Chapter 7 Log Book
A.N. – Ok, so not many changes for this chapter. The majority changes will come in season 2. That's when the story starts to mold, kind of like how the show's plot develops in the second season.
Josh Xana – I don't really know how the episodes are gonna play out yet, especially in 'important' season 2 episodes. I say that in quotations due to some being filler and some being paramount to the plot of the season. I only have one unique idea from the submitter for episode 49, so that's only episode where I have an idea of how it will play out.
Disclaimer – I do not own Code Lyoko, the plot, or the story idea. I am just a fan of the show and plot is owned by the creator and the idea was submitted by LittleRedRebel.
It's 7:30AM at Kadic as Odd waits for Ulrich to hurry up. "Hey Ulrich, what are you looking for? I'm hungry" Odd asks as Ulrich searches for something.
"Huh, you go have breakfast. There's something I have to find" Ulrich responds.
"Okay" Odd leaves and Ulrich continues searching.
Ulrich goes through his closet, rubbing his head. "Can't believe this!" He opens a drawer, but he doesn't find what he's looking for.
Odd's breakfast lies in front of him, most of it eaten. "Ah, eight slices of toast and three bananas, not bad, huh?" He asks Jeremy, who reads a book and Nadia just finishes hers. "Hey, are you skipping gym class again?"
"Yup," Jeremy nods in confirmation. "It gives me time to work on Aelita's materialization."
"Jeremy, I know Aelita means a lot to you, but eventually Jim is gonna become suspicious, maybe bring Delmas to see what's up. Then who knows what comes next" Nadia tells him.
"The quicker we materialize her, the quicker everything goes back to normal, and we get rid of Xana also."
Ulrich closes the door to his room. He sees Sissi, startling him. "What's wrong, afraid the wall's gonna crumble" (Possible foreshadowing of a future episode, or just coincidence?) Ulrich asks her.
"Ha! Very funny. Can we talk for a second?" He stares at her, wondering just what she's up to…
The bell rings at 8AM, Yumi arriving on campus.
"Hi Yumi" she hears, walking over to Jeremy, Odd, and Nadia standing near the cafeteria.
"Hello." She spots something. "Hey, look over there, it's Ulrich."
The three look behind the tree, seeing Ulrich sitting with Sissi.
"But…what's he doing with Sissi?" Odd wonders because either Ulrich is crazy or he's in trouble. "Hey Ulrich!"
He looks to see his friends. Sissi leans closer to him. "So?"
"Hey, that's blackmail! Why do you expect me to give in to that?" He argues.
"First of all because it's hard to say no to a pretty girl like me. And second of all, I'm not going to give you any choice." He give an annoyed look as she laughs. "Come on, come on." Sissi drags him away.
"Okay, that's not normal, even for Ulrich" Nadia says.
Later, they're in their history class. "In the 17th century, all European states were governed by either a king or a prince." Sissi can't help but look at Ulrich as they sit together. They rule over mainly peasant populations."
"Hey, what's going on with them? I'm seeing things. Ulrich and Sissi, that's weird" Odd whispers to Nadia and Jeremy.
"With an iron hand, we call this…"
"On the brighter side, check out how jealous Herb is."
"Odd!"
"Huh?" He turns around at the teacher saying his name.
"Are you listening to me Odd?" He smiles sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head. The bell rings and Ulrich leaves with Sissi, though he definitely didn't look happy about it.
"We have some important things to talk about Sissi," Odd grabs her by the arm. "Come on, hurry."
"Hey! But-" Odd pulls her away from Ulrich.
"Mind explaining?" Ulrich turns to his right, seeing Jeremy and Nadia.
Odd is distracting Sissi, Ulrich turning to Jeremy and Nadia. "Okay, here goes. I'm in a…I'm in a jam. Big time. For years, I've, uh…been keeping a diary" he mumbles the last word so quietly that they couldn't hear.
"A what?" Jeremy asks, crossing his arms.
"A diary!" Ulrich speaks louder. "And Sissi found it and…now she's blackmailing me. I have to go out with her. If she thinks she'll win me over that way, she's wrong."
"Why do you have one? It seems childish and a little girly" Nadia asks.
"It helps clear my head when I write my thoughts down. So it's more of a journal."
"In this diary of yours, did you talk about Xana or Lyoko?" Jeremy asks.
"Well, yeah, and if I don't do what Sissi says, she's gonna tell everybody. I don't know what to do" he looks down.
"Don't worry Ulrich. While you're all at the pool, Yumi and I will look around. We'll find your diary, you'll see."
"Hopefully, you do. We can't have people knowing about us" Nadia adds.
"The answer is no!" They turn to Sissi yelling at Odd. "For the last time, I did not have a nose job. So stop asking, huh?!"
"Cut it out Odd. Leave her alone, will ya?" Ulrich steps forward but only because Sissi is blackmailing him. He places his arm around her waist, leading her away, to Odd's confusion. Sissi looks back at them, snickering.
"It's nothing," Jeremy places a hand on Odd's shoulder. "We'll explain."
Electricity crackles, one of Xana's specters enters the bus parked outside Kadic. "Take a look Odd, not bad huh? This bus is the latest in modern technology," Jim brags. "It's electricity driven so it's non-polluting, but powerful too."
"Electric and powerful too huh? I'll bet you this crate goes about as fast as its name" Odd gets onto the bus, Nadia behind him. Xana's symbol appears on one of the headlights. Both Odd and Nadia wave to the driver. He notices sparks around the steering wheel.
"What the-?! Huh?" It stops, Sissi is followed by Ulrich, who notices the bus driver's confused expression.
"Come on, come on, all aboard now. Go sit down kid," Jim pushes Ulrich forward. He bends down to the steering wheel. "Okay, what the problem?" The bus driver taps the speedometer, a black silhouette quickly racing up the windshield. "What is that?"
"I have no idea." The bus diver taps the display again. The adults both shrug, Jim pointing to peeking students.
"Sit back down and stay there till we get to the pool!"
The doors close and they all leave…unknowing they're all at Xana's mercy.
In Jeremy's room, a gasp is heard as Yumi punches Jeremy's picture of Einstein. She couldn't believe what she just heard. "Sissi is blackmailing him?"
"Yeah, incredible, huh?" What matters now though is to find Ulrich's diary, before she starts blabbing about Lyoko" Jeremy says as Yumi sits back down.
"I'll go through her room. And I'll call you if I need any help."
"I'll be at the factory."
They both stand up, Jeremy closing the door.
"Good luck" they say to each other, going in opposite directions.
Jeremy appears in the lab, his chair swiveling to the computer as the map of Lyoko appears. "It's Jeremy here Aelita. Do you copy?" He presses enter. Aelita is in the forest sector, in a way tower. "Aelita?"
"I'm here Jeremy. I was waiting for you to call. In the meantime, I was studying your world a little more. There are so many strange things to discover." She couldn't wait to actually experience all of this herself one day.
Odd suddenly calls him. "Odd, what's up? Huh? Something strange? What bus?" Jeremy asks.
The vehicle is going unusually slow for a bus, as not even a bus for the elderly would go that slow. "Isn't this nice and cozy?" Sissi asks.
"We're zipping along at two miles an hour" Odd reports.
"I don't believe this!" The bus driver steps on the gas, only to move at the same speed. "I got it floored; it just refuses to move."
"Okay. I'll load a scan of Lyoko. I'll call you if I find something" Jeremy replies.
"Okay, gotcha" Odd answers, hanging up.
Yumi opens Sissi's door, having picked the lock. She looks for Ulrich's diary in Sissi's closet, then the top of the wardrobe, then under the desks. Yumi sits on the bed, thinking. She places her head on the pillow, finding it surprisingly hard. "Ah ha," she feels it before pulling the zipper. She finds a diary. "Bingo! Oh no" she notices that its pink and Ulrich would never own something pink. Plus Ulrich doesn't write in cursive. "This is not Ulrich's handwriting. Oh, wow, its Sissi's!"
She gasps at a picture of Ulrich, reading the last entry.
I'm tired of his acting as if I don't exist. I can't stand him watching him pay so much attention to Yumi. So, while he was in the lunchroom, I went looking around. I just wanted a picture of him, but I found much better than that. Now, he can't possibly turn me down. I know what I'm doing isn't very nice, but it's the only way I can get him to stop ignoring me.
"Of all the nasty tricks!" Yumi closes the book. She calls Jeremy.
"Yumi, did you find Ulrich's diary?"
"No, but guess what? I found Sissi's. You were right, she knows about Lyoko. She doesn't really understand what it is, but she's ready to use what she knows" she explains, walking down the stairs.
"Rats! Look, you've gotta find Ulrich's diary before they come back from the pool."
"Don't worry, I know how to get a hold of it" Yumi smirks, having a plan. With this new discovery, this would get Sissi of Ulrich's back for sure.
Meanwhile, the bus is being outpaced, a biker passes by it. "Hey, what if I ask my father if we can go to a movie tonight?" Sissi suggests to Ulrich. "That'd be cool, huh?"
"Huh" he replies, as he couldn't care less. He'd rather be anywhere else but sitting next to Sissi.
"Huh?! I'm being nice to you right now, but if you keep ignoring me, it just might not last, you hear?" She threatens. "A little friendly advice, pay attention to me or the whole school's gonna read your diary."
"Okay, okay, you don't have to threaten me, I know exactly what I'm risking" he answers, not even looking at her.
"Oh yeah? You really think so Ulrich?" Her phone rings and she answers it. "Hello? Oh Yumi. What do you want?"
"Well, uh, I wanted to tell you how much I like your style." She starts imitating Sissi. "I ran into that dipstick Jim today. What an idiot he looks like in that sweaty gym suit-"
"Okay, okay, what do you want?" Sissi interrupts, realizing those words came from her diary.
"Tell me where you've got Ulrich's diary hidden," Yumi demands. "And hurry up or all your nasty secrets will be on page one of the school paper."
"Okay, okay. If you go into the girl's bathroom, it's in the third stall on the top of the water tank, you got that?"
Yumi gives a surprised look because, ironically, she's in that exact stall. Yumi looks up, seeing the dark green book. "Okay, I'll go and check."
"Wait! What about my diary, what are you-" Yumi hangs up.
"Thanks a lot Yumi," Ulrich looks relieved. "There, you see. It's good to have real friends, isn't it?" Odd pats the seat next to him and Ulrich moves near Odd and Nadia. Herb immediately goes over and sits next to Sissi.
"It's about time. I thought that guy would never get off your back" Herb comments.
"If you know what's good for you, shut up!" She growls in frustration. She was not in the mood.
Yumi gets out of the girl's bathroom, running while clutching Ulrich's diary. "Yumi, what are you doing there?" She skids to a stop, seeing one of her teachers looking from a window.
"Nothing sir. I felt sick, but I'm fine now!" She runs off.
"Aelita?" Jeremy calls out.
"Jeremy, the others were right. Xana is at it again; the pulsations are getting stronger" Aelita responds.
Jeremy scans for the tower. "Aelita, the activated tower is in the desert."
"I'm off."
Jim sits in the back of the bus. "What's going on now? This is weird!"
Ulrich looks up at front as the steering wheel sparks again. Xana takes full control and has the bus accelerate at top speed. The students scream, catching Jim's attention. Ulrich, Nadia, and Odd manage to stand up.
"Hey, get back to your seats!" Jim yells. "You're not allowed to get up!"
"What's going on with the bus?" Ulrich questions.
"God kid, I wish I knew. All I know is it's out of control!" The driver exclaims as Jim walks up to them.
"Hey, it seemed to be working okay before you recharged the batteries, right?" Ulrich wonders.
"This bus is fully electric right? Then this spells X…A…N…A all over it" Nadia says spelling out Xana's name.
"Everything was just fine, but now, I can't…" the bus driver says confused.
"I think he's woken up" Ulrich calls Jeremy.
"Ulrich, what's happening, huh?" Jeremy asks.
"We're in trouble. Xana has taken complete control of the bus."
"Okay, give me a sec. I wonder what Xana's trying to do. Where are you?"
"At the corner of Washington Street and Franklin Avenue."
"I'll call you back as soon as I can localize you" Jeremy says as Ulrich returns to his seat.
"We're in for a rough ride" he tell Nadia and Odd.
"Aelita's gonna need a hand on Lyoko. We've gotta go" Odd explains.
"One of us has to go. Yumi won't make it alone" Nadia adds.
"Odd, you go. I'll stay here" Ulrich tells him.
"I'm going with you Odd. If Yumi goes, it will be better if there is two of us."
The bus driver and Jim try to move the steering wheel, but Xana has made the controls unresponsive. Odd stands in front of the door, opening it. Jim hears it and turns around. Odd jumps and Nadia after him. Jim screams, the doors closing. They both get up and run. The bus accelerates to speeds over 60 mph (100kph).
"Take off your backpacks and use them as airbags!" Ulrich orders, the bus smashing past cars, continuing on.
Jeremy calls Yumi and she answers it. "Yumi, things are getting tough here. Come straight to the factory after class."
"Right" she runs off.
"Now hurry up and get your seatbelts fastened!" Jim tells them as he's on the floor. The bus driver tries to comfort a frightened Herb.
"Come on kid, take it easy, just calm down, huh? Does the little girl need any help?" Sissi puts on her seatbelt.
"No thanks, the little girl can take care of himself. The bus speeds past a truck and Ulrich is talking to Jeremy.
"We've just gone through the constellation intersection, okay?" He updates him.
"Don't worry Ulrich, I've spotted you now. But I still don't understand what Xana is trying to do…"
Aelita has gotten to the desert sector, following the pulsations. "I can see it Jeremy, I've got a virtual image of the activated tower."
"Well done Aelita. Stay where you are, Yumi is on her way."
Yumi arrives in the park, looking around for anyone spying on her. She opens the manhole cover, grabs her skateboard, and starts skating through the sewers. She climbs up the hatch to the bridge and runs across it. She presses the button to the elevator and goes down to the scanner room.
"Hurry, in the scanner. The situation is getting worse!" Jeremy urges. He starts the virtualization process. Yumi stands in front of the open scanner and steps in. "Transfer Yumi. Scanner Virtualization." Yumi is then virtualized into the desert sector. She lands, fan ready.
"Yumi! Yumi!" She turns around to see a waving Aelita running up to her. Yumi smiles, running up to her.
Jeremy is tracking the path of the bus. "Crazy!" He now knows Xana's target. "Ulrich, Xana is launching the bus om the petrochemical complex!"
"He's what!?" Ulrich exclaims, knowing the damage Xana could cause with this.
The bus starts driving into a tunnel and Jim cuts several wires. "How's that?" He cuts the wire, but the bus is still going. "There's no way to stop this infernal thing."
"We don't have any other choice; we have to jump." The bus driver pushes on the button, but the doors do not open. "Now look what you've done, huh? By cutting the cables, you blocked the door!"
"Jim," he turns towards Ulrich. "Jeremy thinks we're headed straight for the petrochemical plant."
"You mind telling me how he knows that?" Jim asks.
"Uh, we'll tell you that later. But for now, you just have to trust him. He can help us."
Jim stands up. "Okay, okay." He smiles at him.
"Uh, Ulrich?" He turns to Sissi, who looks guilty. "Well, I'm really sorry about your diary. It was wrong to take it. Please forgive me. Can I help you in any way?"
Ulrich hands her his phone. "Here, take my phone. You can be the go-between for Jeremy and me."
She nods with a smile. They go out of the tunnel.
"Yumi, Aelita, the tower is real close now," Jeremy relays to the girls. They slide down a rock and Yumi looks around weirdly. The tower is a few feet away from them and Yumi stops Aelita from moving forward.
"No wait. This is too easy." She opens her fan. "Coming all this way without seeing even one monster? There's gotta be a trap."
Just at that moment, a sandstorm appears behind them. "A sandstorm!" Aelita exclaims as they both gasp.
"It's a tornado!" Yumi says as they start running. "Jeremy, we've got a problem here."
"Make that two, there's a monster behind you!" Jeremy sees a red dot on the screen. Yumi looks behind her, but she can't see it because of the sand. The monster reveals to be a megatank. The two get caught in the storm and the symbol of Xana appears on the outside.
The bus speeds past a police car, and since it's breaking the speed limit, the police car chases after it.
"Calling all cars. All cars, I said calling all cars."
"In ten seconds, the bus should break left" Jeremy tells Sissi.
"He says we're gonna turn left" Sissi repeats.
"Alright, everyone over here with me!" Ulrich waves them over as the bus moves sharply to the left. The bus grinds a guard railing but continues on its course.
"Maybe we should jump off the bus. What do you think? Might just be the best idea, that way at least we won't go crashing into the petrochemical plant" Jim suggests.
"At that speed, there's no way we could survive" Sissi says.
"My phone" Sissi hands the phone to Ulrich. "Jeremy, how are things going back on Lyoko?"
"Aelita and Yumi are almost at the tower, except that they're caught in a sandstorm" Jeremy responds.
"Okay, we'll wait a little longer." Ulrich knew unless Odd and Nadia get there, Yumi and Aelita will never make it in time.
"Yumi, be careful at the ridge. If Aelita falls into the digital sea, she'll be lost forever!" Jeremy informs them. Aelita and Yumi try to walk in the storm. But they can't see. "Yumi, careful, in front of you! It's a megatank!"
The megatank appears in front of them, opening its shell to power up. It fires its circular 360 laser and Yumi pushes Aelita out of the way.
"Hurry!" Yumi exclaims as her and Aelita run away. The megatank closes itself, rolling after them. Yumi almost falls from cracks in the ground. Aelita joins her to see that the piece of land they're on is splitting from the rest. Yumi moves from cracks underneath her, the storm slowly disappears, but they're separated from the rest of the land. "Xana set a trap for us."
Aelita kneels down and uses her creativity to create a bridge across the digital sea. "Good work Aelita!" Jeremy cheers. They run across the bridge.
Odd catches his breath as he and Nadia finally arrive at the factory. "Odd, Nadia, hurry to the scan!" Jeremy urges as they both step into a scanner. Jeremy looks at the map for the bus.
"You'll be reaching the complex in ten minutes. Careful, you're gonna turn left again."
"Everyone to the right!" Sissi exclaims.
The megatank powers up again as Yumi and Aelita run. The laser hits Yumi and she falls to the ground. She's damaged, but she still has some life points. The blast is fired again and this time, she devirtualizes. Aelita gasps because she's all alone now.
"Hurry Aelita, and don't move until Odd and Nadia are there with you, understand?!" Jeremy panics. "Transfer Odd. Transfer Nadia." Yumi appears from one of the scanners, groaning as she slams her hand on it. "Scanner. Virtualization."
Odd and Nadia virtualize, looking around. "Aelita! Hey Aelita! Aelita!" Odd exclaims and she turns around.
The elevator doors open to reveal Yumi.
"Welcome to our world!" Odd turns around to see Aelita waving. "Hey Odd! Nadia!" Cracks start to appear behind her, and he gasps, as Nadia is already running towards her. She starts to lean over, and Nadia grabs her hand, pulling her safely on top of her.
"Got to observe your surroundings more often" Nadia tells her.
"Thank you Nadia."
"Okay, you two. Let's get to work" Odd tells them.
More police cars are following the bus. "Listen, we only have four minutes left before we get to the complex. How are things going on Lyoko?" Ulrich explains.
"Okay, Aelita, Odd, and Nadia are handling it," Jeremy reports to him. "Careful, there's a ridge." A ridge forms as two pieces of land split and the sand storm returns, along with the megatank.
"Odd go. I'll handle it" Nadia tells him, her hand on the handle of her sword.
"Okay, I have an idea, follow me" he grabs Aelita's hand, starting to run with her. He turns around and starts running to the ridge. Aelita gasps, realizing where he's going.
"Odd, you're out of your mind!" He places his other hand on top of hers and starts spinning her around. He flings her across the gap before jumping over.
The megatank opens and prepares to fire at them. Nadia runs up to it and the megatank aims at her. She dodges to the side to avoid the blast and quickly throws her saber just as it turns to her. The saber hits the eye, and the megatank explodes and the sandstorm disappears. She looks over to see Odd and Aelita safely on the other side. Jeremy whistles in relief.
"Hurry up now Aelita!" Jeremy tells her as she runs to the tower.
Ulrich looks at the pursuing police cars before nodding at Jim. He breaks the emergency hammer. He starts smashing through the windows and the bus swerves, causing Jim to fall out. He's stopped in front of the street as Ulrich and another girl grab him in time.
"What's the matter? Don't like it here Jim?" Ulrich asks. Sissi turns around as they're in front of the complex. "Oh no, we're gonna crash!"
"It's all over for us. It's too late!" Ulrich states, the bus almost at the gates.
Aelita enters the tower.
The bus crashes through the security gates of the chemical plant.
Aelita starts floating to the top pad.
Sirens are heard from inside the plant.
Jeremy's map shows that they're about to crash into a massive chemical tank!
Aelita makes it to the top.
The bus is almost at the tank.
The interface appears and she presses her hand to it.
Aelita
Code
Sissi and Ulrich scream. Yumi and Jeremy look in panic.
Lyoko
The bus stops just in front of the chemical tank. Yumi sighs in relief.
"Well, it was close. But we did it! Now are you ready to go back in time?" Jeremy asks.
Yumi nods at him and the tower deactivates. Jeremy launches the time reversion, and everything is reversed.
It's now earlier in the morning, before Sissi confronted Ulrich about his diary. Yumi takes the diary from the water tank in the girl's bathroom.
"Huh? Ulrich turns to see Yumi. She holds out his diary.
"Here, I didn't read it. I swear Ulrich" Yumi says to him.
He takes it, smiling at her. "I'll tell you about it one day Yumi."
"I'd really like that." She smiles back.
"Uh, I better go." She nods at him. "I wouldn't wanna miss Sissi." He leans forward and leaves. She stares after him before waving.
Sissi is waiting out of Ulrich and Odd's room, looking smug. "Sissi, were you waiting for me? Looking for something?" She can see his dairy under his arm.
"Uh, uh, no. I, uh, I was just passing by, so-" she runs off in embarrassment. Ulrich opens the door to his room, holding up his diary. Jeremy claps. Odd cheers, and Nadia gives a thumbs up.
A.N. – So, nothing really new for this except added dialogue. The next chapter which will change will be Image Problem. Until then, we got Big Bug and Cruel Dilemma. PM me with story ideas! Review with questions or comments! I will respond! As always, till next time! See ya! -lyokowarrior97