Everyone is living out their lives at Kadic, without XANA. One day at lunch, Jeremie brings up the topic about XANA. "Hey guys, you may think this is crazy, but I think I saw XANA's eye on my computer screen, but it was very faint." Said Jeremie.
"C'mon Jeremie! Your just too used to that happening." Said Ulrich.
"I don't know, XANA may still be around." Said Yumi. "You remember last time we thought we took XANA down, and it turned out that he took control over Xanadu."
"He's not around anymore, I destroyed him myself." Said Aelita.
"Okay, Ulrich's right, I'm just used to it." Said Jeremie. "Hey, where's Odd, by the way?"
"I don't know, let's check my room." Said Ulrich. The group goes up to Ulrich and Odd's room, and they see Odd laying on his bed, with a huge smile on his face.
"Oh no, not this again!" Said Jeremie.
"GOTCHA!" Yelled Odd as he sat up. "You see, all of this was just to help you forget XANA."
"Okay, since it's saturday, I'm heading to my room." Said Jeremie as he walked out the door, bummed out.
"I think he really saw XANA's eye on his computer." Said Ulrich. Jeremie walked back to his room, and once he walked in, his laptop was beeping. He opened it, and gasped in amazement.
"XANA!" Screamed Jeremie.
"What was that Jeremie?" Asked Aelita as she walked in.
"Look at this screen!" Said Jeremie as he turned his laptop.
"I don't see anything Jeremie…" Said Aelita.
"What? It's not there anymore! I swear I saw XANA's eye on my screen! I've never lied to you before, Aelita, so why would I lie now?" Said Jeremie. Aelita moaned in pain as she held her hands up to her head. "What's wrong, Aelita?"
"Jeremie, we need everyone to meet at the super computer's core." Said Aelita.
"Okay, but why?"
"XANA's back, and I know how to stop him!"
"Okay." Said Jeremie as he ran over to Ulrich and Odd's room, while Aelita called Yumi. "Ulrich, Odd, we need to go to the factory, XANA's back, Aelita can feel it!" Said Jeremie as he barged into the room.
"Okay, we're coming." Said Odd. The group meets up with Yumi at the factory. They go down the elevator, to the computer's core.
"Turn it on." Said Aelita. Jeremie turned it on. "Now, let's go to the lab, fast!" The group goes up to the lab. "Now Jeremie, were going to build another virtual world. One in which XANA can't access. This is where we will fight XANA." After about one and a half hours of typing and explaining, the world is done. "Okay, if XANA attacks, we can fight him off here."
"But, how do we defeat him again?" Asked Yumi.
"We need to find the computer he's in, and destroy it." Said Aelita. "You see, that day I destroyed XANA, or at least thought I did, I really didn't. He simply moved out of the computer, into another. That staff of his had none of his power, it only held the shutdown password."
"Great, more virtual fighting." Said Odd.
"I thought you said that was what you liked best, Odd." Said Yumi.
"I mostly meant the cutting class part." Said Odd.
"So it's back to the fray for us." Said Ulrich as he put his back against the wall and slid down it. No one was enthusiastic about XANA's return, but it was their life long responsibility to take control of XANA.
Chapter 19: The Search is On.
Knowing that XANA was still around was only half of the battle. The other is finding him. "He would probably be in the form of a program, so we should warn everyone to be on guard." Said Aelita.
"Yeah, an evil artificial intelligence is trying to take over the world, and may be in any computer. Like they'll believe that." Said Jeremie.
"We have no other choice, Jeremie!" Yelled Yumi.
"Alright, but how will we do it?" Asked Jeremie.
"Monday's the prom, the day the Teddygozilla attacked, we can tell everyone then. Well, after Sissi wins of course." Said Ulrich.
"Okay, Monday it is. As for the rest of the day, they're holding game tournaments in the gym, and I'm in chess. Last time, I made it to the finals, but lost, but now I know what my opponent will do." Said Jeremie.
"Kinda cheating, don't you think?" Asked Aelita.
"Not if he HAD to relive this day." Said Odd. The group goes back to the school. Just before they enter the gym, Aelita says something.
"I have to go do something. I'll be back." Said Aelita as she ran into the woods. "Maybe my father had some notes in the Hermitage about XANA ever doing this." Aelita thought to herself. Aelita enters the Hermitage, and immediately starts searching for anything about XANA leaving the computer to another. She eventually comes across a locked drawer on a desk. "The key has got to be somewhere around here." Aelita thought to herself. Aelita walked into the living room, toward the piano, sat down, and started playing. "It's… like math…" She said as she got up, walked over to the couch and sat on it. "Where could it be?" Aelita thought for a while. "I've got it!" Aelita goes back over to the piano bench, opens it, and finds nothing but papers. "I don't got it…" Said Aelita as she picked up the stack of papers. She brought them over to the coffee table and started looking through them. She comes across an envelope with her name on it. Inside was a card, with a riddle written on it.
•Mr. Puck hiding in a hollow tree held a locker key,
but the next one won't be a cup of tea.
It's where you would never look for it,
for it's where your mother used to sit and knit.•
"My mom didn't knit. Wait, where did she always go to tie things? Her bed!" Said Aelita as she ran toward her parent's room. She walked over to the bed, and searched all throughout it for the key. A minute later, she finds it with another note on it.
•Aren't these fun? I scattered these all around!
Here is where the key is found.
good luck finding what it opens, for it's not a door.
This key opens a desk drawer.•
"Finally, I found it! Now to unlock the drawer!" Said Aelita as she ran to the drawer, but once she got there, the entire desk was gone! Another note was found next to where it was.
•This was just here wasn't it?
It has been moved, but just a little bit.
A trap door is cause of this,
but the opening switch is amiss.•
"If my father's dead, he couldn't have moved the desk…" Said Aelita. Aelita was very scared. She reached for her cellphone, but it was gone! Replaced by a note!
•Ah ah ah, don't call your friends.
If you do, our little game would end.
weird how I took your cellphone,
but that goes to show, your not alone.•
That message scared Aelita so much that she started to cry in fear. She quickly ran for the front door, but another note was found.
•I have locked all the doors,
from the outside nonetheless!
Same with the windows,
I thought it would be best.•
Aelita started to cry even more. She fell down and curled into the fetal position, fearing for her life. Another note fell in front of her.
•Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you.
I just want to have a little fun.
I bet your wondering where this note came from,
the answer comes from the sun.•
From the sun? What did that mean? Aelita looked around the room, and saw the shadow of someone standing on the ceiling, but when she looked up, she saw nothing. What this was wasn't normal, this was something that is totally out of the normal. Something is there casting a shadow.
Chapter 20: Trapped Inside Someone's Eyes.
Knowing that something was there, made Aelita faint. An hour later, she wakes up, noticing the shadow of the same being that cast it before, this time, it was leaning over her. She stood up and the being moved out of her way. She noticed a note where she was lying before.
•I didn't mean to make you faint,
I just get lonely.
These don't have to rhyme either,
I just like making them like that.•
Aelita walked into the living room and sat down on the couch. She watched as the shadow of the being walked over and sat down next to her. "Can… Can I speak to you?" Asked Aelita. Another card was on the floor.
•Yes, but I can only answer through cards,
Any other way is simply to hard.
It's no matter of time,
just, you have to read my mind.•
"Can you let me out of here, and can I have my cell back?" Asked Aelita. Another note was on the arm of the couch behind her.
•I'm afraid not,
Our game isn't over yet.
For years, I have fought,
you probably want to tell your friends, I bet.•
"When is the game over?" Asked Aelita. On the coffee table was another note.
•When you find the table,
and unlock the drawer.
In it, useful information is findable,
If I remember, your looking for the trapdoor.•
"Okay." Said Aelita as she walked back to where the desk was. She looked around the room, and found a switch. Aelita pulled it. It caused a hole to open, revealing the top of the desk. A note was on top.
•Now how did I fit this in there?
With this complicated puzzle, I doubt it's fair.
Another entrance leads to the front,
be careful though, it's narrow.•
Aelita walked to the basement. She found a very narrow passageway, that she never knew was there. She entered, and found a lighted open space, not much bigger than the passageway. In the open area was the desk. She walked over to it and opened it. Inside was a mirror. It was too dark to see anything in it, so Aelita went back into the living room. She looked into the mirror, and gasped in amazement. "it's… you…" Said Aelita.
"Yes, and through this mirror, I can talk to you." The voice of the being was only in Aelita's mind.
"Can I have my phone back?" Asked Aelita.
"You already have it back, check your pocket." The voice said. Aelita looked in her pocket, and it was there! Without hesitation, Aelita called Jeremie.
"Hello?" Answered Jeremie.
"Jeremie, I'm at the Hermitage, come here now!" Said Aelita.
"Okay, coming." Said Jeremie as he hung up the phone. Jeremie told Odd, Yumi, and Ulrich about where Aelita is. Shortly after, the rest of the group arrives at the Hermitage. "The door… It's locked by a board." Said Jeremie. Everyone was worried when they saw the board. The group removes the board and enters the Hermitage.
"Guys, over here!" Yelled Aelita from across the house. The group goes over to Aelita. "Look into the mirror!"
"But, that's…" Said Jeremie.
Chapter 21: Family of Aelita
Everyone stared at the mirror. Could it really be the person in the mirror is here? Everyone thought it was a trick, but Aelita saw the truth. "But… I saw you dead… How could you be here mother?" Said Aelita.
"Before I virtualized myself into Xanadu, I had your father copy my entire personality into the Hermitage." Said the voice, that turned out to be Aelita's mother.
"He could do that?" Asked Jeremie.
"Hey, didn't you say you can only talk through cards?" Asked Aelita.
"I was getting to that, the mirror is a power source. It happens to be a computer as well. A monitor, to be exact." Said Aelita's mother.
"So, do you have any extra information on XANA?" Asked Aelita.
"Yes, he's in the same computer I am. You see, everything in the Hermitage is virtual, ever since XANA moved in."
"He's in here? We have to destroy this place!" Said Odd.
"No Odd, we have to materialize my mother first." Said Aelita. "It won't be hard because Jeremie has the key to materialization."
"Yeah, well… about that… there's no place for her to be materialized into." Said Jeremie.
"So let's get started on making a place!" Said Odd. "It can't be that hard, all we need to do is copy the design of the scanners in the factory and hook it up to the house's computer." Everyone was in awe at what Odd said.
"Odd… where did that come from?" Asked Ulrich.
"I don't know, I just thought for a second." Replied Odd.
"…Okay then, great idea Odd." Said Jeremie.
"Or we can take one of the scanners over here." Said Odd.
"We can't, too big and heavy." Said Yumi. "You swung, hit, made it to third, but out before home."
"You know, there is a way to bring you father back, Aelita." Said Aelita's mother. "All we have to do is get his DNA code from the super computer."
"One problem, we can't access it ever since I made another Lyoko." Said Jeremie. "We have to get it through the new Lyoko."
"Then let's go!" Said Odd. The group goes over to the factory, via the door behind the Hermitage. They get to the lab, and they see someone standing there.
"'Bout time you guys got here." Said the person standing there.
Chapter 22: A New Hero.
Someone was standing there, and no one knew who it was. "Who are you, and what are you doing here?" Asked Ulrich.
"I should be asking you the same question." Said The person.
"We're here to save the world, probably a better reason than yours!" Said Odd.
"Save the world, huh? That sounds cool, maybe I can help you." Said The person.
"First, tell us who you are." Said Yumi.
"Call me Wolfdra." Said the person.
"Wolfdra, huh? That's a cool name." Said Odd, staring at Wolfdra.
"Why are you staring?" Asked Wolfdra.
"Who's staring? I was… looking at something behind you, it looked like a spider." Said Odd.
"Can we just get to the saving, please?" Said Wolfdra.
"Okay, let's go, first, I need a DNA sample." Said Jeremie.
"Okay, but make it quick." Said Wolfdra. Jeremie takes a needle and pokes her finger with it. Jeremie then takes her hand and sticks it in a little hole in the computer. "DNA registered." Said the computer.
"Okay, your in." Said Jeremie.
The group and the newly added member go down to the scanner room. "Okay, Yumi, Aelita, and Ulrich first." Said Jeremie. Yumi, Aelita, and Ulrich step into the scanners and get virtualized. "Okay Odd, you and Wolfdra next." Odd and Wolfdra enter the scanners, and get virtualized.
"Jeremie, the new Lyoko looks like sector five." Said Yumi.
"Figures, I modeled it after the sector's structure." Said Jeremie.
"……Woah…" Said Odd, staring at Wolfdra again.
"Why do you keep staring at me?" Asked Wolfdra.
"I'm not staring at you, I thought I saw a monster behined you. It's bacuse of all the fighting I used to do. I was the best!" Said Odd.
"No you weren't, and you aren't now, I am!" Said Ulrich.
"Enough of that, get the DNA." Said Jeremie. The group throughout Lyoko, and come across aa tower.
"Jeremie, is there supposed to be a tower here?" Asked Aelita.
"Well, you said entering the code was your favorite part, so I put this in there." Said Jeremie. "Through it, you can access everything."
"Thank you, Jeremie!" Said Aelita as she dove into the tower. Aelita goes up to the top, and retrives the DNA codes. "Got 'em, I'm sending them to you now, Jeremie."
"Got it, I'm bringing you guys back now." Said Jeremie as he materialized everyone. "Let's get back to the Hermitage, I'm taking the cooridor, we won't waste any time that way." The group takes the elevator, while Jeremie takes the cooridor. They arrive at the Hermitage at the exact same time. Inside, they find a scanner.
"How did that get there?" Asked Ulrich.
"I built it while you guys were gone." Said the voice of Aelita's mother.
"Cool, let's not waste time." Said Jeremie. "Uh, where's the terminal?"