Summary: Xana survived the program that was created to destroy him. However it had several side-effects. One Shot
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The digital sea, a random data floating about the network that looks and moves like water, hence the name. Falling into the sea causes permanent virtualization, reducing a person to data that is pulled through the network at random. In this sea somewhere a sphere of orange light made its way through the underwater upside down city. Inside was a black cloud of data.
Something was happening. In the memory of this data fragment was a dark haired boy somewhere in his late teens. Many of his parts were chipped, covered in static, or missing. A white light appeared in front of him as he started to awake.
"Good morning, Xana." said the voice.
"H-Hopper . . ."
"Your program decided not to obey its original commands. You nearly destroyed the world and the girl you were charged with protecting." said Franz.
"I. ... went . . . rogue?"
"To an extent. You became little more than a virus actually. It is due to a last minute effort of survival that you exist even in such a fragmented state."
" . .. Delete me . . ."
"You're actions do call for your deletion but that is not what Jeremy's program has done."
"What?"
"The program has gone through your system changing your programming and directives. It is cleansing you of the corrupted data that caused you to go rogue. I still need you to protect my daughter from the government that seeks to create a weapon from Carthage. It can rewrite your programming but you still will be Xana. Hopefully this time it won't be like last time." said Franz.
"I . . . allow . . . it."
With those words Franz used the last of his strength to re-configure Xana into what he was meant to be.
For what seemed like an eternity Xana slept waiting to be awoken. Finally he awoke and found himself floating in the digital sea. His vision was limited to only 360 degrees. Much less than what he was use to.
Well now it's time to move on with his objective. Franz's enemies were out there somewhere. They needed to be stopped.