[Atlas sat up using his laptop waiting for his tower to become active. It was one in the morning according to the American clock that was on his bed stand. He was for all important purposes a normal boy. But unknown to anyone except a certain group of five people he was actually 12 years older chronologically.]
[It was nearing one year since he left Kadic, and over that time he managed to fight off death but only just. Through a but of medicine and the digital world he managed to survive. The result of his first virtualization test had even worse consequences than he had thought.]
[As the time got closer to one an e-mail popped up on his laptop. To anyone it seemed to be just an old laptop that he managed to hot-wire to keep up with the times. In reality though it was a portable supercomputer that housed his creation Lyoko Beta.]
[The e-mail was from his friends so it was instantly forwarded to him by the program that he had running. Upon opening it he managed to get a quick glance at the screen before the initial attack. XANA was in the email!]
"You little devil" he exclaimed. [XANA was quick so before Atlas could react, he struck. The portable scanner that Atlas built was activated, and he was struck by it. XANA was aiming on sending Atlas to the cortex, but instead thanks to Atlas was sent to Lyoko. There was a time delay on the actual virtualization to the place, and Atlas cause both the change in destination and the delay.]
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[It was Saturday and classes were over, so Jeremy went back to his bedroom. Things had been quiet lately as XANA had calmed down for the time being. The stack of disks sat on the corner of his desk untouched by anyone since Atlas left.]
[He let out a long sigh and then wen to work on making new programs for things his friends can use on Lyoko. But right before he could start a video popped up on his computer. Thinking it was one of Odd's pranks he tried to exit out of the program, but no matter what he did it wouldn't close.]
[Finally he got fed up and was about to call Odd, when text started appearing. It was binary, but he had some experience with it before.]
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[After spending about an hour trying to write it all down he started to try and decode it. He was about to get the whole thing typed into his computer when Aelita came into the room.] "Hi Jeremy, what are you working on?"
"Hmmm? Oh hi Aelita. I'm just trying to decode this binary." [At times Jeremy was completely oblivious to everything around him.] "Well here goes nothing."
[He finished typing in the code than he let his computer do the work of decoding it for him. The text that appeared was the most confusing.]
Help... trapped... trapped... Ly... Ly... Lyoko... He... He... Help... At... At... Atl...
"Whats that suppose to mean Jeremy?" [Asked Aelita.] "I don't know but from what I can make out from this text someone needs help." [Replied Jeremy.]
[After a bit of looking Aelita spoke.] Hey Jeremy whoever sent this knows about Lyoko. Do you think that it could be. That is could be Atlas?. [Jeremy finished the sentence for Aelita.] "Yes it could be him."
[They haven't heard anything from Atlas in a wile. In fact the last e-mail he sent was at the exact same time that XANA had stopped attacking for the time being. Than there was the fact of the false alarm that happened when Xana activated a tower for a bit, than deactivated it right before anyone could be sent to Lyoko.]
[It was starting to seem like quite the coincidence, and Jeremy now had the feeling that it was all connected.] "Aelita we need to go to Lyoko beta."
"But Jeremy we don't even have a clue where to begin looking for it." [Replied Aelita.] "I know, but Aelita what if XANA abducted Atlas."
[Jeremy was thinking fast now and was soon explaining to Aelita what he felt.] "Aelita what if XANA used the tower that turned out to be false alarm to get to Atlas? I mean he could of gotten Atlas's email from my computer, and used it to send a program to him. That e-mail could have been opened by Atlas and Xana used it to reek havoc on his laptop. Than XANA could of tried to kidnap him, but he escaped and somehow he managed to escape onto Lyoko beta."
"Now he sent the message to us, because he needs our help." [Jeremy finished out of breath, and Aelita now spoke.] "I get what your going at Jeremy. XANA used the tower to try and get to Atlas, but why? What does he get if he kidnaps Atlas?"
[Now Jeremy glared at her before speaking.] "Atlas helped build Lyoko. With him XANA could possible create a supercomputer, that would be possible of anything."
[Aelita knew that what Jeremy was speaking was true, and what he said was truly frightening. Yet it was true, and Atlas could be even worse than XANA could possibly be as an enemy.] "OK than. What you said is truly frightening, and true. So lets get the others and head over the the factory."
[The call went out and soon five kids were going through the sewers to the factory.]
[As soon as Yumi reached the sewer drain in the forest so did Odd, and Ulrich.] "Do you two know what this is about?" [Asked Yumi.] "No just something about a message that Jeremy received." [Replied Odd who was trying to fix his hair witch had started to droop down.]
"Seriously Odd how do you keep your hair like that?" [Asked Ulrich.] "Well it's simple I use a lot of hair gel." [Replied Odd who had just fixed his hair right as Yumi got down the drain. Ulrich went down next, than Odd went after that closing the drain as he went.]
[Soon the three were riding the elevator down to the computer room were Jeremy, and Aelita waited. As soon as they entered the room Jeremy spoke.] "We seem to have a small problem involving Atlas. Also It seems we have no choice but to go to Lyoko with this program running."
[Aelita and Jeremy were both oblivious to the fact that the rest of there friends had entered the room. As soon as the name Atlas was spoken the three spoke.] "WHAT!"
[Both Jeremy and Aelita jumped at the sudden outburst. Than after that Jeremy spoke.] "Hi, we didn't hear you come in, but yeah it seems like Atlas has decided to do something. Get to the scanner room we need to get to the tower that XANA activated last. But your going to have to go through the mountain sector due to some sort of program that's running."
[The four went down to the scanner room and Yumi, Odd, and Ulrich went first to secure the terrain to make sure it was safe for Aelita. After that Aelita went went to Lyoko, and the trouble began.]
"Hey Einstein why is there two people being virtualized?" [Asked Odd.] "I don't know why, Odd but be prepared for anything." [Replied Jeremy.]
[The construction of the digital form could clearly be seen by the group. The three immediately picked out Aelita and formed a triangle to contain the person. They were limp and fell on the ground in a hump.]
[Aelita came over and the four covered the person. Slowly Ulrich came and turned the person over. Everyone gasped at who it was, and Jeremy was asking who it was.] "Jeremy it's Atlas." [Replied Aelita.] "WHAT!"
[At that Atlas was getting up and spoke.] "Uhg. Where... where am I?" [He looked around a bit than spoke again.] Who are you? [By this time he was getting up and than he spoke again.] Who am I?