Takes place between Season 2 and Season 3.

This is my First Code Lyoko story, so please be nice. ;)

I don't own Code Lyoko

Time Trapped

Prologue:

In the courtyard of a school under the name of Kadic, students exited the cafeteria in order to head for their next classes, though for some it was hard to hide their enthusiasm as it was their last day before a three-week holiday began.

Though in the case of five particular teenagers; family visits, camping trips and whatnot were the last things on their minds, which made their conversation anything but normal.

"Are you sure it's a good idea?" Yumi asked as they converged on their usual bench to talk privately among themselves for the rest of their lunch hour. "What if Xana attacks?"

"We haven't seen anything of him since he escaped the supercomputer." Jeremy proclaimed as he pulled out his laptop in order to type on it for a bit, checking several scans to see if they had located the evil virus yet, but no luck.

"Maybe he finally gave up." Odd suggested with not a lot of hope in his voice as he moved to sit on the back of the bench.

"Not likely," Ulrich added.

"Which is why I think we should all stay here for the vacation." Yumi pointed out sternly.

"Yumi, we've got a good system." Aelita announced. "You can go on the camping trip with your family for the first week, then Odd and Ulrich can go on theirs' for the second."

"What about you, Princess, don't you want to do anything?" Odd added, causing her to smile at him.

"No, I better stay with Jeremy."

"So, it's okay for you two to run yourselves ragged, but not us?" He countered, causing her to pause as she realized she'd just been called out.

"Maybe you should go with Yumi, Aelita. Her parents already said it was okay." Jeremy proclaimed truthfully.

"You do realize you are apart of this conversation too, right?" Ulrich stated with a grin as he reached out to lay a hand on his genius-friend's shoulder, only for said person to wave him away.

"I've got too much work to do." He muttered leaving Odd and Ulrich to look at each other knowingly before shaking their heads, having learned long ago to just give up on the idea of ever hoping for Jeremy to actually act like a normal human being.

"Besides, I –" Jeremy started again only to be interrupted by the five-minute bell, alerting them to the fact that they had to go to their next torture session – or, uh, class.

They, therefore, agreed to discuss it more later; leaving Yumi to head for her Italian class and the others got up to go to science with Mrs. Hertz.

Unfortunately for them, the woman had a surprise quiz in store for them, which seemed more like half of an SAT given that it she'd seemed to think that four pages of complex questions was just what they needed to kick off the vacation.

Jeremy and Aelita were done long before their time was up, having to protect their given names of Mr. and Mrs. Einstein of course. However, it was only thanks to Aelita elbowing him in the side several times that Odd didn't get detention or worse for falling asleep during this event.

Ulrich, as usual, seemed to be completely stressed out. Give the kid a sword and he'd single-handedly save the world, but give him a science test and suddenly he was falling apart at the seams.

But, thankfully, for the unprepared teenagers about 5 minutes before they would have faced the end of their doom, every light in the room decided to take this opportunity to shut off, along with the power; causing the four battle-hardened Lyoko Warriors to grow concerned while the rest of the class cheered, forcing their teacher to lay down the law.

"Jeremy?" Aelita asked worriedly as they turned to look at the genius who pulled out his laptop again in order to check for an activated Tower.

"There's nothing on the scan." He announced after a moment, leaving them to turn in order to listen to Mrs. Hertz as she talked to the Principle via her phone, learning that it wasn't just their building, instead the whole city seemed to be experiencing the power outage.

"Could it just be a coincidence?" Odd asked simply as he turned back to his friends, but they didn't have an answer.

"I'm trying to figure that – out –" Jeremy finished slowly as he found something, leaving his friends to quickly look back at him, waiting to hear the bad news.

"What is it?" Aelita asked before Jeremy promptly shut his computer as it started to beep profusely, having just managed to keep it undetected by their teacher before he looked up to answer her.

"I don't know, but, whatever it was, all of the power in the city has just been rerouted straight to the factory."

…

It was at this time, that a supercomputer not far from the school, lit up with activity as several programs and files flashed by on its severer in fast succession, causing all the lights in the room to flare to the point of nearly whiting out the whole scene, in response to an overload of energy being pumped through the system.

But the firewalls forced it back and the power died again a set of doors from one of three scanners on the floor below opened, bathing the room in a soft, gold glow and filling it with smoke as a process that operated on both space and time was finally completed.

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