Chapter 0: The End of the Beginning
In the early 80's, a company called 'ENCOM' had made itself known all over the world for its technology and its pushing of boundaries on the computer science frontiers. The company's office in Los Angeles had originally promoted snaky Ed Dillinger to Senior Executive Vice-President for his design of the Master Control Program, or MCP, and of his 'designing' of a database of video games. When the TRON program, designed by Alan Bradley, was finally released into the system, the MCP was shut down permanently and Ed Dillinger was indicted for stealing the programs from the true designer of the games, Kevin Flynn.
On the other side of the globe, ENCOM's Paris factory was shut down on orders of the new Senior Exec., Kevin Flynn, when he heard that it was operating a system, on Dillinger's orders, to make a way for people to go from the computer world of their choosing to the real world and back again, with help from the materialization research from Dr. Lora Baines. The creator of both the materialization system and of the test world, Dr. Franz Hopper, had no intention of following the new boss' orders. He, in an act of defiance, had digitized himself and his daughter into the world he created and named 'LYOKO'. When the people sent to retrieve Dr. Hopper found the outer laboratory, they removed all the equipment with an ENCOM logo and destroyed the outer building itself, noting that the superstructure and the sealed elevator were still intact but not really caring.
What all parties involved didn't know was that the MCP left a piece of himself inside the ENCOM France laboratory computer mainframe. When the time was right, it merged with the XANA security program that Dr. Hopper had created to protect people, including his daughter, on LYOKO. What emerged from this union was a computer virus that wanted revenge on the world that took both Dr. Hopper and the glory of the MCP.
As the years past, ENCOM became nearly bankrupt while Kevin Flynn was in charge. When the board of directors called for his resignation, they found his office empty of all but a single message on his laptop, 'I'm going back'. The board, seeing this, had decided to turn to the designer of the TRON program to help them get back on their feet. Alan and his wife Lora had worked to make both the financial success that Dillinger's reign had, while retaining the 'open-air' atmosphere that Flynn promoted. All of it came to a crashing halt when Alan's wife Lora had died and Alan felt the responsibility of raising his son Jet alone. After Lora's death, the materialization program that she worked so hard on was pulled from the system, left to grow dust in the lab that it was housed in.
On the other side of the world, a group of kids had found the abandoned ENCOM lab. What they found was the control room for the LYOKO world and the materialization programs that were protected from the fires above. When the first entered LYOKO, they found not only their first, and ironically only, friend called Aelita, but they also found the XANA virus and the repercussions of it's actions in the real world with new 'I/O towers'. From that moment on, the four kids and the digital program had both vowed to stop the XANA program at all costs.
This story begins in the year 2006. Alan Bradley has left ENCOM for retirement and his son Jet has disappeared into the computer world once again. The Ma3a program still runs the company system, at a faster rate, and the TRON program is still watching the ENCOM system for danger. A new person has stepped into the shoes of Alan Bradley. That person's last name just happens to be Dillinger, just not Ed, but his son Nicolas (Nick to his friends).
Unlike his father, Nick Dillinger didn't care about money, but valued insights from the people around him. He keeps up a superior face in front of the board, but behind the scenes he helps people with designing games and other things. What's shocking about Nick, other then personality, was that he's only 18.
On the other side of the world, Kadic Jr. High School is holding a 'Meet Your Future Career' day and the principal has asked people and companies from all over the world to attend. ENCOM originally declined attending before Nick took over as ENCOM's 'public face'. Now people are excited to meet the latest leader of the almost extinct ENCOM Corporation.
The XANA program has found out about this fact, and plans to enact its final solution to destroy ENCOM, the Lyoko Gang, and bring the real world under his command.
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Disclaimers
CN/Moonscape/Antefilms owns CL. Disney owns TRON.
