I have started writing the next chapter!! The problem is, I am going out of town soon (Monday, be back on Saturday) so if I don't have the chapter up before I leave (Monday morning), I will DEFINITELY have it up almost right after I come back. thank you SOOOOOOO much for bearing with me, you guys are awesome!

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And as proof that I have started writing, here is the first scene of the next chapter!! (I have more than this but I'm not gonna post it--that would give too much away)

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After the gang got back from the train station and Nikki had her stuff unpacked, they all gathered in Odd and Ulrich's room. Odd and Nikki were on Odd's bed (Nikki was playing with Kiwi), Jeremy was sitting in the desk chair, Aelita and Yumi were sitting on Ulrich's bed and Ulrich was on the floor leaning against his bed.

"So did you really find a way for us to defeat Xana?" Yumi asked cautiously, so that no one outside the room could overhear.

"Of course not," Nikki said sarcastically, "Jeremy just wanted to fake us all out," she finished with a joking grin on her face.

"Actually, Nikki is kind of right, in a way," Jeremy stated, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose.

"Well that's a first," Nikki hit Odd over the head with his pillow as a response to his comment.

While the others laughed, Ulrich rolled his eyes and said, "Ignoring the bickering old married couple; how was Nikki right?"

Jeremy decided to overlook the glares Ulrich was receiving from the 'bickering old married couple' to explain.

"Nikki was right by saying that I haven't spent all this time looking for a way to defeat Xana. We already know how to do that, just flip the switch to the supercomputer and we're done. And we can do that since Aelita's virus is gone. What I was trying to do, was pin down Franz Hopper's location on Lyoko. Once I did that, I was trying to reboot the same materialization program that we used to bring Aelita to earth for the first time."

"But didn't you need DNA for that program to work?" Yumi inquired, being the only one who remembered that DNA was needed.

Aelita smiled and took a glass test tube with a silver hair in it out of her bag. "We found this the last time Jeremy and I went to the hermitage. It was on one of his old shirts."

"Sounds good to me. So when are we going to put Xana back in his place for good?" Odd asked, holding his fists in the air like he was about to start boxing with someone.

"It's a long weekend so we can do it tomorrow without having to make any excuses for missing class. We won't have to worry about any other students wondering where we are either, since everyone's at home."

That group conversed over a few more details before heading down to dinner.

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