Note: I do not own Code Lyoko or any characters regarding it. I simply modify and add my own characters to the story. All original ideas regarding Code Lyoko thus belong to Moonscoop, Taffy Entertainment, France 3, and Canal J.

Chapter 4

Long Lost Relative

In the following weekend, Xana discovered her ability to create monsters and specters in reality just by thinking about it, and Ulysses explained to her about the "Bleeding" program which gave her her abilities. And speaking of Ulysses, he spent three days on working on the linking program to link Lyoko and Wakusei together. Franz Hopper even requested to Principal Delmas to let Ulysses use his secondary laptop during class to take notes and to finish a project for science, which Principal Delmas accepted. Ulysses worked non-stop recombining the code, but his prototypes kept resulting in failures. It wasn't until Sunday when Ulysses finally finished the program, and the test worked perfectly. Ulysses called the others and said, "Guys, the program is ready. Meet me in Franz Hopper's class during lunch," and he even added, "Odd you can bring your lunch with you," when Odd answered his phone.

Ulysses explained to the group that they were ready to activate the program, but it needed to be activated in both Sector 8 in Wakusei and Sector 5 in Lyoko. "Alright, who goes to Wakusei and who to Lyoko?" asked Jeremie.

"You, Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and I will go to Wakusei," said Ulysses to Jeremie before he turned to Franz, "Franz. You, Aelita, and Xana will have to go to Lyoko. We'll tell you when to activate the program because it has to be activated in both Lyoko and Wakusei simultaneously."

"Alright," said Franz, "We'll head over to the factory immediately. Don't waste a second to get to the warehouse."

"Yes, sir," said Ulysses, "Let's head out!"

When Jeremie, Ulysses, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi got to the warehouse, Ulysses gave Jeremie instructions as to how they can be transported into Sector 8 by having them enter a passage obelisk and entering the password: 10191. Jeremie did so after they entered the obelisk. Sector 8's entrance was similar to Lyoko's arena in Sector 5, except it was more like an amphitheater. As soon as the door opened, they ran into the core zone, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi searching for a key like in Lyoko's core zone, but it was nowhere to be seen. "The core zone has no timer nor key," said Jeremie in shock, "It looks like the core zone won't shift until you exit the room."

"That's good," said Ulrich, "I kinda got tired of looking for the key on Lyoko. Thanks for making this easy, Ulysses."

"I didn't think it would be necessary to make a timer or a key for Sector 8," said Ulysses, "A password to open the door at the end of the core zone is good enough."

They made their way into the exterior of Sector 8, which was slightly different from Lyoko's Sector 5; instead of a regular sphere, Sector 8 was in the shape of a dodeca-icosahedron and the codes of the celestial dome were red instead of blue. Ulysses opened the interface and began loading the program. "Jeremie, contact Franz Hopper and tell him, Aelita, and Xana to prepare the program in Sector 5," said Ulysses.

"Okay," said Jeremie as he called the supercomputer, "Franz, we've started up the program in Wakusei. Get ready to load it in Sector 5."

"Alright, we're almost ready here," said Franz on the other line.
Meanwhile, on Lyoko, Xana and Aelita had already hit the key in Sector 5 and made their way to the interface. Xana opened the program. "We're ready," she said.

"Alright," said Ulysses, "On the count of three, we activate the program. 1, 2, 3!" Xana and Ulysses activated the program simultaneously and the two worlds merged, creating a link and remote control from both supercomputers to both virtual worlds. But it was during this moment that Xana detected something in Sector 5, right before she was devirtualized by an unfamiliar energy source along with Aelita.

Back at the warehouse, Jeremie had just put the finishing touches on the settings when Xana got on the line. "OK, Lyoko and Wakusei are now linked together," said Xana, "But after we launched the program we were devirtualized by an unknown force."

"Strange," said Ulysses from inside Wakusei, "Hang on, we'll be there soon. Jeremie, get us out of here."

"Alright," said Jeremie, "Desynchronization!" Everyone got out of Wakusei and headed over to factory. After going down the elevator and into the lab, Franz Hopper let Ulysses take a look at the screen.

"I don't see anything in Sector 5," he said, "But something doesn't feel right. Aelita. You and I will go into Lyoko to find this mysterious entity or program."

"I'll go with you," said Xana.

"Whatever this thing was, it attacked you first, Xana," said Aelita, "It would be better if you stayed behind. If we happen to be in danger, Daddy will send the rest of you in to find and help us."

Xana understood and stayed behind while Ulysses and Aelita got into the scanner room. Franz started up the virtualization procedure. "Transfer Ulysses. Transfer Aelita," said Franz as he typed in the codes, "Scanner Ulysses. Scanner Aelita. Virtualization!"

When Ulysses was virtualized, his whole body received the feeling of pins and needles poking him as he zoomed through giant electrical cords and into Lyoko. He immediately noticed he was in mid-air before his body finished materializing in Sector 5, so he landed perfectly. He was dressed in a black samurai gi and a blindfold, yet he could see everything in a regular line of vision clearly with it on, and he carried a blood-red katana blade. "Alright," said Ulysses, "Xana, where were you when you got hit by this energy force?"

"We were in the celestial dome," said Aelita and Xana at the same time.

"Let's go then," said Ulysses as the core zone opened.

Ulysses immediately found the key and hit it, opening the doorway to the elevator. Before Ulysses managed to get to the elevator, however, something black came flying out of nowhere and nearly hit him. He jumped out of the way just in time.

"What the hell was that?!" asked Ulysses.

"It looked like an energy field," said Aelita, "Except it was black. Whatever hit me and Xana must be following us."

Ulysses and Aelita headed straight for the celestial dome, but when they got there, they didn't see anything. "Where are you?" asked Ulysses. There was no answer for a few seconds, then came thousands of black energy fields firing at them from all over the place. They managed to avoid and block all of them. When they stopped, Ulysses lost his temper. "WHERE ARE YOU?!" he yelled.

"Here," came a sudden whisper from behind them. Ulysses and Aelita turned around and screamed as a large shadow engulfed them and they disappeared off of Sector 5's map.

"What just happened?" asked Jeremie after he heard their screams, "Where did they go?"

"I don't know," said Franz as he began typing codes to locate them, "I just lost their digital signature from the sector. They're still alive, no question about that, but their just lost."

"We're going in," said Xana, "They said that if they were in any danger on this mission, we should go in after them."

"That's right, Xana," said Franz, "Get into the scanner room and I'll start up the procedure. Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi will go first."

They all went down to the scanners while Franz started the procedure. Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi entered Lyoko and Jeremie and Xana just got transferred. When Jeremie landed in Sector 5, he was dressed in blue ninja armor and carried a set throwing needles as a weapon. Xana was dressed in what looked like a garment fit for an empress of an old middle-eastern country and she carried her giant sword on her back.

Franz Hopper said that he had localized their signal in the core tower when the core zone opened. They all made their way to the core tower, but were surprised to see that it had a black aura.

"We're at the tower," said Xana, "I think it may be activated, judging by the black aura. Whatever captured Ulysses and Aelita must be inside with them."

"I think so too, Xana," said Franz, "Get them out of the tower."

Xana summoned creepers to act as a bridge to get to the tower, but when she entered, she found Ulysses and Aelita chained up to the tower wall.

"Get out!" yelled Aelita, "It's a trap!"

Black energy fields came shooting down from the top platform of the tower toward Xana. She jumped out of the tower, but the figure who was launching the energy fields followed her. It was a girl with emo hair dressed in a Hebrew monk's robes, she wielded a staff with a wizard's hat on the head, and she also had a blue Eye of Xana on her forehead. Franz Hopper found the signal of the girl on the screen and immediately recognized the digital signature. "Carly?!" he exclaimed, "Carly, stop!"

The girl stopped before she was about to attack Xana and said, "Uncle Waldo? Is that you?"

"Yes, Carly," said Franz, "Listen to me. They mean you no harm. Let them all go."

"Fine," said Carly as she deactivated the tower and let Ulysses and Aelita go, "Now what?"

"I'll get you all out of Lyoko," said Franz.

Franz brought all of them out of Lyoko and they all met the girl called Carly Wubohanabi. Franz Hopper explained that Aelita's mother had an adopted Chinese sister, and that after she got married in China, she had a daughter she named Carly. When she was 9, Carly's parents went missing and she went to live with Franz and Aelita when she was a little girl, and Franz revealed that when she was 16, she was put into Lyoko as the first test subject and first guardian of Lyoko until she was kidnapped by Xana and hidden from everyone monitoring the supercomputer. After Franz told everyone of who she is, they all made their introductions, but she had a bit of an attitude against Xana when she met her. However, Xana explained to her that she was staying on their side against an even deadlier virtual menace, and that was enough to convince Carly that they were all together on this.

Aelita stepped up to Carly and said, "I vaguely remember you, Carly, but it's a very distant memory."

"I wouldn't be surprised, Aelita," said Carly, "It has been about 30 years since then. You have grown since I last saw you."

Everyone made their introductions to Carly, but Ulysses seemed to be holding something back when he stepped forward and shook Carly's hand and said, "I'm glad to see that you, Franz, and Aelita are back together again. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to be somewhere." He went into the elevator and they heard the mechanism going upward.

"Why did he leave?" asked Carly, "Did it have something to do with me?"

"I'm not sure," said Jeremie, "I think it's best that we follow him. We need to know if there's anything wrong."

Jeremie and the others followed Ulysses via the corridor and once they reached the bridge, they noticed he was heading back to the warehouse.

So another Lyoko Warrior has been introduced, Carly Wubohanabi, cousin of Aelita and niece of Franz Hopper. But what is wrong with Ulysses and why is he heading back to the warehouse? Does it have anything to do with his missing little brother? Find out later on...