Disclaimer-I do not own Code Lyoko. I think that moonscape does.

I meant to put this chapter up sooner, but I recently got into a car accident while on my bike. Currently in the hospital. Just a little bruised. So the last chapter might have been a little confusing. I was trying to find a good spot to end it and almost wrote another few pages. I'll get into a better explanation of the things Xana was talking about. I'm putting up a poll to find out whether you guys think I should say exactly what Scott's powers are and what he is limited to doing. Review or I am going to send an army of Siamese ninja kittens to attack you in your sleep.

Let the annihilation progress

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"Jer!" Elise yelled as she ran in the direction of the tower she had come from. "What should I do with this chick on my shoulder?"

"Just get her into the tower so I can scan her," Jeremie replied. "We need to find out exactly what she is." She went around a corner, narrowly avoiding a laser from a manta in front of the tower. She hid behind a wall and set down Lina. "Don't leave her. If Xana gets her back, we may never have this kind of a chance again." Elise cursed at him under her breath. Just then she heard an explosion around the corner. She took a quick look, not knowing what to expect.

"There's no need to fear," Odd yelled. "Super Odd is-"

"A super dork," Elise finished. Odd fell off his overboard in disappointment. Elise picked Lina back up and ran into the tower. Odd followed in.

"Just lay her down and take a step back," Jeremie said. "Xana has never entered a tower before so you three should be safe." As soon as Lina was on the floor of the tower, Jeremie activated a scan, and she levitated.

--

"What does all that mean Einstein?" Ulrich said. The screen was putting out all kinds of readings and data.

"To be honest, I have no real idea," he replied. None of the data on the screen was making any sense. "It says that she is the desert sector. But that is impossible."

"Actually," William said, "it makes some sense to me." He was sitting on the floor with his arms and legs tied up behind him. Scott and Ulrich had done this as soon as he came into the computer room. Strange thing was that he had told them that his ropes were too loose, so they had tightened them.

"What do you mean?" Jeremie was perplexed.

"While I was under Xana's control, he would talk out loud to himself alot. But one of the things that he talked about the most was sector guardians. He never told me what it meant, but I never had the will power to ask. Then not too long ago, he sent me to a special spot in the desert sector. He told me to take whoever I find there back to the hideout. When I got there, I found her. She put up a great fight, somehow controlling the landscape almost like Aelita, but in a slightly different way. The land just did as she commanded. After fighting for so long, I got in a lucky shot by throwing my blade at her. It knocked her over, and I had her restrained. When I got her back to Xana, he began to talk about how he had one of them, and that there were three more to go. My guess is that they are supposed to be guarding their own individual sectors. Five total. One for the desert, one for the ice, one for the forest, one for the mountain, and one for Carthage. She must be the desert guardian." William finished his recount and sat up so he could look the others eye to eye. All of them looked confused as hell.

--

"What," Odd said. "I am more confused than when Einstein trys to explain algebra."

"To be honest," Elise said, "so am I."

"What's going on?" Lina had woken up and had sat up on the air. "Where am I?"

"A tower in Carthage," Jeremie replied. "We just helped to save you from Xana. We have a few questions for you."

"OK," she said. "But before you decide to ask me anything, would you mind putting me down?" She floated back to the floor. "Thank you. Now what is your first question?"

"What are you?" Elise asked.

Lina laughed. "I am an artificial intelligence that is programmed to be the protector of my sector. It is my job to keep things that aren't welcome on Lyoko out of my sector."

"What is your name?" Yumi asked over the mike.

"I am program number 238082. Logical Interface Network Avatar codenamed Lina."

"What is it that Xana would want for you besides control over your sector?" Scott asked.

"That's the strangest question coming from you my friend. He wants the data from me so that he can find out where the other guardians are at in their sectors. The method he was using to extract information from you was an experimental way to get data from me. It could have killed me so he had to test it first."

--

"No wonder it hurt so much," Scott said to himself. He sat down on the floor for a second. Then stood back up.

"What is it about me that interests him so much?" Lee asked.

--

"I didn't know humans could change there voices so much," Lina replied. "He is only interested in the facts that he knows your father, and that you have so much power on earth with no visible help. You have the strength of an AI, but are not one."

"I just did a scan guys," Jeremie said. "She has no traces of any kind of virus. It should be safe to say that she can go to her sector again."

"Thank you all for helping me. Especially you William. Without you, we would all still be stuck with Xana. Now I must take my leave." She jumped off the end the the platform and went into another sector.

--

An hour later

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"Should we have let her go like that?" Odd asked. They were all in the computer room discussing what Lina had told them. "I mean, she could have told us more about the other guardians."

"That is true Odd," William said, "but she is a very trustworthy person. She will contact us when she believes the time is right." He had been untied right after he had been scanned a few times. It seemed he had defeated the virus controlling him through sheer will power.

"Whatever the situation," Yumi said, "we should be grateful she trusted us with that information. It's like Jim said the other day in class, the first step towards a great friendship, is trust."

"Oh man!" Odd said. "Jim. We need a return to the past to fix the damage of this attack."

"Crap," Jeremie said. He remembered Scott's high flying move to distract Jim. He began to type in the computer. "Return to the past now."

White rushed over them all.

--

Scott felt a piece of chalk hit hit in the head.

"Scott," Mrs. Hertz yelled. "Mr. Della-Robia may be tolerated when he falls asleep in class, but not you. Not repeat what I just told the class." Scott lifted up his head.

"Vanadium has an atomic mass of 50.94. It is located on the left of Chromium and on the right of Titanium on the periodic table of elements." Scott had recited all she had just said perfectly. He put his head back down. Mrs. Hertz was flabbergasted. After a few seconds the bell rang to dismiss class.

Odd came over to him.

"Same way as before?" he asked.

"Nope," Scott replied. "This time I actually listened. Felt more rested." He picked up his books. "What do you think of all this guardian shit going on? From what I was told, you have had the most experience on Lyoko." They walked outside to go to thier dorms to get what they needed next.

--

After school, everybody decided to skip the pool after what had happened last time. William was mostly asking everybody in the group questions about what he had missed. Ulrich and Yumi were doing karate, but weren't having any luck at beating each other. Aelita and Jeremie were working on a new program that would help them locate the sector guardians, with no luck. Scott was playing gears of war with Elise and Odd. Odd was using X-box live, while Elise was in Scott's room.

"Ha," Elise yelled. "I just owned your ass Odd." She had just killed Odd's character. Scott was laughing, and Odd was almost crying.

"I'm getting my ass handed to me by a fucking girl," Odd was saying over the microphone. He logged off his system.

"What a sore loser," William said, entering the room. "I saw the whole thing. You really got him good Elise."

"Thanks," Elise replied coldly. Nobody in the group had given him a nice word since he came back. They still didn't know if they could trust him. And William didn't expect any less of them. After all, he had been a part of Xana's weapons. He knew that he had to earn back all their trust.

"Does anybody want a snack from the machine? I'll buy." He was a little bit scared that he would never get the trust.

"We'll take eight packs of that new deep fried octo-squid chunkers," Scott said without looking away from the t.v. William looked into his wallet and let out a small moan. Deep fried octo-squid chunkers were three Euros a pack. He had exactly 24 Euros on him. "Is there a problem Will?"

"Nope," he replied. "No problem at all." He left the room to get the snacks. While he walked down the hall, he began to talk to himself. "What is it that I have to do to clear my name? I helped to save Scott, and told them everything I knew about the sector guardians. I hope that it doesn't take too much more money." He started to put money into the machine. "This is all I have for the next week."

--

"All the programs I put into that weak little human and he over comes all of it," Xana was on a forest sector replica. "I even put a part of my old program into him. Why did it fail?" He stood in front of a tree. He kicked it in a crack and watched it open up to reveal a person. The person was a whit male with short blood red hair that stood on it's ends, a blue ninja costume with a utility belt full of shurikens, kunai, smoke bombs, and had a set of tonfa (a weapon that looks like a billy club, like the cops have). "Seems that I'm going to have to bring out some more information my friend. And this time, you may get to see your son Scott."

--

"Achoo!" Scott sneezed loudly. "I think somebody is talking about me." He put a piece of octo-squid chunkers into his mouth. "This stuff is good." Him and Elise were sharing a bag. He looked over at William and saw he was slightly sad. He was sitting on his bed with his eyes closed. "You know Will," Scott said, "I was only kidding around with you when I told you to go get all these."

"What?" William looked up, shocked. It was probably the nicest thing anybody in the group had said to him all day. "Really?"

"Yeah. You know what? Since you really went and got them, I owe you 24 Euros." He gave William a slight nod.

"You might as well smile William," Elise said. "That's the closest you will get to a smile from him."

"Please," he replied. "Call me Will from now on." He smiled.

--

Scott was sleeping. It was one in the morning. Will couldn't sleep, and was afraid he would have nightmares if he did sleep. He stared out the window, wondering what it was that the others were dreaming of.

--

In Elise's room, she was dreaming about Scott, taking her to a fancy restaurant. Aelita, who had the same room, was dreaming about flying on the over board with Jeremie.

In Ulrich and Odd's room, Odd was dreaming about eating the worlds largest cheese wheel. Ulrich was dreaming about his father telling him he wasn't working hard enough.

Jeremie was dreaming about a very big mathmatical problem. Enough said there.

Yumi was dreaming about kissing Ulrich.

Scott. He was having the same dream that he had been having. This time he could see the person turning their head around. It was a man. Scott recognized him from somewhere, but couldn't place his finger on who it was. At that moment he saw the laser coming at him from his side. Right before it hit him, he felt somebody shake him awake.

"Wake up man." It was Will. "You were yelling in your sleep."

"Thanks," Scott replied. He looked at the clock and saw the time. "You saved me from the worst part of the dream."

"How would you know that?"

"Because I've been having the same dream alot lately." He sat up and rubbed his eyes.

"Want to talk about it?" Will looked like he sincerely wanted to hear.

"Sure. In the dream, I'm running through the forest sector. Chasing somebody I guess. I wasn't able to see who it was at first when I had it, but every time I dream, I see more of who it is. This time I saw his face. He had red hair, a purple ninja outfit, and a face I swear I have seen before. Always at that point though, I get shot by a laser from a hornet off to my side, and I get knocked off the edge and fall to the digital sea." He looked over at Will and was confused by the look on his face.

"I have seen a picture of somebody that wears the same exact outfit on Lyoko." Will was deep in thought. "Xana told me it was another person who had been under his control. But he couldn't keep control. The guy had to be put onto a replica and put into a sleep like state. I think that Xana had called him controller of the forest. Oh my god." He hit himself in the forehead. "Now that I know all this, he probably was a sector guardian of the forest. I am an idiot. Why didn't I think of that before when you guys were asking me about the guardian crap."

"It's OK dude," Scott said. He was perplexed by the information Will had just layed out. "At least you told me now. My dream might not just be a dream. What was I yelling when you woke me up?"

"You were saying 'Come back dad. We're not the enemies.'"

"What?" Scott was so confused. Why would he be saying that? "My dad died almost a year before my mom did. Why the fuck would I be saying that?"

--

Next morning, as Scott and Will got ready for school, they both thought about the conversation they had the previous night. They needed to tell everyone else. Scott called the guys, and Will called the girls to arrange a meeting at the coffee machine. Fifteen minutes later, everybody was there with a large cup of coffee.

"So what was so important that Ulrich had to drag me down the hallway to the bathroom for?" Odd was sounding very tired.

"Last night, Will woke me up from a dream because I was yelling something-" Scott started.

"Wait a minute," Yumi interrupted. "Will?"

"That's what he wants us to call him. Now, as I was saying, he woke me up because I was yelling something about my dad. To be honest, I don't know why. But I was dreaming about Lyoko. I was running through the forest sector, chasing some guy. He was wearing a purple ninja outfit with lots of weapons on his belt. After calling out to him, a laser from a hornet knocked me off the edge of the sector. Or so it should have bee. I've had that dream before. Will woke me up just before the lasers hit me."

"Now," Will continued, "the reason why we brought this to your attention, is because I think I may know who he really is. The description that Scott gave fits the description of a guy that Xana once controlled. Xana called him controller of the forest. He's in a forest sector replica in a sleep like state."

"WHAT!?" Ulirch, Yumi, Jeremie, Odd, Aelita, and Elise all yelled at the same time. Will cringed at all of their faces looking at him with great hate.

"Don't give him that look guys," Scott said. "You can't expect to remember everything can you?" They lessened the harsh looks they were giving Will. "That's better. Now, I think that if we can get back to Xana's place, we can find the location of the guardian. Who's with me on that plan?" Everybody raised their hands. "Ok. Let's get to class and talk more about this after school."

Scott sat down on the ground and closed hid eyes as everybody left. He felt somebody sit down next to him.

"I've been thinking," Elise said. "When Xana took you away, I thought that I wouldn't see you again. I was scared. I know that we have only known each other for a short time, but I know I like you. Alot. And I need to know how you feel about me." She turned and looked at him. He opened his eyes after a second of thought and looked into her eyes.

"I feel the same way about you Elise," he replied. "But I don't know how to really express it. I've never had anybody get as close to me as you have been. And I've never been a fan of the movies that would teach me what to do at a time like this. I never even had a girlfriend be-" Elise put her finger to his lips.

"You talk to much sometimes." She moved forward and placed her lips on his, giving him his first kiss. To him, it was the greatest feeling in the world. As she pulled away, Scott lost control of his tongue.

"Will you be my girlfriend?" He sounded like he was a bit dazed.

"Yes Scottie," Elise replied with a smile. They leaned together to continue what had stopped only a moment ago.