Meanwhile, the gang had ended up in the forest sector of Lyoko, dressed in their most recent outfits. Danny was still taken in by his new form. Although he resembled a CGI-version of himself (in his normal costume), his costume was covered in blotches of purple.

"Okay, what the heck happened here?" Danny wondered

"I told you that putting someone else in using Odd's profile could mess up things" Jeremie explained "apparently Lyoko merged your virtual form with Odd's."

"Well purple's not really my color" Danny replied "but I guess I don't have any other choice."

"Anyway, I've found an activated tower, it's several yards from your location" Jeremie said.

"Tower? Somebody plan on giving me the heads up here?" Danny asked.

"X.A.N.A controls things on Earth through various towers scattered around Lyoko" Yumi explained "Aelita is the only one who knows how to disable them, so we have to make sure she gets there safely."

"Shouldn't be too hard, I don't see any hazards" Danny replied.

But he spoke too soon, as a trio of Tarantulas appeared before them.

"What are those things?"

"Tarantulas" Ulrich explained "watch out for their lasers."

"Thanks for the warning" Danny said "okay, let's see what powers I have in this place."

Danny avoided a laser blast from a Tarantula and tried to see if he could turn invisible, which he did.

"How'd you do that?" Ulrich asked, "is that your special ability?"

"No, I guess my ghost powers still work here for some reason" Danny replied, turning solid again "maybe it's 'cause they're part of my DNA. And if that's the case" he said, turning intangible "these suckers are going down!"

He fired a ghost ray at a Tarantula, but instead of a beam, a green arrow emerged from his hand, striking the creature in its leg.

"I don't remember Odd's arrows being green" Jeremie commented "it must be another side effect of the merge."

"Call them ecto-arrows" Danny said "so, how do we finish off these ugly things?"

"Aim for the symbol on their head" Ulrich replied, blocking a Tarantula blast with his sword.

"Can do" Danny replied, flying up and launching an ecto-arrow at its head, killing it.

Yumi, meanwhile, was using her fan to block the blasts of another. She deflected several blows, but one knocked her aside.

Seeing her in trouble, Ulrich used Triplicate, fooling the Tarantula into attacking his doubles, while he jumped up and finished it off.

The third one blasted him, but Danny froze it with his ice powers, then destroyed it with another ecto-arrow.

"With you on our team, we'll have this mission done in no time" Ulrich told the ghost boy.

"You really have to tell me how you do that" Yumi added.

"Later you guys, you still have a tower to deactivate" Jeremie told them.

"And I'm sure more monsters will be on the way" Aelita added.

Yumi summoned the Overwing for her and Aelita to ride and they headed off, with Ulrich in pursuit on foot and Danny from the skies.

The gang soon made it close to the tower, but their way was blocked by a group of 4 Krabes and a Megatank.

"Looks like X.A.N.A went all out today" Ulrich commented.

"Big deal, just hang back and let me handle these guys" Danny said.

He flew forward, firing ecto-arrows at the Krabes, one of which fired his laser at him.

Danny turned himself intangible "ooh, I'm really scared of your laser" he said mockingly.

The mocking stopped when he suddenly turned solid again.

"What the? I didn't do…" before he could say anymore he was flung forward by the impact of a Krabe's laser, which had snuck behind him while he was mocking.

"Okay, what just happened here?" he asked.

"It seems that the more you use your ghost powers, the more of your energy you waste" Jeremie explained "if you're not careful, you'll devirtualize without even being blasted."

"Swell" Danny replied "now what?"

"Now we show you how to fight them our way" Yumi said.

Aelita put up an earth barrier to protect them from the laser fire, while they worked on a plan.

"Okay, Yumi and I can't afford too many more hits, so we need to do this quick" Ulrich said "Danny, you've got long range attacks, so you handle the Megatank."

"No problem" Danny replied "um, how do I do that?"

"Wait until it opens to fire, then shoot its direct center" Yumi explained "but you'll need to be precise."

"Can do."

"Yumi and I should be able to take out the Krabes" Ulrich said "and…break."

The warriors got out from behind the barrier and prepared for attack. Ulrich used Super Sprint to rush under a Krabe's legs, allowing him to flip on top of it and destroy it.

Unfortunately, he was blasted by one of the others.

Yumi used her acrobatic skills to avoid the laser blasts of another Krabe, and then performed an aerial flip, sending her fan to destroy it.

Meanwhile, Danny let the Megatank roll around until it was ready to fire, then turned himself intangible when it opened up.

"Hasta la vista, tanky" he said, firing an ecto-arrow and destroying it. Immediately though, he returned to normal and held his side in pain.

"I know I shouldn't have done that, but I had to destroy that thing" he said.

To everyone's surprise, another Megatank rolled up.

"Two of them, oh that's just terrific!" Danny replied.

The other Megatank prepared to fire, but Ulrich noticed and pushed Danny out of the way at the last second, causing him to take the blast instead.

"Nooooo!" Danny & Yumi yelled as he was devirtualized.

"Okay, now what do we do?" Danny asked.

"We regroup and hope for a miracle" Yumi replied.

Back up top, Benmummy was battling Jack, but even the alien's advanced powers were no match for the possessed Jack.

"Give it up, you can't hope to defeat me" Jack said "soon your friends will perish and so will my enemies."

"Not a chance wackjob" Benmummy said, "I'll fight you as long as I can."

At that moment, the Omnitirx made its signature powering down sound.

"Oh come on, this is the worst possible time!" Benmummy shouted, before he turned back into Ben again.

"Heh, I don't suppose you'd be willing to wait for me to recharge?" Ben asked Jack sheepishly.

The possessed Jack simply grabbed him and tossed him aside. Then he ripped Eggman free of the mummy wrappings that held him.

"Now, off to victory!" Jack said.

"What about Father?" Eggman queried.

"We don't have time to wait for him to recover" Jack replied "in the elevator, now!"

Down in the control room, Ulrich watched the others as they hid behind another of Aelita's barriers.

"That won't hold forever" he said, "they need to do something soon."

"True, but if Yumi takes another hit, she'll be devirtualized" Jeremie explained "and I don't think even she and Danny could handle those monsters without taking some damage."

"They'll think of something" Odd said "the important thing is, that things haven't gotten worse."

Ulrich then noticed that the elevator was coming down.

"Is that your friends?" he asked Ron.

"Probably" Ron replied "hey guys, you wipe the floor with those ugly, stupid, smelly villains?"

The boy soon regretted his choice of words when he saw the users of the elevator were Jack and the others.

"Um, for the record, I didn't mean anything I said about you" Ron replied nervously "you all smell wonderful. And as for the 'ugly' thing…"

"Silence!" Jack yelled.

"What an amazing set up" Eggman said, dumbstruck "who could've built such a thing?"

"Never mind that, destroy them all, then drain the computer of all its knowledge" Jack ordered.

"No way" Ulrich said, "if you want the computer, you'll have to go through me."

"And me" Odd added.

"If you insist" Jack replied, leaping forward to battle both of them.

Meanwhile, Eggman began struggling with Jeremie over the keypad.

"Guys, we've got a problem here!" he said, "we need that tower deactivated pronto!"

"What can we do?" Aelita asked the others on Lyoko "it's almost impossible to get past that many tough monsters without someone losing a life."

"What if we didn't have to destroy the monsters?" Danny said, much to the confusion of the two girls.

"What do you mean?" Yumi asked.

"All Aelita needs is a clear path to the tower" Danny said "I can provide that."

"How?" Aelita asked.

"Just run when I tell you" Danny ordered I just hope I have enough power left for this he thought 'cause I'm only going to get one shot at it!

"Get your vehicle thing ready, you'll need it" Danny said.

Yumi did so, moments before a blast from the Megatank shattered their earth barrier.

"Go now!" Danny told them.

"What about you?" Yumi asked.

"Trust me, I know what I'm doing" Danny explained.

The monsters went to attack the girls, but Danny was ready.

"Sorry guys, those two are off limits" he said "but how about a little music instead?" And with that, he let loose with a Ghostly Wail, which, as he predicted, kept the monsters at bay.

"What's he's doing?" Aelita asked.

"Buying us time" Yumi replied "come on" and she gunned the Overwing towards the nearby tower.

Back in the control room, Ulrich and Odd were giving everything they had against the possessed Jack, but it was a losing effort.

Meanwhile, Jeremie had regained control of the computer after Ron sent Rufus into Eggman's pants.

"Oh no, Danny's almost used up all of his energy!" he noted "he'll be devirtualized in no time!"

"Too bad it won't be quick enough to save you" Vexus commented.

She threw Jeremie from the chair and plugged herself into the computer.

"Soon, all your data will be mine, and then your little friends will be deleted!" she said, laughing evilly.

Jeremie tried to stop her, but Eggman grabbed him and held him tightly, having extracted Rufus by shaking his pant leg.

"It's too late kid" he said, "nothing can stop us now."

Back on Lyoko, Danny ended his Ghostly Wail, and promptly disappeared. At that instant, back in the factory, his scanner opened up and a weakened Danny fell out.

"So if Danny's gone from Lyoko, that means he should be up here to help us at any moment, right?" Odd asked.

"Don't count on it" Ulrich said, still dodging Jack's attacks "he's still too weak to do anything."

Taking that moment to talk to Odd was all the time Jack needed to attack the boy with a kick to the stomach.

"Face it boy, you're no match for me" Jack said, "soon your precious computer will be no more, and Lyoko shall perish with it!"

"Not as long as I'm still alive it won't" Ulrich said, as he jumped up to attack Jack.

Back on Lyoko, Yumi & Aelita arrived at the tower.

"I'm not sure how much longer the guys have" Yumi said "you deactivate the tower, I'll take care of any monsters."

"Will do" Aelita said. She entered the tower and floated up towards the control panel.

Back on Earth, Vexus was still absorbing data from the computer while Jack had Ulrich by the throat.

Odd had attempted to help his friend, but was backhanded into Ron.

"It's all over now!" Jack said, as he began to squeeze…

Inside the tower, Aelita reached the control panel and typed in her name. Instantly, the deactivation sequence began, and not a moment too soon.

As the X.A.N.A possessed Jack prepared to finish Ulrich off, he could feel the effect of the tower's deactivation.

"Noooooo!" he screamed as the ghost inside him dissipated, causing him to drop Ulrich, and fall unconscious.

"What the heck just happened?" Eggman wondered.

"The odds just returned to our favor" Ulrich said, sweeping the legs out of the portly doctor.

That caused Eggman to loosen his grip on Jeremie, who quickly hopped back in the seat.

"Back off human, or I'll…" Vexus threatened, reaching one of her hands to grab him.

"I don't think so" Jeremie said "see, I designed a special security system to keep people from hacking into this computer. I hope you enjoy it" he added, pressing a button on the keyboard.

Instantly, an electric shock coursed through the body of the robot queen, causing her to retract her arms from the computer.

"You accursed human, you've fried my hard drives!" she said angrily when the shock ended "I should end your monkey life!"

"Do it and you'll end up a pile of scrap metal" Danny said.

Vexus turned and saw he was up and ready to fight. "It seems things have taken a rather unfortunate turn" a recovered Eggman said, "perhaps it's best we flee."

"What about Jack and his superhuman abilities?" Vexus asked.

At that moment, Jack finally regained consciousness. "Ooh, what happened?" he asked, "and where the heck are we?"

Before anyone could answer, the elevator descended and Numbah One, Raimundo, & Ben emerged.

"Did we miss anything?" Ben asked, as they dismounted.

"Ahh, heroes!" Jack said, rushing past the heroes and into the elevator "get me out of here."

"Well, so much for that" Vexus replied.

"Farewell, we shall meet again" Eggman said, as he and Vexus fled to the elevator and then took it to the top.

"Are you just going to let them get away?" Ulrich asked.

"I doubt they'll cause you any further problems" Danny said "but if they do, we'll handle them."

"Now how about telling us why you have cool powers?" Odd asked.

"Sounds fair" Danny said "it all started in my parents' lab…"

A few hours later, Danny and the others said goodbye to their new friends.

"It's too bad you guys can't hang around longer" Aelita said.

"We're just glad you decided we were worth trusting with your secret" Ron added.

"Well, I have to admit, we thought about wiping your memories with the supercomputers special function" Jeremie explained "but if we did that, X.A.N.A would increase in power, and we've already seen what he's capable of at his current strength."

"Besides, we know you won't tell anybody" Ulrich said.

"Well, we'd love to stay, but we have villains to stop" Rai explained "once Vilgax figures out this plan went bust, he'll be coming up with a whole new one."

"I'll have to talk to my grandpa and have him pull us out of your school" Ben added "no offense, but this wasn't my kind of place anyway."

"It's not really mine either, but my parents insisted I go" Odd said.

"Well it was really wonderful meeting you" Yumi said.

"You too" Ron replied "we should get together and do that Lyoko thing sometime."

"I'm not sure about that" Jeremie said, "but if you're ever in France again, look us up."

"We'll do that" Danny said.

"Well, that was an eventful day" Odd commented, after the heroes left "even more so than usual."

"My only question is, how did those villains know about the supercomputer?" Jeremie asked.

"I suspect X.A.N.A is responsible for that one" Ulrich said "and who knows what he'll throw at us next."

"Whatever it is, we can handle it" Yumi replied.

"I'm worried about this Vilgax they spoke of" Aelita said "do you think they can handle him?"

"I would guess so" Jeremie told her "it's hard to believe there's a threat out there more dangerous than X.A.N.A"

"I sure hope we don't have to deal with a pug-ugly like that" Odd added.

"Me too" Ulrich replied.

Back on the Plumber-issued jet, Rai talked with Numbah One about the events that transpired.

"I hope this mission has given you a new respect for your teammates" he said. "Indeed it has" Numbah One replied "I've learned that, though you may be teenagers, you're no threat to the KND lifestyle."

"Glad to hear it" Rai said "so now that we're friends, how about telling us how you learned everything before we did?"

"Easy, I contacted the Paris branch of the KND" Numbah One "and I met with one of their agents in the bathroom."

"Oh, I thought you just had a bladder problem."

"Hardly" Numbah One scoffed "and thanks to you, the KND's #1 villain has been apprehended. As we speak, Father is on his way to the Moonbase to stand trial for crimes against kids."

"When did this happen?" Rai asked.

"I called in some agents before we headed for the warehouse" Numbah One explained "they captured Father while the other villains were busy on the lower level."

"Well, at least that's one less of Vilgax's villains to deal with" Danny commented.

Meanwhile, in space, a KND ship was heading for the Moonbase.

"How great is this? We finally captured Father" Numbah 45 said to his partner.

"Yeah, Numbah One will definitely be in for a promotion" Numbah 46 added.

"Don't be so quick to think you've won Kids Next Dorks" Father said from the holding area.

"Please, we're in space, how are you going to escape?" Numbah 45 asked.

Suddenly, there was a thump on the ceiling of the cab.

"What was that?" Numbah 46 asked.

"Probably just a small meteor" Numbah 45 replied.

But neither boy noticed the hole being cut in the ceiling of the holding area. Of course, they failed to notice that the transport was now several pounds heavier, due to the spaceship that had been docked atop it. Vexus then slipped inside the hole, followed by Weather Vane.

"About time you showed up!" Father said angrily.

"Spare me your anger" Vexus replied, "you're just lucky Vilgax still thinks you're worth something."

"Hey, somebody's broken into the van!" Numbah 45 shouted.

"Activate all emergency containment measures!" Numbah 46 ordered.

But before either one had a chance to do so, they were shocked into unconsciousness, by Weather Vane, who stuck her hands through the barred window between the cab and the cargo area.

"I probably should've fried them, but I thought it would be more humiliating if they arrived at their base with no cargo" Weather Vane said through her helmet.

"Indeed, this will be a huge blow to the Kids Next Door" Father said, "and I look forward to seeing Numbah One's reaction when he finds out."

"Let's just go" Vexus said, and handed Father a space helmet.

Then the three villains climbed through the roof, into a spacecraft Vilgax had obtained for them, and flew off, leaving the transport floating in space.

Next Time:

Huntsman is ordered to steal the powerful Heart of Candracar for Vilgax, but plans to use it for his own purposes. Several members of G.O.O.D travel to the city of Heatherfield to stop them, and meet a group of girls with a secret life tied to the Heart. Can they prevent Huntsman from obtaining the jewel and destroying the girls? Find out in the next semi-exciting adventure, "Spell you Later."