Kasi Karra - *screams* just when I thought I was done you had to come and show up again!!!
Sadai - *screams back* I refuse to just keel over and die!!!
Sombersongwolf - I thought that the story was done.
Kioshie - yay Kasi is writting again!
Burgessa - maybe i can my my ideas work into this.......
Goth-Odd - pokemon!
*silence*
Kasi Karra - nevermind.
kioshie- wait wheres linkmasta?
goth-o dd- shes being unmanageable
burgessa- as in her internet is funky and she hasn't excatly been a "friend" to goth-odd or me.
sombersongwolf- hasn't she always had internet problems?
linkmasta- stupid computer! *el punch*
sapphire- *holding a flamebazoka to her head* oh shuts it
linkmasta- god why did burg have to send you?
goth-odd- You know the disclaimer
Burgessa - and the claimer and blah blah blah
everyone - enjoy
Thanks to Xyirean the past had been reconstructed so that no one had ever been to Lyoko, Artificial Intelligences had never been fully developed and everything was normal. Ryrin said a final thank you and farewell to her father's memory before complelty forgetting it all that evening.
School went well for the children as always. The small gang still kept close together. Adrian, Lita, Ryrin, Charlotte, and Xana would meet regularly as they all helped each other as they completed college course after college course on advanced calculus or computer engineering. Kaito and Simone were going out and spent a lot of time together, occasionally getting help from the geniuses on some homework problem. Margret kept to herself occasionally popping in to say hi and hang out for a little bit. She spent most of her time practicing as she soon became the most athletic member in the school. She still enjoyed picking on Kaito and they'd have match offs in every sport regularly.
For Spring Break the children had had a tearful parting as each family went their separate ways for the week.
Jeremy and Aelita had taken their children Lita, Adrian, and Ryrin over to America to do some advanced studying on particle acceleration and laser technologies.
Burgessa and Alex had taken their child Margret over to Germany for a boxing competition that she had entered and Margret won first place.
Olivia and her husband Nicholas had taken their daughter Xana on a tour of the country visiting museums of all kinds.
Crystal and Odd spent their vacation on a resort with their daughter Charlotte.
William and Sapphire had spent their vacation out at amusement parks and a little time with Crstyal and Odd with their daughter Simone.
Yumi and Ulrich had spent their time with Kaito at home and at the park goofing off and just being a family.
Everything was peaceful and perfect until they got back from Spring Break and strange things started to happen . . .
Lita sighed as she stared at her complicated Calculus problem. "Karen disappeared today," she whispered.
Adrian nodded. "So did Doug, Allen and Jonathan."
Xana nodded. "I asked a girl what time Coach Fiser was going to show up to teach P.E. She gave me the funniest look."
Ryrin nodded with a sad smile. "I forgot he disappeared yesterday right?"
"So 4 people disappeared today when the white flash came again," Charlotte said giving her input.
The others nodded. It had been about a month since Spring Break and occassionaly for the children it felt like the world would flash white and time would restart from a couple hours previous.
None of the children could explain these strange occurances. But they did know that every time it happened someone disappeared and was forgotten.
"We need to figure out what's going on," Kaito said from his spot on the floor across the room.
Simone nodded. "I'm almost afraid to sleep at night," she said cuddling closer to Kaito. "I feel like if I sleep I'll disappear and everyone will forget about me."
"Cry Baby," Margret muttered rolling her eyes.
"What did you call her?" Kaito asked the threat clear in his voice.
"No fighting in my room," Xana said effectively killing the quarrel.
"But what could we possibly do?" Lita asked her voice quiet. The question hung in the air unanswered as the second stretched on.
Ryrin shook her head and stood up. "I'm going for a walk to clear my head."
"I'll come to," Adrian said closing his notebook and accompanying Ryrin.
"I'm sure that we'll be alright," Xana commented as Adrian and Ryrin left the room.
"Where are we going?" Adrian asked as they snuck into the woods making sure that none of the teachers were looking.
"I don't know," Ryrin replied. "I just need some fresh air to clear my head and I know that a noisy campus is not the place."
"But won't we get in," Adrian stopped talking as he tripped over something and fell on his face.
Ryrin turned and had to laugh a little as she saw Adrian on the ground. "Are you okay?" she asked offering him a hand up.
"Yeah I think so," Adrian said as Ryrin pulled him up to his feet. "What did I trip over," he asked turning around.
"A man hole all the way out here?" Ryrin asked squatting down and running a hand over it. "Do you think it leads to the sewers?" she asked a little mischiveously as she lifted the cover and pushed it off to the side.
"I don't think we should be doing this," Adrian commented as he looked down into the darkness.
"Come on! Where's your sense of adventure?" Ryrin asked as she lowered herself over the edge and used the ladder to climb down.
Adrian sighed. He couldn't just leave Ryrin alone in dark. He let himself down the first few steps before carefully replacing the cover. "Ryrin?" he asked as he reached the bottom.
"Over here!" she called. Adrian jogged over. "Look at these," she said.
Adrian inspected the old rusted vehicles. There were three skateboards and two scooters.
"What are these for?" Adrian asked.
"I don't know, but they haven't been used in a very long time," Ryrin said laying a hand on the rust. "Let's go this way," Ryrin said jumping up and walking in a direction.
"Ryrin!" Adrian called running to catch up. "We're going to get lost or something!"
"Oh come on, we'll be fine!" Ryrin called back running a little faster.
A few minutes later they came to a dead end. The only route left was up another ladder to the outside world.
"I wonder where we are," Adrian commented reluctently folling Ryrin up the ladder.
"I don't know," Ryrin said popping up on the bridge to the factory. She climbed out and offered Adrian a hand up. "Hey look it's the old factory."
"Isn't it off limits now?" Adrian asked.
"Is it?" Ryrin asked.
"Yeah didn't the principal just make that a new rule yesterday?" Adrian asked trying to remember if it was yesterday after the white flash that it had happened.
As Adrian put his last foot on the top rung of the ladder the rusted metal broke. Ryrin pulled Adrian up barely saving his life. "Thanks," Adrian breathed.
"I guess we better not get caught," Rryin commented seeing that a few of the rungs on the way down had broken.
"That's comforting," Adrian thought brushing his knees as he followed Ryrin into the factory.
"Wow," Ryrin breathed taking in all of the old and rusted machinery. "Isn't it amazing?" she asked.
"I agree," Adrian said pushing his glasses up and looking around.
"Look at this," Ryrin said running ahead and into an old evelator. She pressed the button, but nothing happened. "Darn, I was hoping it would work," Rryin sighed.
"Then let's make it work," Adrian replied pulling a small jeweler's screwdriver out of his pocket and unscrewing the box around the button.
In less then 5 minutes the door closed and they were descending.
"They've been gone a long time," Xana commented chewing on the end of her pencil.
"I agree," Charlotte said looking up from the paper she had been helping Kaito with.
"I'll text him," Lita said pulling out her cell phone.
"I'll text Ryrin," Simone smiled pulling out her cell phone.
The doors to the elevator opened and Ryrin and Adrian gasped at the scene.
The large super computer stood in tall and proud off to the side covered in cobwebs and dust. "Look at this," Rryin breathed running over to the computer.
Adrian hurried over and helped her brush away a few cobwebs and blow a little dust away.
Ryrin tapped on of the keys and the machine hummed slowly reviving itself and bringing itself to life. "It's still running," Ryrin said aloud in complete awe.
"File detected!" a window read as it popped up on the screen.
Ryrin sat down and typed on the keyboard opening a new window. The small window held thousands of tiny files.
"What is it?" Adrian asked as Ryrin double clicked on one. The file opened to reveal a few small lines of binary code.
"I think it was a program," Ryrin said.
"Was?" Adrian asked. Ryrin nodded as Adrian pulled his phone out of his pocket. "Lita's wondering where we are."
"Tell her we'll be back soon," Ryrin said pulling a flash drive out of her pocket and putting it in the machine. "I'm surprised this even has a USB port."
"I agree," Adrian said sending the text message.
"I can't get all of this onto the USB, but I think this is a good start," Ryrin said pulling her flash drive out of the machine a few minutes later.
"Then let's get out of here," Adrian said leading the way.
The ladder to the sewers had rotted away and that wasn't an option so they did a little exploring. Soon they found the hermitage hidden in the woods.
"This place is amazing," Ryrin said looking around.
"We can explore later. Let's get this stuff back to the others first."
"Kay! Race you back!" Ryrin called running off.
'Hey!" Adrian called running after Ryrin.
"You guys went where?!" Lita asked as loud as she could in a whisper. She clenched her fists so that she wouldn't strangle her twin or Ryrin.
"I told her we shouldn't go," Adrian whispered cowering back a little.
"But look at this," Ryrin said stealing Xana's laptop.
Xana looked up, but didn't say anything as Rryin put the flash drive in the laptop and pulled up the files.
"What is this?" Charlotte asked.
"It looks like a shattered file," Lita said.
"Shattered?" Xana asked.
Ryrin nodded agreeing. "These files are all pieces of a bigger program."
"I wonder what it's for," Adrian said aloud.
The others nodded in agreement. "But I could only fit so much in on my flash drive," Ryrin said hanging her head a little.
"I guess we'll just have to risk going back," Charlotte said with a small smile.
Lita sighed. "I suppose we have been looking for something that would prove more of a challenge then these boring calculus problems."
"Tomorrow's Saturday," Margret commented walking into the room.
"So?" Adrian asked sitting up and attempting to look innocent.
"Let's all hang out tomorrow," Simone said bouncing into the room after Margret. Kaito rolled his eyes as he followed the girls in.
"So we're all going to the factory," Margret said blowing a bubble gum bubble and popping it.
Xana shrugged. "I guess look outs and more friends will make this more interesting."
"That settles it then. Tomorrow we head out," Ryrin said with an enormous smile.
Early the next morning the children gathered together at the edge of the forest and headed in. The kids shouldered their backpacks and headed towards the hermitage.
"Wow look at this place," Xana said running her fingertips gently over the dusty rotting furniture.
"I don't like it here. It's really scary," Simone said her voice quiet and quivering.
Kaito put an arm around Simone. "It's all going to be fine," he whispered comfortingly in her ear.
"This way," Ryrin called before any arguing or more lovey-dovey stuff could happen.
Finally they made it to the lab. "Wow this is amazing," Charlotte breathed.
Kaito took his backpack off and left it on the ground in the corner. "We'll leave the smart stuff to you guys," he said taking Simone's hand and heading to the elevator.
"Where are you guys going?" Charlotte asked pulling her laptop out.
"Exploring," Margret said popping another bubble as she followed Kaito and Simone.
Adrian shrugged as he pulled out a couple USB cable and hooked it into the back of the super computer before handing the others their USB cables to hook up to their laptops.
Ryrin smiled as she pressed enter and the computer slowly hummed bringing itself back to life. "Let's get started," she said with a smile.
The others nodded as they brought their computers to life.
Weeks went by. The geniuses worked diligently in their free time and during class to put all of the files together and slowly the program seemed to be coming together.
Margret, Kaito and Simone occasionally joined them spending time exploring the old factory and some of the surrounding area while sometimes keeping an eye out for teachers and police.
But as the program kept coming together the less and less sense it made.
"What do we have to do with all of this?" Xana asked.
"What do you mean?" Charlotte asked looking over at Xana's computer.
"I'm pretty sure I'm doing this right," Xana said handing her computer over. Lita and Adrian came over to join them.
"Yeah it looks right," Adrian said scanning over it.
"That is weird that our names are all there," Lita commented.
Ryrin jumped out of her seat at the super computer and came to join the geniuses. "What do you mean?" she asked.
"Look," Xana said handing her computer to Ryrin.
Ryrin scanned over the program and was just as surprised as the others.
"Lita, Xana, Charlotte, Adrian, Margret, Simone, Kaito, Ryrin," she whispered.
"Now I'm really curious what's going on," Adrian said glancing up at the others.
"I think it should only take another couple weeks," Rryin said glancing back at the super computer.
A month finally passed and everything was starting to come together, but it didn't make a lot of sense.
"It looks like we're compiling it correctly," Lita commented looking at her part of the program and a few more fragments that she was looking at.
"I agree, but can we really return to the past?" Adrian asked.
"It's probably just an acronym for something," Xana said.
"I'm going to stay here for a couple more minutes," Ryrin said not looking up from the super computer as the others began packing up.
"Are you sure?" Charlotte asked.
"One of us could stay," Lita said.
"No I'll be fine," Ryrin said. "Trust me I'll be back in a couple minutes."
"Okay," Xana said with a small sigh. "Let's go guys."
Hours later Ryrin picked up her vibrating cell phone. "Sorry I only have like two fragments left," she said opening the files.
"Really?" Adrian asked. "Well don't start it till we get there, kay?"
"All right," Ryrin said closing her cell phone. She covered a yawn as she leaned back and stretched. "So close," she mumbled as she decoded the code in front of her and moved it into place with the rest of the program.
"Last one," she whispered as she put it in it's place.
A new screen popped up and the loading completed almost instantaneously. "Shoot," Ryrin whispered. "It wasn't supposed to compile yet."
"Return to the past," the window read. a bright white light emitted from the super computer and it grew covering the forest and a bunch of frightened children just sneaking out of the school.