Chapter 14

Truth

We open in Sector 5…

The Lyoko Warriors were fighting off Mantas as Aelita was gathering data from the Interface.

While they were fighting near Aelita, X was on the Overspeeder deflecting lasers that were aimed at him or Aelita.

After the group took out the current squadron of Mantas Jeremie warned them that another one was heading towards them.

X drove straight towards the Mantas as Aelita finished gathering data.

"The controls are all your's Jeremie."

He quickly programed the vehicles and they took their spots on them.

They each drove off as X held the Mantas back.

Jeremie quickly opened a tunnel out of Sector 5 and the main group left.

X jumped off his vehicle and landed on the platform with the interface.

'Soon it will all be over.'

He thought to himself before he vanished.

Back on Earth…

Jeremie had looked through the data.

"With this i can crack the code of Franz Hopper's diary."

He said happily.

Aelita nods.

"The only problem is we'll need a lot of power to go through this much data, ill need to activate a tower or two."

Yumi frowned at that idea.

"That didnt go so well last time, XANA hates it when we play with his toys."

"Maybe we should ask X for help then."

The group looked at Aelita with questionable looks.

"What? He's activated towers before he would probably be willing to help if we ask."

Jeremie shook his head.

"That's the problem Aelita."

Aelita looked confused.

"What do you mean?"

Jeremie pulled up a digital image of X and an error message showed up.

"Over the past few encounters with X ive been secretly scanning him and i found something interesting."

He typed a bit and showed that parts of X were bugged.

"Those glitches hes seen having are very unstable, and for a mission like this, we need no errors, we cant risk letting him control this one."

Aelita looked over at the screen.

"Why is there some data missing in this scan?"

"Im not sure, either something is blocking a full scan or X is missing some core parts."

This made Aelita think.

'Missing parts'

Jeremie stayed at the factory to prepare for the mission while the others went to lunch.

Aelita was lost in thought the whole time though.

'If X is missing something,then is that why he is unable to be materialized'

She leaned her head back as she thought to herself.

'Was X a failed attempt to create me?"

Her eyes widened.

A bit later…

Jeremie got an alarm for an activated tower.

"Oh thats what i needed."

He said sarcastically

Jeremie called the others.

Aelita Ulrich and Yumi arrived but Odd was missing.

Jeremie virtualized them to the Mountain Sector.

Odd showed up shortly after and he was immedietly virtualized.

But when he was Jeremie saw an error message.

"Its ok Jeremie im on Lyoko."

"Odd there was a bug in the transfer, huh?!"

He saw a message showing the tower was deactivated.

Jeremie told the others.

"The Super Scan shows all clear,right Odd?"

"Well thats one less thing to worry about"

Ulrich said

"Right"

Jeremie materialized their vehicles and they made their way to the tower.

"Weird i would think X would be here by now."

Aelita said.

"Its better this way, we dont need any strange things happen."

Ulrich said to her.

Meanwhile in the desert sector…

X was on near the tower XANA activated only for it to have been deactivated.

"Strange."

He looks around.

"Something isnt right."

He checks a scan of Lyoko.

X saw that Aelita and the others were in the Mountain Sector.

"Why are they there?"

He quickly jumped back and saw 3 Krabs, 5 Bloks, 7 Hornets and 2 Turantulas were heading towards him.

X quickly jumped behind some cover.

"XANA must really want me gone this time."

He summoned his scythe.

"But why though?"

Back with the others…

They had made it to the tower and Aelita ran inside,went to the second floor and got to work.

"Ok im activating the tower,now."

Jeremie said entering the code on his computer.

The decoding began.

"The decoding of the data is underway Jeremie,but its gonna take some time."

"No problem whenever XANA leaves us in peace,everything is all cool."

Aelita thought for a minute.

'It is strangely quiet,i wonder why.'

And just as she thought that.

"Uh oh i spoke too soon."

Jeremie said.

A fog was blocking the view so the group couldnt see the monsters.

But they soon heard the caw of the Turantulas.

"Huh?"

Yumi said.

Three of them were walking towards the.

"Wow XANA has pulled out the big guns."

Ulrich said drawing his sword.

Yumi readied her fans and Odd preparred to fire his arrows.

Just before Yumi was about to throw her fans.

Odd shot her.

Yumi was devirtualized and he began to shoot at Ulrich.

"Jeremie,XANA has taken control of Odd."

Ulrich started blocking the arrows.

"Yes im sure of it."

The Turantuals were firing and missing Ulrich who quickly flipped over to the tower and jumps onto the Overbike before driving it away.

He went up into the sky and Odd was chasing him trying to shoot Ulrich down.

Jeremie and Yumi figured out that this Odd was a fake while

The Turantaulas went over to the tower while Odd was chasing Ulrich.

"Ulrich its a trap he's trying to lure you away from the tower."

Jeremie told him.

"Huh why?"

"XANA is trying to take control of the tower."

Aelita moved back hearing this.

"Abort the mission, stop the decoding and come back to earth."

Aelita went to stop the program.

"Ok"

Meanwhile…

Yumi was trying to find the real Odd and save him.

Back on Lyoko Aelita was struggling to stop the program.

"Jeremie,we've got a problem, i cant stop the decoding,its taking up too many resources,its out of my control now!"

"If XANA manages to get control of the tower now, he will be able to get into the restricted access part of the supercomputer, i could lose all the data in Franz Hopper's Diary."

"Not to mention everything you programmed."

Jeremie warned Ulrich to hurry and cut the cable from the tower.

Ulrich drove back to the tower,jumped off the Overbike,crashing it into a Turatuala, he landed on another one,stabbed it and destroyed it to.

He landed near a cable and attempted to slice but was shot by the fake Odd.

"Youre waisting your time XANA, Odd has never beaten me yet."

A flash of light hit the Fake Odd and he turned into Ulrich.

"Ok that changes things."

The two began to fight.

As this fight happened, the tower turned from green to red.

Aelita tried constantly to stop the process.

"I cant stop it Jeremie its too buggy."

Ulrich ran off as the Turantuala started fire at him and the Anti Ulrich followed.

They ran to a platform and jumped to cable and then jumped forward at each other trying to slice the other person.

They repeated this process a few times before Ulrich used triplicate and surrounds the Anti Ulrich with triangulate.

The Anti Ulrich cut down one while the second one jumped and the Anti Ulrich stabbed him in the gut.

But the third Ulrich took advantage of this and knocked the Anti Ulrich's sword off the platform spins using the momentum to cut down the Anti Ulrich.

A flash of light hit the Anti Ulrich.

When the light was gone.

A scythe blade blocked Ulrich's sword.

The Anti Ulrich has turned into X.

Ulrich jumped back.

"Not the rematch i was hoping for but it will do."

Ulrich ran at the Anti X who was spining his scythe.

The blade was knocked away by the spinning.

Ulrich quickly ran towards his sword.

The Anti X threw his spining weapon at Ulrich.

He noticed this and ran a different direction as the scythe returned to the Anti X's hand.

Ulrich ran around to once again grab his sword.

He almost reached when the Anti X slammed his scythe in front of Ulrich.

Ulrich jumped back.

"Well isnt this fantastic."

Ulrich said sarcastically while trying to think of a plan.

He started running around very fast in a circle.

Ulrich jumped onto a rock.

He bounced over the Anti X and landed behind him.

Ulrich grabbed his sword and tried to stab the Anti X in the back.

But right before he could.

The Anti X moved forward and turned around trying to strike Ulrich.

Ulrich was fast but he wasnt fast enough to move his sword to block the scythe blade.

But right before the Anti X could strike Ulrich down.

Another blade went through the Anti X's chest and he dropped his scythe on the ground.

A hand picked up the scythe.

As the Anti X vanished the Real X was behind it holding both scythes.

X made both weapons vanish.

"Youre late."

Ulrich said sheathing his sword.

"XANA was determined to keep me away from this Sector, i figured out why as well."

"Im guessing you cant stop the program."

"No but i might be able to stop XANA."

X went on his Overspeeder.

"Go cut the cable just in case my plan fails."

X drove off and Ulrich ran back to the tower but was shot down before he could cut the cable.

X quickly ran into a tower.

"I'm not sure if you can hear me, but this situation has gone from bad to worse, im not sure how much energy you have left but if you can spare any now would be the time to use it."

X activated the tower.

"Use me if you have to."

Aelita noticed that XANA was starting to lose control of the tower.

She told Jeremie.

"Franz Hopper,Franz Hopper is helping us."

"The decoding program is going full speed."

X heard this and looked up.

'Sorry Aelita but there are some things i cant let you know.'

The red tower turned green and the last Turantula ran off.

Aelita watches the data.

"Amazing."

Later the group all met up in Jeremie's room.

Jeremie explained that Franz Hopper created XANA and how the diary had everything that happened during the creation of Lyoko.

"But there was nothing on X."

Jeremie said to Aelita.

She looked down then up again.

"At least youll be able to find the Anti Virus"

"Yeah but there's something more, before Franz Hopper virtualized himself on Lyoko he had a child."

He looks at Aelita

"A little girl,he virtualized her the same time he virtualized himself and she stayed on Lyoko."

Aelita gasped at this.

"Jeremie let me see this data."

Jeremie pulled the file on his laptop and moved back so Aelita can see.

Aelita looks and then moved back holding her head.

"Impossible."

Back on Lyoko…

X held some files from the diary in a locked space.

'The Anti Virus is top priority.'

He looks down

'Not what is right'

A bit of time passes and after finding some video portions of the diary.

Jeremie prove Aelita was Franz Hopper's Daughter and why XANA wants Aelita's memory.

"One thing that still bugs me is some missing parts of the diary."

"What?"

Aelita questioned.

"When we decoded the diary not everything was decoded,almost as if some parts were missing."

Aelita looked confused.

"Strange."

Later that day…

Jeremie started to explain that Aelita didnt have a virus rather that XANA had taken something from Aelita.

They started to plan a mission involving getting her missing piece back and shutting off the Super Computer.

"Out of the question."

Aelita said before storming off.

'We cant shut it off yet.'

Aelita thought to herself.

Jeremie went after her.

"Aelita wait what's the matter?"

"We cant shut off the Super Computer not even after i get my piece."

She leaned against a column

"Why not?"

Jeremie put his hand on her shoulder.

Aelita moved away from him.

"If we do that then X will die as well."

"Aelita he's not"

Aelita interrupted him.

"Think about it Jeremie, i dont even remember anything before my father virtualized me what if X is in a worse situation, what if he's a real person but he's trapped like i was."

Jeremie shook his head.

"Aelita, hes told us time and time again hes just an AI"

Aelita looked at Jeremie.

"I dont think that's true."

Jeremie sighed.

"Ok Aelita if it makes you feel better ill see what i can do for X, but im not sure what it will do."

Aeilta looked away from Jeremie and started walking away.

"For now let's just try to your piece then we'll figure things out from there."

Aelita just left the area after that.

'There's definitly more to X i just feel it.'

Some time later…

The group went to the factory and Jeremie quickly virtualized each of them to the Ice Sector.

He also materialized their vehicles and they began to drive to the edge of the sector.

Aelita joined Ulrich on the Overbike.

"No monsters?"

Jeremie asked.

"Nope"

Odd responds.

"Dont you think that's weird?"

Yumi questioned.

"Not at all."

X said from behind them.

He was on the Overspeeder.

"Of course you would show up now."

Yumi responds.

"XANA has no monsters here currently."

They all stopped at the edge of the sector.

Aelita looks closely at X

"I overheard your mission from the main computer,even i was unaware a piece of Aelita was taken."

X looked away from Aelita.

"Lets get it back and shut down the Supercomputer."

He said as Jeremie entered the code for the transport.

The group was quickly sent to Sector 5.

"Everyone ready? Im gonna enter the code for the coordinates for the room where Aelita's fragment is."

The wall opens and they all ran in with X in front of them all.

He was the first to enter the room.

The room was a box with squares and rectangles coming out of the walls.

Some of the walls opened up and Creepers popped their heads up and began shooting.

Ulrich and Yumi started deflecting lasers while Odd shot at them.

X ran towards the Creepers and started slicing them.

Yumi quickly ran and used her acrobatic skills to get to the key.

Just before she reached a Creeper showed up and shot at her.

She flipped away and then flipped forward hitting the key with her foot and throws the Creeper down with her legs.

The floor opens up to form a staircase and the group quickly went down it.

When they reached the room it was a straight path leading to a staircase which lead to a ball of light.

They started running toward it with Aelita in front with X right behind her.

Suddenly Creepers on moving platforms head towards them and began firing.

A laser hit Yumi in the shoulder.

Ulrich X and Aelita continued running while Yumi and Odd took out two of the Creepers.

More creepers showed up causing Ulrich and Aelita to stop.

X stopped a moment later and readied his scythe.

Ulrich looked at X as he drew his blade.

"Go."

X nods and he and Aelita continued running.

They stopped to see that there was a large cap in the floor.

X looked at Aelita then his Scythe.

He positioned his scythe so that he was holding it with both hands and Aelita stepped on his blade.

"Ready?"

"Yes"

Aelita responds to X

X swung his scythe as fast as he could and lauching Aelita to the other side of the gap.

He turns around to see several Creepers shoot Yumi and Odd at once devirtualizing them.

X threw his scythe at the remaining ones just as Ulrich ran to him.

Ulrich saw the gap and took a few steps back.

He took a running start and successfully jumped to the other platform just as the room started to fall apart.

X moved back took a running start and used his Scythe to pole vault to Ulrich and Aelita.

"Run now!"

X said as the three began running to the staircase.

But as they started to climb up it, it broke and they fell.

Suddenly they were each caught by a Flying Manta.

X placed his hand on the monster and then looked at Ulrich and Aelita.

"Franz Hopper is controlling them."

"Hes right."

Jeremie said as the monsters dropped each of them off on a platform.

Aelita went up to the ball with X right behind her.

Ulrich was on the lower platform.

Aelita aproached the glowing orb and saw her lyoko form was in it.

She placed her hands on it and then it shattered.

The room started to collapse further.

"Its a trap."

Jeremie said shocked.

Pieces crushed Ulrich and the Mantas.

X was on his guard almost immedietly and readied his scythe.

"Stay behind me, Jeremie get Aelita out of here, i dont have the energy to enable the code!"

Jeremie started typing as fast as he could.

X saw the Scyphozoa and readied his scythe.

"Dont worry i'll prote-"

X was cut off by a Manta under XANA's control shooting him off the platform.

He dropped his scythe on the ground and fell down.

The Scyphozoa grabbed Aelita and started taking her memory.

"Noo!"

Jeremie shouted

The Scyphozoa finished taking Aelita's memory and dropped her onto the platform.

Further down the platform X was holding the handle of a second scythe that was stuck to the wall.

X held his hand out and summoned his first scythe to him.

He started climbing up as the Sector suddenly turned dark.

"Aeilta i-is dead."

Jeremie cried.

X heard this and quickly climbed up and then landed on the platform Aelita was on.

He dropped both scythes.

"I failed."

X dropped to his knees near Aelita's body.

He suddenly heard a voice.

"Not yet."

X looked up.

"Right i know what i must do."

X held his hands over Aelita.

"Do it."

He suddenly felt data being transferred to him, which he then sent it to Aelita.

Aelita started to fly float and glow with energy.

X stood up.

'Im sorry but i still cant let you know everything.'

Some of the data remained inside X but most of it remained with Aelita.

Aelita's eyes opened as memories of her life on Earth began to return.

The glow faded and she looked around before she was suddenly devirtualized.

X was left alone on the platform.

"Only time will tell what will happen now."

A few weeks later…

Aelita has spent the time off thinking about a lot of things.

She thought about her human memories and if any of them were connected to X.

Unfortunatly they werent.

'I feel like im just missing one piece and then ill know who X is'

She shook her head.

'Better focus on the task at hand.'

Jeremie was trying to find out what XANA was trying to do since XANA entered the internet.

But instead found a new room in Sector 5.

Soon each of them were virtualized to Lyoko and made their way to Sector 5.

After easily getting through the key room,they soon reached the interface where they saw X on the Overspeeder fighting Mantas.

He was mostly dodging their lasers.

"Hey X long time no see still covering your face i see."

Odd said to him.

X ignored him and focused on the monsters.

"That guy is never much of a converstaionalist."

Yumi said as their vehicles materialized in front of them.

Aelita joined Yumi on the Overwing.

They all flew off.

"The room is at the bottom of the dome."

X said to them as he stabbed a nearby Manta.

"Yeah we know."

Ulrich responds.

Yumi started driving towards the bottom of the dome, but a Manta was attacking her head on.

X quickly threw his scythe at the Manta destroying it instantly.

Aelita looked at X as Yumi drove up and into the room.

Ulrich and Odd were dealing with two more Mantas.

"What are you guys doing? Aelita and Yumi are already inside."

Odd ran out of arrows and jumped ontop of a Manta.

He remained on it until Jeremie reloaded them.

But the Manta flew up to the Closing and Opening entrance of the room.

Odd jumped off as the Manta destroyed itself.

He landed on the Overspeeder.

"Oh hey there."

Odd said to him.

X just ignored him and flew into the room and Ulrich soon followed.

Aelita and Yumi were waiting as the boys stepped onto the platform.

Aelita hit the mechanism and opened the staircase to the room.

"So X how did you spend the last few weeks?"

Odd asked him.

"Searching for XANA."

He said simply as they all started going up the staircase.

"Man youre all buisness."

'I have to be.'

X thought to himself.

They all entered the room to see XANA's monsters firing at a ball protected by two barriers.

"The core."

X said.

"What?"

Aelita asked.

"I can feel it, thats the core of Lyoko."

The others gasped a bit.

"Ok then its down with the Creepers."

They all started to climb up the staircase type platforms as Mantas started to fire at them.

"Ill handle these two."

Yumi said as she stopped running.

She jumped on one Manta then on then next, she slashed it with her fans before landing on a nearby platform when the first Manta rapidly fired at her.

X ran ahead of the others and stabed a Creeper before throwing it down with his scythe.

While he did this Odd shot one far away Creeper and started boasting.

Then the Manta rapidly fired at him.

Odd was devirtualized.

X saw this.

'Im getting tired of this'

He threw his scythe at the Manta destroying it.

Ulrich ran towards more Creepers as they destroyed the first barrier.

X continued attacking the ones that were higher up.

When they were all cleared he looked down to see two Creepers surrounding Aelita.

X looked around and didnt see Ulrich anywhere.

He quickly pole vaulted over to where Aelita was Just as a Creeper was about to shoot her in the back.

X threw his scythe directly at the Creeper Just as the Creeper fired at him.

The laser hit him straight in the head causing his hood to fall down along.

He started to fall down to the bottom of the room.

Aelita turned and saw him with his hood down as he fell.

The last Creeper began to charge a laser.

Aelita shook out of her daze and charged an energy field.

They both fired and were both hit and Aelita was devirtualized.

But she didnt dissappear forever, she was brought back to earth.

Aelita was now an full fledged Lyoko Warrior.

But while she smiled on the outside on the inside she was very different.

She was confused cause after she saw X's face memories returned to her.

After they all left the factory, Aelita said she had to take care of some buisness and left.

'If these memories are real then they should still be there.'

Aelita thought to herself as she entered the Hermitage.

She went to the basement and flipped a rug to find a small hatch.

'Its here but is it in there?'

She opened the hatch and found a chest that looks exactly like the one in her dreams.

'Its here.'

Aelita took the small chest and ran back to Kadic.

She went in her room and locked the door.

'If this is true then that means.'

She sat on her bed and opened the chest.

There was several photos inside.

(Full Version of Code Lyoko Theme starts playing)

Aelita looked through them and had a few tears in her eyes.

"I -its true then."

A small alarm went off on her computer.

She went over to see what it was.

It was a call.

Aelita answered it and saw X with his hood on.

"Hello Aelita."

He said looking down.

"Hello."

A photo fell off her bed.

"Jayden."

X pulled his hood off to reveal his hair in a similar style to Aelita's some cracks on his face and red eyes.

"We have a lot to talk about."

The photo that fell was picture of a younger Aelita next to a white haired boy with a banner above them saying Happy Birthday Aelita and Jayden.

AN:Over 4000 words, my biggest chapter to date, Holy Crap I am drained, probably not gonna write anything for a bit after this. Any way, i would like to say this properly, this is the end of Program X, the storyline of who X is, is done, but the story is not over,i am planning a sequel but that is not happening for a bit, i have a few projects that need to be finished, anyway for now its time to say farewell to X or should i say Jayden for now. Well until next time, thank you all for the support feel free to comment, who knows maybe ill make the sequel sooner depending on how well this chapter and the others go, until next time,peace out.