Hey, I'm back. Settling into college and hopefully writing this more often. I don't own Code Lyoko.

Morgan's POV

I watched the Lyoko Warriors leave and smiled in satisfaction. The plan worked. The Lyoko Warriors would become paranoid trying to find out how Xana survived and where he was hiding, and I got a shiny new laptop.

My eyes flickered back to the laptop screen. I typed in a few more lines of code. I was working on a program to search the network for traces of Xana. If any traces survived, perhaps I could use them to resurrect my father...

And...there. It was finished. The computer needed to be left on for several hours while the program ran. I would have to leave it in my room. I glanced around the room.

"Are you still watching that?" Theo asked. "There's a soccer game on."

"Do what you want. I was just leaving." I said, closing my laptop and getting up. He changed the station and I walked out of the rec room. I headed toward the dorms. It seemed the Lyoko Warriors had already made it inside because I did not see them anywhere. There were not many people around, probably due to the fact that it was a Sunday. Sunday meant no school. Many of the students and teachers took advantage of that in order to go out into the city, or visit family if they were close enough.

I, of course, had no family to visit.

I climbed the stairs, and went into my dorm. I set my laptop down on the desk, opened it, and hit enter to activate the program. It would continue to run for a long time, at least the next few days. During that time, the functionality of my laptop would be limited. This, by no means, meant that I would be disconnected during that time. My AI was like a computer, after all. I could perform many of the functions of a computer inside my mind.

For example, if I wanted to observe the campus through the security programs, I could connect to them by sending a signal and establishing a connection. I could do all this without touching a computer. When I saw through a camera, it was like seeing through my own eyes, except, in most cases, I was not able to move them. They also had less quality graphics.

Electronics were an extension of myself, like extra ears and eyes and limbs...it was just another way for me to connect with and manipulate the world around me.

I could, of course, watch the world through a security camera and through my own eyes simultaneously. It was like watching two or more movies on top of each other, except, while humans would get horribly confused, I could concentrate on each individually. This was one of the main features of a multi-agent system.

I took a look around the room. I hadn't really looked at this point. It was...rather plain. A bed...a desk...a closet...nothing of any real interest or excitement to me. I missed home already. I did what I wanted there, and I didn't have to adhere to a schedule some human made for me.

How would I kill them? Well, my first instinct was to rip them apart slowly and painfully. They hurt me so I would hurt them. However, over the course of my life efficiency had been drilled into my mind over and over. Be quick, be efficient, be decisive. So...the best thing to do would be to somehow get all of them in one small space and kill them there. I wanted to do this without getting caught by anyone else. I didn't want to attract the attention of the entire human population. I was powerful, but I wasn't ready to take them all on just yet.

With a flick of the wrist I summoned Kanky out of hiding. They appeared with a little spark and ran up to me. They were always so excited, it never failed to put a smile on my face. They were the little piece of home I had left.

Home, I had to get home. Wouldn't it be nice to revive my father and have his room all reconstructed and ready to go?

"Kanky, I need you to stay here. Guard the laptop at all costs. Understand?" They nodded. I was excited. I wanted to check on the Supercomputer. Maybe I could just...turn it on?

It was daylight, still, and a Sunday, so as long as I kept the door locked, nobody would go poking around...hopefully.

After a final pat on the head I left Kanky in the room and slipped out into the hall. I slipped past Belpois' room. The Lyoko Warriors were all gathered around Jeremie's computer. They were just mumbling about what could possibly be happening. Odd was trying to lighten things up. Nothing particularly noteworthy.

I went out into the woods. Once I was out of sight, I sped up. It felt absolutely wonderful, being able to go the speed I knew I could. Soon, I reached the streets, and had to slow down again.

There stood the Factory, my factory, where my father was created, where I was created. it gave me a sense of comfort...a nostalgia. I just wanted to go home...

But I couldn't. Of course I couldn't. That would have made things too easy. If I'd been able to go home right then, I might not have come back. The entire story would have ended right there. I might have just given up, satisfied to sleep forever back in the virtual world. Even though I thought I was so determined at the time...I might have taken the easy out if it had been available to me.

But it wasn't. And I didn't give up right there.

I went down to the Supercomputer room. The computer slid out of its casing easily enough. It towered above me. Something felt wrong, very wrong, but I could not put my finger on it. I pressed the small button on the side of the computer. A panel next to it slid open, and a switch popped out in the upward position. It was a little counter-intuitive that the computer was off when the switch was in the upward position, but that did not bother me much.

I pulled the switch...and immediately felt the same excruciating burning sensation. I flipped the switch back and bent over, catching my breath.

I felt...unstable. My form rippled and sparked at the edges. That...that was horrible. Who would make something like that?!

Jeremie Belpois. Jeremie Belpois would make something like that.

And Jeremie Belpois was the only one who could deactivate it.

He would not do it of his own free will, and if I possessed him, I would run into the same type of problem. The specter controlling him would immediately dissipate. He would just pass out on me. I would have to...think of something...but right now I couldn't do much thinking. My mind and my body were fuzzy. Like static.

By the time I got back up it was dark outside. I still felt weak, but I could focus enough to keep my form and get myself back to the Academy.

Jim asked me where I had been, I think. I made something up about going shopping. He said I didn't look well and took me to the nurse. What would this translate to in human terms...fever...normal symptoms? I looked it up.

Symptoms depend on the underlying cause for the fever. Symptoms that commonly occur with fever include excessive sweating, chills, and headache. Additional symptoms that occur with fever include body aches, muscle aches, weakness, fatigue, cough, sore throat, rash, and sinus congestion.

I told the nurse I had some of the symptoms, and made sure to shiver a little and bring my internal body temperature up. She said I needed bed rest for a few days. She gave me some pills to bring the fever down. Then had a student...Emily DeLuc, I think, bring me back to my room.

I collapsed on the bed and went into sleep mode. Maybe I could conserve some energy.

Time elapsed since last chapter: half a day

Time elapsed since chapter 1: 3 days

Hope you enjoyed. I'm gonna try to make it a rule to finish a chapter every weekend...maybe?

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