Greetings from a kid who hasn't updated in a month! Sorry. Vacation. Anyway, here is another chapter of Part 3 of the Garage Kids series! And, here are responses to your reviews!

RaptorK Beta - Hope you do find it interesting. And, glad you liked (I think you liked it) the jealousy part with Ulrich that was supposed to be a Ulrich/Yumi hint.

D Wolf Falls - See pervious review reponse (the second part, anyway)

MikariStar - Well, glad you liked it. Thanks. And, congrats on catching up!

And, here is the main part of GK3!

Garage Kids 3:
Glaciers and Hornets and Research, Oh My!

Chapter 3

"Jeremie?"

Jeremie Belpois, 11-year-old, French child prodigy, shook himself out of his trance when he heard his new virtual friend's voice calling to him. "Sorry, Aelita. I just, well..."

Aelita smiled and chuckled. "You were remembering when you, and your friends, first came to Lyoko, again, weren't you?"

Jeremie smiled sheepishly. "Yeah."

Aelita's smile broadened. "It's good to have memories to visit. The only good memory I have to visit is the one of when I first met you, Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd. And, that is a rather pleasant one."

They were silent for a moment.

Then, Aelita spoke again to break the silence, "How goes my materialization?"

"Oh." He turned his attention back to the windows open on the Super Calculator screen, containing past research on the very subject. "The scientists who worked on the Xanadu project left some useful notes behind. By comparing them all together and improving on it, I just might be able to make your Materialization Program."

It had been one week since Aelita led them to the underground lab that held the Super Calculator, the scanners, and the Xanadu console (aka X.A.N.A.); one week since they set out a firm mission: help Aelita deactivate X.A.N.A.'s towers until the day they could bring her to their world and make the evil go away, by finally shutting X.A.N.A. down. In a sense, they were like a star, shining down on both their worlds, protecting them from the very said evil, virus-corrupted supercomputer.

Now, Jeremie was revealing news that very well mean that Aelita could get her ticket to Earth some time soon. She was thrilled. "Really? That's wonderful, Jeremie!"

"Yeah, I know," he said. He glanced at the monitor clock. "I better go, Aelita. It's almost dinnertime at the boarding school."

"Farewell, friend," the virtual being said before logging off.

In the girls dormitories of the said school, two younger students, Milly Solovieff and Tamiya Diop, were as excited as can be. One month ago was the auditioning for junior newscasters for the school news program and paper. And, they won!

"I'm so excited!" Milly said, bouncing up and down on her bed.

Tamiya pulled out the digital video camera her father shipped over, along with other home newscasting equipment, when he heard the great news. She opened the lens and aimed at her friend. "Smile for the camera."

Milly looked towards the lens and grinned a big star smile. Then, she asked, "What should we do our first story on?"

Tamiya thought for a moment. "How about new students and their thoughts of Kadic Junior High? We could interview them."

"That's a great idea!" said Milly. "And I know just who to interview first."

"UGH!" Odd Della-Robbia, Ulrich's new roommate, thought he was going to be sick. "Brussels sprouts?"

Jeremie shrugged and said, "What? I like Brussels sprouts."

Odd stared at him in disbelief, then asked Ulrich in a whisper, "He isn't human, is he?"

Ulrich Stern shrugged. "Hmm. I wonder sometimes."

Yumi Ishiyama walked over with her tray and sat down with the boys. "Hey, guys. How's your day been so far?"

Odd shrugged casually. "Eh, seen better, seen worse."

Yumi turned to Jeremie and popped the question all three of his friends were wondering: "How goes the Materialization Program?"

Ulrich and Odd stopped eating (they weren't eating the Brussels sprouts, I can tell you that) and were immediately listening closely.

"Won't be too long, now," said Jeremie. "I've been comparing notes from pervious attempts and I may actually be able to use the research, on those failed tries, to get it right."

Ulrich chuckled and said, "Let's hope that Aelita doesn't come out with her power still intact."

Jeremie, Yumi, and Odd immediately knew what he was referring to and the two that this wasn't targeted to laughed along with him. "What was in the past," Jeremie said. "Besides, I fixed Yumi!"

Odd stopped laughing to ask, "How exactly did that happen again?"

Flashback, Yumi's POV:

I remember that. Anyway, shadow monsters were showing up at school again, so Jeremie, Ulrich, and I made our way to the factory to get to Xanadu; Lyoko as it's really called.

Pretty soon, we had the mess there pretty much cleaned up. A shadow monster loomed up behind Ulrich.

"BEHIND YOU!" I yelled, throwing my fan to slice it.

Ulrich ducked as my fan returned. "Thanks," he said.

"Don't mention it," I replied.

We, then, heard Jeremie say, "OK, guys. I'll materialize you now."

Jeremie, then, started telling his part of the story.
Flashback, Jeremie's POV:

I immediately started the program to return Ulrich and Yumi to Earth. The data on the windows seemed to show that the process was running smoothly, at first. However, a few moments later, a red exclamation point, encased in a matching circle, appeared over Yumi's image and began to spin, signaling an error in the program.

"Uh-oh," I said.

Flashback, Yumi's POV:

I didn't like the sound of that 'uh-oh'.

"'Uh-oh'?" I repeated him. "What do you mean by--?"

Ulrich and I immediately de-virtualized from 'Xanadu'.

"Oh, I see what's going on!" said Odd. "Some error in that program, Einstein was using, caused Yumi to get her power!"

Jeremie nodded. "Exactly. But, we didn't know that, yet."

Flashback, Jeremie's POV:

I ran up to meet Ulrich and Yumi at the platform between the scanners and the computer. "Anything go wrong?" I asked.

"We were about to ask you the same question," said Ulrich.

"What did you mean by 'uh-oh'?" asked Yumi.

"Something seemed to go wrong with the transfer between your virtual and material bodies, Yumi," I told her.

"What happened?" Ulrich asked.

"I don't know," I said. We ran down the steps to where the computer was, but I tripped on the carpet. As I fell forward, I suddenly found myself hovering in midair.

I stayed afloat for a few seconds, then fell down on the rug.

"Uh... what just happened?" asked Ulrich.

"I-I don't know," Yumi stammered. "I saw Jeremie trip and I suddenly found myself concentrating and... and..."

I had a bad feeling I knew what happened after she said that. Getting to the computer, viewed the stats on the previous materialization. Reading the notes, my fear was confirmed. "Just as I thought," I said. "I must've accidentally hit a wrong key, along the way, because something messed up and your power came with you to Earth! Your telekinesis has been fused with the chemical compounds of your material body!"

Yumi was visibly shocked. "You mean... I have telekinesis on Earth?"

"Boy, that was a real shocker," said Ulrich.

Jeremie nodded. "Yeah. Well, at least that's all worked out."

Odd nodded. "Yep. Yumi's power has been removed. And, it looks like X.A.N.A. hasn't attacked for quite awhile."

Deep in the Glacier Region of Lyoko, a healthy, blue-glowing tower started to glow red.

Uh-oh! Looks like the plot's starting to unfold. And, Jeremie likes BRUSSELS SPROUTS? He isn't human! Review please!

625: And, bring bread! I'm out!