Code Lyoko S1 E11

## Plot

The episode starts in the sewers. I say skip the first two minutes of the episode because there are rats down there. It's clear, however, that XANA wants to use them for… something. The group is at the library. Jeremie is explaining to Aelita what a library is. Odd and Ulrich are playing a game of paper tennis. Ulrich wins, but barely. He also loses his balance and falls out of his chair. Jim yells at them. Yumi can barely control herself. She's actually shaking with laughter. The principal comes in and asks Jeremie to come see him in his office. The school psychologist has been observing Jeremie, and wants him to take some tests to determine what his IQ is. If Jeremie does his best, he'll get a really high IQ, and be sent away to another school. Then the others can never go to Lyoko again. He also doesn't want to leave his friends. Aw! Jeremie will try his best to flunk the test. Sissi sees that her clothes have been destroyed by a XANA rat. On Lyoko, Aelita is looking at data, probably learning more about Earth for her eventual materialization. What's different about it this time is that instead of kneeling down and sitting on her knees, like she's in a prayer or child pose, she's in a very relaxed position and smiling, like she's watching her favorite TV show. It's a really nice touch and it's great to see small changes like that thrown in every once in a while. It keeps things fresh and interesting. She feels XANA's attack and tries to warn Jeremie, but he's taking his IQ test. The rats are topside now and they cut the power to the entire city. Sissi sees all the rats in her room and barely makes it out. In the cafeteria, all the students are messing around because the lights went out. Ulrich, however, senses that something is wrong. He tells everyone to quiet down. They hear something coming from the ceiling. It's the rats. Hundreds of them start falling from all the ceiling tiles. Everyone flees. In the background of a shot though, you can see the lunch lady, Rosa, beating them up with nothing but a tray. That's awesome. The rats have surrounded the vicinity. Ulrich calls Yumi. Jeremie can't answer because he's still taking the test. All the students use lunch trays as shields and use fire extinguishers to ward off the rats. There are too many however. They can't keep them back all night. Sissi is also separated from everyone else because she was in her room. Jeremie learns about the infestation when the rats try to get into the library. He tells the freaked out psychologist that they need to barricade the door. Yumi arrives at the school. She literally *rides her bike **over the rats,** gets to Sissi, and **rides over the rats again to get to the students***. Yumi, you kick serious ass. The library door has been barricaded with books. Jeremie contacts Aelita through his laptop. She's in the Desert Sector, hiding behind some rocks. She sees the activated tower and goes to get a closer look. The students make it to the old science building, the only place with no access to the sewers. They make it to the roof. The rats simply break in by chomping down on a tree, which falls, which breaks the windows. The gang has to get to the factory. They use a hose to climb down the building. They run to the forest to the entrance to the factory… which is through the sewers… and stuffed with rats. Ew. I don't think they really thought this plan through. They have no choice but to climb over the wall. It's too bad that part is offscreen, because it sounds like it'd be really cool. The psychologist is apparently terrified of rats. Jeremie discovers that the rats are scared of light. He takes a flashlight and heads to the photo lab. The bridge to the factory is swarming with rats. Odd apparently had a raft set up in the water. They row it to the factory. The rats see them and jump into the water after them. They make it to a cellar entrance and close the door. Jeremie uses a flash to scare the rats away. He has to explain to Yumi how to contact Aelita, and virtualize Odd and Ulrich. However, thanks to a bad cellphone connection and rats invading the city, Yumi puts in the wrong coordinates. "Transfer Odd. Transfer Ulrich. Scanner Odd. Scanner Ulrich. Virtualization." Aelita is discovered by some Krabs. After *a lot* of running by Aelita, Ulrich, and Odd in different directions, they run into each other. Almost literally, if Aelita hadn't stopped in time. At first, it looks like the area is getting steeper. The plateau is actually turning to the side. XANA is changing the slope of the plateau. They all fall off, but Aelita uses her angelic singing to create a rock face for them to crash onto. The Krabs are somehow still firing at them and not falling to the ground. Wait, since when can XANA manipulate gravity? Ulrich takes ***a ton*** of hits for Aelita. Seriously, how is he not devirtualized yet? Odd destroys one Krab. The other shoots the rock he's holding onto. He starts to fall into the Digital Sea. Luckily, the Krab hits him again and he's devirtualized. Jeremie makes it to the factory and takes over the job of running the supercomputer. The rats head to the roof. Ulrich is devirtualized. The Krab is about to finish off Aelita when Yumi's tessen chops its leg off. Then she destroys it. They make it to the tower… somehow. If the slope is still wacky then they shouldn't have been able to reach the tower. If gravity is normal, then why, when, and how did it happen? There's no indication that Jeremie returned the plateau to normal, or that he knows how to do that. And there's no way XANA would just give up and return the slope to normal to give them easy access to the tower. Oh, whatever. Anyways, Aelita enters the tower. The rats start to break into the library. Aelita enters the code. The rats are frozen in place… for some reason. "Return to the Past now." Now that Jeremie knows all the questions on the test, he knows how to get all the wrong answers.

## Review

This was another filler episode. Nothing too special, but the rats freaked me out, at least in the beginning. No real development from this episode, but it does show us once again that Yumi kicks serious ass. Aelita also isn't afraid to do things on her own without help. If those Krabs hadn't shown up, she probably could've stopped XANA's attack before it even started! Or at least before he did too much damage. XANA's attack in this episode was brilliant. He waited until most of the kids were in one place to trap them, and blocked almost every possible entrance to the factory. Talk about prepared! Speaking of prepared, Odd having a boat in case they needed to get to the factory another way? Absolutely genius. Admittedly, given that it's still Odd we're talking about, he probably wanted to use it for something else, but it's still quick thinking on his part.