This Episode starts without your usual Code Lyoko Intro. It heads right into the story. The first thing you see is an aerial view zooming in on the forest and soon reveals The Hermitage while it continues to zoom in on the house. But something is different. The Hermitage is in much better shape this time around. Such as if it was earlier in time. The next view is inside the house in a cozy living room type area with a lit fireplace. We see Franz Hopper sitting at a desk in the corner typing away at his computer. Soon the sound of a phone rings.
Franz: “Yes. This is him…WHAT!...THIS WASN’T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!...Ok. Ill be right there!”
Franz hurriedly taps a few keys on the computer causing a disc to eject. He hurriedly puts this down on the desk and runs into another room down the hall. This is where we notice Aelita who is sitting on her bed quietly reading a book.
Franz: “Aelita, honey, we have to go. Something came up at work. We both need to go now.”
Aelita: “But Why?”
Franz: “no time to explain. We need to go now!”
Aelita’s room only has one window. It is a small window up towards the ceiling like what you would see in a basement. Shortly after Franz finished, there is a silhouette of a wolf ferociously scratching at the window. Aelita screams and Franz grabs her arm trying to get both of them out of the house. On the way out, Aelita attempts to grab her Mr. Puck doll, but slips and it falls on the floor behind her. They hurry out of the house and make their way in the general direction of the factory
Aelita: “What’s going on dad?”
Franz: “You remember how I and my team were working on project Carthage?”
Aelita: “Yeah. I’ve been in Lyoko before, remember? It was fun there.”
Franz: “Well, Lyoko’s guardian, X.A.N.A., has somehow corrupted itself. Some of my colleagues were studying Lyoko. They suddenly noticed one of the tower’s glowing red and then these Krabs with X.A.N.A.’s imprint appeared out of nowhere and started attacking them. One of the other scientists who were monitoring Lyoko from the outside also said that he saw X.A.N.A.’s icon appear on the screen and then some black smoke appeared and ascended through the ceiling.”
Aelita: “What does all that mean? I don’t understand.”
Franz: “The only thing I can assume is that X.A.N.A. has corrupted itself somehow. But I can’t say for sure. The only thing I do know is that we both need to get to the factory now.”
Aelita: “But why do I have to go? Can’t you fix it on your own?”
Franz: “I don’t know what X.A.N.A. is up to for sure, but I can’t afford to lose you.”
Aelita: “…I understand.”
Aelita and Franz are soon seen running across the bridge to the factory. At this time, the area is very active. We see numerous trucks going back and forth across the bridge behind Aelita and Franz. Soon we see them descending an elevator into the main floor of the factory. Once again, this area is very active. Many people are working on different items. In the background we can see a lot of sparks flying as well. Very noisy area. Aelita and Franz are soon seen running across the floor barely missing some moving equipment. They enter a freight elevator and franz furiously smashes the button marked with a down arrow. The elevator is seen descending into the lower levels of the factory. The door opens and Aelita and Franz enter the super computer room where already a bunch of Scientists are there.
Scientist 1: “Glad you could make it Franz. Now could you tell me exactly what’s going on here!”
Franz: “I don’t now exactly just yet. But right now I need to get Aelita into Lyoko so she can deactivate the tower. Once it’s deactivated I can then find out what happened to X.A.N.A.”
Aelita: “What!’
Scientist 1: (sighs) “You haven’t told her yet have you?”
Franz sighs as well and then kneels down in front of Aelita
Franz: “Aelita, honey. I need to tell you something…When I originally made Lyoko, I made these towers to give XANA some transports throughout Lyoko. These towers also have a way to deactivate XANA in case of a situation like this. You are the only one who has access to it.”
Aelita has a stunned look in her eyes. A second scientist appears from the back of the room and walks toward Aelita.
Scientist 2: “Follow me Little Aelita. I will take you up to the scanner room.”
Scientist 2 takes her by the hand and they enter the elevator. The doors close and the elevator starts descending towards the scanner room.
Aelita: “I’m scared. Can you come with me?”
Scientist 2: “I guess it wouldn’t hurt. I will protect you.”
He smiles down to Aelita. The Elevator has now reached the scanner room. We now return to the computer room where Franz is now sitting at the computer beginning the virtualization process.
Franz: “Are you ready Aelita?”
Scientist 2: “She’s ready. But I'm going to accompany her to Lyoko to keep her safe”
Franz: “…Fine. But be careful. I have no weapons developed yet to you can’t defend yourselves. Just hurry to the tower. I will try to virtualize you as close as possible.”
Scientist #2 and Aelita enter the scanners and the doors close.
Franz: “Transfer Aelita, Transfer John…Scanner Aelita, Scanner John…Virtualization”
As Aelita virtualizes into Lyoko, a large red exclamation point appears on the screen in front of Franz. He looks over the virtualization program and notices that there was a malfunction in the virtualization process. Aelita lost her DNA code.
John: “Ok. We’re here. Now where’s that tower?...Franz? You still there?”
Scientist 1: “No. he had to go back to the house for something. Said something about DNA code. I’m here in his place. According to this map…It’s just northeast of you. Just a couple hundred yards away.”
John: (looks around) “I see it. Let’s go Aelita.”
They make it to within 100 feet of the tower but 6 krabs and a megatank appears in their way. Aelita gasps at the sight.
John: “Umm. We need some help here. The road is blocked.”
Scientist 1: (ferociously searching the computer for something of use) “Uh…Umm…Let’s try this.”
Scientist #1 taps the enter key. Back in Lyoko, we look towards John and we see a large staff with a glowing yellow ball at the very top materialize in his hand.
John: “What am I supposed to do with this?”
Scientist 1: “I don’t know. Its just some program I pulled up.”
John: (angrily) “Ain’t that great..”
Furiously, John slams the staff into the ground. Where the krabs and megatank were standing, the land below them had disappeared and they fell through. The staff started fading and disappeared. Soon another batch of krabs appears behind John
John: “Aelita! Run! I’ll hold them off here!”
Aelita does a few double takes towards the tower and towards John. She soon starts running towards the tower and just as she reached the gap, she jumps it with inches to spare. She now stands in front of the tower.
Aelita: “Now what do I do?”
Scientist 1: “Head inside the tower and go up to the top level. There you will see the interface to deactivate XANA.”
Aelita: “How? There’s no door here”
Scientist 1: “You don’t need a door. Just walk through. Stand in the center of the round platform.”
Aelita: “…Ok…”
Scared, she slowly enters the tower. Once inside the glances around but quickly heads towards the center of the platform. As she continues, she looks down as each ring lights up. Once in the center, she suddenly starts levitating upwards. She start’s whimpering but is soon safe on her feet on the top level. An interface appears in front of her.
Outside the factory we see a pack of wolves closing in on the factory. A close-up of this pack reveals XANA’s infamous icon in their eyes. Soon enough they are in the main floor of the factory. As the workers notice this, they run for fear of their lives. But the wolves pay no attention to this. Soon the elevator returns back to the main factory level and the wolves enter. With no sign of any visible hands or tentacles, the down button is pressed and the elevator descends.
Aelita: “Now what do I do?”
Scientist 1: (reading some notes Franz wrote) “Place your hand on the interface. It needs a handprint to verify its you. Once it verifies you, it will display your name on the screen and ask you for a code. The code you need to enter is ‘Lyoko’”.
Aelita slowly presses her hand against the screen and removes it. It soon displays ‘Aelita, Code:’ She looks around for some kind of input device, but soon the words Lyoko appear on the screen. At this point, the inside of the tower becomes dark for a moment and then Aelita reappears just outside. The Krabs that John was fighting soon disappear.
Scientist 1: “Materialize John, Materialize Aelita.”
Once again, the same red exclamation point shows on the screen.
Scientist 1: “Are you two ok?”
John: (breathing heavily) “I made it out ok. But Aelita is still in Lyoko.”
Aelita: “John? Where Are You? I’m scared.”
Scientist 1: “Your DNA code is missing Aelita. I can’t rematerialize you. Why don’t you hide in the tower until we can figure this out? Please stay calm.”
Aelita: “…Ok…”
Aelita enters the tower again, but huddles in the center of the platform and starts crying softly. Back in the elevator, the wolves are still there. XANA’s icon is now gone, but the elevator is still descending to the computer room. Once there, the door opens and Scientist #1 looks over and becomes startled. He slowly slides out of the computer chair and makes his way towards the back of the room. The wolves slowly make their way around the right side of the room after him. Scientist #1 then quickly makes a run for the elevator and presses the down button. The door closes just in time as the wolves run into the gate. The elevator makes it to the scanner room and as the door opens, John walks over to join him.
John: “What’s going on? Where’s Franz? Is Aelita coming?”
Scientist 1: “I don’t know. All I know is we have to shut this thing down now. We can’t let XANA wreak more havoc.”
John: “But what about Aelita? We can’t just leave her here!”
Scientist 1: “I don’t want to leave her here any more than you do. But there is no other choice. Once we get Franz back here, hopefully he can straighten this mess out.”
John joins Scientist 1 in the elevator. The elevator is now descending lower into the factory towards the mainframe room. Scientist 1 enters the room. The Super Computer rises out of the floor revealing a fairly large lever which he soon recognizes as the main power switch. Slowly he pulls the lever. The super computer soon shuts down. The humming lowers to silence and the bright light coming out soon dims to off. Scientist 1 rejoins John in the elevator and they make their way back up to the main factory level.
We flash a short way forward where we see John and Scientist 1 running through the forest towards Franz Hopper’s house.
John: “Oh…My…God…”
We look forward and see Franz lying on the ground just outside the house. He has been terribly beaten and is unconscious.
John: (runs towards Franz) “Come here. Help me pick him up. We need to take him to the hospital right away!”
John and Scientist 1 grab Franz by the arms and slowly take him to the nearest hospital.
The next view we see is from the eyes of Franz slowly waking up.
Franz: (groggy) “Huh…Where am I?”
John: “Don’t worry. You’re at the hospital now. We found you unconscious outside your house. We brought you here as fast as we could.”
Franz: “Where’s Aelita? Is she ok? Did she deactivate XANA? Where is she!”
John: “Calm down. Calm down. She is safe. She is still in Lyoko hiding in the tower. But we ran into some problems back at the factory. I think XANA possessed a wild pack of wolves and had them come after us. We escaped, but we had to shutdown the super computer to stop XANA completely”
Franz: “YOU DID WHAT! But Aelita is still in there! Do you know what you just did?”
A Nurse barges in
Nurse: “Sir! Are you ok!”
Scientist 1: “He’s fine.”
The Nurse leaves quietly
Franz: “When someone is virtualized, their real world memories are simply stored into volatile memory in the super computer. If they are stuck in Lyoko when the super computer is shut down, they lose all their memories outside of Lyoko. The only memories stored on the hard drive are those gained while their on Lyoko.”
Surprised, both John and Scientist 1 put their hands over their mouth in shock.
Scientist 1: “Oh My. I’m sorry Sir…I…Didn’t know…”
Franz: “Well, the only thing we can do now is go back to my place and get Aelita’s DNA code and then I can get her out of Lyoko.”
Later that day:
Franz, John, and Scientist 1 are seen entering Franz’s place. The house is now a total mess. Papers all over the floor, broken furniture, broken windows. But just before they could start cleaning up the place, a strange dark figure came out of Aelita’s room and shot all 3 with tranquilizer darts. Within moments they all dropped to the floor.