A/N: This is the prequel to Legend of Lyoko. I do not own Code Lyoko, but Alex is my own character. Cue the theme song!

Legend of Lyoko

Code: Rebirth

A Legend appears

Team Lyoko stood watching as a new kid walked by them. He was wearing a blue T-Shirt, jeans, and a pair of combat boots; he walked up and started talking. "Excuse me, are you Jeremy Belpois?" He asked Jeremy. Jeremy looked up from his computer. "Depends, who's asking?"

"Alex Clelland, his new roommate!" Alex told him. Jeremy looked at Alex wide-eyed. "Did you say r-r-r-roommate?" He questioned. "Yep, Mr. Delmas said that I should move in with you until I get my own room. Jim already moved in a bed for me to use. Say you guys ever been to the abandoned factory across town? I used it to shoot a short film. We stayed on the main level though; I couldn't get the service elevator to work, figured it was busted so I left well alone."

Team Lyoko freaked out at the thought of someone possibly finding out their secret they worked so hard to keep in the dark. "The abandoned factory is where I go to find parts for my miniature robots, there's plenty of old mechanical equipment to get the parts from." Jeremy explained. "By the way what kind of short film were you shooting there?"

"A crime film, it started out at the local radio station and ended in a chase to the factory." I have a DVD copy, here take it watch it, it's a half hour in length, but I think I did pretty well with it." Alex told them as he handed over a case with a disk in it. "Hope you enjoy it! I'm late for advanced Italian, got to roll" he told them as he ran off.

The next day after classes, Alex and Jeremy were in their room, Alex was relaxing on his bed, playing a game on his laptop. Alex had gotten to know the group better by learning their names, and he did start to develop a crush on Aelita. Anyway, Jeremy was trying to work on his report when his computer froze and the eye of XANA appeared on his screen. "Oh man, not good." Jeremy panicked. This caused Alex to look up; when he saw the eye of XANA he said "I've been seeing that symbol a lot over the past week." He said "What is it?"

Jeremy started thinking to himself, what should I do? Do I tell him about Lyoko and the scanners? Wait what if he can't keep a secret, I'll ask him. Then out loud Jeremy asked "Alex, can you fight and can you keep a secret?" Alex nodded and Jeremy said "Follow me I'll explain everything on the way." He said as he bolted for the door, Alex following close behind. "Alex can you call Odd and tell him to head for the factory?" Alex nodded and dialed Odd's cell phone number.

Odd Della Robia was in the rec-room playing foosball against Ulrich Stern when his phone went off. "Timeout Ulrich, Hello? Alex? Ok, Ulrich and I are on our way." He hung up, grabbed his best friend's wrist and had to drag him out whispering "Code XANA" to him. Down in the sewers Alex and Jeremy were on their way to the factory, Alex keeping ahead of him on foot. When they got to the factory's sewer entrance Jeremy hopped off his scooter and climbed the ladder, Alex followed suit.

Jeremy ran straight to the freight elevator, inside it Alex piped up "OK, what the hell? This thing wasn't here when I finished shooting my crime film a few days ago now it's operational. Jeremy ignored that comment as he and Alex disembarked into the lab. Jeremy hopped in the chair and booted up the super computer, while Alex sat down on some exposed cooling pipes. That's when the elevator opened and Ulrich, Odd, and Aelita were standing inside it. "Oh good, you're here, head for the scanners. I'll send you to the desert region.

The elevator closed and once again Alex sat staring at the supercomputer's interface. Jeremy spoke into his headset "You guys ready, here we go. Transfer Odd, transfer Ulrich, transfer Aelita. Scanner, Virtualization!" Alex watched the interface as three blips traveled across a grid, and then he started to study the holo-map of Lyoko. The desert was currently sitting in the south pole of Lyoko. That's when Jeremy said "Careful you guys, two tarantulas and four kankrelats on your tail." Odd's voice said "Relax I'm already blasting those little cockroaches away, Ulrich and Aelita took out the bigger problem. HOLY KRABES, Umm, Einstein, we need some backup there's like 10 krabes here, and William's joining the party."

Alex looked up "Jeremy, they need help, send me in. You have no choice; Ulrich told me Yumi was in Japan visiting her grandparents. So send me in to help them out." He told him. Jeremy was debating whether this was a good decision, he finally said, "Use that hatch to get down to the scanner room, then get in one and I'll send you in."

Alex climbed down into the scanner room and stepped into the one on his immediate left. "Ok, I'm ready to go, hit it Einstein." He yelled. "Ok" Jeremy said "Here goes nothing" With that he fired up the virtualization procedure. "Transfer Alex, Scanner Alex" Jeremy watched a blank ID card fill up, and a digital figure be scanned. "Virtualization" Inside the scanner, there was a flash and a gust of wind that sent his hair flying upwards, and Alex entered Lyoko.