Code Lyoko S1 E12

## Plot

At Kadic, XANA possesses a bee. Seriously XANA?!? ***You just used rats literally an episode ago!!!*** As if the rats weren't bad enough, now we have bees. I've hated bees since I was a kid. This episode drags ***so much.*** Anyways, Ulrich receives a note. He seems shocked at what it says. Odd, Jeremie and Yumi are talking about Aelita's future materialization. Ulrich comes up to them. He's acting very awkward around Yumi. In gym class, Odd kicks a soccer ball at Jeremie, who's goalie, and he predictably goes down easy. Ulrich thinks about the letter he got. It was a love letter from Yumi. He isn't paying attention and gets hit in the head with a soccer ball. Ouch. He tells Odd and Jeremie about what happened. At least, he partially does. Jeremie and Odd are trying to figure out who has a crush on Ulrich since he wouldn't tell them. In the woods, Ulrich is reading the letter over and over again. Kiwi is stung by the bees. Ulrich and Kiwi run back to Kadic. Kiwi collapses from being stung. Poor doggy. Jeremie says it's nothing serious, but then Yumi brings over pills and anti-venom compresses. Wait, are they saying that ***a bee sting could be deadly… to a dog?*** Also, a compress is something used to stop bleeding or inflammation, like an ice pack. Ulrich tells the principal about what happened. He believes that there are dangerous insects up there. Wait, what? They don't even know that bees did this? Do they even know what a bee sting looks like? Honestly, how much is this episode going to tone down our heroes' intelligence to the point where ***a*** ***ten year old is smarter than them.*** If Aelita acts like this later in the episode, I will officially declare it non-canon and never watch it again. And the real kicker? None of them suspect this as XANA's doing in the slightest, **AND** I'm only ***seven bleeping minutes in.*** An exterminator tries to deal with it, and is attacked. Odd and Jeremie take the exterminator to safety while Ulrich tries to distract what he calls "the dust". In case you haven't noticed by now, ***I HATE THIS EPISODE SO MUCH!*** Yumi saves Ulrich from the bees. Ulrich sees that Yumi hurt her hand. Yumi says that it's just a scratch… except we see no visible injury on her hand. Ulrich blushes. Jeremie thinks that it's XANA. Well it's about time somebody noticed! What about Aelita? If she can tell when XANA attacks, then shouldn't she have already contacted Jeremie by now, or at least tried to? As we find out later, she can only sense pulsations in the sector she's in. The group also finally identifies them as… hornets. Whether that's right or wrong, for my sanity's sake I'm going to keep calling them bees. Aelita is in the Desert Sector. She's sitting on a rock. She looks very calm, like she's admiring the view. Much like the last episode, little things like this are appreciated. As it turns out, she hasn't actually noticed anything… at least in the Desert Sector. She decides to check out the other sectors and Jeremie runs a scan. The activated tower is in the Forest Sector. Ulrich finally gets a chance to talk to Yumi. He tells her that he likes her too, but Yumi has no idea what he's talking about. Sissi and her nerd pets inexplicably show up behind them and mock Ulrich. Sissi is the one who really wrote the letter… except that she has a crush on Ulrich. Yeah, Sissi, mocking and humiliating your crush is totally the best way to get him to go out with you. Sissi, you're an idiot, although that's pretty much par for the course for everyone in this episode. Also, Sissi, **I LOATHE YOU!** Odd and Jeremie run into some bees' nests. Right, because bees can totally live in the sewer. They run the other way but get cornered by more bees. They jump into the sewer water. Ew. Although that's the only smart thing anyone has done so far in this episode. They hide in a small sewer tunnel until the bees leave. So to balance out the one smart thing they've done, Odd and Jeremie *go back* to Kadic instead of continuing to the factory. Because that's the thing that's the most stupid. Aelita contacts the group. The tower is guarded by… Hornets. How ironic. Jeremie uses his miniature robot to create a path through the bees. Aelita is spotted by the Hornets. While she's running from them she trips and falls. Ulrich is climbing the ladder when the robot stops. Jeremie says that it's because… the batteries are dead. **YOU DIDN'T THINK ABOUT GIVING THE ROBOT NEW BATTERIES?!? YOU IDIOT!** The group makes it to the factory. The awesome music plays as Jeremie transfers them to Lyoko. "Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Yumi. Transfer Odd. Scanner Odd. Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Yumi. Virtualization." They fight a swarm of Hornets. Apparently offscreen, Aelita almost fell off the plateau, but hung onto a big tree branch. She pulls herself up. Ulrich hasn't been fighting at all. He isn't paying attention and is staring straight ahead blankly. I'm surprised he hasn't been devirtualized yet, since he's not a moving target, easier to hit and won't fight back. Odd defeats a Hornet and is devirtualized. Ulrich *finally* snaps out of it and defeats two Hornets. Yumi is devirtualized. Ulrich defeats the final Hornet. "Ulrich, you're the greatest." Err, if you say so Jeremie. Although I don't think you're the best judge of character since everyone except Aelita has acted like an idiot this episode. I didn't mention it earlier, but the school has been under attack by the bees for a while. Aelita enters the tower, enters the code and saves the day. Also, Jeremie launches a Return to the Past, and the bees are frozen in place. Because that is totally possible in real life.

## Review

**I HATED THIS EPISODE SO MUCH!** I wish *I* could do an RTTP on my brain so I could forget watching this garbage. If you like it, fine, but I hated every minute of it. And yes, I do think of this episode as non-canon and I will never watch it or try to think about it ever again. Admittedly, the Lyoko bits and Aelita helped, but there was so little footage of it, and in the end it's not enough to save the episode.