It had been two months since closing the supercomputer and everything was peaceful at Kadic. Until Jeremy got a message.
"What now?" Jeremy wondered as his laptop, which had been silent for two months but with him by habit, started to make a familiar noise.
"Have you forgot to charge your laptop's battery, Einstein?" Odd asked, grinning. Jeremy ignored the question and watched the message he had opened with a frown.
"Jeremy? Is something wrong?" Aelita asked.
Jeremy answered, "I got some weird message. It says: 'Did you think you'd get rid of me that easily? Soon I will possess William and reboot the supercomputer and escape to Lyoko. This time you will not defeat me and I will start to control the Earth! MUAHAHAHAA!
~Your dear archenemy X.A.N.A.'"
"Has someone been at the factory, booted the supercomputer, gone through the files and sent the message to troll us?" Ulrich wondered.
"Probably. I'll go to the factory to check the situation after school. I guess it's not worth it to get nervous from prank messages," Jeremy stated.
"But what if it's not a joke and X.A.N.A. has actually returned?" Yumi asked, worried.
"It's completely impossible, Yumi. We destroyed X.A.N.A. completely!" Jeremy answered in a rock-hard manner.
"Yeah, and my father sacrificed himself so that X.A.N.A. would be destroyed. He wouldn't have done so if X.A.N.A. could have returned despite of everything," Aelita remarked.
"Aelita is right. It's just some idiot who's behind this," Odd said.
"But what if this idiot has unleashed X.A.N.A. even by accident? It could easily attack us when we wouldn't know about it," Yumi said. She had been the first who was ready to shut down the supercomputer, but now she was the only one who was worried about X.A.N.A.'s possible return.
"Listen, what if we all would go and check the factory's situation out after school? Surely there has been nothing but an intruder messing," Jeremy suggested.
"Let's hope you're right, Jeremy. I just managed to raise my grades to the level in which I could even become able to talk with my dad again," Ulrich noted.
William was close by and noticed that the group had suddenly become serious. He did know that he was not in the favor of the Lyoko Warriors, but he still decided to make sure that nothing was wrong. But just when he was approaching them, the bell rang.
"Let's go. Worrying doesn't help anything," Aelita said. Yumi nodded and left to a different direction than her friends; she had a lesson on the other side of the school. William joined her.
"Is everything all right?" William asked.
"Yes," Yumi answered without knowing if she told the truth or not. She was not interested in having William to mix up this mess. A mess which may not even have been.
"Okay," William answered and considered his words carefully. "I just thought I'd check, since you just were a bit... worried."
Yumi did not say anything. After William's xanafication, everyone had come to the conclusion that it did not pay off to tell him about Lyoko's affairs. It was better to keep him out of the whole thing.
Because if X.A.N.A. had truly returned, William would be an easy target if he walked around the factory's area. No one wanted the clone, let alone XanaWilliam, to cause trouble.
After school, the Lyoko Warriors headed to the factory and went to check the supercomputer. There was nothing out of ordinary. If someone had been there, they had shut down the computer and cleared their traces well.
"There's nothing here. Let's go back. The message clearly was just a prank," Jeremy declared. Yumi sighed quietly in relief, just like everyone else. So, nothing had happened after all.
/Code Lyoko (c) Moonscoop, Lyokostar story series and its original characters (c) Me/
