Originally, I was intending to see the chapter right to the end of the XANA attack. But as I was going through this, I found that I had nearly 14k words written! Plus, the bit inside Lyoko was not coming to me, as I'm drained of any thought process for the story. So I cut off the last 5k words, and split the chapter into two parts. You'll see what was originally meant for this chapter next time CL-ne! comes around in the rotation.

From Team-William-Luver: I really liked this chapter. The evil 'twin' idea was creepy, yet very interesting. Please update soon!

From KKid: I actually got this particular idea from Lord Maximus and his Code: Total, Drama, Reality; but I've also seen this used in many other works. Much later, and I mean MUCH later, you'll see me take the Commander idea to a place I believe no one's ever touched.

From everybody else: (no review)

From KKid: Hey, hey, hey! What happened to gwon and SaME?-! For everyone else, shame on you all.

So now, after two chapters of waiting, we finally meet the four girls from Ala Alba (and one that's not) that will play a heavy role throughout the story here in France. As well as a bit of dry XANA monster humor. Enjoy!

Chapter 3: The White Wings of Kadec

A coach bus pulled up to the gates of Kadec Academy. The driver opened the doors, and a stream of Japanese students poured out, wearing various clothing and carrying different colored bags. Waiting for them was the P.E. teacher for Kadec Academy, Jim Morales. He was a chunky guy that had brown hair, brown eyes, and bushy eyebrows. He wore a white sweatband on his forehead, a dark red sweater jacket that had the Kadec Shield logo embroidered on the left chest side, and tan sweatpants, along with red and white track sneakers.

"Alright kids!" he yelled to the group of teens, gaining their attention. "Huanying, and welcome to Kadec Academy in suburban Paris, France! Please make your way over to the gymnasium to receive your schedules and dorm room numbers. Don't dawdle!"

"Excuse me sir, but the correct greeting is 'Konichiwa.' 'Huanying' is Chinese." Jim turned around to face a short, purple haired girl. She wore a plain black short sleeved shirt, black shorts, black thigh-length stockings, and faded pink shoes with lacing that went halfway up her thigh. Her purple hair, which fell to the back of her knees, was tied into two long cowtails with white ribbon, and her purple eyes seemed to express no emotion at all. A black knapsack was slung around her shoulder, and hanged near her thigh.

"Really?" Jim asked, surprised. "Again with the language mix-up…I'm very sorry, miss…?"

"Ayase. Yue Ayase," she stated. There seemed to be almost no emotion in her voice.

"Well, Miss Ayase, thank you for correcting that mistake for me, and I hope that you have a wonderful time here at Kadec Academy." Jim bowed, before walking towards the main administration building.

"So this is Kadec Academy…" Yue turned around to see three other girls walk up to her. The one who had spoken to her had thigh-length bright orange hair that was tied into pigtails with bells attached to red ribbon. She wore a blue denim jacket over a white dress shirt, a faded purple skirt, and brown felt boots that reached the bottom of her knees. She carried a white book bag on her shoulders. Curiously, she had heterochromia – that is, her left eye was blue, but her right eye was a sea green color.

"Definitely nothing at all like Mahora, eh Asuna?" Another girl asked. She had short black hair that barely reached to her shoulders, since most of it was in a side ponytail. The brown-eyed girl wore pink sleeveless zippered top over a black tank top, with grey camouflaged cargo pants and grey sneakers, along with a nondescript red Mahora Academy book bag. Her most notable aspect, however, were her, er, assets, which completely dwarfed the shorter and very much flat-chested Yue.

"Of course!" the redhead replied. "You don't see a giant tree anywhere around here, do you?"

"I don't think that was what Yuna meant," Yue stated, sweatdropping.

"I think what Asuna is trying to say is that she's a little homesick," the third girl suggested. She had brown eyes and brown hair that reached her waist. She wore a pink long-sleeved shirt, a blue skirt, and leather boots that went halfway up her lower leg. A leather bag was slung across her left shoulder. She was shorter than Asuna and Yuna, but taller than Yue.

"Eh?-!" Asuna gasped. "Konoka, what would make you think that I would want to have to go through one of Evangeline's lessons from hell?"

"I didn't say that," the brunette giggled. "Don't tell me that you don't miss Professor Takahata or Negi. I was having trouble sleeping on the plane ride knowing that I wouldn't see Set-chan for a whole year." The mood in the area suddenly seemed to get more somber.

"W-well, of course I do!" she stammered. "And who wouldn't, after what we all have gone through since Negi arrived."

"Er, I didn't mean it like that…" Konoka assued.

"Hey! Don't forget why we came here in the first place!" The Brooklyn accented voice came from a snow white ermine that now scooted out of Yue's bag. "Big Brother sent us so that we could get proper training, away from the crazy influences of Mahora."

"Remind me why we had to do this, Chamo," Asuna asked the creature.

"Look what we had to go through since Big Bro arrived. Evangeline, the Kansai Magic Association, Graf Herrman, Chao Lingshen, Cosmo Entelecheia…Face it, Big Bro's a magnet for trouble! While all of that quickly raised your power levels real fast, at least one of your lives was put in danger. And considering that Bro absolutely hates putting those he cares about in constant danger…"

"But couldn't Negi just defeat anyone single-handedly now?" Yuna asked.

"That's not the point! Bro won't be able to ensure your safety all the time! And since you three are all budding mages, he wanted us to train far enough away from his possible adversaries."

"Seriously," Asuna muttered, "that brat doesn't know that we can take care of ourselves…"

"That reminds me, Asuna," Konoka said to the redhead. "You don't have magical capabilities, so why are you here?"

"Negi wanted to have someone here that could ensure that you guys wouldn't be harmed from any rogue mages that come through the area. Plus, Setsuna didn't want Chamo unsupervised with you." Said ermine didn't seem too happy with that information.

"Negi appoints me to train people in magic," he laments, "and yet not everyone trusts me nearly as much."

"Probably because you haven't given us reason to give our votes of confidence," she reasoned.

"Moving off that, Yuecchi, did you find a place that we could train at in relative secretness?" Yue nodded.

"There's an abandoned factory not far from here." she said. "There's a manhole cover in the forest that joins a sewer that empties out near the factory. We can head there tonight." Just then, Jim reappeared from the offices, and spotted the four still loitering by the bus.

"Hey you four!" he hollered. "Get moving, or I'll have to give each of you a detention!"

"Sorry!" Yuna yelled back. "Just a problem with our bags!" Chamo hid back into Yue's bag.

"Remember, there are no known mages at Kadec," he warned, "so no magic unless necessary. I don't want the Parisian Magic Association on our tail, since that gets Big Bro in trouble as well."

"You have our word," Asuna assured. "Besides, with Negi still in Japan, how much trouble could actually happen?"

"Sigh." Herb Pichon stared across the cafeteria tables during lunch. At every table, there seemed there were at least two Japanese girls that had come from the faraway school in Japan, chatting vigorously with the local students. Every table, that his, except his. He brushed his neatly combed black hair out of his hazel eyes, and adjusted his round glasses to focus at another table across the room.

"Hey Herb," a voice asked. "Do you want to go do something that is both breathtaking and-?"

"No, I don't want to go fishing again!" he groaned. The voice belonged to the only other person currently sitting at his table, Nicholas Poliakoff, who could very well be the polar opposite of Herb. Whereas Herb dressed to succeed in his yellow collared shirt with a red tie and a blue vest, khaki pants, and brown loafers, Nicholas, with his shoulder-length blonde hair, was a wannabe jock, wearing a red opened jacket over a grey long-sleeved shirt, jeans, and white sneakers. His light blue eyes seemed to give off the impression of a flickering light bulb – you see some spark of life and intelligence at one point, then the next, it's all a pile of mush.

"What's the matter, Herb?" the blonde boy asked.

"It's been two months now," Herb said, "and you still don't get it, you dimwit? When we were with Sissi, we were cool, we were talked about, and most importantly, we had friends!"

"I thought Sissi only counted as one person?" Nicholas wondered, earning a glare from his friend.

"Shut up! That kind of attitude got us where we are now: lifeless, geeky jerks that have nothing better to do than stalk Sissi, while everyone else gets as many friends as they can imagine!" He pounded his fist on the table. "And to think, I actually like the girl, and this is how she treats us…"

"Speaking of Sissi, look what her new gang's set their eyes on."

"Huh? What do you-?" Nicholas pointed to the Lyoko Warrior's table. Normally, they would be chatting like everyone else in the room. Today, though, all four were discreetly watching a nearby table. Sitting at the table were four exchange students – Asuna, Konoka, Yue, and Yuna.

Herb turned to that table, and saw the same thing. "That's really weird," he remarked. "They haven't been doing that since William started acting normal. I wonder what they're doing…"

"Don't look at me," Nicholas said. "I'm about as knowledgeable in this department as a rock."

"Then how about asking someone who knows a bit about who they're targeting?" The two teens turned to the side of their table. Standing at their table was a rather pretty transfer student, who had flowing knee-length black hair, brown eyes, and perhaps the cutest face that either of the two boys had ever laid their eyes upon, even more so than Sissi. Her cherry red tank top and blue skinnyjeans gripped to her moderate chest, curvy hips, and superb figure, concealed only by a grey cloth jacket. Finishing her attire were black sneakers, a red knapsack, and a pink headband with a fake flower attached on the right side.

Herb was suddenly both attracted and confused at the same time. "E-excuse me?"

"The only way you're going to find out why they're after them," the girl explained, "is to find out what might make them attractable. It's obvious that they've seen another one of that class's strange behavior."

"S-strange…Behavior…?" Nicholas asked.

"Mahora Academy Middle School Class 3-A. Your equivalent of a ninth grade class, except that they've been taught by ten-year-old boy from Wales since New Year's. And ever since then, strange things have been happening to our school. Vampire incidents, Martians versus Mahora Mage Order, the missing Club Negima…and it's all because of those students! And I intend to find out why!" Herb shook his head, still blushing in her presence.

"That's fine and all, but we're only mildly interested in what's happening…"

"But you ARE interested in that Sissi girl, aren't you?" she pointed out. Herb blushed wildly.

"Gah…!"

"Wow, you're good!" Nicholas remarked. The girl brushed her hair back with her hand.

"What else would you expect from the Mahora Paparazzi's number one understudy? Just by how you reacted to my question tells me that you're still in love with her. My advice, however, is to move on and get another girl. You've been after her, for what, two, no, three years now?"

"Ah-uh-yes!" Herb answered.

"But has she ever seen interest in you?" she asked. "Even after all your advances on her?" Both boys rattled their brains to try and find an instance that contradicted her question, but they came up empty.

"N-no…" they both replied.

"I figured as much. That Sissi girl strikes me as impossible-to-get. She'll date you for a while, but then dump you in the mud with the swine. Types like her can only be countered with what they hurl, a good dose of mud. I can help you with that."

"And why would you want to help us in doing that?" Herb asked.

"You're the brains of this duo," she said impressively to him, "meaning your friend here is the brawns. Add my charm and charisma, and you have the minimum three things necessary to have a successful clique that can act autonomously and without any assistance needed. Plus, I want to get to the bottom of the mystery of class 3-A."

Herb looked at Nicholas, then the Lyoko Warriors, then the four mysterious girls, before returning to the girl. "So, what is so interesting about those four, miss…?"

"Sakura," she replied, taking out four photos. "Sakura Mokoshima, of Saint Ursula Girl's High School 1-F of Mahora Academy. Well, the small cute girl with the long black hair is Konoka Konoe, the granddaughter of the dean at Mahora. She's actually a rich girl from Kyoto, who came to the Kanto region for unknown reasons. Also unknown is the reason for a bright girl like her going for extra help virtually every other day. Every time I tried to approach her to ask about that, either her bodyguard Setsuna Sakurazaki threatens to slit my throat, or Paparazzi comes and states that she gave exclusive rights to interview her only.

"The other black haired girl with the massive assets is Yuna Akashi, the star member of our middle school girls' varsity basketball team – and our only star. While any guy would swoon over her, but for some reason, she has her eyes set on her widowed father, who's a teacher at Mahora. She secretly likes guns and war machinery.

"The girl with the big forehead and purple hair is Yue Ayase. Along with friends Haruna Saotome and Nodoka Miyazaki, she forms the Library Exploration Trio."

"What's so special about a library that it needs to be explored?" Nicholas interjected.

"If you've ever seen our library, you'd know. Anyway, she's incredibly brilliant, but because she hates to study, she is part of the 'Baka Rangers,' who are the five people with the lowest averages in 3-A. Like Konoka, she participates in after-class tudoring with their professor." Sakura paused. "Finally, there's the enigma…"

"Uh, the enigma?" Nicholas asked.

"You mean that redhead?" Herb asked. Sakura nodded.

"Asuna Kagurazaka. Out of all the students in 3-A, only Evangeline McDowel is more mysterious. She transferred into their class several years ago, is a Baka Ranger and stays for extra help like Yue, and at least had a serious attraction to Professor Takahata. But aside from that, I have nothing. No birth certificate, no relatives, nadda, zip, zilch. It's as if she had come from a different planet or something…"

"Hey Herb," Nicholas said to his speckled friend. "That sounds a lot like Aelita. Minus the dumb part and teacher relationship thingie." Now it was Sakura's turn to ask questions.

"Who's Aelita?" she asked.

"A student who transferred in from Canada supposedly." Herb replied. Sakura seemed to be interested in this information.

"Supposedly?"

"She hangs out with Jeremie and his crew. EVERY day. Except for their ringleader, they went on the exchange program. They always talk about strange things like quantum physics and such, which is strange considering that only Mr. and Mrs. Einstein can understand. Plus this one time when Nicholas dragged me to fish by the abandoned factory on the river, we saw them running into the factory. We tried to follow, but all we saw were Aelita and Odd making out. Plus, we were a bit scared of dark and creepy places-"

"You were the one that was scared to the bone," Nicholas corrected, "not I." Sakura took all of this information down onto a notepad.

"Mh-hmm…So we have a mysterious group of students drawing interest abroad from another mysterious group of students. Definitely a scoop that I'm interested in. And your knowledge of your adversaries is very impressive, Herb. I think this might be the beginning of a beautiful relationship." Herb blushed again.

"R-really?-!" The raven-haired reporter laughed.

"Not like that!" she said. "But I do give all boys a chance at me, so maybe you could win me over."

Herb became so lost in his own little world that he had to have Nicholas repeat to him later in the day how they were going to humiliate Sissi.

"Okay," Jeremie announced. "That's enough work for today. We have a test in on the hypotenuse of triangles tomorrow, and I promised Sissi that I'd help her with studying for it." He was in the factory, working with Chao on reconstructing the Skid.

"Alright. I'll stay here and work on some more improvements. Do you want me to activate a tower and take the test for her?" It was tempting, but…

"Eh, ah, no; she should be able to do well on what I teach her. Besides, I think she's been possessed enough by XANA in the past, don't you think?"

"Okay! By the way, did my friends come over to Kadec?"

"Yes. We haven't seen anything unusual about them yet, but considering that you're being so secretive on why you want them on Lyoko, we're willing to wait as long as it takes for them to reveal themselves."

"You mean you didn't even take a vote on them yet?" Jeremie shook his head.

"No, we did. But it was voted 6-2 against them. Aelita and I were the only ones who voted for them. We could use the extra manpower, after all."

"And why Aelita? Wasn't she nearly burned when William first went to Lyoko?"

"The more people working to help XANA, the sooner she can see her father again. I haven't seen her so happy since before XANA resurfaced."

"It's good to hear that she's back to her old self this quickly; I imagined that she would have begun to deny my facts by now. Well, see you tomorrow!"

"Bye!" Chao's window disappeared. Jeremie got out of his chair and headed for the elevator. Just as he was about to press the up button…

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"Huh?-!" The boy genius ran back to the controls as a video feed from the factory entrance. Four figures were walking on the bridge, towards the factory. Jeremie quickly locked the elevator at the bottom of the shaft, before climbing the ladder on the side wall that led to a corridor near one of the production rooms. If they were puppets of XANA, he'd have to call up Patrick, Sissi, and William. If they weren't…

"Ile Seguin is an island in the middle of the Seine River," Yue explained. "Between 1929 and 1934, the Renault car company constructed an automobile factory on the island, with production continuing until 1992. Currently, there are projects in planning to demolish the factory and replace it with condominiums, an arts complex, businesses…a lot of good ideas, which are all currently strangled by government red tape. We shouldn't be bothered here." The four were walking on the side walkway of a series of underground sewers that led towards the factory. On the opposite side of the sewer, the squeak of a rat was shortly accompanied by the sound of scampering feet on the concrete ground.

"Yue," Yuna wondered, "why did we have to go through a sewer to get to this place you're talking about?"

"If you'd like to be rung up by that Jim fellow, then be my guest," Asuna stated. "If you remember, we aren't supposed to be up this late."

"It was a good thing that there was an access through the boiler room by the staircase," Yue continued. "Otherwise, we'd have to run across the courtyard to reach a manhole in the nearby woods. Here we are." The four reached the end of the sewer, where it empties out into the Seine River. The end of the sewer was sealed off with heavy metal bars, making the nearest exit a metal ladder that led to a manhole. An island obscured he location of the river's opposite bank.

"Up here." Yue began to climb the ladder, followed by Yuna, Konoka, and Asuna. The purplette removed the manhole cover, pulled herself out, and turned back to help the other three out. The road that they were on led to a bridge that spanned the waterway to connect with the island. At the end of the bridge stood a massive, derelict factory complex that encompassed the entirety of the island. From their position, they could look into the entranceway, and quickly spotted four ropes hanging from a steel I-beam. Chamo popped out of Yue's bag, and surveyed the scene before them.

"Woah momma!" the ermine exclaimed. "T-this place is huge!"

"That's why I thought it would be a perfect place to train," the purplette stated.

"But why would they leave such a big factory sitting here rotting away?" Yuna wondered. Yue sweatdropped.

"Pay attention next time," she flatly recommended.

"Forget that," Asuna urged. "If we're going to use this place as a training base, we've got to at least know what's inside!" Before anyone else spoke, she ran across the bridge into the complex, grabbed a rope, jumped off the ledge, and slid down to the pavement below, landing feet first.

"Hey, wait up!" Yuna exclaimed, and ran to catch up with her. Yue and Konoka simply walked after the two.

"Good to see Asuna still as lively as usual," Yue commented.

"It's actually the best that I've seen we defeated Cosmo Ethletica," Konoka stated. "She was still in a depressed state whenever she returned to our dorms. It's almost as if she wanted to leave the Academy." Yue took mental note of this as they reached the ropes. The purplette was first, and she grasped the rope and slid to the ground floor, with Konoka following shortly afterwards.

"Yes…hmmm…" Chamo commented, taking in the surroundings. The place was empty, save for the silent shadows of the building and one empty elevator shaft. "…the area is secluded enough…as long as we don't destroy anything, it should be a perfect place to train!" Konoka noticed the shaft.

"Say, where does that lead to…" she wondered.

"Only one way to find out!" Asuna stated, walking over to the down button. She firmly pressed the button, and waited for the sound of the elevator rising up to their level. After a few seconds of hearing nothing, she pressed it again. And again, and again, and again…

"Come on, you stupid thing!" she yelled, pounding the button with her fist.

"Must be out of order," Yuna guessed.

"Maybe we should climb down the shaft," Konoka suggested, pointing to the side of the shaft. "Look, there's a rung ladder on the side of the shaft." Chamo yawned, and shook his head.

"It's getting late," the ermine stated. "We can do that tomorrow, when the jet lag's worn off."

"I guess you're right," she yawned. "Ah, now I'm starting to get tired, too."

"Let's stay awake long enough to search the rest of the place," Yue urged. "We can do a quick look around the place now. A thorough search of the place can wait until tomorrow after school."

"Sounds good!" Yuna stated. "Oh man, doesn't this place remind you guys of somewhere that a mad scientist would set up shop?"

"You've been hanging out with Hakase recently, haven't you?" Asuna asked, as the group headed deeper and deeper into the factory complex.

'You're not too far off,' Jeremie thought, as he watched them leave from behind a support column. As soon as he believed that they were far enough away, the boy genius hastily hurried up the nearby loading ramp, and back out onto street level. Once on the bridge, he took out his cell phone, and dialed up a number.

"Patrick, it's me. We have a bit of a problem."

"They're taking up residence in the factory?" William asked Jeremie at breakfast the next day. He was across the table from both him and Patrick, with Sissi sitting next to him.

"Yeah. I didn't catch their entire conversation, but they want to use the factory as some sort of training ground. They were talking with a man that I think was their leader, but I didn't see him."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Sissi wondered. "If Chao stated that those for would be helpful to us, wouldn't this just confirm what she said?"

"It depends on what they are training," Patrick told her, "and if it's legal or not."

"It's not like that we have a chummy relation with the law either," she grumbled.

"We can argue the legality of our actions later," Jeremie urged. "But if they attract too much attention, that would put the spotlight on us as well. Remember, we still aren't fully committed to approach them and bring them to Lyoko. And tonight, they are going to search the factory, and find the Supercomputer. We need to make a decision by then; otherwise, the Return to the Past won't be able to go back far enough that we can lead them away from the factory."

"We'll have to keep an eye on them," William suggested. "All day. If we even show a shred of capability for turning tail, we Return and lead them away." Jeremie nodded.

"That sounds like the only course of action for now," he said. "Any objections?"

"What about our classes?" Sissi asked. "If I fail this geometry test, my father will chew my head off!"

"Besides," Patrick added, "We're tenth and eleventh graders. They are ninth graders. It would look rather suspicious if we were wandering near their classes."

"If we screw this up," the boy genius stated coldly, "then you might never see your father again." The objections were shocked into silence by his statement. "We have four people here, and four people to monitor. Therefore, we can easily divide our work into spying on a one-on-one basis. William, you'll take…" What they didn't know was that they themselves were being spied on, as a snow white animal. Chamo quickly scampered back to the table where the four girls were sitting at. He quickly whispered his information to Yue. Her eyes went wide for a moment, before returning to their emotionless state.

"Well?" Yuna asked.

"The blonde boy spotted us at the factory. He doesn't know that we are mages yet, but they are going to be tailing us." Konoka grew concerned.

"Do you think we're in trouble with the Magic Association?" she whispered.

"Nah," Asuna countered. "Yue said that they didn't explicitly state that we had magic. Anything else?" Yue nodded.

"Chao."

"Eh?"

"It could have been someone else named Chao," the purplette explained, "but they did say that a Chao person had told them that we would be helpful to their cause."

"And you think it's our Chao Lingshen?" Yuna asked.

"When you put it together with the last bit of information…"

"What's that?" Konoka asked.

"They mentioned something about bringing us to a place called Lyoko, and that there is a Supercomputer underneath the factory that we were in. They also mentioned something called Return to the Past, but even I have no clue what that could be."

"So we're not the only ones who are hiding something," Yuna stated.

"And it looks like we may have to confront them very soon," Yue added. "As early as tonight."

"What are we going to do? If we have a confrontation, we'll most likely have to explain our – hey, look at Sakura." Sakura, Herb, and Nicholas passed by them, their trays heavily laden with bowls of cereal.

"What's Kasumi's stalker doing with that much food?" Asuna wondered. "It's not like she can eat all of that by herself."

"Maybe she's trying to fill out the rest of her body," Yuna joked. Sakura and her two new friends headed over towards the Lyoko Warriors table, and as they neared, Sakura appeared to trip over her own feet. The tray became unstable, and the bowls on her tray flew into the air, spilling cold, sticky cereal all over Sissi and Jeremie. His laptop was also hit with food and milk; it sparked briefly, before the screen flashed, then went completely blank, the soft hum of the hard drive completely gone.

"AH?-!" he exclaimed. "No! My laptop!"

"Oh, oops," Sakura apologized obnoxiously. "A casualty of war, I guess." This set off warning bells at both tables.

"What?" William asked.

"Casualty of war?" Yue wondered. Herb stepped out from behind Sakura.

"Yes. For the last few years, I've hanged out with you, put up with your insults, obeyed your every command, all so that I could get a chance to work up my courage to ask you out. Only to see you join forces with the weirdoes here and declare that you never liked neither me or Nicholas!" Sissi brushed the last of the sticky cereal off her clothing.

"Duh," she said flatly. "Back when I was a brat, you were useful minions that would lick a pig if I ordered it. But now that I've changed, I realized not only how badly I treated you, but how badly I used such mistreatment to hurt those that I now realize to be my friends, who you originally hated in the first place." Herb went red in the face, this time not from love.

"That just makes it worse!" he yelled, and angrily threw his tray at her. She fell backwards, and was once again covered in wet, sticky cereal.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?-!" William demanded.

"Doing that to the person you loved-!"

"FORMELY loved, Einstein cousin!" Herb spat. While this was going on, Jeremie helped Sissi up off the ground. Nicholas approached the two, still holding his tray in his hands.

"I suppose you also want to give Sissi a milk bath?" the boy genius asked. The blonde shook his head.

"No. This is the cereal that we were planning to eat."

Over in the Mountain Sector, at the tower that was protected by high walls, pulsations ripped through the lonely path that connected the plateau. The tower changed colors, from its normal white to a bright red.

By the time Jim arrived to the cafeteria, Asuna had already stopped the two forces from going into an all-out brawl. She was now talking to Sakura.

"What the hell did you think you'd accomplish pulling of a stunt like that?-!" she demanded.

"Why is it that you're accusing me of anything," she asked innocently. "Don't you know that it's bad to wrongly accuse those older than you?"

"Don't play dumb with me! It was that attitude that got you cut off the Mahora newspaper this year, so don't take it out on the students here!"

"Hey, it was only because they promoted Kasumi to main photographer after you guys returned from Wales! Which reminds me, this is the perfect time to ask you four where your class ran off to when you visited Wales over the summer!"

"Not that crap again! If you think you're going to force that-!"

"Ladies, ladies!" Jim boomed. "You don't want me sending the both of you back to Japan because someone has an unanswered question, now do you?-!"

"N-no sir…" they both replied, before looking in opposite directions.

"Good." He turned to Herb, Patrick, and William. "As for you guys, you should know better than to try to solve your differences by fighting! That only worked for me in the Gulf War, when an Iraqi soldier accused me of cheating on his wife."

"Really," Patrick whistled. "How'd it go?"

"It was a tough fight, as we did a standard boxing match, and…I'd rather not talk about it. Anyway, four hours of detention for William and Patrick. Herb, you'll go see the principal immediately to receive your punishment!" Herb gulped.

"I'm afraid that no one here will able to serve their punishments." The eyes in the cafeteria that were formerly glued onto Jim and Sissi now moved to focus onto a girl who had just walked into the cafeteria.

"Eh?" Konoka exclaimed.

"Not serve?" Sakura repeated.

"Why not?" Jim demanded. "And I don't believe that I recognize your face from any of the students here!"

"Because either one of two possibilities will now occur," the girl stated. "Either Master XANA will take over the world, or you'll all return to your catfights and boxing matches, not realizing that I exist. Except for four people here, of course." This statement, coupled with her long blonde hair and strange blue skintight outfit, caused William to realize who this girl was.

"Erena!" he exclaimed.

"Good morning, Lyoko Warriors," she greeted with a smile and wave. "I hope you got enough sleep last night, because you're gonna need it today. Kankrelats, attack!" Suddenly, dozens, perhaps hundreds of the small little creatures appeared in the cafeteria, causing panic to erupt in the students. This was only reinforced when the monsters began firing lasers.

"Time to go!" William said.

"Second that!" Sissy yelled, as the four quickly ran towards the doors to the cafeteria. Jim turned towards them just as they opened the doors.

"Hey!" he boomed. "Where do you guys think you're goin'?-!"

"Somewhere to take the latter option!" Jeremie replied, as they flew through the doors, and out of the cafeteria. A Kankrelat tried to follow, but the door closed just as it tried to get through, knocking the machine onto its side.

"What the-?-!" Before Jim could finish, Erena came up from behind him, and shot a laser blast at him. The close range of the blast gave the laser devastating power, as the P.E. teacher quickly lost consciousness, and collapsed in a messy heap by a table, a hole seared in his back.

"Not as lethal as Claudette's XANA-fied kisses," she remarked, "but it still packs quite a punch. Kankrelats, move out!" The Kankrelats hopped onto the lunch tables, and jumped out towards the windows – of which there were no equivalents on Lyoko. Not realizing that they were there, the first two sets of Kankrelats that jumped simply smacked into the windows, and fell onto the ground in various positions. At least four were disappeared when the landed on utensils that stabbed them in the eyes. The others, who stopped their jumps towards the outside, first began to look at each other, then Erena, for advice. This got the XANA commander steamed.

"You stupid machines!" she yelled. "You fire at the windows, THEN jump out of them!" The Kankrelats did just that, their laser blasts being enough to shatter the windows. They were now able to get through to the outside.

Erena facepalmed. "Why did I get stuck with the idiot monsters?" She hadn't noticed that during her frustration at her subordinates, four people had quietly slipped out of the cafeteria.

Back with the Lyoko Warriors, who were now making a mad dash for the boiler room…

"Aw nuts!" Sissi complained, removing one last cereal flake from her soggy shirt. "Why did XANA have to attack us after I went through that?-!"

"Look on the bright side, Sissi!" William offered. "Not only can we now prepare for today's confrontation, but you can now get some more studying in!"

"Now's not the time for jokes, William!" Jeremie stated. "If my laptop hadn't fried, we could have at least gotten a head start to the factory! Now we have to worry about running into-!" He stopped when he opened the door to the boiler room. Blocking the way was Shiro, who was commanding a group of…Bloks.

"Anyone else find anything fitting about what XANA's blocking our way with?" Patrick said to no one in particular.

"…Sorry…" Shiro quietly apologized, "…but you must not pass…" Patrick noticed a pipe lying nearby.

"You guys turn around," he said, picking up the pipe. "I'll keep her from following you back."

"Are you crazy?-!" Sissi yelped. "Those lasers will fry you to a crisp if you get hit!"

"I'll be fine," he assured. "Besides, I've got a bit of a score to settle with this girl."

"All right," Jeremie said. "But be careful."

"Don't worry. I don't think I'll fall for XANA twice!" The other three left the boiler room, leaving Patrick to deal with the XANA commander.

"A score with me?" Ancil asked.

"Yeah," Patrick answered, tapping the pipe in the palm of his hand. "You devirtualize my back, I revirtualize yours. Fair enough?"

"I believe so."

"Do you think that he'll stand a chance against Minette?" Patrick asked.

"As long as those Bloks don't freeze him," Jeremie surmised, "then he'll be fine. Otherwise, we'll have to step up the pace on Lyoko!"

"Uh, that might be a little hard now," Sissi stated. "Look!" Ahead of them, blocking their path to the manhole entrance, were Renee and Shiro. The former was commanding three Scorpions, while the latter had five Tarantulas.

"Going somewhere?" Renee asked, smirking.

"Yeah," William stated. "Not just this way!" Risking being hit in the back, they turned around, hoping to make a break for the main road. However, they found that their path had been sealed up by Kankrelats, who formed a semicircle to trap them. Erena walked up behind them.

"How is it that I'm second in command," she complained, "yet I get stuck with the dumbest of our minions?-!"

"Luck of the draw," Renee replied. "It was your idea to draw virtual straws anyway."

"Only because you two both wanted the Scorpions," Shiro muttered.

"Anyway," the raven haired commander stated, "it seems that you guys are a little…shorthanded today. What happened to my friends? Did they go away or something?"

"You know very well where they are, don't you?" Jeremie said.

"Shut up, Father! Honestly, I don't know why XANA wants to hold you guys prisoner. You're only going to be obnoxious, and belligerent to us anyway, so what's the point of trying to make you guys mere pawns anyway? It would be much better if you all were dead." She paused. "What do you two think?"

"Stick to Master XANA's orders," Shiro insisted. "I'm getting a strange feeling from some of the students here…and it's not coming from those three." Jeremie took note of this.

"I felt something too," Erena remarked. "It was a strong, oppressive presence. But with the chaos I caused in that cafeteria place, I wasn't able to find out where it was coming from." Renee turned to glare at her, and whacked her off her feet with the flat part of her zanbato.

"IDIOT!" she screamed. "That presence might be detrimental to Master XANA's plans! You're supposed to be second in command after me, and my mother if you go by your coding! Yet you're making simple boneheaded mistakes like this?-!"

"A-ah! Sorry, Renee! I'm sorry!"

Considering that Erena's code was created from Jeremie's DNA,' Shiro mused to himself, 'shouldn't she be the one who's scolding? Not her child? Why did Master XANA make things so-?' He was interrupted by the soft chatter of the Lyoko Warriors, who were conferring on what they just heard.

"Could it be our-?" William began.

"It has to be," Jeremie cut in. "With what little information Chao's told us, it would make some sense."

"What makes sense?" Shiro butted in, holding one of his fans towards Jeremie's neck. "Speak up!"

"What's up Shiro?" Renee asked, confused at what he was doing.

"Your Father was discussing something that the Data Pack sent him." Renee walked away from Erena, and right up in Jeremie's face.

"So, Father," she cooed, running her finger up his chin, "tell me what's so important that it can't wait for later, hmm?" Jeremie simply spat in her face, causing her to retract in shock.

"I would never tell an ally of XANA anything!" he declared. The raven haired commander wiped the spit off her face, and reached for her sword.

"Ugh!" She yelled. "I wonder if this is how the monster first felt about Dr. Frankenstein! Screw the democracy thing! YOU DIE!" She began to swing her sword, hell-bent on decapitating Jeremie. The boy genius closed his eyes, just as everything began to move at once.

"JEREMIE!"

"NO!"

"What in the-?-!"

"Renee, STOP!"

!TING-LING!

"ADEAT!"

!KLANG!

Jeremie slowly opened his eyes. He knew very well that metal slicing through human flesh did not make a "klang" noise. They instantly went wide-eyed when he saw what had happened: another Zanbato had blocked Renee's. Different from both William's and Renee's, the sharpened edges of the blade were silver, with the rest of the metal being blackened metal. The hilt was also moved to the top of the sword, rather than the middle, and the handle was wrapped in white bandages. An orange-brown tag was attached to the end of the hilt, and it appeared that both it and the blade had writing inscribed on them.

Most surprising, however, was who was holding the sword. The person was a girl, wearing chest armor over a black spandex shirt, a red knee-length skirt, and knee-high armor boots over black thigh-length stockings. On her right side, the shirt continued into fingerless gloves, and was covered partially by metal wrist armor and a metal shoulder pad. Her left side, however, was sleeveless and exposed, save for white bandages that covered her arm and part of her shoulder. But it were the golden bells in her hair that made Jeremie realize who she was.

"Though I did say that this place wouldn't be anything like Mahora," Asuna stated, "that doesn't mean that I don't like to have a good fight against bad guys!"

"Asuna!" Jeremie exclaimed.

"Eh?" Said girl turned her head towards him, confused. "Do I know you?"

"Er, sort of." The XANA commanders were in a state of shock.

"W-wasn't she holding a card just before?-!" Erena asked. "S-she did not just change that card into a sword!"

"She's giving off that oppressive aura!" Shiro declared. "The sword must have something to do with it! I know it's impossible, but this could be categorized under that human term for unexplained human phenomena…"

"…Magic…" Renee finished, perhaps the most surprised out of the three. "…no way…" Asuna turned her head around. Behind her were Konoka and Yue, as well as a few less Kankrelats than before.

"Hey Yue!" she called over. "I could use a little help here!"

"Coming," the purplette replied, and produced a card out of her pocket. It was too far off for Jeremie to get a good look at it.

"Adeat!" No sooner than Yue said this, than she became bathed in a bright white light, her hair being blown upward by a mysterious force. The bright light flashed, and all of a sudden, books started spiraling from the ground, circling the girl. A witch's hat fell onto her head, as she outstretched her arms so that a black cloak could be magically put on her. She grasped a broom in her right hand, as her left reached out and selected one of the books from the spiral. The others disappeared, and the book levitated by itself, hovering close to the girl's left hand.

"…Okay, so it IS that magic whateveryacalledit!" Erena realized. "Kankrelats! Fire!" The yellow monsters turned towards Yue, and began charging their lasers. The girl appeared to be unphased by the impending attack.

"For Zo Cratica Socraticaia…VENTE!" Yue made a circle motion around herself with her broom. Instantly, a strong gust of wind kicked up, and sent the lightweight Kankrelats flying in every direction. As they did, and before they were smashed by crashing into something, their lasers fired, and everyone ducked to try to avoid being hit. In total, every Kankrelat, two Scorpions, and two Tarantulas were destroyed when everything was said and done. Sissi also got hit by a laser, and crumpled to the ground, clutching her burnt in severe agony.

"Sissi!" William cried.

"Ah! I'm coming!" Konoka hurried over, and pulled out a card from her pocket. "Adeat!" This time, the blinding light was so close that everyone had to cover their eyes to protect them. When they were able to see again, they saw that Konoka was now in a white and red laced priestess garb, with purple bottoms and brown shoes. Two yellow fans with red tassels were held in her hands. She walked up to Sissi, took out a small heart-shaped wand, and pointed it at Sissi's wound.

"Practe Bigi Nar! Let the grace of Jupiter be the cure for your sake! Cura!" A bright light formed around the wound. Sissi cringed, as the skin around the wound began to miraculously heal. Within seconds, there was no sign of there ever being a burn mark there.

"…M-my arm…!" Sissi exclaimed, shocked at having a first-hand experience of magic. "Y-you…"

"Don't worry about it!" Konoka assured, giving off her trademark smile.

"N-ngh!" Erena groaned, just getting off the ground. "This has been a disaster on too many levels!"

"I agree," Renee stated. "It's time to change plans. Erena, head over and assist Ancil. Me and Shiro will move to destroy the Supercomputer."

"Right!" The three commanders dispersed, with Erena running over towards the boiler room, and Renee and Shiro hopping onto a Scorpion and a Tarantula, respectively, and turning around, headed into the forest.

"Wait," William realized, "Patrick's still in the boiler room!"

"No worries, bro!" a male voice came from around Yue. "Yuna's over there, so I'd expect her to have found him by now." A long, furry, white creature popped out of her pocket.

"Ah!" Sissi exclaimed. "A talking ferret!" The creature seemed to get annoyed at this.

"Hey! First of all, the name's Chamo! Second, I am not a ferret, I'm an ermine! Got that? Ermine! E-R-M-I-M-E ERMINE!"

"You're the voice I heard in the factory!" Jeremie realized. Chamo and jumped in surprise.

"Ah! You were at that factory last night?-!"

"Great!" Asua complained. "And we don't even have Negi's memory-erasing spell on us!"

"You might not need it if we can stop XANA in time," the boy genius remarked.

"Yeah, but how will be able to get to the factory before Erena and Ancil?" William wondered. "By the time we reach the factory, the Supercomputer will be as good as toast."

"Hey," Chamo butted in. "I don't really get what you guys were saying, but you need to get to that abandoned factory on the river, right?"

"Uh, yeah," Jeremie said.

"And you need to get there before those two people and their freaky monsters, correct?"

"That's right."

"Then we just might be able to transport one of you there in time before they get there."

"Why only one?" Sissi asked.

"Yue's broom can carry only two or three people, and you'll probably need Konoka more than Yuna."

"Oh. That makes sense…wait, what?"

Back in the boiler room, Patrick wasn't having much luck with Ancil and his Blok squad. The squad numbered six, and whenever he got close enough to attempt to stab one with the pipe he found, another one would fire at him, forcing Patrick to fall back. On top of that, Ancil was lobbing Energy Fields at him, turning the boiler room into a virtual minefield.

"Give it up!" Ancil boomed. "Without your Lyoko powers, you're hopeless to fight back!" He formed another Energy Field at close range. Patrick held up the pipe in self-defense, saving his life, but melting the pipe to about a few inches above his hands.

"Er, nice fighting you!" he said, and tried to turn around and leave. Two Bloks, however, now barred the way.

"I told you," Ancil restated, "you're hopeless to win!" He charged up an Energy Field, aiming right at Patrick. The brown-haired boy tensed, preparing to attempt to dodge the attack…

!BANG! !BANG!

Two shots rang out, and the two Bloks at the entrance suddenly sparked, and disappeared.

"What?-!" Ancil gasped.

"Doesn't it seem like a bad idea to put targets on your creatures?" a female voice called from near the door. "That just makes them easier to shoot at." The girl was wearing a long brown trench coat with black shoulder areas and rolled up sleeves over a navy blue tank top. She had yellow shorts which had two navy blue stripes in the shape of a bikini bottom, and yellow thigh-length boots. The portion covering her thighs split into a slight V, as did the bottom half of the trench coat. In her hands were the sources of the shots: a brown handle, green barreled 16th century style gun, and a black semiautomatic pisto..

"Yuna!" Patrick cried.

"Do I know you?" Yuna questioned.

"Long story. Could you lend a hand?" Yuna took aim with the semiautomatic.

"Would a gun be better?" she smirked. She squeezed the trigger of the weapon, and shot the nearest Blok in the eye, causing it to make a full spin before disappearing. This prompted the other three Bloks to charge up their attacks. Yuna shot one of them, before sidestepping the lasers. As they began to charge up again, Yuna was able to shoot another Block. But the last one was quick, and shot an ice-blue laser at her feet. The gunslinger girl grunted, as ice began to form around her feet. She was still able to shoot the monster, but by the time she did so, both of her feet were frozen solid to the ground.

"Not bad, for a common girl," Ancil commended. He formed an Energy Field in his hands, just as Yuna pointed both guns at him.

"A shot's faster than a throw," she stated.

"But you're frozen in place, unable to move. Once you're out of ammunition, you're stuck."

"There's only one of you, and these guns have plenty of ammo!"

"Correction: there are two of us." Yuna aimed her second gun at Erena, who now appeared in the doorway. This momentary diversion allowed Ancil to fire his Energy Field at Yuna. She barely had time to duck out of the way of the blast, but one of the guns got scraped by the Energy Field, and melted beyond usage.

"Crap!" she cursed.

"Pick your poison, girl," Erena ordered. "Me or Ancil? Either way, you die."

"How about neither?" Patrick stated, and threw what was left of his pipe weapon at her. Xana's second-in-command yelped as she tried to fire her laser at the object. Not only did this fail, as the pipe hit her square on the nose, but the laser fired wildly, cutting through one of the steam pipes. A loud hiss erupted from the pipe, as steam poured out, quickly enveloping the room in a murky white cloud.

"You idiot!" Ancil yelled. "Now how am I supposed to see where they are?-!"

"Sowwie!" she apologized, covering her now-sore nose. Patrick used this confusion to get another pipe from near the boiler. Running back to Yuna, he began knocking the now melting ice off of her feet, enabling her to move again.

"Thanks!" she said.

"Hey, you scratch my back, I scratch yours. I'll handle Einstein's copy; you take care of Ancil."

"I don't really understand that much," she admitted, "but basically focus on the pink haired guy?"

"Pretty much." He then ducked as an Energy field whizzed over his head, signaling that the two XANA commanders had found them.

"You know this isn't really bringing back any good memories!" Jeremie cried. The method of transportation that Chamo had been describing was flying – on Yue's broom. The wand could only hold three people, so Jeremie was the only person that could ride. Yue was needed to fly the broom, Jeremie was the only person here that could run the Supercomputer, and Yue surmised that anyone else aside from Konoka was too heavy to ride with her. So with great speed did the broom, with Yue in the middle, Konoka at the point, and a rather terrified Jeremie squeezing tightly to Yue's waist at the rear, take off for the factory.

"It couldn't have possibly been worse than when I rode Negi's wand for the first time," Yue said.

"Why?"

"I panicked, we almost fell off, we crashed into a spider web, then fell off."

"Try being in a hijacked fighter pilot that's spinning out of control towards the ground."

"Eh?-! How the heck could you have survived that?-!"

"Er, depending on how the next few minutes play out, I'll tell you later."

"It's a good thing that Nodoka's friends gave you a bigger broom Yue!" Konoka, who was back in her regular clothes, stated. "Otherwise, we probably wouldn't have all been able to fit on here!" Just then, they saw the river bridge that led to the factory. The Tarantulas and Scorpions were just about to cross it to head into the factory.

"We'll never make it in time!" Jeremie realized. Yue leaned a bit forward.

"Not on my time! Maxima Acceleratio!" The broom suddenly picked up speed, and they shot through the skies, descending towards the bridge. As they flew just above the pavement, Renee and Shiro were barely able to turn around to look at what was coming before they shot past.

"Subsistat!" As they entered the entrance area of the building, Yue slowed the broom down, allowing her to carefully maneuver the broom down towards the floor. A rather pale Jeremie staggered off, towards the elevator.

"Never again…" he muttered. "I'll stick with my scooter."

"Shouldn't we be trying to find a staircase?" Yue asked him. "You saw us try to operate the elevator last night."

"That was because I locked the elevator at the bottom of the shaft when the security cameras alerted me of your approach," Jeremie explained, hitting the button. The gears on the top of the elevator shaft groaned as they turned, and the sound of the work elevator moving upwards grew louder. "It'll work fine now."

"Security cameras?" she stated, surprised.

"Don't worry. They only feed into the Supercomputer at the bottom of the elevator shaft. I'll explain later." The elevator arrived, and the vertical door opened.

"You take Konoka and do what you need to do here. I'll hold these two off."

"Are you sure?" Yue smiled. Renee and Shiro were

"We've been in worse odds before. I think I can handle a few people with swords and guns."

"Well, okay. Aim for the eye-like targets on the monsters. That's the only way you'll defeat them."

"Be careful, Yue!" Konoka called out to the purplette. A thumbs up could be seen from her, just as the elevator door closed.

"I'm going to need your help to stop all this," Jeremie told Konoka. "I'll get off at the first stop, then you continue down a level to the scanner room."

"Scanner room?" she asked, confused. "What's that?"

"Oh, you'll see." The elevator stopped, and the door opened to a wall and a number pattern. Jeremie typed in the entry code, and the wall opened up, revealing the computer lab. Konoka was amazed.

"Ooh!" She gasped. "It's almost like Hakase's lab in the University!" Jeremie walked out, and headed to the computer chair.

"Time's not on our side, so hurry up and get down to the next floor."

"Okay!" Konoka said, not entirely sure of what he just said. The elevator door closed as Jeremie sat in the chair. Onc the chair moved to within a comfortable distance of the computer, he attached the headset, and booted up the monitor.

"Chao?" Are you there?" The Martian appeared on the screen.

"It's about time!" she huffed crossly. "I've been trying to reach you for the last fifteen minutes!"

"Sorry. My computer discovered that it's lactose intolerant. Where are you?"

"I'm in the Mountain Sector, just south of the tower. I'm sending you the coordinates now."

"Ok…got them. I'm transferring Konoka to Lyoko to assist you." Chao became surprised.

"Eh? Konoka? So you finally voted my friends in?"

"Desperate times call for desperate measures, Chao. XANA's sent his new friends after us in the real world. Everyone else's holed up at the school."

"So that's why there are only Claudette and Minette guarding the tower. And why there is currently no news footage of any atta-"

"Wow!" Konoka's voice cut into the conversation. Jeremie looked at the footage of the security camera in the scanner room, and saw her in the middle of the room. "What are all these?"

"They're scanners," Jeremie said into the intercom. Konoka jumped at the sudden sound of his voice.

"Ah! Was that you, glasses boy?"

"Yes, and for future reference, my name's Jeremie. I'm up in the computer room, and I'll guide you as we beat XANA together."

"Who's XANA?"

"I'll explain later. Get into the scanner, and I'll start the transfer procedure." A brief pause was heard.

"Okay! I'll trust you on this one!" Jeremie saw her walk into the scanners, allowing him to close the doors.

"That trust factor's going to get her killed one day if she's not careful," Chao remarked.

"But it helps us in the short haul for now. Transfer, Konoka! Scanner, Konoka! Virtualization!"

For Your Information…

All four attires worn by the Ala Alba were canon at one point or another in Negima, as well as Yuna, Konoka's, and Yue's Pactio outfits. Asuna's Pactio outfit is a cross between the Negima?-! Armor Card and a piece of fanart, whose artist is unknown.

Sakura is a fan creation by me as a replacement for Sissi, whose previous role as the brat was vacated. Her backstory: She's a normal girl, but has had some run-ins with Negi, and seems to be the only one not to dismiss his sneezes as a gust of wind. She's an aspiring journalist whose career was cut short shortly after Ala Alba returned, when her status of primary photographer of the Mahora Newspaper was given to Kazumi, whose artifacts allowed her to get far better shots than anyone else in Mahora. Sakura quit the journalism, and, posing as a understudy of Kazumi, goes around for freelanced jobs – if only to find out the secrets of class 3-A. Consider her a meld of old Sissi and Kazumi, with a twang of Ayaka's stubbornness and Odd's scrawny figure.

Odd: I'm not scrawny! I'm svelte!

Be quiet, you! You're not supposed to be seen for another few chapters.

For those who don't know, 3-A in Japan is the equivalent of ninth grade elsewhere. Take a guess as to which two Kadec journalists we'll see a lot of.

Anyone who thought it would be Asuna who would be the first of the four on Lyoko…yeah, I did too.

So, as I said before, the second half of this chapter will now be placed in a greatly expanded Chapter 4 – of which we'll see a little sneak peak in just a bit. This pushes back a filler chapter to the next season, but it also gets out a lot of explanatory stuff out of the way, meaning that there are now only two more chapters standing between here and the start of the actual plot. Plus, now I have the time to write out an awesome battle scene in Lyoko! So as usual, read and review all of my works, and stay tuned for the next chapter!

Chao: Welcome to Lyoko, guys!

Konoka: Chao Lingshen!

Yue: I thought you went back into the future!

Chao: Long story short, I hit a speed bump.

Asuna: Hey, would you guys pick up the pace down there?-! Renee's not exactly making this a picnic with me!

Yuna: Sorry if we're a bit outnumbered here!

William: Guess it's our turn to lend a hand then.

Next time! The White Wings of Lyoko! See you then!