FRANZ HOPPER'S DIARY
JUNE 6TH, 1994, DAY 1381
I feel like, with every return to the past, XANA becomes more powerful, and I descend more into madness. I should have seen this coming.
Linking XANA to Lyoko might have been a mistake. My plan was for Aelita and I to have absolute control of Lyoko and the supercomputer. We would have its codes, its keys. Lyoko would hold the "towers" to the real world, access points from where XANA could stop Project Carthage.
The problem is that apparently I made XANA a curious AI. He was able to access the log files from the return to the past, and, in doing that, he gained knowledge from the real world. In fact, it seems that with every return to the past, not only does he gain more insight in the world, but he also increases his processing power. I fear that I might have created something worse than Carthage itself.
XANA has not yet achieved self-consciousness, and I do not even know if such a thing is even possible, but I fear it. He has been attempting to create his own virtual lifeforms on Lyoko. This shows that he already knows enough that he holds some of the supercomputer's codes. Not all of them, like me and Aelita, but, since we haven't entered Lyoko yet, he has acknowledged himself as the master of that world.
Maybe it would only be natural that, once he realizes his power to act in this world, he would also seek to try and be the master of our world too.
Dear Lord. I have to stop this madness. But I can't. It seems as if my memory isn't holding anymore. I don't know if the return to the past has been actually damaging my brains, or if it's just my regular paranoia. But I can't. I need time, and I have it. Carthage is more dangerous. I think. I can deal with XANA once I'm safe in Lyoko. Except maybe I won't be safe there anymore.
I didn't want to start another war. I could just erase him, but that would mean years of progress in Lyoko gone. Well, I suppose I still have all the years I could have today. But what if it takes too long to delete him, and he realizes it? I'd be done for. I can't go against him.
Maybe this supercomputer needs to be destroyed after all. I could just set a bomb in here, end it all. XANA. Carthage. Myself. All of it, gone, forever. It would be so easy. An easy solution to a complex problem.
But... I just can't. How will Aelita live after that? God, they might even take her in too. I can't. I have to protect Aelita. I must. Until the end. I'm going to have to keep doing this. Working against XANA, against time, against Carthage, against myself. God knows how long today will last.
JUNE 6TH, 1994, DAY 1382...