Jeremy glared at the bright monitor in front of him with annoyance. He had been working for the last hour trying to recreate Odd's minor codes while the others worked on gathering his major codes, but was beginning to wonder if he could actually do it.

'I just don't understand!' Jeremy thought, his hope from an hour ago having left him. 'If only I were smarter, if I knew what to do.' Before X.A.N.A., Jeremy had only grades to worry about, a minor concern to him, but now he was doing work that even the most experienced programmers couldn't handle. All this stress broke him, making him often doubt himself and his abilities. It was situations like this that killed him on the inside, crushing his spirit as though it were a melon under the force of a sledgehammer.

"Jeremy," Aelita said from the mountain sector, interrupting his internal struggle of futility, "we have the second major fragment."

"Good, I'm having some trouble here, but I'll try to work it out. Head to the desert sector next through the Way-Tower." Jeremy replied, trying hard to hide the annoyance in his voice.

"Let's move." Aelita said, the others instantly reacting to her command. They had gotten the second fragment easily, no monsters, no hassle. Yumi worried the whole time that X.A.N.A. would sneak up on them, but nothing out of the ordinary happened as they made their way through the Way-Tower on to the desert sector.

"Jeremy, where's the tower containing the fragment?" Aelita asked as they exited the tower.

"Should be..." Jeremy took a pause to find the tower being heavily distracted by his current work, "due south, but be carful, I see two megatanks guarding the tower."

"I knew X.A.N.A. wouldn't let us off easy today." Yumi stated, secure in the fact that her suspicions earlier were correct.

As the gang began sprinting towards the tower, William looked back to see Ulrich taking up the rear, moving at a slightly slow and lazy pace.

"Hey Ulrich, you commin'?" William asked.

"I... I..." Unable to speak clearly, Ulrich fell to the ground.

"Hey guys, Ulrich's down!" William yelled, causing the girls to look back. Yumi broke into a heavy run towards Ulrich, feeling great concern for him.

"Jeremy, what's happening?" Aelita inquired, worried about Ulrich.

"I think it may be the poison laser he was hit with earlier. I may need to bring him back, he's no good on Lyoko if he can't move." Jeremy began entering the materialization code when suddenly Ulrich spoke up.

"No, Jeremy... I can still fight." Ulrich picked himself up and began walking towards the tower.

Jeremy peered at his screen and, being do distracted by Ulrich's incident, noticed that the two megatanks that were guarding the tower were now arriving near the Lyoko warriors. "Guys, monsters on the way get ready!"

William got into a battle stance as the megatanks rolled upon them. Aelita readied an energy sphere in her right hand, ready to strike. The megatanks stopped rolling at a fair distance from the group but still close enough to see. They opened their shells, much like a walnut being shelled, but one did something the warriors found very peculiar. As it opened up it also turned on its side. The gang just came to the realization as to what this means as it fired, the one next to it closing up into its shell as to not take any damage, it's laser sphere rapidly expanding horizontally.

"Jump!" William yelled flinging his body in the air as the laser reached him. Aelita flew to escape the attack, but Ulrich wasn't able to jump being so weak from the poison. Yumi made a split second decisions, throwing Ulrich into the air just as the laser hit her, devirtualizing her in the blink of an eye.

"Yumi!" William yelled, turning to face the megatank that had just fired. "That was a mistake." He used his supersmoke to creep up behind the monster and slash it into not two, but three pieces with force, swiftly moving his blade back and forth through it. By the time it exploded, the other megatank opened up to see what was happening, only to be hit by Aelita's energy field.

"Great job you two, now make it to the tower before anything else shows up." Jeremy looked over to his left as the elevator doors slid open, revealing a disappointed Yumi.

"Tell Yumi I said thanks, will ya?" Ulrich asked Jeremy.

Yumi smiled as she overheard him say this. "I think she already knows." Jeremy answered in a happy tone.

Aelita ran for the tower hoping to waste no time in saving Odd. She entered the tower moments later, floated up to the terminal and retrieved the fragment of code.

"I got the third piece Jeremy, just one left: the Ice Sector." Aelita said, exiting the tower.

"Great, you guys head tree and I'll keep working on finishing Odd's other codes." With this Jeremy pulled out his earpiece and placed his head in his hands.

"What's wrong?" Yumi asked, concerned for her friend.

"I don't know if I can do this, Yumi. I mean, I have gotten some of it, but I haven't figured out anything to do with his genes or with the fusion of the major and minor fragments. I just don't think I'm good enough for this." Jeremy lifted his head to look at her, his face grim while at the same time also seeming blank to her.

"Jeremy, don't worry. I know you can do this, just give it time." Yumi gave that her best shot, but she somehow knew that wouldn't be the end of it.

"I gave things time, I worked on Aelita's anti-virus forever only to find out I didn't need it and I worked night and day to make a program that kills X.A.N.A. And that didn't work. I'm not good enough to do this, Yumi. Nothing I do works, nothing." Jeremy had just finished releasing his anxieties to Yumi, who was unsure how to respond at first, but made it up as she went.

"Jeremy, you have done things that I would have never believed before this. You have helped save the world over a hundred times, you re-programmed Lyoko when X.A.N.A. destroyed it, heck, you even brought Aelita back into the real world. You have done so much in the past, you have no reason to doubt yourself now." With that, Yumi embraced him. "I believe in you, Jeremy. We all do, never forget that." Jeremy couldn't find the words to say, he was so overtaken with emotion that he did the only thing he could do: he cried.

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