e-l-t-n-o-h-e-i-h-m-t-a-s-s-a-a-w-t-t-i-h-e-a-m-t-i-t ." Aelita eyes widen in shock of such a long password and that her sister knew it and also Mrs. Smith. "Kind of just rolls off the tongue, no?"

"Yeah." Aelita said. "Thank you for your help." Aelita said pressing enter on Xenon's laptop. She disconnected the phone call. Xenon set up a trip to Lyoko, more specifically, to sector seven.

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Xenon glanced at her watch, looking at it intently.

"Something wrong?" Odd asked.

"No, I just felt like Xana activated a tower or something. Later though, I have to go to the hospital to go to physical therapy." Xenon said with a sigh.

"Ok." Xana better not activate a tower when Aelita messing around with what ever she's doing in sector seven.

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Aelita stepped into the scanner and the door shut behind her. The blinding light caused Aelita to shut her eyes as usual. Aelita dropped to the grassy plain of sector seven. Aelita looked around in awe as it was her first time setting foot in sector seven. The breezed past her in the direction of the tower in the hills as if it was calling to her.

"She said is the huge tower it the hills is where it's are stored?" Aelita asked aloud. Aelita half wished for confirmation. Aelita felt uneasy of going behind Xenon's back with the help of Odd. I mean they just started to get back together...again. I could screw this up for Odd. Aelita sighed and then ran to the tower. Aelita entered. She looked around in confusion at the circular room of plain white. Aelita expected more than this.

"Xenon's personal house? There's nothing he--" Aelita jumped in shock. All around her voices whispered, taunting her. Aelita looked around, afraid. Is this Xana? If it is, then I need to get out. Xenon created feeling here... he could easily kill me...or hold me for hostage in exchange for Xenon. The whispers continued and surround her. I'm going to go mad. The whispers grew louder and Aelita's breath quickened. She was rooted to the spot unable to move. The voices tormented her and she didn't know why. It paralyzed her. Each vocal caused her unknown pain that was unearthing itself within her.

"Someone...Jeremie...help me." Aelita whispered, falling down to her knees. Aelita placed her shaking hands on her ears in a vain attempt to block out the unbearable sound. No avail. Aelita closed her eyes and tried to calm down. I can get out. I just need to get of this tower. Then, get into one of the other four towers. I'll be fine. Aelita was oblivious to the fact that her hands started to glow a soft, blinding pink light. I'll be fine! I can get out of here! The voices grew louder still and crippled Aelita into a ball on the floor. Her hands glowed brighter and colored everything in the spotless white room giving it a light, pink tint.

Aelita didn't notice as she rose an inch from the floor then five. Aelita felt the sensation of falling and waved her arms about and saw that she was floating actually floating. The room convulsed and changed its circular shape into a boxy square. Aelita kept floating upwards. The ceiling came closer and closer while Aelita moved up faster and faster. Aelita shielded her face as it came. But no impact. Aelita looked around she saw that she was in another room, a bedroom. It was wallpapered with a fuzzy, light purple color and contained a king sized bed, dresser and two doors.

How big is this tower? Aelita thought. It's not possible...on Earth. Aelita smiled. Of course Xenon made it so. But she continued upward instead of stopping in the bedroom as she had thought. She flew through many rooms. A library, study, grand bathroom, kitchen, more bedrooms, and storage room filled with piles and piles of paper. The rooms zipped by and didn't give her a chance to examine them as she wanted. Many of them were purple which made Aelita think that she was looking around with purple tinted glass in front of her eyes. Aelita shifted and looked upward. How long am I going up? How far am I going up? How-- Aelita thoughts were interrupted as Aelita dropped to the hard tiled floor.

Aelita shook off the pain and looked around. Rows of shelves were all around her. Each had thirty or forty clear tubes filled with a white substance. Aelita looked them. They seemed to be calling her though not the same as the voices. They caused emotions to come out. Love and Compassion. Hatred. Sadness. Loneliness. Confusion. Aelita was overwhelmed and choked out a gasp. What are these? Aelita looked from tube to tube, shelf to shelf. What are these? Why did Xenon put them here? Aelita got up and inched closer. They fascinated her. She extended her arm to touch the surface of one to see how the tube felt and to try and figure out what it was.

Her hand made contact with a bottle and melted on contact. The tubes weren't white anymore but dark and seemingly endless black. The tube twisted at her touch and it electrocuted Aelita. Aelita ripped her arm back to break the touch but the tube stuck itself to her hand. Aelita's eyes open wide as emotions and memories swirled in her head.

Tubes all around flew off their shelves and flung themselves at Aelita but they didn't stick to her as the first one had. The crystal of the tube broke on contact and scattered everywhere, but Aelita's body absorbed the white substance as the tubes cracked and broke into a million pieces.

"Memories?" Aelita gasped out as memories floated through her head making her remember.

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Xenon gripped her head with her right arm. "Are you alright?" Odd asked. They had been walking in the park in no particular direction. The pain in Xenon's head subsided. "What happened?" Xenon shook her head to clear it and then looked at her watch.

"Someone is on Lyoko." Xenon responded. Xenon got up and ran toward the hermitage. Xenon flinched in pain as her left bandaged arm in its sling bounced up and down. Odd followed Xenon. Aelita. Odd thought. Xenon's going to find out and I probably screwed up for the last time. Odd looked at Xenon and smiled. Probably the last time that I'll be this close to Xenon.

Xenon and Odd went through the door that was on the side of the hermitage and went down to the sewers. They ran and went up the ladder to the bridge in front of the factory. They jumped down via the ropes and went in the elevator. Odd looked at Xenon.

"Is it bad that someone is on Lyoko?" Odd asked, biting his tongue.

"Yes, because whoever they are, they're in sector seven. To be able to get there, you need my laptop and frankly I don't trust that Xana wouldn't try to get into sector seven."

"How can he get your laptop if he didn't activate a tower?"

"He has his ways." Xenon said in a monotoned voice. I don't want to talk about this. Xenon thought.

"Besides I thought that you made it so it was impossible for him to get into sector seven." Odd stated. I know Aelita's there, but Xenon might slip and tell me something that she vowed never to tell anyone, but then again she agreed to be completely honest.

"He may have found a way around. He's a pesky computer virus no matter how hard he wants to be human." The elevator door opened and Xenon rushed to the super computer. She sat down in the chair and put her laptop on her lap. She typed furiously and then looked at the screen. Odd looked on behind her.

"No." Xenon whispered in what sounded like defeat. On the screen was a picture of Aelita and the number of memories increasing. "No...No!" Xenon shouted pounding her fist down on her laptop. "It's too soon! I never got a chance to explain!" Xenon sobbed. Xenon broke down crying. Odd looked at her, unsure of what to do.

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A/N When Odd was speaking Chinese, I don't know if that's correct or not. I got it off the Internet. If your wondering why Odd's speaking Chinese, in the episode, 'A Fine Mess' where Odd and Yumi switched bodies Odd spoke Chinese to her parents instead of Japanese. Also, for the password it's random letters. Maybe, I don't know...A little birdie told me. :)

Well, I took longer on this chapter than I wanted. I'm on winter break and I wanted to get a couple of chapters done before school started again. I wrote most of this chapter on Christmas day, but then after I got lazy and started watching a bunch of anime(like 18 hours or so) which was Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ouran High School Host Club. Anywayz, I'm already working on chapter nineteen! Review!