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// Nostalgia 
// Story: Code Lyoko 3.0 
// by Brass Tacks 
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Kadic Academy
1400 Hours
March 21

It was the end of the school day, Jeremie, Aelita, Odd, Ulrich, Yumi and William had gathered in the cool shade of the Snak-Shak in the courtyard. What would normally be excited chatter and comical reminiscence on events was replaced with silence. As the Warriors quietly drank their respective beverages, Odd decided the ice had become too thick.
"I just don't get it... An entire month..." The blonde spoke up. He had said the truth. Exactly one month ago this very day, XANA had ceased all attacks, right after launching his biggest attack in the year: An attack on Carthage.
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XANA had outnumbered the Lyoko warriors twelve to one, each warrior having no more than thirty life points. A Kreeper had taken aim, and was preparing a massive attack, literally siphoning its own life points to blast the core away. Odd had taken the blast unintentionally, having been shot from his Overboard from above. He fell straight into the blast, the energy ripping  through his source code and blasting the two shields instantly. Strangely, the blast didn't destroy the core. Instead, the blast aura surrounded the core and tinted the orb crimson. After that, XANA retreated. Every monster on Lyoko devirtualized, every tower turned blue. The Way Towers stayed their usual white, but seemed faulty on certain codes. Mainly, the transport itself. Jeremie spent every night for the next week scanning for the problem. But it seemed there was none, every time he tried to center in on the anomaly it simply blended in with the other programs. Impossible to locate.
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The silence that had built was broken by a collective ringing, the Warriors quickly retrieved their phones and powered on the screen. A black symbol, The Eye of Lyoko, or more known, Eye of XANA, blinked on. Jeremie acted quickly, flipping his shoulder bag onto a bench and opening the laptop stuffed within. He was less than surprised to find a familiar coding load onto the monitor

>RemoteIP: LYOKO
>Error_Detected
>Program 23-5 'Superscann_Mark_5' Return: Negative
>Monitor Order 'XANA' Return: Active
>Diagnostic
>Energy_Spike_Change
>Base: 5%
>10%
>30%
>Current: 45%
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Jeremie quickly began to type, barely touching keys as he entered a new code.

Run Code: Wormhole
>Working...
>Wormhole accessed.
>ERROR! Password Required.
Password: Voyage
>Password Accepted
>Code: WORMHOLE Running.

"And Code Wormhole is?" Ulrich asked curiously. The others showed curiosity as well, even Aelita.

"We're about to find out." Jeremie replied. "Everyone to the lab. And be ready."
The gang instantly threw away their cans, tossing their phones back into their pockets they raced off the campus, straight into the forest they had traversed so enthusiastically so long before. Another journey was coming, and none of them planned to miss it. They all shared one thought, a collective idea developed by their both longing and hatred of XANA. A thought both depressed, and exciting.
 Here we go again... Here we go again!