Code Lyoko S1 E4

## Plot

At Kadic, the clock reads 7:30 am. Ulrich is looking for something. Odd leaves to go to breakfast. Jeremie has been skipping gym class to work on his program. Sissi is waiting for Ulrich outside his dorm room. She wants to talk to him. Outside at 8:00, the others find Ulrich talking to Sissi. She's blackmailing him to do something for her. Didn't anyone ever tell her that blackmail is illegal? Then again, my dad says that stuff like that is only illegal if you get caught. Ulrich tells Jeremie that Sissi found his diary and now she's blackmailing him to go out with her. He also wrote about Lyoko in his diary, so they have to get it back. XANA possesses a school bus with Odd and Ulrich on it. Then we get an awful transition showing us a close-up of Jeremie's creepy Einstein poster. Yumi punches it because she just found out that Sissi is blackmailing Ulrich. She's going to search her dorm room while Jeremie goes to the factory. At the factory, Jeremie contacts Aelita. She's been researching our world more. Probably to prepare for when she comes over. Aw! Odd calls Jeremie and tells him about the bus. Jeremie launches a scan. Yumi picks the lock to Sissi's room. Awesome. She ends up finding *Sissi's* diary, not Ulrich's. In her diary, Sissi says that she's tired of Ulrich ignoring her for Yumi. She snuck into his room to get a picture of him, but instead she found his diary. Yumi blackmails Sissi to give up the location of Ulrich's diary. She hid it in the girls' bathroom. Yumi gets it back. Aelita senses pulsations again. The tower is in the Desert Sector. XANA takes control of the bus. Aelita needs back up on Lyoko, so Odd opens the door of the bus and ***jumps out,*** despite the fact that the fall could, you know, kill him. This team is awesome! The bus is going over 100 mph and is about to plow through heavy traffic. Ulrich tells everyone to use their backpacks as airbags. While probably not efficient enough, it is quite ingenious on Ulrich's part. Seriously though, why don't buses have seat belts? Jeremie calls Yumi and has her come to the factory. "Transfer Yumi. Scanner. Virtualization." Jeremie finds out that XANA is launching the bus at the petrol chemical complex. I'm no scientist, but I'm pretty sure that petrol is gasoline. So, in other words, bus crashes, fire spreads, fire ignites gasoline, complex and people go **BOOM**. Yumi and Aelita are almost to the tower. Yumi says that it's too easy and suspects a trap. Sure enough, a sandstorm closes in. A sandstorm that is being created by a tornado. Plus there's a monster they can't see because of the aforementioned sandstorm. A Megatank shows up right in front of them. They barely dodge its attack. Yumi almost falls off the plateau. The ground cracks as if there's an earthquake. They're stuck on a floating island. Well it's gonna take more than that to stop them! Aelita simply uses her angelic singing to create a bridge. Odd *finally* gets to the factory since we last saw him six minutes ago. I know that doesn't seem like a long time, but he's been gone for almost a quarter of the episode. Yumi is brutally devirtualized after not one, but two blasts from a Megatank. Ouch. Jeremie tells Aelita to hide until Odd gets there. Cause he's worried about her. Aw! "Transfer Odd. Scanner. Virtualization." Odd saves Aelita after she almost falls into a crevice. He gets an idea. He grabs Aelita and runs straight for a ridge with the Megatank after them. Aelita thinks Odd has lost it, but at the last second he swings her over and then jumps over himself. The Megatank falls because it can't make the jump. Jeremie whistles a sigh of relief. You can whistle that again. The bus looks like it's going to crash into the complex. Aelita gets to the tower and enters the code. The bus stops just in time. Seriously, another second and everyone on that bus would've gone **KABOOM!** Jeremie says that it was close, but they did it. No, really? I never would've guessed. Sarcasm at its finest. One RTTP later and Yumi retrieves Ulrich's diary again. No, she did not read it. Ulrich enters his room where Jeremie and Odd are waiting. And like all true comic relief heroes, Odd has mastered the art of jumping and freezing in midair.

## Review

This episode was good. As far as I'm concerned it's filler, so you can skip over it if you'd like. I really didn't like how underutilized Odd was. They may as well have just written him out of the whole episode! Although the scene where he jumps off the bus is awesome, even if it took him *forever* to get back, at least in TV time. It's okay for a filler episode.