I've been working on this story since I finished As you Wish around three years ago. The concept of xana becoming human to end the fight has always been an interesting concept to me, and when I wrote it as a sub plot years ago, I always wanted it to be it's own story. I've been through three drafts of this, and on two sides of the fence. Does xana become male or female. After I wrote them both, I decided which one I liked better, and I had some people review upon it and give me their insight. Almost everyone chose the same gender, so you'll find out which one won next chapter.

This is the first story I've published in over TWO YEARS and I'm pretty excited about getting back on the site and letting people know that I'm not dead(yes I've been asked if I was). Sometime this week I'll also be finishing Timeline finally as well as working on this a little more( a few plot holes need repairing). I went from full time writer, no show for close to a year, and I'm back. Sorry I was gone if anyone cared about me enough to think,'what happened to notcreativeenoughtomakeone? haven't read anything in a while' (all four of you know who you are).

Years ago I said I was working on a spin off for As you Wish. Some of you wanted to read it, well, As you wish.


Jeremie looked at the screen in the lab as information passed by. Everyone else was just waiting for something to do. Aelita looked over Jeremie's shoulder and looked at what he was looking at. Odd was watching from the side, to see if at least once he could hope to understand what all of that zeros and ones meant. Again, he hadn't a clue.

Within the last month, it had been a non stop fight with xana. Everyone was exhausted because the attacks were daily now. They had to keep on their toes just to stay alive. Around every corner was another attack. In the end, after nearly a month of non stop fighting, they won.

Xana was placed back into the computer. During the fight, xana destroyed the switch, so they couldn't turn it off. So in a since, no one had really won. Though xana's attacks were much more limited, it was still a tense situation.

Jeremie had spent the last three days searching for a way to turn the system off from within. Nothing was coming up. The only real way to turn it off was to go inside, but that would mean someone had to sacrifice themself. They would turn it off, and die with the computer. They all agreed, they started this together, they end it together.


Aelita watched Jeremie work and sighed. He was working so hard but it was amounting to nothing but frustration.

" Jeremie, you need a break," Aelita said to him. Jeremie stopped typing and took a breath. He wanted one, but he just couldn't tear his focus away.

" I know, but last night I broke some of the code, check this out," Jeremie said to everyone. The others gathered around the computer and he showed them what he found.

" It appears that xana is trying to do something. It's the reason he hasn't attacked since we got him back in," Jeremie said to everyone.

" What is he doing?" Yumi asked trying to make heads or tails of the screen. Again, she couldn't.

" To be honest, I don't know. What I've managed to work out is that it has something to do with the scanners and a virtual dna code. That's all I managed to dig up."

" Do you think he's trying to materialize himself?" Aelita asked. Jeremie looked back at the screen and thought.

" It's possible," Jeremie said then looked back at Aelita, " But I still need to dig more into it." Then he faced the screen again and saw something on it that wasn't there before.

" She's right," was written on the screen. Jeremie scratched his head in puzzlement.

" She's right?" He asked aloud. The comment vanished and new one appeared.

" That's what I said," Jeremie looked back at everyone. They all shrugged.

" Who are you?" Jeremie asked aloud, to see if the computer was listening.

" Xana," appeared on the screen a second later. Everyone looked at each other again. The message vanished and another appeared.

" I've been trying to materialize myself. To be honest, I'm tired of our constant feuding. So I offer you an option. End this fight by helping me, or the wheels keep turning till one or all of us is dead."

" Why would we help you?" Aelita asked aloud. The message deleted itself and the answer appeared.

" To end the fight. I'm not to thrilled accepting help let alone asking for it. But I suppose now that both of us are desperate for resolution, I get what I want you get what you want."

" What do you want?" Odd asked. The message vanished and Odd waited for it to pop back.

" I have everything ready to materialize myself, except for a complete dna code. If I had that, I could attach it to myself and materialize myself onto earth similar to the way Aelita was."

Again, everyone looked at each other. Jeremie looked back at the screen and asked, " Why do you need us?"

" I need a sample of dna from two of you. If I have two, I can mix and match traits to create myself a body and materialize myself on earth."

" What makes you think we'll help you?" Ulrich asked. The screen went blank, then text filled the screen.

" I know our history isn't good. Several times I've tried to kill all of you, taking Aelita's memory. Using your friends and classmates as pawns. But let me tell you that my intentions for this is completely noble. All I want is to be free from this cell, and all you want is to not have to fight anymore. So you help me, and I leave you alone for the rest of your life."

" Can we have time to think about it?" Jeremie asked.

" Of course, take your time."


Everyone left the lab and headed back to the school. They all sat around Ulrich and Odd's dorm trying to figure this out. Odd was on his bed petting Kiwi, Aelita sat on the ground next to the bed. Jeremie sat on Ulrich's desk chair and Ulrich and Yumi sat on his bed. Just not next to each other.

" Should we really help him?" Odd asked, looking up from his dog. Ulrich and Yumi shrugged, and Jeremie didn't make any remark or gesture. Aelita looked up at him and began to think.

" I think we should," Aelita said to them. Jeremie's mind clicked back into the room and he looked at her.

" You sure?" Jeremie asked. " It is xana we're talking about."

" I know that Jeremie. But, what do we have to lose?" Aelita asked him.

" Our lives," Ulrich answered.

" He has a point. If he gets unhinged from the computer then he'll just kill us in our sleep," Yumi said to them. Jeremie sighed then looked back at Aelita.

" Maybe xana is just as desperate as us. His time outside of the computer gave him more information on actual human nature. Maybe he learned something new. Desperation," Jeremie said then scanned the room waiting for someone to input something.

" I agree," Aelita said to him. Yumi and Ulrich shook their heads and sighed in unison.

" How about this, a vote," Jeremie said. " All in favor of freeing xana, raise a hand." Jeremie and Aelita put their hands up. Odd shrugged then put his hand up. " All against?" Yumi and Ulrich didn't even bother to raise their hands.

" Settled, we get him out," Aelita said then smiled.

" Fine. But if we die, your fault," Ulrich said, pointing at Aelita and Jeremie.


Jeremie reached into his hair and pulled out a single strand from it. Aelita did the same and so did everyone else. They then put it into the scanner then climbed back into the main part of the lab. Uploading the data Jeremie sent it to xana who used it for his virtual dna. From that he would program it to give him actual dna. Similar to a polymorphic clone, except for the part he was completely and utterly powerless. A human.

Xana went silent for hours as they sat around waiting for him to come back on. Odd threw a tennis ball against the wall while he waited. The echoing sound of the ball hitting the wall, floor then the palm of his hand was getting on everyone's nerves. After the thirtieth throw Aelita stepped in front of him and grabbed the ball. Then she threw it down the elevator shaft.

" Hey," Odd said to her. The sound of the ball hitting the bottom echoed back up and Aelita smiled at him. Odd shook his head then sat on the ground and waitied. Suddenly Jeremie saw another message appear.

" If you don't trust me, check over the programming. I'm a normal human with no strings attached. I took the best qualities you have to offer to make my body. You'll see soon enough."

Another screen appeared that showed a loading bar that was going up at one percent every ten seconds. Odd looked over his shoulder and groaned. In a minute it was at six percent and still slowly rising. Jeremie leaned into the chair more and watched as things appeared.

" Why is it taking so long?" Odd asked Jeremie.

" He's creating himself an entirely new body from scratch Odd. It'll take awhile. I'm actually surprised it's going as fast as it is," Jeremie said then looked back at the screen.

" That's fast?" Ulrich asked. Jeremie nodded without looking at them. Odd and Ulrich shrugged then sat on the ground.

Nearly twenty minutes later a small sound appeared from the screen and Jeremie nodded his head. Checking everything over once more he left his chair then opened the hatch to the scanner room. Everyone looked over to him and he nodded.

" Let's go say hi," Jeremie said to them and started down first. Everyone else walked to the hatch and went down after him.


Earlier this month I was going through my computer, reading some old stories when I read my deleted scenes chapter for As you Wish. That's when I remembered I was working on something years ago. This. R&R