Part 2
Ulrich is collecting the other Lyoko Warriors and taking them back to Kadic Academy where the children are waiting after the return. Original Sanne runs over from the Hermitage to join them. Krieger and both Sanne's then see Ulrich forming with the Hopper's, Della Robbia's, and Yumi Ishiyama. "Where's Sam? We need her to call her parents so I can get them."
"I, she's probably on her way here." Krieger turns when he hears footsteps and sees Ark and Sam running over to them.
"Sam, call your parents, I need to get them." Ulrich sparks with energy. He already felt the corruption at the base of his spine but he ignores it. He needed to get the Lyoko Warriors.
"Ok." Sam gets her phone out and calls her parents. When they answer Ulrich turns into a black mist and enters the phone. A few seconds later he comes back with Sam's parents.
"What are we doing?"
"We have to go to the Control Room and stop Xana!" Aelita stomps her foot. "If he launches more returns then it will be harder to stop him! The stronger he gets the harder it will be to separate him from Jim."
"Come with me." Ulrich turns the whole group into a black mist. He has a little trouble with it as it took more energy then normal but they soon arrive in the Control Room where Xana was waiting for them.
"Hello kiddies." Xana, Jim, smiles evilly. "I knew you would come and it is taking nearly an hour to launch the next return so I thought I would welcome you back the only way I know how." Xana sparks with energy but before he can attack Ulrich tackles him.
"You bastard!" Ulrich punches Xana hard in the face but does little damage. Xana was using the Towers power on himself instead of charging the return faster. "I, Sanne, can I, should I," Ulrich wants permission to kill Jim, Xana, like he had killed Elisabeth. "Can I kill him?" The first host Ulrich just sliced with his swords but that would not kill Xana just the host. He had to do it like he had killed Elisabeth all those many years ago.
"You can't kill me!" Xana has an aura of energy charge around him and it pushes Ulrich off. "You won't kill Jim. He didn't join me I made him join me. He wants to be free but you won't kill him I know it!" Xana laughs evilly. "Jim is a great host even though I have to struggle with his feelings."
"Shut up!" Ulrich charges his fist and punches Xana again trying to stop his laughing. "We'll stop you Xana you're weak!"
"I am weak but I will get stronger!" Xana turns into a black mist and gets away from Ulrich. He reforms across the room. "I'm bored, I think I'll go and destroy the school now." Xana turns into a black mist again and escapes the Control Room. Ulrich doesn't know if he should chase after Xana or help the others on Lyoko. Thankfully Jeremie makes the decision for him.
"Ulrich, go after him, we'll go to Lyoko." Jeremie goes over to the computer chair and sits down. "I never wanted to do this again."
"Who's all going? All of us?" Krieger was ready to go to Lyoko and fight Xana and his monsters.
"I, Aelita, Sanne, um, Sanne Morales, you two go since you can deactivate the Tower and, um, third person, Odd, you go."
"Ok."
"What about me dad? I, if I'm the daughter and granddaughter of two people who can deactivate Towers then I probably can to."
"I, ok, after I send these three you will go with Senoid and Sandra." Jeremie was holding back on sending Vallejo, William, since he was no longer dead. What would he be, what powers would he have now on Lyoko? The group gets on the elevator and takes it down to the Scanner Room. "Transfer Sanne, Transfer Aelita, Transfer Odd, Scanner Sanne, Scanner Aelita, Scanner Odd, virtualization." They land on Lyoko. "I don't have the Super Scan running. You'll have to follow the pulses."
"Jeremie that won't be necessary." The three on Lyoko see the new Xana Made Lyoko. There are trees, then chunks of ice, then more trees. There are patches of desert and large rocks that represented the Mountain Sector. At the center of all this was a Tower. Larger then any Tower they had ever seen. "Jeremie, I'll send you a visual." Aelita concentrates and a screen appears on the monitor. "It's amazing, he made Lyoko into one large, I don't know what to call it."
"That's amazing." Jeremie is stunned. "I, look to your right."
"I, where is that weird glow coming from?" Aelita tries to look closer but can't really see anything more. "Jeremie isn't Sector 5 destroyed?"
"Yes so I don't know where that weird glow is coming from." Jeremie wants to find out more but he had other things to do.
"It will have to wait." Aelita cuts the visual.
"I'm sending the others now." Jeremie sets up the transfer for his daughter wondering what she will look like. "Transfer Sanne, Transfer Sandra, Transfer Senoid, Scanner Sanne, Scanner Sandra, Scanner, wait." A red exclamation point comes up. "Senoid get out of the Scanner!" Senoid steps out of it just before the doors close. "Crap, the Super Computer is too weak to send more than five people." Sanne and Sandra land on Lyoko.
"Whoa." Sanne looks around at Lyoko. "This is what Lyoko looks like? Where are the Sectors?"
"I don't know." Original Sanne goes over to her granddaughter. "Xana said he remade Lyoko but I guess he made it how he wanted it." As the five on Lyoko look around Jeremie brings up the holomap.
"Ok, its just one floating disc. At least you won't have to worry about the Digital Sea or Sector 5, maybe." Jeremie tries to send the vehicles but the Super Computer is too weak to make them. "You'll have to go on foot I don't have enough power to send the vehicles."
"Ok Jeremie." Aelita looks at the Tower at the center of Lyoko then at her daughter. "Honey, um, what did you think of all those years ago?"
"I didn't think of this." Second Sanne had been scanned more than a decade ago to be unaffected by the returns and apparently the Super Computer remembered that. Second Sanne was now unlike any other Lyoko Warrior. She was a blob, a pink blob. "How am I supposed to deactivate a Tower like this!?"
"Don't worry I'll do that if Aelita can't make it." Original Sanne has to keep from laughing at her granddaughter. It was ridiculous to see a giant pink blob. "I wonder what your attack is."
"I don't know, I was four!" Second Sanne would have cried if she was on Earth. "Don't let Krieger see me like this!"
"See you like what?" Krieger had gone back up to the Control Room and heard his girlfriend crying about something. "Are you ok?"
"No!" Second Sanne did not want to go anywhere as she was. Not that she was sure how to move like she was. "Um, wait, here we go." Second Sanne moves forward. "Ok, that was easy, kind of." She rolls forward crawling towards the Tower. "I think I got the handle on this."
"Hey wait for us!" The other four run after the pink blob that was Second Sanne to the activated Tower.
Xana appears at the school and sees the students on campus. "Jim hasn't been working here four three years. About time he retired. Of course after the time he nearly died working on the gay rodeo circuit as a rodeo clown you'd think, well no time to talk about that." Xana charges with energy and is about to attack the students when Ulrich forms.
"Stop right there!" Ulrich gets his swords out. "Xana, I don't want to but if I have to I'll kill Jim."
"And I'll escape again! You can't stop me Ulrich haven't you figured that out yet? After several attempts to kill me I still live! I am immortal, a God, I won't, I can't die!" Xana sends an energy blast at Ulrich but Ulrich blocks it with his sword. "And you will die just like I killed you last time!"
"Aelita, she was the one who killed me. I couldn't fight my best because I held back. But I, Jim wouldn't want to be your host. He'd rather die then be your host!" Ulrich ignores the corruption which was creeping into his brain. "I'm already a murderer I can kill again!"
"Yes, you killed Sissi and a helpless man who never had a choice!" Xana blocks Ulrich's sword with his energy. "But you won't kill me!" Xana pushes Ulrich away with his energy.
As the two fight students and teachers see the fighting. "Is that Jim? It can't be him can it?" Several of Jim's former coworkers are sure it's an old friend but it couldn't be. "And who's that, that, flying ninja guy?" The battle is watched by more and more people as it gets more violent.
On Lyoko Second Sanne's form is in front of the others as like a Mega Tank she is able to use her own momentum to move faster and faster. So far Xana had not sent any monsters but as they got closer Aelita knew it was going to happen. "Honey slow down you don't know when Xana will attack or send his monsters." Aelita is worried about her daughter and doesn't want her to get hurt but knew it would happen eventually with Xana back. "Just slow down ok?"
"Ok mom." Second Sanne slows down a little but is excited and ready to fight. She's nervous about how she would do against Xana's monsters and what she could do. She can't understand why or how she showed up as a pink blob and wonders what her subconscious was thinking.
"Well, at least I'm not the most ridiculous looking one on Lyoko." Odd has to keep from laughing.
"Be quiet Odd."
Sandra doesn't want to make Second Sanne feel any worse then she
already did. "We're almost there where are the monsters?"
Sandra realizes she should have kept her mouth shut as two Krabes and
a squad of Kankrelats appears.
Sanne stay back!"
"No." Second Sanne wanted to fight. She was just a little girl when Xana was in her mother's body. She stopped Xana, she saved her mother. Now she got to fight his monsters on Lyoko. The Kankrelats fire at the pink blob and hit it.
"Sanne you just lost ten, fifteen, now twenty points." Jeremie is starting to regret sending his daughter to Lyoko. They didn't even know if she could deactivate Towers and now she was being hurt.
"Sanne no!" Aelita yells at her daughter but Second Sanne doesn't stop. Instead she steamrolls through the Kankrelats destroying two of them. The other three turn and fire after the pink blob. "We have to do something." Aelita closes her eyes and starts to sing but nothing happens. She changes the pitch but still nothing happens. "Why won't it work?"
"Aelita I don't know if that will work anymore. This isn't the Lyoko that Franz Hopper made but Xana's Lyoko. He may have changed it so your Creativity doesn't work." Original Sanne clenches her hand into a fist. "And I don't have any powers except for my inner energy which takes a lot to bring out. Maybe I shouldn't have come to Lyoko."
"No we need you mom. I'll fight using my energy orbs and you try to get to the Tower." Aelita creates an energy orb and throws it at a Krabe. It dodges it but Odd fires an exploding arrow at it and the arrow hits it on the leg destroying the leg. The second Krabe fires at Odd who puts up his shield.
"Guys a little help here!"
"Extend!" Sandra flies up into the air doing her favorite attack. "Whoa, been awhile since I've done this." Sandra falls towards the second Krabe and slams her power pole into its Eye destroying it. She looks and sees Second Sanne coming back to run over the remaining Kankrelats. "Odd get the Krabe." The first Krabe with its leg destroyed wasn't a threat but it was there.
"Laser Arrow!" Odd destroys it. "Just like old times." Odd bows to Aelita and motions to the Tower.
"Sanne, or Aelita, get into the Tower." Jeremie sighs. Xana was weak so the monsters were weak. "Wait, what's this?" Jeremie sees something moving fast on the screen. "Get in the Tower, all of you!" The group moves for the Tower but the object gets to the Tower before them.
"Hello again Kiddies." Xana! "Ulrich will be here soon but I can have some fun before then!"
"What did you do to him!?" Aelita creates an energy orb.
"I merely blinded him when I felt you were close to the Tower." Xana sparks with energy as he prepares to attack. "Die!" Xana blasts Odd with an energy bolt sending him back to Earth.
"I forgot how much that hurts." Odd kneels down on the floor holding his chest where a scar was.
"What is this?" Xana sees Second Sanne. "What are you? Who are you?" Xana has to keep from laughing at the pink blob.
"Shut up!" Second Sanne can't get near Xana as he flies in the air. "Get down here Xana!"
"Ah, the little one. I remember you, so adorable when you were little. Now that I am back I will make sure to watch you all the time. I am sure by now you are doing things you wouldn't want your parents to know about." Xana laughs. "Maybe I will have some fun with you later but for now," Xana looks at the other Lyoko Warriors. "Who is next to go back to Earth? Sandra, yes, a woman now aren't you? Will you stay and fight or will you run home?" Xana strikes Sandra with an energy bolt sending her back to Earth.
"Ow." Sandra stumbles out of the Scanner and sees Odd. "I forgot how much that hurt."
"Same here." Odd pats the ground next to him and Sandra sits down. "I hope Ulrich gets there soon."
"Yeah. I hope Sanne, the little one doesn't get hurt."
"She will eventually I guess now would be as good a time as ever." Odd sighs. "This sucks." Sandra nods in agreement then hugs Odd.
"Who is next?" Xana looks at Second Sanne. "Little pink blob can you dodge my attacks?"
"Leave her alone!" Aelita throws her energy orb at Xana but this only focuses his attention away from Second Sanne.
"Very well you are next." Xana sends an energy bolt at Aelita but Original Sanne tackles her and knocks her out of the way. "Interfere? Fine, goodbye Sanne." Xana strikes Original Sanne sending her back to Earth.
"This is pointless Xana you can't win." Xana turns around and sees Ulrich. "That was a dirty trick trying to blind me."
"Dirty trick? You expect a fight to have rules do you? How foolish." Xana turns back towards Aelita and her daughter. "You two are lucky." He then turns towards Ulrich. "But I am immortal. You will die eventually from old age. All I have to do is wait." Xana breaks apart into a black mist and leaves Lyoko. Aelita runs over to the Tower and enters it.
"Wow." Aelita looks around inside the Tower. It was just as big inside as it looked from the outside. She walks to the forward the middle of the platform and soon starts to float up. When she lands on the second platform she doesn't see a control panel. "Jeremie, where is the control panel?"
"I don't know, how high are you in the Tower?" Jeremie had a theory about the large Tower. The bigger it was the longer it would take Aelita to run to the center and get to the platform with the control panel. Aelita moves around the platform then looks up and sees another platform even higher up.
"I see another platform Jeremie." Aelita closes her eyes and soon floats up to the third one where she sees the control panel. It would now take her several minutes to deactivate the Tower due to its massive size. Something Xana had wanted when he recreated Lyoko to his liking. Aelita goes over to the control panel and puts her hand on it. "No, this isn't good."
Welcome Aelita, I am sorry but your code is no longer accepted
"Jeremie we have a problem!" Aelita tells Jeremie what the control panel said. "What do I do?"
"I, I don't know." Jeremie concentrates. "Ulrich, find Xana! He had to know this wouldn't work, he didn't retreat he went to attack!" Ulrich turns into a black mist and chases after Xana.
As Ulrich searches for Xana Jeremie realizes another problem. "The return, I didn't even think about it." Jeremie now sees the return program had been activated but was taking a long time to launch due to the Super Computers lack of power. "I have enough time to stop it." Jeremie's finger move over the key board. "I, crap, what did Xana do?" It was going to take longer than he thought.
"Xana!" Ulrich had caught up to Xana who was about to attack the campus of Kadic Academy again. "Ran like a coward!"
"I ran so I could accomplish my attack that is all." Xana has an energy orb in his hands and was adding more power to it. "And to make you use your powers more. I know the corruption is about to over take you."
"Shut up!" Xana was correct and it made Ulrich even worse as he charges energy to attack. Xana throws the energy orb at Ulrich who swings his swords to tear it apart. The energy wraps around his swords then moves down to his hands and into his arm. "What did you do to me!?" The energy moves into Ulrich's body and he feels his corruption spike into his brain. "You made me feel better than I have for years!" Energy sparks around Ulrich as his outfit turns black, his eyes black. "But don't think I will do your bidding Xana!" Ulrich attacks Xana who was surprised. Ulrich should have lost control and attacked anything.
"Damn you Ulrich I let your powers come out you should be grateful to me!" Xana creates an energy shield but Ulrich cuts through it like it was nothing. "You ungrateful little bastard!"
"Grateful to you? It was Elisabeth who gave me these powers! Even then she was planning on fighting you! She was going to become the Goddess of Lyoko but she needed help! If it wasn't for her I wouldn't have these powers!" Ulrich continues to attack Xana who can do nothing but back away and plan his retreat.
Aelita is still in the Tower trying to figure out how to deactivate it. "I need to put in a new code so it will recognize me. Jeremie, maybe if we re transfer me under…" Aelita explains her plan.
"That might work or it could make it so the Tower won't even let you in. And I still have to stop the return or this will all be for nothing." Jeremie wasn't sure what Xana had done but the return wasn't slowing down or stopping. "Um, have Sanne try it, maybe it will recognize her."
"Ok dad." Sanne rolls into the Tower. "Whoa." She looks around inside of it then moves to the center. "Mom, how do I get up?"
"Think up." Sanne does and she moves to the second platform. "There's one more you're almost here honey." Sanne floats up to the third platform and sees the control panel.
"I, I don't know how to touch it since I don't have hands." Sanne rolls over to the Tower and looks at it. As she thinks about how to put a hand on it when she had none her blob form reshapes and a hand appears! It stretches out and touches the screen.
Hello Sanne, access granted.
"Ok, thank you dear." Aelita sees the screen and looks through the information. "Jeremie let me have control I can stop the return."
"Ok Aelita." Jeremie takes his hands away from the keyboard and Aelita takes over.
"Hmm, ok, Sanne look." Aelita points to the screen and turns around. "Sanne?" Aelita is surprised to see something that almost looked human.
"I, I have to concentrate to hold onto this form." Sanne figured that if she could form a hand she could form a normal body but it took a lot of concentration. "Mom, what are you doing?"
"If we let the return happen then Xana will get stronger but so will the Super Computer. We will be able to send more people and the vehicles if the Super Computer gets stronger."
"Aelita! Stop the return now!" Jeremie tries to take back control but can't as Aelita has locked him out. "Sanne, make her stop, there's, there is something wrong with your mother."
"Jeremie if we can send more it will be easier to stop Xana!"
"And then Xana will become stronger! Sanne, I, I can't materialize your mother she's locked me out. Send her back then try to deactivate the Tower and stop the return!" Jeremie can't believe what Aelita was doing and wondered if something had gone wrong. "Hurry Sanne!"
"I, I can't fight mom." Sanne forms back into the round blob as she loses her concentration. "Mom stop the return please!"
"Sanne one or two more returns won't hurt it will only help us." Sanne notices her mother is starting to twitch.
"Dad, something's wrong with mom." A spark of energy comes out of Aelita as she twitches more.
"I, I think Xana set a trap." Jeremie looks over Aelita's data. "No, damn you Xana!" Jeremie pounds on the keyboard. "Sanne only you can deactivate the Tower! Xana had a virus planted into the control panel so when your mother touched it she was infected!"
"No, mom, I'm sorry." Sanne moves forward and knocks Aelita out of her way. She concentrates and a hand forms. Sanne touches the control panel. "Um, I don't know how to deactivate the Tower." Sanne forms a second then third hand and looks through the information on the screen. "Wait, here it is." She activates a program and then puts one hand on the screen. She sees her name scroll across the screen then the Tower deactivates as the screens around her drop.
"Ok, good job Sanne but now we need to stop the return and fix your mother." Jeremie sees that whatever Sanne had done had unlocked his control.
"Mom?" Sanne looks at her mother who was shaking and sparking with energy. "Mom are you ok?" Sanne knew she wasn't but it was all she could think of to ask. "Mom say something!"
"I, I, Jer, Jeremie there is some, something wrong with me." Aelita stutters and shakes more. "I feel, feel, feel the virus in, in, in me." Aelita collapses as though she was having a seizure.
"Mom!" Sanne rolls over to her then forms into a normal body. Her panic and worry for her mother allowed her more control. "No, don't, mom." Sanne hugs Aelita. "You're going to be ok."
"I, I, I, Sanne," Aelita couldn't say anything more as the virus spread through her body.
"No, damn it!" Jeremie was about to stop the return when Xana appeared! "We deactivated the Tower!"
"I know and that's why I had to run away again. Ulrich however, well, you may want a return." Xana smiles evilly. "But I hope you like the present I made for Aelita." Xana turns into a black mist and disappears just as Ulrich arrives.
"Where is he? Tell me Jeremie!" Ulrich grabs Jeremie by the front of his shirt and lifts him from the computer chair. "Tell me now! Why are you hiding him!?" Ulrich shakes Jeremie violently.
"Ulrich!" Yumi runs over to Ulrich. "Stop it! Xana left already!" Ulrich's response shocks Yumi.
"Shut up bitch!" Ulrich turns and slaps Yumi hard. "You let him get away didn't you?! I have to do everything don't I!" Ulrich throws Jeremie against the wall then turns into a black mist and continues to chase Xana.
"No, the corruption got him." Yumi spits out a tooth then another. "Jeremie will a return fix him?"
"I, I hope so." Jeremie looks at the monitor. "And I hope it fixes Aelita." Jeremie points at the screen with the return program countdown. "Three, two, one." A white bubble comes up and reverses time.