Conan slid out of his bed and went to Jeremie's room. The team greeted him. Peter seemed to be working on something. "What's that Peter?" Conan asked.

"Yeah, I was wondering what that was." said Odd. "Oh, it's a new dart system. Rather then the knock out drug, it has holy water,. Never know when you're going to need it, especially if you met me." Peter answered, sliding the mini machinegun styled belt into Conan's pocket.

Ulrich then said, "Well, I'm going to get breakfast, anyone else?" The others agreed and followed Ulrich out. When they crossed Conan and Rachel's dorm, Conan stated, "I'll be back guys, just giving Rachel a note to let her know where I am."

Conan slipped into his room, found a pad of paper and wrote his note, then slipped back out. He met with the warriors at their usual table. The team was eating Croissants. "Here Conan, have one," said Alieta, handing him one. Conan took a bite out of the bread roll.

It was flaky and buttery. (A/N: Yeah, I know, cliché. But I can't think of anything else to describe a croissants flavor. Lyoko498)

About an hour later, they all decided to go to the Rec. room. Ulrich and Odd were playing foosball, while the others were talking. "And there were no survivors," Peter replied, concluding his sad story, "And that's why I can never return to the Paleolithic time ever again ever."

Jeremie then responded, "I just asked if you watched any good movies." "Really? Maybe my brain hasn't totally healed from that last attack."

Conan then thought aloud, "Did Rachel wake up?" Yumi responded, "I took a peek, she's still sleeping."

"For this long? She never sleeps this late." Conan asked. "Maybe we should check, I mean Rachel has been through a lot. I mean, absorbing all that energy…having some of her skin peeled off…fell unconscious… Peter drew on her face…" Ulrich listed.

"You did what?" Conan growled at Peter, who smiled. "I couldn't resist. I did it before you woke up."

After a class (Jeremie said they were watching Conan for Rachel, who was still asleep) the group left for supper. Conan finally said, "Alright, now I'm concerned. She couldn't possible sleep this long and not get up to do something."

Alieta agreed, "We should check up on her."

The group went to the dorm building and looked for Rachel's dorm. Ulrich knocked on the door. It slid open with little to no trouble. It wasn't locked, there was nothing just a lump in the bed.

While the others walked right to the bed, Conan tripped and fell, and secretly picked up the paper.

Yumi picked up Conan. "Alright Rachel, time to get up, it's almost been a day…" Jeremie said tearing off the blankets, only to reveal a stack of pillows and sheets in her place.

"What the hell?" asked Conan to himself out loud. A tissuse of chloroform was on the pillow. Odd picked up a disc. "What's this?" he asked.

Jeremie took out his computer and popped the disk in the machine. A digital message. It was a ransom note. It said if they weren't given 300,000 euros by midnight that night, Rachel Moore will die.

"I recognize this style of ransom," Ulrich said. "As do I." said Peter. Yumi, Jeremie, and Conan also recognized the style, leaving Odd and Alieta the only ones uninformed.

"These are some of the most advanced technology out of any gangs and thugs. They've been in the news recently." Jeremie informed. "Can't remember what they're called though," stated Ulrich. "Well, let's give them hell!" yelled Odd.

"No!" Everyone turned to Conan in surprised. "I have to do this. She's my friend. And… I love her."

Jeremie then said, surprising Conan with how quick it was, "Alright then," Conan looked up and saw the stern face above him. Conan grabbed his bag and quickly debated on using the Agasa generation gadgets or the Lyoko generation gadgets.

'Well I am up against one of the most technologically advanced thugs on Earth.'

Conan picked up the Lyoko Generation gadgets, slid his bag on his shoulder. "You might also need these my friend," said Peter, dropping five cards on the floor.

On the cards were images of the Lyoko warriors. Odd as a purple cat, Ulrich as a samurai, Yumi as a geisha ninja, Alieta as an elf, Jeremie smiling and giving a peace sign with his fingers, and Peter as a werewolf with a smirk akin to Norman Bates from Psycho.

"There cards will summon us if you need us, but after use, they must recharge their energies." Peter warned. "Want us to at least give you a lift?" asked Alieta. "Alright,"

Yumi parked the van they managed to rent in front where the gangsters were. They deduced it from the details in the disk. Jeremie leaned to Conan and whispered, "Be careful when you summon Peter. As I'm sure you're well aware from the magician thieves, he's very…sadistic."

Conan jumped from the van and said in his thoughts, 'Speak through telepathy?' 'Yep,' responded Ulrich. 'Good luck,' said Alieta, closing the van door.

Conan turned the knob on his shoes, sprinted, jumped and kicked the door off its hinges. The door crashed into several of the men. "What the hell?" asked one of the men, only for a sedative dart to pierce his neck.

In a matter of seconds, the whole room was unconscious. 'Wow, that machine gun belt did the trick, and 30 shots to spare.' Conan ran into the next room.

The thugs heard the commotion and were armed with primarily machine guns of all forms, but 90% were Uzis. "Oh boy!" Conan muttered to himself.

"What?" "It's just a kid?" "Maybe it's a distraction by the cops." "Tell the head! Tell him to kill Moore!" 'No!'

Conan swiftly clicked the buttons on the right ankle of his left shoe, and the left ankle on his right shoe. Tiny blades popped from the front of his shoes.

With the power shoes still on, he was able to run at the man with unnatural speed and kicked the man in the chest. The blade wasn't long, but it did cause some major bleeding.

"Get that kid!" yelled one of the men. All but one man began to swarm. The one man ran through the door and locked it, he continued this pattern until he got to the leader and told him what was happening.

'Oh no, there's too many. I'd hate to use three cards at one, but I don't have a choice do I?' Conan took three cards from his pocket and yelled, "Odd, Ulrich, Yumi!" Then in a flash the three warriors appeared, with makeshift weapons.

Yumi had quickly made throwing stars, Ulrich had a sharpen piece of metal, and Odd had a baseball bat.

"You called?" said Yumi. "Get them!" called out the cluster's leader, Chuck.

Yumi threw three stars at one of the men, this manages him to drop his weapon, cripple him and he won't be using his right eye for a while.

Then a man flew right behind Yumi, causing her to jump. "Sorry," said Ulrich and Conan together. What happened was that Ulrich slit the man's hand, causing him to drop his gun, while Conan kicked him in the chest causing him to fly.

Odd just whacked any person that wasn't Conan, Ulrich or Yumi, simple as that.

While his army was being slimmed down, he tried to escape through the door. But as he reached for the module that locks and unlocks the doors, a razor-sharp disk was in his hand.

A tight grip ripped him from the module, "Gentlemen," said Yumi, tossing him to the boys. As Conan jumped he said, "This is for kidnapping Rachel!" Conan gave a solid kick in the jaw, sending him spiraling towards Ulrich who said, "I really hate gangsters." Ulrich slit the skin on the man's forehead, knocking him to Odd, "Well at least this guy is fun to hit in the face!" Odd whacked him across the head with his club.

The man fell, knocked out. As this happened Odd, Ulrich and Yumi started to dissolve, the magic of the cards fading. But Before Odd fully vanished, he smashed the module and the doors opened.

Meanwhile with the Lyoko Warriors in the van, as the trio materialized, Odd asked, "Why do you think destroying the mechanical systems of automatic doors it always opens, rather then staying locked?" "Not a clue," said Alieta.

Conan walked into the room. He looked left, then right. He then looked at the ground. "Something's wrong here."

'Jeremie?' Conan asked via thoughts. 'Yeah?' 'Do you have anything that can check for laser sensors?'

'Yeah the digital notebook picks up obstacles remember?' 'Oh yeah, now I remember.' Conan looked into his bag and grabbed the note book and opened it.

"Oh no, this place is filled with lasers." Conan looked around and noticed a button that read, "3-D". He pressed it and the map became a 3-D image. He could see the lasers and where he was on the map (he was shown a tiny chibi head.) "Alright there seems to be a gap small enough to crawl through in front of me."

Conan got on his belly and started to crawl through the (according to his map) triangle gap. When he was through the opening, the map showed there was a small enough opening for him to sit up. "Alright, I can step over the this laser in front of me, while crouching…"

Conan followed what the map showed him. When he finally made it out of the lasers and at the door, Conan, wondered, what did the lasers do? He tossed a piece of lint into the invisible laser, and it became a small fire ball.

"Good thing." Conan turned his shoes back on, jumped and grabbed the module. "Oh great, the code is in WWII Enigma." Conan hated to use another card, but he need help. "Jeremie." Conan whispered. "Hey Conan, what do you need?" asked Jeremie.

"This module is in Enigma." "World War II style?" "Yep." "Alright, I can do that."

Jeremie clicked a few buttons and picked Conan up, "I might need some help of this portion." After about ten minutes of work the two of them finally cracked the code.

"Hey Jeremie, why is it taking you so long to dissolve, while the others took a few minutes." Conan questioned. "Well, I'm not using a lot of the magic energies. Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi used the energies to get weapons and burned the rest with their own energy."

"So the magic is also burned with their energy to work?" "Yep."

The duo crept through the next room. They ducked behind a crate. "Oh crap," The room was full of thugs. "Alright, we need help…" Conan said, looking at Ulrich's card. It was black and white, with some blue color towards the bottom of the description.

"Still charging," Jeremie explained. Conan then asked, "What can Alieta do?"

"She's a smart as me, but I can assume she can get something with the added magic."

"Should I try?" Jeremie hesitated. "I personally wouldn't. But if you let me give her some instructions via telepathy?" "Of course, but quickly." Conan thought the terms were fair, he didn't want to loose the girl he loves, just like him.

Jeremie gave the instructions and said, "Now Conan."

"Alieta!" Conan whispered as the card started the glow pink.

One of the men Al was shoved to the floor. "Huh? What was that?" Al's face was slammed to the floor. "What the hell?" asked on of the men. A solid jab struck the man in the face. Soon other men cringed in pain as the unseen force struck them.

"Fire!" yelled on of them. The gangsters fired and they dropped dead. "Didn't think they'd do that." said Alieta's voice, from nowhere. With that she and Jeremie faded. "Good luck," said the couple. Conan sprinted to the next room.

The leader, who is ironically named Richard, heard of the boy and his small team. "Find them!" yelled Richard, "Find them and kill them all!"

Meanwhile at the van, the Warriors were talking to one another. "Hey do you know what I just realized." asked Peter. "What?" questioned Odd. "How the hell did a bunch of high-tech gangsters get on school grounds? Don't we have security guards or something?"

"No, but we have a janitor." Yumi responded. "Are you kidding me?" "Nope."

Conan was finally there, the last door, the leader had to be behind the door.

'Don't worry Rachel, I'm coming, and I got an ace up my sleeve, my last card, in an emergency.'

Conan kicked open the door. A huge army of thugs were before him, and in the distance, was the leader, with Rachel hanging from chains by her hands.

"You're the boy killing my men?" asked Richard. "Not kill, only knock out." Conan replied. "Kill him!" Richard ordered. The men tackled and knocked down the boy.

Odd asked Jeremie, as it now occurred to him, "Now that I think of it, why is Jimmy immune to the memory erasing effects of the return to the past?"

Jeremie answered, "Well, Alieta and I assumed it's the same reason he retains his adult mind despite reverting back to a child's body."

Then the warriors noticed one of them was missing.

The gangsters were sent flying when a dome of energy was fired at them. "Thanks Peter." said Conan. "Eh, no problem Jimmy."

Rachel heard him, 'J-Jimmy?' Some men started running towards them. "They aren't even trying." Peter said, snapping his finger, creating a tube of fire to surround them. "Hey, we're here to save a life, not take them."

"Whatever you Kudo." Peter said. "By the your card is almost out of energy."

"And with what energy I got, I'll do as much as I can! Like the other Warriors!"

Conan, clicked his belt and kicked the soccer ball that came out, slamming into the face of on of the goons. "Are you sure, these are the most technologically advanced thugs on Earth?" asked Conan. Peter then pointed while tossing a gangster the right, "See that computer? It's capable to track a shark across the globe while doing surveillance on the warehouse and using Amazon."

Conan flipped open the blades and kicked the men in the legs, knocking them down, while Peter continued to shoot lightning from his fingers. After about twenty minutes, the men were defeated, and Peter started to fade.

"Give us back Rachel." Conan commanded. Richard smirked. "Times up." Richard took out a Gatling gun. "And I thought I was obsessed with overkill." Peter muttered with fear.

"Good bye, Miss Moore." The man pulled the trigger, Conan sprinted, jumped and sprinted, "Kudo N…!" Peter yelled as he faded.

Conan jumped high enough and sliced the chain. As Rachel fell, Conan was hit with a single bullet managed to hit his shoulder, at a major artery. "NO! JIMMY!" Rachel yelled. Richard then panted, "And now you're next Ms. Moore."

Rachel charged at the man and gave a solid jab to his stomach. Being Rachel, she sent him flying into the wall and leaving him stuck in an imprint.

Rachel ran to Conan, "Jimmy! Jimmy! Are you alright?" Conan looked up. "It's just…just a flesh wound." The Lyoko Warriors popped into the building.

"Jimmy!" they all called out, running to the boy. "Hey guys…we did it, we saved Rachel." Conan said, smiling slightly. "We… we can set this right can't we?" asked Ulrich.

"Yeah," said Jeremie. "But first," Peter said, with fire in his eyes. Peter walked to Richard, pointing a finger at him.

Richard laughed at him slightly. Peter's brain damaged was fully healed, but he changed his voice to that of a familiar American actor.

"Now I know what you're thinking. Did he fire 6 shots or only 5. To be honest, in all this excitement, I kinda lost track myself. Gotta ask yourself one question, "Did I feel lucky?" Well do ya…punk?"

Richard spat at him, "See you in Hell." Peter spat in the man's eye before saying, "Tell them Peter sent you." With that, Peter placed his finger on his forehead, and the lightning crackled through the man's systems, causing him to look like an X-Ray picture.

After a few seconds the man was dead. "Kudo said, to save a life and take none. Well our mission was done, I was free to kill you." Peter said to the body, then asked Jeremie, "You all set up? We won't be in the winter when this is done?" "Yeah it's all set, no season jumping, let's hope we're not too late."

Peter returned to the group and spoke a language too old to understand. Alieta placed a device out of science fiction and typed some commands into the computer. And Jeremie prayed for this to work. "R-return to the past now." A white light engulfed them all.