Author's Note: So this chapter is kinda short but I have another one almost already done to make up for it. Hopefully this idea is unique enough for you guys to allow me to keep this going! Enjoy.

Chapter 2: The meeting

Transitions

'Thoughts'

'Memories'

In the deep arcs of Lyoko 10 years after the supercomputer was shut down...

"What is going on…? Where the heck am I?"

"You are safe for now."

"Who… No… What are you?"

"It's normal to have that reaction. After all, it's been ten years."

"Okay..."

"This will be quite tough to explain… How can I say this? I am giving you something back to you that you have lost."

"Something… That I have lost?"

"Correct. But it will take some time to regain the things you have lost. You need time. And unfortunately, I don't have enough to give you everything you have lost."

"What are you-"

"We are out of time! Go! XANA may grow stronger because of you but I am out of options!"

"Wait! What about what I have lost? What did I lose?"

"You will find out soon… Forgive me, Michael..."

Lyoko sometime later...

As the forest sector was fairly quiet Michael was lying flat on his face. As he came to he only noticed a little void coming out of the ground below him and quickly disappearing. He began to stand up and wonder somethings.

"Okay… What the heck just happened? A light! A light began to talk. And then told me that I had lost something. But what exactly have I lost? And what is this XANA?" Michael speaking to no one in particular.

'He is a multi-agent computer program I created.'

'Agh! What was that?' Michael felt a little tick in his head. 'Probably nothing. Just a headache.'

"Okay next. Where am I? Okay, it looks like a forest. Lots of trees. And over there is… Wait what is that?" Michael looked to his left to see a glowing blue tower in the distance.

"And that's a huge tower. Okay. Now am I armed?" Michael looked at himself to see a single Katana blade. There were silver accents around them with two dragons flying towards the tip. He quickly unsheathed it and began taking a few swings with it. It almost seemed natural to him.

'That's strange… I don't remember when a sword was so natural to me.' Michael thought to himself. 'Okay let's go to the tower then.'

As Michael began to make his way to the tower he started to hear something and paused. Unsheathing the blade and quickly taking a stance. 'What was that? I just feel uneasy all of a sudden. It's as if my instincts are screaming that there is something dangerous!'

All of a sudden two lasers come towards Michael and he deflected them both away from him.

"What are those things?" Michael quickly noticed that there were three strange creatures that were very tiny and had a weird symbol on their faces.

'Daddy there are some very strange creatures over there.'

'AGh!' Michael quickly dropped to one knee. What was that? A memory? I have seen these things before?' Michael thought as he began to run away from the creatures. The creatures, however, continued their pursuit and continued firing at Michael. 'Dang! There is no end to these lasers!'

'Michael! Deflect the lasers towards them!'

'AGH! Again! Alright here goes nothing!' Michael saw two lasers coming towards him and slashed his katana towards the laser reflecting it back. The little creatures were blown to smithereens.

"Okay!" Michael now gaining some confidence began to charge at the small creatures. As they fired lasers Michael continued to dodge or deflect the lasers.

'I need to take them all out at once! But... I don't know anything that could do that! I am just going to have to gamble!'

He closed the distance and brought his Katana across the three creatures and sheathing his blade. There was a brief moment of silence before you officially heard the sword back in sheathed. CLICK! And with that, the three creatures exploded.

"That's really weird. It was all natural… Well, that takes care of that. Now…" Michael looked back towards the blue tower. "Let's take a look shall we?"

Michael ran towards the blue tower he noticed a few things. One the speed he ran out was incredible! The tower that seemed a few kilometers away was reached within a few minutes. Another thing that he noticed was that everything around him seemed natural and his body would react in certain ways that his brain couldn't.

'It was like that one time. I was running and then all of a sudden my instincts screamed at me that danger was coming. I need to figure some things out.'

When Michael was at the front entrance of the tower, he wasn't really sure what to do. He tried putting his hand through it and it slipped easily through. So he walked straight in. Once inside the tower, Michael felt his energy recovering a little.

'So these towers act as a way to recover energy. Then for these next few days, I am going to have to train a little. I was barely able to do anything last time against those creatures.'

A few days had passed and Michael had spent a lot of time swinging his Katana and also meditating. He found that meditating would keep him calm in certain situations and also allow him to sense anything that had come his way. He also saw that it sharpened his instincts allowing him to sense danger much better. He was currently running back towards the tower when the ground shook beneath him. 'What was that just now?' He stopped and began to look around him for any clues. 'It's coming from this way!' Michael began to run in the general direction of the pluses.

Over with Aelita and the gang

"This way," Aelita said as she saw the pulsations growing stronger. Odd and Aelita began their run but not before getting cut off by Kankrelats (Okay I know it's Roachsters but I am just going to use this name. Because nobody liked the name Roachsters, not even the Roachsters.) "Kankrelats usually travel by groups of five." Aelita looked around as she saw their path being quickly cut off.

"Wow, the committee looks like it's at full strength." Odd began to take aim with his arrows waiting for the Kankrelats to fire.

As the Kankrelats began to fire Odd began to dodge and flip out of the way of the lasers. Unfortunately the same couldn't be said for Aelita as she could only just watch and get hit by a few lasers as some of the Kankrelats were taken out of commission. But that soon ended when Odd took a laser straight to the chest.

"Hey Odd, your mission is to protect Aelita remember?" Jeremie worrying for both of them.

"Well do YOU want to switch places, Jeremie?" Odd sounding slightly annoyed.

BEEP! BEEP!

"What's going on now?" Jeremie wondered as the supercomputer rarely beeped unless there was an activated tower. He was seriously typing away on the computer to trying to figure out the problem. He thought perhaps a bug in the supercomputer. That wasn't the case as he saw that a silver dot was moving on his screen. 'What exactly is that?' Jeremie thought.

Back to Michael's viewpoint same time

"What's going on now?" A distant voice said.

"Huh?" Michael stopped in his tracks and looked around. 'There is nobody there. Must be my imagination.' Michael continued with the pluses until he was again treated to a much louder voice.

"ODD! Bad news! We got another squad of Kankrelats and what's worse is that there is this weird silver dot on the screen! I don't what it is but it's heading right for you! Yumi is on her way to help!" The voice now much closer than before.

"Okay, now I know for a fact that isn't my imagination just now. And that's what they are called? Seriously?" Michael very curious but didn't worry for now. He continued down the road to where he saw a purple figure and a pink-haired figure fighting against three Kankrelats. The pink figure was taking cover as the purple haired figure was firing some kind of projectile at the Kankrelats. Unfortunately, they didn't see the three Kankrelats to the right and the two Kankrelats to their left. They were surrounded and Michael knew it. They only had one escape route. One that would lead them to their doom.

'Okay. I can assume for right now those aren't hostiles. I know for a fact these "Kankrelats" are the enemy. It's strategy time.' A visual of the battlefield came into his head. The forest and the Kankrelats came into his vision in his head.'It's two on eight. From what I just saw purple can take care of at least two. Pink doesn't seem like she can do anything. That leaves me with six. I am not sure how I could handle it. But if I eliminate the three from the right that would leave three. Giving Pink and Purple two options. And hopefully, those "Kankrelats" can focus on me.'

Michael now with his plan quickly moved behind the three creatures on Aelita's and Odd's right side and made a battle cry of his own.

"Take this!" Michael hammered his sword across the three Kankrelats destroying them instantly. But then he realized that three Kankrelats were destroyed by the purple figure and the pink figure was no longer there.

"Hey, you? That's right you." The purple figure said to Michael now closer than before. The purple figure now pointing his projectile device at Michael. He didn't notice that another two Kankrelats were behind him so Michael decided to do what was best. He threw his sword like a javelin missing the purple figure destroying one of the Kankrelats in the back.

"Okay, then you aren't XANA's creations then." The purple figure stated as he blasted the remaining creature.

"XANA huh? The program?" Michael wondered out loud.

"I am Odd. What's your name?" Odd threw Michael's sword back to him.

"Michael. I can assume that you aren't a bad guy." Michael held his sword out.

"I would have shot you by now."

"True that." Michael sheathed his sword.

"Jeremie? You got all of that?"

"..." Jeremie wasn't quite sure what to make of it. The silver dot he originally thought was a trick or a new creature by XANA. While he would love to tell Odd to destroy Michael, he couldn't. Odd would be irrational and argue and Aelita was all alone. So he decided to let XANA play him for now.

"As much as I would like to argue the situation at the factory is getting much worse! Yumi is on her way and Aelita is all alone!" Jeremie urged the two of them.

"Okay, no time for games. Michael, we need to guide that pink girl you saw earlier to a tower. You think you can do that?" Odd asked.

"Sure I think I can do that." As the two were about to run off they heard a charge of a Kankrelat right behind them.

'Shoot! I miscounted! Odd only destroyed two! But I got nothing but my fists! Make it!' Michael said with an extended fist. All of a sudden his fist had changed color to green and the wind caused both Odd and Michael to be pushed back. The Kankrelat was pushed back and rammed into a tree.

"Whoa! What was that?" Odd slowly staggering as he began to stand back up.

"I am not exactly sure… But I think my fists have some kind of power flowing through them." Michael standing back up as well.

Jeremie, however, was surprised that XANA let his own creation get killed like that. But he quickly recovered as XANA was a smart AI. He couldn't be wrapped around his finger like that."Well, you can get on about it later! Right now Aelita needs you! Yumi is close to you and will need all the support you can get!"

"Hey, Odd!" Yumi cried out as she ran towards him. "Who is the new guy?"

"No time for that right now! You need to get to Aelita fast! It looks like she could use the help! And I don't want to stress you out but things are getting pretty heavy here!" Jeremy exclaimed. He didn't want Yumi to start arguing with him as well.

As the three were running Michael gave the brief explanation and Yumi while not convinced seemed to accept the circumstances.

With the tower in sight, Aelita took a few stops before stopping in her tracks.

"Jeremie…"

"I know. Help is on the way. Give me a quick visual." As the screen appeared there was one mega tank guarding the entrance to the tower.

The three warriors were closing in on Aelita's position as four hornets were stopping them in their path.

"You two go on ahead. I have the least amount of life points and almost no ammo left." Odd said. The other two not disagreeing went ahead without him. They closed their position and saw Aelita and the Megatank. As Aelita began to make a run for the tower a blast fired directly towards her and Yumi body tackled the Mega tank over the cliff to divert the blast.

"Yumi!" Jeremie cried out as she was beginning to fall into the digital void. As Yumi began to fall Michael caught her hand before she fell over.

"That was a close one!" Michael pulled Yumi up before seeing Aelita heading towards the tower. As she made her way in Yumi regained her bearings.

"Thank you really saved me. I am-" Yumi wasn't able to finish her statement as the four hornets from before shot Michael all in the back. Michael froze up and mouth was slightly agape. He looked shocked as he dematerialized away.

"No!" Yumi cried out. "Yah!" Yumi threw her fans and destroyed the four hornets.

Jeremie looked at his screen in shock that the silver dot had disappeared. He could have sworn that Michael had just been de-virtualized.

'Why would XANA take himself out?'

He was quickly taken out of his thoughts has Aelita entered Code Lyoko and return to the past had taken effect.