When the dust settled, the gang found themselves staring at a passageway carved into the wall. It was dark, but nevertheless they walked in hoping to feel their way around. However, as soon as they stepped in, the way was immediately illuminated by a series of lights, what they saw then amazed them: A small monitor, identical to the one in the factory lab, a small, sarcophagus-like chamber, similar to a bed of sorts, and a large structure identical to the Lyoko supercomputer, only much smaller. Ami was the first to speak.

"Whoa." She said "What is all this?"

Calvin walked up to the structure; he noticed a plaque on it that was covered in dust. He wiped of the dust and read what it said:

CARTHAGE 01

Designed by:

Waldo Schaeffer, Benjamin Noel, et al.

In Alliance with:

Deniska Fedorov, et al.

Part of Project Carthage

Est. 1974

"This is one of the Carthage supercomputers." Calvin said "The East Germany one. We found it!"

"Well, let's turn it on." Dennis said "Maybe it still works."

Calvin hit a switch on the side and immediately the computer turned on. Calvin went up to the monitor to see what he could find.

"Damn it!" Calvin said

"What?" Antea said

"It's password-protected." Calvin told her

Indeed it was. On the screen were a message and a blank text box:

WELCOME BACK, LEADER.

PASSWORD:

"Welcome back, leader?" Calvin asked "What could that mean?"

"Maybe it's a password hint." Dennis said "Let me try."

Dennis began typing:

PASSWORD: FRANZ HOPPER

ACCESS DENIED

"Let me try." Calvin said as he typed:

PASSWORD: WALDO SCHAEFFER

ACCESS DENIED

"What else could it be?" Calvin asked

"Maybe we're not thinking this thoroughly." Dennis said

"Alright, let's see." Calvin said "Carthage… Carthage… Carthage. Welcome back, lea…THAT'S IT!" He began typing frantically:

PASSWORD: HANNIBAL

ACCESS GRANTED

The screen then changed, Calvin immediately began browsing through the various files on the computer.

"Look at this!" Calvin said "Project Carthage was meant to test out the scanner technology that was pioneered by Fedorov and his select scientist group. He figured if anyone could help perfect it, it would be the top scientists of the Warsaw Pact. Fedorov was going to change the way people thought about the computer world. He figured it would put an end to all the conflict of the Cold War and have the world's governments focus their assets on a more humane way of conflict, and he figured that eventually, he United States and NATO will see the pointlessness of it all and admit the Soviet Union as the better superpower."

"So, Fedorov was just a peacemaker acting as a military general for a 'tow-tolerating' government?" Sam asked

"You mean 'totalitarian'." Calvin said "And there seems to be more, but it cuts off. Maybe we can find some more info in a deeper source."

"What do you mean deeper source?" Dennis said "Where are you going?"

"To Carthage 01. See this thing here?" Calvin asked "This is a prototype scanner. Like the ones on Lyoko, only connected to this computer."

"Calvin, the scanner technology was a brand new discovery when this was made." Dennis said "Anything could go wrong."

"That's a risk I'm willing to take." Calvin said as he opened up the scanner and stepped inside.

"Alright," Dennis said

"Transfer Calvin."

"Scanner Calvin"

"Virtualization!"

The computer then showed the scan as being a success.

"Phew." Dennis said "Unfortunately, we have no way of communicating with him, so we just have to hope nothing dangerous is there."

Meanwhile, Calvin was virtualized onto Carthage 01, wearing the same outfit he wore on Lyoko. Calvin found himself inside of a small room, similar, in fact no different, to the Arena in Sector 5. Like on Lyoko the door eventually opened, leading to one of the sections of the Core Zone. There he was confronted by a glowing white, humanoid shaped spectre.

"State your name." the spectre said

"Uhh… Calvin Stern" Calvin said

"As in…."

"Yes yes." Calvin said annoyed "As in Ulrich Stern"

"I was going to say as in Johannes Stern." The spectre said

"Johannes Stern?" Calvin asked "That's my grandfather's name. How do you know him?"

"Your grandfather was close friends with one of Scipio's scientists."

"You know of Project Scipio?" Calvin asked "Who are you?"

"I thought you wouldn't ask." The spectre said "My name is Benjamin Noel."

"Benjamin Noel?" Calvin asked "The same one who worked on Carthage 01?"

"And the one who worked on Project Scipio."

"Right." Calvin said "What do you know about Project Scipio?"

"When Mr. Schaeffer left, the rest of us took a vow of silence to never speak of our mistake." Benjamin said "Waldo and his daughter hid in his supercomputer he built in France after his wife was kidnapped by a rogue government agency that's been on our tails for years, I hid in Carthage 01, Thomas Ackley was killed by the Carthaginian Guard, as we called them, and Patrick Ackley went missing."

"I've been to that supercomputer! So did my parents and my friend's parents. He called it Lyoko." Calvin said "What do you know about something known as a Creator Program?"

"Creator Programs," Benjamin said "Are multi-agent programs that are imbued with human consciences. The subject places himself in a scanner, which reads the person's subconscious and places it into the computer program. The computer program then analyzes the person's subconscious and applies it to itself."

"Then you know about XANA." Calvin said

"I haven't heard that name in a long time." Noel said "XANA was the Creator Program for the Scipio Project. Waldo used it as means of destroying both Carthage and Scipio. But due to the twisted nature of its host's subconscious, XANA was deemed a failed experiment."

"Who was the host?"

"We took a vow to never reveal any names. All we can say is that the host worked with us and tipped off the Carthaginian Guard about our project. That's why we went into hiding."

"You mean like a traitor?" Calvin asked "And who exactly are the Carthaginian Guard?"

"We believe that they were affiliated with General Fedorov and the Carthage Project." Noel answered "They hunt down traitors of Project Carthage and, in some circumstances, execute them."

"But why would Waldo want to turn against a project that was benefiting humankind?" Calvin asked "It was basically salvation from a war-torn planet."

"Because Carthage wasn't salvation." Noel said "It was a weapon."

Benjamin then transported him and Calvin to another room. It had the appearance of a ship's dock. On it was a warship armed with vast weapons. Calvin was shocked with what he was looking at.

"So that's what Fedorov was doing." Calvin said "He was going to destroy NATO supercomputers from the inside and launch an attack on the US without their allies or themselves knowing."

"Yeah." Noel said "How do you know?"

"Because 30 years ago," Calvin said "XANA tried to take over the World Network. He took control of a vast array of supercomputers all across the world: South America, New Mexico, The International Space Station, and even Siberia to name a few. Our parents destroyed these supercomputers and put an end to XANA's plot. Unfortunately, XANA survived, and now he's plotting once again to take over the world. Now that I've seen all this, I figure that XANA was just finishing what Fedorov started, only in his own vision."

"XANA was first connected to Project Scipio." Noel told him "The starting ground for Carthage's destruction. It was meant to put an end to society's problems, not increase them."

"That's exactly what XANA said he was programmed for." Calvin said "He then said that humanity is the cause of the problem."

"Where is XANA now?" Noel shouted

"On Lyoko." Calvin said "That was where he had been ever since Waldo built the supercomputer. He used XANA to protect him and his daughter, but XANA went mad and ended up imprisoning the two."

"And he's still alive?" Noel said

"Yes."

"Than you need to stop him as soon as possible. If his last plan involved taking over the world's supercomputers and he failed in the progress, imagine what his next plan would be. He's a learning program; he would have gotten smarter after his last defeat."

"We're working on it." Calvin said "By the way, did you ever set foot on Lyoko"

"No." Noel said "I don't even know where it's located. Why do you ask?"

"I almost lost my life on Lyoko yesterday after a battle with XANA." Calvin said "When I woke up, I found a white spectre, like you, trying to save me."

"That couldn't have been me." Noel said "It must have been Waldo."

"Waldo died years ago." Calvin said "He sacrificed himself to destroy XANA."

"Spectres like us can't die." Noel said "Not completely. Anyways, you must be going, I hope I provided you with enough information that I could."

With that, Calvin found himself fading away, and the next thing he knew, he was in the scanner on Earth. Dennis ran up to him.

"Calvin." He said "What did you find?"

"I found enough." Calvin said "I'll tell you when we get to the hotel."

Back at the hotel, Calvin and Dennis were looking at the papers Calvin found in the house, and Calvin was talking about Benjamin Noel and Carthage's true intent.

"So, Fedorov," Dennis said "Was just a sadistic nutjob after all."

"That's right." Calvin said "When I spoke to Noel, he mentioned that one of the Scipio scientists betrayed the others and spoke of the Scipio Project. He also mentioned that one of the scientists was friends with my grandfather."

"Really?" Sam said "Maybe the traitor was Noel himself. Why else would he go into hiding?"

"Maybe because he didn't want to get captured." Dennis said "It could have been Franz or Antea Hopper."

"Now that's even stupider." Sam said "Why would they want to put at risk their own lives just to fix their mistakes?"

"Not to mention Franz Hopper saved my life when XANA killed me." Calvin said

"Franz Hopper is dead." Dennis said

"Who else could it have been, huh Dennis?"

"Anyways." Sam said "What do those papers say?"

"Let me see." Calvin said

As he read through the papers, his eyes widened with surprise.

"I don't believe this." Calvin said

"What?" Ami said

"Grandpa Johannes's friend. The Scipio traitor. XANA's host. They're all the same person! He wrote it all down, these were pages of his biography that he omitted."

"Biography?" Dennis asked "But that means…"

"So, Calvin, who was it?" Ami asked

"Anthony Schaeffer."