Code Lyoko Overdrive

by Supreme Kai of Writing

After six months of normal life the warriors discover that Xana is back. With the help of two kids who know about Xana and Aelita, the warriors are back in action. Will Xana stay dead this time? How did he come back to life? And does it have something to do with the new warriors? Find out. (Now being rewritten)

6. Cortex

Chapter 6: Cortex

A/N Guess who's back bitches! Merry Christmas, this story is back! Here is a longer chapter then usual to make up for taking so long. Oh btw I do not own Code Lyoko. I only wish I did.

The warriors are using their vehicles to get through the desert sector. "The tower is straight ahead!" Shane shouted. It had two tall towers made of stone on each side of it. It was guarded by three Tarantulas and a Skorpion. "Looks like the Arachnid convention is in town." Odd said. "Sapphire, Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd will take the Tarantuals. Aelita and William will try and get into the tower. I can deal with the Skorpion." Shane said. The warriors all spread out, taking their jobs. Shane jumped off the Overdragon, and landed in front of the Skorpion, sword ready. "Hey there ugly." He said. The Skorpion atempted stabbing Shane, only to have its tail blocked by Shane's shield. The other four who were fighting the Tarantuals were doing good. Two were already destroyed, and Odd was taking the last one solo. Then, Odd decided to try and be a badass. He flew fast, passing the Tarantula. But right after he did that, he jumped off backwards, and killed the Tarantula, Max Payne style. But, his Overboard crashed into one of the tall towers, making it fall. This was also the time that William and Aelita decided to run for it. Everyone but Shane and Odd were crushed. Odd than ran into the tower. Shane, pissed at Odd's risky move, shot a fireball point blank into the Skorpion's head, destroying it. Odd then went up into the tower.

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"Return to the Past now!" Jeremie shouted.

Factory Floor

"DAMNIT ODD!" Shane yelled. "What did I do?" Odd asked. "THIS IS THE THIRD TIME IN A ROW THAT YOU HAVE ALMOST MADE US LOSE A MISSION!" Shane said, about to kill Odd. "What? How did I do that?" Odd aksed. Everyone looked at him with a 'Seriously?' kind of face.

Flashback

Forest Sector

Odd is devirtualized by a hornet , after celebrating killing a Skorpion on his own. His Overboard crashes into a Megatank, which almost runs Aelita over, but Shane jumps in the way, and pushes her out of the way. Shane is instantly devirtualized, making Aelita the last warrior left. She barley escapes the last Megatank, and makes it into the tower.

Flashback #2

Mountain Sector

Odd jumps off his Overboard to land on a Krab. His Overboard manages to crash into Ulrich, Aelita, and William. Odd is than stabbed by a Skorpion. Yumi barely makes it into the tower, being the last one left.

Present

"Ok, I might have screwed up a little the past few missions." Odd said. "I'm aware of that, but a few is all Xana needs to take over the entire world." Shane said, calming down. He then started walking back to the school, with Sapphire close behind him. "He has a point Odd. You have been a bit reckless." William said. "Oh, I'm reckless? Says the guy who got xanaifed on his first day in Lyoko." Odd spat back. He then started walking back to the school.

Streets of Sceaux

Shane and Sapphire decided to take the long way back to Kadic. "Haven't seen you get that mad at someone since the last time you fought Mark before he got xanafied." Sapphire said. "I know. I also know that if I wasn't your brother you would be turned on by how angry I got." Shane replied. "SHUT UP!" Sapphire shouted before punching her brother in the arm. "Come on sis, I didn't enjoy Serenity telling me about all of your weird kinks anymore then you did. But that's not gonna stop me from using them against you." Shane replied, rubbing his arm. Both of them grinned and laughed.

Factory

Aelita and Jeremie were typing away furiously at keyboards. Jeremie was using the supercomputer, while Aelita was assisting him from her pink laptop. Then, on their computers they both got green plus signs. "YES!" Aelita shouted. "Now we can take the fight to Xana." Jeremie said.

The next day...

Sunday 11:00 AM, Rec Room

"Really?" Odd asked, excited at the news. "You guys repaired the Skid?" Yumi asked in shock. "Yep, and now we can go find Xana and see where he is hiding." Aelita said. "Then let's go. I'd like to take care of Xana before he can get too many codes." Ulrich said. "Alright, then let's go." Jeremie said. "You guys go ahead. Me and Sapphire have something to do." Shane said. "Are you guys sure? The skid is really cool." Odd said. "Yes Odd, we're good." Sapphire replied. "Ok, see you guys later." Ulrich said.

Factory

"Transfer Odd. Transfer Aelita. Transfer William. Scanner. Virtualization." The three warriors landed in Carthage's arena. "Virtualization." Then Ulrich and Yumi both landed. "Alright, let's get to the Skid." William said. The five warriors then went to the Skid garage. They stood on the five platforms and were transfered into the Skid. Aelita drove the skid out of Carthage, and dove into the sea. "Wow, this place looks the same." Odd said. "Why would it be different?" Ulrich asked. "Well I though Xana might have made it harder for us navigate." Odd replied. "Odd, this is the internet remember? Xana couldn't change this, he could just change the replikas he is hiding in." Jeremy said. "Ya know, from this perspective it looks like a city." William said. "You mean an upside down city, right William?" Odd asked. "No, a normal city. I'm upside down, remember Odd?" William asked. "Oh, right." Odd said. "Alright guys, I've locked in on a replika. Aelita, I'm sending you the coordinates." Jeremie said. "Ok Jeremie." Aelita replied. She set the skid in the direction of the new replika. "I hope it's a mountain replika." Odd said. "Why?" William asked. "Because, it was the only sector that we hadn't found a replika of before we destroyed Xana." Odd replied. Then they saw it. It had spikes coming out of the shell. "This is weird. Xana showed me a bunch of his replikas while I was under his control, and not one of them had a different shell then the others." William said. "Well, maybe he changed them. Let's just go in." Ulrich said. "Ok, I'm through the firewall. You can enter it now." Jeremie said. Aelita drove the Skid into the replika. When they came out of the sea, they were all stunned. It was a sector they had never seen before. It had the texture of Carthage, but was green. It was a circular platform which was the same size as the other sectors. They landed on the edge of it, and all the warriors were materialized out of the Skid. "Yo William, you ever seen any sector like this?" Ulrich asked. "No, Xana never had a sector like this." William replied. "Wait a minute, didn't the twins talk about a supercomputer their dad made that held another world like Lyoko?" Odd asked. "You're right Odd. I think they called it the Cortex." Yumi replied. "Why didn't it get wiped out by my multi agent program?" Jeremie asked. "Maybe it has better defenses than any of Xana's replikas." Aelita suggested. "Well, you guys better explore it. I'm loading your vehicles now." Jeremie said. The Overboard, wing, bike, and cycle all appeared. The warriors got on their respective rides, and Aelita activated her wings. "The core of this 'Cortex' is straight ahead." Jeremie said. All of the warriors took off.

Sector 5 Interface

"The Hell is this?" Xana asked. He found that his sister and four of her bodyguards had found a virtual world made with a supercomputer. Only problem was he didn't have the strength to take over a supercomputer yet. "Who the hell made this?" Xana shouted out loud. The two Creepers from last time were sitting behind Xana, and looked at each other. One shook his head not to answer. The other agreed. "Sapphire and Shane aren't there so I might be able to take care of them. I'll send Superior and a squad of monsters to find answers." The AI said. "You two!" Xana shouted at the Creepers. They both flinched. "Go with Superior and find out what is going on." He then said. Both Creepers calmed down, nodded their heads, and crawled away, relived. Xana then called his proxy.

Cortex

The warriors were going through the sector, slightly disturbed by the lack of defenses. "Why isn't there anything to guard this place?" Ulrich asked, with every one of his virtual muscles tense. "Maybe the Cortex didn't have a crazy AI like Lyoko did." William suggested. Then a siren sounded. "The hell was that?" Odd asked. Then the sector started to shift. Aelita saw walls rise out of the ground to the warrior's left, and shift towards them at high speeds. "FLY UP!" She shouted. Everyone flew up, but Odd's overboard got nicked, devirtualizing the Overboard. He ran across the tall walls, with them now falling behind him. There was a gap and he jumped over, only for the walls to separate, making him fall. Then the ground shifted into a spear, impaling Odd, causing him to be devirtualized. "Talk about being impaled with extreme prejudice. Guess Shane's dad didn't like cats." William cracked. "Really? Is now really the time to make jokes?" Aelita asked. "Shane isn't here to try and devirtualize me for joking, so I'm going to quip all I want." William replied. Then Jeremie spoke up. "Guys, we've got a problem." "What is it Einstein?" Ulrich asked, ready for the sector to change again. "This place is kind of like sector 5. It has a timer that starts whenever anyone who isn't authorized is in the sector. After three minutes, the siren will sound and the sector will keep changing until someone has been devirtualized. Then the timer resets. It will keep doing this until you guys get to the center arena where the core is. The other problem we have is that I don't have the materalization codes for this sector, so Odd is trapped in limbo until we can get them." The prodigy replied. "Then we better move. How long until the timer hits zero again?" William asked. "Two minute and fifteen seconds." Jeremie replied. "Let's go." Yumi said before taking off. They all put as much speed as they could into their forms of transportation. They were three fourths of the way to the core when Jeremie shouted with alarm. "The timer hit zero!" "Shit." Ulrich said, looking back to see if the sector was changing. Then they heard the siren. The walls around them opened up to reveal cannons. They shot lasers at the warriors, causing them to dodge and try and block the lasers. Ulrich pulled out one of his swords, Yumi pulled out a tessen fan, William summoned his sword, and Aelita summoned an energy field. They blocked the lasers while trying to stay steady on their vehicles. Then the Overbike got his, causing Ulrich to fall. The fall cost him ten life points. Ulrich got up just in time to be shot up with the lasers, devirtualizing him. The cannons went back into the wall and the timer started over.

Cortex Edge

On the other side of the Cortex the warriors had landed on, Superior came out of the digital sea in the Rorkal. "I don't see why I have to use the same ship that the compensating warrior uses." Superior said into his wrist communicator. "Because I don't need my energy wasted on creating a new one!" Xana shouted at his Proxy from Sector Five. "Yes Lord Xana. So where do you want me to go?" The Proxy asked. "To the center. Once you arrive, I will open a portal to let your monster squad through. Also, I suggest you make it to the center in the next two minutes." Xana said. "Why?" Superior asked. "Because this sector shifts to devirtualize anyone who isn't authorized." Xana replied casually. "Great, just what I needed." Superior said before using his powers to run full speed to the center.

Cortex Midsection

The last three warriors were close to the center when Jeremie announced the bad news. "Guys, the timer hit zero again." "Just fucking great." William said. Then a green pulse was let out of the sector, it caused the vehicles to lose control, and deactivated Aelita's wings. Each of the warriors crashed into the ground, destroying the Overcycle and Overwing, and causing the warriors to take ten life points of damage each. "That hurt." William said. "What did you think falling from there would do? Give us life points?" Yumi asked. "Guys, no time for arguing, look behind you." Jeremie said. They all turned to see walls rise from the ground, and then slam together. All three of them booked it in the other direction. The walls were catching up with them, and would soon get them. "Girls, go ahead, I've got an idea." William said. "What, are you crazy?" Yumi asked. "Probably." William said. He then summoned his Zweihander. He turned, put the blade flat out in front of him, and closed his eyes. He opened them after hearing metal hit metal, and wasn't devirtualized. He saw that his blade stopped the walls, but was already cracking. "Hurry up William, your blade is already at half durability. It will break in a few minutes and the walls will continue." Jeremie told William. "Got it Einstein. Super Smoke!" The heavy hitter said. He caught up with the girls seconds after his sword had broke. They had reached the center. In front of them was a large, black sphere held to the Cortex only by a single path that led to the sphere's entrance. "If I had to guess, I'd say that's where we will find the materialization codes." William said. "That's a fair guess, but you won't be able to test that theory." They heard a familiar voice say. They looked up to see Superior on a black Manta in the sky. "Oh great, your here." William said. "Yes I am, and now you're all going to be devirtualized." Superior said. Then a portal opened on the ground below him. Out came ten Creepers, three Krabs, two Tarantulas, and five Kankrelats, four Hornets, and a Skorpion. "Hey Jeremie, any chance you could get me my Zweihander anytime soon?" William asked. "I've only managed to reload sixty percent of it. You're going to have to not get devirtualized until then." Jeremie replied. "Fuck." William said.

Kadic Courtyard

Shane and Sapphire were both on their laptops, searching for something. "Shane, I found it." Sapphire said her voice full of excitement. "Finally. Good job sis." Shane said, putting his laptop's screen down. "Oh shit." Sapphire said. "What?" Shane asked. "Xana has a bunch of signatures on it, and there are unidentified entities fighting them. I think the others found the Cortex." Sapphire said. "We need to get to the Factory now." Shane said. The twins ran as fast as they could to the Factory.

Cortex

The three warriors were trying their hardest to deal with the monsters. William was super smoking away, which distracted the Kankrelats and Hornets. Yumi was dealing with the Skorpion and Krabs, while Aelita dealt with the Creepers and Tarantuals. Yumi back flipped over a laser from the Skorpion, and threw both her fans. One of them cut a Krab's Xana eye, destroying it. The other one was shot out of the air by the Skorpion. "Jeremie, I lost one of my fans, mind loading another one for me?" Yumi asked. "I'll set it up to start after William's Zweihander is done." Jeremie replied. "Speaking of my Zweihander, how long till it's done?" William asked as he dodged a laser from a Hornet. "It's at 97%, just a minute left." Jeremie replied. "Why is it taking so long?" William asked, just as he punted a Kankrelat into the hole around the center of the Cortex, resulting in a pillar of light coming out of the digital sea. "Ten points!" William shouted. Then he was shot in the shoulder by a Hornet. "Look out William, you are down to seventy life points." Jeremie said. "Stop celebrating William. Save it for when we actually win." Aelita said before nailing a Creeper with an energy field, resulting in it blowing up. "William, your Zweihander is ready." Jeremie then said. "About damn time." William replied. We then summoned his sword, and slashed through the remaining Kankrelats in one swing. "Now to deal with the flyers." William said. He then turned around and was shot in the face by one of the Hornets. "William your down to thirty life points!" Jeremie shouted. "Stupid sons of bitches." William said in anger. He then slashed at the Hornets. This caused his blade to glow white and let loose a white energy wave. It sliced through all of the Hornets, destroying them. "Oh hell yes!" William shouted. He then threw another energy wave at one of the Tarantulas that was trying to his Aelita, cutting it half and destroying it. The other one turned around and shot at William. He ran at Xana's monster while blocking the lasers. He jumped up and started falling towards it. Right before it unleashed another volley of lasers, he shouted "Super Smoke!" and dodged around the lasers. He appeared behind the Tarantula, and decapitated it. Both its headless body and its mid-flight head blew up. "I am the man!" William shouted.

The Factory

Shane and Sapphire has arrived and the elevator just made it to the computer room. "Good, you guys are here. Everything has gone as bad as it could." Jeremie said. "I can't believe you guys found the Cortex before we did." Shane said. "Is now really the time Shane?" Sapphire asked. "Fine. Jeremie give me a sitrep." Shane replied. "What?" Jeremie asked. "It's short for situation report. Just tell us how things are going." Sapphire said. "The sector devirtualized Odd and Ulrich, and William, Yumi, and Aelita are fighting Superior, who was used as a marker to open a portal for Xana's monsters to get in through. I also don't have the materialization codes, so Ulrich and Odd stay stuck in limbo until I get them." Jeremie replied. "So basically everything has gone to hell in a handbasket?" Shane asked. "To put it simply, yes." Jeremie replied. "Alright, virtualize us." Shane said before him and his sister went towards the elevator.

Cortex

"Good news guys, Shane and Sapphire are on their way." Jeremie said. "That's good and all, but I don't think we need them." William said before cleaving a Creeper in half. That was the sixth Creeper that had been destroyed. William was dealing with all the Creepers while Aelita and Yumi worked together against the single remaining Krab and the Skorpion. "Speak for yourself, we are dealing with one of the hardest to kill of Xana's monsters over here!" Yumi shouted over at William. "Alright Yumi, your other fan is back." Jeremie said. "Why did her weapon return so fast?" William asked, having just decapitated another Creeper. "Because her fan is a lot smaller then your Zweihander." Jeremie replied. "Whatever." William replied as he shoved his blade through the eight Creeper. He then looked over at the last two Creepers. The two of them looked at each other. "Do we really have to do this?" One asked the other in Creeper speak. "Yes. Sadly yes." The other one replied. Then they both shot at William. He blocked the lasers and started walking towards the Creeper. He kept blocking their blasts. "Useless the both of you!" Superior shouted at the two Creepers that couldn't hit William. He then shot two red data streams at the Creepers. They writhed in pain and collapsed as the data went into them. Then they both got up. Their skin tones turned to a dull greyish-white. They got even more skinny, clearly defining their rib cages, and making their stomach areas almost go to their spines. Their Xana eyes turned red and their arms became black. Instead of one claw on the ends of their hands, it was now four. Their tails became much longer, becoming three times longer than of the rest of the Creeper's bodies. The Creeper's smiled to reveal they now had razor sharp teeth. "Now that's just cheating." William said. Then the Creepers slithered at William, just by moving their huge tails. They were moving much faster than any other Creeper had. "Oh crap. Super Smoke!" William shouted. The Creepers were slithering at the same speed as William, and were trying to shoot him in his smoke form. "This isn't working." One Creeper said to the other. "No shit. I got this." The other one replied. The Creeper then turned his hand red, and reached into the smoke. He yanked William out. "What, how the fuck?!" William asked. Both of the Creepers then shot him, devirtualizing him. Both of the Creepers laughed. "Flame Blade!" "Lightning Slash!" Two people shouted. The Creepers looked up. The one on the left was his with an X that was half fire and half blue lightning. The Creeper blew up a second later. The twins landed on a platform above the other Creeper. "Well this sure as hell ain't normal." Sapphire said. "Nothing we do is sis. But, we deal nonetheless." Shane replied. The other Creeper charged at them, just to get bisected by a fast moving Shane. Then the twins looked over at the other two girls, barely dodging the Skorpion and Krab. "You take the seafood, I got eight legs." Shane said. "But it only has four." Sapphire replied. "It is a scorpion. It is an arachnid. It has eight legs." Shane replied. "Maybe real scorpions, but Xana's Skorpions have four." Sapphire said smugly "Fine! Let's just do this." Shane replied. The twins charged at the remaining monsters. Superior, having seen the twins arrive, retreated through a portal. The Skorpion and Krab saw the twins running up, and opened fire. Shane blocked the attacks with his shield, and Sapphire was blocking with her scythe. Sapphire got under the Krab and kicked its left front leg in the joint, making the Krab's leg buckle. Then she stabbed her scythe through the Krab's bottom, making the blade come out of the Xana eye, destroying it. Shane was in a fight with the Skorpion's tail. He was blocking and parrying with his sword and shield. Then the Skorpion smacked his shield hard, throwing him off balance. The Skorpion then shot him in the face. "Shane, you just lost half your life points!" Jeremie shouted. "I'm aware Einstein." Shane replied. He then did something surprising. He threw his shield at the Skorpion. It his the monster in the face, disorienting it. He then rushed it, and stabbed it in the face, destroying it. "It looks like two legs beats eight." Shane said. "Four!" Sapphire shouted. Shane just groaned. "You guys showed up at a good time." Yumi said while running up to the twins. "Let's get the materialization codes for Ulrich, Odd, and William." Aelita said. They walked up to the core's center. "Jeremie, it's closed, what do we do?" Yumi asked. Shane and Sapphire both put their hands on the closed entrance. The entrance split into eight sections that all retracted. "I don't know what you are talking about Yumi, I see a gaping hole." Shane said. "Ha, ha, Shane." Yumi said sarcastically. Then the four warriors walked into the core.

Factory

'That's strange. There are a bunch of neutral signatures all around the core room. It's like they aren't even there. Must be a glitch.' Jeremie said.

Cortex Core

The core room was a series of black circular platforms layered above each other. On each platform's edge was a green hexagon. The Core was a hand sized pink orb. On the top platform was a green glass console. Shane led the group to the hexagon. A screen appeared in front of him and he tapped on it three times. The warriors were transported to the top platform. Shane then walked over to the console, and put his hand on it. The console projects a hologram in front of them, showing a picture of Franz Hopper, Anthea Hopper, and two other men on the sides of them. The one on the left was bald, had green eyes and a brown beard. "Who are those two?" Yumi asked. "The one on the left is my dad. The other one is Professor Tyron, someone who got kicked off of Project Carthage and Project Cortex." Shane replied. "There was another project?" Aelita asked. "Yes it was built as a plan B if Project Carthage failed. As you know Project Carthage was going to be used to disrupt enemy communications. But it would have disrupted everything. Planes would have crashed, drones and nukes would be open to hacking. France could have ruled the world with this. Project Cortex would have sent out an undetectable signal that would have set off any nukes not attuned to a certain code that only France had. It was a much more dangerous plan B. The Cortex was also a plan B in case Xana failed to stop the Projects. The Cortex used to hold an AI that would have set off all of France's nukes to stop the rest of the world form falling into fallout."Sapphire replied. "Tyron wanted Cortex to be plan A. My dad and Waldo were project leads, and kicked him off because he was trying to against them. They then quit the project later. They thought that it was a defensive measure. It was actually going to be used by France to rule the world. The president had been corrupted. Xana and the Cortex's AI were created to stop that." Shane said. He then started going through the data. "Here you go Jeremie, I got the materialization codes." Shane said. "So France really was evil at one point." Aelita said. "People can get drunk on power." Sapphire replied. "Well, the guys are all in the scanner room, so we can go." Jeremie said. "No, I want to check the data here." Shane said. "Ok. Well we can wait. Our main problem was the sector changing and the monsters. We've got time." Jeremie said. What the warriors didn't realize was that things were coming out of the ground on other platforms. They were mostly black and humanoid, but had white marks all over their body. They had a green aura, and a white orb inside of their head. They crossed their arms over their chests, and materialized a black bladed sword in each hand.

Factory

Jeremie was busy looking at all the data Shane was gathering. The three who had been devirtualized arrived at the computer room. Ulrich saw that there were ten beings converging on the warriors. "Yumi look out!" Ulrich shouted while taking the headset from Jeremie.

Cortex Core

Yumi turned around just in time to be stabbed in the stomach by one of the beings. She was devirtualized. "Shane, Ninjas!" Sapphire shouted. "Deal with them, I can't fight and search for data at the same time." He replied. Sapphire pulled out her scythe, and Aelita formed two energy fields. The guardian of Lyoko both of them at one Ninja. The Ninja blocked both of them. Sapphire charged at the Ninjas, jumping in the air and bringing her scythe down on the closest Ninja. The Ninja crossed its swords and stopped the scythe inches from its face. It then forced the scythe back and made Sapphire step back. "Aelita, mind flying to another platform to split these guys up?" Sapphire asked. "Got it." Aelita replied. She then flew two platforms down. Half the Ninjas stealthed into the ground and moved towards Aelita. Sapphire then tried hitting the Ninja again. It blocked the same way as before, but Sapphire was ready. She went low and used her legs to swipe the Ninja out from under himself. Sapphire then brought her blade down on the falling Ninja, impaling him and devirtualizing him with a green outline. The other four that were still up with Sapphire surrounded her. "Oh come on, this isn't fair... for you guys." Sapphire said. Lowing in the core, Aelita was dealing with the other five Ninjas. She was keeping her distance, but the Ninjas kept blocking her Energy Fields. 'How am I supposed to do this?' She thought. Then she had an idea. She flew lower, and the Ninjas stealthed lower. Two of them reached the bottom and found no one. They were confused. Then two Energy Fields came from the bottom of the upper platform and hit the Ninjas in the head devirtualizing them. Aelita was on the upper platform's bottom with her wings still on. "Yes!" She shouted. Then two blades came through the platform and impaled Aelita, devirtualizing her. Back in the factory, a scanner opened with her in it. "Celebrated too soon." She said. Sapphire had taken out all but two of the Ninjas she had to deal with. She was blocking and dodging both of them. Then, when a Ninja though it had an opening, it put all its might into a jab, just for Sapphire to dodge, and the Ninja stabbed the other one, devirtualizing it. Sapphire then stabbed the other Ninja in the head, devirtualizing it. "I am awesome. Wonder how Aelita is doing?" Sapphire asked. Just then a Ninja came out of the ground behind Sapphire and slashed its blades, making an X through Sapphire, devirtualizing her. As soon as the scanner opened, she said "That answers that question." The remaining three Ninjas were walking towards Shane, who was too busy going through the data to notice. The lead Ninja raised its swords, only to be slashed through the stomach by a red energy sword. The other two turned to see Superior standing on the platform's hexagon, having thrown his sword. The two Ninjas charged at Xana's proxy, only to break there swords on his forceshield. He then cut the other two down. Superior then raised his sword above his head, and was ready to devirtualize Shane. Then, Superior felt a sword cut into him. "I was already done by the time the Ninjas got up to me. I just thought it was easier to let you take care of them so I could get the drop on you." Shane said. He then pulled his blade up, cutting through Superior and devirtualizing the proxy. "Jeremie, you can manually move the Skid right?" Shane asked. "Yes." The genius replied. "Alright, then materialize me and get the Skid back in the garage." Shane replied.

Factory- Computer Room

"What the heck were those Ninjas?" Odd asked. "New Intelligent Network Jerque Agents or Ninjas were the early type of virtualization. They were hooked into scanner like things called sensors and took control of one of the ten created Ninja avatars. They were made to protect governments digitally." Shane said. "What does jerque mean?" William asked. "To search for smuggled goods. They were to search for viruses or anything else that could harm the digital integrity of wherever they were stationed. Such as us." Sapphire replied. "Whoever has kept the Cortex running doesn't want us there. I found that it is Professor Tyron. If he has control over the Cortex, then he must be trying to get the AI. We have to stop him." Shane said. "Great, as if Xana wasn't enough." Ulrich said. "Don't worry, he is far from getting to the AI. We can deal with him, and the Cortex." Shane said. "Good. Now let's eat I am hungry." Odd said. "You're always hungry you walking stomach." Sapphire said. "Guilty as charged." Odd said. Shane then chopped Odd in the neck, making him fall over. "That's for being reckless in the desert." Shane said. "Noted." Odd said before falling unconscious.

Sector 5

'So Tyron, you have finally been revealed. Time for you to feel how I did when you tried to screw with me..' Xana thought. He then began making preparations for an all out assault on the Cortex.

I love exposition, and this is probably more then we got in the entire first season of Code Lyoko. One again Merry Christmas. R&R. Flames will be used to power up Shane.