Return to the Past, NOW!

Disclaimer: Don't own Code Lyoko.

"Well," said Yumi, smiling, "Good bye XANA, hello FREEDOM!"

Odd, after talking to Jim Morales, the Phys. Ed teacher, nodded.

Aelita smiled as she walked beside Jeremie, hand-in-hand.

Ulrich uncharacteristically did a jump in the air that ended with a well-timed flip.

"Well," said Jeremie, "It's over!"

"No more towers," said Aelita.

"No more algorithms," said Jeremie.

"No more monsters," said Odd. "'Though I did miss the Kankrelats."

"I remember when I was on Lyoko's Ice sector that three of them were on my trail," Aelita said.

"Remember when I accidentally shot a fan through the wall that Aelita created," said Yumi.

"Yeah," said Ulrich, "And I told you that you 'could do better than that!'"

Odd smiled.

"Remember when Kiwi reloaded my laser arrows?" he asked Jeremie.

"Yes, I do," said Jeremie.

"I thought it was you who did it when I did a laser arrow at William," said Odd.

"I misfired an energy field that day," said Aelita.

"And directed it at me," joked Odd.

Everyone laughed as the gang headed to Jeremie's dorm to enter one last entry to his Lyoko diary.

"Everyone ready," asked Jeremie.

BEEP!

BEEP!

BEEP!

"What?" Jeremie asked.

"The super-scan," Aelita asked fearfully.

"Oh, God, NO!" shouted Yumi.

A timer showed up on the screen. Thirty minutes, counting down, flashed.

"It looks like a return to the past!" said Jeremie.

Everyone gulped. "Can't you reverse it?" said Ulrich.

Jeremie typed frantically on the keyboard, but all that came up were (!)'S.

"I-I can't!" said Jeremie fearfully.

"It's the end of the world as we know it!" shouted Odd.

"This is bad times three," said Aelita.

"Quadruple that," said Jeremie. "I can't stop the return in time, a tower has just been activated, and I don't know what to do."

"The gods must be angry with our luck and is punishing us by having this happen," shouted Ulrich.

"No! That can't happen," said Jeremie.

"We have to get to the factory," said Yumi.

"Yumi's right," said Odd.

"Since when do you take my line," said Ulrich.

"Since you weren't quick enough," shouted Odd.

"Everybody quiet," said Jeremie. "Fighting on Earth doesn't solve anything!"

"Except when you are in DANGER!" said Yumi.

Kiwi, who was with Odd after they shut down Lyoko, barked.

"We have to get to the factory," Yumi repeated.

"You've said that already—" Jeremie was cut off by a white light that engulfed everything.

Aelita decided to try to beat the Return to the Past bubble. She ran out of Jeremie's room and ran down the stairs. She passed Jim. "Aelita," he yelled, "why are you running?"

"Sorry! Can't explain; could but couldn't, see you!" she yelled.

"Eh…?" Jim asked.

She ran passed her new friend Sissi. "Aelita, what's going on?" Sissi asked.

"It's complicated to understand!" Aelita said as she grabbed the raven-haired girl by the wrist, forcing her to run with Aelita.

"Is there something that I should know?" asked Sissi.

"No," said Aelita.

"There must be—" Sissi was cut off, too.

Aelita stopped, but it was a costly mistake. The bubble engulfed all of Earth, to the time that Jeremie started the computer…