Chapter 1:

"Aelita!" Jeremy yelled into his computer. "Hurry up! The mantas are on there way, and you only have 40, make that 30 life points left!" Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, and Aelita were in Carthage, receiving more data to defeat XANA, now that he has escaped the supercomputer. "I'm trying my best!" Aelita said. "But there are other conflicting files here!" Aelita was nearly done, when something else caught her eye. Another window popped up on the screen in Carthage. Aelita watched it carefully as it completed its small task. "Aelita, what's going on now?" Jeremy asked. "I don't know!" Aelita said. "Well find out fast, cause im out of ammo!" Odd said. Suddenly, a huge spark occurred on Aelita's Carthage screen. Suddenly, without any warning, Aelita was blown off of the platform as the screen exploded into black digital pieces. "I'm coming Aelita!" Ulrich yelled. He sped up on his Overbike, and headed for the falling Aelita. Out of nowhere, a manta appeared, and blew Ulrich and his bike to virtual bits. Now it was up to Yumi. Never mind, she's gone too. Odd was speeding up, and caught her just before she fell out of the sector. "Odd's Taxi service costs $5 a mile!" Before Aelita could respond, the entire sector went pitch black, except for the data tubes, which turned blood red. A new voice sounded in the background. "HAAAA!" the new voice said. "Aelita, please tell me you said that!" both Odd and Jeremy said in unison. Suddenly, the lights turned back on, to reveal a horrible sight. "What the hell is going on in there!" Jeremy yelled out. In Lyoko, the sphere of Carthage was starting to turn black, with goop appearing all over it. Odd and Aelita turned around, and saw the data files on the outer walls of Carthage started turning red and then deleting themselves. "Odd, get out of there now!" Jeremy said. He then opened up the data tube to the forest region. As Odd and Aelita left the region, they didn't turn back to see the black group de attach itself from the main sphere of Carthage. The goop then went through the open tube as well. Problem was, he didn't appear on the other side. In the factory, a closed scanner started to leak. The black goop was coming out of all three scanners, and made its way into the sewers. "Materialization Odd, Materialization Aelita!" Jeremy said. When everyone was up in the supercomputer room, Jeremy explained why he was frightened. "That wasn't Franz, because he is dead now, and XANA is not part of Lyoko anymore. Until I find out what happened back there, Lyoko is off-limits". "Fair enough" Yumi said.

In the sewers, the black goop started to reform into a figure. A boy, just as tall as Ulrich, with red eyes, and wearing an Asian robe stepped out of the water. He looked down the sewers and said "Its only a matter of time now". He then walked down the sewers, and took out a mechanical grenade. He pushed a red button on it, and hurled it up into the air. It stuck onto the room of the sewers, and exploded with a bang with such a high pitch, no one can hear it, but the walls of the sewers currently felt its effects. The walls crumbled as the newcomer walked away, with an evil look in his eyes. As the sewers caved in, he said "Lyoko will be destroyed, and so will anyone who tries to stop me.