Code Lyoko S4 E6

## Plot

In gym class, Jeremie tries and fails to climb the rock wall. At lunch, the rest of the group tries and fails to cheer him up. Also, they all have new casual clothes, and they look amazing. Sure, we've seen them in other clothes before, like their PJs and gym clothes, but those felt so… low effort. These have more detail put into them, and we see them a lot more. Yumi's is my favorite, because she finally added some color to her wardrobe. She's like what Wonder Woman is to the DCEU. Also, I just realized this now, but her normal black clothes and Ulrich's light clothes are the perfect contrast to one another, like an opposites attract sort of thing. Aelita acts out of character when she tells Jeremie that he's lame at anything athletic. I thought this would play into the plot of the episode, like maybe the rest of the group are polymorphic specters and Jeremie has to save the real ones, a la Ghost Channel, but no. It's just an extremely out of character moment for Aelita. What made it especially weird was that she just told him that it was no big deal, and looked concerned about him. Anyways, she and Jeremie have been ironing out the kinks on the Skid to prepare for their first dive test in the Digital Sea. Principal Delmas tells the students that today is FSRP day, which stands for Fire, Safety, Risk, and Prevention, and that because of this, all of their afternoon classes have been cancelled. This way, they can use some of their free time to take part in a building evacuation exercise, during which time, all access to the buildings will be prohibited. While he's talking, the group convinces Jeremie to let them test out the Skid during the drill. He relents and they go to the factory. They're all virtualized into Sector 5 and head to the hangar bay where the Skid is. Once they get there, they're all teleported into the Skid. And Jeremie says energize, because of course he does, he's a huge nerd! Although pop culture references are more Odd's forte. Aelita is in the cockpit and the others are in the tentacle parts of it. They achieve liftoff, and Aelita dedicates their first launch to her father. They exit the dome part of Sector 5. Jeremie gets rid of one of the tunnels, and they exit Sector 5, with the Digital Sea right below them. Jeremie wants them to come back, but the others persuade him to let them test it out in the Digital Sea. Jeremie is given a visual of the network and sees a holo-map of the Digital Sea where the map of Lyoko normally is. Aelita rotates and re-configures the ship, and uses the Skid's turbo propeller to break free of Lyoko's gravity field. After taking a quick look around, Jeremie asks them to head on back, and Aelita turns around. However, something goes wrong, because this is Code Lyoko, where *everything* goes wrong. It's like that Murphy guy was mad that the show used a poster of Einstein and not him and decided to curse them for it or something. Anyways, Jeremie has lost all signs of the Skid on his radar. Aelita checks it out and realizes that there's a bug in the navigation system. Because a bug is responsible for *all* of their problems. One of these days you'd think they'd just squash it. I kid of course, since even I know it's not that kind of bug. Without a navigation system, they have no way to get back to Lyoko. They're totally lost. If they can't get back, they'll use up all of the Skid's virtual power reserves. Once the power runs out, the Skid will break apart, and they'll be stuck in the Digital Sea and virtualized forever, like Franz Hopper. Jeremie can debug it, but there are several million codes to crack, and he doesn't have enough time for that. There are several programs that could debug and repair the system, but he has to leave and get them from his room. However, it's fire safety day, so he has to sneak past all of the firefighters and faculty. The lighting of the Digital Sea turns red, and red is never a good sign. Red and black tend to scream evil, at least in western animation. This could be because red is the color of blood and black is what most people wear at funerals over here, so it's like a symbol of death and grief. Anyways, the group runs into a large dome shaped "planet" of sorts that looks a lot like Lyoko, but isn't. They're being pulled in by its gravity field. Jeremie has to go on the roof, just like Ulrich did in the fourth episode. He may not be very athletic, but Jeremie is the kind of person who would do *anything* to save his friends. Aelita realizes that the "planet" isn't Lyoko and gets them out of there. Jeremie gets inside the attic area and heads downstairs. He reaches his room, grabs the CD-ROM he needs and heads back to the factory. Meanwhile, the group run into new underwater creatures of XANA's. They look like eels or piranhas, and are later named Kongres, after conger eels. Naturally, they attack the Skid. It turns out that the pod like things that Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi are in are actually smaller ships to deal with monsters, called Nav-Skids. They're able to defeat at least one of the eels, and Jeremie fixes the navigation system. The Nav-Skids are recalled to the main Skid, and they get away from the rest of the monsters and return to Lyoko. Back at the factory, Jeremie hypothesizes that the sphere they saw was another virtual world that XANA created with the data he stole from Aelita. They decide to explore it when they can.