Wednesday, January 2, 2019

CODE LYOKO: RETURN TO THE PAST, NOW: EPIOSDES 30-31: MAN OVERBOARD!

We Start 2019 with A Great Day. In Carthage, Aelita is stealing data in the hopes that the Virus that links her to the Virtual World of Lyoko can be Broken. When the Mantas arrive and after some Chauvinistic Banter from Ulrich and Odd, The heroes escape with no Causalities, it's now 3am and the kids return to there homes and dorms. Sissi overhears Jeremie incriminating himself that Aelita is not who she says she is.

The Next day-Tuesday-Yumi's father is upset with her daughter being out too late. She's upset that she has to lie all the time even with the Returns to the past resetting the days of attacks. Sissi Blackmails Jeremie with a tape she recorded of the night before ("There's not much Music, but the words are very...interesting!") Odd is embarrassed by Mrs Hertz in front of class.
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In an attempt to get the tape back, Ulrich gives her a Martial Arts Lesson, However, it's a double Bluff as Odd and Jeremie are found by Sissi's Lackey's, Until a Return to the past comes out of Nowhere!
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All the Lyoko Warriors, (except Jeremie) Odd uses this chance to study to avoid the embarrassment in Mrs Hertz' Class. Jeremie Discovers that the data they uncovered is booby-trapped and he is working to regain control of the Return Program, though he can't figure out why XANA has control of it! With the tower Detected on the Mountain Zone, the team skip class
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(except for Odd, who has studied and stood up Mrs Hertz!)

Since Jeremie is trying to regain control, he is working with Limited Resources, Just as Aelita reaches the tower and Sissi shows her father, the Principal, her tape, XANA causes another Time skip...one will cause Sissi and XANA to join forces!
Sissi Delmas (Possessed)
...Sort of!
You'll remember that XANA had the power to control Animals, well now it's Plan is clear, everytime Jeremie had used the Return program, he inadvertently made XANA stronger, and it has possessed Sissi, we are no longer dealing with the same XANA That possessed Toys anymore! XANA/SISSI has kidnapped Jeremie, However in possessing a 14 year old girl, XANA Has the strength of a 14 year old girl!
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Ulrich quickly dispatches her in a sword fight destroying the walkman and tape. On Lyoko the Sycozoa's Memory Drain takes Aelita onces more, before Odd and Yumi rescue her. With the tower deactivated, the safety net of the Return trip is now off limits, as even though Jeremie has control of it, the fact that the jumps back in time will always strengthen XANA means it's a risk they can't take, The Heroes have Detention for Skipping class and Destruction of Property, However Ulrich realizes that next time XANA Strikes, he will strike Hard!

Leading us to Episode 31, Mister Puck, The Episode where Aelita's Bizzare Night Terrors are Explained

To recap, Aelita has being having Dreams of an Elf chased by Wolves, in a forest, a Forest exactly like the one surrounding Kadic Academy, and hiding an abandoned House called the Hermitage that has a tunnel leading to the factory!

The Night Terrors are now so real, they now happen in Aelita's waking moments too!
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In An Attempt to Get to the Bottom of this, Aelita is brought back to the Hermitage, The Abandoned house, instinctively, the pink-haired girl goes into a child's bedroom, takes down a poster of a tree, uncovering a hole that contains a plush toy bearing a likeness to the elf in her dreams, exclaiming that it's name is Mister Puck!

Later, Sissi takes the doll in home room and in the game of keep away, a key falls out! One that leads to a locker at the train station. Inside? 30 CD-ROMS! All encrypted, however It's a video diary of Franz Hopper, the Mysterious Science Teacher who lived in the hermitage and may have a connection to Lyoko, Aelita, and XANA.
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The next morning, XANA Attempts to possess Ulrich and Odd but fails (Odd quipping he couldn't because of their "Sex Appeal"!) Jeremie is not so lucky and is assimilated to Kidnap Aelita and Destroy the CD-ROMS!

Yumi is the only one half decent enough to virtualize the others, even despite her track record of fails. XANA has one fatal flaw when Possessing Humans, A drop in intelligence, despite giving His shell electrokiniesis, XANA/JEREMIE Just smashes the case the cds were in! Yumi and Ulrich smash a wrench in XANA/JEREMIES, face, rescuing Aelita andleaving Odd to stall him!

After an Ambush on the Ice Zone, XANA/JEREMIE Electrocutes Odd, goes to the control room and realizes Yumi. Ulrich cuts the Sycozoa's Memory draining Tentacles, The 1st time it ever took damage, Aelita Deactivates the tower, Ridding Xana from Jeremie. Working out XANA can't possess those who have being Virtualized, Jeremie is Virtualized off-screen, so we never see his "Ridiculous" Lyoko Form, But it means 2 Progress in Storyline was made, Jeremie no longer needs to be briefed on his own missions after the Returns to the Past and That the realization that Aelita dreamed of and had knowledge of the Hermitage the others didn't know, hints that Aelita maybe human after all, something I will get into when taking about the character development and her lyoko form at the end of Season 2!

NEXT WEEK!
WE ARE NOW 33% LOADED in our Retrospective of Code Lyoko, As our heroes celebrate Valentines day, when we RETURN TO THE PAST,
NOW!

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