Old and New Meet

In Jeremie's room, Jeremie is by himself on a laptop.

"I'm telling you guys I got it covered." Jeremie says, talking to some people through his computer.

"And we're just saying, if you need our help again just tell us." A man with brown medium length hair tells him.

"Come on Einstein, we just wish to pay our old friend a visit and help him out." Another guy says, this one with blonde hair that stands up in a strange form.

"I said everything's fine here." Jeremie tells them.

"You mean like when things were fine the last time the supercomputer was turned on?" A woman asks, this one being Japanese with black hair and kind of a dark look.

"Look a few of my students just got wrapped into something they shouldn't have." Jeremie tells them. "I have full confidence they can clean up their mess…. Mostly."

"And how did Aelita take this information?" The blonde guy asks.

"I haven't told her about it yet." Jeremie tells them. "I'm trying not to get her involved with Lyoko again."

"How in the world can you hide it from her after the return?" The brown hair one asks.

"That's the problem… I don't know." Jeremie says.

"You shouldn't lie to the girl you love you know." The blonde one says.

"Yeah you're one to talk Odd." The other guy says.

"Aelita is smart you know, she will find out Jeremie." The girl says.

"Yeah, she probably already does." Jeremie sighs.

"Anyway, tell us about these new 'warriors' already." Odd tells him.

"Hmm? Oh right." Jeremie says.

Meanwhile, Luc is also on his laptop.

"You certainly like being on your laptop a lot don't you?" Maya asks, speaking from a window on the laptop.

"I suppose but it's just what I do when I got nothing better to do." Luc tells her.

"What about spending time with the others, or doing some physical activities?" She asks.

"I'm still getting to know the others better before I start hanging out with them all the time." He tells her. "And I'm not much of a physical activity type."

"Really? Cause Vincent told me you were quite the football player." Maya says.

"Ugh, that's the past now." Luc says now sounding abit annoyed.

"Hmm?" Maya looks confused. "Fine forget I brought it up then."

"Good." He says.

"…" Maya just stays quiet.

"…." Luc does the same.

"….."

"…Okay fine I'll go!" He tells her.

"Heh good." She says before Luc closes the laptop.

Luc sighs. "Just can't say no to a pretty face can you Luc?" He asks himself.

Suddenly there's a knock on his room's door.

"Hmm? Wonder who that could be?" He asks before walking over to the door and answering it. "Hmm? Can I help you?"

"Excuse me if I'm bothering you, but do you know where I can find Jeremie Belpois?" A young woman asks him.

Meanwhile with Jeremie.

"I'm telling you these guys can handle things themselves." Jeremie tells them.

"Sure they can." The brown hair guy says. "But will it kill you to asks for some help?"

"Come on Ulrich he has much more to be worried about than X.A.N.A anyway." The girl says.

"Yeah what's that Yumi?" Jeremie asks.

"Like what Aelita is going to do to you when she finds out you been hiding this from her." She tells him, all of them laugh but Jeremie.

"Let's just see how long I can keep it from her." Jeremie says.

"Uh not very long." Jeremie looks over to the door to his room to see Luc and the woman he met.

"Ugh, A-Aelita!?" Jeremie exclaims.

"Uh oh trouble in paradaise Einstein?" Odd asks.

"Luc what are you doing with her?" Jeremie asks.

"Well uh.." Luc starts.

"I asked him for help to find you." The woman, Aelita, tells him. She's about Jeremie's age and has medium length pink hair. "Now start explaining."

"Yeah Jeremie, start explaining." Ulrich says, the three of them laughing on the computer.

"Ugh, Luc please get the others." Jeremie says.

"Uh okay." Luc says, obviously confused, before leaving.

Luc finds the rest of them outside, Vincent and Lyon are kicking around a soccer ball.

"Hey Luc want to play a game?" Vincent asks.

"You know I don't play soccer anymore." Luc tells him. "And don't go around telling people I played football, not many people still call it that."

"Oh come on, you were an excellent player back in grade school. Why not show us what you got?" Vincent asks.

"Because Jeremie wants to meet with us now." Luc tells them.

"Tell you what, you show us some skill and we're come." Lyon says.

"Ugh fine whatever." Luc says.

"Heh okay then." Vincent says before kicking the ball at Luc.

Luc simply kicks the ball up and starts juggling it with his feet.

"Wow!" Lyon exclaims.

"Hehe how impressive." Lucille says.

Luc finishes by kicking the ball into a soccer net.

"You all happy now." Luc asks.

"Very, haven't gotten rusty after so long." Vincent tells him.

"Do you two have a history or something?" Lucille asks.

"I suppose, but let's save that for another day, we got business." Luc tells them.

Soon they arrive back at Jeremie's room to find him and Aelita arguing.

"I was only trying to protect you from X.A.N.A this time!" Jeremie tells her.

"What makes you think I need protection?" She asks. "I fought X.A.N.A once too you know; I can fight him again!"

"Oh this is all my fault." Maya says from a window on the computer.

"Nah they do this often, it's a love thing." Odd tells her.

"Don't worry I'm sure they're be fine." Ulrich says.

"Uh is everything okay here?" Luc asks.

"Hmm? Oh you four finally got here." Jeremie says. "All of you take a seat and we're begin."

They all take a seat as Jeremie starts to explain.

Meanwhile in the halls of the school.

"Ugh!" Ayame is holding her head. "God my head is killing me!"

"Maybe you should go to the nurse's office Ayame." A guy walking next to her says. He's abit shorter than she is and looks a year younger.

"I'll be fine Blaise, just have these strange images in my head." She tells him. "They're so familiar, but I can't seem to remember why."

"How can you not remember something?" Blaise asks her. "You have a perfect memory."

"Heh I guess it's becoming imperfect." She says. "Maybe I'm getting old at a young age."

They laugh abit as they pass Jeremie's room.

"So these are the new Lyoko Warriors?" Odd asks.

"These are the original ones?" Lyon asks.

"…. They look like complete idiots!" Odd and Lyon exclaim at the same time.

"It's like they're looking into a mirror." Vincent says.

"No kidding." Ulrich says.

"It's sad I have to put up with this crap on a daily basis." Lucille sighs,

"Hah you try spending a day with Odd, you might appreciate life with your brother more." Yumi says.

"Well looks like everyone is getting along." Jeremie says.

"Yeah…" Luc says before looking at Maya, who hasn't said anything.

"Hey you okay there princess?" Odd asks Maya.

"Huh?" Maya exclaims. "Oh sorry, I just had a strange feeling is all."

"You said the same thing the other day too." Luc says. "You sure you're okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine, don't worry about me." Maya tells them.

"I know how it feels to be stuck alone, don't worry I'm sure we can help you." Aelita tells her before smiling. "Speaking of Lyoko, Jeremie why not send me there?"

"What!?" Jeremie exclaims. "Why would I do that!?"

"If I go to Lyoko, maybe I can at least find the missing programs in sector 5." She tells him.

"Sector 5?" Luc says in confusion.

Jeremie thinks for a moment. "You're not going to take no for an answer are you?" He asks.

"You know I won't." She answers with a smile.

"…. Fine, if it speeds things up so we can shut down X.A.N.A again I guess it's worth a try." He says.

"We're help to." Lyon says.

"No, sector 5 is still much too dangerous for you three." Jeremie says.

"Come on Einstein, let them give it a shot." Odd says.

"Look I don't even know if I can get them there anyway since the supercomputer seems to have lost everything we had before." Jeremie tells them.

"Never know till you try." Ulrich says.

"Whatever, just don't say I didn't warn you." Jeremie says.

"Well tell us how that works out." Ulrich says. "And don't hesitate to ask for our help if you need it."

Jeremie closes the laptop.

"Okay then let's go then!" Lyon exclaims before they head out.

"Jeremie! Where do you think you're going!?" They see the principal, Mr. Delmas, walking towards them.

"Uh well.." Jeremie starts.

"You realize you got work to do, don't you?" Delmas asks.

"Uh yes sir." Jeremie answers.

"Then get to it! You might've been our finest student and a friend of my daughter's, but don't think for a second that I won't fire you if you begin to slack off!" He tells him before turning to the other. "Oh, good to see you again Mrs. Belpois." He says before walking off.

"Ugh, you guys go on without me." Jeremie tells them. "Aelita, walk Luc through the procedures." He tells her before walking off as well.

"Right, let's go!" Aelita says as they start running.

They soon arrive in the sewers.

"Well this brings back memories." Aelita says as she looks around. "Ah here we are!" She says as she grabs some skateboards and scooters from a nearby tunnel.

"Wow who knew those were here?" Lyon asks as he takes a skateboard.

Vincent takes one as well, Lucille and Aelita use the scooters, and Luc uses his roller-skates.

Soon they're riding their way through the sewers.

"So how long have you and Jeremie been together?" Lyon asks.

"Only a few years actually." Aelita answers.

"Interesting." Lyon says.

They soon make it to the factory and use the elevator to head on down.

Luc gets off at the computer and the others head to the scanners.

"Okay guys, we're going to send in Aelita and Lyon alone for now." Luc tells them.

"Right then, let's do this!" Lyon says as he and Aelita walk into the scanners.

"Transfer Aelita, transfer Lyon!" Luc starts. "Scanner Aelita, scanner Lyon! Virtualization!"

They both appear on Lyoko in the Forest Sector.

"And here I thought you couldn't get any more pink." Lyon says.

"Thanks and nice outfit." She tells him.

"Why does everyone have to hate on my armor?" Lyon asks.

"Cause it's nothing special." Luc says before laughing abit.

"Oh shut up and tell us where to go!" Lyon exclaims.

"The tower with Maya should be behind you." He says.

The two turn around to see a tower, which Maya walks out of.

"Top of the morning to ya lassie!" Lyon says.

"Hehe nice to meet you too Lyon." Maya says before looking at Aelita.

"…." Both of them just look at each other.

"Something wrong?" Luc asks.

"No, but I suddenly feel like I know this girl." Aelita says.

"Yeah." Maya says.

"Impossible, I seriously doubt you knew each other before today." Luc says.

"Well let's get to this Sector 5." Lyon says. "Where to?"

"We're need to get to the edge of the sector." Aelita says. "Luc you know what to do from there don't you?"

"I think so." He says. "But there's so much it might take me a minute."

"Okay you two let's go!" Aelita says as they run off.

In the scanner room, Lucille and Vincent are sitting around waiting for orders. A black fog seeps into the wiring of the scanners.

"Ugh!" Maya suddenly falls to her knees while holding her head.

"Huh?" The other two stop.

"Are you okay?" Aelita asks.

"I-I'll be fine!" Maya says as she stands back up.

"… Aelita you go on ahead, I'll watch over Maya and let her rest." Lyon tells her.

"Good idea." Aelita says before running off.

"Is something wrong Maya?" Lyon asks.

"I'm fine, really." Maya tells him. "Ugh! Activated tower in the Desert Sector!" She suddenly exclaims before crying in pain.

"Whoa! Calm down!" Lyon tells her.

"Desert Sector! Activated Tower!" She exclaims.

"Uh Luc!" Lyon exclaims.

"I'm already on it!" Luc tells them. "She's right I found a tower activated in another sector."

"We're go deactivate it! Send the others to help Aelita!" Lyon says, helping Maya to calm down.

"Okay then!" Luc exclaims. "Lucille, Vincent, your turns."

"Bout time." Vincent says before they enter the scanners.

The scanners close.

"Okay Transfer Lucille, transfer Vincent!" Luc starts. "Huh?"

"Hey what's going on Luc? Why haven't you started?" Lucille asks.

"The scanners aren't responding! Someone's cut them off!" Luc exclaims.

"X.A.N.A!" They both yell. "Get us out of here Luc!"

"The scanners won't even open!" Luc says. "This is bad! So bad."

"What's going on there Luc?" Aelita asks.

"X.A.N.A's taken over the scanners, we can't get Lucille or Vincent out of them!" Luc tells her. "If we don't deactivate that tower soon, they could die from lack of oxygen!"

"Oh no! I'll turn back to help the others!" Aelita says.

"No you continue on, Lyon should be able to handle it." Luc tells her.

"… Okay I'm going." She says before continuing on.

"Lyon hurry and get Maya to the tower!" Luc tells him.

"I'm already on it!" He says, they're running back to the way tower.

"Oh and abit of a warning." Luc says. "I don't want to worry you, but I wouldn't try to get devirtualized because there's no telling what may happen."

"Oh great, want to tell me my sister's in trouble as well?" Lyon asks.

"…. I'm going to sign off for a second." Luc says as he takes off the earpiece.

He soon hears Lyon yelling and cursing loudly.

"Well he took that well." Luc says.

Back in the scanner room.

"Hey how are you doing?" Vincent asks.

"I'm good right now, just a little hot in here." Lucille responds.

"We're be fine I'm sure." He tells her, breathing abit hard.

Soon Lyon and Maya make it to the way tower and to the sector.

"Whew, now this looks fun." Lyon says.

The sector is covered in sand and rocks.

"I see the tower." Maya says before pointing at a tower not too far off.

"Good let's go then!" Lyon exclaims before running of with Maya.

Aelita soon reaches the edge of the sector.

"Okay I'm here Luc." Aelita tells him.

"Right, now I just enter the code word, SCIPIO, into this, and.." Luc says.

Aelita looks around, but nothing is happening.

"… It didn't work did it?" Luc asks.

"Afraid not." She answers.

"Well that was a waste of time, head back to the tower." He tells her. "As for you Lyon, looks like new company."

"Thanks for the help Luc, I really needed that now!" Lyon exclaims, fighting against 2 monsters that look like long legged crabs. "I don't have time for this!"

"Krabs, first seen, and already a pain." Luc says.

The krabs fire at Maya, who uses an energy barrier to protect herself.

"Hey! Aim for me you stupid crustacean!" Lyon exclaims and charges at one of them.

One of the krabs turn to him and fires, Lyon jumps over the attack and lands on its head.

"Take this!" He exclaims as he extracts his claws and slashes the eye on its head and it soon explodes. "Heh!" He lands on the ground and is suddenly shot by the other. "Ugh!"

"Lyon be more careful, couple more hits like that and you're history." Luc tells him.

"Good, always wanted to be a part of history." He says before standing back up.

"UGH!" In the scanner room, Vincent is trying to force the scanner open. "Come on!"

"B-Be careful. Don't exhaust your- yourself." Lucille says, breathing hard.

"Ugh if something happens to her, Lyon won't ever leave me alone about it." Vincent says to himself.

The krab attacking them continues to aim mostly at Maya.

"Ugh!" Maya's barrier begins to break.

" Hey seafood!" Lyon exclaims before slashes two of the krab's legs off.

The krab tries to stay balanced, but ends up falling over and explodes.

"Go on Maya." Lyon tells her as Maya runs into the tower.

"Ugh!" Vincent groans as he falls overs.

Maya begins the deactivation process and soon finishes.

"Ugh!" Maya falls over and shrieks in pain as she holds her head.

"Hmm?" Luc frowns before typing.

"What was that?" Lyon asked as the tower goes back to normal.

"Return to the past now!" Luc exclaims before activating the return program.

Soon they find themselves back in Jeremie's room.

"So we're unable to get to Sector 5?" Jeremie asks.

"It would seem so." Aelita says.

"Doesn't matter for now anyway, afterall, I finally found the superscan." Jeremie says.

"Really?" Luc asks.

Jeremie frowns. "I think Maya has the superscan program inside of her."

"That would explain her sudden reactions to activated towers." Lyon answers.

"It also explains the strange feelings she's been having." Lucille says.

"But it doesn't explain how it got inside of her." Jeremie tells them.

"Why me?" Maya asks. "Whenever that happens it hurts so much!"

"I'll try to find a way to lessen its effect while trying to remove the program from you." Jeremie tells her. "Until then, you're need to help us find out when a tower is active."

"Oh joy." She sighs.

'I still want to know about that shriek from before as the tower was deactivating.' Luc thinks to herself. 'Why hasn't Maya said anything about it? Is she hiding something?'

"Oh yeah Jeremie," Aelita starts. "I forgot to tell you, I asked Mr. Delmas for a job as a teacher."

"W-What!?" Jeremie exclaimed.

"Heh, I'll be teaching science here as of tomorrow." She says while smiling.

Jeremie has gone blank in expression as they all laugh at him.