Later in the night, Dennis came home to find his father waiting for him. On his sides were William Jr. and Russell.
"So where have you been?" William asked.
"I was just out." Dennis said. "Needed to get my mind off some recent things."
"Did that Stern girl dump you?" William asked. "If so, then good."
"No. I dumped her." He said. "Dad, I've been meaning to ask you something."
"What's that?"
"Why do you hate Ulrich and his family so much?" Dennis asked. William said nothing.
"It's a complicated story." William asked.
"Oh really?" Dennis asked. "Are you sure it doesn't begin with 'Yumi' and end with 'Not choosing you'?"
"Dennis, for God's sake, shut up." William Jr. said.
"That's not even half of it." William said standing up.
"Then tell me the reason." Dennis said.
"Dennis, just drop it." William Jr. said.
"No way, I like where this is going." Russell said.
"I can't." William said.
"Oh, you can't." Dennis said. "Well, why not?"
"Because I wouldn't be a good father to Willy and Russell if they heard the truth."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Dennis said raising his voice. "And why to them? What makes them special?"
"Wait, what truth?" William Jr. asked.
"You wouldn't understand!" William said. "It's just..."
"Is it that you don't want them to know that their father is just someone who wanted to take advantage of another woman who only loved you because you lied to her about her boyfriend?" Dennis asked rather quickly and loudly. "Because that's what it..."
"You shut up!" William said pushing him to the ground. He then walked up to him.
"Dad, stop it!" William Jr. said grabbing his arm. "You're just upset is all."
"Get off of him." Russell said grabbing William Jr. and throwing him to the side. Dennis then got up and ran to his room.
"I'm going back to the office." William said as he headed out the door. William Jr. then turned to Russell.
"What is with you?" William Jr. said. "That was your little brother out there."
"Doesn't matter." Russell said. "He's a disgrace and insubordinate. He got what was coming to him."
"Is that what you think? Or is that what Dad wants you to think? Think about it." William Jr. said as he headed upstairs leaving Russell to think about what he said.
Back in his room, Dennis finished throwing his stuff in a suitcase and went up to his pet chinchilla, Rufus, who was in his cage.
"Goodbye, Rufus." Dennis said sadly. "Daddy has to go now. But don't worry. William Jr. will take good care of you." With that he then jumped out his bedroom window, suitcase in hand, and got on his motorcycle and drove off. Just then William Jr. entered his room to talk to him.
"Hey Dennis, I..." He said but stopped when he noticed that he was gone.
Meanwhile, kilometers away from Bolougne-Billancourt in a Parisian power plant, three inspectors were examining one of the generators when they saw the door open and three men, XANA's thugs, enter the room.
"Um, excuse me." The chief inspector said. "You don't have proper clearance to be here."
Thomas just grabbed the man.
"Hey, what are you...?" He said but was unable to finish due to him being thrown against the side of the generator with great force and being fatally injured by the turbines. Alain and Jean-Claude then came up and snapped the necks of the other two inspectors. Then XANA, still taking the form of Mr. Xavier, walked in. He then opened a laptop he was carrying with him, which showed a 3D model of the Earth with red dots over the places of various cities and parts of the oceans.
"Here's where it all begins." He said jamming his arm in the generator and absorbing all the electric energy. As he did, the red dots on the map turned green indicating that his scanners were online. When all the dots turned green, he closed the laptop and turned to his cronies.
"You three, get to the factory." He said. "I'll be there shortly."
Back at the Stern residence, Calvin was just lying on his bed hugging Lupus, his stuffed wolf. He was still preoccupied with what had happened. Just then, he heard a knock at his door.
"Come in." Calvin said.
"Hey, it's just me." Ulrich said as he walked in.
"Hey Dad." Calvin said.
"I heard about what happened. Do you want to talk about it?"
"Yeah, I guess." Calvin said. "Rumiko caught us skipping class and turned us in."
"Now why would she do that?" Ulrich asked. "More importantly, why would you cut class in the first place?"
"It's kind of a secret." Calvin said.
"Hey, this is Dad your speaking to." Ulrich said. "I can keep a secret."
"Well, I guess I really have nothing to lose." Calvin said. "Especially being that..."
"Ulrich, come downstairs right now!" Yumi shouted from downstairs. Ulrich as well as Calvin and Ami came downstairs to find Yumi watching the news on TV.
"What is it, Mom?" Ami asked.
"I don't think you'd know about it, honey." Yumi said. "That's why I asked for Ulrich."
"As you can see behind me, a generator at the Paris Generating Station has been blown clean and disabled just minutes ago." Said the newscaster on the TV. "Now to the chief of police with more information."
"Well, Ted, so far we have no idea as to what might have caused this." The chief said. "However, we did find one piece of evidence, but so far we have no idea what it means." He then held up a piece of paper to the camera. The paper had on it the familiar eye-like symbol that XANA was often associated with.
"You don't think..." Yumi said.
"It can't be..." Ulrich said.
"It is." Calvin said shocked. "XANA's alive. XANA's alive and he has the scanners active!"
"Calvin, you knew about this?" Ulrich asked.
"I did too." Ami said. "As well as Sam, Antea, and Dennis."
"Dad, what time is it?" Calvin asked.
"9:07. Why?" Ulrich said.
"XANA's attack begins at 10:30, tonight." Calvin said.
"So XANA's back?" Yumi asked. "After all these years?"
"He's been back for about a year now." Calvin said. "He killed Mr. Delmas, sent me and Dennis to jail, and he killed Jeremie."
"Your telling us this now?" Yumi asked as Calvin headed out the door. "Where are you going?"
"I have to warn the others!" Calvin shouted as he left. "Meet me at the factory if you can!"
"Ami, Yumi, come on." Ulrich said grabbing his keys.
"Where are we going?" Yumi asked.
"To the factory. Where else?" Ulrich said.
As Calvin was crossing the street, he failed to notice a motorcycle coming towards him. It then stopped just before it hit Calvin.
"Hey, hey, hey." Dennis, who was driving the motorcycle, said taking off his helmet. "Cross at the green, not in betw... Calvin?"
"No time to explain. Give me a ride." Calvin said hopping on the back.
"Whoa man. Not so fast" Dennis said. "Do you even have a helmet?"
"No." Calvin said.
"Eh, I'll pay the fine. Just hold on." Dennis said as Calvin wrapped his arms around Dennis's waist and drove off.
"So what's wrong with you?" Dennis asked.
"XANA's alive and he has the scanners online." Calvin said.
"What?" Dennis said. "Impossible."
"He just broke into a power plant and took all the power he need to keep his scanners running." Calvin said. "How far on you on the ANAX Program?"
"Now I'm at the hard part: Finding Anthony Schaeffer." Dennis said. "I'm more than certain it's Jim, however. Given all the evidence we've gathered in the past."
"Alright then." Calvin said. "Could you turn around and head to the factory now?"
"My pleasure." Dennis said as he took a different route and started to head towards the factory. About a minute later, Calvin noticed the Dunbar Publishers main building and had an idea.
"Hey Dennis." Calvin said. "Stop the bike." Dennis then stopped and Calvin hopped off.
"Where are you going?" Dennis asked.
"To get your father." Calvin said heading towards the front doors.
"What? No way!"
"Dennis, a psychopathic computer program is about to destroy all of humanity in a matter of hours, we need all the help we can get." He then headed inside.
"Well, good luck." Dennis said as he drove off to the factory.
When Calvin went inside, he went up to the desk at the end of the floor.
"Excuse me." Calvin said. "I'm looking for Mr. Dunbar."
"Do you have an appointment?" The receptionist asked.
"No but it's an emergency." Calvin said.
"Well, unless you have an appointment, I can't allow you to see him."
"If you don't, then I'll be happy to report you to majority shareholders, and sons of Mr. Dunbar, Mr. William Dunbar Jr. and his twin brother Russell Dunbar. Ages 20, run the chess club at the University of Paris-Pierre and Marie Curie, graduated from Lycee Diderott with 3.7 GPAs and are currently multi-million euro rap stars." Calvin said. "Do I make myself clear?"
"Top floor, end of the hallway." The receptionist said. Calvin then took the nearest elevator to the top floor and headed towards William's office.
"Excuse me, Mr. Dunbar?" Calvin said.
"Yes, can I help you?" William said.
"Listen to me." Calvin said. "You're William Dunbar, former Lyoko Warrior along with Jeremie Belpois, Aelita Schaeffer, Odd Della Robbia, Ulrich Stern, and Yumi Ishiyama. Am I correct."
"You know about Lyoko?" William asked.
"Yes, my name is Calvin Stern. Son of Ulrich Stern and Yumi Ishiyama."
"You're the Stern kid that Dennis always hangs out with." William said. "You know, I'm surprised you haven't told him yet."
"Told him what?" Calvin asked.
"You know. About his brothers." William asked. "Didn't your mother tell you."
"She never talked about William Jr. and Russell." Calvin said.
"She never said anything to you?" William asked. He then buried his face in his hands. "Oh God, what have I done?"
"Is something the matter?" William said nothing. "Look, the reason I'm here is that XANA's alive and he's stronger than ever. We need you to help us..."
"You don't need me!" William said raising his voice. "I've already done enough damage the first time, I refuse to go back. Besides, I don't think Yumi and everyone else is ready to forgive me for what I've done."
"But she will forgive you. My mother just doesn't seem like the type of person to hold a grudge no matter what it might be." Calvin said. "Anyways, what is it that happened anyway?"
"I don't want to talk about it." William said. "Just leave. I'm not helping you, fight this battle yourself."
"Alright then." Calvin said. "I guess the police would be very interested to hear about your plagiarism work."
"What do you mean? You can't prove that." William said.
"You're really going to take that chance?" Calvin asked. "Very well, I guess I'll see you arou..."
"Alright, I'll help you." William said. "Now, where are we going?"
"To the factory." Calvin said. "I'll explain the rest on the way."
Calvin and William then headed out the door. They were now prepared for the final battle.
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