Chapter Two - Xana Begins His Revenge
With his new mind, But Xana slowly but surely learned about the world around him. His first span of knowledge came from how he was created. Xana learned how to hack. The first thing that Xana hacked was the machinery in the factory that he was created in. The noise the machinery in the factory made as it powered up had woke the lone guard sitting outside. The guard went into the factory with his flashlight lit, looking for the source of the noise. Unfortunately for him he found it. The next morning the guard was found dead, slaughtered by the machines in the factory. The police and scientists were unable to find out how the machines were spontaneously activated with no fingerprints on the control panel. The case was closed and considered unresolved. After what was assumed to be a technological failure of a massive scale, Project Xanadu was stripped of funding by its supporters and the project was forced to be terminated. The remains of the project were left: one computer, one artificial world and three scanners to transport to it.
In the meantime, Xana had learned how to make his own programs and hack into various computer systems on Earth. His early works were considered only minor, and were seen only as common failures and were easily repaired. Xana was still faced with the dilemma though, what to do with the artificial digital world that he controlled. If someone was to use the scanners and take this world, it would mean his undoing. All that existed was a skeleton of terrain because the project was cut short. The area that did exist seemed to float in midair, and the paths were uncontinuous, sometimes requiring those virtualized to have to jump from path to path. He had renamed the world Lyoko. He then created a program so that he could always have an eye on Lyoko while he was fulfilling his quest of destroying humanity. He created a being of humanoid form such that to remind him of what would be the last remnant of humanity. He named this being Aelita. Although she looked different, Aelita's mind was created in the image of Xana's. So while Xana perfected his skills in hacking and programming, Aelita loyally watched over Lyoko.
After many months, Xana had found a way to boost his power and easily hack into Earth mainframes. He knew that Lyoko was directly connected to the real world and that he could use this to his advantage. With the help of Aelita, Xana constructed various towers of power throughout Lyoko. After the construction of nearly one hundred towers in Lyoko, Xana had enough power to hack easily into computers on Earth.