LF33: Remember When pt 3

Jeremy leaned forward and grabbed his earpiece.
    "Get out of there, now!" The scyphozoa was headed toward Lee.
    "What are you waiting for? Get out of there!" Lee was just standing still. The scyphozoa was close. "What are you doing?!" Jeremy yelled. Still no response.
    "Lee!"
    "Jeremy, hurry and virtualize me! I'll be in the scanners!"
    "Right!" Shikamaru ran down to the scanner room.
    "Transfer, Shikamaru! Scanner, Shikamaru! Virtualization!" By now, the scyphozoa had Lee wrapped up. The monster was in its customary attack pose, with two translucent appendages at the victim's temples and one centered in the forehead, each sucking out information.
    "Shadow Possession!" The pink patches in the scyphozoa's tentacles froze.
    "Lee! Can you hear me?" Lee was still suspended in the jellyfish-like monster's clutches. The new Lyoko warrior gave no response and still did not move.
    "Jeremy, what's wrong with him?" Jeremy clicked up a few windows.
    "It's just as I thought. X.A.N.A.'s given him a virus of some sort."
    "What'll happen if I let go? What'll that monster do to him?"
    "The scyphozoa steals memory. It can also X.A.N.A-fy us on Lyoko. Most of the time we get the one that's captured free in time before the scyphozoa can do much harm."
    "So in other words, I can't let go?"
    "No. I'll try and hurry with the antivirus."
    "All right." If I try to throw that monster over the edge with my Shadow Possession, Lee will go, too, Shikamaru thought. If I let go, Lee's pretty much done for. I don't have any kind of weapon to get the scyphozoa to let go of him.
    "What? A double-" Jeremy sighed. "This is going to take a while, Shikamaru, and I won't be able to virtualize anyone with this system X.A.N.A. has put in. I don't know how long you'll be able to keep up your Shadow Possession on Lyoko, but you'll have to try and sustain it for as long as possible, all right?"
    "Thought so." Come on, Shikamaru, there has to be another possibility, the chunin said to himself. He closed his eyes and put his fingertips together in an upside-down triangle. In just a moment, he reopened them. The boy stood up and walked closer to the scyphozoa. It floated toward him.
    "Jeremy! Can you virtualize the Overboard?"
    "Um, yeah, I should be able to."
    "Virtualize it."
    "You got it." The purple Lyoko vehicle appeared, bobbing as if atop water. Experimentally Shikamaru boarded it. The scyphozoa didn't move.
    "Perfect." Odd's vehicle floated up, and Shikamaru was soon on the same level as Lee. The chunin reached his hand over toward the other ninja a bit.
    "Release!"
    "Shikamaru, what-" The shadows split, and Shikamaru grabbed Lee's weapon, giving the scyphozoa a good stab in the Eye of X.A.N.A. It recoiled, dropping Lee and starting to float away.
    "Great job, Shikamaru. Just keep watch in case anything else shows up."
A while later, Lee had finally been de-bugged and was back on Earth. The three Lyoko warriors met in the scanner room.
    "What happened?"
    "You were attacked by the scyphozoa, that jellyfish-looking thing, and X.A.N.A. infected you with a virus, so Jeremy had to take care of that before you could come back. You're okay now, right?"
    "Yes, I think so."
    "Well, a little bit of a rocky start, but you'll be fine. Welcome to the team."
    "Thank you." The three made their way back to the campus. "So, Lee," Shikamaru said when they were back in their dorm, "could you remember what the hand signs this guy made were?"
    "I was still trying to remember; I will think again." Lee exhaled and closed his eyes.  "Okay... The first was... like this," he said, clasping his hands together in the Tatsu, or Dragon, sign.
    "And... the second..." Lee started to form another hand sign.
    "Agh!" The genin's right hand involuntarily snatched to his head, which felt like it was going to implode. The image on which Lee was focusing blackened and disappeared in his mind.
    "Lee, you okay?"
    "Y-yes. Sorry, I-" Lee let his hand fall back to his side.
    "That's okay. Can you remember anything else besides that first hand sign?"
    "...No. When I tried to focus, I just-Everything just disappeared, and I could not remember a thing." Shikamaru sighed. "Well, we at least know the first hand sign he used for this jutsu. I don't remember anything because I never saw him. Hinata didn't see him, either, considering he must have attacked while she was asleep. I'll go ahead and see if Kiba knows anything."
    "All right. In the meantime, I will try to remember again."
    "Don't push it. I'll be back." The door creaked a little as it shut.
"So you're sure you have no idea what the hand signs were?"
    "No. No clue. He was behind me when I got hit, so I don't know. Oh! But Akamaru may have seen!" Kiba opened the door to his room and stepped inside. Jeremy was gone for one reason or another. Akamaru popped out from behind the bed and yipped. Kiba squatted dwon and pet the dog.
    "Hey, Akamaru. Do you remember anything from when we were attacked by that gray-haired guy?" The white dog barked a couple of times.
    "Uh-huh. Did you see what hand signs he made?" After Akamaru's response, Kiba said, "Okay, great." He turned to Shikamaru.
    "The third hand sign he made was the Ox."
    "Were there just three hand signs?"
    "Aroo."
    "No, there were four. Or at least Akamaru saw four before the guy hit me."
    "Was the first hand sign he saw the Dragon sign?" Akamaru barked a response.
    "Yeah, it was."
    "All right, so we know that there are four hand signs to his jutsu. The first is Dragon and the third is Ox."
    "So what do we do now?"
    "I guess we'll have to figure out why something happens to Lee when he tries to remember the other hand signs. If we can crack that, we should be able to know all of them. Then we just have to try the jutsu and see if we can get home through it."
    "I guess so. Tell me whenever you find something out."
    "Right."