"Patrol? With you?" Kayla asked.

The sun had gone down moments ago and the gargoyles were assigning patrols for the night and had asked if the LYOKO warriors wished to go with them. They were surprised that they offered.

"Sure," said Yumi. "It'll give us a chance to see the city."

"I'm in," said Odd.

"Same here," said Ulrich.

"I'm up for some action," said Eva.

"No way!" cried Kayla to Eva.

"What?" asked Eva. "I feel fine. I can handle a tussle with a couple of thugs."

"I'm going to have to agree with Kayla," said Jeremy. "You had to use your specter band twice last night. On top of that, you're the one who's been using it the most. We don't know what kind of effect it will have on your body in the long run."

"Eva, I'll go in your place," said Kayla.

"I prefer to stay here," said Jeremy. "I have some things I need to work on."

"I'll stay, too," said Aelita.

Eva was not pleased. "Fine," she said. "But if you run into trouble, call me."

"XANA's gone," said Odd. "What's the worst that could happen?"

"Hey!" Kayla and Eva both yelled. "Don't jinx it!"

Odd chuckled and hurried to the edge of the castle to transform and hop onto his over-board.

Odd, Broadway, Angela, and Kayla went one direction and Yumi, Ulrich, Brooklyn, and Lexington went another direction. Goliath went off by himself. Eva, Aelita, and Jeremy went inside with Hudson and Bronx. Hudson went to watch television and Jeremy and Aelita found a quiet room to work. Eva wandered the castle and wound up in Alexander's nursery. The baby cooed when he saw her. Eva smiled and took a seat next to his crib. There was book of fairy tales on the table. Eva picked it up and began reading to Alexander.

Yumi and Ulrich flew next to the gargoyles on their vehicles. Lexington kept stealing looks at Yumi.

"What?" she asked after she caught him for the third time.

"Um, can I have a ride?" Lexington asked.

"Sure," replied Yumi.

Lexington glided over to Yumi and folded his wings, landing lightly on the back of the over-wing. "This is fun!" he laughed.

"Cool bike, Ulrich," Brooklyn commented.

"Thanks," said Ulrich. "Jeremy designed it."

"How come your vehicle is the only one with wheels?" asked Lexington.

"I hate heights," Ulrich answered. "I've always dealt with vertigo. It's better now that I'm getting used to flying, but I still have my bad days."

"Bad days are when he freezes up and refuses to budge," Yumi said.

"It's terrible," said Ulrich.

Brooklyn looked down. "Oh. Looks like we got a robbery in progress," he said. "Showtime."

The four of them landed on a building rooftop across the street of a jewelry store that was being robbed. The alarms were going off and the thieves were climbing out via a skylight. The gargoyles glided over and Yumi and Ulrich leapt across the street.

"What the?" the thieves cried when they saw them.

Ulrich dashed up and knocked them down and Yumi cartwheeled over to the skylight to see one more thief making his way up a rope. She smiled and took out one of her fans, the moonlight glinting off the metal.

"Oh, no," muttered the thief.

Yumi cut the rope and the thief fell back to the floor. It wasn't a long drop, but he still landed hard enough to knock the wind out of him.

"Nice shot, Yumi," said Brooklyn, hoisting a bad guy over his shoulder.

"Thank you," said Yumi.

Odd was doing tricks over Kayla's head. It was becoming as annoying as it was dangerous.

"Will you please stop?" asked Kayla. "You're making me nervous as a cat in a roomful of rocking chairs."

Odd laughed. "That should be my line," he said, flicking his tail for emphasis.

"Oh, stop," said Kayla.

Angela giggled. "Are things always like this between you two?"

"You bet!" chirped Odd. "Right, sunshine?"

"Be careful, Odd," said Kayla. "My hand may slip and Eva will hear everything that's going on." She was joking, but also serious.

"You're in trouble now," said Broadway. "So how long have you been going out?"

"What?" asked Kayla.

"Oh, a while now," Odd said without missing a beat. "A month. I must say it's my longest relationship and my most dangerous. You try keeping secrets from Eva. Not much gets by that girl."

"I think you are getting yourself into a lot of trouble with that sort of talk," said Angela.

"Yeah, probably," said Odd. He smiled at Angela and drifted over to her. "But I always get in trouble with the cute girls."

"Hey!" yelled Broadway.

Odd laughed and zoomed out of Broadway's reach. He gasped and froze.

"Odd?" Kayla called. "Are you okay?"

No response.

Odd saw Goliath by himself. He was being attacked by the man from the castle he and Ulrich visited and was losing. There was something in the man's eyes: XANA's mark.

Odd gasped for breath and turned to the others. "Goliath's in trouble!"

Eva finished reading a story to Alexander. He cried out for another one, but Eva shook her head.

"Get some rest little one," she said.

Alexander reached his hand out and a green light shot from his fingers. It struck Eva in the head and knocked her down.

"Goliath needs your help," said a little voice in her mind.

Eva sat up and panted. What was that? She looked at Alexander in his crib looking decidedly stern. The baby nodded once as if to confirm what Eva was thinking. She jumped up and dashed out of the nursery.

"Aelita? Jeremy?" she said into her specter band. Nothing. "Rats! They're probably too absorbed in their work or asleep."

Eva ran outside and smacked the button on her specter band to activate her LYOKO form. She took two steps and leapt into the air, her feet landing on her over-board. Though she didn't know where she was going, Eva took off at breakneck speed. She had a feeling that she knew where she was going even if she didn't realize it.

Goliath was in trouble. He was currently kissing the dirt after Macbeth had thrown him twenty feet. Goliath knew Macbeth was immortal, but he didn't know that he possessed such strength. And what was wrong with his eyes?

Something struck Macbeth and sent him flying back. Goliath turned to see a girl with her face painted like a skull walking up to them. What was her name? That's right, Eva! What was she doing here?

"So you know, XANA, the others are on their way," Eva said. She wasn't sure if they were, but better to bluff than tell the truth.

Macbeth got to his feet and charged Eva. They tumbled to the ground, trying to overpower one another. Goliath jumped up and pulled Macbeth off of Eva only to receive an electric shock. Macbeth took a few steps back before launching an energy blast at Goliath.

"Look out!" Eva cried, knocking Goliath to the ground and barely dodging the blast.

"He acts as if he is possessed!" Goliath said.

"That's because he is," said Eva. "XANA's controlling him."

"How do we stop it?" asked Goliath.

Eva shook her head. "Under normal circumstances, XANA would need to activate a tower and Aelita's the only one that can deactivate them. But this is not normal circumstances. XANA's got us good this time because we can't get to LYOKO."

"Isn't there anything we can do?" barked Goliath.

"Uh, maybe," said Eva.

Eva ran straight at Macbeth. Just before she reached him, her body began to fade. She grabbed Macbeth by the coat and jumped on top of him. They fell to the ground, yelling in pain. Her hands entered Macbeth's chest and a black aura enveloped them both. Macbeth struggled to get up and managed to get to his knees. The aura suddenly vanished and they both went flying. Eva hit the ground and returned to her normal form while Macbeth was knocked unconscious.

Goliath rushed over to Eva.

"I'm okay," she said. "What about him?"

Goliath cautiously approached Macbeth.

Macbeth groaned. "What happened?" he asked. He looked up at Goliath. "Goliath?"

"Are you out of your mind?"

They looked up to see Odd, Kayla, Angela, and Broadway. Kayla hopped off her glider and ran over to Eva.

"What happened here?" asked Broadway.

"Macbeth was possessed," said Goliath. "Eva managed to break the control holding him."

"And she better not try it again," said Kayla. "Eva, you are a downright mess this time. How's the pain?"

"There won't be any if you let me sleep," Eva said wearily as she closed her eyes.

"Let's get her back to the castle," said Odd. He turned to Macbeth. "Remember me?"

"How could I forget you?" asked Macbeth.

"I just have one of those faces," Odd said with a smile.

They all stood around Eva as she slept in the infirmary. Everyone had been called back to the castle and Macbeth returned with them.

"She forced XANA's specter out of you?" asked Yumi, amazed.

"How did she manage to do that?" asked Ulrich.

"I noticed her body began to fade when she attacked Macbeth," said Goliath.

"Jeremy?" Aelita turned to him for an explanation.

Jeremy put his fingers to his lips. "The only explanation I can come up with was that there were too many minds for one body. Macbeth and Eva both wanted XANA out and when Eva began forcing herself into Macbeth's body, there was enough power between them to drive XANA out."

"I didn't know she could possess people," said Odd. "That's cool."

"No, it's not," said Jeremy. "It's dangerous. And to knock out Eva after she did it, we know that it goes beyond taxing her body. We don't know the damage her little stunt pulled and we won't know until she wakes up."

"If ever," said Xanatos.

Kayla glared at him. "It's Eva. It's only a matter of time before she wakes up."

Xanatos backed off.

"So now we know that XANA is still here," said Aelita. "What do we do?"

"What can we do?" asked Ulrich. "It's not like we can get to LYOKO to deactivate a tower."

"We'll just take it as it comes," said Yumi.

"I can try to deactivate whatever tower XANA has activated from here," said Jeremy. "I don't have the supercomputer so it may take awhile."

"Try that," said Aelita. "It may be enough."

"What about Eva?" asked Ulrich.

They turned back to Eva.

"Now we pray," said Kayla. "We pray for her to wake soon."

Cliff hanger! Hahaha! Review please!