I've changed Danni's name to Clara.
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Clara didn't know what to think. When Kinji left, it was like she would never see him again. She had to trust him to bring them back.
"Devin," Clara turned, "who exactly is XANA?"
"A multi-agent system bent on taking over the world," he said.
"And killing me and my friends. What's up with that? XANA killing me, sure, but why them? What's the connection?" Clara asked.
"If I knew I'd tell you. This XANA thing is going to kill us, and turn to the biggest threat. Not some kids. There are no connections," Clara replied. "Unless…"
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"Todd! Emily!" Kinji called. He was hopelessly walking around the school.
"Kinji!" A girl ran towards him and jumped.
"Emily! Don't do that!" Kinji scolded.
"Sup," Todd waved.
"So, how were your parents?" Kinji asked.
"My dad, he's just as crazy as always, mom, she's fine," Todd replied. "We shook off the creepy girl."
"About that, come with me. I have something to show you. More Clara has something to show you," Kinji pulled his clueless friends along.
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"Devin, what do you know about Lyoko?" Clara asked, searching through the computer.
"I know it's a virtual world I live in," Devin smiled hopefully.
"You're such a boy," Clara rolled her eyes. "I ran across some interesting files someone wrote. 'XANA activated another tower, and he nearly destroyed the school with an asteroid. I can't believe I actually saved the school, even though I'm one who turned this weapon on in the first place.' Someone has opened this supercomputer before."
"What?" Devin asked. "Isn't that kind of obvious? Someone had to build this place."
"No, I mean, some student turned it on after it was built. Then they turned it off, and I turned it on." Clara corrected. "Unless you think a student from Kadic Academy built this place."
Devin was quiet until he asked the million dollar question. "But what past student is crazy enough to enter an abandoned factory and turn on a giant and mysterious supercomputer?"
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Jeremy and Aelita were relaxing at their house, far away from the factory. "Don't you think it's weird that today is the twenty-fifth anniversary of turning off the supercomputer?" Jeremy asked. "And we're just sitting around?"
"What do you want to do? My dad…" Aelita trailed off. "His leaving was yesterday. I don't really want to do much, and we haven't talked to them in a long time."
"We can dig up my old laptop. I think I left it in one of our boxes in the attic." Jeremy suggested.
"Why would we do that?" Aelita questioned. "That laptop is… It contains so many memories."
"Wouldn't it be cool though?" Jeremy got up before Aelita could argue. Ten minutes later, Jeremy came back with a dust covered box. Aelita watched as Jeremy opened the box, and he pulled out the ancient artifact, covered in filth because of sitting in there for years. It was off and out of battery, of course, but Jeremy and Aelita stared at it in awe. Jeremy pulled out the charger, and plugged it into the wall and the other end into the laptop.
"What are you doing?" Aelita gasped.
"I'm plugging it in. I want to see some of the old files," Jeremy explained, but then the all too familiar beep sounded from the supercomputer.
"Oh no," Aelita's eyes widened as she recognized the old tower image on the computer.
"But- That's- It can't be!" Jeremy typed franticly on the laptop.
"What's going on, Jeremy? Is it a glitch?" Aelita asked, trembling with fear.
Jeremy bit his tongue. "No." He looked seriously into Aelita's green eyes. "XANA has risen again."