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Midnight before Halloween. Aelita and Jeremy have finished the project.
Aelita returned to her bedroom after finishing the programming. It was all ready, tomorrow they would bring themselves straight to the Supercomputer. She laid down in her bed thinking of what had just happened that day after dinner... Jeremy sitting in his computer chair, doing nothing but thinking, remembering their sorrowful night… Odd and Ulrich lay in their dorm beds, they both knew that the other wasn't asleep but they couldn't muster up anything to say to each other. Their brains raking over the past few hours… Likewise, Yumi sat in her room, restless as all the others, shook at her recollection of the recent events…
Five hours earlier. Jeremy, Aelita, Yumi, Odd, Ulrich, and William sneak out of dinner and into the forest.
As the six go through the forest they think of all the troubles they once faced forcing them to walk this path; the giant teddy bear, the swarm of wasps, the out-of-control bulldozers, and everything else. They remembered how all of those things kept them under constant fear, always watching for an attempt to kill them, and they thought of how good they felt when it was over. When the Supercomputer was shut off all their worries of unnatural attacks and assassination attempts just went away, they felt like they were set free from years in a minefield where at any time one could shoot off.
Once they reached the ladder, the one that they had wished never to see in their lifetimes ever again, they descended into the sewers that they had tried to forget for so long. They had taken their skateboards and scooters back to their rooms months ago, so they were forced to walk.
Aelita thought of how the Supercomputer had been her prison for years, how Jeremy had finally woken her up, how she reentered the Earth, but the thought that plagued her mind most was the thought of her father. She had never gotten the picture of his sacrifice out of her mind, how she had hoped that their might be a way to reconfigure him out of some leftover data but that it was insufficient. No matter how much she thought of the good that had come; meeting the group, destroying XANA, and most importantly getting together with Jeremy; she couldn't let go of that one thought. That thought burdened her mind until they reached the second ladder to the factory bridge.
As Ulrich stepped onto the bridge to the factory he recalled all the terrifying occasions he had spent here. When he was dragged here by a horde of bulldozers, nearly killed by secret agents, rats, zombies, giant food monster, weird ghost creatures (polymorphic whatevers), and everything else. He thought of all the personal dangers and frights he met; his mother and father being lifted towards outer space, nearly losing his friends, almost losing Jim, watching Yumi fall into the Digital Sea because he was to late to catch her (the most terrifying personal moment), and being kissed and having to kiss SISSI (the most HORRIFYING thing to ever happen). But thinking about it, Ulrich realized it was the greatest thing that ever happened to him. He had a place to go to get away from the world, especially his dad. But the most important thing was it brought him together with Yumi, and made him realize how much he is really in-love with her (though he still is to chicken to tell her, but he has a plan).
When Yumi swung down the rope, something she hadn't done in quite a while and she was glad about it. She had never truly liked Lyoko; it had created too many dangers. She had almost died multiple times, she had to witness her friends nearly die, her family nearly killed by a Krab, William being held captive, and everything else. Only three good things came out of turning on the Supercomputer; we got Aelita out, our group had come together, and she had fallen in-love with Ulrich (but she was waiting for him to make the first move, if he ever will). Approaching the elevator, she wished Odd had never thought of this idea, forcing them all back here to dig up their buried past. And in her opinion, it was better left underground.
Going down in the elevator, William shivered a bit. The last time he had done this, he was finally trusted by the group (mostly just Yumi) to go to Lyoko. And what had happened in that very first trip to a world which had brought wonder and adventure to five other people? Months of torture and imprisonment by an evil computer virus wanting to take over the world. Great morale booster to make him want to come back. But all he had to do was remember that XANA was dead. He can't come back, no more pain. They made it to the Computer Room and for some reason he was still shivering.
As the gang walked out of the elevator into the Computer Room, Jeremy suggested he go alone to the Core Room to turn it on. Going down Jeremy thought of the time, nearly three years ago, he first came down here. He had hoped to find spare metal, and had found a digital world and a girl no computer geek would ever have had the guts to talk to. And it was a girl he had fallen for the second he saw her. He opened the hatch on the computer core and grabbed the switch. In the instant he touched it he remember all the attacks they'd faced, all the times he sent his friends into a world where they could die while he sat in safety at a computer. He had always seen himself as a partial coward, that's why he always tried to make programs to help them, but they almost always made more problems than solutions. Flipping the switch he could feel the computer come back alive, turning around he went to the Computer Room.
Odd had been sent to the Scanner Room to plug-in a data-scanner. Reaching the room, he nearly fell to his knees, thinking of all the things that had happened. He walked over to the Scanner that had once been his. He remembered how he was the first to go to Lyoko because Ulrich had stolen Kiwi to use as a guinea pig, JERK!! Odd had always loved Lyoko. His being so free-spirited had always cancelled out all the danger and risks, he quickly forgot all the times that they had nearly died and thought of the thrill. He loved being the hero; saving the world over and over again from XANA was the greatest time of his life. Odd came out of his trance at the sound of Jeremy's voice telling him to hurry up.