During the night, Odd played through a video game all night before crashing in the morning with the group waking him in their PE clothes.
"Huh? Why you guys dressed like that for?" Odd asked drowsily.
"P.E class?" Hope asked before noticing. "Oh come on, you binged a game all night?"
"Yeah. Say can one of you think of a legitimate excuse so I can sleep in?" Odd asked before crashing.
"Well I know youre not doing it, Aelita." Hope said.
"Of course I'm not. I'd just be found out easily." Aelita sid.
"If only UI was not on spy duty, he'd fill in." Kazuichi said.
"UI?" Ulrich asked.
"The Ultimate Impostor. He's one of our off ship operatives that acts as a spy." Hope said.
"But what are we gonna do? If we say Odd's sick and Jim hurts himself and goes to the infirmary, he'll see hes not there and were busted." Mahiru said.
Vector then walked in.
"Then maybe you can use this." Vector siad showing a dummy.
"Hey, I remember that. That was one of the fakes you used to cover us the first time we came." Luffy said.
"Yeah. I was cleaning out the closet when I found it." Vector said. "I was about to throw them out, but you can use em one last time."
"Thanks." Natsu said taking it.
After stashing it in the Infirmary beds, they headed to class with Jim.
"Whoa, High Jump, huh?" Hope said seeing the beam and cushion.
"Yup. For once, I'm not gonna tell you how this can take you to great heights, so to speak. Let me demonstrate." Jim siad.
"Hang back, Jim. I got this." Hope said.
"I appreciate the gesture, but sometimes, you gotta do it on your own!" Jim said doing the high jump before crashing. "Oh! My back!"
The students laughed.
"Well, hes off to sick bay. Think the dummy will work again?" Hope whispered.
"It should. I filled it with stuffing and a tape recorder that records your voice to make it more...realistic." Vector said.
"Wait, mine or Odd's?" Hope said.
"Ohhh." Vector said. 'I just remembered I might have kept it recording during our conversation."
"Oh, Mother.."
Later…
"So, Mr. Victor. You really thought you could pull a fast one on us." Delmas said showing the tape recorder.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Delmas, but in all fairness, and hear me out… Vector was the one who thought of it." Hope said.
"Is this true, Vector?"
"Well, I...I...I..I...ha...I'm sorry sir. I thought he was going use it for a…" Vector said.
"You're suspended for the rest of the day, Mr. Vector. As for you Hope, 8 hours detention." Delmas said.
"Yes, sir." Hope said nodding.
"Hm. Actually took it great. Many would just complain." Delmas said. "Are you feeling all right?"
"I've gotten into trouble before, you wouldnt believe me." Hope said.
As vector walked out, he saw Jeremie and the others leaving. He caught up with them.
"Hey, what's the plan today?" Vector asked.
"Delmas suspended you?" Ulrich asked.
"Yeah. Figure I got some free time, and I've only been in Lyoko one time. Mind if i help out today?" Vector asked.
"Sure. We're going to check out the sphere we found on Lyoko. We're doing it tonight." Jeremie said.
"Sounds like a plan." Vector said.
Later that night…
The group with then inclusion of Vector were in the Skid as they flew through the Digital sea towards the large sphere before them.
"How do you like your new outfit, Vector?" Jeremie asked.
"I didn't get any outfit. I'm still the same as ever." Vector said.
"Right. You never got an outfit." Jeremie said.
"Though I'll say one thing… these things are kinda crampy." Vector siad.
"Sorry. Just hold on until we get to the location. Skid away." Jeremie said as they dived into the Digital sea and to the network.
"Rotation." Aelita said shifting the Skid to face the entry way to the sphere as a beam shot out and allowed it to open as they flew right inside. But as they surfaced, they saw they were inside of the forest.
"What? Did we make a wrong turn somewhere?" Vector asked.
"Incredible. Its...an exact copy of lyoko, but there's only one sector: the forest." Jeremie said.
"Incredible, so this is what Xana's been up to." Vector said.
"But the main question is why?" Aelita said.
"That I dont know, but i know we need info as much as possible. Let's investigate." Jeremie said.
"Beam us down, Aelita." Vector said.
"Energize." Aelita said as the group appeared on the ground.
"A group needs to investigate while another guards the Skid." Jeremie said.
"I'll stay with Odd and Aelita while you two race out there. Somebody needs to keep an eye on em, since Aelita was upset with Odd for this morning." Vector said.
"Wait, wasn't that your-" Odd began.
"Doesn't matter who's fault it was. I'll stay behind." Vector said.
As Ulrich and Yumi drove off, it was a few minutes later that Vector could hear something charge up.
"And I think i was right to stay here. Move!" Vector siad as a wide laser missed them and hit the skid. A Megatank then rolled up. "Ah, the Megatank. Havent seen one of you guys in a while." he said before it hit the skid again. "We're under attack!"
"I'll get Ulrich and Yumi back. Hold those Megatanks off!" Jeremie said.
"Easy for you to say!" Vector said. "Aelita, use your Creativity thing!" Vector said.
Aelita focused as she created a large wall protecting them.
"And for the record, its called Creativity." Aelita said.
"This wont hold for long, and there are two of these Megatanks." Odd said.
"And things are just getting worse!" Vector said as William soon appeared near the tanks.
"Wha? How did he get here?" Odd asked.
"My guess, this is where he goes when he takes a swim." Vector said.
Together with the megatanks, Willam destroyed the barrier, but Aelita fired an Energy feild and destroyed one of the tanks. William went in after that.
"Enough of this!" Vector said drawing his gold mike. "It's you and me, Smokey!"
William charged in as Vector blocked with his golden mike.
"Super close range fireball!" Vector said launching a fireball at William as he tried to put himself out. "Now, hit em!"
"Laser Arrow!"
"Energy Field!"
They both chased off William and destroyed the tanks.
"Nice work, Vector!" Aelita said.
"Hey, just owing up for my previous...mistake." Vector said.
"And we forgive you." Odd said.
Back in the real world…
"Well, we raised alot of questions and got answers." vector said. "If there are copies of each sector, that means there are other supercomputers under XANAs control in the real world. We need to find and destroy them. That means figuring out a way to materialize in the real world from the Replica."
"Exacty my thinking, Vector. But figuring out how to do that will take time." Jeremie said.
"So we keep doing what were doin." Vector said. "I'll make sure to keep my cover from now on. But in the meantime…"
The next morning…
Hope was screaming as the students laughed at him as he was only in his underwear.
'Hey Hope! You better find your clothes! Its gonna rain today!" Vector shouted as he laughed.