Chapter 3

Every army of the world attempted to defend themselves against the cold, emotionless forces of the now super-charged XANA, but all weapons short of nuclear powered proved futile as the rogue virus continued his merciless destruction.

"North and South America are now under our control master," reported one of the leaders of XANA's armies.

"Excellent, then it is all going according to plan," he said with a sinister tone. "With each continent in the world losing their ability to continue fighting me, my empire will emerge without fail, and I know just where to make the head of the XANA empire, Kadic Academy."

The skies of began to darken quickly as XANA and his force flew from their current location to Kadic. Lightning struck the campus grounds without preference as XANA made his descent. Suddenly, XANA got a terrible idea in mind.

"Drone Zeta," he commanded. "Capture the humans, every last one. Then take them into that cafeteria building and keep close watch on them. If anyone of them attempts to escape or call for help destroy them."

Immediately, the drone carried out his master's order and issued the death threat to the students and staff of Kadic. Terror and fear were the only emotions that the students' and staff were able to express in the heat of the moment.

"The stage is now set," XANA proclaimed. "Now there is only one thing left to do…" The virus reached to press a button on his wrist to issue a command to the supercomputers of the world.

"Initiate full memory transfer for core meltdown sequence.."

Jeremie knew time was running short, so after he finished explaining to the gang about his decision to add Sissi and Samantha he quickly virtualized all seven Lyoko warriors to the ice sector to rendezvous with Aelita's father Franz Hopper. Everyone quickly assembled, including Sissi and Sam who had already been virtualized to Lyoko prior to the gang's arrival.

On Lyoko, Sissi's attire consisted of a sky blue Chinese silk garment with a technological flair that both represented the power of wind, and had a 21st century look to it. All of it tied together with a red ribbon waistband. She also wore leather boots and had her hair bound in a ponytail style to finish it off. Her weapon was a power bow that launched arrows with the kind of impact Odd's laser arrows dealt, and her special ability was teleportation.

As for Samantha, she wore a leather jumpsuit concealed by a tight-fitting traditional African style dress also mixed with a technological look, and finished with orange boots. By holding out her hand, she could call upon her weapon, a double-bladed lance that could not only be used like a sword, but could also generate thunder and lightning; she also possessed the ability of ESP.

As everyone arrived on Lyoko, Franz Hopper emerged from a nearby cave in virtual form as a bright shining orb.

"Everyone," Aelita said. "If it's okay with you, I'd like to have a moment alone with my father." The gang waited outside the cave as Aelita spen her moment with her father.

While the gang was on Lyoko, Jeremie prepared and double-checked the calculations for his multi-agent program. As he typed in his final algorithm, a group of XANA's most powerful monsters appeared on the monitor and Jeremie warned the gang to prepare to they came into sight, the Lyoko warriors charged at the armada with no hesitation while Aelita's father escaped into the digital sea.

The team decided to split into three teams to fight the digital creatures: Yumi and Aelita fought the army of three megatanks, Odd and Sam fought the Kankrelat fleet of five, and Ulrich, William, and Sissi confronted the four tarantulas.

Yumi launched from a ice block nearby and quickly flicked both her fans at the megatank below, destroying it with little effort.

On the other side, Aelita activate her wings and took to the skies, flying behind one of her targets. Using her energy field on the tank, she caught its attention and the girl flew in dead center, luring the megatanks to fire at her in unison. However, in one foul swoop the Jeremie's pink-haired angel flew upward and caused both creatures to destroy each other with each other's energy waves, thus ending the first fleet.

Nearby, the Kankrelats charged up their lasers as Odd and Sam contemplated which way to destroy them. After a five second stand-still, the middle Kankrelat fired its laser at Sam, but both warriors quickly leaped into the air and landed behind the roach-like monsters.

"Thunder Lance!" shouted Sam as she held her hand out to take hold of her weapon.

Before Odd could fire his first laser arrow, Sam had a vision of a Kankrelat firing at him off guard. Sure enough, one arrived exactly on cue and fired at him, but Sam dove in and deflected the shot with the blade of her lance and diverted it back at the creature.

"Thanks Sam," he said with a sigh of relief. "That's the second time I've needed a save. Just don't tell the others, okay?"

Sam smiled and replied, "Don't worry everyone needs help once in a while." That bit of advice came right on cue for Odd, as he noticed two Kankrelats standing directly behind his girlfriend.

"Get down!" he shouted as he leaped over her and fired his laser arrows destroying the two pests.

With only two remaining, Sam took the initiative by lifting her lance up and shouting, "Thunder!" sending down multiple bolts of lightning that destroyed two.

Odd charged on all fours like a cat and fired a quick shot at the last remaining creature, putting an end to the second fleet. All that was left now, was XANA's mutated spiders.

Ulrich, Sissi, and William braced themselves as they prepared to take down the tarantulas. With a small nod from each, the three took off in a flash towards their targets.

Ulrich quickly triplicated himself to surround and confuse the possessed spider. After firing its lasers at the two impostors Ulrich lunged from behind, made a swift but firm stab, and watched the spider explode before him. William was fighting close by, trying to keep his guard by deflecting shot after shot. When he found an opening to attack, the boy clapped his wrists together in a cross and vanished from sight. Sitting idly, the tarantula had no idea what just happened, that is until it let out a loud shriek as its arms were severed off and its head appeared stabbed as well. Just as the creature blew up, William reappeared in front of the remains.

"Great job William, I'm actually glad you came with us," said Jeremie trying to multi-task.

"Thanks Jeremie," he said a little more humbly. "And thanks for that ability of invisibility. It came in handy."

With fire in her eyes, Sissi clapped her hands together and also disappeared as a result, creating confusion for the tarantula. Suddenly, the girl to appear and disappear rapidly making the tarantula fire shots randomly. Finally, Sissi appeared in midair with her power bow in hand and launched her fiery arrow directly into the heart of the mechanical arachnid, burning it to a cinder. Staring with surprise, William said, "Wow, talking about setting a heart on fire…" Unaware of his surroundings, William didn't notice the fourth tarantula taking aim right behind him, and being at such close range his invisibility would only be a moot point. However, before it had a chance to attack in came Ulrich super-sprinting with a double-blade melee saving William.

"Sorry Ulrich, I guess I lost my head again," said the boy knowing he about blew it again.

Knowing what William was think about, Ulrich said, "Uh, maybe you should wait until after XANA's dead to tell her how you feel?"

As the gang reconvened, Aelita asked Jeremie, "Jeremie, is the program ready to launch?" Silence passed for a few seconds when Aelita called out for him again, still no response.

"What's happening," asked Yumi. "Jeremie are you there?" Unfortunately, all that could be heard was silence.