Code Total Drama

Disclaimer: I don't own Total Drama or Code Lyoko.

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Chapter 52

Nephilim landed in front of a tower in the Ice Sector and slowly walked inside. Walking to the center of the main platform a screen came on.

"Nephilim! How long has it been since you entered Lyoko? And yet you still haven't destroyed it yet! I made sure to make you even stronger than XANA but they have defeated you in each battle!"

The person's voice was disguised by a cheap program which made Nephilim want to snort in disgust. All though he created him Nephilim didn't trust him and had plans to deal with him.

"There are new humans here in Lyoko with powers and abilities that I had not predicted. The next attack will crush them!"

"I don't care if there is an entire army of them in your way, Nephilim. I want Lyoko destroyed and the keys BROUGHT TO ME!"

Nephilim was surprised by the anger the hacker showed which was unusual as Nephilim has not ever experienced such an emotion.

"I shall deal with these humans now, Nephilim. You will concentrate on your programming. Logging out."

The screen vanished leaving Nephilim to growl. His patience with this hacker was reaching its limit but seeing as he was supposed to concentrate on Lyoko he guessed he could do both.

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"Okay, so if XANA didn't send this guy, then who did?" LeShawna asked as they had a meeting the next day at the mall.

Luckily for Aelita the next day was a holiday so she could leave and come out without worrying about any classes.

"I'm not sure. But for now looks we're looking at a possible ally." Cody said.

"Don't you think it's a little early to be saying he's an ally? For all we know he's working with the guy who made Nephilim." Duncan said.

"There's one very odd thing. When Seraphim disappeared the devirtualization program was activated." Cody said.

"What?" Nearly everyone said.

"I was surprised when Cody showed me the logs as well." Aelita nodded.

"Wouldn't he have come out of the scanner and we would have seen him on the cameras?" DJ asked.

"I know which is why I don't trust Seraphim yet." Aelita said.

"And you shouldn't." A familiar voice said, catching their attention.

Everyone turned around and their eyes widened as they saw a familiar person sitting a table close by with a lollipop.

"Lilith!" They all said at once.

Sure enough it was Lilith, XANA's top general, materialized in fully looking real life human form, licking a lollipop. "Yo."

Almost on an instinct formed from repeated weeks of fighting the warriors almost reached for their Lyoko weapons…only to remember they were in the real world.

"What did XANA send you into the real world for, and how are you even here without a tower?" Gwen demanded.

"I didn't come here to fight." Lilith waved a hand dismissively. "I just wanted to give you a clue on where Nephilim might have come from. We want him out of the way too. And that Seraphim guy rubs me the wrong way also. As for how I'm here without a tower….I'll tell you later, because I'm too bored to say anything else right now."

"And why in the seven circles of hell should we trust the girl who has repeatedly tried to kill us?" Noah asked.

"You shouldn't, but that isn't my problem." Lilith shrugged. "I'm sure you all remember what happened with the simulation bubble."

"It sucked," Cody said.

"Well then you'll know how XANA was able to heal Alejandro, but you never found out how he did it without a tower?" Lilith tossed away the small white stick (I don't know what the hell they call it, does anybody ever bother with it?) from her mouth and pulled a fresh lollipop out of her pocket. She popped it into her mouth. "Mmm….cherry."

"Well Darth Al is gone now so why should we care?" Duncan asked.

"Maybe because the only way XANA could have healed him without a tower was by putting him in a scanner." Lilith concluded her explanation. "Question: if you never saw him on the cameras, and you know XANA couldn't have tampered with those, where else in this city could somebody find a scanner like the ones in the lab?"

"The studio." Noah said without missing a beat. "The VR Pods are based off the scanners very loosely; I saw the schematics for both."

"Aank! Wrong, it wasn't the VR Pods!"

"I never said it was, I was only mentioning that they were based off the scanners. I'm pretty sure that in one of the zillions of locked rooms XANA could have arranged for a scanner to be built." Noah shrugged.

Lilith clapped. "Congratulations! If you're interested, then go back to the studio and wait for me in the Super Computer Room, if you really want to know. I've told you what I was sent for; the rest is up to you."

She stood up and vanished when no one was looking.

"Okay, we can go and most likely fall into a trap...or we go out, get lunch, and avoid the studio all day and night with any excuse possible." Noah said. "...aaaannndddd we're going to the studio aren't we?"

"It could be worth a try, they would consider Nephilim a big threat." Gwen said.

"Well let's get going then! This could be big." Heather exclaimed.

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"You sure they won't mind that I'm here if they see me?" Aelita asked.

"Don't worry about it. Chris won't care since he's still fixing his room, Lesley's off on business for the director and Roberto's off . . . Somewhere." Bridgette said.

They walked through the hall and towards the door that led to the supercomputer room. Normally the door was locked but they could see it partly opened.

"It's just like the night Alejandro went in there and came out looking all better." Gwen said. "And the cameras couldn't see a thing of how it happened."

They opened the door and walked in. The lights came on the moment they walked in. It looked empty as it usually did when it was not being used.

"I think we've been had." Duncan said.

"No, you weren't."

They spun around and saw Lilith leaning against the door behind them.

"I just went and stole a few snacks from that mop head of a host you've got." Lilith put a plates down that had some sweets on it.

"How are you able to be here without a tower?" Aelita asked.

Lilith sighed. "Well I suppose I should tell you now since you won't stop bothering me about. We Generals are a whole lot different from any of XANA's other creations. You're familiar with the Translation program your boyfriend created to materialize an image of you in the real world with your Lyoko forms and powers. Also Aelita you were once able to hack into the real world like XANA but you could do it without a tower but the difference was you couldn't create a spectre because of the energy required."

She held up a small bracelet with a small blue jewel in it.

"This lovely little bracelet is an invention created by XANA and given to me to test. It gives me a power not even he could use: the power to project an image of myself here on Earth. Because of the amount of energy this little bracelet has it serves as a power reserve that enables me to be here while not straining myself in the process."

"So in other words you're just an image." Noah said.

Lilith smiled mischievously. "I'm a lot more than that. Allow me to prove it."

Before anyone could do a thing Lilith moved like a blur and appeared in front of Noah and pulled his face towards hers and...Kissed him!

After an awkward moment of silence Geoff let out a wolf whistle. "'Bout time bro!"

"She so wanted to do that for some time," Izzy said knowingly.

"Lucky," Trent muttered.

Lilith broke the kiss and let Noah fall over. "Not a bad kisser there Genius."

"Uh...thanks?" Noah stunned and on the ground replied.

"About time man!" Duncan commented. "This might convince everybody that you aren't gay!"

"Shut. Up." Noah got up. "Can you get to the point already?"

"One sec," Lilith then shouted. "YUKI! I've got the ice cream!"

Yuki appeared right in the middle of the group. "'Bout time too." She walked forward and took a bucket of vanilla ice cream from Lilith.

"Nice and cold, the way you like it." Lilith said.

"Is there any other way for it to be?" Yuki then took an ice cream scoop and opened the bucket.

She began to scoop out ice cream and eat it by the scoopful.

"...that's why you went looking for treats?" Gwen asked.

"She likes frozen treats!"

"Want one?" Yuki held out the scoop.

"...sure!" Izzy said.

"Aw why not." Geoff shrugged.

"Can I have one?" Cody asked.

Several ice cream scoops later, the group resumed their conversation.

"Okay, so why'd you bring us here?" Gwen asked.

"There's a secret elevator in here," Lilith explained. "Take a look around behind that wall." She pointed at a nearby wall.

They all looked at it. Trent spoke up. "I don't see anything..."

"Which is why I had this little handy power added." Lilith said.

A moment later lines of glowing blue code appeared along the wall.

"Whoa...what is this?" Cody asked.

"That is my power; it allows anybody who is attuned to the specific codes of Lyoko to detect systems linked to Lyoko itself. Not a combat power, but it comes in handy. You might find that you'll be a lot more sensitive to Lyoko from now on."

"So is this..." Gwen placed her hand on an eye of XANA in the middle of the wall, and it slid up.

"...cliché." Duncan commented.

"It was enough to hide from you until I showed you." Lilith replied as they all entered the elevator beyond.

The elevator took them down to a level marked Sub Basement Two judging from a screen on the wall. It slid open with a hiss, and lights flashed on, revealing an entire laboratory within.

"Is this where XANA hid his super computer?" Courtney asked.

"Now why would you think that?" Lilith asked innocently. "Just because I was sent to show you the lab where RealiTech is working on what XANA gave them doesn't mean that I'd show you where the boss hid himself. That would be very stupid to do. This is just where RealiTech took a while to research what they found and built all those wonderful toys up above." Lilith approached a console. "This is the master control, and from the looks of the warm egg sandwich," She picked up a sandwich wrapped n plastic. "Somebody has been here. I bet it's our mystery hacker."

"Right under our feet?" Heather asked.

"Clever," Noah nodded.

"So if the guy is still close I say we find him and kick the hell out of him," Duncan said.

"I actually agree with the Punk." Noah nodded.

"Butt kicking time!" Izzy nodded.

"...uh oh," Lilith looked around. "You might have to wait for that."

"What's up?" Gwen asked.

"Nephilim! Tower corrupted!" Lilith said urgently. "We've gotta go. There's a few scanners in here, put them to good use!"

The back of the lab lit up, revealing... six scanners. And before the Scanners, set up facing the semi circle was a control chair with a now active map of Lyoko.

"Cody, you operate it! Everybody who can go, get in!" Aelita ordered.

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In a just a few minutes everyone landed in the Ice Sector. When all eight warriors landed on Lyoko they took a look of their surroundings.

"Nice, chilly, and freezing me to digital death." Duncan commented.

"You sure it was a good idea to leave the others in the lab with Lilith and Yuki?" Courtney asked.

"They can take care of themselves. They're tough." Gwen said.

That was when Yuki landed in front of them with a flash of light.

"...She met no offense." Trent said quickly.

Yuki did not reply and pointed west of them. "The tower is there. You might want to hurry before your friends are hurt."

"What's Nephilim doing?" Bridgette asked.

"Several spectres were released into the real world inside the studio. Possibility of possession most likely." Yuki replied.

"And there we go," Noah said. "By the way, can anybody please tell me that Aelita kept the codes for our vehicles on disk-"

"And I gave them to Cody," Aelita finished as the vehicles appeared before them.

"So does Nephilim have more of those weird mutant monsters?" Trent asked.

Yuki nodded. "We've spotted several."

"Then why doesn't XANA summon a few hundred of his own?" Duncan asked.

"He doesn't want Nephilim to know he's alive." Yuki replied. "As long as Nephilim thinks he's the one in control, he'll keep his guard down and then when the time comes he'll be easy to destroy."

"And of course he wants us to be the distraction." Gwen shook her head as she got on the OverJet.

"We'll deal with this later. Right now we have to hurry before the storm destroys the city." Aelita said as she activated her wings.

"All right! Go time!" Izzy jumped onto the OverBoard.

"Whoo-hoo!" Noah said sarcastically as he got onto the OverWing with Heather.

Trent got onto the OverSled while Duncan and Courtney got onto the OverBike. Yuki watched as they took off towards the tower.

"So what kind of new monsters will we be dealing with this time?" Heather asked.

That was when everyone could see a dark cloud heading for them.

"That'd the new monster?" Trent asked.

"Not monster. Monsters." Aelita corrected as she fired an energy field at a creature that moved out of the cloud.

The orb hit the monster and everyone got a view of it.

"A whole swarm of Bats!" Bridgette said.

"Obviously Nephilim believes in strength with numbers." Gwen shook her head.

"How do we deal with all of them?" Trent asked.

"I got an idea. Duncan hold out your sword." Aelita said.

Duncan pulled out his sword and Aelita turned to Gwen.

"Gwen, use your fire aura on Duncan's sword."

"What?" Gwen asked.

"None of us have an attack that can take them all out once. Duncan's sword can unleash a fire attack but not enough to take them out all at once."

"So you want her to power me up so I can . . . Nice." Duncan smirked evilly.

"In that case should I use my fire note as well?" Trent asked.

"Too much and you could devirtualize him by accident." Aelita cautioned.

"No guts, no glory, Aelita. Hit me!" Duncan shouted as he held out his sword.

Gwen nodded and activated her fire aura. Duncan's sword was set on fire a second later as Gwen focused on it and Trent sent a stream of fire at it. Duncan's sword collected the flames and everyone watched as the flames swirled around the sword, changing from orange to green.

"I always loved setting things on fire!" Duncan shouted as he drove forward with Courtney screaming behind him and swung his sword.

The blast came out as a huge stream of green fire that engulfed the Bats, causing them to burn to ash. Some fell to the ground and dissolved into virtual ash and the rest exploded into a shower of great fireballs.

"... That was awesome!" Duncan smirked.

"What a way to take them all out." Bridgette commented.

"That was lame! I wanted a big scary monster to come out and surprise us!" Izzy whined.

Just after she said that a large green ball flew out from beneath them and exploded in a green flash that sent them all flying in opposite directions. They all skidded across the ground and their vehicles were devirtualized from the impact and the blast. Groaning they got up to see who had hit them. It was taller and even more muscular than even Chef and was dark gray.

It resembled a huge mechanical Gorilla with a large cylinder like tube on its left shoulder that was no doubt what fired at them. Its arms ended in three short fingers with large cannon like hole at the wrists. The head was completely blank with only a single glowing red Eye in the middle of the forehead. Its legs were short and stubby and had three claws for toes.

"..." For a moment Trent looked at Noah.

"What?"

"I thought you'd make some smart ass joke."

"Oh what, like 'King Kong called, he wants his style back?'" Noah asked.

"That works." Trent shrugged before the Gorilla fire the cannon on its shoulder. They scattered as it blew a large crater into the ground.

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"Oh man! This thing's fire power is off the charts!" Cody exclaimed. "I've got to hurry and give them their extra life points!"

That was when an error came up on the screen.

"What?"

That was a face came up on the screen, no one could see it because it was hidden in the shadow.

"Cody Anderson and a few other competitors from the reality show Total Drama. I did not expect you to be Aelita's new allies but no matter. What you should know is that I am the hacker and you are no longer in control of Lyoko or the supercomputers that power it, I am! Nephilim may have failed in destroying Lyoko like I made him too but he succeeded in weakening Lyoko's defences enough for me to get in. Now I am capable of accessing the programs in Lyoko and destroy it along with your friends. And I have something to keep you all occupied."

The doors busted open to show a possessed Chris, Chef, Roberto, Lesley and the remaining non-Lyoko warrior competitors.

"That's just low!" LeShawna shouted picking up a pipe.

Chris grabbed LeShawna and threw her across the room.

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The Gorilla made a large grunting noise as it pointed ahead and the Raptors charged forward, firing their guns at them. Trent ran out and created a barrier that blocked the incoming lasers.

"Anybody got any ideas on how to take of these?" Trent asked.

"We need to pin them down and take them out." Heather said.

"Since Izzy wanted a big scary monster she can handle King Kong's digital cousin." Noah said.

"Yay!" Izzy jumped up and down and turned into a bee and flew towards the Gorilla.

"And I guess we're stuck with these guys." Gwen looked at the Raptors.

"This'll be easy." Bridgette said as she swung her swords, firing her energy wave at them.

The Raptors dodged the blasts as the others with long range attacks fired at them. Gwen activated her wind spell and swung her scythe like a fan, creating a gust. But the Raptors dug their claws into the ice and managed to avoid getting blown back.

"I got an idea." Heather grabbed Noah's shoulder and they both turned invisible.

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DJ struggled to hold back the possessed Eva while LeShawna was dealing with a possessed Roberto and Chris and Geoff was left to keep the possessed Lindsay, Beth, and Lesley away from Cody. But he was knocked away and the possessed Beth grabbed Cody by the throat.

"What's the matter, Cody? I thought we were friends." The possessed Beth snickered.

"You're no friend of mine, Nephilim!" Cody growled.

Beth tossed him across the room and then tore the chair out of the floor.

"Time to exterminate some bugs."

She was about to smash Cody when a wrench hit her in the face!

"I don't think so, Nephilim!"

Everyone looked to see the scientist, Robby, the one who worked with producers on the TDR supercomputer.

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The Raptors continued to fire on the team as Trent attempted to block every attack. But sadly his shield collapsed and he was shot in the knee before Duncan pulled him out of the way. Heather reappeared in front of one Raptor with Noah right beside her and Noah ran forward and phased into it, possessing the monster. The now gray Raptor turned and fired on the other two, forcing them to turn away from the others and fire on their new adversary.

Izzy was dodging the Gorilla's blasts left and right, changing from various animals to dodge the blasts from the Gorilla's large cannon. Izzy turned into a bull and rammed into the Gorilla but the creature caught her and threw her back. It charged its cannon to fire at her but Bridgette fired an energy wave that cut the gun in half.

The Gorilla turned and saw the other warriors gather together with Izzy. It raised its hands and a pair of blades flipped outwards and around its hands, forming a pair of swords. It took a defensive stance as everyone prepared to attack. Trent, Noah, Bridgette and Izzy fired but the Gorilla raised its swords and blocked the attack.

"No good. We can't take it out with long range attacks." Duncan said stepping forward. "I'll deal with it. Just get to the tower."

"Are you crazy? There's no way you can take that out by yourself!" Courtney objected.

"Don't have to. Just distract it enough for the elf to get to the tower." Duncan said.

"Let me try and take it out. I can possess it and use it against anything guarding the tower." Noah said.

"If I can get close enough I can drain it of its life points!" Courtney said.

"That's enough!" Gwen shouted getting between them. "No one is strong enough to take on that alone! We need a plan here and now!"

"And I suggest you come with one soon."

Everyone looked up and saw Nephilim floating in the air.

"While you all argue my creator has taken control of the supercomputer in the factory allowing him to access Lyoko's programs and right now he's turned off the life points. Meaning if I kill you, you won't be coming back! And don't think for a second your friends up in that studio lab will be helping you. I've infected everyone else in the studio and soon those other pests will be nothing but a memory. And guess what ... THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!"

He pulled out his lance and swing it down, unleashing a stream of energy down at them, scattering them with a huge explosion. Looking down at Aelita he flew at full speed with his lance out. Looking up Aelita fired a plasma beam but Nephilim held out a hand and a yellow shield blocked the attack. He landed right in front of her and slammed his lance into the ground causing a huge crack to form.

Aelita looked down and saw the cliff she was break up, separating from the rest of the ice platform. Waving her hand over her bracelet she activated her wings but to her shock and horror the Gorilla fired a blaster that her wing, shutting her wings off and leaving her to fall to the Digital Sea.

"AELITA! NO!" Gwen shouted.

"Somebody help her!" Trent called.

"Bridgette does your board-" Noah started.

She shook her head, showing her swords were now gone.

"Oh god!" Courtney shouted.

But just as Aelita was about to hit the water...something caught her. She opened her eyes and looked up to see a white demon mask with the eye of XANA on the forehead. A black cloak flared out, shaped like bat wings that flapped. Seraphim tilted his head. "As cliché as this sounds, thanks for dropping in."

"Seraphim!" Nephilim hissed. "You again!"

"Yes, and I'm not too happy," Seraphim said as he set down on the platform. "I hate cheaters Nephilim. You might have power, but you're just an overgrown child who likes changing the rules."

"Who are you to dare judge me?!" Nephilim snarled.

"Me? Oh I'm just...what you might call a Deus Ex Machina," Seraphim then spread his hands and let out a sort of smoke like vapour. "The tower you're using gives your hacker his connection to Lyoko. Once deactivated, it is severed. And you don't need Aelita to necessarily disable a tower...when you have THIS!" The vapour formed into a large spear that Seraphim grasped. It glowed bright green with energy that gathered at the tip before he launched it across the horizon. Nephilim watched in shock as it cleared an immense distance and slammed into the tower.

"Tower...disinfected." Seraphim stated.

The tower regained its regular blue glow. Nephilim felt his influence within it die.

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The possessed victims were just about to finish off their pray when they sparked and collapsed.

"No! No! I was there! This is not over! I will have Lyoko under my control again!"

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"What have you done?!" Nephilim snarled.

"I stopped you, virus." Seraphim replied smugly. "Aelita can deactivate a tower taken over by XANA...but I can disinfect ones taken over by anything that does not belong in Lyoko. And you," he pointed one finger at Nephilim. "Are nothing but a parasite that has no place in this world, so you fall under my jurisdiction."

"This isn't over!" Nephilim roared and vanished.

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"I'd suggest you guys make Return to the Past before they wake up." Robby said, getting up.

"But how do you . . ." Cody started.

"I'll answer that when you come back here." Robby said as he typed into the computer and pressed enter.

"Return to the Past now!"

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Everyone found themselves back in the elevator they had been in when they entered the lab only now Lilith and Yuki were not with them.

"That was too close." Gwen said.

"No kidding. But I know who's been down in the lab. It was Robby." Cody said.

"The guy who worked with Carlos and Kurt on the TDR computer?" Bridgette asked.

"Yeah. He showed up and saved me from getting crushed to death by Nephilim and he inputted the coordinates to the Return to the Past." Cody said.

"We better speak with him as soon as possible." Aelita said.

The doors opened and they found themselves back in the lab from earlier. Robby was sitting at the computer, finishing his sandwich.

"Come on in. I got a feeling you all want some answers . . . Especially you, Aelita Schaeffer." Robby said, taking a napkin and wiping the crumbs away.

"How do you know me?" Aelita asked.

"I met you a couple times when you were student at Kadic. Only that was back when you were called Aelita Hopper and your dad was teaching." Robby said.

"Wait, that was years ago. How old are you?" Trent asked.

"Well I'm in my late 30s but I like to think good exercise is keeping me in my early twenties." Robby shrugged. "As for you Aelita, either you've found a really good solution to visible aging or you've found some way to remain seventeen despite the fact that you should be in your thirties out in the work world, probably meeting a nice young man. You said once you wanted to go into a career in physics. Only now you're majoring in DJing a band, the Sub-Digitals, nice choice by the way."

"What was your specific relation to my father?" Aelita asked.

"He was my teacher," Robby said. "I applied for computer and electronics at Kadic, and he took me on as an apprentice. Nice man, and a bit of a philosopher, taught me things about computers I thought we were years from practicing. He also really liked ancient history, quoted Confucius a lot when he didn't reference Roman Conquests. And of course there was the incident where your whole family vanished. Those men in black came to Kadic and questioned everybody who knew him. Luckily for me, they didn't suspect me at all. But I found a copy of his diary in a location I think he wanted me to find, showed me the whole thing. Carthage, Lyoko, his wife, and his attempt to stop Carthage with XANA. Needless to say I was shocked and knew if I was found I'd suffer whatever fate these guys had for anybody in their way, so I made a run for it from France to America for a few decades while I decoded the diary. I tried to piece together what happened. And after I was done decoding everything, I copied it all on paper-and by the way that's why you will never see me use a pencil again, and then deleted the computer files. I found an interesting name in Carthage's lead team, Doctor James Lyon. Very nasty man, according to Schaeffer he was first approached by Lyon to take part in Carthage, and then was threatened with the death of his family if he refused to help."

"Saw that coming," Duncan said.

"Needless to say he cooperated, and during his work on Carthage he met the woman he would later marry and have a child with. Needless to say they both knew what would happen if Carthage got out, and so agreed to find a way to stop it. Unfortunately, Lyon found out, they interrogated your dad's parents and sadly they chose death over betraying your parents." Robby sighed. "Nice people didn't deserve it. And then the whole Carthage event happened. For an instant, all electronics went off, it was the Dark Ages. But then, they all came back on line with a strange eye symbol for just a second. Guess what that was."

"XANA doing his original job." Aelita said.

"Yeah, destroy Project Carthage, and he succeeded without a single flaw." Robby said. "But then Lyon went after Schaeffer, who had essentially deleted all of the blue prints that went into making Carthage. He wanted Schaeffer to make something bigger than even XANA, something that would make Carthage look like a second rate accounting program. Your parents went to witness protection, but even then that wasn't enough. Somebody sold them out, and I think you know what happened next."

"They took my mother." Aelita nodded.

"I don't know exactly what happened to Antea, but she vanished off the face of the Earth. When I found out how far Lyon would go, I knew I had to stop him. I made a little something to counter his work...and you met him twice." He tapped a console. "Seraphim."

Suddenly Seraphim appeared, but he did not wear his cloak and mask. Instead, he had the image of a young man with brown hair, pale skin, and bright green eyes. He wore all black attire. "Yeah dad?"

"Sorry, I was introducing you to everybody," Robby said. "I made Seraphim by dabbing into Scaheffer's work with XANA, only I used my scanned DNA to give him his form and ability to think on the fly. And it just so happens that your dad's diary had an automatic update link with Lyoko, so I knew XANA turned on you. I spent years trying to find the super computer so I could send Seraphim in, kill XANA and save you and your dad. But sadly I never found it and I had to keep on my toes while I watched for Dr Lyon."

"Sorry I never showed up to do my job," Seraphim said to Aelita. "If I had, maybe a lot of the fighting could have been avoided."

"We don't blame either of you," Aelita assured them. "I'm glad that somebody was still looking for me at least."

"Well from what we can tell the workers from Carthage, or more specifically Dr Lyon sent a super virus into Lyoko to take control of XANA, but it didn't work out. The virus tried to infect him while Schaeffer turned off the super computer. Sadly...the virus merged with him. This led to the birth of the XANA you all have come to know. Before that I actually saw him use his powers to play with Aelita a bit when she was just three or four." Robby smiled sadly. "He even saved her life when she was six and was stalked by some wolves. Hard to believe, right?"

"Considering he's tried killing us 74 different ways, yeah." Noah nodded.

"Well Dr Lyon applied for a job at RealiTech, so I knew it couldn't be good. So I applied for the job myself to keep an eye on him. He never met me, so it was perfect, but then he vanished following an attack you all know of that happened two and a half months ago." Robby continued.

"Red Eye Virus attack." Gwen nodded.

"From what I've seen he's spent months travelling all over the globe to places containing Super Computers that held pieces of what he called 'XANA's Corpse'." Robby air quoted. "This is how he made Nephilim, creating him from XANA's remains, but imagine my surprise that when Seraphim logged onto the Super Computer and found you're okay, XANA's still alive, and the contestants from Total Drama have been helping you out. It was a big shocker. No offense to any of you, you just never appeared to be...hero material, at least not all of you."

"None taken dude!" Cody replied with a smile.

"I was considering sending Seraphim to help you guys, but when Dr Lyon disappeared I couldn't let him out of sight. So I sent Seraphim to track him all over the globe."

"I'm quite good at it," Seraphim nodded. "XANA might be able to possess things, but I can track and monitor things 74.3672 times faster than he ever could."

"Did you find XANA's location?" Courtney asked.

"Sadly no, wherever he has hidden himself is so complex even I can't find him." Seraphim shook his head. "To be honest I think he expected this. But now this is a war on three fronts. You have to deal with Lyon and Nephilim trying to take over the world, and XANA trying to destroy it."

"Dr Lyon needs the Keys to Lyoko and the only person who has them is in this room," Robby nodded to Aelita. "He plans to destroy Lyoko and the super computers that power it, but keep Aelita alive long enough to take them, which is where Nephilim comes in. Nephilim is his connection, and is able to hack into Lyoko easily. Now with me around you can focus more on XANA, but I might need help to disable infected towers. The Lyoko code won't affect Nephilim influenced ones now, following a massive update Nephilim gave himself to counteract it. Imagine it like two puzzle pieces, one is Code: LYOKO and the other is the infection of XANA. Let's say he changed that second piece so they don't fit together."

"So why'd you create Seraphim and these scanners? Did you plan to go to Lyoko?" Aelita asked.

"Sadly no, with my heart condition I could never go to Lyoko. A devirtualization could be fatal to me." Robby shook his head. "That's why I made Seraphim. Also...along the road we did get curious about seeing if he could be devirtualized eventually. I didn't want to leave the closest person I have to a son to float on some Disk Drive forever. Sadly Aelita that's the mistake your dad made with XANA when he tried to shut down the super computer...no offense, but XANA was like a child by then. If your father tried to murder you, what would you feel like afterwards?"

"Like crap, like I wanna kill someone," Duncan shrugged. "...like I wanna get back at them."

"And the virus just made him all more willing," Robby nodded. "So even if this all works out I plan to continue my work and materialize Seraphim. Even if I fail, I have taken measures to make sure that he will have some...trustworthy colleagues to continue my work should I not live to that day. Anyways, now that Dr Lyon knows the Super computer is in France, he'll come back, and could very well set up his own scanners, so we might see him in Lyoko. There is one thing you should know: he can activate towers with his connection through his computer, but unlike XANA he can activate a tower without expending energy. You shut down one tower; he could turn another one on in a few hours."

"So then that is where we should bring in our two newest muscle men." Heather said. "If Kurt and Carlos knew where these scanners were,"

"And given the incentive, they'd blow them to pieces." Robby nodded. "They're good at that. I even planned to show them the crimes I believe Dr Lyon is involved in. That could at least give them an excuse to investigate him...or more."

"Sounds me like you have enough to have the guy shot," Trent commented.

"True, but the reason I never came forward before is that he is too well connected. Antea was kidnapped when the Schaeffers went to the Witness Protection Program by MI6 and then Aelita and his dad disappeared when they showed up at Hermitage again a few years later. It doesn't matter who you go to, he has connections with them, so you need hard, incriminating evidence to put him away."

"That or we can just let Kurt and Carlos take him down the old fashioned way. He sounds like he deserves it!" Duncan said.

"Yeah, that turkey needs an ass whoopin'!" LeShawna agreed.

"Kill the Geek!" Izzy chanted.

"Well for now we'll wait for him to show his face," Robby shrugged. "He might not be able to remember things from any Returns to the Past, but when he has a scanner built and goes into Lyoko...he'll be a big problem. So I'd suggest that with any Nephilim attacks we avoid Returns to the Past if at all possible. If he almost succeeds in making an attack happen, we can let the world wonder what had caused it a bit, but if he causes serious damage we can afford to go back in time."

"Any chance of Seraphim getting close enough to wipe the floor with Nephilim next time?" Gwen asked.

"Close, they're actually on even ground but Seraphim usually has the element of surprise and a more advanced search engine installed." Robby said. "If he was real he'd probably never forget a single thing for the rest of his life."

"So we have two new allies," Aelita smiled. "And one of them can go toe to toe with Nephilim, excellent!"

"Glad to offer my services, it's the least I can do for all the help your dad has done." Robby nodded.

"Next time I see Nephilim, he's toast." Seraphim nodded. "Just point the way Boss-Lady."