Chapter 1:
When the lights came on again, about an hour later, the Lyoko Warriors were already outside with the rest of their class, trying to find a moment to sneak away, but instead were forced to listen as the whole building groaned with the voices of several hundred students, complaining of having to return to their classrooms. And it seemed their dread was confirmed a moment later when the intercom announced the presence of their Principle.
"Due to technical problems, all remaining classes are canceled." The man proclaimed causing the moans to quickly erupt into cheering; however, five students in particular remained generally quiet as they gathered back at the bench, before rushing for the nearby forest.
"Technical problems?" Yumi repeated as they ran.
"It's the law." Jeremy explained distractedly. "They can't legally keep students in school if the power is out longer than 30 minutes."
"Sweet," Odd added as he looked around at all the other kids rushing about to accomplish things with their newly appointed free time, making sure that none of them were following his group.
"So, what caused it?" Ulrich requested next.
"Something at the factory just took a ridiculous amount of power to operate." Jeremy explained seriously as they reached the tunnel and started climbing down the ladder into the sewer system. "I don't know what it was, but it can't be good – even going back in time doesn't take that much energy."
"Okay, Einstein, we get it." Odd announced as he grabbed his skateboard. "Big, bad power outage equals run faster."
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When he finally regained consciousness, it was only to groan slightly in response to an incredibly annoying beeping sound and opened his eyes to look down at a strange watch on his wrist which displayed that he'd been out far longer than had been intended and on top of that, a certain someone was heading his way.
"Crud," He swore and reached up to use the walls of the scanner to pull himself to his feet, before pausing as nostalgia hit him like a sack of potatoes and he looked around the familiar room outside that he hadn't seen in years.
Unfortunately, he couldn't reminisce too long, as memories of his mission came flooding back and he forced himself to climb out of the machine, even though his body complained painfully of the movement.
He was forced to take it slow as he reminded himself how to walk again, but before long he finally made it to the elevator and leaned against the wall as it took him up a floor.
Having to nearly drag himself over to the chair was a chore in and of itself, but once there, he was able to pull a small device from his pocket and placed it into the right socket on the side of the computer before watching as it ran several programs on the screen, allowing him to rest in the chair as it did most of the work for him.
Unfortunately, he didn't have a lot of time to regain his composure before the sound of the elevator being called up alerted him to the fact that he was running out of time.
"Come on." He ordered the device as it continued through it's process, until finally it announced that it was finished and he pulled it back out as he rushed to the ladder at the back of the room and climbed up into the shadows of the rafters, just as the doors opened again, emitting the five Lyoko Warriors who were all positioned in fighting stances, ready for whatever awaited them on the other side.
However, it didn't take them long to realize that nothing was there, at least nothing they could see, which prompted Jeremy to rush to the computer where he immediately started checking over everything and a moment later, his friends followed, leaving them all distracted just long enough for their visitor to slip away unnoticed.
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