Code Lyoko S2 E11

## Plot

Some police officers are transporting a dangerous criminal named Peter Duncan when XANA possesses him, and he escapes. The kids hear about it at school. Duncan heads towards the nuclear power plant. While at school, Aelita passes out, and so does a XANA controlled Duncan, at the same time. Aelita is taken to the hospital. Her heart isn't beating. She and Duncan recover though. You'd think that now would be the time the school would try to get in touch with her parents, only to discover that she has none. In a sense, at least. Oh, right, her cover story is that she's an orphan. Whoever her guardians are then. There's no way they'd just accept someone claiming to be an orphan and a relative of a student, right, even if she did have the paperwork? Man, this school is insane. Thank god it doesn't exist in real life. It's usually played for comedy with Jim and Principal Delmas's unrealistic threats of severely unfair punishment, but still. Seriously, how come they never at least contact Odd's parents or sisters and ask about Aelita, especially when Odd's parents come to Kadic during season 4? Jeremie notices something strange with the superscan and heads to the factory to check it out. Ulrich and Odd go with him, and Yumi stays at the hospital with Aelita. Duncan steals some sort of radioactive material. While Jeremie debugs the scanning program, Ulrich and Odd head to Lyoko to see if there are any activated towers. There's one in the Ice Sector. Jeremie attempts to materialize them, but before he can, everything switches off. He heads to the "basement" level to check it out. Lyoko starts disappearing, and Odd and Ulrich are about to fall into the Digital Sea. Oh yeah, and Duncan and Aelita's hearts aren't beating. Luckily, the supercomputer turns itself back on just in time. The nuclear battery is almost dead. And they can't just replace it, because they need a bar of uranium. But it has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. To be fair though, writers are not typically great at things like science or math, and they won't let a little thing like reality get in the way of a good story. This means that XANA is dying, but so is Aelita, due to the virus connecting them. And she heard the whole thing. Ouch. Duncan kidnaps Jeremie and forces him to change the battery. The problem is that once he does, XANA Duncan will try to kill him. The others just need to bring an unconscious and dying Aelita to the factory to deactivate the tower. Piece of cake! Also, how is there a radiation suit in Jeremie's size? He replaces the battery and is able to get inside the elevator before Duncan can try to kill him. Aelita is okay now, and she, Yumi, and Odd are virtualized onto Lyoko, while Ulrich protects Jeremie from Duncan. Odd is devirtualized, and Ulrich is knocked out by Duncan, who goes after Jeremie next. Yumi is also devirtualized. Aelita uses her Creativity to make a Tarantula fall into the Digital Sea. She deactivates the tower before Jeremie is killed. Duncan was found unconscious outside of police headquarters and taken back into custody.

## Review

I really liked this episode. Aelita is like a version of me, like a little sister. And while I love my very real siblings even more, Aelita is special. Do you ever feel that sometimes it's like a fictional character was created specifically for you? That's how I feel about Aelita. And Elsa from *Frozen*. As such, I'm very protective of them. And my real little brother, who I'm dedicating this review to. This is for you, Reece! Oh my gosh. Okay, I already figured out the similarities between Odd and Cat Noir from *Miraculous Ladybug*, but what about Odd and Jaune Arc from RWBY? They're heroic, blond, comic relief teenagers that have a slight animal motif. Dogs and cats for Odd and arguably bunnies and wolves for Jaune. And jackalopes. Or maybe Jeremie would be a better comparison, at least in the first few volumes, before Jaune became a more skilled Huntsman, and was given a ton of trauma, which doesn't fit Jeremie or Odd at all. They both have a ton of older sisters though.