Well, after some delays, I finally am able to start the last of my Generation I fics, and the last in my Negima Crossover Trilogy. And this is definitely hitting uncharted territory, as this is the first Code Lyoko/Negima fic on Fanfiction. The basis behind this story? Well, Code Lyoko was rekindled in me, and a few events got rolling in my head, then I found out the Code Speed and Exit Trance cover art designs, and, well, this was born. Pending on the fact that MSN is still in production, this can be anywhere between 150-200 chapters long, maybe even longer! To make it easier on me, I'm doing something new, and am breaking it up into seasons, with a two month break between each season to give me planning time. Season one is called Un Cristal Sans Danger, and will consist of 26 chapters, same as CL season 1. So sit back, and enjoy the show!

Code Lyoko-ne!

A Code: LYOKO/Mahora Sensei Negima! Fanfiction

Chapter 1: Return to a World with Danger

Two months had passed since XANA, the multi-agent program bent on destroying all of humanity, was eliminated by the Lyoko Warriors – Jeremie Belpois, Ulrich Stone, Odd Della Robbia, Yumi Ishyama, and Aelita Stones (Schaeffer). Since then, the former warriors have settled into a much more relaxed lifestyle at their school, Kadic Academy, in suburban Paris, France - one that didn't include saving the world. Relationships between the former members were slowly but surely strengthening. Even though they weren't official, it was clearly apparent that Jeremie and Aelita were a couple. Same with Ulrich and Yumi, though it was not as noticeable. Odd – well, he was just, er, Odd.

The group had also accepted new members in as well. William Dunbar, the onetime Lyoko Warrior that was also a slave to XANA, was forgiven for his recklessness, but is still haunted by the nightmares of his time under XANA. He's also stopped flirting with Yumi, much to Ulrich's relief. Elisabeth "Sissi," Delmas, the principal's daughter, was also accepted into the group, but strangely enough, isn't going after Ulrich anymore. Wheather she's accepted him and Yumi being together is another matter in itself. Rounding out the group is Patrick Belpois, Jeremie's more athletic cousin. The latter has historically disliked him, but since helping stop XANA in one of his attacks, the two are on much better terms. While he originally had only a brief stay at Kadic, he later returned, and now shares a dorm room with his cousin.

Jeremie had neat blonde hair and blue eyes, and wore glasses, a red t-shirt, khaki pants with a neon blue stripe down the side, and light blue sneakers. Ulrich had brown hair that was parted to his right side and brown eyes, and wore a black t-shirt under a forest green jacket with rolled up sleeves, jeans, nd black sneakers. Odd was the, um, oddball – Blonde hair that was jelled back and had a small purple patch in the middle, a purple hooded short sleeved sweatshirt over a magenta shirt with long purple sleeves, jeans with faded blue pockets, a belt, and red sneakers. Yumi, who was of Japanese descent, had short silky black hair that fell to her shoulders, black eyes, and wore a black long sleeved shirt that had blue stars on the bottom left and exposed her belly, black pants, and black sneakers. Aelita, for some reason, had pink hair and faded red eyes, and wore a long sleeved magenta shirt with a pink hood and two pom-poms under a purple overalls skirt with magenta boots that had white cuffs and a white line down the middle. William had messy jet black hair, blue eyes, and wore a brown jacket over a black t-shirt with red writing, black jeans, and brown sneakers. Sissi had black hair that fell to her chest, brown eyes, and wore a yellow headband, a pink t-shirt with a yellow heart that exposed part of her belly, blue jeans, and red sneakers. Finally, Patrick had brown hair that was spiked and parted to his right, blue eyes, and wore a black motorcycle jacket over a grey V-neck t-shirt, black jeans, and black sneakers.

On this particular day, the group was gathered around a bench just outside the snack machine room, where XANA had first attacked the warriors two years before. Jeremie and Odd were sitting on the bench, passing a laptop back and forth. While Jeremie looked as calm as could be, Odd had sweat visible on his forehead.

"Checkmate!" Jeremie declared. Apparently, they were playing online chess on the laptop.

"Ooh, no fair, Einstein!" Odd complained. "The agreement was for you to go easy on me!"

"Hate to break it to you, Odd," Jeremie replied, "but I was going easy on you."

"And yet he beat you in under four minutes," William remarked. "That's got to be a record here."

"Actually, Jeremie beat Herb last week in under two minutes," Yumi commented.

"Regardless, now Odd can't complain about being scrawny for the rest of the day," Aelita said. "Otherwise, he'll lose-"

"I AM NOT SCRAWNY!" Odd shouted. "I'm svelte!"

"-dinner." The others simply laughed.

"Oh man," he groaned. "And it was supposed to be meatballs and spaghetti too."

"Well I'm certainly not taking it," Ulrich remarked. "I need to cram for a test tomorrow, and extra food is the last thing I need." He looked at Jeremie. "Putting my mind to work, however, could actually help."

"White or black?" As the two began the next round of chess, Patrick looked at Sissi.

"So what did your father want to ask you about?" he asked her.

"He said he's starting an exchange program with a school in Japan," the former brat replied, "and wanted me to sign up for it. Normally, I would go so as to try to get an edge on Yumi [Yumi: Hmph!], but as I've given up on Ulrich, I have no desire to go to Japan."

"That's cool." William remarked. "If I could convince my parents that I could still do well in school, I'd sign up for it."

"What's the name of the other school?" Yumi asked. "I have some relatives in Japan that teach."

"He said Mahora Academy near Tokyo." This caught Jeremie and Aelita's attention.

"Did you say Mahora Academy?" the pinkette asked.

"Uh, yeah, why?"

"Something wrong, cousin?" Patrick asked.

"No, but it's just that I've heard it in the news recently." He typed into his keyboard, bringing up an article titled: Mahora Academy: Movie Studio or Magic Campus? Pictures of people on broomsticks were using wands to attack demonic-like creatures.

"Cool!" Odd stated. "They're finally finishing Martian Robot Army vs. Academy Defense Magical Knight Corps!"

"If you ask me," William remarked, "that's a really lame title for a movie." Jeremie nodded.

"Yeah, but it's caused a lot of stir due to the fact that nobody seemed to know who the producer is. Listen to this: 'As there is no word on who is creating this movie, we are left to speculate on the nature of the extremely life-like special effects used in the film. These techniques, however, are not new to us, as they appear to be the same ones used in the first shooting that occurred during the end of the Mahora Academy Festival, and the Martial Arts Tournament held just a few days prior. Curiously, two characters appear in both: ten-year-old English professor Negi Springfield of Wales, and the mysterious benefactor of the Martial Arts Tournament,-"

"Me!" Suddenly, another window popped up, as the image of a girl, about their age, appeared on the monitor. The girl had black hair that was braided into two pigtails, and tied into two cloth buns. The buns were tied with yellow ribbon, and the ends of each pigtail were tied with a pink ribbon. She had bright red eyes, rosy pink cheeks, and an innocent expression. They could see the top of her clothing, which was a red Chinese top with short sleeves and white lacing. In the background were sets of moving 1's and 0's.

"Wa-huh?" Jeremie gasped.

"Greetings, Lyoko Warriors!" The girl greeted.

"A video chat!" Sissi remarked in surprise. The others, however, were stunned by something else she said.

"You know Lyoko?" Jeremie said, stunned. The girl nodded.

"Of course I know Lyoko," she replied, "since I'm speaking through the same method that Aelita used two years ago."

"Lyoko?" Patrick wondered. "What's that? Some kind of rock band or something?"

"I think so," Sissi replied. "But why would Aelita be a part of it? She plays with the Subdigitals." The two looked at the former The Lyoko warriors, who were at a complete loss for words.

"Ah…uh…"

"Don't worry," the girl assured. "Your friends will explain everything along the way to the factory." The group was stunned.

"Say what?" Ulrich exclaimed.

"The factory?" Yumi reiterated.

"Why?" Jeremie asked.

"Because in about ten seconds, you'll realize that you need to go there anyway."

"And you know this how?"

"Martians never lie, Jeremie."

"….What?" Before he could get an answer, the window vanished.

"Okay," Patrick began. "Does anyone know what the heck just-?"

"EEEEEK!"

The group turned towards the source of the noise, and were instantly horrified at what they saw. Floating – yes, floating – through the mass of panicked students was what appeared to be a giant jellyfish, at least 16 feet in height without the tentacles. It had eight of them, which were attached to a red body. The top of the body was a clear liquid that housed what looked like a brain. Four small pointed appendages came out of its body, with a larger, fifth appendage in the middle. On this appendage was a strange black eye-like mark. It had a dot surrounded by a circle, plus three short lines sticking out at the bottom, and one at the top. Next to it were a pair of yellow creatures that looked like brains on a claw (the claw was its legs), which also sported the black eye.

"Aah!" Sissi gasped.

"Odd," Patrick asked, "I thought you said that they would have pasta tonight, not seafood."

"No…!" Aelita was beginning to break down in tears. "It can't be…we killed him…HE killed him!"

"Killed who?" Sissi asked. "And we should get moving, that jellyfish is heading for us!"

"We'll explain on the way," Jeremie promised, but for now, we have to head for the factory."

"The wha?"

"Just follow us."

"I'll stay here," Ulrich said, looking at the distraught Aelita. "We can all guess on who the Scyphozoa's target is."

"Skipasoa?" Sissi questioned. She didn't get an answer, as Odd dragged her towards the forest. "Hey!"

"No time to chat!" he said. "Unless you want to lose your brains!" The seven left into the woods, leaving Ulrich to fend off the Scyphozoa and its underlings.

"Two Kankrelats and a Scyphozoa," he muttered. "Not my idea of brain training."

"So basically, you guys have been sneaking off for the last two years in order to save the world from a computer entity named XANA, who until now you thought was destroyed." Sissi and Patrick were given a brief crash course on who XANA was and what its motives were.

"Pretty much, yes," Jeremie nodded, helping Sissi out of the sewer.

"And it was created by Aelita's father, who sacrificed himself to make sure it worked?"

"Yes. Unfortunately, it appears that XANA somehow evaded it, and is now back for revenge. I'm guessing that he wants to use the Scyphozoa to throw Aelita into the Digital Sea."

"I'm guessing that's bad," Patrick remarked.

"If you fall into the Digital Sea, its game over," William said. "Jeremie won't be able to bring you back."

"What I'd like to know is how XANA managed to cheat death," Yumi wondered. They reached the elevator door.

"U-um, I'm not entirely sure that it's safe to ride that thing," Sissi cautioned. "I-it looks like it could fall apart at any second."

"Relax, Sissi," Odd said, smirking. "You've used it several times already; you just haven't realized it." The principal's daughter was confused, but got on the elevator anyway. They soon zoomed down into the depths of the factory, stopping at a door that was protected by a passcode. Jeremie punched in the code, and the door opened, revealing a very modern-looking room, dominated by a circular object in the center, and a series of computer monitors not far away. Jermeie sat down in a chair in the rear of the room, opposite of the monitors, and…nothing happened.

"That's strange..." he wondered. "The Supercomputer must not be powered on…" He turned to his friends. "Hang on a second." He returned into the elevator, and headed further down, leaving Sissi and Patrick to marvel at the equipment.

"Woah!" Patrick gasped. "This is all incredible! You guys weren't lying at all!"

Sissi sat in the chair. "So, why's this chair all alone in the-wah!" The chair suddenly moved towards the monitors, throwing Sissi to the floor. A holographic image of a globe appeared, with four series of islands forming a plus inside of it. Soon, Jeremie returned to the lab, and took his customary seat at the now- powered monitors.

"Let's see…Lyoko's all on-line…no activated towers…how did XANA get his monsters onto Earth?"

"Did you check for any on the replicas?" Yumi suggested.

"No, but I will."

"Replica?" Sissi asked.

"After XANA left the Supercomputer," Odd explained, "he created a bunch of replicas of Lyoko in other supercomputers around the world, in order to expand his power. We went into the Digital Sea in a ship called the Skid in order to find and destroy them."

"Yeah," Yumi added, "but since the Skid was destroyed, we can't go and deactivate a tower if it is in a-"

"You were right, Yumi. There's an activated tower in a replica." Odd groaned.

"Great, how are we going to get there? By swimming?"

"No, but I can activate the corresponding tower on Lyoko and disable it remotely. I'll need Aelita to do it, though. You and Yumi head into the scanners to back her up, okay?" Odd was estatic.

"Alright! The Lyoko Warriors are back in action!" He then saw his cousin's sullen face. "N-not that that's a good thing…" he added. Jeremie walked up to her.

"I know what you're thinking, but we need you to help deactivate the tower. Besides, if XANA is still alive, maybe your father is as well."

"…alright." Aelita joined the other two in the elevator, and headed down into another room of the factory.

"And me?" William asked.

"I need you as backup. If XANA decides to send his monsters here, I need people to protect the Supercomputer. If that gets destroyed, we lose all means of fighting XANA."

"So how do you get to Lyoko?" Patrick wondered.

"Just watch," William answered. "Jeremie is, after all, the Einstein of Kadic Academy." Jeremie put on his headset.

"The replica is the Forest Sector, so I'm sending you guys over there. Are you in the scanners?"

"Yes."

"I'm here!"

"We're all ready, Jeremie."

"Ok, I'll start the transfer procedure." He paused, wondering if what he was doing wasn't reality. "Transfer, Aelita! Transfer, Odd! Transfer, Yumi! Scanner, Aelita! Scanner, Odd! Scanner, Yumi! Virtualization!"

Back at Kadic, Ulrich was not doing well. Without a weapon, he was constantly dodging the Kankreltas' lasers. Strangely enough, the Scyphozoa wasn't giving chase after Aelita and the others. It was almost as if Aelita wasn't its intended target.

"Hey! You overgrown sushi dish!"

"Jim?" Jim Morales, the P.E. teacher and campus supervisor at Kadic, appeared, wielding a pipe that had one end of it sawed off at an angle.

"Get away from my students! YAAARRRRGG!" Jim made a charge at the Scyphozoa, which simply moved out of the way, allowing Jim to race past…

!THWACK!

…and straight into a tree. The impact knocked the P.E. teacher out cold, and the pipe flew out of his hands, striking a Kankrelat that was about to fire at Ulrich. The Kankrelat disappeared, while the pipe stuck out of the ground, pointed end down.

Seeing that the pipe was nearby, Ulrich quickly went over and yanked it out of the ground, dodging a laser blast in the process. He then made a charge at the second Kankrelat, and struck it in the eye. The Kankrelat fritzed for a second, then disappeared.

"Yes!" Ulrich then noticed a pair of the Scyphozoa's tentacles wrapping around him. "Ah, no!" He glowed red, and was lifted into the air until he was level with the Scyphozoa's eye. Three more tentacles were brought towards Ulrich's face: one on either side, and one at the top. Once they were in position, red energy began to transfer from the tips of the tentacles to the creature's 'brain', with Ulrich wide-eyed throughout the process. This continued for a few minutes, before the Scyphozoa let go of the teen, who fell to the ground, out like a light.

The Scyphozoa then turned towards the forest. Its other targets were not at the academy.

Back at the factory, Jeremie was sweating bullets. "Watch out!" he yelled into his headseat. "Four more Blocks to your right!"

"We're doing the best we can here, Einsti-YEOW!" A card with Odd's name on it flashed for a second, as a value on the card dropped to 20.

"Careful, Odd! Only twenty more life points left!"

"Jeremie, we can't reach the tower with just the three of us!" Yumi said. "They're just too many monsters!"

"Send in the others!" Aelita asked.

"Alrght, I'll send William as backup."

"No. Send Sissi and Patrick in as well."

"What? Need I remind you that if they go, their memories won't be affected by the Return to the Past?"

"Yeah, but that won't do us any good if we aren't able to deactivate that tower!"

"We're all for it, Einstein! That's three vo-yaow!" Odd's card value hit zero, and quickly was drained of all color.

"Odd, no!" The boy genius turned to William, Sissi, and Patrick. "You three, head for the scanner room. The others can't hold out much longer on Lyoko."

"Alright." William responded.

"Okay," Patrick added. Sissi?

"What? Go into a virtual war zone?" Jeremie sighed, while Patrick looked at William.

"Ready, William?"

"On three."

"Hey, what are you guys-?"

"THREE!" The two boys jumped Sissi, and managed to subdue her.

"HEY! Let me go!"

"Sorry, but it's for our own good!"

"Okay, head for the scanner room. It's the one just below us."

"Alright." The two carried her into the elevator, and William hit the down button. When the doors opened again, the three were presented with a room consisting of three cylinder-like objects, which were open on one side, and had a mess of wires connecting the top of them with the ceiling.

Odd was also there, stumbling out of the center scanner. "You okay, Odd?" Patrick asked.

"Yeah. Are you guys going in?"

"Yeah."

"Then be careful. It's worse than Call of Duty in there." William and Patrick stepped into the scanners. Doing so, however, meant that they had to let go of Sissi…

"I'm not stepping foot in those crazy contraptions!" she stated. Odd had an idea to get her to go.

"Ya know, you take a different form when you go to Lyoko," he stated.

"So?"

"Ulrich's form wears spandex."

"…Okay Jeremie! I'm ready to go!" She stepped into the scanners.

"Since when did Ulrich wear spandex?" William asked.

"Oh yeah, Jeremie changed our appearances just after you got captured, I guess to keep it similar to yours." The scanner doors closed.

"Since two of you are inexperienced at fighting, I'll virtualize you a bit further from the fighting. Transfer, William! Transfer, Patrick! Transfer, Sissi!" Bright lights came up from the bottom of the scanner and passed through to the top, creating a wind of sorts. "Scanner, William! Scanner, Patrick! Scanner, Sissi!" The bodies in the scanners began to float up while spinning at the same time. "Virtualization!"

The three appeared in midair, in some sort of virtual forest. Leafless trees were everywhere, either in the ground, or suspended in midair. The ground wasn't there at most points, as there were only platforms and pathways that were suspended in midair. The three fell onto a platform, with William kneeling to absorb the impact, and Patrick and Sissi…landing on their rears.

"OW!" They both exclaimed.

"That could have been a bit softer…" Patrick groaned.

"It happen to all of us on the first try," William remarked. "Jeremie! We're all here safely."

"That's good. Welcome to the Forest Sector, guys!" the two newcomers were startled at Jeremie's voice.

"Jeremie?" Patrick called out.

"Where are you?" Sissy asked.

"I'm still in the control room. Think of me as your eyes in the sky, as I'll keep you informed on anything and everything that happens. Take a look around; you should be in your new virtual forms."

The two looked at themselves, and were surprised, to say the least. Sissi was now wearing her two-tone pink and white cheerleader's outfit, except that a red spandex suit was under it. A yellow heart was imprinted on the chest of her outfit. She was also holding a small white cheerleader's baton. She twirled it once in her hand.

"But I quit cheerleading last year…" she remarked.

Patrick was wearing a black and white spandex suit. The color pattern of the top made it appear like he was wearing a tuxedo. He also wore brown reinforced bootsOn his side were two black guns. He examined them, before aiming one at a tree. He fired it, and an energy blast shot out, making a nice little hole in the tree.

"Cool," he remarked. "Did you design this, Jeremie?"

"No. The supercomputer reads into your subconscious, and projects them onto your digital incarnation."

"It worked out pretty well for me," William commented. He was wearing a spandex suit as well, which consisted of a white top, a two-tone teal bottom, a loose red belt-like stripe, and white reinforced boots. A black stripe ran down the middle of the top, and the sleeves were white on the top, and black on the bottom. He also carried a Zanbato sword that had a red handle.

"Hey!" Sissi yelled. "Why do they get the cool weapons? All I have is this stupid baton!" She twirled it again. "All it can do is to extend the-" The baton suddenly extended to twenty feet in length. Since it was spinning, the baton clubbed everyone in the gut or head. William and Patrick were both knocked into trees, while Sissi was knocked off the ledge of the platform, and was falling into the Digital Sea…that is, until she landed on a pale purple hoverscooter that had a red jewel on the front.

"Careful, Sissi! You just made everyone lose ten life points!"

Sissi slowly got up, and piloted the vehicle back to the platform. She stepped off and picked up her baton.

"If extend made it grow," Patrick stated, then some word must make it return to its original size."

"R-retract." On Sissi's command, the baton retracted back into its original shape. "On second thought, I'll keep this."

"Heh, you sound just like Odd when he first came to Lyoko."

"Ya know I'm still here, Einstein?"

"But you did say that about your cat outfit. Okay, I'm sending the Overbike. Patrick can ride that, while William and Sissi share the Overwing. Sorry I couldn't give you separate vehicles; Aelita's using the Overboard right now."

A black monocycle appeared next to Patrick, who climbed on it. William, meanwhile, climbed onto the Overwing, Sissi following suit. She held onto his waist so as not to fall off.

"Which way, Jeremie?" William asked.

"Head due south. The tower's at 35 degrees north, 30 degrees should be able to see it within a few minutes."

"Okay, thanks!" Patrick and William piloted their vehicles towards the way tower, following a pathway that cut through the sector.

"Their weapons suit them," Odd remarked. "Patrick always reminded me of James Bond, and Sissi was a cheerleader way back when."

"Yeah," Jeremie agreed. "Now let's see how they fare against XANA and his monsters."

"Yah?"

"Huh?" Jeremie turned around, and saw that the Scyphozoa had now captured Odd, and was now draining red energy from him. "ODD!"

Back on Lyoko, William was giving tips on fighting XANA's monsters. "The only guaranteed way to kill his monsters is to hit them in the Eye mark that they have on them. You can also knock them into the Digital Sea or crush them between objects, but they could still survive that."

"Okay," Patrick said.

"So, aside from those creatures earlier, what do XANA's monsters look like?" No sooner than Sissi said this than Aelita zoomed in the other direction, being tailed by three yello wasp-like creatures. Aelita was wearing a sleeveless two-tone pink body suit with two pale purple stripes and a clear miniskirt and shoulderpads. She also had purple fingerless gloves that went midway past her shoulders, plus a pink star wristband, pink facepaint, and red earrings. She was riding a purple and magenta hoverboardthat had a whisker design on the front.

"Like that! Patrick, keep going! I'm going to help Aelita!" He turned the Overwing around, and headed back to help Aelita. The aforementioned pinkette was darting between trees to try and evade the Hornets, which worked for one of them (It crashed into a tree and exploded). She then turned around to face the two hornets, she held out her hand, and a pink ball of energy formed in it.

"Energy Field!" She shot the energy ball at a hornet, enveloping it in a pink light, before it exploded. The last hornet, however, shot at the Overboard, which was devirtualized. Aelita fell for a few seconds, before she passed her hand over her wrist. Two disconnected small pink wings formed above her back. She stopped falling, and began to climb back up into the air. The Hornet began to fire at Aelita. She prepared to fire back…

"Aelita, duck!" She quickly ducked, as Sissi's giant baton nearly knocked her out of the sky. The same couldn't be said about the Hornet, though; it crashed into a tree and was destroyed.

"Thanks," Aelita said.

"Don't mention it," William responded. "Where's Yumi?"

"She's at the way tower. There were some Bloks there." She landed on the Overwing. After she held onto Sissi's waist, William piloted the vehicle towards the way tower.

"Let go of him, XANA!" Jeremie swung a piece of machinery that he found in the upper part of the factory at the Scyphozoa. Unfortunately, the creature was done with Odd, and as it dropped him, its tentacles wrapped around the part, and tossed it away.

"Uh-oh. Umm…-GYUAK!" The Scyphozoa then took Jeremie hostage, and began to drain the red energy out of him as well.

Saying that there only were a few of the dirty yellow cubes for Yumi to fight was an understatement. There were at least a dozen of them firing at her, who nimbly ducked and leapt out of the way of each blast. Yumi's attire on Lyoko consists of a black and bright red body suit with hot pink details, and shoulder pads with sakuras on them. She also has two strange purple pill-shaped objects above her eyebrows.

"Damn Bloks…" she muttered, and took out her two Tessian Fans. "Eyah!" She threw them into the sea of Bloks, destroying two of them. A third Blok, however, spun around, and fired an ice blue laser at Yumi's feet, encasing them in ice.

"Of all the-!" she cursed, as she tried to yank herself free, but to no avail. A Blok prepared to fire at her.

"Yumi!" She turned and saw Patrick rushing at her on the Overbike. He jumped into the air, letting the Overbike crash into a Blok. He then proceeded to shoot energy blasts at the other Bloks. By the time William, Aelita, and Sissi arrived, there were no Bloks left to be found.

"Hey, you could have left some for me!" William joked. "I haven't killed any monsters since I was last here."

"Don't worry," Yumi said. "You'll have plenty of time to do that now."

"I'll head for the tower," Aelita said, before turning…to see it guarded by two new creatures. The monsters were about one and a half times her height, and looked like the rear of a lizard. The creatures had a white head, which had a red eye of XANA, and its sickly yellowish-green body were both lower than the top of its legs, and were connected by a vein-like structure. Their feet were grey, with one claw that extended out on both sides, and had the same vein-like pattern. They had a giant metal-plated tail, which had spikes on the top, and a pointed white blade on the bottom.

"Who're those dudes?" Patrick asked to no one in particular.

"I don't remember seeing those monsters with XANA before," William commented.

"XANA must have expanded his arsenal of monsters since we last fought," Yumi deducted.

"Jeremie, how many life points do they have?" Aelita asked. No response. "Jeremie? Are you there? Answer me!"

"Wake up Jeremie! Come on!" The boy genius stirred at the mention of his name.

"U-Ulrich!"

"The three of us got attacked by the Scyphozoa," Ulrich explained. "It doesn't seem like anything's wrong with us, though. It didn't drain our memories or put us under XANA's control."

"R-right." Jeremie got back into the chair. "Guys, how are things going?"

"Jeremie!"

"There's this weird monster here that we would like some information on."

"Hang on," he typed something into the computer, and a screen popped up. "It says that it has the same amount of Life Points as a Tarantula, but I don't see how it can attack you guys."

"Try a giant bladed tail for on-WOAH!"

"William!"

"Or stomping the ground to create an earthquake."

"Hang on. Ulrich is coming to-" He then noticed a monitor on the screen, which had a window open that monitored virtualization status. Normally, once an individual is devirtualized, he or she must wait about twelve hours before he or she can be revirtualized back onto Lyoko. Strangely, however, the counter by Odd's name read zero, which ment he was good to go. "Correction. Odd and Ulrich are coming to help you guys."

"But didn't he just get devirtualized?" Yumi asked.

"I think it's a residue effect from being captured by the Scyphozoa, but he can return back to Lyoko now." He turned to the two, who nodded, and got into the elevator. When they reached the scanner room, however…

"Jeremie!" Ulrich yelled. "The Scyphozoa's in the middle of the scanner room!"

"Ignore it. You two already got captured by it already, so it should leave you two alone." True to Jeremie's word, Ulrich and Yumi reached the scanners with no problem at all. "Transfer, Odd! Transfer, Ulrich! Scanner, Odd! Scanner, Ulrich! Virtualization!"

Just after they transferred, the third scanner revved to life, as Sissi fell out. As she did, the Scyphozoa caught her in its tentacles, and began to collect her red energy.

"Did I not just say to let it come to us?" William groaned, as he watched Sissi get devirtualized. The scorpion charged at the group. Its swung its tail at William, who barely managed to block it with his Zanbato. This was alleviated, however, by the monster stomping on the ground. The other scorpion charged the group, planning to run them over.

"Laser Arrow!" A volley of arrows struck the creature in the Eye. It stumbled backwards, before exploding. The group turned around, and saw Odd and Ulrich. Odd wore a two-tone purple spandex cat suit, complete with ears, a tail, and claw gloves. A picture of a male dog peeing was on the center of his chest. He also has a silver belt and shoulder pads. Ulrich had a yellow and brown spandex body suit with a yellow headband. He also had two Katana swords on his back.

"It's a good thing that Odd Della Robia was able to save you from that nasty Scorpion," Odd boasted.

"Scorpion?" Ulrich asked quizzically.

"Yeah. They have a giant tail, so it's obviously a Scorpion, right?"

Ulrich looked at the remaining Scorpion. "If you say so…Triplicate!" The spandex samurai split into three bodies, and drew their swords. The three Ulrichs charged at the Scorpion, who swung its tail at them. This destroyed the copies, but not the real Ulrich.

"EYAH, IMPACT!" The katana drove deep into the Scorpion's Eye. It howled in pain as Ulrich pulled the sword out. After a few seconds, it exploded.

Ulrich turned to face the group, bowing. "Your tower awaits, milady."

"Okay," Aelita nodded, and raced into the tower.

"So, is that it?" Patrick asked.

"Not yet," Yumi said.

"Jeremie's got one last trick up his sleeve." Odd added.

Inside the tower, Aelita ran to the center of a platform that was shaped in the Eye of XANA. As she did, three rings of lights lit up on the platform. Aelita stood on the central light, and was levitated up to the top of the tower. When she did so, three rings f lights lit up as well. A panel appeared on the platform. Aelita placed her hand oo the panel. She then began to move information on the panel. "I'm all ready on my end, Jeremie."

"Okay, I'm activating the tower for our own use."

Outside, the others watched as the aura around the tower changed from white to green.

Back in the scanner room, Sissi was almost drained of all of her red energy, when the Scyphozoa suddenly vanished. She fell to the floor, and gasped for air.

"Sissi! Are you okay? Is the Scyphozoa gone?"

"Y-yeah…the squid's gone…"

"Fantastic! I'll launch the Return to the Past program right away."

"The return to the what?"

"Return to the Past NOW!" The scanner room was enveloped in a white light. Within seconds, that light grew to encompass the entire world.

"W-wait! Weren't we just on Lyoko?"

"And I was in the scanner thingamajigy!" The group was back by the vending machines, right before all the events of the entire chapter happened.

"That's the beauty of the Return to the Past program," Jeremie explained. "It reverses time so that we can relive the day as it would happen had XANA never attacked."

"HAH! CHECKMATE!"

"…As well as change the outcome of events."

"But only people who were scanned by the Supercalculator are able to remember the attack," Yumi said, "so don't go talking about events to anyone, especially the grown-ups."

"Why?" Sissi asked.

"Because if it falls into the hands of the government, all will be lost."

The group turned to the computer, and spotted the girl from before on the monitor.

"You!" Ulrich said.

"Chinese girl!" Odd stated.

"Wrong, I'm Martian. Good job disabling the tower. But don't expect that it will be this easy next time. You did have Aelita with you, after all."

"What do you mean, we had Aelita with us?" Jeremie demanded

"And what did you say about all being lost?" Patrick asked.

"Lyoko was created to destroy Project Carthage, a top secret military program co-created by the American, British, French, and Japanese governments. If they find out that Schaeffer's, or in their case Hopper's, Supercomputer exists, they will have that factory under lock and key within minutes, and probably Kadic as well. And since the way governments function back in your time involves lots of debate and squabbling, no one will be able to fight XANA properly. Therefore, XANA will-"

"Hey," Sissi interrupted, "is this speech going to be released on DVD or something?"

"Basically, if the Men in Black find out about XANA, the whole world is doomed."

"Thank you Aelita. Tomorrow, I'm sending a data pack over the network to Carthage at 8:00 at night. It will tell you everything on how to recruit allies in the upcoming days. I've omitted the nature of XANA attacks, though; I've learned that the will of only a few people can't change the future to as they see fit. I'll see you all tomorrow, so-"

"Wait!" Jeremie cut in. "Who are you?"

The girl paused, thinking deeply about what she should do. Finally, she looked back at the Lyoko Warriors.

"You can call me Chao. Zaijian!" And with that, the transmission ended, leaving the Lyoko Warriors with far more questions than answers.

For Your Information…

This chapter was supposed to be much longer, but a computer virus cut out any chance of working last week on this. Since I have several works backed up, I had to abbreviate this a bit. If I have the time, I'll add the missing parts in the future.

Same thing goes for the character descriptions at the beginning. They all have their season 4 outfits on.

Patrick's outfit is inspired by Noah from Code: Total Drama Reality.

Those are actual coordinates of a tower in the Forest Sector.

The official Code Lyoko-ne! Discussion topic is up and running on my forum. The link is on my profile. Check there also to keep notified on my updates.

So yeah, I've pretty much set myself up for trouble releasing this now. If Kenny decides to have her return to help Ala Alba (Which HAS been heavily hinted at)…well, we'll cross that bridge if it exists. Anyway, prepare for a few surprises next chapter, so please review! And check out my other works as well!

Odd: We're going WHERE?

Jeremie: Calm down, Odd. Don't spoil the entire chapter for the fans.

Aelita: Anyway, let's first get Chao's package in Sector 5. Maybe it can tell us how to get out of this mess.

?: Or it could lead to your downfall.

Patrick: Hey Odd, who's that girl? She reminds me somewhat of you.

Odd: Hey! You're-! But you were just-!

Jeremie: Odd, what did I just say about spoilers?

Next time! Double Revelation Trouble! See you then!