Disclaimer: I do not own Code: Lyoko, Danny Phantom, Cassie, or Alan Hopper. I do, however, own some prime real estate in my mind…and it's not for sale!

A/N: Alright, I realize that this chapter is short, especially for me, but I felt like I needed to explain the purpose of the orbs that the group had to retrieve back in the first story. That and I also needed a way to bring the Danny Phantom part of this crossover further into the fold. And you're going to have to read to find out anything else that happens in this chapter. Kudos to all of you that read the last chapter. That chapter is already up there with some chapters from the original. Apparently, what I had planned to do from the very beginning was what was needed to get a lot more hits! Anyway, please R&R, or I shall do my best impression of El Kabong on all of you! And I do a REALLY good impression!

"This is a REALLY bad time Skulker," Danny shouted as he fired an ectoplasmic blast at his long-time foe. Skulker grinned and started firing ecto-missles at Danny rampantly. Danny had to take some serious evasive maneuvers to avoid getting blasted by the deadly projectiles.

"The hunt will always be on ghost child, especially when it isn't convenient for you," Skulker chuckled as he extended claws from his suit and flew right at Danny. Danny erected his ghost shield at the last second to bounce Skulker's assault away. Skulker quickly flew back in an attacked Danny again while he was still recovering from erecting his ghost shield so quickly. Danny flew to the right in an attempt to avoid the attack but still got nicked by it, a small amount of blood evident on Skulker's claws. At that moment, Skulker got fried by a lightning bolt from below, causing his suit to malfunction and for him to go flying off in a random direction.

"What a shocking development," Danny quipped, "Thanks for the save Cassandra!" He waved down to his white clad friend down below that still had her arm outstretched to throw her lightning bolt. She put her arm down and smiled at Danny.

"Hey, it's what friend's do," Cassandra replied warmly from the rooftop that she was standing on as she transformed back into her regular form. Danny floated down beside her and did the same thing.

"You're still worried about him, aren't you," Danny inquired. He didn't have to say who he was talking about, she knew exactly what he meant without him having to say the person's name.

"We all are in our own way," Cassandra replied, "Even Jeremy has started to show his soft side recently. He has been working hard day and night to find his digital signature on Nysis, but it's like he's vanished without a trace. Almost like he's been…"

"Don't say that," Danny interrupted, "Damon's a tough cookie, and the people that he thought he could turn to after he felt betrayed by you guys ended up betraying him even worse; using him like a tool and throwing him away when they were done with him. GEVI is despicable; she just thinks of everybody as pawns in her schemes. That is the worst kind of person imaginable." Danny's fist was clenched as he cursed their digital nemesis. Cassandra noticed this unusually intensity and decided to confront him about it.

"I'm guessing that you know somebody who acts the same way," Cassandra asked with an inquisitive look on her face.

"Yeah, Vlad Plasmius. He's almost as low as GEVI, but at least he still has some shred of humanity left to him," Danny replied.

"Let's just hope that we can find Damon before GEVI gets back," Cassandra stated, "I've got a horrible feeling about what she had to leave Nysis in order to accomplish."

"Is that a woman's intuition speaking," Danny chided his Wiccan friend.

"No, I felt a couple of protective barrier spells that I erected fail yesterday," Cassandra responded, "Well, okay, one was obliterated but the other one has been strained almost to the breaking point. I just hope that their alright."

"You mean this Yumi and William that you guys keep on going on about," Danny inquired, "I'm sure that they're fine, especially with all the stuff that you guys have gone through. I'm sure that they can look after themselves just fine." Danny heard a phone ringing and looked over at Cassandra as she pulled out her cell phone.

"Hello, Cassandra speaking…Are you serious?! Jeremy, you had better be joking! Alright, Danny and I will end our patrol early and come right over." Cassandra hung up her phone and looked at Danny fearfully.

"What's wrong Cassandra," Danny inquired.

"Franz just called. And the news isn't good…Yumi and William have been captured with GEVI…along with the orbs of the creators," Cassandra replied, "We have to get back now so that we can give GEVI one hell of a welcoming party!" Without a word, Danny turned back into his ghost form and picked up Cassandra before flying off to Nysis HQ. He had no idea what these orbs of the creators were, but if GEVI had interest in them it had to be bad news.

Nysis Headquarters
"Guys, you all know how bad things are, right," Jeremy inquired of all of the present group members. Sam, Tucker, and Danny were the only ones that shook their heads. "What is it that you guys don't know?"

"Um, what are these orbs of the creators," Danny inquired. Jeremy sighed as he took off his glasses before explaining what they were to the three Amity Park teens.

"The orbs of the creators are three orbs created by the three scientists that broke off from Project Carthage in order to try and undermine it. They are connected to the three natural AI that those scientists created and marked as the programs that they intended to use to take down Project Carthage; Xavier, once XANA, Sahra, once SAI, and Erethyr…now that I think about it, we never did find her true name as an AI, but that's besides the point. These orbs were created to be able to work in tandem to deconstruct any virtual structure and reprogram it into any form that was needed, much like Alan's Data Drain but to a far greater degree. These three orbs are color coded in accordance with their abilities: the red orb created by Franz Hopper and linked to Xavier, the Orb of Information; the silver orb created by Gina Aurum and linked to Sahra, the Orb of Destruction; and the green orb created by Artemis Lerath and linked to Erethyr, the Orb of Form. Before the creators of these orbs met their fates, they scattered them across the digital sea and set barriers up to block anybody but a select few users from ever getting them. Aelita was one of the users and Damon was another one of them. Trust me, we DON'T want GEVI having these for much longer," Jeremy explained.

"But since GEVI was created first, why wasn't the Orb of Destruction linked to her," Tucker inquired.

"Because it had become apparent to Dr. Aurum that GEVI had been corrupted while she was being synthesized," Sahra responded, "She instinctively knew that if GEVI had access to the orbs, many things besides Carthage would go down. That is why I was synthesized, to take her place as the link to the orb. And every AI that became linked to an orb was granted a power from that orb. I was granted my electricity, Xavier was granted his information condensing, and Erethyr was granted her healing."

"So why were the orbs needed after you became linked to them," Sam asked the eggheads of the group.

"Because we were only granted the lesser powers of the orbs. They have far more powers than just what we were granted, as shown by Sahra using her orb to destroy part of Damon's soul gem so that she could use the viral strain within her to reform him in her image. GEVI gained powers similar to the orbs when she was corrupted, but on a lesser scale similar to that of Alan's Data Drain. Any AI infected with her viral strain gains similar powers as long as their infected. As a failsafe protocol, the creators made it so that only the one linked with their orb would be able to utilize its full abilities but only while they're in direct contact with their orb," Xavier explained.

"So we have nothing to worry about, right," Sam responded with relief.

"Wrong, we have more to worry about because GEVI's viral strain might be able to override those safety protocols," Sahra stated.

"Then what are we waiting for, an invitation," Odd declared as he hopped onto on of the scanners, "Beam me up Scotty!"

"One problem with that Odd," Alan sighed, "I had to take apart the scanners in order to start work on my pocket virtualizers." Alan waited to hear everybody's uproar at his statement before continuing, "And here they are!" He pulled a small box out of his backpack and opened it, revealing a set of colored Bluetooth headsets, one for each member of the group and two more for their now captive friends.

"How do they work," Aelita asked her brother.

"It's very simple, all you have to do is take out your Bluetooth mp3 players and link them up to the headsets. Then you just press them play button on the player and the button on your headset and you'll be virtualized into the closest virtual world, like Nysis while you're here in Amity park," Alan explained, "I have the parts to make two more at the very most if we need them. I know that I'm going to need one for Raymundo, but the other one is still up in the air."

"And you got all of these from just five scanners," Ulrich inquired as he put his yellow and black headset on his ear.

"Actually, I ran out of parts from the scanners so I had to order some more," Alan admitted, rubbing the back of his head, "That's kinda why it took so long to make them, along with reconstructing the scanners after seeing what parts I needed to order to make a full set for each of us." Alan fitted his black and gold headset over his ear as he said this.

"Alright, let's get digital," Odd proclaimed as he put his purple headset on his ear and did as Alan had instructed. The other group members followed suit and were virtualized through the screen of the supercomputer.

In A Laboratory Hidden In the Ghost Zone
"I've retrieved a sample of the ghost child's genetic material as you requested," Skulker declared, handing a phial with blood over to a figure hidden in the shadows.

"Here is your pay for this hunt, Skulker," the owner of the voice commanded, handing over a computer chip to the cybernetic ghost, "And you'll receive more as you retrieve genetic material from the other members of Danny Phantom's group of friends."

"I accept your offer," the hunter grinned as he zoomed off to find another portal into the real world.

"Very soon, my plan shall come to fruition, and I shall have control over those wretched humans, alongside my partner," the mysterious voice monologued, "Yes, very soon indeed."