Ohaaaaiiiii gggguuuuuuyyyyysssssss sup? How ya doin? this is the new chapter of Return of an Era. I own Simon and Felix, nothin else.

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Somewhere in southern France Jeremie was enjoying summer vacation for the first time since Xana had come into his life. He was spending it with Aelita at his family's summer home and they were currently swimming. Jeremie had just made it across the entire pool in a matter of seconds, swimming being the only sport Jeremie was any good at. He turned to Aelita and explained the mathematics to streamline with as little water resistance as possible. This impressed her more than the actual feat of athleticism.

They were in the pool, so Jeremie didn't have his phone on him, so he didn't hear it ring when Ulrich called.

Back in the forest, Ulrich hung up, slightly irritated.

"Of course he doesn't answer..." he muttered under his breath.

"Who doesn't answer? Who was that guy, Ulrich? You look like you know him. Ulrich?" Felix nudged, poking Ulrich.

"People."

"What people?" but Felix's words fell on deaf ears as Ulrich dialed Yumi's number. Thankfully, she actually picked up.

"Hello?"

"Oh, hi, Yumi, you actually picked up."

"Hey, Ulrich, what's up?" she asked, being able to pick up the urgency in his voice. Simon and Felix perked up, they didn't understand the strange language Ulrich was using but they did hear "Yumi."

"Hey Ulrich are you talking to Yumi?"

"Isn't that the girl you draw in your diary all the time?"

"I heard him say he loves her when he dosed off under the tree once!"

"YUMI, ULRICH'S IN LOVE WITH YOU!" Ulrich's face turned bright red.

"HEY, SHUT UP, WILL YOU! THE TWO OF US ARE JUST VERY GOOD FRIENDS!" He snapped in German, the brothers whimpered, cowering from him. Ulrich sighed and switched to French, speaking to Yumi, "Just a sec..." Then he turned to the boys. "Listen, this is really important, just calm down and let me talk to my friends, ok?"

Felix walked over to Ulrich and gave him an innocent hug.

"I'm sorry, Ulrich..."

"Yea, me too." Simon said, looking at his feet...he noticed something shiny at the edge of his vision.

"Ok I forgive you." Ulrich said, then went back to his phone. "Hey again, Yumi." On the other end of the line he could hear Yumi laughing.

"Interesting friends you got there, what were they saying?"

"Uh...nothing..." Ulrich blushed once more.

"Right, well what did you call to tell me?"

"Huh...tell you...? OH YEAH!" Ulrich said, momentarily forgetting, then he regained his thoughts and sobered considerably. "Yumi there's a big problem." Yumi's eyes widened, her mind racing to the assumed problem.

"Xana..."

"No, not that, at least I don't think so. My neighbors, you just heard them, they found Franz Hopper in the middle of the forest."

"Wait, Franz Hopper?"

"Yeah, he's alive, apparently. He looked all busted up and when he woke up he took off running."

"Weird..."

"Yeah, and I tried calling Jeremie but he wouldn't pick up."

"Ok, well, I'll try calling him, I'd try to get us all back to the supercomputer, you know that's where Franz's gonna go."

"Right...If I can somehow sneak away from my family."

"I'm sure you can, keep me posted."

"Ok." Ulrich hung up. His mind set to work on the problem at hand, how to leave to go back to school without getting killed by his dad. Then again he was at people's houses days at a time and nobody asked questions, it was just normal. As long as he was there on Sunday, it'd be fine...or so he hoped.

"Hey, I found something." Simon said. Ulrich turned to see him and Felix staring at a circular metal gadget with a neon blue panel in the center.

"What's that?" Ulrich asked.

"I don't know, it was just laying here."

"Simon, your so good at finding things!" Felix smiled at his brother. Ulrich had to agree to this, once when he'd lost his phone Simon had found it even though it had been buried by a dog.

"I wonder what it does..." Simon wondered aloud. The two boys looked at Ulrich expectantly.

"I don't know, but right now I need to call Odd's house." Felix pressed the panel as Ulrich said "Odd's house" and immediately the three boys were enveloped in a neon blue sphere, and disappeared.

Odd sat under a tree in his huge backyard in Italy sketching his friends fighting on Lyoko against a couple of Tarantulas. Honestly, he still missed the adventure, though they were a lot safer this way. He kept the memory alive through drawings. He just finished drawing Ulrich having stabbed a Tarantula and moving to the next one when he saw a bright flash of light. He looked up and saw Ulrich with two other small boys.

"Well what do ya know, I'm magical!" Odd exclaimed in French.

"Huh...wha...what are we doing here?" Ulrich asked in German.

"I guess that's what this thing does." Simon said, staring at what was apparently a teleportation device.

"Come again good buddy?" Odd said, only knowing very minimal German.

"I said I don't know how we got here."

"Ulrich, the thingy brought us here!" Felix said excitedly.

"Oh, that metal thing brought us." Ulrich explained to Odd.

"Just couldn't stay away from Odd the Magnificent, eh?" He joked.

"Actually, we came by accident, guess cause I said "Odd's house" and he pressed the button." Ulrich pointed at Simon.

"Yeah, who are those guys?" Odd asked.

"Neighbors. Very annoying neighbors. Anyways I gotta tell you something."

"I'm all ears."

"Franz Hopper turned up in the forest. We don't know what's up but we're gonna meet up at school, he's bound to go there, and figure out what's up." Odd was silent for a second, looking down at his picture, then slowly his lips turned into a broad smile.

"Let's do this!" He exclaimed, jumping from his sitting position and fistpumping. Then he got on his cellphone.

"Mom, dad, I'm gonna be spending some time away from home, I don't know when I'll be back but I'll keep you posted. Bye." Odd turned back to Ulrich.

"There, now I can come with you."

"What are those two talking about?" Felix asked.

"I don't know, Felix." Simon replied.

"We're going to France to learn about the man in the forest." Ulrich explained.

"Can we come with you?" Simon asked.

"No." Was Ulrich's curt response.

"Please."

"No."

"PPPPPLLLLLLEEEEAAAASSSEEEE."

"...Fine you can tag along but if you give us any trouble you're going right back home!"

"YAAAAAAAAY!" They both screamed.

"What's with the excitement?" Odd asked, chuckling a bit.

"I'm letting them tag along with us." Ulrich explained.

"Oh, ok. Well let's go." Odd said. "I mean what are we waiting for?"

"Nothing I guess, but how should we get there?" Ulrich asked.

"The same way you got here, of course. We teleport."

"Oh true."

"Let the little kid do it." Odd smiled at Simon and Felix, he knew what it was like to be the little one. Ulrich turned to Felix.

"Hey buddy." he said in German. "Would you say 'Renault Factory, Paris, France' and press the button?" Felix nodded enthusiastically and did as he was asked. Once again they vanished in an orb of neon blue, this time landing exactly where Felix had said, the factory.

Back in the Black Forest Franz had stopped his feverish running, he was exhausted and had stopped for water from a river and nuts in a nearby tree. He took a deep breath, his wits not quite about him, but his mind was clear enough to think somewhat rationally. He checked his pocket for the teleporter that had brought him there...it was gone.

"What, where is it?" He said, hearing his own voice for the first time in what seemed like an eternity. He checked his other pocket, it wasn't there either. He patted himself for any sign of it but it was gone. A panicked look came across his face, if he had lost the teleporter...He ran back the way he had come from, keeping his eyes on the ground for signs of the missing device. Finally he came back to the spot where he had teleported to...the device wasn't there, neither were the kids that had been here...he could figure out the rest. He let out a yell and smashed his head into the tree. He'd have to get there by foot.


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