Mewberries - I hate reading cliffhangers and love writing them! XD So, how goes the materialization... for my illustrations? No, wait, you'd be putting them in the computer, so I should--aw, NEVERMIND! I'm just confusing myself. ; sorry if I sound impatent, because I'm not. I'm just checking.

sebastian1 - YOU? >. Hmm... I'm not sure if I like the idea... LOL! Kidding! Sure! Truce! And, thanks! I already have X.A.N.A.'s "method of madness" planned out for GK4, as this is going to be the first appearence of a form of his you're all very familiar with. But, as long as it has nothing to do with Freddy Krueger, or anything else outside the GK/CL universes (universe, in my fan-fics), how would you like to say what X.A.N.A.'s plot will be in the 5 and final installment to the GK series?

Without further ado, in light of Season 2 of Code Lyoko beginning tomorrow, at 6 PM, the 6th chapter of Garage Kids 3

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

Chapter 6

Odd shivered. "Boy, is it cold here," he said. "Oh, right. I'm in an arctic turf."

Aelita slid up to meet the three. "Strange. I don't feel any cold."

Jeremie was quick to explain. "Have you ever heard about how people, with prosthetic limbs, feel pain in them, even though there's no nerves to send a message to the brain? Well, that's called 'phantom pain'; where the subject is familiar with how something is supposed to feel, even though they're not feeling it."

Yumi immediately understood. "I get it. We know how being in an arctic region would feel, so our brains are tricking us into believing we're cold."

"Exactly," said Jeremie. "Aelita doesn't feel anything, because she was born on Lyoko, and is unfamiliar with temperature."

Four red icons flashed on the screen. "Heads up, guys," he warned. "Four monsters at 3 'o-clock." He checked their Digital Card. "They're called Frolions!"
Odd turned to look at the winged creatures approaching. "Funny. I'd call them Hornets."
Jeremie considered this, then chuckled. "Very well. Hornets it is, then. They do have the distinct appearance of an average Earth hornet."

"Well, sure," he heard his pointy-haired friend say. "If Earth hornets were huge and had X.A.N.A. symbols on their foreheads!"

One hornet raised its stinger back and fired a laser beam at them. Odd dodged it and added, "...and fire lasers." to his previous statement.

Ulrich leaped up and attempted to stab one of the Hornets with his saber. It dodged, easily. He landed on his hands and knees, then said, "This is going to be hard for a short-range weapon."

Yumi stepped up, and said, "Then, let's bring out the long-range weapon. She opened her fan, with a flick of her writ, and hurled it at one of the monsters. "HE-YA!"

The fan left a gash on its forehead, before blowing it up. However, another Hornet sneaked up behind Yumi, and fired a laser into her back.

Jeremie watched in shock, as the image of Yumi's torso glowed red, indicating the location of impact. On her card, her life point count went from "100" to "80".

"Guys!" he warned his friends. "A hit from a Hornet's laser takes away 20 life points!"

Yumi nodded. "Thanks, Jeremie. We'll keep that in mind."

Aelita pointed up north. "There's the tower," she said. Another beam came right between the two girls.

"Careful, guys!" cried Jeremie. "Need I remind you that Aelita has no material form to return to, if she should loose all her life points? Get her to the tower and protect her by any means necessary."

"LASER ARROW!" Odd yelled, firing at a Hornet. It fired a laser back, and each blast destroyed the other in midair. Another hornet hit him in the arm.

"80 life points, Odd."

"Yeah," he murmured. "Thanks for the heads up, Einstein."

Aelita was running for the tower, with Yumi and Ulrich at either side of her. The two other Hornets were firing shot after shot, only to have them blocked by Ulrich's saber.

"LASER--" The Hornet with Odd struck him in the chest. "--ARROW!" He finished, after the pause, due to impact. The arrow went straight into the center of the X.A.N.A. symbol.

Yumi threw her fan at one of the Hornets. It dodged it, then fired a beam at her leg.

"You can do better than that," said Ulrich.

"Sorry," she said.

"LASER ARROW!" An arrow pierced though the air and struck the Hornet that attacked Yumi.

"Well look who it is," said Ulrich, with a chuckle. "Arrow Boy."

Jeremie chuckled, then returned to seriousness, long enough to tell them, "Heads up. One more Hornet."

He looked through the drives of the Super Calculator, while keeping watch on his friends. Suddenly, he stopped.

Hmm; now, what is this? he thought.

"Head for the tower," said Odd. "We'll take care of the big bug."

Aelita nodded and ran for the tower. Odd turned to the Hornet and fired a, "LASER ARROW!" at it. It hit and destroyed it.

Ulrich gave him the thumb's up "Nice going, Odd."

He grinned. "Thanks, but there's nothing to it, really."

At this point, Aelita was at the tower, and walked through it.

Inside, she walked across a bridge, to the lower platform. The rings of X.A.N.A.'s symbol lit up, as she walked across them, then she floated up, as she reached the center.

When she floated to the top, she set foot on the upper platform, and stepped aboard, as it lit up. Then, she walked up to the transparent screen, in the center, and placed her hand on the print.

"AELITA" The database welcomed her, by displaying her name.

"CODE" The database, now, waited for Aelita to respond. She did so, by, telepathically, typing the code in.

"L...
Y...
O...
K...
O"

Jeremie smiled, watching the X.A.N.A. symbol, on one of the side screens, fade away. He adjusted his headpiece and asked his friends, "Well, guys, ready for a return trip to the past?"
Several at a time, all the screens, around the tower, floated down below the tower, into the data stream, to be carried to the Extended Action Reversal directories. A second later, the data explosion rocketed up.
"Return to the past, now!" cried Jeremie, before being engulfed in the return trip bubble.
Later, (or earlier; time reversal is confusing) the gang stood around the Super Calculator.

"Wow," said Ulrich, in bitter amazement. "I can't believe X.A.N.A. deleted all that work, just like that."

Odd shook his head, and said, "Easy come, easy go."

Yumi frowned, and looked at Jeremie. "We're really sorry about what happened, Jeremie."

He smiled. "It's OK. Besides, I found a way around it happening again."

The three stared in confusion, while Jeremie opened up a secure directory in the Super Calculator. "I found this, while you were in Lyoko. It's a directory so safe, not even X.A.N.A. can hack it."

Odd grinned. "That's great! You can store all your materialization stuff in there!"

Jeremie grinned, too. "Exactly. Well, better get started. Working on the Materialization Program is going to be a lot harder, from scratch."

"Well, I better get going," said Odd. "Got an interview to do with a couple of news ladies."

The gang laughed, despite the fact that, now, they knew their adventures with Aelita and Lyoko were going to last much longer than they originallyhoped. In their opinion, it was still worth it.

End of second adventure