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Look Before You Seek

Chapter 19

Unfortunately for them, Yumi was still in no mood to co-operate. They couldn't even try to convince her of the dire importance, as she would not answer her phone for any of them. Ulrich threw down his phone after his fifth try, and it broke into two pieces. He angrily banged his fist on the rusted metal door of the elevator, and ran his hand through his hair, looking at the ground with impatience. Jeremie and Odd looked at each other nervously.

While all this was going on, Minnie and Aelita were still in Lyoko, trapped, and Minnie was still being drained of her memories. Jeremie was typing furiously, but quite suddenly, he stopped. Odd noticed the absence of the clicking of keys, and bent down to examine the computer screen. He could make nothing of the images that flashed on and off the screen.

"What's happening?" Odd asked, worried.

"Uh…" Jeremie stuttered. "It's, uh… It's the Scyphozoa. It isn't draining Minnie of her memories, like we thought, it's replacing them."

"With what?" Odd said loudly, almost sarcastically, as he was amazed.

"With the memories he stole from Aelita." Odd looked at him, shocked, and Ulrich raised his head, suddenly interested. "I don't know what will happen," Jeremie continued. "She might be able to tell us something. She might think she is-" Jeremie was cut off.

"Jeremie," Aelita called from inside Lyoko. "Something strange is happening." She sounded very alarmed. Jeremie checked the screen, typing quickly again. He gasped.

"What?" Odd said, looking at the screen, having no idea what was happening.

"There's a second Scyphozoa," Jeremie replied, almost whispering.

"There's more than one!" Odd yelled with amazement.

"Jeremie," Aelita called again, backing away from the other Scyphozoa. But there was nothing he could do, it had already grabbed her.

"Aelita," He called to the supercomputer. He froze for a moment or two, then called Yumi from the supercomputer. This time, Yumi answered.

"Will you leave me alone?" She shouted into her phone.

"The Scyphozoa has Aelita!" He said loudly and quickly. "Yumi, we really need you now. We don't know what will happen if X.A.N.A. gets out!"

Yumi was silent. "Okay," she said. "I'm coming." And she hung up. Jeremie stopped typing and sat back in his chair.

"What are you doing?" Odd demanded.

"Nothing," Jeremie replied. "There's nothing we can do until Yumi arrives." After this, no words passed between any of them.

After 2 minutes, the two Scyphozoa dropped Minnie and Aelita. Alelita collapsed, but Minnie landed on her feet. Jeremie tried to make contact with her, but she didn't answer. The eye of X.A.N.A. flicked in her eyes, as she walked slowly away from Aelita's limp body. Then Minnie took of running. It wasn't really Minnie running. Minnie couldn't run that fast. No, it was X.A.N.A. who was in control of Minnie, with all of Aelita's memories.

Suddenly, Minnie disappeared. Jeremie, shocked, sat up straight in his seat. She reappeared in the fifth sector as suddenly as she had disappeared. A screen materialized in front of Minnie. She could see it; she could feel it under her hand. She was completely conscious, she just couldn't control herself. Things flashed on the screen that Minnie didn't understand, but her hands kept moving, working, doing things she never could have.

Jeremie, still sitting alert at his computer, watched helplessly as every tower activated itself. Yumi arrived just as X.A.N.A. finished. A black wisp of smoke seeped out of Minnie, who was being shed like yesterday's skin. She materialized.

Ulrich accompanied Yumi to the scanners, both pretending to ignore one another. They arrived just as the door of Minnie's scanner opened, and she fell out. Ulrich ran forward and caught her before she hit the ground. She was still breathing, although she was out cold. Yumi said nothing, but glared at Ulrich's back as she got into an empty scanner to accompany Aelita on Lyoko. He was too busy with Minnie to notice.

Yumi arrived on Lyoko's ice sector, and immediately spotted Aelita, lying on the ground lifelessly. She hurried over to her, pulling her up. She groaned, and her eyes opened ever so slightly. She mumbled something that was inaudible, and then closed her eyes again, becoming limp in Yumi's arms. She was still alive, but barely. No body noticed the Krab creeping up on Yumi and Aelita. It shot Aelita, who instantly materialized. Yumi tried to block a few blows, but she was fighting for a lost cause, and eventually materialized also.

Odd and Jeremie left the super computer and went down to the scanner room. It didn't matter about the super computer anymore. X.A.N.A. had escaped.

X.A.N.A. has escaped! What will he (Or is it she? or maybe 'it'.) do next? What's his plan? Will Yumi forgive the rest of them? Find out in the next chapter (If I ever get around to writing it!)

Cya Later

OcyTavia