Author's note (EDIT 1-1-2020): Okay.. I know I made a note here before in which I stated I was going to edit this entire story into proper grammar etc.. But I will leave it as it is. I believe I have improved a lot over the last seven years I spent on FFNET and this is a nice showcase of how I used to write. My gratitude goes out to those who pointed out (huge) mistakes which I have always taken into account ever since.

So, sorry for the mistakes. If you're a new reader, I hope you can overlook them. Author's note below is the original one.

Author's note: I certainly did not intend to steal or use somebody else's ideas. Besides I came up with the concept of this story by staring at the three different clocks during Physics. I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko! Only my imagination:)!

Chapter 1: Another attack

As usual Jeremy and Odd were sitting on the bench. Jeremy typed away on his laptop. In the meantime Odd thought about how to avoid the two girls he dated... or used to date, from now on that is. Because both girls found out about the other one dating the same guy at the same time. Odd concluded that he would bother his best friend with his dilemma. Just then Ulrich came, walking towards them. But he seemed to be deep in thought.

"Hey buddy what's on your mind?" Odd asked. "Oh nothing, just thinking about something Yumi told me," Ulrich said. "Really?" Odd asked curiously, "what did she tell you?" Ulrich was about to answer his question, when Odd started talking again. "I am in big trouble and I wondered if you could do me a favour," he said. Once again before Ulrich could response, he was interrupted. This time it was Jeremy. "Guys, activated tower. We need to go, now! Where are Aelita and Yumi?"

Aelita received a message on her phone: SOS XANA! Jeremy. Aelita finally had some time for herself, but as always XANA loved ruining quiet moments. "Aren't we ever going to beat XANA and free my father for good?"Aelita thought. She started running towards the factory and met Yumi at the entrance of the sewers. "I got the message from Ulrich," Yumi said, trying to breathe normally again. She had just been running all the way from the science building. "Let's go."

Jeremy quickly sat in his chair and immediately prepared for the virtualization of his friends. Ulrich and Odd were heading downstairs, towards the scanners. Then they heard Jeremy's voice. "Guys, get inside the scanners, I'm sending you to Lyoko now. Head for the activated tower, due south of where you'll be landing, and destroy as many monsters as you can. There is a whole bunch of crabs and tarantulas waiting for you," he said. "Relax Einstein, we enjoy going to such parties. Those monsters won't be able to resist 'the Odd charm'," Odd said. "You mean that they'll all disappear as soon as they smell 'the Odd charm'," Ulrich said, he started laughing at his own joke. "Transfer Odd, transfer Ulrich, scanner, virtualization," Jeremy said. He wondered what could be taking the girls this long.

Finally Yumi and Aelita told Jeremy they had arrived and that they were now standing in the scanners. "Jeremy, virtualize us," They said, still exhausted from the all the running. Why were they so exhausted? "Transfer Aelita, transfer Yumi, scanner, virtualization." Jeremy said, while trying to figure out what the attack on Earth could be.

When they landed, something felt off. "Aelita, I don't feel so well," Yumi said, feeling dizzy. "I am feeling rather strange myself as well," Aelita, who started seeing everything flipped around, replied. "Could this be XANA's attack?" Yumi asked. "I mean an attack specifically pointed at us." "It is possible. XANA is strong enough to do this to us, by which I mean your dizziness and my weird sight. And if I remember correctly, we seemed to be a little too exhausted from running to the factory, since we do that very often," Aelita responded. "Girls, we don't have time to chat. The sooner the tower gets deactivated, the quicker things will get back to normal." They heard Jeremy saying in an annoyed tone, because of the already wasted time.

The girls finally saw the tower, but ended up seeing a monstrous fight. Ulrich and Odd had already destroyed nine out of twenty monsters. But they were still far from entering the activated tower. Ulrich used his super sprint to confuse two tarantulas. Afterwards he jumped into the air and threw both of his sabers at the two tarantulas, destroying both of them. Odd was flying around on his overboard and damaged three crabs, making sure only one hit would be enough to kill all three of them. He did a summer salt, while standing on his overboard, and shot three laser arrows at the three crabs beneath him. Now there were only six monsters left, two tarantulas and four crabs.

Yumi jumped off the overwing and Aelita activated her wings and together they joined the fight. Yumi acrobatically dodged everything fired at her. Aelita took advantage of the situation and started descending quickly. She had two energy fields in her hands, she aimed and she tried to hit two crabs. One barely dodged the attack, but the other one was destroyed. But she quickly finished the other one as well. Yumi then threw her fans at the remaining two crabs and hit the marks.

Odd had trouble staying on his overboard, since he was shot out of balance. Then he was sent flying and one hit from a laser devirtualized him. "Odd!" Yumi and Aelita screamed, not focusing on the last two tarantulas anymore. The tarantulas aimed for Yumi and fired their lasers. But Ulrich protected her, taking all the hits, instantly devirtualizing him. Yumi's attention was back and she was angry, because Ulrich had been devirtualized. She jumped into the air and Aelita caught her. She flew as high as was necessary and Yumi threw her fans at the two tarantulas, causing them to explode.

Aelita ran into the tower and entered Code: Lyoko. Then they were both materialized by Jeremy.

"Listen guys, I am worried about something. Why did XANA send so many monsters to Lyoko? It doesn't make any sense at all. It is as if he was trying to distract us from something else," Jeremy pondered, as he began walking to and fro. "Don't we need to launch a return to the past?" Odd asked. "No, we don't, I haven't noticed anything unusual on Earth. No news, no messages, no attacks. It looks like Yumi and Aelita were the only two persons affected by XANA's attack," Jeremy answered.

"Yumi, you look terrified, what's the matter?" Ulrich asked concerned. A bit anxiously Yumi replied: "Jeremy, launch a return to the past." Everybody was confused now. "Why? XANA hasn't had enough time to attack on Earth and -," Jeremy was cut off. "I said launch a return to the past, now!" Yumi shouted.

"That sickness from XANA's attack has gotten worse than we thought. William apparently sent me a message, when we were on Lyoko, that a lot of people in school had the same symptoms and after some time they fell to the ground breathing heavily," She hastily explained. "But why do you look so terrified? We can change it around, if it is not too late," Odd reasoned. "If it is not too late, you do not understand, I wasn't finished yet. My brother must have been at school at that time. He must have the disease as well by now. I can't imagine having to live without him. Please, just return to the past," Yumi was almost begging now.

"Return to the past," Jeremy said as he launched it.

"Oh no, the program is messed up. Guys, there is another activated tower. XANA has planned another attack!"