Chapter One: New Plans

"C'mon Odd, you can't be falling behind that much!" Ulrich teased, running along a narrow glacier path with Yumi and Aelita.

"I'm not falling behind, I'm just keeping a rear guard, that's all. Besides, you never know what Xana might pull out from under the sheets," Odd answered with a humorous smirk.

"Alright," Jeremie began to tell them, "you got three tarantulas waiting for you at the tower, and you might want to pick it up because a megatank is rolling in behind you." Odd turned around, receiving this piece of information.

"I'll join up with you guys in a minute, keep going to the tower!" Odd called out, raising his arm to prepare for his enemy.

"I'll get to cover," Aelita said.

"Then c'mon Ulrich, it's you and me. Hey, Jeremie, would you mind programming our vehicles? We could use the lift," Yumi explained.

"They'll be at the end of this path right before the tarantulas." With that, Jeremie began typing away scripts and codes on the keyboard, and as the three got to the end of the glacier footpath, Aelita took cover behind a curve in the main platform. As she did, Yumi and Ulrich had no problem in mounting their vehicles as they appeared right before them. Taking off, rapid-fire lasers approached them from the ground.

"Time for a party," Ulrich said, but as he got to the tarantulas, his bike was hit. Disappearing, Ulrich fell right on top of a monster.

"Impact!" With one stab, he picked his sword out of the monster's eye and jumped to the side as it exploded. He caught the attention of one and began blocking shot after shot as Yumi circled around in the air with a fan open, picking her time to strike. She threw it as a laser hit her off her Overwing. The fan swooped down, straight through the head of the tarantula with a following explosion.

"Now, Aelita, while Ulrich keeps the last one occupied!" Yumi yelled to their pink-haired companion. She ran across the open field of blue as the tarantula looked at her. Seeing as Aelita was a more important target, it turned away from Ulrich, who ran up immediately afterward. Making a mistake, Ulrich failed to block a laser, knocking him on the ground.

"Oh no! One more hit and you're done for, Ulrich!" Jeremie exclaimed in panic.

"Yahoo!" Odd cheered as he dived forward. "Laser arrows!" Three arrows came out and hit the tarantula's body to the side, ultimately defeating the last monster.

"It's all you now, girl, c'mon!" Odd pushed Aelita cheerfully on.

"Just another day," Ulrich said almost with some disappointment. Without question, Aelita sunk into the tower, and stepped to the middle of the first platform. Flying upwards, she eventually came on top of the second platform, it beeping like the first. A touch screen appeared before here and she put her hand flat on it. The words "Code Lyoko" were magically typed in on it, and all the files with random compilations of information on the inside of the tower began to speed downward one after the other, then almost all at once. A white light came from what seemed to be the bottom of the tower.

"Return to the past, now," Jeremie said coolly, hitting the enter button. A blinding light expanded from the hologram projector of the supercomputer, engulfing all things as it magically turned back time.


To Xana, defeat seemed inevitable at this rate. The Scyphozoa had never been successful, his new designs were always trashed by the warriors, and no matter how many he sent, they'd always be destroyed. Like when they massacred a bunch of Bloks after being brought back to Lyoko from Xana's universe mimicking trick. All gone. The warriors simply adapted too quickly to their environment, and that's what became key in what would be the next design, versatility. Another tower was to be activated.


In the morning, as Jeremie was about to head off to class, a beeping came from his computer, with a picture of a tower and a red dot in the mountain region appearing. He looked at the screen and wondered.

Soon enough, they all joined for breakfast.

"You know, I'm getting real fed up with all these Xana attacks," Ulrich began.

"Uh oh, here comes another of Ulrich's anti-Lyoko temper tantrums," Odd interjected with a mild humor.

"No, I'm serious Odd. Almost every day, he attacks, and we always go and beat him, go back in time, relive the same day, go and fight him again the next day, and relive that, too. And even with his new inventions, it's not even a fight anymore." Saying this, Ulrich took a few bites of his food as his friends thought about his words.

"Well even so, we can't deactivate the computer until we find an anti-virus for Aelita," Jeremie responded.

"Besides, it's not the worst thing in the world. I don't know anywhere else where I can have superpowers and save the world every day fighting monsters, do you?" Odd rhetorically asked with a tone of his usual optimism.

"It doesn't change that having this job just generally sucks now," Ulrich answered pessimistically. "Anyways, it's almost time for class, I'm gonna head off."

"Me too, I get to have fun with a math test first thing in the morning," Yumi said.

"Hold on, just a minute everyone," Jeremie pleaded.

"What is it?" Jeremie turned to look at Aelita first, then everyone else before he spoke up again.

"Earlier this morning, I decided to check if any of the towers on Lyoko were activated, and it said that one in the mountain region was. Have any of you guys heard or seen anything suspicious?"

"No, everything's just fine, there wasn't anything on the radio when I got up this morning," Yumi told the group.

"I don't know what it is, but it seems out of place," Aelita answered.

"Well unless anything starts acting up in school, I say we wait until after school to check it out, okay guys?"

"Okay," they all said in random order to Jeremie. The group then dispersed, going on with their daily lives as usual.

"Hey Ulrich," Sissy started, with Herb and Nicholas following close behind as was normal.

"No, Sissy, I don't want to go to the library with you to look up why cancer spreads," he interrupted. She stood there, confused as he moved on with his life.


It was finally the last class of the day, and Odd, Ulrich, Jeremie and Aelita sat as Mrs. Hertz babbled on about mathematical equations that half the class would fail anyways. Odd looked at the clock as he counted down the seconds until the last bell rang.

"Five... four... three... two... one," Odd counted, and as he thought, the bell rang. Without another thought, the Lyoko warriors got up and headed for the park. As they descended on a flight of stairs, and finally reached outside, they ran into their favorite PE teacher.

"Oh hi Jim," Aelita greeted hurriedly.

"Whoah whoah whoah, hold on now, where do you think you guys are going?" The question stopped the group dead in their tracks as they hurriedly tried to come up with a satisfactory answer for Jim.

"We're ugh... we're going to the park," Odd scrambled to say.

"Yeah, I was gonna teach them some martial arts," Ulrich picked up on what Odd needed to finish.

"Oh, well I'm sure you guys will learn a lot from him. Move along," Jim said coolly. The four moved along, joining up with Yumi at the park sewer cap.

"What took you guys so long?"

"We got held up by Jim, you know, being all suspicious and everything," Aelita told Yumi. They took their usual route, going down to the sewers, out to the skateboards and scooters, to the bridge manhole cover, down the ropes, then the elevator, then to the hidden equipment for Lyoko. Sitting down at the chair behind the computer, Jeremie began launching codes.

"Scanner, Odd. Scanner, Yumi. Scanner, Ulrich. Scanner, Aelita. Transfer, Yumi. Transfer, Odd. Transfer Aelita. Transfer Ulrich. Virtualization!" In a flash, the four spawned in the mountain region of Lyoko. "Alright, now here come your vehicles." The Overwing, bike, and board spawned in front of them, and Aelita hopped on with Yumi as the warriors flew closer to where they were told the activated tower was.

"You guys got hornets behind you and two mantas ahead," Jeremie notified his friends. "But um... I'm picking up some strange activity having to do with the Digital Void. I'm not sure what he's up to."

"I doubt it's anything special. Besides, we'll have this tower deactivated in no time at all," Ulrich assured Jeremie as the two mantas came into sight. Some lasers were shot but easily dodged in the air, and was lucky enough to hit one of four hornets behind them.

"I can see the tower there," Aelita pointed out, extending her finger in the activated tower's direction.

"Well you guys keep going, I think I got these," Ulrich suggested. "Hyah!" The swordsman jumped off his bike, letting it drop onto a manta as he rode the other one. The hornets got closer, firing at Ulrich which destroyed the Manta he was riding on, but he jumped high up into the air before the hard surface below him faded away.

"Triplicate!" Three Ulrich's lined up with the three remaining hornets, and all the copies slashed through, eliminating the threat.

"Great job, Ulrich!" Jeremie praised, as he turned his attention to the forward part of the group. "Now Aelita, I don't want you to deactivate the tower yet." Aelita, Yumi, and Odd came closer to the tower. Below was a narrow rock footpath leading to a larger circular rock platform with a gap in the middle of. In this gap, a red beam of light came up from the Digital Sea.

"Why not, Jeremie?" Aelita asked.

"Because he might try to trap you in the Digital Void before the time travel, for all I know, or someone on Lyoko. I want to find out what it's for, first." Jeremie began typing away on the computer as the three Lyoko warriors settled down on the path to take a closer look.

"Hey Yumi, try throwing your fan through this to see if it's like a vacuum," Odd suggested.

"Alright," Yumi said, taking her fan out. She flung her fan threw the cylinder with no effect at all, to the cylinder or to the fan.

"Huh, that's weird. I'm gonna try jumping through it," Odd told the rest of the group.

"Wait, Odd!" Jeremie commanded, but Odd ignored him as he flew right through the red beam of light.

"Well that's weird," Odd noted, looking up and back to see Ulrich joining them. "Welcome to the party."

"What's this?" Ulrich asked.

"We don't know," Jeremie told Ulrich. "But we're about to find out."


Well, this is the first chapter in Digital Origin, and I'm sure you're all going to guess that it all starts with this red beam of light, which, it does. Hopefully I'll have the next chapter of this up before Monday, because I won't have access to the internet all of next week. A couple things to keep in mind is that this is supposed to take place after "Common Interest" after the energy source is refilled. Some of what happened between then and now are numerous, forgettable Xana attacks, as referenced by Ulrich in the beginning of this chapter. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, and until the next one!