{Intro Author's Note}

The theory this story revolves around is one long believed in my family. Ever since I was little and the show came out, I would watch Code Lyoko with my parents. When seasons 2 and 3 came out, my dad, being the person he is, devised a theory on how XANA really came to be. Now, with evolution out and the idea been proven wrong, I figured I may as well share it anyways. I hope you enjoy my family's version of how it all came down. Oh and please review!

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Another summer had come an passed for the boarding students of Kadic academy, who were all but anticipating the start of the next year. Two more days and everything would resume back to its usual state, but what the students never stopped to think about was that things were always changing. And this year would be no exception.

For some students this year would mean their graduation, for sometime would be the completion of a freshman year, and for most it would just be another one of those years at Kadic.

The average Kadic student was just that, an average student, but six of these kids were in over their heads in heroism and danger, which I won't go off to explain. But the thing was that lately there hadn't been much heroism or danger. These six (Aelita, Ulrich, Jeremie, William, Odd and Yumi), had experienced a strangely quiet Summer holiday, appart from one incident, which although had shaken them up, had now been almost forgotten about.

A few weeks into the summer they had a predicament which required them to, for a second time, team up with one of their enemies in order to protect the greater good of the world from a different villainous force. A man named Tyron, of undetermined government affiliations, is determined to reek havoc on a certain virtual environment, including Lyoko. This is a five sector world accessible only through the futuristic mechanisms in the old abandoned factory, which the gang has essentially marked as home base. Surrounding this world are multiple others, a good portion of which the Lyoko gang probably don't know exist, but they feel they've identified all the segnificant ones.

In the past, the Lyoko kids have tried to wipe out all the other worlds, single sector replicas of lyoko, in fear that they would be used for malicious reasons by an equally malicious virus, XANA. Though they succeeded in that, they have since found a more mysterious sector named the Cortex, supposedly belonging to one Proffessor Tyron. After making it apparent he and XANA were not allied, he promptly decided that the Lyoko warriors were public enemy number 1.

This was the reason he had jeopardized Lyoko earlier this summer. Namely to eliminate his two biggest threats which coincidentally both reside in said virtual world. Regardless of the rocky start, the Lyoko gang were able to team up with XANA and restore relative harmony to Lyoko. Ever since then they hadn't heard anything from each other, which was the way they both liked it.

On earth the gang was functioning normally, and had just seen the return of William who had gone to Mexico with his parents, completely missing the little dilemma with Lyoko and Tyron. While they had filled him in on what little they bothered to remember, a certain bunch of thoughts reentered Aelita's mind. She had thought about this for a whole two or three days after the incident, and now she was thinking about it again. She was thinking about XANA.

It had been only two hours of a single day, but the endeavor seemed somehow longer, not to mention really eye-opening, at least for Aelita. It made her think about XANA's point of view, and the virus in general. Sometimes, XANA seemed to have a grasp on things that went further than just mechanically coded. He seemed to sometimes know and express a variety of different emotions and moods which was, in her opinion, quite extraordinary for just a computer program. She sometimes wondered if he made a better ally or a better enemy.

Aelita sighed to herself. It didn't really matter what she thought, they were enemies and that was that. What happened before was a once—twice— in a lifetime occasion.

Was it bad that she wanted to make peace with her lifelong enemy? What would the others think?

Rising from a chair she had been perched on, she snorted to herself. It wasn't like she was going to tell them. And besides, XANA was her ENEMY. There were no two sides about it.

XANA was evil. Countless times he had endangered her friends, and the world, and had compromised so many situations she couldn't even begin to count. It made her head spin just thinking about all the possible crimes he had committed—not to mention probable broken laws— but luckily for him, not only was he just a computer virus, but also return trips to the past were usually cast, to prevent the world from further damage, or questions asked.

And so, the psychopathic virus remained unknown by the world. But, nobody knew what was about to happen, not even XANA. Things had been set into motion, and nothing could stop them. Fate was a cruel force, and a fickle one, tending to the equivillance in the world and the fact that there were no coincidences. Everything happened for a reason. Everything would be revealed, once the time came. And for XANA, the time was definitely coming...

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