It has come to my attention that Franz was never scanned. Here is the updated version where Franz has been scanned after Anthea ran out of the Factory.
Code Lyoko: the Next Generation
Book 1: New Beginnings
It has been 16 years since the Lyoko Warriors defeated X.A.N.A and shut down the supercomputer. Little did the Warriors know that X.A.N.A had hidden a small portion of himself in a satellite and over the last 16 years he had regained strength and was waiting for the time to strike again.
A few months after the shutdown, Odd Della Robbia decided to give his crush, Samantha Knight, another chance. Ulrich Stern told Yumi Ishiyama he was head over heels for her. Jeremie Belpois finally said the 3 words that Aelita Schaeffer had waited 2 years hear "I love you." After finally being accepted into the group Elisabeth "Sissi" Delmas matured greatly, becoming more focused on her friends rather than her popularity. This caught the eye of William Dunbar and they started dating.
3 years later, Yumi and William were graduating, leaving the others behind for their final year at Kadic Academy. On the day of Yumi's and William's graduation, Ulrich proposed to Yumi near the manhole that lead to the Factory. William also proposed to Sissi. Both girls said yes.
1 year later on the day of everyone's graduation, Odd proposed to Sam and Jeremie took Aelita to the Factory and proposed to her and just like before both girls said yes.
Over the course of the next two years Ulrich became a famous writer (writing about the adventures in Lyoko), Aelita became a famous singer joining the Subdigitals, Odd became a pro skate/snowboarder, Jeremie found a job working for the National Center of Space Research, and William took over his Dad's company. During these two years, Yumi gave birth to a son (Tatsuyoshi), Sissi gave birth to a son (William Jr.), Sam had a daughter (Zia), and Aelita had twins, a boy (Franz) and a girl (Anthea).
10 years later the Warrior's children are attending Kadic Academy and this is where our story begins.
Franz Belpois climbed the steps to the girl's dorm level with his two best friends Tatsuyoshi "Tate" Stern and William Dunbar Jr. Franz was looking for his sister. Of course it didn't take much all he had to do was follow the faint music of his mother's song. Franz leaned against the door frame of Anthea's room listening to the words their mother used to sing to them before they moved to Kadic. Anthea was sitting at her computer while Zia Della Robbia, the fourth member of their gang and Anthea's roommate, was sitting on her bed reading the newest Ulrich Stern novel. Anthea was singing along with the music playing from her computer.
"…It can shadow human nature. And all that we need, is the way to find the answer. But one thing is sure, you can count on us for good! Here we are, going far, to save all that we love; if we give all we've got, we will make it through. Here we are, like a star, shinning bright on your world…"
"Today, make Evil go away!" Franz finish.
Anthea turned her music down "Sorry Franz, I don't have any extra parts for your project."
"That's creepy." Zia muttered without looking up from her book.
"Hey, the telepathy came with the twin." Franz said
"It's still creepy."
"Isn't there an old abandoned factory nearby?" asked Will, "Couldn't you just get the parts from there. I really need an A on this project."
"The Factory is just a legend." Zia replied.
"The factory does exist. My dad told me that some of his stories are based on places around town just the names have been changed and some of the descriptions are different. Zia, is that one of my dad's Diaries of the Virtual Warriors books?" asked Tate.
"Yes. Why?"
"Let me see it please."
Zia put a bookmark in the book and handed the book to Tate. Tate flipped through the book and stopped at a page and started reading out loud. "The four friends went to the massive park on Lakanal College's campus. Hidden under a manhole was one of the secret entrances to the sewers that lead to the Factory."
Tate then flipped to the front of the book, went to Anthea's printer/scanner and scanned the picture of the map of Lakanal College. He opened Paint and started messing with the picture and after a few minutes of silence Tate said. "Recognize the map?"
The picture now showed a map of Kadic Academy. "My dad flipped the picture so it was upside down and backwards. He also added three buildings."
"So, who's up for an adventure?"
After 2 hours of searching, the gang finally found the manhole. After making sure no one was looking, they climb down the latter and started the long trek through the sewer to the Factory.
After a 30 minute walk through the sewers, the gang reached a series of bars blocking their path. The only way to go was up. After climbing the ladder, the gang found themselves on the bridge facing the entrance to the old factory. After swinging down old cables, the gang stood facing the Factory Lift.
"Wow!" Will said looking around in wonder.
"It seems that a password is required to operate the elevator." Franz said looking at the keypad. "Well Mr. Stern has been right so far, Tate, is there anything in the books about the passcode?"
"I've only read Dad's work one or twice so I don't know."
Zia thought for a second and finally said "Unlike Tatsuyoshi here, I love Mr. Stern's work. So give me a minute."
Zia punched in the numbers 1379. Nothing happened. Then she tried 9731. The doors closed and they went down to the Lab.
When the doors opened the children stepped out and surveyed the room. Steel beams created a giant circle above a platform in the center of the room. And surrounding the platform was a very large 4 screened computer.
"Um Franz, Anthea, I think this is your area of expertise." Tate said.
"Wow!" the twins said together. "Let's check it out."
Anthea went to start up the computer but it didn't turn on.
"Zia and I will go down to the bottom floor and see if the power switch is there." Tate said.
Zia and Tate got back into the elevator and hit the bottom button. The thick steel doors closed and sent the two down to the Supercomputer.
Zia and Tate stepped out and walked towards the base of the Supercomputer. There was a strange symbol on the top. "It looks like an eye." Tate said
Suddenly a panel opened on the side of the base revealing a lever. "Should we pull it?" Zia asked
"No, let's go get the others first."
Tate stayed behind while Zia went to get the others. When Zia returned with the others they voted. Tate walked over and pulled the lever down. The air grew cold as a tower arose from the smoke. The gang went back to the lab and Franz fired up the supercomputer. The platform behind the computer lit up and a diagram of Lyoko appeared.
Nobody really paid attention to the holomap. They were more interested in the six pictures on the computer screen. Franz was the first to find his voice. "It's our parents. You don't think…no way…that's impossible."
Anthea completed Franz's thought " You don't think Xanadu is a real place do you?"
"I don't know but check this folder out."
Franz clicked the folder labeled Diary. There was a bunch of video clips. Franz clicked on the first one. The video loaded and a young blond boy in a blue turtle neck and glasses sitting where Franz now sat appeared on the screen.
"Diary of Jeremie Belpois, October 09." Jeremie told the story of how he found the supercomputer and Aelita, how he, Yumi, Odd, and Ulrich became friends, and about X.A.N.A and Lyoko. The children just sat there staring at the screen when a beeping noise caught their attention. Franz quickly located the sound and said "Activated tower in the Forest Sector. Should we check it out or shut down the computer?"
Before anyone could answer, Will's cellphone rang. It was his little sister.
"Hey, What's up Lily? Whoa, whoa, whoa slow down and tell me what is wrong…Electricity monster attacked you and your friends and headed towards town. Ok, Lily, get Katelyn and Winnie to the infirmary and get yourself checked out. I will be there as soon as I can." Will hung up the phone. "Franz, can you pull up the local news on the computer?"
"Hold on…there." The top screen now showed a petite blonde reporter on the street where a giant ball of electricity was blowing up the transformers around town.
"We gotta go deactivate the Tower." Will said.
"I'll stay here. You guys go down to the Scanner Room." Franz said as he put the headphones on.
The other four ran to the Lift and headed for the Scanner Room.
"Will is going to stay behind and will be virtualized last." Tate said as he pulled his hair into a ponytail.
Tate, Zia, and Anthea each stepped into a coffin like chamber. Franz's voice came in through an intercom in the scanner room. "Transfer Tatsuyoshi, Transfer Zia, Transfer Anthea. Scanner Anthea, Scanner Zia, Scanner Tatsuyoshi. Virtualization!"
"OW!" All three said in unison as they started to pick themselves up off the ground.
"OW!" Will said two seconds after the others did.
Once standing they got a view of the Forest Sector. Millions of trees and a green path hovered in midair. Finally everyone got a look at each other and saw what everyone was wearing. They were all in a formfitting jumpsuit but these had more too them.
Will's jumpsuit was pure white with black armor on his chest and shoulders, gray spiked gauntlets covered his wrists, and one white boot and the other black which stopped just below his knee caps. Scarlet red lines ran around his body. The Zweihander William Jr. wielded was dark gray with black veins running up it with a black hilt and the Eye of X.A.N.A above it, it kind of frightened Will. However it was extremely light. Lighter then Will expected the massive weapon to be.
The top half of Tatsuyoshi's jumpsuit was a dark purple with grayish Sakura flowers printed on it. On the upper part of his back was a small picture of a light red Japanese dragon. Around his waist, Tate wore a big bright yellow sash that held two small fans up against the small of his back. Around his forearms were light red guards. The bottom-half of Tate's jumpsuit was made up of black calf high pants with pink lines around the knee caps over the tan jumpsuit. He wore dark brown loafers. On his back he carried two katana sheaths without hilts. His hair was up in a bun.
Zia was wearing a 2 piece purple jumpsuit and kitty ears on her head. Her face was adorned with 6 thin purple lines that met at her nose. The top half was a short turtleneck sleeveless shirt that stopped at the bottom of her ribcage. The emblem on her chest was that of a tiger. She had elbow length gloves that looked like paws with sharp claws sticking out the tips of her fingers. The bottom half of the jumpsuit started below her bellybutton and flared out like bellbottoms covering most of the silver boots. Zia also had a long tail. There were silver strips covering the jumpsuit so Zia looked like a tiger.
Anthea looked just like her mother. The first thing she noticed was she wasn't wearing glasses instead under her eyes were 2 maroon L shaped markings. She touched her ears. They were pointed like an elf's with a red and white ball earring attached to her left ear. Her jumpsuit was a two piece sleeveless suit like Zia's. The top piece was a sleeveless pale yellow top with a thick hot pink strip with a baby pink border running across her chest. The top stopped at the bottom of her ribcage. Anthea noticed she was wearing a pale yellow see-through skirt and that the sides of her pants underneath the skirt were baby pink and the center was hot pink and that they merged with her shoes that were a mixture of hot and baby pink with pale yellow lines. Her pants were decorated with violet ribbons that wrapped around her calves and violet fingerless elbow length gloves adorned her arms. Around her right wrist was a star shaped bracelet.
"That is so not fair!" Zia said. "Not only am I a giant purple cat but neither Anthea or I have any weapons."
"Actually according to this document on the computer, our parent's had a number of individual powers. And it looks like we have inherited our parent's outfits we might have inherited their powers as well. " Franz's voice boomed across the forest. "Zia, your father had something called Laser Arrow, he could produce a shield, and he could run very fast when he was on all fours."
Zia pointed her fist at a tree and thought about an arrow shooting out of it. A silver arrowhead shot towards the tree. "Whoa! Cool!"
Tate took the Tessen Fans out of his sash and opened one up to examine it. The fans had a hot pink design were the plates connected and quickly faded out to white with tiny red flowers in random spots on the design. Tate decided to throw one. The designs disappeared as the fan glowed hot pink and became more saw like. It circled back around and Tate caught it and closed it. "Cool! I like them but what's up with the sheaths?" Tate examined the fans while closed. When they were closed they didn't look like normal fans. Then it hit Tate he put the end of the fans to the opening on the sheaths and pulled up. Two gleaming katanas appeared out of their home. He put the katanas away and the fans broke off.
"Tate, apparently your father had three abilities. One was called Super-sprint, which allowed him to run extremely fast. One was called Triplicate. It allowed him to clone himself into three people. The last is more of an ability. It's called Triangulate. It allowed him to create a triangle around his enemy and confuse them. Your mother also had Telekinesis." Franz informed them.
"Sis, apparently Lyoko was created by our grandfather. Mom lived on Lyoko for 9 years before Dad reactivated the supercomputer. She was called the Princess of Lyoko. Mom was the only one who could deactivate the red towers. After she came to Earth, she gained a weapon called Energy Field. It's a ball of energy that could be used as a shield or a weapon. Mom could also create things on Lyoko. Let me ask, do you have a star bracelet?"
"Yes."
"It was a gift from Dad to Mom. Swipe your hand over it."
When Anthea slid her hand over the bracelet, pink wings appeared on her back.
"Cool."
"William, there is something up with your father's profile. It says William Dunbar's powers while under X.A.N.A.'s control. He had powers called Super Smoke, which is like Super-sprint except much faster. Levitation, Energy Blade which sent out a wave of energy at enemies, and Energy Absorb which allowed your father to absorb my mother's energy field and send a charged blast at enemies."
"Shall we go find the tower?" Will asked.
Franz gave them the coordinates and the gang set out. The activated tower was about 200 yards away when Franz said "Guys, you have company."
A swarm of five Hornets and two Krabs were preparing for an attack.
"Will, come with me to take out these Krabs. Girls, you have long range weapons so you take out those Hornet things" Tate said.
"Super-sprint!"
"Super Smoke!"
Will dissolved into the ground in a cloud of black smoke. Tate took off at the speed of sound towards the Krabs. Zia raised her arm and aimed at the leader of the group of Hornets.
"Laser Arrow!" the silver arrow missed the leader but hit the one behind it and the Hornet exploded. "GUYS, FIND AND HIT THE EYE TATTOO!"
"Energy Field!" Anthea held out her hand as a hot pink ball of energy formed in the palm of her hand. She aimed at the Hornets and threw the ball but missed the enemy completely.
Tate and Will where having their own problems with their opponents as well. Tate discovered that the katanas needed to recharge after being used and was using his fans as a shield from the Krab's laser attack. Will was trying to dodge the attacks and look for the Eye of X.A.N.A. at the same time. Tate was using one fan to block and the other to try to unsheathe one of his blades. Nothing happened. In frustration Tate threw both fans at the Krab. The hot pink circles hit the top of the Krab's shell and the Krab exploded. The fans circled back around and as Tate caught them they closed. Tate tried opening them but the fan remained closed. He finally caught on. "I get it every other attack is a different weapon."
The fans finally fused with the blades as Tate rushed to help Will. Everyone was trying not to get devirtualized that they didn't notice the giant jellyfish type monster approaching Anthea. It was only when William cried out as he vanished into a cloud of floating blue squares that Anthea noticed the Scyphozoa behind her. Everyone stood there as they realized Will was the first to be devirtualized.
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Back on Earth, Will climbed out of the scanner chamber and climbed the latter to join Franz in the Lab. "Call your sister Will and see how she is doing."
Will took out his cellphone, called Lily and put it on speaker. "Hey sis, how are your friends? Are they feeling better?"
"Did you hit your head, Doofus? We're fine, we're at lunch."
"I gotta go sorry to bother you" Will said before he hung up the phone. "It was a trick. There is an activated tower but the attack was a set up to get us on Lyoko. Why though?"
Franz's eyes got huge as he said one word, "Anthea."
That's when he noticed the Scyphozoa. "GUYS! THE SCYPHOZOA HAS MY SISTER! STOP IT!" Franz yelled into Lyoko.
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As Franz's voice boomed across Lyoko, Zia finished off the last Hornet and Tate defeated the second Krab. Tate used Super-sprint to return to Zia's side. Zia fired an arrow that hit the eye but it just went through the membrane of the jellyfish creature that was doing something to Anthea. Tate threw his fans. The fans sliced through one of the tentacles holding Anthea. The Scyphozoa dropped Anthea and retreated. Tate ran to catch his falling friend.
"Thanks for catching me."
"No problem, Princess."
"Princess?" Anthea asked raising an eyebrow.
Tate's cheeks felt hot but due to his virtual form he couldn't blush as he set Anthea down. "I-I-It's what my dad and Zia's dad calls your mother. It finally makes sense. Aelita was the Princess of Lyoko and that makes you the new princess. Are you ok?"
"I feel a little funny but I'm alright."
"Ok, let's deactivate this tower and shut down the supercomputer."
The three warriors started running the remaining 200 yards to the tower. Anthea put her hand on the base of the tower. It shimmered and her hand went through. Anthea walked into the tower. All around the inside binary code ran in little groups around the massive blue tower. The eye of X.A.N.A. lit up as she walked to the center circle. Anthea slowly rose to the floating platform above her. Anthea saw a screen in the center of the platform. She put her hand on it and the word "Aelita" flashed on the screen. The name vanished and two words were automatically typed into the screen.
C-O-D-E L-Y-O-K-O
The binary numbers that surrounded the tower fell into the dark void below. "Tower Deactivated." Anthea said as she was being devirtualized.
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The group gathered at the supercomputer Franz said "Lyoko is too dangerous to have on. We need to shut it down and forget about it." He pulled the handle down and Anthea collapsed.
Zia caught her and set her down. She checked for a pulse but Anthea's heart had stopped. "Quick! Turn the supercomputer back on."
Franz pulled the lever once more and as the supercomputer reactivated, Anthea woke up feeling extremely weak. "Why am I on the floor?"
Franz ignored her and said "Tate, help her into the scanner."
On the way up Anthea was starting to get scared. She couldn't read Franz's mind and no one looked happy. Tate and Anthea got out of the lift as the others continued up to the lab. Tate helped his friend into the scanner and shut the door.
"Scanner, Anthea." Franz's voice sounded through the room. About a minute later the chamber doors opened up and Anthea stepped out. Tate once again helped Anthea to the Lift and into the Lab.
"Oh no! This is not good." Franz said with worry.
"What's wrong with me, Franz? I am really getting scared here. I can't read your thoughts and I feel really weak." Anthea said.
"X.A.N.A. stole something from you."
"What? What did he steal?" Anthea asked.
"Dad's…" Franz faltered.
"What about Dad? Tell me, NOW." Anthea forced with what little strength she had left.
"Dad's genetic code. It's missing. Ninety percent of Dad's genetic code is missing from your DNA. X.A.N.A. replaced it with a computer code. In other words, you are now linked to Lyoko just like Mom was. I'm going to activate the Return to the Past program and hope that that will fix it."
Franz typed a code into the supercomputer, pushed the Enter button, and said "Return to the Past NOW!"
A bright white light erupted from the center platform where the holomap was. It enveloped the world erasing the memory of all of Earth's inhabitants, except those who have visited Lyoko, and sent them back in time.
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Tate and Will were walking with Franz to Anthea's room. They were explaining to Franz what had happened the day before. Franz was never scanned into the Computer so his memory was erased. Franz stood there in his sister's doorway. Anthea sat, on the brink of tears from worry, at her computer listing to her mother's song. Zia was reading her book and Tate and Will were standing behind Franz. "Come on, Anthea. We need to go see if the trip did anything."
The five of them headed back to the Factory. While Franz, Tatsuyoshi, Zia, and Will got off the lift at the Lab, Anthea headed for the Scanner Room. The Lift doors opened and she got off. Anthea stood in front of one of the scanners, took a deep breath and stepped inside. She was still trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to come out.
Franz scanned his sister and waited for her to be present to reveal his findings. Once Anthea arrived in the Lab. Franz said "I'm so sorry Anthea. Your DNA is still messed up." The tears that were threating to come out finally did. Anthea turned around and ran out of the Lab and out of the Factory.
She ran to the Hermitage which now belonged to the Belpois family as a vacation home. Anthea slid the key into the lock and ran upstairs to her bedroom. She stood there in the doorway of her room for a fraction of a second trying to see past her tears to figure out who was sitting on her bed. Anthea ran straight into the outstretched arms of her mother.
"Shhhhhh. It's ok Sweetheart." Aelita said while she rubbed her daughter's back trying to calm her down. "Here we are, going far, to save all that we love; if we give all we've got, we will make it through. Here we are, like a star, shinning bright on your world…"
Feeling like she was five years old again, Anthea listened to the original lullaby version of her mother's song that always calmed her down when she was upset. Anthea inhaled the sweet scent of her mother's perfume, apples and freesia. "T-t-today, make Evil go away."
"Now then, Sweetheart, tell me what happened on Lyoko."
"Momma, how did you know I was on Lyoko?"
"The Return to the Past. The I.D. cards on the supercomputer were never erased so we, Ulrich and Yumi Stern, Odd Della Robbia, William Dunbar Sr., and your father and I will always know when a Return to the Past is activated. So now tell me about Lyoko."
Anthea told her mother about everything but broke down once again when she reached the part about her DNA.
"Her DNA is messed up, Mom. She is linked to the supercomputer." said Franz from the doorway "Sorry I took so long to get here. I needed to be scanned."
A little while later, after Anthea had finally calmed down and was trying to recompose herself, and the others arrived at the Hermitage; Aelita explained the situation to the Anthea, Tate, Franz, Zia, and Will. She also explained that X.A.N.A. wasn't completely destroyed. "Kids, Anthea's DNA fragment is being stored either on a Replika, or somewhere on Lyoko itself. If you find her DNA, Anthea should become whole again. X.A.N.A. is still free from Lyoko but he still needs the towers to get into the real world. We will help you where we can but we must turn the fight over to you."
"Don't worry Mrs. Belpois. We can handle it." said Will.
"Don't worry Anthea, we will get your missing fragment back and return you to normal." Tate said.
"Listen to Tatsuyoshi, Sweetheart. All of you will need to protect Anthea when she is on Lyoko for she is now the new Princess of Lyoko. She is the only one who can deactivate the forty-one towers that reside in Lyoko." Aelita said.
"Thank you. You guys are the best friends a girl could ask for."
"So what are we going to do now?" Will Jr. asked.
"We are going to continue to go to school and when X.A.N.A. decides to rear his ugly head we will be ready to defeat him. We will carry on in our parent's footsteps and become the defenders of the world. We will become the new Lyoko Warriors and defeat X.A.N.A. once and for all." Anthea replied wiping the remaining tears from her eyes. The fire in her eyes said that she was determined to retrieve what was stolen and put X.A.N.A down permanently.