Code Starforce

Chapter 12

Sorry for the long wait, I'm back with another chapter for this story. It took a while for me to get inspiration for this chapter, so I apologize. Now, let's revive this story here and now

Also, about the skid, I was debating on whether I should create a Super Sentai-esque Mecha to replace the Skid. The reason for this is to combat bigger threats like the Kolossus or other mega viruses that XANA could create with its new programming. Let me know what you think.

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

The Factory: Computer Room

"Hey Einstein," said Odd as he watched Jeremie type away at his computer in the lab, "what are you working on?"

Ever since XANA had made his announcement, the military had declared martial law and sent most of the students home. The Lyoko Warriors were allowed to stay, but they had had to explain to their parents about the situation to an extent. They kids were given quarters in the newly refurbished Factory where they helped train the soldiers to fight XANA's monsters.

"I've been working on a large-scale scanner device with the tech department," said Jeremie, "some of the scientists had the idea to virtualize tanks and vehicles to send to Lyoko. We might even be able to bring vessels like the Skid into the real world."

"That sounds intense," said Odd, "but I wouldn't mind driving a tank on Lyoko."

"Yeah, like that's gonna happen," said Ulrich as he, "I've seen your driving skills."

"Hey!" protested Odd, "I can drive."

"The tanks will be for the military," said Jeremie, "but I'm working on a few deigns for new vehicles for us as well. I've also been tweaking the Lyoko Avatar Creation algorithms in the Supercomputer in order to give the soldiers we send in better weapons to deal with specific crisis."

"Is all this heavy artillery really necessary?" asked Yumi as she walked up with William and Aelita, "It's not like we needed it before."

"Before, XANA wasn't this strong and didn't have the world's Internet in his grip," said Jeremie, "The only reason the Factory is still standing is because of the immense firewalls we erected around the Supercomputer mainframe. Now that XANA has Xion, Corvus, Phantom and Gemini on his side, we'll need all the power we can get."

"I don't know," said Odd, "suddenly this is sounding too much like an all-out war."

"Xana was the one who declared war on the world," said Geo as he walked up, "we're just responding in kind."

"How are the soldiers doing?" asked Jeremie as he turned his seat around to face the group.

"They're progressing well," said Geo, "they're learning how to fight and adapting to the new combat style."

Geo had elected himself to train the soldiers in how to fight in their Lyoko forms, both in and outside the Virtual World, due to his experience as MegaMan giving him the most practice fighting with their current abilities. Besides, Sonia had opted out, so that left the job to Geo.

"Any progress on figuring out where XANA is keeping his main code?" asked Ulrich as he leaned against the side of the Super Calculator.

"Unfortunately no," said Jeremie, "even though I'm scouring the internet with a multi-agent scanning program, the firewalls that XANA 2.0 has put in place have got me redirected to several trick caches. Unless I can figure a way around that, the only way we'll locate XANA on the network is to search the entire web with the Skid."

"Speaking of the Skid," said Yumi, "any luck programming the new upgrades yet?"

"It's turning out to be harder than I initially thought," said Jeremie, "we originally designed the Skid to be an exploration vessel but looking at what XANA has been doing so far, we're gonna need something like a warship to deal with them."

"Don't worry," said Geo, "with the software you and the army have decrypted from our Hunters, you should be able to fix things in no time."

"Let's hope," said Jeremie.

xXsceneXx

Lyoko: Unknown Sector

XANA's Avatar and his subordinates gathered around a pit filled with swirling crimson energy. A sphere of the energy rose from the pit and was absorbed by XANA's Avatar, causing the being to gain a dark red aura as he floated off the ground, his eyes becoming glowing pools of energy.

"With this next phase of our plans, the humans will fall under our control," said XANA in a darker voice, "head to the Mountain Server's Tower and prepare for our attack. Joker shall lead our forces in the real world. Use this power to aid your mission."

"As you command," said Joker as he bowed to XANA's Avatar as a fragment of energy rose from the pit and entered his body.

"Let's get going," growled Xion, "I want to watch those humans suffer."

The assembled EM-Beings vanished as they went to do their jobs and put this new plan into action.

xXsceneXx

France: Paris

Joker materialized at a busy intersection in a swirl of energy, bringing down a powerful fist on the hood of an incoming car, destroying the vehicle with ease before using his powers to summon several platoons of McCleavers EM-Viruses before summoning forth the new power he had been given and infusing it into several of the Viruses, transforming them into Bloks that stood at attention behind the blade wielding Viruses.

"Go," said Joker causing the Monsters and Viruses to charge forward to attack the civilians.

The people cried out as the monsters fired lasers that exploded against the buildings.

"Humans," said Joker as he stepped forward, getting everyone's attention, "XANA claims this world for his control. Submit and you will be treated fairly."

"Freeze!" yelled a police officer as he aimed his gun at the large EM-Being, "Don't move! Put your hands where I can see them and lie on the ground! We don't report to Xena or Zana or whoever your boss is, so don't bother."

"Pathetic," said Joker as he gathered energy in his fist, "Perish human filth."

Joker brought his fist down and the officer was reduced to scattered pixels.

"Anyone else?" asked Joker.

Factory: Computer Room

Just as Jeremie was making progress on the data for the new vehicle, the Superscan alarm went off, causing all personnel to gather around his terminal.

"The Superscan just picked up an activated tower on a new Replika," said Jeremie.

"I thought your Multi-Agent program destroyed all of those," said Ulrich.

"It seems XANA's been busy," said Jeremie.

"That's not all," said Geo as he showed a news feed on his Hunter's display, "Joker's leading an attack on the real world."

"We're going to need two teams on this one," said Jeremie, "Geo, you and Sonia take the military to deal with the attack. The rest of us can find and deactivate the tower."

"Right," said the group, as they headed out to fight XANA.