"So the good news is the supercomputer still works. And the bad news is we have to fight Xana again!?" Odd ranted.
"Unfortuantely that seems to be what's going on." Jeremy confirmed.
"We just got done fighting him!"
"I know that Odd but it looks like we aren't finished yet."
"At least we have Franz Hopper on our side now. Maybe he'll have a few ideas." Yumi added.
"Well what are we supposed to do now to get rid of Xana?" Ulrich questioned.
"The only thing we can do is wait until Xana attacks, in the meantime Aelita and I will try to come up with a more permanent solution." Jeremy responded.
"Hey kiddo, you sent Ralphie boy to school already right?" Cabe asked.
"He left with the carpool 10 minutes ago. Why, is there something wrong?" Paige answered.
"From what he said he may have answers to what happened at Caltech. One of my contacts just sent me some baffling security footage. I don't know what the hell's going on."
"Can you pull up the footage?" Walter queried.
Cabe sent the footage link to Walter who put it on the monitor tree. It showed Yumi, Aelita, Ulrich and Odd near the supercomputer. As they destroyed it, the surveillance recording showed Ralph in the entryway of the room.
"I'll call his teacher, since I'm Homeland Security I can get him out of school without a doctor's note," Cabe spoke as he dialed up Ralph's principal. "Yes ma'am, this is agent Cabe Gallo of Homeland Security. I was wondering if there was a student by the name of Ralph Dineen currently at school. He is? Can you tell him to wait outside so he can be picked up? Thank you, have a nice day ma'am, take care."
"You'll have to take the company car with the condition that rusty pickup of yours is in." Happy retorted as she proceeded to wrench the bolts off the breaker box.
"It's hard to tell who's older and falling apart more." Toby snickered.
Cabe glared at Toby who felt death was staring him square in the face.
"Save it doc before I show you who's falling apart." Cabe threatened as he walked to his car and got in.
When Cabe left, Sylvester finally came out from hiding underneath the stairs with the CLAM computer.
"You know Toby, for someone who tells people they need to change you should use that advice on yourself." Sylvester commented.
After classes came to an end, both girls returned home. Aelita told her father what happened in hopes there was something he could do to help.
"Xana was originally created to be a decentralized multi-agent system with no need for rules since it was believed he would cooperate. However, we need to gain access to his original coding, rewrite it to turn him into a localized multi-agent system and shut down the supercomputer for good." Franz stated.
"But how are we supposed to do that? We'd need to trap Xana first." Aelita queried.
"We can trap him in Sector 5 by making clones of you and the others to go to Lyoko. Then firewalls can be placed to prevent him from accessing the other sectors or the outside world."
"But won't Xana be able to hack them?"
"He won't be able to if we bind him to the Core of Lyoko. By doing so it'll cause Xana to play by its rules. This means helping Lyoko rather than hurting it."
Meanwhile, Xana was smirking as he listened in on the Lyoko warriors before moving himself to a new digital sector. The Cortex was the mainframe of another supercomputer, the one Xana orginally made his home in. Jeremy and Aelita spent all their extra time that day coding the firewalls while Franz worked on binding Xana to Lyoko.
"One of my contacts just called me and said they're coming to see what Ralph knows. If we can confirm what he says is true, he'll be a government asset until we discover what went wrong." Cabe announced.
"How long until they arrive?" Paige wondered.
"Fourteen hours. You two need to get some sleep kiddo. He won't be here until tomorrow."
"Alright, I'll be back here first thing tomorrow morning with Ralph." Paige stated as she left with Ralph, hoping it was just a lucid dream Ralph had.
Ralph was scared, he knew what he saw was as real as could be. But if it were to be true, he could be taken from his mom, from the team, from Walter. And for how long, well, nobody could say. While brushing his teeth, Ralph's mind began to wander. From what he saw at Caltech, to the mysterious capablities of the kids.
Maybe they were filming a movie and I walked in. No, there would've been cameras, directors and film crew on standby. Then what exactly was it they were doing?
It took half an hour of guesses and theories for Ralph to finally settle down and rest.