Here's chapter 13, I hope you like it! Enjoy and please review!

Months passed by and XANA continued to attack us. Stubborn thing. Nonetheless, we stopped him each time. Alex's leg healed in a couple of week prior to now and he bought me a new cell phone - a magenta and navy blue one. It was a new semester and Dan was now in sixth grade. With him being a new student, I had to show him to his classes. It wasn't that bad, but a lot of times his classes would be pretty far away from mine and I would be late. So, after getting scolded by Mrs. Hertz - who was now officially on my teachers-who-I-hate list - I was pretending to listen when my cell phone started to ring. I cursed myself for forgetting to put it on silent. Mrs. Hertz glared her beady little eyes at me and I checked the caller ID. For some reason, it was my mom. I was about to answer it when the phone was snatched away.
"Hey!" I exclaimed.
"No cell phones in class, Miss. Reinhart," she chided.
"But, I-"
"You can have it back after class," she said firmly.
Snickers and giggles echoed in the room - except for my friends, who looked at me with concern - and Mrs. Hertz put my phone on her desk. Up until the class ended, I couldn't stop think about why my mom would've called me. She said that she would only call me during school if it was an emergency. I kept my eyes on the clock, watching the minutes slowly tick away. We had five minutes left of class, but it felt like days. Finally, the bell rang and I got up and strode to my desk. the gray haired teacher returned my phone, scolded me again, then dismissed me. Once I was outside, I dialled my mom's number.

It rang two times before her hysterical voice answered.
"Dialla! Dialla!" she half-screamed. "Oh my baby!"
"Mom? Hey, what's going on? Mom!"
There was no response for a moment.
"Dialla?" It was my dad.
"Dad? What's going on?" I demanded.
"It's your brother. We can't find him. Is he at school?" asked my father.
"I don't know. I'll go check." I promised.
"Ok, let us know if he's there." he said and hung up.
I shut my phone, put it in my pocket and headed towards Dan's room.

I knocked three times and waited. The door opened and it was his roommate and best friend, Ricky.
"Hi, Ricky," I said. "Is Dan here?"
Ricky shook his head. "No, he never came to school today. I assumed he was sick."
I thanked him and left. I called my dad again and told him he wasn't here. He finally told me that he never came home last night.
Which was strange because he always came home for dinner then slept at the school. Since it was lunch time, I was going to take the liberty to look for him, but my friends stopped me.
"Is everything all right, Dialla?" Aelita inquired.
"My brother is missing and I'm going to find him," I said bluntly and walked passed them.
Ulrich grabbed my arm and stopped me. I narrowed my eyes at him.
"Let us help you," he said. "It'll be easier to look for him if we all help."
The others nodded in agreement and I managed to relax a little.
"Alright," I said. "Let's split up."
Odd and Yumi searched the school, Jeremy and Aelita searched the park and Ulrich and I searched the city. After running around for about a half hour, Ulrich's phone rang.
He answered it. "Yeah? Okay, be right there."
He hung up and announced that XANA has activated a tower. I grimaced, but reluctantly followed him to the factory.

The elevator doors opened and we walked over to the computer where the others crowded around Jeremy. There was a visual of a sector on the screen. It showed multiple krabes and trantulas, William and another companion. The colleague was a boy with brown hair dressed in a black and red body suit. He had a sword and some kind of cannon strapped to his back as well as a small shield on his left arm. As I examined the enemy, I recognized him as my younger brother.
Dan Reinhart.
I stumbled back a little, surprised and lightheaded. My friends supported me in case I were to fall.
"I'm not sure how," Jeremy said. "but XANA managed to take over Dan and bring him to Lyoko. So now he's like William, utterly trapped under XANA's control."
"Start up the procedure," I demanded, my surprise being replaced with anger. "I'm going to Lyoko."
"We all are," Yumi corrected.
"Fine, but I'll deal with Dan," I said.
Jeremy virtualized Yumi, Aelita and I first and I landed on the forest floor with grace. Ulrich and Odd soon joined us and he materialized our vehicles. I leaped onto my Overboard and took off.

The monsters fired at me and I shielded the red beams, then fired my green ones. I took out two krabes and a trantula out of the ten before I was shot in the shoulder by a green beam. I winced and saw that the beam had come from a gun in the hands of my brother and now my enemy. I glared at him, but my priority was to take out the monsters first. I looked down below and saw Ulrich battling William, Odd was taking on a few krabes and Yumi was fighting trantulas. Aelita occasionally helped with her energy fields, but kept a safe distance between the monsters. I took out a more monsters untill there was only a krabe, which was later taken out by Odd. I brought the Overboard closer to the ground and hopped off, ready to fight.

Suddenly, a large whiteish blue beam with red in the middle was fired and hit Odd, then was fired again and hit Yumi, who were both devirtualized.
"Odd! Yumi!" I cried, and quickly leaped into the air, evading the beam.
I landed on the ground and doved to the left as another beam was fired at me. I glared at Dan, who pointed his cannon at me. We glared at each other and I threw my boomerang at him. He strapped the cannon onto his back and pulled out the sword, which he used to deflect the boomerang easily. The boomerang came back and I reattached it to my shoulder. I hopped on the Overboard, flew towards him and leaped off. The Overboard flew forward, about to collide, when suddenly it exploded. In his right hand he held his gun, which he quickly replaced with a sword as I pulled mine out.

We clashed for a while, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw Ulrich get devirtualized by William's sword. Normally, I would've cried out his name, but Aelita was the only one who could deactivate the tower and I had to protect her. I kicked Dan in the stomach, which sent him stumbling back a few feet, and charged at William, who was sauntering in on Aelita. My sword connected with his and I ordered Jeremy to program the Overwing for her. He did so, and Aelita hopped on and rode toward the tower. Another sword swung at me from behind and I manage to shield it, while dealing with William.

Dan pulled back his sword and kicked me in the side. I skidded on the ground, stopping a few inches from the edge. I looked up and saw William coming down on me. I rolled out of the way and swiped his feet, but just before he hit the ground, I kicked him in the ribs and sent him into a tree. When I got to my feet, Dan was attacking me now. I did a few back handsprings, gaining some distance, and braced my self for his attack. He pulled out his cannon in his left hand, and his gun in his right. He fired at me and I shielded the beams, but the blow sent me flying. Then Dan threw his sword at me as did William.

"Dialla!" I heard my comrades call and my eyes lost their pupil again.

A sword came at me from the front and my left and I spun in the air, pulling out my sword and deflecting William's sword, Dan's sword missed me by inches and I threw my sword at William, as well as a few shots from my gun. The sword got close to William, and I had a feeling he would deflect it, but fortunately, my beams hit the sword, bounced off and hit him in the chest, defeating him. I watched as he disappeared, then remembered my brother just as I got slashed in half in my stomach from behind. I appeared in the Scanner Room, exhausted and hurt. I stepped out and crouched down, holding my stomach, still feeling the pain from his attack. The elevator door opened and Ulrich and Odd rushed towards me, helping me up.
"Did Aelita..." I questioned weakly.
"Yeah, Jeremy's launching a return to the past right now," Ulrich explained.

After the return to the past, we were all in the factory as Jeremy checked to see if Dan was still on Lyoko. Unfortunately, he was and still trapped in XANA's clutches. We were skipping class now so I got a call from my mom, wondering where Dan was. I made up a lie, saying he was going on a week field trip for school and surprisingly they bought it. I hated lying to them, especially about Dan, but right now, it couldn't be helped. Jeremy was talking, promising that we would free him and saying that he would have a clone take his place. I couldn't handle that. Sure he could be annoying and immature, but he was my brother. And I didn't want some clone wannabe replacing that. And yet, when Jeremy asked if that was alright, I nodded and said sure.

Aelita's POV

Dialla wasn't herself. And I wasn't the only one noticing. When Jeremy asked if it was alright, she nodded and said she was fine with it. But I could tell by the blank look in her eyes that it was hurting her a lot. All throughout the rest of the day - and the rest of the week - she still had that blank look on her face. She would engage in conversations with us, but it was like she lost all of her emotions. We all felt terrible and we tried to console her, but it didn't work. Ulrich, Yumi and Odd were doing what ever they could to cheer her up while Jeremy and I worked on her brother's clone. We finally finished, making sure the clone was as much like as Dan as possible. Jeremy called the others and they arrived to test out the clone.

The clone was so rude and egotistic that I thought there was a bug in the program but Dialla said he was perfect, the blank look on her face. We got Dan to his room and made up a little fib, then Dialla called her parents and told her that Dan was back. And, since it was getting late, Yumi left for her home and we made our way to our rooms. I said goodnight to the boys and Dialla and went to my room and out of the corner of my eye, I saw Ulrich walking with Dialla to her room.

Alex's POV

All week I noticed Dialla was acting strange. I tried asking her little gang about it but they said that she wouldn't tell them. Then, I tried her brother and he just shrugged and said it was 'her time of the month'. I laughed at that, but decided to confront her. Since she was avoiding me all week, I decided to confront her at her room as I was leaning on the wall next to her door. After waiting a few minutes, I finally saw her walking to her room. Unfortunately, Ulrich was with her. I glared slightly at him, but quickly composed myself.
"Hey, Dialla," I said.
Hearing her name, she looked up. When our eyes met, a small smile crept on her face.
"Hi," she said softly.
"Shouldn't you be in your room?" Ulrich snapped.
"Probably. But, I want to talk to Dialla. Alone, if that's alright," I said, smirking.
"Leave her alone," he hissed. "She's exhausted and needs her rest."
"Then why are you with her?"
"I'm her friend. I'm taking care of her,"
"Is that so? Then, if you are her friend, then I don't see the problem of me just simply talking to her." I said, then added smugly. "Unless that bothers you."
The term 'if looks could kill' pretty much described how hard his glare was. He literally looked like he wanted to rip me to shreds.

Dialla's POV

The sound of two boys fighting - and I mean actual fist fighting - snapped me out of my daze. In front of me, I saw Alex on top of Ulrich, his hand pulled back ready to strike, while Ulrich was gripping his collar. I yelped slightly and struggled to pull them off each other. Students near by came out of their room came out and crowded around. I finally pulled Alex off Ulrich, nearly crashing into a wall in the process, and finally Jim showed up.
"Stern! Rider! Where do you think you are? An MMA fight?" he bellowed as he grabbed them both by their collars.
"Alright, back to your rooms! All of you!" he added as he took them to the principal.
I ran a hand through my hand, utterly abashed.