As the remaining three, Calvin, Antea, and Ami, exited the scanners. They began talking about their feelings about what they had just experienced.
"That was so cool!" Sam exclaimed "I can't wait until our next mission."
"It was alright, I guess." Antea said "I just wish our parents had told us about this sooner, or at least at all."
"Where's the logic in all of this?" Calvin asked "All of this sounds like a bunch of science fiction."
"Calvin, for once will you stop applying logic to everything?" Ami asked
"So how much longer are we going to keep doing this?" Calvin said
"Until every last tower is deactivated, we have three left, one in each sector." Dennis said "However, XANA bugged the scanners, so we can only go once every few months"
"Once every few months?" Sam shouted
"Hey, molecular disintegration and materialization of virtual particles is a highly complex procedure. It's not like burning a CD or building a Game Boy, it takes time."
"Calvin, your leg." Ami shouted
"What about it?"
"It's bleeding."
Calvin looked down and saw that it was.
"That's impossible; nothing on Lyoko is designed to actually hurt you."
"Maybe it was that sword that hit me, unlike the blasts from the monsters; this actually made me feel pain."
"This looks bad" Antea said "We better take you to the infirmary right now."
When they were in the infirmary, the nurse was examining his leg.
"This doesn't look too bad, just a minor scrape." She said "Now how did you say this happened again?"
"He was running on the track and he tripped and fell." Dennis told her
The nurse the put some gel on the wound (to prevent infection), and wrapped it up in bandages.
"There" She said "Just avoid any strenuous activity until that wound heals up."
"Alright, thanks" Calvin said
As they left, they noticed Rumiko was standing in the hallway with her arms folded.
"Alright, where were you guys?"
"What do you mean, Onee-San?" Ami said
"Don't give me that, you guys were gone all day and I had to fake an excuse for the each of you! You're up to something and so help me I'm gonna find out what it is."
"Rumi-san, would you stop being so suspicious?" Calvin said "We just had to leave class early for a special reason, now good day."
"But I…"
But before Rumiko could finish, they had all left.
"By the way, Calvin." Dennis said "You said something about files that Mr. Xavier gave you, what specifically was in them?"
"Just some stuff about something called Project Carthage and something called Project Scipio. Most of it's in Russian, which I'm not fluent in, so…"
"Dennis is fluent in Russian." Both Sam and Antea said
"You are?" Calvin asked him
"Okay, so I took a few classes a Kalamazoo Central, I'm not that great."
"Kalamazoo Central?" Calvin asked "You're American?"
"Yeah, you didn't know that?" Sam asked "I told you that on the first day."
"No you didn't."
"I didn't?"
"No."
"Oh, well he is, that's why he's so popular."
"Well, I'm gonna get going, I'll see you this weekend, Calvin." Antea said
"Alright, you too"
As Calvin watched her walk down the hallway, Sam tapped him on the shoulder. Calvin turned around and noticed he was wearing a huge smile.
"So, looks like you got a date with her, after all." He said
"It's not a date! We're just spending time together!" Calvin said
"Riiiiight" Sam and Ami said
"Et tu, Imouto-chan?" Calvin asked
"Come on" Dennis said "Let me help you translate some of those files."
"As much as I hate that, I guess I got no other choice"