"Memories"

Part 4 – "Fourth & Fifth Memories"

By Dr. Thinker

It was a rain day. It was 1986. I was six year old. I was running like the wind is after me. The factory was quiet different from 2005's version. It had guards moving about. I run by the stairs and down to the elevator—and I enter the control room. Franz was lying down on the floor.


I asked, "What's up?"

A guard stated, "It your dad, Anna. Franz got shock from the computer."

I asked, "How did this happen?"


The guard replied, "We discover X.A.N.A. turned on a tower that had a red glow all over."


I asked, "It a tower supposes to glow?"

The guard replied, "Yes, but only blue, green, pink and white. Blue means stand-by mode—and that means you had to either turn to ONE or ZERO. Green is the lowest active tower—usually my normal people like me, but X.A.N.A. can take it over as easy as if it was a blue one. Pink is set to your DNA—and middle active tower—X.A.N.A. would have a harder time taking over that tower—but it's not impossible for him at all. White is set to your dad—and X.A.N.A. can't take it over at all. Red means X.A.N.A. has affected something. I had some of my follow guards on Lyoko to deal with the mess. It turns out that we can't do anything about this—but Athena has a plan to get you inside. Just go down the scanner room."

I returned the elevator—and wanted down to the scanner room. Soon, I was in Lyoko—for the first time. In front of me was a women dress in a sliver shirt and skirt covering every sector of her body—the only exception was her face.


Athena stated, "Holy chips! If I didn't know better-I could say that you are an artificial intelligence. Anyway, Anna, here's my problem. I can't turn off the tower at all, but Picktors and Huns are keeping the virus-effected bots from X.A.N.A. near the tower. The tower location isn't far—but I think X.A.N.A. is trying to start a World War III. Usually I scan in Franz when I need some to turn off the tower—but I need your help to do the job, today."

I run. Picktors were huge pink drills that were drilling into some metal tanks, while Huns, human shape warriors are battling against a red-eyed skeleton and a few blocks. I saw the skeleton turned me. "Oh, no, you don't!"

Athena remarked, "Now that's a new low-picking on a kid—even for you, X.A.N.A!"

The skeleton remarked, "She has Franz's DNA! That's why!"

Athena remarked, "I going to enjoy this battle!"

The skeleton remarked, "That means you must not get deleted by me, my henchman, or the void."


Athena unleashed a sword—it was about a twice as long as Ulrich's sword—X.A.N.A took out a black mace that was about the same length as Athena's sword. I ran to the tower, and tried to logo in.

I touched the screen: ANNA LITA HOPPER

I waited—and discovered—and discovered that nothing happen.

I yelled, "Impossible!"

The guard replied, "I think I know the reason. Your name is too long. Try shorting it."

Nervously, I touched the screen and discovered that I made a mistake, "Aelita"—but then I saw a new screen—and calmly input the familiar code for the first time:

CODE: LYOKO.

I stated, "Tower shut-down successfully."

I heard Franz voiced, "Good work, Anna and Athena."

Anna replied, "How do I get out?"


Franz replied, "Since I hadn't hook up X.A.N.A. to the time reboot program.—I think I use that. I command time to return to the past, now!"

-A-

It awakens in my room at Kadic School. I got dressed in my outfit—a new one. It was a red shirt and red jeans—given to me by Liz, the newest member of the "factory kids" as Odd puts it. Liz was named Elizabeth as birth—used Sissy for a nickname for most of life—it recently, she discovered that I was the kid that she almost run over on a skateboard.

I enjoyed the group at the vending machines. They were busy talking about wondering about X.A.N.A's spy program.

Odd joked, "It doesn't take a genius to know that you got another memory."

I asked, "What was your first clue?"

Odd replied, "You are smiling."

Jeremy asked, "What was it about?"

I replied, "The reason for Aelita's name. I was a mistake—but I got me the screen I need to shut down the tower."

Ulrich stated, "So Anna Lita Hopper and Aelita are the one and the same."

I replied, "That's logical."

Liz and Yumi showed up. Liz carried a school file.

Odd joked, "I wonder is that your file, Liz."

Liz joked back, "I rather take out your files, Odd." She paused—took a look around—and then stated, "Serious, this is file is all about Ana Dina Xadu. Dina is her middle name."

Liz handled Ana's file to Jeremy as he reads it. According the staff, Anna is a decent student. She is usually always in class—and usually answers as well as Jeremy does, but she's totally give new member to "a lost cause" in computer and science class. Anna helps out with the school newscasters—Taiyna and Millie—making sure they had something to report. Anna has a nasty habit of something call "payback"—if you annoyed her too much with something that sounds so moronic-you may find yourself on the final page of the school newspaper. I zoned out—but I didn't fall asleep.

I come out of the zone, when Odd joked, "The question is what page is do we want to put X.A.N.A. on—front page or back page?"

Jeremy replied, "The back page, since it would be considered stupid by the readers. That means something is going play nice with the youngest persons on the school. Sis—er, Liz, do you know anything new going on at school?"

Liz replied, "I do. The newspaper staff had been bugging me for an interview on everything—thought I may end pay for my role in Odd's movie."

Jeremy replied, "We trick Ana."

-A-

The plan worked perfectly. Liz kept the pint-size newscasters busy with her interview. Using an e-mail, we lured Ana to the far away from newsroom. Odd joked questions each one containing one of the code words: "Do you like WISHES?", "Are you a GODDESS?", and "Is it just me or do you have RED EYE like a certain cartoon character?"

The result wasn't what we expected, she start to laughed, and transformed—not into one of the X.A.N.A's monster, but a human girl dressed as a warrior holding a sword.

I stated, "She wasn't a spy program, she was a HUN!"

Ana replied, "Right on the noise, Aelita. Athena is still in Lyoko, but with Picktors and Huns stuck on City Island—so far away from main Lyoko. It would take me years to get back to Athena. Before the last shut-down, Athena materialized me into your world, so in case of X.A.N.A. getting back online—I was get a group of teens to try to stop him. I think my fictional human name, Ana Diana Xadu, was found out by the Mantas, which allowed X.A.N.A to fake your information. My real name is Donna."

William walked in—or should I say--rolled in—William was in a different form. He was an orange drill-like form.

I stated, "He's a PICKTOR!"

William stated, "Right again, Aelita. My job was to make sure X.A.N.A never comes near Donna. So tried to make sure I was in the thick of things. Sorry about the zombie problem, but I had to make sure no expected I was a Lyoko machine—I was afraid that if allowed you to go Lyoko—I might have discovered to be a Lyoko machine."

Ulrich stated, "No problem, you paid us back big time when X.A.N.A. materialized those three crabs."

Donna stated, "By the way, all Picktors and Huns can talk like humans—but they is some bad news for you. The three codes you stated did something to us--they removed and erased our fake identities as humans. It was to be used only once X.A.N.A. has been defeated—the only one that can restore these codes is Athena—but we don't know the correct code to hook up City Island."

I replied, "I think we got conned by X.A.N.A."

Jeremy replied, "Oh, man! That computer is a genius!"

-A-

Since we weren't too far from the opening to the sewer, we showed Donna and William the way. While we traveling to the factory, Liz called Odd, she was finished with the interview—and wanted to know how successfully we were in defeating X.A.N.A's spy program. Odd told her—that if she wanted to know what's going on—to she got to get to the factory. As soon as we got to the factory, Franz and Liz were waiting for us.

Jeremy stated "We believe X.A.N.A. faked the information orb."

Franz replied, "He did. I should have run it though my truth program before we used the codes. I don't believe it, a Hun and a Picktor—but I should have known Athena would do something like this. Some time Athena thinks like a human, and other times like a computer."

I replied, "That's almost like similar to the first time Jeremy spoke when I meet him—though back then I thought I was virtual intelligence."

Franz stated, "Of course, you been stuck in the machine for 13 years."

Donna replied, "I think I idea—but we need to get items from Lyoko."

Franz stated, "That's means, you going back for keeps."

William remarked, "Yes, but Donna needs to install something on X.A.N.A."

Jeremy replied, "What?"

William remarked, "Some codes we founded—but we hadn't found the active code for it yet. It will take most of the afternoon up—if we had the code."

I replied, "Let me guess. We can get City Island reconnected to Lyoko."

Donna replied, "Lucky guess, Aelita."

-A-

Of course, with only waiting to do while Donna did the inputting the code, I fell asleep again. This time, I was a seven year old girl. This time around, I was putting away a pen and paper role-playing game book titled, "Caverns and Castle" on the self. I also saw "Caverns and Castle: Player Profile."

Franz walked in, "So, still playing the game with your friends, Anna

I replied, "Yes."


Franz stated, "I see that you hadn't put away your profile yet."


I replied, "I was going to up-date it with a drawing of my character."

Franz stated, "Do you mind if I read it?"

I replied, "No program. It's not very important—unlike the code to put X.A.N.A. in stay-be mode."

Franz read the profile, "Name: Aelita. Age: 12. Hair: Pink. Eye: Blue. Weight: 95 pounds. Base Height: 5 feet even. Race: Elf. Job: Music Magician. Favorite Weapon: Staff. History: One day, Aelita walked into a mysterious time portal that took to her present day, Kazenton. One day, a group of monster tried to destroy the town, but when Aelita did her ancient music master, the monsters were destroyed instead. The town mayor, Julius heard about an ancient princess who was a music magician. A music magician uses his music to destroy evil monsters. Julius gave her a staff, and let her leave town to learn more music magic."

I stated, "You sound a little shocked when you stated Julius's name for the first time."


Franz remarked, "I thought you know the three important computer codes for X.A.N.A."


I asked, "Is Julius is a code word?"

Franz replied, "Yes. JULIUS will reconnect City Island if it gets disconnected from Lyoko for any reason."

-A-

I yelled "Donna! I know the code!"

William remarked, "Talk about good timing, Aelita. Donna's finish with her programming—all we need now is that code."

I stated, "The code is JULIUS!"

Franz typed as he remarked, "JULIUS! He was my favorite out of all the Roman leaders!"

Jeremy stared as the map of Lyoko shake like it was undergoing an earthquake. Odd joked that he was afraid that Lyoko was going to explode like Krypton. Soon a large land mass completely covered Sector 5, and then one by one the other sectors reconnected to the City Island in the following order: mountain, ice, forest, and dessert. Soon, Jeremy got a message. On the computer, Athena showed.

Athena smiled as she stated, "Franz and Anna, long time, no see. Donna and William, I know X.A.N.A will trick you into revealing you identities to the new warriors: Ulrich, Odd, Yumi and Jeremy."

Jeremy asked, "How many Huns and Picktors do you have?"

Athena replied, "It's about 2,000 for both of them—and that's includes Donna and William-by the way."

Yumi stated, "That's a lot."

Athena replied, "Not a lot—but it's decent enough number—you should have know I had 1 million of each before X.A.N.A. got that virus screwed himself up."

Ulrich had been quiet for the most of the day, but he did stated something very important,

"I wonder if X.A.N.A. is going to take this little shake-up lying down."

-TBC-

AUTHOR NOTES:

Well, "Caverns and Castles" is similar to "Dungeons and Dragons". If it profile sounds similar to Aelita's Lyoko form, they is a reason for it."

I promised that X.A.N.A. will show up after this chapter. He's not going to take the "shake-up" lying down.

Write you soon,

Dr. Thinker