This will be the first chapter not based on an actual episode.
The day after the mysterious person was devirtualized the Lyoko warriors were all meeting in Jeremy's room to discuss what the best course of action would be. "Jeremy can't you bring up the video from when they were devirtualized?" Yumi asked, thinking. "I could try but I will have to actually go to the factory to do so. Don't you guys think it's a bit suspicious that Xana managed to devirtualize someone he created then a new student shows up?" Jeremy asked a worried look on his face. "Yea that's a bit strange. But it could be a coincidence." Aelita stated not wanting to jump to conclusions so soon. "We should keep an eye on Josh then. If we notice anything obvious then we know for sure he's the person Xana sent." Ulrich said. "Sounds like a plan, I will head to the factory after class and look through the camera footage." Jeremy replied, getting up to go to breakfast
In Josh's room he had just woken up from his first night's sleep. He got up and turned on his computer. "Father? Are you there?" He asked. "Yes, I am always here." Xana stated. "Were you seen by any of the cameras on your way out of the factory yesterday?" Xana asked worried that Josh might get discovered. "Yes I think I was. Should I head over to the factory and erase the data?" Josh asked. "Yes, but be careful they are bound to try checking the footage sooner rather than later." Xana replied. "Now hurry, also I have created a bank account for you to purchase anything that you require on your mission. You have to purchase a cellular phone so that I can contact you before attacks to ensure you get to Lyoko before them." Xana added. "Yes Father, I understand." Josh said getting up before beginning on his way to the factory as quickly as he could, trying his best to not be spotted. He walked into the woods and made sure he was not being followed before slipping down into the manhole.
"So Einstein, do you know where this Josh guy is anyways. Hard to keep an eye on if we don't know where he is." Odd said quite rapidly eating his breakfast. "No I don't but he should be in the same classes as us , I would assume. I will also see if I can find anything out about him on the internet." Jeremy replied. "I wonder why he's skipping breakfast on his first day here too." Aelita said, looking a bit nervous. "He could just be getting used to kadic, plus it's not worth getting so worried over him till we know for sure." Yumi said. "Yumi's right. Because if he sees that we are worried or nervous about him being here it might tip him off that we are on to him." Jeremy said, pushing his glasses up a bit.
Josh opened the cover over the manhole on the bridge and climbed out before running towards the factory. He grabbed a hold of one of the ropes and swung down to the floor before entering the elevator and hitting the down button. Once he reached the lab he walked over and sat down before bringing the console online to use. "Father I am here. How should I remove the footage?" Josh asked after putting on the headset. "You should disable the camera system totally then delete the existing footage. For the console you should have access to that." Xana replied annoyed that Josh required help doing such a simple task. "Okay." Josh said typing carefully deactivating the camera system and removing the past footage. "I am finished. Should I return to kadic and make it seem as if I had awoken late?" Josh asked. "Yes. Also you were programmed to operate without my interaction, I expect you to do so from now on." Xana said. "Now go." He added. Once this was said Josh got up and headed back to Kadic.
In the cafeteria the group were getting up to head to classes just as Josh was walking in. "Good morning Josh, If you were coming for breakfast it just ended.." Aelita said, trying to seem calm. "Oh. I guess I slept too long. I guess it's time to head to Math then." Josh replied trying to make it seem like he was tired. "Yea. It is." Jeremy said looking down at his watch. "I will walk with you." Josh said, sort of smiling walking with them. Jeremy looked at the others then back to Josh. "Okay." He said walking with his computer bag in his hand heading to class with Aelita, Ulrich and Odd with them.
At the start of math class Mrs. Meyer spoke up.. "Everyone, we have a new student. I will let him introduce himself." she said. Josh stood up. "Hello my name is Josh Anderson." Josh said, trying to smile some. "Now, let's begin our lesson." Mts. Meyer said writing on the board. After math class Josh and the others went to their next classes before eventually going to lunch. "I need to deal with some stuff in my room." Josh said before walking away from them. In reality he planned on heading into the city to buy the phone that Xana told him he had to get.
Meanwhile in the lunchroom the group sat down at their normal table. "I am going to head to the factory to check the cameras after lunch." Jeremy said to the group. "Okay and I will go with you. To work on the anti-virus." Aelita said smiling. "I don't trust that he actually went to his room." Ulrich said. "What if he's heading to the factory to delete the video?" He added. "Yea Ulrichs right." Yumi said in agreement. "Then go check his room?" Odd said sort of joking. "Go ahead, might find evidence on him to prove that he's the person." Ulrich said. "Okay sounds like a plan." Odd said finishing his food surprisingly fast. "I will go check his room then. I will call if I find anything." Odd started getting up and heading out.
Odd walked calmly up to the boys dorms and walked up to Josh's door before knocking on it. "Hello? Is anyone there?" Odd asked. After a few moments had passed he tried the door and found it unlocked. Opening the door, he walked in and looked around seeing nothing out of the ordinary.
Meanwhile Jeremy was running through the sewers to the factory. Once he got there he ran across the bridge into the building and headed down to the lab. He walked over to the computer and sat down before bringing up the camera systems management window. "That's strange… the recordings are gone and it's no longer recording." Jeremy said to himself typing trying to re-activate the camera system. "That's all this..." he murmured looking over the errors popping up as he tried to re-activate it. "Someone had to have tampered with this" He said, opening up the phone system and calling Odd. "Odd, did you find anything?" Jeremy asked. "No why?" Odd said after he answered. "He formated the footage and also destroyed the recording program." Jeremy said, sounding very annoyed. "Everything seems normal here, he does have a computer. I could check that." Odd said walking over to Josh's computer and turning it on, the screen lit up before displaying a message indicating it could not find the operating system. "Jeremy, his computer doesn't seem to want to start." Odd stated. "Strange, you should get going before he comes back." Jeremy said before hanging up. Odd turned off the computer and left the room.
Josh was on his way back into the dorm building just as Odd was leaving and waves to him. He walked up to his room and sat down by his computer. Josh turned it on and pressed his hand to the front of it. He used some of his energy along with the codes from Xana that he was created with to modify the system to allow it to boot. "Hello" Xana said, he had been waiting for Josh to return. "I have the phone you told me to get. I will send my number to you." Josh said. "There is no need to. I have it already. You forget I can interact with the phone networks and it is quite easy to track you due to your draw on the supercomputer." Xana said laughing. "Oh. I didn't know that." Josh stated. "There is much you don't know and have no need to know." Xana replied. "I will be launching an attack tomorrow. I plan on activating a tower and channeling its energy to you." Xana stated then continued, "I am going to channel it to you to help try and make them less suspicious of you. Because logically there is no reason for me to have to use a tower to have you do something." Xana added. "Okay that seems very logical, I will hang around them tomorrow to try and find the best time for the attack." Josh said smiling. "Good, message me when you are ready for the tower to be activated, Goodbye." Xana finished closing the window on Josh's computer.
Later that day, Aelita ,Jeremy, Odd Ulrich and Yumi were in Jeremy's room discussing what they found so far. "The camera system recording ability is totally destroyed. It's going to take me days to try and decrypt the codes because someone encrypted it. Also all the footage from the past 2 days was gone." Jeremy said. "And I didn't find anything in his room. It's very normal. Except for his computer that doesn't turn on. It said something about not finding an operating system." Odd said scratching the back of his head. "That is strange. Why would he have a computer without anything installed on it." Aelita said. "Unless he made it so only he could boot it." She added. "That's very suspicious." Ulrich said. "We definitely have to watch him." Jeremy stated. "I am going to get working on breaking that encryption to get the cameras working again." Jeremy said, waving as the others left.
The next day starts as normal, near the end of classes for the day just after history Josh notices Aelita walking away from the reset of the group. He slowly took out his phone and texted Xana that now would be a good time. After he finished the message he began to follow her from a distance.
On Lyoko, a tower in the forest sector activated, Xana channeled its energy as a spector out of a street light near Aelita and Josh causing the light on the pole to explode. The spector made its way to Josh and entered him, providing Josh with the power from the tower just like any possessed person but without controlling him. He walked up closer behind her then grabbed her shoulder. Aelita jumped and turned around. "Josh! What are you doing." She yelled. "What Xana wants." He said trying to stare at her to make sure she sees the sign of xana in his eye right now. "Get away from me!" She yelled trying to run away. As she started running Josh shot lightning at her knocking her to the ground before walking towards the factory with her over his shoulder.
Meanwhile Jermey got a notification on his laptop about an activated tower. "Oh no." Jeremy gasped before texting everyone to head to the factory. He got up and started to run to the man hole in the park to get to the factory.
At the factory Josh went down to the scanner room and dropped Aelita in one of the scanners before heading up to the lab. Walking over to the console he sat down and began the virtualization procedure. "Scanner Aelita, Transfer Aelita, Virtualization." He stated as he virtualized her into the ice sector for the Xana to take her memory with less risk of her deactivating the tower in the forest sector.
On Lyoko Aelita fell to the ground but managed to land on her feet having woken up after being virtualized. Waiting for her were two tarantulas waiting for her while the Scyphozoa slowly made its way towards her from a cave it was hiding it. She tried to run but the tarantulas blocked her path.
Meanwhile Jeremy, Ulrich, Yumi and Odd had made it to the factory and walked into the elevator. "Have either of you seen Aeltia? She should have been here by now." Jeremy said worried. "I haven't seen her since earlier." Odd replied as the elevator came to a stop at the lab. Hearing the elevator Josh got up and got ready to confront the people in it. The elevator opened and they saw Josh. Jeremy walked out sort of calm. "Josh what are you doing here?" He asked. "What Xana wants." Josh said his voice staticy as he shot purple lightning towards Jeremy you just barely managed to get out of the way. When Ulrich saw this he ran towards Josh and tackled him. "Jeremy I am heading to the scanners." Odd said hurrying to the elevator and down to the scanners with Yumi.
On Lyoko Aelita was trying to get away from the Scyphozoa before it grabbed a hold of her and began to steal her memory.
Back in the lab Jeremy gasped as the memory transfer screen popped up. "I am sending you to the ice sector. The Scyphozoa is stealing Aelita's memory!" Jeremy said, beginning the virtualization. "Scanner Odd. Scanner Yumi, Transfer Odd, Transfer Yumi, Virtualization" Jeremy said virtualizing them nearby. "She's south east from your location." Jeremy said. Ulrich was busy trying to keep Josh away from Jeremy and the computer.
On Lyoko Yumi and Odd began to run towards Aelita and the Scyphozoa. As they did the tarantulas began to fire at them. "Yumi you handle one I will handle the other" Odd said as he fired a laser arrow at one of them. The tarantula that Odd shot at began to repeatedly fire at him while the other one repeatedly fired at Yumi. "Hurry up you guys Aelita doesn't have much memory left." Jeremy said, getting worried. In response Yumi threw one of her fans at the Scyphozoa and managed to cut its tentacles making it drop Aelita. "Jeremy send us our vehicles." Odd said managing to eventually destroy the monster.
Back in the lab Josh grabbed a hold of Ulrich's shirt and electrocuted him and tossed him to the side. "Jeremy, your next." Josh said walking towards him slowly. As Josh was approaching Jeremy, just after he had virtualized the overboard and overwing for Odd and Yumi before Josh pushed him out of the chair and sat down beginning the devirtualization process for Odd. "You will never make it tower." Josh said into the mic wanting them to know Jeremy was no longer at the controls.
"Oh great. He must have knocked Jeremy out or something." Odd said, sort of annoyed as he and Yumi ran over to Aelita. "How are we supposed to find the tower now?" Yumi asked Aelita. "I think I know where it is." Aelita said getting up, still dizzy. "Okay then let's get going." Odd said hopping on the overboard. Yumi got on the overwing and invited Aelita on it too. "Let's head to a way tower." Aelita said pointing in the direction of one.
Back on earth Ulrich was waking up and saw Jeremy on the floor. He slowly got up and approached Josh before giving him a swift kick, knocking him out of the chair and onto the ground. "Jeremy get up. I think they are going to need help on Lyoko." Ulrich said, trying to keep Josh away. Jeremy got up and adjusted his glasses before taking a seat at the supercomputer. "Odd! Josh managed to start a devirtualization for you. I can't stop it." Jeremy said. "Also the tower is in the Forest sector. Once you're there I will guide you." He added.
Back on Lyoko they three headed to a way tower and made it to the forest sector. Just after they exited the tower Odd finally devirtualized. "Jeremy Odd just devirtualized. Which way is the tower?" Yumi asked. "It's South by Southeast." Jeremy replied. Yumi nodded a bit before heading in the direction of the tower with Aelita. "Yumi I see the tower." Aelita said pointing at it. Luckily there were no monsters in sight.
Back in the lab Josh finally got up off the ground after the kick from Ulrich. He then charged at Urlich his hands crackling with electricity. Urlich jumped up out of the way before landing another kick to Josh's side. "You won't win that easily Xana." Ulrich said motioning Josh to come at him. Josh grinned and ran at him again. This time dogging Ulrich's attempt to hit him. Josh kicked Ulrich's legs out from under him.
On Lyoko the girls got to the tower without Xana causing any more problems. "Jeremy is very odd that Xana didn't put up any more of a fight." Aelita said before walking into the tower. "Yea. Very odd. He might not have enough resources to do so." Jeremy said. Aelita floated up to the top of the tower and placed her hand on the terminal.
On earth Josh was holding Ulrich up by his shirt, having a lot of fun beating up his enemies. Suddenly he felt as fit all the energy in his body had disappeared. In shock he fell to the ground trying to maintain his human form. "Do you think we need a return to the past?" Jeremy asked. "No, I think if we just bring him back to campus it will be okay." Aelita said. "Noone saw him carry me off." She added. "Okay. I will devirtualize you and Yumi then." Jeremy said devirtualizing them. In the factory at hearing this Josh made his body limp as if he was passed out.
Back on the kadic campus they brought Josh to the infirmary. "You say this is how he was when you found him?" Jim asked. "Yea in the middle of campus." Jeremy replied. "That's very strange, he must have fainted." Ylanda said, looking at a thermometer. "Nothing serious in any case." She added. After the whole group walked out of the informatory. "I am not so sure he's the person that Xana devirtualized. It would make no sense to waste power activating a tower to control someone he already controls." Jeremy said. "What if it's some sort of distraction to throw us off his trail?" Odd asked. "Yea. Odd might be right Jeremy what if Xana did this just to get our suspicion off of Josh." Aelita stated. "Then let's just still keep an eye on him." Urlich said.
Later that day once Josh had recovered enough energy he woke up and left the infirmary to head to his room. Once there he contacted Xana. "Hello, Father." He said. "What do you want?" Xana asked, trying to regain energy from having activated the tower. "I believe the plan may have worked. I think they are less suspicious of me." Josh said smiling. "Good. I want you to tell me everything they plan that you manage to over hear." Xana replied. "Okay. I will send anything I can find out to you. Also what will happen to Aelita once you steal the keys to lyoko from her memory?" Josh asked. "Oh ah nothing nothing at all." Xana said lying, not wanting to upset Josh. Considering Josh was in the best sense human Xana did not want to tell Josh that stealing all of Aelita's memory to get the keys to Lyoko would kill her because he did not know Josh would take such information.
Okay. Finally done with this chapter. For starters I would like to say that the next chapter will not be "The Chips are Down" I am totally skipping that episode. Mostly because I really didn't like it in the series to begin with. So the next chapter will follow "Marabounta" which I have some good plans for. I also have plans for "Common Interest" which is when I intend for Josh to reveal to the warriors that he is the person.