Odd's POV

The hard part wasn't getting to their rooms, it wasn't having to figure out what to do. It was getting up at midnight for a Xana attack! After trying to take over our lives and also messing them up so much he just had to throw in an attack at midnight! The only good thing about this was being balls to see Astrid's face again tonight.

We snuck out of our dorms and met up with Jeremy out side, then we waited for the girls to come. Waiting out in the open like that wearing pajamas was not fun. The only one who seemed to think it was fun was Xana.

When they finally got there Astrid was carrying the laptop and Aelita was walking a distance away from her on the other side of the laptop, I'm guessing for precautionary measures.

"You guys okay?" Astrid asked us carefully holding her own problem but still worrying about others. She was cute in her pajamas, she was wearing a pink shirt with wolf head on it, and baby blue pants that matched her tigers eyes. She was also wearing cute slippers with wolf or dog ears on it. Judging by her almost forced smile, she wasn't too happy to be out here either.

"yeah we made it out okay but I'm freezing my lyoko tail off, let's get going." I said indicating the way to the factory. We trudged on trying to be as silent as we can so no one sees us.

"Should we call Yumi?" Ulrich asked holding his phone in his hands.

"We should call her and see if she can come but she would get in the most trouble for coming out here so we shouldn't pressure her." Astrid said with a caring face on.

"right we'll do that at the factory, for now shhh!" Jeremy said we were almost at the port hole but wouldn't feel comfortable until we were away from prying ears at the factory.

Soon we were sliding down the wires at the top of the factory. then we ran into the elevator and anxiously went down. Astrid was still holding the laptop like it was a death machine, and even though the others were standing as far away from the laptop as possible, I stayed next to her. She looked terrified and needed all the comfort she could get. She turned to me and smiled, the first real one she had tonight. I noticed she still had the necklace on, I hope she likes it.

"So what exactly do you plan on doing with the thing? And why have we come here?" Ulrich asked, frankly I'm as confused as he is. I don't know what to do with Astrid's computer.

"Well to be blunt I don't know either, i wasn't able to turn on my computer for some reason so I have no idea if there's an activated tower or not." Jeremy said as we walked into the main room, looks like we are all stump about this one.

"If there is a tower then we will simply go and deactivate it." Aelita said as if it wasn't a big deal to be here at midnight.

" I'll call Yumi now." Ulrich said and we all quieted as Jeremy sat down at the computer and Ulrich called Yumi.

"Its what I thought, there are three activated towers on lyoko." Jeremy said and we all hung our mouths open, well I did the others just looked shocked. "I thought there might be because my computer wouldn't turn on, it was crashing because of he data coming in."

" Yeah you better try to get here quickly, apparently we have a situation...okay bye." Ulrich said as he hung up the phone, then looked to us, "She'll try to sneak out as soon as she can but her parents are watching a ,very, long movie...apparently"

"What should we so with the laptop?" Astrid asked, we all looked at it but no one said anything.

"I guess we should just keep it wrapped up like that." And just as I said that the electric cloud thing that I've never come up with a good name for came out And went straight for Astrid.

"hey! Aaaah!" she shrieked as she dogded the electris cloud once but the second time it went right for her. I caught her as she dropped and got a small bolt going through me but I still managed to get her safely to the ground. She strained for thirty second while jeremy ordered Aelita and Ulrich to go to the scanner room. After that the thing came out and hovered above, she cracked her eyes open and I was about to clobber the thing with a handy dandy plastic bottle left over from the party when it went straight back to her.

"Astrid!" I yelled as she thrashed out again, consumed in the mass of the electricity monster. Panicking I tried to think of a way to get the thing off her.

As I wildly looked around, desperate to do something, Jeremy said "Is she okay? or will we have to do this without you two?" He asked the answer I hope wasn't the latter.

"hang on, let me just get this off of her." As I said it the thing came out of her again, her body went slack out of exhaustion from fighting that thing so long. I ran over to her to try to block her from it but eventually it found a way around. Screaming shortly as it went back in I thought of something. "Jeremy it's trying to weaken her, if this keeps up she'll have no strength to resist it, having been on lyoko or not." I said gritting my teeth, holding her hand despite the shock I was getting.

"That would also explain the extra towers for reinforcement, and the time of mild attacks, he must have been preparing." Jeremy said " but luckily we already have one tower, Xana hasn't sent any guest to greet us this time."

Then Yumi walked in and she gasped when she saw Astrid beimg attacked by the thing. She was about to run over to help when Jeremy said "just get to the scanners we already have two towers now, it seems they are all located close together." With that Yumi wish me luck on helping Astrid and climbed down the ladders.

its bound to come out soon. I ran over to the elevator and pushed the button the ran back over to Astrid. Just as the door opened tithing came out and I set Astrid down in the elevator, then I blocked the door till it closed. Stuck in the room it was about to go through the walls when I grabbed a plastic trash bag and trapped him in there. I quickly put more on until it was to thick to cut with a plastic knife, then held it down.

Jeremy looked over and said "that was quick thinkng Odd I'm surprised."

"haha, the one thing I know about this stuff is that plastic is a great insulator." I said proud of myself.

"well you might want to make sure Astrid is okay." Jeremy said as I was already pushing the button. 'We should be safe anyway we already have the third tower down."

"Alright." I said as I waited for the elevator to come.

Astrid's POV

Have you ever been attack by a electricity monster thing? Well not only does it drain your energy and hurt like freaking seizure, it also seriously lowers your morale spirit. The whole time it's trying to convince you to give in, even if I wanted to I could feel a barrier somewhere inside of me. I guess it's the protection going to lyoko gives me. The only comfort I got through seemingly endless pain was Odd bonding my hand. For some reason feeling my hand in his dulled the pain.

When the pain actually stopped my weight felt lifted and though to exhausted to even open my eyes, I could feel I was moving. Now I'm moving again but this time it feels different. Then it stops, I managed to open my eyes and I saw someone bend down and pick me up. Then I hear "Jeremy you have the fourth tower yet?" Odd asked. Odd was the one who stopped it, and in his arms I let my eyes close and my head rest against his chest. When did he get this strong?

my thoughts were interrupted by Jeremy saying "we do now, do we need a return to the past?" Then in heard faint clanking noises, or something at least, then footsteps.

"Getting back inside my house will be a real pain, for all I know they could've already found out-" Yumi was saying before something started ringing and that's all I remember before I blacked out the remainder of the pain fading from my body.

I would've like to have woken up in my bed that morning or I don't know somewhere with a carpet. But of course I have to wake up by face planting on the floor during the earlier party we were having. Raising my head I got up on my knees with out opening my eyes.

When I did crack my eyes open I instantly got a splitting headache, and every one had rushed over for the second time to help me. "Are you okay, Xana has never tried to repeatedly attack someone like that before." Aelita said in a worried voice. i don't want to be pitied or looked over anymore. I wish I could've helped instead of bottom attacked by that thing.

"yeah, I'll manage." I said grimacing as I tried to stand up but the others insisted on me sitting down for a few minutes.

"I think you should rest for a while, you look like you need it." Yumi said and without any complaints I settled next to the wall and closed my eyes. Odd sat next to me and the others quietly whispered I caught a few bits and pieces but I couldn't put anything together. After I had had a good enough rest I walked back to my room with the others beside me. I have good friends that'll carry me if I need but push me forward when I can, I thought, great full for my friends that I have.

The comforting thoughts took me back to my room and into the bed. I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow not even pulling up the blankets. The others settling in the room to talk.

I want to thank you guys who are keeping up with the story! I'm really enjoying it so far so I'll keep going for a while. I really hope you guys like these and please leave any suggestions that you have. Thank you :) XD