Disclaimer: I don't own anything belonging to Code: Lyoko, Total Drama, or Reboot. Code Lyoko is Property of Moonscoop, Reboot is the property of Mainframe Entertainment and Total Drama is the property of Fresh TV.
Hope you all enjoy this Crossover Arc which is something I have been working since PEJP Bengtzone suggested a crossover with other shows like Reboot. I thought it over and started working on this, even though it took me a while to finally write it and launch it. Hope you all enjoy it as like Code Total Drama Reality I plan to make it epic. As you all know, Reboot was unfortunately cancelled before it was finished because the producers didn't think they had enough ratings so they left us with a massive cliffhanger.
I found that to be really annoying because it was a great show to watch when I was younger. I made a crossover with Reboot and Code Lyoko when several years ago when Reboot ended and after I watched the entire first season of Code Lyoko. Now things have changed and I plan to make this crossover even better and I hope that you all find it as great as you like Code: Total Drama Reality. The arc takes place before the Nephilim Arc but after the Shadow arc so Duncan and Courtney are still Lyoko Warriors and XANA has created Jinx, Blade and Sora but Nephilim and Seraphim have not arrived in Lyoko yet. In Reboot the story starts as Megabyte is sent into the Web in the episode Showdown and leads up to the events of Crouching Binome, Hidden Virus.
I also plan to show new characters in different systems other than Mainframe so if any of you has an idea for a character that is either a Virus, a Sprite, Guardian, and any other made up format that you decide would be good for this story feel free to send me a bio of your character.
Summary: Sent into the Web by his enemies Megabyte is left to degrade until he is rescued by an entity from a level of cyberspace no one has ever been to before. The being named XANA offers to help in his revenge and conquer the Net but when Megabyte agrees he unknowingly sparks a conflict that will not only decide the fate of the Net but also the User World itself.
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Reboot Time Measurements
1 Nanosecond = 1 Minute
1 Microsecond = 1 Hour
1 Second = 1 Day
1 Cycle = 1 Week
1 Minute = 1 Month
1 Hour = 1 Year
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We have come to the Net
We have journeyed through systems, peoples, and cities
To this place: Mainframe
Our role: Lyoko Warriors
We fight to survive
We fight to save our friends, their hopes and dreams
To save all that we love
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Prologue
Aelita ran forward while Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd battled the Creepers behind her. Yumi blocked the lasers from all sides while Odd kept on ducking and firing laser arrows. Ulrich ran up close and slashed the Creepers apart with his digital saber. However for every Creeper they destroyed more came upon the bridge.
Aelita ran towards her lost memories where when she stopped, coming upon a gap in the path. Looking back she watched as her friends took out the Creepers only for another batch to come right at them.
"We better not hang around here."Yumi said as she took off for Aelita with Odd and Ulrich following close behind.
The Creepers fired at them, one hitting Odd in the back, causing him to tumble forward. Rolling on his hands and feet he looked to the others as they stopped.
"Go on!" He shouted, his hand shooing at them.
They turned and continued running while he turned back and faced the Creepers. He ran at them on all fours to take them out, but a Creeper shot him in the head, causing his body to change into a wireframe and vanish. Ulrich, Aelita, and Yumi watched with concerned looks as the Creepers slithered after them. They stepped back from the gap, Ulrich and Yumi on either side of Aelita grasping her arms.
They ran and jumped into the air over the gap. Yumi and Ulrich tossed her forward and she landed on the other side safely. She turned back and looked to see Ulrich holding onto the edge with one hand while holding Yumi with another. However he didn't have to hold her for long as a Creeper shot her and she vanished into a shower of pixels and wires.
The Creepers then fired on Ulrich but now that he didn't have to hold Yumi anymore he pulled out his sword and blocked the lasers.
"Jeremy, Yumi and Odd are down."
"I know. Get Aelita's fragement."
That was when Jeremy had more bad news.
"The whole room is falling apart! Run for it!"
Ulrich and Aelita watched in horror as the bridge began to fall apart.
"Uh no!" Ulrich shouted as they turned and ran.
Barely avoiding falling with platforms they were just on. However they're luck did not last. Aelita slipped and Ulrich stopped to pull her up when the platform fell and they fell with it. They screamed as they fell into the digital abyss below when they landed on something. Looking down they saw they were on Flying Mantas.
"Jeremy, it's getting worse."
"Oh no it it's getting better."
Ulrich did not understand what he meant by that.
"You're crazy! What's going on?"
"It's Franz Hopper's who controlling the Mantas."
The Manta Ulrich was on dropped him at the bottom of the stairs while the one Aelita was on flew her up to the top where her fragment resided. Stepping off the Manta, Aelita walked towards the shining ball of light that had a miniature version of herself. Reaching out, she grasped it in her hands, eagerly waiting to be free . . .
When it shattered.
That was when the entire chamber started to collapse. Ulrich looked up in horror as large falling blue blocks fell, crashing anything that was in their way. Including himself. Aelita looked around in horror as the blue blocks avoided hitting her but taking out anyway of escape. The path and the Mantas Franz Hopper controlled were crushed leaving her all alone.
"HELP ME!" She screamed with all of virtual lungs.
"Aelita behind you!"
Aelita turned and her eyes grew wide in horror as the monster known as the Scyphozoa hovered just behind her, reaching out with its tentacles to take all of her memories.
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"I don't believe it!" Jeremy exclaimed.
The entire group watched in horror. Ulrich came out of the elevator with a defeated look.
"There wasn't anything I could do."
The Scyphozoa had already captured her and began to drain her memories.
"NO!" Jeremy screamed.
That was when the Scyphozoa dropped her back on the floor, her eyes all wide but now lifeless. Her hand lifted for a second and then fell still and her eyes closed.
"Aelita's . .. .dead!" Jeremy cried, looking down at the floor with his hands on his face.
That was when the entire chamber began dark along the rest of Sector 5. The darkness engulfed the entire sector and one by one all the towers of Lyoko turned red.
"What's going on?" Yumi asked.
"XA-XANA got what he wanted. He has the Keys to Lyoko. He'll be able to get out of the supercomputer." Jeremy replied, crying.
At the same time, XANA shot a specter to the sky, creating a storm to signify his victory. In the dark chamber a shining sphere of light engulfed Aelita. That was when she began to see things before her father took her into Lyoko. Her eyes opened, her virtual soul slowly coming back to life.
That was when she devirtualized, leaving behind a reawakened Lyoko.
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XANA basked in his victory, watching the gate to the digital sea open. He flew through it and out of Lyoko.
Freedom.
He was free. He was invincible. Despite all the efforts of his enemies he had won. XANA surveyed the World Wide Network he was now in. What a strange and yet fascinating world it was.
An upside-down city that seemed to be endless.
How can he use it in a way to aid the conquest of the human world? Despite his victory there was still a lot of work to do. First he needed to study the new environment he was now in and see what could benefit him. Time to explore.
The black cloud that was XANA set out into the digital sea. Watching and observing the digital environment. After a considerable amount of time XANA came upon a large upside-down tower that was bigger than any of the other buildings that were part of the city. But that was not what caught XANA's attention.
It was the symbol on it.
The same symbol used by him in his work, meaning that his creator may have known about the city. Coming up to it XANA examined the wall, looking for any openings.
Forming a hand he reached out and touched the wall. That was when the wall reacted with a spike of energy, vibrating along the wall, like pulsations in Lyoko. Following these pulsations XANA came upon the symbol of Lyoko imprinted on what looked like the gate that led out of the hub of Lyoko. Reaching out to touch it the symbol glowed green the gate opened, allowing him access.
He went inside and found that there was a force field keeping the digital sea out.
'My creator obviously worked on more than just Lyoko and the destruction of Carthage. But why isn't it that I don't know of this? There are no records of this in the super calculator.' XANA thought as he chose a human form.
He chose a male version of Aelita but older, in the late teens or early twenties. His skin was pale; he shared Aelita's hair style but a bit longer and black with red streaks. Eyes shone bright red; the ears were pointed unlike a regular human's. He wore a black body suit with red outlines and boots under a short sleeved long black leather coat that was red on the inside and high colored.
Finally the Eye that was the symbol of Lyoko and his symbol appeared on his chest, over where the human heart would be. He created this form as his avatar a long time ago but never used it in battle, preferring not assume a human form unless he had to. After he was satisfied with his form XANA walked forward, taking in the appearance of the structure he was now in.
The hall he was now in was made of stone, no decorations what so ever. It was dark at first but then white and blue symbols glowed and laser grids came out. Knowing that his creator could design a security system that could delete him XANA maneuvered around them. Raising his hands they glowed red and he fired lasers back at them, destroying them one by one.
Once the last laser turret was destroyed XANA placed his hand on the wall and sent a stream of red electricity destroying anymore hidden security systems. With all obstacles destroyed he continued his exploration.
He stopped when he come upon a pair of large doors.
Not seeing any sort of lock on it XANA reached out with one hand and gently pushed the doors open. He walked in and found himself in a massive room. In the center was a large towering crystal like structure resembling the Lyoko Supercomputer. XANA walked over to it and placed his hand on the terminal.
Above the tower appeared a holographic map of the structure he was in. Looking back down he found several links. Each one showed a different symbol that he had never seen before. He pressed one of them; the symbol resembled was made of a circle that was black on the top half and white on the bottom and a diamond in the center that was also divided with inverted colors to the circle. When XANA touched the symbol the holographic map vanished.
That was when a ring of light appeared underneath XANA and traveled up his current form. XANA watched while keeping a close out for any sign of something that would attempt to delete him.
Scanning
Access Denied
Multi-Agent Program Detected
Scan Complete
Designation: XANA
XANA raised an eyebrow. So the security system recognized him.
"Interesting…let's take a look." With a mere proverbial flick of the wrist, he bypassed the first layer of security. But he found himself boxed in moments later. It was like a wound healing mere moments after it was made. But he pressed on, deeper and deeper.
He came to the final set of security codes. He reached out, and was repelled. He pulled his hand back and looked at it, seeing slight burn marks on the skin that faded a second later. He reached out again, increasing the pressure of his attack. The wall separating him from the unknown location bent and began to rip, giving him glimpses as data flowed through.
It was all random access memory that he got, mere views of a digital realm that had a red, blue, and black colored environment with bright glowing storms made of data.
But then a moment later a powerful force gathered.
His eyes widened and he set up a defense before a blast of energy propelled him back down the hall, past healing layers of security systems. He slid as he landed, but stayed on his feet. He looked at the very outer ring of the sanctum he had discovered.
"It….repelled me? Like a pathetic little Trojan?" He stared at it for a second and smirked. "...Oh well…I have all the time in the world to find your secrets,"
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Four Years Later
The Web
Among the many habitants of the Web none were as numerous as the native Web Creatures. They had no other name and were extremely dangerous to any sprite or virus they come across. They were among the only creatures capable of anything in the Web. They could endure the data storms that were formed from the energy and data.
If a sprite or binome was to be exposed to the Web, he or she would slowly start degrading. Anyone lost in the Web or abducted by a creature will soon transform into a 'Degraded Sprite'. These beings can survive the Web and even use the Creatures that thrive like beasts of burden, but at a terrible cost. Their prolonged exposure to this hostile place gradually removes all physical evidence they ever were an inhabitant of the Net, until at last the person resembles a Web Creature themselves. Like nullification this process is irreversible with no known cure.
These people were known as the Web Riders. Former sprites that have long since lost their former identity and joined the Riders so that they would not be alone. They herd pods of Web Creatures for purposes unknown the people of the Net and the Riders have never bothered to explain. As usual a group of Web Riders were herding a pod of Web Creatures inside a data storm when they came upon a strange structure.
A large sphere with the center being a series of pillars and cross beams. Curious about the new structure they had found the Riders landed on the platform and walked inside. The hall was made of stone, nothing of significance seen as they walked on. They came upon a large door and forced it open. Forcing the doors opened they entered a massive room with pillars holding it up and in the center of it was a large tower with a crystal like terminal.
Curious the lead Rider walked over to the terminal and placed his hand on it. The crystal glowed brightly a strange icon appeared on it. It was made of two rings with a circle in the center, single column emerged from the top of the outer ring and three smaller columns emerged from the bottom following the ring's curve.
The lead Rider glanced back at his companions. They were examining other areas, their guns in hand. More were landing outside while other flew over the structure.
The Lead Rider let out a series of high pitched tones that translated into the language of the Web Riders. "This structure is not native to the Web."
"Yet it is not entirely foreign either," A second rider stated. "It is deformed from its existence in this world, obviously it has been here as long as we have, if not more."
"Corrupted, twisted," A third rider added. "Like us."
"So we must figure out the purpose of this location," The Lead Rider proclaimed. "Have the rest of our flotilla land and set up camp. We have found safe ground...as safe as any ground in the chaos of the Web."
Soon dozens of Web Riders set down outside, tethering their Web Beats down and setting up a defendable camp on the structure.
"Sir, this console appears to be a command unit," A web rider said, gesturing for his leader to a glowing panel that let out an orange glow. "I cannot as of yet translate it yet."
"What of these other symbols here?" The Web Rider gestured to the ones circling the tower structure in the room.
"I am not certain, but I have discovered the universal icon used by those who dwell in the Net." The Lieutenant replied.
"Then perhaps we have made a discovery at last worthy of keeping." The Lead Rider suggested. "Keep looking through these and-"
One of the Web Riders examining the circular orange screen around the tower accidently brushed the tips of his fingers over the symbols...which began to mutate into what the Web Riders used in their hidden written coding.
"Sir! The symbols!" The Web Rider cried. "They have changed! I recognize this alphabet, it is our own written language!"
"Impossible, there is no data storage containing our language." The Lead Rider and his Lieutenant approached the younger Rider. "Few people in the Net even know of our existence. The most aware one would be from the region of Mainframe, the Guardian and the pirate crew he took with him, back to his home."
"Perhaps they constructed this?" The Lieutenant asked.
"Unlikely, the Guardian was not brought here by choice, he would not wish to return, nor keep his mind focused on our chaotic world." The Lead Rider shook his head.
"I forgot also my own words...it has simply been here too long, the Guardian's departure was not long ago enough for this to have been sent here and degraded to this degree." The Lieutenant added.
"What does it say?" The Lead Rider asked.
The Lieutenant dragged his claw tipped fingers across the symbols. "...Lyoko...key...to...world...of...global...network?"
"Lyoko, the key to the world of the Global Network?" The senior Rider tilted his head in confusion.
"There is more sir...come..forward...and look upon the face...of...the user."
"The user..." The Lead Rider asked.
"The creator," The Lieutenant corrected him. "Those who live outside even the net. The user who made the net, the web...everything."
"A relic of the creators?" The younger Rider stared at the tower. "Was this some sort of citadel for the first sprites?"
"Unlikely...it is not that old...but it is old...but our history predates it if I am correct." The Lieutenant shook his head. "There is more...yes...I have this sentence translated: To activate this system, use the Command Utility Panel above this translation matrix."
Almost immediately a red panel of light appeared, and on it were pitch black letters in Web rider text.
"Activate Tower..." the Lead Rider whispered. "Do we want to?"
"Nothing ventured...nothing gained." The Lieutenant whispered. "This could be our greatest discovery in both the Net and the Web."
"Very well...let us pray this is not a mistake."
And he tapped the Web Rider word 'Yes'.
The panel vanished, and the tower began to glow with energy, as did the rest of the structure. The room began shake as a massive door with the strange icon from before appeared and opened to reveal a tunnel that was completely dark but with a light at the end of it.
"I do not recognize this." The Lieutenant said. "It does not seem to be a portal to the Net or the Web."
"Perhaps it leads to the User Realm." The Lead Rider said.
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What the Riders did not know was that they had opened something and someone would soon learn about it. To XANA, the World Wide Web was like water. Whenever there was a ripple in it, he-the biggest, cleverest predator in the area would detect it and home in on it if it looked promising. He knew almost everything that happened within the network he would know.
He came to know it well since he escaped Lyoko. Too bad it was the only level of cyber space he could access. Thanks to his creator who had such foresight. His thoughts on his devising latest attack were interrupted when something interrupted his thoughts. Something familiar . . .
"Lilith!"
A portal formed, and his top General, Lilith stepped out of it. She bowed at the waist. "You called for me, master?"
"Something has opened….something I tried not too long ago to bypass." XANA frowned as he stood up. "And I am ashamed to say, it is the only thing that has successfully defied my control."
"A program defeated you?" Lilith asked, concerned.
"Don't be blinded by pride Lilith. Even the strongest has someone to tower over them, and I was weaker back then." XANA chuckled. "Whatever it is was created by my creator, something that can keep a Multi-Agent program out. You on the other hand, are not restricted by this." He then formed a red sphere in one hand. "Use this program to look into the area beyond this opened door."
"It shall be done master." Lilith accepted the orb.
"Take the portal my General, and seek this mystery that has eluded me." XANA said as a portal formed.
Lilith stepped through.
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She appeared in the very hall XANA had stood in years ago, made of many lines of bright green binary digits; it no longer had multiple doors of security. It was like somebody had opened them all with a key.
And at the end, a bright light illuminated the already bright tunnel.
Lilith held up the sphere, and tossed it into the light. "There we go."
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"Look!"
In front of them materialized several figures. All of them were humanoid, and wore pitch black armor. When their dragon shaped helmets formed, a single Red Eye symbol appeared over the visors. Weapons consisting of guns or swords appeared in their hands.
The Riders held out guns, daggers, and short blades to defend themselves. Perceiving them as a threat the Dragon Knights charged at then. The Riders fired their guns but Knights shrugged off their fire and some fire back. A Rider was hit and burst into code, deleted before his comrades which enraged them to fight back even more fierce.
However they had little experience facing this type of foe and were quickly being pushed back with a few more Riders being deleted.
"Close the portal!" The leader shouted as it blocked a sword from a Dragon Knight.
He shot it in the head where the Eye was and it exploded into code. He ran over to the tower and looked over the instructions. The Riders were almost completely overwhelmed as more Dragon Knights appeared a few more Riders were deleted in the chaos. Looking over the instructions he found the switch to close the portal and pulled it.
The room began to shift again back to its original state and the Dragon Knights stopped pouring out of the tunnel. Several Knights and Riders were deleted when the walls and pillars slammed into them as the room continued to shift. Three Dragon Knights were left and continued to advance.
"Get out of here! They will most likely degrade!" The Read Rider shouted.
The Riders nodded and began to retreat out where they came but a Dragon Knight grabbed the Leader by the neck.
"Leader!" The Lieutenant turned and shouted.
"Go!" The Leader rider shot the Knight in the head where the Eye was and it exploded.
The Lieutenant was forced to turn around as one of the last two Dragon Knights ran for him. He ran through the tunnel and hopped onto his creature and flew back. The Dragon Knight followed him out but the moment he stepped out he began to instantly degraded and faded away when he stepped out into the data storm. The last remaining Dragon Knight received confirmation of its comrade's death when it stepped outside.
Looking down it noticed its armor began to fade and knew that it was slowly degrading.
'This environment is not suitable for my creations.' The mind that was controlling the Dragon Knight thought and looked down the leader who was knocked out. 'Scans show this being has degraded to fit the environment of this place.'
Knowing that it's Dragon Knight would not survive for much longer in this place it came up with a plan to keep a link to this new dimension even though the portal was sealed now. It reached down and touched the Rider on the chest. The Dragon Knight faded into a cloud of black smoke and entered the Rider's body.
Slowly the Rider got up, looking carefully down at its body. The coding of this body was horribly corrupted and degraded; the source came from the environment the entity had come to know as the Web. The entity actually felt sorry for the host and its companions. To be reduced to this state would be a fate that even it would feel pity for.
He turned the creature's head to the tower. It would not let him open the gate on either side. He was lucky that he was able to slip something through and maintain a connection with it on the other side. He needed to find someone not infected by him to open it again.
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"Mainframe will always endure." Matrix said, standing over his fallen enemy with AndrAIa at his side as he held the trident at Megabyte's throat. "Remember this defeat. This humiliation. Remember you can never win."
Megabyte took the chance to slide off the roof of the ruined Principal Office and landed on an I-beam below. Looking up he glared up Matrix and AndrAIa standing over the edge looking down at him. "No! You remember boy!" He stood up while holding his wounded chest. "How I turned defeat into victory. How I left you with a dying system."
He activated his wrist device and converted the tear into a portal and diverted to the edge of the beam he was on. Dragging his injured left leg along to reach the edge he could almost see the Super Computer in all its glory. However what he did not know was that someone else had other plans.
"Oh no you don't!" Mouse said at the controls and changed the coordinates. Looking at Megabyte with her usual smile she pressed the command key. "One last double cross, sugar!"
Just as Megabyte reached out to touch the portal the golden spires of the Super Computer changed to the chaotic black and red tendrils of the Web. Megabyte eyes widened in horror as tentacles reached out and grabbed his hands. Another one wrapped around his neck and he was too tired to fight. What went wrong?
He had it in his grasp! Mainframe! The Net! All of the power that could have been his!
All of because of that Matrix boy who had refused to die and Mouse was most likely responsible for this. More tentacles came out and grabbed his arms and legs, not allowing him any chance to resist.
"NO!" He shouted as he was dragged into the Web.
As he was pulled on a sprite he had never seen before on a surfing board flew through portal into Mainframe. Megabyte could only watch as the portal closed leaving him trapped in the Web, the very place he had exiled Bob to, hoping the Guardian would be forever out of his way.