Astrid's POV

I touched the piece of paper and my beginning started flowing again. I could see the orphanage I grew up in and the people I cared for. They hadn't liked me much but they were all I had. I wasn't able to shut off the world like others had been, I needed someone.

A doctor came in and checked the babys temperature, well I guess my temperature. After she gave me what looked like a full check up she tucked me in and left he room. The other ladies there left as well and to my surprise the image followed them. I touched my finger to ghe ragged paper to stop it once more. Why would the image follow them, what was the true purpose of this?

"You won't find much answers in that." A voice said, I immediately jumped to my feet and searched for the person that carried the voice. Stepping out from the shadows was a teenage boy about my age. He looked at me fondly, like we had been friends for a while and he expected me go know him. He had short brown hair and blue eyes. He was slightly taller then me but he was still childish looking. I narrowed my eyes at him and laughed.

"Astrid don't tell me you don't remember? I guess not, I'm ten years older than the last time you saw me." He said and when I still looked confused he added, "it's Jimmy, from the orphanage, you know. You would always play tag with me. I was 7 years old?" Memories flashed through me as I remembered the little boy who would always stick close to me. I felt like I needed to protect him since he was so young. Well, was. Looking at him I could see the little boy in him. Freckles all over his face and the cut on his chin.

"You, Oh! Jimmy!" I said flustered and I ran up to hug him. He embraced me and happiness swelled inside of me. He was a brother to me, maybe not by blood but by the bonds we made. "You've grown up. Just like every one else I guess. Man I feel like an old lady around every one!" I Said happy but exasperated. Sometimes the hard part was seeing how everyone grew up without you.

"I really hope it wasn't too hard on you." He said as we pulled away. Suddenly I remembered my shock at someone being here.

"What are you going here!?" It's dangerous! " I say glancing at some of the rotting floor boards. I could have gotten hurt myself on my way over here.

"Don't worry I steer clear of the Xana thing. I go to school a few miles away from here. Don't look so surprised Astrid I've been hanging out here since they discovered Xana, I've been able to hear something's." He said as my mouth opened in shock. If he knew this entire time why didn't he do something? Then again jimmy was always the type of person to just be there, never participate.

"I, What? I." I stammered and he looked at his watch.

"I gotta go, don't tell the others I know please. I've kept your secret so please keep mine." He said as he turned and ran away mysteriously through the maze of hall ways.

After about a half an hour I finally made it back to the main area of the factory. I could see Odd and William leaving the factory. Had they been searching for me?

"Odd, William!" I called and they turned in surprise. My bad mood had shifted after meeting Jimmy, however I couldn't tell them about him. I kinda sort a almist promised to keep it a secret.

They turned to look and started running over here when they saw me. As I took a few steps forward though my vision got blurry, and before I knew it I was falling to the ground.

Odds POV

I was going to go after Astrid to help but Yumi held me off. It was pretty easy to tell it was more than going to the infirmary. However despite my protest Yumi told me to leave her. I glare at William though, but he was obviously confused. After the class we went to the vending machine that acted as a regular spot to chat in between classes.

"What did you do?" I asked William angrily. He just shook his head.

"I don't know, it had something to do with my cousin, Alex. But he's about ten years older than me so I don't see how she would know him..." He trailed off, even though he was confused I saw more than concern on his face.

"On a different note." Yumi said sighing, she probably knew best out of us how to handle these things. "Did you guys hear about that burglar who broke out of that police car with no outside help?" she asked.

"Yeah, I think his name was Peter Duncan." Ulrich said and I looked at the surprised. I hadn't heard anthing on that.

"Would it have anything to do with Xana?" William asked

"No defiantly not, there are no activated towers anywhere." Jeremy said walking over with aelita.

"Ow..." Aelita moaned and held her hand to her head.

"Are you okay?" We all asked at once. And nodded her head.

"Yeah I just didn't sleep well last night, I'm fine." She said picking up her stuff as the bell rang to go to class.

"We have a math test right now will you be okay?" Jeremy asked and she nodded her head. Yumi and William walked to their class and every one else all headed to math, fun.

We sat down at our desk and our teacher put the papers on our desk.

"All right you have this period to finish the test. huh? Does anyone know where Mrs. Hax is?" Our teacher asked.

"She's in the infirmary mam, she had a headache." Ulrich said as politely and convincing as he could.

"Okay, she can make the test up then. Well start." She said and started walking around to watch how we're doing.

I had promised Astrid I would work better on my grades but she gav up on tutoring me after he saw how bad I was. She just laughed it off and told me to try. But right now I had absolutely no idea what this question was.

"Ulrich, what's the answer to number two?" I whisper to Ulrich but Mrs. Meyer uses her teachers hear everything power.

"0, Odd." She said hardly stopping to pay attention.

"Oh yeah, that's right." I say nervously, "Good job."

"No I mean that's the grade you'll get if you keep trying to cheat!" She says angrily and stay quiet for the rest of the test.

"Oh..." Aelita, who was in front of me moaned.

Jeremy and Ulrich also turned to her as she suddenly fell unconscious to the floor.

"Aelita!"

We all sat at the hospital waiting for the doctor to tell us if she was okay. I had call and texted Astrid several times but she hadn't answered. It was strange because shes not the person to purposely miss a phone call, even if she is upset.

"Well, she's doing fine. That kids got a real guardian angel though.." The doctor said as he came to tell us how she's doing.

"Can we go see her?" We asked.

"Well I don't see why not, but be careful. She needs to rest."

We waked down to her room and she was happy to see us walk In.

"you feeling okay?" Yumi asked and she nodded.

"Im fine." Aelita said. and we all sighed in relief.

"You don't think this has anything to do with an activated tower do you?" Ulrich asked Jeremy. And he shook his head.

"No, theres still no activated tower, but it can't hurt to go to the factory And check." Jeremy said anxiously.

" We'll go with you." Me, William,Ulrich said and we headed off to the factory. Maybe we'll find Astrid there. She'll be upset she missed this. However foursome reason I have this nervous feeling in my stomach, why hasn't she come back yet? Well, maybe she has. What if she went back to the school and we weren't there? The again, if she did that why hasn't she called? I'm probably going crazy, arguing with myself.

When we arrived a the factory I was just about to go down the wires when Ulrich, William, and Jeremy suddenly pulled me to the side and covered my mouth so I didn't make any noise. Slowly Ulrich put his finger to his mouth to show silence, then he removed his hamd from my mouth and gestured below us.i looked over the wall to see Astrid sitting with her back to the wall and William ane I standing over her, I could vaguely hear the worried words, are you okay.

I looked over to Ulrich and then pinched myself as if to show I'm not a clone. I glance at William and he widened his eyes to show he had no Xana marks. I don't think That's an Astrid clone either so what's going on? Something in my gut instinct ly wanted to rush down there to protect Astrid. No one was going o hurt her. Looking more closely I thought of the perfect idea.

"Jeremy, toss me your phone." I whispered as quietly as I could. He handed me his phone and I dialed Astrid's number. Then I handed it back to Jeremy. He understood and waited for Astrid to pick up. In a few seconds I heard a ute little ring tone that I assume is Astrid's. I peeked around the corner to watch as Astrid looked at her phone in surprise and picked up.

"Hello?" I heard through the phone and Jeremy got up and silently started walking away from our hiding spot so the clones couldn't hear.

"Astrid, the two in front of you aren't the real Odd and William. Trust me. Is there anyway you could try to get them away from there so we can get to Lyoko? Well try to figure on out at least." Jeremy wispered and there was silence for a second. Then she said.

"What are you doing back there? Oh well fine, I'll take Odd and William there. Still why would you? Never mind. I'll see you in a few." for a few seconds we all sat there in shock as she hung up. Then I peeked around the corner one more time to see her leading the clones into some of the back rooms we've never explored. She stumbled a few times, something must have happened. Why is she.. Acting like sh just fell and bumped her head? I put the thought aside as we all raced towards the elevator.

Hey guys. I'm sure a lot of you noticed this one was actually an episode. Well adding William, Astrid, and Jimmy. Truth be told I wanted to finish it, as in the episode frame, in this chapter but I've taken a while and I want to get this out. Also I need to go back and watch that episode for the third time today so I can actually grasp the frame of it and how I should do it. Well anyways I hope you guys liked the part with Jimmy and all. Hmm I think I'm forgetting something... Oh yeah! Sorry about not actually revealing Astrid's whole past. I have sone thing I really need to touch up on. But don't worry. I haven't forgotten about other things like the mysterious buried treasure or whatever. Honestly I had no idea where I was going with that when I wrote it, however now I do so it will be brought in shortly. anywho thank you guys for reading and I'll post again soon! See you! :)