A/N: Here I am with a new chapter! I'm sorry I don't update more often, but I really am still strugling with my writer's block by only writing two stories at a time, and I am constantly bothered by my busy schedule that trying to apply for college entails.

I still don't own Code Lyoko. If I did, then nothing Code Lyoko-related would not be in English, and we'd all be watching our Fanfictions as AU cartoons.

Chapter 2 – I Meet My Dead Wife

I fell on the floor in utter shock. It was impossible. There was no way that Anthea could be here, with me, in the Internet because she never even saw the completed supercomputer, much less went to Lyoko. And yet, here she was, looking at her husband, expecting me not to have reacted the way I reacted. For a long time I couldn't move or even make any sound whatsoever. Then, I utterly collapsed on the floor.

"Anthea," I said, staring up at her. "No… it's not possible. You're dead. The Cobras found you. They killed you to get to me!"

At this, she smiled and shook her head. "That's what they thought, but as you can see, I am far from dead."

I stood up, and brushed myself off, but still asked on, "Well how are you here? I never told you about Lyoko or my work on Carthage, so how are you here in the Network?"

She giggled - a wonderful sound that I haven't heard in far too long - and said, "When are you going to learn that no man can keep a secret from his wife?"

I flushed a little at this, and said, "But that doesn't explain how you got here! No one has ever used the scanners but me, Aelita, and her friends."

She grinned at the corner of her mouth. "Who said I used those scanners?"

I raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean? There may have been a second supercomputer, but were no other scanners."

"Were there?" she asked me. "True, those scanners were built by you and were only in the lab at the factory, but who says there weren't other scanners? And what if they were hooked up to… oh, say… the supercomputer at headquarters that synchronizes with the one at the factory?"

"What?" I gasped. This was a new piece of info. How could there have been two sets of scanners? "Who built them?"

"You're looking at her," she smiled proudly.

My mouth hit the floor. I had no idea that my wife, who had been missing for years, could have been the one behind the construction of this second set of scanners. The thought never occurred to me because I didn't think it was possible. That last part became more prevalent, and I spoke up.

"Wait, how can that be? You were kidnapped by the Cobras before Aelita and I escaped into Lyoko."

"True," she answered, "but I was rescued by a very handsome young man from the Men in Black who was really a real agent for the President."

"Who was he?' I asked.

"Do you need to ask?" she said, half-laughing. "He was your friend, Michael Belpois, and I happened to meet his son, too." She sighed. "That boy was so cute when he was a toddler."

"What? Michael?" I knew very well who Jeremy's father was. After all, we were best friends since childhood, but he never mentioned anything about him rescuing Anthea to me before the whole XANA incident. I looked at her in disbelief, when something else occurred to me. She looked exactly the same as when I saw her before she disappeared. I did as well, but seeing no change on her, when she said she was still alive all this time was shocking to me. She noticed my shock, and smiled reassuringly.

"I know what you're thinking, honey," she said, "and yes, I look the same as I did ten years ago. That's because I virtualized myself in here of my own free will. I've been surfing this highway for all this time, looking for you."

"Really?" I said, "All this time… you were searching for me?"

She shrugged. "I missed you, dear."

I smiled. "I missed you too, sweetheart." I felt something I hadn't felt in what seemed to be forever, and I spread my arms out to envelop my beloved in a warm embrace, and she fell into it, with me crying softly.

"All this time," I sobbed, "I never stopped thinking about you. I was so worried about what happened to you. Some nights I couldn't sleep, and neither could Aelita. I was so alone for so long, it nearly drove me mad."

She sniffed a little. "I'm sorry, Waldo. There was no way to reach you. I've been… traveling a lot in the Network, and I couldn't find you and I didn't want to show myself to Aelita until I found you again."

I released my wife from my grasp and looked at her. "What kind of traveling? How did you do it in the first place? Do you have a vehicle like the Skidbladnir Jeremy developed?"

"I had something like that," she answered, "only ours came first."

"Ours?" I asked. "What do you mean 'ours'?"

"The R&D team, who created the first supercomputer, created a scanner that was more like a platform," she said, "and this platform literally warped you into the system, and you could travel into the Network. The team created a vehicle that could safely transverse this stream of data without danger of your own data being deleted."

"What was it called?" I asked, out of curiosity.

"It was the original Skidbladnir," she answered.

"The original Skidbladnir?" I said. "What do you mean by that?"

"I mean there was a Skid before your friends' Skid," she repeated. "And this 'Skid' was designed by a squad of experts in the R&D team. It's bigger, faster, and better equipped for the Network than the Skid you knew." She laughed. "Plus it's not completely totaled."

Even I snickered at this, and then had to ask, "So where is it?"

"Right there," she pointed out the window. I looked in that direction, and saw, out the window, the vast currents of the digital sea. Next to the place in the Network where we were, there was a large submarine that looked like Jeremy's Skidbladnir, but it was bigger, and the main body was shaped more like an actual submarine. The Navskids were also bigger, and looked like you could sit up in them, not lie in them like Aelita's friends did in their Skid.

"Well," I said after a pause, "the team sure knew their codes. So can this take us back to the scanner at headquarters and bring us back to Earth?"

Her face fell to the ground. I noticed this, and frowned.

"What is it?" I asked.

"There's something you don't know about this Skid, Waldo," she said. "It doesn't just travel through the Network.

It can travel through time."

"WHAT?" I shouted. I couldn't believe what I was hearing! The Skidbladnir, a time machine? "That has to be impossible! Time travel is the stuff of fantasy, of comic books!"

"I know it works," Anthea said, "because I've used it."

I looked at her and I saw jaded eyes that told no lie. I knew she was right. It sounded crazy, but she was right.

"Is this related to how we can escape this world and get back to our own?" I asked.

"Yes," she started, "because I am charging you with a mission."

"What kind of mission?" I asked again.

"Three different people throughout the course of time have met their end too soon," she explained, "and we need them to change the future for the better."

"Who are these people?"

"They are good people who have been badly wronged by the hands of Fate," she said, "so we must go and help them, or else the Skidbladnir cannot return us to Earth."

"Wait, the Skid is making us do this whole mission?" I gaped. "A machine can't think!"

"Funny you should say that," Anthea smirked, "considering a machine nearly killed you."

I flustered. "XANA was an Artificial Intelligence, not just an ordinary machine."

"Plus some pretty impossible things have been happening a lot as of late," she added.

"True," I replied. I stood up and offered my hand to my wife. "Alright, let's go. If we want to get home, and if this is the only way, then let's not waste any more time."

Anthea smiled and took my hand. "Thank you, dear."

She opened the door, and a burst of white light engulfed my vision before I noticed we were inside the new (or old, I should say) Skidbladnir. The inside was indeed bigger, and more like the inside of an actual submarine. The Navskids were still attached to the sides, but looked more like escape pods rather than miniature jets. Also, there were hatches to access each Navskid, and the central portion of the machine had twin command chairs. All of the programmed machinery looked extremely advanced for its time. Speaking of time, as soon as the two of us sat down in the chairs, with me in the front and my wife in the back, a display showed a set time below our current time. The display read like this:

Current Location: April 12, 2007 5:30 PM, Moscow, Russia

Destination: June 12, 1995 10:26 AM, Kanto Region, Japan

"What time is that?" I asked myself. "And why is it Japan?"

"Well," Anthea said happily, "there's only one way to find out, honey."

I nodded, and pressed a large red button on the control panel. Though I had no idea how this thing worked, I had seen more than enough movies to know that huge things happened whenever someone pushes the red button. Sure enough, I felt the machine lurch forward, the display vanished, and the Skid started to gain speed little by little, until it went so fast my head was pressed into my headrest. Everything in the digital sea blurred past us in a mess of blue and white, and then everything went bright. If this is what time traveling was like in the movies, I envied their stomachs, because I felt like my guts were trying to leap out of my mouth.

And here we go! If you know who my heroes are trying to save first, then please feel free to PM me or comment on this fic. I won't give spoilers, but this will be good!

-JeremyX signing off!