Rebooting of Worlds
Reboot Time Measurements
1 Nanosecond = 1 Minute
1 Microsecond = 1 Hour
1 Second = 1 Day
1 Cycle = 1 Week
1 Minute = 1 Month
1 Hour = 1 Year
We have come to the Net
We have journeyed through systems, peoples, and cities
To this place: Mainframe
Our role: Lyoko Warriors
We fight to survive
We fight to save our friends, their hopes and dreams
To save all that we love
To give what we've got and Reboot it all
Today, make evil go away
Code Lyoko, we'll Reboot it all
Code Lyoko, be there when you call
Code Lyoko, we will stand real tall
Code Lyoko, stronger after all
Since the dawn of its creation the Internet has served as humanity's largest experiment that continues to evolve and push the limits of its creators' creative mind. Though it is recognized as their greatest creation humanity is far from understanding just great its potential was. They did not know what it could become, what it was part of, and what was lurking in it. It is the center of humanity's collective knowledge, creativity, and constantly changes without end.
Its own evolution plays host to a number of scientific subjects, including the theory on the possibility of more than one universe. Multiple parallel realities spawning forth from different events, realities, and choices that created a number of different universes that were different and diverse. The theories exist but have never been proven. The ideas have constantly been discussed and though nothing conclusive has been proven they continue to exist.
What could be used to bring multiple realities together?
A freak accident with a fancy new machine?
An act caused by a supernatural omnipotent being?
A random tear in the space-time continuum?
A magical spell?
Or something else?
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LAUNCH PROGRAM
PROCESSING
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BINARIES on-line
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XANA PROGRAM ONLINE
Log 237
Date: June 3, 1883
In my work on Project: Carthage I have made discoveries into the Internet that no one had possibly ever conceived before. When first made it started as a way of sharing information and to this day its objective has been the same but now it has evolved beyond anything I or any of my colleagues had believed was possible.
At this very moment XANA is actively working on my theory, the theory that came from my wife and what she used to make Xanadu. The data that makes up the Internet can be used for much greater use than considered. She helped me draw up the codes that created Xanadu, a digital simulation but she believed the possibilities were greater. She claimed that the data on the Internet was malleable and could be shaped to resemble anything.
Naturally I would be skeptical if not for the fact that it was her intellect behind Xanadu's creation. She claimed that she discovered that Internet manifested various forms of data that has come together through evolution. Images of forests, oceans and even cities that are nothing like anything I have seen before. It does not stop there as I looked over the log and I saw images of planets, stars, and even an apparent galaxy being spawned by a flow of data coming from…everywhere and yet nowhere.
I cannot explain why this is appearing, but my wife believes that Xanadu is merely the front for something greater than anything we have achieved through Project: Carthage. How this is possible I do not know and I'm not sure I will ever understand.
She has called this new world: The Net.
End Log
He remembered a city laid out before him.
Skyscrapers opening out like shells of blue ladybugs. Roads open, ribbons of color intertwining between the towers. Ships and vehicles moved about but aside from that, a tranquil quietness fell over the city.
He took a form, a form of a young boy.
This form had been made for him, he remembered that much.
Made by someone who wanted to show him what it meant to be…real.
He appeared out of nowhere, the air becoming dense where he appeared the only sign of how he had appeared.
He flexed his fingers and then shot off into the air, gathering speed before he was so above the city it almost looked like he was about to break the atmosphere before his flight turned into a dive. He fell back towards the city, but a smile remained on his face, somersaulting and landing perfectly fine on the ground before coming face to face with the Wall.
He ran because he was expecting someone…
Someone who loved coming here and loved to see all the new and amazing place he would find and show her whenever she visited.
Who was she?
He knew she was someone important.
Someone who was supposed to help him but he couldn't remember why.
She liked coming here, he knew but he once remembered her saying the city felt so empty.
Why would she say that?
There was himself, the Professor and the other but admittedly limited people here that kept him company.
He stopped before the Wall and gazed at it, expecting it to open soon.
He knew she would come.
He knew….
And just like that, the Wall opened, and he waited with anticipated glee.
Only she wasn't there but something else came out.
A black mist shot towards him, engulfing him before he could even let out a scream.
Aelita opened her eyes as she fell out of the air, her senses returning as she actually landed on her feet instead of landing on her butt like most of the Lyoko warriors had done when they were first virtualized in the future. Looking around she saw herself not in the lab anymore but in a forest with floating trees surrounding her, a narrow path with a soft green grassy ground. Looking down at her hand she gasped as she noticed her hand looking...different. She also noticed the clothes she wore which were different from the ones she wore when she stepped into the scanner.
She noticed a small puddle and walked over to it, bending over to look at her reflection. She gasped as she saw her appearance, taking notice of the pointed ears with an earring hanging from her left ear.
"Aelita?"
"AH!" Aelita jumped and spun around when she heard her father's voice.
What she saw was a group of white luminous orbs that floated around her.
"Daddy?"
"Yes, it's me, Aelita." Her father's voice came from the largest orb. "Are you all right? Do you feel anything wrong with your body?"
"...No, but what happened to you?" Aelita shook her head.
"Perhaps it takes time for older people's digital bodies to take form." Waldo guessed. "I am sure my body will form in time."
"Is this that place you told me about?" Aelita asked as she walked over to a tree and placed her hand on it.
She could feel how it felt from touching, just like how a real tree felt.
Aelita heard a mechanical clicking sound from behind her and turned to see group of small strange mechanical creatures approaching her with metallic brown colored bodies shaped like roaches except they had four small legs, a red circle on the abdomen, and an eye like symbol on their heads.
"Daddy, there are some strange creatures-"Aelita was cut off as the red marks glowed bright red.
"Aelita run!" Her father shouted as they fired lasers at her.
Aelita screamed as she started running, feeling a laser hit her in the knee making her scream louder. She didn't feel any burn, but her knee was sparkling from the hit. The white orbs that made up Waldo's digital form floated behind her, shielding her from more lasers as the Kankrelats pursued her.
"Aelita, head for that tower!" Waldo cried.
Looking up ahead Aelita saw a tower and she ran for it like her father said. She in front of it as she looked at it.
"I don't see a way in!" She cried.
"Don't worry about that!" One of the white orbs pushed her into the tower and she fell forward.
She expected to hit the tower but instead she fell through and landed face first on something smooth and bright. Looking up she saw herself on a platform with the wall around it covered in data screens.
"Wh-Where am I?" She looked around.
"Inside the tower, where you will be safe." Waldo said as his form materialized inside the tower.
"Daddy?" Aelita walked over to the orbs. "Daddy, what's going on?"
"Stay here, Aelita. I'm going to try and talk to XANA." Her father said.
"Who?"
"A multi-agent program I created to run Lyoko and the Supercomputer. Stay here." Her father flew through the wall.
"Daddy, wait!" Aelita cried.
Aelita sat in the tower and waited for her father to return like he had told her to. Even though she was starting to get worried since he hadn't come back she had to believe he knew what he was doing. After all, he was able to create a digital world for them to hide in so there shouldn't be any trouble at all, right? Still, he had been gone a long time to talk to, who was it again?
"XA-NA." Aelita slowly remembered the name of the program that supposedly attacked her.
How much trouble could it be if it was a simple computer program?
'Probably a simple glitch that he went to correct,' Aelita thought to herself. 'He should be back in a few minutes.'
Still, she was getting anxious from being all alone in the tower. She hated enclosed spaces without someone to keep her company. Looking at the walls lined with blue screens and data streams she was getting restless. She needed to get out and see what was going on outside. Maybe the monsters had gone away, and the danger was over.
Walking across the platform with the giant Eye she walked over to the wall, looking at it for a second. Placing her hand on the wall she gasped as light exploded around her hand. She remembered her father carrying through the wall, but she still found it hard to believe she could pass through the wall of the tower like a ghost. Taking a deep breath she stepped through the wall, seeing only a flash of light as her feet stepped onto the soft grassy ground of the strange forest in the digital world her father had named Lyoko.
The second she was out she gasped as she saw something terrifying. Her father was being surrounded by three large insects resembling hornets that were shooting him with lasers!
"Daddy!"
"Aelita, you must get back into the tower now!" Waldo shouted, straining from the pain of each laser that hit him.
Luckily for Aelita, the Hornets didn't bother to turn to face as her as they continued to bombard Schaeffer with lasers.
Daddy, what's going on?" Aelita shouted when she realized the monsters were not paying attention to her.
"Aelita, I must shut down the supercomputer to stop XANA, he's become a threat to mankind." Schaeffer said as the Hornets continued to fire at him. "I'm sorry for this."
"Daddy?" Aelita asked, stepping back in fear.
"Aelita, run back into the tower now! It'll keep you safe!" Her father shouted.
"And by creating a link between two systems, we can open a door, or, ah, a gateway that allows usto pass through. But first, we have to find another system."
Welman Matrix looked down appreciatively at his daughter, Dot.
His speech sounded great on paper, but not so well coming from him.
"Now, I know I have my critics, sprites and binomes who say that there are no other systems," Welman continued, "but just stop a cycle and process that statement. Can you really believe that we are really alone? That Mainframe is the only system in Cyberspace? I think not."
He gestured to his invention, a large ring of metal and processing components.
"My machine will detect new systems and link to them. It will prove that cyberspace is not an empty void, but a…uh…a wondrous place filled with inhabited systems and peoples and friends. We are not alone." Welman Matrix looked down at his daughter again. "How was that?"
"Not bad." Dot replied and then whispered in her earpiece. "Drop the main light two points and a half"
A binome up in the rafters gave quick nod and went to work.
Dot turned back to her dad. "Mmm, I think you need to spend more time on how we detect other systems."
Welman brightened and went off on a tangent. "By casting a network of signals, or, uh, pings into the void. These signals are programmed to lock onto energy bursts." Welman pressed a red button on the stadium
booth, and a series of light pings echoed off the walls of the Principle Office auditorium. "Once we have a lock, we can open a gateway to the set source of energy."
Dot tilted her head and gave a sympathetic half smile, "Dad, I know that, but nobody else in the audience does."
Welman Matrix's face registered mild surprise, "Oh. Right. I see." He was going to have to be careful not to go off into tangents over this technology, or he would lose his audience.
"Wanna try some questions?" Dot suggested.
Welman let out a quick sigh. "Okay, I'm ready for anything"
Did he sound confident, or did he sound as nervous on the outside as he was on the inside?
Dot cleared her voice and asked, "Professor Matrix, if you've proven the existence of other systems, why do we physically have to visit them?
"Good question, good question", Welman stalled, "Um, excellent question." He stumbled for an answer. "Why?"
Welman Matrix was a great scientist but that did not mean he was good with public speaking. Even if he had the reasons in his head, trying to vocalize them was always a challgenge.
"For proof. That's why the gateway command has two functions: search and link. "Dot answered him, showing not only his intellect but the confidence he wished he had.
"That's right! Good answer!" Welman lit up at having found words for his answer, but just as quickly let his smile drop. "You will be here for me, won't you? Be by my side? Just in case?"
Enzo and Dot had always been supportive of his work, but even as a respected scientist in the Mainframe's Twin Cities, he doubted that Mainframe's population was going to answer their questions
Dot smiled back, "Of course, Dad. We'll be there".
"One more virus for the deletion chamber."
"He can hear you."
"So?" The creature with the silver face only partially glanced in her direction. "Hey Kilobyte, ready for oblivion?"
The younger Guardian, a Cadet could only frown. "Do you have to be so callous?"
"It's a virus, cadet." The female Guardian said in a no-nonsense tone. "A dirty, no-use, virus."
"Look, you don't know his story, what made him this way, how-"
"A User made him this way." The Guardian cut him off. "A User programmed him to destroy, to infect, to corrupt. Why a User does such a thing is beyond our capacity to understand. So there's no point in trying."
"I don't believe a User would knowingly unleash a virus on the net." The cadet replied, earning a glance from the virus in question.
"Wow, I forgot who I was talking to. I suppose you've written a read me file on the psyche of Users."
"Well, actually I-"
"You're never going to pass the finals, kid."
"What?"
"Guardians are here to mend and defend, okay? Not sit around, trying to work out how the User thinks and why viruses are introduced in systems." The female Guardian said in a matter-of fact tone. "Sheesh, I'm just glad the prime guardian hasn't seen any of your work."
The younger Guardian didn't seem to want to back down. "I had a meeting with Turbo just last second. He thought my ideas to program viruses for the greater good were radical."
Radical?
And he thought that was a good thing?
"Radical?" She echoed. "He uses the word 'radical' and you think-"
The virus suddenly let out a roar, the restraints that had previously held up suddenly breaking with ease.
"What the-" The female Guardian's eyes went wide and she held up her wrist where a small device could be seen. "Glitch, patch me through to central. We have a 403 in progress!"
"A 403?" The cadet glanced at her and then back at the virus. "Viral upgrade?"
The virus fully broke free and turned to face his captors. The cadet rushed forward to buy some time…
"Bob, no!"
…only to be swatted aside like an annoying fly.
The female Guardian stumbled back as the virus turned to face her. "Upgrade skipping a generation: has the ability to fly, transfinite power reserves, infection capabilities-"
The virus, Kilobyte tried to grab her but she ran up along the wall, kicked off it and landed on Kilobyte's back.
"Glitch," She pointed her Key Tool at Kilobyte's head. "Narrow beam!"
An orange beam of light hit the virus on the head, right between his eyes.
Nothing.
The upgrade was still being processed and one of its new abilities included energy absorption. Kilobyte grabbed her and threw her to the ground. Kilobyte held up a hand, flexing it to reveal golden sharp claws. Kilobyte roared as he raised his claws and brought them down on the poor guardian, piecing her form and draining her energy to accelerate and complete his upgrade. In a matter of nanoseconds, he was done and tossed her aside, turning to the unconscious cadet named Bob.
He slowly approached the downed Guardian to finish him off when a surge of energy enveloped him, forming a portal around him as the upgrade was complete.
"I AM GIGABYTE!"
The portal then vanished leaving the unconscious cadet and his dying partner alone.
In that very same instant, a circular shaped gateway had powered on.
"System detected." The one in charge announced with an excited look on his face. "Executing gateway command."
There was a flash of light and inside the gateway appeared what could only be described as a monster.
"I have become Gigabyte! Destroyer of Systems!" The monster bellowed.
The gateway began to short circuit causing the portal to overload, and the gate's hardware began to split apart, followed by the virus.
Everyone only had the chance to scream once before the room was engulfed in a blazing light that consumed the rest of the city.
"Enzo, I'll be finished a lot quicker without you pestering me
"But Dad's experiment!"
"We have plenty of time," she noted and checked her organizer, "it's only…"
Dot read the time…
She had lost track of time!
They were microseconds behind schedule!
"Oh no!" She turned to the lead construction binome. "Jimmie! Take over! We're late! I'll be back ASAP."
Jimmie smiled and gave a thumbs up.
Nothing riled up Dot Matrix more than a late schedule on her part.
BUMP!
A rumbling sound was heard in the direction of the twin city, causing everyone to pause.
Both Enzo and Dot exchanged glances. Other binomes were looking around with confusion too. A flash of light suddenly illuminated the other city for a moment, then a massive explosion. Dot lowered her shaded glasses and stared into glowering red swell of the explosion.
The ball of the expanding explosion seemed to grow impossibly large, like a smoldering giant balloon.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
For nano, no one believed what they were seeing.
Suddenly, everyone was blasted backwards by the shockwave. The Diner's window's shattered, and construction equipment sent flying. Dot found herself lying in a pile of broken glass next to Enzo, both of them cut and bruised, when it was over.
He remembered standing next to the other half of the being they had once been, his 'twin' sister all things considered.
He knew that they had once been one but were now separate.
A separate consciousness, completely separated in his own form of existence.
He was not Kilobyte.
He was not Gigabyte.
He was himself.
He turned and faced his sister who stared back at him with a surprised face, her mouth frozen in an open 'O'.
He knew who she was, what she was and what her function was so without a second thought he turned around and began walking away.
As he did, he heard her say "I like it here!"
Well, if she wanted to play in the rubble that was fine with him. He sought something else, not mindless destruction but…
Order.
A form of order and stability.
That's what he was.
His Format: Virus.
To corrupt and conquer.
And this looked like a perfect place to start.
Prologue
Aelita ran forward while Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd battled the Creepers behind her. Yumi blocked the lasers from all sides while Odd kept on ducking and firing laser arrows. Ulrich ran up close and slashed the Creepers apart with his digital saber. However, for every Creeper they destroyed more came upon the bridge.
Aelita ran towards her lost memories where when she stopped, coming upon a gap in the path. Looking back, she watched as her friends took out the Creepers only for another batch to come right at them.
"We better not hang around here." Yumi said as she took off for Aelita with Odd and Ulrich following close behind.
The Creepers fired at them, one hitting Odd in the back, causing him to tumble forward. Rolling on his hands and feet he looked to the others as they stopped.
"Go on!" He shouted, his hand shooing at them.
They turned and continued running while he turned back and faced the Creepers. He ran at them on all fours to take them out, but a Creeper shot him in the head, causing his body to change into a wireframe and vanish. Ulrich, Aelita, and Yumi watched with concerned looks as the Creepers slithered after them. They stepped back from the gap, Ulrich and Yumi on either side of Aelita grasping her arms.
They ran and jumped into the air over the gap. Yumi and Ulrich tossed her forward and she landed on the other side safely. She turned back and looked to see Ulrich holding onto the edge with one hand while holding Yumi with another. However, he didn't have to hold her for long as a Creeper shot her and she vanished into a shower of pixels and wires.
The Creepers then fired on Ulrich but now that he didn't have to hold Yumi anymore he pulled out his sword and blocked the lasers.
"Jeremy, Yumi and Odd are down."
"I know. Get Aelita's fragment."
That was when Jeremy had more bad news.
"The whole room is falling apart! Run for it!"
Ulrich and Aelita watched in horror as the bridge began to fall apart.
"Uh no!" Ulrich shouted as they turned and ran.
Barely avoiding falling with platforms they were just on. However, their luck did not last. Aelita slipped and Ulrich stopped to pull her up when the platform fell, and they fell with it. They screamed as they fell into the digital abyss below when they landed on something. Looking down they saw they were on Flying Mantas.
"Jeremy, it's getting worse."
"Oh no it it's getting better."
Ulrich did not understand what he meant by that.
"You're crazy! What's going on?!"
"It's Franz Hopper's who controlling the Mantas."
The Manta Ulrich was on dropped him at the bottom of the stairs while the one Aelita was on flew her up to the top where her fragment resided. Stepping off the Manta, Aelita walked towards the shining ball of light that had a miniature version of herself. Reaching out, she grasped it in her hands, eagerly waiting to be free . . .
When it shattered.
That was when the entire chamber started to collapse. Ulrich looked up in horror as large falling blue blocks fell, crashing anything that was in their way. Including himself. Aelita looked around in horror as the blue blocks avoided hitting her but taking out anyway of escape. The path and the Mantas Franz Hopper controlled were crushed leaving her all alone.
"HELP ME!" She screamed with all of virtual lungs.
"Aelita behind you!"
Aelita turned and her eyes grew wide in horror as the monster known as the Scyphozoa hovered just behind her, reaching out with its tentacles to take all of her memories.
"I don't believe it!" Jeremy exclaimed.
The entire group watched in horror. Ulrich came out of the elevator with a defeated look.
"There wasn't anything I could do."
The Scyphozoa had already captured her and began to drain her memories.
"NO!" Jeremy screamed.
That was when the Scyphozoa dropped her back on the floor, her eyes all wide but now lifeless. Her hand lifted for a second and then fell still and her eyes closed.
"Aelita's...dead!" Jeremy cried, looking down at the floor with his hands on his face.
That was when the entire chamber began dark along the rest of Sector 5. The darkness engulfed the entire sector and one by one all the towers of Lyoko turned red.
"What's going on?" Yumi asked.
"XA-XANA got what he wanted. He has the Keys to Lyoko. He'll be able to get out of the supercomputer." Jeremy replied, crying.
At the same time, XANA shot a specter to the sky, creating a storm to signify his victory. In the dark chamber a shining sphere of light engulfed Aelita. That was when she began to see things before her father took her into Aelita. Her eyes opened, her virtual soul slowly coming back to life.
That was when she devirtualized, leaving behind a reawakened Lyoko.
XANA basked in his victory, watching the gate to the digital sea open. He flew through it and out of Lyoko.
Freedom.
He was free.
He was invincible.
Despite all the efforts of his enemies he had won. XANA surveyed the Worldwide Network he was now in. What a strange and yet fascinating world it was.
An upside-down city that seemed to be endless.
How can he use it in a way to aid the conquest of the human world? Despite his victory there was still a lot of work to do. First, he needed to study the new environment he was now in and see what could benefit him.
Time to explore.
The black cloud that was XANA set out into the digital sea. Watching and observing the digital environment. After a considerable amount of time XANA came upon a large upside-down tower that was bigger than any of the other buildings that were part of the city. But that was not what caught XANA's attention.
It was the symbol on it.
The same symbol used by him in his work, meaning that his creator may have known about the city. Coming up to it XANA examined the wall, looking for any openings.
Forming a hand, he reached out and touched the wall. That was when the wall reacted with a spike of energy, vibrating along the wall, like pulsations in Lyoko. Following these pulsations XANA came upon the symbol of Lyoko imprinted on what looked like the gate that led out of the hub of Lyoko. Reaching out to touch it the symbol glowed green the gate opened, allowing him access.
He went inside and found that there was a force field keeping the digital sea out. The hall he was now in was made of stone, no decorations whatsoever. The blackness continued moving, exploring this new and strange structure. He stopped when he come upon a pair of large doors.
Not seeing any sort of lock on it XANA reached out with one hand and gently pushed the doors open. He walked in and found himself in a massive room. In the center was a large-towering crystal-like structure resembling the Lyoko Supercomputer. XANA walked over to it and placed his hand on the terminal.
Above the tower appeared a holographic map of the structure he was in. Looking back down he found several links. Each one showed a different symbol that he had never seen before. He pressed one of them; the symbol resembled f a circle that was black on the top half and white on the bottom and a diamond in the center that was also divided with inverted colors to the circle. When XANA touched the symbol, the holographic map vanished.
That was when a ring of light appeared underneath XANA and traveled up the black misty form that his essence. XANA watched while keeping a close out for any sign of something that would attempt to delete him.
Scanning
Access Denied
Multi-Agent Program Detected
Scan Complete
Designation: XANA
XANA would have raised an eyebrow if he had one. So, the security system recognized him. With a mere proverbial flick of the metaphorical wrist, he bypassed the first layer of security. But he found himself boxed in moments later. It was like a wound healing mere moments after it was made. But he pressed on, deeper and deeper.
He came to the final set of security codes. He reached out and was repelled. He pulled his hand back and looked at it, seeing slight burn marks on the skin that faded a second later. He reached out again, increasing the pressure of his attack. The wall separating him from the unknown location bent and began to rip, giving him glimpses as data flowed through.
It was all random-access memory that he got, mere views of a digital realm that had a red, blue, and black colored environment with bright glowing storms made of data.
But then a moment later a powerful force gathered.
Reacting quickly, XANA set up a defense before a blast of energy propelled him back down the hall, past healing layers of security systems. His digital form spread out across the room before composing itself into a singular misty sphere.
It had repelled him.
Like a pathetic Trojan Horse Virus.
Obviously, its creator had intended to keep him accessing this new realm, but XANA was not one to accept being denied anything he wanted. If this was something designed by his creator without his knowledge it was likely to be something of great value. Still, he would need to eventually leave and continue surveying the new environment he was in and see how it could best benefit him. With his newly acquired freedom, however, he had all the time in the world to observe what this construct might be.
"Thank you for all your valiant efforts in fighting the Web. Unfortunately…"
"It was all for nothing." Megabyte finished for his sister, earning horrified gasps from the War Room of the Principal Office. "As we speak, your CPUs are being shot out of the sky. Phong…"
The virus's eyes settled on the System Administrator, Phong.
"Drop all defenses on the Principal Office and welcome to Megaframe." Megabyte said grandly.
"I love it when he talks like that." Hexadecimal commented, earning a smile from her 'brother'.
Phong clenched his fist. "We will fight you to last, Megabyte."
"You have no defenses, you fools. Your Guardian is lost." Megabyte declared. "Nothing can stand in our way. Mainframe is ours."
"Wrong!" The child game sprite AndrAIa replied. "We do have a Guardian."
She then turned to the boy that Bob had made his successor. "Guardian, your Keytool. Remember what Bob said."
Enzo Matrix stared at Bob's Keytool Glitch before placing it on his wrist gauntlet, lifting his head to stare defiantly at the viruses that threatened his home. "I am Guardian Matrix, charged with defending this system. Two viruses take over my home? I don't think so!"
Nearly a Year Later
Mantas continued firing, circling around the sphere of light like vultures, raining down lasers on it without end.
She conjured a pink orb of energy and tried throwing it but her arm shook, causing it to go wide.
The Mantas continued firing at the glowing orb…
Until it shattered.
"NO!" The poor girl screamed in absolute horror and anguish.
She slammed her hand down on the translucent screen, specifically on the command labelled 'ENTER' causing streams of light to shoot out and destroy the monsters.
But it was too late.
A dense wave of liquid energy poured out of the core and spreads through Sector 5, deleting the Mantas as they tried to flee. And then, it spread to the other sectors of Lyoko, flowing in each direction. An unstoppable tide. It flooded the mountains, the digital trees, the rocks of the desert sector and the frozen lakes.
It was a tidal wave that was hunting XANA down, following its tracks and traces. The white liquid became a mass of tentacles that were released in search of new fragments, possible new hiding places. All the Lyoko monsters, as soon as they were touched by the spheres of white dissolved one by one into colorful bubbles.
Then it entered the Digital Sea, tracking down the Replikas and destroying them one by one. Without the Replikas to sustain him, XANA was left to be crushed by the unlimited information and energy of the Digital Sea. XANA struggled to properly maintain its structure but having been spread out across the Network to create the Replikas had left him vulnerable now without them, his data was being swept away, crushed and scattered by the digital sea.
When it was finally overcome by the sea of energy, XANA let loose a scream of rage and frustration, while his digital body was destroyed piece by piece.
In the old factory, William Dubar too let out a howl of pain, bending over until he was doubled in on himself. His head tipped towards the ceiling and from his wide-open mouth there gushed a dense smoke, black as pitch, which twisted into wide circular coils, forming into a face that let out a scream before disappearing into nothingness.
"Aelita, we've done it. XANA's been destroyed. I'll bring you home now."
Aelita barely heard Jeremie's voice, kneeling on the floor as she stared at where her father had been previously…
Before he had sacrificed himself.
XANA was dead but it didn't matter.
Daddy was dead and wasn't coming back with her.
The Net
'Megaframe'
"Mainframe will always endure." Matrix said, standing over his fallen enemy with AndrAIa at his side as he held the trident at Megabyte's throat. "Remember this defeat. This humiliation. Remember you can never win."
Megabyte took the chance to slide off the roof of the ruined Principal Office and landed on an I-beam below. Looking up he glared up Matrix and AndrAIa standing over the edge looking down at him. "No! You remember boy!" He stood up while holding his wounded chest. "How I turned defeat into victory. How I left you with a dying system."
He activated his wrist device and converted the tear into a portal and diverted to the edge of the beam he was on. Dragging his injured left leg along to reach the edge he could almost see the Supercomputer in all its glory. However, what he did not know was that someone else had other plans.
"Oh no you don't!" Mouse said at the controls and changed the coordinates. Looking at Megabyte with her usual smile she pressed the command key. "One last double cross, sugar!"
Just as Megabyte reached out to touch the portal the golden spires of the Super Computer changed to the chaotic black and red tendrils of the Web. Megabyte eyes widened in horror as tentacles reached out and grabbed his hands. Another one wrapped around his neck and he was too tired to fight. What went wrong?
He had it in his grasp!
Mainframe!
The Net!
All of the power that could have been his!
All of because of that Matrix boy who had refused to die, and Mouse was most likely responsible for this. More tentacles came out and grabbed his arms and legs, not allowing him any chance to resist.
"NO!" He shouted as he was dragged into the Web.
As he was pulled on a sprite he had never seen before on a surfing board flew through portal into Mainframe. Megabyte could only watch as the portal closed leaving him trapped in the Web, the very place he had exiled Bob to, hoping the Guardian would be forever out of his way.