As Michel made his way back home he couldn't help but think about what new strength this disk would give him, when he was a block away from his place he could hear it; Sabrina was practicing on her Viola. He'd signed her up for lessons a few summers back, she had protested at first…but after a few months she could play a few songs without screwing up.

He opened the door and went up to his room; there he logged on to his computer and put in the disk. "Now let's see…what do I want to do first?" he muttered to himself then continued, "Color change should be the first step…" he was on there until late at night, then he saved and removed the disk saying, "There, I'm finished…can't wait until tomorrow."

The next morning Roderick contacted the group telling them that there next lesson was ready and to come to the factory as soon as they could, Roderick started up the Gateway and went through so he'd be there before them.

When they got there Roderick greeted them and said, "Today is going to be a simple endurance course, nothing I don't think you three can't handle," a holographic map appeared in front of them and he continued, "The first part will be a simple run up an incline of 17 degrees, followed by a small drop of 10 feet. This will follow to a set of moving targets, destroy them and the second leg of the course will begin. Now this part will test your agility, there are a bunch of rock formations which you'll have to jump and slide under, which will lead you to the second set of moving targets…what makes this second set different than the first is that they'll shoot back at you, destroy them and the last part will open up." Roderick pointed to the last part and said, "Now this part will truly test you, it'll start with the same jumping and sliding maneuvers…but then you'll have to climb up a cliff wall, sounds simple…right? Well then try climbing it with a 30 lbs. Weight on you. This will lead to the final set of targets, now these are the mother of all your past targets because not only will they shoot—."

At this point Odd started to zone out thinking, "Geez this guy likes to hear himself talk, I wish he'd just let us get on with the lesson." Then he snapped back to reality and heard Roderick say, "And that's it…everybody got it down now?" Ulrick and Yumi nodded, Odd nodded nervously. Roderick then said, "Okay Yumi, you'll go first…followed by Ulrick, and Odd will go last…Yumi, feel free to go whenever you're ready." Yumi stretched a bit then took off running, Roderick then made a sphere of gold light appear and rested it on his staff. For the next ten minutes Roderick would emit only a series of grumbles or growls from his mouth, but then he said: "Good Work Yumi, you only winged one of the targets on the second leg of the course…but that's okay, and don't feel that your telekinesis has limitations. Because that's what Devian leads you to believe, but as long as you're willing to go the distance…that should be it."

He then looked at Ulrick and said, "You're up." Ulrick took off full speed, and Roderick again made the grumbles and the growls, then he said, "Very Nice Ulrick, excellent use of Triangulate on the last part, also good use of your knee back there. All of you should know that your form here is a living weapon, it all matters on how you use it."

He then looked at Odd and said, "Okay…your turn." Odd took off up the incline, from the drop he could see the targets. He fired at a few Laser Arrows from a distance, just to get rid of them. He then jumped down and did a few strafing runs to get rid of what was left. The next part of the course was a little challenging, but not too difficult. He saw the next set of targets and ran towards them, as soon as he did that they started firing at him. Odd managed to destroy three of them before one hit him in the leg; Odd quickly back-flipped and fired two shots and destroyed the last couple.

The wall climb turned out to be a bit more difficult, "Roderick said this was a 30 lbs. Weight…but it feels like 70." Odd thought to himself, but he made it to the top anyway. The rock formations at the top involved more sliding under than jumping over. But when he saw the last set of targets he set out a game plan to just shoot them then join the others, he charged and fired at the target nearest to him, but instead of it hitting it, the target evaded the laser arrow and continued to fire. Odd had to spend most of his time dodging the blasts; he was seriously on the defensive end of things.

The targets finally fired three shots at Odd simultaneously and he was down, "END PROGRAM." Roderick called out. The targets suddenly stopped, and Odd saw Roderick standing over him, by the look of it Roderick was not too happy. "I didn't know the targets would do that?" Odd moaned out, Roderick helped him up and said, "That's because you weren't listening to me, if you had been you'd have known that the last set of targets evade your attacks…if those targets had been Devian, well then I wouldn't have felt sorry for you. So next time would you listen when I'm talking."

When they all left the factory Jeremy put his hand of Odd's shoulder and said, "Don't worry Odd, those targets were difficult…Roderick's just trying to help, don't let what he said get to you." Odd looked back at Jeremy and replied, "Yeah, but he was right…I didn't listen when I should of, if you ask me…I got what was coming to me."

MEANWHILE AT LEGION HEADQUARTERS:

Devian made his way to the control room with the disk, all the modifications he had made were complete: "Now all I have to do is lay the bait and those whelps and that fool Wizard will follow." Devian then laid in the algorithm for a new tower and placed it in the Polar Region. Slipping the disk into the A-Drive and with a devious smirk on his face he whispered, "Come out and play kids…I'll be waiting for you."

RODERICK'S ROOM:

Hellsing was the first one to detect LEGION's new tower, he alerted Roderick and Roderick went to Lyoko. There he met up with Ulrick, Yumi, and Aelita. Roderick asked where Odd was, Yumi told him that Odd had gone with them to the factory…but didn't come with them to the scanners, "You don't think I was too hard on him, do you guys?" They said no, but deep down Roderick knew what the answer was.

When they got to the tower it was deserted, no sign of Warlock or Dark Angel or anybody…just them and the tower, Roderick looked around and said to them, "Some things not right here, it's too easy…Devian knows we could destroy the tower and that would be that, it's almost like he lead us here."

"That my little friends is correct," A voice called out, they all then saw a floating, see-through head of Devian appeared. "Hmmm…not all of you are present. That's not a problem, I'll get the other one later…you'll be perfect for my test run."

"Test run of what?" Roderick asked, Devian laughed and said, "A test against a new program I created, well I shouldn't exactly say it's a new program seeing that you've met it before. Well in the words of Al Pacino: 'Say Hello to my Little Friend." Suddenly the group watched as a black 'Crab' appeared in front of them. Well it is easy to say that they were horrified, "I figured seeing a remake of one of Xana's manifestations would have this affect on you, it was just common knowledge."

"But how could you know about Xana?" Ulrick asked.

Devian just then let out a bunch of wild laughter, "Know about it, Ha! I named it!"

At that point Yumi, Ulrick, and Aelita just stood there shocked by what Devian had just said; "Does that mean you—?" Ulrick started to ask, but Devian cut him off and said, "Yes, I created Xana…well actually Xana was an accident, but these days…it seems to have become more of a use to me, and with my copying system I make as many copies as I see fit…now let's see, I think two should suffice." Just then another appeared. But both of them just stood there, no attempt in attacking what so ever.

"I don't understand, why aren't they attacking us?" Ulrick asked, Roderick then replied, "Because they're just here to protect the tower, they won't attack unless we try to get past them." Devian nodded in response to Roderick's response and said, "You're right again, they won't attack unless I command them to."

Roderick and the group went into a huddle, he said: "Okay here's the plan, aim for the legs. With any hope that'll bring them down, then we get back to destroying the tower…Aelita, until we're done you find somewhere safe to hide."

Aelita hid out of site behind an ice formation, Wizard drew out his staff and said, "Ready guys." They both nodded. Roderick darted for the one on the left and attacked one of the front legs; it fell to the ground struggling to stand up. Ulrick and Yumi took off the front legs of the one on the right; it collapsed all the same. "Well that was pretty simple, now to get to the—." Just then Roderick and the others saw the 'crabs' legs regenerate. Devian hissed with laughter and shouted, "YOU FOOLS! Did you really think I'd overlook such a weakness, that's a laugh!"

Just then the 'crabs' fired at Yumi and Ulrick, both of them disappeared. Back at the factory they both exited the scanners just about to collapse, Roderick then tuned into the factory's frequency and said, "Uh, Jeremy…I'd hate to say this but I need some backup here, I mean so far it's a stand off…but I don't think I can protect Aelita all by myself!"

Jeremy looked at Odd, Odd then backed away a bit and said, "Oh no, don't even think about it…he's tough I'm sure he'll be fine." Just then Roderick said, "Odd listen to me, I didn't mean to be that hard on you…but you guys said that you wanted to be ready for Devian and that's what I was trying to do, I was only throwing my highest expectations on you three because when he defeated you three…I saw something spark in you guys, and trust me Odd…I have more faith in you guys than I have in myself…now would you please hurry up and help me, I think my arms are starting to get tired!" With that Odd rushed into the elevator hoping he would be in time to help Roderick.

Meanwhile Roderick was hiding with Aelita, Roderick then looked up at the floating head of Devian, "Come on Devian…is this all you have in your arsenal, is a couple of ellipses with toothpicks for legs?!" Devian just snorted and replied, "You want more of a challenge? Well then let me show you the second half of my new artillery."

Just then a beige 'sphere-tank' (I have to call it that because I don't know it's true name out right) appeared behind them, Roderick point his staff at it and is soon as in opened up he fired off an energy blast and destroyed it. Roderick then looked at Aelita and said, "I'm going to eliminate one of those things, you stay here and wait for Odd."

Roderick stepped out of the protection of the ice and called out, "Quantum Dagger!" and sent a dagger shaped light at the 'crab' on the right, it hit the symbol (Devian's symbol) on the top of it and was destroyed. The other one fired at Roderick and that was that.

"Aelita…come on out Aelita, I'm not going to harm you," said Devian in a sweet/caring tone of voice, when she didn't appear, Devian commanded the 'crab' via his computer to go up to the ice formation and with one of its legs poke at the other side, "COME OUT, You weak little pup!" He then commanded the 'crab' to stop and back away, "Okay then, if that's how you want to play…then I'll just wait, I'm very patient." Devian finished and then everything went silent.

Odd then saw the tower and saw the 'crab'. "Okay Jeremy…I see the tower and the bad guy protecting it, anything else I should know?" Odd asked.

Jeremy replied, "Yeah, Aelita's cornered behind that ice formation it's facing and Roderick's gone, but not before he destroyed one of those things."

Odd ran as fast as he could, but he made it. "Ah, now the other one has arrived…better late than never." Devian said in taunting laughter. Odd peaked over the edge and looked at it, he then remembered Roderick saying not to be set by limitations. He then picked up a handful of snow from the ground and made a snowball out of it, "Aelita…I need you to take this, I've got a plan. I'm going to start running at that thing, as soon as I do I want you to throw the snowball at it, try and aim for its eyes. If Devian's controlling it like I think he is, he'll be unable to see and unable to perceive a clear shot at us. Then I'll fire off one of my Laser Arrows' to finish it off." Aelita nodded, she knew that luck would have to be on their side for the plan to work out, but she was willing to take a chance.

Odd set himself up in a runner stance and then started to run, at that moment Aelita rolled out from the safety of the ice formation and threw the snowball at the 'crab', and…as if some miracle had touched that snowball. It had hit its target perfectly. The floating head of Devian disappeared shortly after that, but they could still hear him saying: "Why you little CHEATER! Ah damn it, I can't see a damn thing! Come on, where are you? Just because I can't see doesn't mean I'm down and out!"

Odd jumped on top of the thing, fired a Laser Arrow (all the while it was shooting blind), and jumped off. Devian's fading words were: "OH HELLS BELLS! I'll be back, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME!"

When that was over Jeremy said, "Don't worry about the tower, I just scanned it and it appears to have been deactivated. I don't think we'll need to destroy it, but Roderick contacted me and he said that Hellsing will keep an eye on it."

LATER THAT DAY…IN THE COURTYARD:

"And then Devian told us that he created Xana." Ulrick told Jeremy, Odd saw Roderick and waved him to come over. Jeremy was still mystified by all that he had been told, "So if Devian created Xana…by accident, then what about Aelita. You suppose—?" Jeremy asked, Ulrick shrugged and replied, "He didn't even mention her name, but if all the stuff in the lab, all that equipment down there was his at one time…it's a possibility."

Roderick then said, "And speaking of abilities, Odd…that was some excellent use of ability, using that snowball to blind it. I see you learned and used my teachings quite well, you used a part of your body as a weapon and didn't let the possible hold you back, I'm very proud of what you accomplished."

"Wait, we made it through that obstacle course…and you're proud of Odd just because he blinded that thing with a snowball?" Yumi asked, looking slightly ticked off.

"Odd remembered what I said earlier today and combined them to find a hidden meaning, you forget that your mind is connected to your virtual form, and for there is a weapon you can use…and he also realized that he was surrounded by ice and snow, so he—."Roderick said, but was cut off near the end by Odd who finished the sentence for him, "went beyond my limitations."

Roderick looked at them and said, "But that aside, I'm proud of all of you…our next lesson will be on Tuesday, I'm going to expect you to be there and while you're there I'll expect you to listen." Odd realized what Roderick had just said and replied, "Don't worry, I'll listen to you until I'm bored out of my skull."

MEANWHILE…AT LEGION HEADQUARTERS:

Devian looked at the hard floppy in his hand, sure the test had been a complete Armageddon…but first time failures, even for geniuses, did happen. He just had to program them to be more strategic in battle, which wouldn't be too difficult for him to do.

But there was something that still stuck in his memory, the CODE: EARTH program…he decided he would reacquaint himself with it tomorrow. After all if what it had been designed to do was true, then it might still hold another use to him as well.