Part 3
The group is in the Hermitage after Yumi kissed Ulrich to cure the corruption. Aelita was laying on the couch twitching. "I could feel, feel it, in me on, on Lyoko." Aelita has trouble speaking as she twitches. "Now I, I am, am, am like this." Aelita wanted to cry but not in front of her daughter. "Good job, job Sanne." Aelita looks over at her mother. "Mom, mom, what do, do we do?" Original Sanne looks at her daughter and tries not to cry.
"If I had touched the screen first then I would have been infected. I, if I had let Xana destroy you then I would have been infected. I'm so sorry Aelita."
"Don't be, be, be mom." Aelita twitches some more. "We need a, a plan." Aelita looks over at Ulrich who was currently kissing Yumi. "Ulrich I, I, I think the, the corruption would, would be gone."
"Better to not take chances." Yumi looks at the others realizing how it looked. "Ulrich will go after Xana while both Sanne's, Odd, I, and um, anyone else that can go goes."
"Call me S.S." The rest look at Second Sanne. "Well, unless you want to keep yelling Sanne, no, other Sanne! Just call me S.S. for Second Sanne."
"Ok, so, we'll see who all can go. After the return maybe more then five people can go and Aelita can't go this time so there will be room for more Warriors." Yumi is ready to go and fight. "Once we stop the return and deactivate the Tower we can make more plans."
"We better hurry then. The more returns done the faster Xana can do them." Jeremie looks at Ulrich. "Are you able to take us?" He nods. "Good, we better hurry then you need to find Xana and stop him."
"Sanne, is it ok? If I get the chance to should I kill him? Like I killed Elisabeth?" Ulrich has to ask but isn't sure he wants the answer.
"Jim would rather be dead then his host but if Xana gets a host without a connection to us there won't be any feelings, emotions, in Xana's way. Don't kill him Ulrich unless you are absolutely sure Xana will be destroyed."
"Ok." Ulrich turns himself and the others into black mists and soon they arrive in the Control Room. ":Good luck." He turns into a black mist again and looks for Xana as the others get ready for a trip to Lyoko.
"Ok, S.S., Sanne, and Odd first." They step into the Scanners. "Transfer S.S., Transfer Sanne, Transfer Odd, Scanner S.S., Scanner Sanne, Scanner Odd, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko. "Ok, um, lets try Yumi, Senoid, and Sandra." Jeremie hears a laugh. "What?"
"My dad's going to be on Lyoko with all the girls? Probably a dream coming to life." Ark and Skitz high five each other.
"Well, it just makes sense. Send the adults first." The three get in the Scanners. "Transfer Yumi, Transfer Senoid, Transfer Sandra, Scanner Yumi, Scanner Senoid, Scanner Sandra, virtualization." They land on Lyoko. "Ok, that's one more then before. Who wants to try it? But if I tell you get out of the Scanner get out of it I don't want to waste time trying to rescue you from the Digital Void."
"I'll go." Krieger steps in the middle Scanner.
"Me too." William gets in the left Scanner.
"No, me, Skitz I should go!" As Ark and Skitz fight with each other Sam steps in the last Scanner.
"Transfer Krieger, Transfer Samantha, Transfer Vallejo, Scanner Krieger, Scanner Samantha, Scanner Vallejo, no, Vallejo get out!" Vallejo jumps out before the doors close. "Well, virtualization." Samantha and Krieger land on Lyoko.
"Aaaa!" Samantha turns around and sees a large raccoon tail coming out of her behind. "What am I?!" Samantha looks for a mirror but there are none on this Lyoko. "Whoa, Sanne, er, S.S. you looks weird."
"I don't know. I was the one who looked like a nitwit but it's a toss up between you two." Odd tries not to laugh. S.S. was a large pink blob but Samantha was resembling a cross between a raccoon and a human. She has a black mask across her face which had the nose of a raccoon but her body was that of a human, except for the tail. "Hey, you know what you remind me of?" Samantha scowls at Odd. "Sly Cooper! Man those were some great games."
"Shut up Odd!" Senoid goes over to her daughter. "Honey um, where's your weapon?" Samantha feels on her body and finds a weird half crescent and a sickle. "Maybe you're supposed to throw that."
"Maybe." Samantha looks at the half crescent then the sickle She sees movement out of her right eye and turns to see Krieger. "Wow Krieger, at least you don't look ridiculous."
"Call me Sir Kenshin." Krieger was wearing Samurai armor and wielding a sword. But unlike normal swords this has a spike coming out of the handle and a button near it. When Krieger presses it a shield appear out of the bottom of the sword. "Cool, offense and defense."
"Cool." Sanne rolls over to him.
"Wow Sanne, S.S., you look uh, different." Krieger doesn't laugh though. "What can you do?"
"This." Sanne concentrates and forms into a second Krieger. "If I concentrate I can become it." Sanne forms back into the round pink blob. "But this works to." Sanne laughs. "Ridiculous right?"
"It's cooler then being a samurai. Although I think my samurai armor is late 18th Century and my father is mid 16th Century from the description he gave me." Krieger releases the button and the shield reforms back into the sword handle. "Well, lets go!" Krieger wanted to fight.
"Not hard to find the activated Tower." Sanne concentrates and an arrow sign forms from her body. "Like a cartoon right? That's what I was going for."
"Neh, what's up doc?" Sam chews on an imaginary carrot.
"That's a bunny not a raccoon Sam." Senoid laughs a little. "Ready Sanne, S.S.?"
"Yes." Sanne was getting annoyed. Did the kids think this was a game? Did their parents think this was a game? Right now Ulrich was hunting Xana down ready to kill Jim if he got the chance. "We must hurry!" Sanne runs for the activated Tower since Jeremie couldn't send the vehicles yet. As the group on Lyoko goes for the activated Tower Jeremie works on stopping the return to the past.
At Kadic Academy Ulrich is looking for Xana, Jim. "He's running, he won't fight me this time." Ulrich turns into a black mist looking for Xana.
On Lyoko the group is near the Tower when three Krabes and a Dragon appear. "Let's see what I can do." Sam throws her half crescent at the Dragon. It flies and seems to be guided but the Dragon dodges it. The half crescent comes back and Sam catches it as the Dragon turns to fire at her.
"Speed Arrow!" The arrow moves too fast for the Dragon to dodge it and is destroyed. "Now just go after the Krabes, S.S. and Sanne stay back."
"No way!" S.S. rolls forward then turns into a liquid when the Krabes fire at her. She moves like a tidal wave creating holes when the Krabes fire so she isn't hit. She slams into one Krabes and creates a spike to hit the Eye.
"Sanne!" Krieger runs at one of the remaining Krabes blocking lasers with his shield. When he gets close he closes the shield and jumps into the air but before he can land on a Krabe and destroy it he is hit with a laser and knocked away.
"Too easy." Senoid throws dozens of daggers at the Krabes and one lands on the Eye destroying the Krabe. "Odd just destroy the last Krabe so S.S. or Sanne can deactivate the Tower."
"Got it, Exploding Arrow!" The arrow wasn't aimed for the Eye since Odd couldn't possibly see it from the ground. Instead he is aiming for the legs and hits one. The crippled Krabe falls over and Sandra walks over with her power pole and destroys it. "Go Sanne."
"I want to do it!" S.S. rolls for the Tower but Sanne steps in her way.
"Xana may have put another virus in the control panel. If you're infected I would never forgive myself." Sanne goes into the Tower and goes up to the second platform. When the control panel doesn't form she looks up and sees the third platform and floats up to it. She sees the control panel and puts her hand on it. The screen changes and soon the code is entered and the screens fall around her. "Jeremie the Tower is deactivated how are you doing with the return?"
"Xana's put a couple blocks up but I almost have it." When the Tower deactivated the return countdown dropped. "And I have another hour before I have to worry." Jeremie continues to work as Xana's protection drops.
"Xana!" Ulrich finds Xana near the border of Germany. "Why were you running? Because you know I am stronger than you?"
"I was leading you away from the others. I have a little surprise for them you see. Lyoko is mine now. I made it, I control it." Xana smiles evilly. "But before you go to warn them!" Xana sends a bolt of energy out and hits Ulrich in the face blinding him. "That worked twice you never learn do you?" Xana disappears as a black mist.
"Get back here!" Ulrich's face sparks and heals the damage. "I have to warn the others first." Xana breaks apart into a black mist and heads for the Factory as fast as he can.
Sanne is about to send the others back to Earth when the control panel closes. "Jeremie we have a problem." Sanne waits for a response but doesn't get one. "Jeremie? Can you hear me?" She still doesn't get a response.
"Sanne? Are you sending the others back?" Jeremie waits for an answer but doesn't get one. "Strange. Well, almost, almost, got it!" Jeremie stops the return and closes the program. He puts a lock on it and enters a password. "That solves that problem." Jeremie is ready to celebrate when a bright light flashes. He looks up and sees something on the Holomap. "What is that?"
On Lyoko the warriors are screaming for help. What appeared to be a mountain was falling towards them. They run into the Tower when Sanne comes down. "Sanne what's going on?!"
"I don't know. I can't get a hold of Jeremie and I can't send us back." Sanne walks out of the Tower and sees the mountain headed for them and runs back inside. "He's going to destroy Lyoko!"
"What? But he just re created it!"
"I know but maybe it wasn't what he wanted. We have to get back to Earth. Krieger, use your sword and destroy us!"
"But, are you sure?"
"Yes!" Sanne closes her eyes and Krieger strikes her. "Again!" He strikes her again but she doesn't go back to Earth. "Damn it Xana did something! We're done for, we're dead."
"No we aren't! We can't be." Odd wasn't ready to give up. "Maybe I can destroy it." Odd raises his arm. "I have plenty of exploding arrows left."
"You'll be a gnat against an elephant."
"I have to try!" Odd runs out of the Tower and starts to fire Exploding Arrows at the mountain. They blow off a little bit of rock but as Sanne said it wouldn't be enough. "Exploding Arrow!" Odd fires as many as he can but knows it is futile. "We need help can't any of you help!"
"Maybe I can." Yumi closes her eyes and focuses on the mountain. She points her hand at it but her psychic powers are too weak to affect it. She gets her fans out and throws them but they merely bounce off. "Ulrich save us!"
"Extend!" Sandra extends her pole trying to lodge it between the falling mountain and Lyoko but it is too far away, for now. "We can't give up we have to stop it!"
"How? It isn't possible." Sanne had given up already. "It took someone with Xana's power to create it and it will take someone with his powers to destroy it." Sanne sits down and wants to cry but is on Lyoko. Her granddaughter would be killed, her daughter was infected with a virus, this was it.
"What's that?" Senoid points at a black mist forming on Lyoko. "Ulrich!" The black mist completes its transformation into Ulrich.
"Ulrich help us!" Yumi yells at him but he ignores her. "Ulrich?" Yumi doesn't know why he ignores her.
"I must do this." Ulrich concentrates on his powers. He can feel the corruption creeping up into his brain but ignore it. He knows the past few times would most likely damage him permanently but his powers are needed. "Aaaa!" His primal scream sends his energy out at the mountain. "I won't let you kill them Xana! I will die before my wife or son are hurt by you!" Another energy bolt comes out and strikes the mountain slowing it down.
"He can't destroy it but if he slows it down enough we won't be destroyed!" Sanne stands up. "We can slow it down!" Sanne closes her eyes and uses her joy at finding a way to stop this to draw out her own powers. "Everyone help in any way you can!" Sanne sends energy orbs at the mountain blowing up small parts of it and slowing it down. Odd fires more Exploding Arrows and Yumi uses her psychic powers to throw rocks at it.
"We have to do something." S.S. had no long distance weapons and Sandra's power pole wasn't long enough but S.S. has an idea. "Sandra, give me your power pole." Sandra turns to S.S.
"Why?"
"I'll give it extra length so we can try and lodge it between the mountain and Lyoko." Sandra hands an end to S.S. and she wraps part of her pink blob around it. S.S. then forms into a tall tower and moves the power pole and touches the end of it to the mountain. As the mountain moves closer S.S. changes her shape to bring her end of the power pole down and soon lodges it between a rock and the mountain. The power pole bends then is destroyed.
"Well it was a good idea at the time."
"We have to do more!" Senoid throws daggers at the mountain. "We have to help Ulrich!"
"Aaaa!" Another primal scream comes from Ulrich as the corruption takes him. "I am more powerful than you Xana! I won't lose!" Ulrich sends more power at the mountain creating a crater and slowing it down more. "I, won't, lose!" Another massive energy bolt comes out creating an even bigger crater and slowing it down even more. "Yes, I will win!"
"Exploding Arrow!" Odd fires more and notices the mountain was slowing down more and more. "We can do this!"
"S.S. what are you doing!?" Sanne sees her granddaughter move under the mountain form into another tower. Ulrich flies down towards Lyoko as the mountain gets closer and closer. Soon the mountain is only a few dozen meters over Lyoko. The other Lyoko Warriors run back into the Tower as Ulrich sends more energy out. S.S. looks back out of the Tower then runs out.
"S.S.!" Krieger goes to chase after her but a pink hand forms and knocks him back into the Tower. She forms into a large pink rock and the mountain hits her. She tries to hold her form but the mountain is too heavy and she starts to be crushed. "Sanne let me go!"
"She will be ok." Sanne holds onto Krieger hoping she was right.
"No!" Ulrich puts his hands on the mountain. "Not enough I don't have enough!" He pushes against the mountain when he hears a crashing noise. Lyoko rumbles as the mountain collides with Lyoko.
"No, no!" Jeremie sees on the Holomap the mountain collide with Lyoko. Part of Lyoko explodes on the Holomap. "No, Sanne, my baby." Jeremie starts to cry as the mountain pierces through Lyoko but then it stops. The mountain is lodged in Lyoko. The Lyoko Warriors, Ulrich, have slowed it down enough to keep it from breaking through Lyoko and destroying it.
"I did it." Ulrich starts to shake. "Now how to celebrate?" He starts to laugh as the Lyoko Warriors run out of the Tower.
"Sanne!"
"S.S.!" The Lyoko Warriors yell for her but only get Ulrich's attention.
"Play things!" Ulrich flies down to them. "I am going to have some fun with you!" Ulrich takes his swords out.
"Ulrich stop!" Yumi throws herself at Ulrich and kisses him. The corruption starts to go away but Yumi isn't able to kiss him long enough before Ulrich pushes her off and strikes her with his swords sending her back to Lyoko.
"We can go back! Whatever Xana did is done."
"Hello? Are you there?" Jeremie heard the voices and yells to them. "What's going on?"
"Xana tried to destroy Lyoko. He ran so I would be far away. But I came back and proved my might!" Ulrich sparks with energy. "Who is next?"
"I am." Senoid jumps at Ulrich and kisses him. When she breaks the kiss she looks over at Krieger. "Don't worry Krieger your mother will understand." Senoid laughs as Ulrich wipes his mouth. "What don't like them dark?"
"Not that it's just you're not Yumi." Ulrich smiles. The corruption was still in his spine but was shrinking. "Hey, where's S.S.?"
"Oh God, I, I don't know." Sanne looks around and doesn't see her granddaughter. "Sanne!"
"Coming." A pink liquid comes from under the mountain and forms into a human shaped pink blob. "Ok, too much." She turns back into a round pink blob. "So what's going on?"
"Xana tried to lead me away from the Factory so he could destroy Lyoko with you on it. With you and your grandmother killed and Aelita infected with a virus we'd have no way to deactivate the Tower."
"Oh, well, now what?"
"You guys can come back to Earth now." Jeremie brings them back to Earth. When they come up to the Control Room they have to make a choice. Who would stay and who would go.
"I, I have work. I can't just quit." Odd wants to help but he knows he can't. "Sandra can stay though. I, I'll miss you babe but the more here the better." Sandra nods.
"And I have to run the, the dojo, with Ulrich."
"He can come at the call and bring you with him. So you two can leave but still fight." Jeremie looks at Senoid and Vallejo. "You two don't do anything but travel right? So you're good to stay."
"Where? Not at the Hermitage. We, we spent years there as willing prisoners, no offense Sanne." Vallejo didn't want to be stuck there again.
"You can stay at our house. It isn't being used while we're in Japan." Vallejo and Senoid accept Ulrich's offer.
"What about the kids?"
"We want to stay!" They all yell in unison.
"Well, they did ok, this time." Sanne looks at her granddaughter. "Why did you go back out there? You could have been killed S.S.!"
"I had to stop the mountain, slow it down. I knew I wouldn't be harmed I would just morph into a different shape and not be harmed." S.S. laughs a little. "And I don't like being called S.S., how about L.S.?"
"L.S.?"
"Little Sanne. S.S. just makes me think of Sandra before she married Odd. Sorry Sandra but I don't need to steal your nickname."
"Alright, and don't be sorry. I wouldn't want to be married to Odd either." The group laughs.
"When I have someone like Krieger," Jeremie and Aelita clear their throats. "To look forward to so Odd can be all yours." L.S. blushes a little. Her parents thought of her as pure and wholesome and innocent. She was, mostly. Krieger and she had done some things but hadn't gone all the way.
"What do we do?" Sanne is done with the light heartedness. "Xana still has my husband and my baby is still infected!"
"Mom don't, don't, don't yell at, at us." Aelita stutters and twitches.
"I'll fix Aelita and we'll find a way to save Jim one way or another." Jeremie looks over at Ulrich. "Are you ok?"
"For now. I can't keep using my powers like this or I'll end up like Elisabeth." It would be worse than death. An out of control energy junkie who becomes so weak Xana can posses them.
"We won't rely on them Ulrich. Xana is weak right now. Except on Lyoko but that's because he made it. It is his Lyoko, his creation."
"What about us?" Krieger did not want to run. He wanted to stay and fight. "We all want to stay."
"I, it might be a good idea. Except for Aelita." Jeremie looks at his wife. "She's infected with a virus and until I find the solution she is useless on Lyoko. Aelita will you go back home?"
"No! I won't r, run, run from Xana."
"Then you'll stay at the Hermitage? Keep your mother company?" Jeremie thinks Aelita is nodding but it could be her twitching. "Are you sure?" She nods again so Jeremie knows it wasn't twitching. "I, I have my company to run."
"What about Aelita? You want to leave her like this?" Sanne is mad that Jeremie was going to be running away.
"No I can work on an anti virus from my main computer without Xana interfering. In fact it might be better since I will be away from him so I won't be interrupted all the time."
"You're running away coward."
"He's not, not, not a, a, coward!" Aelita yells at her mother. "He doesn't want, want, to, to, to be here but, but he is!"
"He's running home and leaving you here. The kids aren't running away they want to fight."
"I can't fight Sanne. If I am here I will be attacked, distracted, by Xana. If I'm not here then I can work with every free moment and find a fix for Aelita faster. If Aelita wants me to stay I will but I want to fix her as soon as possible."
"I, I, its ok with, with me, me Jeremie."
"Let him run home you'll stay with me." Sanne hugs Aelita. "I'll work on an anti virus also. Probably find one before he does since he'll be too busy with his precious company."
"My company that puts food on the table for Aelita, Sanne and I! My company that you invested in so Jim could retire early and so you two," Jeremie points at Senoid and Vallejo. "Can waste your life traveling around the world! My money allowed Odd and Sandra get their house near the headquarters of XXtreme Sports so he could get a job there! After I repaid Ulrich for the loan he gave me I gave him the money to start his and Yumi's dojo and training videos! Without me none of you would have what you do! Sorry if I might want to keep my company from going under while trying to find a cure for my wife!" Jeremie turns and goes to the elevator. "I'm going back, now!" L.S. and Aelita run over to him.
"Wait daddy don't go like this!" They get on the elevator and go up to the Factory floor with Jeremie.
"Good job Sanne." Ulrich looks at her. "Jeremie isn't a coward. He hated going to Lyoko yet he always went when we needed him. He doesn't want to fight Xana but he does because he loves us! You're messed up because you're worried about Aelita but that's no excuse to insult Jeremie."
"Shut up Ulrich. I have to try and find a cure for Aelita since Jeremie is already leaving." Sanne goes over to the computer chair and sits down.
"And what about Jim?"
"You want to kill him. I can't stop you."
"I don't want to kill him! I, I asked if it was ok if I had the chance to kill Xana if I could take it. You said it was ok and I agreed. Jim wouldn't want to be Xana's host but I don't want to kill him!" Ulrich is on the verge of tears. "He's been a great friend over the years and yet I will probably have to kill him to free him! I don't want to but to save Jim from Xana, I, I would rather he be dead then tortured by Xana's actions." Ulrich starts to cry not being able to hold it back. Images of killing Elisabeth when he was younger and when he killed the host Xana chose when first coming back flood him. He wasn't a murderer, he didn't want to be one, yet he has killed twice and may be forced to kill again.
"Stop crying Ulrich he's my husband! I love him yet I know it would, it would be better if he were Xana's host! Jim's emotions will hold Xana back. You can't kill him Ulrich. Even if it means killing Xana. If you failed then Xana would find a host with no connection to us!"
"You aren't the one who killed a fifteen year old girl! You're not the one who killed some man that just got in the way! You're not the one to fight Jim face to face knowing he'd kill me if he got the chance!" Ulrich turns himself into a black mist and leaves Sanne's presence.
"Run, go cry, all of you can run away. I'll stay and find a way to save my daughter, my husband." Sanne's coldness sends chills down the other Lyoko Warrior's spines.
"Sanne you'll need protection." William goes over to her. "I'll stay just in case Xana attacks."
"I'll stay too." Senoid goes over to Sanne. "Sam you can go if you want. The two of us should be good enough to protect Sanne."
"I, ok mom, dad." Sam goes over to Ark, Skitz, and their parents. "Um, can I stick with you guys for now?"
"Sure, you're almost like a daughter to us Sam you know that."
"Daughter-In-Law." Ark kisses Sam on the cheek.
"I don't see a ring on her finger." Odd smiles.
"Yet." Ark and Sam hold hands.
"You two are adorable." Odd and Sandra wait for the elevator to come down then get on. Ark, Skitz, and Sam follow them.
"Are you two coming?" Sandra puts her hand over the button.
"I guess. I have to find Ulrich." Yumi and Krieger get on the elevator and soon the doors close.
The next day Odd and Jeremie are at the airport with the others. They were ready to head back home. "Don't worry Sandra I'll send you your things." Odd hugs and kisses Sandra.
"Aelita, you'll get better. If I don't find the cure your mother will." Jeremie hugs and kisses his wife. "I love you."
"I, I, I," Aelita can't get the words out. The twitching and stuttering was getting worse. She hugs him back but her twitching hurts Jeremie when her chin digs into his neck.
"Dad it's going to be ok right? We'll fight Xana and you'll find a cure for Mom right?" Jeremie nods then hugs his daughter.
"I'll find a fix. Your mom will be ok." Jeremie kisses his daughter on the forehead. "Be careful Sanne. Xana will watch your every move." Jeremie looks over at Krieger.
"Dad we don't do anything bad!" Well, not that bad. "Even if we did we're both sixteen but really we're twenty right? Four years fleeing from Xana when he was in Mom makes us older then we are. So if we did make love we'd," Jeremie puts a hand on her mouth.
"I don't want to hear about it Sanne. I, I can't stop you from doing anything but realize your mother and I waited until our wedding night to take that last step. It was the second greatest night of my life."
"And the greatest?"
"The night you were born. It may have been the day Xana came back but you were born, alive, on Earth." They hug again.
"Took the last step? So you two did more then I have before?" Jeremie's cheeks flush with color.
"We were engaged and knew our destiny and so it was ok."
"And like I don't know Krieger and I will get married?" Jeremie looks like he just got hit by a train. "Come on dad Krieger has been my best friend for twenty years like you don't know how it's going to go." Sanne smiles as she thinks about Krieger. They had loved each other since they were little. Best friends then boyfriend and girlfriend when they were older.
"Just don't rush it Sanne." Jeremie looks over at his friends. He knew they accepted him leaving. They weren't going to hold it against him but he still felt bad. But it was a great strategic move. With him away from Xana he could work hard without Xana attacking him or distracting him. He would have to spend a few hours a day working for his company but after that he would be free to find a fix for Aelita. "Well I guess its time for me to go."
"Yeah, me to." Odd hugs his kids again. "Where's your gate?"
"This way."
"Mines the other way." Odd and Jeremie shake hands then go to their gates to board their planes.
The group is back at the Hermitage. Sanne wasn't there. She refused to talk to the others. "Maybe she got a new virus." L.S. was worried about her grandmother. "That would explain why she's acting like this."
"Jeremie would have noticed. Aelita what do you think?" Aelita doesn't respond verbally or physically. Her twitches could be her shrugging or the virus. If she tried to speak then she would only stutter. "Well I think she's just upset. Aelita's been infected and Jim is gone for now. She didn't mean to yell at me but she doesn't know what to do. Has she left the Control Room since yesterday?"
"No." Senoid and William had fallen asleep and when they woke up Sanne was still working at the control panel. "I think Ulrich is right. Sanne is going insane because of what's happened. But if we give her time she'll focus on working and saving the others and be better."
"Yeah, time." Ulrich looks over at Aelita who was having a hard time sitting in a chair as he twitches get stronger.
"Look we just have to wait for the next Xana attack. Kids," William looks at the teens. "If Xana attacks you must drop everything. If you're in school say you need to go to the infirmary. If they won't let you go run out. You won't be in trouble with us. Do you understand?" They nod. "You don't."
"What would you know about it William you were on Lyoko most of the time?" Yumi defends her son and the other teens. "Children you have to understand this. Exams, class, a date, these are nothing. If you get an SOS XANA message you are to get to the Factory if you can. Xana's attacks will be weak for now but if we can't stop him soon his attacks will get deadly. He killed millions before. He's wiped out entire cities, emptied a country of its people. Fighting him won't be an adventure, a Quest, or fun it will be painful."
"It might even lead to your deaths." Senoid stares at her daughter. "I died. Your father was dead for months. We will save some of your hair but that isn't always enough. Sandra was erased by Xana before. Elisabeth saved her though." The older Lyoko Warriors get sad looks on their faces as they remember Elisabeth. "This is your last chance to go home."
"No way! I'm staying!"
"Yeah, I'm not running." None of the kids wanted to go home.
"Good." Ulrich closes his eyes. "This could get bad. I, I have powers but they are limited. I will try and stop Xana's attacks as you go to Lyoko but when he gets stronger it only gets worse." When he opens his eyes he sees the hearts of the teens. He had sent his powers to his eyes to look at them. He is surprised that they all seem calm. It almost scares him how calm they are. His son and L.S. he understood. They had faced Xana before but the other teens have bravery and courage he never expected. "This is it, we fight Xana."
"We fight Xana!" Everyone yells this. The original warriors thought life with Xana was over but were ready to throw everything away to fight Xana. The new warriors were ready to be as brave as their parents and fight Xana. Would they make it? Would Ulrich have to kill Jim to save him? Would Aelita be ok? They weren't sure but they were ready to fight to find out.