Sorry this took so long to update. My old laptop broke down and I have no internet connection on that anymore so I had to wait for my new one to come. Definitely worth it as this one is way better than my old laptop anyway and I am extremely happy with it. Also I've been busy with this new story I've been writing for the last four months and I'm still nowhere near done. Plus I've been suffering from a massive burnout of writing fanfics for the past year. It looks like it's finally going away now. Finally I've had to change colleges over the summer and adjust to a whole new course and place to study. 2012 was one hell of a busy year for me.

If anyone wants to know what Domino looks like, I'll give a short description here. She has short blonde hair, green eyes, moon pale white skin and she is just about the same height as Aelita. Domino normally wears a pair of boy shorts and a short T-shirt. Her Lyoko avatar is inspired by Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games. Domino wears that black unitard that Katniss wore when she was first called 'The Girl on Fire' but her blond hair isn't up but is instead tied into a ponytail.

Chapter Eleven is a chapter I spent a lot of time wondering what it should be about but I decided to follow another episode. I do have another original attack coming up eventually but it isn't for a while from now but it will be something to look forward to. There is also another but that one isn't until the next story probably depending when I think it should fit or not. I've been considering how much of the actual first series episodes I'm really going to follow and I still haven't made up my mind whether I should just make it focused on Domino's story only and not the first series around it.

So I'll stop there and let you read on. Review plese either good or bad. I hope to hear what you think. I don't own anything from Code Lyoko apart from the OCs created for this particular story and others that I have written over the years

Enjoy!

Chapter Eleven: Identity Crisis

Odd, Ulrich and I are at the vending machine. Odd wants some hot chocolate to drink while the two of us decided to tag along. Yumi and Jeremie had to help Aelita with a Xana attack. Jeremie wants me to spend more time away from Lyoko because he thinks that I'm still not ready to dive back into Lyoko yet because of my performance during that attack with the bulldozers. He's worried and he has a right to be if it interferes with my ability to protect Aelita but I have to go back at some point. Missing out on all of these missions just because of my mental state is starting to drive me insane in itself. Still it isn't forever but only for now.

"What's with the hot chocolate? It tastes like dirty sweat socks and an old pair of sneakers." Odd says with a disgusted expression.

"Ah, the gourmet." Ulrich replies.

"Yoo-hoo! Ulrich!" Sissi shouts.

I let out an automatic groan and roll my eyes in her direction. That voice can only belong to the Ice Queen and she's coming our way in a rush. It has happened so much that there isn't even any need to know what she wants. She wants to go out with Ulrich and Ulrich can't stand her and for very good reason.

"Oh, look. Your fan club." Odd notes with a deadpan face.

"Wow, your darling Yumi has deserted you today." Sissi observes.

"Like your brain, huh? That deserted you a long time ago."

Ulrich and I both laugh out loud at Odd's snide comment. Ulrich answers his phone as it starts to ring. It might be Jeremie. We haven't heard anything from them yet. We know that there was an attack by Xana but because we weren't there this time, we have no idea what happened on Lyoko. Both Odd and I are drawn to Ulrich's conversation on the phone when we both see something serious has happened.

Yumi had been found by Jeremie passed out in the scanner. The devirtualisation back to Earth is normally hard depending who sends you back to reality. Odd and Ulrich carry Yumi's unconscious body onto an infirmary bed. Yolanda has no idea what really happened to her but it's not something that we casually explain.

"What happened to her?" Yolanda asks.

"Well, she started feeling sick during recess." Jeremie lies.

"It because she's being feeling stressed. Our teachers give us way too much homework." Odd follows.

Odd will pretty much try anything to make school easier for himself but it isn't surprising considering that I want the same thing as well but I'm not a bad student. I just want more time to myself than anything else. Yolanda seems to buy the lie that Jeremie just spun out.

"Alright, I'll take care of her. Now all of you, back to class." Yolanda nods. "You heard me, go on."

We finish class but we all still have the same thought in our minds. We still have no idea what happened to Yumi on Lyoko and we all have different theories about what might have happened but only Yumi can really tell us what happened and she's still in the infirmary.

"Are you sure she wasn't hit by a laser? Maybe there was a mega-tank was hiding somewhere." Ulrich says.

"No I would have seen it on my screen. She still had all her life points when she was devirtualised." Jeremie explains.

"Well something abnormal happened."

"Yeah that's for sure. The proof is she passed out in the scanner. Normally the return trips are pretty easy."

I have an expression of disbelief. The return trip does happen and we do get back to Earth but it doesn't make it easy at all. Still, I don't think any of us have come back from Lyoko completely fine but we have never passed out before. There's a first time for everything. Something is definitely wrong with this picture though.

"That's what you think. You ought to try one of these days. You'll love it." Odd retorts sarcastically.

Anything could have happened on Lyoko. Xana has different ways of attacking us on Lyoko and in reality. I would know. This is too bizarre, Xana does have different techniques but I've never seen an attack on Lyoko follow you into reality that causes you to pass out. There is something wrong here but I might be overthinking things.

"Do you have any ideas, Domino?" Jeremie asks.

"I can't think of anything."

"Yumi!" Ulrich shouts.

What is she doing out already? There's something wrong. She looks the same but there's something different. I don't know what it is exactly. It could be what devirtualised her but I spent five years being a prisoner of Xana so I know how he works and he can do things that are twisted and evil even if it is just the one time, they leave an impact.

"Are you alright?" Ulrich asks.

"Yeah, I'm just tired." Yumi answers turning her back.

"What happened on Lyoko?" I ask suspicious.

"Nothing you hear. Let's go to the factory." Yumi dismisses.

That isn't helping to get rid of my suspicions. After what happened, she shouldn't be in any rush to go back to Lyoko. The reason I think that is because I wouldn't be but Yumi isn't me. Although it isn't like her to ask to go to the factory. Jeremie likes to spend more time there than the rest of us because of Aelita but we only go there if there's an attack.

"Why? After what happened, there's no rush." I say.

"Domino's right. Besides we have more important things to do like eating." Od"Ud agrees.

Even in the lunch room, Yumi doesn't seem the same. It's like she's analyzing us. What is wrong with her? She's not acting like she should. I don't know what it is but my instincts aren't normally wrong when it comes to anything to do with Xana.

"So you don't remember anything?" Jeremie asks.

"No, nothing." Yumi confirms.

I get up from my seat. I can't just confront her because I feel that her not remembering is too much of a coincidental incident for me. I need to think this through before I say something that I regret.

"Are you leaving already?" Ulrich asks.

"Yeah, I need to call Callum. He's expecting to hear from me." I excuse.

I head to my room. What I said about calling Callum was a lie but I need a quiet place to think this through. Yumi isn't the same and even if she was affected by what happened then it wouldn't change her completely. I changed but that took much longer than one night. The Guardian! No, it only traps a person like a prison cell but I don't think it shows on a screen. It isn't a typical monster. That might explain why she was sent back to Earth despite all life points being intact. It doesn't explain the change in personality. I might as well tell Jeremie and the others. They should know what they are up against.

Jeremie's room door is open and I look into it and see that the others are already there. Yumi and Jeremie look like they've become too close for comfort to say the least. Ulrich and Odd look betrayed. I don't blame Ulrich considering that we all know how he feels about Yumi and she feels the same so her doing this makes no sense to me. Ulrich walks out of the room hurt by what he is seeing.

"Ulrich, wait! It's not what you think!" Jeremie says following him.

"Bravo." Odd responds leaving the room.

I leave the room as well not sure whether I should say anything. I look at Yumi and it's like she knows that I'm suspicious of her but she isn't let it affect her. Now I know that Xana is behind this, it's becoming too clear for me to ignore now. It helps to explain a lot of things that have happened today.

"I'm onto you." I say simply.

Throughout our science class, Odd and Ulrich avoid talking to Jeremie and I don't say anything either. I need to clear this up or whatever that Xana has done to Yumi will tear them apart. When our class is dismissed, Jeremie decides to talk to Ulrich despite the tension between the two of them while Odd and I watch on.

"Ulrich. Listen to me, nothing happened." Jeremie repeats.

"I don't wanna listen to you." Ulrich responds.

"Something's wrong with Yumi, she's not in her normal state. I don't what it is but she's traumatized." Jeremie continues.

"You're right." I agree.

Odd and Ulrich turn their gaze towards me. They believe on some form but they also know that I know a lot more than I haven't mentioned yet.

"It's no secret that being Xana's prisoner changed me but I know that something like that doesn't happen overnight. I don't have much that might explain why Yumi's acting the way she is but I think I know where it started. I don't know if I'm right so that's why I didn't mention it earlier but we need to go to Lyoko to follow up what I think happened. Aelita might know." I explain.

"Fine. Let's go." Ulrich decides.

We head back to Jeremie's room and it turns out that Aelita has found something abnormal on Lyoko according to Jeremie anyway. Xana is up to something and I can't know what it really is but it definitely has something to do with Yumi. It could be a new way of attacking but Xana can't create a mental link that quick or there are still things I don't know.

"What is this phenomena exactly?" Ulrich asks.

"From what I know, it's only capable of taking all your life points or imprisonment. It might affect you mentally but I can't prove it." I say.

"Aelita's checking it out. It could be Xana's doing." Jeremie answers.

Jeremie opens the door and his room has been completely torn apart. The computer is destroyed along with the rest of his equipment. We can't communicate with Aelita here now. Hang on...

"Who could have done it?" Jeremie asks.

"Think about it. Who was the last person to leave your room?" I hint.

"No, not Yumi!" Ulrich realizes.

"You gotta admit. She's been acting weird lately." Odd replies.

"Okay, Yumi hasn't been herself lately but the enemy is Xana. He's launched an attack. I'm sure all this other stuff is a distraction while he's quietly getting rid of Aelita."

"Aelita! She's all alone on Lyoko!" Jeremie remembers.

"Are we going to the scanner room?" Yumi asks.

We all look at her knowing that she isn't the Yumi we know but we can't do anything about it here and we haven't got the time to really confront her about it either. She looks at all us almost frustrated by being around us and wanting an answer.

"Yeah, let's go." Jeremie confirms.

This has to be one of the most tense goings to the factory that I've been a part of. We don't say anything at all not needing to say anything because it isn't like a normal mission. Yumi wants to be the last to go so the three of us go first and we are transferred to the polar region near where Aelita should be. I see an orange bubble on the top of a glacier. The Guardian!

"I know that creature." I say.

We're waiting for a few seconds but no Yumi.

"Where's Yumi?" Ulrich asks.

"She's not with you?" Jeremie questions.

"No." I answer.

Two kankeralats approach us chasing Aelita in our direction. I manifest a dagger ready for another battle and hopefully this time my performance will be much better. Ulrich reflects a laser from a kankeralat back in turn destroying it and I throw my dagger at the other one which makes the field clear for now.

"Hurry we need to go and free Yumi." Aelita says.

"Yumi? Yumi's not..." Ulrich responds confused.

"The real Yumi. The one who's here on Lyoko. The other one was created by Xana." Aelita continues pointing at the Guardian.

It all falls together like pieces of a puzzle. It explains everything and all the strange behaviour that we saw. We were lucky that we didn't confront her or Xana would have killed us back in reality rather than luring us here. Still Xana wants the scanners for a reason and we have to be careful as we're vulnerable here when Xana is in the factory playing God with whether we come back or not.

We head to the top of the glacier after finishing off a few monsters guarding the virtual jail.

"It's some sort of Guardian. Like a digital jail adapted to the person in it." Aelita explains.

"You can't destroy it with weapons." I realize.

"I can create a digital image of Yumi. That way the Guardian might think it's mistaken." Aelita suggests.

"Might as well try it." I reply.

Aelita goes on her knees like she's praying and lets out a chant or in other words is using her creativity. The orb starts to stretch to where the fake hologram-like image of Yumi but can't absorb it and as the amount of data used to create it means it has to stay still, it ultimately causes it's own self-destruction. Yumi lies there unconscious and she soon starts to stir as being unconscious on Lyoko doesn't last very long.

"Yumi!" Ulrich sighs relieved.

"What happened?" Yumi questions puzzled.

"We have no time to explain. The tower has to be deactivated now." I reply.

"Jeremie's not responding. I don't understand. I have the feeling something's wrong." Aelita says.

"He's all alone with the other one. If she wrecks the scanners then it's all over." Ulrich deducts.

"The other? I don't get it. Who wants to wreck the scanners?" Yumi asks.

"The other you." Odd reveals.

Yumi gets a puzzled expression but then gets back on her feet taking the news in her stride knowing that there more important things to focus on.

"What if something has happened to Jeremie and we can't deactivate the tower in time? This is serious. One of us has to go back to reality and right away. We don't have much time." Yumi says.

"Right, I'll go." Ulrich decides.

"No, I'll go. I don't know how many life points I have left and if I only have five or ten, I'm not going to be much use to here. Also there's a matter that only I can handle. It's between me and myself."

"Then you go but first you have to devirtualise yourself. The question is how?"

"You're armed, aren't you?"

Ulrich looks down seeing his blade on his side. He gets it out and quickly slashes her which results in her devirtualisation. I would have done it but Yumi wanted Ulrich to do it and who am I to stand in the way of people that obviously like each other in more ways than one? I look down at the activated tower seeing that it's guarded by two kankeralats.

"We got company." Odd notes.

"Odd. Watch out on your right!" Aelita responds.

Odd gets hit with laser falling onto the ice and I manifest a short dagger throwing it right in the centre of the monster getting rid of it.

"How many life points do I have left?" Ulrich asks.

"Gotta be less than ten by now." Odd guesses.

Odd gets hit by another laser but flips back in fashion to avoid another fall.

"I'm still here? I guess I messed up on my calculations." Odd says.

"You've never been that great at maths." I reply.

"Yeah but thanks to you, I can count to three."

I smile slyly at him and manifest another dagger and hit in the centre destroying it so Aelita can deactivate the tower.

Another attack prevented and a return to the past to clear away anything that we didn't want to be remembered. This whole attack proves that materialisation is possible for people who are trapped on Lyoko. Jeremie's probably going to be more inspired by this and work even harder to get Aelita here on Earth. One day this battle will be over and life can be normal again. As normal as it can get for me with everything that has happened in the past. I can only wonder what will happen next.