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Return of Their Past

By natdrat00

Chapter Six

Bring Some Friends

Seven in the morning on a beautiful Sunday in August at a prestigious French boarding school. At this particular boarding school Sunday is the only day of the week the students have off. With one day a week off it is understandable that most of the students would want to sleep in. So why is it that the cafeteria already has students in it? This is what the lunch room attendants were wondering. So who were these early birds that were so eager to have breakfast? Violet had been serving students here for seven years. She could count the times she has seen students waiting for the doors to open Sunday morning on one hand. As they came in to get breakfast, she recognized two of them. One had on a gray t-shirt and blue jeans, his blond hair giving him away as Joseph Belpois. Behind him was a girl in a pink shirt, jeans, and very unique pink hair. It was Joseph's sister Angela. Violet knew them because they had been there since two weeks before classes began. With them were two more kids. Although Violet recognized them, she did not know them. They looked alike, siblings perhaps. The boy had black hair and wore black sweat pants and a black t-shirt with a martial arts logo on it. She believed she heard him called Koji but was unsure. The girl had long chocolate hair, white sweat pants, and a t-shirt with the same logo as the boy before her. Violet thought her name was Crissy. "My my, we sure are early birds." she said with a laugh. "Bacon and eggs or oatmeal?"

"Bacon and eggs please Violet" Joseph said politely.

"What kind of oatmeal is it today?" Angela asked.

"I have maple and brown sugar, apple cinnamon, or plain." Violet responded.

"Maple and brown sugar please." Angela continued "So what's your parents excuse to send you here?"

"They got a record label to sign them up as the opening act for the Puffy Ami Yumi farewell tour. Apple cinnamon oatmeal please." Crissy said as she moved through the line.

"Bacon and eggs please. Yeah they will be gone for six months, so they sent us here. Thank you." Koji added as he went through the line. "How about you?"

"Our parents got a computer game deal. They are working on it in both Tokyo and New York City." Joseph explained. "They have to develop brand new hardware to work with it."

"So what's it about?" Crissy asked as they all sat down at a table.

"It's a first person RPG, a VR game. They really haven't told us much about it." Joseph stated.

"All we know is it's their life's work, something they have been wanting to do for a long time." Angela added.

"They said that technology has just now advanced far enough to make it inexpensively." Joseph said.

"Sounds pretty cool." Koji said " Speaking of cool things, when can we go back to that factory?"

"After breakfast. Has anyone seen Mike or Jessica?" Joseph asked.

"We saw Jessica heading to Mike's room." Angela said.

"She said she had something specialfor him." Crissy added.

As Violet was taking inventory for the day, she saw two more students coming to the doors. She knew the one with light brown hair that was wearing blue cargo pants and a white top was Jessica Santos since she had arrived a week early. She also knew the boy that was with her. He had blond spiked hair with blue highlight and wore navy blue cargo pants and a red t-shirt. He was known throughout the cafeteria for his stomach and he went by the name of Mike Della Robbia. But something was different this morning, Jessica had Mike's arm over her shoulder, helping him walk. As they entered their friends turned to them.

"What happened to him?" Joseph and Koji asked.

"Is he alright?" Crissy and Angela asked.

"I'm fine, Jessica just got the drop on me." Mike said as he made his way to the line.

"I was making sure you were on your toes." Jessica explained as she turned to her other friends. "He wasn't on his toes."

"Bacon and eggs with a side of maple and brown sugar oatmeal please my dear Violet." Mike said as if he was now fully healed.

"You sure you don't need to go to the nurse Mike?" Violet asked as she gave him his food.

"All I need is some food and I'll be fine." Mike said as he picked up his tray and headed for the table.

"Good, that way you will be ready for tomorrow." Jessica said moving up to the line "Bacon and eggs please."

"So just what happened?" Koji asked.

"This crazy girl was hiding around the corner." Mike began to explain as he pointed to Jessica "As soon as I came around she tried to kick me in my stomach. I saw it coming and was able block it but then she spun around and gave me a kick in the head."

"You used to be able to block both of kicks." Jessica said trying to defend herself "What happened to you?"

"I didn't know you were still insane." Mike said "You haven't done that to me in four months."

"You should know that I'll always be insane." Jessica said with a laugh.

"Good, we need some insanity today." Joesph said as he leaned over the table and began to whisper to the new arrivals "We'll leave after breakfast."

"Okay then, let's eat so we can go." Jessica said as she began to eat. "And this time Koji, you get to see how hard it is."

"I'm looking forward to it." Koji said as he finished his bacon and started on his eggs. "Maybe I'll give you some pointers."

"In your dreams. I lost my cool last time. It won't happen again." Jessica said.

"Whatever, as long as I get another chance with that mega tank." Mike said as he scarfed down his food.

"Don't forget to leave some for Jessica too." Crissy said with a chuckle.

"Okay funny girl, you can go with them this time." Joseph said.

"Really!" Crissy said enthusiastically "What about Angela is she coming too?"

"Can you handle all of it on your own bro?" Angela asked.

"Yeah, I studied the manual last night and I believe I can do everything by myself." Joseph said with confidence.

"Okay then, we just need to wait for Mike to finish." Koji said "Then we all can head out."

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Within five minutes Mike had finished and they headed off to the park to see if they could find the entrance they saw the day before.

"Over here guys. I think I found it!" Koji called out as the others walked up. He stood above a manhole cover. "This should be it."

As they lifted the cover and moved it to the side, they got a rather alarming scare. "And what are you all up to?" asked Mallory Normandy, a nosy girl from their class who happened to walk by as they were starting to go down. "Well?"

"It doesn't concern you Mallory!" Joseph snapped back.

"Well it just may concern the Principal." Mallory said as she began to turn to walk away.

"Yeah, it just may also concern him that I saw you playing in the gardener's shed." Jessica said with a devious smile. "You saw her too, right Mike?"

Mallory heard this and stopped in her tracks, as Mike spoke up "Yeah I believe I saw her there."

Mallory turned to face them again "I was never in that shed!" she snapped.

"I don't know, a lot of people saw you." Jessica said grinning at the others "How about you Koji?"

"It may have been her we saw." Koji said smiling.

"Fine, I get your point. But you're up to something and one day I'll find out what." Mallory said as she stormed off.

"Well that takes care of that." Mike said "Shall we continue on?"

"Let's go." Crissy said as she went down the ladder, the others following.

"This is a long walk. We need some skateboards here." Koji commented.

"Like the last people who came through here had." Angela added.

"Maybe one day, until then want to race?" Mike asked.

"Okay...GO!" Jessica yelled.

"I'll catch up" Joseph said as all but him took off.

At the end of the sewers Jessica, Koji, and Mike were neck and neck and neck, Crissy was a little behind with Angela beside her. As they got to the end, Koji made one last effort forward as Jessica tried pushing Mike into the water only to be pulled in herself. As Koji laughed at that he failed to see the slick spot ahead of him and fell backwards. Seizing the moment Crissy and Angela took off. Unfortunately Crissy slipped on the same spot as her brother and fell sideways into Angela pushing her into the water. They all busted up laughing as they stopped and realized what had happened. It was then that they noticed Joseph sprinting past them all and touching the ladder first. "Looks like I win." he said with a smile.

"I want a rematch." Mike said as he helped Angela and Jessica out of the water.

"Maybe later, when this slick spot is gone." Koji said as he and his sister got up sorely.

"And lose my advantage, anyway let's hurry up." Joseph said as they preceded across the bridge and into the elevator. "I'll send Mike and Jessica first. Then you three will go." He said waving his hand toward Crissy, Koji, and Angela.

"Okay." The group said together.

As the elevator stopped on the first floor Joesph entered the code and the door opened. He walked in and was followed by Angela. "I want to make sure you got all the commands down." Angela said.

"I do, but I wouldn't mind another set of eyes." Joseph said as he took his seat and turned on the COM system. "Jessica, Mike are you two in position?"

"We're ready." Jessica responded "Are you sending us to the same place?"

"No, there are five sectors. The first is the Ice Barrier, the second is the Desert, the third is the Forest, and the fourth of the normal sectors is the Mountain sector." Joesph explained. "I'm sending you to the Desert sector today."

"What about the fifth sector?" Koji asked.

Angela explained "The fifth sector is called Carthage; it is only accessible by a transporter that appears at the edge of the sectors. The manual recommends staying away from there."

"All the more reason to go. Don't you think?" Mike said.

"Not until we all get more familiar with this place." Jessica said.

"We concur." Joseph and Angela said together.

"Fine then, on to the Desert." Mike said disappointedly.

"Okay. Transfer Mike. Transfer Jessica." Joseph said. A level down the two scanners' doors closed. "Scanner Mike. Scanner Jessica." The two rings began to move as the tingle came back. "Virtualization!" With that the harder part of the process began and the tingle turned to slight pain. They were as ready for it as they could be and soon were on Lyoko.

"It wasn't that bad this time." Mike said as he turned to Jessica,

"It must remember us and doesn't need to scan as much or something" Jessica said trying to make sense of the noticeable ease of transfer this time. "Everything looks good on this end. Send them over."

"Okay everyone, get in a scanner." Joseph said as Angela proceeded down.

"We're all in." stated Angela as she stepped in a scanner. "How bad is the transfer?"

"Mike and Jessica never really said. All they would say was try it and find out." Joseph said as he started the process. "Auto-profile creation started. Create profile for Angela. Create profile for Crissy. Create profile for Koji." In the three scanners the rings began to move.

"AUTO-PROFILE CREATION COMPLETE...THREE NEW PROFILES CREATED" the display read as the three rings stopped moving and settled back to the bottom.

"Transfer Angela. Transfer Crissy. Transfer Koji." Joseph called out as he typed in the commands. Once again the rings began to move accompanied by a tingling sensation. "Scanner Angela. Scanner Crissy. Scanner Koji." Now the ring was at the top and started to move down, but this time the tingle was more forceful, almost painful. "Virtualization!" With this the rings at the bottom started moving upwards, producing an intense light. The three prisoners could only close their eyes to alleviate it. As the rings continued to move, a sharp pain began and was followed by numbness. A strong blast of wind came as their whole bodies went numb. It seemed as though they were moving quickly and as the feeling of speed subsided, a new more soothing tingle began at their head and down to their feet.

"Watch this." Jessica told Mike as she pointed to the now forming wire frames of their friends. As the tingle passed their waists, they opened their eyes. Seeing this Jessica yelled "KOJI DUCK!" Hearing this urgent command he instinctively ducked his head down and put his arms over it, just in time to see the ground a meter away. BOOM! He crashed into the ground hard, as Crissy and Angela landed a little more gracefully. Upon seeing this Mike and Jessica burst out laughing.

Koji, on the other hand, was not laughing. "What did you yell like that for?" he asked angrily.

"Because it was funny." Jessica said smiling "Did it hurt bad?"

"It did." Koji said as he stood up, "But it doesn't any more."

"Well there you go. Pain is temporary here." Mike explained trying his best to stop laughing.

"You should look yourselves over." Jessica said as they proceeded to do just that.

Koji stood there his attire consisting of a gray 1940's era army uniform of European descent with black boots and a helmet. He was armed with a single-shot bolt action rifle with a 5 round clip & attached bayonet.

Crissy had on a dark green suit similar to what a ninja may have worn. She was armed with a 70 cm ninja-ken sword.

Angela looked herself over. She appeared to be an archer wearing brown weathered boots, light brown pants, a white shirt, and a light brown jacket.

"Wow, which way is the enemy base?" Koji said holding his rifle up and ejecting the clip "But it only has five rounds."

"Look for extra clips." Mike said.

"There on your belt." Jessica said pointing.

"Oh, it looks like I have five magazines." Koji said as he looked at both his sides "Thirty should be enough."

"But I bet I could beat you with my sword." Crissy said proudly, "I've actually handled my weapon in the real world."

"Me too," Angela said referring to her bow and arrows. "It looks like I have thirty as well."

"Same as me, I doubt it's an accident." Mike stated.

"At any rate, we're about to see how good you all are." Joseph said quite nervously, "Two mega tanks heading your way!"

"Everyone get ready." Mike said pulling out his revolver.

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