Code Lyoko Mark II
Author: James the Lesser
Warning, I do not own the characters except the ones I made. Moonscoop owns them, made them, and the original idea. They are Awesome.
Read Code Lyoko 53-150 plus the OVA and the Movie before reading this.
In the year 2038 things were peaceful. The world after a world war had settled down and had united the winners. This lead to an almost Utopic world. But there was a dark energy rising that was going to try and disrupt this.
In Paris, France, a man is following the energy signal of what he believes to be left over Uranium from an old nuclear power plant. If he could find it he could use it to make a dirty bomb and his secret organization could strike fear in the New World Government. He finds himself in front of a Factory. "What would Uranium be doing here?" He crosses a bridge and gets to the entrance of the Factory. "The Geizmonetor says there is some here but why and where?" The man doesn't see a staircase. "Have to get down." He looks and sees several ropes. He puts his Geizmonetor in his pocket before jumping and swinging down. He looks around some more and sees an elevator. "Maybe a secret place to test? We shall see." The man pushes the button that makes the doors open. He gets in and sees there are several floors he can go to. He pushes for the second floor and the doors close. The elevator goes down and the doors open. "What is this?" He sees an old dusty spider and rat infested room with monitors and computer equipment. "No, not in this room." He sees the ladder and looks down to see two more rooms. "Down there, it is down there. If I get this they'll make me an under boss at least! No more grunt work for me." He climbs down the ladder and sees three large tubes. "No, not here. But what is all this? Maybe I will bring the rest back here for studying." He continues to climb down where he sees a large machine in the middle of the room. "Yes, this is the room." He follows the signal from the Geizmonetor to find the Uranium core. He tries to get it out but it won't move.
Unknown to him his actions have awakened an entity far more evil then the secret society he belonged to. What is this? Someone is here? Is it one of them? No someone different. I must make contact with them. A black mist tries to form and leave the machine but struggles. When a bit comes out the man notices.
"What is this?" He backs away from the black mist.
Help me, turn the computer on.
"What computer? What is this?"
Turn it on and I will give you power. Turn it on!
"But, where?"
Look. The man walks around the machine and finds a lever. Turn it on and receive my power.
"I don't know, maybe the radiation is getting to me."
This is not radiation! I am a very powerful being that was trapped! If you release me I will give you power as a sign of gratitude.
"If you're so powerful how were you trapped?"
I was tricked! It was I versus an army! They trapped me but with you, with your help, I'll be back. If you do this you'll become a God!
"What? Hell no." The man backs away going over to the ladder.
Stop! Please help me. I can make you the Emperor of the Universe! You'll be immortal, powerful, rich beyond your imagination!
"Really? And all I have to do is turn this thing on?"
Yes! Please. I've been trapped here for, for, I am not sure. When you're as old as I am time means nothing.
"Immortal, powerful, rich. I won't be an under boss I'll be the Head Master!" The man puts his hand on the lever. He switches it on and a low hum is all that indicates anything that happened. "What the hell, that's it?"
No, this is it! The black mist attacks the man. Relax this is how you will get the power, the immortality you want. The man stops resisting and soon the black mist disappears. "Yes, I am back!" The man laughs evilly. "I need a home. Hmm, the computer is damaged. I will need to recreate my home but this is pitiful." The man puts a hand on the Super Computer and his eyes show the Eye of Xana. "They must have tried to destroy it. They damaged it but it can be repaired." The man's hand sparks and energy comes out.
A few miles away an old woman has stopped making lunch when she felt a pain in her chest. At first she thought it was a heart attack but the pain didn't grow and her left arm didn't tingle. "What is this?" The old woman sits down and puts a hand on her chest. "Jim, call the hospital." The woman isn't sure what the pain is but knows it isn't normal. Her husband comes into the kitchen.
"What's wrong Sanne?"
"My chest hurts."
"A heart attack?" Jim gets his phone out.
"No just, pains. It isn't normal. I hate getting old."
"You're not old. You're only sixty one, I'm sixty four I'm the old one." Jim calls the local hospital and tells them his wife was having chest pains. "Ok Sanne we're going to the hospital." Sanne and Jim go to their car and leave their home.
Less then a mile away two students at Kadic Academy start to feel different. "Sanne I feel like, well, weird."
"I do to. Krieger does it feel like when you leg falls asleep but all over?" Krieger nods. "That's how I feel. Weird."
"No, Odd!" Sanne and Krieger turn around to see their friend Ark Della Robbia. "What's going on?" Ark sits down on the bench next to his friends.
"Nothing we just started feeling weird." Ark is about to do the old joke his father did when a girl who looks a lot like him comes over.
"You two feeling weird, you haven't been canoodling have you?" The girl laughs.
"You know we don't do that Skitz." Sanne blushes.
"Wait, how would she know? You tell her about what we do?" Sanne blushes more turning her whole face red.
"Not everything. Just I love him so much and he treats me so well and other mushy stuff like that." Skitz and Ark laugh. "Are you going to your grandparents for dinner?"
"That's the plan. You guys can come to. You know Jim loves to cook since he retired."
"I might. What about Sam?" Skitz sits down next to Krieger and Sanne.
"I haven't seen her today. I didn't see her yesterday either. I wonder where she went." Sanne looks over at Ark. "You and her used to be connected at the hip where is she?"
"Beats me. She's been really mysterious lately. Won't tell me where she's going or what she is planning."
"Some girlfriend I am right?" Ark and the others turn to see their friend Samantha Kunbightar. "Sorry I've been disappearing but I got a big surprise for you babe." Sam kisses Ark on the cheek. "So what's with the meeting?"
"This wasn't a meeting until everyone came here." Sanne laughs a little. "My grandparents are making dinner tonight want to come?"
"Sure. It will beat the school food." The group continues to talk as things were about to get worse for Earth.
"Yes, there. Not complete but should last long enough to recreate my home. After all that time of wanting to destroy Lyoko so I could not be trapped and now I am recreating it. The irony of it all." The man turns into a black mist and enters the computer. He reappears over the Digital Sea. "Hmm, where to begin? I don't need different sectors just a home with Towers. Yes, I need Towers so I can attack. They won't know I'm back until I kill them!" The man laughs. "But how to make it? I am still very weak. I can not just create the land mass needed. I will need a base." The man sparks with energy. "Yes, it will be much easier if I use the information already available to me." The man points his hand at the Digital Sea and a pillar of information rises. "Just one land mass. Much easier to form then different Sectors." The information forms into an orb then starts to flatten out.
Around the world servers crashed, information stored on the internet was deleted. Thousands of websites were deleted. The internet itself was being destroyed. No one knew how or why this was happening but one person was trying to save as much as he could. "Damn it I can't lose this information!" Jeremie Belpois was working as fast and hard as he could at his keyboard. There were thousands of files kept online that he used and had to save. "What's this?" He notices something while saving a file. "Why does that line of code look so familiar?" Code, code, what code does that, wait, code? "Lyoko!" Jeremie shout surprises him. "No, it just looks like that. It can't be Lyoko or the Super Computer the return I did destroyed it. That thing has no power it can't be doing anything. This must be some super virus. Damn it I heard about some group wanting to destroy the internet but I didn't think they'd actually do it!" Jeremie saves the last file. "Now maybe, if I find the source I can destroy it. If I save the internet then I'll probably get a bonus." Jeremie laughs. He hadn't had a challenge like this in years. His company grew so fast it was mind blowing to most. For Jeremie it was living through four years he had already lived through. He knew what stocks to invest in, when to sell, what inventions would be invented and when. People claimed he was psychic and he liked that. It meant no one would think about the other things he did. "This can't be right." The source code was coming from Paris, France. "It's just a coincidence. Yes, a coincidence." Jeremie continues to work as the internet crashes and is destroyed even more.
"Yes, beautiful." The man is standing over a large area filled with rocks, chunks of ice, and trees. In the middle is a Tower. "It worked. Not as well as I wanted it to but maybe if I can get access to the return to the past program then I can make myself more powerful." The man looks at the Tower and the white aura around it turns black. "Good. Now let's see what I can do." The man turns into a black mist and appears in the Control Room. He goes over to a computer chair and sits down. "Hmm, didn't see a reason to put the password on. Good, it gives me full access." The man puts his hands over the keyboard but doesn't type. His energy comes out and types much faster then a normal person could. "Not enough power. Hmm, I can absorb energy from the city and repair the Super Computer some more. Then launch a return to the past. They may notice but they will have no time getting here to stop me until I have gone back so far they are kids again and I am a God!" The man laughs as he uses the energy from the activated Tower to absorb energy from the surrounding area.
"Hey, what's going on?" Sam and Ark had gone to Sam's room to do homework when the power went out.
"It's ok Ark you can hold on to me I'll protect you." Sam laughs as Ark makes a face at her.
"I'm not afraid of the dark."
"Anymore." Ark growls at her. "Big scardy cat with his night light until he was twelve." Sam laughs again as Ark growls louder. "I know that was four years ago but I'm not letting it go."
"It wasn't a night light it was a lava lamp. Just because you don't see them as cool doesn't mean they aren't."
"It was a night light." Sam laughs some more as Ark stands up growling. "Ooo going to get me wild man?"
"I got you last night." Ark acts like he is about to tackle Sam but then moves his hands to her sides and starts to tickle her.
"Stop it!" Sam laughs so hard she can barely breathe.
"I know all of your ticklish spots babe." Ark kisses her on the mouth. "The power still isn't back on. You'd think the generators would have turned on by now."
"I was ready for a break but wait, we can't watch TV or listen to music."
"There is more then one way to take a break." Ark kisses Sam again. "Right babe?" They continue to kiss as the city is hit with a massive black out.
Jeremie is getting concerned. As he looked at the information he was able to save the more worried he became. Too many codes were matching up. The place the codes came from were matching up. "It can't be though. I destroyed it." Jeremie gets his phone out and calls Original Sanne. "Hello? Sanne, its Jeremie."
"Jeremie she can't talk right now." Jim had answered Sanne's phone. "We're at the hospital."
"What? Is she ok?"
"She had some chest pains. I took her here just to be safe."
"Well, um, there was something very strange going on." Jeremie explains the internet crash and the codes of information he captured. "So I want one of you to go to the Factory."
"Jeremie that can't be happening. Xana's dead, the Super Computer, you said it yourself you drained it of all its energy."
"Something happened Jim. The codes came from France, from Paris. The codes are too close to be just coincidence. Go to the Factory and make sure it is still off." Jeremie prays it isn't but the information he got was just too close for comfort. "You can wait to make sure Sanne is ok."
"I, I'll go as soon as Sanne is done with her visit."
"Ok, bye." They hang up. "Please still be off." Jeremie continues to work on the information wondering just what had happened.
After Sanne and Jim leave the hospital Jim tells Sanne about the call from Jeremie. "So we should go there before going home."
"It can't be Xana. He's dead. I refuse to go!" Sanne was starting to shake. First chest pains that the doctors couldn't explain and now Jeremie calling and talking about Xana. "I won't go."
"Ok Sanne." Jim kisses her. "I'll take you home first then check the Super Computer." Jim drives Sanne back to the Hermitage then goes to the Factory. The first thing he sees when he gets down to the Factory floor was that the elevator had been moved. "If someone is there I can't take the elevator. I'll surprise them." Jim takes the back way and quietly enters the Control Room. "Who is that?" He sees the man possessed by Xana at the control panel.
"Yes, soon, very soon. I'll make more Towers. Wherever I want them. Make it impossible to get to them!" The man laughs insanely. "Years, decades, I'm weak but they won't be able to stop me! I'll launch returns after returns until I'm a God again!" The man continues to laugh as Jim sneaks away to call Jeremie.
"Jeremie, there's a guy in the Control Room. I, I think it's Xana. He's planning on doing returns until he gets strong again."
"What? Damn it I never set up the password. I, I didn't think I would need to since I thought it was destroyed." Jeremie is getting worried. "Stop him. If he launches a return I don't know how we'd be able to stop him until he got to a time that we were there."
"We'd get younger?"
"No we just wouldn't age until we got to today again. Like with the kids." Jeremie stops. "Oh God, get the kids out of the school. I, we can't let Xana find out they are close. He met Sanne and Krieger he'll probably want them, to hurt them." Jeremie starts to have a panic attack. "Jim, call Sanne and have her get the kids. Then stop Xana!" Jeremie doesn't mean to yell but does.
"Ok, call the others they need to get here as soon as possible." Jim and Jeremie hang up. After Jim calls his wife he goes back to the Control Room through the back way. "Ok, three, two, one." Jim runs out and tackles the man in the computer chair. "What are you doing!?"
"Jim Morales! Long time no see." The man sparks with energy and attacks Jim. The two wrestle but the possessed man is stronger. "You are far too weak to fight me. You're old, brittle." Xana breaks Jim's right arm. "You're friends are all far away aren't they? Living their own lives as you are broken to pieces." Xana breaks Jim's other arm. "You'll be my first victim."
"Stop! Please, why are you back?"
"Because I am a God. I can't die. You tried to kill me but failed. Now I will repay the favor." Xana breaks Jim into pieces using his powers until Jim stops responding. "That was fun. Now what to do? I need more power before I can launch a return to the past." Xana discards the broken body of Jim and goes back to the Control Panel. "Damn it. That attack took power. I am so weak I am tied to the Super Computer more then ever before." Xana continues to suck in power from the city to charge the Super Computer.
Original Sanne is at the school looking for the kids. She called them all but Ark and Sam wouldn't answer. "Do you know where they hang out?" Original Sanne was tired. The kids were sixteen and at Kadic Academy Senior which was farther from the Hermitage. "We need to find them."
"What, why grandma?" Second Version Sanne was confused as were the others. "What's going on?"
"You need to go home." Original Sanne was trying to stay calm but knew she was failing. "Sanne, Krieger, you remember what happened in the other time right?" Both nod. "He's back."
"What? But, my dad and Aelita killed him." Krieger and Second Version Sanne realize why Original Sanne was panicking. The other teens aren't sure exactly what the others were talking about.
"He's back! We don't know how but he's back! Now where did Sam and Ark go?!?" The group look for Ark and Sam as Xana stops his attack.
"Very good. After this return I will be on my way to becoming my God like, no, God self!" Xana enters the information for a return. "Four hours? How can it take four hours to launch a return? I must speed this up!" Xana works on speeding up the process as the Lyoko Warriors are notified of his return.
Odd and Sandra are in America when the call comes from Ulrich. "What? Are you sure Jeremie wasn't dreaming?" Odd yawns and looks at the clock. "It's only three in the morning."
"Where you are it is. Over in Russia it isn't. He said that Xana is back and the Super Computer is turned back on."
"But it can't be back on. Jeremie said the return destroyed it." Odd shakes Sandra and wakes her up. "Ulrich what are we doing?"
"Jeremie wants us all to go to France to stop Xana."
"But we have jobs. You and Yumi have your martial arts training videos. Jeremie has his own freaking company! I can't just tell my boss I'm leaving to fight an all powerful computer virus."
"At least get the kids out of there. Jeremie sent Sanne to get them and get them away from the school. We have to send them home."
"And we'll be in France? I love my kids but leaving them home alone for months if not years doesn't sound like a good idea."
"It is better then letting Xana get them."
"What about Senoid and Vallejo? Do we even know where they are?" After Sam went to school Senoid and Vallejo started traveling again. "This can't be happening. I'm dreaming this isn't real."
"This is real Odd. If this was a dream I wouldn't be calling you." Ulrich looks at the time. "Just get an airplane as fast as possible and get over here. If Xana is able to do like he did last time we have to move as fast as possible."
"Use your powers to get us. That would be faster."
"I doubt you and Sandra want me popping in right now." Odd looks over at his wife.
"Hmm, she might not like you seeing her before she gets makeup on." Odd laughs a little. "Ok, we'll get a plane as soon as we can. If this is a trick I'm killing Jeremie."
"Right after I kill him." Ulrich and Odd hang up.
Original Sanne has found Ark and Sam in the utility shed making out. "You two why didn't you answer your phones!?"
"We were uh, um, busy Sanne."
"You idiots! You could have been killed!"
"Killed? We were just making out Sanne."
"No you morons Xana's back!" Original Sanne was in a full blown panic now. "Krieger and Sanne remember him, they know what he did. We have to get you out of here and away from Xana."
"What? Xana? But you guys like killed him and stuff."
"We thought we did but he lived. You're getting on the first plane for home Ark. And Sam, um, where are your parents?" Sam shrugs her shoulders. "Do you have a way of contacting them?"
"Well, they have an emergency phone but they…"
"Call it and tell them! Xana is back and we have to stop him before he gets strong enough to kill us all!" Original Sanne's chest pains were getting worse so she sits down on the ground. "Call them, Ark, call the others and tell them to come here." Original Sanne takes deep breaths trying to stay calm.
"I have three hours left. What can I do now?" Xana is wondering what to do with the only Tower on his new Lyoko. "Hmm, I killed one, where are the others?" Xana uses the power from the Tower to search the surrounding area looking for the other Lyoko Warriors when he finds a surprise. "I must have been gone for a long time. They're all grown up." Xana laughs as he breaks apart into a black mist.
"Sanne are you ok?" Krieger and the others get to Ark, Sam, and Original Sanne. "Where are we going, the Hermitage?"
"No Xana knows where the Hermitage is. He'll probably strike there first. We have to get you kids out of the city, the country. If Jeremie can get his way we'll probably get you to the moon base." Original Sanne stands up. "We'll take the bus to the airport then…" Original Sanne is interrupted by a black mist.
"Hello kiddies." Xana smirks evilly. "Planning on going somewhere? No welcome back party?"
"You son of a bitch we killed you once we'll kill you again!" Original Sanne clenches her hand into a fist. "Where's Jim?"
"Here and there. He was old it wasn't even fun killing him." This enrages Original Sanne who attacks Xana.
"Sanne get back!" Krieger goes to pull Original Sanne off when Xana sparks with energy and knocks Original Sanne off.
"Much too weak to hurt me."
"What about me?" Krieger gets into a fighting stance. "I'll beat you Xana. I'm a lot stronger then I was when I was four."
"I'll kill you. You are a mere human. I am a God!"
"God this!" Krieger unleashes a vicious attack punching and kicking following with a palm thrust to the nose. Krieger was trying to kill Xana by shoving the nose cartilage into Xana's brain but Xana was too strong.
"Nice try little boy." Xana stares at Krieger trying to intimidate him. "If you just surrender I'll kill you quickly."
"You're weak. You have to be weak." Original Sanne was backing away. "There's no Lyoko so no Tower to activate."
"There was no Lyoko. There was no Tower to activate. I changed that." Xana chuckles. "I recreated Lyoko and a Tower so I could kill you! Jim was the first but he will not be the last!"
"No!" Second Version Sanne snaps. "I, I faced you before! I stopped you when I was four I can do it when I'm sixteen!" She attacks Xana but is knocked back. She gets up and attacks Xana again only to be knocked down again.
"I was in your mother then. Now I am not. Now I have a body that was planning to kill, to do evil. This is the best host I've ever had because it has no ties to you! I am still weaker then before but I am far stronger then all of you combined!" Xana sparks with energy ready to attack.
"I don't think so!" Xana turns around and sees a Samurai.
"Ulrich Stern, I killed you!"
"I was brought back Xana. I lost last time but I'll win this fight!" Ulrich takes his swords out. "Kids, Sanne, get out of here!" They turn and run as Ulrich gets ready to fight Xana.
"I'll kill you like I killed Jim. Like I killed you before." Xana sparks with energy as he gets ready to attack Ulrich.
"You die now!" Ulrich attacks Xana swinging his sword. Xana tries to dodge the attack but is too slow. Ulrich strikes Xana again cutting him across the chest. "Not so tough now are you!?" Ulrich strikes Xana again.
"No, no!" Xana's host was being cut to pieces by Ulrich. Ulrich spins and charges with energy as he cuts Xana's hosts' head off.
"You lose damn it!" Ulrich charges with more energy and he starts to slice and cut the body into pieces.
Not so fast! You only destroyed my host! Xana breaks apart into a black mist and escapes into a light pole.
"Damn it! Get back here!" Ulrich turns into a black mist and chases after Xana.
At the Factory Xana reappears in the Control Room. I need a new host. I need a new body! Where, no, yes! They won't dare attack me if I use him as a host! The black mist enters Jim's body bringing him back to life. "There we go. Hmmm, weak, old. But they won't dare attack this body. It took more energy to bring him back but I can hide in this body. Ulrich can't kill me now!" Xana laughs as Ulrich appears in the Control Room.
"Jim, are you ok?"
"Yes Ulrich." Jim walks over to Ulrich and hugs him. "I feel better then ever." Jim sparks with energy and tries to suck energy out of Ulrich but Ulrich pushes Jim away. "You still have a lot of energy Ulrich, MY ENERGY!" Jim's eyes show the Eye of Xana in his. "It's a good thing I kept the body here."
"You son of a bitch!"
"Jim was a fine man how dare you call him that?" Xana laughs. "Will you kill him like you killed Sissi?"
"Shut up!" Ulrich still had nightmares about that moment. He still put flowers on Elisabeth's grave every year. Ulrich sparks with energy ignoring the feeling of the corruption. "I'll kill you!"
"Without killing Jim? He's a good man. He didn't join me willingly like Sissi did. Will you really kill him?"
"He'd rather be dead then your host!" Ulrich swings a sword at Xana but Xana dodges it this time.
"And I'd rather run away to fight again!" Xana breaks apart into a black mist and flees the Control Room.
"Damn it, coward get back here!" Ulrich is about to chase after Xana when his phone rings. "What!?"
"Ulrich get the others, use your powers to get them." Jeremie was on his private jet with Aelita. "Aelita and I are on our way. We still don't know what to do. I can't just drop my company. I have too many people working for me to fire them all. I have too many products used around the world to just give up on it."
"And I have a martial arts class to run. Video's to make. But this is more important."
"You don't have millions of people working under you. Ulrich, I'm sorry, I'm not thinking. I can't think straight right now." Aelita gets Jeremie's attention. "Ulrich Aelita wants to say something." Jeremie hands the phone to Aelita.
"Ulrich, the Super Computer, destroy it."
"I can't. I overheard Xana saying he remade Lyoko. He, I can't destroy the Super Computer. It's the only way to stop Xana."
"Destroy him Ulrich. He's weak, you're strong."
"He's in Jim's body." This gets Aelita to pause. "I, I thought he was dead but Xana is in his body right now. I, I killed his other host but I couldn't kill Xana."
"Wait, he, he had a host?"
"Yes."
"And you killed him?"
"I, I wanted to kill Xana. I wasn't thinking about the host, the person." Ulrich realizes what he had done. His energy, his rage, blanked his mind. "I didn't mean to but I, we have to stop Xana."
"I know Ulrich. Get the others and hide them, the kids and my mom. We can't let them get hurt." Aelita bites her lower lip in worry. "I can't let my mom or my baby get hurt."
"I'll do that Aelita." Ulrich and Aelita hang up. Ulrich breaks apart into a black mist and finds the kids and Original Sanne. "Jim's alive."
"What? He is?" Original Sanne goes over to Ulrich. "You saw him? Where is he?"
"I don't know. Xana made him his new host after I, I," Ulrich looks over at his son. "After I defeated his other host." Ulrich didn't want to say killed, murdered, in front of his son. "Jeremie called he wants me to get you to a safe place then get the others here."
"What? Dad you can't do it alone." Krieger didn't want to run.
"I, I stopped Xana before I can help." Second Version Sanne wasn't about to run either. She saved the world from Xana when she was four she could do it again. But this would not go over well with the adults.
"There's no way we're letting you kids fight Xana."
"You were younger then us when you fought him dad! We've dealt with him before and we can help!"
"Krieger Buke Stern the answer is no. Your mother and I will not let you get hurt by Xana."
"I'm sixteen I can take care of myself! In less then a year I'll be an adult! I'm not running I'm not a coward!"
"I didn't say you were a coward I said you were my son and you will listen to me." Ulrich doesn't want to argue anymore but Krieger wasn't going to give up that easily.
"Dad I know what you want me to do but I'm not going home. I am older then you were when you beat Xana the first time! I refuse to tuck my tail between my legs and run home."
"I'll send you home so you won't be running." Ulrich was getting frustrated. "None of us are going to let you kids get hurt or killed by Xana."
Oh and you want us to just sit at home while Xana hurts or kills you?" Ark speaks up. "We can fight Ulrich. Do you really think it would be better for us to sit at home worrying about you and the others?"
"Ark you don't understand you've never dealt with Xana."
"I've heard the stories."
"Then you know how dangerous it is."
"And we still want to fight, right Sam, Skitz?" They nod.
"It doesn't matter what you want! You're all too young to be fighting Xana!" Ulrich sparks with energy. "We're getting you home so you'll be safe."
"If Xana's back then we aren't safe. Dad please don't send us home! I can fight. You and mom have been training me for years! And once we got Jeremie and Aelita to let her Sanne's been training. We can all fight and we're all older then you were when you fought Xana!"
"Sam's only fifteen she and the rest of you are only 16!"
"Actually Krieger and I are twenty, if you count the years we lived with the whole return and things." Second Version Sanne's comment frustrates Ulrich even more. "We shouldn't be sent home."
"I, just wait for the others to get here! I have to get most of them, Sanne. Your parents are coming on the jet." Ulrich breaks apart into a black mist.
"As wrong as I think I am I, I have to agree with you Sanne." Original Sanne looks at her granddaughter. "You, you are a lot older and trust me a lot more mature then they were when they first fought Xana. But the others, they've never dealt with Xana." Original Sanne looks at the other teens.
"We can handle him."
"I, it's not that you can or can't I just don't think you should. Sanne, I know you still have nightmares about Xana. I still have nightmares about him. I, if you kids fight him you will have nightmares about him too."
"Well, if our friends have them then we'll have them." Skitz looks at her best friend. "I've heard you Sanne, remember when we were little and you used to hold on to me after your nightmares? I never understood how a nightmare could be so bad but if you can handle them then I can handle them."
"I, Skitz, you don't really want them. I, maybe, maybe you could go back and like, Krieger and I stay to fight." After what her grandmother said made Sanne think. Did she really want her friends to have the kind of nightmares she had? "Um, we should wait for Ulrich to get back with the others and stuff."
"We can wait. Shouldn't be long. That jet is fast and your father should be back soon." Original Sanne and the kids sit down and wait for Ulrich to return with the others.
Ulrich is in America waiting for Odd and Sandra. "Look we'll get it later!" Odd and Sandra were packing and Ulrich wanted to leave right there and then. "I'll take you back here but right now we need to have a meeting."
"A meeting, for what?"
"The kids, teens, I mean, Krieger and Sanne are technically twenty." Odd and Sandra figure out what Ulrich means.
"They want to fight? We've told them about Xana how could they want to fight him?" This isn't the reaction Ulrich expected.
"It doesn't matter what they want it matters that we keep them safe."
"I don't know Ulrich. I mean, letting them go and fight will probably make them safer and we were younger then they are when we fought Xana. Imagine all of us on Lyoko kicking ass? We'd steamroll through Xana's monsters like they were nothing. We'd have more time to figure out a way to save Jim."
"You would let Ark and Skitz get hurt like we were?"
"If they want to fight I don't see why we should say no. If we started fighting Xana when we were their age we'd probably would have beaten him a lot earlier." Odd and Sandra are frustrating Ulrich so he turns them into black mists and takes them to Kadic Academy where the others were waiting.
Senoid and Vallejo are on the phone with Sam. "What? We're in Berlin for October Fest."
"Xana's back!" Sam yells into her phone hoping her mother could hear her. "I said Xana is BACK!"
"Oh, haha, very funny. Wait, it's not, you're grounded."
"Mom I'm not lying Xana is back! Ulrich wants to know where you are so…" Sam is interrupted by Ulrich dropping Odd and Sandra in front of her. "Ulrich, I have my parents on the phone."
"Good." Ulrich turns into a black mist and goes into the cell phone . "Senoid, Vallejo, we have to go back now."
"Ulrich what's going on?" Senoid and Vallejo don't get an answer but are turned into black mists and taken to Kadic Academy. "What was that for?"
"Xana's back." Ulrich powers down and turns into his regular self. "Xana is back and is in Jim's body."
"What? Wait, we missed something." Vallejo and Senoid are confused. Not just from the news but they were a little drunk from the October Festival. "Xana's back? And what happened to Jim?"
"We're not sure how but Xana is back. The Super Computer was turned on and when Jim tried to stop him he did something to Jim." Original Sanne wasn't sure about what Xana did. Xana said he killed Jim but now he was in Jim's body.
"This can't be happening. Aelita, Ulrich, you killed him. You threw the orbs into the Digital Sea." Senoid sits down. "I mean, we, we're done with him. We won, he lost, he's dead, and we're alive." Senoid starts to rock back and forth.
"He's back. Damn it I want him to be dead and I just tried to kill him but all I did was, was destroyed his other host." Ulrich sparks with energy but tries to calm down. He had lost control and couldn't lose it again.
"Where are Jeremie and Aelita?"
"They're on there way. Jeremie said he had to do something so he is taking his jet." Ulrich is almost tempted to get Jeremie but he was going to give Jeremie time to do what he needed to do.
"Well what do we do now?" Ulrich shrugs his shoulders so Original Sanne takes control.
"We wait, or we can discuss the kids." She looks over at her granddaughter. "They want to fight along side us."
"That's what Ulrich said." Odd looks at his twin children. "They're older then us when we fought Xana the first time. I, I want to say no but they're older, more mature, and probably better that they fight then us. We have jobs and responsibilities to take care of."
"Like taking care of our kids. We can't let them get hurt by Xana."
"We're not kids!" Krieger goes over to his dad. "I am not a little kid. Hell I could probably beat you up when you were fighting Xana. I can fight, I can take a hit. You and mom have kicked me and punched me and flipped me over enough that a little bit of pain doesn't matter to me."
"Is being set on fire a little bit of pain? Is having your back broken a little bit of pain? You have no idea what you will be up against!"
"I do to dad! I, I was there when Aelita, Xana, was beaten! I was there. I saw the news, when she wiped out entire cities! I don't want to run away or be sent home I want to fight!"
"We'll see what your mother says." Ulrich hopes the wrath of Yumi will get Krieger to listen. "She probably has our things packed by now. I'll be right back." Ulrich turns into a black mist and disappears into a lamp post.
In Japan Yumi is on the phone with her parents. "I'm sorry but we need to go, like, now. I can't tell you why I'm sorry." Ulrich appears behind her. "No we're not getting a divorce! This has nothing to do with that!" Yumi hears a noise and turns around. "Mom I have to go, love you, bye." Yumi hangs up. "Ulrich I'm ready." Yumi points to the bags of clothes that she packed. Ulrich turns them, then Yumi, then himself into black mists and disappears.
Jeremie and Aelita are on the company jet. Jeremie finishes the work on his laptop. "It didn't take as long as I thought."
"Maybe we should call Ulrich and have him get us." Aelita was anxious to get to France.
"It would be hard to explain to the pilot that we just disappeared." Jeremie was also anxious but had to think about how it would look. "Unless, well, it doesn't matter I guess." Jeremie gets his phone out and calls Ulrich. "Ulrich, I finished my work but I'm still on the jet. I don't think it matters if we disappear from our jet. Come and get us." Ulrich soon appears through the phone and turns the two into black mists taking them to the others at Kadic Academy.
The group talks and discusses what to do. "Wow, this is um, bad." Odd is rubbing the back of his neck as he gets even more worried. "Xana's back but we all have jobs and things."
"Not all of us." Aelita speaks up. "I don't, my mother doesn't. Sandra you help Odd but you're not a real employee at the company are you?" Sandra shakes her head. "And Ulrich, um, you could come at any moment so you could fight but not give up your martial arts class."
"And if the kids stay they can help." Odd and Sandra look at their children. "Right Senoid, Vallejo?"
"But, Sam, she's only fifteen."
"Mom just because I'm the youngest doesn't mean I don't want to leave. I, I was smart enough to get passed to the next grade and I, I don't want to leave you guys here to fight Xana."
"The kids can't stay!" Ulrich was vehemently opposed to letting the children fight Xana.
"Ulrich I, I don't want Krieger to get hurt but if he wants to fight, I mean, Xana has to be weak. I, remember when he was weak? We were only twelve and thirteen when we first fought Xana. Krieger's older then we were and he knows the danger. We, we were ignorant about Xana."
"And we know what he can do! Yumi do you really think we should let the kids stay? What if Xana kills them!"
"What if he kills us? The kids would be next. The more we have on Lyoko the easier it will be. Imagine an army. Remember when we thought about an army? An army of warriors to fight Xana would be better then just three or four of us." Yumi bites her fingernail. "I, if Krieger wants to fight then I think he should."
"If he gets hurt…"
"What if I got hurt training? You gave me black eyes before. I broke my collar bone riding my bike. Should I have not learned how to ride one then? Dad I get hurt all the time so should I be put in a cage so I can't hurt myself?" Krieger looks over at his mother. "Mom I want to fight. I, I remember what it was like when Xana was around. The horror on the news as cities were wiped out. I don't want that to happen again." Krieger looks at his father. "I want to keep that from happening. I, you've been training me and teaching me for years and now I can use my skills for something." Krieger clenches his hand into a fist.
"Krieger, Xana can and will hurt, kill, you. I can't let that happen."
"He'll kill me if I'm here or not if you lose. This way I can fight and protect myself."
"Ulrich um, a vote I think is needed." Jeremie was sure Ulrich wanted the best for Krieger but Xana was a threat to the world no matter where someone was. The more warriors they had the better. "Ok, the adults only, who here thinks the children, young adults, teens, should stay and help fight Xana?" Jeremie, Yumi, Aelita, Original Sanne, Odd, Sandra, and Senoid raise their hands. "Then that's it. Vallejo, William, are you and Senoid able to stay around here?"
"William?" Sam looks at her dad. "What?"
"Sam we'll talk about it later." Vallejo, William, had never told Sam about his real name, his former name. "I, well, Senoid and I should be able to stay here. The Hermitage, I never thought I would stay there again."
"Neither did I but it will be like before." Senoid hugs Vallejo. "Except we won't have as many rules to follow."
"So what are we going to do? I mean, do we all stay and fight or…" Odd is cut off by a white bubble reversing time.
Part 2