I do not own Code Lyoko or the characters, places, plot concept, etc. found in the original television series. I created all other characters and the new plot for this story, however. I am writing this story for fun, not profit, because I think Code Lyoko is the best cartoon of all time and want to pay tribute to it through my writing.


Prologue

There was one Xana attack that the original Lyoko warriors - a group of Kadic Academy students named Jeremie Belpois, Aelita Stones, Odd Della Robbia, Yumi Ishiyama, and Ulrich Stern - do not remember. During that lost adventure, Xana attempted to take control of the world by freezing time itself. He failed, ultimately, and the children launched a modified return to the past to negate the effect of his attack. The modifications Jeremie made to the familiar program erased the warriors' memories of the weeks that they alone spent awake in a world frozen in darkness.

This particular adventure happened before Aelita learned that she was the daughter of Franz Hopper, before William was named a Lyoko warrior, and before Ulrich and Yumi decided that they were just good friends.

Needless to say, Xana never attempted to do anything with time again so the adventure - and any logs or computer modifications that accompanied it - remained buried deep within the supercomputer located in the basement of the abandoned factory close to Kadic Academy.

Eventually, the Lyoko warriors managed to defeat Xana and shut down the supercomputer for good. Time passed, and the six that knew about Lyoko and the bane that had been Xana aged and started families of their own. Jeremie and Aelita became engaged during college and married once they had both finished their education. Ulrich and Yumi stopped pretending that they were just good friends mere days after the supercomputer was shut down. They married as well. William married a girl from his hometown, one day simply stopping his tireless attempts to steal Yumi's heart. Odd, ever the ladies man, was somehow unable to find the perfect someone to settle down with (though he vowed that he would search until his dying breath) and had to settle for being the coolest of uncles, both for his sisters' children and for his friends' - for each of the other Lyoko warriors became parents with time.

All six of the Lyoko warriors remained good friends, and thus their children grew up among one another. Jeremie and Aelita's boys, Franz and Waldo, lived with their parents at the Hermitage during their earliest years and Franz became a boarder Kadic Academy when he was old enough. (The boys reportedly drove their parents insane with their mischief to the point where Jeremie and Aelita didn't even intend to give Waldo a choice about boarding when he became old enough to attend Kadic.) Ulrich and Yumi had two beautiful dark-haired girls, identical twins, named Katja and Kokoro. They grew up in a house much like the one their mother had lived in her entire life, and when they were old enough to attend Kadic both opted to become day students after hearing horror stories from their auntie Aelita about how some girls at school monopolized the bathrooms and how there was never any hot water for showers. William and his wife Jillian had two children as well, Matthias and Nancy. Matthias was enrolled as a boarder at Kadic when he became old enough, mainly because his parents had recently split and boarding him was reportedly the best way to have him adjust. Nancy was told that she would be a boarder at Kadic when she was old enough as well, and until then she spent the majority of each summer with her father and the majority of each school year with her mother.

Now, contrary to what one might believe, the original Lyoko warriors did not hide Lyoko from their children. They raised them on stories of their adventures. The children were brought to the factory on multiple occasions and knew full well of the supercomputer, though when Franz boldly tried to turn it on once nothing happened. This was because, many years before, Jeremie had disabled the supercomputer predominately while gathering data for his own virtual world. He spent the majority of his free time over the years writing complex programs for a virtual world he dubbed 'Diitto.'

'Diitto' was created for both the original Lyoko warriors and for their children. Jeremie spent almost twice the amount of time creating it as Franz Hopper (even with the aid of his supercomputer's return to the past) did to create Lyoko, and many of the programs that made up Diitto were based off of programs that Franz Hopper had created for Lyoko.

The result was that one morning Jeremie approached his wife and hugged her from behind. Aelita, who had been cooking breakfast for her family of four that late summer day, kissed Jeremie on the cheek before he released her and leaned up against the kitchen counter.

"It's ready," he said.


Introductory Author's Note

(Please spend two minutes reading this – it explains a lot!)

This is the first piece of Fanfiction that I've ever had the courage to post on this site. I've hesitated to post something for so long because I don't want to be one of those authors that begins a story, loses interest, and then leaves it unfinished for all of eternity. But, I'm happy to say that I have an ending in mind for this story - it can have as much middle as my attention span allows, but I do know how it will end, so if I ever find myself dreading the next section of the story I'll do my readers a favor and wrap it up.

That said, I'd like to devote a couple more paragraphs to some housekeeping. This is a story predominately about the children of the original Lyoko warriors. I was inspired to write it after reading a few other stories about the children of the original Lyoko warriors, determined to break the stereotypes that most (not all, though) had created. For starters, Aelita was not going to have a beautiful pink-haired little girl - she got to hyperactive boys instead. Ulrich did not have a son - he got two girls instead. Lyoko is no more, and instead I've brought Diitto into the story (which, in my opinion, is a tad cooler, though I'm probably biased.)

And again, while I have the beginning and an end in mind, the middle of this story is a clean slate with a few ideas I could work with, but I'm sure what pops onto my screen will mostly be based on my mood. What I would really appreciate from my readers is plot feedback. So, feel free to shout out comments in any reviews you may give. I would love to know the thoughts my readers have on my work.

Anyway, it's time to move on to the story. I'll drop notes along the top and bottom of each section to try and make things clearer or just give my readers some insight into what the hell I'm doing with my characters and plot. I take my writing very seriously, and again, I would appreciate if you took the time to review the story if you read it. But, I will do my best not to nag insanely about reviews out of this section and the last section of each part.


Editing Notes

I will keep this place updated with any edits I make to previously posted sections. If I find something I really want to add into the story, but to do so I'll have to change an early section, I'll tweak the section and then post here (and in the newest section) that I've made the changes.

January 1, 2011

- After realizing that the name Jacob / Jake had been used in several other Code Lyoko stories I have changed Jacob Dunbar's name to Matthias Dunbar in Parts 1 through 3. From Part 4 onward I begin referring to Matthias by his new name as if he was always called Matthias after warning readers several sections before the change.

- Made several other minute changes that do not alter the story line, including but not limited to explaining how Jeremie is made to disappear, giving Aelita a van and not a car, making Kokoro and Franz not seem so distant in the first section where they interact, etc.