X.A.N.A. Has Returned
One month after the Supercomputer was shutdown, the Lyoko Warriors have begun to live their normal lives for the first time. Yumi has become a border student. Aelita has announced that she is not truly related to Odd and that Christopher is not related to her. However, they notice some strange things happening and realize that X.A.N.A. is back. Now they must resume their former double lives and gain an ally in the process.
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko and its characters. I still own Christopher and his Lyoko attire and powers. I also own Chelsea.
Chapter 1: An Old Enemy and An Old Friend
Christopher's POV
I was walking out from the movie theatre with Aelita, holding hands with her, talking about the movie.
"Well, that was a waste of money." I said.
"I agree. It wasn't even scary." She agreed.
"No, it wasn't. Wanna get something to eat?"
"Sure, but what?"
"I could go for a salad. How about you, baby?" "Sure, a salad sounds good right now." We walked to the closest restaurant we could find and sat down at a table. We've been dating for a month now and we couldn't see breaking up anywhere in the near and distant future. Just then we saw four people we recognized right away.
"Ulrich, Yumi, Jeremie, Chelsea. Over here." I said to them telepathically and waved so they could see us. As soon as they did, they came and sat down with us.
"Hey guys." Yumi said as she sat down next to Aelita.
"What's going on?" Ulrich asked as he sat down next to me.
"Not much. How about you guys?" Aelita asked.
"Same." Jeremie and Chelsea said as they joined us.
"So, what are we having?" Ulrich asked.
"Aelita and I are getting salads. If you guys want to order something, I'll pay for it."
"No, we couldn't ask you to—" Yumi said.
"Nonsense. It's the least I can do. After all, if it wasn't for you guys, I'd still be you-know-who's prisoner." I said, reminding them of how they saved me from XANA a month ago. They finally agreed, knowing it was useless to continue arguing with me. After a few minutes, our waitress came up to us.
"Hello, everyone. My name's Sarah, I'll be taking care of you guys. Can I start you guys off with something to drink?" The waitress, Sarah, said.
"Yes, please." I said.
"Okay, what do you guys want?" She asked as an echo of water followed her question.
"Alright. I'll be right back with your waters then I'll take your orders." She said as she walked off.
"So, hornhead, what did you and Aelita do before coming here?" Jeremie asked me.
"We went and saw that new horror movie Odd recommended to us." I replied.
"And?" Ulrich asked.
"And I think Odd owes my boyfriend his money back. It was not scary at all." Aelita replied, causing everyone at our table to laugh.
Meanwhile at the factory
The Supercomputer turns on by itself and afterwards, one of the scanners opens up.
Back at the restaurant
We had just finished our meals, I payed the bill, and we start walking through town, and since it was Saturday, we weren't going to get in trouble.
"So Lizard Boy, any luck with your new song?" Yumi asked me.
"Yeah. I actually finished up last night." I replied.
"Cool. Can we hear it tonight?" Jeremie asked.
"I don't see why not."
*BEEP BEEP*
Jeremie's laptop made a too familiar sound, causing all of us to freeze right where we were.
"Please tell me that wasn't what I think it was." I said, hoping my ears were deceiving me.
"It can't be." Yumi said.
"That's impossible." Aelita said.
"Oh no. A tower was just activated." Jeremie said. All of us groaned as that meant only one thing.
"He's back." Chelsea said.
"He can't be. We shut him down." Aelita said looking to me as I remembered she and I shut down the Supercomputer.
"No time to sit here. Call Odd, William, and Laura, and tell them to meet us at the factory." Jeremie said. I called Odd, Aelita called Laura, and Ulrich called William.
"Hello?" Odd asked as he answered my call.
"Odd, are William and Laura with you?" I asked, not wanting to waste any time.
"Yeah, why?"
"Okay good. Guess who's back." I said, hoping he knew I was talking about. He did.
"It can't be! We shut him down!" Odd said.
"We're just as confused as you. Just meet up with us on the bridge to the factory." I told him.
"Alright." Odd complained.
"Done. Let's head to the factory." I said.
"Okay, let's get this over with." Yumi said.
General POV
The three couples met with the trio on the bridge to the factory then headed straight for the Supercomputer room.
"I can't believe he's back." Laura said.
"None of us can. But how did the Supercomputer get turned back on?" Christopher asked, clearly frustrated that the multi-agent system didn't work.
"No idea, scaly." William said.
"Let's head up to the lab." Jeremie ordered, earning nods from the others. When they got to the lab, they saw someone they had not seen for a year.
Aelita's POV
We arrived at the lab when we saw someone sitting at the computer. We were about to step out of the elevator when the person in the chair turned around and I recognized him immediately.
"Daddy?" I asked as tears began to form in my eyes.
"Aelita." He said.
"Daddy!" I ran into his arms to hug him. I then released my hold on him and looked to Christopher to confirm it was my father. He saw me look at him.
"There's nothing to worry about, children. I am the real Franz Hopper." He told them, then looked to Jeremie.
"Do you have my diary? The discs themselves." He asked him.
"No. X.A.N.A. took control of me and destroyed them." Jeremie replied. My father looked slightly disappointed.
"Pity. No matter. How many of you fight on Lyoko?" He asked as Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, Christopher, William, and I raised our hands.
"Okay, then. To the scanners." He said as the six of us headed one level down.
General POV
The six actual fighters went to the scanner room as Franz Hopper began the virtualization process.
"Everybody ready?" He asked.
"Ready." They all said.
"Okay. I'm starting the virtualization process."
"Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Yumi. Transfer Odd."
"Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Yumi. Scanner Odd."
"Virtualization."
The scanners opened up a few seconds later for the others.
"Transfer Aelita. Transfer Christopher. Transfer William."
"Scanner Aelita. Scanner Christopher. Scanner William."
"Virtualization."
Christopher's POV
We landed in the ice Sector and mounted our vehicles when I noticed six vehicles.
"Jeremie, did you create a vehicle for William in the year I was prisoner?" I immediately asked as soon as I saw it.
"Yeah." He replied.
"Okay. Just needed to make sure." I said as I observed the vehicle.
"I call it the Override." William said.
The name definitely suited it. It looked like Odd's Overboard with two wheels that were identical to the ones on Aelita's ATV with the exact the program as my bike and her ATV that lift the tires off the ground, allowing it to hover. We made it to the tower and stopped thirty feet in front of it.
"What's happening?" Franz asked.
"XANA must have created more doubles in the past month. Because we are seeing doubles of ourselves." Aelita told her dad as she transmitted a visual of what we were seeing.
"Franz, what do we do?" I asked him.
"Hold on, I'm giving you and the others a part of the Annex Program just in case my daughter gets devirtualized."
"Good thinking." Ulrich said.
"It's done." He told us. We began fighting while we were waiting for him to give us our keys to Lyoko. Since I was the closest to the tower, I transformed into William and said "Supersmoke!" and made my way to the tower when I remembered I have no clue how to deactivate a tower.
"Aelita. I just remembered I have no idea how to deactivate a tower." I said which made her realize none of us knew how. So she waved her hand over her bracelet and flew over to me.
"Just follow my lead." She told me. She entered the tower and I followed her.
"So this is what the inside of a tower looks like." I said, causing her to remember I've only been in a tower once and didn't remember what the inside looked like.
"Follow me." She said, lovingly. She floated up to the top of the tower with me hot on her heels. She stepped to the left to make room for me. The interface then appeared as we stepped to the center of the second platform. She told me to place my hand on it.
Christopher
CODE: LYOKO.
"Tower deactivated, Daddy."
"Okay. I'll bring everyone back."
"Rematerialization." We all ended up in the scanner room, scared at the fact that X.A.N.A. has created these Dark Lyoko Warriors.
Will the Lyoko Warriors be able to face their dark sides and destroy X.A.N.A. once and for all? Find out as the story progresses. I came up with the idea for the Dark Lyoko Warriors from my first story when I said X.A.N.A. had created a body for himself in the likeness of my character. The Dark Lyoko Warriors' outfits are basically the opposite colors of the original Lyoko Warriors outfits. I also took the idea of the others deactivating towers from CLE.