Chapter 2: Xana Awakens Part 1

Danny made it to the Kadic Academy in the late Afternoon wearing a blue hoodie with a black jacket and brown cargo jeans and he looked around noticing that he was getting some weird looks for his snowy white hair and green eyes but he played it cool and headed for the principal's office.

A man with a grey beard in a brown suit looked at Danny, "May I help you?"

Danny held up the flyer to Kadic Academy, "This flyer allows me to learn here?" He asked because that's what it said on the flyer.

The man stared at the flyer before laughing, "I was starting to think no one would find that flyer. Where do you come from?"

AN: The Flyer is something I made up for a contest that would allow Danny to get in for free.

"Illinois" Danny told him, "My name is Danny Manson!" He didn't want to use his family name just in case they were called and Sam's last name was the first to pop inside of his head.

"I'm Principal Delmas." The Principal said shaking Danny's hand, "You're hand is awfully cold."

"Oh it's always like that!" Danny lied, "To me it's comfortable!"

Giving Danny a glance Principal Delmas explained the rules that Danny was supposed to follow while at Kadic Academy before he was given his room number so he walked off saying goodbye to the Principal.

"… Okay I just have to find my room and put my stuff in there." Danny muttered as he looked around the academy, "… First I have to find the rooms."

"Hey!" He turned to see a man with brown hair wearing a red shirt and he had a bandage on his face, "Why aren't you in class?"

Danny put a hand behind his head, "I'm a new student and I'm looking for my room first but I don't know where the rooms are located at."

The man looked at the piece of paper that Danny showed him, "Okay I'll show you I'm Jim the Gym Teacher!"

'Jim? Gym? Wow it's practically a duh moment.' Danny thought hiding a chuckle.

"I'm Danny!" Danny looked around the academy, "I have to say this is a pretty cool place."

"Where are you from Danny?" Jim asked curiously, "You're accent says that you're not from France."

"Oh I'm from Amity Park Illinois but in elementary school I took French Lessons so I could speak French fluently." Danny lied because since he died he found that he could speak any language on the airplane since a Japanese guy asked him a question once before an Irish Drunk did… and he's not kidding the guy was actually drunk.

With a sigh Danny walked inside of the room to see a blonde haired kid with glasses in a blue shirt typing quickly on his computer so since Jim left Danny knocked startling the kid.

"Who are you?" The kid asked nervously as he closed his Laptop.

"I'm Danny Manson you're knew roommate." Danny held out his hand.

After a second the kid took it, "Jeremy Belpois." He didn't sound too happy but then he shivered.

"… Ooookaaay I take it you're not too keen on having roommates are you?"

Jeremy's eyes widened, "Oh it's not that it's just that I'm a private person." He explained, "That and your hands were cold."

Danny rubbed the back of his head chuckling, "I understand so I'll keep out of your business and my hand is always cold." With that Danny walked to the empty bed and put his gym bag on it and he began to unpack by putting the new clothes that he had inside the dresser… Okay he might have used his powers for that but he needed some clothes rather than wearing the same white shirt over and over again.

After that was done he looked at Jeremy, "So you build robots?" He motioned over to the two robots on his desk.

"Yeah I-!" Before Jeremy could reply his Computer screen lit up showing a strange symbol, "I've seen this before!" He said in shock.

Danny looked at it in confusion before one of the two robots attacked them, "THE HECK?!"

'Day one and I'm attacked by another machine?!' He thought in annoyance, 'What the heck is wrong with my life… Or Afterlife?!'

Jeremy screamed as the second robot latched onto his head while Danny was trying to keep the other from electrocuting him when another teenager barged in. He was a brunette that wore a light green shirt with a vest over it and cargo pants.

"Hang on!" He grabbed the one on Jeremy's head before kicking the one on Danny up and Judo chopping it away and once it hit the wall the robots shut down, "Your little friends are aggressive maybe you should check their settings."

Danny stood up in pain from being shocked while Jeremy answered the unknown teen, "I had nothing to do with it!" He defended himself, "They just attacked us all of a sudden." Then he turned to Danny who was standing up, "You all right Danny?"

"Yeah I think so." Danny muttered shaking his head, "Is that a regular occurrence or do you just do that to your roommates?"

The other kid chuckled a bit, "No he doesn't I'm Ulrich Stern by the way." He held out his hand and helped Danny up.

"Danny Manson." Ulrich went to say something else but Danny cut him off, "I know my hand is cold and I'm getting tired of explaining it."

With a nod Ulrich looked at Jeremy, "So do you mind explaining what that was about?"

"… No, forget it." Jeremy said trying to hide something.

Ulrich smiled, "Come on tell me! Maybe I can be of some help?" He offered before chuckling, "I mean what if you two are attacked by hairdryers and I'm not around?"

Jeremy rolled his eyes, "Ha very funny."

"I'm not leaving this room until I know what's up!" Ulrich sat down with his arms crossed.

Danny shrugged, "I was content to leave your business to you until you're robots came alive." He said as he waited.

Jeremy looked at the two of them before sighing, "Okay… What have I got to lose? I'm already in over my head so I might as well tell you two." Jeremy looked up, "This is so crazy."

'Try being dead.'

Then Jeremy walked across the room and closed the door "First tell me if you two can keep a secret."

"I can." Ulrich assured him before they both looked at Danny.

"I promise to keep whatever it is a secret." Danny promised.

'I'm good with them especially since I'm keeping mine about being a ghost a secret.'

After a few minutes they were leaving the sewers… It took a few minutes to c0onvince Danny to go down there but he finally did that after they nearly got caught by Jim for being out of the Dorm and they were walking towards an abandoned Factory.

"That tunnel is a great way to beat curfew." Ulrich commented with his hands in his pocket.

"Yeah and there's another one in the gym." Jeremy pointed out.

Danny had a confused expression, "It's a wonder the teachers don't seal that tunnel up!"

They walked inside the factory to see a rope as the only way to get down so without hesitation Jeremy jumped down using the rope to swing and Danny followed soon after only to be surprised that they were being held up by Ulrich, "What's the matter?" Jeremy asked in confusion before understanding dawned on him, "Scared of heights?"

Ulrich who was sweating huffed and retorted, "No!" Before he slid down but with his eyes closed.

'He is sooo scared of heights!' Danny thought with a smirk.

After that small delay the three walked to an old elevator, "Does this still work?" Danny asked and his question was answered as Jeremy pushed the button, "Okay then."

Once the elevator ride was over they were in a huge computer room, "So that's the Mega computer that you started up?" Ulrich asked since Jeremy explained to them as they walked through the sewers.

'Tucker would love to see this!' Danny felt a little off at thinking about one of his best friends. 'I wonder how they're doing right now.'

Jeremy nodded, "Uh huh! It's actually a Supercomputer! It's ultra-powerful!" There was a hint of pride in Jeremy's voice, "And while I was examining it I found out that it runs a virtual universe called Lyoko!"

"Virtual universe?" Danny asked because the last so called universe machine ended up killing him, "Lyoko? Why Lyoko?"

Jeremy shrugged but Ulrich laughed, "You know what Belpois, this morning electrical shock fried your brain!" He said dismissively, "This thing is just the control center of the factory that's all!"

Rolling his eyes Jeremy typed furiously into the supercomputer and a box that showed a virtual girl with pink hair wearing a light pink-and-white mini skirt and a matching top that go over trousers and a long shirt that are both off-white, and matching shoes. She also has elf-like ears, with a small dangle earring in the left one.

'Wow.'

"Oh yeah?" Jeremy asked getting Ulrich's attention, "And what would you call this huh? A program for spray painting doors?"

The virtual girl smiled, "Hello Jeremy!"

"Who's the girl with the Pink Hair?" Ulrich asked in confusion.

Jeremy sat down, "That's Mia, a form of artificial intelligence that lives on Lyoko!" He looked thoughtful, "I don't know what she's doing there yet-."

"Don't mess with me!" Ulrich interrupted with wide eyes, "You programmed her right?"

"No." Mia said, "I woke up the moment that Jeremy started up the Supercomputer and I don't know who I am." She admitted, "My memory has been erased."

"Wow that stinks." Danny crossed his arms, "Well I'll help get it back if that's okay with Jeremy!"

"Thanks Danny!" Jeremy said as he looked at Ulrich before continuing his explanation, "Mia has to hide in some kind of Tower and as soon as she leaves it she gets attacked by monsters! You both have to believe me!"

Ulrich didn't give up, "What if it's just a giant videogame?"

Jeremy scoffed, "Then it's a very dangerous game! My robots are programmed to just go fetch a ball and they attacked both Danny and I!"

"Plus if this is a videogame then it's more advanced than D.O.O.M!" He got blank looks for that one, "… You guys never played D.O.O.M?"

They chose to ignore that question instead, "And before the attack I saw the logo that the monsters had on Lyoko on my computer screen."

"So let me get this straight!" Ulrich said suddenly, "The creature that wants to kill Mia wants to kill you as well?"

"That's what it looks like!"

"Then why not shut it down?" Ulrich suggested, "If it's so dangerous?"

"… Okay… But first I want to help Mia to understand what she's doing on Lyoko!"

"Say what?"

"I do!" Jeremy smiled, "And if I'm right we can materialize her on Earth!"

'This is almost turning into the Fenton Portal Accident all over again!' Danny thought in sadness but he nodded, "I'll help!" That way if someone gets electrocuted it's him since he's already dead.

"What makes you think you could?" Ulrich asked curiously and Jeremy had the two of them follow him to a room with three pods, "What's all this?"

"Scanners!" Jeremy explained as he studied the inside of one, "I still haven't found the program to bring Mia on to Earth… But I dug up one that allows a person to be scanned and sent to Lyoko! . In fact the Supercomputer analyzes your molecular structure through these cabins before breaking your atoms down, digitalizing them and creating a digital carnation in the digital world!"

"… In English?" Ulrich asked

Danny agreed with him, "Back home I was a C Student Jeremy so please explain in a way I would understand."

Jeremy sighed, "You go inside the cabinet and you're teleported to the Virtual World!"

"Jeremy these things don't exist yet!" Ulrich scoffed still not believing him, "This is mythic stuff like Monsters and Ghosts!"

As soon as he said Ghosts Danny felt a pang of sadness probably from someone saying that he doesn't exist.

They didn't notice his sudden silence as Jeremy retorted, "You still don't want to believe me."

Ulrich rubbed the back of his head, "I would love too but Virtualization is straight out of science fiction!"

'Just like Ghosts.'

Jeremy thought for a bit, "Why don't we try it out?" He suggested, "That way you can see for yourself… But we're going to need a Guinea Pig."

Ulrich smirked immediately, "I have the perfect one!" He took off shouting, "I'll be right back in a few minutes."

Once Ulrich was gone Jeremy noticed that Danny was quiet, "You okay?" He asked seeing a little bit of pain in his eyes.

"Y-yeah I am." Danny said with a forced smile, "I'm just thinking of how one of my best friends from home would freak out over this! He loves technology."

"Sounds like an okay guy." Jeremy said trying to keep the conversation going, "What's his name?"

"Tucker Foley… He thinks he's a ladies man though so half the school already turned him down on the first day." Danny joked and they both laughed a bit at imagining that before Danny asked, "So virtualization into another world huh?"

"Yeah it's amazing isn't it?" Jeremy put a hand on one of the scanners, "To think I just came here to get robot parts and I ended up finding a supercomputer and a virtual world that we can travel too!"

"Life is full of surprises." Danny said cynically thinking of his death that happened two days ago.

Before Jeremy could ask he heard someone running so they turned to see a panting Ulrich with a small dog.

"… Okay I'll bite." Danny said, "Where did you get the dog?"

"It's my roommates Odd's his name is Kiwi!" Ulrich panted, "I had to outrun Odd to get here!"

Danny went to pet Kiwi but the dog backed away whimpering before he remembered his Dad's lessons saying that Animals are afraid of the dead by instinct so he couldn't pet Kiwi.

Jeremy raised an eyebrow at Kiwi's behavior but he said nothing because it could be normal for that dog while Ulrich put him in the scanner and him and Jeremy climbed the ladder to the computer room while Danny was the perfect candidate to make sure that Kiwi wouldn't leave since he had to stand in front of the scanner to keep him there.

"I really hope that Sam doesn't find out about this." Danny muttered rubbing the back of his head nervously, "Otherwise this Ghost is going to get his own gravestone."

"What are you doing to Kiwi?!" Danny spun around to see a teenage boy with blonde hair raised his hand, he had a purple spot in his hair and he had purple clothing and a girl in a red dress with black hair.

"… I presume you're Odd?" Danny asked nervously.

Odd nodded while the girl looked at Danny before smiling, "I'm Sissi!" She said winking.

Danny felt himself blush a bit but Odd pushed past him into the scanner picking up Kiwi, "You okay boy?" But Kiwi jumped out of Odd's grasp right as the door closed on him.

Sissi screamed, "You're going to be mummified!" She shouted as the machine started to hum.

Danny ran to the ladder, "STOP THE TRANSFER!" He shouted but the machine was drowning out his voice.

~With Jeremy and Ulrich~

"Transfer Guinea Pig!" He pressed the button and it showed a human cat hybrid with spiky hair, "Scanner Guinea Pig-Wait… That's a weird looking dog."

Ulrich's eyes widened in shock, "That's no dog… That's Odd Della Robbia!" He said nervously.

"I don't know how to stop the procedure!" Jeremy panicked.

~In Lyoko~

Odd appeared inside of a Forest area in his Lyoko form which was him in a purple cat costume with cat paws and a swishing tail. His hair was spiked to go straight up.

But for some odd reason an emblem of his dog Kiwi was on his chest.

"OUCH!" Odd shouted as he landed flat on his stomach, "W-what's going on here?!"

Odd looked around in shock.

"Where am I?" He asked as he got up before looking down, "… And why am I dressed up like a giant purple cat?!"

"Odd Della Robbia?" A voice called out of nowhere causing Odd to jump a foot into the air.

"Who's calling me?!"

"It's me, Jeremy Belpois!" The voice answered.

"Is this a joke or something?" Odd asked to the sky since he couldn't see Jeremy.

"Uh no."

~In the scanner room~

Ulrich came down, "Sissi?!" He asked in pure shock.

"Ulrich!" Sissi called out in happiness.

"You couldn't make sure you weren't followed?" Danny asked.

Ulrich rolled his eyes but Jeremy's voice cut him off, "Ulrich it's okay! Odd is safely in Lyoko!"

Danny sighed, "That's a relief."

~With Odd in Lyoko~

"Am I in a Video Game?" Odd asked in confusion, "It looks like the set from Battle One Ninja Fighters III!"

"Actually I don't know." Jeremy admitted, "It's a virtual world that much I do know."

Odd looked around smiling, "Cool!" Then he was blasted in the back so he turned around to see some weird potato like creatures on legs with an eye symbol on their face crawling towards him, "Uh that's a lot less cool." He muttered as he rubbed his back where he was shot, "There are these giant cockroaches attacking me! Is that normal?"

"Yeah." Jeremy said hesitantly.

"Oh nothing to worry about then!" Odd sounded happy as two more approached him.

"That wasn't what I meant!" Jeremy told him, "You've got to get out of there!"

~In the Scanner room~

"Ulrich! Danny! Della Robbia is in danger!" Jeremy told them, "and I need time to devirtualize him!"

"He needs help." Ulrich nodded, "Do you think you can send Danny, Sissi and me to Lyoko?"

Sissi looked paralyzed with fear from that while Jeremy answered, "Well, I can always try."

"What? Send us where Ulrich?" Sissi asked in shock.

Ulrich smirked, "To a virtual world where real monsters want to massacre you! You wanted to go out with me so here's your chance!" Ulrich offered knowing what her answer would be.

Sissi coughed and waved a hand, "No thanks, I prefer real world not the other kind! Plus I couldn't miss cheerleading practice tomorrow morning!"

Danny rolled his eyes, "I'll go!"

Ulrich nodded before he stepped into the scanner while Danny stepped into the other one, "Okay Chicken! Jeremy, Danny and I are ready to go!"

"Okay I'm starting the procedure!" Jeremy said as the scanners closed.

"Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Danny." The Scanners started to glow, "Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Danny. Virtualization!"

~Computer Room~

Jeremy looked closely at Danny's bio signature, "Huh that's strange it's like he isn't alive." He shrugged it off making a note to look into that later.

~Inside Lyoko~

Odd was running from the potato monsters when Jeremy spoke up, "Odd! Ulrich Stern and Danny Manson are on their way to give you a hand!"

"Great! I was getting bored here all alone!" Odd said with a smile as the two virtualized above him.

Ulrich was in a black and yellow Samurai outfit with a sword on his side while Danny was in his D.O.O.M avatar form with white hair and he had his blue circuitry armor along with his blue pistol.

"OUCH!" The both cried out landing on their stomachs.

Danny shook his head, "We really need to work on our landing." He deadpanned before he saw himself, "D.O.O.M huh? Nice!"

Ulrich stood up looking around before he saw his outfit but his attention was mainly on the sword that he pulled out and gave it a few test swipes, "This sword rocks!"

"Hey that's no fair!" Odd complained, "How come they look so much cooler than me?!"

Jeremy thought about it, "I don't know why maybe the computer just reads into your own subconscious desires and projects them onto your own digital creations?"

"I don't dream about giant purple cats!" Odd protested, "What's more I'd rather have a weapon like Ulrich and Danny but all I have are these great useless paws!" He clenched them while saying that shooting out an arrow head that barely missed Ulrich.

"Hey watch it!"

Odd smirked, "Hm. These arrows are pretty cool I take back what I said!"

"Try to hook up with Mia in the tower!" Jeremy ordered before Sissi's voice came online.

"Who's this Mia?!" She asked loudly, "And what is this?!"

~The Computer Room~

While Jeremy was explaining to Sissy about the Supercomputer Kiwi started to bark and wires shot out of the floor heading right for the two of them.

~On Lyoko~

While Jeremy was explaining to Sissi Odd asked Ulrich, "So who's Mia?"

"A virtual girl who lives on Lyoko." Ulrich explained.

Odd looked happy at hearing this, "Oh! So there are babes here too? Great!"

"Yes but I get the impression that Belpois flipped for her." Ulrich told him with a smirk.

"For a virtual chick?" Odd shook his head, "Is he nuts?"

"Kind of." Ulrich chuckled.

Danny shrugged, "Aren't we all?" He asked with a smile.

"Jeremy, are you going to tell us the coordinates or not?" When there wasn't an answer Ulrich spoke up loudly, "Jeremy are you asleep or what?"

Danny tapped Ulrich's soldier, "Uh guys how about we head to the giant tower that's glowing blue over there?" He asked pointing to the left.

"Let's get going then." Ulrich and Odd took off running with Danny behind them but they stopped at the Tower looking around it.

Odd leaned against it, "Huh no doors?" Then he gave a shout of surprise about going through the tower.

"… Well that's convenient!" Danny followed after him but he fell over because he entered next to where the floor was and below him was darkness so he grabbed Odd's tail making him yelp in pain as he held onto the edge of the floor.

In a second Ulrich came in but he fell grabbing Danny's leg which pulled him and Odd down screaming as they fell.

Then in a few moments of free falling they were ejected from the Tower but they were in a frozen wasteland, "Huh?!" Odd looked around, "Where's the Forest?"

"How should I know?" Ulrich answered before his eyes widened, "But you see the Tower over there?"

Danny followed his gaze and it looked the same except it was glowing red, "Weird."

"You said it." Ulrich agreed before Odd interrupted.

"And those creatures… They're kind of weird too." Odd pointed to the right and they saw some kind of blocks with small crab legs and eyes on each side with the same symbol that was on Jeremy's laptop.

Then one of them spun around before shooting a red laser beam, "Might be a good time to beat it don't ya think?" Ulrich asked as the Laser missed them so the three took off running while Danny was looking back shooting his gun but he got hit by three lasers before he disappeared.

"DANNY!" Odd shouted before he and Ulrich were surrounded so Ulrich was blocking some blasts with his sword while Odd was moving around prepping his arm that had the arrows.

Ulrich launched at one of the blocks landing on the top of its head slicing at it but he wasn't making a scratch as he went back to back with Odd, "How do you kill these things?"

Odd shrugged, "I don't know… Hey you wouldn't happen to know how many life points we have, do ya." Odd asked but he was blasted and vanished.

"ODD!" Ulrich ran forward stabbing his sword in the eye part of the block making it explode, "Yes!" Then he was shot and he vanished.

~The Scanner Room~

Danny gasped in pain as the scanners opened up holding his chest before the other two opened up depositing Ulrich and Odd.

"Hey we're alive!" Ulrich shouted making Danny look down in sadness but he was confused on how he felt pain if he was already dead.

Odd gave Ulrich a look, "Alive? If you say so because I think I'm going to throw up!"

Then they heard Sissi scream, "HELP US!"

Upon hearing that the three climbed the ladder to see possessed wires holding Jeremy up about to electrocute him, "HANG IN THERE JEREMY!" Ulrich picked up a metal piece of the wall that was on the floor and stabbed into the electrical wire but he was electrocuted as a result but he was blasted back so the wire went for him when Odd grabbed the piece of metal that was still in the wire.

"It works the second time!" Then Odd smirked, "I told you that you wouldn't be anywhere without me!" With that he finished the job that Ulrich started.

Once the wires were down they started to move so Danny stomped on them, "Oh no you don't!" He growled in frustration.

After that Jeremy went back to the computer while the others crowded around, "Mia, are you there?"

"Yes, is everything okay on your side?" Mia asked in concern.

"Well we're a little shaken up, but it could've been worse!" Jeremy said with a smile.

Danny sighed in relief.

'Well at least that's done with.'

Oh he didn't know how wrong he was because it was just beginning.

To Be Continued…

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