A few days later, Calvin was released from the hospital. His parents and Rumiko were told about what happened despite Calvin's wishes, but neither one said anything about it. On June 30th, Dennis had gotten the scanners ready for their final mission on Lyoko (Antea had changed her mind about not going). Back at the Academy, Mr. Xavier was getting ready for his next class when felt XANA's presence.

"Hello, Julien." XANA said.

"Master." Mr. Xavier said. "What is it you want?"

"As you are aware, my master plan shall be within a matter of hours." XANA said. "Only one thing needs to be done to achieve absolute victory."

"What's that?" Mr. Xavier asked.

"Take a look right next to you." XANA said. Mr. Xavier turned to see a diagram of a power plant near Paris. "This power plant generates enough energy in one hour to light half of France for an entire year." (A/N: Hey, it is the future, anything is possible).

"And?"

"Once I gather just enough energy from this plant, I'll be able to keep the scanners operational long enough to bring my entire army to Earth." XANA said. "Long enough for humanity to fall."

"You sick, twisted piece of software." Mr. Xavier said. "I'll have no part in this any longer. When Calvin and his friends stop you, you'll be lucky if..."

"Neither Franz Hopper nor Jeremie Belpois could stop me." XANA said. "Calvin isn't a fraction as resourceful as either of them; he stands no chance of stopping me."

"But one person does: Anthony Schaeffer." Mr. Xavier said. "After all, he is you."

"Fool. Anthony Schaeffer was disposed of and placed under my control a year ago."

"Not entirely." Mr. Xavier said.

"And don't worry about you taking part." XANA said. "I no longer have a use for you, anyway."

"What do you...?" Mr. Xavier said before he noticed a spectre flying out of his mouth and onto the ground in front of him. The spectre then took the form of Mr. Xavier.

"Just one more thing." XANA said summoning a spectre from one of the outlets which manifested itself into Dennis's likeness.

"I've finally perfected his look. Now to eliminate Calvin and his friends." The polymorphic spectre spoke as both spectres disappeared.

"I've got to help them. But how?" Mr. Xavier said to himself as he continued to get ready for his class.

Back in the dorms, Dennis was just grabbing his stuff, unaware that he was being monitored. As he headed out the door, he saw a spectre of his likeness standing in front of him.

"What the...?" He said before the spectre knocked him out and tied him to his bed and taped his mouth shut. The spectre then headed out the door.

When Calvin and Sam reached Ms. Hertz's class, Calvin received a text on his cellphone saying that Dennis is at the factory waiting for them.

"Excuse me, Ms. Hertz." Calvin said. "May I go to the infirmary?"

"Yeah, me too." Sam said.

"Sit back down, you two." Ms. Hertz said. "This is the last exam of the school year and your most important. You can't afford to sit this one out, especially you, Sam."

"Yes Ma'am." Calvin said as they both sat down. About an hour later, they finished the test and headed out, they then texted Ami and Antea telling them to meet them at the factory.

As the four headed out, Sammy noticed them running outside, she then pulled out her cellphone and tried to snap a quick picture. Unfortunately for her, they were too fast for her and she just shot a picture of the background.

"Damn it." She whispered to herself. "Then again, I guess Dad's photo-shopping lessons will pay off."

"Ms. Della Robbia!" The teacher said. "Pay attention!"

"Yes Ma'am." She said but smiled to herself.

A short time later, Calvin and the rest showed up to the laboratory and found the polymorphic spectre of Dennis sitting in front of the computer.

"Sorry we're late." Sam said. "Hertz had us in for the entire hour while everyone else was finishing the exam."

"Understood." The clone said. "Better late than never."

"Alright Dennis." Calvin said. "So where are we being sent to?"

"To the Mountain Sector. I'll send Ami, Antea, and, Sam first. After which, I'll send Calvin."

"Wait." Antea said. "Why send Calvin last?"

"I need him to help with something in the lab. Until then, get to the scanners."

"Okay then." Ami said as the four went down to the scanner room. As they went out of the elevator, Antea was the first to speak.

"Hey guys." She said. "Did Dennis seem a little 'off' to you? Like as if he were a completely different person?"

Ami thought for a moment. "Nah. It was him alright."

"I agree." Calvin said.

"How can you be so sure?" Sam asked.

"Stern instinct." Ami said.

"Runs in the family." Calvin said as they both nodded. Sam, Ami, and Antea then went into the scanners.

"Transfer Sam, Scanner Sam."

"Transfer Ami, Scanner Ami."

"Transfer Antea, Scanner Antea."

"Virtualization!"

"Alright then." Calvin said. "Now to head to the..." Just then the elevator doors closed in front of him. Calvin tried to open them back up, but to no avail.

"You're not going anywhere, Calvin." He heard the clone say to him. "And this time your friends won't be here to help you."

Back on Lyoko, the other three were virtualized to the Mountain Sector. When they got up, they were surprised at what they were seeing.

"You brought us in front of the tower?" Antea asked.

"Wait, if you could do that, how come you haven't before?" Sam asked.

"It's a new program I found." The clone said. "I was going to surprise you."

"Alright then." Antea said as she ran to the tower. However, instead of going inside, she slammed right up against the side of the tower and fell to the ground.

"I knew this was too easy." Sam said. Antea then got up and felt the side of the tower. No matter how she tried, she couldn't get in.

"It's a fake." She said as the tower disappeared in front of them.

"Indeed, you've all fallen into my trap." The clone said. "Now I will dispose of all of you."

"XANA." Sam said. He then turned to Ami. "'Stern instinct', huh?"

"Oh no." Ami said. "Now what are we going to do?"

"We'll have to find the tower on foot." Antea said as they ran across the narrow strip of land in front of them. However, they were stopped by the behemoth of a monster that was encountered at the Ice Sector, which had broken through the strip of land between them and the other side.

"XANA's Wrath!" Ami exclaimed. "How are we supposed to get through that?"

"It has to have some weakness." Antea said. "I don't think even XANA could create something truly invincible."

"Indeed, you're right." XANA (A/N: As I'm going to call him from now on just because I'm tired of writing 'The clone' this and 'The clone' that.) said. "See the three eyes lined up on its body? You have to hit all three simultaneously in order to disable it and destroy it."

"Too easy. In case you've forgotten, I've got a whole bandoleer of..." Ami said but paused when she noticed all but one of her knives disappearing in front of her. "...knives."

"What do you think you're doing?" Antea asked.

"Just making a few modifications." XANA said typing away on the keyboard.

On Lyoko, Sam's claws were disappearing, and the energy fields on Antea's left hand were fading away, rendering that hand useless, leaving them with only two of three shots, with only one shot at it.

"Let us see how you fight your way out of this." XANA spoke to them.

Just then, XANA's Wrath grabbed one of the rock platforms next to it and hoisted one of its legs onto it; it then moved the other one onto an adjacent rock platform giving it a full view of its height. (A/N: From its full height, it's about twice as tall as the Kolossus). As it moved out of the way of the path, four of the ice creatures first encountered from the last mission came up to them.

"Oh great, IceDogs." Sam said as he prepared for battle with whatever he had left that would count as a weapon.

"What did you just call them?" Antea asked.

"IceDogs. You know, 'cause they're made of ice and they look like little..." He said but stopped when one of the IceDogs froze him solid and automatically devirtualized him.

"Sorry I asked." Antea said as she summoned an energy field and prepared to attack at the IceDogs.

Back on Earth, Sam stepped out of one of the scanners and came towards Calvin, who was still trying to get the door open.

"Oh, Sam. I'm glad you're here." Calvin said. "XANA's here and he..."

"We know." Sam said. "He's giving us a hard time on Lyoko. I think if we can get to the lab, we can seize control and I can virtualize you onto Lyoko."

"Sam, not even the real Dennis would let you do that." Calvin said.

"Would so. He's been giving me lessons." Sam said. "Now how are we going to get this open?"

"I've been working on it." Calvin said pointing towards an open part of the wall with wiring. "I just need to reconfigure these wires and get a working signal out of..."

"Out of my way, you're doing it wrong." Sam said moving towards the door and kicking it numerous times with his foot.

"Sam, it's a complicated piece of machinery. You can't fix it just by..." Calvin said but was then interrupted by the door opening with the elevator waiting for them. Sam just shot him a smug look as Calvin looked dumbfounded.

"Wipe that smirk off your face." Calvin said annoyed as they both stepped in and took themselves up to the lab.

Back in the lab, XANA was continuing to torment his prisoners. Just then, Sam and Calvin came up to him. However, XANA noticed this and turned around and shot a blast of lightning from his hand sending the two crashing into the wall.

"You were fools to come here." XANA said approaching them. "Now, just like your friends, you will perish."

TO BE CONTINUED...

Also, Commacazy, I didn't mean for you to take that seriously. In fact, I've been meaning to think of a better title since I've first came up with it, the first one was just a working title. If you want to talk to me some more about the show, feel free to make an account and PM me, unless for obvious reasons you can't. If you can't, I'll be happy to respond to your questions within my story.

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