A brown haired blue eyed boy sat at his computer and contemplated his parent's death. It was nothing Caden had ever heard of or encountered. He had what appeared to be a dream before their deaths. He woke up and got dressed like any normal day in his dream he woke early and went to get his parents up. It was his graduation from middle school ROTC which was a pre-military program teaching kids like Caden to shoot, march, and do everything the military does. However when they left their farm to go to the ceremony a huge red armored thing came from nowhere and crashed into the car. As we climbed from the wreckage Caden looked in horror to see a huge crab like robot in front of the would-be car. He knew it wasn't a dream because he felt immense pain in his leg and he could see it was broken. He crawled away from the wreckage. Only to see his dad get his head blown from his body by what looked like some sort of energy projectile. He was traumatized, it had to be a dream. Next he saw the monster got to his mom who was crawling away from the car away from the crab thingy. She screamed as the leg of the crab lifted and impaled her body.

"Mom," Caden yelled "no!" Too late, the crab flung her to the horse field of his farm where she laid on the ground motionless. Caden's heart clenched as the crab turned to him and moved into position to impale him.

"Screw you, you shellfish sun of a b..." but he couldn't finish his sentence before a huge white bubble came from over the horizon and engulfed Caden and the crab.

That was the dream only he woke the same way and it was the same day as the crab attack so he went and woke his parents except they were cold and thoroughly dead. The paramedics said that they were in perfect health except that they were dead. He tried to research similar situations with other encounters or big crab creatures but to no avail. So he just sat at the computer contemplating who he will live with know or if he will get any of his parents property but he knew that the government would take it.

A message popped up on his screen it was from a Franz Hopper.

It read: Dear Caden, I have studied you for a long time and I think you are the perfect specimen for my tests and upgrades. You have military training and you have a high IQ. If you seek revenge for your parents and want questions answered I will give you both at a cost. You will have to help my daughter and her friends defeat the one who stole your parents life, but what you will do is very dangerous and if you wish to lead a normal life than don't accept. If you accept I will answer your questions and explain everything but you have to have an open mind you may not believe what you will hear. You will go through much pain and suffering but the world is at risk.

Caden scowled, how did this man know so much about him and how did he know about his parents, that had happened three days ago. Truthfully Caden would do anything for revenge even if he had to go through more pain than he had ever experienced so he replied: I will accept, but I want answers.

Franz replied: you will have all your answers in time but first you must do something for me so I can trust you. It will be dangerous and risky but you will be supplied with the equipment in twenty four hours I will brief you on what you will do.

During the next twenty four hours Caden had been briefed on the lyoko warriors, Xana, and what had happened the last two years. He also studied Xana's monsters and tactics so he would know what to expect in the field. Caden was amazed that they had survived and had good morale even when Xana was set loose.He was sent pictures of each lyoko warrior Ulrich, Odd, Aelita, William, Yumi, and Jeremy. He was intrigued that Aelita's last name at school was Stones because that was his last name as well. He was told that Xana was not dead and that Franz had not sacrificed himself to destroy all the replicas. The problem was the group did not know this.

After his twenty hour briefing he got four hours of sleep which felt like five minutes his alarm beeped and he put on camo pants and a black under armor long sleeved shirt and went outside. It was ten at night and in Colorado It got cold even in the summer.

Franz had taken control of a supply helicopter and it airdropped his gear in one of his horse fields. The metal container weighed at least two hounded pounds so he had to drag it into his garage. When he opened it his eyes went wide and his mouth dropped it was any gun nut's dream. The box contained an MP5 silenced sub machine gun with five mags and two boxes of full metal jacket armor piercing rounds. Also, there were five claymore tactical mines, five fragmentation grenades, and four blue glowing grenades. Franz told him they were EMP grenades because he was going to kill some robots. It even came with my own set of dog tags which where inscribed with Caden Jansen Stones classification, lyoko warrior. To top it all off he had a black vest with a black katana strapped to the back.

After he had all the gear prepped and ready he went to his computer and told Franz everything was in place. Franz told him that there was an abandoned car plant about a mile east from his parent's horse farm. He would have to walk their take out the robot guard and connect the supercomputer that Xana had made to the internet so Franz could access it. Theoretically it was easy.

In the last thirty minutes he cranked up his iPod and tested his katana. It cut through a three inch steel bar like it was tin foil. Yet he hoped that he didn't have to use it. He put his katana in its sheath and sat on his couch and relaxed and focused himself before the upcoming fight. His alarm rang, it was go time.

Caden's POV

I prayed before I headed out. I knew what to expect but I was hoping that all I had to face were robots because if I went up against possessed humans I knew I was screwed. I wished I had a team to work with but Franz said I would when I went to France. As I walked through my woods toward the factory a twig snapped behind me. I snapped around leveling my gun and flipping the safety to automatic in one fluid motion. I sigh in relief it was only my cat Andréa.

"André, I almost shot you never sneak up on me like that again!" I yelled, but she just rubbed her fur against my leg. She was an overly affectionate cat.

I let her fallow me until we got the factory then I told her to stay until I came and got her. She meowed in response and sat waiting for me. I left her and crouch-walked to a door that lead in to the factory, this was it, I couldn't mess up or I would be fried by the robot's lasers. Hopefully they weren't right inside the door or I was in big trouble. I opened the door and swept the hall with my sub-gun. Nothing moved so I crept down the hall the wall ended on the left and was a balcony looking over a large entrance that was guarded by two model 2000 Xanafied attack robots. I primed a EMP grenade but did not throw it because the big doors control panel turned from red to green and opened. Five more robots entered the large room as I lay prone on a balcony fifteen feet above the main level. I waited as the new five robots cleared the entrance and threw my EMP in their ranks and covered my eyes from the flash that it made. The crack from the grenade was deafening in the enclosed area.

The group of five hit the cement floor with a satisfied crunch as I leapt toward the two gourds of the door. I pumped three rounds into the first gourds face. The FMJ rounds tore its ugly face like tin foil as I turned to ugly number two. Unfortunately its weapon was already leveled at my face as it fired I thought sacrificing my MP5 for my face was a good idea. It hit my gun and melted away the deadly work of art. Melted gun sprayed my vest and my face. It hurt, bad. I ignored the pain and drew the katana from its sheath on my back and brought it down splitting the model 2000 down the front. In ten seconds seven robots were down and I was a little injured and my face was caked with my burnt blood but I would live.

"Not bad for the first time against Xana," I said as I decapitated the EMPed robots to make sure they didn't interfere any more on this mission. When I was finished I entered the computer room through the electronic door. Their where two scanners against the wall on the far side of the room, and next to me was a bunch of cords that lead to the control panel. I connected it to the internet so Franz could take it over. Franz talked over the intercom.

"Take off all your combat gear so it won't virtualize with you," he ordered like a father to his son.

"Right, what exactly are you going to do to me when I virtualize on to the replica?" I asked as I removed my molten sprayed gear.

"I will bio enhance your physical traits so it will look like you don't have a overly muscled body yet your muscles will be ten times as powerful as they look. Also, I will enhance you mentally so you can solve hard problems that the average male would be stumped to try to decipher. Your IQ will be one hundred and eighty. Lastly I will download fighting techniques into your brain." He lectured.

"What kind of techniques?" I asked intently.

"All of them, martial arts, close quarters battle (CQB), firearms, swords, and stealth skills."

"Wow, lets do this thing." I practically yelled "but one, no, two last things I have to do," I said. "First, was Xana the crackpot crab that killed my parents?" I asked.

"Yes, that was his doing, but I have no idea why he went after your parents," he said.

"Ok, last thing before I get virtualized," I turned to the door and whistled into the air.

Andre came running to my leg and let out a loud purr.

"Good kitty now I will be gone for a day so you will have to eat rats and drink rain water, ok?" In response the cat meowed and went out hunting for rats.

Finally it was time to go. I stepped into the scanner signed the cross over my chest. Took one last breath and knew that any possibility of normality was extinguished once I was virtualized. The scanner closed and there was a flash of light and I was virtualized.