Bonus Chapter: Saving the Dragon

Aelita's POV

We searched all of Lyoko and still could not the one I loved. It had been a year, but I still had hope that he was alive and I would not stop until I was back in his arms. School was about to start and I reluctantly came back.

"We have to find him." I insisted telepathically during Chemistry class.

"I know how much it means to you, Princess, but it's been a year. There's little hope he's lasted this long." Ulrich told me.

"You're wrong. How could you even say that?!" I screamed in his head.

"Ulrich's right, Aelita. He sacrificed himself. And he had to have used whatever little strength he had left in him to eliminate XANA"

"You know, Jeremie, there's no sense in trying to discourage her. I mean, put yourself in her place and Chelsea in his. If she were still alive, would you give up on her?" William inquired.

"Well, no." Jeremie said.

"Then why try convincing her to give up hope?"

"Thank you, William." I said to him.

"No problem."

"Alright. Since this is the last class of the week, we'll spend all weekend looking for him." Jeremie said, making me happy.

Meanwhile on Lyoko

General POV

"Christopher. Wakey, wakey." X.A.N.A., who had recently taken on the appearance of Jeremie, said to his prisoner.

"If you think I'll sell any of them out, including Aelita, you've got another thing coming, X.A.N.A."

"Please. I already know all I need. I just thought you might be hungry."

"Why? Did you poison it?"

"Now, why do you always assume I want to kill you?"

"It's your nature. You've tried to kill me and my friends for how long now?"

"Well, I don't want to kill you. I believe you and I would both become powerful allies."

"I would rather die than become your ally."

"Oh, don't be boring. Everyone who says that dies. Besides, no one, not even Aelita, would dare come near you and you know it. You are a dangerous weapon." X.A.N.A. was trying his hardest to get his prisoner to join his side.

"You're lying!" The dragon roared, not wanting to believe X.A.N.A.'s deception.

In the factory

"Anything, you guys?" Jeremie asked.

"Nothing." Aelita said, now beginning to lose hope. Until… "Pulsations? XANA!" She exclaimed.

"Are you sure Aelita?"

"Yes Odd, I am." Aelita led the others to the Ice Sector, where the pulsations were getting stronger the moment they left the tower.

"Jeremie, I just captured this sound bite, a sort of radio or TV transmission, but be careful, guys, it's a little bizarre. Here, take a look." Aelita said as she displayed a security camera video of XANA and Christopher.

"He's not here in the factory, and he's not on Lyoko. He's somewhere else." Jeremie said.

"I know, but I've checked all the transfer protocol data and unless a sort of parallel world exists somewhere. There's no such thing as an intermediate space."

"Unless X.A.N.A. has manufactured one. That's it. Another ghost channel."

"You mean, like the one Yumi, Odd, and I were trapped in?"

"Exactly, Ulrich. Aelita, find out where the signal is coming from."

"I've been trying, but it's been masked. The signal is scrambled. All we have is a soundwave and not the signal itself."

"Then that's what we'll have to use. We're gonna have to use it to guide the scanner and reset the telepathic connection to him using a trial-and-error system."

"That's insane Jeremie." Yumi said.

"We don't have a choice. Aelita, since his connection with you is the strongest, you'll have to do it."

"Okay."

"Okay Aelita, you can place your hand on the interface now." She then followed her orders and soon, the program was uploaded into her. All five of them after that came to what Aelita recognized as the Simulation Bubble that Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi were once held prisoner in. As soon as she recognized it, she began to fly towards it, with Ulrich using Super-sprint, William using Supersmoke, Odd using his Cat Run, and Yumi just running. Aelita made it to the bubble first and immediately began talking to the boy she loved.

"Christopher!" She shouted telepathically, hoping for a response.

Meanwhile inside the bubble

"Everyone knows your 'friends' won't come for you. They'd be much to frightened." X.A.N.A. said to the dragon, who had broken free from his shackles upon hearing Aelita's voice.

"And I'm sure they would come for me, if their friend was in danger. No doubt about that. Absolutely none."

"But it's not logical. Don't you get it? They're much too scared to even try. If not, then haven't they come already?"

"I know why. Because I know them. And your knowledge of people is only approximative. And as far as friendship goes, it's not approximative. It's double-zero. So ha!" The Warrior said, making his point. Just then X.A.N.A. changed into a zombie version of Jeremie and attacked Christopher, who had also transformed, with wires.

"YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!"

"Not if I can help it! AELITA!" The elf was thrown from the bubble and looked shocked.

"Aelita, what happened? William asked.

"It's Christopher. He's in trouble." She replied.

"NO!" Christopher shouted as he was being strangled. Just before he died, Aelita placed her hands on the bubble and used her Creativity and destroyed the bubble.

"AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" X.A.N.A. was screaming in pain then disappeared. The wires released Christopher and he was back on Lyoko with his friends and the girl he loved.

"Aelita." He said.

"Christopher." She said as they embraced each other.

"What happened to me?" He asked the others while looking at Aelita.

"X.A.N.A. created a ghost channel of the factory and trapped you in it." Aelita explained.

"He locked me up in a virtual prison."

"But every one of us did all we could to set you free."

"Thank you, all of you."

"Look out you guys. It's XANA's welcoming committee." Jeremie said as eighteen Bloks showed up.

"Don't worry, you guys. There's six of us which means we all get three each." Christopher said as he transformed into his dragon form and led the attack with the others following behind him.

In the Supercomputer room

Christopher's POV

"Okay, now who's for shutting down the supercomputer?" I asked as everyone raised their hands. I nodded and Aelita came to my side and we both pulled the switch together, turning off the Supercomputer. After we were all out of the sewers, Jim came up behind us.

"Well, if it isn't the Nine People. What are you all doing now?"

"Nothing, Jim. We just closed the book on a great adventure." I told him.

"I don't blame you, kids. I once gave up my teenage dreams to become an adult."

"No kidding. You're an adult?" Odd jokingly asked.

"I'd rather not talk about it." With that, he headed back to Kadic, leaving the nine of us to each other.

"Now what?" I asked.

"Now, we live our normal lives." Aelita told me, taking my hand.

Unfortunately, the Supercomputer began to glow a bright white light.

THE END...FOR NOW

And that's that. My first fanfic. Tell me what you guys thought and be honest with me. And if any of you have some more ideas for stories, let me know and I'll get to work on them. I'm also working on a sequel and it will be set one month after this chapter.