Chapter 32 Exploration
Josh Xana – Maybe. I know the creators probably never thought of season 2, even though it was gonna happen considering the ending of season 1. But I thought they would drop a subtle hint saying this was Xana plan B in plan A failed.
William Hoenicke – I think you misread it, which is my fault. I wrote it in a weird way. I'm not skipping any episodes. If I did, half of season 1 would have been cut. I meant that next big story chapter that revolves around Nadia and Aelita will be Mister Puck. Sorry about the confusion.
Disclaimer – I do not own Code Lyoko, the plot, or the story idea. I am just a fan of the show, the plot is owned by the creators, and the story idea was submitted by LittleRedRebel.
Aelita pants as she's running through a path to a tower in the ice sector. "Aelita, hurry! Yumi's only got 10 life points left!" Aelita holds out her arms as she's ready to go in. "Get ready girls, I'm starting up the devirtualization process."
Ulrich, Odd, and Nadia are standing behind Jeremy. "Activated towers, Lyoko battles, danger. Aren't you guys starting to get sick of all this?" Ulrich complains.
"No" Jeremy and Odd answer in unison.
"Well sometimes I really wish we were done with Xana" Ulrich murmurs, as normal life was less crazy and hectic.
"A dream that we all want" Nadia tells him.
"Maybe you missed an episode Ulrich," Odd looks at him. "Remember Aelita's carrying a miserable virus that links her to our old friend Xana. Bye bye Xana means bye bye Aelita."
The two girls enter into the lab through the elevator, hearing the conversation. "And I don't know how to create an anti-virus," Jeremy states. "I mean, just not yet."
"Hey, I have an idea," Aelita suggests as a thought comes to mind. "Why don't we explore the new mysterious sector we discovered?"
"Sector 5? But we don't know what's in it!" Jeremy protests, as something dangerous could happen to his friends and Aelita…
"Sure we do," Odd starts off. "There are monsters, ultra dangerous traps, and the Scyphozoa, as you call it, that wants to steal Aelita's memory."
"You're right, but what if there's something else there?" Aelita wonders. "Like information about Xana. We have to go back."
"Good idea. All four of us will go" Ulrich agrees.
"You mean all five of us. I wanna be part of this expedition" Aelita gestures to herself.
"With that Scyphozoa slinking around?" Jeremy stands up. "No way!"
"What if there's a tower to deactivate?" Aelita presses, as she had to be there. Plus, if there was information to collect, only she could extract it. "Think about it. I have to be there."
"We do need her Jeremy. If we do by chance find something, Aelita is the only one who can get it to you" Nadia informs him.
Odd then places a hand on Aelita's shoulder. "Come on einstein, with bodyguards like us, she has nothing to worry about. And I promise to be careful."
"Okay, tomorrow night, exploration" Jermey declares to Aelita's delight.
When they get to the bridge, it's nighttime, to Yumi's horror. "Oh my gosh, it's so late! May parents must be going bananas. Bye!" She waves to them, running as fast as she could. "See you tomorrow."
"And as for us, we missed dinner again. And when I think it was spaghetti and meatballs!" Odd complains.
"Odd, do you think of anything besides food? Seriously, I think you dream about food too" Nadia comments.
"You'd be surprised how accurate you are" Ulrich replies, with a laugh.
Yumi opens the gate to her house and walks up to the front door. She sneaks past a window and opens the door. No one seems to be up, and the lights are off. She quietly closes the door…and then the lights turn on. She gasps as she sees her parents at the stairs. Of course they were waiting.
"Yumi. We need to talk."
Yumi looks at her cold dinner. "You come home late every single night. Tonight is the last straw. It's past ten o'clock, and you didn't even bother to telephone us!" Her dad scolds, arms crossed.
"And you haven't eaten anything, either. What's going on dear?" Her mom looks at her in concern. "If you have a problem, you know you can tell us."
Yumi swallows her bite of noodles. "No, really, everything's fine. I was studying at Mathenia's house, I told you already."
"Mathenia Lecuyer?" Her dad asks knowingly.
"Uh huh."
"Hmm, that's strange. When I called her, she was studying…by herself" her dad explains and Yumi doesn't reply.
"You're lying to us Yumi. That's not like you," Yumi's mom points out. "What's the matter with you? I worry about you sweetheart. Tell me what's bothering you" she places a hand on top of Yumi's.
"I promise you that everything's just fine. You saw my last report card. It was great, so why worry about me?" She defends, her mother sighing. While Yumi is asleep after dinner, her mother checks in on her, sighing. Yumi before was never secretive. She turns out the lights and joins her husband in bed.
"I'm concerned Takeo."
He sighs, undoing his tie. "We're going to have to get a lot more strict."
Yumi is walking to school like usual, but she looks embarrassed. "It's nice of you to come with me, but I'm big enough to go to school, really I am." Her parents are walking her side by side.
"You are, huh? If you were, then you would stop lying to us and tell us why you come home so late all the time" her dad retorts.
"Are you gonna watch me 24 hours a day, is that it? Am I in prison or something?" She asks in concern. With her parents supervision, she couldn't help her friends on Lyoko.
"We're trying to understand you to protect you" her mom explains.
They reach the gate, where Sissi and her friends are. She notices Yumi with her parents. "Oh wow, the entire Ishiyama family" she teases.
"I bet that you'll be picking me up as well?" Yumi asks expectantly.
"I'll be waiting for you at 5 o'clock. I advise you not to be late" her father answers, Yumi not replying.
"Oh, isn't that adorable?" Sissi teases, the others laughing as Yumi walks away.
"They're not gonna ease up on me," Yumi is explaining her situation at the vending machine. "Oh, what a mess. The worst thing is that I hate lying to them."
"Just explain to them that we're fighting in a virtual universe against a demonic artificial intelligence. That oughta reassure them" Odd suggests, Yumi narrowing her eyes.
"Yeah, and then she'll be checked for mental insanity," Nadia tells him. "Our story is so unbelievable we could all end up in an insane asylum." Yumi didn't need to say anything else. Nadia explained it perfectly.
"You've gotta win back their trust in you," Jeremy tells her. "I think maybe you should stay away from Lyoko for a little while."
"Huh?" She turns around in shock. "What about exploring sector 5? It's for tonight, isn't it?"
"Don't worry, Jeremy will give you a play-by-play update" Ulrich glances at Jeremy for him to answer.
"Promise" Jeremy replies and the bell rings.
"Come on guys. I know you're all dying to go to MS. Hertz's class. Off we go" Odd comments.
"Did you study for the marine biology test?" Jeremy wonders.
"Of course I did, listen. Fish are remarkably well adapted to water. What's more, they can swim" Odd recites.
"That would be an A on a 1st grade test" Nadia jokes.
"You are so lame" Jeremy comments, the others laughing except Yumi as she throws her drink away.
Later during dinner time, the four are in the scanner room while Jeremy starts the process. "It's off to the forest sector!" Everyone but Odd steps in. "Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Nadia. Transfer Aelita."
The scanners door closes. "Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Aelita. Scanner Nadia. Virtualization." They are all virtualized, landing safely in the forest sector. They check around to make sure Xana's not there to ambush them. "Everything's okay."
Odd lands behind them. "We're good. The monsters must be sleeping. They need all the sleep they can get to recover from all the grief we've been giving them."
"You have to get to the other end of the sector to take the transporter. I'm gonna materialize your rides." The Overbike, Overboard, and Nadia's Overwing materialize.
"Yahoo!" Odd shouts, Aelita hanging on behind him. She looks nervous, knowing Odd's risk taking. Ulrich and Nadia follow the path, Odd flying past them. "Yeah!"
"Odd, you promised you'd be careful!" Ulrich calls out, remembering what he said last night.
"Go straight ahead and hurry up before the monsters get there" Jeremy warns them. They stop at the edge of the sector, where Aelita was when she was teleported.
"We made it Jeremy" Aelita reports.
"Okay, I'm entering the code Scipio." Like before, it lets him through, and the transporter orb appears.
"There's the transporter" Odd says as the orb opens and engulfs them. Yumi then calls.
"Are you there Jeremy?"
"Yumi?" He asks in confusion.
"Everything okay?" She asks in concern.
"Yumi" he says, knowing her parents could be listening.
"Everything okay?" She's sitting on her tub, a pink towel around her body.
"Yeah, they're in the transporter," he reports. "All is well."
"Tell them I'm thinking about them" she murmurs sadly, hanging up. She knew she had to stay back for precaution, but she missed fighting along side her friends. But for now, she would have to lay low. She places her phone down and turns off the water. She slips off the towel and climbs into the bath, sinking into it with a sigh.
The transporter arrive sin the arena and releases the four warriors.
"Happy campers?"
"Yup," Ulrich answers, Odd standing up. "I'm beginning to get used to these little trips."
"Ugh, not me," Odd groans, holding his stomach. "I shouldn't have had that fifth dessert at lunch."
"Good thing you can't throw up on Lyoko. Or else, you'll be like Yumi, not here tonight" Nadia tells him.
"Jeremy," Aelita eyes the other side. "The wall's about to open."
"Right, meaning the countdown's gonna start," Jeremy answers, knowingly. He still had no way to stop that thing. A map of sector 5 appears instead of the holomap. "You've gotta find a way to deactivate it. That must be the answer for exploring further…" The wall spins around faster before it comes to a stop. "Watch it guys."
"Everything will be fine," Ulrich states as hey run. "Odd promised to be careful."
"It started already!" Jeremy exclaims, clutching the arm of his chair in fear. "You know what will happen if Aelita loses her life points, do you?" (Sometimes lines in this show make no sense. Aelita has not been hit, and monsters have not appeared yet. So, where' s the danger?)
"Don't worry, we have no intention of losing her" Ulrich comes to a stop, Aelita, Odd, and Nadia right behind him. The wall separates into stairs, and they run down them.
"You should be more concerned about the Scyphozoa then Aelita's life points. Xana's not gonna risk losing Aelita" Nadia reminds him.
"Last time there was a big room at the end of this hallway" Aelita explains and she's right, but the room is different.
"I got a feeling the architecture of the core zone changes each time you go there" Jeremy deduces. They come to a stop at the edge.
"That's a great help for finding our way around" Odd comments, as it was never easy.
"This is Xana's private sector. He never makes it easy" Nadia adds.
"Yeah that's the point of exploring, to find everything out," Ulrich replies. "Come on, let's go." The other three follow after him.
"Look out, you've got two creepers on your tail."
The two creepers are crawling on a structure above, appearing near Odd and firing at him. "Laser arrow!" He fires three of them before he escapes them.
"You've only got three minutes left to stop the countdown, get going!" Jeremy urges and they appear in another room.
"That way," they run left and past a door. Ulrich comes back and sees the path. "Come on." They run through it, running down a long path. They turn right and end up in the same room they were in before. "Haven't we already been through here?"
"How should I know? Everything looks the same in this place" Odd retorts back.
"We're lost in a maze" Nadia adds, as they run. Aelita stops at a path.
"This way." As soon as she tries to run through it, she gets hit by a laser. The creeper that hit her approaches them and they move out of the way.
Jeremy looks at Aelita's ID card, her life points taking a drop. "Wow, 40 life points in one go. Those creepers sure are powerful."
Odd turns to the path and opens fire on the creeper. He lands on his hands and feet as it's destroyed. "They're powerful, and really ugly too."
"Jeremy, any ideas?" Ulrich calls out.
"No, but I've got news for you. Nadia's right, you're in a labyrinth. Make a left at each fork and leave a mark there. If the way is already marked the make a right" Jeremy informs them. Ulrich pulls out his sword.
"This is incredible, we'll never get out of this thing!" Odd exclaims as they take off.
"You'd better," Ulrich slashes a part of the wall as a marking. "Just two minutes left to find a way to stop the countdown!"
They come to a stop as they're finally out. "We're out Jeremy," Aelita smiles at their success. "We made it!"
"Nothing like having a little luck on your side," Odd sighs in relief. "Hey Einstein, why complicate things, huh?" They run all the way to the other side of the room…only to find themselves at a dead end. They're standing on a platform, but there is no structure around them at all.
"Jeremy, can you see anything from your end?" Odd asks.
"So you need me again, huh?" A screen with a strange mechanism appears as it shows him a room they've passed before. "Go back to where you were, I spotted a mechanism on the wall. Hurry, time is running out!"
They turn back and arrive in the same room. Aelita looks up and sees a Xana symbol on the top part of the wall.
"There!"
"Let me at it!" Odd runs up to it, starting to climb up the wall. He jumps, landing in front of another wall. He uses his feet to climb up further.
"14, 13," Odd looks up at the symbol as Jeremy counts down. "12, 11."
"Come on Odd" Nadia hopes.
"10, 9, 8," Odd reaches out his hand. "7, 6, 5, 4-" Odd gets hit by a laser before he can hit it, getting devirtualized.
"NO!" Ulrich shouts.
Another creeper appears and hits Ulrich multiple times, devirtualizing him. Nadia uses her electricity to defeat it.
"That will teach you to blow away my friends!"
"Nadia, behind you!" Aelita warns, but Nadia can't react fast enough and is hit multiple times and devirtualized.
"Aelita, the countdown is over, the room is bound to change now" Jeremy informs, and the walls start to lift up. The creeper leaves and the door closes in front of her.
"Don't worry, I'll rematerialize Odd, Ulrich, and Nadia, and I'll get you out of there. Come on, come on." A bug appears before he can do so. Jeremy goes to the scanner room to see none of three have returned. "Oh no. Aelita, Odd, Ulrich, and Nadia didn't come back."
"What?" Aelita asks in shock. "But that's impossible! Are they lost?"
"For the moment, they are" Jeremy holds his head.
"So, there's no rematerialization from sector 5?" Aelita murmurs, since it was the first time they were devirtualized from there.
"Sure there is…once we find the right program."
"And do you think you can find it?" Aelita asks softly.
"It's probably as easy as finding your antivirus," Jeremy answers in worry. "Don't worry. I'm gonna do the impossible."
At Yumi's house, Yumi's mom is reading the paper while her son, Hiroki, is playing a video game. Yumi is playing a game against her dad. She finds it hard to focus because of Hiroki's game. "Hiroki, could you make some more noise, please?"
"Sorry Yumi, the volume's as high as it goes" he calls out.
"Hiroki" his dad calls out in a warning tone, and he groans, standing up.
"Go into the other room Hiroki, go on now" his mom tells him as he opens a door and closes it. Yumi hears her phone vibrate.
"I pass" her father states. Yumi hangs up the phone quickly.
"Me too, I pass."
"Then the game is over," her dad laughs. "I have five more points than you."
"On the goban, yes. Don't forget that I played the whites. With komi, I win by half a point" she states with a smile.
"Oh."
Yumi yawns, taking the opportunity to go to her room and call Jeremy. It must be urgent if he's calling instead of the other way around.
"Oh well, it's bed time," she snatches her phone and stands up.
"Good night."
"Goodnight, my dear" her mom calls out and she closes the door. As soon as she's sure it's closed, she calls Jeremy back.
"Jeremy, how's it going?"
"Badly," he answers, knowing that he's taking a risk. "Head for the factory."
Aelita hears a noise behind her…and it's not a good one. "Jeremy…" She turns around slowly. "Can you hear that?"
"It's the Scyphozoa! It's heading toward you! Stay calm, Yumi's coming."
Aelita presses her back against the wall.
"Yumi?" Her mom opens the door. "Can I come in?" She wanted to check in on her daughter. "I wanna talk to you for a minute." She sees a lump at Yumi's bed but approaches it anyway. She grabs the blanket, pulling it down…to see Yumi's plush instead. She gasps in shock and sees the open window. "Yumi?!"
Yumi runs down the street, then slides down the rope into the factory. She lands in front of the open elevator. "Jeremy, I'm in the elevator" Yumi reports on the phone.
"You have to get to Aelita in sector 5. The Scyphozoa is there!"
"What about Odd, Ulrich, and Nadia?" She asks, not knowing the full situation.
"You want the best-case scenario?" He questions skeptically.
"I'd rather."
"I've got about a one in a million chance of finding the right code to bring them back." She gasps in horror.
Principal Delmas and Jim stand at the gate, Yumi's parents having called them and waking them up. Yumi's dad shakes the principal's hand.
"So sorry to bother you at such a late hour headmaster Delmas."
"But we're very worried" Yumi's mom speaks up.
"Yes, yes, I understand that it's quite possible that Yumi is somewhere on the campus."
"Why sure, she's probably hanging out with her little gang of friends, come on" Jim leads them to the dorms.
Yumi is riding her Overwing in the mountain sector. "You're on the edge of the sector Yumi. Better be careful, Xana's gonna do all he can to keep you from taking the transporter."
And he's right as two kankerlots fire after her. They destroy her Overwing, causing her to land on the ground roughly.
"Jeremy," she pants as she runs. "Enter the code."
He does as quick as he can, and she sees the transporter up ahead. She backflips and lands at the edge, looking back at the kankerlots. She could only watch.
"Yumi?" Jeremy asks in concern.
"Huh, no one's here" Jim is looking inside Jeremy's room to find it empty. He didn't think to make a decoy to fool Jim, because it was supposed to be a simple mission. Plus, Yumi's parents showing up was an unplanned circumstance.
"No one in Stern's room either," Mr. Delmas reports. "Or Hopper's."
"Looking for someone?" They turn to see Sissi smiling.
"Uh, Sissi, would you know where your friends Stern, Hopper, Belpois, and Della Robbia might be?" Her father asks curiously.
"Probably up to no good, as usual," she walks past them. "But I don't know, although their little mascot can find them for you."
"Mascot?" Her father questions in confusion as she opens the door to Ulrich and Odd's room. "What mascot?" Sissi only steps up to Odd's closet and opens up the drawer to reveal Odd's dog.
"Tada!"
"A flea-bitten mangy mutt!" Jim exclaims in shock. "Well excuse me Mr. Delmas."
"Ew!" Sissi holds up one of Odd's socks. "Hey, little puppy, where's your master, huh? Go get 'em!"
Kiwi runs out of the room, barking as he runs down the hall. "Let's follow him" Yumi's mom suggests. Mr. Delmas goes first, everyone else following after them. Sissi chuckles to herself, as it was much needed payback.
"Hang on there Aelita. Yumi's on the way" Jeremy informs her.
"I hope so" Aelita states as a door opens up.
"Yumi, can you hear me?" Jeremy asks into the microphone. He hasn't heard a word from her for minutes.
"Yes, I'm in the arena. The transporter got to me just in time. Horrible kankerlot" Yumi explains as the door appears in front of her. She takes off into a run.
"Listen up now. You have to get to the core zone and trigger the mechanism before the countdown runs out, okay?" Stairs appear like last time in front of Yumi.
"Okay" she agrees, running as fast as she can.
"If I'm right about the core zone functions, my plan should work" Jeremy reports.
Yumi's parents, Jim, Sissi, and Mr. Delmas stand in the park, watching as Kiwi sniffs the manhole cover used to get to the factory. "Huh? What's the matter with that hound? Oh, I don't believe it. This reminds me of when I used to work in the sewers." The others watch him in disgust as he starts to climb down.
"You, uh, used to work in the sewers, Jim?" Mr. Delmas asks curiously.
"I, uh, I'd rather not talk about it" Jim replies curtly, climbing down the ladder.
The Scyphozoa starts to approach Aelita, as she backs away.
"Only two minutes left Yumi!" She's in the core zone, but there is a path of lasers blocking her way. She backflips and lands safely, but one of her hands touches the laser, causing it to spark. "Down to 10 points Yumi! This is not the time to mess up!" Yumi slides on the floor, standing up and crawling underneath another laser. She turns around and sees more of them.
"That's weird," Jim looks at one of the skateboards. "Ya!" HE can feel Kiwi pulling on his slipper. Jim gives a look of annoyance.
"Jim, we're wasting time" Mr. Delmas says as Jim is pulling on his slipper to get it back.
"Would you let go of my slipper? Come on! Let go of it!" Kiwi lets go and so does Jim, having the slipper fall in the water.
"No" Aelita whimpers. The Scyphozoa lifts her up and proceeds to take her memory.
"Yumi, this is no time to drag your feet," Jeremy warns. Yumi flips out of the laser maze. "I've located the mechanism, it's on your right. You have 10 seconds." She sees the key up ahead. "Two seconds!" She pushes it and the key locks into the symbol, opening the wall in front of her.
"It works Jeremy!"
"The whole zone is being reconfigured" Jeremy reports as a wall separates Aelita form the Scyphozoa. "We did it! Aelita, take the access behind you."
A wall opens behind her, and she takes off. Yumi comes to a stop as there's a platform, but nothing else except for a straight line going across. A platform moves right past Yumi. "Wow, it's some kind of elevator" she says in awe.
"You know what we do with elevators, right?" Jeremy asks knowingly as another elevator comes around. Yumi jumps on just in time, smiling.
"We ride 'em!"
The mechanism holding the elevator turns so that its upwards instead of side by side, locking itself in. It starts moving sown and Yumi smiles as she sees Aelita.
"Yumi!" She calls out and the elevator changes sides again to get her.
"Try to grab her as you go by!"
The elevator moves again and Yumi holds out her hand, steadying herself so she doesn't fall off. Aelita holds out her hands, She garbs her and pulls her onto the elevator.
"Where are you taking me?" Aelita asks.
"I have no idea" Yumi answers honestly as the elevator comes to a stop. They run forward as the wall opens up. They arrive on the outside in the celestial dome. An interface appears at the end of the path.
"There's an interface" Yumi says and Aelita walks up to it.
"I can get in," Aelita access the data. "Incredible!"
"What?" Jeremy asks curiously.
"It's unbelievable, the interface gains access to Xana's own data!" Aelita exclaims to his shock. "Sector 5…is where Xana lives!"
On the walls, something seems to be coming through. "Xana's not a very good housekeeper. There's some weird things hanging around this place."
"I've got access to all kinds of data, it's crazy!" Aelita exclaims in awe.
"Look for the specific devirtualization code for sector 5," Jeremy starts off. "If you can find it, we could rescue Odd, Ulrich, and Nadia."
At this time, three flying mantas emerge from the wall as Aelita continues searching. The monsters fly around before they approach the two girls.
"Jeremy, I'm gonna need the Overwing" Yumi says, but as Jeremy is trying to do that, there's something wrong.
"Uh oh. Bad news. When Aelita's working on the interface, I can't do anything from my end" he reports.
"I think I found it. I'm transmitting it to you" Aelita tells Jeremy, glancing over to Yumi.
"Okay, I'm taking over again now." Jeremy materializes the Overwing.
The adults all arrive into the factory, confused on what they're seeing. "What would a nice girl like Yumi be doing in here?" Mr. Delmas wonders.
"Where are we anyway?" Jim questions.
The flying mantas get closer, flying above the girls. "Jeremy, the Overwing now!" Yumi insists.
"It's on the way."
The Overwing appears in front of them. Yumi and Aelita both hop on. Yumi flies around, looking for an exit. "How do we get out of here?"
"There are some tunnels" Aelita mentions the four closed passages. One of the mantas fire and Yumi moves out of the way.
"They're closed" Yumi points out.
"Let's see…" Jeremy murmurs as he tries to figure out how to get them open. "Tunnels…what if…what if they correspond to those that opened onto the arena?" He starts typing away, hoping that he's right on this.
Another manta fires and Yumi flies sharply to the left.
"Hey, it works!" Jeremy exclaims as he can see one of them opening on his screen. The tunnel opens so that it's gone and only the hole leading to somewhere remains.
"Nice one Einstein" Yumi comments. She looks behind her to see the mantas and as soon as they're about to enter the tunnel, a manta appears right in front of them, hitting Yumi making her fall off the Overwing.
"Yumi!" Aelita exclaims. She glances at the mantas and flies inside. "Jeremy, I got out through a way tower." Aelita reports as she appears in the mountain sector.
"Okay, now get to a neutral tower, I'll bring you in." He starts up her materialization program. "Okay. I'm ready Aelita. Code Earth."
Aelita is rematerialized and brought back to Earth. "It's okay Jeremy, I'm here. But what about the others?"
"I'm entering the new code. Materialization Yumi. Materialization Nadia. Materialization Ulrich. Materialization Odd." He presses enter 4 times. "Now all we can do is hope." He takes off his headphone. Aelita is clasping her hands as Jeremy enters. He walks up to Aelita and takes her hand, waiting anxiously. The scanners come to life and Yumi is first to reappear. Aelita helps her out. The scanner recloses as the others appear.
"Yeah!" Jeremy cheers, Aelita gasping happily.
"We did it!"
"Odd," Jeremy bends down to him. "How do you feel? Say something."
"Uh, something" Odd mutters weakly.
"He must be okay if he can make a dumb joke" Nadia says weakly.
They're all in the elevator, the five Lyoko Warriors helping each other stand. When they arrive, Kiwi crawls in and jumps into Odd's arms.
"Kiwi."
"Yumi, what are you doing here?" Her dad asks as all the adults are staring at them.
"I believe you all have some explaining to do" Mr. Delmas states, Ulrich glancing at Jeremy and nodding. Jeremy nods back and presses the button. Aelita runs through, with the others stepping out. Jim follows Jeremy inside as the doors close.
"Ah ha! Trying to outsmart me, huh?" Jeremy isn't fazed at all as he knows what to do. The elevator stops into the lab and Jim looks confused at what he's seeing. "What the? Belpois, what-what is this place?"
"Nothing rings a bell Jim?" Jeremy asks, even though he knew the answer. "Funny, cuz, you've been here before."
"What are you talking about? I don't remember this."
"Well, yes and no," Jeremy answers, to Jim's confusion. "Return to the past now." Time is reversed to the morning.
Yumi's parents are still escorting her to school. "So then you still refuse to give us an explanation?" Her dad demands.
"Alright, I'll tell you," she says in defeat. "I'm in love."
Her mom smiles, her dad placing an arm around her. Yumi blushes as she glances at Ulrich, looking away quickly.
"Ah Yumi. I knew there was a reason."
"And would you tell us your boyfriend's name?" Her mom asks happily.
"No, sorry, I won't mom. See you tonight" she waves goodbye, and they wave back as she sticks her tongue out at Sissi. She gasps in shock, Yumi not caring at all as she steps in front of Odd, Nadia, and Ulrich, who were waiting for her.
"Well, that sure seemed to satisfy your parents. What did you tell them?" Ulrich asks curiously as a strand of hair falls on Yumi's face.
"The truth" she pushes away the strand. Ulrich looks skeptically, as he knows that with that reaction, she couldn't have told them about Lyoko. Yumi only smiles at him. It was the truth…but not the whole truth.
Nadia was discussing the 5th sector with Aelita. "Do you think we can find an anti-virus for me?" Aelita asks.
"Maybe not, but data for Jeremy to make one, for sure. If we have access to Xana's memory, info about what he did to you should be there" Nadia responds.
"What are you hoping for?"
"Me."
"You?" Aelita asks confused.
"Have you noticed I have the same last name as Franz. If we find data on him, maybe I can find information about my past. Things my mom refuses to tell me."
"Like your father?"
"That's the big one. But right now, I'm looking for anything that can help me out. Records, names, locations, anything to do with the past."
Nadia was determined to unlock her past, and sector 5 was the key.
A.N. – And another sector 5 filled chapter ends. I think they over used this sector a lot in this season. I know it holds a lot of mysteries, but I don't think every episode needed it in a way, almost every episode. Next time, Xana finds a way to confront the warriors face to face! The battle changes next time! PM me with story ideas! Review with questions or comments! I will respond! As always, till next time! See ya! -lyokowarrior97