I'm glad everyone's enjoying this story. I don't plan on making all the story arcs as long as this one. This one is long though because, well, it's the beginning.

All I ask is that you please review if you can. I need to know what people think about my version of Lyoko and the characters' Lyoko forms.

Also, if anyone can come up with ideas for future XANA attacks, please PM me. Since XANA is basically capable of doing anything (as seen on the TV) there's no limit to the imagination. I have a few ideas, but please share yours.

Beginnings: Part 3

"Forget?!" Sky shouted as Henry closed his locker, "After something as cool as that, he expects us to just forget?!" Henry walked to the cafeteria shaking his head.

"I tried to tell you that it wasn't an online game," Henry explained.

"And that's what makes it cooler!"

Henry sighed, "Are you aware how serious this is? This 'XANA' sounds like a real problem."

"Yeah, he does, I guess," when they made it to the cafeteria they saw Andrew sitting at the table. He had his eyes closed and he looked really serious, "What's his problem?" Sky asked.

"He's probably scared by what happened yesterday. You know, you almost died," Henry said frankly walking forward. Sky just threw his hands out at his sides.

"But I didn't!" he called out before running after Henry. They sat down next to Andrew, and Sky put an arm on his shoulder, "What's up buddy? You still shaken up by yesterday?" Sky asked.

"Actually, not as much as you would think," that shocked both Henry and Sky, "I'm just thinking about that scientist. He said he was no one, but he knew a lot about Lyoko and that XANA."

"Think he could be an A.I.?" Henry asked, Sky nodding in agreement.

"I don't know, maybe..." Andrew said, although he wasn't too convinced. He sounded too real. Too human...

Henry looked at his watch, and saw that it was almost time for homeroom, "We should get going guys," he stated.

"About that time, huh?" Sky asked, then turned to Andrew, "C'mon Andy, let's get to homeroom."

"Yeah... okay..." Andrew said getting up and walking off. It was clear that his head was elsewhere at the moment.

Sky shook his head and lightly hit Henry on the back, "See ya at lunch," he said before running off after Andrew, since they had the same homeroom. Henry sat there for a few seconds, and then got up and walked toward his homeroom.

He wasn't in the hallway for very long before he saw the red haired girl again. She was looking around sort of confused. Henry stared at her from behind for a little while, focusing on her flawless proportions, and how her long red hair flowed down her back. Eventually he decided to take it as his chance to talk to her, even though he knew he would be late for homeroom.

"You look lost," he said in his usual frank tone. The girl turned around and was shocked to see Henry behind her. For a few seconds she couldn't speak. She just stared up at Henry, taking him in. His broad shoulders, his piercing eyes, everything about him was so perfect. Eventually she found her voice and shook herself out of her daze.

"Um... yeah," she said playing it off, "There was a mistake on my schedule, and as it turns out I was in the wrong homeroom," despite how she looked, she actually sounded really nice and easy going.

"That happened to me too actually when I transferred here, nothing new," the girl's eyes widened hearing that.

"You were a transfer student too?" she asked.

"Yeah, I came to this school last year. Transferred from a school in America," Henry said, shocking the girl.

"Are you kidding me? So did I."

Henry laughed a bit, "Wow, it's a small world huh?"

"Yeah, sure is..." the girl said looking down. For a few seconds they just stood there. The girl then held out her hand, "I'm Jessica," she said with a smile.

"Jessica..." Henry said taking in her name, "I'm Henry," he said taking her hand and shaking it, "Here, I'll take you to your homeroom," he continued, shocking Jessica.

"Are you sure? I don't you to be late," as soon as she said that, the late bell rang, making both of them laugh.

"Now we're both late," he said before turning to the side presenting his arm for her to hold. Jessica took his arm, and they walked down the hall together. As they walked, Alice watched them from a distance, and was getting angrier and angrier by the second.

Once they got to Jessica's homeroom, they just stood there for a few seconds, engaging in another session of awkward staring.

"Hey, uh, thanks for..." Jessica started.

"Don't mention it..." Henry said, looking down, he eventually pointed behind him, "Um, I gotta..."

"Yeah... I know..." although they said that, neither one moved, "I'll, uh, see you around?" Jessica asked.

"Yeah, definitely," Henry said. He stood there for a few more seconds, and then walked off, backwards I might add. That went on until he bumped into a trash can and almost fell over, after that he turned around and walked off, trying to reclaim any composure he lost. Jessica giggled, and then turned and went into her homeroom.

Later on in Lyoko, the scientist was inside of a tower lying down on the floor. He couldn't stop thinking about the kids from yesterday. Who were they? Why did they come to Lyoko? How did they know how to get on Lyoko? He just lied there, thinking to himself, until...

"Um, excuse me?" he heard, catching his attention, "Hello? Are you there?" the scientist got up and pulled up his keyboard.

"Who's this?" the scientist asked.

"My name is Andrew," Andrew said from the laboratory, "Um, I was one of the kids from yesterday."

"Andrew? I thought I told you to forget what happened yesterday," the scientist stated, making Andrew look down in guilt.

"I'm sorry, I know you told us to never come back. But I just couldn't stop thinking about what happened. Don't worry, I came alone this time."

"You came alone?" the scientist asked.

"Yeah, so we could talk, just you and me," Andrew said. He had been thinking about doing this all day, and once school ended he ran to the factory so he could talk to the scientist.

For a second, all the scientist did was stand there thinking. He eventually decided that he wanted to see this person on the other line, so he pulled up a screen which showed him Andrew, and allowed him to see the scientist.

Once they saw each other, they both just stared at each other. They both put their hands on the screens as if touching each other's hands. The scientist smiled through the screen, "I'm Dr. James Hopper," he said, realizing that he could trust Andrew.

Andrew smiled, "It's nice to meet you Dr. Hopper," he said sweetly. The two of them talked for hours. Mainly Andrew, because Dr. Hopper was curious about him. Andrew told him about his family, how his father died from cancer, and how his mother's always sad, how his only friends are Sky and Henry, how he gets straight As, and how he loves computers and writing programs.

"You're an interesting kid," Dr. Hopper said crossing his arms, "I can see you're extremely smart."

"Well, thanks," Andrew said, getting embarrassed. He then looked up at Dr. Hopper, "Hey, Dr. Hopper? Why are you in Lyoko? Are you an A.I." Andrew asked. Dr. Hopper looked down.

"No, I'm actually human. I was one of seven scientist who created Lyoko," that sounded odd to Andrew, who sat back incredulous.

"You made all of this?" he asked, Dr. Hopper nodded.

"Yes, I was the leading scientist. My grandfather was a man named Franz Hopper. He created Lyoko more than sixty years ago. I found out about it and wanted to complete his project, in hopes that it could benefit our society in some way, sadly XANA..."

"You mentioned that name yesterday. Who is XANA?" Andrew asked, making Dr. Hopper sigh.

"The result of a miscalculation. XANA was originally created to act as an overseer to Lyoko, but he became corrupt and decided that all organic life was inferior. When we restarted Lyoko we inadvertently revived XANA. Do you see this symbol?" Dr. Hopper asked pulling up the strange eye shaped symbol that seemed to appear near or on anything related to Lyoko.

"Yeah, that was on the power switch," Andrew said. He only knew that because he went down to take a look at it himself before he found the doctor. He did think it was a strange symbol.

"This symbol is technically the symbol of Lyoko, but XANA seems to have claimed it as his logo. Everything related to XANA directly has this logo on it," Dr. Hopper further explained, Andrew nodded.

"I see," then Andrew thought of something, "But wait, you said that you were one of seven, so where are the other six?" that question made Dr. Hopper look down in sadness, and Andrew was shocked, "No... don't tell me..."

"I came to Lyoko with a team of five. We wanted to stop XANA before he found a way into the network, but they were all wiped out. I'm the only survivor of that team. As for the seventh, I have no idea. He stayed in the real world where you are right now, but at the last moment he panicked, and ran out. I'd assume that he turned off the supercomputer, since you said that you had to turn it on, and even I saw that XANA had to reboot his systems."

"So that's why you're in Lyoko now. You were in there when your friend turned it off," Dr. Hopper nodded at that statement.

"Yes, and at the moment I can't seem to log out," Dr. Hopper said, shocking Andrew.

"Why not?"

"At the current moment, I'm not too sure..."

Andrew thought about this. There was something about Dr. Hopper that told Andrew that he was telling the truth, and Andrew had this nagging feeling that he should help him. He then started typing on the supercomputer, surprising Dr. Hopper.

"Maybe I can figure it out from here," Andrew said, making Dr. Hopper jump.

"Um, I'm not too sure..."

"Stand still, Doctor," when Andrew said that Dr. Hopper stood to attention. A white ring flew down around the doctor scanning him. Once Andrew got the information he wanted he started up another program, "Now for faze two," he said getting up.

"Faze two...?" Dr. Hopper asked, getting a little worried now.

"Be right back," Andrew called out from the elevator. He took it down and went into one of the scanners. Once inside it closed around him and began scanning his information into Lyoko. After it stopped he returned to the computer room and pulled up information on Sky's avatar in Lyoko.

"I see. So that's what happened," Andrew said shocking Dr. Hopper.

"What are you talking about?"

"Well, I scanned my information into the supercomputer as a base to compare to. I then pulled up Sky's information in Lyoko to see the connection between us, since he's able to transfer in and out of Lyoko like normal. As it turns out, when someone goes into Lyoko, their avatar still holds onto their human DNA as an internal file, that way should they get destroyed in Lyoko, their DNA is shot back to the scanner they entered from and they're returned to the real world. In you're case however, your Lyoko avatar doesn't have human DNA stored inside of it," Dr. Hopper was listening, but he was simply amazed that Andrew knew what he was doing.

"You figured out all of that?" he asked.

"I even have a hypothesis as to why," Andrew said, "My assumption is that being inside of Lyoko for so long, your body sort of forgot that it was human, and adapted to Lyoko."

"In other words, I'm a program now," the doctor said, making Andrew nod.

"One hundred percent computer program. Sadly you're confined to Lyoko, so while you do have free run of all six sectors, I'm afraid that at the moment, you're basically trapped in Lyoko."

That was what Dr. Hopper was afraid of, meaning that at the moment there was no way to destroy XANA without killing himself. He looked back at Andrew, who was packing up.

"You're leaving?" he asked.

"I'm sorry, it's getting late and I don't want my mom to worry," he looked up at the screen with a smile, "But is it okay if I come back tomorrow?" he asked, making Dr. Hopper smile.

"I don't see why not," Dr. Hopper said. Andrew eyes lit up, and his smile was wider.

"Great, see you tomorrow Doctor!" Andrew said going to the elevator, waving as it shut.

Dr. Hopper turned off his screen and went outside of the tower. He was now in the forest sector, and currently saw no monsters. Thinking about the new friend he made, he thought about possibly trying to go after XANA again. He then remembered that Andrew and his friends were probably still in High School, so he better not get them involved in his battle. But since they saw Lyoko, and two of them even went inside Lyoko, they might already be involved. Thankfully though, XANA hadn't tried anything too serious, so he might be able to solve this himself.

Unknown to him though, somewhere in the city sector, one of the many towers there changed. It's white aura suddenly turned red.

In the real world, XANA's symbol appeared on a computer screen inside an office building...

Please review, and tell me what you think.

And like I said, if you have any ideas of XANA attacks, please PM me. I ask that you talk to me directly to lessen the chance of spoilers.