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This chapter was written by me and edited by AeroJester203

Author's note: Chapter one and onward will be in Lila's First POV. Also I will not be accepting any OCS in this story.

Enjoy!

Changing destiny: Lila's Journey!

Prologue: A New Journey Begins!

Once upon a time, many years ago…

A young blond and bespectacled eighth grader chose curiosity over the safety of the world. He looked up to the ominous tower-like machine before him and gulped to prepare himself.

"I hope I'm not going to regret this…" the boy muttered. His hands shook and sweat beaded on his forehead as he stared at a handle on the front of the machine. He wiped the perspiration away with his sleeve and mustered up his courage.

"Okay now!" the boy exclaimed as he reached forward and flipped the switch before he lost his nerve. The machine whirred and seemed to come to life, bright light shining through the circuitry as the boy screamed. He stopped screaming once the light disappeared, the machine quiet except for a hum that seemed to symbolize its activation. That was the first day he had turned on the supercomputer… it started many great things for him.

Many years later in the year 2019, the boy was now a man and married the one he loved since his days at Kadic Academy. Jeremy Belpois and Aelita Schaeffer married each other at a young age. Jeremy was 22 at the time and Aelita was just a few months older than Jeremy. They have been married for two years now, it is the year 2019 and Aelita had become sick due to an unknown illness. Jeremy has been taking care of her with a round of nurses that at their home. One day in November of 2019, he decided to return to the supercomputer in the abandoned factory. Once there he stared at the device.

He wasn't scared to face the supercomputer another time. In fact, he showed no hesitation when he turned the supercomputer on again. He knew what he had to do. He just knew the supercomputer was the key to helping his wife.

Present day

Year 2043

The young boy was now a middle-aged man dressed in button-down shirt and slacks with a pocket watch hanging out of the shirt pocket by a chain. Though he was only in his late forties, recently turning 48, his experiences led to him having streaks of gray mixed in with his blonde hair. He leaned on a cane as he walked to the porch outside of the building. A side effect of an accident that occurred about three years ago. The elderly man took his swinging watch into his hand and opened it, revealing a picture of his two-favorite people in the world. His daughter… blonde hair and a genius intellect like himself, only a precocious infant at the time. Brown eyes like her mother's, who is in the picture with her. He looked at his wife… her pink hair and brown eyes, her caring smile… how he missed it.

"It's all my fault," Jeremy uttered with a tremble in his voice as he recalled the events that led up to that horrible day—the day that he lost her.

His now adult daughter, Lila, approached her father dressed in her usual attire of a pink and white jacket with black pants and pink shoes.

She put a hand over his back, "It's not your fault, dad… You said it yourself: Xana became too powerful. You didn't know that starting the supercomputer would eventually cause all of this."

"I know… but I should have been smarter. Not only did I reactivate the supercomputer… I cost your mother her life. You never knew her…." Jeremy trailed off as tears began to flow down his cheeks.

His mourning was cut short as an explosion sounded from the distance. The father and daughter looked to see a building beginning to collapse in on itself as the ground trembled. They weren't overly shocked, but dismayed from the regularity.

"That's another one this week," Lila noted sadly. "Xana continues to destroy your company buildings. All of those people…" She tilted her head in silent mourning for the lives lost.

Jeremy clenched the handle of his cane in determination as he closed his watch and let it hang, turning around to walk back inside, "Then we need to fix my mistake."

"But how?" his daughter asked while following him.

"I'm going to start up the machine," the man resolutely responded. "I'll stop myself from reactivating Xana in 2019."

"But the time machine hasn't been tested yet!" Lila protested. "If you use it and something happens to you, I'll be alone…"

Jeremy sighed as he fixed his glasses, "Then… would you want to go?"

"Interacting with my family's past? Isn't that a bit, well… dangerous?"

"Look at the state of things, Lila," Jeremy replied. "The whole world is dangerous now."

Lila sighed, "That's true… And I guess I won't be totally alone. I'll see you every day and I'll get to see mom again…"

Jeremy looked at his daughter, "If you do this, if you manage to change history, this world may be different. I may be different too."

"If different means you'll be happy. Then I'm all for it," she replied with a smile.

Jeremy slightly returned the expression with a nod. He and Lila walked to the elevator of the house arm-in-arm. He pressed the red button to call it from below.

"Listen… if you manage to arrive in the appropriate time era there's one thing you must never do," the blonde warned." "You must never tell my younger self or your mother who you are. Do you understand?"

"But – then – how will you guys believe me?" Lila stammered in response.

"Easy. Your great personality of course," Jeremy smiled as the elevator arrived. Lila smiled back with a nod.

She and her father walk into down the staircase. Once they walked into the lab, Lila pressed a switch to turn on the lights. A machine stood in the middle of the room, consisting of a cushioned chair atop metal box with exposed wires running in and out and copper glass enveloping it all. Next to the chair was an old-fashioned gear shift connected to the metal, which operated as the starting mechanism. The machine was powered by one of the supercomputer's older power supplies: uranium. Lila helped her father to his chair by a computer connected to the time machine, and he began typing. She sat in the pilot chair as a seatbelt automatically fastened over her.

"While we may not have run some actual tests, I did run some computer simulations," Jeremy explained. "Lila… there are a few risks besides ending up in the wrong era…"

"I understand, dad. What are the risks?" Lila asked, determined to continue regardless.

"One risk that it isn't exactly guaranteed but is highly likely is um… age reversion and um age increase…."

Lila's eyes widened, "Huh?!"

Jeremy cleared his throat, "Basically with this time machine, if you make a return trip to the past you could lose ten years of your life. If you go forward in time, there's a chance you could gain twenty years of your life."

"Oh…." Lila sighed after recalling what her age was, "Great… That means I could be thirteen when I enter Kadic. I hated being thirteen. Worst year of my life." She put her hand on her chin at the thought about her pre-teen years. "I was angry a lot back then if I recall."

"Yes you were," Jeremy chuckled.

"Then that means when I return to this timeline… there's a chance I could be thirty-three."

Jeremy simply nodded as his daughter looked saddened by the news. Jeremy allowed his daughter to think about what she was going to do but, seeing how she did not leave the machine he then continued,

"The other risks of time travel consists of nausea, memory displacement, temporary blindness-" Jeremy started to list, but Lila interrupted him.

"TEMPERORARY BLINDNESS?!"

"It's only temporary…"

Calming herself, his daughter focused on the most relevant question she could think of, "How long will I be blind for?"

Jeremy thought it over, "Approximately twenty-four hours. Though if you're very lucky, it could just last a few short minutes."

"Yeah if I'm lucky…" Lila grumbled. "I'd rather it be the nausea. Oh, please, just let me puke…"

The blond scientist couldn't help but chuckle at that. Jeremy looked at the computer as he started typing the date. Unbeknownst to Lila, Jeremy typed in the year and date: October 8th 2005. The supercomputer had already been activated by then.

"Remind me, I'm going to the year of 2019, right?"

"That's right…" Jeremy lied as he started up the process. The sides of the machine closed with two copper glass windows. Lila turned on the holographic keyboard and activated the mic to ask a question that had just occurred to her.

"Say dad… If this works how will I convince your younger self not to turn on the supercomputer again?"

"You'll think of something."

Suddenly, Jeremy and Lila started to hear an explosion from outside of their building.

"Oh no… Xana!" the latter realized. "Dad, let me out! We'll find a way to beat it together!"

Jeremy simply smiled as he typed on the keyboard. From the computer, he typed in a command and the gear shift pulled down by itself. Lila's eyes widened in surprise at that function and realized what her father was planning. She unbuckled her seatbelt and lunged out of the chair to the glass, slamming her fists on it as he pressed the last key that would send her along.

"Dad, you can't! Daddy, please, no!" Lila begged as the time machine started to hover.

Jeremy's smile didn't falter as crashes and explosions sounded from the elevator shaft. He simply watched the hovering machine before saying what he knew would be his last words.

"I love you."

The machine whirred as Lila began to cry, "Dad! Please I –"

She was cut off as the time machine disappeared in a flash of light. Jeremy sighed in relief as he took off his glasses, leaning back in his chair to wait for the inevitable. He opened his pocket watch to look at his daughter and Aelita one last time. An explosion dented the floor above and a spherical device with the symbol of Xana made its way in through the gap.

"Jeremy Belpois. You have committed treason," it announced in a digital monotone as the dot in the center of the symbol began glowing red. "Your punishment is death."

Jeremy paid his messenger and executioner no mind, choosing to continue looking at his most prized possession.

"I'll see you soon, princess."

With Lila

Lila screamed as the machine careened throughout the vortex, a deep dark place. She continued to fly in the machine for quite a while and she started to notice her body getting smaller.

"This is gonna suck… Dad… you'd better be alive! Don't die on me, old man!"

This story will continue in

A new beginning: XANA Awakens Part 1

Please R&R

P.S. Happy Halloween!

Author's Note: Sorry about the reupload and lost details! As well as the changes! Fixed errors such as Aelita and Lila having green eyes. They have brown eyes. Original chapter showed an elevator in the lab when instead it's a staircase. Doors entering the lab were cut out too from the chapter.