Author's Note 1: I do not own any part of Code: Lyoko, the original characters, or anything else. The only things within that I claim as my own are the created characters Aurora & Spire Xion, and Treg Zorl.

Author's Note 2: Italics is a dream sequence.

Author's Note 3: Treg Zorl defies XANA to his own personal risk.

Treg's Choices

"Treg. Awaken." XANA speaks to the sleeping man.

"Damnit. Why so soon?" Treg Zorl asks, and a shock flows through his body.

"I'm up. I'm up. Shit." Treg leans forward and creates a program on the computer, locking it within many thousands of passwords. "Well, now what XANA?" Treg asks the air. In response, one of the Omega Scanners opens and a Block emerges. "You're kidding me." The block ignores Treg and goes to the elevator. Other Blocks emerge and follow. "Damn damn damn damn." Treg slides into the elevator just before it closes. It procedes upward, to the top level. "This cannot be happening." Treg counts thirteen Blocks. "Uber damn." As soon as the elevator opens up onto the floor, he hauls ass up the ropes and into the city, taking the cross-country route to Cadic Junior High.

Treg is out of breath when he reaches Jeremy's room. He'd known where it was because he'd tracked him there from the library where Jeremy and Aurora had found out about XANA's name. "Jeremy! Open this door!" Treg bangs on the door. Jeremy opens it slightly and Treg forces his way inside.

"What the heck?" Jeremy asks.

"Blocks, thirteen of them. Heading here." he gasps for breath.

"It was bad enough with the roaches." Jeremy says and reaches for his cell phone. "Odd, is Ulrich there? And Aurora? Good. Listen, XANA's materialized a bunch of Blocks. One of you call Yumi and I'll meet you all at the Factory." he hangs up. "You're coming with me."

"You know, Spire's going to be a target too." Jeremy turns from his door.

"Who?"

"Aurora's brother." Treg says. "I know more about this than you. And about the three secret passages to the Factory."

"Three? Where's the third?"

"Follow me." Treg leads Jeremy to the cafeteria. "In the freezer." He pulls open the door and motions for Jeremy to enter. "Too bad the thing's probly frozen over, the way the servers keep this place." Treg draws a short dagger from inside his trenchcoat. "Righ there." he hacks into the far wall, revealing a small door, barely big enough for him to crawl through. "Just keep following." Treg crawls deeper into the hole and stands erect.

"There they are." Treg pulls Jeremy from the sewer, pointing towards three blocks at the Factory end of the bridge. "Let's see how they like this." he pulls out three throwing daggers and launches them deep into the Blocks. "Direct hit. Let's go." He runs into the Factory and slides down one of the ropes, followed by Jeremy. They find Yumi, Aurora, Ulrich, and Odd waiting in front of the elevator. "You want to live the day? We need to get to Lyoko." Treg pushes the button when everyone gets inside the elevator. They leave Jeremy at the Control Room and proceed down to the Scanner Room. "Ulrich, Odd, and I will go first. You two will follow." Treg enters one of the cylinders and the door closes.

"Who the hell does he think he is?" Aurora asks Yumi.

"Be careful guys." Yumi says to Odd and Ulrich. Odd waves as the door closes. Within three minutes, the doors open again and Yumi & Aurora enter.

"This will be the end of this crap." Treg says once Aurora and Yumi enter the Shadow Region. "Eternal Flare!" He points his hand into the air and shouts. Immediately the Shadow Region is lit up, revealing five nearby towers(all activated), a circle of black stones around the plateau, and white stones from each tower to the others. "In admition of the deepest desire, the eternal life of darkness ends. In admition of the deepest desire, the pentagram will fall. Darkness nevermore, Guardians fall, Harpies burn, Cannons rust. End the life of Shadows, and activate the Treg Protocol!" Treg stands in the center of the pentagram as he speaks the words. "You must leave now and deactivate the four towers in each Region. This I have descided to take care of myself." The five dissapear at Treg's command, all appearing in the Desert Region.

Treg floats in an empty void. "You have betrayed me. Why?" a voice asks.

"You know full well why, you bastard." Treg says. An electrical shock runs through his body.

"You have one more chance." the voice sounds angry.

"Bite me, you damn machine!" Treg screams loudly as constant shocks run through his body.

"Why do you not resist?" the voice asks.

"Because I have accepted my fate." the electrical shocks run through Treg's body, stopping only once his screams subside into a death-like silence.

Jeremy looks up from his computer. "What happened?" he asks himself. He remembered sending Aurora, Treg, and the others to Lyoko. He remembered the spell Treg had used and the deactivation of the Towers in the Forest, Arctic, Desert, and Mountain Regions. He had a deep feeling in his gut that something had gone terribly wrong. Jeremy reaches for his cell phone and a message pops up on his screen. "'Do not worry about me.'" Jeremy reads aloud. "'As promised, the Omega Scanners are in your posession. They should be able to cure Aelita of the virus XANA put in her. We will meet again, but I will not know. I preffer it this way, in case XANA tries to get me to set-up the Omega Scanners for him. Signed, Treg the Redeemed.' What happened to him?" Jeremy asks himself.

"Good morning class. Today there's a new student. He's transferred in from Canada." Mrs Hertz says to the class theat same day. The new kid walks in, wearing ninja-like black clothes with boots on his feet. "Welcome Treg Zorl." At the name Jeremy's head snaps up. He looks over to Odd, Ulrich, and Aurora. They recognized the name too. Aurora writes a note and has Jeremy, Odd, and Ulrich all read it. 'Is that the same Treg?' it read. For all they knew, it could be a differant person entirely, or it could be the one thet Betrayed XANA.